4/9, Part 2: Seattle Mariners, Jay Bruce, Brian Dozier, Trevor Cahill, Tim Anderson

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Rockies after the uh the Rocky start. No, No, I'm stilling the Rockies, still in the Rockies, but because you gave up on the purple hair Planet hat, so you're not dumping off the bandwagon yet, right, I never give up Rock two games in a row. Now, well, I wouldn't say he was rocked. Seven are runs the second game. I don't know he was rocked. He full of walks. The walks are an issue. Listen. I know he's not going to be great all the time, but especially not

in cors Field. Yeah, there is a guy I'm interested that's out there on waivers though. Was that a little bit of Tyson Ross? Tyson Ross? Tyson Ross? So Gregg's got the head in the hand, Tyson Ross killing it. Greg has been in on Tyson Ross in years past. I certainly haven't, by the way, has people. Uh this is so ridiculous. My entire team are starting pitching staffishes. Hurt Archer spended tie on the day to day John Lester officially placed on the iologist. Now well you can

make some moves, now, great, you can, you can. I don't have enough spots at least's John Lester and not like you know, tie on or Yeah it could be get hit the head. Yeah I can't say that too soon. Yeah I might know. This might be my opportunity job dropped um Tyson Ross twelve strikeouts in the twelve winnings pitch Greg Ye see interest. I'm good with Tyson Rossting. This year he's got a ten point six per cent spinking strike rate, which is his highest since seen when

he was still with the Padres, when he was dirty. Yeah, what it's worth, greg is his first pitch strike percentage not good. Fly behind a counts very often. That's bad. It's very bad. League averages usually around sixty. Very good. Losty also down. I think I'm out. I think I'm on this ventum. Now I'm saying it's a guy. Maybe you stream him. Take a look at start stream h We cant see any in Sure plays in the division. I'm right with that watch list we're talking here. You

know anybody here on your watch list? It's a watch list. There's there's no minimum. Oh yo yo, there is a maximumstball nine. ESPN the maximum people you know your watch list? Really, once you have too many, you can't add anymore. Now, who does not cross ESPN off the list of places where we play CBS? In CBS, you can't see how much other people did. Maybe sometimes you don't want to know. I do. I always want to know. It's a joke.

It's important to joke. I agree with that. I don't like that, but crossing off the list limited watch list for also, I don't care. We should make we should make our own fantasy website. Let's see just something you can do when you're up in the middle of the night. It seems like it seems very hard to do venture. Yeah, you need a lot of stats plugged in from another sword. Probably also need like and you have to have something of contract. I'm sure. Yeah, the player and the players

Association right to use their names. I think. I think there's websites where that you pay for a package for the whole tracks. That's where we gotta go, Greg, My tracks is nice. I like franchise. Actually, I play with you on the Best Ball League. I haven't checked out on any of my Best Ball teams yet. Usually I'll checked once per month because I mean, it doesn't really matter. There's nothing I could do now anyways, Yeah you can't. I just check to see where we're at. And I'm

in second and you are in fourth? Who was in first? As long as it's not Florida's show. Hey, the money, I don't know who that is. That might be one of my buddies text the money. That happens, all right? Let a lot to recap from last night. I'm gonna start with the Seattle Mariners, who improved to ten in two on the season. Yesterday were feeding Kansas City. It's Kansas City to five and e goes deep not once, but twice in the same damnang twice in the sixth inning.

And when a Karnasi goes deep the second time in his career that he has home worked twice in the same The Seattle Mariners have runs scored this season. They are number one in Baseball American League? Would you like to guess who number two is? Where they rank? Well, rather how many runs they have? I probably could guess this. What do you I mean? The Dodgers would be an

obvious choice, but I'd say they're in third. No, they're in second, but I mean only in the American leag Let's do American League, because that's where the big disparity is. The Mariners have ninety run score the Dodgers have eighty seven. So the two, three, four, five, six seven ranked run scored teams this season are all National League teams. Arizona is up there. Seventh is an American League team. How many runs scores do they have? And who are they?

I'm gonna say the Oakland eighties. That is correct, It is the Oakland A's their second in the American League, seventh overall in baseball and run score. So they're way behind the Seattle Mariners right now. Would you like to guess how many runs score they have? I wouldn't hit that. No, I'm gonna say the Mariners are nine and have ninety eight sixty three. Good guess fifty five. They're forty three runs scored behind the Mariners. That is insane. How many

games have the Mariners played? Now? Well, they've played twelve, Dodgers have played eleven. How about this? Oakland has played fourteen? They played the most most ball? Yeah, Oakland wasn't And the marriages have Greig? What the hell is going on in Seattle? The juicing these balls? Bombs? Oh and in Kansas City last night bombs. As long as they're facing Homer Bailey, I think they'll be all right. They were

facing last night. But but to see Edwin and Karna kind of joined the party here because he's had a slow start, he was ling with the Haynd injury. He gets in on the fun. But Dan Vogelbach it's a home run. And now we have we stack cast data is now live for the twenty nine season. Dan Vogelboch leads all baseball and average eggs of velocity and he's

up there in barrels per played appearance too. So remember yesterday what I said, is there a way that they could get vogel Box Andcarnacion and j Bruce all on the line And they did. Let yesterday they did exactly that. They Mitch Handeger and center. They put Jay Bruce in right field. All right, we don't care about defense. We're gonna sacrifice it because we're gonna score thirteen runs tonight. That's exactly what they did. Then vogo Bock hits homer.

