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  The people have spoken. That's something I don't think I
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  would take a chance out of. In my opinion, 218 strikeouts
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  were a guy who was his third year in the league.
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  Now that's a lot of strikeouts. And they're here to deliver.
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  He wants to be on a competitor, period.
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  Bringing you the facts. Jose brings trash man.
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  I fell for that hard. While keeping you up to date.
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  Man, like what a like question mark that is after you leave
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  Cole, you get him out of the game and all of a sudden you
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  don't know what you're going to get on.
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  The other side on all fantasy baseball news.
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  There's a slouch, man. He's just a a potential he's a
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  slug dark horse, winner of a Cy Young.
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  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.
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  A lot more baseball. This is just the beginning guys.
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  That's right. I'll call a Belton up.
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  So look man. Come down here.
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  All right, man, this is Bourbon and ball.
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  I'm Doug. I'm alongside my lifelong friend
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  over here, Mikey V. We're here to bring you some
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  some baseball news, some fantasy news, some fantasy numbers, and
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  just an overall great fantasy conversation here with baseball.
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  Everything you do with baseball here from Bourbon and ball.
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  So of course, the real question is why bourbon?
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  Why ball? Well, we like bourbon, like to
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  sip out of our our bourbon and ball bourbon glass right here.
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  My first sip of the night, actually.
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  Oh, the best if they argue. I know I took a long nap and IA
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  very long nap and I woke up and it was like 6 O clock and I was
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  like so yeah. So we drink bourbon and we talk,
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  we talk baseball. We talk specifically fantasy
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  baseball, but there is obviously baseball talk within there.
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  So our numbers and our information that we give you as
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  far as fantasy relevance is from our ESPN points league.
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  We can do it now. It's a head to head league for
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  over 20 years now, so man, a long time.
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  So I don't want to say we're experts, but we're at least
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  knowledgeable with the trends of some of some of the players that
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  have been around. That's all.
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  You know, we're here to give you some of that information, take
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  away the negativity from it, and make you make your best
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  judgement for what you need on your team.
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  That's all. And of course, we're coming to
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  you live from Patriot Radio, from NBR Radio.
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  Which reminds me, I should probably put this Patriot Radio
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  thing up. We'll be right back a little
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  couple technical difficulties before coming on to the show
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  today all. Right, you got me now.
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  Oh, we hear you loud and clear. Well, you know what it is, is I,
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  I, when I, I always, when I sometimes when I forget to load
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  up the Patriot radio, when I load it up and press play, it
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  kind of takes away my, my broad, my broadband.
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  Anyways, So we're, we're on there.
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  We're on there. So with that said, Patriot
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  Radio, NBR radio, a lot of military affiliation for myself,
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  I was a paratrooper for over six years.
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  I have jumps in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and of
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  course a combat tour in Afghanistan, believe it or not.
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  Yeah, my father was part of the Vietnam, Vietnam War.
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  He was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War and my
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  grandfather was a paramedic during World War 2.
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  So a lot of family ties there as well done.
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  Awesome. So we have man, we have a lot to
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  talk about this week. We're going to start with going
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  around the league again. This is more baseball
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  information as as opposed to fantasy relevance.
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  But of course there's always a fantasy relevance in in baseball
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  information anyways. So yeah, let's just, yeah, let's
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  just go around the league, right?
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  Let's go in. All right, this one is kind of
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  this one throws before loop. All right, and I'm going to I
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  have I have the play. So let me let me just show the
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  play right, I'll show the video and then let's just talk about
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  it because it does kind of upset me a little bit Here it is.
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  What did I say the point was? Soto flies well, deep to laugh.
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  Back toward the wall, and it's off the fence, and Soto will
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  have to stop at first base. He's.
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  Trotting again, and therefore not on sidling de passe.
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  Man, so OK, newly acquired outfielder for the Mets, Juan
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  Soto being criticized, always criticized, right?
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  I guess that's what it is when you sign these mega deals.
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  This time, obviously from the video, it's not for hustling
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  out-of-the-box. Right out-of-the-box, you should
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  have ran. You know, you saw the play, you
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  saw the video. Now, as Red Sox fans, I've seen
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  this done by so many players on the visiting team that they're
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  playing at Fenway, right? And I think this is something
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  that shouldn't be really held for him.
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  I, I guess maybe he's on such a big pedestal because he's signed
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  this big contract and every day he should be hustling all the
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  time. To me, it, it is what it is.
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  Like, I, I mean, you hit a ball, you think you hit a good, you
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  think you get under it. It bounces off the wall and goes
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  for a long single or something like that.
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  I've seen it time and time again at Fenway Park.
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  I've seen people not hustle on, but just specifically because,
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  you know, to me that play was so close that even if he did
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  hustle, there was a good chance he might have not even got, he
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  would have got for a round based off of where that ball was hit.
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  Now, obviously this hasn't been your typical solo year to start.
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  I mean, he's got 33 strikeouts in 47 games.
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  So that tells me he's he's fine from a hitting perspective.
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  But I mean, I would say I would use when he played with the
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  Padres as like a stepping stone for this because his first three
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  months with the Padres, he did not look great at all from from
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  any perspective from fantasy, from baseball.
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  Like his numbers weren't amazing at all.
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  But he ends up coming on strong. The second-half of the Padres
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  finishes a top five bat in fantasy.
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  And you know all those all those well, right, You know, it's, it
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  kind of reminds me of what happened with Devers.
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  It's like people are going to you, you sign this big contract
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  and people are just going to dig into you.
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  And what Devers is doing is he's kind of hitting himself out of
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  all that, you know, Grand Slam a, a three run shot, two home
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  runs, say 25 points in the fantasy round.
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  And people aren't talking about that move to third base right
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  now because he's hitting. And I think, you know, once Juan
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  Soto starts hitting this, this idea of not hustling or not
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  caring is going to go out the window.
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  But I just, I've seen it done by other players.
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  I feel like throwing him under the bus for it is, is kind of a
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  little ridiculous in my opinion. But I mean, that's my take on
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  this whole matter anyways. No, you nailed it with the wall
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  ball stuff, right? You know these guys, a lot of
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  times they don't play every day at Fenway.
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  You'll see a lefty hit it off the wall opposite field and you
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  nail that you they they get thrown at second base.
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  I watched that replay like you said, even if he came
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  out-of-the-box. Hot.
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  And ran the second base that would have been a bang, bang
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  play. And I think it what it is, is
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  that it's just a contract. It's just a big contract that
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  it's, you know, you expect the world, you know, you expect
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  Lutani results. Really when you sign a contract
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  like that where you just every night, you know, there's
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  potential to be something special.
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  And there still can be with Soto.
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  And usually in an instance with like a guy like this, you rely
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  on a guy like this to win baseball games.
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  But The funny thing is usually when you win baseball games, you
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  kind of cut the chatter down. Mets have thirty wins.
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  They're playing fantastic baseball right now.
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  And that's not even with Soto playing that great.
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  So if I was a Mets fan, I'd put up the brakes a little bit and
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  be like, hey, we're winning a ton of baseball games with two
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  games. One of the game, you know, a
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  game back from the NL East and our best player is not even
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  playing to his full. Potential yet?
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  So if I was a Mets fan, I'd be very optimistic and be like,
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  hey, it's all going to be good. You can't have the world right?
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  You can't build Rome in a day, but what you can do is week by
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  week, when the majority of your series win baseball games and
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  you give Sodo time to just figure it out.
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  And I think once the pressure's off of him and I think some of
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  the heat's off of him, then he's going to be his best.
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  So it's funny because I work in an office, a lot of New York
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  guys, I got a couple Mets fans in there.
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  I got a lot of Yankee fans. They know soda very, very well.
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  So there's a little bit of a mixed reaction there.
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  You know, Yankee fans love to see Soto kind of stumbling
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  out-of-the-box because obviously he left the Yankees and a Mets
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  fan, you expected a lot more going into it after that, signed
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  that contract. Ultimately, though, end of the
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  day, don't worry about it. It's all going to be good.
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  I think people are just nitpicking at this point.
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  And I, I mean, a play like that, how can you not nitpick, you
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  know, if you don't really know the dimensions of Fenway, right?
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  So, yeah, he's fine. I'm not worried about it.
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  And if I was in the league and you were worried about Soto, I
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  would buy him in a heartbeat. That's not even a question.
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  Right, and and you make a good point, right.
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  I mean they got thirty wins. They're they're I mean they're
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  just the only way they wouldn't make the play offs is if they
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  play themselves out of it. And that means like not
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  producing at all. But I mean, it's it's weird if
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  you look at how they've been playing though, because they've
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  been winning games, but that offense is not really been
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  playing well these last couple weeks.
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  You know, this is and and I don't want to do a spoiler for a
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  hot, you know, who's hot and who's not, but this is the
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  second week in a row Pete Alonzo's made this list of not
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  being hot, you know, and you got Soto who's struggling.
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  Lindor's, you know, thankfully he's producing.
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  You know, he's usually not a first half hitter, but I mean,
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  he's he's hitting the ball well for this first half.
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  He's still a lot more bags too from that aspect.
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  So you're right. I mean, there's optimism that,
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  hey, listen, you know, Soto's going to come out of it.
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  Obviously give him a couple months, you know, and hopefully
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  Alonso will you'll turn it around to where he was three
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  weeks ago. But it's it's it's tough when
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  you're when you're looking at it and you're like, well, yeah, I I
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  can't understand the conversation of Will.
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  He's not hustling out-of-the-box.
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  He's not, you know, this and that.
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  But I mean, you also, like you said, you know, they got thirty
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  wins, right? I mean, they're, they rotation
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  right now is keeping them afloat, which is bizarre because
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  it's not a named rotation that their highest paid acquisition
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  was Sean Bonea. And I don't, I don't even know
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  when he's coming back from the you know, so it's, it's a weird
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  situation to see them win games with all these people that are
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  just not performing right now. But on the flip side, it's a
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  good thing because when they do perform, then you'll, you know,
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  you'll, you'll see them run away with this.
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  Exactly, exactly. I'm not worried about it.
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  And is there going to be buyers, I believe during the the trade
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  deadline as well. So they'll get some pieces to to
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  recoup that and they're going to make another run.
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  They went to the NLCS last year. I have no reason why they
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  wouldn't make another push to at least get back to that point, if
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  not further right. I'm looking at the standings.
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  Like you say, they're not going to play themselves out because I
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  feel like other teams are kind of already doing that
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  out-of-the-box. You expected more out of
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  Cincinnati. I think this year they're a
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  little bit of under 500 right now.
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  San Diego, I think they got 26 wins, 27 wins, you know, so the
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  Mets have a leg up on them. Same thing with the Giants.
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  They do have a leg up on the Giants right now in the
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  standings. So, you know, they're in a
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  really good spot to just make a nice little run here.
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  They're going to be competitive with Philly.
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  Atlanta's obviously not coming out-of-the-box.
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  Really too hot so far to this point.
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  So you know, it is what it is, but I mean, I, I'd be buying
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  stock on Mets. I you know what it is.
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  It's just a lot of New York fans just love to complain sometimes
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  when when it's not all bad and and and cloudy yet you know
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  it's. Yankee experience of like these
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  fans, just not like he wants Soto because he went somewhere
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  else. I mean, that's baseball to get
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  used to it. I mean, you know the guy already
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  has a World Series ring, right? He got it when he was like 21
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  years old. So he's, he's got what everybody
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  he's chasing, obviously he probably wants to win another
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  one. Don't get me wrong.
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  But you already have the ring. Now you want to get paid.
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  You know, I, when I think of this, I think of Pedro Martinez
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  wins the ring, right? And then signs a big contract
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  with the Mets because the Red Sox weren't going to offer him
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  what he wanted. Listen, as a Red Sox fan, did I
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  hate to see Pedro go? Obviously.
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  And he still had stuff in the tank.
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  He had a pretty decent couple of years.
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  He, I mean, he went ten and seven with Philly three years
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  later. So he had stuff in the tank.
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  So, yeah, it was tough to see him go.
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  But did I hate him for making that decision?
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  Would I Boo him if he came to play, you know, the Red Sox when
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  he was with the Mets? I wouldn't, I'd say good for
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  him. He won the ring.
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  He came to, you know, he wanted to win the ring with the Red
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  Sox. He won it and then he got paid.
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  Soto's doing the same thing. He's just doing a hell of a lot
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  earlier because he's been, so he's been a phenom.
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  He's a, he's a baseball phenom. That's all this is, you know,
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  you don't Boo him because he didn't sign a long term
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  contract, because your team didn't offer him everything you
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  wanted. You just, hey, he's still a
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  great player, you know, tip your cap and move on.
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  You had you had to know that going into the season 2.
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  And I think if you're a Yankee fan, you're probably
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  disappointed that you traded for a guy like a soda, right?
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  And it's not like you gave up nothing for him.
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  You know, Michael Kings was pretty decent.
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  We'll talk about him a little bit later, but he he was a big
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  piece in that trade. And you expected to re sign him
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  after that one year. But like you said, you can't
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  blame a guy for accomplishing all the individual goals,
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  including winning a World Series already and being in the eighth.
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  He is. Why not capitalize on getting
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  with the biggest contract you can at this point?
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  He's got a long, long time to play still.
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  What is he only 20? What, 2627?
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  He's he's a he's a young buck still.
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  You know, he still has a lot in the tank.
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  And then eventually, you know, we always talk about getting
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  older and going to DH and really focusing on that.
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  He's not even close to that point yet.
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  And then when he gets to that point, imagine a Juan Soto just
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  focusing on hitting and not worrying about like he's going
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  to be like, you know, he he's on his way to be a Hall of Famer
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  and he's not there yet, obviously, but man, he's on that
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  that right projectile for sure. So hey, I'm rooting for the guy.
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  Yeah, me too. All right, Next up, we'll talk
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  about, let's talk about the socks for a little bit, right?
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  Let's talk about Walker Buick. So he makes his first start off
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  the IL against the Mets, which we just talked about.
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  And man, you know, you got the adrenaline pumping.
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  You got, you're still throwing hard.
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  He looks great. You know, obviously all these
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  pitchers that are coming back from long IL stints, you know,
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  with Tommy John recoveries and we'll talk about Strider in a
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  little while, but you know, I, I don't think your body's so used
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  to it. So you're going to have these
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  hamstring issues and whatever. So, you know, he's getting back
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  from his own issue and he gets thrown out And I, I actually do
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  have that video of the actual play.
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  So take a look at this. I don't think he's wrong, but I
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  understand where the up's coming from because it just, it was
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  just a, a, a weird throw, you know what I mean?
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  It's like one of those throws where as an hump, you're
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  probably just thinking, OK, you know what?
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  It's it's just a ball. Looks like a throw out you know
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  so but but here to take a look at it and you'd be a judge.
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  Bitch, that's a ball. It's right there.
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  And Bueller's wondering like it's a strike, right?
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  And he's wants the ball and he's going to go back and say that
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  was a strike, right? Two and O.
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  Now it's two and O there's some words because I mean, that was
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  clearly a strike. He's telling him to get back on
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  the mound. The the problem I have here with
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  Esterbrook, OK, Like Walker Buehler said something to him
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  when he's on the dirt. But when the mask comes off and
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  you, you're very confrontational.
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  Yes, You know what I mean? Like Walker, Buehler's been the
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  league of while you know you, you missed the pitch.
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  He has something to say for you from the rubber.
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  That's fine. But when the mask comes off and
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  you're aggressively coming at him, it's very combative and
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  you're escalating it. So, yeah, what a man.
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  I, I got to say I love the video and I I love the call by our own
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  Framingham Lou Maloney back there.
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  That's a loop call all day every day.
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  I know that voice. So, yeah.
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  So he gets tossed for for again. And he was pitching against Juan
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  Soto. I will say, like I said, he
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  looked good. He's hit 95 consistently in his
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  final stat line. You know, 2 1/3, four
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  strikeouts, two walks nowhere and 52 pitches.
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  I do expect him to be a huge fantasy contributor.
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  I even, you know, I, I don't know if it'll be for the whole
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  year because he's still coming back from injury.
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  If there's going to be a limit, whatever, I don't know what's
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  going to happen with that. But I do expect him to be a
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  contributor. With that said, the pitch itself
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  was a strike. You know, you can't argue with
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  the, the angle, the camera view, everything right?
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  The strike zone was there from, I mean, you're enough so you can
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  break this down a little more. You, you know, to me, I get
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  where he's coming from because you know, your catcher ruins
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  that. And what I mean is, you know, he
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  stands up. So the umpire is probably
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  saying, OK, this is going to be this is a throw out, right?
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  He's going to throw it out and he's going to try to see if if
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  they're going to be able to catch the runner at second off,
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  you know, sleeping. It's a pitch out is what they're
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  is what the the up is probably thinking.
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  And most of the time pitch outs are balls.
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  So I get, I get the frustration on both.
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  I just think I think Walker Buick is such a competitive guy
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  and he knows his own and he wanted it, you know, I mean,
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  you're pitching against Juan Soto and this is a, when you
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  pitch against somebody like that, you don't want to be down
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  to an O, right? You want to be 1 and one or one
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  and two or like, you don't want to be two O 3 O on a, on a
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  person like that. So I get where it's coming from,
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  but it what a, what a play, what, what a pitch, what a, a
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  way to start your, your first start back from the IL, right?
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  It just it sucks because he was pitching pretty well in that
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  game and he was pitching against Juan Soto.
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  So you can't get any bad breaks. And we talked about those Brad
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  breaks last year where, you know, you, you thought you had a
• 19:06
  strike call, it was a ball. And all of a sudden the next
• 19:08
  pitch is a home run. You know, it happens more often
• 19:11
  than you think. We saw it last year with the
• 19:14
  Oscar Hernandez. Remember that game in Colorado,
• 19:16
  right? That was kind of a spicy game
• 19:18
  there. And there was another one I just
• 19:21
  had in my head and I forgot. But going back to the point
• 19:23
  though, I mean, Lou Maloney called this right?
