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  The people have spoken. That's something I don't think I
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  would take a chance of. In my opinion, 218 strikeouts
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  were a guy who was his third year in the league.
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  Now that's a lot of strikeouts. And they're here to deliver.
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  He wants to be on a competitor, period.
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  Bringing you the facts. Jose brings trash man.
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  I fell for that hard. While keeping you up to date,
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  man, like what a like question mark that is after you leave
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  Cole, you get him out of the game and all of a sudden you
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  don't know what you're going to get on the other side on all
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  fantasy baseball news. There's a slouch, man.
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  He's just a a potential. He's a slug dark horse, winner
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  of a Cy Young candidate. Welcome to Bourbon Involved.
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  Averaged like 160 strikeouts prior to his breakout year.
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  I don't even call that breakout year.
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  I would call that a career year because I don't think you have
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  another year. We're going to talk about a lot
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  more baseball. This is just the beginning guys.
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  That's right. I'll call a belt in it.
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  So look, man, come down here. All right, guys, we're at
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  there's a 45th show right here, second season in bourbon and
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  ball. I'm your your Co host Doug,
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  along with my buddy Dan in Clearwater, FL over there.
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  Mikey V. This is bourbon and ball, man.
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  So, yeah, you know, we've been doing fantasy baseball now for
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  over around 20 years. We've been doing.
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  Our league in particular is, you know, hit the head points league
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  with ESPN that we've been doing. And we decided why not create a
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  show that takes away a lot of the negativity and some of these
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  groups, you know, you can post a trade or say, hey, I got this
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  guy and you know, people just like I got trash, horrible
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  trade, you're an idiot, blah, blah, blah.
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  We don't do that. We give you the facts, We give
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  you the numbers and you make your own decision whatever way
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  you want to. Do you want to overpay for
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  somebody, You overpay for them. If you don't, whatever you don't
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  want to, you know. So we decided to create Bourbon
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  Evolved. So we talked fantasy baseball
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  while I think I, I'm the only one today sipping, sipping
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  bourbon out of the bourbon involved class, which is the
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  first sip is always the the kicker, you know?
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  Yeah. So we're on NBR radio.
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  We're on Patriot Radio. We're also on Roku.
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  You can catch us simulcast on New England streaming sports on
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  Saturdays. This episode will re air there
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  from noon to to two. So a lot of good stuff going on
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  man, and a lot of military affiliation on top of that.
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  So of course for for me, I was a paratrooper in the Army for 6
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  plus years. I got jumps in Ireland, Germany,
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  the Netherlands and a combat tour in Afghanistan and all of
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  2012. Yeah, my father was in the Air
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  Force during the Vietnam War and my grandfather was a paramedic
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  during World War 2. So a lot of a lot of family ties
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  there. Good stuff, man.
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  All right, well, we have a man. We have a ton of stuff to go
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  over again. It has been a wild week.
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  It has been a wild week of injuries, a wild week of
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  craziness. Yeah, man.
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  Let's just jump jump right into around the league.
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  Go. Go yeah, what do I?
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  Let me. Start out with this, all right,
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  Kansas City Royals, they're all right, right?
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  They're kind of like 500 team in my opinion.
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  Well, they went to Sunday's game against the Orioles hitting a
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  Major League low, just eighteen home runs in their first 34
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  games. So eighteen home runs in 34
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  games is in team. All right, You have players
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  right now who have 10 or 11. I mean, Corbin Carroll's got 10,
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  you know, so 18 as a team is kind of kind of wild.
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  But going into Sunday's game against against Baltimore and
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  this happened. So here's the clip.
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  Take a look at this. Slider hit high in the air, deep
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  to left field. Cursed at, drifts back up
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  against the fans. It's out of here, the pitch.
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  India drills it high in the air, deep to left field, cursed ass
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  to the track. He turns around, it's gone.
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  And now Michael Garcia, home run #2 and the game is tied again in
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  the air, left field and deep, cursed at is at the wall.
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  And that is home run #4 for the Royals.
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  And now Vinny strokes it into right center field.
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  No way. Unbelievable deep left field
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  solo home run #10 today and it's Luke Maley in the air to right
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  field. Back it goes.
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  That is a franchise record seven home runs for the Royals.
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  So you go from hitting 18 and 34 games to seven and just one.
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  So they went off, right? I mean, they looked like there
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  there was AT ball out there. They had AT set up, you had
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  Malik Garcia hit two, you had Jonathan India, Luke Nailey,
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  Bobby Wood, Junior, Vinnie P who was on our BI located 2 weeks
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  ago really turned it around in my opinion and Michael Massey.
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  So they won the game 11 to 6. Now here's the real question
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  when it comes to this. OK, and this is just my opinion,
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  but that game right there tells me more of how bad Baltimore's
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  pitching has been than how good Kansas City's offense has been,
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  right? Baltimore now 13 and 23.
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  Nothing to write home about, in my opinion.
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  They're on the verge of a waste season.
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  You know, give them another month and there's no way they
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  could claw back out of that. I don't know.
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  I mean, what's your take on them?
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  You think they still have a chance in the East?
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  It's it's packed. Do you think they have a chance
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  of wild card? I mean, what it's, it's tough.
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  They're they're in a danger zone in my opinion, for sure.
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  Their pitching has been atrocious this year.
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  We've been talking about it almost week in, week out.
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  Really just need to go out and get a guy.
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  And we thought they just probably needed one guy.
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  You know, we talked, you know, speculated Sandy early on and
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  obviously that hasn't happened. He hasn't been moved yet or
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  anything like that. But they need more than just one
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  pitcher here, Doug. I think they need multiple
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  pictures for sure. And and you know, on the flip
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  side, too, though, to proceed to Kansas City to stop popping off
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  like they did in that game. It only takes game for a team to
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  get it together. I mean, we don't know if this is
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  the right formula for the Royals yet.
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  It's very early and they're all very young too.
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  Still, that whole team is, you know, obviously Bobby Witch, the
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  centerpiece, you know, Benny P is kind of like the number two
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  guy in my opinion, in that lineup.
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  My Carl Garcia also gets a lot of respect in my opinion, both
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  defensively and offensively. So there's a lot to see in
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  Kansas City and they're, like I said, they're young.
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  So it takes a little bit of time in the gel get it together.
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  And you're not seeing that from Baltimore right now.
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  I think they might need a managerial change.
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  I think they need a fresh face. And then maybe in that dugout,
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  you know, there's a ton of talent.
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  We know there's a ton of talent. Maybe that's the change they
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  need to make. You know, we just saw Texas
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  change the hitting coach, Texas playing a little bit better
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  baseball right now. We'll see.
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  But at the same time, I know it's only May 9th but I think
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  they are in the danger zone. Yeah, no, I, I, I totally agree.
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  I mean, I, I obviously I think the Royals, the central is not a
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  great division anyways, you know, so.
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  It's it's competitive. It's competitive, but.
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  It's competitive because they're all like none of them just like
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  just work their way to the top. They're all just mediocre teams,
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  every single one of. Them So I think if the season
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  ended today, because I was looking this morning, there's
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  three AO essential teams right now that have 23 wins.
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  That puts them about four games above 500.
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  And you know, I looked at the Red Sox right now, they're A500
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  team. They're like 20 and 19.
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  I think I looked this morning or 19 and 20, something like that.
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  It's very early still, but they're it's it, they're clawing
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  up there. They're it's a very interesting
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  division. I think you said it's easy to
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  pick apart, but if you're good in that division then you're
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  going to get a couple extra wins because you play those couple
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  dumps to buy a teams we'd like to talk about.
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  Yeah, and and I mean, you nail it with Baltimore, maybe there's
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  a a pitching coach or a change or a hitting coach or maybe the
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  the head coach, right. But to me, and we talked about
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  this weeks ago, right? You go out, you lose your, your,
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  the, the head, the head of your starting pitching, You know, you
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  lose what? What's his face?
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  Corbett, Bryce. Rodriguez.
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  And Grayson Rodriguez, so you know, you're losing those two
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  guys. You losing Anthony Sendaiere,
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  who, you know, obviously he's not having the best season in
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  Toronto, but who's to say he, you know, that that would
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  translate into if he stayed with Baltimore, right?
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  To me, I think Baltimore's lineup is a little better than
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  Toronto's. So you lose, you're losing 3
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  guy, 3 pretty key guy. You're losing it 40 home run, 41
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  home runs. You're losing someone who had
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  what what was it? Was it like 16 and three?
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  His ERA was not over a three. It was a 291.
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  I don't have for a bat, right. And then you're losing a Gracie
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  Rodriguez who very similar, you know, a lot of strikeouts ERA
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  around that low three. That's a lot, a lot of people to
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  bank, you know, and you didn't do anything to fill him.
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  You did absolutely nothing to fill those voids.
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  Not only that, you also lost Austin Hayes, who is coming back
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  and he's he's actually Kansas City to me, great sleeper team,
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  man great. They're doing a real Terry
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  Francona. I mean, what he could do to a
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  franchise. We've seen it.
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  We've seen it with when he took over with the Indians or the
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  Guardians, whatever you want to call him.
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  He's doing it with the Reds. Very talented team.
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  I like them. But again, you know, you're
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  losing Austin Hedge, you're losing Anthony Sander, you lost,
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  you know, Grayson Rodriguez on the IL.
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  You don't know when he's really coming back yet.
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  Corbin Burns is gone and you do nothing to replace these guys.
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  Nothing. And you rely on your younger
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  generation, which is fine, but to rely on like three of them at
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  the same time, that's going to kill you.
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  That is going to even in fantasy, right?
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  It's like, oh wow, you know, we can, I, you can live starting
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  one of those rookies, right? That you don't know what you're
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  going to get. You can live with starting one
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  of them in your lineup and the fantasy lineup.
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  But once you start 2-3 or four of them and they don't produce,
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  I mean, you're they're going to crush you in the fantasy world.
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  Same thing in baseball. You have a lineup now that is
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  they're they're really relying on their young stars and they're
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  just not producing and they're dragging them down.
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  They really are. I mean, there's no other way to
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  say it. So what do they need to do?
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  I mean, listen, if if a month goes by and they're still 10
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  games under under 500, I hate to say it, but I write them off.
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  I really do. I don't see them coming back up
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  from the AL East. And and like you said, I mean,
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  you got that wild card. They're either going to come
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  from the East or they're going to come from the Central.
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  So if you're not going to be competitive in the East, chances
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  are you're not going to make the play offs.
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  That's just how it is. It's going to be close.
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  It's going to be it's going to be close.
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  It's that the whole AL wild card situation, I think it's going to
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  be a race to the end. There'll be multiple teams in
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  it, but man, they need something now.
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  Like that's the problem with Baltimore.
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  They need it now and they're not going to.
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  They need like. This weekend, man, they need
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  like this weekend. I don't know if it's like a make
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  or break weekend for them or not, but I feel like if it's not
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  this weekend, you know, by the time we get the next weekend,
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  it's almost a make or break depending on how they do.
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  So they you know, it, it's now it's, it's, it's like very
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  immediate. So that's why I say, you know, I
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  don't know if the, you know, the right move is the the manager.
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  You know, I think he didn't, he just win coach of the year like
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  a couple years ago or a year ago.
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  So it's kind of tough to write a guy like that off right away,
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  but you got you might have to do something like that.
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  Look, you only have the small window like we talked about last
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  week with these middle small market teams and they got the
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  talent. So you need someone in that
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  dugout and it's got to be the right move to to unlock that
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  talent and and how to to play together on a day-to-day basis,
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  162 games. Like you just said, the Reds got
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  Terry Francona fantastic, you know, very young team, very
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  experienced guy, been there, done that.
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  Now he's going to, you know, manage this team and I think
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  they're going to be very good the whole year.
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  The Reds. So maybe Baltimore used to look
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  into something like that as well, where they bring in
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  someone that's a a veteran experienced guy.
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  Been there kind of done that type of personality.
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  Like even like in Detroit, where you have the old Astros manager
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  there, I can't think of his name right now, but he he was, you
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  know, one World Series with them.
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  And now, now you got a young team in Detroit with a very
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  experienced manager. So maybe that's something
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  Baltimore needs to consider, at least moving forward.
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  That's true. And to me, I mean, an easy fix
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  would have been, hey, listen, we lost Anthony, Sandy Air, why
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  don't we go out and get a JD Martinez?
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  You know, why don't we go and get a veteran bat?
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  It is a young line up and they don't have a veteran bat, right?
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  I can't really think of anybody that's really a veteran, veteran
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  bat. You know, you have seasoned
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  bats. You have a couple guys that have
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  been in the league for maybe five years.
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  But I'm trying to think like from top to top to bottom, there
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  isn't that veteran bat that's been in the league for like 10
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  plus years. They don't have that.
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  I don't think there is. I'm I'm trying to I'm thinking
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  but I can't think of anyone. So that tell, I mean, they why
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  not get a cheat, You know, JD Martinez, who was capable like
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  obviously now you bring him in, get him up to speed.
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  You're talking about you're a month away, you know, maybe a
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  month and a half, all depends what he's been doing this
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  offseason. Is he really going to help you
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  at that point? You know, is that just going to
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  be wasted money because you're just totally out of it?
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  I don't know. I think it was something that
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  they probably should have done earlier in the year, that's all.
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  I think they just need a new manager.
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  I think I'd rather the new manager over JD Martinez.
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  I think that's they need a fresh face, fresh voice.
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  Yeah, that's true. I I mean, it'll like I said, you
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  nailed it too. They need to turn around.
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  They need to do it this weekend. So it'll be interesting to see
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  what happens. I, I, you know, I know they're,
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  I don't know, maybe they're just saying, hey, listen, let's, we,
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  we get Kyle Bradish back. Let's just, you know, kind of
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  coast this year and then next year go full ramp, you know,
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  ramp it up full speed. Bradish.
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  We'll should be able to get a big workload.
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  You know, we'll give him should be back at the All Star break.
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  We'll give him that half year to figure it out.
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  Start next year fresh. Same thing with, with, you know,
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  Grayson, right? We'll, we'll start him fresh
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  next year, then we'll start to splurge in the free Asian
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  market. Maybe that's the plan.
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  I don't know. I don't think it's a good plan
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  because who wants to who wants to have a wasted year a month
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  into the season? I don't know.
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  Nobody does. But it is an interesting topic
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  to talk about for sure, man. You know, it's competitive.
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  The East is competitive, very competitive.
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  I think This is why it's one of my favorite segments because we
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  dive deep, you know, we just, we dive right into it.
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  We just talk ball. This is all we're doing.
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  We're just talking some ball here.
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  And the the next one, though, is the next topic on here is is for
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  me, it's it's hilarious. This is the most ridiculous
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  thing you've ever seen. It is similar to Jose Canseco.
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  You could even look at Major League the movie.
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  And this is almost a clip right out of Major League itself.
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  All right, so the White Sox on Tuesday hit another all all time
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  low against Kansas City, believe it or not.
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  So they were up three to one in the 9th, right?
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  Three to one in the ninth. And then this happens.
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  And here's the clip. Canna is going to be safe for
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  second base. The White Sox have played great
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  defense all night and that was a routine big league pop up,
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  wasn't it? It sure was, and he struggled.
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  Look at you can. Tell he's struggling with it
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  now. The wind is not blowing like it
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  did earlier. Look at it.
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  Look. At my drop he he just totally
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  whipped it and. Taylor Stroll was only They had
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  a force play. Watch them see what is Oh man
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  off the glove and off the Dome and say oh man, what happened.
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  Man, so they end up going and they lose the game.
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  Yeah, what are you going to? Do you know?
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  I mean, listen, I know they're bad.
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  We, we knew there was they, they were going to be horrible.
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  You know, Luis Robert is a little better this year.
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  You know, five home runs, fifteen stolen bases, still
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  giving you 2A start in fantasy in our points league anyways,
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  but still not good. You know, I mean, Sean Burke,
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  he's been all right. He's 2 and 4 for them as a
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  rookie. It's it's bad, but I think that
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  made it worse for some apparent reason.
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  You you want to talk about, like I said, I mean, that's that's
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  Jose Canseco, that's Major League the movie all in one clip
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  if I've ever seen it before. It's wild.
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  That's it. That was a wild clip.
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  I don't know if you were watching baseball that night or
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  not, but that was a rough night for a lot of different teams.
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  They were. They were.
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  They blew a 9th inning lead to the Kansas City and lost.
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  I think it was the Padres, Yankees too that night.
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  That was the Dylan C start that night too.
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  That went. To.
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  And you know, like that was a crazy night of baseball.
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  Actually, I think it was like Tuesday or Wednesday.
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  But it was it was crazy. But that mean, I think I was
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  watching the other broadcast because this guy didn't say he
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  was just having a good time with it.
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  For sure. Holy moly.
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  I was just laughing with him. That was the first time I've
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  heard that. But the other announcing crew,
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  they're a little bit more sympathetic.
