4/10, Part 1: Tuesday recap, aces getting rocked, and more…

listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best Friends Forever. D Do Do Do Do Do Doto Yeah is as the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Reggie Standfell, I am grang So Chris Venture all the way for our number two. What's going on Frankie Reggae. Happy hump Day here on Wednesday April, I got a lot to talk about Stack night last night. Lots of action. Obviously on a Tuesday, every team is in. Every team Almost every team was in action out of

the thirty UM teams. I think we're not so almost every team in action. We had some day baseball yesterday, we have some day baseball today, but there's a lot to go over before that. Greg last night, went to bed, definitive quick answer. There. I was following sleep on the couch last night, and then I went into the bed, fell right asleep, woke up when you do, into the bathroom at five two, And the next night I knew my alarm went off. Nice yep, good to hear, buddy,

good too. Here we have we have three day games today. We've already have a postponement. There's snow in Colorado, so unfortunately we will not be getting another Ronald Ducunia home run today. If only he could play all the games in Corse fields, Greg, how did I sleep? M It was all right, you know, it wasn't the best, but definitely had worse. So I'm alright, Okay, today, I'm sorry,

We'll be sorry. Everything's Everything's all right, Greg. I watched unless, of course you're Marcelo Zuna trying to make a catch or Clint Fraser. Seriously, Uh so I watched the I watched the Yankee mass night before that game. Before that, I watched the Last Maze Runner. Do you know that movie? Franchise movie we franchise. I don't know anything about it, all right, I watched the last in that trilogy. Okay, to be honest with you, not good, not good good. Yeah.

I don't really know anything about this greg film trilogy, Maze Runner. I haven't seen any of them. Did you see the dive Virgent trilogy? No, don't see Divergent either. I haven't seen any of you. But not good. So I really so basically Divergent and Maze Runner or two like book series that we're turning into movies that's around the same time, um and the Verse, you know what

kind of Yeah. So I liked the Divergent series more in the Maze Runner series, but the Diversion series trying to turn their last book into two movies, the last book, book three, into two movies. And the problem is they made the third movie, but they decided, you know what, nobody saw the third movie. We're not gonna take a fourth. So I don't I don't know what happens in the end. They're just not making the last movie. And this trilogy, which I cared less about, makes their third movie and

it's crap, crap, oh man, crap. And the only reason I watched is because I was on HBO Go a couple of weeks ago searching for someone to watch, and I round up watching Deadpool too, and I'm like a maze runner. I like to watch that. Well, Greg, you don't watch superhero movies, So what do you think of dead fool like that? Did you watch the first Deadpool? Yes? The reason I liked to watch the second Deadpool because I really liked the first Deadpool. It was like I

also really liked the first. It was a little bit different than the other things. It's way different. That's why I liked it. A little bit more mature, sex, a little more. It was funny. It was also funny crude. It's awesome. Yeah, to me, Deadpool is up there. It's inside my top three superhero movies. Okay, So like I don't know what's up there with like the Dark Knight with he Ledger. Awesome. That's how good I think it is.

So I don't really think anything, right, So I saw a Deadpool two and like, I don't really care about superhero stuff at all. It's not what you want to be entertaining, right, So I was more entertained by the first movie than the second movie. Like I thought, like when he opened the door with the X Men cameo on the second movie, that was kind of cool. Not that I know anything about it, but like that's cool.

And then I always love when did Pool like makes fun of Ryan Reynold's decisions, Like I think that's hysterical to the fourth Walls, like he talked about like the green Goblin, like decisions you can change. Like that's great, Green lantern, Green lantern, Like that was hilarious. Hys, Like that's funny to me. So I like Deadpool. I mean

on Deadpool, not in on most other super movies. The first movie to what I really enjoyed Greg was and this is kind of our precursor to Baseball Talk obviously today. The first movie was such a wide range of emotions, right, so they make you crack up, they make you cringe, like some of the action stuff, some of the gore that you see. But then there was also kind of like a love subplot thing that like really drew me in. It was really well done. I enjoyed it. Yeah, sure,

I'm in. It's better than most superhero movies. I know why you don't like a lot of superhero movies great because they're very predictable. It's not that not that Deadpool is not predictable. Villain is gonna come and then here you're gonna come and save the day. Hey, it's basically like every John Cina match you every right, So not like Deadpool is different and that, but but the way was the story was told was different exactly. Yeah, I agree with you on that. So that was different. That

was That was why I don't know. That was weeks. A few weeks back, I watched Deadpool yesterday, watched Maze Runner. I also watched the season premiere of Killing Eve. How do you have all this time to watch all this stuff? So I was able. I got home like about an hour to hour earlier than I said normally do. It's because of that. And then Junior went out, So I watched Maize Runner and the Yankees didn't start yesterday. Remember

it eight ten, so would later start. I didn't enjoy that, so I was done with the movie about ten to eight, so I started making dinner. Had the Yankees on, I this is perfect, So I watched Yankee games. Junior got home, watched the episode of TV. Wasn't bad? Boom, What was it to here, Greggy, I'm sorry, I'm a little in on something here because you know, a lot of faces because pitching Ninja shirt that I'm wearing today. Rob Freedman

puts out great work. I put out a video yesterday of Jimmy Nelson's off speed stuff minor league start, right, and he was ridiculous. That's great. You know, come to me, Nelson, guys. So I'm very intrigued. But I do want to apologize for not car for for being more intrigued by Jimmy Nelson's rehab start yesterday than uh whatever's going on in Gregg says, Oh yeah, you asked how I had the time. I explained it all the day. A big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal to someone. Greg. Okay,

all right, let's get into baseball. Baseball big story. Last night, Mike Trot left this game with a groin injury, as the collective world shuddered. And the good news is he's gonna have today off the Angels. I will leave him off day tomorrow and he will expect to be back in the line up Friday. Of course, last time we heard that my Clevinger was on the now I O six day weeks. Um. Don't wish that evil upon Pike.

