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  The people have spoken. That's something I don't think I
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  would take a chance out of my opinion. 218 strikeouts for a
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  guy who was his third year in the league.
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  Now that's a lot of strikeouts. And they're here to deliver.
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  He wants to be on a competitor, period.
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  Bringing you the facts. Jose and bring you trash man, I
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  fell for that hard. While keeping you up to date.
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  Man, like what a like question mark that is after you leave
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  Cole, you get him out of the game and all of a sudden you
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  don't know what you're going to get on.
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  The other side on all fantasy baseball news.
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  There's a slouch man. He's.
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  Just a a potential he's a. Slug.
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  Dark horse winner of a Cy Young candidate.
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  Welcome to Bourbon Involved. Averaged like 160 strikeouts
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  prior to his breakout year. I don't even call that breakout
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  year. I would call that a career
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  because I don't think you have another wheel.
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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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  So look man, coming down Want all right, man, after a
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  long week off B and Mikey V coming back to you show 52
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  cruising along almost halfway through the year, which means a
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  lot of fun stuff trade talk. I mean, I mean, this is your
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  chance to to build your fantasy team for the playoffs.
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  That's what this is right. If if you have a deadline and,
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  and a lot of times some leagues do that kind of coincide with
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  the baseball deadline, this is your time to do it.
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  If you don't, it's still a good time to do it because you're
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  still going to make a push. You're probably, you'll probably
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  have about 1/3 of the season left in fantasy anyway.
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  So, you know, it's, it's crazy. The time is flying by.
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  So, yeah. So this is Bourbon and Ball.
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  I'm Doug. Mikey V joining us over there at
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  Clearwater, my good friend. We've been doing fantasy
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  baseball now for over 20 years. It's ESPN league.
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  It's a points league head to head.
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  A lot of the stats we give you are from that particular league.
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  But if you're a top five, top 10 hitter or pitcher in a points
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  league, chances are you're a top five or top 10 hitter or pitcher
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  in a Cats league or Roto league. So a lot of the stats we give
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  you are going over some of those higher scoring people, some of
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  the lower scoring ones. It's always good stuff, man.
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  And of course, I am here drinking my bourbon out of my
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  Bourbon Ball. Bourbon glass right here.
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  Man, I'm going with the vodka Red Bull again, Doug, I need AI,
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  need a little kick up. Here.
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  I I started with a espresso martini beforehand so I'm kind
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  of pumped and feeling good right now.
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  What flavour? Dude, the pistachio.
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  Pistachio. Yeah, yeah, for now, I got
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  almond. That's the next step.
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  Oh. Yeah, that one is, yeah.
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  So, yeah, I mean, you know, we are coming from to you from
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  military broadcasting radio, from Patriot Radio.
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  So of course there's military affiliation associated with
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  that. I was a paratrooper for over six
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  years in the Army. I got jumps in Ireland, Germany,
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  the Netherlands and was a combat veteran after spending a year in
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  Afghanistan and all of 2012. Yeah, and I got some family
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  ties. My father was part of the Air
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  Force during the Vietnam War and my grandfather was paramedic
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  during World War 2. So again, a lot of ties.
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  Awesome, man. So this is this is when I I it's
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  like every time we have a show, I'm like, dude, this is jam
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  packed dude, this is jam packed like this is it good stuff to go
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  over. So let's just jump right in.
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  Let's go around the lead because I think this is going to be one
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  of the funner segments today because of of just what's out
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  there. So let's just jump right in.
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  Yeah, let's just go here. All right.
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  Now, 2 weeks ago before we took our week off for, you know, the
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  4th of July and hopefully everybody had a safe and happy
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  4th of July out there. We were talking Yankees won
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  first, I want to say to Tampa Bay.
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  Toronto were flip flopping second and third.
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  You had the Red Sox 4th and then you had Baltimore 5th.
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  All right, so if you look at the standings around the league, we
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  all figured, right, the Tigers and Houston would take the
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  Central and the West, which they're they're leading the
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  front runners right now. We figured that would happen.
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  You know, we thought Philly and the Mets would probably Duke it
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  out in the East because the Mets honestly have a great offense.
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  Their rotation has a lot to be desired.
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  Whereas Philly kind of has that balance.
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  I think, you know, they got a great rotation angered by Zach
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  Wheeler, Nola should be coming back hopefully in a month or two
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  just to help him out for that push.
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  Their offense is is turning it around.
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  I mean, Trey Turner has been a stud in there.
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  Harper is back and healthy. So we knew they they would
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  probably Duke it out. I mean, we didn't think the
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  Braves would, would dump as much as they dumped.
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  But yeah, they're unfortunately, unless they make a massive push,
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  I, I just don't see them making it.
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  And yeah, we, I mean, that we, we figured the Cubs would
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  control the Central right, because they had Tucker in that
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  trade. And Tucker, we'll, we'll talk
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  about what he brings to a lineup and you'll see that in some of
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  the stats when you start going over some of these players.
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  But and in the Dodgers, I don't want to forget about the West,
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  but we did obviously the Dodgers.
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  I mean, you know, it's the Dodgers, but let's talk the East
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  for a minute because this has been a division that, you know,
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  on paper it's the Yankees to lose.
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  You know, you Garrett Cole gets hurt, you lose Soto, you come in
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  and you bring Max free, you sign Cody Ballinger, you sign Goldie
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  and you're like, OK, you know what?
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  This is going to be a pretty decent team on paper.
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  It's probably the best in the, in the, in the East.
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  And then of course, you, you're like, OK, well, then you go
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  down, you're like, OK, well, these other teams will they'll
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  probably flutter in second, maybe win a wild card and that's
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  that. All right, well, here's the
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  standings. All right, This is the east.
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  And if you look at it, I mean, it's you.
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  I mean, the thing that throws me about this entire the the
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  standings in particular, right? You have look, look at the
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  streak in the last 10. You have the Blue Jays 9:00 and
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  1:00. You have the Yankees four and
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  six. You have Tampa Bay three and
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  seven, the Red Sox nine and one. Tampa Bay.
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  Toronto, excuse me, is is in first place by two games now.
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  I'll be the first to tell you I didn't see this coming.
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  I think the Yankees right now falling on their face.
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  I think Goldie, his, his, you know, pot of, of gold he found
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  at the end of the rainbow is kind of dried up and they're
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  struggling. And I, we said this before we
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  said, hey, listen, if Soto comes back to that lineup, do you
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  really want to add that bat and take somebody else out?
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  Because I at the time adding a Staten into that lineup isn't
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  going to and I didn't think would help it and it hasn't,
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  right. He did hit a good home run
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  yesterday. I mean, the guy can still mash.
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  He'll mash it and $1.72 or, you know, 18180 or maybe around 200.
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  But I, I thought he did more harm than good to a lineup.
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  And I, I don't want to say I'm right, but I, I think I am, you
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  know, and we said, you know, then of course the news broke
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  that they were releasing DJ Lemahieu.
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  We of course called that. We knew that was going to
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  happen. He's an older guy.
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  He's been struggling in the last couple years, which is a shame
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  because he was a Silver Slugger winner his first year there.
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  I mean, he got hit like 330, right?
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  And that was three or four years ago.
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  So they got a lot to do. Man, that end of the rotation's
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  rough. We're going to talk about Luis
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  Gill coming back and what that brings to your fantasy team.
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  But all talks on on Toronto, like people thought they were
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  going to be sellers. You're in first place.
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  You're you're 2 up. This is from this morning.
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  You're 2 up on the Yankees. You're a buyer now.
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  You know, you got Anthony Sandy Air that's not producing at all.
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  So you definitely need a bat. You need a big bat in there.
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  I don't know who or what. And we're going to talk about
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  trade candidates later in the segment.
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  But you do need to do something. I, I think this is this is if,
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  if you're a Red Sox fan, this is great because if it's anybody
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  but the Yankees, you want to see up there.
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  A little surprised. Hey, all four teams are still in
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  it. You know, Red Sox only 5 out.
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  You know, the only person who the only team that's probably
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  definitely out of it is Baltimore.
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  I mean, 11 1/2 is a tough hole to dig out of, but yeah, it is.
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  It's I I would have never thought Toronto, honestly.
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  Yeah, Toronto this year was a make a break year for him.
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  We we said that in the beginning of the year, we said the roster
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  looks really good. Vlad can be an MVP candidate
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  when he's the best player out there, when he's healthy, when
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  he's doing his best. Boba Shet had a bad year last
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  year. He's rebounding this year for
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  sure. And George Springer, you have to
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  talk about George Springer for him.
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  That guy's one of the hottest hitters in baseball and he and
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  he's the guy that's driving the runs in and, and Kirk's sitting
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  too. And they, they had a very good
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  line up. And then their rotation is also
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  very good, very mature, as I put it with Godsman and Barrios.
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  We have experience in that, in that rotation.
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  You just got Max back too. He'll still give you some
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  innings. He's not going to be the same
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  guy, but he's still going to give you some innings.
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  But yeah, the team, it was a make a break year.
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  The beginning of the year obviously didn't look that
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  great, but it's more of what you've done lately than rather
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  than what you've done. And right now Yankees having a
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  hard time scoring a lot of runs like they used to.
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  That's really like their their backbone this year.
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  And I think we said it maybe a couple weeks ago, Doug, but with
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  the Yankees, you know, at the last year, they were such on a
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  high pedestal, being in the World Series last year, playing
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  against the Dodgers. And the expectation was already
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  so, so high. So anything but a World Series
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  is a bust. And a lot of fans, Yankees fans,
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  eyes and probably baseballs too, they would love probably to see
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  another Dodger Yankee World Series match up.
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  That's that's big money. But in reality though, I don't
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  know if they got all the pieces. Right there, like you said you
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  got. Stanton that kind of joins in
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  there back in that line up kind of looking sluggish, kind of
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  like we've already seen with him in the years past already with
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  the Yankees. A lot of money they're spent.
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  I think DJ was about 21 million cut they had.
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  They had to eat that, which was crazy.
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  But that's just the size of the baseball contracts we have now.
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  So, you know, we have to remind ourselves of that sometimes.
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  But they're going to have to make a move during the trade
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  deadline. I mean, Tampa's going to be
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  Tampa. They're going to always be
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  middle of the road. They're always going to be
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  competitive. I do like what they do with the
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  young guys. They got Joel Boyle that came
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  back up. It sounds like he's going to
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  piggyback up Drew Rosen. Is that how you say his last
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  name? Drew Rosen and Rosen, yeah.
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  So he, it sounds like he's going to be the opener.
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  And then they're going to have Joe Boyle, who is one of their
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  top pitching prospects, run behind them, hopefully go 5 or 6
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  innings behind him going into the the closing role for
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  Fairbanks. So they're going to do their
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  thing. Boston, I mean, one of the
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  hottest teams in baseball right now, like you said, Doug, nine
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  and one last 10 games. And then also Baltimore starting
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  to slowly put it together. Dean Kramer, it's kind of been a
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  mixed bag for him this year, but when he's been good, he is good.
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  I'm watching the game right now. He's almost 24.
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  It's 4 nothing. He's looking good.
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  But yeah, it's just a a funny division because even though you
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  said they're 11 1/2 games back, I don't think it's totally wild
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  for them to to make a charge here.
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  Maybe not enough, but I can definitely see them winning a
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  lot more baseball games in the second-half than they did in the
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  first half. I mean, you can't, you can't be
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  any worse. I think we I mean, we could be
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  Baltimore with a, with a, a stick.
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  You know, we've been doing that all all year.
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  You know, you, you go out and you lose a 41 home run guy with
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  Anthony Sandayer. And again, who's not to say he
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  couldn't produce better than what he's doing in Toronto if
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  they re signed him and he stayed in Baltimore, right?
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  But you lose a a bat like that. And then we can talk about
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  Austin Hazen and Cincinnati who when he's playing, he's he looks
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  good. I mean, unfortunately he's hit
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  the ILA couple times this year, but he looks good when he's on
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  that field. Man, they have him slotting
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  right after LAD the cruise. That's it's a good line up,
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  right? It's a fun, young, really decent
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  line up. But you're losing two of those
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  pieces. You're putting no one in there
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  to fill him. You're relying on people.
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  You're expecting them to produce the same without those pieces.
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  And that's what you saw. You know, you lose Corbin Burns
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  you, you know. Yeah.
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  I mean, if you, if, if me and Dean Kramer is your ace, then,
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  you know, you're not looking good.
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  I mean, they got Charlie Morton. And.
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  Yeah, I mean, yeah, he he looked like he turned the corner.
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  But he, dude, the first month he was out there, he was struggling
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  so bad. They moved.
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  They they put him in the AAA, then they moved him into a
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  relief role. Now he's starting again, but it,
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  it's honestly, it's very underwhelming.
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  And I don't, I, I mean, everybody's struggling.
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  You know, Gunner Henderson, we talked Westburg, we were talking
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  about Westburg earlier. You know, it, it's just a really
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  underperforming team. And honestly, I look at this the
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  standings today and of all the teams that probably won't move,
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  it's it's Baltimore. I think they're going to stay in
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  last play. I think they'll they maybe they
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  maybe they see saw it, maybe they go up the 4th, but I feel
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  like they're going to finish in last place.
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  I really do. As far as the rest of it, I
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  still think the Yankees should pull it out.
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  I still do. They're just it's too talented,
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  right? Maybe Toronto.
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  I mean, who you could be looking at all three wild card teams
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  from coming from the East, you know, and that's how crazy it
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  is. But it, I don't know you, we at
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  the Athletic and we'll talk about that in a couple couple
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  subjects later in the same segment released the top 10
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  trade candidates for this year ranked most likely to least
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  likely. And they have 3 Red Sox players
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  in the top 10. So they're thinking the Red Sox
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  aren't going to, you know, they're going to kind of hit the
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  crap or at some point too. I don't know.
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  It's interesting, it's fun, obviously.
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  Hey, I'd love to see Toronto go in there and do it.
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  You know, like you said, it's a good rotation.
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  It's kind of probably their last time at it.
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  You know, Chris Bessette looks really good, right?
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  He did two years ago, horrible last year, turned it around.
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  Gosman looks like he turned it around.
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  Barrios is Barrios, you know, high three RA, but it'll still
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  give you 12 wins and and you know, 180 strikeouts.
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  So it's always been a good rotation.
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  I think for, you know, at least two years ago and then this year
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  it to me, it was the offense and it kind of still is.
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  You know, it's you sign Anthony Sandia, you're expecting this
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  this big void, this DH outfielder to fill the line up
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  in the middle and he hasn't done anything anything at all.
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  So if I was AGM for Toronto, I mean, you gotta look for a bet.
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  You need to you just you have to, you know, somebody that I
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  mean, if J like a JD Martinez, if you know what I mean, like,
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  you know, five years ago, a JD Martinez would slot perfect in
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  here, right. You go out and get ADH guy give
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  you still give you like, you know, 15 home runs a
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  second-half, like that's the type of player that you're
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  looking for. But I there's still a bad way in
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  my opinion. Definitely, definitely.
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  There's there's a void there. They still need to fill that
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  void. It's it's tough to build a team
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  like that and and think like it. It's because Anthony Stand down
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  here hasn't been producing. Let's just call for what it is.
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  You thought you were going to get 35 to 40 home runs, maybe
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  100 ribbies depending on where he's batting in the order.
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  And it just hasn't been like that yet.
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  And yeah, obviously it's been a disappointing start to it.
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  But again, we got a whole half of the season still.
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  Now he's going to be healthy hopefully and stay on the field
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  and we'll we'll see what he's going to do.
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  And just a quick note on Baltimore real quick, I did see
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  it online. I think it was one other podcast
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  called Foul Territory, but they think they had Jim Bowden on and
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  he he mentioned, I thought I agreed with the 2 is Baltimore
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  should get Dave Dombrowski as their GM and then just blow it
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  up and just get these these veterans instead and then make a
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  small, small run. Which got me to thinking, you
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  know, we talked about big market, middle market, small
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  market teams. Maybe that is like an
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  interesting formula to build up a farm system and then just blow
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  it up to make a, a strong push for maybe like a two year
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  stretch, which you might only get sometimes in some teams
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  anyway, when you have a team like Baltimore with all these
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  young top top guys. Just a thought, thought it was
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  interesting. Yeah, for sure, man.
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  I mean, he'll, he'll win you a championship, but he'll ruin
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  your organization doing it. Oh yeah.
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  But that's worth it. I mean, you know, you take the
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  Sox, right? You know, they, they went to the
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  Dombrowski age with that. And you know, I I think it's, if
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  you're a good scout, it doesn't take that long to come back from
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  it. So Sox clearly rebounded pretty
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  relatively quick I think from him and been competitive
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  competitive enough. I agree.
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  All right, Let's just touch quickly on on the next two
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  because I do want to talk a lot about this trade list that was
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  released by The Athletic. So obviously All Star snubs, All
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  Star snubs. You know, that was the talk of
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  early earlier this week. You know, who got snubbed, who
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  didn't. So I decided why not?