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  It was probably the Chicago broadcast and even the the
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  broadcaster said he's like, this guy's going to be on blooper
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  reels for the rest of his life. And I thought about it for a
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  second and I'm like, man, he probably is because I you just
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  filled the clip. They just said his name several
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  times. I even forgot what his name was
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  already. But I do remember that play
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  because it was funny. Like it's like, it's tough
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  because like, it's it, you're going into the season already as
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  a White Sox player, it's going to be tough.
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  The whole team's going to be tough.
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  The whole season's going to be tough.
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  You know, and this is like exactly what you thought was
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  going to happen to a White Sox team.
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  Like it is to have those type of plays happen.
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  So hey, it is what it is. You know, I feel bad for the guy
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  because, you know, he didn't do it intentionally, obviously, but
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  you know, we just live in a a world now that we just laugh at
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  everyone. So we're going to we're going
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  to, you know, so it's just it is what it is.
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  But the White Sox from a fantasy, you know, level,
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  because we're probably not going to talk about the White Sox
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  anymore after this. Like you said, Luis Robert, I
• 19:52
  think he he might get moved. He's probably the guy that will
• 19:55
  probably get moved this year. There's a lot of rumors last
• 19:57
  year. Now he's actually producing.
• 19:59
  He's stealing a lot more bases. He's starting to run a lot.
• 20:02
  And most importantly, knock on Wood, he's staying healthy.
• 20:06
  So that's a huge plus right now. So if I was the White Sox, I
• 20:10
  would try to cash in as soon as you can because I don't think
• 20:13
  there's a better time to sell a guy right now than Louise
• 20:17
  Robert, a healthy Louise Robert that is producing because you
• 20:19
  hadn't seen a lot of that in recent history.
• 20:24
  But really else, there's no one else that sticks out to me.
• 20:28
  I mean, if you look in deeper leagues and like dynasty
• 20:30
  leagues, keep an eye on Kyle Teal.
• 20:34
  He hasn't been crushing it down in AAA there.
• 20:36
  But he's, you know, he's playing.
• 20:38
  They're going to probably bring him up eventually.
• 20:40
  So I think that's probably the only fantasy relevance I would
• 20:43
  bring into the the White Sox realm.
• 20:45
  You mentioned Sean Burke, but even, you know, so like a great
• 20:49
  White Sox pitcher is like #8 on, you know, someone else's team.
• 20:53
  I feel like right now he just has.
• 20:55
  I haven't built that trust yet with Sean Burke yet.
• 20:58
  No. And the offense is horrible.
• 20:59
  So, you know, he gives up the runs, he's going to get a loss.
• 21:03
  Absolutely. Yeah, it is what it is with
• 21:07
  them. I mean, who knows when the next
• 21:09
  time they'll turn it around. I will say maybe a flyer for
• 21:13
  deep league, maybe like an Andrew Benintendi.
• 21:17
  He's actually hasn't been that that bad.
• 21:19
  He's been pretty decent. So nobody else, nobody, nobody
• 21:26
  comes to mind at all. Yeah, but he's he's making a lot
• 21:29
  of money too. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaking of a lot of money, let's talk about the Yankees.
• 21:36
  DH, you call us standing here. OK.
• 21:38
  So I don't know if it's good news.
• 21:42
  I don't know if it's bad news. And this is a question.
• 21:44
  I'm going to ask what you think because I have an opinion
• 21:46
  already on this. He's looking to be back,
• 21:50
  possibly in the lineup by the end of the month when he's
• 21:54
  eligible to return from the IL. Now here's the question or
• 21:58
  questions, right? Do the Yankees really need him?
• 22:02
  Is he more of a liability in that line up?
• 22:06
  I'll give you my answer after I hear yours because you're not
• 22:09
  going to sway my opinion, but what do you think?
• 22:14
  I think he throws a little bit of a wrench.
• 22:18
  So there are only a few teams that have the situation like
• 22:20
  this, like they do, you know, but they have a guy like Stanton
• 22:24
  come back and then he DH the whole time.
• 22:28
  He he didn't play the field or outfield.
• 22:30
  You know, he wasn't running out there.
• 22:32
  But now you got Goldschmidt, now you got Bellinger, you know, you
• 22:36
  got guys that are, and they're also being productive.
• 22:39
  Not to mention as well, Stan's going to probably be in the
• 22:44
  Splatoon role moving forward. I, I don't think he's going to
• 22:47
  be even an everyday player. I think he's going to be coming
• 22:51
  in and out. DHNI think Austin Wells and both
• 22:56
  Ben Rice have been playing well enough, in my opinion, where
• 23:00
  they deserve to, to keep their roles as they are.
• 23:06
  So it's tough when you have Stan come back because you're paying
• 23:09
  him a lot of money. And we looked at his contract
• 23:13
  earlier today and it was a decent amount of money.
• 23:17
  It's not as much money as I thought, but it's still, he's
• 23:20
  still getting paid a lot of money.
• 23:21
  For the last three years. It's about what, 50 or 60
• 23:24
  million still? It's about 20 million a year
• 23:27
  now. I mean, the Yankees can can eat
• 23:29
  some of that if they'd like to. But the only problem is Juan
• 23:31
  Carlo has a no trade clause. So it's going to be up to him to
• 23:35
  to move on. If he chooses to, which I don't
• 23:39
  think he will. I think he's to the point in his
• 23:40
  career where he wants to chase World Series.
• 23:43
  So why why go anywhere else? You stay there.
• 23:47
  So it's kind of a bad formula for the Yankees.
• 23:49
  But I think like I said, his his role is going to be more of a
• 23:52
  platoon because I think these other guys have deserved their
• 23:56
  they're not, especially Paul Goldschmidt coming on a one year
• 23:59
  deal the way he did and now he's producing at a pretty nice
• 24:04
  level. 350. He's he's he's playing
• 24:07
  phenomenal. So you don't want to take that
• 24:09
  bat out for a guy that you know is going to hit you 200, you
• 24:13
  know, and and a ton of strikeouts and you know, maybe
• 24:17
  have a couple 450 foot home runs.
• 24:19
  Cool, but you know, they might be solo shot.
• 24:22
  So they don't do anything for you.
• 24:23
  Anybody, you know, real baseball or not, you know, fantasy.
• 24:27
  So it's tough. I, I think there's a problem
• 24:30
  there, but I, I don't know if it's a good or bad problem.
• 24:34
  Like I said, if they, if they're OK with platooning them, I guess
• 24:37
  it's a good problem to have. You know, you got to power right
• 24:39
  hand bat right on on the bench, but do you really want to be
• 24:42
  paying that much money for them? It's the Yankees, they can.
• 24:45
  So I'm not, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but that's
• 24:49
  where I kind of I, I go back and forth, but I think it's a good
• 24:52
  thing. I think it's a good, it's a good
• 24:54
  bad thing because you're not relying on him to come back to
• 24:57
  be a productive guy. But I think he's just a nice
• 25:00
  strong heavy bat to have on that that platoon side, if they feel
• 25:06
  he fits it, it's it's kind of tricky.
• 25:09
  I think it's a bad thing, personally.
• 25:11
  All the way. Bad all the way.
• 25:12
  Bad man. I do like they, they look good.
• 25:16
  You know they Bellinger's turning around.
• 25:18
  He had a really good last two weeks, has 350, you know, cut
• 25:24
  down on the strikeouts he had last year.
• 25:26
  He's averaging almost 2 1/2 points.
• 25:28
  So if you drafted him in Leeds, you got him really late, which
• 25:31
  is a steal right now in first base.
• 25:34
  But the thing I think they're producing so well is because
• 25:38
  they're meshing. Everybody's meshing right now
• 25:41
  and everybody's getting, you know, certain days off where
• 25:44
  they're like, OK, we'll put you in DH today, we'll put you in
• 25:47
  DH. You know, they're they're
• 25:49
  rotating guys. You add a a Carlos Stanton here
• 25:53
  who just strictly DHS, you're throwing a wrench and all that.
• 25:57
  You're you're blocking people who could be getting a potential
• 26:01
  extra day or two off from the field to now just riding the
• 26:04
  bench. And I don't think that that's
• 26:08
  necessarily a good thing at all. You know, they're meshing and
• 26:11
  now you have somebody coming back from the DIL that you like.
• 26:15
  You said 2220, you know, he could still possibly strike out
• 26:20
  202 hundred times this year if you played every game.
• 26:24
  If they put him in that lineup every day, he could still strike
• 26:27
  out 200 times. And he's a month and a half, two
• 26:29
  months into the season and he'll still have 200 strikeouts.
• 26:33
  And even I even forgot to mention too, you know, I gave
• 26:37
  credit to Ben Reyes and Austin Wells, but even if Stan wanted
• 26:40
  to play out field, I mean, Todd Grisham talked about a guy
• 26:44
  that's just Trent Tred Grissom. Excuse me, Tred Grissom.
• 26:49
  So I think Todd Grissom's like an announcer.
• 26:51
  But yeah, Tred Grissom, holy moly, man, what a what a
• 26:56
  outbreak he's having for the Yankees.
• 26:58
  And, and good for him. I like him.
• 26:59
  He's got that nice short swing and it's rocking the stash.
• 27:03
  I I feel like he looks like a Yankee.
• 27:05
  He feels like a Yankee, like kind of like an old school type,
• 27:08
  You know, it just, it just kind of fits the bill and he deserves
• 27:12
  to play as much as he is. So that doesn't change, I don't
• 27:16
  think in my book. I mean, I think the only hand up
• 27:19
  thing you could talk about Jason Dominguez maybe doesn't doesn't
• 27:22
  come out as hot as you wanted so far this year with his
• 27:26
  production and hitting and his progression.
• 27:28
  But he's he's like what, 22 years old still?
• 27:31
  He's he's still very young. He's still getting used to the
• 27:33
  MLB at bats. He might be a late bloomer, you
• 27:36
  know, later on the year, like how we saw Jackson Shiro.
• 27:38
  So like it's it's so early on in the season.
• 27:42
  Like I said, they're not and and they wouldn't have brought in
• 27:44
  Bellinger and Goldschmidt if they thought maybe stick play
• 27:47
  first base, make a little transition obviously later in
• 27:50
  his career. But yeah, it's it kind of just
• 27:54
  kind of throws a a wrench into everything.
• 27:58
  I feel that that's going good. And yeah, yeah, just we'll talk
• 28:04
  about we'll talk about wrenches. And I think on this next one
• 28:07
  here too, Doug, huh. We got a.
• 28:09
  Yeah, yeah. Just to just to get back about
• 28:15
  you were saying with that line up and I mean, I did watch that
• 28:19
  Padres game and I mean, you want to talk about offense, right?
• 28:24
  You got Austin Wells hitting the Grand Slam.
• 28:26
  You you had Cody Bellinger hit her.
• 28:28
  So I mean judge hit 1-2 like they're clicking man.
• 28:32
  And they're they're going to be a you know, they're going to be
• 28:35
  there at the end of the year, right?
• 28:38
  So it'll be interesting to to see what's going to happen with
• 28:42
  them. So yeah, the the next set and
• 28:44
  last point on on this around the league to me and you're going to
• 28:50
  find this weird by I agree, I agree.
• 28:55
  So Red Sox DH Rafael Devers said Wednesday, yesterday, well, no
• 28:59
  two days ago, excuse me, that he refuses to switch to first base
• 29:03
  now that Tristan Kansas is on the IL and now for the year, he
• 29:06
  told reporters through an interpreter, you know, when does
• 29:11
  it stop, right? If someone in the outfield gets
• 29:13
  hurt Now, do you want me to go and play the outfield?
• 29:17
  You know, I thought about it and my original thought was, well,
• 29:21
  if you were a team guy, you'd say, well, I'll do what's best
• 29:25
  for the team. Then I thought about a little
• 29:28
  more and I said, well, if I was in his shoes, right, you get
• 29:33
  signed in this massive extension to play your third baseman, so
• 29:38
  you think you're playing third. They signed Bregman, you're
• 29:43
  going to stay at third. Don't worry about it.
• 29:45
  What happens? They take him out of third.
• 29:46
  Bregman plays third and now you're going to DH full time.
• 29:50
  Now they're saying, Oh well, well, let's take out of DH and
• 29:52
  let's I think he's right. I really do, you know, I think
• 29:57
  when is enough, enough? Like, OK, now you're going to
• 29:59
  tell me you're going to call me names because I don't want to go
• 30:03
  to this position or that position or this position.
• 30:06
  Like I do agree, like enough's enough.
• 30:09
  He's finally getting into the swing of it.
• 30:11
  His offense is bad. It took him a month to turn it
• 30:13
  around. And these last 2-3 weeks he's
• 30:16
  been on fire for that team. He's turning it around.
• 30:19
  Now you want him to switch positions, which will probably,
• 30:22
  who knows, it might, it might put him back into a slump.
• 30:25
  You know, now again, you're talking, like you said, throwing
• 30:28
  a wrench into it, right? You throw a wrench into him,
• 30:30
  move him back to move him to 1st.
• 30:32
  Now he's got to relearn the position because a, it's, it's
• 30:35
  not spring training anymore. So he's going to learn on the
• 30:38
  fly, which is not a successful thing to do in baseball.
• 30:42
  And he's still going to bat while he learns.
• 30:46
  So if you're there and you're making errors at first base and
• 30:49
  yourself esteem goes, you know, and then how do you think that's
• 30:53
  going to translate when you go up to bat?
• 30:56
  You're going to no confidence at the plate.
• 30:59
  My I agree with him. I stand firm.
• 31:02
  Obviously at the beginning of the year I said he should move
• 31:04
  to first base. Actually, I said he should DH
• 31:08
  but or first base. But now we're a month and 1/2
• 31:14
  in. I agree with him.
• 31:15
  You know, he, he was signed his contract, he was told he's going
• 31:17
  to play third. And then what do they do 2 weeks
• 31:19
  before spring training ends at DH?
• 31:22
  You know, that's a kick. That's a kick in the you know
• 31:25
  what? So I agree, you know, you kind
• 31:28
  of got to stand firm, be like, hey, listen man, I moved for
• 31:31
  them. They told me that I was, I was
• 31:33
  going to have to now I did. Now they want me to move to 1st
• 31:36
  and of course everybody's going to say you should be doing
• 31:39
  what's best for the team, blah blah blah.
• 31:41
  I mean, he's right. When is enough enough?
• 31:47
  I agree. I agree.
• 31:49
  I agree in a different kind of way.
• 31:51
  Like I kind of simplify it a little bit and I'm probably
• 31:54
  simplifying it too much, but it's like, imagine working at
• 31:56
  Home Depot, right? And you've been working at Home
• 31:58
  Depot for 10 years and you're working in lumber for 10 years.
• 32:02
  All you do is work with these contractors.
• 32:04
  You get what they need, you help them or whatever.
• 32:06
  And after the 10 years, you know, you've been the manager
• 32:09
  there for 10 years and all of a sudden they say, hey, we need
• 32:11
  you to be a manager in plumbing too.
• 32:13
  Can you go over to plumbing? What does that guy know about
• 32:16
  plumbing? Probably nothing.
• 32:18
  All he knows is about lumber. So in this instance, for me,
• 32:21
  it's like, OK, this guy, all he's done is play third base.
• 32:24
  They're asking him just to be in everyday DH.
• 32:26
  So a little bit of pressure. You only go out there four or
• 32:28
  five times a day and you try to hit the ball as best as you can.
• 32:31
  And if you're unproductive, you feel like you really didn't do
• 32:34
  anything. So it's like at least, you know,
• 32:37
  I made a nice play, a couple of nice plays, a third base, I
• 32:39
  saved a couple bases there, you know, you know, prevented a run,
• 32:43
  prevention, whatever. You know, there's some more
• 32:45
  maybe positive takeaways. If you go over 4 / 5, you know,
• 32:48
  you're struggling. We saw it early on with Devers
• 32:50
  too. So obviously there's been some
• 32:54
  speculation that some veteran players, I guess, are not too
• 32:58
  happy right now with Devers and how he's kind of handling it.
• 33:01
  I did read before coming on the air that I believe it was Sam
• 33:05
  Kennedy Breslow and and John Henry flew to Kansas City to
• 33:13
  have a one-on-one with the Devers.
• 33:15
  And as Breslow put it, I believe he said it was a, he didn't say
• 33:21
  it was a candid conversation, but it was like a kind of like a
• 33:25
  direct conversation. You know, it was, you know,
• 33:29
  pretty much broadcast there. So I think, you know, that
• 33:34
  sticks out to me. All right.
• 33:37
  And I think that kind of puts the trade talks back on the
• 33:40
  table for Devers because if you have your owner, John Henry, who
• 33:46
  is not really involved in baseball operations in years
• 33:50
  ever, pretty much like we have not heard John Henry and
• 33:53
  baseball lops together in a very long time.