I do not, but they're not. Trot does not even expect to have an m r I on it, which is never makes sense to me, like always have the m R I back to come out of an m r or what good what back can come out of having the m R I. Um, but you don't expect to need one, so the good news should be okay, Frank, I think that normally that's good. You know, if if he doesn't need an m R I, then that means it really is as mild as they're leading on. I think normally if you need an m r I right away,

that means like, Okay, this is bad. It's probably gonna be bad, so take it with a grain of salt. We'll see what happens here. Miles right, growing strain not gonna play today, has the off day tomorrow, expects to be back in the lineup. Um. You know, we always expect a lot of things and we get let down.

So let's see what happens here with Mike Trout, who just ato a phenomenal start to the season forty nine played appearances, Greg, would you like to guess his ops at this points one point six to one point oh six to Actually, his ops for the entire season last year was even higher than that. But let's try fifty nine. One point five to nine is the open from Mike with a walk right and an eight percent strikeout right. The guy just keeps getting better. And I can't even

use the fine wine thing because he's not old. He's seven. You don't even like wine. He's in the prime of his career. I don't don't like wine. Don't like wine. Yeah, what's your favorite wine? Greg? I don't know. My dad's a huge wine guy. He's having cheap and red white, red wheat stuff. Sweet sweet, you know, like semi sweet is the only is the one She always makes me pick up. Told me she likes Kianti Santi a lot. I don't know, like like I've tried moscato. It's not

really wine. It's just really like it's fine. But other wine, I'm out, Greg, that's fine. I mean it just something cheap like that that's not like actually, don't I'll think it anything, I really will. We go to Trader Joe's the best. We have like six dollar models, you know, the older drag heads. It's like more like alcoholic he gets. Just give me anything else, I'll drink it. Put it in front of me. It doesn't matter. A long week. Sometimes it has manum, oh, he said, wait a minute,

you told me, Oh it was, You're right. I guess on a one point oh five three one point what I guess at one point six too? Yes, on nine. Trout last year is one point eight eight. That's the insane. I didn't think my guest was so awful in there. No. But the thing is with the with the start that he's off too. I'm sorry. Usually you're good at I'm not. I'm not bad. I'm usually in the range. I'm usually in the range to No, not today. Yeah. So the big story was that Trout got hurt, came back. Um,

that was the good news. The other big news yesterday was in regards to Luis Severena, and we heard set back yesterday. We talked a lot about Severena. He said could be a lost for him. And this is actually a really funny story in our minds. Any way, we hope you laugh. Long. So we find out that Trump has a Latin issue and he's going to be shut down for six weeks. And who has a lat issue? Isn't that? Does? Said Trump? Like, what do we talk?

Do you know? What's weird? That's got a text message I have nothing asked nothing to do with politics on here. It's all I don't know. You said Trump has a lat issue, it would be out six weeks. That's weird, man, I don't know. I'm like, there's no politics anywhere on my screen. It's literally wrote a world fan grafs, ESPN, Yahoo Fantasy. There's nothing to do with politics going on. It was a little that's weird. Okay, Well, so Savorina

has a Latin issue and he should be out. Uh, well, should not such a shut down for six weeks and this is kind of what I said yesterday. Then they didn't find anything. He's just gonna be shut down for a longer period of time. They say it's a great two lat issue that had nothing to do with this prior injury. Dr A immediately when on Twitter is like, yes, it does so, and I think it makes sense that

it does too. It was just overcompensating in a way so close to your shoulder to like definitely makes sense. And I mentioned that to you yesterday we were a little with Florio and yeah, Floora, you know, you said, oh, well, I don't I don't think it's really connected. But I'm thinking well, he tried long tossing and then he actually get shut down and then he find a new injury. Then yeah, it's probably overcompensating for the shoulder and leads

to the latter. Yeah. So so for me, I think that happened to Karls Martinez last year to remember or no Alex and then he heard his lass, So yeah, they definitely could be connected. Absolutely. Alex raises up for like three months with the lad right so to me, I don't know why. My initial thought was like that was like you're back, and that's okay. Greig doesn't work out, so I don't really know where the muscles. That is a fact. Greig does the bicep workout and walk. I walked,

you know, with the beers. I got I got it. Um. But anyway, so I get this, and Frank's Altduman gloom as he usually tends to be with the Ygkes. Yeah, it was all duper negative and pretty much in most aspects of life that's true. And me like, I'm known as the injury pessimistic guy, and I was like, well, you know what, this gives you more time for the

rot rotator cup to heal. Everything will kind of heal and hopefully the second half of the year, sever you can kind of let it fly, like I don't think there's like the worst case in the world, worst case in the world. Okay, new album. So then Florio chimes in and he goes, you are a hypocrite. I'm like, what do you mean, because you are an effing hypocrite. I was like, what, there's number one. You're the most injury pessimistic guy. Now like, okay, fair trying to be optimistic.