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  And obviously some of them are now playing because they're
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  replacements. My thing is that they probably
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  should have never been replacements.
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  I think they were good enough to be starters.
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  So I've listed, you know, 7 snubs at the time.
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  Obviously I think 3 or 4 from now are still playing and just
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  looked at their fantasy numbers and figured out if maybe they
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  should be starting right. So here are the here they are.
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  And listen, some of them got it right in my opinion, some of
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  them didn't. So I'll let me Junior Cameron,
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  I'll, I'll just run him down real quick.
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  Junior Caminero, he's a replacement.
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  So he is in there. But I mean, the guy was hitting
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  29423 home runs, 59 ribbies, 55 runs, five stolen bases.
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  I mean, he's got 72 strikeouts, which isn't crazy bad.
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  You know, he's giving me a 2.9 a start and he's ranked 5th.
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  He is the 5th best third baseman.
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  And this guy didn't start right. He he, he was a replacement
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  framer Valdez. This one kind of was surprising
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  to me because I think he's he's he's found it like from two or
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  three years ago, like he's found it right. 10 and 415 innings,
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  115 strikeouts. Walks are high.
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  They're always high with him because he's a double play
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  machine. But 2A29 ERA, he's giving you
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  16.2 points a start, 16.2 The guys ranked 6th, right?
• 19:57
  You got Joe Ryan, who was a replacement for Hunter Brown.
• 20:00
  He was 8 and 404 innings, 116 strikeouts, a 27 ERA.
• 20:06
  He was ranked 18th, 13.6 a start.
• 20:10
  So honestly, I don't think that's a snub in my opinion
• 20:13
  based on the numbers. Trey Turner, 29411 homers, does
• 20:20
  66 home runs, 24 stolen bases. He's giving you 2.9.
• 20:23
  He's ranked 4th. Juan Soto to me was probably the
• 20:26
  biggest snub of all. As crazy as it is, as horrible
• 20:30
  as his first month was, we had talked about, you know, he had a
• 20:34
  horrible first half with the Padres and still ended up
• 20:37
  becoming a top five overall point scorer in in leagues.
• 20:41
  He has 264 still 21 home runs, 67 runs scored, eleven stolen
• 20:48
  bases, 72 strikeouts, Still giving you 3.3 a start.
• 20:54
  Like that's a 3.3. That's more than any so far
• 20:56
  hitter that we've named. OK, that's more than than Trey.
• 21:00
  That's more than junior Christopher Sanchez. 7 and 207
• 21:07
  in his pitch, 116 strikeouts, A-25 ERA.
• 21:09
  He's giving you 14.3 a start. This one I think they got right
• 21:13
  to. I mean, he's ranked 12th.
• 21:14
  You could make the case, you could make it, but it's kind of
• 21:16
  on that fringe for me. And last but not least, I'd say
• 21:19
  Suzuki 263. I mean, 25 home run, 77 ribbies,
• 21:25
  geez. 2 stolen bases, 51 runs scored.
• 21:28
  However, 106 strikeouts. That's before today's game.
• 21:32
  I think he has one against Rondo today.
• 21:35
  He's giving you a 2.8 to start. I mean it overall, I, I, I feel,
• 21:42
  you know, I think like Framberg, Soto, like those guys, you know,
• 21:45
  Trey Turner, Junior Kim and those guys they, they have a,
• 21:48
  they have a bicker, Joe Ryan, Christopher Sanchez.
• 21:51
  I don't think they do. But it's, it's just interesting
• 21:55
  to look at the numbers and see who got in and who didn't,
• 21:57
  especially when you look at them from like a fantasy perspective.
• 22:00
  That's all I'm saying. Very fair.
• 22:03
  I mean, Soto, it's it's kind of crazy because you become kind of
• 22:06
  numb, but how good he actually is.
• 22:08
  So when he has a season like this, you're like, oh, he's he's
• 22:11
  terrible. And it's like, no, that's not
• 22:13
  the case. And also he plays for a New York
• 22:15
  team. So you're also more critical
• 22:16
  sometimes in that aspect. So no, he he should definitely
• 22:20
  be there. Cramber, I mean, man, he does
• 22:25
  have a grudge, huh? Looking at those numbers, It's
• 22:28
  he's done everything he was supposed to do and it's just
• 22:31
  been the Hunter Brown show too. And since he's just like kind of
• 22:34
  like the new toy people, you know, sleep on Framber, which is
• 22:39
  crazy. So a little too bad about that.
• 22:42
  Trey Turner having a bounce back year.
• 22:45
  Loved seeing it. He's really been a huge
• 22:48
  contributor to that Phillies team.
• 22:51
  He plays for a competitive shortstop position, though.
• 22:54
  There's a lot of good shortstops in the National League between
• 22:58
  LA Daily Cruz and you got Glendor.
• 23:01
  So it's it's tough, tough competition.
• 23:03
  But I mean, his name is right next to him though.
• 23:06
  He's just as good as those guys on any given day.
• 23:09
  And I agree, I think the rest of the names, I mean, good for
• 23:12
  Junior. I think Junior's only 2122.
• 23:15
  He'll play in plenty of All Star games.
• 23:17
  I think he's what is he a replacement already?
• 23:19
  I believe so, yeah. He's gonna be.
• 23:21
  There, it's not going to be his last one.
• 23:23
  He probably should have got in maybe the first time Bregman
• 23:25
  missed a lot of time. So it's kind of Fair for this
• 23:28
  guy to go in here. But it's just funny though,
• 23:31
  because, you know, Suzuki, I just never looked at it as like
• 23:35
  a guy that should make an All Star team again, a a crowded
• 23:39
  Cubs team with PCA and Tucker really just taking headlines.
• 23:44
  But Suzuki's been just as good. But yeah, I guess the strikeouts
• 23:48
  are a little concerning. I guess from a fantasy
• 23:50
  perspective. Only only two stolen bases.
• 23:53
  Like that's not that great in if you go in a bad slump, all of a
• 23:56
  sudden, you know, now you got 120 negative one points going
• 24:01
  forward. And last but not least, my boy
• 24:04
  Joe Ryan. You know, I'm a Joe Ryan guy,
• 24:06
  Doug, but. You traded.
• 24:10
  I did because I got him in like 2 other leagues.
• 24:12
  So I can, I still got the, I still got the, the Joe Ryan T in
• 24:17
  the closet. But yeah, he, he's just a stud.
• 24:21
  Regardless whether he makes an All Star game or not, he's one
• 24:25
  of the better pitchers out there in the American League.
• 24:27
  Regardless. I, I, I take him any day over
• 24:30
  just about anyone else. I mean, the All Star game is not
• 24:35
  really like relevant anymore, is it really?
• 24:39
  It's a, it's a, it's a tip of the cap.
• 24:40
  It's a, a good thing to have on your resume if you're going for
• 24:44
  a Hall of Fame bid. But I feel like lately these All
• 24:47
  Star games, they're, they're fun, they're unique.
• 24:49
  I think the, the Home Run Derby is almost as important as the
• 24:52
  All Star game at this point. I feel there's a lot as much
• 24:56
  hype for the, the Home Run Derby.
• 24:58
  So I am looking forward to that. That's going to be a lot of fun
• 25:01
  to watch. But yeah, these guys, they're,
• 25:04
  they're very good baseball players.
• 25:05
  And I think any other year they probably would have made a team.
• 25:08
  But that's what happens sometimes with the fan voting.
• 25:11
  You get the fans vote, you know, you leave it up to them.
• 25:15
  It can go either way. Yeah, and that brings us right
• 25:19
  into the Home Run Derby. So the, the, the participants
• 25:24
  were sent a couple days ago. These are the ones that are in
• 25:27
  it. I will say there has been an
• 25:29
  update to the list. I think it was earlier today,
• 25:32
  Ronald Cunier junior decided to not partake in it anymore
• 25:35
  because of that back issue he was having.
• 25:37
  Even though he is in the lineup today and hit a lead off double.
• 25:40
  Matt Olson will be replacing him.
• 25:42
  So that's the list right there. I think my question to you is
• 25:47
  just real brief, right? We always talk about the Home
• 25:50
  Run Derby hangover, right? Someone goes in, had a great
• 25:55
  first half, comes in first or second place in the Derby and
• 25:59
  you see him hit maybe four home runs.
• 26:02
  Do you see any of these guys that you think would have a Home
• 26:06
  Run Derby hangover? I think I might see a couple,
• 26:11
  you know, Jazz. Jazz hasn't been that great this
• 26:13
  year. So I'm kind of excluding him
• 26:15
  from this conversation because if he doesn't do great again in
• 26:18
  the second-half, it's not because of the Home Run Derby.
• 26:20
  He just hasn't been good this whole year.
• 26:23
  Kind of a straight shot on Jazz there.
• 26:25
  Sorry, but I I'm going to go with the younger guys.
• 26:27
  I'm going to go with James Wood and I'm going to go with Junior
• 26:30
  Caminero first. You know, full seasons really in
• 26:33
  the big leagues so far this year, both having very
• 26:36
  successful seasons. I mean, you know, young guys
• 26:39
  going into an All Star game, you know, big guys going into it
• 26:43
  next weekend and when they come back, I can see both those guys
• 26:48
  potentially struggling coming off of that because you know
• 26:52
  they're going to give it their all that.
• 26:53
  You know, they're they're young bucks.
• 26:54
  They're they're not there to they're young, they're healthy.
• 26:58
  They're that's just what they do.
• 26:59
  You know, they're going to put on shows they want to do want to
• 27:01
  impress. So you know, O'Neil Cruz kind of
• 27:05
  the same thing. I know he's having a pretty good
• 27:07
  year, but again, he just strikes out already so much.
• 27:10
  Maybe that would mess him up a little bit more.
• 27:13
  But I think the rest of the guys, I think they're going to
• 27:16
  be fine. I think they're more better
• 27:19
  hitters, I guess. I guess they're just more
• 27:23
  polished in my opinion. Cal Riley.
• 27:25
  Cal Riley could just hit when he hits.
• 27:27
  I think he's just kind of going to have that year this year.
• 27:29
  Byron Buxton, I feel like he's kind of starting to find a flow
• 27:33
  for the first time in his career in a full season.
• 27:36
  Still dealing with Knick knack injuries here and they're like
• 27:38
  that hand. But I I don't see him going into
• 27:42
  like a ridiculous lump because of this.
• 27:44
  And you said Matt Olson's going to be there instead of Hakuna.
• 27:47
  Yeah, he he's been there, done that too.
• 27:49
  So I think those guys are fine. I'm worried about the young
• 27:52
  guys. Yeah, I would say, I mean, to
• 27:55
  your point, I would probably say O'Neil Cruz, Jazz, maybe even
• 27:59
  Cal. You know, I'm just only because
• 28:01
  it's his first one. I don't know how strong he's,
• 28:03
  you know, he's going out there. And of course, I mean, the guy's
• 28:06
  got you know what, 30 something home runs.
• 28:08
  People are going to want to see that same production in the
• 28:10
  second-half. And I say he finishes with like
• 28:13
  say 43 you you people are going to be either blaming the home in
• 28:18
  Derby or just, you know, hey, he just ran out of gas.
• 28:22
  So I do agree with some of that. It'll it'll be interesting.
• 28:24
  It's always fun to watch home in Derbys anyways.
• 28:26
  We always do our league bet and we always pick a guy and see who
• 28:30
  wins, which brings up to my next thing.
• 28:33
  They're the odds. So I know I know who I'm
• 28:40
  picking. If I was going to place a bet,
• 28:42
  I'd love to know who you're thinking real quick.
• 28:46
  So I I I dabble in the in the numbers sometimes here.
• 28:50
  I cannot believe O'Neill Cruz is plus 3:30.
• 28:53
  What the heck does Vegas know that we don't?
• 28:57
  So that one sticks out to me. To be honest with you, Doug,
• 28:59
  that's kind of crazy that he's that much higher than a guy like
• 29:03
  a, a Byron Buxton or Brent Roker, who's plus 1100.
• 29:07
  I mean, holy moly, what are we talking about here?
• 29:10
  That that is shocking to me. So I'm it might sound cliche,
• 29:14
  but I'm just going to go with the numbers here and I'm picking
• 29:16
  O'Neil Cruz because I think Vegas knows something that we
• 29:18
  don't. That's crazy.
• 29:21
  I'm I would take Brett Brooker. That's my dark horse.
• 29:25
  That's that's him. That's there's no bad bet.
• 29:29
  I mean, that's the best thing about the home run derbies with
• 29:31
  with the gambling is because there's no bad bet there.
• 29:34
  I mean, any of those guys can put on a show at any point.
• 29:39
  I I feel like that's the best thing about that.
• 29:41
  You can get the best betting odds during these type of
• 29:44
  things. I mean the the two top guys,
• 29:47
  Kyle Riley and O'Neil Cruz plus 3:30, that's three to 1 T of
• 29:51
  money. That's incredible.
• 29:53
  It's probably one of the most bad things probably throughout
• 29:55
  the year for. Baseball.
• 29:57
  Yeah, I would agree real quick on this one.
• 30:01
  You know the man there? He.
• 30:02
  Is. If you don't know him, Cubs
• 30:06
  outfield the PCAP Crow Armstrong.
• 30:09
  He became just the third player in baseball history to become a
• 30:12
  member of the 2525 club before the All Star break.
• 30:18
  I mean, again, we had talked about what Tucker brings to a
• 30:20
  lineup. I think you're watching it.
• 30:21
  I think this is it, man. He just makes everybody else
• 30:24
  around him. You know, Michael Bush is having
• 30:26
  a pretty good year. It's just he just is that good
• 30:31
  of a hitter that pitchers tend to focus more on him than
• 30:34
  others. And this is UC breakout and
• 30:36
  that's what you're seeing. Do I think he can keep it up?
• 30:40
  That's going to be tough. I don't know.
• 30:42
  Honestly, I thought he would have hit the hit the floor
• 30:45
  already and the fact that he has it, I don't know.
• 30:48
  I honestly have no idea. I mean, I, I think he, he will.
• 30:53
  I was always a, you know, a a doubter, but I don't know.
• 30:59
  I, I, I honestly, I don't know. I think he will though, if I had
• 31:02
  to say. I think he's going to keep it
• 31:06
  up. I, I think he's going to, I
• 31:08
  think he's got a great role model in Kyle Tucker.
• 31:10
  I mean, he's he's got good guys around him to lift him up.
• 31:15
  And we've known in the past too at PCA as he's been climbing the
• 31:19
  ladder and everything. There's been some viral clips of
• 31:21
  him and we know he's a competitor regardless, he he's
• 31:25
  going to be he's a very competitive guy.
• 31:28
  You can see it on the base pass and at the plate too.
• 31:30
  I think last year he had that ridiculous, you know, I think 15
• 31:35
  pitch at bat and AAA and crushed the home run.
• 31:38
  You can see him all jacked up and then he had that crazy slide
• 31:41
  to third base where he slid around the guy and he's got it
• 31:44
  all. You know, the most important
• 31:46
  thing for PCA is to stay healthy on the field and really just
• 31:50
  don't overthink it. Just keep doing what you're
• 31:52
  doing day in, day out. I think he's going to keep it
• 31:56
  up. I don't see any reason why he
• 31:58
  wouldn't. And if he did start going
• 32:00
  downhill, I think would be a very brief moment that he would.
• 32:04
  And that'd be to buy your your small window to buy him at a a
• 32:08
  lower point if maybe he does that.
• 32:10
  But I mean, hey, MVP candidate, it is what it is.
• 32:15
  So far, so far, all right, Last but not least, we had talked
• 32:20
  about this earlier. So with the MLB trade deadline
• 32:23
  approaching pretty quick, the Athletic release 10 players that
• 32:27
  they think will be dealt. Now this list is created with
• 32:31
  the most likely to the least likely of the 10.
• 32:34
  Here it is. Let's break it down one through
• 32:36
  10 for you, OK? Number one, you got Jared Duran
• 32:40
  #2. You got Bregman, Seth Lugo,
• 32:43
  Emmanuel Clause, Sandy, Ella, Ella, Catantra, Blah, Eugene,
• 32:50
  Eugeno Suarez, Willy Abreu, Johann Duran, Griffin Jax and
• 32:57
  Zach Gallon. It does surprise me they have 3
• 33:02
  Red Sox considering they're really only five games out.
• 33:05
  I think they're only like 3 1/2 out of the wild card.
• 33:09
  A little bit surprising, but I, I guess I get it.
• 33:13
  You know, Bregman, like we had talked about, I mean, he's going
• 33:16
  to opt out for sure that everybody's said that he's
• 33:21
  opting out. So he'll opt out.
• 33:23
  And if the Red Sox can't sign them to a long term deal, which
• 33:26
  they want to, then they're going to trade them and they're going
• 33:30
  to get what they can for them, which I get.
• 33:32
  I understand that the whole Jared Duran thing.
• 33:34
  I don't think they should. I think that's just crazy.