• 19:26
  You know, he he's such a good play by play color commentator
• 19:30
  when it comes to the game, whether it's on radio or TVI
• 19:33
  feel like he could do any, any game doesn't have to be a Red
• 19:35
  Sox game. He just knows the ball.
• 19:37
  He just knows how to talk the game.
• 19:38
  He understands the game. He understands what's going on
• 19:41
  in the game. So he's just a pleasure to
• 19:44
  listen to. And he broke it down really
• 19:45
  nicely, too. And not for nothing too, you
• 19:48
  know, Juan Kabila's come back from an injury.
• 19:51
  You know, he, he was really starting to pick up some steam
• 19:53
  before he got hurt. And he's a competitor, like you
• 19:57
  said, at the same time. So I want the guy to be
• 20:00
  successful. He will be successful.
• 20:02
  He will be a factor this year for the Red Sox.
• 20:04
  He's clearly getting comfortable.
• 20:06
  He's playing his first full season in a very, very long
• 20:08
  time. And I'm, I'm looking forward to
• 20:10
  seeing what else he has down the pipe.
• 20:12
  And, you know, from an umpire perspective, too, I do call that
• 20:17
  umpire. I don't like that.
• 20:20
  I don't like ripping off your mask.
• 20:22
  I don't like, you know, stepping out, you know, toward him, you
• 20:25
  know, yelling what he needs to be doing and stuff.
• 20:28
  You know, you let the player say what he needs to say.
• 20:31
  You know, if it's not directly toward me when I'm doing a game,
• 20:36
  I'm not going to react and and make a scene out of it.
• 20:38
  I don't have rabbit ears or anything like that.
• 20:41
  People are entitled to to drop death bombs when they want.
• 20:44
  As long as it's not directly toward me as the umpire, I say
• 20:49
  it's fair game. You know, anything can happen in
• 20:51
  the game and you don't have to like it.
• 20:53
  But once you say something to that umpire, you know, then then
• 20:57
  it becomes a little bit more dicey, right?
• 20:59
  But I think what that umpire did was.
• 21:01
  Be egged them. He egged them on there.
• 21:03
  You know, I think Walker was like, well, you know, where the
• 21:06
  fuck was that then? You know, I think that's what he
• 21:08
  was saying. And I think really it wasn't
• 21:11
  toward the umpire. I think he was just pissed.
• 21:14
  I think he was direct and he didn't get an answer from the
• 21:17
  Empire. And I think that's an issue,
• 21:19
  too. And that's why he stood in front
• 21:22
  of the mound and waited for the ball.
• 21:25
  And then the Empire reacted in a completely 180 way, telling him
• 21:29
  to go back on the mound. Well, Walker just got screwed
• 21:32
  here, all right? He's going to have to speak up
• 21:35
  for himself eventually. He's not going to just take the
• 21:37
  ball against Juan Soto, take that ball and be happy and be
• 21:41
  like, oh, I guess it is what it is.
• 21:42
  No, you're going to have some words.
• 21:45
  I think that umpire pushed him to the limit to start saying
• 21:48
  something toward him. He wanted to toss them right.
• 21:53
  And then I look at Alex Corgo out there and I'm thinking to
• 21:56
  myself, where were you 3040 seconds ago?
• 22:01
  I I'm having, you know, we're talking about this one thing
• 22:05
  here, but now I'm kind of going to bring this toward Alex Core a
• 22:07
  little bit because I mean, the Red Sox are kind of coming out
• 22:10
  of the gates a little cold here. He got tossed, right.
• 22:14
  And there's another story with that too, Doug, you know, you
• 22:16
  have Lindor on second base, right?
• 22:18
  And he was making gestures back there.
• 22:20
  You know, he was, he was trying to have some fun, right?
• 22:22
  He's trying to have fun with himself and the Mets being like,
• 22:25
  hey, toss him, toss him. You know, when he gets tossed
• 22:27
  and you know, Thor goes out there and he gets tossed and you
• 22:32
  know, Walker Beulah had some comments on Twitter after he had
• 22:35
  a little post and and pretty much defended himself and said,
• 22:39
  hey, you can't hit the bullpen because they ended up losing.
• 22:41
  The Mets lost that game still. So there was some words there.
• 22:45
  And Walker took that a certain way, right?
• 22:50
  But then Alice Korra has breakfast with Lindor the next
• 22:53
  day and they're all buddy buddy. And I get it.
• 22:58
  You know, this league, we're all friends.
• 22:59
  We're all friends in this league.
• 23:00
  You see him here to here. But I feel like there's got to
• 23:03
  be a line drawn because when I see that as a fan, I get mad
• 23:09
  because for one, you were late. You should have saw that
• 23:13
  escalating. You saw it escalating.
• 23:14
  You should have ran out there to the umpire.
• 23:16
  It's only the 4th inning. He was only 52 pitches in.
• 23:20
  He had another, you know, potentially another 3 innings in
• 23:23
  him to go and he gets tossed and then you come out late, you
• 23:29
  know, and to me, that looks like you're just out there because
• 23:31
  you think you have to be out there to this point.
• 23:34
  And I don't like what I've seen from Alice Cora so far.
• 23:37
  I feel like he's just kind of half fascinate this year.
• 23:40
  And I hate to say that because I was such a big advocate for him
• 23:44
  for a very long time. And then sometimes you just kind
• 23:47
  of outgrow your role. So last year he was aggravated
• 23:52
  because he didn't have enough Major League Baseball players
• 23:55
  going into the season. He thought he had like a pretty
• 23:57
  much a minor league team going into the last season, talking
• 24:00
  about it in spring training. This year, you have a much more
• 24:03
  competitive team. You have better prospects that
• 24:06
  are ready to go, you know, that are ready in, in, in Worcester
• 24:09
  right now. And I, I just think they should
• 24:12
  be a way better team than what they are right now to this
• 24:14
  point. We saw Baltimore make a move,
• 24:18
  you know, about a week and a half ago with their manager
• 24:21
  because I think they also feel the same way, except they're
• 24:23
  playing a lot worse. Obviously, they're playing
• 24:25
  really bad, but they feel like they should be playing better.
• 24:28
  And we need a better voice in here.
• 24:31
  And the problem with Alice Korra, he's a veteran manager at
• 24:33
  this point. So whoever you bring in next,
• 24:35
  it's not going to be like, you know, slam dunk out of the park
• 24:39
  next. Great pick.
• 24:40
  You know, as a Red Sox fan, we talked about Jason Veritec a
• 24:43
  lot, but I don't think he wants that job either, to be honest.
• 24:47
  I think he would have had it by now if he wanted it.
• 24:50
  So there's some disappointment from me just because I think
• 24:53
  Horace sort of spoke up earlier. I think he should have run out
• 24:56
  there. He should have protected Walker
• 24:57
  ahead of time. And then to see him go out and
• 24:59
  have breakfast and be buddy buddy with the guy that was in
• 25:02
  your home ballpark telling him to get thrown out.
• 25:06
  I just, I, I don't like it. I don't like it as a fan.
• 25:09
  I just, I don't know, I could be totally off on that, Doug, but I
• 25:13
  I have an issue with that. I don't mind the the whole
• 25:16
  hanging out for breakfast or whatever.
• 25:18
  That doesn't bother me that, you know, it's like you, you rarely
• 25:21
  see these guys once in a while. So, you know, why not just hang
• 25:26
  out with them when they're in town?
• 25:27
  I'm sure that happens all the time.
• 25:29
  And you know, if, if Lindor was, I don't like you said too, I
• 25:33
  think Lindor was joking when he when he did all that stuff.
• 25:35
  But still, I mean, yeah, I get it.
• 25:36
  I get it from both perspectives. My issue would be like you said,
• 25:42
  why, Why didn't he run to the mound?
• 25:44
  Like you're sitting there, you watch the clip again for 10
• 25:47
  seconds or or maybe 15. You know, they're going at each
• 25:53
  other, right? They they're yelling at each
• 25:55
  other and then he takes off the mask.
• 25:57
  He's saying get on the mound, get on the mound to to Walker
• 25:59
  Bueller. The catcher jumps in.
• 26:02
  That's I mean, he should have ran out there when he started
• 26:04
  saying, hey, get to the mound, get to the mound.
• 26:06
  And then Cora should have ran right in between them and that
• 26:09
  way, whatever, whatever Walker Bueller was saying, he couldn't
• 26:13
  hear him or see Rita's lips because probably wasn't anything
• 26:15
  nice. But totally agree, should have
• 26:19
  been there earlier. And I will say, I mean, as as
• 26:23
  the upgrades they've done to that line up as far as an
• 26:26
  offensive perspective pitching wise, they haven't really done
• 26:31
  much. I mean, like, I mean, it is what
• 26:33
  it is, you know, I mean, Tanner Hawk isn't pitching anywhere
• 26:38
  near what he was, you know, a year ago for the first half
• 26:42
  anyways. Tanked the second-half, you
• 26:44
  know. Yeah, Welcome view is a pleasant
• 26:46
  surprise. He's done a one year deal.
• 26:47
  So he's done. You know, he's he's done after
• 26:49
  this year. Lucas Giolito.
• 26:53
  I don't know why you expected him to be an ace when the CRA
• 26:55
  was always over 4 anyways. He's he's going to give you up
• 26:59
  and down and that's what he is. You know, Bellows been pitching
• 27:02
  decent. You know, this is pretty, pretty
• 27:04
  good so far. But there there's not much out
• 27:07
  there for them. You know, Crotchet, yeah, he's
• 27:10
  he's good. But man, you look at his numbers
• 27:12
  and you know, I think there's only like maybe three starts you
• 27:16
  went over six innings. You know, like he's not giving
• 27:19
  you quality starts all the time, which an ace should probably
• 27:22
  give you. He's giving you a lot of
• 27:23
  strikeouts and that's what drives his pitch count up so
• 27:26
  high. But he's not giving you those
• 27:28
  quality starts and I don't. And when people say, oh, here's
• 27:31
  the ace of the future, I, I, I mean, Mike, you can you, you
• 27:35
  know, I, I don't think Greg Crotch is an ace.
• 27:38
  I've never been on board with him as an ace.
• 27:40
  I, he's a great pitcher. He's great to have in fantasy.
• 27:43
  He's, I think he, you know, he'll give you the strikeouts,
• 27:46
  he'll give you some, you know, high earned runs here and there.
• 27:50
  He's a great 1B, but he is not the 1A that everybody thinks he
• 27:54
  is. And I mean, you're going to,
• 27:56
  you're seeing that, you know, but I, I feel like they could
• 27:59
  have done more from pitching perspective because their, their
• 28:03
  offense is stacked. Like, you know, you talk about,
• 28:06
  you know, the, the studs like Roman Anthony and, and, and
• 28:09
  Marcel, there's still still all they haven't been called up yet,
• 28:11
  right? These are two top 10 prospects
• 28:14
  potentially it you know, so they haven't gotten called up yet and
• 28:17
  they signed Bregman and you know, they're doing good things,
• 28:21
  But then you look at their pitching and they're like, OK,
• 28:23
  well, they have nobody really in the minors.
• 28:26
  That's a top prospect for pitching, right?
• 28:29
  I can't. I mean, not a high top 50 or top
• 28:32
  100. Anyways.
• 28:34
  So now you're stuck trying to build a rotation again and next
• 28:38
  year you're losing G Alito and you use you're losing Walker
• 28:40
  Beulah. You have crotch it and you have
• 28:44
  well, crochet whatever you want and Bello, but you don't have
• 28:48
  anybody else, nobody else. So you're still going to and and
• 28:52
  Bregman could just opt out. You know, he got hurt today.
• 28:55
  So they said it's a quad injury. Who knows how long that is.
• 28:57
  Quad injuries are at least almost a month.
• 29:01
  Who knows what what's going to happen there.
• 29:03
  I don't think the offense is going to lose a beat.
• 29:06
  But now, now and then you you're, you're in a new
• 29:08
  perspective where you're like, OK, we don't have 1/3 baseman.
• 29:10
  Hey, Rafael Devers, the guy we just asked to play first.
• 29:13
  Can you go back to 3rd? Come on.
• 29:17
  I know. And, and it's funny because we
• 29:19
  talked about Christian Campbell getting some reps at first base
• 29:22
  too. You know, they had him go
• 29:23
  playing first base before games trying to get warmed up.
• 29:27
  And I guess he was really ambitious about it.
• 29:29
  He was really ambitious about playing first base, so he wants
• 29:33
  to be a team player is what it is.
• 29:34
  You know, is it the right move? I I don't really know to be
• 29:37
  honest with you, But if you can move him around a little bit,
• 29:40
  you know, he already plays second base in shortstop.
• 29:44
  You can move him to third base for the time being.
• 29:46
  And I think this is an opportunity to call up Mayor at
• 29:49
  this point too. With the Bregman injury, I think
• 29:52
  there's no better excuse right now than not to bring him up and
• 29:56
  and be part of that middle infield of some type or just
• 30:00
  moving to 3rd. He plays shortstop already.
• 30:02
  I feel like that's a pretty easy transition, especially for a
• 30:06
  young guy like that. You think he's only 22.
• 30:08
  So he's he's just, he can do whatever he wants.
• 30:10
  You know, he should be a team player anyway, but they they got
• 30:13
  an option. At least, you know, at least
• 30:15
  there's, you know, a, a, a thing you could do there.
• 30:19
  I don't think Bregman, I don't think Devers is going to go back
• 30:21
  to third. I think they're just going to
• 30:22
  keep him at the age at this point after all the the hoobla
• 30:26
  and everything, you know, I think they'd just rather not
• 30:28
  stir that pot again. And he's been hitting well, like
• 30:31
  we talked about, he's been, you know what, 25 fantasy points
• 30:33
  today that didn't that didn't help.
• 30:36
  You know who's? Going to make the Who's Hot list
• 30:37
  next week. Yeah, yeah, he's been swinging a
• 30:41
  hot bat is right. He, you know, not just today,
• 30:43
  but I feel like the past like week and a half, he's been doing
• 30:46
  what he needs to be doing. His batting averages back up to
• 30:49
  what, 285 or so after coming out of the gate so poor, has a bunch
• 30:53
  of home runs, a bunch of RB is now like he he's back in in
• 30:57
  season form. So it's great to see.
• 30:59
  It just sucks because I think going into the season as Red Sox
• 31:02
  fans, we had higher expectations.
• 31:04
  We saw the roster, we we saw the potential and, you know, now
• 31:08
  we're 40 something games into it and it's been shaky just like it
• 31:12
  was last year. Yeah.
• 31:13
  It's a 500 team. Yep.
• 31:17
  OK, I can run through this one. I'll run through quick, but then
• 31:20
  we'll we'll let's chat on the last the last one because I know
• 31:22
  you this is this is your topic here.
• 31:24
  OK, and we'll talk about this this guy again, Mariner starting
• 31:30
  pitcher George Kirby. He made his long-awaited season
• 31:33
  debut yesterday. He is, I mean, it didn't go well
• 31:38
  and you'll you'll, we'll go over his numbers later on.
• 31:40
  But it was interesting to read that they are going with a six
• 31:43
  man rotation for the foreseeable future.
• 31:46
  So something to keep in mind if you have a couple of these
• 31:50
  starting pitchers, Gilbert Ham, Luis Castille, like these guys,
• 31:56
  if most of them aren't going to get two starts a week, if you
• 31:59
  have one week line UPS. So something to keep in mind.
• 32:03
  And then last but not least, there's been a ton of chatter on
• 32:07
  the Pirates, right? Would they even entertain an
• 32:10
  offer from their phenom starting pitcher Paul Skeens?
• 32:13
  Right? Revolved.
• 32:15
  I mean, you can't help but but read, if you're on any type of
• 32:18
  Facebook page or any type of page with sports, you know he's
• 32:23
  not happy, right? I mean, it's a Pirates
• 32:25
  organization. They usually don't win.
• 32:27
  That's what they do. They produce pictures that end
• 32:30
  up going, signing big contracts and winning elsewhere.
• 32:33
  Garrett Cole, Tyler Glasner, him, you know, so obviously he's
• 32:39
  not happy and he wants out. Well, Ben Cherrington, their GM,
• 32:42
  said it best. He said not at all.
• 32:46
  We're not going to entertain any offers at all.
• 32:50
  You know, this is a guy that is still on a rookie deal, right?
• 32:54
  He's going to be on a rookie deal for the next at least three
• 32:56
  years. So his thing was let's cool the
• 33:01
  talks. Now here's the question, do you
• 33:05
  trade them or don't you? And I, I totally get it, right?
• 33:08
  It's a phenom. Whatever once in a a lifetime
• 33:11
  generational talent, you can put them up there with maybe a Trout
• 33:14
  or or an early Stephen Strasburg.
• 33:18
  You know, somebody like like that.
• 33:20
  Hopefully he doesn't get hurt like him.
• 33:21
  But you know, if I'm the GM and I know I have somebody like
• 33:28
  this, it's tough not to say let's entertain some offers,
• 33:32
  right? I mean, you're talking about
• 33:33
  getting three quality players for a stud who, you know, you're
• 33:37
  not going to be able to re sign anyways after three years, you
• 33:40
  know, we're not going to be happy.
• 33:42
  You know, they don't have a good team.
• 33:44
  You know, there's there's there's nothing good about that
• 33:47
  team. Like I could sit here and say,
• 33:48
  OK, O'Neill Cruz is having a pretty decent year so far.
• 33:51
  I mean, it's early. He's stealing bases.
• 33:53
  He's offsetting all those strikeouts.
• 33:55
  Talk to me at the end of the year.
• 33:56
  OK, But like, honestly, I mean, by Reynolds is, is his year
• 34:02
  isn't, is horrible. I mean, nowhere near what it was
• 34:05
  last year. So, yeah, I get it, man.