J Bruce hits a homer. Domingo Santan, Santana can't stop, won't stop. This lineup was awesome. Who's missing from this lineup? I know Beckham is Alex Smith was out yesterday. Oh so Malex Smith? So so how just wanted to get all the bats in right? So but what I'm saying Alex Smith does he become a guy that you worry about missing because Vogo Box is so hot? No, I

think ultimately it won't. It won't really matter, probably because you have this lineup like a day off to someone per day, Like they'll give up j Bruce a day per week. You're giving Carnassi on a day per week, and that's how Vogo Bok will get his points. You just look at this lineup right now. It's not sustainable what they're doing, and like who it is? Like the announce all the guys are the same and a Mitch Hanniger, Migo Santana, Jabrus Andcarnassio Danni will go back Ryan Healy there.

I wouldn't say Hannagher is the same as those guys Morvaz, They're all just monstros human beings. Not well, yeah, Domingo Bruce have some like Mitch Handger can could do it all. And then you have Malex Smith and p Gordon who set the table not be on and these guys run they actually they have a pretty I would say it's were completely balanced. It's deep because it's it's speed and

it's power. You don't really have a lot of bagging average in this lineup, like to eighty, but outside of him, it's like maybe Domingo Santana two seventy five and by the way, but everyone else is just either power or speed. By the way, in this one, Consion try to feeling a bass? Did he did every effort? Though I saw that last night. I said, really, you just went to You couldn't You couldn't just settle for the for the two homers. I think it's a hitting try and feel

base here. So so last night in this one, and I didn't see any of it. Do Felix act as an opener or they just took a nine after the first any to get hurt? What what happened to Felix definitely was not an opener. I believe it was his birthday yesterday to four. I saw that he only went one any as well. I assumed that it was some kind of injury. Was lifted from Monday start with the virus like symptoms. Okay, all right, well it still doesn't

have much fantasy relevant to them. But what do you do with the with these marriage guys are now you're trying to sell all these guys high. I mean, well, we're still only a couple of weeks in this season. I don't know how many people are gonna want to trade to be realistic, but maybe Santana has nineteen RBIs. Yeah, so he's the one guy on this team that I wouldn't try to see I'm buying. Everybody else was also high everybody that mechanic who I like, But like everybody else,

I'm hi. I don't think there's gonna be much trade return for a guy like well, no you're not. But they're also not selling Hannager. He said that it kind of goes into town. I don't know that I would either though. Still, and like, he's thirty home runs, he's been trending down for sure, and he gets hurt. What if he gets traded to a better lineup? Is there

at him? Well, yeah, right now, I know right now the matters of the hottest but there I don't think therefore, but you know, if they do start to regress a little bit, and the law of averages say that they probably will, they weren't expected to compete this year if they trade Incarnacio and he could potentially Lane got in a good spot. So I don't know that I want to trade any of these guys. I think I want exposure to the matter's lineup. Right now, I would trade

I would Bruce. Bruce is the one I trade. He was playing seven games. Trade you could have been picked him up yesterday. That's why I'm hoping I could get into something. You know what it's worth mentioning that Jay Bruce wasn't healthy last year, man, and he's already off to a good start. He's got six homers. I think the batting average is still not good. It's it's one eight six, But this is kind of who j Bruce is.

Low banning average, it's home runs. I think he's gonna get I think he's gonna get back to hinting thirty homers this year. Guy he had last year when he was hurt. Every year, it's pretty much every year it's thirty home runs. He probably will. I think he's gonna get back to hinting thirty homers this year if he gets the playing time. He probably striking out a lot. Though. Let me go the phone la four four three six eight seven eight four or four eight four three six Sevenine,

it's gonna Stephen in Massachusetts. It's up, Steve. What's up, guys? How are you guys doing doing? Man? Hey, So I had a question a question for you guys. First thing, real quick, Um, do you guys play in ESPN leagues because I wanted to know how like that their eligibility works, because I noticed that like I was waiting for like mgul Cabrera like awesome meadows to get like the to

get like d h eligibility and I don't. And I saw that first that his like eligibility went to like two or something, and then it went up to three. Does that mean like the higher the higher the numbers go, that means that that's exactly like when it when it goes to the eligibility or is it supposed to be when it goes down? So in in ESPN, Chris plays in ESPN, how many games have taken a position for a player to eligible ten? So I bet when it either exactly going up or down that number. I don't.

I don't know where the number is. But you either gotta get to tender, you gotta get to zero on that number to get right what you need. So um, I got like Yanni Das, I actually got a Twitter question about like when is he about the third base in ESPN? He said, yes, he had six games. I assume yesterday was seven, So it's like he only needs like three more games and he's there. He just needs

to get to that ten number. But my question is, why do you want a guy who's eligible d H. He probably has a D eight spot and yeah yeah yeah, and in the leg and the leg that I was doing, uh, it has like a d H spot because he has like the utilities and like a DH spot. And right now I have morality there and like morality just stinks. Yeah. I was just looking to put Cabrera there right right, right right, yeah, I mean ten games should be should do it, yeah, I should do it for sure. Right

now he's just first base. Yeah, because he even like even like Djalia Mayor like he's playing he was, he's been playing like third base and he still hasn't even got an ultibility and that right, so so so exactly because he hasn't played ten games at a third base. It only like a base eligibility until he does. Steve, we appreciate the call. Brian. Who else be having the line? Let's go to Tim in Wisconsin Euroupe next? What's not Tim? It's going great? Man, what's happening? I had a die

category league. I had a guy who just dropped. It's like a top players, some of them are warranted and some of them are just kind of whatever. But I wonder if I should pick any He's guy to stop he dropped, like Marcello Porcello, Brian Dojert, and Corey Dickerson. O God, so a bunch of injured guys just got dropped in his league. He wants to know should you pick any of them up? Frank, Yeah, definitely Marcelo Zuna.

