5/22, Part 2: Chris Ventra joins, Chris Archer, Best bets

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have FeAs anymore here in New York City. Like on Monday it was eighty and it felt like it was summer already. So you know, I was just complaining a few weeks ago that it was like fifty and raining. Now I'm gonna start complaining that it's too hot. So I was never happy what today's weather. I like seven degrees. I like seven deal the time, like San Diego with that warm breeze. But I won't complain if it's too hot.

If I'm sweating, it's all right. Well. You know, I've always said that I like the heat more because I think it's easier to cool down than it is to warm up. Yeah, and when you walk into your house, you can just strip down and turn on your air conditioner. I know people eats a little bit longer though, to warm up to heat up. It's true, and I agree with that. But I know people that say, oh, I don't like to sweat because you can't reverse the sweat. Once it gets on you, you're sticky, and you gotta

go home and showers. I mean, especially in New York. Like the weather in New York. The human New York is much different than heat other places. It's so humid, it's so sticky. It seems like the past couple of years it might even be more like humid and sticky than ever before or something. I don't know what the heck is going on, but you know, like when I went to Vegas, or I visited one of my buddies in Arizona years ago. The way I mean, the heat

there is just different. It's like why heat. So it's not humid, and it's you could breathe better, like Las Vegas. It's a hundred and ten degrees, but like you can actually breathe, and if you're it's hard to breathe. If you're in the shade, it's like completely different. It's like actually a little cool, even a hundred degrees. So I went in. So yesterday I walked to um to a print shop across the street and I was just staying in the shade for a MONA was on the phone.

It was cold. Yeah, it was just cold. You ever been to Vegas? Yeah, So when I went to Vegas and dude, it was so hot. It was like a hundred and ten degrees. Like my shoes were sticking to the pavement, like the tar in the streets. That's why it's it's not actually black over there. The street is actually like great, it's not black, Like it doesn't look black. There were some streets that like you walked across the street whatever in the tar, like your shoes would stick

a little bit because that's how hot. It was crazy. But to draw, you're not really sweat. It's good today. It's it's nice out here, Greg, I didn't want to mention. You know, we were talking about Chris Archer dealing with the thumb injury, and Robert digs in the chat a long time listener watcher. I can't believe you're actually in indicating this reading. I thought it was I thought it

was funny. I thought it was pretty awesome. Actually, yeah, he wrote in the chat, I hurt my thumb batting in softball last night, and it was affecting my pitches as a softball player. Wait, this hurt MLB players? Yeah, I mean, but it's very employant to know if, because that's why it's even more relevant, Greg, because if it's a soft toss and it's affecting your pitching soft tossed, imagine being a major League baseball player and you have a thumb injury, like of course it's going to affect

your performance. Yeah, you're right, This is what Robert for the story there. This is probably why pitchers get hurt way more than uh then often be more than that can go wrong. Chris, It's like it could be a finger, it could be a shoulder, leg tending, it could be an elbow, It could be so many different things that could go wrong. For a pitcher, your core, your legs are important. That's your power. You know your torque, which

is your core. So when you turn, if you've got something, I've had, I've had pain in like my side, my hip, pitching ones, and I couldn't pitch. I had a little paint on my side. Every time I pitch, it got worse and worse. Like littlest thing could aggravate you and affect your pitching badly. So this is why a lot of them get hurt. You own Chris Archer anywhere. We just had a very spirited discussion about dropping him. Yeah, um, I don't, and I amost traded for him, but I'm

glad I didn't. You Chris Paddock and Tommy fan for oh my goodness, trade this is what you gotta do. Some of the best trades you make are the ones you don't exactly. Um, I don't know if I drop him though, Would you drop him for Tyler Malley? That's that's basically the cut off. We got to and I said I would do it. Tyler Malley has like a sub three. You say it, you say it, would you actually actually be able to pull the trigger, like it

would be tough? I understand. I understand it would be tough because you think if he was the worst picture on my team, I think, like I think I would hate drop him. So if I had him in my line up, I would be so piste off. Last night I was just like, I was looking through two starters. I'm gonna drop Spetzer term fine, I was. I was about to hate drop him. So I'm gonna read you my pictures on my team that I could do this.

There's only one other guy that I could drop for him, for Tyler Mallley, in my opinion, as totally correctly ready, Zach Wheeler, No Franky Manzaz, Greg Holland, Shane Green, Felippe Vasquez, Kirby Yates. As Zack eflynet to him in a few moments, what what about Zach Eflyn getting we're getting warmer? Well, I wanted to see what else you got. We're definitely getting warmer, all right, Blake Snell, Oh yeah, definitely dropping

John Lester. M No, I can't drop John Lester. I'm saying I would more like, no, he's still you know, he's still John Lester, Lucas Gelida, I know, No, Aaron Sanchez's there's the one I would so that was it right, Probably it's Aaron Sanchez or Chris Archer. I would drop as much as I liked Aaron Sanche's coming into the year, I mean, we're just dealing with another disaster here his walkspern or five point one right up there with Chris

Archer dealing with another issue. Starting today against Boston. Art has a much better penny. Aaron se eight year, eight one five one whip screams out, that is rais about Aaron Sanchez on my bench today against Boston. And Greggy, you know you're the guy who will start anybody in a head to head categories league in the daily league, I just can'tnot. I can't stomake Aaron Sanchees against Boston. I would. I would be more prone to dropping hands.