• 34:08
  You get there's only so much you can take with with a team that
• 34:11
  when you're losing, you know, think if Tom Brady was on that
• 34:14
  team, I mean, he'd be gone in a heartbeat.
• 34:16
  So I get where where skiing is coming from.
• 34:19
  Now again, you know, I I there are some interesting trade
• 34:23
  offers. I know we talked about one in
• 34:25
  our group about, you know, the Red Sox and some of their top
• 34:28
  prospects. You know it, it's just, I don't
• 34:31
  know, I don't know, you know, it's a tough position for him
• 34:34
  because right now he's probably, Skeens is probably the only one
• 34:38
  that's selling tickets for that team.
• 34:40
  You know, people are going just to see him.
• 34:42
  Nobody else is on there. You know, no offense to Angel
• 34:45
  McCutcheon or you know, any of those guys, but if I'm going to
• 34:48
  see a Pirates game, it's when Skeens is pitching.
• 34:50
  So I don't know if I trade him. I don't, I, I, it's tough
• 34:54
  because you're, you're getting 3 talented players for one, but
• 34:59
  you're not going to be able to resign them.
• 35:00
  The money he's going to want, you know, he's, he's, he's going
• 35:04
  to be gone like, you know, like crochet with, with the White
• 35:07
  Sox, You know, maybe capitalize now and get a much bigger haul
• 35:11
  than you would when he's only got a year left.
• 35:14
  I don't know. I know he's your boy.
• 35:16
  I don't know. What's your take on that?
• 35:18
  I think you're right because you're going to, you're going to
• 35:20
  maximize your value right now at this moment right here, just no
• 35:25
  higher point to trade a guy that's got like you said, about
• 35:28
  3-4 years of control. Still.
• 35:31
  You're going to get pop prospects for him.
• 35:33
  You're going to get Major League players back for him as well.
• 35:36
  It's going to be a multi year deal, you know, going back to
• 35:39
  Ben Cherrington. No, it's cool that he came out
• 35:42
  and said, hey, we're going to keep him.
• 35:43
  And I think you're right, Doug, I think it's because of ticket
• 35:45
  sales. He's really the one driving the
• 35:46
  ticket sales this year, you know, But I would have a follow
• 35:49
  up question to Ben Cherrington. My question would be then what
• 35:52
  are you going to do to be a, a winning baseball team for him
• 35:55
  then? Like what are you going to do
• 35:56
  for him to to build around them? And I don't know how much
• 36:00
  they're really going to do, if anything, to be honest.
• 36:02
  We always talk about these small middle market teams and how much
• 36:06
  capital they spend on players and you know it.
• 36:09
  It's just an expensive sport now.
• 36:11
  To get quality baseball players on your team, you're going to
• 36:14
  have to spend more money on a mediocre guy now more than ever.
• 36:18
  And we saw it this last offseason too, where it's going
• 36:21
  to be hit or misses with guys when you sign up for free agency
• 36:24
  and you're going to have to pay kind of top dollar for these
• 36:27
  guys in the Pirates right now, they have too many holes.
• 36:30
  They have way too many holes on their team in order to to be a
• 36:34
  successful baseball team. So.
• 36:37
  I know it's like kind of sucks if you're a Pirates fan, but
• 36:40
  sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and be like, you know
• 36:42
  what's best for the future. And we've seen that with other
• 36:45
  teams in the past too, where they trade a mega * and they've
• 36:49
  gotten a haul back and now all of a sudden they actually have a
• 36:53
  fundamental baseball team out there that can be winning more
• 36:56
  baseball games than they were before.
• 36:58
  We saw it with the Nationals before.
• 37:00
  We, you know, Miami's a really good example.
• 37:02
  They've done that in the past as well, where they'll trade a big
• 37:05
  guy like a Stanton or they they had Christian Yelich and they
• 37:09
  got players back and it was more not just a player, but it was
• 37:13
  more of a foundation that they were building from it.
• 37:16
  And right now Pittsburgh doesn't have a foundation.
• 37:18
  And I guess this is just me really saying, you know, this is
• 37:21
  my pitch to trade schemes because I want to see him be
• 37:24
  sexual too. And not just me, just not
• 37:26
  everyone does. I think there's not, there's a
• 37:29
  very minimal margin of people that don't want him to succeed.
• 37:33
  I think there's a small, small group of people.
• 37:36
  But I think the majority see the guy as, you know, Captain
• 37:40
  America of baseball and you know, baseball of the future.
• 37:44
  So they want to see him win. They want to see him in prime
• 37:46
  time games. They want to see him pitching
• 37:48
  competitively against other teams.
• 37:50
  And he has been pitching competitively and we've talked
• 37:53
  about the run support he gets. And when I say the run support
• 37:56
  he gets, I'm joking. He doesn't get it.
• 37:59
  He doesn't get any. He'll go out there and buy you
• 38:01
  off 7 or 8 innings and and give up 1 and run and maybe three
• 38:06
  hits and and maybe he'll walk or something and you'll lose 1.
• 38:09
  Nothing. I think we just saw it last week
• 38:11
  with. Him.
• 38:12
  So, yeah, I I think it would be better for him to get out of
• 38:15
  Pittsburgh. But I totally get it from
• 38:17
  Charrington's perspective of, hey, we need to sell tickets
• 38:20
  still. He is our best player.
• 38:22
  He's an attraction. You know, the whole dynamic with
• 38:25
  him, you know, Libby Dunn, there's like, that's the star
• 38:27
  power, you know, that they bring to the organization.
• 38:30
  And you know, Andrew McCutcheon, God, God love him, but you know,
• 38:33
  he's he's on the other half now. And you, you got to be building
• 38:37
  towards something at this point. So is it a good idea for Skeens
• 38:41
  and Bleacher Report tip of the cap to them?
• 38:43
  They had a great article about some of the teams that that
• 38:46
  would be in contention to trade for Skeens and some of those
• 38:49
  players that they would be getting back.
• 38:51
  So if if you're looking for a quick read, that's a really nice
• 38:54
  read on Bleacher Report that they have there.
• 38:55
  But who doesn't love talking about, you know, trade packages
• 38:58
  for a stunt? You know, it's like playing it's
• 39:01
  playing a video game. You know, that's what that comes
• 39:03
  down to. But like you said, the Red Sox,
• 39:05
  you know, one of the projected trade offers would be like a
• 39:09
  Roman Anthony in the deal. And the Red Sox are in a unique
• 39:12
  position where they they're have a full outfield already and then
• 39:15
  some. So if you said, hey, who would
• 39:17
  you rather have, Roman Anthony or Paul Skeens?
• 39:21
  Well, look at the ages. They're pretty much almost the
• 39:23
  same age. You know, Paul's like another
• 39:25
  year older. Paul's established already.
• 39:27
  You already know what you're going to get from Paul at this
• 39:29
  point. You don't know so far yet from
• 39:31
  Roman Anthony, obviously everything looks good for him so
• 39:33
  far. It looks like he's going to be a
• 39:34
  stud too. But man, pitching is really
• 39:37
  tough to find. It's very far and few between,
• 39:39
  especially those aces. So if you have an opportunity to
• 39:42
  go out, get a guy like Skins, shoot your shot.
• 39:45
  I know Ben Charrington said no, they're not going to trade him,
• 39:48
  but still shoot your shot, throw him a trade phone.
• 39:52
  Names out there. Hey, I know you're not talking
• 39:54
  about trades with schemes. Here's what we would offer,
• 39:57
  though. Just think about it.
• 39:58
  Doesn't have to be tomorrow, doesn't have to be next week,
• 40:00
  doesn't have to be next month. But here's what we want.
• 40:03
  Here's what you can get. It's that easy.
• 40:06
  And these trade talks take months too, Doug, You know that
• 40:09
  they they take very, very long time to make any of these deals
• 40:12
  work. Even the trade deadline deals,
• 40:13
  they've been talking about that since the spring with some of
• 40:16
  these trade deadline deals. So who knows what's going to
• 40:19
  happen. Anything can happen in a week.
• 40:22
  Yeah, I think, I think it's more to say we're not going to
• 40:26
  entertain anything. I mean, come on, you're, you're
• 40:30
  in business, you're always entertained, right?
• 40:32
  I mean, what's going to happen when someone sent you an offer?
• 40:35
  You know, I mean, you'll say no, right.
• 40:38
  But at least to get them, you do want to listen to them.
• 40:41
  You just sit there and say, I'm not taking anything.
• 40:42
  That's ridiculous. You're in a business.
• 40:45
  I, I get, you know, I get he's a great talent, but you still have
• 40:48
  to at least hear what some teams would offer and some, some of
• 40:52
  them, like you said, you know, obviously you're going to have
• 40:54
  to play pay more than just Roman Anthony, unfortunately, because
• 40:57
  Paul skins is an established MLB player right now and Roman
• 41:00
  Anthony isn't, even though it looks like he will be.
• 41:03
  So you do still have to at least entertain or, or hear them out,
• 41:08
  right. I mean, that's anyways.
• 41:11
  I, I do agree with you, though, He's probably the one he I mean,
• 41:14
  ticket sales, jersey sales, merchandise, like he's the guy
• 41:17
  that's really rolling that team on.
• 41:19
  So I get it. But you still got to still going
• 41:22
  to entertain, at least listen. Yeah.
• 41:26
  So that's it for around the league.
• 41:28
  Let's just jump right into the Hurt Locker because we are, man.
• 41:31
  We are rolling in time already, man.
• 41:33
  All right, so here we are. Everybody.
• 41:39
  Let me let me run down this list.
• 41:44
  Kind of. Long.
• 41:45
  List not as long as the past couple weeks, but still kind of
• 41:49
  let me run down this list. We can break down a couple, then
• 41:51
  we'll take a break and start digging into the real fun stuff.
• 41:54
  All right, so Tiger starting pitcher Rhys Olson, he's on the
• 41:57
  15th DIL. He's got a right ring finger
• 42:00
  inflammation. He should be back early June.
• 42:02
  He's actually been pretty good that that Detroit staff minus
• 42:05
  Jack Flaherty, 4 and 348 in the 2/3 in each pitch, 51
• 42:10
  strikeouts, 19 walks at 290. All right, he's giving you 10.9
• 42:14
  points a start or 98 points total.
• 42:17
  Astro's starting pitcher Blanco, Ronald Blanco, he was day-to-day
• 42:21
  with an elbow injury. He was actually just placed on
• 42:23
  the ILI want to say yesterday afternoon they're getting a
• 42:28
  second opinion on him, which would make you kind of seem like
• 42:31
  Tommy John might be the the issue.
• 42:33
  But the first opinion they got was elbow inflammation.
• 42:37
  They just want to get a second opinion just to see what the
• 42:39
  timeline's going to be. To me, that sounds like a kind
• 42:42
  of a weird excuse. I feel like when you get a
• 42:44
  second opinion, it's because something major is happening.
• 42:48
  That's the point of a second opinion.
• 42:50
  Last five starts he was, I mean pretty good, two and two, 3031
• 42:54
  2/3 and he's pitched 32 strikeouts, 4 quality starts and
• 42:57
  no decision. Both losses were quality starts,
• 43:00
  so he gave me no negative points.
• 43:02
  Overall, he's 3 and 448 strikeouts and 48 innings
• 43:06
  pitched, 20 walks a four one ERA, 79 points or a little over
• 43:10
  9 points a start. Marlon shortstop Xavier Edwards,
• 43:14
  he's on a 10 to AIL. He's got a left mile back
• 43:16
  strain. He should just take the minimum.
• 43:18
  So maybe next week you probably see him back in the line up, not
• 43:22
  off to a hot start. You know, 263 average, no home
• 43:26
  runs, 11 ribbies, 18 runs, eleven stolen bases.
• 43:29
  Here's your kicker though, and and leagues that you know,
• 43:32
  penalize you for strikeouts. He's only got 34 and 171 at
• 43:36
  bats, so he's not really giving you a ton of negative points.
• 43:38
  With that 78 points total to a start, this one should be pretty
• 43:42
  simple. Pirates starting pitcher Cherry
• 43:44
  Jones is now out for the year. He had his surgery on Wednesday.
• 43:47
  He's not pitched on regular season at all.
• 43:50
  Giants play starting pitcher Justin Verlander on the 15 day
• 43:53
  IL. He's got a right pictorial
• 43:55
  soreness. He's looking at an early June
• 43:57
  return date. These are rough numbers, man,
• 44:00
  for a Verlander guy like myself, just to see him fall.
• 44:04
  O and 352 innings pitched, 41 strikeouts, 21 walks up four, 3
• 44:09
  ERA, 46 points, 4.6 of start. Ohtani's giving you 4.2 Blue
• 44:17
  Jays outfielder Anthony Sandia. He was removed from Wednesday's
• 44:20
  game with left hip inflammation. For now, he's considered
• 44:23
  day-to-day. They haven't ruled out an IL
• 44:25
  stint, but I guess this was an injury that's been bothering him
• 44:28
  for well over a week, so I don't know what they're going to do
• 44:32
  with him. His season's been horrible.
• 44:33
  He gave you 1.3 points a start, 55 points total.
• 44:36
  He's only batting you 18848 strikeouts and 165 at bat, so
• 44:42
  he's looking at almost 180 strikeouts.
• 44:45
  Nationals outfielder Dylan Cruz was placed on the 10 day IL with
• 44:48
  a left oblique strain. They haven't revealed the
• 44:50
  severity, so as of now they're saying just an early June
• 44:52
  return. I know why is even fantasy
• 44:56
  relevant considering the beginning season he's had?
• 45:01
  Well, he's progressively gotten better.
• 45:03
  I think the last 15 games he's averaging 2.3.
• 45:07
  The last seven games he's played he's averaging 3 points to
• 45:09
  start. So really not bad.
• 45:11
  He's really finally coming out of that shell.
• 45:13
  Overall his numbers still aren't too too hot, but considering
• 45:16
  where it was, he's hitting your 196.
• 45:19
  Seven home runs, 15 ribbies, 11 stolen bases, lot of strikeouts
• 45:23
  48 and 158 at at bats, 74 total points or 1.6 to start.
• 45:29
  Let's not forget it took him, I want to say two or three weeks
• 45:33
  to actually start giving you positive points.
• 45:35
  So it's good to at least see him now at 1.6.
• 45:39
  And just a few other day-to-day notes.
• 45:42
  Glaber Torres, 2nd baseman for the Tigers, he has a lower leg
• 45:46
  issue so he's day-to-day. Ryan Wu should make his next
• 45:49
  start, but he was having a leg issue as well.
• 45:51
  And J Rod, he's actually back in the line up today.
• 45:54
  He was pulled from the line up a couple days ago with a back
• 45:56
  injury as well. So just a couple guys to keep
• 45:59
  note of for maybe next week when you're setting your line UPS.
• 46:03
  I'm done. A lot to talk.
• 46:05
  About there. Oh my God.
• 46:07
  I mean, let's just have a quick tribute to Jared Jones real
• 46:10
  quick, right? I mean, that's a guy that got
• 46:12
  hurt in spring training. He had some hope.
• 46:15
  He had some nasty stuff last year.
• 46:18
  He's young. He already had Tommy John
• 46:20
  surgery at Oklahoma. And yeah, the worst came with
• 46:25
  them. Now he's got the elbow surgery.
• 46:27
  I think he penned a nice letter to the fans.
• 46:29
  He was disappointed that he has to go through this again and and
• 46:33
  he's going to be back, you know, hopefully next year at some
• 46:36
  point. You know, he's it's about the
• 46:38
  same time, give or take, where Bieber was hurt as well.
• 46:41
  He was only about, you know, three or four starts in, you
• 46:43
  know, so that was about late April, early May, you know, just
• 46:47
  to kind of give you a timeline. You know, Bieber's just kind of
• 46:50
  got into a throwing program. Now there's a plan for him.
• 46:53
  So I wouldn't expect Jared Jones for a little bit.
• 46:57
  So even going into next year, you know, he's, he's a, he's
• 47:00
  probably a late flyer stash into that.
• 47:04
  So yeah, rest in peace at least for 2025.
• 47:08
  Jared Jones, maybe Edwards, right.
• 47:11
  You know, you mentioned the numbers with them in, in the
• 47:14
  strikeouts and yeah, bats and stuff and, and they're really
• 47:17
  phenomenal. There's just been a points leak.
• 47:18
  He just doesn't get you a lot of points, unfortunately.
• 47:21
  You know, 78 points to this point, you know, you expect him
• 47:24
  to at least have over 100 points and it just hasn't happened yet.
• 47:28
  So it it's kind of tough, you know, so I wouldn't blame you if
• 47:31
  you had an Xavier Woods that or Xavier Woods, Xavier Edwards.
• 47:37
  If you're shopping for a shortstop at this point, even
• 47:39
  with him hurt when he comes back, maybe you'll find someone
• 47:42
  better to get on that that shortstop side.
• 47:44
  It's a tough position to fill sometimes, and I think he's just
• 47:47
  more of a categories guy, right? He hits you for, all right,
• 47:51
  average. He'll keep that average up for
• 47:52
  you. He'll get stolen bases in there
• 47:54
  for you. OBP is going to be somewhat
• 47:57
  decent because he doesn't strike out a lot.
• 47:58
  So he'll still get on base. And like I said, the stolen
• 48:01
  bases, he got 11 this year so far.
• 48:03
  So yeah, hopefully he comes back sooner than later.
• 48:05
  And then who knows, maybe that second-half will turn it up
• 48:07
  right? Blanco never good to.
• 48:10
  Hear about second opinions. Of Blanco and we did talk about
• 48:14
  him a little bit before because last year he he threw a lot of
• 48:18
  innings, right. We talked about we talk about
• 48:20
  Taylor Hulk, you know, maximizing his innings last year
• 48:24
  going into this year, really throwing a lot of clunkers now
• 48:27
  obviously injured Blanco kind of the same thing, a little wear
• 48:30
  and tear last year going into this year, you know, he pitched
• 48:34
  the most things he's ever had last year.