I don't know what your outfield situation looks like, but regardless, I would find a way to get him on my team. Like if he was dropping in one of my home leagues, I would be really aggressive on trying to pick him up. He was really the name that stood out you mentioned. Rick Porcello, Corey Dickerson goes on the I l Brian Doser. Look,

if you need middle infield help, that's fine. I saw someone tweeting over the weekend about how he's faced the toughest starting pitchers to start the season and that's maybe why he's off to a slow start. But ultimately I wasn't big on Brian dojer this year, so it depends what you need, but overall, I would rank Marcello Zuna first. Yeah, I'm not sure why he would drop him. He's getting hot now too. He just hit his second home run either yesterday or Sunday. I believe it was Sunday. Yeah,

she was mere. Pocello is interesting. I mean, I'm not a big Pacello guy, but either, I mean, he could be a valuable stream at some point, but people own him like he's highly owned usually, so I would think, you know, if you need some starting pitching help, not a bad pickup. Otherwise, the rest of the guys was it was there, Nick Castianos in there, Bryan does your Corey Dickerson he mentioned, I'm not as high as guys look for Rick Porcello. You stream him in the right matchup.

Obviously plays in the Al East, so like Toronto against Baltimore. If you want to stream him there, that's fine. You want to get quality starts out of him, wins, that's probably realistic, but and whip. He doesn't walk a lot of guys. But but the strikeouts are gonna be there, and he's gonna be prone to some of these blow up games as over the weekend too. So I'm not as high on Porcello was gonna That was just an anomaly, very weird. It's anomaly, bad news. Zimmerman's losing ones ever, Greg,

don't say anything. It's only the first that ain't come on here we go give up a leader home blow up? No, come on, man, he's home. It's the Tigers. Let's go Tiger. Yeah. I have him starting in my home league for two starts. Josh Harrison just got a single. It was so happy he was on first days, like yeah, because he's beat in like one nine Yeah. And it was against Corey Klueber a pictures due. Who would have thought Jordan's Everman

Klueber club needs to pitch well here today. I feel like we we still have a lot to go over from last night. We're about to hit a break, so I guess let's not start anything, but we do have a lot to go over regarding starting pictures from last night. A few more bullpen things, we have another. We have another new Phillies closer that we need to talk about. Don't the back end of the Cardinals bullpen and the back end of the Braves rotation. We will address those

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one runs, who walks through strikeouts. Verlander solid as well, six inting, seven hits, three runs, two walk, six strikeouts. A big story after the game was did Aaron Boone make a massive mistake by pulling Tanaka after seventy eight pitches. After the game, Tanaka said no, I gave him everything I had in the sixth inning, I had nothing left. You know who also had nothing left? Written? How much did they how much did they paid to Not gonna

say that, probably like a hundred sethn million dollars. He had nothing left after seven eight, they said, when all out of the sixth I don't believe he did only have three k's seven. Well, it's a tough lineup, you know, the Houston Nationals and not it's it's not gonna swing and miss a lot on the best tuve A, Bregman, Brantley. These guys are not gonna swing and miss a lot. So normally you don't want to start your your pictures against the Houston Astros. But Tanaka in a two star week,

you had to get him in there. I think if you started him, obviously you're least with the start against Tanaka. Had someone yesterday asking me in the Daily League whether they should bench him, and it looked up to Knacka's career numbers against Houston and he had an eight point eight seven e R eight entering that game. So I said, look, if you want to bench him, I get it. I don't have a problem with it because he struggled against the Astros. So take the start from Tanaka. I believe

he only had eight swinging shrike sister today. It wasn't a lot, uh. And then Verlander solid quality start. Verlander hasn't necessarily been the Verlander to start the year that we were all hoping for. There were three starts. He has a four point to four e r A. Got rocked against the Rangers his last time out. Um. He has five walks over the last two games. Shince I find interesting something I'll pay attended to regarding his command. Still had a strike out for any pitched, but hasn't

been him self. They adventure And this is why I wasn't really big on Verlinda on his price being a top five starting pitcher this year. Last year, Cole had like, you know, yeah, they haven't. They both haven't been lights out yet. They've been fine. But Cole has been better, yes, And Cole's in his prime and Verlinda is, you know, his thing. He had a resurgent year last year, a

really big year. I think, you know, I think it was a little bit not anomaly, but a little bit of the best thing you're gonna see from him for the rest of his career. I think he's gonna go back to a normal Verlin, not a bad Verlinda, but a good one, but not a sp one like a lights out elite picture. He's not gonna. I don't think he is that guy, and that's why I wasn't buying it. So I'm not too surprised to see what's going on with him right now. He's still pitching. Well, it's not

he's pitching bad. There's a good start, you know, I mean three ar runs start six ks me personally. I have him in a few locations and and you paid for him. I've been a little underwhelmed. I had him as a keeper, so I kept him as uh as a thirty dollar keeper in a in an auction, so I obviously wanted to keep the ace there. And I also drafted Garrett Cole. So I'm all in on the Astros. But it seems like the fan grafts projection systems for the rest of the season are actually closer to what

