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  The people have spoken. That's something I don't think I
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  would take a chance 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.
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  On a competitor period. Bringing you the facts.
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  Jose was trash man I fell for that hard.
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  While keeping you up to date, man, like what a like question
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  mark that is after you leave Cole, you get him out of the
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  game and all of a sudden you don't know what you're going to
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  get on the other side on all fantasy baseball news.
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  There's a slouch man. He's.
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  Just a a potential he's a. Slug.
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  Dark Horse winner of a Cy Young candidate.
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  Welcome to Bourbon Involved. Averaged like 160 strikeouts
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  prior to his breakout year. I don't even call that breakout
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  year. I would call that a career year
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  because I don't think you have another year.
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  We're going to talk about a lot more baseball.
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  This is just the beginning guys. That's right.
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  I'll call a belt in it. So look
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  All right, guys, man, what a what a week in baseball, man.
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  Fantasy baseball, regular baseball.
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  I mean, it's all it's it's been wild week, right?
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  So, yeah, this is bourbon and Ball, man.
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  We're on our 49th show ever. I'm Doug, along with my lifelong
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  friend over there, Mikey V, coming to you via Clearwater,
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  FL. I'm coming from Foxborough in
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  The Cave downstairs in the basement.
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  Yeah. So this is bourbon and ball.
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  You know, I'm sure the first question is why bourbon and
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  white ball? We've been in a a fantasy
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  Baseball League, points league, ESPN for man, over 20 years,
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  over 20 years. And yeah, we've been doing it
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  for a while, man. And we like to sip on bourbon.
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  So of course, you know, I got my bourbon here.
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  I got my bourbon ball bourbon glass right here.
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  And over here tonight, Doug, I do have some some whiskey
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  tonight that went out be like this week.
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  It was a long week. We deserve it.
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  So got some honey whiskey. I like some honey whiskey.
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  That stuff is deadly. Sweet.
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  You know, it's just a little, a little something different on
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  the lips. Yeah, I like that.
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  I do like that. So, yeah.
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  So coming for you from MBR, we're streaming on MBR, we're on
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  Patriot radio, we're on Roku, we're simulcast and you can
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  catch the same show Saturdays from 12:00 to 2:00 on New
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  England TV sports. So we're man, we're we're around
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  and again, a lot of this stuff you're going to hear about are
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  are are from our points league, head to head points league that
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  we do on ESPN. It's a weekly league.
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  So you set it and forget it. Week starts Monday, ends on
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  Sunday. And yeah, I mean if you're a
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  higher scorer in a points league, chances are you're
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  pretty much a higher scorer in any type of format whatsoever.
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  So a judge is a judge. And of course with all that MBR
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  military broadcast and radio affiliation there, we do have
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  some of our own. I myself was a paratrooper in
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  the Army for 6 plus years. I got jumped Germany, Ireland,
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  the Netherlands and a year long combat tour in Afghanistan in
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  all of 2012. Yeah, and my, my father was part
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  of the Air Force during the Vietnam War and my grandfather
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  was a paramedic during World War 2.
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  So a lot of family ties as well there, Doug all.
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  Right, man, good stuff, good stuff.
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  So we have a ton to talk about. Like every week.
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  I feel like it's like we got so much this week is like it feels
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  like we're going to go beyond two hours if we'll put a leash
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  on it a little bit, you know what I'm saying?
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  Big names to talk. About Oh my God, it's been such
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  a wild week. So let me yeah, let's just dig
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  in. Let's go around the league and
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  kick from there. All right, so I want to give a
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  little update here. This past weekend, you had what
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  was the World Series rematch last year, maybe a World Series
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  rematch this year. You had the Dodgers and the
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  Yankees. Yeah, it was a, a, a Yankees
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  revamp line up compared to when they last played.
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  Obviously Juan Soto's there. Obviously he's gone.
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  You have Cody Bellinger, you have Paul Goldschmidt, Jason
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  Dominguez has, you know, vibrant role in that line up.
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  But it it was a beat down man. I think Saturday's game in
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  particular, I think he's ended up winning the the series
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  finale, but they lost the series 2 to one.
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  I think Dodgers DHOA Tony ended up taking a little snooze in the
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  dugout with because the final was 18 to 2.
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  So yeah, I mean, I they actually do have, I do have some video of
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  him snoozing and it's pretty funny.
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  Let me play that right now. Take a singles.
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  To the right side of the infield, Kim streaks 1st to 3rd.
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  And what I was going to say is there's got to be some
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  regression when he gets back to being able to focus on pitch.
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  So they there he is right there just snoozing away.
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  A. Couple singles to the right side
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  of the infield. Kim Streaks.
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  Yeah, man, that was that was beat down.
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  And and, you know, I after the game, Ohtani had had 63 runs, 63
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  runs. I mean, he's on pace for 176.
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  You know, I think this series, the Dodgers were snuffling a
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  little bit when they were going into it, you know, and I think
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  them playing the Yankees kind of rejuvenated.
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  But give me some energy, you know, we need to we need to take
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  at least two or three and they take two or three.
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  So it was really good to see that and just to to put out and
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  here's a little pic of I mean, look at the firepower.
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  Look at the firepower. You got a two time ALMVP.
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  You got an NLMVP in Goldie, you got an NLMVP and and and Cody
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  Ballinger you got an ALMVP, you got another NLMVP and then you
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  got a three time MVPI. Mean that is * studded.
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  Nothing tells me that these guys aren't going to play again in
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  the World Series. Nothing now so far.
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  Yeah, it's hard to argue that, right?
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  I mean, they're just both so good when they're on fire, and
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  the Dodgers obviously are starting to display that a
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  little bit more. It's good to see.
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  It's good for baseball. Remember, there's a point in
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  time where people thought maybe the Dodger super team was going
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  to be bad for baseball. It's been great for baseball.
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  It's just when they're on, they're so fun to watch.
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  They're having fun. They're joking around the dugout
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  like we saw with Otani. How can you not love the team?
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  And then the Yankees, they're running away with this division
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  right now. So they're going to be right in
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  the race. They're going to be putting
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  themselves in the best position. And again, you know, they'll be
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  active probably during the deadline because they know
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  they're going to be in it. They're going to be buyers and
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  they can be buyers. So yeah, 100% both these teams,
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  World Series favorites. I don't think one team even from
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  each Division, I can't think of one team stopping them.
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  I don't see one team stepping up right now compared to those two
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  teams. It's weird, though, because you
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  look at the the Dodgers and you're like, OK, these guys
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  should be undefeated almost, right, Because I mean, the
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  firepower, but their staff is taking a hit.
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  I mean, it's it's definitely not where they expected it to be at
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  all with the investments they made in the offseason.
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  And on top of that, some games, some series that, you know,
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  they, they probably should have won and they didn't.
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  So I think it's it's not the team everybody puts on a
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  pedestal to be. That makes any sense.
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  Yeah. Makes sense?
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  Still the best, one of the best teams in baseball, but I think
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  the tell tall sigh will be what that rotation looks like when
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  people start coming back like I know we're going to.
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  I think Snell will will give an update on him.
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  I think he's going to start taking doing some mild work.
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  So, you know, it'll be interesting to see what they do
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  and how they produce when that rotation is full built like it's
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  supposed to be. But I and when it is, obviously
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  they're going to there's there's nothing to tell me that the
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  Yankees they can't beat the Yankees.
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  I mean, the, the only thing that's going to kill the Yankees
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  is their rotation because after, you know, after Ron Doan and Max
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  Freed, it's, I mean, you know, Will Warren, it's tough.
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  It's tough to swallow after their first two anyways.
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  I don't know the the back of their rotation isn't what they
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  expected it to be really. Yeah, I think they're going to
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  have to make some moves. I don't think they have anyone
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  within the organization at this point that's going to be a a
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  high level performer that they going to need down the stretch.
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  So you know, I think Sandy Alcatrado is the name that pops
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  in the mind. It's not the greatest name.
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  It's a huge buy a low right now in that market.
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  Marlins are not going to get what they thought they're going
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  to get for him in the beginning of the season.
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  He did so good in the spring, too, which is too bad.
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  You know, that was his peak value, I guess at this point.
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  So yeah, they they might make him bad.
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  So it's not too crazy. It's not like it's not going out
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  and getting the big dog, you know, and putting all your chips
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  in the basket. I don't think it's that type of
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  scenario for the Yankees. I mean, front two guys right
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  there alone in A5 game series, you might see them once or twice
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  just because they want to perform and and be out there,
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  right. So I do think they need a solid
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  new starting pitcher on their team.
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  It's just a matter of what price they want to pay for it and what
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  quality they're looking for. Yeah, well, that's a great
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  point. It's still going to make good
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  baseball at the end of the day. It it'd probably be one of the
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  the most watched World Series if if they do end up, you know,
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  going back there. So here's here's a wild one that
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  I have never expected that I would be talking about Mariners
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  catcher DH Cal Riley, who is the newborn catcher baseball and
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  fantasy baseball giving you at least 3 1/2 points to start,
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  which is I mean, you're talking about top tier players, you're
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  talking about Soto numbers almost right?
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  He became the first catcher in MLB history to have 20 or more
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  home runs before the end of May. He has seven home runs in his
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  last nine games. His total, he's got 24 on the
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  year. He's got 49 ribbies.
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  He's even got $6 bases, 41 runs. He's 68, right, 213 total point
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  3.5 to start, like I said, but I will say this, his strikeouts
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  are there. He's got 72 strikeouts.
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  I mean he's on pace for like 180 to 200 strikeouts.
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  Similarly, this is this kind of reminds me of like a Delhi de la
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  Cruz LA de la Cruz type scenario where K if instead of stolen
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  pieces, if he's not hitting home runs later on this year, you
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  might see that that regression as far as points per per start,
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  right? I mean, honestly, he good for
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  him. I think, you know, you might
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  think the Mariners are geniuses for signing him to that long
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  term extension at the beginning of the year where I would
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  scratch my head like why? But now, I mean, they look like
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  geniuses. We'll see how it continues.
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  I mean, it's a great story for baseball and for him in
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  particular, you know, but a lot of strikeouts man.
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  And if if he stops hitting home runs, that'll come back to bite
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  you in the world of fantasy anyways.
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  So what happens, brother? And you nailed it, too.
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  And Ellie de la Cruz, the the O'Neill I mean, yeah, I mean,
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  O'Neill Cruz, too. Even you can throw him in the
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  same category. I I think Kyle Schwarber is kind
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  of like that guy, too. You kind of seen it this year
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  with him. You know, he used to have that
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  low average, but you just have so much power.
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  You score runs, you get RBIs. And he had so many of them and
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  just masked it. But you're right, though.
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  But sometimes though, Doug, you got that guy that just kind of
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  squeaks by the whole year and gets away with it and he's he's
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  doing it. He's he's doing it.
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  And if you can bank in on it, why not?
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  He is the top catcher. There's no doubt about it this
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  year in the league. I think someone on MLB Network
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  even said he could be an MVP candidate because of what he's
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  contributing for that Seattle team that's been looking for
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  that power that we almost talked about every week.
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  He is the power. He is the guy.
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  So is it as bad as we think it is sometimes because we know we
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  see the other guys perform, they're not so good.
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  But if Cal Riley's doing his thing, maybe some guys like J
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  Rod can really stop picking it up like he has been a little bit
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  this year. So he is really valuable to that
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  baseball team. Good for Cal Riley scoring those
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  points. I mean, what else can you ask
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  for? But is he going to keep it up?
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  I I hope he does. You know, I'm a Seattle guy.
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  You know that, Doug and it it's one of those things where you
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  kind of have to kind of wait and see All Star break comes
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  through, there's a little break and all of a sudden these guys
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  go on a second-half decline. Who knows?
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  But you know, right now you got to ride the wave.
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  Oh, for sure. I will say though, say he does
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  end up, you know, obviously to be honest with you, he could
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  probably tank the second-half and he's so high up with his
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  points. He would still rank a top 2
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  catcher if he ends up taking the second-half.
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  He has so many points right now, but the flip side of that is I
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  wouldn't get pulled into him in next year's draft.
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  You know, you look at Adley Rushman, right?
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  It's a guy a couple of years ago who was the number one catcher.
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  You draft them early in the, you know, third round maybe in most
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  drafts. And what is he now?
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  He's he's not a type 10 catcher at all.
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  I think last I looked he's like 2/22/18 something around there
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  that and you know, that's what happens, right, is you kind of
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  fall into that trap of great year, probably keep it up.
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  But if there's no track record of it, I don't know if they can,
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  You know, I don't if, if Riley finishes number one overall, am
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  I drafting him the first catcher off the board?
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  I mean, look at Will Smith, right?
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  I mean, three years ago he was the number one catcher.
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  And then slowly but surely it's, it's just, it's kind of then he
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  was like a #3 top three. And then, you know, last year
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  maybe I think he's 6th and this year he's, he's a top five
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  again. But still, I mean, these are
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  guys that it's just you, you don't know really what you're
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  getting from year on, year out. And so I just wouldn't fall for
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  that trap if he does finish number one overall for next
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  year's draft. That's all I'm saying.
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  Not wrong, not wrong at all. I think it happens every year
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  with someone add the rushman. I mean, even blame Contreras.
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  He's still a very good hitter, but he's kind of been not the
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  same guy like he was last year, right with the points.
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  You know, Wilson Contreras, he was hot for a while.
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  Remember when he started with the Cubs, You know, I thought he
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  was going to be a a thud for years.
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  And he he never really just put it together like we we all
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  thought he did, you know, or was going to you in the back.
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  So yeah, Cal Riley's right there.
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  So next year in drafts, you know, don't think like, oh,
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  he's, you know, projected this fifth round, you know, or sixth
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  round and all of a sudden he tanks on you.
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  He strikes out a bunch, like you said, Doug, and all of a sudden
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  you're stuck with a bag. And you could have had like
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  maybe a quality picture in that round or, you know, a position
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  fill that you could have had, you know, instead of a catcher,
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  treat catchers like catch kickers in fantasy football.
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  That's what I would add, You know, instead of, you know, try
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  and get like the Justin Tucker of the world's, you know, back
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  in the day when he was a stud in like the the 12th, 13th round,
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  you know, it's now catchers. It's the same thing.
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  So next year, Cal Riley, definitely number one catcher.
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  All of a sudden, you know he's the guy.
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  Yeah, that's a great point to that.
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  I do like that I was never really a draft early catcher
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  guy. I was more of like a streamer,
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  you know, last year I got lucky with Perez.
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  This year I'm kind of getting lucky with Huraya for the
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  Cardinals. So right until it doesn't work
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  anymore. But yeah, I I agree.
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  I don't I wouldn't waste an early pick on catchers,
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  especially catchers that don't play every game, right?
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  I mean a lot of times like you're Will Smith sits out like
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  every 4th game. Yeah, another great example,
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  yeah. So that is good to know.
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  That's it's good information draft for sure.
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  So this one is kind of funny to talk about.
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  So this is the most and I, I do have the video and I will play
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  it because you will get a kick out of it.
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  This is called the most embarrassing MLB player of the
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  year to date so far. And just to put some context
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  around it, Blue Jays outfielder DNH George Springer scampers
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  into third base. This was on a a Kirk double.
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  Toronto, right? Once there, he's jumping up and
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  down because he's so happy. He's like, yeah, let's go, you
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  know, pumping everybody up, jumping up and down while he why
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  are you jumping up and down instead of just sitting there
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  clapping? Like, you know, it's beyond me.
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  So the I think they're playing the A's and yeah, it is the A's.
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  And the third, their third baseman just has the mindset to
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  just tag him while he's jumping mid air tags in mid air.
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  He's called out. I mean, the a the A's end up
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  losing anyways. But I think it's it's good to
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  note that you know, the Blue Jays have the fifth highest
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  luxury tax payroll in the baseball, right?
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  They should be doing a lot better than floating around 500.
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  And plays like this that I'm going to show you are just are
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  ridiculous. Take take a look.
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  He keeps the tag on him and I got to believe the tag.
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  He keeps the tag on him. And I got to I believe that
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  George Springer is going to be called out after kind of
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  bouncing on third base. Watch here.
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  Oh yeah, he's out. Call it third base after a view.
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  The call on the field is overturned.
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  He is out. Yes, the run will score, so the
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  run. Scored as coming in, they're
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  going to try and answer back in the top of the six.
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  I mean, what a boat. Hit play and you wonder why.
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  Like you're, you're, you're you. You have the fifth highest
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  luxury tax payroll, but you're 500.
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  You're floating around 500. Like you wonder why.
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  It's because you, you, you're I just.
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  It frustrates me. They're not in a position right
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  now to be, you know, rooting and chairing and jumping up and
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  down. I feel just because where they
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  are in the standings, it's going to be really close for them
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  going down to the wire this year, especially with the
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  division starting to squeak out of the way so early.
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  So, yeah, George Spring is 35, kind of have a nice bounce back
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  here this year. I I got him on a couple teams.
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  He could be hit or miss week to week.