I'm waiting to the start tonight. See how good before? So if I had a good pitching team like like, if you have a good pitching team like that, where Archer's probably just wait on him. You probably just watch that moving together a starter two, then I would look into trading him. I agree, someone might buy that. I agree on a team like that. I mean, you could afford to wait on it, right, But I'm not putting him out my lineup. That's I'm benching it. Even in

the daily league. I'm best right now. That's what I like. If you're the next starting starters, I gotta see something from Archer again before I put him back out. Yeah, I wouldn't put it in my god, put him in there. But you keep him on your bench. You have a great starting team. All your start is a good oil, clothes are good, and he's like your worst pitcher on your team. I just hold him there. Good point. On the other side of Chris Archers. Last night, I meing

back into the game. Her mom mark has when eight innings allowed, three hits, struck out, seven, one walk. I be Leavi saw on Twitter, and I don't have in front of me and his ear a like away from course Field. This year it's like ridiculous, He's like too is ear right at course Field this year is like six it's two point zero eight roads, five three four

at home all right, little less than six? Wow? But this yeah, this all you have to have for Chris what you really have to have I don't know if patience is the right word, but the ability to bench him in every home start and start him and everyway start, that's it. Well, I don't know if I ben from your road starts, you legitimately have like a top fifteen starting You have to be able to do what you have.

You have to do that. And when he's this is how crazy it is when it comes to Colorado Rocky starting pitchers and everyone before the season, we love her Man Marque is still great. I mean, he's good, but do you love him to the point where starting? Okay? Having a picture like this, because when he's at home, he's like outside the top fifty starting pitchers, and when when he's on the road, he's a top fifteen start he has he has seven two sevent put it together,

he's somewhere in the middle. He's like the top thirties, seventy two strikeouts, thirteen walks, one one one whip and at three three a d R. Right, how is that out of the top fifty pitchers. He's what he said, he said at home at home outside the top fifty starting pitchers and when he's on the road, he's a top fifteen starting right, but combined he's still a top twenty five pitcher. Yeah, top thirty, top twe yeah, probably

in that range. So but that's what you got overall numbers, And I can't speak the overall numbers are good, but we just laid it out so blatant, blatantly that he sucks at home and is great on the road. I would still start him at home in the rights situation, Cisco San Diego, something like that. That's about it. But the rest of what you said is right, Yeah, you can't start him at home against the doctor will say this, His X five on the road is three point oh two.

His X five at home three point three, which is very good. But we always we've said that for how long, Greg, Like you're always going to have better underlying numbers as a picture in college, dude, it's the John Gray effect without questions, John Gray, John Gray has good stuff. Like, dude, if you put John the San Francisco Giants, like that's something.

If I were the Giants, I would actually look into do it, Like I don't think Garner, I'll give you Madison no, Yeah, Like I would actually go into like I would get John Gray. Like if I was a San Francisco Giants, I would say, I'll give you bumb Garner,

you give me John Gray and Garrett Hampson. Yeah, because honestly, like Ryan McMahon or like another right right, mel Tapia, you mean that in John Gray, I'll give you Madison By because they have a lot of bats that they could Oh well, oh you're what Colorado does not San Francisco. San Francisco needs everything. They needn't have anything. Like John

Gray listened, he'd have a three point two. We are a probably on any other team got a four seven three right now, Like in San Francisco, he'd probably be like a three five r A pitcher seriously maybe better. He's got the stuff. But I mean, look, this comes with the territory of owning her mamork Like he's really talented. His X fit is three six six swinging strikes last night for her mamoriques out of a hundred and four pitchers, Like he's a he's a good picture, Like you just

can't trust him at home. I mean the swinging strike create this year, the underlying numbers all three again, what I like to look at chase rate, first pitch strike percentage, swinging strike rate. Mamorikis is right in all of those. He he legit might be top ten among starting pitchers and all three of those categories. I gonna pull it up right now because I'm I'm intrigued by this. Is swinging strike right is twelve. Is first pitch strike percentage

as a starting pitcher is ninth. Is oh swing His chase rate how often he gets opposing batters to chase pitches outside the strike zone is eighteen, So not quite top ten, but he's top twenty in three really important categories. Is a starting pitcher being able to stabbles the strike zone early accounts, getting swings and misses, and getting opposing batters to chase pitches. He's top twenty in all three of those. He's I'll go as far as to say

that he is a really good starting pitcher. He's a douce shy of being a great starting It's a really good starting pitcher on a normal team. He's a deuce. You can't start him for half of his starts because of this Colorado. It's it's it's annoying. Really needs to move back there. I don't own him anywhere. They should

change their whole stadium. That's what they should do, not even the stadium do I know it's not the stadium, but iron it's the air, right, But you could you can maybe deter that a little bit by first of all, the gaps are too big. Make the dimensions a little smaller for the gaps, and then you know, push the the fences back more a little more. It might affect it.