You're fair. He goes, If this was the Mets. If this was the Mets and Severalos has a rotator cup injury, sits down for a week or two and immediately hurts his lat, you would go on the air tomorrow. You would laugh your ass off. You would joke about the Mets training staff and how big of Joe beaks they are. And I would sit there silently because I got nothing, because you're right. And now you're sitting here saying, oh, not not bad, not a bad idea, no, no, we deal,

all good? Who are you? And I'm just like, I got nothing. I got nothing Because he's right it was the Mets. I would I would kill him. Let didn't kill I didn't kill Alex Rays when this happened, Like, I didn't go nuts about that. I said, so you would just do it, because you would just do it to the Mets, of course. Yeah. I mean it's kind of a given at that point when these kind of

things happen to the Mets. Um. Yeah, I agree with Floria regarding your your fandom here, Greg, because well, I don't think I don't think these things are related like it should be, all right, And I tell you that's probably the most class half full that I've ever heard from regarding an injury of this magnitude. But no, I'm like, I don't know. This is really bad about no, no, no, no, absolutely, are you crazy? The worst things you could have heard?

This is very bad. There's no surgery on the table. The worst thing you could have Alred is he towards rotator cough and he's out of the next year. Isn't even be shut down for the year at this point if he comes back and reinjures himself. You were sick to me, you know, the worst thing you could have heard, he's shut down for six weeks. To worst, I said, it's one of no, this is one of the best who finding a new injury Greg on top of a rotator? What is the best What did you think the best

case scenario is gonna be? Yesterday? Honestly, the absolute best case scenario. Once we heard that he was yeah, he has to back to New York. Best in your opinion, what was the best word you could have heard? The rest news you could have heard, um that he hasn't had a new injury, that he hasn't reinjured himself. That okay, like we're just gonna take it slow kind of thing. But another injury popping up to me, Greg is really bad. But isn't this like I understand a new injury popped

U But isn't this like God of that right? Like he's not fully healed, he's gonna rest. Same thing. Yeah, but originally we thought it was gonna be back May first. Now it's like no earliest we knew that hope. Yesterday on Twitter was saying the earliest, the absolute earliest, will be back. Yeah. I'm not saying it's not a setback, but I'm saying this is a lot better news that could have been. You gotta tore his rotator, cough. You could have had it, Tommy John for some reason that

perspective like it's not the worst. He doesn't have thoracic outlet syndromes. I mean, it's still really bad. I don't know. I don't agree. Finding another injury too. And it's a grade to strain, so it's it's kind of like a medium strain. It's not the worst, but it's not like a mild strain either. It's pretty bad. We're gonna talk

to Virginia zak Is about this. Tooma, no, I've had a lot of people asking no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no no. I would try to hold him as well, but it's like these injuries are piling up, you know, it's also piling up the y egges. Terrible, terrible fundamentals. I think you're gonna say, snow of course, bring everything down. Next Daily Rodo dot Com learn from the game's best DBS players. We don't just give you advice. We play every day, all major sports, all year round.

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literally we still hear the music in our ears. You have Lindsay Ad Louis and Yankees beat writer tweet this. It's a little odd to describe a six weeks shutdown midseason as a bullet miss for the Yankees, but the news that it is a latch strain that's kept Louis Savarino from progressing instead of a worsening shoulder injury should bring you some serious relief. And I'm like, zactly what I'm saying. And Frank sually, this is this is the

worst positive reinforcement, Craig, that's all you needed. This is the worst is that's the down what I'm saying. So the think it's good. Having one really bad injury rotator cuff, and then having another really bad injury on top of that, to me is not good. I get what you're saying, but to me, yeah, I'm just I'm obviously negative. Nancy. Anyway, Like having two severe injuries to me are just not good. Greg, like, two injuries is not better than one, is better than one?

Not in this case. All right, Um, but you're not dropping Severy now? Also, what if you're own Severy, no Clevinger standing Daniel Murphy, they would have decisions. Do you realize that there's a chance Severina could be back before cleveing Cher? That's possible. I would not bet on that. I wouldn't bet on either, but I'm saying it's possible. Also possible, said Kevin Garnett. That's right. Also, Alex Bregman left this game last night due to a hamstring injury,

and this happened in the eighth inning. He pulled up lamebring. It's like amazing, tweeked it. He doesn't think it's serious. He's probably a mission tonight's game. But mhmm, not great newsman. Yeah, just another injury here for a star player in fantasy baseball feel it feels like every single night we get at least a few of these, so it shouldn't surprise anyone. But unfortunately, Yes, Alex Bregman left yesterday's start against the Yankees, and I feel like he's gotten off to a slow

start to I don't have any shares of Bregman. I wanted him, I wasn't avoiding him, but for whatever reason, I just didn't end up with him. He has one homer, three RBIs. She's hitting three one, so it's fine. Like the batting average has been great, six runs scored. Uh, he's just not lighting up the scoreboard yet. I guess only one homer, one stolen BASI, it's fine more than non Arronado. Ohn Arnado doesn't have any single homer yet, so that kind of sucks. But um, yeah, I doubt