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  But it's it's the thing with the payroll, like you said, Doug,
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  fifth highest in the league. You expect more expectations
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  from them. You know, it's supposed to be,
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  hey, you paid more, you're supposed to win more baseball
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  games. Doesn't seem like it's the case
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  so far, obviously. But what I like what they do,
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  though, is how they spend their money.
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  It's just not panning out. It's you go get your your Vlad
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  grail contract, right? You you lock your your mega All
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  Star up and you got a sweet deal there.
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  You know, that's an attraction for sure.
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  You pay your pitchers. They it wasn't just a
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  coincidence. They got, you know, barrios and
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  they got a godsman. They got a crisper set that
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  that's a lot of money right there alone, just in those front
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  three guys alone. A lot of teams aren't doing
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  that. They're trying to let their
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  young guys come up and try to progress and kind of cheap out
• 19:42
  almost. But these guys went out and got
• 19:44
  pitching. I'm a fan of that.
• 19:46
  I want to buy pitching and then you grow your batters.
• 19:49
  I think that's the best way modern baseball works now.
• 19:51
  But it, it's just one of those things where I think Toronto's
• 19:54
  doing it right. They're just not executing right
• 19:56
  now. And I don't know what that is.
• 19:57
  I don't know if it's, you know, I, I don't follow them too hard.
• 20:00
  So it's, it's tough for me to say, but like it could be a
• 20:03
  manager thing. I mean, it could be a leadership
• 20:07
  thing. I I feel like Vlad is a good
• 20:09
  leader in there. So I, I kind of doubt that.
• 20:11
  And I feel like Beau Bouchette would be too, even the way he
• 20:14
  might not be hitting his expectation so far.
• 20:17
  A lot of bounce back here for sure.
• 20:18
  But yeah, it's just kind of funny with them.
• 20:22
  They're they're kind of, they're kind of a little lost I feel
• 20:25
  right now. I feel like they got all the
• 20:27
  tools but I don't know what's going to happen.
• 20:31
  I think they're, their pitching's been pretty good.
• 20:35
  Chris Bassett is pitching really good this year.
• 20:38
  Anyways, Gosman, he's actually his last 2-3 weeks, he's kind of
• 20:43
  turned it on. You know, you, you have them
• 20:44
  now. I, I will say, I think what
• 20:49
  really kind of deflated them was when they spent the money on
• 20:52
  Anthony Sandia and he's just not producing now.
• 20:57
  He's on the IL and it's, I feel like, you know, they're probably
• 21:01
  like wishing to do over on that, a Mulligan on that one.
• 21:06
  You know, I'm sure they didn't expect, you know, 44 home runs
• 21:10
  like last year. But I mean, thirty home runs
• 21:13
  isn't a realm of possibilities for expectations for him.
• 21:17
  So I think that is really what's hurting them right now.
• 21:21
  I think their offenses for sure. And with Anthony too, it, it's
• 21:26
  it's not so much his fault either.
• 21:27
  And I don't think it's so much Toronto's fault either.
• 21:30
  They've been craving for a bat to to go into that line of FPO
• 21:34
  like for years now. I feel like they're always in
• 21:36
  the bid for a lot of these guys that are that are available and
• 21:40
  they just lose on these bids and they just waiting to spend money
• 21:42
  and just try to bring a guy in. So I feel like they kind of just
• 21:46
  said, OK, we're going to do our trips with Anthony here and
• 21:49
  we'll we'll see what happens. And it's just not working out
• 21:52
  unfortunately, Like you said it Mulligan would be nice at this
• 21:54
  point. Yeah, it is what it is.
• 21:58
  I think maybe they wish they got like Austin Hayes or or somebody
• 22:01
  else a little cheaper could have saved him some money.
• 22:04
  He's producing pretty good with Cincinnati.
• 22:06
  I mean, again, who's to say he put up the same numbers if it
• 22:09
  wasn't Toronto? But as of now, it would be nice
• 22:12
  to say, hey, let's wish we would have did that.
• 22:15
  All right. So here's a good one, right?
• 22:17
  Wednesday night, Red Sox outfielder Rafaela.
• 22:20
  It's a walk off home ride in the bottom of the ninth inning
• 22:23
  against the Angels, giving the Red Sox a much needed win.
• 22:27
  I mean, talk about, I don't know what they've been doing, man.
• 22:32
  That's another subject, I think though.
• 22:35
  However, what made this home run, this walk off, a little
• 22:38
  different is that it is the shortest walk off home run since
• 22:42
  the stat cast tracking era began in 2015.
• 22:46
  It was 24 feet shorter than the next closest.
• 22:50
  It would only be a home run in one ballpark, Fenway Park.
• 22:55
  That's it. It's right off the pesky Pole.
• 22:58
  It wrapped right around. I don't have any sound, but I
• 23:01
  have the clip. Take a look at it.
• 23:03
  Here it is right here. They're going to show it again.
• 23:17
  It's just a little just barely clears and you're just like,
• 23:23
  wow, you know, again, shortest walk off ever hits it and
• 23:32
  there's a slow one right there. Just clears it.
• 23:34
  Look at this. I don't know if it's anything to
• 23:42
  gloat about, but it's a win nonetheless for them and they
• 23:47
  needed it. And, but, but my take on, on the
• 23:50
  team itself is I wouldn't be surprised if they don't make the
• 23:53
  playoffs at this point. They're definitely not winning
• 23:56
  the division that's out of it. We, we talked about Yankees kind
• 23:59
  of running away with this thing. They're four games out of the
• 24:02
  wild card and the AL Central is so competitive.
• 24:08
  I, I, I mean, I don't know if I can see the Red Sox breaking
• 24:11
  through. You know, they're Baltimore has
• 24:15
  been kind of winning. I think they won six their list
• 24:19
  six in a row, six or seven games in a row.
• 24:21
  I mean, they're making a case to move up in the standings in the
• 24:24
  in the East. And that means the Red Sox
• 24:26
  making a case to be in last place.
• 24:29
  So I don't honestly, I just I don't see it.
• 24:33
  You know, I've always said pitching is their big thing and
• 24:36
  I I think crochets panning out so far.
• 24:39
  But I I said at the beginning of the year, they need more, they
• 24:41
  need more. They need another, an ace, an
• 24:44
  ace. And you know, they, they didn't
• 24:47
  get one and they relied on Mark, you know, Lucas Giolito and
• 24:52
  Walker Buehler. And unfortunately, those guys
• 24:54
  just aren't the answers. So hot take, probably not making
• 24:58
  a playoffs. No, no.
• 25:01
  And we know tonight that Walker Buehler is having a horrible
• 25:03
  night. It's I think it's up to 7 earned
• 25:06
  runs at this point. So it's kind of getting crushed
• 25:08
  out there unfortunately, and that's not good.
• 25:11
  Yeah, there's a lot of question marks I think with the Red Sox
• 25:14
  at this point. And I think it's fair to say
• 25:17
  that you're going to see something happen soon and that's
• 25:20
  going to be a Roman Anthony call up potentially.
• 25:24
  It could be a firing. It could be, it could be a
• 25:29
  number of things right at this point, because once you start
• 25:32
  losing baseball games, everything's on the table, I
• 25:35
  feel, or it should be on the table.
• 25:37
  We know the Red Sox are in a unique situation right now, but
• 25:41
  at the same time, I think they're going to have to make a
• 25:43
  decision on a few things. Is Jared Duran really on the
• 25:48
  trade block? That's been kind of the the
• 25:49
  rumor this week. Is he going to go to San Diego?
• 25:53
  That was the the team that was already floated around.
• 25:56
  Interesting. Because that would be a fun fit,
• 25:58
  I think for for Jared Duran to go West Coast and, you know,
• 26:01
  maybe research has season from last year.
• 26:04
  And I think there is some trading bargaining chips, I
• 26:06
  think from San Diego that you can take from them from a a
• 26:10
  prospect perspective. I think they got some an elite
• 26:14
  prospect catcher. I think that looks pretty good.
• 26:16
  He's been floating around Salalis.
• 26:18
  I think if he didn't even swap there, I think that'd be a very
• 26:22
  fair trade to be honest with you.
• 26:23
  I think that'd be a fun trade just because once you lose Jared
• 26:29
  Duran, you know, Roman Anthony's coming up.
• 26:31
  So at least you know, you have your replacement right back
• 26:34
  there. So I think it's a fun, fun idea
• 26:36
  to explore. I love the guy.
• 26:38
  He's he's electric when he's great, but it's just hasn't been
• 26:41
  the case so far this year. So I I don't know what's going
• 26:44
  to happen. Doug, I'm I'm very confused with
• 26:45
  the Red Sox. I was very optimistic going into
• 26:47
  it and I'm, I'm upset that Roman Anthony is not up here yet.
• 26:52
  I think Jeff Pastor was on a, a podcast and he said it best.
• 26:55
  He said everyday Roman Anthony is not in the line up.
• 26:58
  That's the day that you could have maybe won a baseball game
• 27:00
  with them. So I, I, I kind of believe that.
• 27:03
  So I hope they do it soon. And, and I think Alex Korra is
• 27:07
  now officially on the hot seat. I agree with that.
• 27:11
  I mean, Roman Anthony, he's, I mean, you don't know what you're
• 27:15
  going to get with him. I mean, obviously you can sit
• 27:17
  there and say, guys, you know, an elite talent, right, a
• 27:21
  generational talent. I mean, they said it with
• 27:23
  Jackson Holiday. You know, look what happened
• 27:25
  when they called them up. I don't really put, you know,
• 27:30
  money on rookies being called up and producing out of the gate.
• 27:33
  I think it's more with pitchers because pitchers, if you're an
• 27:37
  elite pitcher, you're an elite pitcher.
• 27:38
  There's no, I mean, you know, if you're throwing, you know, 9899,
• 27:42
  we can, I'm sure me and you can just band through all day about
• 27:44
  pitches that called up and, and, you know, besides schemes and
• 27:47
  all Strasbourg, I mean the pitchers that just get called up
• 27:50
  that are studs that you know, will be studs.
• 27:52
  Garrett Cole, you know, Pirates when he first got called up.
• 27:55
  So I think it's easier to to and not just fantasy, but in
• 28:01
  baseball to get behind a a rookie pitcher to come up and
• 28:06
  start then it is a batter, if that makes sense.
• 28:09
  Yeah, I, I agree with that. And we've seen it this year too,
• 28:12
  and very short term on, on some guys for sure, like Logan
• 28:15
  Henderson got sent down, right. I think Joel Boyle from the the
• 28:20
  Rays, he came up for a start and he was great and he got sent
• 28:23
  down right away. But there's a lot of guys kind
• 28:26
  of knocking at the door for that for sure.
• 28:29
  And then and like you said with the bat, sometimes you just
• 28:31
  don't know what you're going to get.
• 28:32
  But now that I watch some guys like Jackson Cheerio and you
• 28:36
  know, Meryl per San Diego come being so young there, I think
• 28:43
  that's just kind of the new game is also just guys coming up
• 28:46
  younger at this point. And they're just going to throw
• 28:48
  them into the fire because they got these rookie contracts that
• 28:51
  they're paying a lot of money for now when they draft.
• 28:54
  So they want they want the product on the field.
• 28:57
  So they they, they're, they're just trying to move it faster.
• 29:01
  I feel nowadays with the kids. So maybe he produces, maybe he
• 29:04
  doesn't, but I feel like as a fan, I think it's exciting
• 29:07
  still. I'm, I'm stoked.
• 29:09
  I think he's going to be. I hope he's a.
• 29:10
  Stud yeah. And I do notice though, now
• 29:13
  nowadays too, they're they're kind of letting him stay up here
• 29:17
  like, you know, fight through the struggles.
• 29:20
  So I, I do like that That's, I think that's to me, if you're
• 29:23
  going to call a rookie up, you at least let him play a couple
• 29:27
  months, you know, two to three months full time play, then see
• 29:32
  if we'll take it from there. Like I, I just don't like when
• 29:34
  they call them up and then they struggle for a couple weeks,
• 29:38
  they just send them back down. Just never got behind that,
• 29:42
  yeah. I don't like it.
• 29:45
  All right, so and here, here's the last piece of this, this
• 29:48
  segment right here. So I know recently it seems like
• 29:52
  at least once a week we've seen these career alkylates kind of
• 29:56
  beat and reached, right, Chris Sale, the fastest of 2500
• 29:59
  strikeouts. You had Jacob degrom, the
• 30:01
  fastest pitcher ever to 1700. And then we always ask, you
• 30:06
  know, are these guys Hall of Fame worthy, right?
• 30:08
  Pull up the numbers, kind of go through them, see if we think
• 30:13
  they are, if they are or what would make them in the future
• 30:16
  become Hall of Fame worthy. So this past week, Padres third
• 30:20
  baseman Manny Machado hit his 350 home run.
• 30:24
  So now the question is, is Manny Machado a Hall of Famer?
• 30:29
  So I do have his numbers. There they are.
• 30:32
  You might have to make the screen a little bigger, but I
• 30:35
  can go through the numbers with you.
• 30:38
  He's got 1972 hits, he's got 350 home runs, he's got a little
• 30:45
  over 1000 ribbies. He's got 107 stolen bases and a
• 30:49
  280 average. Now I know where I stand with
• 30:52
  this, but I'd love to know Mike, because you were a Machado guy
• 30:56
  when he got called up with the Blue Jay.
• 30:59
  Excuse me? With Baltimore, you were all
• 31:01
  about them. You see the numbers.
• 31:04
  What do you think? So how old is Manny Machado?
• 31:10
  He's only 32 years old. He, he came up extremely young.
• 31:14
  I do remember that he he was a young, young call up and he
• 31:17
  really was just a stud. And you didn't say you didn't
• 31:20
  say how many gold gloves right There was that's I think how
• 31:24
  many does he? He's got a bunch, he's got a
• 31:26
  bunch. So he he's, he's defensively,
• 31:30
  you know, accolated with awards. So I think he he locked the the
• 31:34
  defensive side up the Batman. I mean, 280 average for your
• 31:38
  career. That's that's pretty good.
• 31:40
  And the the strikeouts. It's it's also pretty good for
• 31:44
  as many at bats as he's had, I think, but I don't know if he's
• 31:47
  there yet. 350 great accolade. But at the same time, I don't
• 31:50
  think he's quite, quite there. I think he needs to just just
• 31:55
  slump us up a little bit, maybe get a couple more awards, maybe
• 31:59
  a Silver Slugger in there. I know he's already got a few of
• 32:02
  those too, but you know, to have more, it's just better.
• 32:05
  It just pads the numbers a little bit because you know, we
• 32:08
  talked about Hall of Fame sometimes, Doug, and we always
• 32:11
  say it, it's about the numbers at the end of the day.
• 32:13
  Unfortunately, it's not just about like every single day
• 32:16
  going in and out because that does matter.
• 32:19
  But these guys, they look at their their career numbers and
• 32:25
  they, they evaluate from there and that's it.
• 32:28
  And I feel sometimes that's not the right way to do it.
• 32:31
  And maybe some people should be not voting because that's all
• 32:35
  they look at. But I that's a whole different
• 32:39
  podcast day, I feel. But yeah, I, I think Manny
• 32:42
  Machado is still a stud. I'm still a fan.
• 32:46
  I I he went to LA for a little bit.
• 32:48
  He was great there. Dodge.
• 32:50
  I mean, like he's just like a, he's just a dude.
• 32:53
  He's the guy that he was a kid, you know, he was kind of cocky,
• 32:59
  definitely cocky when he was younger, but now he's the now he
• 33:03
  gets it. You know, I, I don't want to
• 33:05
  make comparisons of other sports or entertainment, but he's like
• 33:09
  my, my Randy Orton of baseball. He he's like my, you know, Wiley
• 33:14
  vet understands what he's going through right now is he's in the
• 33:17
  midst of his, you know, veteran career and, you know, he's
• 33:21
  working with, you know, younger guys now in the in the clubhouse
• 33:24
  like Jackson Vera, like you said, and playing a different
• 33:28
  role a little bit, but at the same time still crushing it.
• 33:31
  So yeah, not there yet, but you're still a dude.
• 33:35
  I agree. So I think the biggest surprise
• 33:38
  when I look at his his stats is he's got 350 home runs, but he's
• 33:43
  got only 1000, a little over 1000 rabies like you know what I
• 33:47
  mean? That's less than 1/3 of his RB
• 33:52
  is are from, you know, oh, you can say solo shots at that
• 33:54
  point, which is kind of weird. I would figure that to be a
• 33:59
  little higher to me, like you said, I don't think he's there
• 34:03
  yet. I'm happy with the home runs.
• 34:05
  You know, he played third base 350 home runs.
• 34:08
  Like if he retired with 350, like that's that's a really good
• 34:12
  number. I mean, 350 home runs is Hall of
• 34:14
  Fame worthy, but if you give me 2500 hits, which he can, he's,
• 34:20
  he's almost at 2000, he'll be over 2000 by the end of the
• 34:23
  year. It's only 32.
• 34:25
  You know, if you can give me 2500 hits, anything you put on
• 34:29
  extra to these 350 home runs is just gravy at this point.
• 34:33
  So you give me 2500 hits, you give me, you know, whatever want
• 34:37
  to say 400 plus home runs, 400 plus home runs.