It might deter it a little bit. Make these pictures at least, you know, show their true quality, because Marcus is so much better than what he what he is at home, Greg next start at home in course Field against the Baltimore Orioles starting there. Yes, so everything we just said means nothing. This made me well you started them anyway, because it was two star weeks. I asked Venture about a rocky downstairs. I want to throw it to you. It's not a picture. It's David don Did

I start Daviddal and this guy stakes? I really had your last night with David? And then she was like the Adventure was like, listen, the VP is good. This guy does nothing. You want to hear the most frustrating team in baseball Greg, I have David Doll on a team. I have Daniel Murphy on this team. I have Spencer Turnbull, have if Laurel Rodriguez. I just traded for Zach Wheeler, I have you Darvish. This team that I have in my home league is the most frustrating fantasy team that

I have ever. And over the weekend, Greg, I actually sent out a few offers, and I realize I realized at the time of sending these offers that in a vacuum, I might be losing a little bit. And it's like outfielder for outfielder trades, So most fantasy owners are not gonna want to do these trades. I realized that. But I offered him straight up for Nicholas Castellanos and Doll. Yeah, And the other fantasy owner said, no, I don't see that as outlandish. They're about me, No, yeah, like I

don't play me. Like they're similar players, Like I can make the argument for either. Some people might look at David Donald say, oh, I want exposure to Colorado, but he still sits out some games against left handed hitching, and he strikes out a top He's striking out an absurd amount this year, so you wanted to ask me about David dal Greg, what do you want to ask me? Like what to do with him? Yes? What do I do? Hold?

I mean it's not to the same Like, it's not like he's the hitter version of Chris Archer said that because, like the underlying numbers are still good batting average, but he's got three homers, six percent walk right, thirty four percent strikeout rate. He's hitting more round balls this year. The fly ball rate has gone down eleven percentage us any more line drives. So that's why you still see

the batting averages as high as it is. Because badman is four thirty two butt line drive rate, and being a player who plays half his game in corpse field, you're gonna have a high babbit right average is gonna be I don't. I've been trying to trade him, Greg, I've been trying to trade even losing. Even losing a trade, I've been trying to just trade David Dollar, Daniel Murphy for players to play every day because in the Points League, I get so mad when my guys are sitting against

left handed pitching. They're not playing games at home and course field when they're supposed to I offered Daniel Murphy for Jonathan VR in a points league, and Vr is not like a great points league player, but he plays every day, so I offered it. Said, no, I can't blame people play. He plays a better position too, So I'm trying to I'm trying to trade them for similar players who at least play every day. But to this point, I've been unsuccessful, and you should You shouldn't be surprised though,

because you're selling low. Kind of you're not. But what do I do? Just kid, So what do you do when you're in this position? Your hole just keep losing games, losing fantasy games? Well, you have it. Guys on the bench, you know, bench them, hold them. Daniel Murphy's on my bench. I don't know then. I mean I think you just got I think you gotta hold or I mean you could do what I'm trying to do, try and trade him for a player of similar value who at least

plays every day. I've been unsuccessful. I think if you hold your own David dal upside, you can't drop him. When do we come back. We'll talk about the Mets, We'll talk about Zach f Flyn. Let's talk a lot more baseball here, fantasy best friends forever, lose weight now, got a fat dot com. Lose that unwanted belly fat today and get free information at fat one dot com. Fit in the dress or pets or bathing suits you've

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Because Mr Manhattan he's the three eyed Raven. He's trying to be three eyed, but he's essentially Yeah, he's trying to be the three eyed Raven by how wide he opens his eyes, but he cuently has two of those things. So I don't mean it's like I'm looking into the future. Saturday, he's two pm Eastern on the Fantasy Sports networking on your popular podcast, Providers, Don't you Love Frankmin Friends stopped by and then just criticize you the second day walk in, Oh,

I love that. It's amazing. Pick on the ones you love. You know. It's like it's like some say hey, how are you, and some say this is wrong, Like your your camera shot isn't straight, your table is not straight, your Twitter's not updates. Things like that. Yeah, I hate your shirt, Greg, stupid pants? Are your pants looking today? Pants? A normal? Where I look right? Where are my normal jeans today? Okay? Yeah, me too. We we're going boat shoose. Yeah,

power my boat choose. I don't necessarily boy, yeah, you don't really strike me now, great patent leathers. We can we get Christ's shoes on your blas. I like those, by the way, those are Christina got him from me. Oh there we go. Looks nice? You like that? Yeah, it's like you don't know what to do with your leg, like it's just dangling there you go. I mean you know, I mean what do you do? What do you want to do? Yeah, so we got boat shoes on this side.

We got doors over there, and then in the corner just people are yelling at us. Yeah, we have people yelling at us. Well, we gotta get venture a pair of boat shoes so we could fit in. Yeah. Actually, so I was looking my closet over this weekend, so we I don't want new boat shooes like I got these, like these they like into the other pair. I like your brown and pink ones, so I have those. I haven't worn those yet this year. Have I yeah, I just saw you wearing them. Are you're right? I wore him.