• 33:36
  I don't think they should. I think I think they have team
• 33:38
  control till 2028. So why would you trade a guy
• 33:41
  like that who he's not maybe producing as he was a couple
• 33:45
  years ago, but still a pretty solid hitter And and especially
• 33:49
  that that, you know, top of the order bat.
• 33:52
  I don't know, some of these names make sense, some of them
• 33:54
  don't. I mean, it it all, it depends,
• 33:56
  you know, It really does. Yeah, some of it does, some of
• 34:01
  it doesn't. I say maybe even half these
• 34:03
  names aren't going to get traded.
• 34:05
  I mean, Clause A is a pretty big name.
• 34:07
  I think the Indians are still somewhat competitive in the AL
• 34:12
  Central. I know Detroit's starting to to
• 34:14
  run a little bit, but yeah. And it's a lot of relievers,
• 34:18
  too. And for to have three Red Sox
• 34:20
  players, not including Chapman on here is a little surprising,
• 34:22
  too. I feel like he's the most likely
• 34:25
  on the team to get traded. I mean, he's older, but he's
• 34:27
  still 100 miles an hour lefty pitcher that a a competitive
• 34:31
  team would love to have on their team.
• 34:32
  So, yeah. But the Jared Duran thing, maybe
• 34:35
  he's just number one just because like his situation, you
• 34:39
  know, he's a little bit younger. He's got control over years.
• 34:42
  But the thing was with the Red Sox, though, they already got
• 34:45
  young guys. They already got a bunch of
• 34:47
  young guys that they're trying to move up here already.
• 34:48
  So it's like if you trade, you know, Jared Duran, you know,
• 34:52
  you're not going to just trade for, you know, top prospects or
• 34:55
  whatever because you already got them already.
• 34:57
  So it's like a it's, it's tough to say you're going to sell him.
• 35:01
  It's just might as well just hold and and see what happens
• 35:03
  next year and where the the progression is with Roman
• 35:06
  Anthony and Marcel Mayer. And let's see if we can make
• 35:09
  this work still with some of these guys that are going to be
• 35:11
  coming back next year that are on the contract.
• 35:13
  Alex Bregman, I totally understand it.
• 35:16
  I'm still holding out hope that he's going to maybe sign an
• 35:18
  extension, maybe in the office in the regular season here.
• 35:22
  It sounds like there was a little bit of talk, but I think,
• 35:25
  you know, obviously the smart move would be to walk and then
• 35:29
  redo your contract from there. Have more options, right?
• 35:32
  I know Detroit's looking at them.
• 35:34
  They, they want him bad over there, Doug.
• 35:36
  They want, they want Alex Bregman bad over there in
• 35:38
  Detroit. But yeah, the rest of the guys,
• 35:42
  they're they're going to pay too.
• 35:44
  They will pay him. They, they, I think the Red Sox
• 35:46
  came in at a little bigger price, you know, and that's why
• 35:49
  he went to Boston. But Detroit, they're, they're
• 35:51
  crossing their fingers. And then, yeah, I think the
• 35:55
  coolest name on here is Zach Allen at #10 right.
• 35:59
  Contract year, Arizona, who knows where they're going to go
• 36:04
  in what direction, you know, in the next couple weeks here.
• 36:07
  And Ben, Zach, and I could see him doing a nice change of
• 36:11
  scenery and just going somewhere and just dealing.
• 36:14
  You know, that could be for the Yankees, that could be maybe for
• 36:19
  Boston, probably not. I can see the Dodgers being
• 36:23
  potentially in that hunt there, which is kind of crazy because
• 36:27
  they're in a division. Maybe Houston adds A1.
• 36:30
  Imagine Houston, Houston kind of fits, right, because you get
• 36:35
  Houston's, you know, looking to win that division.
• 36:37
  And then on top of that, if you got a three pitcher series, you
• 36:40
  know, Hunter Brown, you got Valdez and then you throw in
• 36:43
  Gallon. I mean, I don't I feel like it
• 36:46
  fits like a glove. So yeah, that that's why in in
• 36:50
  again, these relievers, there's always going to be relievers
• 36:53
  moved at the dead deadline. They're always moving at the
• 36:55
  deadline. So no surprise really there,
• 36:57
  Doug. I will say with the Zach Gallon
• 37:00
  though, he he really is helping his own cause though.
• 37:02
  Like the way the his last three starts, he looks really good
• 37:06
  hitting that 9495, consistently pounding the zone, getting the
• 37:10
  strikeouts, those are up a lot. You know, I mean, 7-8 looks
• 37:16
  good. Glad to see him back.
• 37:18
  I nothing tells me he can't keep it up.
• 37:20
  He's he always never had a really arm troubles.
• 37:23
  He's kind of just a head case. I think that was his issue to be
• 37:26
  honest, the first couple months of the year.
• 37:28
  So I'm glad to see him turn it around.
• 37:30
  Hey, if the Red Sox do go out and they want to trade them and
• 37:33
  they trade like an Abreu for him and maybe try and sign them long
• 37:36
  term, not a bad, not a bad. You know him crochet as a 12 or
• 37:41
  something. I mean you got to do something.
• 37:43
  You're losing Giolito, who we're going to talk about later on,
• 37:46
  who is just looks lights out like he looks like he's made for
• 37:50
  Boston. If there if there was ever a
• 37:52
  pitcher, you know, we'll talk about his numbers and I I mean
• 37:55
  if they could re sign him, you know, which I don't I don't see
• 37:59
  why he wouldn't want to. You know, he already his first
• 38:01
  year, he didn't do anything for him.
• 38:02
  So maybe he thinks he owes him something.
• 38:04
  You know, maybe that's the mentality and you use that to
• 38:06
  your benefit and he signs, he signs, but you get him, you get
• 38:10
  crochet, you get a gallon. Yes, that's a really good 123
• 38:14
  right there. Dude, Jill here already said
• 38:17
  last week he doesn't. He doesn't want to go.
• 38:19
  He likes Boston, he likes it here.
• 38:22
  So I think that door is wide open for for a reunion next year
• 38:27
  for him to come back. And I think he's going to earn
• 38:29
  it too. I think he's going to earn that
• 38:30
  contract. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 38:33
  All right, so that was going around the league.
• 38:36
  Let's let's just dip right into the The Hurt Locker, right?
• 38:52
  All right, so these are some of the bigger injuries that have
• 38:55
  occurred in the last week, week and a half of baseball.
• 38:58
  I will run down this list. I think there's only six of
• 39:01
  them. We'll touch base.
• 39:03
  Mikey V will touch base on some. And then I'll just run down the
• 39:06
  the updates on some people that are still on the IL that would
• 39:09
  probably have a good impact on your line up or your roster.
• 39:13
  So first, Arizona starting pitcher Merrill Kelly, I know
• 39:16
  he's day-to-day. He experienced some right cap
• 39:19
  discomfort. He should make his next start.
• 39:22
  He's been having an issue with dehydration and that calf injury
• 39:26
  has taken him out of three games.
• 39:28
  So he either needs an IV or so, needs to drink some water or
• 39:32
  something because, I mean, he was pitching a gem.
• 39:35
  It's like a renaissance here. He's 36.
• 39:37
  He's seven and five. He's got 111 innings pitched.
• 39:40
  He's got 107 strikeouts, A34 ERA.
• 39:43
  He's giving you 11.5 points a start.
• 39:46
  He's ranked. He's a top 23 pitcher, believe
• 39:49
  it or not. Brave signing pitcher.
• 39:51
  Spencer's Hohenbach. He was placed on the 60 D IL.
• 39:53
  He's got an elbow fracture. He's unlucky to return to the
• 39:56
  rotation until September. So at this point I say shut him
• 40:00
  down. If they don't have anything to
• 40:01
  play for, there's no point in trying to push him.
• 40:03
  It's kind of silly. He was a top 20 pitcher before
• 40:06
  the injury. He was giving you 14.4 points a
• 40:08
  start, 110 innings pitched, 108 strikeout, 7 and four.
• 40:13
  He looked great. Astro shortstop Jeremy Pena, he
• 40:16
  was placed on A10D IL. He's got a small fracture on his
• 40:18
  rib. GM Dana Brown said that there's
• 40:21
  a small chance he could return for the break again.
• 40:24
  Similar. Don't rush it.
• 40:25
  You're in first. Let him get healthy.
• 40:28
  Give him that extra time, that extended rest with the break
• 40:31
  coming, Have him go out there, right.
• 40:34
  I think he was coming into his own this year, man 322, eleven
• 40:37
  home runs, 40 ribbies, 15 stolen bases.
• 40:40
  You know, only 55 strikeouts. He was giving you 2.9 a start.
• 40:44
  He was a top 7 shortstop. Awesome.
• 40:49
  You got Dodgers third baseman Max Muncie.
• 40:51
  He's on the 10 day IL. He's got a bone bruise on his
• 40:53
  knee. He injured it trying to steal a
• 40:54
  base. If you ever see Max Muncie run,
• 40:56
  you would completely understand why this happened.
• 40:59
  They're looking at a mid August return, so about a month, maybe
• 41:03
  a month and 1/2 or so four to six weeks.
• 41:07
  He was averaging 1.7 earlier this year.
• 41:10
  He's turned it around. He's having 2.6 to start.
• 41:12
  He's got 13 homers, 55 ribbies, 69 strikeouts, hitting, yeah,
• 41:17
  only 250. But again, really turned on the
• 41:20
  home runs. Twins outfielder Byron Bucks,
• 41:23
  and he's day-to-day after being hit by a pitch on his left hand
• 41:26
  near his pinky finger. X-rays were negative.
• 41:28
  He's still day-to-day. The injury, it's making him
• 41:31
  tough for him to swing a bat. So I'm thinking maybe a couple
• 41:33
  more days before he gets in that lineup, maybe Sunday, maybe
• 41:37
  tomorrow, who knows. And you hate to see this because
• 41:40
  Buxton is a streaky guy. He is the epitome of a streak.
• 41:45
  Him and Max Muncie at this point.
• 41:47
  He was giving you a great year as far as fantasy numbers are
• 41:51
  concerned. 27020 homers, 53 Really.
• 41:53
  Sixty runs, seventeen stolen bases, 85 strikeouts, 3.3 a
• 41:58
  start, which is really good. That's Juan Soto was giving you
• 42:01
  3.3. And then last but not least,
• 42:03
  Yankees starting pitcher Clark Schmidt is officially out for
• 42:06
  the year for having Tommy John, which is crazy.
• 42:09
  So he will probably miss all of next year as well.
• 42:12
  So you're looking at a year and a half, 18 months, which is the
• 42:16
  regular time frame. I mean, his numbers were really
• 42:19
  good. You know, obviously his win loss
• 42:22
  doesn't show that He was 4 and 478 and he's pitched 73
• 42:25
  strikeouts, 3, three ERA, gave you almost 10 points a start.
• 42:30
  So it's a quality arm that you're going to have to replace
• 42:33
  in your roster for sure. But these are the the bigger
• 42:37
  impacted IL stints that have recently hit the IL.
• 42:42
  Yeah, let's let's start with the worst one.
• 42:44
  I think it's probably Spencer swelling block from a fantasy
• 42:47
  perspective, just because like you said, W's going to be out
• 42:50
  till September. If the Braves are, you know,
• 42:53
  falling behind in that division kind of like they already are
• 42:55
  already this year, why bring them back?
• 42:58
  So, you know, I'm an owner of Spencer Swalenbach.
• 43:01
  I'm holding on to him for now, but I'll I'll probably end up
• 43:04
  dropping them to be honest, because I don't want to fill an
• 43:07
  IL spot with someone that I don't know who's going to
• 43:09
  actually come back and help me this year.
• 43:11
  So it's a tough loss. I mean, if he does miss the rest
• 43:15
  of the year, at least we'll be 100% next year going into it.
• 43:19
  It's not like it's a Tommy John or anything like that.
• 43:21
  So kind of a disappointment. So you're going to have to make
• 43:25
  a pivot for sure with there. I mean, Brad Elder had a pretty
• 43:28
  good start last outing, but that's not a guy that it's going
• 43:31
  to replace a special Swollenbach whatsoever.
• 43:33
  You don't know what he's going to do.
• 43:35
  All the time. Merrill Kelly Like you said,
• 43:38
  Doug, you want a top 23 pitcher, that's your boy.
• 43:41
  Yeah. I picked him up, he's a free
• 43:45
  agent pickup and he's been nothing but good.
• 43:49
  Nothing but good. A few, no decisions here and
• 43:51
  there, but for the most part he looks really good.
• 43:54
  Really. Really.
• 43:55
  Those are the might like your favorite guys when you pick them
• 43:58
  up and they just become studs and they become a staple.
• 44:02
  You know, Jacob Wilson this year, you know that's a guy
• 44:05
  that's just became a staple in people's line up because of how
• 44:07
  good he was in the first half of the year.
• 44:10
  We'll see if he continues that, but from pitching perspective,
• 44:12
  Merrill Kelly's that guy for you.
• 44:15
  So hopefully he gets back to the mountain sooner or later.
• 44:17
  Like you said, just put an IV in him for Christ's sake.
• 44:19
  Sounds like he just needs some some hydration.
• 44:21
  So unless he's just, you know, logging after the the games, you
• 44:25
  know. But.
• 44:26
  Who knows nowadays. But moving on though, Jeremy
• 44:30
  Penny, like you said, breakout year, right?
• 44:32
  Really having a really good solid overall round year 15
• 44:36
  stolen bases. Wow, I did not see that coming.
• 44:41
  And the next Muncie, you know, up and down season, kind of
• 44:44
  fantasy, irrelevant in a lot of aspects.
• 44:46
  Like you said, very streaky guy. You know, kind of an option, I
• 44:49
  guess to say maybe be rosterable if he's on that streak.
• 44:53
  Obviously you plug him in, but you probably already have
• 44:57
  another third baseman that you can already sub with him.
• 44:59
  So hopefully it's not too big of a loss for people's teams.
• 45:03
  Byron Buxton, like you say, he's putting up soda numbers this
• 45:06
  year. This guy is about to go 3030 all
• 45:10
  of a sudden, so pretty cool, but hopefully he comes back from the
• 45:13
  hand injury early. I know it's swelling.
• 45:15
  So I think he's just waiting for some of that swelling to go
• 45:17
  down, get a better handle on that bat and then that way he
• 45:20
  can move forward. And then last but not least, you
• 45:23
  know, another one bites the dust.
• 45:24
  TJ Clark Schmidt tough this was kind of a breakout year or I
• 45:31
  shouldn't say breakout year. I should say his first like real
• 45:35
  professional year, right? We saw him last year.
• 45:38
  We knew he was coming up from AAA to the majors.
• 45:40
  We saw what stuff he definitely had.
• 45:42
  This guy has strike up caliber stuff and this year was really
• 45:46
  his first Test. Like you said, he had a three 3
• 45:48
  ERA. That's that's a really good ERA.
• 45:50
  That's roster bowl in a lot of fantasy leagues.
• 45:53
  So it's a little disappointing to see him hit that.
• 45:55
  IL going to Tommy John. He's going to miss all next
• 45:58
  year. Kind of like in that same Jared
• 45:59
  Jones boat where you just have two young guys that were were
• 46:03
  fun to watch and now they're going to obviously miss, you
• 46:07
  know, not one but probably two seasons now.
• 46:10
  So yeah, hopefully he gets back, you know, sooner than later.
• 46:13
  Hope it goes well. Not too many setbacks and you
• 46:16
  know, we see him back on the mound soon.
• 46:17
  But what are you going to do to replace them?
• 46:19
  That's the next question. Who's a free agent at this point
• 46:22
  right now that you can go after? My suggestion would be look at
• 46:26
  the top prospects. You know, we're going into the
• 46:28
  second-half. We're going to need some more
• 46:30
  innings eaters going into some of these situations and some of
• 46:33
  these teams. So you're going to start seeing
• 46:35
  some prospects get called up. Maybe they're not the number one
• 46:38
  or two, but they're going to give you innings down the road.
• 46:41
  And again, you don't know. It's a mixed bag sometimes, but
• 46:44
  sometimes I'd rather take a chance on those guys than maybe
• 46:47
  the guys that are already free agents like a an elder like I
• 46:50
  mentioned earlier, because sometimes those young guys come
• 46:54
  up like that kid from Milwaukee. Holy moly, he, he's been smoking
• 46:59
  lately. What was it, Jacob?
• 47:03
  Murzynski. Yeah, yeah, he he seems like.
• 47:06
  Is. That what his nickname is.
• 47:09
  Wow. I mean, how how can you not love
• 47:13
  that? So yeah, sometimes you'd rather
• 47:15
  just take a chance on some of those guys.
• 47:18
  Like I said, Joe Boyle, we know he's going to be potentially
• 47:22
  coming in, you know, as a long reliever.
• 47:24
  So if the Rays are up to nothing, it's the second inning
• 47:27
  and he comes in the third inning, now he's all of a sudden
• 47:30
  in life for a win, right? I mean, it's a cheap, cheap
• 47:33
  points, but you could still make it work for you, especially if
• 47:37
  he does what he did in AAA. That guy's a stud.