• 34:40
  And you know, if you can give me maybe 1500 ribbies because I
• 34:45
  don't think he'll get to 2000. He it's a Hall of Fame and
• 34:48
  they're all, all those numbers are underestimates in my
• 34:51
  opinion. If he's, you know, he's only 32
• 34:55
  and if you get 2500 hits in the next 8 years, you know, until he
• 34:58
  plays, he plays till 40 or even 4 years, right?
• 35:02
  That those are all achievable numbers.
• 35:04
  And I would say he is he, he'll be a Hall of Famer.
• 35:08
  There's no, there's nothing to tell me otherwise.
• 35:11
  You know, I'm sure I know coming from Red Sox Nation, a lot of us
• 35:15
  don't like Manny Machado because like you said, he he did come up
• 35:18
  cocky. People still blame him for
• 35:21
  Pedroia's career ending, you know, that that injury to his
• 35:24
  knee. And so I, I, I remember that
• 35:28
  play. But yeah, that slide into second
• 35:32
  with the with the cleats up, I just never understood it.
• 35:37
  But you know, I he, he is all Famer.
• 35:40
  He will be right now. These numbers are just
• 35:43
  borderline and if they're borderline and he's 32 and he's
• 35:46
  got, you know, five years more to play, he'll be all of it.
• 35:49
  I think he'll be fine. Where he'll finish, I don't
• 35:52
  know. I mean, you know, is he going to
• 35:54
  stay with the Padres, you know, for the rest?
• 35:56
  I I know he's still on that pretty decent long contract.
• 35:59
  I think there's only like 3 years left in it.
• 36:01
  Not entirely sure we could look that up later.
• 36:03
  But yeah, I mean, you know, he's having a pretty good year.
• 36:08
  And that's crazy because I remember like 3 or 4 years ago,
• 36:10
  he had a really down year and a lot of people thought maybe his
• 36:13
  better, his, his best years were behind him.
• 36:16
  And now, you know, couple of years Soto, when Soto was in
• 36:19
  that lineup two years ago, he put up some monster numbers, 30
• 36:23
  plus home runs on pace for that. I mean, he's, he's all fame.
• 36:28
  He will be, he will be. These are borderline numbers.
• 36:30
  Give him another four years of playing, at least he'll be a
• 36:33
  Hall of Famer. Yeah, he's he's just too good.
• 36:36
  I think he's ahead of the curb right now.
• 36:38
  He's just too patched. He he loves the game.
• 36:40
  He's he's on. He's on the way.
• 36:42
  He's on the way. Well.
• 36:45
  All right, so that was I mean man, it's always fun talking
• 36:48
  about that stuff so let's run into man, this is this is going
• 36:53
  to be pretty long too and I know we're really zooming in time,
• 36:57
  man, but let's go into the hurt locker.
• 37:00
  Let's talk about some injuries, take a break and then talk about
• 37:03
  the meat of the show, right, because I love the meat of the
• 37:06
  show. Let's just dig it right Every.
• 37:14
  So first and foremost, now I, I write this, this script most I,
• 37:20
  I write the Hurt Locker script on Thursday because Friday takes
• 37:23
  me like a couple hours to write this because I'm looking at
• 37:26
  who's hot, because I'm going over up to date numbers based
• 37:29
  off of Thursday night because they don't go into account until
• 37:31
  Friday morning. So I'm up Friday morning putting
• 37:34
  this thing together, but I like to do the Hurt Locker segment
• 37:36
  Thursday nights and then add whatever I can on Friday just to
• 37:40
  get it out of the way and start a little earlier.
• 37:42
  So when I had added this yesterday, it, you know, Arizona
• 37:47
  Stein pitcher Corbin Burns, they placed them on the IL the 15 day
• 37:50
  they called the right elbow inflammation and that he was
• 37:54
  getting a second opinion. Well, lo and behold, yeah.
• 37:58
  And and they even put a timetable the very least four to
• 38:00
  six weeks. That's the least.
• 38:02
  So, you know, you're thinking, OK, a couple weeks maybe he's
• 38:05
  just going to get a plasma injection like a Jack cranky,
• 38:08
  you know, get a plasma, come back a couple months later, you
• 38:12
  know, be fine. So he ended up getting Tommy
• 38:16
  John. He is now out for the rest of
• 38:18
  the year, probably out for all of next year as well.
• 38:21
  That's what they're saying. And we do have that that video
• 38:27
  of that how the injury occurred. He knew right away.
• 38:30
  Again, there is no sound to this clip.
• 38:33
  So I guess I could we could pretend to be announcers for a
• 38:37
  second. So let me here it is.
• 38:40
  This is Corbin Burns. This was earlier this week.
• 38:44
  And you know, so you know, I think that was CJ Abrams.
• 38:49
  As soon as the pitch it's a cutter.
• 38:52
  Let me rewind it so you can see Cutter right there.
• 38:58
  It was, you know, 3 miles an hour, you know, slower than his
• 39:01
  usual cutter. I think his last, that last,
• 39:03
  that whole inning, I think was a lot slower.
• 39:06
  Soon as he lets it go, you know, he knows something's up.
• 39:09
  Like something happened, calls in.
• 39:11
  You can read his lips saying, you know, I'm done.
• 39:14
  He's like my elbow's done. Like it's you know, it's done.
• 39:17
  It's you just see him, it's done.
• 39:19
  He he knew, he knew right away. And it's tough because before he
• 39:25
  before this has happened, I mean, the guy was in a groove. 5
• 39:28
  quality starts in a row, 3 and 1 ER as under 3.
• 39:33
  It's a 266. I mean, the guy's got 64 ratings
• 39:37
  pitch. He's got 63 strikeouts.
• 39:38
  He's got 130 points. He's giving you almost 12A start
• 39:42
  in the zone. You know, everybody who owned
• 39:45
  him in fantasy, who you know, his first two or three starts
• 39:49
  were not good at all, right? I mean, we were all saying to
• 39:52
  ourselves, man, and what's happening with Corbin Burns ends
• 39:55
  up, you know, stepping up. I think me and you both tried to
• 39:58
  buy low on them from Jimmy. We held on to him.
• 40:02
  Jimmy started reaping the benefits because he started
• 40:04
  pitching like we all know we could pitch, right?
• 40:07
  And then this happens. Tough to see, tough break for
• 40:10
  them. I mean, this was a big free
• 40:12
  agent acquisition, right? Let's go out.
• 40:14
  Let's let's bolster up. Let's trade for Josh Nailer,
• 40:17
  who's day-to-day now. Let's let's go out and sign a
• 40:20
  guy to a multi year contract. And it did put him in a good
• 40:25
  standing against the Dodgers like they actually have been.
• 40:28
  I think they might they either are tied or they might have one
• 40:31
  more game over than the Dodgers for the year so far versus each
• 40:35
  other and head to head match ups.
• 40:37
  But they're right there with him.
• 40:38
  And this is this is going to be tough.
• 40:41
  I don't know what I don't know if you can survive this as a
• 40:45
  team. And I mean, it might be dramatic
• 40:47
  to say like survive, right? But this is a guy that's giving
• 40:53
  you, you know, almost 200 innings, 200 strikeouts for the
• 40:57
  last five years in a row, right? This is a guy who can give you
• 41:01
  12 to 18 wins, a A3 or sub 3 ERA, and now he's gone for two
• 41:08
  years or a year and a half. He's gone.
• 41:11
  You know you're not going to have him next year.
• 41:12
  You're not going to have him for the rest of this year.
• 41:16
  That's tough. That is a tough pill to swallow
• 41:19
  for anybody, not just fans of of of fantasy baseball home.
• 41:23
  But I'm I'm a you know me, I'm a diamondback guy.
• 41:25
  I love the D backs. I I love the team.
• 41:28
  I love Josh Naylor. I love what they did.
• 41:31
  You know that, although I will say I hate the lineup juggling.
• 41:34
  I hate how you know Marte will bat lead off Corbin second, then
• 41:38
  Marte second, Corbin 1st and then Josh Kneeler bats 5th the
• 41:42
  other night and then now they moved them up to 3rd and it's I
• 41:46
  hate the juggling aspect of that lineup, but I think it's a great
• 41:49
  lineup and it's just it's tough to see, man.
• 41:51
  I don't I don't know if they can overcome.
• 41:54
  This is the word. That's it.
• 41:55
  Overcome. This guy's top five pitcher in
• 41:58
  the league that hands down when he's on.
• 42:00
  So, yeah, this is a humongous blow.
• 42:02
  I mean, this guy's a hoss. This guy is the dude.
• 42:04
  He he's been the dude. And he looks so good in the
• 42:07
  Arizona uniform, too. It just made sense when they
• 42:10
  signed them. It still does.
• 42:12
  You know, he'll come back down the road and, you know, I, I
• 42:15
  really hopefully expect he, he does Well, I think what is he,
• 42:17
  30 years old, Doug? And, and honestly, you know, he,
• 42:21
  he's got, he's got some stuff in the tank still.
• 42:23
  So I'm hopefully he'll, he'll come up about in the other side.
• 42:26
  So now you have to pivot and now say, OK, what's going to happen
• 42:29
  with Arizona and their rotation? You know, like it's not the
• 42:33
  same. You know, you can't just find
• 42:34
  the Corbin Burns on the streets like that and not pay for it,
• 42:37
  right? So if they're really serious
• 42:39
  about being competitive, you know, they're going to have to
• 42:41
  really, you know, dish out something in order to do it
• 42:43
  because they're already paying Josh Nail, like you said, Kenta
• 42:46
  Marte's got a pretty good contract.
• 42:48
  They already signed the, you know, Corbin Carol.
• 42:50
  So they spent money, They're invested, you know, for this
• 42:52
  short term here. So I'll be curious to see if
• 42:54
  they do make a move the to try to, you know, it's going to take
• 42:58
  multiple guys, I think to replace a guy like that.
• 43:01
  You know, not the same. You know, you're going to laugh,
• 43:04
  but E Rod came back, right? Rod Rodriguez just came back
• 43:06
  from Yeah, you know, they're paying him money too.
• 43:09
  You know, they're they're paying him a lot of money.
• 43:13
  So they have to roll them out. That owner must be so mad.
• 43:17
  You know, between Jordan Montgomery, you know, Rod
• 43:20
  Rodriguez and now you get Corbin Burns like you're getting,
• 43:23
  you're paying, you know, you know, what is that almost $300
• 43:26
  million for the nothing Like that's tough.
• 43:30
  That's, you know, that's tough right now.
• 43:33
  Not snow knock on Burns. You know, you don't try to get
• 43:35
  hurt. But, you know, as an owner,
• 43:37
  you're probably just like, come on, you know, I can't catch a
• 43:39
  break here. But yeah, there's going to be
• 43:43
  some alternative options. We talked about Sandy earlier.
• 43:45
  I mean, that could be a destination now.
• 43:48
  Always, like I like I said before, a change of scenery is
• 43:51
  always nice sometimes for a player.
• 43:53
  Sandy definitely needs it. He needs to get out of Miami
• 43:55
  really fast. So hopefully wherever he goes,
• 43:58
  he produces maybe Arizona's now probably officially in the
• 44:01
  hunting for him. I would, I would assume because
• 44:05
  now you have to replace them not just for one year now, but for
• 44:08
  2. So it's not just a short term
• 44:10
  replacement, it's it's going to be a multi year replacement.
• 44:15
  Like I said, it's going to take multiple guys.
• 44:17
  Maybe next year, you know, Walker Bueller, I don't know if
• 44:19
  he's going to stay around in Boston.
• 44:21
  Who knows, you know, he'll be a free agent.
• 44:22
  Maybe you know, they'll sign him.
• 44:24
  I think there's going to be a lot that's going to happen in in
• 44:26
  Arizona in order for it to supplement a guy like Corbin
• 44:29
  Branch sucks. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be.
• 44:33
  It's going to be interesting what they do anyways.
• 44:36
  All right, so I do have a bunch more.
• 44:38
  Let me do half this list and then we'll do the other half and
• 44:41
  then I'll just do quick updates. All right, So let me breeze
• 44:44
  through. I'll do 4/4 now.
• 44:48
  We already talked about it. Josh Naylor, he's day-to-day.
• 44:50
  He's not in the line up today. He does have shoulder soreness.
• 44:54
  I guess it's something he's been playing through the last couple
• 44:56
  days. He is a top two first baseman in
• 44:59
  fantasy 289. Seven home runs, 33 strikeouts
• 45:04
  and nine stolen bases. Right, 174 points.
• 45:06
  He's giving you almost 3A start. Mets shortstop Francisco and
• 45:10
  Door, he's day-to-day. He's got a fractured right pinky
• 45:12
  toe. He suffered the injury after
• 45:14
  being hit by a pitch in the first inning of Wednesday's game
• 45:16
  over the Dodgers. He's going to play through it.
• 45:19
  So I don't know what type of production to expect from here
• 45:23
  on out. And while he's healing from the
• 45:25
  injury, I know he's not in the line up today, but expectation
• 45:29
  is he will be at some point this weekend.
• 45:31
  Maybe hold him out today, tomorrow.
• 45:33
  So on Sunday, I'm not entirely sure what they're going to do.
• 45:36
  He was, I mean, giving you 3.1 a start, 191 points, fourteen home
• 45:42
  runs, 42 runs, eleven stolen bases, 36 RBI.
• 45:46
  Then he 3030 on his way to 3030 for sure.
• 45:50
  Again, almost three years in a row now if he does Hunter Green
• 45:54
  starting pitcher for the Reds. He's on the 15 DIL he's got
• 45:56
  right a right groin strain. Same injury from put him on the
• 46:00
  IL earlier in May 4 and 359 innings, 73 strikeouts, 14
• 46:08
  walks, a 27 a 133 points. He's giving you 12.1 a start.
• 46:13
  I never got the fascination with Green, if I got to be honest.
• 46:15
  You know, I, I know people view him as an ace.
• 46:18
  I think he's a solid 3 in the rotation.
• 46:20
  You know, especially I think it's the injuries for me then
• 46:23
  really kind of throw it off. And, and not only that, I mean,
• 46:26
  his last four starts he's averaged less than 5 innings.
• 46:30
  He, he went O and one and he didn't pitch more than 5
• 46:33
  innings. I think 1 was 3/1 was 41 was,
• 46:36
  you know, one was five. He, he just, I don't know.
• 46:39
  I, I like, I don't understand why Rob and, and not to call him
• 46:43
  out in our league, but would trade a Bryce Harper for him
• 46:46
  straight off. Like, I don't, I just, I, I
• 46:48
  don't know. But we'll take a little break
• 46:51
  from there. Yeah, I, I think, yeah, let's
• 46:55
  start with him. Let's stay on him real quick.
• 46:56
  I mean, the guy is a, a very good pitcher when he's on.
• 47:00
  We, we saw it when he came out the gate in April, He was
• 47:02
  pitching really, really well. 133 points is surprising.
• 47:06
  That's low because I feel like with a 27 ERA, you know, that
• 47:11
  WHIP must be around like a one one or so I would assume, give
• 47:13
  or take. You know, there should be a
• 47:16
  couple more wins probably in there, right.
• 47:18
  That's that's kind of it feels low for me.
• 47:20
  But at the same time, you know that Cincinnati's, you know,
• 47:23
  playing about 500 balls. So it kind of makes sense.
• 47:26
  At the same time, look, Hunter Green reminds me of maybe when
• 47:32
  TJ on Walker was a prospect with Seattle.
• 47:36
  And see, he was he was, you know, the top pitching prospects
• 47:39
  at a time. And he was kind of built not as
• 47:42
  big as Hunter, but he was built as a big guy power pitcher.
• 47:45
  When he's on, he's he's commanding.
• 47:48
  And that's what Hunter's Green's expectation is, is, is exactly
• 47:51
  that in his game. And you kind of getting the
• 47:55
  Tajon Walker feel though, is sometimes when he has those
• 47:57
  outings when, like you said, he doesn't even go, you know, 6
• 48:00
  innings, sometimes not even 5 innings.
• 48:02
  And he gets himself in trouble early.
• 48:05
  And he does it often more than he does it, you know, that he
• 48:08
  should really, because I feel like I see it often with him
• 48:11
  more than other guys. Happens sometimes.
• 48:13
  I get it. You know, pitch count gets up,
• 48:15
  creeps up on you. You have, you know, 8
• 48:16
  strikeouts, but you also had three or four walks.
• 48:19
  So it, it can happen at times with some pitchers, but he does
• 48:22
  it more often than not. Yeah, he's all right.
• 48:24
  I think he's a good #3 for you, like your fantasy team for sure.
• 48:28
  You know, he's a guy that's going to hopefully get you some
• 48:30
  wins. You know, when he's pitching
• 48:32
  really well, you know, he can go 7 innings, 8 innings, got a
• 48:35
  bunch of KS and and hopefully get AW for you.
• 48:38
  But yeah, it's a tough loss. I think for Cincinnati as a
• 48:41
  whole, though, there's not a lot of great pitching there.
• 48:43
  He's kind of like spark a little bit.