• 33:56
  The big joke in Boston is that Don Henry is too preoccupied
• 34:00
  with his soccer team and this and that, right?
• 34:02
  So for this guy to go onto a plane to Kansas City, MO, to go
• 34:12
  talk to your star player and your GM is now commenting and
• 34:18
  saying it was pretty much a very, you know, upfront
• 34:23
  conversation. That tells me that he was there
• 34:28
  to feel out if this guy means what he's saying and do they
• 34:32
  need to make a decision with him?
• 34:35
  Because I think right now, and I'm going to go on a little
• 34:38
  sorry, I'm going on a little rant here, but you've got
• 34:40
  Breslow that is probably telling everyone I need to get rid of
• 34:45
  this guy. I need to get rid of this guy.
• 34:47
  This guy is not going to work here.
• 34:50
  We need a first baseman. They want him to go to first
• 34:52
  base. He did not want to go.
• 34:55
  You know, that's a humongous knee that they needed.
• 34:57
  The Tristan Cass thing was awful last week.
• 35:00
  So now he's gone. And this is kind of why we
• 35:03
  wanted you to transition into this role because we weren't
• 35:06
  sure, you know, of Tristan Cass's health yet.
• 35:09
  You know, it was only his first full season back here, really.
• 35:12
  So it's like, what are we, what are we doing here with Devers?
• 35:16
  You got a $300 million contract. That's a lot of money.
• 35:21
  That's a lot of money. You can do a lot of good with
• 35:24
  that money, you know, and there's a lot of teams that will
• 35:27
  love a Rafael Devas on their team.
• 35:29
  So I don't even think the contract is an issue whatsoever.
• 35:32
  I don't think there's any give or take there.
• 35:35
  You already got a great foundation of guys coming up,
• 35:39
  Roman Anthony, Marco Meyer, you just called up Christian,
• 35:43
  Christian Campbell, right? So you got, you got your core up
• 35:46
  here already. So it's not like you have to
• 35:47
  trade this guy and get a bunch of projects and you're
• 35:49
  restarting here. You know, you can get some
• 35:51
  really good Major League Baseball players back in return
• 35:55
  that, you know, they could break it wide open.
• 35:58
  We saw it happen in 2004 with the Red Sox when they started
• 36:01
  breaking up the band and they brought in new guys that were
• 36:04
  that were good players. And I think that's what Craig
• 36:06
  Baryslow wants to do is, is kind of go away with this to reform
• 36:12
  his, what he sees. And instead of having one guy
• 36:15
  making $300 million, I'd rather go get 3 or 4 guys.
• 36:19
  And now that we have Bregman on board, now you got maybe
• 36:24
  something cooking because now you have a full Major League
• 36:26
  Baseball team out there because right now it's not working out.
• 36:29
  They should be better than what they are.
• 36:31
  Maybe go out there and get a pitcher there too with no some
• 36:33
  of that money if they do trade them.
• 36:35
  There's a lot of different things you can do with that.
• 36:37
  So I do think John Henry flew on that plane to really feel out if
• 36:41
  Craig Grislow was blowing smoke or no.
• 36:45
  Actually, this guy is an issue and we do need to probably move
• 36:47
  on and and see what other options are.
• 36:51
  So I think something's cooking there, Doc.
• 36:54
  I think Deborah's, I'm standing back.
• 36:56
  I'm going to say, hey, listen, man, I made the move for you.
• 36:59
  You wanted me to DH. I'm DH now.
• 37:01
  Now you want me to play first and a month and 1/2 into the
• 37:04
  season, you want me to move to first base.
• 37:07
  If this was spring training, maybe I think about it, right?
• 37:10
  Maybe I'd be a little more flexible.
• 37:12
  Seasonery started, now you want me to move again?
• 37:17
  If you don't, if you really really truly believe I am not a
• 37:20
  team player after what I just did, trade me, get rid of me
• 37:25
  because I I'll be happy to go somewhere else that will start
• 37:29
  me at third base, the position that I was signed for when you
• 37:33
  extended me. And now you're telling me you
• 37:37
  you can move on from me after I'm only a what, 2 years into
• 37:41
  this contract? It's crazy and it really is.
• 37:45
  I think it'd be foolish for them to move them.
• 37:48
  I think, hey, listen, I understand.
• 37:50
  I get the mentality behind it. We can fill ADH, we can get a
• 37:53
  hitter and fill ADH role better than we could at first.
• 37:56
  I understand all that. But I still would rather keep
• 38:01
  them. I mean, you want to trade them,
• 38:03
  trade them, But I don't know if I'd want four players for them,
• 38:06
  you know, maybe 2, maybe a pitcher or but they got to be
• 38:10
  decent players. I mean this even in fantasy
• 38:13
  realm, this guy's a top five third baseman, right, maybe a
• 38:16
  top 15 hitter of, of all, you know, So when he's going and
• 38:21
  he's had, you know, two years ago, great season, right, One of
• 38:24
  the best for the Red Sox. And I don't, you know, I, I
• 38:28
  don't know, I just a lot of people are blaming endeavours on
• 38:32
  this and I just even it, it sounds like even ownership is
• 38:35
  blaming endeavours. It's really not.
• 38:37
  His fault? You know, and it's bad because
• 38:40
  if he had a good PR person, he could spin this around so hard
• 38:45
  and, and I'm sure fans would agree if he could spin it around
• 38:48
  with him more than they would with management, but he doesn't
• 38:52
  have a good PR person and no. No, I I agree.
• 38:56
  And and The thing is, he doesn't have, he signs a contract, he
• 38:59
  signs up for what he's going to play for.
• 39:01
  And he has every right to be like, hey, you get like you just
• 39:05
  said, Doug, you just told me to D8.
• 39:07
  You just told me to do this. And you know, we went through
• 39:09
  this already. Like what do we do when
• 39:11
  revisiting this again? You know, we're already in the
• 39:13
  middle of the season, Not in the middle of the season, beginning
• 39:15
  of the season, but in. A different season now.
• 39:18
  You know, recent history, I've seen Bryce Harper, you know, do
• 39:22
  it, but it was really sloppy. We saw that transition happen
• 39:25
  live and it was very, very sloppy at the beginning.
• 39:28
  But Devers, I, I don't blame him for, for sticking up for himself
• 39:33
  pretty much standing out and being like, no, we're not going
• 39:35
  to do that. You know, that's not, you know,
• 39:37
  we, we talked about this already, but I just think that
• 39:42
  puts him vulnerable to get put on the market that I think
• 39:45
  that's just what the the reality is.
• 39:48
  And I do think you're right. I do think ownership is kind of
• 39:50
  blaming them a little bit. You pay a man $300 million, you
• 39:53
  expect them to be a leader as well.
• 39:54
  There's more that comes with that, not just the, the, the job
• 39:58
  that you do. We know it's the, the person
• 40:00
  that you are. It's, you know, that's, that's
• 40:02
  what you, you sign up for, you know, and you're the home grown
• 40:05
  kid. You're the guy that came from
• 40:07
  our system. You're going to be, you know,
• 40:08
  our face and this and that. So there is more that comes with
• 40:11
  it if you like it or not, but. Again, I don't know what's going
• 40:15
  to happen to them. Are they going to ship them to
• 40:17
  Seattle, get one of those pictures you don't get, you
• 40:19
  know, a little decent haul there.
• 40:21
  I mean, there's, there's not a lot of landing spots that I feel
• 40:26
  like you're going to be satisfied with and, and getting
• 40:29
  your return on, I mean. I, I mean, I, I, I don't know, I
• 40:34
  look at it and, and if I'm an owner for somebody else, I would
• 40:38
  take them with open arms because I don't think, I don't think
• 40:41
  this is really a big enough issue for me to like to deter me
• 40:47
  from picking this guy up, right. I mean, he, he makes a great
• 40:50
  point. He was signed to play third.
• 40:52
  Now he DHS now you want him to play first.
• 40:55
  You're 1/4 of the way through the season almost.
• 40:58
  So if I was an owner, I would totally say, hey, listen, if you
• 41:00
  guys want to get rid of him, here's a chance to kind of buy
• 41:03
  the low because maybe they're just like, hey, you know, we're
• 41:06
  we, we're really looking for a team player that'll move around
• 41:09
  for us. So if you want them, here you
• 41:11
  go. You can take them and give me
• 41:12
  this guy or this guy, you know, so I don't know, it'll be
• 41:16
  interesting to to see how they make it, make it work.
• 41:19
  I hope they do. I think it'd be silly to trade
• 41:21
  them. I don't think they would.
• 41:22
  But and then, you know, maybe talk to them and say, Hey,
• 41:25
  listen, next year, maybe we can transition to 1st, you know, not
• 41:30
  a a month and 1/2 into the year, because you know what's going to
• 41:33
  happen? They're going to transition
• 41:34
  them. You're going to see some errors,
• 41:36
  some kind of really easy place for a regular first baseman, but
• 41:40
  some errors on him and then he's going to get torn down and beat
• 41:44
  in through the streets in Boston, you know, and he doesn't
• 41:47
  deserve it. He doesn't.
• 41:48
  I think I think he has a he has a really good point here.
• 41:52
  That's all I'm saying. All right, all right, let's
• 41:57
  let's hop into to the hurt logger.
• 41:59
  This is going to be, this is a big one.
• 42:01
  So we might have to try to zoom through some of these, but yeah,
• 42:06
  let's just. Yeah, yeah.
• 42:18
  Hurt sometimes. All right, I have quite a bit on
• 42:21
  here So what I'll do is let me 123 45688.
• 42:30
  I have a 10. Let me go through 5 at a time
• 42:32
  and we'll break it down a little more.
• 42:34
  You did touch base on the first one it it's Red Sox first
• 42:38
  baseman Tristan Cassis. He's on a 10 day IL with a with
• 42:42
  a left patellar tendon rupture, which means he'll miss the
• 42:46
  season. I do have the play that caused
• 42:48
  that. It was very freakish play.
• 42:50
  Take a look right here. It's.
• 42:51
  It's almost like spring training.
• 42:53
  Look here. Little chop Herb and Ryan with a
• 42:55
  bobble. He'll shovel it safe.
• 42:58
  Oh no. Cost is down, clutching at his
• 43:02
  leg. Let's watch that one more time.
• 43:06
  But I think he's going to it's, it's almost like spring
• 43:07
  training. Look here.
• 43:09
  Little chop Herb and Ryan with a bobble.
• 43:11
  He'll shovel it safe. Oh, no.
• 43:14
  Cost is down. Clutching at his.
• 43:18
  Yeah, it's tough to watch. Yeah, you knew right when it
• 43:21
  happened. He was done for the year, not
• 43:24
  really a fantasy stud. We'd said earlier that they
• 43:27
  should have just traded in to begin with.
• 43:29
  He he's 182. Three home runs, 11 ribbies,
• 43:33
  five runs, no stolen bases, 27 strikeouts and 99 at the hats,
• 43:39
  30 points. He gave you a one off start.
• 43:42
  Not not nothing to write home about.
• 43:44
  Staying with the Red Sox started pitcher Walker Buhler, who was
• 43:47
  day-to-day this time last week. He is now placed on the 15 day
• 43:51
  IL. He's got that right shoulder
• 43:52
  persistus. Persistus.
• 43:57
  It's it's really just like a little pocket it, it's in the
• 44:00
  shoulder area. But she should just take the
• 44:04
  minimum time. So we should be back.
• 44:05
  Mid-May he was 4 and 133 2/3 and he's pitched 29 strikeouts, nine
• 44:11
  walks, a four 2 ERA, which to me was inflated from his first
• 44:15
  start. Really if you take that away,
• 44:17
  you're looking at a sub 379 points, 13 point to a start,
• 44:21
  which is great for a starting pitcher.
• 44:22
  He looked like he was back. Next up you got Cub starting
• 44:26
  pitcher Shota. He's on the 15 day IL.
• 44:28
  He's got a mild left hamstring strain.
• 44:30
  Prior to hitting the IL he was having leg cramps, so I wonder
• 44:33
  if maybe he tried to tweak his delivery to avoid the cramping
• 44:37
  in his last start. So regardless, they're still
• 44:41
  saying two week timetable, it's precautionary, should be back in
• 44:46
  the minimum, but we'll see when he comes back to the mound,
• 44:49
  right? He's still throwing.
• 44:51
  So he said even though I'm not full ramp throwing, I'm still
• 44:56
  going to toss and whatnot. So that's a good sign. 3 and 244
• 45:00
  2/3 and he's pitched 34 strikeouts, 14 walks at 280 RA.
• 45:05
  He's giving you 71 points. He's giving you a nine to start.
• 45:09
  Next up, red starting pitcher Hunter Green was pulled from his
• 45:12
  start Wednesday. He was day-to-day dealing with a
• 45:16
  groin injury. Severity wasn't known.
• 45:19
  Here's your update. It's a grade one right strain,
• 45:21
  groin strain. He'll be out most of May for
• 45:24
  most of the month. Man, he look.
• 45:26
  Lights out four and 2:45 and 2/3 innings.
• 45:30
  Pitch. 61 strikeouts, eight walks, a 236 ERA, 125 points,
• 45:38
  15.7 points a start. That was a stud and we'll take a
• 45:44
  break after this one. Astros outfielder Jordan Alvarez
• 45:47
  is on the 10 day. IL do right hand inflammation
• 45:51
  again, should only take the minimum time.
• 45:53
  He wasn't looking good. 210 for the season. 3 home runs, 18
• 45:57
  ribbies, seven runs, one stolen base, 25 strikeouts and 100 at
• 46:04
  bats. So won a game pretty much 56
• 46:07
  points or 1.9 a start. So that's, that's our, that's
• 46:12
  our stop right there. Man, let's start from the top,
• 46:17
  right? Let's let's go back all the way
• 46:18
  from the top. I mean, obviously Tristan Cassis
• 46:22
  not really so much fancy relevant.
• 46:23
  There was some hope, right? In drafts, we did talk about
• 46:26
  like it was really Kim versus Vinnie P Vinnie P was definitely
• 46:30
  probably a little bit of a step up.
• 46:32
  But you know, we thought Tristan Cassis could have been like a
• 46:35
  poor man's Vinnie P, if you know what I mean.
• 46:37
  You know, like we talked about the 25 home runs, potentially 80
• 46:40
  RBIs right in the middle of that lineup is supposed to be a very
• 46:43
  good team right during draft time.
• 46:46
  So very unfortunate. Don't know where the Red Sox are
• 46:49
  going to go yet with first base. We did talk about Devers.
• 46:52
  We know that's not going to happen.
• 46:54
  We don't know if they're going to stay internal.
• 46:55
  We don't know if they're going to go external.
• 46:58
  I did see a funny list of names that did pop up.
• 47:01
  I think I was on MLB Network. You'll love this.
• 47:04
  Doug John Singleton was definitely one of them.
• 47:09
  So that's that's definitely kind of funny.
• 47:12
  I think. Didn't he have a stint with the
• 47:13
  Red Sox already? I think he already did.
• 47:15
  I think a. While back.
• 47:17
  So, but yeah, it's not looking great at first base if you're a
• 47:21
  Red Sox fan. And Tristan Cass, like we talked
• 47:24
  about in fantasy perspective, not great, not great this year.
• 47:27
  So he probably didn't have him even rushed it at this point.
• 47:30
  But it's just a noteworthy guy because he is going to miss the
• 47:32
  whole entire year. There's no bounce back coming
• 47:34
  now. Walker Buehler, man, he was
• 47:37
  having a pretty good stretch, you know, before you get higher.
• 47:40
  He did have some great run support.
• 47:42
  I did look back at some of his starts.
• 47:43
  I think it was a game against Toronto.
• 47:45
  He did give up like 4IN runs, but like they still got like
• 47:48
  they won like 4:50 or something. So so I think there's a little
• 47:52
  bit of luck there with that 411 record, but that that 29 to 9
• 47:55
  walk is a pretty good sign that he has his command, pretty good
• 47:59
  control, not too bad that 428's a little bloated.
• 48:02
  I think. I think the last three games are
• 48:04
  like the the walkability you think you're going to see moving
• 48:06
  forward. Hopefully he's going to be
• 48:09
  coming back pretty soon. I'll I got him Ross in a couple
• 48:11
  weeks. I'm pretty excited to see him
• 48:12
  come back. He's a great option to have,
• 48:14
  especially if you already have a good like 3 or 4 starters.
• 48:18
  He's definitely like a really nice number 56 at times,
• 48:21
  especially when he thought those quality starts.
• 48:24
  Soda, man, hate to see that name pop up.
• 48:27
  We're soda fans on this program. And especially if you're a Cubs
• 48:31
  fan too. Geez.
• 48:32
  I mean, the way the Cubs have been playing such a resurgence,
• 48:34
  a lot of a lot of hope and promise in Chicago this year,
• 48:38
  making a run. Tough to see this guy go down.
• 48:40
  I mean, that's the acre of their ace right there.