you're saying. Venture They have him uh for between a three point one six and a three point four zero e r A the rest of the way, so you know, not the two point five from last year, which is what you're talking about, but maybe closer to a low three z r A. I mean, if he gives you a low threes with a good whip, I mean that's obviously fine. Yahout. But you just didn't want to pay. I just didn't want to pay for the price that

he was this year because it's it's a lot. It's the best price he's ever had, really, so you're buying him based off of a career year and he's what, he's thirty six years old, So I under I understand that, and I didn't. I only ended up with one share of him, so that actively seeking him. But um yeah, I mean so far at four point two four e ar a not what you've expected. Um, but I wouldn't

worry even there yet either. I wouldn't worry. I'm not worried, but I'm paying attention to the to the walks for sure. I agree with you guys, are a judge. He's his third hole run of the season. It's got a quiet start for Judge, but he's been okay. Three home runs, two nine, adding average op over four hundred. Frasier continues to about eight and continues to rake four the new York Yankees. He was two for four yesterday night as well,

um any else in this game. Jack Britton sucks. Yeah, I mentioned that I don't want to be now not great in there struck out everybody. I just wasn't big on the Zach Britton signing. Great gave him a lot of money, and it's like he hasn't been lights out like he was before the injury. I didn't love it, but it's still a good bullpen guys. As Soon has been good so far. He picks up his third save last night. I just think this is just when Fraser

stay hot to two hits again last night. I benched him last night because he was facing very Landa, so yeah, that's fine. And then he faced Garret Cole tonight too, so it doesn't get any easier. We mentioned before he Roy Ryo left this game and the Cardinals wound up being the Dodgers four to three. Miles Nicholas, who had six in eggs, five hits, three runs, walked one strike out of three. We have not seen the uptake and

strike as so many expected from Nicholas. We have not, but the control has still been there and you needed to see this start. You need to get a quality start out of Mikolas. Based on how he started the season, he hasn't been great, to put it lightly, and then to do this against the Los Angeles Dodgers. It's not

like he was lights out, he was amazing. But if you get a quality start out of him three runs, six endings against you know, the best offense in the National League to start the season, I think people will certainly take that out of out of Miles Nicholas and and this is closer to what I expect from him moving forward because we were a little worried with the first two starts, right, so it's good to see him do that, especially against the Dodgers. I think that's big.

Uh ejin Ryou, I mean surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. That's exactly right. Anyone in the Dodgers rotation, right, Firshall starts the year on the I L. Rich Hill starts year on the I L. Now Ryo is going to join them, Kershaw back over the weekend. I mean, there's gonna be a lot of shuffling in and out. This is what the Dodgers do. Spoke to Nick Pollock Picture List before the season, Greg he dubbed this Dodger writis this is exactly what it is. These guys are gonna be shuffled

in and out of of the injured list. Hopefully they do it enough where you know, some of these other guys um stay, Like if they're constantly doing it between Kershaw and rich Hill and ry you Ross Stripling in my eight, I could just kind of be the mainstays. That would be awesome. And you would love if Julio rus would stay, and I think he will because you know,

you're always gonna have someone injured in this Dodges rotation. Truthfully, they have a seven eight man rotation and there's guys coming in out there, a bunch of spots starters that get hurt all the time. So I mean they're good, most of them. They're very good. But you gotta figure like, being a managine the Dodges right now is probably a tough job. You gotta figure out how you want to manage rotation. He has done it. They just haven't won

the World Series. Hey, they've been there. They've been there, they just haven't gotten come about as close as you can. John Gant goes to Endy's in this one. Greggy Jordan Hicks. What we really need to see a lighttout performance only walks one gets a strike out again against the Dodgers, licking up. We needed to see this because he already had one blown saved and Miller had had been pretty bad. So they meet someone to lock down the back into

that bullpen, and hopefully it's Jordan Hicks. I have a few shares of them, we have them in g d D. So we needed to see this because you might be out there too, and waivers for some people. Yeah, some people. Some people didn't buy into him being the close up and they're like Milli Betta, all right, I got him in the main event. We got him in g d D. Greg, so excited over that you love bikes that much. I'm

probably closer to that sound that you're making, Greg. Jordan Hicks is owned in eight all right, So it's steam leagues. The jay Z didn't get the lead, but it's tied orgeron one. Well, Thelands two were three. But the big news when it comes to pull the young batning fifth not third anymore. Oh, why did you do that? You know that fifty six he's up to to sixty two. Now where I'm looking dot com put Una fourth and

in the young fifth. I don't betting, but you know what they put yesterday because he's more of a contact hitter. I guess that they want to get him in there betting third, but he's not gonna play real, real quick rebuttal about the Jordan Hickston on ESPN fifty percent owned and unowned in my home league, home league, Michael given the believer, No, I dropped him. I picked up Shane Green. Do you have to have sorry? Anthony Minglish is not Jordan Hicks. I'm so sorry right now. I like the

ming was his talent better? Yeah? Do you like a hundred? Well he's and he's the one closer, one closer, and he's a closer. But I wasn't so sold on him being the closer at the beginning listening to the show. Well, I mean I listen, I listened to the show, but Andrew Miller sucked. He has and now that he's getting saves, Yeah, pick him up and I'll spend money on him. Absolutely, But I'm not dropping. Sorry, the minguis not drop you dropping?