• 48:36
  Now this year he's got that wear and tear.
• 48:38
  So that second opinion does scare me.
• 48:40
  I mean, you stash him for now. Obviously he's somewhat
• 48:43
  productive on a productive team in Houston, but you do have to
• 48:47
  take the alternative and think I might lose him for the rest of
• 48:50
  the year year. So if you have to, maybe might
• 48:53
  have to go shopping, you might have to go shopping sometimes.
• 48:56
  And it's tough to find a good pitcher at A at a good value
• 48:59
  because a lot of teams, you know, fantasy teams
• 49:01
  specifically, they value pitching.
• 49:04
  So it's tough to find those guys in the in the depths.
• 49:07
  You're going to have to trade something usually for a pitcher.
• 49:10
  So you have to keep your options open.
• 49:12
  And then who else do we have on here, Doug?
• 49:14
  I mean, Verlander, you know, that guy just never really put
• 49:17
  it together in the last couple years, I feel.
• 49:19
  And you know, I, I'm a Verlander guy too.
• 49:21
  The guy's a stud. He's a competitor.
• 49:23
  He's he's fierce, you know, and he's just one of those alphas.
• 49:28
  He he is an alpha. So hopefully this injury is, is
• 49:33
  short term. I don't know.
• 49:35
  It's, it's up in the air. He is over 40 at this point.
• 49:39
  Just don't know what you're going to get with Verlander when
• 49:42
  you put him out there from a fantasy perspective.
• 49:44
  So I think unfortunately, I hate to say this, but I think you
• 49:47
  just have to drop him at this point.
• 49:49
  He hasn't been doing you anything this year to this
• 49:52
  point. He doesn't pitch deep enough in
• 49:53
  the games. And I think the biggest number
• 49:55
  that concerns me right now is that walks.
• 49:57
  He has no control right now on that mound.
• 50:00
  So for me right now, I'd rather, you know, I'll someone else like
• 50:04
  a Blanco. If you have limited spots and
• 50:07
  you have to pick one over Verlander because I think we saw
• 50:11
  the best of Verlander a few years ago, I think we're done
• 50:13
  with that. And yeah, Dylan Cruz's been
• 50:17
  turning around a little bit. Still not as productive as we
• 50:20
  like to see, but it is what it is.
• 50:22
  And yeah, Anthony's saying don't tear, man.
• 50:25
  That guy's just kind of coming out of the gates.
• 50:26
  Little cold, too. And, you know, he's probably
• 50:29
  trying to fight to this injury because he did just get paid.
• 50:32
  You know, he expects himself to also produce.
• 50:35
  But you just can't fight injuries.
• 50:36
  Sometimes you just have to let it be.
• 50:38
  So I'm kind of glad he's taking this time off and you know,
• 50:41
  hopefully this inflammation is not too serious here and you
• 50:45
  know, we'll we'll take it from there.
• 50:46
  And Alaska is resource and that you mentioned he'll be back
• 50:51
  sooner than later. That Detroit line.
• 50:53
  I like that Detroit team just in general, not even about the hurt
• 50:57
  locker. I just like that team in
• 50:59
  general. I think they're I think they're
• 51:00
  doing some good stuff there. I think they'll make a move too
• 51:03
  to get another bat in there. Yeah, I totally agree.
• 51:07
  And I do have some updates. To go by, I know we usually
• 51:10
  sometimes don't do updates, but I thought it'd be kind of fun
• 51:12
  because there are a lot of pitchers that have been or
• 51:14
  players that are on the IL that are kind of fantasy relevant
• 51:17
  that are slowly starting to come back.
• 51:19
  And let me run through this list real quick.
• 51:22
  So Dodger starting pitcher show here.
• 51:24
  Otani started mixing in sliders, curveballs in the bullpen this
• 51:27
  past Wednesday. He is preparing to make his way
• 51:30
  back to the mound. When that will be, I don't know.
• 51:33
  I think next week he'll start throwing from the mound, but I
• 51:37
  still don't know what they're going to do as far as in game.
• 51:41
  Like, are they going to, you know?
• 51:43
  Obviously he's going to go live hitters.
• 51:44
  Is he going to go right from like a SIM game to major
• 51:46
  leagues? Is he going to do a minor league
• 51:48
  stint and then come back? I feel like he's just going to
• 51:51
  do live hitters maybe before a game or something.
• 51:53
  You know, you get a 7:00 game, have them come in around 1, you
• 51:57
  know, while everybody's warming up, have them maybe do like a
• 52:00
  2-3 innings SIM and then slowly maybe you start putting them
• 52:03
  into the game. Tyler class now, he was on the
• 52:06
  mound, he's beginning to throw a throwing progression.
• 52:10
  He'll throw in the bullpen today.
• 52:12
  So he should be back in a couple weeks.
• 52:16
  Toronto started pitcher Max Scherzer, he's going to throw
• 52:18
  two more bullpen sessions and then he's going to progress to
• 52:20
  live hitters. So you're looking at maybe 3
• 52:22
  weeks for him. Cole Raggins, he's been throwing
• 52:25
  daily. He has yet to throw off a mound.
• 52:27
  He is still recovering from that left groin.
• 52:31
  He might, honestly. Probably be like a month away.
• 52:34
  You got to be at least with a groin injury out.
• 52:37
  Angels outfielder Mike Trout's playing catch.
• 52:39
  He's doing agility drills. The only hero left for him to do
• 52:42
  is running bases. As of now, he's running 80%.
• 52:45
  So he might just be like a week away, believe it or not.
• 52:48
  And then Diamondbacks relief pitcher Justin Martinez, who I
• 52:52
  actually full, full, you know, he I honestly, I did not know
• 53:01
  how good he was until I started watching him at the beginning of
• 53:03
  this year. And then guys throws, 9798 comes
• 53:07
  in, they're blowing people away. I'm like, why are the
• 53:11
  Diamondbacks doing this? You know, open by committee,
• 53:15
  There's your closer, like put him into the roll and forget it.
• 53:18
  So he will at some point, hopefully take over that closer
• 53:22
  roll. He threw an inning in an A, an
• 53:25
  ACL game this past Sunday and then he threw a scoreless frame
• 53:30
  with AAA Reno on Tuesday. So that's telling me he's
• 53:33
  probably going to come back maybe late next week and
• 53:36
  hopefully take that closer role, which he should have been given
• 53:39
  earlier this year. And he's a guy to hold on to,
• 53:42
  man. He is.
• 53:43
  He's dynamite. And that team is there.
• 53:45
  He's going to get the opportunities for sure.
• 53:48
  He's just, I mean, he. Throws gas.
• 53:50
  He comes from the. Left side, right, he he's got
• 53:52
  he's got the package. And yeah, Tori Lavella is kind
• 53:55
  of playing this tit tat game right now, like at closer and
• 53:59
  going back and forth with some of these guys.
• 54:00
  And, you know, I kind of wish he just kind of made a decision.
• 54:04
  Justin Martinez looks like he has that stuff.
• 54:06
  He he what do we call him? We he passes the eye test, you
• 54:10
  know, in our eyes at least. So I yeah, I agree with that.
• 54:13
  He definitely should be back in that closer role when he does
• 54:15
  come back. Hey, Mike Trout, right?
• 54:18
  I feel like every week we get an update, but it's like a nothing
• 54:21
  update, you know? You don't really.
• 54:22
  Oh, well, he's swinging that bat.
• 54:23
  Whoa. He's on a treadmill today, you
• 54:25
  know, and it's just like, well, that what does that do right now
• 54:28
  for me? And you don't really get an idea
• 54:30
  of what that timeline looks like yet.
• 54:32
  And then you have to think that this point, he's been out for a
• 54:34
  couple weeks, if not three weeks at this point, you probably will
• 54:37
  need a rehab, you know, maybe a couple at bats, you know, a
• 54:40
  couple of games down there. So before coming back and then
• 54:43
  even when he does come back, you know, your expectation should be
• 54:47
  what his numbers are right now. He doesn't hit a lot of average
• 54:49
  right now. He does have power.
• 54:52
  He doesn't get a lot of ton of Bobby Eyes opportunities because
• 54:54
  of the lineup that he plays in. So when he comes back, evaluate
• 54:59
  him. You know, he's like an outfield
• 55:00
  3 right now until he starts really hitting the ball in my
• 55:03
  opinion. You know, he's a decent utility,
• 55:06
  but he does strike out. He does, you know, like I said,
• 55:09
  doesn't hit for that average like he used to.
• 55:11
  He's not the same guy, unfortunately, like we've seen
• 55:14
  we take him, you know, on a late flyer this year.
• 55:16
  A lot of people kind of maybe reached for him a little bit
• 55:19
  because they thought maybe he was going to be 100% healthy
• 55:21
  playing a corner round field position the whole year.
• 55:24
  But it just hasn't come to that fruition yet.
• 55:26
  And then that injury bug is just always kind of just been with
• 55:29
  him since like the last 3-4 years.
• 55:32
  So it's just kind of a continuous pattern with him.
• 55:35
  So just tread lightly when he does come back.
• 55:37
  Max Serzer, you know, kind of the same thing with Mike Trout.
• 55:41
  It's like, I feel like I got an update like every day with Max
• 55:43
  Serzer, but it's like sometimes it's even like a negative, you
• 55:47
  know? You know, first his thumb, now
• 55:49
  he's got tightness and it's this and that and this and that.
• 55:52
  It's another guy that's over 40 years old that's trying to
• 55:55
  pitch. He's not the same Max.
• 55:56
  He's not throwing 100, he's not throwing that nasty stuff
• 55:59
  anymore. So you got a temper your
• 56:01
  expectations with them when he comes back?
• 56:03
  I got him in a couple leagues. I got a mustache, especially to
• 56:06
  pitch a heavy league. I don't have a lot of high
• 56:08
  expectations. If I can get A5 inning win out
• 56:10
  of him, I'd be actually happy with that at this point.
• 56:14
  Tyler Glass now, I mean, jeez, another.
• 56:17
  I mean all these guys are injury bro.
• 56:19
  Oh my God, I feel like we're talking about these guys.
• 56:21
  Almost every other week when they get on, they.
• 56:23
  Get on here. But I'm glads knows out there
• 56:25
  though he is very really good. He is above par pitcher when he
• 56:29
  is healthy. He's just made out of glass, no
• 56:32
  pun intended. So that's just who he is.
• 56:35
  Bullpen on Friday, we'll see if he starts getting to that rehab
• 56:37
  start. Hopefully by next weekend.
• 56:40
  He'll probably need a few of them.
• 56:41
  So I don't expect him back for at least another maybe 3-4
• 56:44
  weeks, Right, Which lead me into the Otani talk.
• 56:49
  We talked about him pitching this year and how they're going
• 56:51
  to use him potentially and are they going to use him as a
• 56:54
  starter, how they're going to stretch him out during this
• 56:56
  time. I think you nailed it, Doug.
• 56:58
  I think, you know, he'll get to the ballpark early, maybe throw
• 57:01
  a couple stimulated games, maybe 2-3 innings.
• 57:04
  How they're going to build up that pitch count, I'm kind of
• 57:06
  curious about as well. And then from there, you know,
• 57:10
  when he comes back, what's his role going to be?
• 57:13
  You know I like. The idea of putting him in the
• 57:15
  back end of the Volt pen, you know, as a, as a, as a closer,
• 57:20
  you know, down the line, you know, we always talk about that
• 57:22
  World Series game. Well, Tiny closing the game, I
• 57:25
  can totally see it still. I still have that vision.
• 57:27
  I'm not letting that go. I know they got that behind
• 57:30
  there, but it just for some reason, it just makes sense to
• 57:33
  me. And and that way it's a little
• 57:35
  risk too, because you don't want him to go out there, you know,
• 57:38
  throw 6-7 innings, you know, let's say four or five starts
• 57:42
  and all of a sudden he gets hurt, you know, because he's
• 57:44
  he's pitching, you know, long into games and stuff.
• 57:47
  And now all of a sudden you might have watched you bat too
• 57:49
  at the same time. So I don't know why you would
• 57:51
  want to risk all of it at the right away when he comes back.
• 57:56
  Been saying that too. I don't.
• 57:57
  Think he's going to come back pitching?
• 57:59
  Until after the All Star break, anyway.
• 58:01
  If he's not throwing on a mound yet, he's still going to pitch
• 58:03
  up his pitch count. I think there's a long, long
• 58:06
  road for him to go. I don't see him coming back in a
• 58:08
  month. I see it kind of going into July
• 58:12
  and to me at that point. You might as well wait till the.
• 58:14
  After the All Star break and and evaluate there.
• 58:18
  So, you know, is it a luxury and fantasy to have Latani as a
• 58:22
  pitcher? I don't know.
• 58:25
  I think when you drafted him, I think you knew you.
• 58:27
  Were going to put him as bat yeah for sure I.
• 58:30
  Think you'll get more value. Anyways, and this is a guy who
• 58:33
  can give you 40 something points a week as a hitter versus as a
• 58:37
  pitcher who's probably only going to give you one start.
• 58:39
  I mean his two starts a week in a weekly line up are going to be
• 58:42
  few and far between. But I do I do have some updates.
• 58:48
  As far as today goes, Paul Skeens went six, gave up one.
• 58:54
  He was, he left, they had the lead, they blew the lead.
• 58:57
  They're down 3 to 2. So Skeens is going to get the no
• 58:59
  decision quality start. Ronald Cunha made his debut
• 59:03
  today, first pitch, first at bat, first home run.
• 59:06
  He's 2 for two. Although I they're, I think
• 59:09
  they're only up there. It's like 2 to 1.
• 59:11
  So actually it's one to one, sorry.
• 59:14
  So obviously he's not really bringing that spark to that
• 59:16
  lineup everybody's hoping for. And then Goldie and his first at
• 59:22
  bat today hit a RBI triple, his first triple in three years.
• 59:27
  So he is he is producing for that Yankee team.
• 59:30
  And I expect him if you grabbed him, you got him extremely late.
• 59:35
  Just reaping the benefits, man, Reaping them, you know?
• 59:40
  You know how bad I. Just got when you just said
• 59:42
  he's. Got the They blew the lead.
• 59:45
  I mean, that's another. Another point, another point
• 59:47
  right there for just why you, why you easily.
• 59:50
  He's just kind of, you're just going to make him mad.
• 59:53
  You just kind of frustrate him more when you just keep him on
• 59:56
  your team and you continuously to blow games and he gives you
• 59:59
  everything he's got. 6 innings, one in a run.
• 1:00:01
  Hate strikeout. Continuously strikeout pitcher
• 1:00:05
  continuously it. Is so frustrating, so
• 1:00:09
  frustrating. I baffled, baffled by that.
• 1:00:15
  I'm so, so flustered by that right now.
• 1:00:19
  But Isaiah Pereira has hit a two run.
• 1:00:21
  Shot today this guy. My God, man, you know part of
• 1:00:28
  that. Houston.
• 1:00:29
  Trade with the Cubs and I mean that's what they that's what
• 1:00:32
  they wanted. They wanted to to get a top
• 1:00:35
  prospect and Cam Smith and you know, not the hottest style
• 1:00:38
  obviously for Cam Smith so far, but hey, he's 20 years old he's
• 1:00:42
  got to figure it out in the Major League club.
• 1:00:44
  So this is kind of like a wash year for him, but they also got
• 1:00:47
  like a Major League Baseball player to replace Bregman and
• 1:00:51
  man, he's been doing it. He really has been just
• 1:00:54
  producing. But Hakuna, man, first pitch.
• 1:00:58
  I mean, you know, can't write that story better, you know, but
• 1:01:02
  let's see if he keeps it up though.
• 1:01:03
  Let's see if he stays healthy. When he's healthy, obviously 5
• 1:01:07
  tool player, you know, home runs RB is he's got the glove, he's
• 1:01:11
  got the stolen bases. So let's see.
• 1:01:14
  Hopefully he stays healthy. You know we talked about him
• 1:01:17
  going back into the Atlanta lineup, hopefully putting a
• 1:01:19
  spark in that team because that team was way too talented to be
• 1:01:23
  as playing as bad as they have been.
• 1:01:25
  So hopefully maybe tonight's the the beginning of the of the ride
• 1:01:29
  for the Atlanta Braves, but it's it's too early to tell it's too
• 1:01:34
  early. I know.
• 1:01:36
  All right, so let's. Let's take a break.
• 1:01:38
  Oh, and this just broke, too. Kento Marte just hit a home run.
• 1:01:42
  All right, I feel a little bit better.
• 1:01:45
  All right, so yeah, let's take a break.
• 1:01:46
  And let's just real quick, we'll come back, we'll talk about the
• 1:01:50
  hottest and coldest hitters of fantasy baseball week that just
• 1:01:53
  passed and then some good buy low, sell high candidates and
• 1:01:58
  look over some of the ones from last week and think we did and
• 1:02:01
  let's see how we did. I think we did pretty good.
• 1:02:02
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  All. Right man.
• 1:03:43
  Right. So these numbers you're going
• 1:03:45
  to. See are from our ESPN points
• 1:03:47
  league. Again, most points leagues or
• 1:03:49
  even Cats leagues, these are probably going to be the top
• 1:03:51
  players for them in in any format. 2 pitchers, 2 hitters.
• 1:03:56
  Weeks are from Thursday to Thursday.
• 1:03:59
  Well, no Thursday to Wednesday and then I write on Thursday
• 1:04:04
  mornings when when we start putting the script together.
• 1:04:07
  So here they are for this week. I'll run down the hitters and
• 1:04:10
  then we'll run down the pitchers.
• 1:04:13
  So first and foremost, Tyler Ward, he's only 55.6% owned.
• 1:04:20
  He hit 433 full home runs, 12 ribbies, 9 runs, no stolen
• 1:04:26
  bases, 8 strikeouts, 53 points. He gave you 7.6 a start.
• 1:04:31
  I will say those numbers might be a little inflated if you get
• 1:04:34
  we get we get extra points for Grand Slam.
