5/17, Part 2: Veterans Pickup, 2 Start Pitchers, Prospects To Stash

find us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. Alright, our number two of the Fantasy best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network resmer No No No Metallico open today, which is certainly hot problem. Believe me, there are you okay with that? But I'm here Florio is not Frankly back in a moment. But during this hour, we're gonna go over some of those veterans that we didn't get a chance to talk about an hour one that may fly under the radars. We want to make sure we

get you those names. Obviously, it's a fabruou loso Friday here on the BFS. We're all gonna get you your two star pitchers. I know we wanted to talk um a little bit about Blazers and Warriors as well. You noticed frank shirt when he comes back where it says, I'm not gonna spoil it for you. If you didn't see it, you'll notice it when he walked back into the shot. But nevertheless, a lot to talk about here, a lot to get to and I want to make

sure we're able to hit it all. Um, Well we'll try to hit on some of the players last night that stood out to us. But it's a big prospect show. It's a big transaction show. It's a Waiver Wire Friday. It's a fabulous Losso Friday as well. For you want to stand episode. We can see your shirt. Man, it's great. Great the I'm trying Jennifer sure, which is great. It would have been better if CJ. McCollum would have won last night. Did They should have won that game too, man,

choked it away. They were leading for a lot of that game, had as much as a eighteen point lead and some point. Um, they played well, played well overall. They got nice contributions from Seth Curry. Obviously it was a really entertaining game. Um, but they choked away at the end. But you have to give credits where credits do? I mean? The Warriors took advantage great play by andre Iguodala. For people who are saying, well, Andrew Youguodala foul Damian Lillard,

he did not. You watched they were kind of Joscelyn back and forth, and Damian Lillard was, you know, hand checking him as much as andre Iguodala was hand checking Lillard. So it kind of goes both ways. You just you let them play it out there. So and it was a great defensive play. So I don't have any problem with it. It was a fun game. Greg. Do you want to have the should do the Jason Stations start? Chicky question of the week. I don't know how well

I could perform without venture here, but we'll see. Well last week we didn't been trying the Florida, and I feel like we didn't perform very well. Did we We had we had? I think we we got two out of three? All right, But I'm in it all because haven't look at the answer. King Felix and Clint Kershaw the two active players with two thousands wrikeouts and all

of them being for one team. You need the three other active players with or more strikeouts all for one team, all right, massive bum guards gotta be one right, So could this be a player that's played for two teams, but did it for one team? I don't think so. I think Verlander came to mind of media and obviously, but I don't think so. It's got to be just one team. Yeah, bum Guard is a great one. Adam Wayne, right,

great one, that's fantastic. Can we get one warrior? Um man, let's see here stouts all one team team kind of you know, you automatically think veteran, but like bunk Guard is not even that old. He's been around a long time, so it's like one of those players that you're thinking about. Ye wait, is a fantastic guests for sure? Mm hmmm. I don't really have a I don't have a good one here. Well, man, making our way through our teams, we'll get there. Yeah, I'm thinking likes not there yet. Now.

I thought about the I thought about the Mets guy because they've all been there a while. Um m mmmmmm, you're cold change. But he's too young anyway, it's probably in the National League. Then Corey Cluber. That's a not bad guess. Clooper is a really good one actually start to his career, but basically pitched too under innings for like six ort eight years before this one. He's probably close. I don't know that he's doing. That's a good guest, though,

is definitely a good guess. I like that for sure. It could be right, and I don't know. Yeah, um, everybody else would mind. I don't know. I'm like scrolling through the teams in my head and their rotations and stuff, and it's going up for sale. Two teams, three teams. I don't really have a great guess. All right, maybe we have the three. Hey, i'll look it up here. You are, you're gonna you're gonna find out right now, you know what I thought about this player and I

moved on. So Cluber is thirty nine strikeouts short, wait right, and bummy are correct? The third person I'm really mad because I thought about him and I thought he was too young. Gram has one thousand sixty four. The other maybe the other ones that just missed, Carlos Carrasco at nine, Julio Tehran at ten seventy four, the the third players fifteen nineteen. The only clue I will give you was I thought about him, but I thought he was too young. Yeah that's not enough, do I tell you what league

it is? National League? National League? Do you guys played downstairs too? Obviously thought too young? Uh? Going through the team, sames there it is Steven Stotsburgh. Yep, yes, makes sense. I thought about him. We were actually right, we were right on the were the team I had, I said, I literally Shotsburg was the first names that hit in my mind, and I just thought he was too young. It's good, all right. Well we got two to three

yep counts for something pretty good. I think we're doing well, all right, so uh miss tweeted out a historical tweet during the break. By the way, the Marlins have not scored a run since last Saturday. Oh my god, it's been almost a week. Oh and you know what, here's your reward for not scoring in a week. You get to face Jacob de Grand tonight. It's been almost three games. Oh my god. Because I used had some rain outs and whatnot, but it not scored a run since last Saturday.

He said. Until the Marlin score run, I will only tweet in Spanish. I'm gonna guess that he's not gonna be tweeting a while. This is gonna this is gonna be the night. This is gonna be a game where like they randomly get to Jacob Degraham and they score like three runs off of him in the first setting shoot. It's not surprising, not surprising. That's why everyone streams against him. Oh, by the way, play was just thinking about that. I wanted to get to grow up in my lineup, and

everyone will want to get him in there. But he's twelve tho dollars on Fandel tonight. He's gonna be very true talking for cash games. I believe that, but it's hard to fit them in. So the way it works is, if you've been in our Fandel contest before, it's a twenty person contest, it's two dollar entry, top three positions play out. You hit the friends tab on the top of the FanDuel website and you're already in the contest. If you've been in it before, all you have to