Are you dropping them and dropping another picture in the back end? You know points league, you can drop Dominguis. I'm telling you venture I don't want to though. I think he's going to be the clothes. I think you're gonna I think it a thing for you all week. This is the cool this is the cool name theory. He's following Sir Anthony's cool name. I swear, I swear on anything. It's not that I like, there's something Sir Anthony for you, like you see like better three always

pitching baseball. Is he a fourth cousin or something? Is that why you don't want to drop. I want to have clothes on my team. I have one. I've Shane Green. It's said, let's not do this. Not for jay z update speaking of closes the Bridges defeat of the Rockies yesterday eight to six Julio Tehran not great, five innings, six hits in course field, obviously, but it was e J. Mints opening up his first save over the season, the

phenomenal a J. Mint. There anything here, It was just the day off about So I find this really interesting, Greg because when I used the bullpen usage tool over at Baseball Press, Rody's Viscayano has pitched Saturday and Monday pitches on Saturday eleven pitches on Monday, a J Mentor has pitched thurs Uh. We pitched Friday, Sunday and Monday mixed up. It's it's been, it's been the opposite. It's uh. Last night it was a J Mentor and then Sunday

it was Rodey's Viskanna, So they've been flip flopping. But then yesterday it was a It was lefty righty, lefty, righty coming up in the bottom of the ninth, and they still go with a J. Minter. It's not like it was just Lefty's coming up. So are we looking at a fifty fifty split here between Mintor and Viscaya? Who is who is coming up? Who are the uti face nine? Then I'll put it off for you specifically.

But it was lefty, righty, lefty, righty. I know that, okay, I can, I can pull it up to it was okay, it was Pat Vilaka who was who's a righty? It was righty lefty, and then they bring it Tony Walters to pinch it for Wade Davis. He's a lefty. So it's weird that the Rockies brought in the left It's probably the last and pan Desmond hits a double actually right and probably Blackman flies out to end the game. So it was righty, pinch hit lefty, righty and then lefty.

So normally you would think this guy. So that's why I find it interesting, is are we looking at a split here? I don't know. I don't own any shares of the Braves BOWLB. I think for me, I think he's still could be. Same for me. I think you're still gonna be looking at Craig Kimberall here at some point, maybe in June. Everyone's waiting for that the draft pick attached. You gotta feel like Craft right now. Yeah, that's why

I didn't draft him either. In the Points League, it's gonna be frustrating to own either one of these Braves relievers, because again points leads, you want volume. You want guys that are going to always be the closer. Whenever there's the same opportunity, they're going to be in there. Those are the guys that you want. Points leagues, you want people who we're gonna pitch. You just don't know who

it's gonna be. Regarding the Braves in Rhodo and had to add categories leagues, I'm still holding onto both of these guys because again, you're one injury away from either one of them for the other to become the full time closer. So it's frustrating, but it's had categories in Rhodo, I'm holding points leagues. It's gonna be frustrating. Funny enough, I picked up this guy, you know the other that day. Um yeah, yeah, Well there's nothing else out there right now.

Obviously one league. I got Jordan Hicks out there, But I don't know. I think that you don't want to own either of them really right now. Like I'm ready to drop this guy in the right away. I thought he was gonna just be the closer, and that's it. That's what I'm saying. It's gonna be frustrating in the Points league. Can I don't ideal. I probably wouldn't want

to own either. In the Points League. I'd probably pick up a clothes oder on like a lesser team like Shane Green Shane Green like you did, or Alex column A or Greg Holland if those guys were out there. But it's gonna be frustrating. But rode and head to head categories, I can't drop these guys because it's so hard to come across saves. Kyle Freeland goes five and things alloud. Seven hits, seven runs, walked, four out three big thumbs down for Kyle, little homage to Batista who

wrestled on Sunday. Thumbs down for Kyle Freeland and for Juio tan And let's just give these guys four thumbs down. As Frank mentioned before, Trevor's story was in the lineup yesterday and that he was as he hit a home run of the season. It's a hits home run here in coors Field, a couple of people trying to get on the board. Ronald Lacunia gets on the board with two hits, hits, a home run, a walk, rerun scored. So, man, if only Ronald Lacunia played in Cortsfield every day, that

would be awesome. Life would be great. But it is just worth mentioning. I told everyone in our one that we do now have stat cast data for the twenty nine season. They were waiting until there was enough batted ball events. But basically, Ronald Lacunia has one of the biggest differences between his batting average and expecting bat batting average. Two weeks into the season, He's fourth. His difference is minus one forty three. He's batting one seventy six. He's

expected batting average Venture is three nineteen. I believe it. I mean you could see it's obviously freaking out. I'm telling you people freak out early on if they start oh and one or if they're lasting Roado, They're like, all right, you know, I gotta make a move, I gotta do something. If Ronald Lacuna owner is freaking out, I'm trying to pray on that person based on the stack cast day that we have. Absolutely, I mean I have a Kuna and pit league. I'm not worried at all,

to be honest. Oh well, I mean you know see what you got. I mean I need multiples. You know what. No, he feels too many paces. I don't want him. Oh yeah, Team pound the power, Pound the pack power. I took took the Don's model for this one pound the power the Oakland Athletics. These second modes, get rock or something, yes, quick, quick, yes, and Venture smashed a nash really big Brad Miller. He's only hit for the season. Two home runs allowed in

two innings for Jordans. Different. Here we go. This is what happens. He's still gonna give me a quality start to have faith. J Last night, the Oakland Athletics, the second most run score in the American League, felt a six and eight as they fell into Baltimore Orioles twelve to four for the Oh's Jimmy Yakomonos, which two scoreless days a little. He did load the basis at one point, but the big story bombs away four boom, boom, boom, boom, three man teen, He's on fire. I don't have a

second verse, but you are not a liar. Boom. Let's go, ma. You're three hits, a homer, two ribbies, two walks, five, batting average twelves. The launch angle is up this year. I mean, Greggy, I mean, how about Jonathan awesome man? Two hits here, four ribbies, he adds another homer. Those are the two in this lineup. Man, it's Johnny VR and Chris Davis still over for over. But you know what, they kind of gave up on Cedric Mullins early here.