• 47:40
  I'm I'm a fan. You sounded man.
• 47:43
  That's like the third. Shot.
• 47:45
  I know, I know because he's finally back up.
• 47:48
  We know what the game plan is. And it's different with the Rays
• 47:51
  because usually a lot of those guys just go right back in the
• 47:53
  rotation, make it a six man rotation or something like that
• 47:56
  to just add him into it. But instead they're like, no,
• 47:59
  actually you're going to be our long guy out of the bullpen.
• 48:02
  And I kind of like that because you're also limiting his innings
• 48:06
  by doing that. You're not trying to stretch him
• 48:07
  out by any means, so you kind of have a little bit more
• 48:10
  flexibility with that and there's no pressure of just
• 48:12
  going out there, starting a game and then trying to go 5 or 6
• 48:15
  innings because you're trying to go as long as you can before you
• 48:18
  get to the bullpen. So I like that.
• 48:20
  I like that strategy. It's different.
• 48:22
  I don't think a lot of teams do it, especially with their top
• 48:24
  prospect pitchers like what Joe Boyle is in their organization.
• 48:28
  But I, I just have to mention it.
• 48:31
  I just think it's so unique and I think it's I think it's going
• 48:34
  to be good for him and I think it's going to be good for
• 48:36
  fantasy owners too. Last one, he went five innings,
• 48:39
  I think 7 KS and and one or two earned runs, if that.
• 48:42
  I might even be making that up. It might be 0 for all I know.
• 48:45
  I know it was definitely five and seven and he got the win.
• 48:48
  So it's an interesting investment, that's all I'm
• 48:51
  saying. I like that.
• 48:53
  Well, let me go over the updates because there are some people
• 48:55
  that might be free agents that are actually coming back from
• 48:58
  rehab that you could potentially pick up.
• 49:01
  And actually, one of them is not on here that I did pick up in
• 49:03
  our league. Luis Garcia, starting pitcher
• 49:06
  from the Astros. He should be coming back I think
• 49:09
  in a week. Actually, he might even be
• 49:11
  pitching the end of this week. I forget.
• 49:14
  I have to look. But he was a free agent.
• 49:16
  Like, you know, he's coming back.
• 49:18
  He looked good. Pretty good rehab outing.
• 49:21
  I think he did three rehab stints in AAA, look good.
• 49:24
  He's probably not owned. Another guy on this list that I
• 49:27
  have here is is Yankees starting pitcher Louise Gill.
• 49:31
  All right, he threw 42 pitches. A live BP session Tuesday.
• 49:34
  Could probably begin a rehab assignment.
• 49:36
  They're saying Sunday, which means he'll be back after the
• 49:39
  All Star break. Hey, you lose a Clark Schmidt,
• 49:41
  you replace him with a Louise Gill.
• 49:43
  Same team. There you go.
• 49:46
  Other other players, these people are probably owned, But
• 49:50
  let me run down this real quick. Red starting pitcher, Hunter
• 49:53
  Green, he was supposed to begin a rehab assignment on Wednesday
• 49:56
  that was cancelled because he experienced soreness in that
• 49:59
  same area, that right groin he had that he strained.
• 50:02
  So he's just going to just continue to do a rehab program.
• 50:05
  So I don't even know when he's going to start his rehab
• 50:08
  assignment. Dodger starting pitcher Blake
• 50:10
  Snell, he began a rehab assignment yesterday at Triple
• 50:13
  AI. Actually don't have those
• 50:14
  numbers in front of me because I didn't see him on the article.
• 50:17
  But he did begin a rehab assignment, which tells me a
• 50:19
  little after the All Star break. You're going to be able to put
• 50:21
  them in your line up. Baltimore catcher Adly Rushman,
• 50:25
  he's heating off a tee. He's expected to be back shortly
• 50:27
  after the All Star break. Red Sox third baseman Alex
• 50:31
  Bregman, he completed another comprehensive workout that
• 50:33
  included baseball activities, which tells me he's going to be
• 50:38
  back sooner rather than later. They're saying he could just
• 50:41
  skip rehab, forgo it and and just go right back into the
• 50:45
  lineup when he gets back. And if he does that, he'll be
• 50:48
  back this weekend, if not after the all stop break.
• 50:51
  So I don't know how they're going to play with him, but they
• 50:54
  do have options. We had talked about this before
• 50:57
  the show, Tampa Bay starting pitcher Shane Mccullahan, he
• 51:00
  began a minor league rehab assignment Tuesday.
• 51:03
  He threw 2 scoreless innings. It was rookie level ball look
• 51:06
  good again a little after the All Star break.
• 51:09
  You'd be able to plug them in your roster.
• 51:11
  And last but not least, Royal starting pitcher Cole Raggins.
• 51:15
  He was moved to the 60 DIL, meaning that he is not going to
• 51:17
  return until at least mid August.
• 51:21
  They're saying. So if he drafted him early
• 51:24
  hoping he was going to be a pitcher like he was last year,
• 51:28
  you're unfortunately you need to start pivoting.
• 51:32
  Yeah, I mean, everyone except Cole Ragan sounds like they're
• 51:35
  on their way back, right? And those are the guys that you
• 51:37
  did stash on the IL hoping they're going to come back
• 51:40
  sooner than later. So sounds like a lot of those
• 51:42
  guys are going to come back. Doug, I got a question for you
• 51:46
  and it it's got to do with Bregman.
• 51:48
  So we we've known Bregman's been out for a little bit right now.
• 51:52
  He's been out for over clearly over a month and he's doing
• 51:56
  baseball activities. And I know teams go to the
• 51:58
  ballpark early, they get their stretches in, they get their
• 52:00
  bats in, they got their practice and everything right.
• 52:05
  Do you find it odd that he's coming right back without a
• 52:07
  rehab assignment, even even with like just a few games?
• 52:11
  Do you do you find that a little interesting?
• 52:15
  Are you trying to say that they maybe want to showcase him as a
• 52:20
  trade candidate before the deadline, hence he skips the
• 52:23
  minor league rehab? I'm sniffing right through the
• 52:26
  lineup. Is that what you're trying to
• 52:27
  tell? Me, right, I'm sniffing that.
• 52:32
  I'm honestly I would probably if I like as a fan, I'd rather see
• 52:36
  him do the rehab in in minor league during the break and then
• 52:39
  come back and just put him right in the lineup first day back
• 52:42
  after the all stop break. To me, that makes sense.
• 52:45
  I don't know why he's pushing himself.
• 52:47
  I, I, I get it, right? He's going to opt out.
• 52:50
  He's going to want more money like he's he wants to prove
• 52:53
  himself because he's playing for a bigger contract is what he's
• 52:55
  doing. I don't.
• 52:57
  I feel like that might hurt him more than it might help him, You
• 53:00
  know, I don't know. I I find it interesting.
• 53:03
  Yeah, I just I agree with you what you said too exactly that I
• 53:06
  would have done the same exact thing.
• 53:08
  So I just find it interesting a little, I guess maybe that idea
• 53:12
  of him getting traded, I guess there's a little bit more out
• 53:16
  there than I originally thought. But yeah, the foreseeing the the
• 53:21
  rehab is interesting in my opinion.
• 53:22
  It's all. Awesome.
• 53:26
  All right, man. So we yeah, we just went over
• 53:29
  some of the some good pickups you could probably plug into
• 53:31
  your lineup that are coming back soon, maybe fill in some of
• 53:34
  those roster spots, roster spots that you, if you had Clark
• 53:37
  Schmidt, you're going to need somebody to fill that in.
• 53:40
  Why not take a, you know, roll the dice with, you know, former
• 53:45
  ALROY and Luis Gill and, you know, roll the dice with that
• 53:51
  or, or Luis Garcia, right. I mean both really good
• 53:55
  pitchers. So let's take a quick break.
• 53:58
  We'll come back, we'll talk hottest hitters and pitchers,
• 54:02
  coldest hitters and pitchers for last week and then some really
• 54:05
  good sell high, buy low candidates for your team to help
• 54:09
  you get over that playoff push that's coming up a lot sooner
• 54:13
  than you might you might think. So don't go anywhere.
• 54:17
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• 54:33
  When I go home, people ask me. Hey, who?
• 54:39
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• 54:46
  I won't say a goddamn word. What they won't understand.
• 54:52
  They won't understand why we do it.
• 54:58
  They won't understand it's about the men next to you.
• 55:04
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  man. One of the favorite.
• 55:51
  Segments of the week love this. Two hottest hitters, 2 hottest
• 55:56
  pitchers of last week in a points league, which probably
• 55:58
  translate into any other format. Like we have said earlier.
• 56:02
  And without further ado, here they are some surprise, some
• 56:07
  don't let me run over, go over the the two hitters and then
• 56:12
  some honorable mentions Mikey V. You could take it away and then
• 56:15
  we'll bring it back and do the pictures.
• 56:17
  So, and I got to say this guy's been on fire.
• 56:21
  Jose Ramirez, third baseman Guardians, He got you 17 points
• 56:25
  the last two days yesterday and the day before.
• 56:29
  He's 99.9% own for the week. 364 four homers, 7 ribby, seven
• 56:36
  runs, four stolen bases, 2 strikeouts, 45 points. 7 1/2 a
• 56:40
  start. And then a guy that we had said
• 56:43
  by low on right Astros second base outfield DH Hosea Tube
• 56:48
  897.2% owned hit four O 9 give you 3 homers, 12 ribby, seven
• 56:54
  runs, no stolen bases, 1 strikeout, 42 points. 7A start.
• 57:00
  Some honorable mentions. Here's here's a wild 1.
• 57:03
  You had Michael Bush, you had Rafaela, you had Trevor Story
• 57:06
  all give you 38 points last week as well.
• 57:10
  So those are your hottest hitters from Friday.
• 57:14
  To Wednesday. Night.
• 57:19
  Rafaela huh? Wow, didn't.
• 57:21
  See that coming? Yeah, I mean.
• 57:24
  Like I talked about with Soto. Earlier, right.
• 57:27
  We have such a high expectation for him.
• 57:28
  So when he has a season like he has, it's kind of been a, you
• 57:31
  know, a disappointment, quote UN quote.
• 57:33
  You can kind of stay the same with Jose Ramirez, except he's
• 57:36
  still putting up the numbers and this week was kind of like his
• 57:39
  big breakout week. I feel like that's the vintage
• 57:42
  Jose Ramirez that we know and love that why he's drafted top
• 57:46
  five every year. So great to see him back on this
• 57:49
  list and staying healthy. And then now you got Jose
• 57:52
  Attube. We talked about him a couple
• 57:54
  times and it looks like he's finally gotten into his groove,
• 57:58
  which is great to see. And that's why Houston, they're
• 58:00
  they're holding on to that first place they got to.
• 58:03
  They got to continue this with Jose Altuve too, because Texas
• 58:06
  is starting to wake up a little bit as well.
• 58:08
  So, but regardless, Jose Altuve, great to see it happen.
• 58:14
  And then you said Michael Bush, right?
• 58:16
  I mean, that guy crushed me when I played against him last week.
• 58:23
  It is what it is. It's just those guys.
• 58:25
  That you kind of run into. It's a juggernaut.
• 58:26
  He's not really highly presentingly owned either.
• 58:30
  He's just one of those streaky guys that plays in a really good
• 58:32
  lineup. Definitely bench material, but
• 58:36
  if you need that corner position or maybe you have a first
• 58:38
  baseman that's hurt right now, not a bad substitute to have.
• 58:41
  Also a matchups guy, too, playing in that NL Central.
• 58:45
  And then Trevor Story, I mean, this talk about a streaky
• 58:47
  hitter, huh? I feel like it's like one week
• 58:50
  he's crushing it. The other week he's he's back to
• 58:53
  the Trevor story that we know and love by striking out a lot.
• 58:57
  He does strike out still a pretty good amount, but when he
• 59:00
  is hitting the ball, he's hitting home runs, he's hitting
• 59:03
  double s and he hits 5th and 6th in that line up.
• 59:06
  He's going to have RBI opportunities.
• 59:07
  It seems like every time he gets to the plate.
• 59:09
  So, you know, from a fantasy perspective, he's taken
• 59:12
  advantage of it. And, you know, as a Red Sox fan,
• 59:15
  it's nice to see two guys that are on the hot list on this for
• 59:18
  once. I don't think we talked about a
• 59:20
  lot of Red Sox hitters being on this list.
• 59:21
  So refreshing. Yeah, I got to say I got.
• 59:26
  Ahead of the Trevor. Story hot streak I picked him up
• 59:29
  a couple weeks ago and started him last week ended up hitting a
• 59:32
  couple home runs for me it's good to see that yeah I mean I
• 59:36
  still think it's a horrible sign, but it's.
• 59:41
  I guess it's all right to see. You know, it's, I guess it's not
• 59:45
  that bad when you're seeing them at least produced once in a
• 59:47
  while. But as far as now, let's go into
• 59:51
  the pictures and this, some of these are pretty surprising.
• 59:56
  So we had talked about Luis Giolito, Lucas Giolito, excuse
• 1:00:01
  me, Red Sox starting pitcher. He's only 43% owned, right?
• 1:00:05
  What a monster week. Actually, I, I, he's five and
• 1:00:08
  oh, in his last six starts, that and, and those came against, you
• 1:00:11
  know, Tampa Bay, Seattle, a red hot Toronto who was nine and
• 1:00:14
  one. Like he's, he's been on fire
• 1:00:18
  this past week. He was two and oh, he played in
• 1:00:21
  Colorado and then he was home against Toronto.
• 1:00:24
  Two and O 15 innings pitched, 8 strikeouts, four walks, only one
• 1:00:28
  earned. Gave you 44.2 points.
• 1:00:32
  What a like great good, really good for him.
• 1:00:38
  White Sox. Relief pitcher.
• 1:00:39
  Starting pitcher. Adrian Hauser.
• 1:00:43
  You might know him from the Brewers days.
• 1:00:45
  Yeah, I didn't even know he played for the White Sox, if I
• 1:00:48
  had to be honest with you. 22% owed for some that reason.
• 1:00:54
  I don't know that 22% is, but good for them.
• 1:00:58
  He went to an O 1515 innings, 8 strikeouts, four walks, one in
• 1:01:04
  44.2 points and then a couple honorable mentions.
• 1:01:07
  You had Cubs starting pitcher Con, right?
• 1:01:09
  He gave you 43. Brian Wu gave you 37.
• 1:01:13
  That's a no decision that he got yesterday.
• 1:01:16
  Imagine if he got the win and maybe even a no hit.
• 1:01:19
  I mean now you're talking about him giving you like 60 points
• 1:01:22
  and then Zach Wheeler gave you 37.
• 1:01:25
  So not really many surprises. I'd say the the ones that are
• 1:01:29
  honorable mentions aren't surprises, but the ones that
• 1:01:31
  actually made the list are, if that makes sense.
• 1:01:34
  It does make sense and and Lucas Gigolito.
• 1:01:37
  'S really starting to find his groove, right?
• 1:01:38
  He's really starting to hit his drive at the Red Sox.
• 1:01:41
  He's staying healthy. He's consistent.
• 1:01:44
  You know, I watched that game against the Nationals.
• 1:01:45
  I think that was the 4th of July game.
• 1:01:48
  And he looked terrific. You know, he looked awesome in
• 1:01:51
  it. And he just controlled the whole
• 1:01:52
  entire game. I know it's a younger Washington
• 1:01:55
  team, but you still have to do it for six innings.
• 1:01:57
  And and he definitely did. And they're they're professional
• 1:01:59
  hitters, too, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:01
  And yeah, Hauser, yeah, I'm kind of right behind you on that.
• 1:02:04
  Doug didn't know he played the White Sox.
• 1:02:08
  They're just not in my vocabulary this year.
• 1:02:10
  I guess I'm just not not even. It makes it a little easier to
• 1:02:13
  remember everyone else and every other team but the White Sox is
• 1:02:16
  really any. There's no one relevant, so I I
• 1:02:19
  just have honestly no knowledge at all about the White Sox,
• 1:02:23
  which is wild. But let's talk.
• 1:02:27
  About Brandon Roux for a second. Well, Brian Roux, excuse me, not
• 1:02:29
  Brandon. Brian Roux, man, what's that?
• 1:02:33
  Really, really kind of like the unsung hero this year for that
• 1:02:36
  Seattle rotation through and through.
• 1:02:38
  Didn't get her. Made the All Star game, first
• 1:02:41
  All Star game of his career. Like you said, he had those,
• 1:02:44
  those no hit innings yesterday. Could have got the win.
• 1:02:48
  He would have been top, top guy. Probably he would be.
• 1:02:50
  We'll be talking about him more on this feature and then you
• 1:02:54
  have Zach Wheeler. I believe that was the complete
• 1:02:58
  game that he had there. One hitter, right, One hitter I.
• 1:03:03
  Mean the guy's just. OG at this point where I know
• 1:03:06
  he's not old but man he's just the guy.