I doubt Bregman will be in the lineup tonight. They should just rest he. I'm sure that he's uh, he's good to go for the weekend. Hopefully it doesn't, you know, make anything worse here as Yankee fans. Two games I've gotten away from the Eggs in Houston. Unfortunately, as terrible these fall six to three, sloppy based second night in a row, they go to the late innings with a lead and the bullpen blows. And even before that, sloppy, sloppy baseball mistakes from um as Clint Fraser, as I

was joking about in left field, just like a disaster. First, the first catch that he tried to make earlier on in the game was a little bit tougher. You should have made that absolutely, And then as Florio and Frank we're talking about something last night. I don't remember what it was. I think it was our r G D D team with the Kuna. I just chimed in, effing Rhet Gardner because that, like, as a tenure veteran in this leads, while you are veteran in this league, not

running out what you did cannot happen. This wasn't like he was huge. It was a huge, huge Jacks factor is what the bases loaded? What out after they intentionally walked judge the second and third. Yeah, but it was so they threw the guy out at second. That guy was gonna be out regardless. It would have been first and third judge up, but I don't think they would

have intentionally walked him. They still have the double play in play technically, so I don't think they would have done met but yeah, it's a huge play in the game because so we have first and third with with Judge up, any opportunity to attack on runs against Garrett Cole, you gotta take advantage. So what happened there was Brett Gardner laid down a bunt that he thought went foul. It it didn't, so he immittis to the catcher, uh through the second base got the out, and Altoba or Correy,

whoever had the ball, just looks up. Its shocked that Brett Gardner is not at first base and literally just lilly gags and over the first and Gardner's argue that it's foul. There was nothing even remotely foul about it.

It wasn't even close to being foul awful. He's supposed to be one of the veterans on the two, one of the leaders people who to him like you don't want Clint Fraser and guys like Gary sanche Is seeing stuff like that happened because and they could I think, all right, well maybe you could do something like that too. Next time, you know, I think a bunt is foul. I'm just I'm not going to run it out. Bad example there by Brick Garden. This is a really bad

game from the Yankees overall, very sloppy. The bullpen, oh, the elite bullpen, the World Series bullpen. They have been overused. But no excuses. Man, you gotta I mean, you gotta do your job. And they haven't been doing their job. They have not absolutely not been doing jobs their job recently. They fell, as we said to the Astros. Six three is Josel Tobay going deep for us, his third bomb of the year that found a Luke Void bomb for the New York yank He's also his third bomb oh

the year. Correa Karlsa steals his first base of the year without a throw of awesome Roman, who also has been terrible this year behind the plate, behind the plate, Yeah, I had Sander texting me a bunch yesterday. You seen that much better than Gary Sanchez. I think I'm off these tax is great. Yeah, I mean, Sandra were going out of last night. Like Look, Garry Sanchez is basically edwinning Carnacione. He's a really good DH. He's a great power hitter. Get three home runs on Sunday d H yesterday,

huge to run double or run double. Why can't he be am? And well, they have five players who are DH eligible, So that's part of the reason. I understand. Look, you don't want to give up on a young player as a catcher, I get it. But to me, Gary Sanchez has not put the work in to get better, and I can't say that. We don't know what he's done. You don't know what. But then why isn't he getting better? There? I don't know, not getting better, He's gotten progressively worse.

Agree with you put the work. I don't think it's fair. You don't know, all right, So if you were putting the work in, why would you get worse? As a defensive has he gotten worse? Had better? Since when he came into the league. He's throwing everybody out on the base path. He's not been doing that well of balls get past. When I realized it's a tough bullpen to catch. Everyone throws hundred miles per hour. Everyone has these crazy

breaking pitches. I get it, But at the rate that he lets balls pass, to me, it's he hasn't and getting better. He's been getting worse. So it's part of my argument against Gary Sanchez as a catcher. Uh. Jonathan Eliza, who was optioned to Triple A after the game. Three innings, four hits, two runs, five strike outs, struck out the sign of the first inning and then the next six next twelve batters reached. It was weird, but he's got some nasty stuff, man. He know, there's no doubt about it.

I think the only through like seventy pitch last night, eleven eleven swinging pitches against the Houston Nastros team that makes a lot of contact. Eleven swinging strikes on on seventy pitches. That's a that's a nice amount. But he's not gonna yet, and he's gotta be able to not get him ownto trouble every inning. True, but look, he's a young starting pitcher. You know it happens, uh, happen to the best. Maybe maybe that's a guy he put threw on the Bullpatter's amazing for that. Yeah, and his

velossity would only be better. He already throws miles per hours. Maybe maybe that's an option. Like Garrett Cole on the other side, he was seven innings, the last four hits, three runs, strikes out at six walks three Uh. He ran into some trouble a couple of times. Also had some streets where no Yankees were getting on base. Obviously, Um, so solid night, Solid night is correct. I don't love the three walks, but overall it wasn't great. No, the

strikeouts have still been there this season. I'm looking at the hard hit rate against him really high to start the season, forty one percent. But the velocity is still there. I mean, the guy's averaging nineties seven miles per hour on his fastball right now. Everything is in line with last season in terms of the of the velocity of the swinging. Strike rate is actually up, the chase rate is up, the first pit strike percentages up. Garret Cole is gonna be just fine, all right, So there you go.

Um anything else on the Yankees Astris game? Mm hmm, not necessarily. I do think that Carl's Korea is healthy. It seems some of the some of the defensive plays that he were phenomenal stole his first base as well. You haven't necessarily seen it turn into to power production yet, but he looks healthy based on a lot of things that I've seen him doing to this point. So if you own him, I think better days are to come. Again,

I have zero shares. I was very adamant about not drafting Carlos Correa because of the injuries he's had the past couple of seasons. But as of now, I do think he's healthy, so if I owned him, I would feel right. I think the production is gonna come with our GST team. One of the things that complained about was pitching staff, in particular the fact that we drafted Louis Castillo. We know it was a good out, a good spot last night, and Luis Castillo made it count.