They dropped him all the way down to nine. But maybe that's what he needed because he hits two triples and three ribbies, two trips with two run scored, so I think when everything's clicking for this team, it will be Mullins once again leading off vr Bank second and Boom boom banting third. Honestly, I don't know why teams are pitching the boom boom right now because Ronado Nunez is batting behind him. I mean, alright, bating two seventies six,

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and on your popular podcast providers. You know, Freggie spent the entire braby like George German, come on and events you're not are sitting here just like it's George or what did you expect you better than this? He's really not strike out. The two weddings pitched that counts for something. Was just second star against this week. This is the one that I really liked. Text at Minnesota, he loved Etnesota. I will not love them. That day hit a bomb.

That's that's a lot to be fair. My opponent in the league where I'm starting, Jordan Zimmerman, has Max Freed going tonight at Colorado. So in Colorado, hopefully he can mitigate whatever Jordan's Immerman gives me the Yeah, I wanted to pick up Max for you that. So he was in Colorado, Like, Nope, it's in Colorado and against the Mets last night in Philadelphia, the Phillies defeated the Gnats four to three. Ifnive Alaska as only two strike aus,

what gives guys? Yeah, the swinging strikes weren't there either. I don't know, Greg, I don't know what to make of Vince Alaska's. He had so much promise a couple of years ago. I remember you had like a fourteen or fifteen strikeout game, and it's awesome. I guess you know the one positive here. Zero walks, that's always been a huge and maybe he was trying for the contact a little bit more for Vince Alaska's and you know he tried to pitch the contact and against the Nationals,

so oh at all it wasn't bad. Allowed one homer um and that was against the Zoo of all people. But four hits, zero walks, only two strikeouts. You want to see more swinging strikes. He's not worth owning, but he's he's a guy that he's a scoutless guy. He's this guy I would pay attended to. You know, he's right there with Tyson. You don't have none of You're

locked up your whole scout less, you know. Yeah, he he doesn't deserve to be on that um Sniz pitched the sixth inning last night, killed it father, I HadAM Morrigan, uh and David robertson and getting the shave like a dude, Patney Scheck. They never know who you're mocking when you do these things. I'll tell you one day, but it had to be you, but not today. Okay, Well, Petny Schick picks up the save yesterday obviously allows a run the submarine pitcher. He's been around, so it's up. But

that's it. That was the last up two. He's never gonna get a chance again because he gave her on tell you right now, he's done. I'm not buying the pitch back to back datis and maybe that's why he wasn't used, you know what. I'm kind of off this bullpen userge. So it's all right, I'm on it now. Not because it says that it says that Hector Naris pitched yesterday, it's not. It's not sached Sunday. I think

you're just reading it. I gotta refresh. No, yes, no, I just refreshed it and it changed because it had Hector Narra's pitching yesterday. Now I see that it doesn't. It's seventeen on Sunday, nine on Friday. Probably pitched Friday

and Saturday had Sunday off. But yeah, look, your guess is as good as mine regarding the Phillies bullpen, right, But do Mingas pitches the sixth and then David Robertsons it pitches the eight So why are you owning those guys in the Points I'll still hold them in a road a league because I guess there's a chance they can still get saves, so I'm not dropping him there. But in a points league venture, why am I holding him? The Minga isn't and Robertson have been used a set

of guys, man, I'm not. I'm not going out and picking up Meshack and Nerris in the Points league either, But I know you know I have Jordan's Hickston. The opposite of me thinks short term. I think long term. I'm holding the Mingus for the long term. There's nobody good enough for me to pick up anywhere. I got to do it. Yes, you do. This is the I guess of when I picked up Jordan's inman. This is something you have to do. This is something I shouldn't

have done. Totally. You guys should have talked me out of it. We tried, Yeah, we tried. I tried to buy in man on his fastball. Last. Reese Hosk is in this one. Two homers, this fourth and fifth of the year. Haskin is out there. Really nice start hitting behind Bryce Harper. It's a really good sponsive men. As a feelers just need to dominate and proved you seven and two, the Nash shops of four and five, Edible Sanchez five and the third seven hits, three runs, strike

out six. Though kingar Ring in the lineup got start, I'm interested, greg I mentioned, are you yeah, he's not gonna play, though I know I'm gonna watch watchless scouts, job, scoutless ventures, scoutless. Greg I mentioned the biggest difference in batting average and expected batting average rife. Hoskins is on the opposite end of that actually, so he has a

three sixty seven batting average. He expected batting averages to seventy four, So his different his difference in batting average to expect it is actually the tenth most in baseball to start the season. Look, we never drafted Reese Hoskins to hit for batting average. Anyway, if it turns out he can hit two seventy five, I think fantasy owners would love that, and I think they would take that.