do is set your lineup. That's it, and you're good to go. So make sure you set your lineup by today, uh four or five pm ish if you want to join in. We're full right now. But if there are people that are into contests by four or five pm who haven't set their lineup, I will boot those people and I will send out more invites, So if you want to join in, send me your user name. I actually have a user name waiting in the wings right

now in case someone does not set their lineup. That is U. That is Be Jensen Bryan Jensen in the YouTube chat the other day. Don't worry, I haven't forgot about you. I have your name here. If people don't set their lineups, you will get the invite this afternoon. Make sure to set your lineups. I've set my line up, Frank already I have as well. We have the same picture. We do and not reveal, all right, go on, Grey, We don't want other people to take our picture. Do

you have any other players that I have? Probably I don't know. Man. Do you have Paul Dong? Me too? Yeah? Do you have any Dodgers players? The two of them? Have two of them as well. We have the same lineup though they pay mine play the same position. Uh mind, you're not there, you go. We have one they probably won the same one, the same one, not the same. Probably want to hear one player? Do you have my line up? Who is that? Walk on the squad? Malix Smith? Oh? Greg,

you know, give me this? Not a lot to have. Oh yeah, maybe not a lot to have Alex Smith in your lineup Bucks tonight. Hey, Homer, last night exactly could steal based to night and nine. That was a lock. It was a lock that he's gonna come up the day after the lunch that ended. And you know, people were tweeting at me last night then they were like, Greg still needs to honor this. He's up a day after. No way, you got it right now. It's Smith's back up. He We had a bet. We said it was the rules.

I'm not agreeing with those tweets. I'm just telling you what people were saying. I understand I lost, although it was close the skin of my teeth. You have a beer from the downstairs fridge if you like. I'm sure I will at some point today. Although I saw Alex in the bathroom downstairs, I think he's just plowing through twisted teeth. That's what it is. Oh God, Alex, howbody twist the tease? If you had at this point only two? Were there only two in there? It's for you guys,

on clearing some space for you guys. We appreciate it. There there only two left? Well, I only saw two in there. There might be one left. Now they're all gone. Thanks Alex. Why haven't you moved on to beer? Well it's for you know, when I get home, I gotta pace myself. You don't want a marathon, not a sprint. True story. By the way, when we were all went out for or Groove Outing Christmas party nineteen through eight team, rather we all went out, we all went up the bar.

We got there exactly what we said we were. We found a section that we were just standing. It was a great time, had a blast. I'm just being reminded of what you're about to say. Now. So a half hour later, like a half hour legitimately maybe an hour, we see some ANIL understand with the hat after like uh no, and now I just sent with the hat.

It was like walking toward us. I mean, oh, Alex, hey man, I thought you were gonna be here, Hurley, He's like, dude, I mean even like the last hour and a half, what like, what do you mean even even the last hour and a half, like we just said at the bar watching the Islanders game, I was just so focused I didn't notice anybody around me. Well, I think actually Bona when he originally told us the plans. I think he said seven pm, but apparently it was

eight pm or something like that. I went in the notion saying, you know what, if it's seven or eight, I don't care because the Islander game starts it it in. So I was just gonna go sit at the bar watching watch the game, and you guys are just gonna trickle in. I should expect you guys to fully all be there by the time I went to go outside to get some arras. So he said, you know, Bivona did say eight pm, and once again grasped the Bivona

married on Sunday. We were there am no no, no, no, no no, no, he said at eight pm when the show. When Gametime Decisions ended at seven, I said, I'm not waiting at eight pm, like, let's go, let's go. So we were all at the bar by seven thirty because I refused to sit here anymore and answer more people's questions. I just wanted to be at the bar drinking yes and shout out to Alex. He bought us all shots at night. I did try it was the shots. Tried to go half seas with him, true story. I did

try to go half seas with him. I was like, dude, I don't want you to pay for all this. I'll go half. He's with you. I didn't. I didn't, Alex. You I do recall you said tequila is your favorite. It is. I was possible. And the part that Frank left out of that story was, uh, Frank and Dame specifically said it's on his car, as in me, he's paying for it, as in me like what, No, you're the head Han show. You can you can expense this. But maybe it could have made a call and to

try to get it expensed. But I did not. All of a sudden, there's shots in my hand. Alex, how many shots did you did you buy? If I recall, because honestly I did end that night a little little stumbly, I do recall about eight or nine tequila shot. It was eight to ten. It was in the range. We have to get one for Gabe actually, because we gotta that was a mistake. Ended up getting about like seven or eight shots. And then Gabe stumbles overgoes, oh, there's no shot for me. I get it and I go, no,

there is, Yeah, there is, there is. Gabe will get you one if you don't want me, ask you how much is that cost? You? What? The bartender? Because of course, remember I was there an hour and a half early, watched the game, so I took care of the bartender earlier, as I always do when I go to the bar. He ended up only charging me for about like five shots. It was great for like, what, you're a hero, your hero, Hey, i'mna here. You guys need deserve but not the one

you need right now. I was trying to think of the saying you got it, you gotta speaking of that. By the way, I found out this morning and Frank found out last night. Robert Pattinson the new Batman. Yeah, I mean, who's making these decisions? Very strange, not great, This is not, this is not. I went through Robert Pattinson's IMDb what is he? Dahnson's Twilight. I have not seen a single Robert Pattinson movie in my life. I haven't.