I wore him Monday, right, those those two and I got a red one. Well, I would argue you have too many boat shoes. I only yeah, I think I don't need them. I might have a pair. I don't think you do. You should probably buy those new sneakers what I need. Should buy those blinds that you wanted instead when you keep the sun out any new sneakers. I feel like sneakers are just much more comfortable, you know. Are they comfortable? Yeah? Man, Yeah, you can wear them

with no socks. That's the thing. There's a comfortable Yeah. My feet sweat, so I can't do that. Wear socks. Yeah, my feet terrible. You're not wearing some stuff in you. I try. That doesn't work. Four and after I do it, stinky feet suesmen. That's what we got going on at Get those things away from wearing socks. You're fine. Out of here. Dude, he's wearing wearing socks. Shows don't they like fall underneath your healing? Frustrating, It's really frustrating, very frustrating.

Go to fix them all day. But he buy good ones. They're great. It's true. Stinky feet out of here, stinky Susman. That's not very nice, but it's true. Your feet sweating those things if you don't want to sucks. Greg. We have news, We have big news here. I hope you didn't go out and spend all your fab on Willie Calhoun? What what? Because he has landed on the injured list and who has been recalled the why know? Does she

man hopefully will be better than Alex Smith? Well, I mean that's a it's a very tall order to ask anybody. I mean, Alex hasn't really been doing much. Let's be honest. I picked them up because of you on the pit league, and so Smith goes on l No, he does not, Greg, they left quads strain man. That sucks. Do you have any al spots? No? Did you spend a lot of money on him? Nope? It always depends who it's four.

I don't actually have anything harder to stash someone in a daily line up league where you think of Tyler Mallley, you need that spot. There you go, We'll drop Aaron Sanches before you drop Calhoun. Greg, you know my honestly, you know what? Honestly, I feel bad for Willie Calhoun, dude sucks. Like just when he comes off, I'm starting to rake. What are you have against? Willie Calhoun has probably got way more money than I do. He does, he does he playing then he's not making like great money.

He's got the rookie con. He'srobably got more money that we do. He's making hundreds of that. He's probably got more money than all three of us combined. Not probably making like four something right, not yet, not yet, Like his signing bonus probably gave him enough. You got enough money to get braces, that's for sure. Traces. He's got the braces. He's got braces, right, did you guys see

Ronald Lacuna was rocking the wild Thing glasses the other night. No, you wrote that the rundown he just sue home runs while wearing the wild Thing glasses. So I was like, oh, it was will these every night where the wild Thing glasses, Like maybe he can't see the ball. Maybe he was wearing them because apparently in San Francisco it was so windy right there on the water that it was affecting his vision. His contract. Willie Calhoun uh making five hundred

five thousand dollars more than us. Yeah, I don't feel bad for him. That's fair. I mean, you know, he's hurt. I feel bad about that. About five hundred thirty thousand more than we make Greg. Yeah. Last, we'll just sit here and talk about Willie cow Last year he made five hundred forty five thousand dollars. He doesn't. Does he make that even if he's in the miners. Yeah, it's contract, Yeah, that's a rookie contracts contract. Okay, well, yeah, he was

the top prospects. Things are going well. Other minor league like Tim Tebo makes like nothing. I'm changed. I don't feel that every team till either. Don't feel bad for him either, but I'm saying other minor leaguers were not really going to get a shot in the makings. He don't get paid a lot of money. Oh yeah, when you're a single a bullplayer and live off, it's miserable almost like you have to go in a bust and you're making like thirty thousand a year, Like it's like

it's terrible. Yeah, you know, it's a rough road if you're not a top prospect. It is all right. So let's try my best to hold on to Willie Calhoun. But okay, I understand like it's it's hard to stash all these injured guys right now. My thought is that maybe I could replace him on the ile of us Andrews when he comes off the l which as soon. By the way, my under not looking so great after the top of the first innings, A's went of the

first Yeah, get a little cushion from Manta. All right, well, you know not many people are actually anyway freakyns to throw in two pitches and there's a loowed what it right? Whatever? Um, okay, let me get back in the last night I mentioned Zach Efflyn. I want to get into Efflyn here, Efflyn faced off. It's Chicago Cubs and pitch relatively well. Six innings, six hits, four walks isn't good. Let me check out two only a lowed of one run, limited the damage.

Gave you the quality start on the other side. Whose Quintana was fantastic? Kintana six innings, two hits, three walks, struck out four, allowed no runs over his one pitches in six innings. Jose Quintana really has turned back the clocks. Greg. It looks like he's back to be like he called this one Chicago White Sox version of Jose Kantana not getting a ton of strike it's not getting a ton of swinging strikes, but limiting the damage. Not walking that

many guys. He's cut down the walks from last year. That was a huge issue for him. So I would take this version of Jose Kantana. I know last year, you know he was being drafted at the top twenty starting pitcher because when he got traded to the Cubs originally in that second half, I guess it would have been in at this point, he was striking out a lot of guys, but he was also walking a lot of guys. I'll take this version of Jose Kantana, which

you know he's just limiting the damage. He's a quality starting pitcher. And I think these two pictures, Greg, I think that they're almost mirror images of each other. Greg, where they both don't get a lot of strikeouts, they do enough to limit damage there. You know, you depend on these guys for quality starts, but the underlying numbers for zac Eflyn, they're just not good. You know, I'm not gonna try and paint a picture that's not there.