• 1:03:09
  He is top three pitcher in the league hands down, no questions
• 1:03:13
  asked. He and he might be the best for
• 1:03:15
  all I can say. Didn't he win Cy Young last
• 1:03:18
  year? Yeah, I believe he did.
• 1:03:23
  Yeah, and and you know both those.
• 1:03:24
  Guys, you know, scuba and him right back where they left off
• 1:03:28
  last year. Really nice to see for both of
• 1:03:30
  them. But yeah, and Zach Wheeler
• 1:03:32
  complete game. Like that's just vintage Zach
• 1:03:34
  right there. So awesome to see him on this
• 1:03:36
  list. And then who else did he have
• 1:03:38
  any calling Ray? Wow, what a throwback, huh?
• 1:03:40
  Calling Ray, Remember, I remember when he got called up
• 1:03:43
  back in the day, We, we thought, well, I thought he was going to
• 1:03:45
  be a little something more than what he has been.
• 1:03:47
  But I mean, I, I fall off that trap every year.
• 1:03:52
  Do that all the time. Well, look.
• 1:03:55
  He he finally made well, he made he's.
• 1:03:57
  I will mention, right, he's living up to your expectations
• 1:04:00
  right now, Mike. It only took him about seven
• 1:04:02
  years. I do want to touch base on.
• 1:04:08
  Giulio real quick and I know we, you know, we talk.
• 1:04:11
  I don't want to beat the wars, but I got to tell you, man, if
• 1:04:14
  if they lose this guy and they don't re sign them, they're
• 1:04:18
  they're going to be tough out of luck.
• 1:04:20
  You know, you're losing Walker Buehler, who you know, might not
• 1:04:24
  be the biggest loss ever, you know, but Lucas Giolito, him and
• 1:04:29
  and Crochet right now are kind of carrying that team, you know,
• 1:04:32
  and if you don't have them there, it's it's going to hurt.
• 1:04:36
  You man, it is going to hurt. You, like I said, I'd, I'd love
• 1:04:38
  to get, you know, re sign him and then at the trade deadline,
• 1:04:41
  maybe do something with, with the Diamondbacks, if you can get
• 1:04:45
  one of those guys. You know, I know they're
• 1:04:48
  shopping Merrill Kelly too, but I'm not going to waste up trade
• 1:04:52
  somebody for a 36 year old pitcher.
• 1:04:54
  You know, I mean, Gimme gallon. Still late 20s, early 30s, still
• 1:04:58
  got something in the tank. That's who I probably would
• 1:05:01
  trade for. I don't know man.
• 1:05:04
  I, I it's it's. Weird because at this point in
• 1:05:06
  the trade deadline, you're, it's, it's always tough when
• 1:05:10
  you're in the middle, like you don't know if you're going to
• 1:05:12
  make it. You don't know if you're not.
• 1:05:14
  If you're not, you're trading away.
• 1:05:16
  You're building for next year. If you are, you know, you're
• 1:05:19
  trading away and building for now.
• 1:05:21
  So you're getting veterans, you know, so it's tough.
• 1:05:24
  It's a tough thing to gauge. And I think for them it makes
• 1:05:28
  more sense if you're if you're just on that cusp to trade a
• 1:05:31
  player that is MLB ready that you can play now, you know, that
• 1:05:36
  can go out and help you. And I think a gallon is fits
• 1:05:39
  that bill. You know, he's a guy you can
• 1:05:40
  trade and throw him in your rotation.
• 1:05:42
  I know a lot of times if you're selling, you're you're getting
• 1:05:46
  back prospects, right? That's you're trying to rebuild
• 1:05:50
  your organization. If you're the Red Sox and you're
• 1:05:52
  selling, why not try to sell for MLB talent that's current MLB
• 1:05:57
  talent and you can put them in your lineup this year, maybe
• 1:06:00
  extend them and maybe keep them there for another four or five.
• 1:06:05
  I don't know. I get crazy ideas, supporters.
• 1:06:07
  When I drink bourbon, you know, I don't think it's crazy.
• 1:06:10
  I think that's, I think that's. Some straight talk you just had
• 1:06:12
  there. I think that's you need
• 1:06:15
  stability and the Red Sox, they can have stability with Derrick
• 1:06:19
  Crochet and Lucas Giolito as you'll one too and then you
• 1:06:23
  build from there. I don't think that's crazy.
• 1:06:25
  Now you got something like you said, for the next 4 years, you
• 1:06:28
  got two guys are going to be your veterans moving forward.
• 1:06:31
  Really, you know, they're not old guys, but by the time they
• 1:06:35
  get to the end of their contracts, they're going to have
• 1:06:37
  some wisdom for sure. So I I I don't hate it.
• 1:06:40
  I don't hate it. I think a lot of.
• 1:06:41
  Teams should go that route, Yeah, I mean it'll.
• 1:06:45
  Definitely, definitely. Be interesting to see what
• 1:06:48
  happens and who actually does get traded because I mean, you
• 1:06:51
  see it all the time where you know so and so is going to get
• 1:06:54
  traded. They never do.
• 1:06:55
  So it definitely would be interesting.
• 1:06:57
  All right, so let's go on the flip side of that and let's talk
• 1:07:00
  about some of the cold hitters and pitchers.
• 1:07:03
  And I think this might even be the first time this guy's ever
• 1:07:06
  made this list whatsoever. You know who he is, Freddie.
• 1:07:12
  Freeman, we talked. About him a couple weeks ago as
• 1:07:16
  a bi lo and. Man, he looks lost, He.
• 1:07:23
  Does and I feel bad for him. I think he's still recovering
• 1:07:26
  from that ankle injury. You know, he got into a group,
• 1:07:29
  then he heard it again and then now it's like, I mean, let me
• 1:07:32
  let me go over the numbers and then we can talk about a little
• 1:07:34
  more. Same thing with Jackson Merrill.
• 1:07:37
  So you got Dodgers first base Freddie Freeman, 99.8% owned,
• 1:07:41
  the closest thing to 100 you'll get in an ESPN league.
• 1:07:44
  That and 1:36 on the week, no homers, no ribbies, no runs.
• 1:07:48
  Gave you a stolen base, 11 strikeouts, 11 strikeouts.
• 1:07:51
  For a guy who usually doesn't strike out, he's a contact
• 1:07:54
  hitter -5 points on the week. And then Padres outfielder
• 1:07:58
  Jackson Merrill, 89% owned. He was 98% that.
• 1:08:02
  So that just goes to tell you how much faith owners are losing
• 1:08:05
  .038, no homers, A ribby, two runs, 9 strikeouts, and -2
• 1:08:11
  points. Couple honorable mentions.
• 1:08:13
  Riley Green, who we had always said is an inconsistent guy, he
• 1:08:17
  gave a -2 this week. And Brian Reynolds, who I know
• 1:08:21
  is only 54% owned right now, he was in the 90s.
• 1:08:24
  He gave you -6 and the only reason I didn't put them on the
• 1:08:29
  Who's hot list is because I like to put people that are 70% or
• 1:08:31
  more currently. But I did want to give an
• 1:08:33
  honorable mention to him because he was at one point almost 90%
• 1:08:36
  owned because he did have a hot streak at the beginning of the
• 1:08:38
  year -6 So those are the guys. Yeah, yeah, Freddie Friedman.
• 1:08:45
  Let's talk about him. For a second, right, A lot of
• 1:08:47
  conversation with him about the last couple weeks.
• 1:08:51
  This reminds me a little bit now I don't want to believe it.
• 1:08:55
  That's the first thing I want to say to you, Doug.
• 1:08:57
  I don't want to believe this is happening to Freddie Friedman
• 1:08:59
  because can I can I, can I? I just.
• 1:09:02
  Think I know what you're going to say?
• 1:09:04
  Can I think I, can I say it for a second?
• 1:09:07
  You you say what I'm going to say and I'll.
• 1:09:09
  Go in more detail about what I'm going to say that you're going
• 1:09:12
  to say it right now. You think that he's.
• 1:09:15
  Not he's like on that fall like Goldie was.
• 1:09:20
  Are you going to compare him to Goldschmidt?
• 1:09:22
  I just pulled up both their baseball references.
• 1:09:25
  There's no way. See.
• 1:09:27
  See the the. I love it.
• 1:09:29
  I love it. I already knew.
• 1:09:31
  I already knew you knew. So I'm looking at Paul
• 1:09:33
  Goldschmidt. He's 37 years old right now.
• 1:09:36
  Freddie Friedman is 35, OK. But during his 35 year old
• 1:09:41
  season, that's where we saw that humongous dip when he was with
• 1:09:45
  Saint Louis. And I think the biggest
• 1:09:47
  outlining number, it's not a number I like to use all the
• 1:09:50
  time, but a lot of people love to use it.
• 1:09:52
  It's the war number that really tells you how.
• 1:09:54
  Productive you really. Are in that that team, whether
• 1:09:57
  it's defense, offense all together runs above
• 1:09:59
  replacements, right? He dropped from 7.7 from 2022
• 1:10:05
  down in the 3.3 in 2023. So that was his 34 going to his
• 1:10:12
  35 year, right? And now if I go over to Freddie
• 1:10:16
  Freeman, same kind of thing. You can kind of see it a little
• 1:10:21
  bit already that 34, so 33, he was 6.8 last year he was at 4.7.
• 1:10:28
  This year he's down at 1.8. So that cut and that thing that
• 1:10:34
  it's almost the same pattern as Goldschmidt as you're looking
• 1:10:36
  down bull all these years. And again, I'll start it off
• 1:10:41
  like I said, I don't want to believe it.
• 1:10:42
  I don't think, I still think Freddie has nothing to take.
• 1:10:45
  I think he has a lot to play for.
• 1:10:47
  I think they know they're going to be deep into this run like we
• 1:10:49
  always say almost every week about this Dodger team.
• 1:10:53
  So they can be more capital moving forward with some of
• 1:10:55
  these guys like a Freddie. We talked about it earlier in
• 1:10:58
  the week. He needs to break.
• 1:11:00
  He needs, he needs this week off more than anyone I think in the
• 1:11:03
  league right now because he's not playing to his caliber.
• 1:11:07
  He knows he needs to be better, especially going into the
• 1:11:10
  playoff run 100. Percent agree If there was, If
• 1:11:14
  there's. A player that needs this break
• 1:11:17
  he's he's top of the list. He's he is better than this.
• 1:11:21
  I can't remember the last time he struck out 11 times in a
• 1:11:23
  week. I really can't you know the
• 1:11:26
  beginning of the year he was on fire, right?
• 1:11:29
  He just he got his surgery went. Well, in the offseason.
• 1:11:33
  He came back, he was saying like 360 like he was a a top two
• 1:11:37
  first baseman in fantasy for the first month of the year.
• 1:11:40
  Guy slips in the shower re aggravates the injury.
• 1:11:44
  And then the last probably month, I would say at least four
• 1:11:47
  or five weeks. He's just a shell.
• 1:11:51
  I don't know what it is. I don't know what they're doing.
• 1:11:54
  I think that that lineup was just so talented.
• 1:11:56
  That play was really, it surprises me.
• 1:11:58
  I play a struggle in it, you know what I mean?
• 1:11:59
  Because you got you're surrounded by Otani, you're
• 1:12:01
  surrounded by monkey bats. Like these guys are studs.
• 1:12:05
  And you always talk about protection in a lineup.
• 1:12:08
  Like these guys are so good. They all protect each other, you
• 1:12:11
  know? So when you have a Freddy
• 1:12:13
  Freeman that gives you 11 strikeouts, something's wrong.
• 1:12:17
  You got to say something's wrong.
• 1:12:18
  So I totally agree. This guy needs to break more
• 1:12:21
  than anybody. Yeah.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah. So hopefully.
• 1:12:25
  He makes it because, you know, we obviously made a trade about
• 1:12:29
  a week ago and we, you know, we don't want to, we don't want to
• 1:12:33
  root against each other. You know, we want to be both
• 1:12:35
  successful. But yeah, that that I don't
• 1:12:38
  know. But I don't know what's going to
• 1:12:39
  happen with Fred. But we're going to root for him,
• 1:12:40
  though. But you and I both.
• 1:12:41
  I think I screwed myself in that trade, but.
• 1:12:44
  You know, it's, it's so it's tough because.
• 1:12:47
  This is the best, the lowest you're ever going to get a guy
• 1:12:49
  like Freddie Freeman if he does come back.
• 1:12:51
  But you, we got to see it. We got to see it from him first.
• 1:12:55
  But anyway, look at the numbers. Like everything points to either
• 1:12:59
  an IL stint or he needs time off.
• 1:13:02
  That's what it points to. Hopefully, like you said, this
• 1:13:04
  time off is what he needs. But if it's not and you're
• 1:13:08
  trading for him, and yeah, you're right, you're absolutely
• 1:13:10
  right. This is the lowest you'll ever
• 1:13:12
  get of Freddie Freeman, without a doubt.
• 1:13:14
  Absolutely. If he hits an.
• 1:13:16
  IL stint. And then, you know, who knows
• 1:13:19
  what's going to happen? I, I know he's, he's a, he's a
• 1:13:22
  player. He's a baseball player.
• 1:13:23
  He wants to go out there every day.
• 1:13:24
  He's a competitor like you always say, right?
• 1:13:26
  He is a Mr. Baseball like Tom Selleck throwback, right?
• 1:13:30
  He but he needs he needs to relax, man.
• 1:13:34
  He's always 35 years old, like you know.
• 1:13:36
  If you need the time off, tell Dave Roberts.
• 1:13:40
  And take the time off. No need to go out there and
• 1:13:42
  prove yourself anymore. I mean, you're a cusp Hall of
• 1:13:45
  Famer, you've got 2 World Series rings, you won with the Braves
• 1:13:49
  and then you came to the Dodgers.
• 1:13:51
  You know, there's, there's no need to push yourself like
• 1:13:53
  relax, take care of yourself first.
• 1:13:56
  Hopefully comes out of the break and he's good to go.
• 1:13:59
  Hopefully I I. Agree.
• 1:14:01
  I agree. And then you got you got Jacks
• 1:14:04
  Romero right next to him here, man, that is a that is a piss
• 1:14:07
  poor average. I see there point L3A man,
• 1:14:11
  that's not good. That tells me that you struck
• 1:14:13
  out. You didn't probably walk at all
• 1:14:15
  and you know, you maybe got one hit turned on weak.
• 1:14:18
  It's that's that's bad. But yeah, Jacks Romero, he's a
• 1:14:22
  young guy. He'll bounce back.
• 1:14:23
  He's he's too good not to bad. Bad slump, bad week, really bad
• 1:14:28
  week. But again, Stubbs got a bench
• 1:14:31
  guy that you drafted probably in the 5th, 6th round, if not
• 1:14:34
  earlier than that. And you know what his capability
• 1:14:37
  is? He's great with the glove.
• 1:14:38
  So he's going to stay in that line up obviously.
• 1:14:41
  So hopefully he bounces back sooner than later.
• 1:14:44
  Again, another guy that probably wants a break too coming.
• 1:14:47
  I think all these guys need breaks for sure.
• 1:14:49
  But obviously when you're slumping like they have been,
• 1:14:53
  it's it's a little bit more needed.
• 1:14:56
  And then you got Brian. Reynolds on here.
• 1:14:58
  Man, talk about a bust this year.
• 1:15:01
  That's a guy that's supposed to be Mr. Consistent year in, year
• 1:15:04
  out. He's going to get you like 280,
• 1:15:06
  the 300 batting average, taking 20 plus homers, 80 to 90 RBIs.
• 1:15:11
  Like he's been really consistent.
• 1:15:12
  So there's no reason not to draft and probably where you
• 1:15:15
  drafted him and all of a sudden this year he's just been, he's
• 1:15:18
  been a dog this year. Unfortunately.
• 1:15:20
  He had a little bit of rain and sunshine, you know, maybe a few
• 1:15:24
  weeks ago. But then all of a sudden I feel
• 1:15:26
  like this past week just went totally S on him.
• 1:15:30
  All that progress that I feel like he made just lost
• 1:15:32
  immediately. So a lot of people are dropping
• 1:15:36
  him. Not going to lie.
• 1:15:37
  There's a lot of better options out there than Brian Reynolds,
• 1:15:40
  unfortunately at this point. I mean, if he starts heating up
• 1:15:43
  again, you can pick him up, but he is actually not rosterable at
• 1:15:46
  this point, I don't believe. And then who was the last guy?
• 1:15:50
  You. Had on here, Doug.
• 1:15:51
  You had Riley Green. OH, Riley Green.
• 1:15:54
  Yeah, another. Streaky guy, man.
• 1:15:55
  Streaky is defeating, huh? This guy again, 20 fives the
• 1:15:59
  thirty home runs. Young guy, 24 years old still.
• 1:16:03
  People thought he was going to be a big breakout this year.
• 1:16:05
  They thought he was going to take a big step forward.