I watched like half of one of the times. Sorry he was in one of the Harry Potter's and Cedric Diggory. I saw that, But I need not see Robert Pattinson's starring vehicle in my life. What has he done to deserve being Batman? Like, I mean, come on, I don't want to crap on the guy like whatever, but like, we couldn't find someone better than this to bed? What don't we Why don't we make John Snow Batman? Yeah, that could be cool. Rob Stark'll make one of those

guys Batman? Really, Robert Pattinson, I think I had another question for Alice. I don't remember who it was. Oh, I remember you were supposed to walk her intern home that night? Did you? Did you succeed? Yes? Of course, Natalie was very nice. We walked over to Grand Central, she got on her train, and I went back to Penn Station. God on mine. Just making sure you guys didn't get on the same train. Gentlemen, of course, you

know you're kidding me. Keepsie. What Alex won't do for love is go to the Keepsie that you just that one's off the list. I'm not going there, you know what. Keepsie a way too far and have train right guys? Yeah, no, I know, man, and you did. You were willing to walk all over the Grand CenTra to come back to Penstation though you're willing to know that? Do that well again, Bvona picked a very good bar. It was only about a couple of blocks away from the studio. It was.

It was only about a twenty total block walk, and how it sex walking. I told the story before. Frank you like, he's a big walker. I'll tell you the story. So I promise we're gonna back to the Prospects after the break. I mean, we're doing with Prospects, That's what I meant. I promise I'll do that. But I was

walking to work one morning. My headphone's in. It's about seven forty five ish or so, maybe a little bit earlier, and I walk past grand I walked past Port Authority on forty two Streets all my way here, and all of a sudden, I have my headphones and I'm looking up and I swear I see Alex walking past me. Like I swear it. But I'm like, all right, it's not because he comes into Penn Station, which is directly

across streetreet from us. So there's a reason for him to be at forty second Street at seven five in the morning when he's supposed to be here by eight o'clock. That doesn't make any sense. So I get to work before he does. Find no big deal. He walks and we're in the same sweatshirt with dugging donuts. I believe. I'm like, did I just see you walking back a Port authority? He's like, yeah, I do that every morning. Wait a minute, so you get in at Penn Station

at like seven thirty. Who, I don't know where you walk? You walk past Port Authority right, walk to my apartment for all I know, and then you come back. Yeah. I like to walk, so Alex, the question remains, where do you walk to? Where do you walk to? It's just I get off, I get off and up from Penn Station. So I just take eighth to about thirty

nine because that's where the Duncans is. Thirty eight. I believe it's definitely a closer Duncan dunking on thirty five between Broadway and Seventh, so I would have to go all the way down street. Anyway. The point is, I like just walking into ten mile a ten mile, ten block walk up to thirty nine back to It takes me about ten fifteen minutes, get my coffee, get my doughnut, walk right in. I'm happy. As a claim. He's always thrilled he gets here. Admittedly, so it looks somebody he

likes to walk. He likes to get his legs underneath more healthy healthy. Well, then I then I go home and I sit in my driveway and shoot hoops for about an hour. I didn't know that, especially now that it's getting warmer out basketball hoop and so when are we getting the invite? When are we getting the invite to the Facano residence. Frankie, you can attest to this. I've been saying this for months now. When is the Fantasy Pit League Fan Flag football basketball tournament at Central Park?

When is it happening? It's gonna get nicer at any day. Well, Greg's not going to allow a sporting event unless it's something that he's good at. So we're probably gonna d up playing like kickball or spike ball or something like that. Alex is in. I'm as active as they come. So we were there, Brian's nodding his head right next to me. We're all there. So you have a hoop in your

garage area because you're a pretty good player. I'd imagine practice makes perfect in five seven, you know, a hundred and fifty pounds, it's you know, I can get the ball in. Who I wish I was funding with the pounds? Not? I mean, you're also a little bit taller than Alex too. So I bought a cowboy hat last night. Did you see it? Did see? Not a cowboys hat, a cowboy hate? Do you approve that? I thought it was like very Chris patticky. So I saw it. I was like, you

know what Royal Day coming up, fourth of July. It's like I've always wanted a cowboy hat. This is an American cowboy hat. I gotta get it. I liked it. I gotta get it. Was great. Yeah, so I just got a someone of course. I mean I was expecting people to like photoshop me. So this is what I just got. Now it's a it's it's meat photoshop with like a mullet and yeah, let's here we go. Let me see this. It looks great. Really like you've had a mustache before. I have a mustache right now, be here,

right now. You could grow out your hair. That could be you. I could like, dad like legit to you, not zero photoshop. Hey, you know I'd like to grow on my hair too. Going to get a haircut, tod. I haven't figure out what I'm gonna do, I would say, break back back back to Basebally Promise friends joined the experts live on the air every day by calling in at April four, seven nine to join the Fantasy Sports

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eight hundred nine six one three six three one. We are back here on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network. A fad you loose So Friday, I'm talking about how we're gonna spend our fad. We talked about our one with Mike about how much is spending on the prospects. Now we should talk about some of the veterans that are out there that can help your

fantasy teams. And they begin with a name that we've brought up the last couple of weeks and I mentioned him very quickly, early wrong, and that's Tommy Lastella, who continues to be out there in uh many many leagues which people don't believe in him, and understandably so. Like Lostella, he's a guy's been around a very very long time.

He is, I mean he's three years old, right, But this year he's been better than ever and I think a lot of that is certainly attributed to batting directly in front of Mike Trout, but real one batting average, eleven homers, twenty five vs. Twenty four runs scored. Uh he has just been fantastic over really the last month or so. In the month of May, he's batting four oh five with four of those homers. Um, he's been great. I always talk about picking up a guy that's hot hot, Yeah,

that's exactly what he is. Greg, And I know a lot of people are skeptical of this because they say, oh, well, you know, he only had nine or ten home runs. It's very simple. People are skeptical because you just leave it right there. That's his name. But Lastella artois Man, we talked about this guy the other day. Put some respect on his name. He's striking out six percent at the time. He is doing things differently this year. I mean, you never had a hard hit rate higher than thirty

two percent in his career. This year he's at forty four percent. It's really good. That's up there with, you know, some of the best in the league. So he's hitting the ball harder percent of the time. He's making a ton of contact. This is a guy that's never really struggled with strikeouts in his career, never had higher than a sixteen percent strikeout rate at any level. This year he's at six percent. He's got a nine point eight