• 1:04:36
  So we get hit a Grand Slam, so keep that in mind.
• 1:04:40
  Next up first, first baseman Bryce Harper.
• 1:04:45
  He is 99.8% owned. He hit 500.
• 1:04:48
  He had a home run, 9 ribbies, five runs, two stolen bases of
• 1:04:52
  strikeout, 40 points. He gave you 5.7 a start and then
• 1:04:56
  some audible mentions. Cody Ballinger gave you a 37.
• 1:04:59
  He was a buy a low guy that we had.
• 1:05:02
  Rafael Devers was a buy a low guy, he gave you a 36.
• 1:05:05
  So pretty good numbers, all what you'd expect from a lot of these
• 1:05:11
  people versus where you where you drafted them.
• 1:05:13
  Tyler Ward gave you he's still a free agent, almost more less
• 1:05:17
  than half the leagues. And Cody Belanger was a really
• 1:05:19
  late draft pick for some people, surprisingly, considering he
• 1:05:22
  plays 2-3 positions, DH, outfield and 1st.
• 1:05:26
  But yeah, those are those are this week's hottest.
• 1:05:28
  Hitters. Hey, shut up, Tyler.
• 1:05:30
  Ward, I mean he. He goes on these like good
• 1:05:33
  streaks, you know, every year I feel like he has like these
• 1:05:36
  weeks where he is just that best hitter in baseball.
• 1:05:39
  Then all of a sudden he comes back to reality.
• 1:05:42
  But man, what what what he does hit, though.
• 1:05:44
  He is a very, very good hitter. And he is a dangerous hitter.
• 1:05:49
  You know, the Grand Slam, like you said, probably inflated
• 1:05:51
  those numbers a little bit. But really, you know, you're
• 1:05:53
  batting 433. You're still knocking in 12
• 1:05:56
  ribbies. You know, you're still having a
• 1:05:57
  very, very good week. So hey, if you need outfield
• 1:06:01
  help, that's a great flyer right there at least.
• 1:06:04
  Really nice to see Bryce Harper on this list.
• 1:06:06
  We feel like we haven't talked about Bryce Harper much this
• 1:06:10
  year. And I feel like even.
• 1:06:12
  Last year he wasn't even on this list.
• 1:06:14
  I don't even know if he was at all.
• 1:06:17
  But the half the week he did, hey, that 509 RBIs, one Homer
• 1:06:22
  only struck out once. I think that's the biggest
• 1:06:24
  factor in this right here. Really just disciplined at the
• 1:06:26
  plate, really just did his job well.
• 1:06:29
  And I mean, the two stolen bases is actually a nice surprise too,
• 1:06:33
  kind of running a little bit more this year.
• 1:06:34
  He's got a few stolen bases this year.
• 1:06:36
  So it's good to see that from Harper.
• 1:06:39
  And you know, like we talked about first base in tough
• 1:06:42
  position to fill. So you probably reached Harper.
• 1:06:45
  You know, is he playing through his fullest potential so far to
• 1:06:47
  this point? You know, I think that's
• 1:06:49
  debatable if he is. But you know, as of last week
• 1:06:53
  though, at least you got what you paid for with Harper and
• 1:06:57
  Ranger Suarez last in the past, huh?
• 1:07:00
  See, I didn't, I didn't get to the pitchers yet.
• 1:07:03
  No. Oh, you did.
• 1:07:05
  You did. You did hitters.
• 1:07:07
  That's. Right.
• 1:07:08
  So. Let's go back to Cody Dellinger
• 1:07:10
  real quick then. You know I love the belly.
• 1:07:14
  You do love the belly and you've you kind.
• 1:07:16
  Of called this break out the past like week and 1/2 or so
• 1:07:19
  like you're like man, Belly's really signed a swing.
• 1:07:21
  A really good bet, huh? And I, I think like the last 2-3
• 1:07:24
  weeks, he really has been really starting to produce now again,
• 1:07:28
  which is great to see because like you said in drafts, you
• 1:07:31
  know, he went a little bit later.
• 1:07:33
  But I think the expectation of being a Yankee and, and being
• 1:07:36
  under control now and he, he's going to have a home for a
• 1:07:39
  couple years there being a lefty batten at Stadium.
• 1:07:41
  I think he's getting really comfortable there.
• 1:07:44
  Also he was a West Coast guy too, coming from LA.
• 1:07:47
  Then he went to the Cubs Midwest and now he's on the East Coast.
• 1:07:50
  So there's a lot of, you know, adapting that you got to do
• 1:07:53
  there, I think just as a player. But hey, he's a major leaguer.
• 1:07:57
  He's been in the league since he was really young.
• 1:07:59
  So he seems like he's older than he is, but he's not so pretty
• 1:08:02
  relatively youngish guy. So it's great to see him.
• 1:08:05
  I expect him to keep the prediction up, to be honest with
• 1:08:08
  you. I don't see him, you know,
• 1:08:10
  hitting a, a bad, bad floor anytime soon.
• 1:08:14
  And then Devers, you know, I, I have to eat my words a little
• 1:08:17
  bit with Devers because I was a little concerned this year on
• 1:08:19
  the beginning of the year, especially in that Texas series,
• 1:08:21
  you know, and no, he he completely pulled a 180.
• 1:08:25
  He's all the way back. He's hitting for that power
• 1:08:27
  again. Obviously we talked about the
• 1:08:29
  game he had today, just a stud game and it was late too, when
• 1:08:33
  they were losing, which is awesome.
• 1:08:35
  That's what you want to see and you start players.
• 1:08:37
  So, I mean, all that concern that we had I think is pretty
• 1:08:40
  much wiped out at this point. And he's batting 285.
• 1:08:44
  He's got a bunch of home runs. He's got a of the eyes now.
• 1:08:47
  He's right on pace of that 3100 season.
• 1:08:50
  And you know, he should score you probably over 400 points, if
• 1:08:53
  not more in your points league. You know, if it's similar to our
• 1:08:57
  categories like we have here. So that's really good.
• 1:09:00
  Corbin Burns. We'll talk about him.
• 1:09:02
  Later. I'm getting ahead.
• 1:09:05
  Of myself today you're very. Excited.
• 1:09:08
  I don't know, got some great. Names on here.
• 1:09:11
  It's antsy. I know.
• 1:09:13
  All right. Let me.
• 1:09:14
  Let me. Dive in then, all right?
• 1:09:15
  Let's talk about we'll, we'll go starting pitchers now.
• 1:09:17
  All right, so Philly's starting pitcher, Ranger Suarez, he's
• 1:09:20
  only 48% owned in leagues, right?
• 1:09:23
  He went two and O 13 2/3 in each pitch, 12 strikeouts, four
• 1:09:28
  walks, 3 and he gave you 45.56 points.
• 1:09:32
  I will say though, they were against Pittsburgh and Colorado,
• 1:09:36
  so you know, it's pick and choose here, right?
• 1:09:40
  And let's not forget he is one of those guys that will lights
• 1:09:44
  out first half, second-half lights off.
• 1:09:47
  Like, you know, lights on. That's just how he is.
• 1:09:49
  He's not a great second-half pitcher at all.
• 1:09:51
  I always say sell high on him, but that's another day.
• 1:09:54
  And then Yankees starting pitcher Carlos Rendon.
• 1:09:56
  He's 93.7% own he's 2 and O he had a 1111 innings pitched, 13
• 1:10:00
  strikeouts, six walks, only one earned.
• 1:10:02
  He gave you 42 points. That was against the Mets and he
• 1:10:06
  only won five innings. And then Texas, so good points,
• 1:10:11
  42.28 points for for only giving you not even a quality start in
• 1:10:15
  one of those games. And then for honorable mentions,
• 1:10:18
  I do have Corbin Burns, like you said, 36 points, who I said was
• 1:10:20
  going to turn it around, who I tried to buy low and they would
• 1:10:23
  never trade him. Jimmy, Jimmy Joe Ryan got you 30
• 1:10:26
  points. He was a guy that we said buy
• 1:10:27
  low or hold because we knew he would turn it around.
• 1:10:30
  And he has he's actually been on this list.
• 1:10:31
  I think a couple weeks ago he said a great 3 or 4 weeks
• 1:10:34
  almost. And then Mel Kelly, who's kind
• 1:10:37
  of like, I mean, I didn't realize he was 36 years old, but
• 1:10:40
  he's really turned it around too.
• 1:10:42
  He gave you almost 30 points. I think he had 11 strikeouts his
• 1:10:45
  last start. So yeah, yeah, overall.
• 1:10:49
  And you know, what's funny is when I, when I, I noticed when I
• 1:10:52
  put these lists together, a lot of the people like if your team
• 1:10:57
  gives you like it goes four and two for that week, chances are a
• 1:11:00
  lot of the players on that team are on the hot list.
• 1:11:03
  You know, you got Meryl Kelly, you got, you know, Corbin Burns,
• 1:11:07
  then you got Ranger Suarez and Bryce Harper.
• 1:11:10
  So they always come in and then Cody Ballinger and Carlos Ron
• 1:11:13
  Dome. So it's always like, you know,
• 1:11:14
  packages based on how the team's playing.
• 1:11:16
  And so again, you know, it's, it's really funny to see that
• 1:11:21
  and also see who they're playing.
• 1:11:23
  So obviously, like I said, Ranger Suarez, Pittsburgh and
• 1:11:26
  Colorado, and then you see Bryce Hopper in here with those, those
• 1:11:29
  he hit 500. So it's obvious to see why he
• 1:11:32
  hit 500, but it's good to see. These guys beating up on teams.
• 1:11:36
  They should beat though, right? You know, Rangers, Suarez, he's
• 1:11:39
  not an all, you know, make all be all, you know, pitcher.
• 1:11:43
  He's not going to, you know, last year he had an unbelievable
• 1:11:46
  first half. Obviously fell off a little bit
• 1:11:48
  in that second-half, but still a very productive fantasy pitcher
• 1:11:51
  all all around, though. And, you know, really you should
• 1:11:54
  be beating up on teams like Pittsburgh and Colorado.
• 1:11:57
  I mean, hey, shout out to Colorado, huh?
• 1:12:01
  Man, Only eight wins so far this year, Really.
• 1:12:03
  Modern day history, Worst record ever.
• 1:12:06
  Man, He thought the White Sox were gonna be bad.
• 1:12:08
  I mean, the Rockies were like, man, hold my cores light, I'll
• 1:12:11
  show you what's bad. And yeah, I mean, they should be
• 1:12:14
  getting beat up. And the Yankees, I think are
• 1:12:16
  actually playing in Colorado this weekend as well.
• 1:12:18
  So they should have a pretty big series.
• 1:12:20
  So if you got Yankee bats, put them in the line up this
• 1:12:23
  weekend. You might get some some mega
• 1:12:25
  points. Who knows?
• 1:12:26
  Well, you got Goldie already. So I'm saying, see, it's already
• 1:12:30
  happening. You already?
• 1:12:31
  Oh yeah, it's already started. It was at 8:00 start.
• 1:12:33
  That's right. So, yeah, you know, Rangers
• 1:12:35
  Suarez, it's the guy you ride or die with.
• 1:12:38
  You know, I think he's a good guy to have in your rotation,
• 1:12:41
  but I'm not banking on him to the pitch out, lights out like
• 1:12:44
  he has this past week against those teams.
• 1:12:46
  I think more competitive teams, I think going to get more
• 1:12:48
  realistic. Rangers Suarez, A56 innings,
• 1:12:52
  maybe 3-4 depending on the team. Who knows, you know, they might
• 1:12:55
  just beat him up a little bit. So he's definitely a batch.
• 1:12:58
  It was pitcher in my eyes. And then Carlos Rendon, man,
• 1:13:01
  really having a really good year.
• 1:13:02
  He just has so many of these these clunkers and some of these
• 1:13:06
  innings. And I think this is where the
• 1:13:07
  walks come from because they're all bunched up together when you
• 1:13:10
  watch them. But other than that, though, he
• 1:13:12
  is electric on that mound. And I got to give him credit
• 1:13:16
  because this is a guy that we kind of laughed at a lot because
• 1:13:19
  he just never stayed healthy. He kind of got beat up a lot,
• 1:13:23
  but seems like he's kind of panning out this year and just
• 1:13:26
  being like a a legit fantasy starter and just that's wrong
• 1:13:31
  with that at all. He's easily at #2 and #3 this
• 1:13:34
  year, especially for the team he plays on too.
• 1:13:37
  Him and Max Reed have just been really, really good for them to
• 1:13:39
  see for the Yankees stabilizing the top of that rotation while
• 1:13:43
  not having Garrett Cole this year either.
• 1:13:45
  Going to say just imagine if they had Garrett Cole.
• 1:13:47
  Where? Would they be?
• 1:13:49
  You know they're already at the top.
• 1:13:51
  So. I mean, they're they're already
• 1:13:52
  in that same conversation like I talked about with the Mets, you
• 1:13:56
  know, they went to the World Series last year at the Yankees.
• 1:13:58
  I expect them to at least get back to the ALCS with the team
• 1:14:01
  that they got still even without Soto.
• 1:14:03
  And this pitching is going to actually help them get to that
• 1:14:06
  point. I think if Max Reed and both
• 1:14:08
  Carlos Rendon can stay healthy for this year.
• 1:14:11
  So it's great to see these guys producing in the teams that
• 1:14:14
  they're doing right now. We talked about Cloven Burns a
• 1:14:17
  little bit. I mean, the guy you drafted him
• 1:14:19
  top of your draft boards as a pitcher.
• 1:14:21
  You expected more from him to this point.
• 1:14:24
  Maybe this is the turn around. We're seeing it here, 36 points
• 1:14:27
  back-to-back, good starts. Maybe Arizona's starting to heat
• 1:14:30
  up a little bit now. They were late bloomers last
• 1:14:33
  year. We saw them in the second-half
• 1:14:34
  explode. Cloven Burns just needs to get
• 1:14:36
  his feet settled first. This guy's a stud all the way
• 1:14:39
  through. This guy you want to keep all
• 1:14:42
  the way through, put him in your line up every week.
• 1:14:43
  It sounds like he looks like he's actually found it.
• 1:14:47
  Joe Ryan, man, Joe Ryan. I love to see Joe Ryan producing
• 1:14:49
  because we knew he was going to. You just kind of have to go with
• 1:14:53
  the rocks sometimes when you're playing from Minnesota.
• 1:14:55
  But when he's out there, he's pitching quality starts.
• 1:14:58
  He's giving up maybe one or two runs.
• 1:15:01
  You know, he kind of got the hose this week, right?
• 1:15:03
  Because he this week he did pitch in that suspended game,
• 1:15:07
  came out pitch pretty well, you know, and then Duran blew that
• 1:15:11
  game, you know, so you lost out on points on that win.
• 1:15:14
  So even Joe Ryan could be even higher on this list if if you
• 1:15:19
  got that win. But no, he's been solid so far
• 1:15:22
  to this point. Like you said, the last three
• 1:15:24
  weeks or so, he's been one of the top pitchers in the league
• 1:15:26
  for sure, easily a top ten pitcher.
• 1:15:29
  And then Mayor Kelly's just kind of like a man.
• 1:15:32
  But if you got Mayor Kelly on your team, you guys got lucky
• 1:15:34
  here with the the points that he's scoring right now.
• 1:15:37
  Well, like you said though, Doug, you know when these teams
• 1:15:39
  will start to win, you start to see these guys kind of get in
• 1:15:41
  bunches when it comes to the who's hot and who's not.
• 1:15:44
  And you know, that can go for multiple aspects.
• 1:15:47
  Like you said, hitters and pitchers can kind of go
• 1:15:49
  together. But maybe you just have a week
• 1:15:51
  where all your pitchers just slam dunk.
• 1:15:53
  And it seems like Colton Burns and Merrill Kelly did that this
• 1:15:56
  week. So from a Merrill Kelly
• 1:15:58
  standpoint, I like to ride the hot hand.
• 1:16:00
  You know, you got to be cautious with the matchups for sure.
• 1:16:03
  I didn't see who he pitched against so far this week to get
• 1:16:06
  those 29 points. But I'm still cautious when I'm
• 1:16:08
  playing the Dodgers. I'm so cautious when I'm playing
• 1:16:11
  even San Diego. They can start, you know,
• 1:16:13
  whacking the ball anytime they want to as well.
• 1:16:16
  So it's great that he's playing. You play with the hot hand, but
• 1:16:20
  just tread lightly just because Barrel Kelly doesn't have this
• 1:16:24
  reputation of being a stud for the whole entire year.
• 1:16:27
  So it's nice to have a a guy that produces that you don't
• 1:16:30
  expect but don't continue to expect the same production from
• 1:16:34
  him. So yeah, it's great to see, you
• 1:16:36
  know, because these guys like Philly 36, he's been in the
• 1:16:39
  league forever and I feel like he's been with Arizona forever
• 1:16:42
  too. I know.
• 1:16:44
  Yeah. I think we.
• 1:16:45
  Have our Yeah, I think. We have our hot players for next
• 1:16:49
  week. We talk about Devers with two
• 1:16:52
  home runs. One was a Grand Slam, 25 points.
• 1:16:54
  Well, Pete Crow Armstrong has two home runs and a Grand Slam
• 1:16:58
  today. So are we, are we, are we
• 1:17:02
  finally comfortable? To say, Doug, that that Pete
• 1:17:05
  Crow Armstrong is here to stay. No.
• 1:17:07
  Nope. I know.
• 1:17:09
  You are I just I'm not a fan of him.
• 1:17:11
  I don't I don't know what it is. I just I'm honestly, if Tucker
• 1:17:15
  doesn't resign with them next year, his his numbers are going
• 1:17:19
  to go down in the toilet, you know, so I I still don't think
• 1:17:23
  he is the the the one all save all in that line up.