He went seven shoutout innings against Miami. Based on Marlins every star Craig I would help police kiss you with eight strikeouts. His Earray's point nine too. On this young year was Ranio was mediocre, we in Chen was awful. Ten runs, ten runs, a lot of relief. He's actually making the most money on the Marlins ross of this year,

something like seventeen eighteen million dollars for way. One of those that you just knew immediately was yeah, and you know, that's part of the reason why Dallas Kaikel does not have a contract right now, because a lot of those mid tier starting pitchers, you know, guys like him you bad him Menace. It seems like a lot of just Orioles contracts, Alex Cobb, a lot of these mid tier starting pitchers got these contracts and they haven't lived up

to these contracts. Some would argue that Dallas Kaikl is better than a mid tier starting pitcher, but he's starting to regress a little bit. Um. You saw that last year. Like he normally doesn't strike people out, the strikeouts were even. They were more down last year than they have been in years past. And he was walking a lot of guys. So that's all part of the reason why Dallas Kaikel

doesn't have a contract. But back to Louise Castillo, Greg, he's been a really good eight teens meeting strikes yesterday. I know it was against the Marlins, but you know er fastball, he's throwing his change up a ton, has changed up his nasty whatever. Really like about Louis Castillo's arsenal and I was watching a lot of the start yesterday. What he's making really good, Greg, is that he has

a pitch that can break in on lefties. And then he has something, um, he basically has pitches that could break in on lefties away from lefties and then vice versa against right handed pitching because the slider obviously is a very good pitch, but the changeup. The changeup has so much like breaking away action that that's what makes it so valuable. I mean, seven swinging strikes yesterday on

his on his twenty five changeups. Throne. Uh thought it was interesting that he only threw his slider ten times yesterday. He has to work that in a little bit more. But he was phenomenal and he's been great this season. So without Yap in the line of all the other outfielders for Cincinnati got going, including Matt Kemp who had his first home run of the season, as did Jesse Wink who it is first home run of the season, Scottie Chevla his second homewber from season. All three outfits

Cincinnati go deep. It was the coming out party yesterday for the Cincinnati offense. They really really needed this one. Fourteen runs on sixteen hits. Joey Votto is still silent, know not the second one of the yearati to thirty five batting average for Voto this far into the season. Again, I don't really have shares. Votto was a hard one for me. If you to figure out during the draft season because you kind of saw signs of you know,

he's mid thirties, he's getting older. The power declined dramatically last year, So Joey Vado was a harder one for me to figure out. But ultimately I didn't end up with any shares of Vaudo, and I think I was kind of off of him. But Jesse Winkers, this is what you need to see. He's the opposite field of home run off Jose Urania and then he also gets a a two run single off of the lefty way

in Chen, so I'd like to see that. Obviously a little bit of lefty on lefty action there for Jesse Winker desperately, desperately needed this, and the Reds broadcasters were actually talking about how in his career, whenever he's let off an ending, he's been really, really bad. So they're kind of questioning the fit for him as a leadoff hitter because he makes a lot of contact and O b P should be good. So me personally, I see why David Bell and the Reds would want him to

be a leadoff hitter. But maybe it's just something mental for him where he just isn't comfortable as a lead off hitter. Maybe he should be more so in the middle of the lineup, maybe lead off Scott Schebler try something like that. To try something like that, I mean Raza again, isn't your typical lead off hitter because he doesn't walk. But he's got good speed. So we'll see if they ultimately change Jesse Winkers spot in the lineup. But I thought it was a really interesting tidbit from

the Reds broadcast. Okay um. Also last night standing out to me was Oakland Athletics. We just talked about one thing, to put fourteen on the board. The A's put thirteen on the board in defeating the Orioles thirteen to two. Brad Anderson went six and two thirds seven hits, two runs. He struck out four Not a great night for anybody that pitches for the Orioles. But Jerson profile hits his first oal run, Marcus Simeon hits his second for Oakland

thirteen runs. It was don't hinder the pinder going three for four or three run scored. Yeah, this is part of why people want Chad Pinner to have him everyday role because he's played well. I mean it's been a you know, kind of part time role so far this season. But he's batting over three oh another three hit performance. Yesterday you mentioned Jerks and pro Far, who was ice

cold honestly to start the season coming in here. Even after four hits, he's only batting one two, so that really tells you how cold he was to start the season. But adds a home run. I had no rbi is heading into this game. He ends the game with five RBIs, so really really big game for Jerks in pro Far. You know that's that's gonna be um a remedy for a lot of hitters this year. If you're struggling, you

get to face in Baltimore Orioles pitching. That's obviously gonna be a remedy for a lot of a lot of hitters this year. But Ramon Loriano also on the board. He is what four olculus sister Hendy, Yeah, just stopped running o Ramo Loriana that it's just completely ridiculous. I mean, he has a cannon another two RBIs. So he's been great because of late and you know what I wanted to reference Greig. This is for deep, deep leaguers obviously,

Josh Fagley. Josh Fagley has played well here for the Oakland A's and he's getting the majority of the playing time. Gets another two hits yesterday, a single and a double and RBI. He's batting over three hundred. It's probably not gonna last, but a lot of people stream their second catcher in rhoto leagues where you need to catchers, and he's been one of the better ones to start the season. So I was really surprised when I looked into it

last night. It's really Josh Fagley has been this Really that's good, you know, I mean, just players hot like that, all good? You want to see. Sure, I'm very cool with that, right, Josh Fagley. There you go for the Orioles. Not much cooking. Obviously they do runs, so obviously not not much going on. He is lounge terrible. It wasn't a knight for Boom Boom, Boom Boom. Nope, only one hit. It was not a huge night. Still having an awesome start this season. It was not a huge night for

Boom Boom either. One other team putting up thirteen fourteen runs. That was a Minnesota Twins. They put a fourteen runs in the game started by Jacob Degram fourteen to eight. The Twins beat the meth Ties. De gramallows six runs on eight hits, three strike ads. He did not have it last night ran well. To be fair, nobody had it last night unless you were hitter in this game because and I saw this, the ball was just flying out.