percent walk rate. So solid plate discipline as well. THO one batting average three o b P. I understand twenty eight percent home run the fly ball ratio. That's not gonna last. But he is hitting the ball harder. He's doing things differently. So you know, if if he was Tommy Lostella, the five year old who was a prospect that we wrote off. But now he's breaking out, and he's hitting the ball harder, and he's striping out only

six percent of the time. This guy would go for a ton of fab but the fact that he's Tommy Lostella, journeyman who's thirty years old that nobody really knows about, and frankly, they don't respect. He's not being added and he should. I mean, at least in the short term. Adam now while he's hot, and who knows, maybe it turns out you end up with the middle infielder who hit close to home runs this year. I mean, crazier things have happened. The guy is doing things differently and

and it's paying off for him. So I think it's time we put some respect on Tommy Lostella's name. I mean, I'm not gonna like break the bank or anything, but as we talked about, everyone's so riled up about these prospects that they're probably gonna forget about some of these veterans that are available five six, I mean, maybe even lower than that. But would you rather have the middle infielder if you need pop out there, you got to choose one. Who would you rather have Season Hernandez or

Tommy Lastell? What format? Pick a format. It's not like an actual question, just asking because it's a second basement that's like kind of similar. Yeah, I still like Seesar her Nandez. He does a lot of good things. He makes a lot of contact as well. Um, and he steals bases and and he's got good plate discipline as well. Um. I like Season her nand Is a little bit more.

But it is a close question. He made me think about it, and Season Hernandez is someone that was actually being drafted as a middle infield or maybe even the starting second basement for some people out there. So the fact that I had to think about it should tell you how I feel about Tommy Lostella. He's he's escalated his game to that far. That's close, But I would take Season Hernandez all right. With Mitch Garver going on the I l that could open a spot of a

spot for Jason Castro. How much will the playtime differentiate between will be split rather for Jason Castro and Williams Estudio. I still think Jason Castro is their main catcher who in a six game week, probably plays four games out of six studio. They can play him a few games behind the plate. They can move him around. He can play third base, he could play second. He's played the outfield before as well, so d H and now two Nelson Cruiser's lands on the I L. So that opens

up a spot, probably more so for like mcguilson. No, but overall, Jason Cashro was doing some nice things too. And I've brought him up to you last week, Greg, if you need a second catcher, if you lost, if you lost Mitch Garver, Jason Cashro is hot right now. So he's got a couple of home runs over the past week. UM in a one catcher league, I'm not

running out there and getting him. But if you talk a lot about these rotal leagues, he's been in twelve team rotal leagues, fifteen team rotal leagues, you need to start two catchers. This guy has seven home runs already this season. He's got a fifty percent hard hit rate. I don't I don't know what's going on in Minnesota, Greg, I don't know what they're feeding these guys. I don't know what's in the water. But a fifty percent hard hit rate for Jason Cashro this year, and he's got

a forty five percent fly ball right. He's never been hiding thirty eight percent. So this is what we're talking about. Some more to the Tommy Lostella. Like Jason Cashro has been around the block, he's been around a while, he's thirty one years old, whatever, journeyman catcher. What he's doing things differently. He's hitting the ball in the air, He's hitting the ball extremely hard. He's got seven home runs already on the year. I think you can do worse

as your second catcher. Would you rather take a shot of Jason Casher or I would take Jason Castro just because I think that the lineup is better and there's probably a little bit more power potential. Like Don Lucroi is playing, he's doing it right as well. That's why

I wanted to list him here. But these are some you know, if you're playing two catcher leagues and you're just trying to find someone right now, if you had the mids Garver on your team, h John and Lucroix bouncing back a little bit this year, it's uh, it's been a rough go for for Jonathan lucroid The past couple of years. But he's already got six home runs this year that exceeds his total from last year. He only had four in a hundred and twenty six games.

Last year he had six in all of seventeen. I mean that was the year that he really really let us down again. He's already got six home runs this year and only thirty five games, So it seems like he's getting back closer to the Jonathan luc Roix of your past. I don't think that he's ever going to be that player again, but he's hitting two six nine, six home runs, nineteen runs, nineteen rbi is the counting stats are decent. I would take Jason castro over him

by a little bit. But these are a few of the uh, those second catchers that you could pick up in deeper leagues if they're available. Greg John Lucroy and Jason Casher both are out there pretty much everywhere, so you can need him go out and get them. Fabulous. So Friday continues, Frankie, as we look towards deep leagues, and the last thing that we mentioned earlier this week that's definitely out there in leagues. He's letting miss Diaz with jose L two on the I l he's playing

that he should line up and he's continuing to hit. Yeah, and he has multi position eligibility as well. He's played a few games at first base, he is second, he has short stop. I think he might have third base eligibility as well. Pull that up on Yahoo and see what we got. But he's performing extremely well. Yeah, he's got first, second, third, and shortstop eligibility on Yahoo. And I know he has a multiple multi position eligibility on

CBS as well. You've got five home runs and twenty one r B I s as a part time player, he's gonna played twenty five games. He only has eighties seven played appearances this year. He's sitting to fifties six. But he hits in a really really good line up right now. I mean the Houston Astrolls are putting up video game numbers. These guys have been awesome. He's hot right now. He's gonna play every single day while Josel