• 1:17:27
  Tucker is the one who I mean Tucker hits a two out single,
• 1:17:32
  you know, say it walks to load the bases and now they're loaded
• 1:17:36
  for PCA and he hits the Grand Slam right and you know it's
• 1:17:40
  they're playing the Reds. So it's.
• 1:17:43
  Not the best team in the world and.
• 1:17:45
  Hunter Green was on there and he only went 4 innings, you know
• 1:17:50
  so. It is what it is.
• 1:17:52
  I still. Don't, I still don't think PCA
• 1:17:55
  is, is the, the guy everybody thinks he is.
• 1:17:57
  I mean, I think he's he's, he's riding hot.
• 1:18:00
  You know, players do that. Trade them, trade them for a set
• 1:18:04
  if you can, especially if you're in a redraft league.
• 1:18:07
  You know, it's a guy you got really, really late that it's
• 1:18:10
  producing. You know, I mean, look at, look
• 1:18:11
  at me. I got, you know, it's funny, we
• 1:18:14
  talked PCA in his two home runs. But Perez, Perez who who I
• 1:18:18
  picked off off a free agency, he had a horrible couple weeks.
• 1:18:23
  He's turned it around so much. He has almost as many points as
• 1:18:26
  PCA. He might be 10 points away.
• 1:18:28
  He had a home run today. You know he's averaging you like
• 1:18:31
  2.9, almost three points a start.
• 1:18:33
  When I picked him up he was at like 1.6.
• 1:18:36
  He's hitting them in bunches. Not to say he's always going.
• 1:18:38
  To do it. But like, that's, you know, if
• 1:18:40
  you have these players and you know, you're holding on to them
• 1:18:43
  to be hot, now's the time to trade them, that's all.
• 1:18:46
  Yeah. I mean, Pete.
• 1:18:47
  Pete. Crow seems like he's.
• 1:18:48
  Having like a Jared Duran year. Remember Jared Duran last year
• 1:18:52
  just kind of came out of nowhere, except I feel like PCA
• 1:18:55
  just got a little bit more popular is bad too than Duran
• 1:18:58
  did. Yeah, it's.
• 1:19:01
  It's 162. Games it's really tough to do
• 1:19:03
  that for the whole entire year consistently and and Pete Crow
• 1:19:06
  Armstrong too, you know he's still very.
• 1:19:09
  Very young. He is a, he was a top prospect
• 1:19:13
  and you you did expect, you know a lot from him when you did
• 1:19:16
  draft him and stuff. And it looks like he's putting
• 1:19:18
  it together. You know, can you do
• 1:19:21
  consistently though for the whole year?
• 1:19:22
  We'll see. But it's tough because I don't
• 1:19:25
  want to discredit him because there's nothing for me to to
• 1:19:29
  discredit to this point. I.
• 1:19:34
  I know Sean has. Him, you know, I hate that Sean
• 1:19:38
  has him. He's producing for him, but you
• 1:19:41
  can't have. Producing for him.
• 1:19:43
  We, you know, we'll say we told you so, that's all.
• 1:19:47
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But.
• 1:19:49
  At this. Point though, I I just have to
• 1:19:50
  give him the tip of the cat. He's just been he's just been
• 1:19:53
  really good in that lineup. And I, like you said, I think
• 1:19:56
  it's because of fucker, you know, bad with him in that line
• 1:19:59
  up right next to him. And there's there's different
• 1:20:02
  elements that go into it. But I mean, PCA, you can't ask
• 1:20:05
  so much more than what he's been doing.
• 1:20:08
  Exactly. All right.
• 1:20:09
  So let's dive. Into who's not hot, right?
• 1:20:15
  Let me pull that up right now. And some of these, these
• 1:20:22
  probably don't surprise you when you see it again.
• 1:20:27
  Let me just go through the hitters first and then we'll go
• 1:20:29
  through pitching. All right, So first and
• 1:20:32
  foremost, you get Mets. This, this is a second time,
• 1:20:35
  second week in a row Pete Alonso's on here again.
• 1:20:40
  Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, he's still 99.7% on.
• 1:20:43
  Again. It's the second time in a row in
• 1:20:45
  two weeks he has made this list of Gold 167.
• 1:20:48
  No home ones, one ribby, no runs scored, no stolen bases, 9
• 1:20:52
  strikeouts -2 points for an entire week.
• 1:20:57
  Padres outfield, Jackson Merrill, he's 96.9% owned.
• 1:21:00
  He hit your 174. No home runs, no ribbage, two
• 1:21:03
  runs scored, no stolen bases, 9 strikeouts.
• 1:21:06
  He gave you -1 Just to talk about him for a second.
• 1:21:08
  I mean, this was a guy the first 2-3 weeks of baseball was
• 1:21:11
  hitting a 270. I mean, 370.
• 1:21:13
  Excuse me. He was on a tear, comes back and
• 1:21:16
  this is what happens. And I, and this is like I
• 1:21:19
  compare it. I'm only bringing this up
• 1:21:21
  because this is what I see like PCA that could probably do
• 1:21:23
  right. We just talked about him.
• 1:21:25
  I think Jackson Merrill probably could be better than him in my
• 1:21:28
  opinion, more consistent. But that's what happens.
• 1:21:32
  You you get so hot and then you, you know, expectations and then
• 1:21:35
  some audible mentions. Ian Hap gave you a -1 he just
• 1:21:38
  came back. So you know, Manny Machado gave
• 1:21:41
  you 0. So you know, just a couple
• 1:21:45
  couple guys, a couple hitters right there.
• 1:21:47
  No, I think you know. The theme.
• 1:21:50
  I think we just thought you just touched on there.
• 1:21:52
  This guy's coming back from injury and struggling coming
• 1:21:55
  back from injury right off the bat.
• 1:21:57
  So Jackson Barrow's a young guy still.
• 1:21:59
  He's only what, 21 years old? I think he was only 20 last
• 1:22:01
  year, you know, coming back from an injury from what it was 9
• 1:22:06
  strikeouts, you know, not really good at all.
• 1:22:09
  You know, that 174 average until last week.
• 1:22:13
  Sometimes it just takes these. Guys, a few at.
• 1:22:15
  Bats maybe like even like a week or so to really get that
• 1:22:19
  feedback on the room on a daily basis.
• 1:22:21
  You know, that routine going to the ballpark, practicing going
• 1:22:23
  into the games when you're hurt, you lose that routine a little
• 1:22:26
  bit you're still with the club, you're still stretching and
• 1:22:28
  stuff, but it's just being part of that that whole the whole
• 1:22:32
  spiel of things of playing in the game and practicing.
• 1:22:35
  You know, I I bring up Austin Hayes, right you know he came
• 1:22:38
  back from his injury at the beginning of the month right and
• 1:22:41
  he struggled those first few games.
• 1:22:43
  I and I only, I only say this because I just looked at his
• 1:22:45
  numbers and, and now he's looking really good again, like
• 1:22:50
  like he was before he got injured.
• 1:22:51
  So you know, like you said, Ian Hat come back from injury having
• 1:22:55
  -1 I just chalked up just having like a bad week.
• 1:23:00
  Going back to Pete Alonzo though, second, second straight
• 1:23:03
  week here. And we did talk about a guy last
• 1:23:06
  week in like Christian Campbell and he wasn't on a who's not
• 1:23:10
  list, but we talked about a guy that pitches figured out and
• 1:23:16
  Christian Campbell's having a hard time adjusting to what
• 1:23:18
  those pitchers are figuring out. I think Peter Lonzo's kind of
• 1:23:21
  going through that same thing. I think they're attacking him a
• 1:23:22
  little bit differently. He was red hot in April.
• 1:23:26
  Like probably player of the month.
• 1:23:28
  If I don't know who wants player of the month could have been
• 1:23:31
  him. I don't know if it was him, I
• 1:23:33
  wouldn't be shocked because that's how good he was.
• 1:23:36
  And that's why they have thirty wins too, is because of Pete
• 1:23:39
  Alonzo. But I mean, two weeks in a row
• 1:23:42
  being on this who's not list, you got to be pretty bad to be
• 1:23:46
  on this list twice in two weeks. And that means you're striking
• 1:23:50
  out that. Means you're not hitting.
• 1:23:51
  The ball that means you're not run knocking guys in.
• 1:23:54
  So that's not good. And we know Peter Lonzo from a
• 1:23:57
  long term aspect is going to give you strikeouts.
• 1:24:00
  He is going to still give you power and he's going to have
• 1:24:03
  these flaky weeks like he has. Am I putting up a red flag right
• 1:24:07
  now saying, oh, I need to do something about this?
• 1:24:10
  Probably not, because you probably have some draft capital
• 1:24:12
  that you put into them. You want to ride him out.
• 1:24:15
  He plays for a very good baseball team.
• 1:24:16
  He's batting in the middle of that lineup still.
• 1:24:19
  Unfortunately, this is guy ride or die.
• 1:24:21
  You don't bench a guy like Pete Alonso, I believe.
• 1:24:25
  So you just kind of have to take the good.
• 1:24:26
  With the bad sometimes. Or in this case, the bad with
• 1:24:29
  the good. Yeah.
• 1:24:31
  Go for it, Doug. Yeah.
• 1:24:33
  Yeah, I was. Going to say I mean this is.
• 1:24:34
  The guy. This is Pete Alonso, right?
• 1:24:37
  This is the guy Who Will Win you weeks and kill you weeks.
• 1:24:40
  You've said it from the beginning like this is you're
• 1:24:42
  holding on to it and I see and I was never Pete Alonzo guy.
• 1:24:45
  I know you are you, you like Pete Alonzo.
• 1:24:47
  I I just, I never liked him. I just, you know, a lot of
• 1:24:51
  strikeouts can you know, obviously, you know, I think I
• 1:24:55
  played Tim who had him last week, last year, I think, and
• 1:24:59
  and he goes off and hits like, you know, five or six home runs
• 1:25:01
  in a week and I'm like, well, what the hell, man?
• 1:25:03
  You know, and I lose. But then, you know, you kind of
• 1:25:07
  wish, hey, I wish you could only hit me three and then three next
• 1:25:10
  week. You know what I mean?
• 1:25:11
  It's like he gives it to you in bunches and then when he, when
• 1:25:14
  they're, when they're done for, you know, that week and you're
• 1:25:17
  not getting them now for two weeks in a row as an owner, you
• 1:25:22
  know, you, you do get kind of upset because you're like, OK,
• 1:25:25
  well, that's -2 points. I lost by 15.
• 1:25:29
  So if I, if I didn't start anybody, I'd lose by 13.
• 1:25:33
  If I started an average first baseman, I, I could probably
• 1:25:36
  win. So you know why?
• 1:25:39
  Not try. To let's see what I can.
• 1:25:43
  Get for him right? Because if he does.
• 1:25:45
  This for another week in a row that value is just crushing
• 1:25:48
  right you you're you're going from a pitcher you probably
• 1:25:52
  could have got maybe A1A at the beginning of the year when he's
• 1:25:54
  hitting over 300 to now maybe a 1B to maybe next week a two or
• 1:26:01
  three. You know the longer you wait and
• 1:26:04
  sit on some of these guys, the longer or the worse your value
• 1:26:07
  is going to get for him too. That's that's something you got
• 1:26:09
  to always kind of think of with as an owner anyways.
• 1:26:13
  Well, the nice thing about first base two this year.
• 1:26:15
  Especially. The draft was there were some
• 1:26:18
  value picks at first base. We talked about Cody Ballinger,
• 1:26:22
  you mentioned Paul Goldschmidt, you know, he went super late in
• 1:26:24
  leagues. Spencer Torkelson is still
• 1:26:27
  producing here. It'll run today too.
• 1:26:30
  He he has been a bright light in that lineup and that Detroit
• 1:26:33
  lineup. So if you have a Pete Alonzo
• 1:26:36
  maybe paired up with a Ballinger or a Torkelson or, or, you know,
• 1:26:41
  if you got, you know, really greedy at first bees, maybe a
• 1:26:44
  Vinny P who's starting to turn around a little bit.
• 1:26:47
  Yeah, I, I don't hate the idea of dangling Alonzo out there.
• 1:26:52
  You're still going to get someone really good for him.
• 1:26:54
  Still, people are still going to value him as a top first baseman
• 1:26:57
  at that fantasy position. So I I don't hate it whatsoever.
• 1:27:01
  I think that's a it's a good call.
• 1:27:02
  All right, let's try. Let's.
• 1:27:04
  Dive right into this starting. Pitching, yeah.
• 1:27:07
  And we had talked about some of these guys.
• 1:27:08
  Earlier. Coming back from injury, I don't
• 1:27:10
  know if I would have started them anyways.
• 1:27:12
  I know a couple people in our league started started Strider.
• 1:27:15
  I know one person started Strider.
• 1:27:17
  Maybe it's got my head. I mean, you know, fantasy 101,
• 1:27:20
  you got a guy coming back from injury, you probably don't start
• 1:27:22
  him his first start. That's just my opinion.
• 1:27:25
  Obviously you set your line UPS any way you think.
• 1:27:28
  But so Seattle started pitcher George Kirby.
• 1:27:32
  He's 80, about 84% owned. He went O and 1/3 and 2/3 in
• 1:27:36
  each pitch, 4 strikeouts, one walk, 500 and gave you a -4
• 1:27:39
  points. That was against Houston and
• 1:27:42
  Houston. And then Braves starting pitcher
• 1:27:44
  Spencer Strider. He's 86.4% owned.
• 1:27:47
  He went O and 1. He gave you four and a third,
• 1:27:49
  three strikeouts, one walk, four, and he gave you -4 points.
• 1:27:52
  That was at Washington, the Nationals, and then a couple
• 1:27:56
  honorable mentions here. Clayton Kershaw gave you a -1.8.
• 1:27:59
  Hunter Brown gave you a -3.6. So, you know, couple, couple
• 1:28:04
  guys, again, a lot of those guys are coming back from injury.
• 1:28:07
  I don't think I would have started in their first start,
• 1:28:09
  but some people like to take chances.
• 1:28:12
  It does pay off sometimes, but very rarely.
• 1:28:15
  No, I think I'm not worried about.
• 1:28:16
  Kirby I'm not worried about. Strider, you just got to give
• 1:28:18
  them time. My big concern with them is just
• 1:28:21
  making sure they're staying healthy, making sure they're
• 1:28:23
  going out, making their starts, building up the confidence,
• 1:28:26
  building up their pitch count, getting, you know, their control
• 1:28:28
  back and and just, you know, getting back into a rhythm
• 1:28:32
  there. So I'm not worried about either
• 1:28:33
  of those guys right there. I mean Kershaw, I mean you have
• 1:28:37
  to have, you know, an expectation when he came back.
• 1:28:40
  We did talk about that last week and I compared him to like this
• 1:28:43
  year's Verlander almost where if, if you can get 5 innings out
• 1:28:46
  of Kershaw and a win, man, I think that's like the juiciest
• 1:28:50
  thing you can get. Because I think those days of
• 1:28:52
  him getting 6 innings, 7 innings, you know, 567 keys, I
• 1:28:55
  think those days are kind of over for Kershaw.
• 1:28:58
  So I think at this point, whatever innings you can get out
• 1:29:00
  of them, it's great. So from a fantasy perspective, I
• 1:29:03
  don't know how great that is at this point.
• 1:29:05
  So I'm, I'm treading lightly with Kershaw.
• 1:29:07
  Last week was his first start back.
• 1:29:09
  I probably wouldn't have started him as well just because he
• 1:29:12
  didn't know what you're going to get.
• 1:29:14
  And then Hunter Brown, this -3.6, this was Wednesday, This
• 1:29:19
  game was in Tampa, and it was a 1:00 game in Tampa.
• 1:29:23
  Now, I think you all know at this point, I live in
• 1:29:25
  Clearwater, FL, I'm about 20 minutes away from Tampa.
• 1:29:29
  Do you know how hot it is out there at 1:00 on a Wednesday?
• 1:29:33
  It is 90°, sweltering, and the air is very, very thin.
• 1:29:40
  It is very hot. You stepped outside, you were
• 1:29:43
  sweating. I'm, I'm, I'm talking it up to a
• 1:29:46
  very, very hot start for Hunter Brown because I think I, I do
• 1:29:51
  think that has something to do with it.
• 1:29:53
  I just, I can't ignore like the heat down here and Hunter Brown,
• 1:29:57
  he's been so good this year. I'm not steering away from my
• 1:30:01
  man. That's my guy loves Hunter
• 1:30:03
  Brown. Adam, last year we saw that
• 1:30:05
  second-half. I think it was like the first
• 1:30:07
  like 3 weeks he struggled, but then man, he became the ace last
• 1:30:10
  year for a lot of games and, and really picked it up this year #1
• 1:30:16
  pitcher still so far, even with that lot still, that goes to
• 1:30:19
  show you how good of a pitcher he's been to this point.
• 1:30:22
  So not worried about these pitchers probably at all.
• 1:30:25
  Maybe Kershaw a little bit just because he's older.
• 1:30:28
  Don't know what you're going to get from mom.
• 1:30:31
  But ultimately, you know, he looked pretty good today.
• 1:30:33
  I mean, he gave. You 2 innings, 1 strikeout, No
• 1:30:36
  earned, gave you a walk, but he only had 26 pitches against the
• 1:30:42
  Mets and they took him out. No, it was a.
• 1:30:45
  Rain delay, OH. Bummer.
• 1:30:48
  Yeah. So he did look good you.
• 1:30:50
  Know so I don't know I obviously I don't think you know the
• 1:30:55
  strikeouts are you know you're going to see 10 strikeouts and
• 1:30:58
  you know Clinton Vintage but he might be fantasy rosterable.
• 1:31:04
  I mean it's such a great offense you might not take the chance
• 1:31:07
  and start them right. I think Roster Bowl is very fair
• 1:31:11
  at. Least have him on your team, see
• 1:31:13
  what he does. Worst case scenario, you drop
• 1:31:15
  them, right? Yeah, and and.
• 1:31:18
  And Sean? Who's listening out there in our
• 1:31:21
  league? He said.