• 48:42
  You already had Justin Steele go down for the season.
• 48:45
  So like we said a few weeks ago, some of these guys are going to
• 48:48
  have to step up in this rotation.
• 48:51
  And one streamer that I've noticed that's pitching pretty
• 48:54
  well, not crazy good, but pretty well, is Matt Boyd.
• 48:58
  And that was one of the names that we talked about before.
• 49:00
  You know, we talked about three or four other guys, you know,
• 49:03
  Ben Brown and I believe a seed was one of them as well.
• 49:08
  But it's it's Matt Boyd that is actually being the productive
• 49:11
  guy out of those guys so far. So it's good to see him step up.
• 49:14
  But like I said, he's more of a streamer option at this point.
• 49:17
  So if you really need him in a week to week, he does play for a
• 49:20
  good baseball team, which always helps.
• 49:23
  Points league, you know, you can get a nice crazy easy win
• 49:26
  sometimes if he just goes 5 or 6.
• 49:29
  So yeah, Shota going down and then obviously Hunter green Cy
• 49:34
  Young esque pitching so far from hunter green very, very good
• 49:38
  pitcher. He really unlocked himself.
• 49:41
  I feel like this the second this last year and this year really
• 49:45
  fighting to stuff. I mean, that's why he was a top
• 49:47
  first round pick when he got drafted.
• 49:49
  He was already a stud then. Now he's really putting it
• 49:51
  together. So hopefully he comes back
• 49:53
  pretty soon. And then Jordan Alvarez, man,
• 49:56
  what is going on with Jordan Alvarez?
• 49:58
  210 average three home runs is that 18 RBI's 21 You know what
• 50:04
  is that 25 strikeouts 2021 strikeouts like too many like
• 50:09
  that's that's too many for him and then that average is really
• 50:11
  low only 56 points 1.9 per game. Are you kidding?
• 50:16
  That's not good. That's like you have to bench
• 50:18
  them. Like even I know he's hurt now,
• 50:20
  but still you probably up to this point, you you have to.
• 50:24
  I know you want to ride him out. He was one of the top picks for
• 50:27
  sure, but he hasn't done anything.
• 50:28
  He's kind of like in that Marcus Simeon boat where they're just
• 50:32
  not putting it together. And I don't know if there's a
• 50:35
  white flag that should go up pretty soon with these guys.
• 50:38
  I think Marcus Simeon, I think there is.
• 50:39
  I think there's a big problem there, but I don't know.
• 50:42
  Jordan Alvarez, now that he's hurt, we'll see what's going on
• 50:45
  with him. I don't know.
• 50:47
  That's not good, Doug. No, and like, like we talked
• 50:50
  about though, I mean that team, I mean they got rid of Bregman,
• 50:52
  they you know, you're moving Altuve and he's underperforming
• 50:57
  this year. So I don't know, it's just you
• 51:00
  got rid of Tucker, you you got rid of some pretty really good
• 51:02
  bats. And you know, to go out there
• 51:04
  and expect these guys to still perform at the level they were
• 51:07
  performing without those without, without the help, you
• 51:10
  know, behind you is, is tough to do.
• 51:12
  So I kind of attribute that to that maybe.
• 51:18
  But yeah, all right, let's move on.
• 51:19
  We got five more and then we'll take a break.
• 51:23
  So some of these guys were day-to-day.
• 51:26
  They're actually in the line up today.
• 51:27
  So except for this one, I'll get this one out of the way.
• 51:31
  Brewers starting pitcher Freddy Peralta, he's day-to-day with a
• 51:33
  groin injury. He's not undergoing any imaging
• 51:36
  or MRI. So they're just going to give
• 51:38
  him a day or two of extra rest before next start.
• 51:41
  Not sure why. I feel like maybe why not get
• 51:43
  the confirmation and get some imaging done, but I'm not a
• 51:47
  manager. 4 and 245 innings pitched, 48 strikeouts, 15
• 51:52
  walks, A21 ERA. He's giving you 13 a start or
• 51:56
  103 points total. Here's Brewers catcher William
• 52:01
  Contreras. He's day-to-day.
• 52:02
  He is in the lineup today. He actually has a couple hits.
• 52:05
  He did receive X-rays. He has a fractured middle finger
• 52:08
  on his left hand. He is still going to play
• 52:10
  through it throughout the year. So B be ready for for an
• 52:16
  additional day of rest here and there during the week.
• 52:20
  Still a pretty good year. Not as good as what you probably
• 52:23
  have hoped when you drafted him because he was probably one of
• 52:25
  the first catchers off the board in any draft. 242 three home
• 52:29
  runs, 19 ribbies, 19 runs, four stolen bases, 27 strikeouts and
• 52:33
  124 at bats. He's giving you 2.4 at start and
• 52:36
  points leads 83 total points. Pretty nice to see Cardinals
• 52:41
  third base Arenola Nolan Arenado, he's day-to-day.
• 52:46
  He's back in the line up again today.
• 52:48
  Last I looked he was 2 for two. So he was having a pretty decent
• 52:51
  day. He's had he has a back injury
• 52:53
  and he was having some spasms prior to Wednesday's game which
• 52:57
  had them pull him out. So I don't know again what
• 53:03
  they're going to do on the go forward.
• 53:04
  That's usually back spasms is just you'll get a a day off when
• 53:08
  it happens. You won't know when it's going
• 53:10
  to happen. It's a spasm.
• 53:12
  So just be prepared for him to you know, just occasionally not
• 53:16
  play when he you know you would otherwise think he would. 256
• 53:20
  three home runs, 14 ribbies, 16 runs, one stolen base, 14
• 53:24
  strikeouts, 2.5 a start. It's almost like a a renaissance
• 53:28
  year for him. 85 total points. He looks really good.
• 53:32
  Next up, we did talk about this earlier.
• 53:34
  We're going to hit it again. Padres starting to pitch and
• 53:36
  Dylan Cece's day-to-day. He's got a forearm injury.
• 53:40
  It looked to be cramping. His last start.
• 53:42
  He said he could pitch through it.
• 53:44
  But like you look at Shota and his cramping, right?
• 53:46
  He had that leg cramped, went out.
• 53:47
  His next start, maybe he kind of tweaked that delivery so he
• 53:52
  wouldn't experience the cramping.
• 53:54
  I don't know what he's going to do.
• 53:55
  He's not going to go on the IL. He's going to play through it.
• 54:00
  No imaging done. It is what it is.
• 54:03
  He had over six innings of no hit ball against the Yankees on
• 54:06
  Wednesday before the injury occurred.
• 54:08
  Then he gave up a solo shot to Cody Belanger, who he said was
• 54:11
  red hot. And I actually have the image,
• 54:13
  the video of when that that actually happened.
• 54:16
  So here is him experiencing the the cramping slider.
• 54:22
  It looks like right there and then, Don, that's what you
• 54:24
  noticed right there with his hand wipe, shake, look, extend.
• 54:29
  And he is coming out of. So let's just watch that one
• 54:33
  more time slider, it looks like right there and then, Don,
• 54:39
  that's what you noticed right there with his hand wipe, shake,
• 54:43
  look, extend. Yeah.
• 54:46
  So he was cramping. They like I said, they took him
• 54:48
  out of the game, said he could have played through it.
• 54:52
  So I wouldn't take him out. I mean, obviously I'd still get
• 54:55
  some type of imaging done. But you know, again, I'm not,
• 54:59
  I'm not AGM or anything. And last but not least, Tiasca
• 55:03
  Hernandez, he's on the 10 day IL with a left grind strain.
• 55:06
  Manager Dave Roberts is hoping for the end of the month return.
• 55:08
  He was having a great year, 3.6 a start.
• 55:10
  He was giving you 120 total points, 315, nine homers, 34
• 55:15
  rabies, 21 runs, four stolen bases and 130 at bats.
• 55:18
  He looked great. He was a steal.
• 55:21
  Now I did want to go a little more in depth on on the Dodgers,
• 55:26
  not not T Oscar, but more on their rotation, right, because
• 55:29
  you got Michael Kopek, you got Kershaw, you got Snell, you got
• 55:33
  Blake trying and you got Tyler Glasner, you got Tommy Edmond,
• 55:35
  who's not on the rotation, but he's still on the IL, Evan
• 55:38
  Phillips and Nat T Oscar. So a team that was supposed to
• 55:40
  run away with the division early are only a game and a half up
• 55:44
  against the Padres and the Giants.
• 55:46
  And and this image kind of shows it to you, brings it all in.
• 55:50
  That's it. Look like, you know, honestly,
• 55:56
  Tony GS back, he just got back so you can there's a little
• 55:58
  dated image, but still, you know, this was supposed to be
• 56:01
  the greatest nine man rotation and hit in the history of
• 56:04
  baseball. You know when they when they put
• 56:07
  this all together and Snells out right glass now is out show.
• 56:11
  Hey hasn't even start throwing yet.
• 56:13
  I would be very surprised if he even goes on the mound.
• 56:16
  Maybe the second-half, but I think they really want him to
• 56:21
  focus on hitting Tyler Glass now.
• 56:23
  Bobby Miller got demoted, right? Kershaw, Tony G's back, Dustin
• 56:29
  Mays, all right, Rokie looks mediocre, and Yamamoto just gave
• 56:34
  up a Grand Slam to Montero for his first home run of the year.
• 56:40
  I mean, he had a horrible start against the Diamondbacks
• 56:43
  yesterday. I mean, there's a lot to talk
• 56:46
  about, but every year it seems like you go into the year,
• 56:49
  you're like, OK, Dodgers are set, right?
• 56:52
  Last year, same thing, right? They got Glasnab, they got
• 56:54
  Yamamoto. You're like, all right, they're
• 56:55
  set. What happens?
• 56:56
  Yamamoto gets hurt, Glasgow gets hurt, Kershaw gets hurt.
• 57:00
  So now same thing. It's like if I'm a pitcher, I
• 57:04
  don't even know if I want to go to LA anymore.
• 57:09
  It's it's weird, I guess. I guess when they say you can
• 57:11
  never have too much pitching, they're absolutely right.
• 57:15
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you do your research
• 57:18
  on these guys, like, you know, we do a decent amount of
• 57:21
  research. We know these guys, we've been
• 57:22
  watching these guys for years. We know there's precautions when
• 57:25
  when you sign these guys. And maybe that's why they they
• 57:29
  said, yeah, we're going to get eight of these guys right now
• 57:32
  because they all got problems and they're all going to have
• 57:36
  problems throughout the year. Hopefully they just don't
• 57:38
  overlap one another too much, you know, because Lake Snell
• 57:42
  obviously has had injuries the last couple years.
• 57:45
  Tyler lads now has had injuries the last couple years.
• 57:47
  Kershaw has had injuries the last couple years.
• 57:49
  Todd, he's already had Tommy John surgery.
• 57:51
  So he's already, you know, put his time in for Tommy John a
• 57:55
  couple times, right? I think maybe twice, you know,
• 57:58
  Tony G coming back right, Dustin May, those guys coming off
• 58:02
  surgeries like it was an injury prone rotation from the gecko.
• 58:07
  It's just the names just sounded nice.
• 58:08
  All of them. I mean, how can you just how can
• 58:11
  you say Kershaw and Snell and Glasnow?
• 58:13
  It's not a a cool, cool three. You know, we know Kershaw's not
• 58:17
  the same guy, but still, you know what?
• 58:18
  I'm but I'm getting that and I'm not even talking about
• 58:20
  Yamamamoto. I got Yamoto in one of my big
• 58:22
  money leagues, so when he lowered the bases, I actually
• 58:25
  turned off the game before the Grand Slam.
• 58:27
  So I did not get the pleasure of seeing it.
• 58:29
  So I heard about it though. Sucks.
• 58:35
  But I mean, he has been a bright light in that that rotation.
• 58:38
  Except, you know, obviously that Grand Slam killed him and he had
• 58:43
  a little bit of a clunker to last start too.
• 58:45
  So he's kind of coming back down to reality a little bit.
• 58:49
  So what are they going to do moving forward?
• 58:50
  Who knows? I'm not really sure.
• 58:52
  I think they're going to keep status quo.
• 58:54
  I think they got what they got. I've been noticing they do the
• 58:57
  the long relief stuff now where they throw a guy for an inning,
• 59:01
  throw another guy in for three or four, and then kind of go to
• 59:03
  the back of the end of the bullpen again.
• 59:05
  So that's one route to do it for short term until these guys come
• 59:09
  back. Now, what are the timelines,
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  Doug? Doesn't seem like these guys
• 59:12
  come back anytime soon. I, I think I'm trying to like,
• 59:19
  like I said, I would say Tyler Glasnow will probably be back
• 59:24
  before all of them probably go Glasnow then Snell Shohei.
• 59:30
  I, I really don't see him starting this year.
• 59:32
  If I'm completely honest with you, a guy hasn't touched a
• 59:35
  baseball and I think it, it makes it tough for him because
• 59:38
  he is batting. So when he's going to get that
• 59:40
  opportunity to go out and face, you know, you're not, you're not
• 59:43
  going to demote him to AAA to get a couple starts in.
• 59:46
  Are you like and take that bat away for three for a week or
• 59:49
  two? It's it's and that's you can sit
• 59:53
  there and say he's a Unicorn and I totally agree.
• 59:55
  But that's the dynamic of that. Is that OK?
• 59:59
  Well, now he's back, you know, he could pitch, but he's mid
• 1:00:02
  year. What am I going to do?
• 1:00:04
  How am I going to put him in? I can't.
• 1:00:06
  He needs live game action. Am I going to just, you know,
• 1:00:10
  forget about sending him to AAA to stretch out and just have him
• 1:00:14
  start games with the Dodgers and say, hey, you know.
• 1:00:17
  Every game will have you go in and you can pitch 2 innings, 3
• 1:00:21
  innings 4 and then work that pitch kind up in the in the
• 1:00:23
  majors as opposed to the minors, which would be unprecedented
• 1:00:26
  really. I haven't seen any pitcher ever
• 1:00:28
  do that. So I don't know.
• 1:00:30
  I, I, if I, like I said if I had to be a betting man, I would say
• 1:00:35
  he's, he's not going to pitch this year as a starter.
• 1:00:37
  But on the flip side of that, you know, who knows, if
• 1:00:41
  anything, you'd you'd be looking after the All Star break because
• 1:00:45
  maybe he skips the All Star game and goes to minor leagues and
• 1:00:49
  gets a couple starts in that way, like, you know, you get you
• 1:00:52
  got to kind of be creative, I think with this situation,
• 1:00:54
  because there's no other way to give him these this this live
• 1:00:58
  action to to pitch. No, I, I think, I think you
• 1:01:02
  nailed it. I don't think he should start
• 1:01:04
  this year. And you have to build up the
• 1:01:06
  pitch count. You know, you can only do so
• 1:01:08
  much in simulated games and and and live and live, you know,
• 1:01:12
  hitters and stuff too. But I I think a bullpen role
• 1:01:15
  would fit him well. We talked about it weeks ago.
• 1:01:17
  We joked about it. Actually, it was probably longer
• 1:01:19
  than that. We said Otani could be closed
• 1:01:21
  now World Series games. I mean, that could be the avenue
• 1:01:24
  this year for him just to get back on the mound.
• 1:01:27
  And then the offseason you start building up that pitch, that
• 1:01:30
  pitch count again, because we're already in mid season.
• 1:01:32
  You're not going to take that bad out of the lineup.
• 1:01:33
  That's crazy talk, right? That's just not going to happen.
• 1:01:36
  So I I think they need the help though.
• 1:01:39
  I think they can use all the help that they can get and I
• 1:01:42
  don't think they're done. I do think they're going to
• 1:01:44
  probably make a move eventually for whatever needs they need.
• 1:01:48
  How about Nolan Arenado playing third base for them?
• 1:01:51
  You know, I think the Max months he experienced is starting to
• 1:01:53
  come to an end, I feel. So, you know, that's a guy that
• 1:01:57
  I think would really well in that lineup as well.
• 1:02:00
  You know, you can put that guy like 6th in the lineup.
• 1:02:03
  How nice would that be to have a Nolan Arenado bat and 6th in the
• 1:02:06
  lineup? How sick is that?
• 1:02:08
  So it it's just, you know, again, you need that Otani bat
• 1:02:11
  in there. Mookie Freeman, the Oscar, you
• 1:02:16
  know, the whole talking point for the injury report here, the
• 1:02:18
  Oscar has been on fire. The Oscar has averaged you 3.6
• 1:02:21
  per fantasy. Like, holy moly, that guy's been
• 1:02:25
  on. That guy's raking 120 like that.
• 1:02:28
  That guy's a stud. But I do think they're going to
• 1:02:31
  make a move eventually because they're the Dodgers.
• 1:02:33
  They can. They're going to talk deferred
• 1:02:35
  money. That's not going to stop
• 1:02:37
  anything and they're going to be there at the end.