Tuva is on the injured list. So this is probably more of a deeper league ad if you're playing fifteen teamers. I did pick him up in one of my twelve team leagues where I need a middle infielder, uh, and he's been great this week. He has two whole run ones already this week as well. Even if it's just a handcuff situation, if you're a hotel tuba owner and you need a little bit of pop, some wanna get in your lineup, in a really good lineup with the

with the astros here and I do like it. Let ms D s Greg and I talked about him on Monday too. You did, D is certainly hot. Oh without in there? Okay, fifteen team leagues, so the name is what we talked about earlier this week. Laugh, but it's true, Sean Anderson, I need to talk about in our number one. You want to hear that analysis, hand them back to our number one and then oh god right, I mean yeah, Look,

it's fifteen teamers either some gross names. I guess would you drop Jason Heyward for Horondo Para Probably not, I mean ideally to try and get one of those prospects. But Herondo Park is playing right now for the Washington Nationals because, uh, they've dealt with a lot of injuries and he's been playing first base for them recently. He's started let's see here, five of their last six games, going off with three for three game yesterday, he had

another home run against the New York Mets. So he's playing. He's got three home runs, he's got three stolen bases, he had a Grand Slam, a pinchon Grand Slam last weekend against the Los Angeles Dodgers. So, but these are just really deep, just like National League, only this is fifteen team, or you're really desperate. He's about to get first base eligibility. It seems like he's gonna play for now as long as Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams are hurt. But Trey Turner could be back as soon as today,

so we'll see how that affects things. Greg Hens is going to be placed on the il Greggy, does this open up a spot in the rotation now for raw Stripling? Always looking at ross stripling, either this morning or last night. Stripling isn't pitch in ten days more, actually, and I'm trying to figure out why. I don't know. If he was stretching out, I don't know, if he was doing bullpens, I don't know. I don't believe he's pitchings FIA. That's twelve days that's a long time. It is a long time.

We know what his upside is. When he's right, I'm absolutely the next man up. I would have certainly with what's going on with Juli yours, he's been place on what the exemplist or whatever, something like that, administrative leave or whatever. Sure's gotta be the next guy up. I would think. I don't know how stretched out he is to get the start. I don't know how long my head is on the I L four, but I think if it's anything long term, Stripling will certainly be the guy. Yeah,

So that's why I wanted to bring it up. Look, we know how good Rass Strippling has been when he was in the rotation. I picked this guy up in a few leagues last year and he was awesome for us when he was in the rotation. He wasn't as good as I think we hoped he would be early on this season, but the overall number slip pretty good.

R A three five six x fit almost a strikeout per ending and last year thirty three games one game started, so twelve relief appearances in a three O two e r A with a two point nine nine X fits. So if you're needing of pitching. If you're a Kenta Maata owner, I think that's that makes a lot of sense. I'm not dropping Kento Maada. I'm gonna place him on my i L. But if I ask someone else, I would speculate that Ras Stripping is probably the next man

up in the rotation. Ross Stripling, how much do you spend it he's out there? Not much, just because I worry about longevity of the situation here. Is it just gonna be does the only fill in for Kenta Maata or you know? I mean, it seems like there's always someone getting hurt in the Dodger's rotation. Things can work themselves. I'm probably in like or to five on Ross as Stripling if he's available. Greg in deeper leagues, Okay, so

this is interesting? Just what you see? Nothing interesting? Nothing interesting? I think it's interesting. So that means I won't like it. No, Yeah, I'm not finding what I'm looking for. Nelson Cruz placed on the Tende i L. That's retroactive to May fourteenth, so it could be back a little bit earlier than expected. Swinker not in the lineup today, Greg, that's fortunate. Does that contribute to you wanting to drop him a little hate drop. No. I still like Jesse Winker. He's my guy,

him too. What do you have? Well, what did you read the whole lot? At for the Reds, we have Nick Senzel leading off, going up against Rich Hill. So that's probably why Jesse Winker isn't isn't in the line of today. Lefty on Lefty, But Joey Vato betting second, A you handing out Suarez batting third, Yai fourth, Jose Iglesias, this guy batting fifth for the Cincinnati Reds, Kyle Farmer, Kurt Casally, Jose Prazza and batting nine. Pitching for the

Reds is Anthony Dates Clefani. It's Clefani. That is your red lineup for tonight. That's the only lineup that's currently out. I believe correct. You have no day baseball today right there. Though the Cups were playing a home game, then it would be in early game. They always play Friday May Mate whenever their home they do, indeed, but not tonight. They're going up against mex Serz. Who did you Dodgers you have in your line up? I can tell you that.

Do you guess? And I'll tell you is one of them on one of them on you can guess and I can lie to you, is one of them on your main event team? No, okay, I anger on my tone. The truth mine is well, you have to break the bank to get him in your lineup, Greggy, but I did so. It means the rest of your players suck. Usually that's how it works. Else you pick up this week,

Frank that I missed. No, I think we we covered um all the bases, really, a lot of the prospects, Tommy Lostella, if he's out there, Jason Castro, Lucroix, Lead Ms Diaz, Miguel soon. No, I'll bring him up once again. Look at what's his ownership percentage is right now? He returned last night, he had two doubles and an RB. I uh, he's thirty two on on Yahoo. That should probably be a little bit higher. As I've mentioned before,

I've always been a an advocate of mcgilson. Know, he's just he's one of my guys I always fall for, you know, the power upside that he possesses. I know he strikes out a lot, but if you look at his hard hit rate, I mean he's been hitting the ball hard since like even before hard hit rate was a thing. I mean, this guy is a static cast darling when it turns to how hard he hits the ball. So since he's coming to the league in what was four ten, Greg he has the fourth highest hard hit

rate overall. He's you know, he's around names like Mike Trout and Paul Golchman and j D. Martinez, so he mashes. He's he's a bit of a head case at times. He gets into trouble on and off the field. I mean, he's always had issues with like conditioning, but I think that the power potential is is legitimate when it comes to mcgilson. No batting average could struggle at times because he strikes out. But the way that this lineup is playing, don't you just want as much exposure to the Minnesota