• 1:31:22
  Where's Hoffman on the cold list?
• 1:31:24
  We don't do relief pitches, but he he has.
• 1:31:27
  I mean, he's not. Something tells me so Philly,
• 1:31:31
  the Phillies didn't want to extend him because of they, they
• 1:31:34
  were scared of his something with his, with his physical came
• 1:31:38
  back and there was a question about it.
• 1:31:40
  And, and I don't know if maybe that's the reason why you're
• 1:31:46
  seeing him like this month just struggle.
• 1:31:50
  Maybe there really was something because because Toronto, you
• 1:31:53
  know, they they looked at that and was like, well, I don't
• 1:31:55
  think it's going to be an issue. So we'll sign you and you got a
• 1:31:58
  pretty good deal for him to be their closer.
• 1:32:00
  But maybe the Phillies are onto something.
• 1:32:02
  Man, you know that first month Hoffman was one of the best
• 1:32:07
  fantasies closures. Closures period in the.
• 1:32:09
  League and now he's he's scuffling.
• 1:32:13
  You know I think he's got 2 losses 3 blown saves like that's
• 1:32:17
  ZR as over six. Luckily, I mean, I'm I'm winning
• 1:32:21
  enough so it's not like hurting me hurting me, but it's still I
• 1:32:25
  mean, maybe like I said, maybe the Phillies are just they were
• 1:32:28
  just on to something. Maybe he really is hurt.
• 1:32:30
  Maybe there's something going on there.
• 1:32:32
  You know, it's put making me want to question if I even want
• 1:32:35
  to start him next week or take him out.
• 1:32:38
  It's. Fair.
• 1:32:39
  It's fair. I mean, we talked.
• 1:32:40
  About clothes, you know, a couple weeks ago how flaky they
• 1:32:43
  are. Really, it's really hard to find
• 1:32:46
  a lockdown guy. There's maybe only.
• 1:32:47
  Like 3 or 4 in the league at this point.
• 1:32:49
  Josh Hayter, though, I will say is.
• 1:32:51
  My guy, man. In the rough so far, Josh Hader,
• 1:32:55
  Mason. Mason Miller is still a stud,
• 1:32:58
  you know, out in in the A's, Sacramento there.
• 1:33:03
  But yeah, it's really tough to find the guy that's just locked
• 1:33:05
  down. You know, Luke Weaver's been
• 1:33:06
  doing pretty good for the Yankees since he took that role.
• 1:33:09
  Yes, and I'm. I'll tell you man, that's.
• 1:33:11
  That's wild that they, I mean you trade for Devin Williams,
• 1:33:17
  you know, all right, so we got a little less than 1/2 hour.
• 1:33:20
  So this is going to be crunch time here.
• 1:33:21
  So we're going to hop into our some of our buy high and sell
• 1:33:24
  those. All right, so let me just start
• 1:33:34
  out last week. We had a sell high on Paul
• 1:33:37
  Goldschmidt, I said. We drafted him, now's the value
• 1:33:40
  he gave you. 13 points for the week, 2.2 a start.
• 1:33:42
  Pretty decent, still pretty good.
• 1:33:45
  If you wanted to hold on to him, you could.
• 1:33:46
  I just said I just think you got him so low.
• 1:33:49
  The values there for him. Jung Hoo Lee we said sell high
• 1:33:52
  on. He only gave you eight points.
• 1:33:53
  He gave you 1.3 a start. So that was a pretty good call.
• 1:33:57
  You know, Robbie Ray, he gave you a no decision, still gave
• 1:33:59
  you 15 points. And then some of the by lows we
• 1:34:02
  had, we had Seger, we had Cole Raggins, both on the IL,
• 1:34:06
  something to take a chance on if people wanted to sell.
• 1:34:09
  We said Trey Turner and Turner had a really good week.
• 1:34:11
  He gave you 26 points, 3.7 to start and we said try to buy low
• 1:34:15
  on them. So that was a good call on our
• 1:34:17
  part as well for that. So I have first.
• 1:34:23
  On this list and and. I don't know if it's more of a
• 1:34:24
  buy low, it's more of just a buy, if that makes any sense
• 1:34:28
  because they're already at a low and I I'm pretty sure we did
• 1:34:32
  talk about them before. He might have made the cold
• 1:34:35
  list. I'm pretty sure Jose Altuve, 2nd
• 1:34:38
  baseman, outfielder, DH, he's 92% owned overall.
• 1:34:42
  He's giving you a 243 average, six home runs, 18 ribbies.
• 1:34:46
  He's giving you 1.9 a start. I do have him on here.
• 1:34:50
  He's almost a sell high because he had a good week, right?
• 1:34:52
  He only had 200, but he gave you a stolen base.
• 1:34:55
  Only three strikeouts, two home runs, 4 ribbies, 21 points gave
• 1:34:59
  you 3A start, which is a lot higher than the average he's
• 1:35:01
  giving you. Now, obviously these were he hit
• 1:35:04
  two home runs last night. So that's where the two home
• 1:35:06
  runs come from. It were his first home runs in
• 1:35:10
  three weeks. I think he's still a name.
• 1:35:13
  I think people like a good name. I think, you know, I don't
• 1:35:16
  necessarily think you're selling high at this point because
• 1:35:19
  you're not going to get back someone of the same value.
• 1:35:22
  I think, for instance, he was drafted in the sixth round in
• 1:35:24
  our league. I don't think you're going to
• 1:35:26
  trade somebody in the sixth round.
• 1:35:27
  So again, those trade expectations need to go down,
• 1:35:31
  but he doesn't care a ton. So there is value in that,
• 1:35:34
  right? I think if you if you want to
• 1:35:36
  sell, sell now you're still not selling high, but I think you're
• 1:35:39
  selling a little higher than you might have, but maybe oh, a
• 1:35:42
  couple weeks ago anyways, because at least now he's
• 1:35:44
  showing you some power with two more runs in a game.
• 1:35:47
  Hey, small window right here for a.
• 1:35:50
  Guy that hasn't been producing probably where you drafted him
• 1:35:52
  like you just said, I mean two home runs this week, you know,
• 1:35:55
  has a home in three weeks. Like this is a guy, he's getting
• 1:35:59
  older, right? Not.
• 1:36:00
  The same. L2V that we we all loved in
• 1:36:02
  between before, like you said, the strikeouts still not
• 1:36:07
  striking out, which is great and there is value to saying that
• 1:36:10
  too. And he is a vet, but doesn't
• 1:36:13
  mean he can't pick it up at any point of the season 2.
• 1:36:17
  But if you have other options, you know, you might as well just
• 1:36:21
  go with those. I think sometimes at this point
• 1:36:23
  and sometimes you just have to be like, hey, if I got a couple
• 1:36:25
  guys that are, you know, the same position, like we talked
• 1:36:28
  about Pete Alonzo, like, you know, Pete Alonzo and Spencer
• 1:36:31
  Torkelson, right? You know, and it's like, man,
• 1:36:33
  one of these guys are expendable.
• 1:36:35
  I might just sell, you know, my big name guy because I think I
• 1:36:38
  can get more form, even though I want I want to trade him because
• 1:36:41
  I like this other guy better. So Altuve kind of fits that
• 1:36:45
  bill. Like let's say you have Altuve
• 1:36:48
  and let's just throw Christian Campbell's name out there just
• 1:36:51
  for Yup, just because we mentioned them earlier.
• 1:36:54
  You know, I think they're just about this year the same player
• 1:36:57
  when it comes to points. It's not really that much of a
• 1:37:00
  difference between the two and it becomes preference.
• 1:37:02
  And it's like, well, I drafted Altuve higher.
• 1:37:05
  I think Altuve still has a name to it.
• 1:37:08
  So I think someone's going to bite on that.
• 1:37:10
  And again, second base, it's a little thin at times.
• 1:37:13
  So this is a good opportunity for a trade to happen.
• 1:37:17
  And what can you get for Altuve as well?
• 1:37:20
  I think you can get a pretty solid picture still in back
• 1:37:22
  form. You know, we, we were talking
• 1:37:25
  about Dustin May earlier a little bit in our in our tech
• 1:37:29
  exchange on one thing. I mean in Dustin May, you know,
• 1:37:32
  you don't, you don't know what you're always going to get on
• 1:37:34
  the other side with Dustin May, but when he pitches well, he is
• 1:37:37
  effective. You know, he had 24 points
• 1:37:40
  yesterday in our league, pitched quality start, got the win,
• 1:37:43
  obviously had some strikeouts obviously in there as well.
• 1:37:46
  Clearly still has strikeout power in them.
• 1:37:48
  You know, that's maybe a a picture that you can get for
• 1:37:51
  like an out two day. Like you said, you're not going
• 1:37:53
  to get that sixth round value back for him, but you can still
• 1:37:56
  get something that's going to be at least productive for your
• 1:37:58
  team, right? And and it's funny.
• 1:38:01
  Because we're always talking about.
• 1:38:02
  Like, you know, we got into a little heated argument, not us,
• 1:38:06
  but our group chat earlier this week still put it out there
• 1:38:09
  because I'm all about full transparency.
• 1:38:12
  I was part of that, yeah. Yeah, and.
• 1:38:15
  I don't know how I. Got shuffled into that.
• 1:38:18
  But so the guy had at Bryce Harper and I had offered him, I
• 1:38:23
  think I offered him like Tony G and Cody Ballinger.
• 1:38:26
  And he told me it was a garbage trade.
• 1:38:29
  Obviously, I will admit, you know, that was maybe a couple
• 1:38:31
  weeks ago and Cody Ballinger wasn't hitting, but Tony G was
• 1:38:34
  still, you know, 2 and O and three starts.
• 1:38:36
  Still pretty good numbers. And yeah, I thought he was.
• 1:38:41
  I still think he's a good. Pitcher.
• 1:38:42
  But you know, it was more of like expectations and like, you
• 1:38:46
  know, to me, I think like we talk about like certain people
• 1:38:50
  overvalue and I think, you know, this guy overvalues Bryce
• 1:38:53
  Harper. You know, I think, you know, I
• 1:38:56
  can sit there and say, well, look at, I mean, Josh Naylor has
• 1:38:59
  more points than him. Well, he had more points than
• 1:39:02
  him at the time. He might not anymore.
• 1:39:03
  It might be like 5 behind because Harper had a really good
• 1:39:06
  day the other day. But you know, Naylor had more
• 1:39:10
  points than him. He was drafted later.
• 1:39:11
  You know, Cody Ballenger now was only like 10 points behind him
• 1:39:14
  at this point. You know, I'm like, how is that
• 1:39:17
  such a garbage trade? And then he trades them for
• 1:39:19
  Hunter Green straight up. And Hunter Green did not look
• 1:39:22
  good today when 4 innings came up.
• 1:39:24
  Four earn. It's, you know, personally, if I
• 1:39:29
  had Bryce Harper, I would rather do Cody Ballinger for Tony G You
• 1:39:32
  know, that to me that that makes more value for me.
• 1:39:35
  I'm getting a pretty decent pitcher and I'm getting a pretty
• 1:39:37
  good hitter that I can move around.
• 1:39:39
  I didn't think it was garbage, but you know, yeah, there are
• 1:39:43
  people that just overvalue people.
• 1:39:44
  And to me, Bryce Hopper is not the guy that he thought he was,
• 1:39:47
  in my opinion. And then to go out and train him
• 1:39:49
  for hunter green, It's whatever. Yeah, it's again.
• 1:39:55
  You know I. Think it's.
• 1:39:56
  Just the person's preference on what they want or who they think
• 1:39:59
  is good and stuff. Like we all have our guys and I
• 1:40:02
  respect that, you know, I do. But then I, I see like, you
• 1:40:05
  know, some trade offers and compared like you said, you
• 1:40:08
  compare it to yours sometimes and you're just like man, like.
• 1:40:12
  Was I really that far off or is this the person really just
• 1:40:14
  blowing smoke up me right now? Because, you know, they just
• 1:40:17
  didn't like the names, you know? But you got to look at the
• 1:40:20
  production too. You got to be, you got to be
• 1:40:21
  honest across the board. And I think sometimes people
• 1:40:25
  don't get. So honest.
• 1:40:26
  And they still have that name recognition.
• 1:40:28
  And we do say sometimes like that name recognition can get
• 1:40:30
  you to a certain point. But I feel like sometimes in our
• 1:40:34
  leagues that we play in, you know, everyone should know who
• 1:40:38
  everyone is and have an expectation that's very similar
• 1:40:40
  to one another, right? Like no one's fooling me on
• 1:40:43
  Bryce Harper anymore that he is the elite Bryce Harper from
• 1:40:47
  before, you know, and I don't think anyone's fooling you
• 1:40:49
  either with that. You know, you got to have
• 1:40:52
  realistic expectations for these guys, who's what they they are
• 1:40:55
  now, what they've not or what they were before.
• 1:40:58
  And I think some people have a hard time with that and, and
• 1:41:01
  value, you know, because value can change really quick, whether
• 1:41:05
  an injury pops up or a guy just breaks out, you know, and all of
• 1:41:10
  a sudden just has his career year.
• 1:41:11
  Like we talked about PCA earlier and there's just different
• 1:41:15
  aspects to it. And then it's like I said, it's
• 1:41:17
  preference on who you want, Who do you think is going to do good
• 1:41:19
  later on? You know, I made a trade with
• 1:41:22
  you this week, right? And it was a pretty big trade
• 1:41:24
  and there was some backlash on that.
• 1:41:26
  And, and really I kind of laid it out why that the trade was
• 1:41:31
  the thought process behind it. You know, I think people were
• 1:41:34
  surprised. I traded Brandon Wu, who we did
• 1:41:36
  say to sell high on and now he's got this leg injury.
• 1:41:40
  Now he's going to go to a six man rotation.
• 1:41:42
  I think I did a pretty decent job selling him at the peak.
• 1:41:44
  I thought, you know, and then, you know, got a couple other
• 1:41:48
  guys in the deal as well. But it depends on how someone
• 1:41:51
  else values someone else. So, you know, guys in our league
• 1:41:54
  valued some of the guys that I traded to you more than the guys
• 1:41:58
  that they valued that you traded to me.
• 1:42:00
  And I, I think sometimes I just look at a little bit
• 1:42:03
  differently. They look at it differently.
• 1:42:05
  You got to respect other people's opinions.
• 1:42:07
  You know, it did get heated a little bit for sure.
• 1:42:10
  No disrespect. You know, it's just all part of
• 1:42:13
  the game, you know? But yeah, I mean, everyone has
• 1:42:16
  their favorites and that I think.
• 1:42:19
  That's the thing you got to realize when you're in.
• 1:42:21
  Leagues too, is you know, you, at least for me anyways, is I'll
• 1:42:24
  send a trade and yeah, it might be like a joke just to test the
• 1:42:27
  waters, but send something back. You don't send something back,
• 1:42:30
  then don't complain. I mean, you know, I send you and
• 1:42:34
  then, you know, then this person in particular goes, well, what
• 1:42:37
  if I gave you Bryce Hopper? And then of course the trade
• 1:42:39
  expands, right? I'm going to be Bryce Hopper and
• 1:42:41
  this guy for Corbin Carroll. I'm keeping Corbin Carroll like.
• 1:42:45
  How does a trade go? From, you know, 2 for one to A2
• 1:42:49
  for one on your end to, I mean, like, listen, I'm not trading
• 1:42:52
  Corby Carroll. He's my keeper.
• 1:42:54
  I said it when I drafted him. I'm going to keep him.
• 1:42:57
  You know, it is what it is. But it's just I, I just
• 1:43:00
  obviously it's like, you know, everybody likes their guys, but
• 1:43:03
  you know, it's, I don't know that's what's making trades so
• 1:43:06
  difficult sometimes. I know I ended up I, I did end
• 1:43:09
  up trading Cody Ballinger and I and Austin Wells for Sangai for
• 1:43:15
  the Mets. I thought that was a pretty
• 1:43:17
  good. Trade I, I think.
• 1:43:18
  Zynga. That's a great offense.
• 1:43:20
  I think he's pitching really good, you know, no harm or foul.
• 1:43:25
  You know, I got the guy I wanted.
• 1:43:26
  I basically just traded Cody Bellinger for him straight up
• 1:43:29
  because Austin Wells was on my bench and I picked him up all
• 1:43:31
  free agency. So no harm, no foul on that.
• 1:43:35
  But you know, it is it's some people are just easier to trade
• 1:43:38
  with. That's all.
• 1:43:39
  You and I, we, we flopped in that trade as well.
• 1:43:42
  You got Tucker, Al Tucker and I got Lindor back and I think a
• 1:43:46
  lot of people looked at that and were like, hey, you just traded
• 1:43:49
  Kyle Tucker like top three, top four bat.
• 1:43:51
  Well, you got to take the keeper aspect into it as well.
• 1:43:53
  You can't keep Kyle Tucker next year.
• 1:43:56
  I can keep Lindor for the next two years on a team that's
• 1:44:00
  that's very good. So I think that kind of evens
• 1:44:02
  out there, you know, and it's not like Lindor's slouch like
• 1:44:06
  the guy is top two, top three shortstop in the league.
• 1:44:09
  If not #1 So I mean, we're not We're not.
• 1:44:13
  Too far off here I feel. Like with the trade, but you
• 1:44:15
  know, like I said, people have an opinion.
• 1:44:18
  I respect it. You know, the text messages,
• 1:44:21
  sometimes they come off hard, but it's not because it's we're
• 1:44:24
  trying to be like, you know, Dicks or anything like that, you
• 1:44:28
  know, but you know, we're just, we're just trying to.
• 1:44:31
  Almost sometimes. Justify something that we really
• 1:44:33
  don't have to justify, right? Yeah.
• 1:44:36
  It's like, hey, we're going to do our trade.
• 1:44:37
  I mean, what's it to you type of, you know, mentality,
• 1:44:42
  whatever it is, what it is? All right, so let's tell.