It's two point seven six e r A. He's got a four point zero to five a four point six seven x fit um. His first pit strike percentage is only se so he's got good command. He doesn't walk many guys per nine or under two, but yeah, he does allow fort fly balls and he pitches in citizens Bank So that's why you see the x fips so much higher, because they're saying that more home runs are

gonna start to come. Given as many fly balls as he does, and he pitches the contact and he pitches in citizens Bank Park, that he's gonna start giving up more home runs and ultimately that's going to lead to a higher e r A. I still like Jose Cantana more than Z but I think that they're similar pictures. Okay, similarly you killing the zact Evelyn's hose a Kantana light. I'm okay with that, I really am. I think I think that's a fair comp What do you think, Vetter,

do you have any Flynn? You're right with him? I'm a right with him because obviously he's doing well, but you know, I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd take that a little bit with a grain of salt. Like you said, I think you know works days are coming Quintana. I trust Listen. Quintana was but wasn't himself last year on the on the Cubs, but every single year before that, it was a good year. Even his r A was four and five.

But you know he had a d his pitch. He had two hundred and seven strikeouts, a hundred seventy hits. Again like he was quality. You know, he gave you quality innings. Uh, and he that's what he's gonna do. I don't think he at the beginning of the season when he was getting rocked, I was worried a little bit that maybe his time has passed. But he's clearly corrected that. Maybe the strikeouts aren't the same as they used to be. But he's still almost a caper not printing.

So you know, you're getting pretty much what you wanted at a Quintana right now. And you know he turned it around since the beginning of the season. I would absolutely take Quentana of f flyn. I trust him more, That's what I would say. In the swinging strike rate for Jose Quintana, the highest it's ever been in his career. It's ten percent. It's still not great. He's never a

guy who's gonna get a ton of right. But yeah, like I think his ten per cent to be strike rate could be could correlate with a you know eight eight and a half case per nine and the walks t down. This year, he's got a fifty point six percent groundball rate. So the few starts that I've watched from him, he's keeping the ball down, a lot of his pitches down, and he's inducing a lot of groundballs,

which has been really good for him. In the underlying numbers, you got a three three oh e r A three seven three fit three five x fit one point to to whip beautiful, perfectly fine with that. You know, when we had Nick Pollock on Pitcherless Greg, he called Jose Kanana a Toby. He's at the office. You know, he's boring. What does he bring to the table. But this is fine. Boring is good. Don't try and do anything like, don't try and do too much. Jose Kitana's hanging for Zac Efflin.

If if these guys are Toby's, if they're boring, that's fine. I don't want them to try and you know, get get outside their comfort zone. Last year, you know, maybe that's something he was trying to do trying to you know, induce too many strikeouts and ends up walking the world and clearly didn't have his command and fix that over the second half of the season with something mechanically. And that's why I was on Jose Katana. There was more of a track record of him being a quality picture

venturer than there was of him being not. Absolutely, his career is really solid. If you look at his career and numbers for your career, beautiful, perfectly fine. I'll take that. Not to mention he's a lefty, which is hard to come by quality lefties that are consistent. And you know what, he's helped the Cubs. The Cubs are in first place eighteen so him turning around from his you know, really bad start earlier in the season has helped the Cubs, and the Cubs themself, a lot of them have turned

it around. Maybe even Darish Darvish is starting to turn it around. Maybe not, let's hope. So, yeah, it's you. It's the solid starts in a row. So I don't know what I would say, don't hold your breath, don't hold your breath. But Hamiles has been you know, consistent. You know when you mentioned the Cubs were in first place. I realized that I very rarely look at standings. I just look at like fantasy numbers and in the actual great, I don't know anything that's going on with anything. So

let's just be honest. They're like, I don't know anything that's going on with anything. You know, the players? Yeah, I know, like you know, fantasy numbers and stuff and how players are performing. But like, but it's crazy that the Cubs are in first I didn't know that the Dodgers, Astros, and Twins all have the best records in baseball. Do you know who's in the last in the Al West? Um the team that started the best. Wow, it's been quite the fall from ace for the Seattle Mariner'sgredy. That's