Twins as you could possibly get? Right now? You know what, I'll bring up someone that we've actually dropped and we I think we kind of flogged this one up, marwinian Zalez over the past couple of weeks. I mean, he's playing really well, man, so he's getting in the lineup. He's gonna get in the line up even more now that Nelson Cruz is out there. They're probably gonna put Migulson know at d H most of the time, and

they'll have Marwi Gonzalas playing third base. Those deeper league plays that are we Gonzalez if he was dropped in your league, I would go out there and try and pick him up. Let's see what he's done over the past fifteen days, great past two weeks. Basically he's hitting three sixty two or fifty five o b P five thirty two slug o p s with two home runs

and six ribbies and and ten runs scored. So are Wen Zallas flipping that switch he's getting basically whenever we drop somebody's just basically in the month of Mayo role he's hitting three thirty three. So so we made him inde an error. He's still out there. If we want to pick him back up. We always hate that, don't you Greg very much want to get him back on your team. Sucks. That's why everyone I was really annoy about the Zaff thing. What do you think do you do?

You just want as much exposure to this line up as possible right now? Right now? I deal, they're not rushing to pick pick up Marwanzas again, I'm not there. Let's see where they rank in terms of run scored this year. Their fifth overall in baseball, really a good in terms of OPS, second in baseball seven ops as a team for the Minnesota Twins, second behind only one team.

That was a team that I referenced just earlier, the Houston Astros putting up video game numbers right now, Greggy, Yeah, they then ridiculous with um with George Springer here leading the way, the Mariners are still first and run scored, but like everyone is caught up to them. Of course there and the Houston Astros are five who were to funk it to forty runs scored. The Astros now have the best record in base all not surprising. They are a half game up on the Los Angeles Dodgers. One.

I don't know what else you want to do here for the rest of the show. What about it and we come back. I want to do the two star pitchers makes sense when we'll talk about I guess the rest of the prospects that you could stash, right. I mean, we've talked about like Caro Alvare last night home ridiculous, But how about this, He's been playing first bass recently as well. So I think kind of similar to Austin Riley,

the Astros know what they're dealing with. They know what they have on their hands with your Don Alvarez, and he's now playing first base as well. They're trying to find a way to get this guy in their lineup because he's just absolutely mashing. He is the hottest player in the minors by far. It's not even close. Four ten batting average, four ninety seven ov P. He's got a fourps. This is absolutely ridiculous. Seventeen home runs, he's got fifty three RBI. It's great. He's got fifty three

RBIs in thirty games. Are you serious. Here's how its fielding breaks down so far this season. He's got sixteen games in left field, he's got one game, and right he's got eight games at first base. So I know, Julie Guriel, you've been around a little bit. Tyler White, you've been around a little bit. Gosh Reddy play right field. Your Don Alvarez and Kyle Tucker coming soon to a fantasy team near you when we come back. You know,

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Is that Paramore? I just thought it was like a generic version of paramore. Let's find out. I thought it was rebel heart yep, I don't think I don't. I don't think it's paramore. I think I lied about that generic paramore. But it sounds a lot like paramore. I think it's by CFO money sign all the do all the interest of music now for Yeah, I didn't know that. She just breaks something, Greg, I didn't break anything. How are you doing, buddy? What do you got planned for

the weekend? Any special? What a plan? You got a lot of going on this weekend? Big weekend? I told you this weekend is the last anniversary may for me? Judy is then your birthdays? Only me that matters? Okay, to go over dinner tomorrow night? Are you going? We're go going to all chival you laugh? Hold on, I don't know what that is? Well, okay, look it up. I don't gonna spell it. Au space C H E V A L. Right New York next was and right New York next to it? All right, all right, I

see a big burger. He thought he thought it should be some fancy. What did you get when you went last week? Where are you last week? You went to the spot that we were talking about, the fondue burger. Oh yeah, I didn't get it. Come on, Greg, I didn't get it. I got what's the name of ain Um Publicity? Yeah? Yeah? Did you get the grilled teas? Now I gotta burger. I gotta burger. Did you get the chicken sound whatever? Burger was like, they're Burger Clinton

Holderger or something. And then Judy got the Patchikan sandwich. I think. Look, if you guys are home right now watching this, open up another tab and look up on du Burger Clinton Hall. I mean, I mean, get ready to be hungry because this thing is. It's awesome and I've had it. It is just a burger with a hole in the middle of it, and it's just covered in like fon du cheese and a bunch of fries and god, it's a mess, but it was so amazing. You should have got No, I'm not looking up the manu.

What are you kidding me? How can you roll your eyes? Can you roll your eyes at me? This looks so good? Frank I want to go back and get it. Frank that's really annoying that you mess this up. And mess it up, man, I don't like it. Look at this. I don't want it. Let's go to Let's go to Greg's camera shop. Please. I'd be a little so too, thank you. Look at that. Let's look at that. Look at that and think out of it. All the cheese, every pore. I be LOUSI on it. Yeah, man, how

great does that look? Doesn't do it for me? Man, Greg, you would have loved it. I'm telling I don't like fun do I never? I never had it before that either anyway? Actually got that going on? Um? And then they're do a barbecue on Sunday eighty degrees on Monday. How about that? I wish Monday was Memorial that. Yeah, that would have been sick. Mory. Just get off like two Mondays in a row. I don't know. I'm just gonna want to take a day off. You take a day off, man, I might have to. Well you let

me he leally know the sooner around later. He'd be great. Now, I can't miss a Modeca Monday. Come on now, um, two Star Pictures four next week. Obviously, we'll talk about it with Matt who you're gonna not a great crop you're gonna start and whatnot. Let's go to old reliable Jeff so Marja baby Shark basically Lanta Amazon Shark. Do do do do? Yeah? I don't know, man, I know there's two starts here that are in Oracle Park, San Francisco.