The ball was carrying in city field last night. And you see that with the amount of home runs that were hit here. Look, Eddie Rosario takes Jacob Degram deep, Jonathan sc it's two home runs in this game. Mitch Garver, it's two home runs in this game. Jorge Polanco another one red hot right now, Greg, it's another home run here, Pete Alonso two home runs, So the ball was just flying out in city field. Can Ford Oh his third home run of the season. Brandon Nemo gets off the

schneid here hits a home run. Who was struggling still struck out two more times here, but also added two hits. Hide Alonso, Greg and I saw Modica tweeting about this earlier today. The Powers legit like he's gonna strike out. He has over a thirty percent strike out, right, But we might see the Mets version and maybe not to the same level. I'm not saying that Pete Alonso is gonna return, you know, first second round value, but Heete Alonso might be the Mets version of Aaron Judge. He

hits the ball extremely hard. He's gonna strike out over thirty percent of the time. But because he hits the ball hard, maybe he can maintain a two fifty to two sixty batting average. He already has five home runs. It's only greg, Why can't he hit thirty home runs this year? I know some people felt that way heading into the season. I was a little bit easier to draft him as we got closer because it came out that he was going to open the season with the

opening day roster. If you drafted earlier on in March, you didn't know this. But why can't Peter Alonso be a poor man's Aeron Judge? I don't see why not. I don't know if I want to go to Aaron Judge, do you think he'll get just in terms of striking out as much as he does and hitting the ball as hard as he does, so he might be able to maintain a batting average that doesn't completely sink you. Because he hits the balls. Do you get made another

comparison Alonzo didn't he they like better? I don't know who it was now though it wasn't. It wasn't Judge. It was somebody else was like, oh, I see that. Yeah, he he doesn't walk as much as Judge, so it's not I guess it's not true. Re uh Re outcome player here for Pete Alonso, walk rate's only seven percent, so look, you just he hasn't walked as much yet. But last year in triple eleven percent walk crate, double a scent walk crate. Who's to say that the walk

rate doesn't get better? I can't find it. Fall rate sixty hard hit rate to start the season for Pete Alonso, so fourteen. Ribby's listen, he's been great. I picked up the KI year. So I'm trying to think now and with Joe Gallo, maybe nationally Joe joe Yallow, but the average we hired than Joey Yallow should be definitely should be. Everybody was hitting in this game for the Twinkies and

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coming up in seventeen minutes from now. Talk a lot about Pete Alonzo right there if I go looking forward to Also he is third home run of the year while I forgotten man, I feel like even all the Alonso hype, Yeah, definitely for sure, everything that's going on with the Mets right now. It's also kind of gone under the radar that Robertson can always been terrible awful after that home run against Max Scherzer has seemingly done nothing,

but yeah, Conforto has three run scored. He's in a good spot obviously, you know where he's hitting for the Mets. He has twelve runs scored. The Mets offense has been awesome to start the year. Yeah, you're right, Michael Conforto has been forgotten thus far, but he's off to a decent start. He's not lighting the world on fire, but pretty good, pretty good to the far hes any three seventy five, So if I own him, I feel good

about for the Twinkies. Jonathan Scope Goat went deep the first two times this year, as did Mitch Garver, the third catcher on this team. He went boom twice as well. Anyo Rosario went boom once and Grey Blanco, as we said, had a great night. He homered as well. Do you want to know? Byron bucks until his third base of the year, had a couple of doubles yesterday as well. Byron Buckston off too a nice start on the season, still batting in that eight nine spot, but he is

up to ninety two on this young season. Yeah, Greg, and I saw some stuff on Twitter last night regarding his heart hit rate and his average eggs velocity to start the season. He's up to nineties seven point seven mile per hour average eggs of velocity. That's second in baseball, behind only Bryce Harper. And the quote I saw from Buckston was basically, I'm gonna try and see the ball well, I'm gonna try and swear it up. I don't care

where it goes. I'm not swinging for the fences. Maybe something that he was trying to do in the past, putting a little bit of pressure on himself because of the prospect status that he has. Maybe he said, you know, in years past, I gotta hit home run, I gotta try and show everybody what my talent level is. Now he's just kinda k taking what pictures are giving him, trying to square the ball up and hit it hard. If it happens to go out, then it goes out.

That's fine. But I really really liked this approach that Byron Buckston is off to to start the year, seeing the ball well, hitting the ball extremely well. One of those doubles came off Jacob de Gram too, And I know everyone kind of hit the ground yesterday, but I think it's a really good sign from Byron Buckson early on in the season. Do very lead Frank here, a little bit potentially very lead you think, what are you talking about regarding what the Aaron Buckson strikeout rate to

start the year two. I wanted to look that up so that would uh that's by far the best in his career. That's about eight percent lower than his career mark. Gonna make sure you don't get be buried the lead, lead story yesterday? What was the lead story? Greg? You tell me, well, we were talked about it yesterday afternoon Pidgeon performance. Yeah, I don't know where you're going with this because you got a little grin on your face, so you clearly you got some guy. You got something

up your sleeve today. What are you talking about? You by the lead? I want to sure we didn't it, Chris Sale, No, no, no, what? No, dude, what are you talking about? That wasn't the afternoon perform? Not shoe either. I think wes Me buried the lead of Jordan's Erman yesterday. We spoke about it on the area, so I think we missed it. No, we didn't. We spoke about him what not enough? What was going on? Not enough? He sucked? What do you want to say? The third for him?