Big four. That's bad. You know. We talk about the Royals and like how fun their offenses. They're terrible sixteen thirty one and they have no pitching. Good, No, Frank, they're awful. Baltimore fifteen and thirty three, we can talk about right now. Fourteen and thirty one. Dude, I watched I watched Baltimore this week because basically Egges joke how we got swept by them early in the season. I don't know the Eges wearing the right mind, but like

hems a joke, they're the worst. David Hale, it's four innings yesterday for the Yankees. Oh David Hale. Yes, they were talking about the Orioles. But I think David Hess you know David insert last name, it starts winning h in his four level letters. He had nine runs yesterday, the Yankees nine runs? What do you expect? Greg? Including two bombs by Clint Fraser spoke about yesterday. Man, it's

getting right. All the Eggies home runs against the Orio glabor and leave like ten Gary Sanchez, what do you think the over under in these games is going to be this weekend? It's the Rockies against the Orioles in Coors Field. It could be like eleven and a half and rightfully, so what's gonna happen in those games? Venture the Orioles might not score away? Yeah, a home run yesterday? Someone I picked up in the main event, my guy Stevie Wilkerson, Greggy, you know Homeron nicked him up in

the main event? Is he started him? And three run bomb? Is he related to Brad Wilderson? X player can't tell you but you know, just talking about Yankees for a second here, Clint Fraser, we needed we needed this. We needed this from Clint Fraser. I mean the Yankees needed this from him. Fancy owners needed to see this from him, sort of the scouts that were there, by the way, San Francisco Giant scouts or in attendance for this game, as were the Detroit Tiger scouts. Where the Tiger scouts

maybe the bulls available? Really like, what what are the what are the Tigers have? Actually tigers? I'm sorry it was the pirates. Pirates they're ready to Chris Archer will not be in pitch stripes. I'll tell you that right now, Greg, who do they so the Pirates? Who are the I'll tell you what. They weren't scouting any of the Orioles players. It's oh, I got who else would be available for the for the Yankees. I guess maybe maybe in stripes

he get bombed in pinch strips. Stop you get bombed in the A L. Stopping He's in a good area. Now pinch the contact, all right. You know. Originally in the year Greg I said I wanted the Yankees to target jameson Town. I mean, given everything that's going on with him. I don't really want that anymore. Well, he's on the island. I don't really know that there's anyone else, some on the pirates that I would want the Yankees, But I guess you can fleece them, right, because the

Tampa Bay ray certainly did. They got glass now and they got we could get and more and more. What a trade for the Tampa Bay Rays? Man, Maybe we get Josh Bell. No, they wouldn't do that. Maybe they would bump Garner and pitch dripes. Craig, what do you think. I don't really want to do that. You don't want that, Hey, Bummy's pitching well this year, Greggy, that's not a bad, uh four or five stature. They would be depending on him to be like their two or three. I don't know.

You you'd probably have three. You'd have to give up Clint Fraser. I saw you did that one for one. It was like a Bleacher Report article putting together the best trade packages for Madison bumb Garner, and they had the Yankees giving up Chance Adams and Sevan Florio. You do one for one, Clint Fraser? Four? I don't think. I don't think that the Giants would do that because

they have so many holes. Like I would just rather take shots on give me like three, give me one really good prospect and give me too like lower level. I just need to take shots because the Giants have to build their farm system. It's so bad. Would you give up estim On floriale Greg to get Bump Guarner. I don't think I would want the Yankees to give up Floria. No, I don't get that you have to give something to get something I really wanted. I mean, no,

one's a touchable form, not as bump guard. I gotta look more into Bummy. So again the Bleach Report, Fraide was Floorial and Chance Adams and like another lower level prospect for knocking a Frasier that deal. No, you're not like another prospect for prospect. It was like a lower level Garcia or anything. Yeah, you would do that. Are you surprised that Chance Adams hasn't had been given more

of an opportunity Greg the major league level? No? Not all right, So we'll see what happens with Clint Frasier obviously in a really good spot with the Yankees. But if you were to go to San Francisco, Oh my god. There's a good chance that he gets traded. Obviously, he's a huge piece and the Yankees, you know, when everything's going right, they do have a lot of outfit. Have Higgs to have right, he got out of it, Aaron Judge.

So we need to see this from Clint Fraser. There's a chance that he gets traded, but looks like he's a starting to turn around again. Greg, it's like a break. Stanton got hurt. We gotta talk about that too. Yeah, it was about standing with the mess. Now I'll do that. Maid Sailors is the leading cleaning service in New York City and Boston. We service homes, offices, corporate departments, and Airbnb turnarounds. Give us a call or a text at two and two zero to book now. That's two one

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And he was originally in the lineup yesterday for the Single A or high A club whatever he's been rehabbing with, and then when the lineup came out later on, he was scratched. And it's because he's dealing with half tightness um which has also somehow morphed into something with his knee because he got hit by a pitch, Greg, during batting practice. Are you kidding me? I mean, for somebody who has built like Hercules, Greg, I mean, this guy is so goddamn How can you be so brittle? You're

built like Hercules. You get hit by a batting practice pitch on your calf and now you're dealing with a calf in a Yeah, but you have you hear the old saying the bigger they are the hot day fall. That's the truth. Oh my god, that's what it is, man, Greg. Is he ever coming back? I don't know, Man? Is he being a lattup tonight? That's the first question? Oh God? But think you try to see. I don't think anyone

has the answer right now. Would just be pure speculation, but he probably wouldn't even hit if he was back anyway for like a good month. Correct, he's dealing with a shoulder injury. Well, to be fair, like the first at bat he saw in rehab, he hit a bomb was single. But you know he does like normally his home runs are four fiftt So it turns out like he's hitting the ball like four feet. It's probably still