• 1:02:40
  So you might as well have the best guys with them.
• 1:02:42
  So we'll see. Yeah, I know you didn't get a
• 1:02:50
  lot of time to talk about the rest.
• 1:02:52
  Nah, that's correct. Honestly, it's OK because
• 1:02:55
  honestly, it's not too much there.
• 1:02:56
  I mean, Freddie, I did wish he'd get some X-rays or something
• 1:02:59
  just to make sure he's all right.
• 1:03:00
  But he's a vet, he's a horse. He's an averaging over 200
• 1:03:04
  innings for the last like two or three years, I think so I think
• 1:03:07
  he's just going to fight through it.
• 1:03:09
  Dylan cease when he's when he's on, he's the best, like he is
• 1:03:13
  the best when he's on. So he'll be fine too.
• 1:03:18
  He was just definitely getting cramps.
• 1:03:19
  You saw the video. That's definitely cramps all the
• 1:03:21
  way. That's just I need I need to
• 1:03:23
  shake this off and get some something comfortable.
• 1:03:27
  So and then no one arenado back spasms.
• 1:03:29
  Nothing new there. He'll be fine.
• 1:03:31
  He'll be back. So yeah, no, I don't mind
• 1:03:35
  talking Dodgers. Dodgers are cool all.
• 1:03:40
  Right, let's let's perfect time booked halfway into the show
• 1:03:43
  already. Let's take a quick break.
• 1:03:45
  We're going to come back. We'll talk about the hottest,
• 1:03:47
  coldest players of this week in fantasy and then we'll talk
• 1:03:50
  about some great sell high, buy low players and recap last
• 1:03:54
  week's sell high buy low. And again, I'd like to say I
• 1:03:57
  think we got a couple of them right.
• 1:03:59
  I think we did. I think we nailed it.
• 1:04:01
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• 1:04:04
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• 1:04:08
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• 1:04:37
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• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:49
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• 1:05:51
  this week's hottest hitters and pictures for your fantasy team.
• 1:05:55
  These numbers again come from our ESPN Head to Head Point
• 1:05:58
  League. But again, if you're a top
• 1:06:00
  player in a points league, chances are you're a top player
• 1:06:03
  in the Cats League or any other team or any other format.
• 1:06:06
  So here they are. I'll read off the two hitters
• 1:06:10
  and then we'll discuss them and then we'll do the same for the
• 1:06:14
  pitching. So yeah, so Dodgers first
• 1:06:17
  baseman, no surprise here, right?
• 1:06:18
  Freddie Freeman, he's 99.8% owned 464, three home runs, 12
• 1:06:24
  ribbies, five runs, 12 ribbies in a week, 4 strikeouts and 28
• 1:06:29
  at bats. He gave you 40 points or 5.7 of
• 1:06:32
  start. What an amazing week.
• 1:06:35
  And. Talk about a no name on this
• 1:06:37
  one, right? Cleveland shortstop, second base
• 1:06:40
  outfield. Daniel Scherner, Schernerman
• 1:06:45
  Sherderman Daniel Sherderman. He's only owning 5% of leagues.
• 1:06:50
  So if you pick them up and you started them, man, you, someone
• 1:06:54
  owes you a beer. I think, jeez, that's crazy. 412
• 1:07:01
  average, 3 homers, seven RBI, eight runs, no stolen bases, 2
• 1:07:05
  strikeouts, 17 at bats. 718 at bats.
• 1:07:09
  He had versus Freddie Freeman, who had 28.
• 1:07:12
  He had 9 less at bats and gave you one less .39 points, 6.5 a
• 1:07:19
  start. Yeah.
• 1:07:22
  I mean, to me that I think that Guardians team is really coming
• 1:07:25
  around. I think Carlos Santana at a
• 1:07:27
  Grand Slam the other day, Stephen Quan is, is a great lead
• 1:07:30
  off guy. He gets on base.
• 1:07:31
  Jose Ramirez is finally turning it around.
• 1:07:34
  So I think they're going to be really good.
• 1:07:36
  Their pitching is is kind of amped as far as their their
• 1:07:40
  offense. I think it's legit.
• 1:07:42
  I really do. I think it is too.
• 1:07:44
  I mean, I'm looking at Cleveland.
• 1:07:45
  There's seven and three the last 10 games.
• 1:07:47
  I mean that I think the it's Kansas City.
• 1:07:50
  I mean nine and one the last 10 games they're they're on fire.
• 1:07:54
  But I mean, yeah, Cleveland, they're kind of just a scrappy
• 1:07:58
  bunch in my opinion. They got a quite an interesting
• 1:08:01
  team that they got that they put together.
• 1:08:03
  And it's good to see Jose Ramirez starting to swing the
• 1:08:06
  bat nice again like we did see last year.
• 1:08:09
  We knew he was a slow starter last year, happened again this
• 1:08:12
  year, but nothing to worry about there.
• 1:08:14
  Steven Kwan. I mean that guys just a stud.
• 1:08:17
  I mean, what a fantasy God he is.
• 1:08:19
  He is like, man, if I had to compare him to like a fantasy
• 1:08:23
  football stud, he's like, he kind of reminds you of like a
• 1:08:27
  coup of cup type, you know, just always consistent, always, you
• 1:08:31
  know, getting catches and stuff and getting a ton of points.
• 1:08:34
  Like Stephen Quan does the same thing.
• 1:08:35
  Gets a ton of hits, doesn't strike out, steals, bases, gets
• 1:08:39
  RBIs, like, just a just a great guy to have on your fantasy
• 1:08:43
  team. So, yeah, that Cleveland team.
• 1:08:44
  Yeah. Daniel here.
• 1:08:46
  Never heard of him. Not even going to lie to you.
• 1:08:48
  Not on my radar whatsoever. Probably won't be.
• 1:08:52
  I mean, these guys, we talked about it, Doug, we got guys,
• 1:08:57
  especially in pitching that they get 2 starts and they get picked
• 1:09:01
  up and then they wreck you, you know, and with hitters, they go
• 1:09:04
  on these streaks for like, you know, four or five games, six
• 1:09:07
  games, maybe, you know, a couple series, right?
• 1:09:10
  We're talking, you know, you know, 22 home, you know, home
• 1:09:14
  stands or whatever. We're talking here and they go
• 1:09:16
  off and this is what this guy did.
• 1:09:19
  I, I don't know what his like overall numbers are this year,
• 1:09:24
  but I'm I'll look, but I'm not picking them up.
• 1:09:29
  You know what I mean, You know? How it goes, right?
• 1:09:32
  They have this amazing week, so everybody picks them up and
• 1:09:34
  starts them right to try to ride that wave and they go like one
• 1:09:40
  for 20. It's exactly.
• 1:09:42
  That's exactly what happens. Yeah, let's.
• 1:09:46
  All right, so let's dive into pitching right?
• 1:09:48
  We got giant sighting pitcher Robbie Ray, who's for some
• 1:09:52
  really weird reason is only only 66.7% of ESPN leagues, which is
• 1:09:57
  to me, bizarre man. He is putting together almost
• 1:10:02
  similar to that Cy Young year he had years a couple of three or
• 1:10:05
  four years ago now. Great week, right?
• 1:10:08
  Two and O, 13 innings pitch, 13 strikeouts, four walks, one
• 1:10:11
  earned, give you 48 points. And it wasn't like one of those
• 1:10:16
  starts wasn't obviously the Rockies.
• 1:10:18
  That's a start you should win. He did beat the Cubs.
• 1:10:21
  So you know, that's a really good team.
• 1:10:24
  Next up, you got that starting pitcher and we were talking
• 1:10:27
  about the Royals earlier, Chris Mubic, starting pitcher, relief
• 1:10:31
  pitcher, eligible, 84% owned. I can't believe he's more owned
• 1:10:35
  than probably right, but it is what it is.
• 1:10:39
  He went two and O he had 10 strikeouts in 12 innings, 2 two
• 1:10:43
  walks, nowhere. He gave you 40.76 points.
• 1:10:47
  But his starts though were a little less impressive because
• 1:10:50
  it was the White Sox and the Orioles.
• 1:10:52
  Honorable mentions for hitters, you got Shohei Otani with 37, so
• 1:10:56
  that was a bounce back because he made our who's who's not list
• 1:10:59
  last week. Bobby Woods junior gave you 37.
• 1:11:02
  Then on the flip side, you got Max Freed who gave you almost
• 1:11:05
  40. He gave you 39.
• 1:11:07
  And Hunter Green, who if he wasn't pulled from that start,
• 1:11:10
  was on the verge probably being the highest score for the week,
• 1:11:12
  he gave you 37. So just imagine if he ended up
• 1:11:15
  completing that, giving you the win and the quality start,
• 1:11:18
  you're looking at over 50 points.
• 1:11:20
  So yeah, that that, I mean it really good offensive week from
• 1:11:24
  the players that you drafted that should be producing like
• 1:11:27
  that every week. Yeah, those last two guys,
• 1:11:30
  Hunter Green, like we said, that's guy that's going to be
• 1:11:33
  talked about a lot this year. Central side young guy for sure.
• 1:11:37
  And then even Max Reid really settling in with New York,
• 1:11:39
  really pitching well there. And I think that's what makes
• 1:11:42
  New York stand out the most, especially in the ALES.
• 1:11:44
  There's their pitching. Carlos Rendones have been pretty
• 1:11:47
  good for him so far at this point.
• 1:11:49
  So there's there's a lot of positives to take away from
• 1:11:51
  there. But back to these guys on the
• 1:11:53
  board, though. I mean, Robbie Ray finally
• 1:11:56
  healthy. He's looking great.
• 1:11:58
  He's he's pounding it in there. And I like the, I like the Lions
• 1:12:02
  that he had this week. And he looked good doing it too.
• 1:12:05
  And we looked at the standings. We talked about the Giants.
• 1:12:08
  They're right there in that division race.
• 1:12:11
  They're going to need Robbie Ray to step up and they're going to
• 1:12:14
  ask a lot from him because really there's not too, too much
• 1:12:17
  else going on in that rotation except for Robbie, I think to
• 1:12:21
  this point. Logan Web.
• 1:12:24
  Bob, Excuse me. Yeah.
• 1:12:25
  Logan Webb. How could I forget the web man?
• 1:12:29
  But you know, obviously they got Justin Berlander there too.
• 1:12:32
  Obviously he's not the same guy that we we love and and know.
• 1:12:36
  So you can't expect him to to obviously be the same guy.
• 1:12:40
  So, but yeah, Robbie Rae's been a bright spot.
• 1:12:43
  That's why they signed him to a multi year contract even when he
• 1:12:46
  was hurt. So he's going to be just fine.
• 1:12:48
  I I, I'd love to have him on my team if I could.
• 1:12:51
  And then, yeah, Chris Buick here is good.
• 1:12:55
  Good for him. You know, this is what Kansas
• 1:12:57
  City does. I feel like recently they just
• 1:12:58
  kind of they're starting to just produce pictures when they go
• 1:13:01
  there. So he's the next guy up.
• 1:13:04
  We saw Michael Walker there. Now we saw it with Seth Lugo
• 1:13:07
  coming out last year having a really good season.
• 1:13:09
  You know, from where you got him, you probably picked him up
• 1:13:11
  or drafted him late and now you got this guy that's producing
• 1:13:15
  pretty well or again, a red hot Kansas City Royals team.
• 1:13:19
  So this is a guy that, like I said, I like pitchers that play
• 1:13:23
  on good teams. I'm I'm about that.
• 1:13:27
  And if they're, if they're, you know, mediocre, so be it.
• 1:13:30
  I still might get that that win in the back end.
• 1:13:32
  So this is the guy I would definitely take a flyer on, pick
• 1:13:35
  him up. You know, Baltimore White Sox,
• 1:13:40
  maybe not as impressive, but he's still got the job done.
• 1:13:44
  That's the most important part. That's what you're supposed to
• 1:13:46
  do when you're a good baseball team, beat up on the bad ones.
• 1:13:49
  So yeah, I, I, I'd ride them out.
• 1:13:52
  What do you think, Doug? Yeah, I mean, he's, he's got
• 1:13:55
  that relief eligible too. So that kind of makes him a
• 1:13:58
  little more valuable in a lot of, especially in like weekly
• 1:14:02
  leagues where, you know, you're only starting a handful of guys.
• 1:14:06
  He can give you 2 starts from that relief role.
• 1:14:07
  And obviously you're going to start him if it's the White Sox
• 1:14:10
  and the Orioles, right? Worst case scenario you get the
• 1:14:13
  win and you get a loss, but you get so many points from the win
• 1:14:15
  and the quality start in most leagues.
• 1:14:17
  A loss if he did lose for to the Orioles wouldn't really be that
• 1:14:21
  that far fetched, right? I mean if he gives you 20 points
• 1:14:25
  and then ends up giving you -3 or 4, you're still getting 17
• 1:14:28
  points. Which isn't isn't horrible.
• 1:14:30
  I mean, that's probably what you would get from a closer in that
• 1:14:32
  spot anyways, a good closer in most cases.
• 1:14:36
  Exactly. Yeah.
• 1:14:38
  So on the flip side of that, we're going to dive into who's
• 1:14:42
  not hot this past week, and there are a couple familiar
• 1:14:46
  faces on this list. Yeah, we'll go hitters and then
• 1:14:50
  we'll go pitchers, right? Cubs, outfield, DH, Saya Suzuki.
• 1:14:55
  This is the second time on this list, believe it or not, I think
• 1:14:58
  the first or second week of the year he was on it as well.
• 1:15:01
  A lot of strikeouts, and he's back to that again. 90 / 90%.
• 1:15:05
  Oh 90.7 was over 95% during his hot streak a couple weeks ago.
• 1:15:11
  074 average, no home runs, three ribbies, one run, zero stolen
• 1:15:17
  bases, 10 strikeouts and 27 at bats.
• 1:15:20
  He gave you -4 points for the week.
• 1:15:24
  And then Astros second base outfield Jose Altuve.
• 1:15:27
  He's still 95.8% owned. 154 average, no home runs, no
• 1:15:32
  ribbies, two runs scored, no stolen bases, 4 strikeouts and
• 1:15:36
  26 at bats. And he just gave you 2 points,
• 1:15:39
  two points for the week. Yeah.
• 1:15:43
  I mean, I don't think none of these these names, I don't think
• 1:15:46
  the hitters at least surprised me.
• 1:15:49
  It's. They're.
• 1:15:51
  Both on it for the second time, different different weeks, but
• 1:15:54
  same same thing. You know, I mean Altube is still
• 1:15:58
  making contact and and say is still striking out.
• 1:16:02
  Yeah, two big keys right there. I mean, we knew Altuve was
• 1:16:05
  probably going to take a step back a little bit.
• 1:16:07
  That line up kind of depleted a little bit over the offseason.
• 1:16:11
  Who's Bregman? He's getting a year older now.
• 1:16:13
  He's changed positions. But yeah, the hitting has been
• 1:16:17
  really there for Jose Antuve to this point so far this year, to
• 1:16:20
  our liking at least. And yeah, Suzuki is definitely
• 1:16:24
  one of those, you know, hot, cold guys.
• 1:16:25
  When he's hot, he's he's a really, really good hitter and
• 1:16:28
  obviously we talked about the Cubs great line up too, but when
• 1:16:31
  he's not playing well, he can do some damage to you on the the
• 1:16:35
  bad side, 10 strikeouts in a week is a lot of strikeouts.
• 1:16:38
  That's not good. That's that's doing you more
• 1:16:41
  harm than good. And that's a guy that's tricky
• 1:16:43
  too, because he's like a #3 #4 outfielder, you know, in that in
• 1:16:48
  that realm when he's good, you know, even a utility spot,
• 1:16:51
  depending on what your offense looks like.
• 1:16:53
  So sometimes you don't have like the right options.
• 1:16:56
  So when you put them in, you know, you can kind of get, like,
• 1:16:59
  a bag of tricks. You don't know what sometimes
• 1:17:01
  you're going to get at the other end.
• 1:17:04
  Yeah. It's just it's unfortunate to
• 1:17:06
  see these guys again on this list, too.
• 1:17:09
  Like, we talked about Otani last week.
• 1:17:11
  You know, we joked around a little bit, you know, lost all
• 1:17:13
  faith. But honestly, we knew that
• 1:17:15
  wasn't the case. We knew he was going to be right
• 1:17:16
  on that hot list pretty close to it, at least sooner than later.
• 1:17:21
  But yeah, these guys you probably took, you know, Altuve,
• 1:17:25
  you probably took a little bit earlier than you thought, right?
• 1:17:27
  You know, 5th, 6th round, second base, top three or so people
• 1:17:33
  like their Altuve, they got their guys.
• 1:17:36
  Altuve is definitely a guy like that.
• 1:17:39
  So what do you do with a guy like Altuve now?