But and Jeff some marge on the reason. I was really thinking about picking him up because the two stars are home, but Atlanta Arizona. Not like super scared of those lineups, but I am super scared of Jeff some margins just blowing up on my team. So this is a really bad week for two star pitchers. Greg Um about on Jeff some margin, How hard was that for you to say it? Hard? Maybe like in a fifteen team or if you're des pretty like you're just trying

to like get two starts. He's probably the best one available. But outside of that, here's my favorite. I've been trying. I've been Harvard on this one for a while. My man would be Danny Norris, Dan Norris, Danny so CBS has him as Miami and Miami, but that is not the case. Um. I don't think that he faces the same team in back to back series unless there's something I'm missing. What I've seen is that they're facing Miami

and the New York Mets. But either way, two pretty good starts here, Greg, and I interest you in Daniel Norris Miami and the Mets. Yes, I'm interested. I'm always interested in Norris. You know that well, I mean not legitimately like Daniel Narris actually owned him in the Great Fantasy based Momutation, because that's how how injured and bad my pitching staff has been. Daniors is a good manage a good player. Pictures today? Yes, are you gonna be awesome if he pitches today? How does he have a

two star week? No idea? That doesn't make any sense? Right, Saturday, Sunday, Monday too? Could we do aheader? Right? Yeah? This is Wednesdays? How does it? This is wrong? CBS has him as a two doesn't have the Fantasy pros. This is what I used to look at like their probable pictures. He doesn't have a two star week. This is wrong. Let's see what they have. See what they have going on here?

They have mm. Yeah, he's not gonna he's not a two star picture, but he has one start against Miami, so you could see let's do that the team that hasn't scored in nearly a week, or you can still you can still use Daniel Norris. Danny Norris, uh, Felix Paena gives Minnesota and Texas frank So, Phelix Paenia has pitch better recently, and he's grabbed my attention, But I just really don't like those matchups. Twins and the Rangers. The Twins second against right handed pitching in terms of wOBA.

They have a three forty seven wOBA as a team against right handed pitching. That's second in all of baseball, while the Texas Rangers are six with a three forty one wOBA against right handed pitching. So, Felix Pain, you're pitching better, but you not two really tough matchups. I don't think I want to risk that. One great, what do you think, Felix Pin pitching better, but two tough matchups? Here? You're out? Are you in? I don't even white with Andrew Casher on this list. I own him chasing the

Yank's inn in Colorado. You're kidding me? Quality start against the Yankees, though, So you start he's in Colorado, now you're not. But I mean he's pitching. Well, no, Greag, come on, you're gonna start him against the Yankees in Colorado and an all only league. I'll do it. Well, it can't. How does that work in early play? As if you own one team doesn't matter. What's really interesting is if you play in al or in the only league.

When someone changes leagues, Now that the bidding is crazy, it's basically you just drop all your fab on one of these players. But yeah, I mean, look at Andrew Kashner. Look at this guy. Man. More of his last five starts re earn runs or less Reva's last four stars. Remember we have the way back machine, dude, fade back to yesterday where I was like, Frank, you love these old bad veteran pitchers. It's like, not not all the woman I named Homer Bailey, He's like, all right? And

name Jordan'sers all right? And named Danny Duffy's all right. And now we're talking about Andrew Kashner. I had him in my line up the other day for his quality starting I guess the Yankees. So I wish now after after winding, I wish we could fast forward to Sunday night when we're gonna start bidding on players, and Frank suggests, Andrew Cashinger to me, No, I'm not gonna suggest, but how about this. He's got a fifty one percent groundball

right this year, Greg from last year. What are we doing, man, We try to help, even it's it's up an entire model. All you're doing. He's the same thing you did with Jordan Zimmerman. You know that what he's doing things differently, the same thing you tell me about Jordan Zimmerman the velos up. He's doing things differently. And I'm like, at some point, you just remember who it is talking myself

into this one. Here. I know who you are, and I'm gonna be the one, just like I was with Jordan's Zimerman, just like it wasn't Danny Don't, just like I wasn't Homer Baddly talk you out of it. You gotta be able to go out on a limb here ground. I'm sorry that I'm not telling people, Oh, well, you should pick up I said Daniel Norris. I said, Danny Norris, you make sure to pick up Max Sures or if anyone dropped him in your league. I'm sorry that I'm

going a little bit deeper here. You wouldn't go deep, Frank, you gonna talk about Felix Payne, You go right ahead. You're talking about Andrew Kashner has three quality starts in his last four starts. Numbers on line, Greg, they do sometimes, Yes they do. Ask John Gray about that. Yes they do. No. Well, that's that's the thing. That's where numbers are lying. The numbers are not lying. He's bad. That's what it comes down to. All right, Look, Greg, I'm not gonna pick

up Andrew cash I can see Yankeeslarado. But here's what I will say. I think you'd stream him in the right matchups. I don't like his to start week against the Yankees in Colorado, but he pitches in the a least. You know who else is in the least Fernto, who's been terrible all stream Andrew cash Er against Toronto. Store it out there, and if he ever plays Miami, why don't you Why don't you go up at against jail? Tell tell everybody, hell great jis I already did go

back watch two days ago. Don't want to do it again. You want to tell people to pick up We're gonna remind him that Gio's out there. Look Here's all I'll about Geo Gonzalez is that he's got a one six nine year. Right, Obviously we're not expecting that. But the swinging strike rate is up. Last year is nine and a half percent, this year ten point eight percent. You

get a three nine eight x FIP. I'm just telling you this, Greg, there are there are pictures who are owned in deeper leagues who have a higher E r A and a higher x FIP than Geo Gonzalez has. Right, that's all I'll say. Stream him in the right match to deeper league. Ad Who did you face next week? I was one of the brought Gio yesterday. Yeah, because we started laughing about him. Oh, Gio Gonzalez faces Cincinnati next week? Is he st ter? Actually he's not. It's Tuesday.