So obviously he's not gonna keep up at three sixties seven, but it's worth mentioning that he's off to a hot start um and he's doing what he does. He's probably gonna be in at two seventy range, and he had thirty five homers this year. RBIs are gonna be there obviously in the Phillies lineup two. So yeah, obviously lots of like there with if he stays healthy, he's he's going to drive in over a hundred easy. Easy. Annibal Sanchez was not good last night. Greg three earned runs

in five and two thirds. But I don't think he was terrible either. He had six strikeouts and he had twelve swinging strikes. He took seven different pitches yesterday. According to Baseball Savants, I dropped Annibale Sanchez and twelve team leagues in fifteen teamers. I don't I don't know if I would drop him yet, because six strikeouts against this Phillies lineup as many swinging strikes as he had. I'm

a little intrigue. Twelve team, twelve team leagues, I'm probably dropping him, but anything deeper than that, I'd probably hold onto him for now. The Brewer crew were in Los Angeles take on the Angels. Could Mike shout Homer again? He couldn't. The Angels still won this one, five to two because the Angels was Trevork k Hill, who went six and things five hits, two runs, he walked when he struck out eight. A very nice start by Trevork

K Hill. I hate this right now. Why is that I'm playing a kid who picked up k Hill for two starts this week? That you know that does so annoying because you would expect him to get why is he starting that guy? Like? Why is he picking up Trevior Hale? Just get crazy when it comes to uh, the two star pitchers, he'll just they'll just pick up anybody. But when they're right it, it hurts even more because like, why are you picking him up? How did you see

that coming? No way you saw that coming. Yeah, and Trevor K. Hill. He's frustrating to own me, and I owned him last year too, because this is what he does. He's gonna go out and have a really good start against the Brewers. You think you could trust him, and then when he has an actual good matchup, he's gonna let you down. He throws his curveball so much that sometimes it's hard for him to locate where the curveball is gonna go. Obviously it has a huge twelve to

six break. So in those starts where he can't locate the curveball and he's not getting people to swing and miss, they're laying off and he's walking a bunch of guys and then he's not going deep into the game. So Trevor K. Hill, this is who he is. He has the upside where he can give you a strikeout for enning, sometimes even more strikeouts yesterday six innings. I can see a good Brewers team. But then he's also gonna let you down in some starts. He's kind of a volatile

starting pitcher, you know what. I also think this is a product. Yes he is. He's been around for a long time, a guy who was a top prospect years ago, for Oakland. Um, how many guys came through those guys? Dan harn too. Yeah, Dan Harrod was great for a while. Um, but this guy is supposed to be great, never really panned out, Still lingering in the league and always injury prone, highly injury prone. He'll probably get injured at some point

this season. Um. And but you know it's interesting, No, why I think he did well here playing a National League team that doesn't know him, hasn't seen him. That's the reason why he show well, I'm gonna tell you right now, because he's never he's not gonna do things like this very often. This is it's not like he's been in the alsire life. I mean, he's been around the block. Was he in the always on San Diego at one point? Right Sego? Uh no, that was two

years ago, last last year? Okay, yeah, so two years ago. He was with the with the Padress Brewers before. But in two years, you know, mostly when he's been pitching the past couple of seas like last year, ten innings, and he's always hurt. But at three seven, six year like, that's fine, that's that's worthy of your the back end of your your fantasy rotation. One point one nine whip. I wouldn't touch him like that. He's gonna he's gonna have a few starts where he like him more than

like j that I would agree with. But he's better in Rhodo than he is head to head leaks because the consistency just isn't gonna be there, and it's like, all right at the end of the season if he if he pitches a D twenty endings gives me a sub three eight e r A and at one point to wit strike out for ending. You're happy with that, You're really happy. That's that's quality, greater sign quantity. Greg Is Cody Allen picked up his second saving a nice

clean ninth inning. Yeah, indeed, uh, you at least chain too terribly quality starts six and three runs, three hits, three just one K is what hurts. From a fantasy perspective, Christian Yellows got robbed of a home run by my trail. I was gonna say, the one thing better than hitting a home run, Greggy is robbing a home run. Maybe maybe. From real life baseball perspective, fantasy Grand Slam is the

only thing that helps nobody in fantasy. I honestly you know, it takes away a home run from It's cool to see because it's like m v P against MVP kind of thing. But you know what ye said, rob my homework, Greg, you will not from me out in the base pass at the stolen base is second of the season. Yes, has just been awesome, believable out there. I mean, dude, come on, what more has he gotta do? MVP absolutely

doing this thing right now yesterday. It's good to see because he's kind of been in the outside of hitting home runs, he hasn't done money. I think steak a players struggling. He's just has been freaking awful. He's another one of these Bilow guys. Greg. He's so he's very high up on the list between his batting average and his current expected batting average, so his difference is fifth

highest in baseball, behind Ronald, just behind Ronaldacunia. He's hitting expected batting average to which if that's more that he was getting you, that's more what you're expecting out of Hare. So I think it's a good great blog, which is his woe button, his expected wo but two is expecting. I think it's really interesting. The Bruce at eight and three, he talks about how great Christian yellowg is with the middle of the order. For Bruce has been so bad.