Three home ruds? I didn't fall for it, And you know why. You know why because I liked Jordan's Zimmerman coming into the start, because he was doing something differently this season. He was throwing his curveball, and his slider more. And he was throwing his fastball less because his fastball sucks. If you're watching this Jordan's Immerman, your fastball sucks. It averages ninety miles per hour and you get rocked whenever

you throw your fastball a lot. He threw thirty six times out of seventy three pitches yesterday, and he threw his curball eight times. The reason why I was buying into Jordan's Immerman was because in his first two starts he was throwing his slider more and his curveball more. Why would you go away from what was working, Greg, I never understand this and it and it could be applied for any sport. If something is working for you,

why do you change it. Your fastball is ninety miles per hour with a max of ninety one and a half miles per hour. It is not a good fastball. Your slider and your curveball was working in the first two starts when you were throwing them a lot. And understand maybe maybe it add some tension to your arm and your elbow, whatever it might be, but that's what you have to do to be effective at this point

Jordan's Innerman, because your fastball sucks. So I don't think that my analysis was off because if you would have done what he was doing his first two starts yesterday, then maybe he would have had success like he did in his first two starts, Greg, But he didn't. So Jordan's Immerman, you suck, and I'm dropping you because I can't rely on you to do what you were doing in your first two starts, which was clearly working. That's my Jordan's Inman rant of the day was your daddy

going a round? I guess sorry? Does that make sense? Though? Like something was working for him, he may stopped doing it. Why did he do that? Maybe it was that was the game plan for yesterday? The game plan wants to suck, Greg. The game plan was to use a pitch that's terrible. Why is that your game I would that ever be your game plan? Like if you did something on the radio that I hated, Greg, I wouldn't say, hey, Greg, today's the day that you should What if I said

that's my style? Certain people don't like the style isn't working, Greg. I think it's working for me. Maybe Jordan's Imman thinks it's working. But you know, when you have an e r A over five since joining the Tigers, Greg, and that comes on the back of you know, throwing your fastball almost forty of the time, and your fastball, according to Fangrass pitch values, is one of the worst pitches in baseball, and it's clearly not working. It's not so

I don't have anything other than that. Regarding Jordan's Dimerman. If you picked him up because of me, I apologize because I trust to Jordan's Dimmerman to do what he did in his first two starts, and he didn't yesterday,

So screw you. Jordan's Dinerman, I'm dropping you, and everyone else did two also yesterday afternoon was good on the other side, six and things two runs, one of them earned one walk, eight strike out, let hit ninety six pitches um, which you needed to see from him, though the eight ks and the fifteen swinging strikes were bull

season highs for him. It was against the Tigers, but you needed to see this bountback performance because if he sucked against the White Sox and then sucked again yesterday against the Tigers, then you know everyone's kind of hitting the panic button. Regarding Corey Klueber, and probably rightfully so. So you need to see a good star from Cluber yesterday,

and that's exactly what. Exactly what you got. The fastball of the velocity is still kind of downe per hour yesterday for Corey Klueber, whereas in years past when he was in his prime, he was like sitting nine three a lot of the time. It regressed last year to a little bit below, but it will be down at one. So it's something to pay attention to. You might not believe this, but two miles per hour on your fastball for Corey Klueber, and you know, normally he doesn't even

throw a good fastball. He kind of used it to set up all of his other breaking pitches, which are obviously very good. But when it's sinker is down to per hour from in his prime, that's gonna be the difference between him allowing, you know, a couple of home runs here or there, and it's gonna make the r a be closer to the three five, whereas you know,

when he's in his prime it's sub three. So I'm going to pay attention to for Cluber, what's wrong with Jose Ramirez because I think it's time to at least bring that up he was over four yesterday against Jordan's Erman, who everybody gotta hit against. But and I looked into this a little bit yesterday myself. So whose ra mirrors on this young season? Again, it's early, it's two weeks in about a one seventy one. He's got two RV eyes, he says, two multi hit games. He only has four

games total, and that he's gotten a hit in. He has not hit a home run yet. I know he struggled the second half last year. Admittedly I just wrote that off. Yeah, because when I brought it up to Florio when we had the fourth pick overall, hey, should we think about taking someone else beside Jose ramiror Is Two of us both said no. Brought up trade Turner that would have sucked as well. But the other name I brought up was J. D. Martinez, which would be

pretty good. Right now, it's a small sample size. Again, it's only two very small sample size, and we wouldn't worry normally in a two week slump for who's a Ramirez. But I'm wondering because it's coming off a massive two months slump last year, now almost a three month slump

of baseball action that we have what's going on. So I looked into this yesterday regarding his I was doing the expected batting average stuff a lot yesterday and looking into that and seeing if Jose ramirez Is expected batting average was a lot higher than his actual batting average. Because right now he's hitting let's see one seventy one. I don't think that's gonna get the job done obviously here, but his expected batting average GREG on the season is one.