• 48:46
  So that's going to be a tough replacement.
• 48:48
  Hey, Francisco, it is what it is.
• 48:51
  He's going to play through it. We're going to see what his
• 48:53
  production is. I'm curious about what how he's
• 48:55
  going to do. We'll see.
• 48:56
  But obviously you're going to have to start him if he's
• 48:58
  playing. So I'm not moving him.
• 49:00
  Obviously I got him from you, Doug, but he's been, he's been
• 49:05
  great when he plays. He's been awesome.
• 49:09
  And then Josh Naylor, man, the nail man, he's just a stud.
• 49:13
  Let's just let's just take a moment and just talk about how
• 49:15
  good that guy's been for Arizona since he's gotten there.
• 49:18
  No, like barely any strikeouts and he's got nine stolen bases.
• 49:21
  That doesn't look like a guy that steals bases to me, but
• 49:24
  he's doing it. He's a big boy, but man, he's
• 49:27
  telling me he's going to get no strikeouts as much as he has and
• 49:30
  he's going to get some stolen bases on top of that.
• 49:32
  I don't think fantasy owners were expecting that from him
• 49:36
  this year. So it's kind of like a little
• 49:37
  bit of a bonus. And like you said, top two first
• 49:39
  baseman in the league. I mean, that's that's awesome.
• 49:43
  This is what exactly what Arizona paid for, for the nail
• 49:47
  game to do exactly this. So I'm disappointed to see him
• 49:50
  on this list. Hopefully he's back in that line
• 49:52
  of tonight or tomorrow this weekend, because he's just too
• 49:57
  valuable for a fantasy team right now. 174 points averaging
• 50:01
  you 3 points almost per like that's that's legit.
• 50:04
  That's that's a stud. All right, let me run down the
• 50:09
  list. The rest real quick.
• 50:11
  You got Dodgers second baseman, shortstop outfielder Tommy
• 50:14
  Edmond. He's day-to-day with an ankle
• 50:16
  injury. This is the same injury he
• 50:18
  suffered month over a month ago. So they're not entirely sure
• 50:24
  what they're going to do. He did play yesterday, but Dave
• 50:26
  Roberts said he could receive additional time off throughout
• 50:29
  the week. Stardom at your own will.
• 50:32
  I, I mean, it's like, I can't really tell you much more.
• 50:35
  You know, I can only tell you what I I read.
• 50:37
  And they're still going to play them.
• 50:39
  But they have so much death, especially with Kim coming on
• 50:41
  strong that they'll probably give him more time off than
• 50:44
  usual. Pretty still pretty good start.
• 50:47
  I mean, he was starting to find his rhythm too before the
• 50:49
  injury. He was hitting 368 his last
• 50:51
  seven games. You know, he was averaging 2.6 a
• 50:54
  start for someone that you drafted pretty late.
• 50:57
  You you were reaping the benefits.
• 50:58
  And whenever he is out the and he's out there, he is helping
• 51:01
  you out a lot in fantasy. Marlins starting pitcher Max
• 51:05
  Mayer, he landed on a 15 day IL. He's got a right, I know a left
• 51:08
  hip implement impingement. Excuse me, He's looking at more
• 51:13
  of a mid June return. He's giving you 7.9 points a
• 51:16
  start, 95 points, a 470 RA. Not really what you want out of
• 51:22
  out of him. I mean, it is what it is.
• 51:25
  Twins shortstop Pablo Lopez, he's going to be on the IL.
• 51:29
  He's got a grade 2 strain of the muscle in his throwing shoulder.
• 51:32
  So they're looking 8 to 12 weeks.
• 51:34
  So you're looking at least 2 1/2, you know, maybe two months,
• 51:37
  maybe 2 1/2. He was giving you 11 points.
• 51:41
  I mean, 16 innings pitch, 61 strikeouts at 280, RA five and
• 51:46
  three. Probably should have won a
• 51:47
  couple more because of the offense really lagging in
• 51:50
  Minnesota, but is what it is. Padres first baseman, DH second
• 51:55
  baseman Luisa Raas, he is day-to-day with a knee injury.
• 51:58
  He is starting today. Did walk his first at bat.
• 52:00
  I did see that. It doesn't seem to be a bad
• 52:03
  injury. He is back in the line up, but
• 52:05
  it is something to monitor. I don't know what they're going
• 52:08
  to do with him. And then last, second baseman,
• 52:11
  shortstop Xander Bogarts. He's day-to-day.
• 52:14
  He's got a left shoulder soreness.
• 52:16
  This is the same shoulder he fractured last season.
• 52:19
  So for now, he is day-to-day. But NIL stent will probably be
• 52:23
  coming. And I take it by that facial
• 52:26
  expression that you made in the background, somebody must have
• 52:28
  hit something. Muscle Merit hit his first home
• 52:32
  run. Wow, good for him.
• 52:36
  Crushed it. Solo shot.
• 52:40
  Good for him. Hey, great to see Luis Horias
• 52:47
  back in that line up. Thank God, huh?
• 52:48
  That guy's a stud. When he's on there, like you
• 52:51
  said, the no strikeouts is huge with him.
• 52:54
  He's just a a walk machine hit machine when he's on.
• 52:59
  He doesn't strike out when he's off.
• 53:01
  So safe player. Good to see him back out there.
• 53:04
  Got him in a league too, so he's super valuable for me being 1st
• 53:07
  and 2nd going up the list. Max Mayer, you know, you can't
• 53:12
  really expect too much from him this year.
• 53:15
  Very, very good pitcher. He's going to be a strikeout
• 53:17
  type guy for sure. But you know, I think he's
• 53:20
  probably maybe a year or two off from really being a fantasy stud
• 53:24
  at this point. So hate to see him obviously get
• 53:27
  injured, but you know, part of the game.
• 53:30
  So hopefully he comes back soon. Left hip implementation that is
• 53:34
  unique. That's different.
• 53:36
  I haven't heard that one before. I don't know how I like about
• 53:40
  hip injuries, but you know, it is what it is.
• 53:43
  I like I said for him, it's not about this year.
• 53:45
  I think for fantasy owners, it's about next year with Max Mayer.
• 53:49
  I think that's more maybe like a sleeper pick.
• 53:51
  Maybe he's like a Brandon Wu next year where he goes really
• 53:55
  late. You know, he's got some talent
• 53:57
  and you know, maybe something hits right.
• 54:01
  And then you got Tommy Edmund, you know, the vet, the wildly
• 54:05
  vet, just not staying on the field lately, unfortunately,
• 54:10
  like you said, playing fantastic when using that line up helps
• 54:13
  that line up go around too, being a part of it.
• 54:17
  So hopefully he comes back, like you said, he's only day-to-day,
• 54:21
  right? So, you know, we'll see.
• 54:22
  Hopefully he comes back this weekend.
• 54:24
  And I mean, the way he's been producing Doug when he is on the
• 54:28
  field, I think he's a must start, right?
• 54:32
  Yeah, Yep, for sure. What's up?
• 54:39
  Yeah. And all right, so let me run
• 54:41
  down the updates real quick. Philly's starting pitcher, Erin
• 54:45
  Noah, he was scheduled for a bullpen session yesterday that
• 54:47
  was pushed back due to experiencing mild side
• 54:49
  stiffness. So I'm assuming they're going to
• 54:52
  let that subside, take it from there.
• 54:56
  So there's really no timetable with him now.
• 54:59
  Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert, he made a second rehab
• 55:02
  start for AAA. He threw 60 pitches in three
• 55:04
  innings, allowing two runs. I think they're going to lean
• 55:07
  with giving him one more start before calling them up.
• 55:10
  But don't quote me on that. They were, they were still
• 55:12
  having that thrown up in the air.
• 55:14
  Mets starting pitcher Sean Monet, he began his rehab
• 55:17
  assignment Wednesday with Jae. Brewers starting pitcher Brandon
• 55:21
  Woodruff just can't catch a break then.
• 55:23
  So he's he was making his last rehab start and then he was
• 55:27
  struck on the elbow with a line drive.
• 55:31
  Initial test looked good, but he is flying to Milwaukee.
• 55:34
  I think he got there today. He's they're going to do some
• 55:36
  more extensive training testing to see what that if there is an
• 55:40
  injury or if there is maybe a hairline fracture or something.
• 55:45
  Guardian, this one just broke today.
• 55:47
  Guardian starting pitcher Shane Bieber, he was supposed to make
• 55:51
  his rehab start. They ended up canceling that
• 55:55
  today and that was due to experiencing some more soreness
• 55:59
  from that, from that Tommy John surgery from his elbow.
• 56:02
  So they're not sure they're again, just going to ride it
• 56:05
  out, wait until he feels a little better, maybe take some
• 56:08
  tests and then have him go out. Ray's starting pitcher Shane
• 56:12
  Mcculloughan, he had his first bullpen session scheduled for
• 56:16
  today, so I'm not sure how that went yet, but it's good to see
• 56:21
  step in the right direction. There's still no timetable for
• 56:24
  his return. This was a funny one for me.
• 56:29
  Astros outfielder DH Jordan Alvarez, his hand hand injury
• 56:33
  was worse than they originally thought.
• 56:36
  So after hitting drills this past weekend, he still felt pain
• 56:39
  in his right hand. The injury was just believed to
• 56:42
  be a muscle strain, but it was actually a fracture and it is
• 56:45
  only about 60% healed. So that tells me he's probably
• 56:50
  another two to three weeks away from coming back like they
• 56:54
  originally thought he would. That's just bad.
• 56:58
  Everything that's that's bad medical Tristaff.
• 57:01
  I mean, I don't know, but but that's why I always say it's
• 57:04
  like, remember we were talking about injuries.
• 57:07
  I want to say must have been a couple weeks ago where they're
• 57:10
  like, OK, he's not going to do any test testing, but we're just
• 57:14
  going to let the you know, the the swelling subside and then
• 57:16
  have him go back out. It was a picture.
• 57:18
  I forget who it was, but we're not going to do any testing.
• 57:21
  We're just going to have wait until it's, you know, the the
• 57:23
  swelling goes down and then go back out and pitch and see where
• 57:25
  he is. And I'm saying to myself, why
• 57:27
  don't you just do the imaging and get it over with?
• 57:30
  And this is a This is why. This right here is why.
• 57:34
  And obviously it probably only happens 10% of the time, not
• 57:37
  even right. But This is why.
• 57:42
  Yeah, second straight year with Houston, right?
• 57:44
  I mean, last year with Kyle Tucker with that, you know, he
• 57:47
  actually fractured it, right? He fractured his foot and they
• 57:49
  thought it was just a, a, a bone bruise or whatever it was.
• 57:53
  And then come to find out it wasn't, he missed a lot more
• 57:56
  time than we all thought. So, yeah, weird story with
• 58:00
  Jordan Alvarez for sure. And honestly, the way the way
• 58:03
  he's been playing, I mean, you're not missing much I feel
• 58:05
  because he has not been producing like the way he has
• 58:08
  been and probably the way you drafted him too.
• 58:11
  So you're kind of in a tough position with him.
• 58:13
  It's more of a hold at this point and just kind of wait and
• 58:15
  see because you know, whatever value you have for him or you
• 58:18
  thought you had for him totally out the window.
• 58:21
  Like it's, you know, Doug said what another 3-4 weeks probably
• 58:24
  more likely might have to do a rehab a little bit as well.
• 58:27
  It is what it is. Saint Mcfellahan.
• 58:30
  I'm going to hold my breath on that.
• 58:32
  I feel like at this point, there's not a lot of information
• 58:35
  coming out about him. Yeah, you can be throwing, but
• 58:37
  that can still mean you're still, you know, 5-6 weeks away
• 58:41
  from even, you know, stepping on the mound and and tamper at this
• 58:44
  point. So, you know, until he really
• 58:47
  starts ramping up, maybe going on a rehab, then I'll start
• 58:49
  maybe putting a, you know, thought into it, you know, if
• 58:53
  he's available in your leagues or, or whatever.
• 58:56
  But at this point, it's the whole man Brandon Woodwiff.
• 59:00
  Let's talk about him for a second, right?
• 59:01
  Tommy Jones injury rehab all of a sudden hurts his ankle on his
• 59:06
  last rehab start, needs what, one or two more it goes.
• 59:10
  You know, the second rehab or his ankle injury gets hit in the
• 59:13
  shoulder now, like it sounds like it's not too serious.
• 59:17
  He's already going to Milwaukee. I think if he gets cleared, he's
• 59:19
  just going to get the call up anyway.
• 59:21
  So I think at this point, I think they just got to keep him
• 59:25
  in Milwaukee just to make sure he doesn't anything else happens
• 59:28
  about his rehab here. I mean, hey, I I got him in a
• 59:31
  league. I'm in a 14 team and it's pretty
• 59:33
  pitcher heavy. I did draft him.
• 59:35
  So I am looking forward to him coming back.
• 59:37
  I do think Milwaukee's competitive team.
• 59:39
  So maybe a couple extra points. I'm not expecting a lot from
• 59:42
  him. If I even get, you know, 90 to
• 59:45
  100 innings out of him at this point on moving forward.
• 59:47
  I think that's a win. That's a huge win.
• 59:50
  And like you said, you had Gilbert on here.
• 59:53
  You know, it sounds like good news for Logan Gilbert.
• 59:55
  Sounds like bad news for Hancock, who's been pretty good
• 59:58
  for him except for a couple shaky starts.
• 1:00:00
  Sounds like he's going to get the boot out of the rotation.
• 1:00:02
  So that's unfortunate because I'm a fan.
• 1:00:06
  I think he was kind of he he he's a talented prospect and he
• 1:00:09
  got his shot. And, you know, it's just they're
• 1:00:12
  so deep. So they don't really need him at
• 1:00:14
  this point. So you'll probably see him at
• 1:00:15
  some point later in the season. But I think he's a safe drop
• 1:00:18
  once slogan Gilbert gets the call up and they do probably
• 1:00:22
  demote him. And then Aaron Nola, I mean, I
• 1:00:25
  hope this guy gets back on the mount soon because there's a lot
• 1:00:27
  of conflicting stories with him since he got hurt.
• 1:00:29
  We thought he was going to be back in this rotation probably
• 1:00:32
  at this point, but continues to to rehab.
• 1:00:35
  So stiffness, you know, Noah's got a lot of headings under him.
• 1:00:40
  He's going to get some stiffness.
• 1:00:41
  So and then I'll, I'll finish with Shane Bieber.
• 1:00:46
  I'm not freaking out. I'm not putting up the fire
• 1:00:48
  alarm yet. I think Tommy John, I think you
• 1:00:50
  do have a lot of shoulder shortness after and throwing.
• 1:00:53
  So I don't think it's uncommon. So he could be back on that
• 1:00:56
  mound in a few days, throwing a bullpen session, getting ready
• 1:00:59
  for that AA rehab start. So he may be pitching Wednesday
• 1:01:02
  or Thursday of next week to get that campaign going.
• 1:01:05
  He probably has about four or five starts in probably AAA at
• 1:01:09
  that point because they're going to have to build up his pitch
• 1:01:12
  count. So I I expected maybe the after
• 1:01:15
  the All Star break. I think that was always what we
• 1:01:18
  kind of thought too, to be real about it.
• 1:01:20
  There's no rush to bring him back.
• 1:01:22
  They're playing pretty good baseball.
• 1:01:24
  There's going to be in the race. It'll just be nice to have him
• 1:01:27
  back in the rotation when he is back.
• 1:01:28
  But yeah, I I don't think I'm not overreacting to it.
• 1:01:32
  Yeah, it's good stuff. All right, so puts us right on
• 1:01:37
  par, man. So let's take a quick break and
• 1:01:41
  then we're going to come back. We're going to talk about who's
• 1:01:43
  been hot this week as far as hitters, pitchers, who's not
• 1:01:46
  been hot this week as far as hitters, pitchers and then some
• 1:01:49
  pretty good. We'll go over last week's our
• 1:01:51
  our buy low, sell high candidates, see how they fared
• 1:01:55
  this week and then talk about some new ones.
• 1:01:59
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• 1:02:04
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• 1:02:19
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• 1:02:24
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• 1:02:28
  Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word.
• 1:02:34
  Why? They won't understand.
• 1:02:37
  They won't understand why we do it.
• 1:02:43
  They won't understand it's about the men next to you.
• 1:02:49
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  ride. All right, we're jumping right
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  in. You heard it here.
• 1:03:40
  We're going in. Who's hot?
• 1:03:41
  Who's not? One of my favorite segments of
• 1:03:43
  the show. I love looking at, you know,
• 1:03:46
  some, some of the higher, better performers that are only like
• 1:03:49
  really not owned in many leagues.
• 1:03:53
  So let's just dive right in. All right, I'll go over the 1st
• 1:03:57
  2:00. I'll go over the hitters, Mike,
• 1:03:59
  and then we can break them down a little more and then go right
• 1:04:01
  into the pitchers. He's first baseman, outfielder
• 1:04:05
  Tyler Soderstorm. He's 71% owned.
• 1:04:08
  Now let's remember this guy made the who's not list last week.