Drvis Shaw wants anyone he's one nine, Mike one ninety four because he's the same three guys. It worries me for Agil or two because they have Eric Thames, who not doing much himself, haven't been much, but he's hit a few home runs so far to start the year. Greg and that was one of the reasons I didn't love Aguilar coming in if you remember, yeah, I do remember that, but because because his man up mentality and they have guys behind and it happened last year we

saw Thames didn't hit. You took a spot watching the reverse having this year. But he's he's been unlucky to start the year though. The reason why they're doing so these are the three. They're the same guys, These three guys power guys that hit two fifty and strike out a lot. They're all the same. You're right, that's it's like the Matter's guys. The Matter guys are hitting right now. Yeah,

exactly the different right now. Um think about that. Like the Brewers lineup has still been pretty good even with everyone outside of yellows. That's what they're they're deep. How about this, Greg, So I'm looking at the bat ball profile for Hayes Tagler. Now on the season, you say all he does is strike out a lot, right? Are all the same guy? How about this agil strikeout rate to start the season seventeen point nine percent. That's way down. He's actually making a ton of contact. Last year had

a percent strikeout rate. Is hard hit rate this season already five point eight percent. Uh. The fly ball rate line drives twenty five and his bad bit is one sixty seven. This is a prime by low candidate right now. Greg is a big big both in terms of what we expect and because he's he's just a bigger dude. Yeah, the big guy. Yesterday afternoon, we're getting quick ending here from jay Z Gregg. Are we little quickie already? It's great? Yesterday afternoon there were two games and went in on

our one of up Pittsburgh and Chicago. Is certainly from the pitching perspective. Hitting wise, obviously put a ton of runs in College. Over hit his third home run of the season. Uh in the other game. Though I didn't want to mention this, I mentioned Blake Snell how great he was in the raised five one victory of those sixty in things, eleven strikeouts. We were We watched all of us, three of us Carlos Rodan yesterday, we just

didn't have it. Man four and two thirds. It hits four runs, he walked five, but he strike out nine. I could not believe he lasted long enough nine with a hundred and eleven pitches. I tweeted about his day after the fourth because I thought he was done, and then they bring him back out for the fifth. He walks, another guy, strikes out another guy. It's basically what it

was yesterday. For Rodan. It was walker strikeout, had five walks and three of those came in four of those came in the in the first inning, I think three. And this is part of what's been his issue as long as he's been in the majors. I liked when I saw the first two starts Greg and I mentioned this because he wasn't walking. Anybody believe he only had two walks entering yesterday. Well, in all unravels, we get back to the Carlo Shordan, where you used to five walks,

nine strikeouts. He didn't have twenties swinging strikes, but those basically just came on his fastball and his slider. So you know he and I mentioned this last week when I saw think about him, was that he's only been throwing two pitches. Do you have any shares of Rodan? What do you think? I do? I have a share of Rodan? Um, to me, you're not gonna like this.

Rodan is like a Eduardo Rodriguez to me, a little better, a little better than that's the case, going walks a lot of guys and shaky at times, getting many as Rodan. Rodan has had some pretty bad control, but he has also been hurt a lot, both of them, really, and I feel like he's never really gets into a groove Rodan in his in any season really, so I'd like

to see what happens when he does. It's actually not a bad comp Edwardo does strike out a lot of guys, like He's consistently been over three walks per nine for his career, but the strikeouts have been better than Rodan. Last year he was at ten case per nine. Rodan has never been at that point, so it looked like Eduardo was getting better. You look at the strikeout numbers they were getting better every single season. That's why a lot of people were on him, uh and not so

much on Rodan because Rodan was terrible last year. It was coming off injury. He's an injury case. So they're they're actually not that dissimilar. But I still think Edwardo Rodriguez has more upside. Yeah, yes, well no, I don't know. I I like road on a lot. It starts Gregg and you're out on Edwardo Rodrigue. You've always been out on Aville has been out. That's what I'm saying. It

wasn't two starts, all right. So if you look at his eighteen, Greg lowers his e r A each year and opps his k rate each year, so he's getting better each year. I get it. I just love the super high guys. This is why he drafted draft drifted him because it was the pit league and you were drafting all of me and Frank's guys. This is why you did it to use it in trade. Parlay worked. Then I think you did a great job with out of last week. There you go. You gotta win. But

he wasn't great. He still wasn't good. He wasn't great, but it wasn't good. I'll win. Yeah, he wasn't. That is a factual statement. You gotta win to manage. Is still the second base of the year for you, Chris, Yeah to me Anderson and also hitting some homes three today against right handed fifth today on a second yesterday? How many homes did you have? Three? Right now? So it is I think I don't own to man anywhere. I think he's got to he's he's betting five seventeen

when the esp has different averages expected. I've seen at four eight, So I don't know baseball Savan hasn't bet five, he's seventeen. Since yesterday he's been usually includes it whatever, because I'm looking at you know, yes, hasn't five seventeen. Timmy's killing it. Hasn't walked yet. He doesn't walk. He hasn't. He won't walk. He doesn't. He also he's not striking out either. He's getting five percent strikeout right, I'm telling you he's going this guy last year it again, well

maybe better twenty five. He doesn't one walk on the season. Actually, so I was o b P and his average exactly the same on ESPN unless he didn't get yesterday's walking five seventeen average five thirty three o BP hit by pitch, his fans killing HPP. That's why maybe HPP. Uh he does not have a hit by pitch this season yet. ESPN's Killiman today, dot COM's box score NS. I think you need to change that. All right, we have one last update here on Jordan zimmer before you wrap up

Jordan Zimmerman. The last that I'm seeing is it's still three to one. So look, as long as he goes dings and doesn't give up more runs while I'm starting, you know, I will take that as a win. Sure, all right, let's see what he's got. Uh, three innings, He's got three hits, three runs, one four strike guns. Stop trying to sell yourself. I want to thank Sean Bryan and Martino downstairs. I want to thank Chris Vencher. I want to thank Frank Stavill. I don't want to

thank something. I don't want to Thanks so much for watching, listening to the Fantasy best Friends Forever. We'll do it all in tomorrow