• 1:16:06
  He's been pretty consistent to what he was last year, but he
• 1:16:10
  does go through these really big slumps like he did last week.
• 1:16:13
  So not too worried about him. He's still a number, you know,
• 1:16:16
  wide. Oh, I'm just called wide
• 1:16:17
  receiver, not football season yet.
• 1:16:20
  He, he's like a #2. You know.
• 1:16:22
  Low end #2 High end 3 outfielder, especially in 10 to
• 1:16:27
  12 team leagues. Again, probably not going to go
• 1:16:30
  about your lineup unless you just have a really deep
• 1:16:33
  outfield. In that case, maybe you bench
• 1:16:36
  him for a week and still he starts hitting.
• 1:16:38
  But yeah, yeah, he'll he'll be fine I think as well.
• 1:16:41
  I'm not too worried about about those guys, really.
• 1:16:45
  Yeah, I will say before I start. Talking about pitchers.
• 1:16:48
  Jose Ramirez had another home run today.
• 1:16:50
  Two run shot. Wow.
• 1:16:52
  Stephen Kwan was. On base.
• 1:16:54
  So whoa, it's good for the Bourbon League.
• 1:16:56
  Let's. Go.
• 1:16:57
  It's a duo right there. A Moto.
• 1:17:02
  Behind yeah, so we'll let's just dive into the.
• 1:17:04
  Pitchers. Then you got Dodgers starting
• 1:17:06
  pitcher Yamamamoto, 99.2% owned. He went on one, didn't even
• 1:17:12
  pitch an inning .22 thirds of an inning, no strikeouts, 2 walk,
• 1:17:16
  three-year -7.68 points. That was in Milwaukee.
• 1:17:22
  And I do I, I want to, I'll touch base on him in a second.
• 1:17:25
  Let me just go over the rest of this Yankees starting pitcher
• 1:17:28
  Carlos Rendon, 96.4% on. He's actually pitched a really
• 1:17:31
  good today against the Cubs, but he did not pitch great against
• 1:17:34
  the Mets in New York in the it's not Shea Stadium.
• 1:17:40
  What's it called? Citi Field.
• 1:17:42
  Yeah. O and 15 innings, 4 strikeouts,
• 1:17:45
  three walks, 6 earned -4.6 points.
• 1:17:49
  And then you had a couple honorable mentions with Tanner
• 1:17:52
  BB giving you only a point. Logan Gilbert.
• 1:17:55
  Give me a -2 And just to talk about Yamamoto real quick now
• 1:18:02
  this is a guy that was a top ten pitcher, started showing he's
• 1:18:06
  he's now you're starting to see those chinks in that armor,
• 1:18:09
  right? He got 4 earned and a loss
• 1:18:10
  versus the Yankees, 5 earned and a loss versus AD backs, 5 earned
• 1:18:14
  and a loss versus the Giants, 3 earned and a loss versus the
• 1:18:18
  Padres. All those thoughts were at home
• 1:18:21
  except for this this Milwaukee one, which is kind of blows my
• 1:18:24
  mind. You lose all those games at home
• 1:18:27
  and it just it's weird. I'm going to talk about him a
• 1:18:31
  little more later on in the show, but I mean when you when
• 1:18:36
  you go over his overall numbers compared to last year and I will
• 1:18:40
  go over them later. It is just it's it's he might be
• 1:18:43
  hitting that wall, man. And you like you said, you know
• 1:18:46
  a time off. He needs it too, I think for
• 1:18:49
  sure. Yeah, he, I mean he's.
• 1:18:51
  Got the stuff we watched. Him before, he's got some gnat
• 1:18:54
  stuff. So I don't know, maybe this week
• 1:18:57
  was just a fluke. Just got hit around.
• 1:18:58
  He had a lot of pitches. Dave Roberts just said let's
• 1:19:01
  just RIP the Band-Aid off. Let's just give you the night
• 1:19:03
  off and we'll just move forward from here and it happens, you
• 1:19:07
  know, it wasn't like it was a total disaster.
• 1:19:09
  It wasn't like it was a big blow up of like 8-9, ten runs that he
• 1:19:12
  gave up. It was 3 earned runs.
• 1:19:14
  It's not too bad, but he didn't strike out anyone.
• 1:19:17
  So that tells me he's probably leaving it over the plate a
• 1:19:19
  little bit more than he usually does.
• 1:19:21
  Not hitting the spots. So kind of a fluke.
• 1:19:24
  I'm not too worried about it. From fantasy perspective, he
• 1:19:27
  hasn't been pitching as good as he was when he first started the
• 1:19:30
  season in April, but he's still a quality pitcher.
• 1:19:34
  Top 15 pitcher to say the least. Hey Carlos Rendone, this is what
• 1:19:41
  you get sometimes. With Carlos.
• 1:19:43
  Just kind of a blow up sometimes and and usually like we talked
• 1:19:46
  about with him before, it's just one or two innings that he just
• 1:19:49
  gets dinged up on. And that was the same case with
• 1:19:51
  this one here with the Mets. He just kind of gave up too many
• 1:19:54
  long balls, walked one too many guys and and really just left
• 1:19:58
  guys on base when he gave up those home runs.
• 1:20:00
  So hopefully he will bounce back.
• 1:20:02
  Like you said, Doug, he's pitching well tonight.
• 1:20:04
  So sounds like he is bouncing back.
• 1:20:06
  Well, not too worried about it because he plays for a
• 1:20:08
  competitive team at this point. We can really assess and say,
• 1:20:12
  hey, you know, these guys are flukes.
• 1:20:13
  These guys are not flukes. I think in my opinion, Carlos
• 1:20:16
  Rendon, he's legit this year. He he is going to be.
• 1:20:21
  You know, he's I think he put the worst behind them after last
• 1:20:24
  year and obviously his injury year as well.
• 1:20:28
  So it's it's so encouraging like yesterday, he's bouncing back
• 1:20:32
  today and then you had not list you had Charles Logan Gilbert
• 1:20:39
  meant going into the. Season we thought the.
• 1:20:41
  Seattle team was going to have way more starting pitchers that
• 1:20:43
  are going to be much better than what they have been so far.
• 1:20:46
  Kind of been a little bit of a disappointment with Logan
• 1:20:48
  Gilbert in my opinion. He was drafted pretty high in
• 1:20:50
  drafts. He was especially when Kirby
• 1:20:53
  went down, people kind of jumped on that bandwagon.
• 1:20:56
  So yeah, a little bit of disappointment so far with Logan
• 1:20:59
  Gilbert to this point. I think going into the All Star
• 1:21:01
  break, fan of BB. I mean, it is what it is.
• 1:21:06
  You know he plays for. A a a a central team that's kind
• 1:21:09
  of mediocre and he's he's got his games.
• 1:21:12
  You know, he's a match ups guy that's call for what it is.
• 1:21:16
  He had a great game against the A's, you know, two weeks ago
• 1:21:19
  that I was watching. So that's just what he is.
• 1:21:22
  He's just a matchups guy in my opinion.
• 1:21:24
  He's definitely got the stuff to be rosterable, but I'm not
• 1:21:27
  banking on him every single week though, So I'm not surprised to
• 1:21:30
  see him be on this list. And, and fantasy pitchers, it
• 1:21:34
  only takes like you could pitch 5 innings, give up 3 earned
• 1:21:39
  runs, get the loss and you're stuck with like 2 points, three
• 1:21:44
  points, 4 points. So even though sometimes like
• 1:21:47
  the points might not be there, doesn't necessarily mean it was
• 1:21:49
  a terrible start at times. But you know, I guess, I guess
• 1:21:55
  points matter in fantasy. So I guess that's all it really
• 1:21:57
  matters. Well, I think it's more of like
• 1:22:01
  consistency. Right.
• 1:22:02
  I mean, that's why it's so important to go out.
• 1:22:04
  And you know, if you're, if your league is tailored to pitching,
• 1:22:10
  right, you know, if you're like, I think ours is, in my opinion,
• 1:22:13
  you know, if you're getting 5 for a quality start, 10 for a
• 1:22:15
  win, that's that's 15 points plus the strikeouts in the
• 1:22:19
  innings. I mean, if you're, if you go out
• 1:22:21
  and you get a win for that week, you're getting 25 plus points,
• 1:22:24
  right? I mean, how often do you see
• 1:22:27
  hitters get 25 plus points? I mean, they do, I'm not saying
• 1:22:30
  they don't, but 25 plus points in a week is pretty good.
• 1:22:34
  And if you're a two star pitcher that week and you do get like
• 1:22:36
  40, you know, like Luis Lucas Giolito, that's why I think it's
• 1:22:41
  so important that if your league is tailored, you, you do want to
• 1:22:44
  get at least one consistent ace. You know, I don't I'm not the
• 1:22:47
  type of person that would waste the first round pick on a a
• 1:22:50
  school bull. You know, I I do understand why
• 1:22:53
  he's there. Like I get it why you would want
• 1:22:55
  that, but I would rather get a hitter and then try to get
• 1:23:00
  consistent pitching in the second or third.
• 1:23:03
  That's been my strategy always, you know that.
• 1:23:07
  But I, you know, I get why people do it for sure.
• 1:23:10
  But on the flip side of that, there have been times when
• 1:23:13
  people have wasted first round picks on pitchers like Zach
• 1:23:15
  Gallon two years ago, right coming off that great year and
• 1:23:19
  then you just shit the bed. Now you wasted a pic on a
• 1:23:21
  pitcher. Like pitching is so tough to
• 1:23:23
  gauge from year in and year out, whereas hitting, you kind of
• 1:23:27
  know who's going to be your your top ten and who's not.
• 1:23:33
  That's all. Yeah.
• 1:23:34
  It's when you look at the end of the year.
• 1:23:36
  And you look at the points, the way it's structured is your top
• 1:23:39
  bats, your Tonys, your Judges, your Sotos, your Jose Ramirez,
• 1:23:44
  they're going to be at the top. And then you have this another
• 1:23:47
  tier that's under them. And it's your top pitchers.
• 1:23:50
  And, and there's more top pitchers than there are top
• 1:23:53
  hitters, but they're not scoring as much as those top hitters.
• 1:23:57
  And then you got the rest of the field under them.
• 1:23:59
  So I'd say there's maybe about maybe 5 or 6 top hitters.
• 1:24:02
  I thought Bobby went in there as well.
• 1:24:04
  He scores a lot of points, doesn't strike out a lot, steal
• 1:24:06
  spaces, right. And then you got your pitchers
• 1:24:09
  and I think there's just about maybe six or seven guys this
• 1:24:12
  year especially that just score you a ton of points pitching.
• 1:24:16
  And then you got you like your, your middle of the road pitchers
• 1:24:19
  and your hitters that go from there.
• 1:24:22
  But I think you're right. I think the strategy always
• 1:24:24
  should be a bat in the first round.
• 1:24:26
  I mean, if you're at the end of the first rounds and there's a
• 1:24:29
  school bull there, I'm not totally opposed because it's
• 1:24:32
  going to be snaked back to you. So you know, maybe the values
• 1:24:35
  there right there. But really, if you got a top
• 1:24:38
  five pick, top six pick, it's a it's a bat all day.
• 1:24:42
  It's it's one of those top guys. So yeah, always remember that.
• 1:24:48
  Always, always remember that. Don't mess up all right?
• 1:24:52
  So now. We're just, we're going into the
• 1:24:54
  end here, right. We got a little over 1/2 hour.
• 1:24:56
  So let's just start talking about some sell all. you.
• 1:25:08
  And you have both owned. Let me just pull.
• 1:25:12
  Up his little pic, right? Here.
• 1:25:16
  There he is. He is.
• 1:25:18
  My first sell high candidate, this is Atlanta's third baseman,
• 1:25:23
  Austin Riley. He's 92.4% owned.
• 1:25:26
  Listen, great week, not taking anything away from it.
• 1:25:30
  Three O 8, two home runs, five ribbies, still 6 strikeouts.
• 1:25:34
  You know, 22 points, 3.7 a day a start.
• 1:25:38
  He plays now my issue with him. So if you drafted him and
• 1:25:44
  realized that he's not the play you thought, but you held on
• 1:25:47
  hoping that he would flash signs of life, well, here they are.
• 1:25:51
  I think this last week and maybe even actually today, he had a
• 1:25:55
  hit in a ribby. You know he's flashing, right?
• 1:26:00
  But if you want to move on, now's the time I think, to move
• 1:26:03
  on from him. I mean, he's an extremely
• 1:26:05
  streaky hitter. If he's not making contact,
• 1:26:08
  he'll kill you with strikeouts. He has 113 strikeouts on the
• 1:26:12
  year, 113 strikeouts. Dude, this guy's on pace of
• 1:26:17
  Shatter 200. OK, he's got name recognition.
• 1:26:21
  There's no doubt about that, right?
• 1:26:23
  Austin Riley, Austin Riley. And I think the streak in the
• 1:26:29
  name recognition could probably get you a decent starting
• 1:26:32
  pitcher in return. You know, if you if you want to
• 1:26:34
  ride the hot streak, do it. But just again, once it's over,
• 1:26:38
  just just remember, I mean, you know, your season could be over.
• 1:26:43
  So, you know, take it with stride.
• 1:26:46
  I think the whole point of the sell high segments are to look
• 1:26:50
  at players that are performing really good for the week that
• 1:26:53
  you might be able to get some value on that week that they're
• 1:26:55
  performing. So I think Austin Riley's a good
• 1:26:58
  one. I mean to when I had to honest
• 1:27:00
  with you, I did not know he had 113 strikeouts until I looked up
• 1:27:03
  his stats. That is wild.
• 1:27:06
  That is a lot of freaking strikeouts, man.
• 1:27:09
  Hey, on the road to 200. Jesus not.
• 1:27:13
  Just not 200. Hits.
• 1:27:14
  We're talking 200. Strikeouts.
• 1:27:17
  Yeah, I mean he. Crushed.
• 1:27:19
  It this week and but you got to keep in mind though, he also
• 1:27:22
  played with the A's this week as well in that ballpark and
• 1:27:25
  everyone crushed it. I feel like in that series, both
• 1:27:28
  athletics and brave players. So awesome name to have on here.
• 1:27:33
  I was texting you earlier this week.
• 1:27:35
  I'm like, man, is Austin Reilly back question mark that that
• 1:27:38
  double and then he hits a home run and I'm like, man, who is
• 1:27:40
  this guy? It's just the same guy that we
• 1:27:42
  we bash on and yeah. It is.
• 1:27:46
  It's the same guy. And perfect guy to have on this
• 1:27:49
  list. This is the ideal candidate of
• 1:27:52
  finally doing something for your team, being productive.
• 1:27:55
  And I'm sure if you've had him since the day one, you're
• 1:27:58
  probably sick of them because of all the strikeouts and not
• 1:28:01
  getting you maximizing points and and etcetera.
• 1:28:04
  So if you have another option and you want to move them, this
• 1:28:07
  is the time to move 100%. You're not going to get a better
• 1:28:10
  time, I don't think, than right now to move in Austin Riley.
• 1:28:14
  It's too bad too for Austin from a player perspective because
• 1:28:18
  yeah, he is bringing a really good bat right now.
• 1:28:20
  But now you got the All Star break coming up and he's not
• 1:28:22
  playing in the All Star game, that's for sure.
• 1:28:24
  And so he's going to have a full week off and all that momentum
• 1:28:27
  that he's had. He's going to have to recapture
• 1:28:29
  that early on in that second-half.
• 1:28:30
  And it's according to his track record.
• 1:28:33
  I'm not going to see, I'm not going to think that's going to
• 1:28:36
  probably happen right away if he does come back the way he's been
• 1:28:39
  hit in this past week. So, so high.
• 1:28:42
  This is a sell. This is a easy sell.
• 1:28:43
  No hold, make a move. Yeah.
• 1:28:47
  I do, I say. I know.
• 1:28:48
  We were talking about the Yankees earlier.
• 1:28:49
  Cody Ballinger just hit his third home run tonight.
• 1:28:53
  Yeah, he has three, two run. Shots.
• 1:28:56
  Wow, I. May be making a comeback here,
• 1:28:58
  Doug. In this Bourbon League, this is
• 1:29:00
  getting a little interesting. Oh, that's right, you have
• 1:29:03
  Ballinger. I got Balanzer Quan.
• 1:29:06
  Ramirez I had. Wu So that would have been huge
• 1:29:08
  if he got the win, but obviously that didn't happen.
• 1:29:11
  But no, I mean he got the quality.
• 1:29:13
  Start which was. Nice.
• 1:29:14
  But you really want that win? Yeah, but yeah.
• 1:29:19
  Wow, bowling he. Won't get a chance.
• 1:29:23
  For a four, another at bat for a chance.
• 1:29:26
  For four because it's the bottom of the eighth, but 232 grand
• 1:29:30
  shots take it. It's over 2024 points.
• 1:29:37
  All right, so let's keep the third.
• 1:29:41
  Base trend going. I love the pick.
• 1:29:44
  Love the guy. There he.