• 1:04:12
  He gave you a -10 points. He struck out 14 times.
• 1:04:16
  So I think this is kind of what we'll see from him.
• 1:04:19
  Not consistent, a lot of uncertainty.
• 1:04:21
  I know he was benched in in our money league that we're in, and
• 1:04:26
  I bet most leads probably benched him too.
• 1:04:27
  But he had a really good week, right?
• 1:04:30
  261 full homers, 11 ribbies, five runs, no stolen bases, 6
• 1:04:33
  strikeouts, gave you 40 points, 5.7 a start.
• 1:04:38
  And then Willie Castro, I feel he was on the list last year too
• 1:04:41
  at one point. He's the kind of the Swiss Army
• 1:04:45
  knife shortstop, second, third outfield, every position he's
• 1:04:49
  only 25% on. He batted 385.
• 1:04:52
  Four home runs, six rabies, eight runs, a stolen base, 5
• 1:04:55
  strikeouts, same thing, 40 points, 5.7 to start.
• 1:04:58
  I do have some honorable mentions.
• 1:05:01
  Marcus Simeon, who we had said by low on probably I think 3
• 1:05:06
  weeks ago maybe. He seems to be turning it
• 1:05:09
  around. I mean, 38 points last week,
• 1:05:12
  take two home runs yesterday, I think maybe he is turning that
• 1:05:16
  corner. And then of course, Max Muncie,
• 1:05:18
  he had 38 points as well with the Dodgers.
• 1:05:21
  And it was actually a funny picture I saw him that has when
• 1:05:25
  he bats with glasses on versus when he doesn't bat with glasses
• 1:05:29
  on. And it's pretty funny because
• 1:05:30
  he's much better with the glasses on.
• 1:05:33
  But so those are your your hottest hitters for this week.
• 1:05:37
  Yeah, Tyler Soderstrom, right, former catcher, one of the top
• 1:05:41
  prospects at one point for Oakland.
• 1:05:43
  Now just formally now the A's, you know how young he is still.
• 1:05:49
  He's only like 23 years old. I mean, that's that's such a
• 1:05:52
  young ball club and they got so many guys playing together.
• 1:05:54
  I think they're going to be, I think they're going to be pretty
• 1:05:56
  good down the road. They score a lot of runs and
• 1:05:59
  they're one of the top run support scorers in the AL right
• 1:06:02
  now, surprisingly. But yeah, great week for him. 40
• 1:06:06
  points crushed it. I mean, four home runs is
• 1:06:10
  fantastic. Only striking out six times.
• 1:06:13
  Not too bad, not too bad at all for him.
• 1:06:15
  He does tend to strike out a lot.
• 1:06:17
  So like the Duck said, I mean, the guy was on The Who not list
• 1:06:21
  last week. So like it's, you know, these
• 1:06:25
  guys come and pop up and they go on these these crusades and he
• 1:06:28
  just did it and crushed it and hey, what are you going to do?
• 1:06:32
  It is what it is. It's hopefully you had him, you
• 1:06:34
  started him only 71% owned. I think that's a fair, fair
• 1:06:38
  number. I don't think he should be owned
• 1:06:40
  probably more than that. I don't know if he's going to
• 1:06:42
  continue the streak. But if you're looking for a guy
• 1:06:45
  just a a plug and play in a daily league, this is a great
• 1:06:47
  guy if he's still available. So definitely grab him if you
• 1:06:51
  can still, because we know we're only doing what, Friday through
• 1:06:55
  Friday through Thursday, Doug. So you know, that means he's
• 1:06:58
  still hot now, you know, until he isn't.
• 1:07:00
  So maybe you got a couple more days you can ride this guy out
• 1:07:04
  and like really, Castro, the guy is just a renaissance man, plays
• 1:07:07
  everywhere. Got to love it.
• 1:07:08
  That's an old school type of player right there.
• 1:07:11
  One of the bright spots in the Twins organization right now.
• 1:07:14
  Not a lot to be, you know, bragging about.
• 1:07:16
  You know, Joe Ryan's been pitching pretty good.
• 1:07:18
  But really, other than these two guys, not a lot going on.
• 1:07:21
  So yeah, like you said, Doug, this segment's about guys that
• 1:07:24
  are not owned, 25% owned. This guy's just kind of hanging
• 1:07:27
  out right now, probably drafted in some leagues late just
• 1:07:31
  because of his versatility. Maybe hope to hit a, you know, a
• 1:07:34
  home run on a late pick. Hasn't really been the case so
• 1:07:37
  far this year except for last week.
• 1:07:40
  If you need to take a flyer, like I said, these guys are
• 1:07:42
  great daily league guys. You know when they start heating
• 1:07:44
  up, they're great. And then that way they plug and
• 1:07:46
  play daily. Don't have to worry about them
• 1:07:48
  fading in a week where they just scored 28 points and all of a
• 1:07:52
  sudden they score -2 that happens all the time.
• 1:07:55
  So like I I say with precaution, if you're in a weekly league,
• 1:07:59
  definitely take precaution. But if you're in a daily league,
• 1:08:02
  take the flyer early on until they start fading all.
• 1:08:06
  Right. And it's just we'll hop right
• 1:08:08
  into the pitchers. Astro stunning pitcher Framer
• 1:08:11
  Valdez, the Predator himself. He 98.2% owned 2 and O 16
• 1:08:18
  innings pitched a complete game, 20 strikeouts, four walks, 3
• 1:08:22
  earned 61.16 points. I think that's the highest so
• 1:08:26
  far for pitching in a in a week. I I know there was a no hitter
• 1:08:32
  earlier, but that was just one start in that week.
• 1:08:35
  So it didn't, you know, translate into two starts.
• 1:08:41
  So yeah, 61.68 points that came. His complete game came against
• 1:08:46
  Tampa Bay at home. And then he pitched at
• 1:08:48
  Pittsburgh yesterday with 11 strikeouts.
• 1:08:51
  Great starts. I mean, his last five, his last
• 1:08:53
  six starts, he's 5 and O all quality starts.
• 1:08:57
  Baltimore's starting pitcher Zach Afflan, he's only 36.4%
• 1:09:01
  owned 2 and O 13 innings pitched, 13 strikeouts, a walk 3
• 1:09:05
  and 46 points. First start was at home against
• 1:09:09
  the White Sox. His second start was in Seattle.
• 1:09:14
  So in my opinion, starts he probably should win, you could
• 1:09:17
  say. And then honorable mentions we
• 1:09:19
  do have Chris Bessette. We did talk about earlier with
• 1:09:21
  Toronto, 36 points, 76 points and Robbie Ray with 36.72
• 1:09:29
  points. So those guys been pretty,
• 1:09:33
  pretty stable, I would say for most of the year.
• 1:09:35
  And and like I said, Valdez has really been turning it on his
• 1:09:38
  last six starts. Yeah, yeah, real quick, Robbie
• 1:09:42
  Ray, what a great guy he's been this year, like top ten pitcher
• 1:09:46
  just scoring a lot of points for for San Francisco.
• 1:09:50
  Yeah, just crushing it this year.
• 1:09:51
  So not surprised to see him on the honorable mentions.
• 1:09:53
  Like you said, Chris Bassett having a really good year so far
• 1:09:56
  got probably him at a good value.
• 1:09:59
  If you do have money, fantasy team, right?
• 1:10:01
  I start with Zac Afflan, 36% owns really not a lot of
• 1:10:04
  ownership there. That Baltimore team been up and
• 1:10:08
  down, more down. But the pitching especially
• 1:10:12
  unfortunately, it's just kind of what it's been this year.
• 1:10:15
  Good to see them kind of have a little bright spot in Seattle.
• 1:10:17
  I think one guy I was playing did start Zac Afflan against me.
• 1:10:21
  Like I said, it's that pitcher heavy league.
• 1:10:23
  So what he saw a decent match up and he went with the hey, it is
• 1:10:27
  what it is. You know, that's how you kind of
• 1:10:28
  win those weeks sometimes in those type of leaks.
• 1:10:30
  So that guy from we know what he can do when he's on, but we know
• 1:10:34
  this year hasn't been his best year so far battling injuries,
• 1:10:38
  not pitching to his his par. So these two starts been a
• 1:10:41
  bright spark for Baltimore. Well, let's spend some time on
• 1:10:43
  Framber. Framber's been the dude, right?
• 1:10:46
  Framber's been the guy every year, year in, year out,
• 1:10:50
  consistent, low pitch count, still strikes out guys, goes
• 1:10:54
  deep in the ball games, gives you an extra chance, maybe an
• 1:10:57
  extra inning, 2 innings to get that win, maybe that you maybe
• 1:11:00
  didn't get when you pitch A6 innings right.
• 1:11:02
  He just gives you a better chance of just maximizing your
• 1:11:05
  points. And he's been doing it right.
• 1:11:07
  This guy's been doing it. Staple fantasy fantasy baseball
• 1:11:13
  staple in my opinion. I'll tell you, though, so I own
• 1:11:16
  Framer Valdez and there are sometimes where, you know, he
• 1:11:20
  goes out for the 7th and I'm just like, just biting my tongue
• 1:11:23
  and I'm like, dude, maybe you should not take him out.
• 1:11:26
  Like, maybe you should, you know, take these six innings.
• 1:11:29
  You know, maybe he gave up a run or two and call it a win, right?
• 1:11:33
  And he'll go out there and for the most part he but at the
• 1:11:37
  beginning of the year he did not succeed when they did that.
• 1:11:41
  Like he would go out there in the 7th and I'd say why, you
• 1:11:44
  know, why is he going out there? He's, he already has like 4
• 1:11:46
  walks this game, you know, but and, and then he'd end up
• 1:11:51
  getting a loss. And lately he's kind of reminds
• 1:11:54
  me these last six starts of like 3 years ago when he pitched the
• 1:11:59
  no hitter and he was almost, I want to say a top 2 fantasy
• 1:12:04
  pitcher. And then, you know, last year
• 1:12:07
  and the year before, maybe not up to par, but this what he's
• 1:12:10
  doing now is, I mean, this tells me like, I feel like he might be
• 1:12:16
  the framer from a couple years ago with a no hitter like this
• 1:12:19
  might be the the he might finish one or two, I don't know.
• 1:12:24
  He's got to keep it up, keeps it up.
• 1:12:26
  I I think he's he's got all the tools to do it.
• 1:12:28
  And like we said, his pitch count is just phenomenal.
• 1:12:31
  You know, like, like we talked about school sometimes, you
• 1:12:34
  know, he keeps that pitch count pretty low and pretty consistent
• 1:12:36
  Fram. But I think it's just a pro at
• 1:12:38
  it at this point week in week out.
• 1:12:41
  So again, like he just gives you so many chances to, to maximize
• 1:12:44
  your points. It's just really hard to to
• 1:12:47
  argue against a guy like that. And it's easy.
• 1:12:50
  It's easier to justify drafting a guy like that at the the third
• 1:12:54
  fourth round instead of maybe drafting, you know, a guy that
• 1:12:59
  was maybe like a top six or seven because you know where he
• 1:13:02
  was drafted this year, he wasn't drafted very high.
• 1:13:05
  He was, he was definitely a faded pick for sure going into
• 1:13:08
  this year. So if you got him at a good
• 1:13:10
  price, I mean, you just, you probably just hit on like a #1
• 1:13:14
  or #2 pitcher potentially. So that's, that's huge.
• 1:13:17
  That's exactly what you look for in a draft.
• 1:13:20
  Yeah, I think I went Logan Webb and then him and they've been my
• 1:13:24
  my top 2 pitchers so far to date.
• 1:13:27
  Logan Webb's been great too. You know, we, we we're playing
• 1:13:29
  against each other this week. We had the same thing happened.
• 1:13:32
  We had Logan Webb go great right and he got a no decision, I
• 1:13:36
  believe. And then schemes go and we know
• 1:13:39
  the story about schemes just never getting that run support
• 1:13:42
  consistently. So it's.
• 1:13:46
  Been a bad but let's let's put some context to this because you
• 1:13:50
  also started the guy pitching against schemes, so it's almost
• 1:13:54
  like you were guaranteed a win at some point, right?
• 1:13:57
  Well. Wait, who's your closer?
• 1:14:02
  Which one? Josh Hayter.
• 1:14:08
  Josh Hayter, that's all right. You still got the win, right?
• 1:14:10
  I mean you got. I got the win, I got the loss
• 1:14:13
  and and it's like you stole the win away with with the hater
• 1:14:19
  save. I think you struck out three
• 1:14:20
  too. Yeah, I think he did too.
• 1:14:23
  I'm I'm still losing so I needed it anyways, all right.
• 1:14:28
  And I'm probably going to lose this week because I think you
• 1:14:30
  still have like you have like 8 starters left.
• 1:14:32
  I only have like 2. And, and I got Josh Naylor who's
• 1:14:36
  day-to-day and Tucker's finally starting to play.
• 1:14:39
  He didn't play all week until yesterday.
• 1:14:42
  So I'm, I'm kind of hearing a little bit, but so let's on the
• 1:14:46
  flip side of that, let's talk about who's not hot this past
• 1:14:48
  week. So what I like to do with hot,
• 1:14:52
  when I make the hot list, I always like to put people that
• 1:14:54
  are hot and, and you know, regardless of owner percentage,
• 1:14:59
  when I put the cold list, I like to put owner percentage because
• 1:15:02
  I can sit there and say, well, this guy's, you know who, who's
• 1:15:08
  just like a really scrubby, I could put Sandy on this list
• 1:15:12
  every week almost, you know, his owner percentage is constantly
• 1:15:18
  going down. So I, I like to put people that
• 1:15:20
  are like 60 or, or 70% owned or at least on this list just to
• 1:15:25
  say, well, not everybody who is, you know, owned 100% is, is good
• 1:15:31
  every week. So for this week, and there's
• 1:15:35
  the list right there, I had Corey Seeger, he's 88.6% owned.
• 1:15:43
  Listen, he's played a full week for coming back from the IL.
• 1:15:47
  He looks lost. You know, .087, no home runs, no
• 1:15:50
  ribbies, no runs, no stolen bases, 11 strikeouts -7 points.
• 1:15:56
  And then, you know, on the flip side, you got Tiasco Hernandez,
• 1:15:59
  who is 97% owned, almost 98 and he hits 074, no homers, A ribby
• 1:16:06
  four runs, 9 strikeouts, and he gave you 0 points on a couple
• 1:16:11
  honorable mentions. You know, Christian Walker who
• 1:16:14
  looks like he might be coming out of it a little bit.
• 1:16:17
  He had RBI single today at a home run a couple of days ago.
• 1:16:21
  Who knows, maybe a big second-half is in store, right.
• 1:16:25
  He gave you 0 points and Chrome worth gave you a 2.
• 1:16:29
  So not the best and and I, like I said, like T Oscar Hernandez
• 1:16:33
  is the guy who's 9798% owned. He's made the hot list.
• 1:16:37
  He scored over 40 points in a week and then, you know, now he
• 1:16:41
  comes and gives you 0 and he plays in the Dodgers lineup,
• 1:16:43
  which kind of gives you no excuse not to score points in
• 1:16:46
  fantasy because it's such a good lineup.
• 1:16:49
  So it's it's just interesting to see him in particular from week
• 1:16:54
  in and week out. Yeah, I think both those guys,
• 1:16:58
  really, if you're going into a draft, you should expect the
• 1:17:00
  strikeouts to come anyway. Both these guys strike out a ton
• 1:17:03
  throughout the season, but they mask it a little bit with the
• 1:17:06
  power they got the average that they usually keep up with,
• 1:17:09
  right. And the Oscar, we saw that last
• 1:17:11
  year with him because he was a strikeout per game guy.
• 1:17:13
  I think he had about 170 strikeouts or so.
• 1:17:17
  So you know, you got to expect these stretches sometimes with
• 1:17:20
  some of these guys that you do draft knowing, you know, yes, I
• 1:17:23
  might get to, you know, X amount of points at the end of the
• 1:17:26
  year, but I know there's going to be definitely some weeks
• 1:17:28
  where I'm going to have some very big walls.
• 1:17:32
  But I think it's more about Corey Seeger than about Tiasca
• 1:17:35
  Hernandez when it comes to that happening more consistently.
• 1:17:39
  Cause the Oscar's been pretty decent.
• 1:17:40
  I think he's been all right, you know, for the Dodgers obviously
• 1:17:43
  play for a great lineup and he's going to be producing.
• 1:17:46
  He's going to have more opportunities than most people.
• 1:17:48
  So he's going to be just fine with himself.
• 1:17:50
  But now it's about Corey Seeger because now I'm getting a little
• 1:17:53
  concerned with Corey Seeger, the way he's been producing the last
• 1:17:56
  few years at this point and the strikeout clip that he's been
• 1:17:59
  having. I feel like ever since that
• 1:18:01
  World Series went, I think that was back in 22 or so, 23 it was,
• 1:18:06
  it was relatively recent and he, you know, MVP and everything,
• 1:18:09
  but I feel like he just never really put it back together ever
• 1:18:11
  since that point. And it's just, you know,
• 1:18:14
  continuing right now. I mean, 11 strikeouts in one
• 1:18:17
  week, that's over a strikeout per game in a week.