They have seven game plan chins. Do not is start against Cincinnati at home in Milwaukee. I'm intrigue now that this guy, and Andrew Kashner. That's fine. I can get behind that. You're in on that. If we really need pitching, we don't. We have teams that we really need pitchings pitching. I think our pitching a solid. We have Chris Bassett

who's been crushing it. Him if he's available in your twelve team leag Chris Bassett, because I'd imagine a lot of people have already jumped on the Chris Bassett train. What are you six percent owned? He might be up there in some twelve steamers. We really, we really need to make a train in GST desperately. Yeah, our pitching is really good, are hitting not so much? Very bad? Maybe we just dropped the rest of our fab on one of these like hitting prospects and hope, hope that

that's what turned it turned it around. Le I think we have thirty bucks, but there's zero dollar bidding in this league, so a little bit more Friday afternoon's easier, And we don't have to go through a biddingcause we spend all our money. Yeah, we don't have to feel that's always the best part, right, just get rid of all, like spend all your fab in the league. Well we'll just put in a bunch of bids, but we don't

have to figure out how much money has spent. So it makes life a lot easier in our line up. Who's really bad side of everybody like Yonder Alonso, Like I've been talking about Yonder Alonzo all You're like, at some point you gotta turn it around, because like expected batting average only takes us so far. You're basically the John Gray of hitters. He's batting one eight dander alonzo and it's expected batting averages to forty nine. Like, at some point we got to close the gap here. I mean,

we gotta increase. His one eighty batting average was awful. I never should leave not awful. I think he is. What is he doing? Nothing? Nothing? Give me his line? He has five homers rb I there's a lot of run scored twenty nine. That's good. Well that's what we're supposed to do. Its batting average to thirty nine with one stone these all right? Well it's really cold in the northeast. Man, oh man, I got some bad news on andrewa Cutching hard hit rate is down. He's very bad.

You know what I was buying in because last year his hard hit rate was up to forty three pc. He was he was doing some nice things. One home runs, four teen stolen bases, you know, the run squarter again, Hey, Frank, we do not have a player on our team that has ten home runs, not one. It seems like an issue doesn't We're probably gonna have to spend the rest of our money out of Austin Riley. If you just want to spend thirty bucks on Austin Riley, Greg, we

could probably just do that. You know. The pathetic thing with this is, Frank, what is that? If I may continue, We didn't have any injuries and listening either, did we We had Matt Olsen besides Madon. I mean, we were expecting Medalson to be our our power guy. Look, I'll say this, we have a lot of guys that have gotten off to slow starts. Justin Turners coming around a little bit. He got off to a slow start. Robinson Cano off to a slow start. He's coming around, Eduardo Escobar,

we're reaping all the other awards we picked up. Rodney Rodriguez, that has been a lot of fun. Mike cal Franco has basically done the opposite. He got off to a fast start and now he's cooling off. So we might have to look into something there yonder Alonso not getting the job done. But we did have injuries. Grey, we lost Austin Meadows for a period of time, we lost Clint Frasier. We got those guys back now their ice cold, but but we were. We didn't draft him thinking they

were gonna be like amazing. We didn't need draft Fraser picked him up. I think we'll be all right, man. I think some of these guys are going to turn it around. Like Matt Olsen is gonna is gonna help us. He's already got three home runs since he's returned, batting average is gonna get better for him. Robinson can know. I do believe that rob Hobson can know is gonna come around here under Pensash in the pan. We picked him up while he's hot. That's a great sussment through.

We picked up a player while he's hot. Ronald du Cuno, you've been all right. I need him. We need him to be a little bit better than he's been. Need be a lot better. Yeah, probably, Andrew mccutcher, mccudn't need him. We're gonna even come around. He does lead our team and runs scored. Or Victor Robos. Victor Robos has done what we've expected. His home runs, eight stolen mass absolutely been good. He's been good. Down Alonso, we finally got

him on the bench. We really need some power desperately. You know what, we we said our pitching was good kind of sucks. Zack Wheeler kind of sucks. Jack Flaherty, as much as we love them, kind of sucks. Greg Um, this team kind of sucks. I think that's what we're figuring out right. I tried to tell you that, but you know what, Like right after the auction, we felt so great about this team. I felt amazingly great about this seam mag We just had Christian Yellix that Aronald.

I think that would help quite a bit. Greg. I think we we did have on our sheet Kunia or Yellots. We were gonna get one of those guys as our top hitter. We got the wrong guy, it seems that we did. But you know what, Greg, all these prospects are available, so I think we're gonna have to get at least one of these guys, all right. By bye, thirty dollars left a fab and it's crazy because it sevent on, we're gonna have no fab left. So I look at our other team that's in second place, and

that hitting also awful, like awful. It's a lot better. Pitching is amazing, but we're first and most pitching categories. Thanks to you, by the way, you hated Luis Castid so badly. But I look at our hitting and we did lose Stanton, we lost more tap briefly, we lost Meadows. This hit, this hitting is you know, we've picked up veterans that are getting a job done. Greg Jinsu Chu getting a job done. Alex Gordon has been awesome this year. Frank, do you know there's only one player on our team

that has ten home runs? On this team? Do you want know who it is? We haven't even put in our lack of correct on two teams we shared together. We have one player then has double digit home runs and it's I mean, but are there that many players that have double digit homers? Yes? There are. I'm sorry then, I don't know what to say. This is bad, Frank, Yeah, but we're still in second place. We are. That makes me feel good. We are. There are quite a few players, Frank,

have double digit home runs. There are nineteen of them. There are thirty six home runs and thirty six players that have double digit home runs. That's not sure. That's okay, it is true, but I don't think Flora already does there so a great weekend We'll see back here on Monday, we hope