gonna go out right. You just have otherworldly power, but he'll probably look if I'm a standing owner, which I traded him in one league for Zach Wheeler, and I don't regret trading him. Um, nope, I'm gonna I'm gonna see. I'm gonna hold on here. I'm gonna you've waited this long. I think that's what it comes down to. You've waited this long he's rehabbing. Unless it turns out now he's shut down for another two weeks because of calf um. More often than not, you're not gonna get fair value

for him. Like if you if you need pitching, if you need to win now, and you keep sliding down the standing, I understand shopping him, but you've waited this long, I'd probably try and hold on venture. Yeah, I mean, what else can you do with it? You can't drop him, you can't. You know, you're only gonna trade him if you need pitching. But he does have name value and he plays for the Yankees, so I was still able

to get Zach Wheeler for him. I was actually kind of surprised because he's coming back, because he came back soon after. That's the person I was trying to trade with said, I needed to see a timetable for him first before a trade Wheeler, or I need to see like a rehab. So once that was announced over the weekend,

we were able to make the trade happen. And I think he did the right thing because if you wait too long now let's let's say it does say, oh, well he's gonna be out for another you know, two or three weeks or a month, it's like now his value just plummeted again, and now you can't get his Zach wheel off him. And we spoke about that a

few weeks ago. I said, we were at a crossroad where you can trade standing now based off his trade value and just get something, or he could be shut down for even longer and then that hurts his value. So we we kind of addressed that a few weeks ago, and his value is just going down anyway because all these different injuries are coming up. He's got a shoulder and by seven it's it's like we're holding this guy together with Scott's tape. So who wants that on that team?

A glass a glass player, nobody wants. Well, so the guy traded with was six and one in my league, so he can afford to wait, I was, you know, three and four, so I gotta I had to make a move crushed. Oh well, ye standing to help who. Let's go back to David Dall's fault. It's Daniel Murphens. Let's go back to the Metropolitans who defeated and that's again last night, beating him six to five, Peter Alonso again, frank four foot bomb to tie the game in the

bottom of the eighth inning. It was Alonso's sixteenth home run of the season. Guys, just absolutely ridiculous. Greg, And you know, they're actually doing second chance drafts this weekend on the NFBC that you can jump in if if you want to get into, like if you're in thirteen, fourteen, fifteen place in EUROTA League and you want to play a league out from June one on. They're doing drafts this weekend. Actually like that some Memorial Day drafts that

play out from June one on. And Rob Silver brought this up on Twitter. Where do you think Pete Alonso is gonna go? Because I think he's like the secondly interesting player second league team draft and he had a poll. I think there was like third and fourth round was an option, and I think that's what I clicked. I would have said third and fourth third was verse think the key in my mind, but I mean deservedly so.

Everything he's doing right now, like the batting average has come down a little bit, but that's power is one. This is what you expected anyway to sixty, Like, I'll take two sixty with that of the year. Peter Alonzo, Yeah, looking pretty good, Gred you know, I think right, I think you know both guys. Hey, we just had Paddick versus Alonzo, what was it last week? Two weeks and that was you know, that might be foreshadowing of what's to come from the rookie of the years. Absolutely what

goes on there. Zach Wheeler in this one went seven in things allowed three runs walked to struck out six four hits. The big bombs allowed by Zach Wheeler a home run to one Soto in the first of a solo shot was a bomb by the way, and then the seventh inning a two run shot by Brian Doser also a bomb. Yeah, so I referenced this early on. I thought Mickey Callaway was just trying to get a little bit too cute. Zach Wheeler was pitches through six. I get starting him off that ending, but once someone

reached I probably would have pulled him. And with Zach Wheeler like this is someone who typically struggles with the Nationals, and I just thought that they were trying to get a little bit too cute greg and if they push him, you know, close to that threshold. And yeah, he still pitched. Well, yeah, I needed to see this from him. Seven innings, three on and run, six strikeouts gives you the quality start. The solid start also had eleven swinging strikes on a

hundred and eighteen pitches. So the Nationals are our gae team. They don't strike out all that much, so I thought it was It was a good bounce back here for Zacchueler, who has been getting bombed against the Nationals over and over and over and over again. You know, I wanted to throw a J. D. Davis Gregg. He's a name that you know, everyone's talking about stashing prospects. If we're stashing, if you play in a deeper league and you have the ability to stash a hitter who if he were

given everyday playing time, would be awesome. I think J. D. Davis is on the top of that list, Greg. His stat cast numbers this year are phenomenal. He's got a two eight three batting average, but an expected batting average of three twenty average eggs of last one miles per hour hard hit rate UM. He's played very limited time this year, thirty nine games, and still has five home runs.