• 1:18:19
  That's a lot of strikeouts, you know, and you're not even
• 1:18:21
  hitting for an average. You got no RBIs, you got no
• 1:18:23
  runs, you're not even getting on base.
• 1:18:25
  You got what, maybe one hit this week with the 87 average, you
• 1:18:29
  know, and you probably got stranded.
• 1:18:31
  So it's just, it's just, you know, tough to see because
• 1:18:34
  again, people put name draft capital and name a lot of times.
• 1:18:38
  And Corey Seeger's definitely a name.
• 1:18:41
  People thought he was going to have a bounce back potentially
• 1:18:43
  this year. There's more higher hopes I
• 1:18:45
  think in in Texas this year than what's happening so far.
• 1:18:49
  So very disappointing. And I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:18:53
  we saw Corey Seeger on this list again soon.
• 1:18:56
  Well, if he goes under 70% I don't know if I bother putting
• 1:19:00
  him on here again. He's got, he's got some, he's
• 1:19:03
  got some room, He's got some room there.
• 1:19:05
  He. Does.
• 1:19:06
  And then on the flip side of that, I can just tell you that
• 1:19:10
  Jesus Lozardo was a guy I know we were never sold on anyways.
• 1:19:13
  We knew he was going to fall back down to earth.
• 1:19:15
  Honestly, I didn't think he was going to be as hard.
• 1:19:19
  These numbers are are records and who's not?
• 1:19:24
  I've never seen anybody give you -21 points in an entire week.
• 1:19:30
  Listen to this. So he went O and 2/5 and 2/3 and
• 1:19:34
  he's pitched 6 strikeouts, five walks, 20 earned 20.
• 1:19:40
  I don't understand. He gives up 12 against the
• 1:19:43
  Brewers at home. Why not pull him after he gives
• 1:19:45
  up six? Why do you keep him out there?
• 1:19:49
  Then he, he gives up 8 in Toronto, 20 runs -20 points.
• 1:19:55
  I mean that is I've never seen that.
• 1:19:57
  And then Brandon Fatt, I mean 68% owned O and one.
• 1:20:02
  Now here's a kicker. He went O and one and two starts
• 1:20:04
  and went 3 innings and two starts, 2 strikeouts.
• 1:20:09
  So gave up 13 and -14 1/2 points.
• 1:20:14
  He gave up five runs and got a no decision against Atlanta.
• 1:20:18
  And then he gave up eight runs and didn't even record an out.
• 1:20:21
  With the Nationals, so those are some record-breaking who's not
• 1:20:27
  pitchers I've seen on this in in the last two years we've done
• 1:20:30
  this. And then on the flip side of
• 1:20:32
  that, little shout out to Sean Yamamoto gave you -5 and Spencer
• 1:20:39
  Strider gave you -3 and. 1/2 Spotty.
• 1:20:46
  Oh man. Yeah, I'll tell you.
• 1:20:48
  I mean, we we always say it though, when you're when you're
• 1:20:52
  getting pictures that are just coming back from injury, like
• 1:20:54
  Strider, like Bieber will be, like Woodruff will be.
• 1:20:58
  I wouldn't put too much stock in the first year now.
• 1:21:01
  I mean, we're seeing it with Sandy, you know, so the Spencer
• 1:21:06
  thing, you know, yeah, you got them late.
• 1:21:08
  Yeah. It's it's cool to have any place
• 1:21:10
  for a decent offense, but just I, I mean, expect more, more
• 1:21:15
  heartache in for this year. I mean, he's it's just how it
• 1:21:19
  is. He's not going to be the strider
• 1:21:20
  from two years ago. He might be next year.
• 1:21:23
  You know, I think maybe give him give him some time, get the rust
• 1:21:26
  off. But I just, I just don't, I
• 1:21:29
  don't put stock into, you know, drafting players early or, you
• 1:21:35
  know, I'm sure some people reached for him and, you know,
• 1:21:38
  expecting him to be the guy that from two years ago.
• 1:21:43
  Yeah, that's fair. I think we're seeing it now with
• 1:21:46
  George Kirby too. You know, he's been kind of
• 1:21:48
  struggling out there. He went out in his last start.
• 1:21:50
  He you could put him on the hit Hurt Locker too.
• 1:21:52
  He got hit in the jar there. Luckily his hand came up a
• 1:21:54
  little beforehand, but but even before that, he wasn't even
• 1:21:57
  pitching that well. I think he already gave up eight
• 1:21:59
  hits in in five innings or 4 innings or so.
• 1:22:01
  So he's really still trying to put it together.
• 1:22:04
  And like you said, they could still be a thing next year.
• 1:22:06
  100%. These guys are young, they're
• 1:22:08
  obviously very talented. But yeah, you have to use
• 1:22:11
  Carson. I think moving forward with just
• 1:22:13
  about any injured pitcher that's coming back at any point.
• 1:22:17
  There's just a laundry list. There's here guys that are
• 1:22:20
  coming back from injuries that are struggling to find their
• 1:22:24
  their way back to their their form.
• 1:22:27
  But let's go back to the list here real quick.
• 1:22:29
  Brandon Fiat, if you're a Brandon Fiat guy, you got to you
• 1:22:33
  got to wave the white flag, right?
• 1:22:36
  You know, last year he was supposed to be a breakout guy.
• 1:22:38
  This year he was supposed to be a breakout guy.
• 1:22:40
  Yes, we know he strikes out a lot of batters, but I think it's
• 1:22:44
  comfortably to say now we can put him in the Reed Detmer
• 1:22:46
  category. Same exact type of person,
• 1:22:49
  except from the left side. He can pitch really well when
• 1:22:52
  he's and when he's on. You know, we saw one star we
• 1:22:55
  were in at Fenway. He pitched that game against the
• 1:22:59
  Red Sox, that Otani game that we went to.
• 1:23:03
  And then that was the probably the one of his best games of his
• 1:23:06
  career, to be honest, if he put, you know, 10 games together.
• 1:23:09
  But he's been terrible though. And now he's working out a
• 1:23:12
  bullpen. He's up and down with AAA.
• 1:23:14
  And and right now Brandon Fiat, you know, he's kind of on that
• 1:23:17
  same exact projectile where when he gets whacked, he gets whacked
• 1:23:21
  really, really bad. So it's really hard to trust
• 1:23:24
  them in pretty much any format. So 68% owned right now, he's
• 1:23:27
  definitely going to be going down.
• 1:23:29
  And you know, he's ruthless harder.
• 1:23:31
  He knew this riot had to end eventually.
• 1:23:33
  You knew it had to end. It just wasn't going to be
• 1:23:36
  pretty. And I think you mentioned too, I
• 1:23:38
  got a theory. You said they left them out
• 1:23:41
  there, right? You know, that's like, why don't
• 1:23:42
  you just pull the guy already, right?
• 1:23:44
  I don't know if the manager likes them too much, to be
• 1:23:46
  honest. I remember during spring
• 1:23:48
  training, he was doing a an interview in the dugout.
• 1:23:51
  The manager was with the booth and Rosado was pitching.
• 1:23:54
  He gave a back-to-back to back home runs.
• 1:23:56
  And I remember that guy's face just melting on live TV just
• 1:24:00
  being like, this is my guy. This is the guy that we went out
• 1:24:02
  and traded for and he's going to be part of our rotation moving
• 1:24:05
  forward. And so I think he's kind of got
• 1:24:08
  it out for Losoto. I don't know that I'm just
• 1:24:10
  speculating. I'm just joking, you know?
• 1:24:12
  Like I never, I can't remember the last time I saw a pitcher
• 1:24:15
  give up like, you know, stay out a starting pitcher.
• 1:24:17
  I mean, maybe bullpen's a little different.
• 1:24:20
  Especially if you're like in a clean up, you know, if you're
• 1:24:23
  down twenty runs and you get somebody up there, you'll let
• 1:24:25
  them just get whacked around at that point because you lost.
• 1:24:28
  But if you're in the first or second inning and you it's still
• 1:24:31
  so early and you already give up five or six runs and you know
• 1:24:35
  your guy doesn't have it, why keep them out there and give up
• 1:24:39
  1212 runs? I've just seen a starting
• 1:24:44
  pitcher stay in a game and give up 12 runs that early.
• 1:24:48
  You know, you pull them after six, you're like, OK, you know
• 1:24:50
  what, it's the second inning. We're down 6.
• 1:24:52
  But we still have Philly's got a good offense.
• 1:24:55
  We're down 6. We can we can start chipping
• 1:24:58
  away. It's not over yet.
• 1:24:59
  I mean, we all saw last night what what happened, what
• 1:25:02
  happened with the D backs? They came back.
• 1:25:05
  What did they do? They scored eight runs, right?
• 1:25:07
  They won the game and the 9th. Who would have thought that
• 1:25:10
  would happen, right? So it can't happen in baseball
• 1:25:15
  again. Why not take them out?
• 1:25:18
  12 same thing Brandon Fiat eight runs didn't get an out.
• 1:25:24
  If you're giving up, if you give up four and you don't get an out
• 1:25:27
  or five I you pull, you pull, you don't let him go. 8 and the
• 1:25:31
  bottom of the first with no outs you're you're pretty much just
• 1:25:35
  giving up the game before it even starts.
• 1:25:38
  Yeah, I, I know, like, I don't know if it's old school baseball
• 1:25:41
  you would call it or not, but it's like I remember, you know,
• 1:25:43
  there are a point of times where like if you start getting
• 1:25:45
  whacked like that, you know, you give up like 4 and runs in the
• 1:25:48
  first inning and you know, you got a pitching bad visit that
• 1:25:51
  comes out. Sometimes that pitching coach is
• 1:25:54
  just going to tell you straight up, hey, there's no one coming
• 1:25:57
  to save you here. Like this is the and and you're
• 1:26:00
  going to have to ride this like we we got, you know, only two
• 1:26:02
  guys available and two of them will only one inning guys.
• 1:26:06
  So like you're going to have to like suck this up so we can
• 1:26:08
  figure something out as you go here.
• 1:26:11
  It's a terrible situation to be in.
• 1:26:13
  It's and it's a horrible feeling.
• 1:26:15
  Probably, you know, like we said, Walkabila tonight, 7
• 1:26:18
  earned runs. You know that's that's bad too.
• 1:26:21
  He got it out. He got six, he got 6 acts.
• 1:26:24
  He was, I guess that's respectable, I guess, you know,
• 1:26:28
  and that and compared to these guys, you know, but but it it's,
• 1:26:32
  it's a city feeling and it's it's unfortunate, unfortunate,
• 1:26:35
  you know, it's just what it is. So, yeah, I'm not surprised to
• 1:26:38
  see both these guys on this list, to be honest with you.
• 1:26:40
  Doug No. No, All right, so the that's our
• 1:26:45
  that our hottest and coldest interest for this week in the
• 1:26:47
  world of fantasy. So with that, we live in the.
• 1:26:53
  Theater. Honestly, it's.
• 1:26:54
  A real deal. All right, we did have so last
• 1:26:58
  week we I, I mean, we had talked about maybe mentioning the idea
• 1:27:02
  of selling high on junior Caminero.
• 1:27:05
  He still had a really good week. He had a home run yesterday.
• 1:27:08
  He's still pitting pretty good 37 points last week.
• 1:27:12
  You know, again, I I, I, like I said, I only had him on there
• 1:27:15
  because you drafted him late. You draft him as a bench player,
• 1:27:18
  you could probably get top notch talent for him at this point,
• 1:27:21
  right? And you could get a a really
• 1:27:23
  good picture. You know, I mean, if you're
• 1:27:25
  talking about trading Bryce Harper for hunter green, what
• 1:27:28
  could you get for junior? I mean, junior's been much
• 1:27:31
  better. He might even be keeper material
• 1:27:34
  at if he keeps it up. He's so young.
• 1:27:37
  We did say sell high and say a Suzuki, he only gave you 10
• 1:27:40
  points last week, gave you like 30 points, 30 plus points the
• 1:27:43
  week before. That's why he said sell high on
• 1:27:44
  him. So we kind of call it that one.
• 1:27:46
  Jack Flaherty riding, still riding good, got the win, 20
• 1:27:50
  points, right. But I still think like, he's so
• 1:27:53
  inconsistent. Sell him.
• 1:27:56
  Sell him if you can. And then on the flip side of
• 1:27:58
  that, we had some by lows. So Stephen Kwan didn't really
• 1:28:01
  give you a good Week 2 weeks ago.
• 1:28:03
  Well, still, he gave you 18 points last week, kind of
• 1:28:06
  stepping it up, coming together, hit a home run, right?
• 1:28:10
  Kendall Marte, who did not have a great week, you know, the week
• 1:28:14
  before, 34 points this week, I think he's looking to almost
• 1:28:18
  match that at that point. And he had a home run today.
• 1:28:21
  And George Kirby, I, I'd still buy low on him, you know -1
• 1:28:25
  point. But I, I think he's a quality
• 1:28:28
  pitcher, to be honest with you. But it'll be interesting to see
• 1:28:32
  what happens with this, you know, after getting hit.
• 1:28:35
  And it's tough to see, you know, pitchers sometimes don't come
• 1:28:39
  back. Takes him a little while to get
• 1:28:42
  back in the groove is what I'm trying to say.
• 1:28:44
  Yeah, he's a long term investment.
• 1:28:46
  That's that's a long term investment that's nothing like
• 1:28:48
  you. You expect anything from him
• 1:28:50
  right now, even though you might have kept them and and went
• 1:28:53
  through the injury process with them and you want results right
• 1:28:56
  away. It's a long term hold here.
• 1:28:59
  It's it's a long game. So yeah, just be patient with
• 1:29:02
  Kirby on him. I got him in a week.
• 1:29:04
  I'm super stoked to have him. I did throw him out there this
• 1:29:07
  week because he did have what, 3, three starts under his belt.
• 1:29:10
  So maybe I thought the 4th would be a little bit better.
• 1:29:13
  Still not quite there yet. So I'm going to re evaluate.
• 1:29:15
  We're going to see how he feels after that, that injury there.
• 1:29:18
  But yeah, all these other guys though that you just mentioned,
• 1:29:21
  Jack Blairty, ride that hot hand if you can still that's yeah,
• 1:29:25
  definitely still probably going to sell high.
• 1:29:27
  You can still probably play them on this list if you wanted to.
• 1:29:29
  You can repeat on that. Suzuki, yeah, not so great. 10
• 1:29:34
  points. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's going
• 1:29:36
  to happen. And then junior, yeah, very
• 1:29:38
  young, very talented former top prospect, hoping for the best
• 1:29:43
  for him. Hopefully he keeps it up.
• 1:29:46
  What is he now like a top five third baseman almost there at
• 1:29:49
  this point. He's been he's been on a really
• 1:29:51
  bad hand right now. So you can probably still get
• 1:29:54
  your hands on him. You're going to have to pay a
• 1:29:55
  little bit more at this point. It's because if you held on to
• 1:29:58
  him at this point, now you're reaping the benefits.
• 1:30:00
  So it's going to probably take a little bit more to RIP him out
• 1:30:03
  of your hands. So make sure you don't get stood
• 1:30:07
  up on him, get a deal, don't frustrate him because you can.
• 1:30:10
  Right? That's what we always say.
• 1:30:14
  But yeah, Kendall Marte stud, we we knew he was probably going to
• 1:30:17
  have a bounce back sooner than later.
• 1:30:19
  We talked about the injuries that he goes through, you know,
• 1:30:21
  time to time, it does get frustrating.
• 1:30:23
  But now last week, this week, he's just been crushing it.
• 1:30:27
  So now you know what you kind of get with them when he's not
• 1:30:30
  injured. But yeah, Stephen Quan, great,
• 1:30:33
  That's great. That's Stephen.
• 1:30:34
  Quan's always going to do good. He's like an Arias on steroids
• 1:30:37
  to me. I think a level up on him, but
• 1:30:40
  he's good. Yeah, unfortunately I have my
• 1:30:43
  team set out today. You didn't play, so I don't.
• 1:30:48
  Yeah, I don't. There's no coming back.
• 1:30:50
  Yeah, I got to make an offer for him.
• 1:30:52
  I got to make you an offer for for Stephen Kwan.
• 1:30:55
  I got one for woo. Yeah, I was going to ask you
• 1:30:59
  about that. What was?
• 1:31:01
  Oh, let's run through this because I did want to tell you,
• 1:31:04
  I did send Tim that that Wu and and Perez for Gunner Henderson
• 1:31:11
  and he declined it. And I'm like, of course, Gunner
• 1:31:14
  and then Perez, his two home runs yesterday.
• 1:31:17
  I'm like, dude, I mean, obviously I know Gunner
• 1:31:20
  Henderson is Gunner Anderson, but you got to look at the
• 1:31:22
  numbers, man. Like that is a fair trade.
• 1:31:25
  I mean, I don't know. Yeah, we'll go back to it.
• 1:31:30
  Yeah. So here's let's start out we
• 1:31:33
  start we're going to start out with the sell highs for this
• 1:31:35
  week. Here's my this is a guy that I
• 1:31:39
  mean you own you can touch base on this as well.