• 1:17:42
  Do you hold them? Do you do you try to sell them
• 1:17:44
  for what he is right now? Like that's a good buy sell
• 1:17:49
  question for for Jose Altuve, what do you do?
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  I would, I don't know, I'd, I'd probably hold on to him.
• 1:17:57
  I'd play him at second. Obviously if he can get better
• 1:17:59
  outfielders in, in fantasy, I think a free agent outfielder
• 1:18:03
  will probably give you more points than what he's giving you
• 1:18:05
  in the outfield. I think you play him at 2nd and
• 1:18:08
  you ride him out. I mean, he's not obviously he's
• 1:18:10
  not giving you a ton of points, but he's not also giving you
• 1:18:12
  negative points. You know, still only four
• 1:18:16
  strikeouts on the week. That's not insane.
• 1:18:19
  Like it's not crazy. I still I would still ride him
• 1:18:24
  out. You know, I still think he's
• 1:18:25
  he's good. I don't think he's this bad.
• 1:18:28
  But again, like, like we had talked about earlier, you know,
• 1:18:30
  that line up has you lost Bregman and you lost Tucker and
• 1:18:35
  Bregman is a top three or top four third baseman in fantasy
• 1:18:41
  and Tucker is a just a top five hitter period in fantasy.
• 1:18:45
  And you know, you're not really replacing those with similar
• 1:18:48
  bats. So of course you know
• 1:18:50
  everybody's going to get worse in that line up because you're
• 1:18:52
  losing, you're losing that. I mean, like we talked about in
• 1:18:55
  Baltimore, right, very similar situation here where you're
• 1:18:58
  losing players and you're not really replacing them with as
• 1:19:02
  high quality as as the players you lost.
• 1:19:04
  So I would hold play them a second and see what happens.
• 1:19:08
  I like that. Yeah, I agree with that.
• 1:19:10
  I think I think I'd rather have them on my team at this point.
• 1:19:13
  And you know, if you, if you have another second baseman
• 1:19:15
  that's that's playing better, hey, good for you.
• 1:19:18
  Put them in right, you know, you might have bloated up on 2 or
• 1:19:21
  you had a guy that plays multiple positions and they just
• 1:19:25
  ended up hitting. So yeah, I'm on.
• 1:19:29
  I'm on the same board though. I'd rather have him just on the
• 1:19:31
  bench or at least on the roster. All right, so on the flip side
• 1:19:36
  of that, it's going to starting pitching, right?
• 1:19:40
  Tampa Bay starting pitcher Shane Bass.
• 1:19:42
  He is 47.5% owned. He was 85% owned.
• 1:19:49
  Look at that. It's amazing what just a week or
• 1:19:51
  two weeks of of just being mediocre can do to your
• 1:19:54
  ownership percentage, right? He is O and one, only three and
• 1:19:59
  a third in each pitch. 3 strikeouts, two walks, 6 earned.
• 1:20:02
  He give you -6.4 points against the Phillies.
• 1:20:07
  So I mean, you can kind of understand that one, right?
• 1:20:10
  Mariners tiny pitcher Bryce Miller, he's 78.7% owned.
• 1:20:15
  He was 92% owned. So again, you're looking at.
• 1:20:19
  You know, a couple weeks of just mediocre play and what that does
• 1:20:22
  to to the owner percentage of some of these players.
• 1:20:26
  He did not get a win. He did not get a loss.
• 1:20:28
  He went 4 innings. He had a strikeout, no walks, 4
• 1:20:31
  earned -1 point. That was against the A's though.
• 1:20:34
  So I mean, that's a winnable match up in my opinion.
• 1:20:37
  I can understand the frustration.
• 1:20:39
  Couple honorable mentions. I will say Jordan Alvarez did
• 1:20:42
  give you -1 point, but I did not put him on this list because he
• 1:20:45
  did hit the IL and that was only really for two games of the week
• 1:20:49
  last week. So it kind of wasn't fair to
• 1:20:50
  him. Marcus Simeon, William Contreras
• 1:20:53
  all had two for the week, so again, nothing sexy.
• 1:20:59
  Luis Giolito, I could have put him on here.
• 1:21:01
  He gave you a -7 but I still think he's returning from
• 1:21:05
  injury. He's still trying to work things
• 1:21:07
  out. I didn't want to put him on the
• 1:21:09
  spot yet because I feel like he'll probably be on the spot
• 1:21:12
  maybe next week. And then Max Mayer, a little
• 1:21:16
  surprised there. He gave you a -2.6 so.
• 1:21:21
  Yeah, so I think I was just saying the the theme this week
• 1:21:25
  seems like these guys that come like out of a bat out of bat out
• 1:21:30
  of hell. You know, in the beginning of
• 1:21:32
  the year, like we saw with Jane Baz and we saw with Bryce
• 1:21:36
  Miller. Bryce Miller has some really
• 1:21:37
  good starts early on. Shane Baz looks like he actually
• 1:21:41
  put it together right up until about this point.
• 1:21:44
  So the the shame bad experience, I think is over.
• 1:21:46
  I think that the Bryce Mill experience is over.
• 1:21:49
  The Max Mayor experience is over.
• 1:21:51
  You know, these are guys that are very young.
• 1:21:53
  They're still young and and they're going to be just fine.
• 1:21:56
  I think long term, I think they're all very rosterable
• 1:21:59
  still too by by all means because of their upside.
• 1:22:03
  You know, and we see it in little little sparks and these
• 1:22:10
  are guys that are probably about a year or two out from really
• 1:22:13
  putting it together like we're seeing with like hunter green.
• 1:22:16
  I mean you can throw even like Mackenzie Gore this year is
• 1:22:18
  having kind of a a nice like pick up year a little bit from
• 1:22:21
  last year. Clearly has ace stuff when he
• 1:22:24
  puts together and I think, you know, these three guys have as
• 1:22:29
  good as stuff as those guys. So maybe they're just a year
• 1:22:33
  off. You know, you can throw Jack
• 1:22:35
  Leiter in that conversation too. Came out, got hurt, has putting
• 1:22:38
  it back together since he's come back from the IL.
• 1:22:42
  You know, this is what happens in fantasy.
• 1:22:44
  We we react too fast sometimes. It's, you know, you got to you
• 1:22:48
  got to hold, you just got to stick with it.
• 1:22:50
  And you know, it's it's sometimes frustrating because
• 1:22:54
  you get excited about these guys that perform well and then they
• 1:22:57
  just fall off a Cliff. You really thought you got like
• 1:22:59
  a bargain in the draft or you got to steal pick up.
• 1:23:02
  But in reality, you just got it at the right window at the right
• 1:23:04
  time. And then the most important part
• 1:23:06
  is to know when to move those guys too.
• 1:23:11
  Yeah, no, I I totally agree. You know, I still think like you
• 1:23:15
  said, I think like next year, Bryce Miller will probably
• 1:23:19
  really put it together. I think he's a solid arm.
• 1:23:21
  Shane Baz, when he's healthy and he's on, he's he's a great
• 1:23:24
  pitcher. You know, Tampa Bay knows what
• 1:23:26
  they're doing. So it's just they just I mean,
• 1:23:30
  on the flip side of that, their their offense is amazing.
• 1:23:33
  Like again, they're on a team where if you giving up two or
• 1:23:36
  three runs, chances are you're probably not going to get a win.
• 1:23:40
  And unfortunately in fantasy, especially in points leagues
• 1:23:43
  like wins are pretty valuable. And I I don't know, it's like,
• 1:23:48
  do I want a Baz or do I want, you know, a mediocre pitcher who
• 1:23:54
  can go out there and pitch for a good offense and get me the win?
• 1:23:56
  You know, and chances are you're probably going to want the
• 1:23:59
  mediocre pitcher, right? But looks like we missed that.
• 1:24:09
  We just dropped the Mikey V. He will be back in a second, he
• 1:24:14
  said. Pesky Internet connection.
• 1:24:16
  There he is, Mikey V. Yeah, like, like, he said, yeah,
• 1:24:20
  those are the guys that I'd rather have as the pitcher.
• 1:24:25
  So yeah, good stuff, great conversations have.
• 1:24:30
  I mean, you know, it'll be interesting to see who makes it
• 1:24:32
  next week. But yeah, let's move on and
• 1:24:36
  let's just go into to a Wheeling and Wheeling, right?
• 1:24:41
  Wheeling. So last week we had said sell
• 1:24:51
  high on it's always going to be two batters and a pitcher,
• 1:24:54
  right? So these are players that in our
• 1:24:56
  opinion had great weeks and you should sell them because they
• 1:25:00
  had a great week because they'll probably end up turning it
• 1:25:03
  around and not having a great couple weeks after ourselves.
• 1:25:06
  So sell them high, right? So last week we had Michael
• 1:25:09
  Harris. I think he had something like, I
• 1:25:12
  don't know, 2526 points. Last week he gave you 6.
• 1:25:18
  So I think that window of selling high on him might be
• 1:25:20
  gone. Bellinger we did say sell high,
• 1:25:23
  but I think he might be finding a stride.
• 1:25:24
  So I wouldn't mind if you held them.
• 1:25:26
  I think we said that too. Maybe hold him if you want to.
• 1:25:28
  He gave you 22 points last week, so that was pretty good.
• 1:25:32
  And Luis Castille, I think he gave you 25 points.
• 1:25:35
  He got the win last week, 2 weeks ago.
• 1:25:38
  Last week he only gave you eight points.
• 1:25:41
  It's nothing crazy to write about, right?
• 1:25:43
  And then on the flip side of that, we had some guys that were
• 1:25:45
  by lows. So those were guys that kind of
• 1:25:48
  gave you that did give you single digit points for last
• 1:25:52
  week that we knew could probably turn together based off their
• 1:25:55
  track record. And for this one, we actually
• 1:25:58
  got re nailed this one I would say, right, We said by low on
• 1:26:01
  Bryce Harper, what does he do? He goes on, gives you 14 points,
• 1:26:04
  solid 14 points, right? We said by low on Manny
• 1:26:07
  Picciotto, what does he do? He gives you 24.
• 1:26:11
  Then we say Bilo and Dylan, C said he pitches almost a no
• 1:26:14
  hitter 6 plus and he's a no hit. He's still giving 19 points.
• 1:26:18
  Pretty good. I would say that's that's pretty
• 1:26:20
  good, pretty solid. No, I I think you're right on
• 1:26:24
  that. Yeah, I think Michael Harris's
• 1:26:26
  window is closing. You know, if you're a Michael
• 1:26:29
  Harris guy or you see the potential, I think that's
• 1:26:31
  definitely something that you can definitely move forward
• 1:26:33
  with. I mean belly man.
• 1:26:35
  I mean, that ballpark is right for him.
• 1:26:37
  It's it's right there for him. It's great it.
• 1:26:45
  It's great. It is a great ballpark to hit
• 1:26:48
  from for him. His swing is nice.
• 1:26:51
  It's a great line up. I think he fits in that line up.
• 1:26:54
  So I I totally do agree that Cody Bounder to me, I think in
• 1:26:59
  our last segment we had said to hold them.
• 1:27:03
  If you want to hold them, sell them if you want to sell them,
• 1:27:06
  wouldn't hate you either way. And I I totally agree with that.
• 1:27:11
  I would probably I have held on to them.
• 1:27:13
  I do own Cody Ballinger one of my points leagues, which I am
• 1:27:17
  going to be 6 and one after this week, which is nice.
• 1:27:19
  It's a it's our money league. But yeah, no, I totally agree
• 1:27:22
  with with that and I would definitely, definitely hold on
• 1:27:26
  to him for sure. Cody, I think Cody Ballinger is
• 1:27:28
  a holder. Again, if you could get your
• 1:27:30
  hands on a Bryce Hopper or Manny Machado or Dylan Cease and pay,
• 1:27:34
  you know, pay a player that you drafted later on for somebody
• 1:27:40
  that was drafted earlier and maybe get a steal on them.
• 1:27:42
  I I think you take it me, I'm a I'm a guy that loves
• 1:27:45
  consistency. Those are consistent guys,
• 1:27:47
  right? Not as not as consistent as it
• 1:27:50
  used to be, right? I think Bryce Hopper is kind of
• 1:27:52
  not that top five first baseman and we're seeing that, right?
• 1:27:57
  We're seeing age and then progression kind of kick in with
• 1:27:59
  him. But Manny Machado, again, older,
• 1:28:02
  like those are older veteran hitters, but they're consistent.
• 1:28:06
  And I would definitely, if you can't maybe put a package
• 1:28:09
  together for him, it's not going to hurt you.
• 1:28:11
  I mean, they're great hitters. They play in great line UPS.
• 1:28:15
  I mean, you could make the case maybe the Phillies are
• 1:28:17
  underperforming a little bit, but who's to say?
• 1:28:20
  I mean, it's tough because you know, they're getting crushed by
• 1:28:24
  the Indians right now. Nola's out of the game.
• 1:28:26
  He didn't look good at all. Again, you got he's been night
• 1:28:29
  and day. So I mean, that's a guy that I'm
• 1:28:33
  sure owners would love to move. It's just tough to move them
• 1:28:36
  because when you going to have the chance to, you know what I
• 1:28:40
  mean? All right, so we discussed all
• 1:28:47
  that. We're still waiting for my TV to
• 1:28:48
  get back in on us. I think he just had to restart
• 1:28:51
  his computer, which is what it is.
• 1:28:56
  But I do have two cell highs and two that are batters. 1 cell
• 1:29:02
  high. That's a pitcher.
• 1:29:03
  Again, these are guys that have really good weeks that we know
• 1:29:06
  just can't continue that traction and if you can get rid
• 1:29:11
  of them and you can get somebody better for them or or somebody
• 1:29:14
  that is a little more steady, pull the trigger and do it.
• 1:29:18
  So once we get Mike EV back, I'll just start letting it RIP
• 1:29:22
  and we'll talk about some of these sell high candidates or I
• 1:29:24
  can just jump right in. Oh, why don't I just jump right
• 1:29:26
  in right now? All right, so I have for my
• 1:29:30
  first sell high candidate based off of last week is Maddie
• 1:29:35
  Chapman. She's coming at no surprise.
• 1:29:38
  Giants third baseman Matt Chapman is 85% owned.
• 1:29:41
  He had a really good week for his standards.
• 1:29:43
  Right bet at 318. Two home runs, 7 ribbies, seven
• 1:29:47
  runs scored, one stolen base, 7 strikeouts and 22 at bats. 32
• 1:29:53
  points. He gave you 5.3 a start in a in
• 1:29:56
  a points league, that 5.3 every time you started and put them in
• 1:29:59
  your line up. That's, I mean, that's a great
• 1:30:02
  number that's untouchable really.
• 1:30:04
  I mean, that's tough to do, but we always say it, this guy can
• 1:30:08
  kill you in a week. And just like last week, he
• 1:30:11
  finished the week with -3 points last week and he made the who's
• 1:30:15
  not list. So I think this is a chance to
• 1:30:20
  move on from a guy you weren't really sold on to begin with,
• 1:30:23
  right? And and maybe try to get a
• 1:30:26
  consistent option. The the Giants lineup isn't
• 1:30:29
  necessarily the best lineup either.
• 1:30:31
  So I think he's still a good bat, but if there's ever a time
• 1:30:35
  to move on, this would be it. He's got 42 KS on the year and
• 1:30:40
  132 at batch, which is over a strikeout a game.
• 1:30:43
  He's giving you right? Why not try to move on from him?
• 1:30:48
  Third base is a is a good third baseman.
• 1:30:50
  It's hard to find. I'm not saying he's horrible.
• 1:30:52
  I'm just, I'm just saying, you know, based off where you
• 1:30:55
  drafted him, now would be a great time to try to trade him
• 1:30:58
  or sell high on him, maybe get a good, maybe a decent arm form or
• 1:31:03
  something. You know, there are Matt Chapman
• 1:31:05
  fans out there. We've we've seen it.
• 1:31:07
  So it's all about what, what you want to do or what you think if
• 1:31:12
  you want to ride and let it ride on Matt Chapman.
• 1:31:15
  What do you mean where are you going?
• 1:31:18
  Ben has some Wi-Fi issues. Florida man down there.
• 1:31:23
  I thought it was going to be a little bit easier.
• 1:31:27
  Sorry about that. No worries man, I held it down.
• 1:31:29
  So I went over to Chapman's numbers for last week. 32
• 1:31:32
  points, 5.3 a start. My opinion on him was I'd sell
• 1:31:37
  high. I mean he's still a good bat,
• 1:31:38
  but you know, he has 42 strikeouts on the year and 132
• 1:31:42
  at bats. He's given you at least a strike
• 1:31:44
  out a game. Last week he gave you 2 weeks
• 1:31:46
  ago he gave you a -3 points for the entire week.
• 1:31:48
  This week he gave you 32. So there was a time to move on
• 1:31:52
  from him. That would be it. 100% I mean,
• 1:31:56
  the guy strikes out way too much.