• 1:44:46
  You we only got like 15. Minutes so we're going to have
• 1:44:48
  to breeze through. So next I have right here sell
• 1:44:51
  high. I I, I say sell high.
• 1:44:54
  He's he's having a really all right an average pedestrian
• 1:44:58
  compared to last year's season, 22653 homers, 29 ribbies, a lot
• 1:45:03
  of strike. He's got 51 strikeouts, 12
• 1:45:06
  stolen bases. He's giving you 2.4 start, which
• 1:45:08
  is about average. I had a great week, hit you 381,
• 1:45:12
  gave you 3.5 a *21 total points. Again, you might not be selling
• 1:45:16
  high, but you're now is a good time to sell as opposed to maybe
• 1:45:19
  earlier in, you know, a week or two ago.
• 1:45:23
  He he's been underperforming based on where he drafted him
• 1:45:26
  and our league. He was a keeper, right?
• 1:45:27
  2.4 start, like I said is is fantasy relevant, but it's not
• 1:45:31
  close to that 2.93.2 he was averaging last year.
• 1:45:35
  I think based off the week he's had, that could be optimism that
• 1:45:39
  he could break out and could continue.
• 1:45:41
  You know, you want to keep them. I understand why, but if you're
• 1:45:45
  looking to trade them, why not try to sell them now?
• 1:45:48
  You know, this might be the time to do it.
• 1:45:50
  I would totally understand, like I said, if you want to hold on
• 1:45:52
  to him, but I think I mean, you could get good value on him.
• 1:45:55
  And like we always talk about, you don't want to be sit there
• 1:45:58
  holding a guy that just ends up fizzling out while he's on your
• 1:46:01
  team because that's the worst. So why not try to get something
• 1:46:04
  you can for him after a good week?
• 1:46:07
  Yeah, I I don't think there's a. Right or wrong answer here?
• 1:46:10
  I think he's still pretty productive, you know, 2.4 is
• 1:46:13
  obviously below par for him from what he has been doing so far.
• 1:46:16
  But I do like his strikeout rate.
• 1:46:17
  It's not too bad. It's about under 25%, which is
• 1:46:23
  not bad. I I just like to see the the
• 1:46:25
  stolen bases maybe a little bit uptick when he does get on base,
• 1:46:29
  just so kind of Even so strikeouts out a little bit
• 1:46:32
  more. But man, this guy's a streaky
• 1:46:34
  guy. When he's on, he's on.
• 1:46:35
  He gets you, he gets you everything.
• 1:46:37
  He gets you on base. He'll steal bases, he'll score
• 1:46:39
  your runs, he'll lock in a couple guys.
• 1:46:41
  You know, he's got some pop in his bat.
• 1:46:44
  You know, you like you said, Doug, you probably drafted him
• 1:46:47
  at a pretty decent value if he wasn't in a keeper league or
• 1:46:50
  anything like that. But I'd say decent.
• 1:46:53
  I'm talking, I'm talking like maybe fourth round, maybe even
• 1:46:55
  late third round, depending on how deep the league is and
• 1:46:58
  stuff. And based off his production
• 1:47:00
  last year, you know, it's kind of where the value fits.
• 1:47:03
  So yeah, I mean, obviously this year you had to know that he was
• 1:47:07
  going to have a little bit of regression for sure.
• 1:47:09
  But yeah, I think he still plays for a pretty good offense.
• 1:47:13
  He's still going to be batting on top of that line up.
• 1:47:16
  And you know, it's it's only it's only May 23rd.
• 1:47:21
  Still a lot of baseball left. He's a talented guy.
• 1:47:23
  That's a guy I'd rather have on my team.
• 1:47:25
  Like you can only say there's a lot of baseball left.
• 1:47:27
  Until there's not a lot of baseball left.
• 1:47:30
  Well, I think last week, I said. We're 1/4 way to through.
• 1:47:32
  So we got we got like, you know, we actually have like bigger
• 1:47:36
  sample sizes to this point. But we've seen guys that that
• 1:47:41
  are just late bloomers in the year where they really struggle,
• 1:47:44
  you know, for the first couple of months for some reason, for
• 1:47:46
  whatever reason, it is battling injuries, you know, maybe drama
• 1:47:50
  in the clubhouse, whatever. But I'm not totally far fetched
• 1:47:54
  of saying that this guy cannot pick it up and and be a top top
• 1:47:58
  15, maybe even top 10 outfielder by the end of the year easily,
• 1:48:04
  easily. I would my only my only.
• 1:48:07
  Push back to that would would be well, listen, you know, he's
• 1:48:11
  been underperforming this time through and I'm stuck with them
• 1:48:14
  and you know, I might be kind of sick of it by now.
• 1:48:17
  We're 1/3 of the way through the season.
• 1:48:20
  You know, if he turns it around, all right, that's great.
• 1:48:23
  I look like a genius holding on to him.
• 1:48:24
  If he doesn't, well, I kind of just screwed myself because, you
• 1:48:28
  know, you still got to make you still got to win weeks to make
• 1:48:31
  the playoffs, right? So it's like, how long do you
• 1:48:33
  hold on to somebody or or ride them out until, until you know,
• 1:48:38
  you decide he's really not worth.
• 1:48:39
  It. Yeah, and.
• 1:48:42
  That's fair and and if you're. Going to make that decision.
• 1:48:44
  I think you got to make it sooner than later, right?
• 1:48:47
  I think you know we're talking. You know.
• 1:48:49
  One week away from June, you got to make that decision sooner
• 1:48:52
  than later. If you're going to ride or dive
• 1:48:53
  with the guy, he's been playing pretty good right now, so you
• 1:48:56
  could sell him high right now for a good place.
• 1:48:58
  All right. And then.
• 1:49:00
  Last but not. Least I do.
• 1:49:02
  Have this guy, we all know who he is.
• 1:49:05
  Philly's starting pitcher, Jesus Lizardo, He's 92.4% owned.
• 1:49:09
  He's having you guys 5 and O, 60 innings pitch, 67 strikeouts, a
• 1:49:13
  195 ERA. He's giving you 16.3 points a
• 1:49:16
  start. Had a great win against Colorado
• 1:49:20
  just recently. I want to say what, yesterday or
• 1:49:22
  the day before? This is Ranger Suarez 2 point O
• 1:49:26
  from last year. This guy reminds me exactly of
• 1:49:29
  Ranger Suarez, who came out last year red hot only to tank in the
• 1:49:33
  second-half. And nothing tells me this guy
• 1:49:35
  won't do the same. Maybe, maybe, probably sooner
• 1:49:39
  than later. You know, we all know how he is,
• 1:49:41
  you know, obviously different team, but same pedigree.
• 1:49:45
  You know, I'm happy to see he's pitching great, but he's a
• 1:49:47
  career for ERA pitcher. He's only pitched 66 innings.
• 1:49:51
  Last year and. He's already there.
• 1:49:53
  He's already hit last year's numbers.
• 1:49:56
  You know, he's always been a strikeout guy, but these numbers
• 1:49:58
  are just not sustainable. You know, you struck gold with
• 1:50:01
  them, whether you picked them up off a free agency.
• 1:50:04
  He was drafted in the last round of our draft.
• 1:50:06
  So now's your opportunity to trade him for a pretty good
• 1:50:08
  hitter. You know, just keep in mind that
• 1:50:10
  people are probably going to value him or they they might be
• 1:50:14
  reluctant to trade a great bat for him because they know he's
• 1:50:19
  going to hit the, you know, he's going to come down and fall down
• 1:50:21
  back to earth. You know, and I remember again
• 1:50:24
  and from our league last year, this guy who had Ranger Suarez,
• 1:50:28
  you know, selling them, trying to take the bait.
• 1:50:30
  Hey, I'll trade you this for this arm.
• 1:50:32
  You want this for him and then he's like, fine, you don't want
• 1:50:33
  them. I'll just hold on to him, man.
• 1:50:35
  I'll hold on to somebody with a, you know, a two point OERA.
• 1:50:37
  And then, you know, what happened at the end of the year
• 1:50:41
  wasn't a two point O anymore. So listen, I say you get rid of
• 1:50:45
  them now if you can get what you can.
• 1:50:47
  I think you know, I I don't blame him for trying to trade.
• 1:50:49
  Him at that point either Rangers Suarez last year, you know, we
• 1:50:52
  we probably would all be doing the same thing because no one
• 1:50:55
  had reigns of Suarez on their bingo card to be a productive
• 1:50:59
  fantasy pitcher. But the thing with Jesus
• 1:51:02
  Lizardo, though, I think it's a little different.
• 1:51:04
  I think there is more value with him than like a Rangers Suarez
• 1:51:07
  because, you know, we talked about Pittsburgh producing
• 1:51:09
  pitchers and all that good stuff.
• 1:51:12
  Miami. Miami throws a lot of good
• 1:51:15
  pictures into the organization and they ended up moving and
• 1:51:26
  yeah, like right now they got Max.
• 1:51:27
  Mayer in there. You know, Edra Edric.
• 1:51:31
  Cabrera is a little raw. Still, he's not quite there yet.
• 1:51:34
  And then Erin Perez, you know, they got a lot of good prospects
• 1:51:36
  in there. You know, they just got rid of,
• 1:51:38
  you know, he's just Rosado to Philly.
• 1:51:41
  You know, I think a couple years ago they had Pablo Lopez, right?
• 1:51:43
  He's a productive pitcher still. He was in the Uriah's swat from
• 1:51:47
  Minnesota, right? So these guys end up producing
• 1:51:50
  for some reason just like quality pitchers all of a
• 1:51:53
  sudden. So in saying that, now you got a
• 1:51:55
  guy that's, you know, coming from an organization that breeds
• 1:51:58
  really good pitchers. Now he's pitching for a
• 1:52:00
  competitive baseball team and maybe we're starting to see the
• 1:52:03
  better side of Lozano at this point.
• 1:52:06
  Now, he's never done this in a career, like Doug said.
• 1:52:08
  So, you know, is he going to continue doing this the whole
• 1:52:11
  entire year? Probably not.
• 1:52:12
  He's going to have some clunkers in there for sure.
• 1:52:14
  But is he still worth rostering and having on your team?
• 1:52:17
  Absolutely, freaking lutely. I feel like this guy's easily
• 1:52:20
  right now at #2 #3 pitcher right now because it's just, you know,
• 1:52:24
  pitching's not consistent across the board.
• 1:52:27
  And like I said, you always have to re evaluate these guys at
• 1:52:29
  points. And I mean, after, you know
• 1:52:31
  what, 6 or 7 starts and he's got almost 200 points and he's got
• 1:52:35
  50 record with 60 innings like that.
• 1:52:38
  That's pretty good with 67 strikeouts.
• 1:52:40
  So he's a, a power pitcher right there.
• 1:52:42
  Eighteen walks, maybe a little little high.
• 1:52:44
  You know, that's three to one there.
• 1:52:47
  You know, it's gonna, that's gonna affect the WHIP a little
• 1:52:48
  bit, but it's still gonna be very, very, very, very good.
• 1:52:52
  You can definitely sell him high.
• 1:52:54
  But if you said I want to keep him because I think he's, he's
• 1:52:56
  going to be productive and he's going to be good.
• 1:52:59
  I, I don't hate that either, You know, and the, the point of the
• 1:53:02
  segment too, is because a guy's playing good and they say you
• 1:53:05
  can go either way. The point is to try to maximize
• 1:53:08
  your trades. That's the whole point of this
• 1:53:10
  segment is to maximize, not because, you know, there's a
• 1:53:13
  right or wrong answer. We're just saying right now, at
• 1:53:15
  this moment, you can get the most for this guy, right?
• 1:53:19
  So let me for for by. Lowe's.
• 1:53:20
  I'm just going to. List all three and then you can
• 1:53:23
  you can talk, talk to them for a little, talk on them a little
• 1:53:27
  bit. We only got like 5 minutes or a
• 1:53:28
  little less. So I do have Padres.
• 1:53:31
  Outfield Tatis. I know he's 90. 9% owned.
• 1:53:33
  I know you're saying, well, why would he be on here?
• 1:53:35
  He gives you 3.3 a start. Well, last week he gave you 210
• 1:53:38
  strikeouts. They're starting to come on.
• 1:53:40
  He had a horrible week. I mean, you know, he, he he's
• 1:53:44
  you get 6 points for a home run when you count the home run,
• 1:53:47
  the, the RBI in the run and he still only managed to get you 2
• 1:53:50
  points for the week. So he had a home run, but he
• 1:53:52
  only gave you 2 points. He's striking out a lot.
• 1:53:55
  You know, if, if this is really just a buy, right, I, I think
• 1:54:00
  you're going to end up you're not buying low on him, but you,
• 1:54:02
  you should be buying him the the KS are becoming an issue.
• 1:54:07
  He's got 17 in the last 15 games.
• 1:54:09
  You know, earlier, earlier in the year.
• 1:54:11
  I don't think that that's that's happening, but he wasn't
• 1:54:16
  striking out a lot at the beginning of the year.
• 1:54:18
  Now you're starting to see that shift where you know, and, and
• 1:54:21
  that's the kind of guy he is, right?
• 1:54:22
  He's a career 280 hitter. He does strike out a lot, you
• 1:54:26
  know, 14150. I, I, I think he's still good.
• 1:54:31
  But I think, you know, maybe owners are starting to see,
• 1:54:34
  well, you know, he's not the 3:30 hitter that I thought he
• 1:54:38
  was going to be who hit like 10 home runs, right?
• 1:54:40
  He's starting to slowly taper off.
• 1:54:42
  And these are the expectations. He's coming back down to his
• 1:54:44
  career norms. And so this is a time to
• 1:54:47
  probably, you know, buy on somebody because, you know, you
• 1:54:50
  could probably buy him a little lower than he could have, you
• 1:54:52
  know, a couple weeks ago, Same thing but a little different in
• 1:54:56
  my opinion. This is Dodger second baseman,
• 1:54:59
  shortstop, outfielder, Tommy Edmond.
• 1:55:01
  He's 92% owned. I mean, he hit you 154 in the
• 1:55:04
  week. He gave you 4 points.
• 1:55:05
  He only had two strikeouts, right?
• 1:55:07
  He's giving you 2.8 a start. He's coming back from injury,
• 1:55:11
  still plays for a great line up. I think owners that held them
• 1:55:13
  were waiting for him to come back and and produce and make
• 1:55:16
  sure he can still hit and everything before they sold
• 1:55:18
  them. Because you never want to trade
• 1:55:19
  anybody on the IL just because you're going to get the lowest
• 1:55:23
  value for them because they're already hurt, right?
• 1:55:25
  So people when they buy them from you, they're they're taking
• 1:55:28
  a gamble. Not a ton of K's.
• 1:55:30
  So if you're in a league that penalizes you for K's, this is
• 1:55:33
  the kind of a guy you want to buy, right?
• 1:55:35
  I know he was bashing at the beginning of the year, but and
• 1:55:38
  that's expectations, right? He's not going to hit you 30
• 1:55:42
  home runs. It's he's a he's a smaller guy,
• 1:55:44
  but I think his his real, his real quality is his versatility,
• 1:55:52
  right? This is second base shortstop
• 1:55:54
  outfield, right? When you're buying somebody,
• 1:55:56
  you're buying somebody that you can plug and play whenever you
• 1:55:59
  need it. And this is a guy you could do
• 1:56:00
  that, right? He was drafted.
• 1:56:02
  I mean, I got him in the 16th round.
• 1:56:04
  So obviously if I do, I'm I'm not going to sell them for
• 1:56:09
  somebody that I got in the 16th round, right?
• 1:56:12
  I mean, but a 12th round pick maybe is somebody you could
• 1:56:15
  probably get for him. I think you can buy it.
• 1:56:18
  Buy him a little lower than maybe at the beginning of the
• 1:56:20
  year when he was red hot and he did hit you four runs in a week.
• 1:56:24
  And then I do have Michael King on here real quick.
• 1:56:26
  You know, Owen won his last start only giving you 5 and 3rd.
• 1:56:31
  Obviously great number overall. But you know, I I think he
• 1:56:35
  really goes 6/6 plus innings. I think his last 10 starts he
• 1:56:38
  went 6. So I think some pitchers might
• 1:56:40
  be looking to move on from him just because he doesn't give you
• 1:56:43
  a quality start. Yeah, real quick.
• 1:56:46
  I. Think the best value you're.
• 1:56:47
  Going to have to trade for is Tommy Edmund.
• 1:56:49
  I think that's a guy that you can get at a reasonable price.
• 1:56:52
  I think the other two guys in Tatis and King, you're going to
• 1:56:55
  have to give up a little bit more capital even though they
• 1:56:57
  might be by lows right at this moment.
• 1:56:59
  I just think there's going to be a price to pay still just
• 1:57:02
  because maybe the name value where they drafted, but Tommy
• 1:57:04
  Edmund, multiple positions coming back from injury didn't
• 1:57:07
  play that well. We talked about that earlier
• 1:57:09
  about some other guys coming back from injury.
• 1:57:11
  This is a good guy to buy right now.
• 1:57:12
  Awesome. All right.
• 1:57:15
  Man, well I hate. To call it a quick, but you
• 1:57:18
  know, it is that time we just did so much stuff to talk about
• 1:57:22
  today, that's all. So we talked about some of the
• 1:57:25
  IL players hitting the IL, some of the ones that are coming
• 1:57:28
  back. We gave some updates on is that
• 1:57:30
  as well as the hottest, coldest hitters of this past week for
• 1:57:32
  your fantasy lineup and some of the Best Buy low sell high
• 1:57:35
  candidates. Yeah.
• 1:57:37
  So, you know, if you end up wanting to watch the show again,
• 1:57:41
  it's on tomorrow on New England streaming Sports.
• 1:57:43
  They're going to play it from 12:00 to 2:00.
• 1:57:47
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• 1:57:52
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• 1:57:54
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• 1:57:56
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• 1:58:00
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