• 1:31:42
  Angels outfielder DH Mike trap great week, right?
• 1:31:46
  3.8 to start 23 points, 476 one home run only two strikeouts
• 1:31:51
  pretty good. I think this is a great
• 1:31:53
  opportunity to capitalize on that week, right?
• 1:31:55
  I mean, this was a guy who drafted pretty later compared to
• 1:31:58
  years past because you know, he's going to get a couple IL
• 1:32:02
  stints and nothing's going to tell me he probably isn't going
• 1:32:04
  to get any more. He'll probably get a couple more
• 1:32:06
  toward the end of the year, but I mean, still fetch you
• 1:32:09
  something pretty decent. I just don't expect the world
• 1:32:12
  like you have in years past when you've tried to trade for him.
• 1:32:16
  He's still a name and there is value to that.
• 1:32:18
  But obviously expectations, realistic expectations need to
• 1:32:23
  be had. Let's not forget he's only
• 1:32:25
  hitting 228 on the year. His point total for the year is
• 1:32:29
  only 84, so he scored more points, more than 1/4 of his
• 1:32:33
  points this past week. And he's got 38 strikeouts in 35
• 1:32:37
  games. So he's still striking out.
• 1:32:39
  The strikeouts are there. He's older now, obviously not
• 1:32:42
  crazy old because he's been in the league for so long.
• 1:32:45
  But yeah, I mean, if you if you had them, you held them.
• 1:32:49
  I mean, he's been on the IL twice.
• 1:32:52
  He'll probably be on the IL three more times by the end of
• 1:32:54
  the year. SO5 at least.
• 1:32:57
  Why not try to capitalize on on the name on the week he's having
• 1:33:01
  and try to, you know, get a upgrade on a position you
• 1:33:06
  probably might need? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:11
  I mean, it's, it's tough because like sometimes if you're a Mike
• 1:33:13
  Trout guy, you're just a Mike Trout guy.
• 1:33:15
  Like it's, you know, you're waiting for the old Mike Trout
• 1:33:18
  to come back and some people just can't let go of that.
• 1:33:22
  I I sometimes become one of those guys.
• 1:33:24
  I'm not going to lie to you because I just want him to be so
• 1:33:26
  good and successful. It blinds me a little bit.
• 1:33:29
  But yeah, this is a really good time to sell high on them just
• 1:33:32
  because, like you said, Doc, the strikeouts are still there.
• 1:33:35
  He strikes out a ton and he doesn't get on base as much as
• 1:33:38
  he used to. I mean, the power is absolutely,
• 1:33:40
  definitely there, but it's just that the wear and tear in the
• 1:33:44
  body just don't know if he's going to stay on the field long
• 1:33:46
  enough. It's just there's been so many
• 1:33:49
  injuries in the past few years. It's really tough to just trust
• 1:33:52
  a guy like that to to play in week in, week out and then also
• 1:33:55
  produce for yourself, like you said about the strikeout.
• 1:33:58
  So it's really tough. So you got to capitalize while
• 1:34:01
  you can at times. This is a really good time.
• 1:34:03
  Almost batting 500 this week, just crushing it.
• 1:34:06
  What is that 3.8 of start that I just saw there?
• 1:34:08
  Yeah, that's that's very, very good.
• 1:34:10
  So I mean, this is the time to do it.
• 1:34:13
  There's always a Trout guy in your league, always.
• 1:34:15
  There's never not right. So if they have a chance to get
• 1:34:19
  them, whatever value, you know, five years ago at a peak value
• 1:34:23
  or today where he's just producing and you know, you
• 1:34:27
  might get maybe 3 points out of them per game for the week, that
• 1:34:30
  would be a really good week for him.
• 1:34:32
  But right now he's really averaging what, maybe the 2.22
• 1:34:35
  point one. Again, Strikeouts has been
• 1:34:38
  killing them, not getting on base and just not filling up the
• 1:34:41
  box. Let's just call for what it is.
• 1:34:44
  So yeah, this is a really good so high.
• 1:34:46
  I don't know what you can get for him.
• 1:34:48
  This is a tough kind of guy to the pinpoint, you know, putting
• 1:34:53
  him in a category of I always like to start with Brandon Wu as
• 1:34:57
  a good like. I was I was going to say I think
• 1:35:00
  Wu might be an overpay. It is an overpay.
• 1:35:03
  Yeah. He's the, he's the benchmark.
• 1:35:04
  You know, I put him as like, you know, above or below and it's a
• 1:35:08
  below the wound line. Let's call it.
• 1:35:10
  Let's call it wound line wound. Line.
• 1:35:14
  So, yeah, I, I think, you know, in saying that, yeah, you're not
• 1:35:18
  going to get a ton for trial. So if it's something, it's
• 1:35:20
  probably just because you need a position or you're trying to
• 1:35:23
  booster a position or something like that.
• 1:35:27
  Yeah, yeah, I agree. But like you said, I mean
• 1:35:29
  there's a, he could be a Trout guy and maybe he's going to give
• 1:35:32
  you more than what you know somebody else would give you in
• 1:35:35
  another league. So all right, Next up on the
• 1:35:39
  sell high here he is A's outfield Lawrence Butler.
• 1:35:42
  He is 72.6% owned. He had a monster week, 4.9
• 1:35:46
  points a start, 34 points total hit you four O 7 give you a one
• 1:35:50
  run, 4 ribbies, 11 runs, two stolen bases, 9 strikeouts, a
• 1:35:55
  lot of strikeouts. He was drafted in the 12th round
• 1:35:58
  in our ESPN league. He's been pretty inconsistent,
• 1:36:03
  right? I think he's only hitting 267 on
• 1:36:05
  the year. So it's good to see him have a
• 1:36:07
  great week like this. But similar to trout 69
• 1:36:12
  strikeouts in 60 games, a lot of strikeouts, I think and I mean I
• 1:36:18
  feel like I would understand if you want to hold on to him
• 1:36:20
  because of the potentials there like he steals bases.
• 1:36:24
  You can say that Trout doesn't anymore really.
• 1:36:26
  So he I don't know. I don't know who I'd rather
• 1:36:30
  have. I still might want to have Trout
• 1:36:31
  just because it's Trout over Butler.
• 1:36:35
  But if they're close, I will say that.
• 1:36:36
  I mean, the numbers are very similar with strikeouts and
• 1:36:38
  whatnot. But so I'd understand if you
• 1:36:41
  want to hold on to him. But I like consistency.
• 1:36:43
  So I would probably move. I think he's a great add in if
• 1:36:47
  you want to do a 2 for one, he would definitely sweeten a pot.
• 1:36:50
  You know, you probably drafted him as your third or fourth
• 1:36:52
  outfielder. So, you know, unless you were
• 1:36:55
  really big on him from last year and thought he was going to take
• 1:36:58
  a big step forward, but I don't, I mean, he, he hasn't yet, but
• 1:37:03
  you know, it's, it's still got more than halfway of more than
• 1:37:07
  half of the year. You know it's it is good to see
• 1:37:09
  him hit 400 / / 400 in a week. Yeah, I mean, that's why they
• 1:37:14
  signed that extension with them and they they locked him up for
• 1:37:17
  a bit and they saw the potential in Omen.
• 1:37:19
  Like you said, he stealed bases and like I said, you know, Mike
• 1:37:22
  Trout guys and Mike Trout guys. Honestly, Doug, we don't talk
• 1:37:25
  about him much, but I'm a Butler guy, I'm a big Lawrence Bartler
• 1:37:29
  guy. I like his team.
• 1:37:31
  But what I like most importantly is where he hits in that lineup
• 1:37:34
  and who hits behind them. Because right now he's leading
• 1:37:37
  off in that lineup for the most part.
• 1:37:39
  And then right behind him now they got Jacob Wilson, who is
• 1:37:41
  the the most contact hitter ever in the league at this point so
• 1:37:45
  far in his rookie season, doesn't strike out, doesn't
• 1:37:48
  walk. You just know he's going to get
• 1:37:49
  the ball on the bat or the bat on the ball.
• 1:37:51
  Excuse me? And then you got Brent Roker,
• 1:37:52
  who can now the past week or so is starting to source some
• 1:37:56
  light. And now if he can start getting
• 1:37:59
  that long ball going and it's going to be a really good flow
• 1:38:03
  here. We're not even talking about
• 1:38:05
  some of the younger other guys that they have on their team too
• 1:38:08
  that are still working their way in, you know, on an everyday
• 1:38:12
  aspect. Who's that first baseman that
• 1:38:14
  came out so hot for the A's in April?
• 1:38:17
  I forget his name off the bat. We talked about so many names.
• 1:38:20
  I just thought my tip in my butt, you know, like you said
• 1:38:24
  Tyler Soderquist earlier, you know, so there's a lot of
• 1:38:26
  potential in that lineup. But I like where he hits in the
• 1:38:29
  lineup. So I got him in the league.
• 1:38:31
  I'm holding. I'm excited about it.
• 1:38:34
  You know, I think Rob has him in our league.
• 1:38:36
  I think I might make an offer for him.
• 1:38:37
  I could use another outfielder and I would love to have Butler
• 1:38:41
  as like a #3 outfielder. I think that's absolutely right.
• 1:38:43
  You probably draft him as your number 3 #4 maybe a a low end #2
• 1:38:49
  you know, depending on what you valued him.
• 1:38:51
  Like you said last year because of his performance.
• 1:38:55
  I did value him. Like you said, I'm one of those
• 1:38:57
  guys that you just described and I was definitely about him.
• 1:39:01
  I thought he had so much potential and I think he still
• 1:39:03
  does. I mean, this could be the
• 1:39:05
  beginning of something for all we know.
• 1:39:07
  So that's why I'm a whole, that's why I'm thinking, you
• 1:39:09
  know, if we saw it last year, now you got that team really
• 1:39:12
  going and putting things together.
• 1:39:13
  Like I said, AL West or whatever, the whole AL, they're
• 1:39:17
  one of the most scoring teams in the whole American League.
• 1:39:21
  Just shocking. And it's because of those three
• 1:39:23
  guys primarily on the top of that line up right now.
• 1:39:27
  And he's part of it. So yeah, I'm, I'm riding, I'm
• 1:39:29
  riding Butler. It's funny you said Brett
• 1:39:32
  Brooker because I was going to list them on here, too.
• 1:39:35
  But that's how it is though, right?
• 1:39:37
  It's like, OK, if you're hot, pretty much your team's hot
• 1:39:40
  because they're all doing good. And they did.
• 1:39:42
  They scored like 12 runs a couple days ago.
• 1:39:44
  So. And I think Brett Brooker had a
• 1:39:46
  great game. I know.
• 1:39:47
  I think he had a basic clear double at that point.
• 1:39:50
  So, yeah, I mean, you could go either way.
• 1:39:52
  It's a fun team. It's just a very inconsistent
• 1:39:55
  team. Very a lot of strikeouts, a lot
• 1:39:58
  of strikeouts with that team. But I I do like Butler, yeah.
• 1:40:03
  I mean, if you get them, at least it gives you some
• 1:40:05
  flexibility if you want to end up moving Trout for somebody
• 1:40:07
  else, that's all. Exactly, Yeah.
• 1:40:11
  All right. And then last but not least on
• 1:40:13
  this sell high segment is I'm going to do pitching and we
• 1:40:16
  already kind of talked about this guy, but I do want to go
• 1:40:18
  over his numbers real quick and it's it's a great pitcher.
• 1:40:22
  He kind of reminds me of my neighbor, which just like him a
• 1:40:27
  little bit, right, Doesn't he? So it's a Baltimore study
• 1:40:33
  pitcher Zach Affleck. He's 36.4% owned.
• 1:40:36
  Again, great week, right? Two and O, 13 innings, 13
• 1:40:39
  strikeouts, one walk, 346 points.
• 1:40:43
  But, you know, don't, don't let the numbers fool you.
• 1:40:45
  I mean, he's beating the teams he should beat.
• 1:40:48
  His five wins are from the White Sox, the Angels, the Blue Jays,
• 1:40:51
  who were struggling early in the year.
• 1:40:53
  Seattle and Arizona was also struggling at some points
• 1:40:58
  because we had talked about their line up and it's it's just
• 1:41:01
  weird that line up. They produce one one day and
• 1:41:03
  then they don't the next. But look at the player, the
• 1:41:08
  teams that are good that they played right?
• 1:41:09
  They played Boston twice. He's only one.
• 1:41:12
  He lost to the Nationals when the Nationals were hot a month
• 1:41:15
  ago. So I'm not saying he's he's a
• 1:41:17
  horrible pitcher. I'm just saying for someone that
• 1:41:19
  you drafted, and I mean, in our league, 23rd round, like that's
• 1:41:22
  quality in the 23rd round. Like these are the guys that are
• 1:41:25
  winning leagues when they're going.
• 1:41:28
  So I think you could sell him high.
• 1:41:31
  I mean, yeah, his ERA is a force, a full 4 for the year.
• 1:41:34
  But that's that's excellent. It's all his ERA is always going
• 1:41:37
  to be low fours, you know, high threes.
• 1:41:41
  But he'll go on those tiers. You know, I mean, he's averaging
• 1:41:44
  11.9 a start, which is really good for a starting pitcher,
• 1:41:48
  right. And if Baltimore's offense wakes
• 1:41:50
  up, I mean, you have a case to make that, hey, this might this
• 1:41:53
  might help him out and give him a couple more wins where he
• 1:41:56
  might have lost. So, you know, I think owners
• 1:42:00
  will probably sell, you know, and I think buyers, it's a great
• 1:42:03
  opportunity for both. Like I can understand why you
• 1:42:06
  would say, OK, well, I know in the past he's going on these
• 1:42:09
  tears and he he can go like 5 and O right.
• 1:42:13
  And then when is 5 next six or seven starts.
• 1:42:15
  And but then he'll just clunk. And I think that's The thing is
• 1:42:21
  if you're an owner, chances are you've probably owned it before
• 1:42:24
  because nobody's nobody just drafts to Zach Eflin.
• 1:42:28
  Like you got to like have him on your team before to he's one of
• 1:42:32
  those guys that like you respect more when you own them, I guess.
• 1:42:37
  Yeah, yeah, I would just say like if I owned him, I'd say,
• 1:42:40
  well, you know, I guess he's a good two for one or something.
• 1:42:43
  He's him and you know, he's a good Chuck Chuck in type player.
• 1:42:45
  Like he'll sweeten a deal for sure.
• 1:42:48
  So it I could see moving on from him.
• 1:42:52
  Yeah, dude, yeah. That was one of my first points
• 1:42:54
  there as a deal sweetener. He's just a a really good guy
• 1:42:57
  just to be like, hey, you know, if you want that extra debt
• 1:42:59
  picture, this is my guy that I'm going to throw in here.
• 1:43:02
  But I'm going to give you another reason why you probably
• 1:43:04
  maybe should put a pulse on this guy because he's on a one year
• 1:43:08
  deal, right? He plays for a really poor
• 1:43:11
  baseball team. If he can start performing like
• 1:43:14
  he has been, that's going to be attractive to teams during the
• 1:43:16
  deadline, I feel. And right now, he's got an $18
• 1:43:20
  million contract. By the time he gets the deal
• 1:43:23
  done, you know, he'll be halfway through that probably and then
• 1:43:26
  some. And then if he gets traded, you
• 1:43:29
  know, Baltimore might even eat some of the money.
• 1:43:31
  So he almost becomes, to me, an ideal trade candidate if you're
• 1:43:34
  trying to build up a pitching depth rotation down the stretch.
• 1:43:38
  You know, if you need an innings eater guy, this guy can go 5
• 1:43:40
  innings. I don't know how he's going to
• 1:43:42
  do sometimes. You know, we saw the best and
• 1:43:44
  worst of them at times. But he can eat innings, though,
• 1:43:47
  and that's what you need down the stretch.
• 1:43:48
  So that could be really good for you if he did buy him now and
• 1:43:53
  all of a sudden he pitches for a contending playoff team.
• 1:43:57
  And now you're, you know, got a guy that's playing for something
• 1:44:00
  and maybe gives you more value and maybe even more thought to
• 1:44:03
  put him into that rotation for that week or that day in your
• 1:44:06
  daily week. So there's there's a lot of
• 1:44:08
  opportunity. I think with Zac Eflin.
• 1:44:11
  I know it sounds funny, but it's one of those guys that is
• 1:44:15
  another name that can definitely potentially get moved.
• 1:44:19
  Yeah, I like that. I do like that.
• 1:44:23
  All right, so you going from selling high to buy and low.
• 1:44:26
  And I will say first person on this list had a rough had a
• 1:44:31
  rough week for his standards of how he's been going.
• 1:44:33
  Did hit a home run about 10 minutes ago.
• 1:44:37
  And I actually the picture I have of him isn't even his
• 1:44:40
  current uniform. Yeah, I saw that.
• 1:44:42
  Yeah, I saw that. Yes, so he's Paul Goldsmith,
• 1:44:47
  Yankees first baseman, 808081 percent owned in Leeds, which is
• 1:44:51
  very wild considering first base is really a tough consistent.