• 1:31:57
  We already talked about that as 1000 times already.
• 1:32:00
  And I mean, third base is a tough position if you don't have
• 1:32:03
  one. So you know, for instance, from
• 1:32:05
  in my league, I think I got junior Cameron Arrow, who I
• 1:32:08
  thought was going to be a little bit better going into this
• 1:32:10
  season and he hasn't been quite as good as I'd like him to be.
• 1:32:14
  I mean, I picked up Bryce Lewis, you know, he hasn't really been
• 1:32:16
  doing much since he's come back from his Ielston.
• 1:32:19
  So there's kind of limited options out there when it comes
• 1:32:22
  to third base. I mean, Chapman is a cheap
• 1:32:25
  option. You know, he does have weeks
• 1:32:27
  like this. We're gonna talk about another
• 1:32:28
  third baseman that has, you know, kind of similar better,
• 1:32:31
  better power numbers a little bit for sure.
• 1:32:33
  But Chapman's your cheaper version though, I feel of that
• 1:32:38
  other guy. And you can get him at an
• 1:32:40
  affordable price if you're looking for third base help.
• 1:32:43
  And if you're a guy that has Matt Chapman, you might be
• 1:32:46
  starting them. You might be starting them in
• 1:32:47
  like a first third base utility spot there.
• 1:32:51
  He's probably expendable on your team if you have them on your
• 1:32:54
  team. So if you can cash in on
• 1:32:55
  anything at this point, you know, a little bit of pitching
• 1:32:57
  help, maybe a different position that you need to fill fits the
• 1:33:02
  bill. So it could be a win win for
• 1:33:03
  both guys. Yeah, no, I I totally agree.
• 1:33:07
  It's going to be interesting to see how he does on the go
• 1:33:11
  forward. Like I said, it's not a great
• 1:33:13
  line up. You know, there are some
• 1:33:15
  surprises, John who we is really wrecking the ball.
• 1:33:19
  But other than that, I mean Willie Damus is really
• 1:33:21
  underperformed. He was probably one of the top
• 1:33:23
  five shortstops off the board. I could have told you he
• 1:33:26
  shouldn't have been, but he was. So it'll be interesting to see
• 1:33:31
  where he finishes. We know what his number, I know
• 1:33:33
  what his numbers are going to be.
• 1:33:34
  I, you know, I don't think he's going to hit you over 300.
• 1:33:37
  You know, you might see 270, you might see 2530 home runs maybe,
• 1:33:42
  but you'll also see 180 strikeouts.
• 1:33:46
  Oh yeah, all of that. Yeah, All right.
• 1:33:50
  And so like you had said, we'll stay in the realm of third
• 1:33:53
  baseman and another third baseman who had a great week.
• 1:33:57
  But someone who, if there was an opportunity to kind of move from
• 1:34:01
  him, why not do it? There he is, Braves start
• 1:34:04
  baseman Austin Riley. He's 95.7% owned.
• 1:34:08
  So he had a monster week last week for them.
• 1:34:10
  You know, 310, two home runs, five rabies, five runs of stolen
• 1:34:13
  base, 8 strikeouts and 29 at bats.
• 1:34:16
  He gave you 22 total points or 3.1 a start.
• 1:34:20
  So every day he gave you an average 3.1 for the week.
• 1:34:24
  Again, another opportunity to move on from a guy that can kill
• 1:34:26
  you in a week just like Chapman can.
• 1:34:29
  Very similar, although he did average 3.1 a start this week.
• 1:34:33
  For the season he's only at 2.1. Plus he has 50 strikeouts in 154
• 1:34:40
  at bats, so he's giving you over a strikeout a game.
• 1:34:45
  I think the Braves, they have a huge following in fantasy.
• 1:34:48
  There's still people out there that think there's hope for them
• 1:34:50
  to, you know, recreate that magical year they had two years
• 1:34:53
  ago when everybody just had a career year, everybody.
• 1:34:58
  But I say move on from him. I'm not a Riley guy.
• 1:35:01
  I was, I did have him that career year, but I didn't
• 1:35:04
  redraft him the year after. I think you had him, Mike.
• 1:35:09
  And yeah, he kind of just crushed you.
• 1:35:11
  He that's just what Riley does, man.
• 1:35:13
  It's listen, I think the lineup will get better with Ronald
• 1:35:18
  Acuna coming back. How much better, I don't know.
• 1:35:23
  But that's not going to cut down on the strikeouts that Riley's
• 1:35:25
  going to have. You know, he's still going to
• 1:35:27
  give you 180 plus strikeouts a year.
• 1:35:30
  I mean, guy already has 50, so and you're only 1/4 of the way
• 1:35:33
  through. He's on pace for 200.
• 1:35:36
  I don't know, I'm not a fan of him.
• 1:35:38
  I'm not a fan of anybody in that that that Braves line up except
• 1:35:41
  maybe Ozzy, Alby's and you can make the case Marcelo, Zuna.
• 1:35:45
  But other than that, I don't like Olson.
• 1:35:48
  I don't like Riley. I think Hakuna is overrated.
• 1:35:52
  It is what it is. Yeah, Austin Riley's, I think
• 1:35:56
  the the cat's out of the bag with Austin Riley.
• 1:35:59
  I think we know who he is at this point.
• 1:36:02
  You know, obviously a very talented prospect coming up in
• 1:36:05
  the organization showed flashes of of incredible power.
• 1:36:10
  He does hit the ball hard. You got to give him that at
• 1:36:12
  least. He does hit the ball pretty hard
• 1:36:13
  when he does hit it. But you can't strike out at a
• 1:36:16
  30% strikeout rate and be successful in fantasy baseball.
• 1:36:22
  This is a fantasy baseball show. And that's what it's about.
• 1:36:24
  You know, we're not calling him out for being a bad baseball
• 1:36:27
  player. You know, that's not our, that's
• 1:36:29
  not what we do, you know, but when it comes to fantasy
• 1:36:31
  baseball and we talk about points and we talk about what it
• 1:36:34
  does to you, the value of your fantasy team, this guy's not
• 1:36:37
  good for it. It's still toxic.
• 1:36:39
  You know, he shows the, the, the flashes and the pans of
• 1:36:43
  everything that he does. But then once he hits the the
• 1:36:47
  bottom, he he stays to the bottom for a while.
• 1:36:50
  So yeah, this is definitely a guy I would move high.
• 1:36:53
  This is the rich man's Matt Chapman in my opinion, because I
• 1:36:57
  do think he's like a slightly better version of Matt Chapman.
• 1:37:00
  But really though, like they're kind of one of the same, even
• 1:37:05
  though they're in two different classes of each other, I feel,
• 1:37:10
  which is it's weird. It's it's it's kind of weird.
• 1:37:12
  You would I would like to actually dig into that a little
• 1:37:14
  bit more later after the show and stuff.
• 1:37:17
  I'm going to look that up, I think because damn, they they
• 1:37:21
  got some weird and at least, you know, Matt Chapman's a Gold
• 1:37:24
  Glover too, you know, so they're from a baseball perspective.
• 1:37:27
  I think there's a little bit more value there with it.
• 1:37:29
  But. But yeah, it's been a
• 1:37:30
  disappointing kind of career for Austin Riley.
• 1:37:33
  It's really tough to find a guy that's just going to be
• 1:37:37
  consistent in and out. You know, we can probably name
• 1:37:39
  10 guys that are just really consistent in and out and that's
• 1:37:43
  it. It's tough for a guy to have a
• 1:37:46
  really good season like they did.
• 1:37:47
  Like we talked about in the 2021 season when they won the World
• 1:37:51
  Series and to continue that. It's so tough to ask for.
• 1:37:55
  And that's why, like when we talked about the Otani trade I
• 1:37:57
  made last week with Sean for Skeens, it's like, man, the guy
• 1:38:01
  just went 5050 like he's he's not going to do that every year,
• 1:38:05
  right, You know, and now it's like, oh, maybe, you know, but
• 1:38:08
  he looks great, you know, but it's like it's tough to bake on
• 1:38:12
  guys unless like they're this elite status to have these like
• 1:38:15
  repeated seasons. You know, you brought up Matt
• 1:38:17
  Olson. He had those great season.
• 1:38:19
  He had that fifty home run season, you know, same thing.
• 1:38:22
  2021. Never saw that again.
• 1:38:25
  Never even came close to that. A cooter obviously has that MVP
• 1:38:29
  season hasn't even come close to that again either.
• 1:38:33
  So it's it's kind of when I say 21, is it 23 that they won?
• 1:38:39
  Was it only two years ago that they won?
• 1:38:41
  Yeah, a couple years. You know, even though they're
• 1:38:44
  only two years removed, they just never even came close to
• 1:38:47
  repeating any of that. So, yeah, definitely a guy I'd
• 1:38:50
  probably move on from if you have another option.
• 1:38:52
  That third base. Third base is tough.
• 1:38:54
  It's it's hit or miss. It is, it really is.
• 1:38:56
  I mean, like you said, fantasy perspective though I'd rather
• 1:38:59
  have awesome Briley in In real baseball, I'd rather have Matt
• 1:39:03
  Chapman. I like that.
• 1:39:05
  I respect that. Yeah, All right.
• 1:39:08
  And for the pitcher aspect of of this, I'm going to go with Woo
• 1:39:14
  Brian. Woo, the Woo man young guy.
• 1:39:18
  Listen, I'm not saying he's bad, but again, hear me out, right?
• 1:39:21
  Brian Woo, he's only he's 86% owned and ESPN leagues.
• 1:39:25
  He wouldn't want to know in two starts, 12 and a 30 and he's
• 1:39:28
  pitched 14 strikeouts, one walk, 5 earned, gave you 29.92 points.
• 1:39:34
  That was against the Rangers. He shot out the Rangers.
• 1:39:37
  He gave up five earned against the A's.
• 1:39:40
  Again, this was a guy that was drafted really late.
• 1:39:42
  I think round 16 in our draft, right?
• 1:39:45
  Pretty Goodyear going right now, 4 and 144 strikeouts and 44
• 1:39:50
  innings. He's got a 325 ERA.
• 1:39:53
  His wins came against underperforming teams, right?
• 1:39:56
  He beat the Rangers twice. He beat Boston when they were
• 1:39:58
  scuffling at the beginning of the year and he beat the ASI.
• 1:40:02
  Think you could potentially get a great bat for him, especially
• 1:40:05
  with good pitching being so tough to get.
• 1:40:07
  I could totally understand why we would want to hold them, but
• 1:40:09
  I'm just I'm not sold yet, right?
• 1:40:11
  I think you have to show me a few more wins from a a few good
• 1:40:14
  teams before you put them in that category of, hey, I'm going
• 1:40:18
  to keep it hold. Like I said, he did beat Boston,
• 1:40:21
  but that was early April, so it was earlier and that's when they
• 1:40:25
  were scuffling. So I do like him.
• 1:40:27
  I think he's good. He's still really young.
• 1:40:31
  I but like I said, I mean, this is for a guy you drafted in, you
• 1:40:34
  know, the 14th, 15th, 16th round, you could really get a
• 1:40:39
  really good hitter for him. I think, you know, you could
• 1:40:41
  probably get a 10 round hitter for him.
• 1:40:43
  I would I would try to pull the trigger on it because chances
• 1:40:45
  are this guy's riding your bench anyways unless he's a two start
• 1:40:48
  pitcher. So Doug, I'm going to disagree.
• 1:40:55
  I think Brandon Lewis having a little bit of a breakout year
• 1:40:57
  this year. I think this is his coming out
• 1:40:59
  party this year. You know, I'm looking at his
• 1:41:01
  numbers. He's 4 and 144 keys.
• 1:41:04
  He's a strikeout per running guy.
• 1:41:05
  He's got 44 innings, right? So that's what you look for in a
• 1:41:08
  pitcher. That's what we want.
• 1:41:10
  He only has eight walks as well, so he's going to 44 to 8 ratio,
• 1:41:15
  which is a really, really good ratio.
• 1:41:17
  That's, that's pretty good. I mean, his whip, it's under A1.
• 1:41:21
  It's not, it's a .92 so far this year.
• 1:41:24
  So there's no like, you know, it's not a .3 where it's like,
• 1:41:28
  OK, this guy's getting a little lucky here and there.
• 1:41:30
  You know, maybe he's walking guys giving up too many hits or
• 1:41:32
  anything like that. It's not the case.
• 1:41:34
  He's not putting in baserunners. So that's really promising to me
• 1:41:39
  and I had that lucky guy to have him was also me in that 16th
• 1:41:43
  round. I know and and he has been
• 1:41:47
  pretty good. I feel like in my rotation he's
• 1:41:49
  got 109 points. You know, I think we talked
• 1:41:53
  about him last week a little bit.
• 1:41:54
  We said, hey, after his start this week, he's going to be
• 1:41:56
  right in that top 1515 category. Well, right after that start, he
• 1:42:00
  was actually in the top 10 as of today in our league.
• 1:42:03
  He is actually 15th. So spot on with that.
• 1:42:07
  That's great because I do think he's going to stay there.
• 1:42:09
  I think this is kind of like his wheelhouse right there.
• 1:42:12
  I don't think he's going to be a top ten pitcher by any means.
• 1:42:14
  That's not what I'm saying. But I do think what he's doing
• 1:42:17
  in Seattle and Seattle's playing better baseball too.
• 1:42:20
  You know, baseball's starting to heat up in Seattle.
• 1:42:23
  That's why I say you ship Devers to Seattle.
• 1:42:26
  That's where you send them. You get one of these guys back.
• 1:42:28
  You know, I mean, Devers is elite.
• 1:42:30
  You can maybe even get like a George Kirby, Logan Gilbert back
• 1:42:33
  matching him in a Red Sox uniform.
• 1:42:35
  But let me let me go back to the point though.
• 1:42:37
  Brandon Wu, you can sell them right now and you can sell them
• 1:42:40
  high and you will probably get something good for him.
• 1:42:43
  But I don't think, again, there's a bad move here.
• 1:42:46
  If you want to move on from him and get something that you want,
• 1:42:48
  that's cool. But if you hold on to him, maybe
• 1:42:51
  don't have these ridiculous high expectations like I do right
• 1:42:54
  now, be a little bit more realistic.
• 1:42:56
  You know, the 5-6 innings, maybe two or three runs per game.
• 1:43:01
  You know, he's still going to strike out guys, and if Seattle
• 1:43:04
  can continue playing like they had been, they're gonna, you
• 1:43:08
  know, steal some wins. So I think losing a pretty
• 1:43:10
  decent spot right now, definitely worth having on your
• 1:43:13
  team. I'm OK with the weekly league
• 1:43:15
  having him in the rotation. And I'm glad you mentioned the
• 1:43:18
  schedule too, though, because before the show I looked it up
• 1:43:21
  and he's actually got the Yankees and his next outing and
• 1:43:23
  I believe his start after that is San Diego.
• 1:43:27
  So the challenges that you're looking for he's about to get.
• 1:43:30
  So this might be the time to trade him because he does have
• 1:43:34
  some tough matchups coming down the road.
• 1:43:35
  He does pitch Tuesday. I don't know if they have a day
• 1:43:38
  off in between. That might make him a two start
• 1:43:40
  this week, which is a really tough two start.
• 1:43:42
  I hope it's not. I think next week he'll be A2
• 1:43:45
  starter, so it's a little easier.
• 1:43:49
  But at the same time though, he is going to be playing San Diego
• 1:43:51
  right off the bat. And I believe if it's San Diego,
• 1:43:54
  I think after that it'd be the Chicago White Sox.
• 1:43:57
  So it's a little easier buffer than the Yankees and San Diego.
• 1:44:02
  But regardless, he's going to be playing some tough teams.
• 1:44:05
  And if you don't believe he's the real deal, you trade him
• 1:44:07
  now. And if you do, you hold on to
• 1:44:09
  him. I'll I'll be hitting the trade
• 1:44:12
  button if I was anybody. We'll be talking about it next
• 1:44:16
  week. He's going to make the cold list
• 1:44:18
  next week like he's going to get rocked by the Yankees.
• 1:44:21
  Stop it. He's.
• 1:44:22
  Going to he's going 5 Ern against the A's five Ern.
• 1:44:27
  Dude, the A's are good. I love the A's.
• 1:44:30
  I think they're I grew. A fun team, but they're not.
• 1:44:33
  They're not good. They're not going to make the
• 1:44:34
  playoffs. I don't know, maybe they.
• 1:44:39
  Just they're fun. I think their offense is, is is
• 1:44:42
  is decent, but I think their pitching is, you know, JP Sears
• 1:44:45
  isn't going to go out there when you're Cy Young.
• 1:44:49
  Not yet, not yet. No, No, he's not there yet.
• 1:44:53
  He's not there either. Or Bebo isn't going to go out
• 1:44:55
  there when you're when you're Cy Young.