• 1:29:47
  Is look at that. Gotta love it so Astros. 3rd.
• 1:29:54
  Baseman Isaac Perez Perez Perez Perez Yes 88.9%.
• 1:30:03
  Own. I mean his.
• 1:30:05
  Numbers for the week Pretty. And all right, I mean hit 250,
• 1:30:08
  but gave you 2 homers, 2 ribbies, five runs, no stolen
• 1:30:11
  bases, only four strikeouts, 20 points, 3.3 a start.
• 1:30:16
  Now listen, I have him as a sell high.
• 1:30:18
  I own him. He was, you'll you'll understand
• 1:30:23
  my sell high. Let me explain this right.
• 1:30:25
  So in our league, he was rightfully dropped, right?
• 1:30:30
  And I think if he's that, well, he had a really rough first
• 1:30:33
  month, right? He was horrible.
• 1:30:36
  Numbers weren't good at all. A lot of strikeouts just didn't
• 1:30:39
  turn it around. He was just horrible.
• 1:30:41
  Yeah. There's just no turning the
• 1:30:43
  corner on that. But you pick him up, you stash
• 1:30:45
  him, right? And if you did that, Congrats.
• 1:30:48
  He's averaging 2.6 points to start right now.
• 1:30:51
  He's ranked seventh among third baseman, 7th.
• 1:30:53
  This was the guy that was probably ranked like 18th or
• 1:30:56
  20th in 3rd baseman. That just goes to show you the
• 1:30:59
  monster two months he's had, right?
• 1:31:01
  You want to keep him totally get it.
• 1:31:03
  You know that if you have a first third slot and you, you
• 1:31:06
  know, looking to throw a good hitter in there, this is it
• 1:31:10
  right? But if you did pick him up
• 1:31:12
  because he was dropped, then chances are you already have a
• 1:31:15
  good starting third baseman or hopefully you do, who knows?
• 1:31:19
  So why not trade him? You know, I think he could
• 1:31:22
  probably get you a really good return, especially if you did
• 1:31:25
  pick him up. I mean, the homers are there
• 1:31:28
  now. He's turning the page.
• 1:31:30
  He's batting lead off. He singled in his first at bat
• 1:31:34
  today and then came around and scored.
• 1:31:36
  He's cutting down on strikeouts. You want to keep him, Keep him.
• 1:31:39
  I think I'm going to keep him even though I did pick him up.
• 1:31:42
  But I did get office for him. I forget who it was.
• 1:31:44
  Somebody offered to be a pretty decent pitcher for him and I
• 1:31:47
  turned him down South. Do what you want, but if there
• 1:31:51
  is a sell high, I think now would be a great time.
• 1:31:53
  Why not address, you know, before the trade deadlines, a
• 1:31:57
  hole you might have in your lineup for a guy that you picked
• 1:32:00
  up pretty late if somebody did drop them?
• 1:32:04
  Yeah, I I agree with that. I think that's a fair.
• 1:32:06
  Assessment, like you said, you probably got picked off a free
• 1:32:08
  agency. Whatever you get in return for
• 1:32:12
  him is probably going to be a guy that was drafted, probably
• 1:32:14
  has some value to him. Paradis does have value to him
• 1:32:17
  still, like you said, if you kept them and didn't trade him,
• 1:32:20
  I don't think it's a horrible thing in the world and I don't
• 1:32:24
  know. What his contract?
• 1:32:25
  Situation is or anything but the way Cam Smith's been coming
• 1:32:28
  around lately, really starting to to find his own way.
• 1:32:32
  You know he plays third base too.
• 1:32:34
  This could be a guy that could be potentially moved for another
• 1:32:36
  team, potentially during the trade deadline, needs a corner
• 1:32:40
  infielder or something like that.
• 1:32:41
  So who knows what's going to happen with Paradis, but I know
• 1:32:44
  from a fantasy perspective, I probably want him on my team.
• 1:32:47
  This is a guy that is playing for a #1 AL West team and that
• 1:32:54
  whole team right now is A. Wagon.
• 1:32:56
  So he's going to get opportunities to sell high if
• 1:32:59
  you really need a position, but I feel like him specifically
• 1:33:03
  because does. He play multiple.
• 1:33:04
  Positions in our league Doug or is he just play third base 3rd
• 1:33:08
  and DH 3rd and. DH So yeah, he.
• 1:33:11
  Can't maximize all the value, but he's still a solid player.
• 1:33:14
  So again, I don't think there's a bad answer here.
• 1:33:16
  If you want to sell them for something that you need, that's
• 1:33:18
  cool, but if you say hey, that's my dude, I'm cool with that too.
• 1:33:23
  Yeah, I think I'm. I think I'm holding.
• 1:33:26
  Unless like something crazy happens.
• 1:33:27
  I mean, I like, but I like my team as it is.
• 1:33:31
  But yeah, I think I definitely think I'm holding for now.
• 1:33:34
  Like like you said though, you can go either way really,
• 1:33:38
  especially when you pick him up. I think he nailed it.
• 1:33:40
  I love when you said you're you'll trade him for somebody
• 1:33:44
  that was probably drafted for somebody you picked up.
• 1:33:48
  It's perfect. It's enough right there.
• 1:33:52
  And then last but not. Least on our sell high.
• 1:33:54
  We did talk about him on our Who's Hot segment.
• 1:33:57
  Look at that. What a pick, all right.
• 1:34:01
  The red. Sox Sonic pitcher Lucas Chill.
• 1:34:03
  You know, he's only 43% owned. We went over his numbers on the
• 1:34:08
  week, right? Two and O, 48 points in both his
• 1:34:11
  starts, 13 2/3 innings, 13 strikeouts.
• 1:34:14
  Again, this was probably another guy that was dropped in your
• 1:34:17
  league just because owners lost faith, and rightfully so, right?
• 1:34:20
  I mean, another guy that started the year really bad, really bad.
• 1:34:26
  I mean, I traded him to Jimmy and Jimmy just dropped him
• 1:34:29
  because he had like 3 starts and I think one of them ended up
• 1:34:32
  getting like -11 points just because he got rocked.
• 1:34:37
  But so if you did pick him up, you reap it the benefits.
• 1:34:40
  I mean, he looks great hitting 9495 consistently.
• 1:34:44
  You know, I do think he might hit a wall later in the year
• 1:34:47
  just because, you know, listen, he didn't play last year.
• 1:34:50
  You know, this is his first full year back.
• 1:34:52
  But in any case, you pick him up, right?
• 1:34:54
  He looks great now. You could probably move him for
• 1:34:57
  a Rasta piece you might need. He should, I think he should
• 1:35:00
  fetch you something good. I think he's he's on a roll.
• 1:35:03
  The only thing is if you're buying him, you know, I, I, I
• 1:35:06
  might be a little weary, you know, I, I might be a little
• 1:35:09
  weary that it might hit the wall.
• 1:35:11
  So what I would give up for him? I'm not entirely sure.
• 1:35:14
  You know, just there's a lot of weariness, a lot of weariness
• 1:35:20
  with, with Lucas Giolito, but he's still a solid arm.
• 1:35:24
  Like he's, he's a competitor. He goes out there and throws
• 1:35:26
  pretty good. Like I said, I think what is he?
• 1:35:28
  One is he's five and one his last six starts.
• 1:35:31
  Like go out there and play him. Man, if you have them.
• 1:35:35
  You, you can't, you can ride a streak and that's fine.
• 1:35:37
  But I, I do think he will fall on his face at some point.
• 1:35:41
  I mean, history has told me with Chicago that that's what
• 1:35:43
  happens, that sometimes the long.
• 1:35:46
  Ball comes into play with him. He used to give up the total
• 1:35:49
  home runs. I think he led the League One
• 1:35:52
  year when he was with Cleveland or when he moved to Cleveland.
• 1:35:56
  And then also, like you said, the.
• 1:35:57
  Injuries and stuff, so there. Is a little bit of a resume
• 1:35:59
  there on on a negative front and but you know he has you've seen
• 1:36:04
  the stuff the last five starts here.
• 1:36:06
  He's looks great and if you are by I would be wary too, but I
• 1:36:10
  would also probably trade a guy that would you know a wary guy
• 1:36:13
  for a wary guy. You know I would maybe pick like
• 1:36:16
  a Mike Trout. You know who who strikes out a
• 1:36:18
  ton all of a sudden this year does have some pop at his bat
• 1:36:23
  still still hits home runs, had a couple the other night.
• 1:36:26
  And you know, he's not going to get you the maximize points.
• 1:36:29
  And with G Alito, I think it's a little bit more of a risk
• 1:36:32
  sometimes, you know, because right now this is the peak,
• 1:36:35
  especially the way he's been going.
• 1:36:37
  If you believe he's going to be doing the same thing, you know,
• 1:36:40
  the next five weeks after this, then go after him.
• 1:36:43
  That's that's that's the move. And then if you're a believer,
• 1:36:47
  you just keep him. So it's G Alito's an interesting
• 1:36:51
  case because like you said, I I'm not that's not a guy I'd be
• 1:36:55
  going out to to wanting to buy and I'm not going to give that
• 1:36:59
  person a lot. Maybe an underperforming guy I.
• 1:37:05
  I. Bought Lawrence Butler.
• 1:37:07
  And he hasn't been that great since I've gotten him.
• 1:37:10
  He hasn't really found his groove yet.
• 1:37:12
  He's got potential. I think he gets you maybe 2.4
• 1:37:15
  points, 2.5 per game, which is all right.
• 1:37:19
  It's it's rosterable. So if you need something like
• 1:37:22
  that. But yeah, it's kind of an
• 1:37:25
  interesting case with Lucas G Alito.
• 1:37:27
  It's it's one of those guys, maybe since you picked them up,
• 1:37:29
  you just ride them out. And then when he when he falls
• 1:37:32
  off the. Wagon you.
• 1:37:33
  You let go. Makes it a little bit easier
• 1:37:36
  when he's a free age of pickup, yeah.
• 1:37:40
  And I think that's the thing that'll.
• 1:37:41
  Win your league, right, Is you strike gold with these, these
• 1:37:43
  pickups and you just ride them like a Giolito, like a Perez if
• 1:37:47
  he was dropped in your league. Like you pick them up and you
• 1:37:50
  ride them. And most of the time, that's
• 1:37:52
  what's going to win you a championship, believe it or not.
• 1:37:54
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:37:56
  So on the flip side of that. There's some of the sell highs.
• 1:38:00
  Let's talk about some of the buying lows.
• 1:38:02
  All right now there is a reason I have this.
• 1:38:07
  First guy here. And I I do own him as well.
• 1:38:13
  Not a good week. An all right week.
• 1:38:16
  I do notice a lot of strikeouts with him.
• 1:38:21
  There he is. Whoa, look at that.
• 1:38:25
  I know, some really good pictures this week, huh?
• 1:38:30
  Cubs out of outfielder Ian Hat 82% owned.
• 1:38:33
  Had a a rough week. I mean there's no beating around
• 1:38:37
  the Bush .091 no homers, 2 ribbies, no runs, no stolen
• 1:38:42
  bases, 6 strikeouts gave you 4 points.
• 1:38:44
  So it's at least it's positive. He does have over 90 strikeouts
• 1:38:49
  on the year right? But he does average 2.3 a start.
• 1:38:53
  He can win you weeks when he's really hot.
• 1:38:55
  Let's remember a couple weeks ago you hit two homers in the
• 1:38:58
  game and then a couple games later he had another one.
• 1:39:01
  I think I he was on my bench and Sean and our league had mocked
• 1:39:05
  me for benching and whoa, you know, 17 points on your bench in
• 1:39:08
  two days. But when he's not hot, he
• 1:39:12
  doesn't hurt you. Like you'll see him like, you
• 1:39:15
  know, 091 average still gave you 4 points.
• 1:39:19
  So, you know, he'll probably hit you 25 plus home runs.
• 1:39:23
  He's probably, in my opinion, a great 3 or 4 outfielder.
• 1:39:28
  You know, if you if you have the room for it and you want it, I
• 1:39:31
  think this should be a trade that wouldn't cost you much.
• 1:39:35
  And that's in front of. Kyle Tucker, you know.
• 1:39:39
  He's the table setter for that team.
• 1:39:42
  He's a very streaky guy. You saw at the beginning of the
• 1:39:44
  year, he came out red hot, cooled off, then was hot again.
• 1:39:48
  Now he's cold again. But like I said, I mean, he's a
• 1:39:51
  guy, a bat that can win you a week.
• 1:39:54
  And when he's not going, he won't really necessarily lose
• 1:39:57
  you one. I mean, he's he, he, he's not
• 1:40:01
  going to give you a ton of negative.
• 1:40:02
  Points in a week. Is what is what I'm trying to
• 1:40:04
  say. You know, he's he still might
• 1:40:05
  end up positive or 0, which isn't ideal, but it's better
• 1:40:10
  than Freddie Freeman with -5 last week.
• 1:40:14
  I I agree with everything you just said there.
• 1:40:16
  He's the. Table setter for that team.
• 1:40:18
  He's he's still going to be getting competitive at bats
• 1:40:22
  every single day. It's not like they're really
• 1:40:25
  going to move him probably from that spot either.
• 1:40:27
  He's kind of bad at a staple there for the whole season.
• 1:40:29
  And yeah, I think this is a guy that you could buy low also,
• 1:40:34
  because outfield's so deep, there's so many outfielders that
• 1:40:38
  are kind of in the same range as Ian Hat, where it's like pick
• 1:40:43
  your poison type. You know, you could say Ian Hat,
• 1:40:45
  you can say George Springer, you can say, you know, you used to
• 1:40:49
  be able to say Byron Buxton and that, but now he's a little bit
• 1:40:51
  better than that. But it's just a lot of clumps
• 1:40:54
  right there with these guys. And in Hat, when he's on fire,
• 1:40:58
  he is one of the best hitters in the league.
• 1:41:00
  He can really RIP that ball, really get you a multi home run
• 1:41:03
  games and and again, steal some bases.
• 1:41:07
  The only thing that concerns me a little bit is the stolen the
• 1:41:10
  the strikeouts. That's a little high there for
• 1:41:12
  sure. So there is some risk there on
• 1:41:15
  the buy low. But yeah, you're getting a
• 1:41:19
  concrete guy that can you can start every single week, in my
• 1:41:21
  opinion, probably as your #3 outfielder all day.
• 1:41:25
  So it's it's worth it in some aspects.
• 1:41:29
  So I don't know what I would give up for an E cap on a buy
• 1:41:33
  low like the week he had again because it's just.
• 1:41:39
  So many outfielders. Out there.
• 1:41:41
  So I, I would look at the free agency first.
• 1:41:43
  I usually like to look at like 7 seven day, 1421 day forecast,
• 1:41:48
  see what kind of streak people are going on and before maybe
• 1:41:53
  making a move for an outfielder because it's just again, just
• 1:41:56
  there's so many of them. So I I sometimes rad just go
• 1:41:59
  with the hot hands. So there were some weeks where I
• 1:42:01
  pick up of Brian Reynolds and all of a sudden he falls off.
• 1:42:04
  I dropped him, you know, one week I had William Brayu, you
• 1:42:08
  know, for weeks because he was hitting so much power and then
• 1:42:12
  he falls off and you know, and then he just rotate Joe Adele,
• 1:42:15
  same thing. You know, he's he's falling off
• 1:42:18
  a little bit since he had that hot streak a couple weeks ago.
• 1:42:21
  So there there's just a lot of the same kind of guys.
• 1:42:24
  So I'd probably looking free agency 1st and then I said, OK,
• 1:42:27
  unless I really love Ian Happ, then maybe I'll start making a
• 1:42:30
  move in that direction to to get him.
• 1:42:33
  So excuse. Me.
• 1:42:37
  I ended up trading for him when he was hot, but I gave up Lucas
• 1:42:44
  Giolito in another pitcher. I forget who it was and Jimmy
• 1:42:49
  had dropped Lucas Giolito so I got him back.
• 1:42:51
  So I I don't think I gave up too much at that point.
• 1:42:54
  Right. So it was a 2 for one, and your
• 1:42:57
  favorite it was a 2 for. One and then it ended up being
• 1:43:00
  a. 2 for one for me right? I I mean I like.
• 1:43:04
  Them I I do. I find that whenever I do bench
• 1:43:07
  him, he goes on those tears like it's happened to me twice.
• 1:43:11
  So it's like, all right, let me just start him.
• 1:43:13
  I'm just going to keep him in the lineup.
• 1:43:14
  F it, ride him out. So that's where I'm at with him.
• 1:43:17
  But you know, again, he's probably a guy that'll come out
• 1:43:22
  of the gate swinging after the All Star break.
• 1:43:23
  He probably needs a rest for sure.
• 1:43:26
  Yeah, he had. My joint Springer.
• 1:43:29
  That's that's for me. George Springer will never have
• 1:43:33
  a week like that. Ever.
• 1:43:34
  Again. And that was against.
• 1:43:37
  Me. Stupid.
• 1:43:40
  I lost because of. Him, really.