• 1:44:56
  Yeah, I mean, look at Paul. I mean, Pete Alonso for
• 1:44:58
  instance. You know, one week, five home
• 1:45:00
  runs, one week, you know, 5 strikeouts and nothing else.
• 1:45:04
  Had a all right kind of tough week, you know, hit 095 but gave
• 1:45:08
  you a home run, gave you a ribby, gave you a run scored so
• 1:45:12
  it was a solo shot, gave you a stolen base on top of that,
• 1:45:15
  struck out five times but gave you 5 points.
• 1:45:20
  I think he's having a great year, although I think his
• 1:45:23
  average will fall back down to earth.
• 1:45:25
  I mean it you've you've seen it steadily kind of decline over
• 1:45:27
  the last couple weeks. It was around 353, now it's kind
• 1:45:30
  of 33320. I think it'll start to go down a
• 1:45:33
  little bit, but you're seeing what happens when you leave a
• 1:45:38
  horrible Cardinals lineup for a stacked Yankees lineup, right?
• 1:45:42
  You see it all the time with people.
• 1:45:43
  He could have went to the Dodgers and he probably would
• 1:45:45
  have put up better numbers, right?
• 1:45:49
  He is cutting down on the strikeouts.
• 1:45:51
  Last year he struck out a ton. This year, I mean, he's got 40
• 1:45:53
  strikeouts in 61 games. That's pretty good.
• 1:45:56
  He's ranked 5th in first baseman.
• 1:45:58
  He's right behind Bryce Harper, Bryce Hopper, who was drafted in
• 1:46:03
  the first or second round as opposed to a goalie that was
• 1:46:06
  drafted in the 23rd round of our draft.
• 1:46:10
  So I think whoever took him, they took him as a bench, a
• 1:46:13
  backup player, hoping he'd turn it around, which he has.
• 1:46:16
  He's gotten colder lately, but I mean, that's expected after that
• 1:46:18
  great start. But I think because of slowing
• 1:46:22
  down, owners might be willing to part with him and they should be
• 1:46:25
  able to get, I mean, they'll be able to get a lot more for him I
• 1:46:29
  think than the 23rd round pick. I think they'll be able to get a
• 1:46:33
  a mid. You know, I want to say maybe
• 1:46:37
  eighth round pick for him or or 9th or 10th right around there.
• 1:46:40
  Maybe he is top five first baseman, right?
• 1:46:44
  And he hit home run today. And I could see I could also see
• 1:46:49
  somebody want to hold on to him because the line up is so good,
• 1:46:53
  but I could also see somebody move on from them.
• 1:46:55
  Like it can go either way, you know, first base, tough position
• 1:46:58
  to hold. I still think he's going to be
• 1:46:59
  producing. I don't think it's going to be,
• 1:47:01
  you know, 350 or whatever, but I think the home runs will will be
• 1:47:06
  consistent. I think you'll see maybe one
• 1:47:08
  year 2 there. He's not going to hit you 40
• 1:47:10
  home runs anymore, 35 plus, but he's going to hit him.
• 1:47:13
  I think he's going to be pretty solid, you know, cut down on the
• 1:47:16
  strikeouts and that's huge for a points league anyways.
• 1:47:18
  You know, I would definitely try to buy low on him if somebody's
• 1:47:22
  trying to sell him, but it's not really by and low because you
• 1:47:24
  already got him low. So you know what I mean?
• 1:47:27
  You're just by and low on a top five first baseman.
• 1:47:31
  Yeah, and I don't think he's going anywhere either.
• 1:47:33
  You know, unless something comes up, anything, I don't think he's
• 1:47:36
  going to, you know, go downhill where, you know, that average
• 1:47:39
  goes down to like sub 300 and he goes on the stretch of bat and
• 1:47:43
  2:20 and this and that. That's just not the player he
• 1:47:46
  traditionally is. You know, I think he had a
• 1:47:48
  really bad time in in Saint Louis toward the end.
• 1:47:51
  I think there were some things going on, maybe even behind the
• 1:47:53
  scenes. He's professional.
• 1:47:55
  You know, he's not going to say anything.
• 1:47:56
  I'm doing, you know, make attention to anything.
• 1:47:59
  So we don't know what was really going on back there.
• 1:48:01
  But now he's playing for a contending team.
• 1:48:03
  He really needs to, you know, win a series here.
• 1:48:05
  He really wants to win a ring. So he's in the best position of
• 1:48:08
  his career. I feel like at this point to do
• 1:48:10
  that and I hope he does too, because honestly, he's such a
• 1:48:15
  career decorated player that you know, he deserves a chance to at
• 1:48:19
  least have an opportunity to to play in a game and games like
• 1:48:23
  that. And he's doing everything he can
• 1:48:25
  too. Like you said, he just hit a
• 1:48:27
  awful Taco, right? He hit an opposite field home
• 1:48:29
  run. He's playing good baseball right
• 1:48:31
  now. He is a kind of a buy well after
• 1:48:34
  last week, but like you said, the long term at this point,
• 1:48:37
  he's been so good for the value that you got him at.
• 1:48:40
  Like that's the guy that you brag about having because of
• 1:48:43
  where you got him. Not so much.
• 1:48:44
  So you're going to, you know, buy low on him and and not get,
• 1:48:47
  you know, the return that you probably should get from him
• 1:48:50
  because like you said, top five first baseman, such a tough
• 1:48:53
  position to fill at times. So yeah, no, I'm I'm holding
• 1:48:56
  him. I'm holding Goldie.
• 1:48:57
  I got him in the league. I got him super late and he's
• 1:49:01
  been awesome. He's he's been a set and forget
• 1:49:03
  guy. Those are hard to find
• 1:49:04
  sometimes. Yeah, no, I, I have him in our
• 1:49:08
  league and I'm telling you, 23rd round, I mean, you can't really
• 1:49:11
  think of a better late pick for sure.
• 1:49:15
  Let's zoom by this guy real quick because we already did
• 1:49:17
  kind of touch base on him. I do have him up here just, I
• 1:49:21
  mean, I like, I do like Corey Seger.
• 1:49:23
  I mean, you know, 88% owned, still pretty solid.
• 1:49:27
  I'm a fan. I think he's, you know, he's
• 1:49:29
  still trying to get that rhythm. He's coming back from the IL.
• 1:49:32
  I know I, I, I had them on here before as a buy a low, I think,
• 1:49:37
  but since then you could probably buy them a lot lower.
• 1:49:39
  Believe it or not. I think the line up looks to be
• 1:49:42
  kind of turning that corner. We talked about Marcus Simeon
• 1:49:44
  hitting a couple home runs, which is great.
• 1:49:46
  So maybe, you know, they they make waves.
• 1:49:49
  I think they could make a, a pretty good case for second-half
• 1:49:53
  team push, you know, a, a good starting pitching core.
• 1:49:57
  You know, you still got any Duvaldi out there who's on the
• 1:50:00
  IL, but he'll be back. Jacob degrom's pitching pretty
• 1:50:03
  good. You know, I, I just feel that
• 1:50:05
  owners who've had Corey Seager since the start of the year are
• 1:50:08
  pretty much just fed up with him at this point.
• 1:50:11
  You know, he did go on a nice little run maybe a month ago.
• 1:50:15
  He ended up hitting like six home runs.
• 1:50:16
  Had a really good week that week.
• 1:50:18
  He had a, he had a really good week, But I mean, that came with
• 1:50:21
  multiple IL stints and then a bunch of strikeouts before and
• 1:50:25
  after. So I think the only reason
• 1:50:28
  owners wouldn't expect a decent offer for him is because they
• 1:50:32
  still think he's worth so much more when he just really isn't.
• 1:50:35
  You know, I offered somebody for him in our league and they
• 1:50:40
  declined and came back with Framer Valdez for him.
• 1:50:43
  This was about a week and a half ago.
• 1:50:44
  I'm not going to trade you Framer Valdez for a guy who's
• 1:50:47
  always on the IL and, you know, a little over 200.
• 1:50:51
  It's just not going to happen. You need to be realistic.
• 1:50:55
  Yeah, it, it's about today. It's not about what was or
• 1:50:58
  already drafted them or anything like that.
• 1:51:01
  You know, we're long past that at this point.
• 1:51:02
  It's it's who you have on your team, how they're producing at
• 1:51:05
  that time or period of time. And, and that's the end of the
• 1:51:08
  story. And I think sometimes people get
• 1:51:10
  caught up in that sometimes. We said earlier, we got our
• 1:51:13
  guys, Everyone's got guys that got that different values on
• 1:51:16
  them. You know, I, I was texting Tim
• 1:51:19
  earlier this week, you know, he asked Joe Ryan and you know, we
• 1:51:23
  had a a talk and it, it wasn't, wasn't, wasn't meant to be.
• 1:51:27
  It is what it is, you know, and I, I, I think I said to him,
• 1:51:30
  like, you know, where we, we value guys differently, you
• 1:51:34
  know, at times. So it happens.
• 1:51:37
  And, and Corey Seeger, you know, I made, I made my rant about
• 1:51:40
  Corey Seeger earlier, so I won't go too much into it again.
• 1:51:43
  But yeah, this is guy, you know, when he is on, he's on at the
• 1:51:48
  end of the year, how many points is going to score you?
• 1:51:51
  But my concern at this point is how many games is he going to
• 1:51:53
  play for you at this point? So it's if he's playing decent
• 1:51:58
  and you can, you know, sell him. I I guess I know this is a buy
• 1:52:03
  low segment, but since I'm just not a believer, it's more about
• 1:52:07
  what can I get for him more than what should I pay for him.
• 1:52:11
  And again, I'm in a whole different boat, right?
• 1:52:14
  It it's, you know, different strokes for different folks.
• 1:52:17
  As we say, it is what it is. You know, Corey, I'm just not a
• 1:52:20
  Corey secret guy at this point. He's burned me in the past.
• 1:52:22
  I think that's probably why as well.
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  Just happens to be the the case with some guys at times.
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  But but if you're a Corey secret guy, I mean, this is the time to
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  do it. Coming back from an injury slow
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  start. We talked about that last week,
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  guys coming back from injuries, especially hitters.
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  So this is a chance to to buy low on a guy that if you feel
• 1:52:43
  that he's valuable down the road, this is the time to do it.
• 1:52:47
  What are you giving up for Corey Seeger, man?
• 1:52:50
  I mean, that's that's more of a you question Doug, What would
• 1:52:52
  you give up for our Corey Seeger?
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  Not much. Not much at all to be honest
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  with you. Because if you're getting them,
• 1:52:59
  you need to have a backup. You know, if you then that's why
• 1:53:03
  Tommy Edmond does become so important, you know, because OK,
• 1:53:06
  now you, you get Corey Seeger. Let me throw Edmond in the
• 1:53:09
  outfield. Well, Seeger's hurt.
• 1:53:10
  Well, let me throw Edmond back at shortstop.
• 1:53:12
  So I mean, you're not going to trade a ton of ton for somebody
• 1:53:15
  who just hasn't done anything. Well, it's like Gunner
• 1:53:17
  Henderson, you know, why am I going to trade you more when
• 1:53:20
  I'm, I'm already giving you 2 guys, 1 averages, 2.6 and Wu who
• 1:53:26
  averages, you know, 12 points, top 25 pitcher for a guy who
• 1:53:31
  averages 1.8. You know, he's, I know that he
• 1:53:34
  was your keeper, but he's not good.
• 1:53:37
  He's not good right now. I'm not saying he might won't
• 1:53:40
  be, he might turn it around in second-half.
• 1:53:41
  I mean, they won eight in a row, six or seven in a row, something
• 1:53:44
  like that. You know, maybe they're finding
• 1:53:46
  their footing, but it's just realistically, I'm not going to
• 1:53:49
  give you any more than that. And I think he knows that
• 1:53:52
  because after he did, you know, he declined to trade, but he
• 1:53:55
  never sent a text and usually sends a text.
• 1:53:58
  You know, Tim, he'll be like, well, what do you want for?
• 1:54:00
  You know, what are you, what are you thinking?
• 1:54:02
  Give me this, give me that. I think he just knows.
• 1:54:04
  I think he just knows that he just has to stick this guy out
• 1:54:07
  because he's not going to get what he wants for.
• 1:54:09
  Him and you know what I respect it that's a fair hold it's a
• 1:54:12
  fair hold because when he is really good he when he's on he's
• 1:54:15
  he's obviously one of the best shortstops in the league.
• 1:54:18
  So it's a fair hold and and it's a fair assessment and if if
• 1:54:21
  that's the standpoint you want. But sometimes, you know, luckily
• 1:54:25
  in this league, it's it's not so much, you know, the short term,
• 1:54:30
  it's the long term. And I think long term he's going
• 1:54:32
  to be OK. You know, when it comes to some,
• 1:54:35
  some category. So he can wait on it, Henderson,
• 1:54:38
  and see if he can turn it around.
• 1:54:39
  And like you said, he has stake in him.
• 1:54:41
  So he's he's put value on him. He kept them.
• 1:54:44
  Obviously, we didn't think Baltimore was going to be this
• 1:54:47
  bad, but hey, it is what it is. It sucks, but you need sometimes
• 1:54:52
  to to shake it up. Right all right, so we only got
• 1:54:55
  really a couple minutes. So I'm going to dig right into
• 1:54:57
  this last guy starting pitcher Dylan sees 95% owned.
• 1:55:01
  I mean O and 290 innings pitched, 13 strikeouts, 6 earned
• 1:55:05
  gave you 1.6 points for the week.
• 1:55:08
  I just I feel bad for everybody who really thought this guy was
• 1:55:10
  a top five top ten pitcher. I know his numbers last year
• 1:55:14
  were just very overflated because of the no hitter he
• 1:55:16
  pitched. I mean, you're talking about
• 1:55:18
  another 5055 points that was added to his total, which is, I
• 1:55:21
  mean that's like 3 or 4 starts. You know, I think owners need to
• 1:55:27
  realize they're not getting the value they want for him in a
• 1:55:29
  trade. And I do like them.
• 1:55:31
  I love the K's. I think the K's make kind of
• 1:55:34
  wash out the losses he does get. So I understand that.
• 1:55:38
  But I don't think he should cost much.
• 1:55:40
  I know, like I said, you know, he's one of those guys you need
• 1:55:44
  to be realistic about. I think if you can get them and,
• 1:55:47
  and get him for a good deal, you make the push and do it.
• 1:55:50
  But again, like you just said, with Seeger at this point, I
• 1:55:53
  mean, not Seeger with Gunner Henderson, you just got to hold
• 1:55:56
  at this point because there's nothing, you know, you just, you
• 1:55:59
  just got to hold them because you're you've had them, you know
• 1:56:03
  what I mean? Yeah, this guy's up and down.
• 1:56:05
  We talked about dear and sees for, you know, a few weeks.
• 1:56:08
  I feel now we we like to touch base on him because he he could
• 1:56:11
  be up and down, but you know, it's about his, you know, strike
• 1:56:14
  zone, what he's throwing. But I mean, this guy, you know,
• 1:56:19
  you want on your roster for sure, 100%.
• 1:56:21
  So, I mean, right now, buy low fixer runs last week, not
• 1:56:25
  sweating it too much when he's when he's in command, he is he
• 1:56:29
  is sharp. So yeah, this is a great
• 1:56:31
  opportunity to buy him low. And honestly, he is above the
• 1:56:34
  the woo line on this one here. But you're going to have to at
• 1:56:38
  least give up a little something for a guy like this.
• 1:56:40
  So, you know, I take a position player for a decent pitcher.
• 1:56:44
  I think it's fair. All right, so right on time,
• 1:56:48
  man. So we had the the opportunity,
• 1:56:51
  we talked about that. We went around the league, we
• 1:56:53
  went over some IL updates, some IL stints, who's hot, who's not
• 1:56:58
  this week? And of course some good buy low
• 1:57:01
  sell high type candidates. We will not be here next week.
• 1:57:05
  I have my, my wife is doing a Miss Massachusetts pageant, so I
• 1:57:12
  will be there supporting her for, for, for the weekend,
• 1:57:16
  Friday, Saturday and hopefully Sunday.
• 1:57:18
  She makes it that far right. She will be Miss Foxborough.
• 1:57:21
  She is Miss Foxborough. I know.
• 1:57:23
  Who would have thought a slouch like me, right?
• 1:57:26
  So, so, yeah. So we we won't be back live next
• 1:57:30
  week, but the following week we'll be back bringing you some
• 1:57:33
  more updated information. Yeah, I mean, that's that's
• 1:57:37
  pretty much it. I know also Sean asked to be on
• 1:57:39
  the on the cast in around August, he said.
• 1:57:43
  So I told you we'll have we'll have to have you come in and
• 1:57:46
  then you can sit on the side of me once the back room's all
• 1:57:49
  finished up and we'll have Big Sean on here talking fantasy.
• 1:57:53
  That's. Going to be a must watch.
• 1:57:56
  All right, so for for Mikey V I'm Doug.
• 1:58:00
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• 1:58:03
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