It was hitting one one, and he's expected batting average is one, at least yesterday, when I spoke about a Kunya his batting average below two hundred, his expected batting average was over three hundred. So you have something to hold your hat on. Okay, he's he's been a little bit unlucky. Um who was a Ramirez with an expected batting average of one. Basically, what I'm looking at here is he's hitting a ton fly balls, flyballs. It's on

par with last year. And and this is regardless. This is including yesterday, because before yesterday's game he was hitting forty percent flyballs. The hard hit rate is over. It's not like he's pulling the ball like a ton. He's pulling it twenty pc. Of the time. Maybe he's just start pulling the ball more, because in his career he has a forty pull rate and that has obviously led to a eight three career batting average. He's only pulling the ball two percent of the time. He's hitting a

lot of falsa center field. He's hitting a straight away so it seems like he's just hitting a lot of flyballs and straight away center field which are not turning into home runs. He doesn't have a home run yet. At least, he still has three stolen bases, but it is bad that there's one eight eight Greg, it seems like he's been unlucky, but according to his expecting batting average, he hasn't been that unlucky. And I don't know when it's gonna turn around. Maybe once Lindora gets in the lineup,

he has a little bit more protection. He's not walking a lot to start the year. That's probably because he doesn't have the ability to walk a lot. It's not like they're you know, like he's not getting good pitches to hit and ultimately he's just not doing a lot with these And he hasn't been unlucky either based on his expected batting average, So maybe it's gonna take it

Lindore getting back in the lineup. Maybe you know my guy Bradley Zimmer, who were waiting waiting to see what's happening with him, but not on the list this week. By the it's not it's not a good line of it. We knew that coming in and it's worrisome. It's definitely worrisome. If you're drinkies, we'll pull out this AO Central after all. What do you think? What do you think Regardian jose Are mirror is? I think I'm nervous. I'm nervous because

I'm somebody that had jose Are mirrors last year. So I watched this thing up close where it's like he's been really bad and to not off get off to the hot start this year, You're just like, this is really bad. Will a light just turn on with something change? Something has to change in order for him to be successful, because what he's done for now, the last three months he's played baseball, has it worked. There's nowhere to move him either in this line up, there's nothing you can do.

There's nobody surrounding him whatsoever, that zero protection behind him, only that Leoni's morte ahead of him. He desperately needs Lindor to come back. He's got Jordan Lublow behind him today, Greg, I can only help, Oh, Jordan Luplow, exactly right, I aint nothing, man, I don't. I don't see signs that when I look into it, I'm nervous. All right, would you what do you trade Hosier mirrors for? Right? And if that's the obvious next question, looking at you can like,

how you so low? Right now? You can't trade him? So I'm looking into his bad ball data in the second half last year, right, Greg, to get an idea of what he was doing. Fly ball rate last year, but his heart hit rate was so all right that kind of leads to believe he wasn't hitting the ball all that hard. He was still hitting the ball in the air, so kind of buying into launch angle a little bit too much. He's probably just hitting a lot

of routine flyballs in the second half last year. We know the struggles against breaking pitches and curveballs, but the first half is bad and ball data forty eight percent hard hit ratetent fly ball rate this season forty point six percent hard hit rate, forty percent fly ball rate. So his bad and ball data in terms of hitting the ball hard and putting them all on the air, Greg looks a lot like his first half from last year, not his second half. The biggest difference is that he's

not holding the ball right now. In the first half last year, fifty four percent holl rate, So he's basically just trying to pull the ball ball as hard as he can and hit home runs to right field. Well, he just switch hit her, so so he's just pulling the ball a lot and hitting a lot of fly balls. Four percent pull rate in the first half last season, that's only down, that's down this year is huge difference. So he's got to pull the ball more. The hard hit rate, the fly ball rate is right on par

with his first half last year. He's putting the ball thirty percent less of the time to start this season than he was in that first half last year. For Jose Ramrez, so we'll see if if he can correct that. Hope he's listening. This is what you need to do, Jose, Please for us, I gotta look into the batting average against certain pitches kind of thing. To be honest, I don't know where to find that. Let's see here. Fan Grass. All right, wait, wait, so I'm finding this here on

baseball savant against breaking pitches. Okay, here you go, Gredd. Your name is not Gred, it's Greg So against breaking pitches. Last year he hit one with an expected batting average of T twelve, and his slugging percentage was against breaking pitches. So far in he's seen forty six breaking pitches and he's batting against breaking That seems very good, very good, very good. He's hitting one against fastballs. He had three

d against fastballs last year. It's gonna get better. I think this is enough for me that it's gonna get better because at least, you know, what he struggled with last year was breaking pitches, and he's actually doing pretty good against breaking pitches. And he's always been good against fastballs, and he's only baying against fastballs this year. It's gonna get better. He's got to pull the ball. There's a little bit of going on with the bat ball data

right now, but I think it's gonna get better. I'm more so on the side of trying to buy low on Jose Ramirez based on everything I just looked into, rather than just oh I'm panicking. I gotta sell him for anything that I can. Right now, I'm willing to buy low. So don't trade Jose Rameres. Don't give up there. That's big. That's a big peop are wondering that as as this he's the first round pick, he's been crap.

It's making this GFC steam started with Josei Mars and Sean Carlos Stanton and we're still in what four fifth place? So it's not all bad like we're gonna get standing back hitting. It's making our pitchings like that. And this was the team where we started three hitters in a row. We thought our hitting was gonna be awesome. It's very bad. It's our pitching that's carrying us to start, and he's us Aguilars our first basement. Oh my god, Like, do

we have any any good hitters on this team? Austin Meadows man Austin Meadows, Auston Meadows batting three o eight. Alex Gordon, who's on our AI, has been good at three sixty four. We have more hitters batting under two hundred than batting over three hundred, all of averages. Greg says that these hitters are not going to hit under two hundred for the entire season. They have do some some surgery on us Verry cool Ventures up next. More headlines