• 1:44:57
  I mean, I mean, the athletics are in second place right now,
• 1:45:00
  only three games back. I mean, they're not they're,
• 1:45:03
  they're, they're hanging in there.
• 1:45:04
  They're over 500. That's that's more than some
• 1:45:07
  teams can say. It's true, it's true.
• 1:45:09
  But we'll, we'll see what happens, I mean.
• 1:45:12
  Jacob Wilson. Jacob Wilson.
• 1:45:15
  It's a fun team. It is a fun team.
• 1:45:17
  But I I mean, obviously I don't see him making the playoffs, not
• 1:45:20
  yet anyways. It might be a couple years away,
• 1:45:23
  but you know, it is what it is. I still say you sell on Brian
• 1:45:26
  Woo, but we'll see how he does. You know, maybe he'll go out and
• 1:45:29
  pitch a gem against the Yankees and then I'll come back here
• 1:45:31
  next week, next Friday and say, well, you know what?
• 1:45:33
  I was wrong and I will show this clip.
• 1:45:36
  But he rocked. I'm going to say I was right and
• 1:45:40
  then I'm going to show this clip.
• 1:45:44
  Either way, you're getting the clip.
• 1:45:46
  It's true, man. You're, you're going to see it.
• 1:45:47
  I I need to make sure I time stamp it and I went 45 right?
• 1:45:51
  I went 45. It's an easy number to remember.
• 1:45:56
  We'll go back. We'll go back to this.
• 1:45:58
  We got 15 minutes. Let's go right into some of the
• 1:46:02
  by lows I have first and foremost, and you might be
• 1:46:08
  saying well why is this a buy low?
• 1:46:09
  Let me go over his numbers and you'll understand right?
• 1:46:12
  It's the Big Bear. He's only DH eligible.
• 1:46:15
  That's another reason why he could probably buy low on him.
• 1:46:18
  You can only play him in utility spot or DH.
• 1:46:21
  Marcelo Zuna 86% on he hit 250, no one runs, one ribby, one run
• 1:46:27
  scored, no stolen bases, 8 strikeouts and 24 at bats. 6
• 1:46:30
  points though, so it's not he'd be any negative.
• 1:46:33
  I think he had a few rough weeks, you know, last week and
• 1:46:36
  the week before, but he's still averaging 2.3 year, 2.3 a start.
• 1:46:40
  Excuse me for the year which is still anything over.
• 1:46:44
  I think like 2.2 is is decent, 2.3 is startable.
• 1:46:49
  I mean the only reason I would buy low on him is because to me
• 1:46:52
  last year he was the best hitter in that Braves line up.
• 1:46:55
  Without a doubt, hands down the best hitter and I think when
• 1:46:59
  Hakuna is back in that line up, you should see his numbers go
• 1:47:01
  up. Now this was a guy that was
• 1:47:02
  drafted in eight to 10th round, which tells me you might be able
• 1:47:07
  to give up someone you got much later in the rounds form, right?
• 1:47:11
  I mean, the guy does have 31 walks and 32 strikeouts, so I'd
• 1:47:15
  buy low on them. I would, you know, maybe a Brian
• 1:47:19
  Wu. That fits the bill.
• 1:47:22
  I like the Brian Wu drop there. Yeah.
• 1:47:25
  I mean, the Big Bear, he's just a kind of a consistent guy.
• 1:47:29
  He is kind of like your modern day JD Martinez right now, isn't
• 1:47:32
  he? Just the power that he brings
• 1:47:34
  with it and the veteran leadership that he's got a
• 1:47:37
  little bit now. He's been in the league for a
• 1:47:39
  little bit. Always a nice bat to have.
• 1:47:42
  Like you said, the utility just being DH is kind of a wrench in
• 1:47:46
  it. There's a couple other guys that
• 1:47:47
  kind of fit that too. You know, I think Brent Broker
• 1:47:49
  is also another guy that kind of has the same issue.
• 1:47:53
  It's a very good bat, but it's just you only got one place for
• 1:47:57
  him and you're just going to have to, you know, fill it,
• 1:47:59
  which is OK. You know, if you're producing,
• 1:48:00
  you're producing still, right? But yeah, I think if there's
• 1:48:05
  going to be any light on that Braves team, I know they picked
• 1:48:08
  it up a little bit recently, but it's Ozuno.
• 1:48:11
  Ozuno is still just a, he's just a good hitter.
• 1:48:14
  He just knows how to hit the ball well.
• 1:48:16
  You know, I brought up Monday, JD Martinez, you know, I don't
• 1:48:21
  think he has as many or will have as many, but like a Nelson
• 1:48:24
  Cruz type, just like just a big bat in your lineup.
• 1:48:28
  And he hits for a good average too.
• 1:48:30
  He doesn't like, you know, chunk changey on that.
• 1:48:33
  He does hit for decent average. So yeah, definitely a guy.
• 1:48:36
  I had one on my team, Brandon Wu.
• 1:48:39
  I don't I don't hate it. I'll be honest with you, Doug.
• 1:48:42
  Tim sent me a trade. It's Brandon Wu too.
• 1:48:46
  He wanted to trade Brandon Nemo. He sent me a trade earlier I
• 1:48:52
  think this morning. I got it and it was Nimmo was in
• 1:48:55
  in somebody else and it was for a pitcher.
• 1:48:57
  So he's obviously trying to build up his rotation.
• 1:49:00
  He sent me, two of them. He sent me.
• 1:49:02
  Right away. He sent me, it was one for one
• 1:49:05
  for Woo and then it was one for one for Freddy Peralta, but it
• 1:49:08
  was also Nemo. I don't think he he doesn't
• 1:49:11
  understand. I don't need an outfielder.
• 1:49:13
  I only understand that Nemo isn't really that good.
• 1:49:17
  Nimmo's 29 point game he he's really not that good, no.
• 1:49:23
  His his OBP is like 270 I think it's it's super low.
• 1:49:27
  Oh, Casey Miz and Brandon Nemo for Shoda, no.
• 1:49:34
  Casey Mitch is also one of those guys too.
• 1:49:36
  We were talking about the Max Mayers and and those guys like
• 1:49:40
  Casey's the same boat. He hasn't shown it the whole
• 1:49:43
  entire year yet to to earn Now those stripes.
• 1:49:47
  That's a that's a wishy washy pitcher right now.
• 1:49:50
  Yeah, wishy wash. Yeah, all.
• 1:49:52
  Right. So we got about 10 minutes.
• 1:49:53
  So let me just, you know, just drive through this and and the
• 1:49:57
  next one is just for the sake of the segment.
• 1:49:58
  All right, hear me out. You know the man here he is.
• 1:50:04
  Threw his outfield Jackson trio. He's 97.9% owned.
• 1:50:08
  He was almost 100%. I think all great players of
• 1:50:13
  Freddy Freeman, Jose Ramirez, they're all 99.8% owned.
• 1:50:17
  He was 99.8% owned. He that doesn't have to drop to
• 1:50:20
  97.9. Not a good week, I guess a so so
• 1:50:25
  week I take it back 217 no home runs, no ribbies, two runs, 3
• 1:50:28
  strikeouts, 23 at bats. He gave you 9 points right 1.5 a
• 1:50:32
  start. I think the problem with keeping
• 1:50:34
  players after a great rookie year is that you really don't
• 1:50:36
  know what you'll get. You know, are they going to
• 1:50:39
  continue the tier? Are they going to drop and and
• 1:50:42
  be the, you know, the player that you might not expect them
• 1:50:47
  to be? Like there's so many question
• 1:50:48
  marks when it comes to that stuff.
• 1:50:50
  So, you know, I think for a player that you either kept or
• 1:50:56
  drafted in the third round, he's underperforming.
• 1:50:58
  No doubt about that. It's the guy that was drafted in
• 1:51:00
  probably the top three rounds. He was kept in our league.
• 1:51:03
  He is underperforming. Don't give me, I'm not saying
• 1:51:06
  he's bad. You know, he's still averaged
• 1:51:07
  2.5 a start, but he's batting 256.
• 1:51:11
  Let's be honest. And let's not forget about
• 1:51:14
  Corbin Carroll. You know, he was in a similar
• 1:51:16
  thing last year, right? Obviously it was way worse.
• 1:51:19
  So, you know, Corbin's first two months were horrible, but they
• 1:51:24
  weren't overall, I think the numbers weren't where you get
• 1:51:28
  these players at. You know, these second year
• 1:51:30
  players. This is this is, you know, you
• 1:51:33
  kind of question it, right? If you draft them early, you
• 1:51:36
  keep them. You're expecting somebody to be
• 1:51:38
  hot right out the gate. And you know, he struck out four
• 1:51:41
  times the first game of the year did hit a couple home runs that
• 1:51:44
  week, which was nice. But I feel like owners would
• 1:51:48
  more than likely right now entertain offers for him.
• 1:51:51
  You know, maybe a 2 for one or something.
• 1:51:52
  But I think you you do entertain a couple offers for him.
• 1:51:56
  I wouldn't surprise me. You have to right, because he's
• 1:51:58
  not the guy you got. You own them.
• 1:52:00
  Would you if someone gave you a 2 for one?
• 1:52:03
  And I'm not talking about like trashy 2 for ones.
• 1:52:05
  I'm talking about like good, decent 2 for ones.
• 1:52:08
  Would you? You have to you.
• 1:52:09
  What would you do? Stuff, I mean, in in our league
• 1:52:15
  specifically, it's a keeper league.
• 1:52:18
  I just drafted Cheerio. We have a two year limit on how
• 1:52:20
  many guys you know you can keep. So I can keep him for two years.
• 1:52:23
  So I'm not really looking to move Cheerio right now because I
• 1:52:27
  think he's one of those guys. I think I might depending on how
• 1:52:30
  he finishes the year. Look, last year he he had a
• 1:52:33
  tough start in the year last year too, in his rookie season
• 1:52:37
  and but really, really picked it up at the end of the year and
• 1:52:41
  really came full circle. And he had a great spring this
• 1:52:44
  year and he came out really high of the gates.
• 1:52:46
  And you're going to have these waves of of ups and downs just
• 1:52:50
  like every other player does. But you know, I'm looking at his
• 1:52:53
  stats today. He's got three hits today.
• 1:52:55
  He only struck out once and he's got two stolen bases and he's
• 1:52:59
  he's got a run. So like he's he's back producing
• 1:53:01
  it looks like, which is great. No, I don't think I'm going to
• 1:53:05
  move him even in like a a standard league.
• 1:53:07
  Re draft leagues, I don't think I'd move them either because
• 1:53:11
  outfield is one of those flaky positions.
• 1:53:13
  It's it tears off at the very end too.
• 1:53:16
  You know, I do think there's like good 1520 outfielders that
• 1:53:19
  are that are solid and then there's a big dip.
• 1:53:22
  So unless like I'm getting like you said, 2 elite guys back in
• 1:53:27
  return, Cheerio probably went, you know, second, third round or
• 1:53:30
  so in drafts. You know, my capital is still
• 1:53:33
  high on him because I know what a ceiling is.
• 1:53:35
  He's a 5 two player. I'm probably not going to move
• 1:53:38
  him. I I think he's just too good.
• 1:53:40
  You said the same thing about Corbin Carroll last year.
• 1:53:43
  Yeah, well, look how he's doing now.
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  If you were to keep a league and you.
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  Know you wouldn't be out of this world to at least entertain
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  offers. I'm not saying you move them,
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  I'm just saying you're you. You'd entertain offers more now
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  than you would at the beginning of the year.
• 1:54:02
  Yeah, you know what it is though, too.
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  Like I, I, we, we do the same fantasy league.
• 1:54:07
  You and I both know I would not get the right value for Jackson
• 1:54:09
  Cheerio in our league. No, like it's I'm going to call,
• 1:54:12
  I'm going to call out our league a little bit.
• 1:54:14
  We we send some bad offers and it's like, so like I love to
• 1:54:20
  talk about it and I love to entertain it like with you.
• 1:54:22
  And I like realistically like like we're doing now.
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  But in our league specifically, it's like, it's like, come on,
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  Brandon Nemo for Freddy Peralta, like Brandon Nemo for like
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  Brandon Wu, like like what are we talking?
• 1:54:39
  Like, like if we put up, if we put up a poll dog on Facebook
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  and said, would you do this trade?
• 1:54:45
  We would get wrecked on it. People would be like, are you
• 1:54:47
  kidding me? You know, But then we play with
• 1:54:50
  people that are think it's OK. He's trying to see what he.
• 1:54:54
  Can get he's trying to throw shit at a wall and see what
• 1:54:56
  sticks is what he's trying to do.
• 1:54:59
  I mean if you take away Nimmo's 29 point game, the guy's
• 1:55:02
  averaging probably like 1.7. It's like it's, it's not.
• 1:55:04
  He's a free agent drop. So bad like.
• 1:55:08
  But let's let's go get this last guy in.
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  We got 5 minutes here. I got Tony G, He's 40% owned, so
• 1:55:15
  if you don't own him, if he's not owned in the league, I think
• 1:55:17
  you pick him up. He's a buy low guy.
• 1:55:19
  He's just coming back from injury.
• 1:55:20
  Obviously. He's got two starts against
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  Miami. One was a no decision, one was a
• 1:55:24
  win. It's Miami, I get it.
• 1:55:26
  His real test is going to come this weekend, Sunday he's going
• 1:55:29
  against Arizona. Really good team.
• 1:55:31
  You saw what they did to Yamamoto so this is going to be
• 1:55:32
  interesting to see what they do to him.
• 1:55:35
  His last start against Miami wasn't no decision.
• 1:55:37
  He went 5 innings, 8 strikeouts, two walks to earn.
• 1:55:41
  Gave up to earn it. Still still got a no decision,
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  which was kind of weird. You figure that offense would
• 1:55:45
  come into play, but it didn't. 8.4 points To me this is more of
• 1:55:50
  a must add as opposed to a buy load type guy.
• 1:55:53
  But if he is owned in your league you could probably get
• 1:55:56
  him really cheap. Like like now's the time.
• 1:55:59
  But. And I looked at his healthy
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  numbers and they blow me away. When he was healthy in 20/22/16
• 1:56:04
  and 1A21 ERAA 130 innings pitched and 119 strikeouts.
• 1:56:10
  He won 16 games and 130 innings pitched.
• 1:56:14
  Pitchers can't even win 16 games with 200 innings pitched, man,
• 1:56:19
  and that was a with with Ala team offense that is nowhere
• 1:56:23
  near as a lead as it is right now.
• 1:56:25
  So let that sit in. The offense is better.
• 1:56:28
  So I think the winds will be there.
• 1:56:30
  I'm a fan. I'm by and low if I can back
• 1:56:32
  from injury. 16 and 1214. Take them.
• 1:56:37
  Take them if you can and run. I'll keep it short and sweet.
• 1:56:40
  I'll buy them if I don't have any other Dodger pictures on my
• 1:56:42
  roster. That's fair.
• 1:56:46
  They're all good. They all get hurt.
• 1:56:48
  Like once they start getting better, it's good to have just
• 1:56:51
  one. But now that they're out, if you
• 1:56:53
  could have one, you know, a couple of the healthy ones,
• 1:56:55
  they're getting two starts a week now because they're they're
• 1:56:58
  low. So all their pitches are going
• 1:56:59
  just, you know, 5 instead of a six man rotation.
• 1:57:01
  It's 5 right now. So like I said, he's making two
• 1:57:04
  starts this week, right? He he played against man earlier
• 1:57:07
  this week, got the no decision. Probably should have got the win
• 1:57:09
  in my opinion, but it is what it is.
• 1:57:11
  And now he's he's going up against Arizona Sunday.
• 1:57:14
  It's a good match. That's going to be a great game
• 1:57:16
  because he's pitching against a red hot Zach Gallon who was two
• 1:57:21
  in his last two starts. So that is going to be a great
• 1:57:24
  Sunday game to watch. If you're obviously, I'm pretty
• 1:57:28
  sure 90% of fantasy owners have one person from either of those
• 1:57:31
  teams, anybody from the Dodgers lineup or anybody from Arizona.
• 1:57:36
  So it's going to be a great game to watch for Sunday.
• 1:57:38
  I, I'm hopefully, I know it's Mother's Day.
• 1:57:40
  I think my wife wants to, my wife's going to the zoo with her
• 1:57:44
  mother and, and I'm trying to get sick and stay home.
• 1:57:48
  So I think Covid's still going around.
• 1:57:51
  I'm not sure. You guys still do COVID in
• 1:57:54
  Massachusetts? I don't know it's it's either
• 1:57:56
  COVID or one or the other. I think they're the same, but
• 1:57:59
  who knows. And the Bolton sound great.
• 1:58:03
  No, but all right, we got that. That's pretty much it.
• 1:58:06
  I got to wrap it up quick. We only got a couple minutes.
• 1:58:08
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  All right, guys, bourbon and ball.
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