• 1:43:43
  But whatever. What are you going to do then?
• 1:43:45
  He'll never do it again. All right.
• 1:43:48
  Next. Up and then a little.
• 1:43:49
  Segment into this. So we really never talked second
• 1:43:52
  base. I think in a points league and
• 1:43:54
  even cats, someone like this guy could be pretty helpful to you
• 1:43:59
  and he's only 70% owned plays for the Brewers price to rank.
• 1:44:04
  Little. Surprise, we barely talk second
• 1:44:06
  base. So again, I put him in like the
• 1:44:10
  Ian Hat category. You know, had a rough week.
• 1:44:13
  Only hit 182, no homers, one run, 2 ribbies, only three
• 1:44:17
  strikeouts, no stolen bases. Still gave you 5 points.
• 1:44:20
  So bad week still gives you positive.
• 1:44:23
  Now here's some of his numbers, right?
• 1:44:25
  He already has 82 on the year, 82 strikeouts, which puts him on
• 1:44:28
  pace to shatter his high. Last year he had 105 and 155
• 1:44:32
  games. That's really good.
• 1:44:34
  He's on pace and hit maybe 50 more, have 50 more strikeouts.
• 1:44:38
  But he also has twenty stolen bases on the year and five home
• 1:44:42
  runs. So his home run output puts him
• 1:44:45
  on pace to beat last year, which was his career high.
• 1:44:48
  He hit seven home runs last year.
• 1:44:51
  All of last year he had seven. He's already at 5.
• 1:44:54
  He had almost fifty stolen bases.
• 1:44:57
  He has on pace for almost 50 stolen bases.
• 1:45:00
  So really the strikeouts are what's hurting him this year as
• 1:45:03
  opposed to last year. I think last year he was a top
• 1:45:06
  ten second baseman, but he's ranked 7th right now.
• 1:45:11
  That goes to show you how bad second base is.
• 1:45:14
  He's averaging 2.2 a start. I do think that those numbers
• 1:45:19
  could go up if the Brewers decide to make a little push.
• 1:45:21
  I do see him making a little push, right?
• 1:45:23
  They got Woodruff back. Now they do have, you know,
• 1:45:27
  yellow shed a home run today. They have.
• 1:45:30
  They have. Pieces there to make a.
• 1:45:32
  Push and I think they will. And you know, second base is
• 1:45:36
  just one of those positions that it's just tough to fill, right?
• 1:45:39
  I mean, terrain to me is like A1B to a Luis Araya's 1A, not a
• 1:45:45
  lot of strikeouts, steals more bases, but strikes out more than
• 1:45:51
  than Orias does. So he's he's that second tier
• 1:45:54
  second baseman. I mean, he shouldn't cost you
• 1:45:56
  much. And if you punt it on the on
• 1:45:58
  this position like you're talking about and outfield,
• 1:46:00
  right, you go every week, pick up.
• 1:46:02
  This might be a chance to get a player that's pretty durable,
• 1:46:05
  pretty young, that could have a pretty good second-half, yeah.
• 1:46:10
  There's no, there's no set and forget guys at 2nd.
• 1:46:13
  Base this year really unless you're Kendall Marte, you know,
• 1:46:17
  Simeon now maybe out Tuesday now that he's starting to heat up,
• 1:46:21
  but it's tough to find a guy that you can fill in week in
• 1:46:23
  week out with that if you didn't get one of those guys.
• 1:46:26
  Turin, yeah, I think they're comfortable with him really
• 1:46:29
  taking over. You know, they've they've got
• 1:46:32
  rid of Lily Adamus last year at shortstop and I think they put a
• 1:46:38
  lot of trust in terrain this year to kind of just keep and
• 1:46:41
  maintain his flow of what he done last year.
• 1:46:43
  Like so far he has been and you kind of know what you're getting
• 1:46:46
  with him as well. I think the stolen bases and the
• 1:46:49
  strikeouts kind of wash a little bit more than like an Ian Haft
• 1:46:54
  does, except like you said, Ian Haft does have the power and the
• 1:46:58
  RBI has to back it up a little bit more.
• 1:47:00
  So yeah, I think he's like a little bit of a a downgrade from
• 1:47:03
  a Luis Arias at second base because you're probably going to
• 1:47:06
  get the same amount of production from a point
• 1:47:09
  standpoint. So yeah.
• 1:47:11
  And then this is a guy that you could probably trade one for one
• 1:47:14
  for. You don't have to go crazy and
• 1:47:17
  make a, you know, a multi man trade here for this guy.
• 1:47:19
  I think you can do a solid guy for a solid guy.
• 1:47:25
  I don't know who that guy. Is on top of my head.
• 1:47:28
  But I I don't think you need to the to trade away the the wagon.
• 1:47:32
  I I was going to say maybe Zach Gowens because how poor he has
• 1:47:35
  been, but he's been producing better.
• 1:47:37
  So I don't know if I would be willing to to trade a Zach Gowen
• 1:47:41
  at this point for a terrain. But yeah, what what do you
• 1:47:46
  think, Doug? What, what would be like a, a,
• 1:47:49
  a, a pitcher, a starting pitcher or a maybe an outfielder that
• 1:47:54
  would be like me and Hap. Why not just do an E and?
• 1:47:56
  1/2 of Bryce straight up. A lot of times these guys are.
• 1:47:59
  The sell high guys and the buy low guys, they kind of match,
• 1:48:03
  don't they? Sometimes, yeah, I like that.
• 1:48:06
  But yeah, I'd probably go that route for sure.
• 1:48:09
  Yeah, I mean, I own Arayas. So I don't I.
• 1:48:12
  Don't need second base, but I do.
• 1:48:14
  I mean, the potential's there for him for sure.
• 1:48:16
  For Bryce, I, I think he's good. I like him a lot, to be honest
• 1:48:20
  with you. Yeah, he scores a lot of runs,
• 1:48:22
  if that. Team can hit like it did.
• 1:48:23
  Last year, you're going to look at, you know, you're going to
• 1:48:25
  look at a lot of runs, you know, 8090 runs at least.
• 1:48:30
  So we'll see what they can do. And last but not least, here's
• 1:48:36
  my boy. Love the pick.
• 1:48:41
  We it's funny. The pitchers that were on the
• 1:48:44
  hot list and the cold list are now the pitchers on the sell
• 1:48:46
  high by low. I know, it's like I got lazy.
• 1:48:51
  This morning, Dodger started pitcher Yamamoto.
• 1:48:54
  He's 99.2% owned. We had numbers last earlier
• 1:48:59
  today. We went over that, you know, O
• 1:49:01
  and one 2/3 of an inning, no K2 walk, three are -7 points.
• 1:49:06
  Now, like you had said, you know, he still, he still has
• 1:49:08
  great stuff. We've seen him pitch.
• 1:49:10
  He's just he's inconsistent, right?
• 1:49:13
  I think owners right now are realizing that he's slowly
• 1:49:15
  starting to fall back down to earth after the stellar month he
• 1:49:18
  had to begin the year. So this could be a good time to
• 1:49:21
  buy low. But again, there's always comes
• 1:49:23
  with some kind of beware. And for this, I would say the
• 1:49:26
  rotation's healthy glass now is back.
• 1:49:29
  Snail's a month away. That means you could he could
• 1:49:32
  potentially get skipped. That means you could see a six
• 1:49:36
  man rotation. That means a lot of things could
• 1:49:39
  happen, right? And here's here's a number that
• 1:49:43
  that is wild to me. He started 18 games last year
• 1:49:47
  when he got back from injury with 90 innings pitched.
• 1:49:51
  This year he's at 18 games and 97 innings pitch.
• 1:49:55
  So that's with half the season he's got.
• 1:49:59
  So I think you're going to see those bumps in the road later
• 1:50:04
  on. I think he's still quality
• 1:50:06
  should cost far less than he would have cost you at the
• 1:50:08
  beginning of the season. But he's going to hit the wall.
• 1:50:12
  I think he will. I mean, I think you're seeing
• 1:50:14
  it, to be honest with you. I think you're seeing it.
• 1:50:16
  So, you know, and that's the other thing, man.
• 1:50:20
  Can I just go on a rant real quick?
• 1:50:22
  Do it. Do it when you.
• 1:50:24
  Have pitchers from. Other countries that have this,
• 1:50:29
  this rap, this, this great repertoire of pitches, you know,
• 1:50:34
  we talk about Dice Cave from back in the day.
• 1:50:37
  We can talk about Yamamoto, we can talk about Suzaki, right?
• 1:50:40
  And fantasy. People during.
• 1:50:44
  Drafts never see him pitch. In the in the in.
• 1:50:48
  America don't know what they got going by talent overseas, which
• 1:50:53
  I'm not saying they're not talented.
• 1:50:54
  I'm just, you know, Dougie Matsuki had a great career here.
• 1:50:58
  You know, Ichiro had a Hall of Fame year after having a Hall of
• 1:51:01
  Fame year in Japan yet. Like, I'm not saying that it's
• 1:51:04
  not talented, but I do think the competition is a little a little
• 1:51:09
  bar lower, you know, that's all, you know, So to to waste a top
• 1:51:14
  345 pick on some of these guys blows my mind.
• 1:51:18
  You know, Suzaki was a guy in my opinion, I understand, you know,
• 1:51:23
  he was supposed to be this generational pitcher, this
• 1:51:27
  talent that throws hard, can switch speeds and so young.
• 1:51:32
  And he's played for a Dodger team.
• 1:51:33
  That should get you, you know, at least 11:50 wins.
• 1:51:38
  Excuse me, but to waste a. You know, a top. 6-7 pick on
• 1:51:44
  him. It, it kind of just blows my
• 1:51:46
  mind. You wonder like people should
• 1:51:49
  learn, like, you know, I mean, Yamamoto last year, I mean, his
• 1:51:54
  first start, he got rocked last year.
• 1:51:56
  You remember that he gave up like six runs in overseas.
• 1:52:00
  It's like, you know, listen, I'm not saying they're not good.
• 1:52:03
  They don't have good stuff. It's like the transition is is
• 1:52:06
  tough for some of them and you know, I just I wouldn't waste
• 1:52:11
  early picks on some of these guys, you know, so to get back
• 1:52:15
  to this year, so he's at the innings, he's at the games
• 1:52:19
  started last year. What do you expect for the for
• 1:52:22
  the rest of the year? Now, the second-half, What do
• 1:52:24
  you I mean, he's going to get skipped.
• 1:52:26
  I think he'll definitely get skipped because they're going to
• 1:52:30
  make the play offs. They're going to run want to
• 1:52:32
  arrest them, right? They're going to lock up this
• 1:52:33
  division sooner rather than later.
• 1:52:35
  Let's give him the rest he needs.
• 1:52:37
  But what do you think his numbers are going to be like?
• 1:52:40
  What's realistic? You know, I mean, I think right
• 1:52:44
  now he's around 2528 ERAII don't think that's realistic at all.
• 1:52:49
  You know, I I don't know what to expect, but I do expect a wall.
• 1:52:53
  And I think what you're seeing right now, I think he's going to
• 1:52:55
  pitch better than he did and gives Milwaukee, but what you're
• 1:52:59
  seeing is almost, almost like a. Like a.
• 1:53:07
  What's the word I'm looking for? You're seeing almost.
• 1:53:12
  What could happen? Like into the future, you know,
• 1:53:14
  it's like this is he's not this bad, but he could be.
• 1:53:19
  He's not as good as you think he is.
• 1:53:20
  Really. Yeah.
• 1:53:24
  He's like he he came out of the gay.
• 1:53:26
  Hot this year, he, he came out hot, he was one of the best
• 1:53:29
  pitchers in April like hands down.
• 1:53:31
  And that's where I think that two that 2A25 ERA is coming from
• 1:53:36
  right there is because of how hot he started.
• 1:53:38
  And then now we've seen some of the last few starts, you know,
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  he still goes 6 innings, but you see him get in trouble a little
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  bit early sometimes now. And, and there's a learning
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  curve for both sides when it comes from overseas pitchers
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  and, and Major League Baseball. It's a learning curve for
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  Yamamoto, and it's also a learning curve for, you know,
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  scouts and players. Oh, wow.
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  Kyle O'Reilly just did a home run.
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  Was going to say that. But yeah, he hit a.
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  Grand Slam. Oh, he just did hit a grand.
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  Slam. That was a grand.
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  Slam. Wow, man, they're.
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  Crushing him 12 to three, but. But yeah, you got snow coming
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  back and Glasgow coming back. I think when those guys went
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  down, I think the expectation for Yamamoto went up a little
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  bit because they kind of relied on him to go deeper in these
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  games a little bit or just, you know, be the guy.
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  And now that these guys are coming back, he doesn't have to
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  be the guy. So if he wants to go 5 innings
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  with only, you know, 80 pitchers, they might just do
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  that moving forward with these guys coming back.
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  So it is a buy low candidate. He hasn't had the stellar
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  outings that we've seen in the last couple, couple starts for
• 1:54:42
  sure. And I still think you have to
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  trade something quality back for him, maybe another guy that you
• 1:54:48
  just drafted at a decent rate, but maybe he's just not hitting.
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  You know what you thought he was going to do.
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  I drafted Jackson Cheerio, you know, in the third, fourth
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  round. Yamamoto was probably in that
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  same range. They probably have close to the
• 1:55:04
  same amount of points. I think Cheerios around 250
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  points in fantasy. So it's just like a preference
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  of you want the picture, which I think now is a little bit more
• 1:55:14
  of a higher risk when you buy them because of what I just said
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  versus a guy that is, you know, hot and cold with the bat, maybe
• 1:55:22
  isn't hitting your expectations, but can still have these really
• 1:55:25
  productive weeks. Which one would you rather have?
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  So it it's kind of a matter of what you want there or what you
• 1:55:31
  need. Yamamoto, he's a front line
• 1:55:33
  starter. If you need a front line starter
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  on your team, this has got a target, but obviously the
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  expectations you have to damper down because of what's going to
• 1:55:41
  what's going to come next. Yeah, that's great.
• 1:55:45
  I'd rather have Jackson. Chario, to be honest with you, I
• 1:55:47
  I don't think he's a front. I don't think Yamamoto is a
• 1:55:50
  frontline starter. He's probably like an SP2, maybe
• 1:55:53
  3. You know, you know, I don't have
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  a crystal ball. I'll tell you where he's going
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  to finish. But I mean, I don't, I don't
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  think, I mean, the guy was a top.
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  Five pitcher to begin. The year he's out of the top 20
• 1:56:05
  now. So, you know, it's, it's tough
• 1:56:08
  to gauge where he's going to finish at.
• 1:56:10
  I think he might just be a top 30 pitcher, you know, might fall
• 1:56:13
  back a little more. But I mean, it is what it is.
• 1:56:17
  I I would rather have a Jackson Cheerio without a doubt.
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  I agree. I agree with that maybe.
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  Byron Buxton, maybe a guy that's performing, you know, out of his
• 1:56:26
  shoes this year for a guy like, I don't know, even that might
• 1:56:29
  even be high at this point. The guy's about to go 3030.
• 1:56:31
  He's back tonight, too, by the way.
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  He is in the lineup. That's awesome.
• 1:56:35
  The only thing? About.
• 1:56:37
  About a Byron Buxton is you either got them off free agency
• 1:56:40
  or you have to be real late and some owners with Yamamoto
• 1:56:44
  wasting such an early pick probably might not do that.
• 1:56:47
  That's that's the only hesitation True I.
• 1:56:51
  Agree with that, that's for sure.
• 1:56:53
  But all right, man. That's that's it.
• 1:56:56
  We got man, tons of stuff around the league, some injury updates,
• 1:57:02
  talking about hottest, coldest hitters, pitchers this past week
• 1:57:06
  and of course some good sell high, buy low candidates.
• 1:57:09
  I thought it was great. I would say finish your drink
• 1:57:12
  and go to bed, but you got Logan Webb going against the Dodgers
• 1:57:16
  in about 10 minutes. So I think I'm going to watch
• 1:57:20
  Logan Webb because I have him going in both my leagues.
• 1:57:24
  This is where you earn your money, man.
• 1:57:25
  This is where you become a a a stud pitcher.
• 1:57:28
  And if he wants to be a Cy Young contender, he's got to beat the
• 1:57:31
  the big dogs. I'm expecting a big Logan Webb
• 1:57:34
  win tonight. I.
• 1:57:37
  Like it? I like it.
• 1:57:39
  So all right, man. Well, for Mikey V, I'm Doug.
• 1:57:44
  This is Bourbon and Bob, we're coming back live again next
• 1:57:46
  week, giving you a couple some numbers on the short week and
• 1:57:51
  then, you know, maybe mix it up a little bit since we won't have
• 1:57:54
  full week stats because it's the All Star break.
• 1:57:57
  So we'll figure out, we'll put a little fun script together,
• 1:58:00
  right? I like that.
• 1:58:01
  I like that idea all. Right.
• 1:58:04
  So until next. Week.
• 1:58:05
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