If they were able to just pull the cord on Todd Frasier and give J. D. Davis every day playing time, Greg, I think this is a guy that can make some noise. But they have to pull that plug on a Frasier and or or one of their outfielers because he could play a corner outfield position and never got hurt last night. Right, never got hurt last night, I thought, and Fraser stinks. I mean, come on, that he had back in April. He said it never properly healed. That's bad, just like

the thing you don't like, So they don't. They had McNeil yesterday in left field and wand Legarison center and Carlos Gomezen. Right, Oh man, why don't we like J. D. David's play every day? Right? Because he's awful fielder? Well, we have the Mets ever cared about defense, Greg But Todd Fraser, will you just put your best lineup together? Todd Frasier is awful. He shouldn't be start six. He bats fit for the New York Mets. That's terrible, Todd,

Like he can't play? Why he's horrible for years? We just heard you chime in a little bit on on Brandon Nimo. Do you think as a Mets fan that J. D. Davis should have an opportunity to play every single day? Because I think that he's earned that opportunity he ad percent has, especially with the limited playing time, the fact that he's still producing like this, because you know how hitters are, they need to get in a really exactly, and the fact that he's still producing after all this time. Like,

I don't know what else they need to see. Rody van Wagenen said in in the off season when he took the job that they're going to get their best guys and play their best guys. But that hasn't been the case. Nemo has been terrible. I mean, Frasier is awful as well. I just I mean. J. D. Davis should be the every day third base. There's no excuse for it, third basement or right field, like I know, but man, he if he's been at defense, you don't want him playing right field. I mean even third base.

You might be able to get away with it because the bat is that good. Fraser is just so bad he can't be starting. He's such a bad bat. The Braves had Austin Riley played five games in the outfield in the minors, and he's playing every day in the outfield. You're telling me the Mets, who have never cared about defense, can't let J. D. Davis play in right field instead of Carlos Gomez. They used to play Lucas Douda in left field when he came up. I don't I don't

understand why he can't put J. D. Davis there. It makes no sense. They're playing cold mezts but honestly rather stock than Todd Fraser. The reason freak and I think your poison. The reason Freak and I gave ourselves a high five moment ago. I don't even know why. Oh Kessing hero and move, Oh let's go Kestinghira your boy, and you know what, I really wanted the Calhouna to the weekend, and we were both kind of disappointed that

we over Willie Calhoun. Not disappointed anymore, certainly not today. I don't believe you don't believe not a Kesting hero guy. Dude, I saw people don't see it the side by side with his with his batting stance and Mike Trout's. Oh stu. I mean, look, if there's anyone that you're gonna try and model your offensive game after, of course, why wouldn't you do it after Mike Trout. It doesn't mean that he's Mike Trout that, but I mean there are similarities

in the swing. I could see that. But he's not gonna obviously be that guy. What are you reigning on Kessing here as parade venture? Come on, I don't know, he's just at his second homer. I feel like he's not gonna be He's gonna be a good baseball player, but not a good fantasy player. He's gonna be one of those guys. It was awf of Luis Caste. I mean, it's pretty impressive, Like he'll he'll a good average, he'll

do everything above average, but nothing extremely well. Like at thirteen Homers he'll let you know, he'll still maybe ten bags. And you're talking, I mean that might be he might be able to do that this year. I agree, kind of expecting that this year, you're expecting that. I think I think in his prime venture he might be a three hundred hitter. Okay, let's say, let's say Clu Likeayer, well, maybe Homer's maybe grows into the power a little maybe

like fifteen stolen basis. That's fine. I say stolen bases is his max to me max just because he's a smaller dude, hold two bays, A small dude. I know, obviously power girl and I say this all the time, and I believe in those guys with the power girls within the guy who gets older. But I just don't see this guy being that type of hitter his whole career. And I hate to say it, but like hitters that come from Asia, usually and play a lot a lot of their career in Asia. Don't tend to swing for fences.

They tend to swing for contact. They tend to try the fences. Honestly, that's American. Well, I mean, he's of Asian descent, but he's American. He hasn't played that long in the minors. He was he went. He's Californian, I mean, but he's still an Asian player. He might have went down a rabbit hole here a Ventra maybe. So he's half and he's half Chinese half Japanese, but like he's not. Like he didn't play Japanese baseball, so he didn't play.

He's American. Wins. You see Irvine the college bass baseball, and ye're in California. He was born in California. But I don't care. I just don't think that this is that type of player. Like it doesn't matter that he didn't play in Asia. But he's not gonna I'm not doing. I don't think he's gonna be that type of player. I think he's gonna be a like Max twenty homes That's what I'm saying, twenty homes Max not this year either, So I wouldn't be on him this year. Yeah. Look, yeah, look,

these prospects can go multiple directions. It's it's very hard. I believe he can hit for average or any prospects. I also don't think. I also don't think he's gonna have a super high o b P. In terms of walking, I don't think he's gonna walk a ton. Well, he was a three sixteen hitter in the miners in his career. He right pretty good. Eight o b P compared to three sixteen total. Yeah, sixty five points higher than his batting average. I mean, so he played a hundred twenty

three games and only walk thirty six times. That's not terrible, but it's not great. It's okay. His walk rates have ranged from six point one percent to ten point two percent in the miners. So if he settles in somewhere like a seven eight percent walk right, that's fine. I mean, so far, he's only three percent walk right in the majors. I don't know, I don't I don't know if I I see it yet. I need more time. I need

to let him. He needs to grow on me anything. Hey, you don't have to love that, Like, I'm not gonna pick him up now. You know, fifteen teamers maybe for the average in a row. Thought a couple of steals here and there. I say, fifteen teams may have to agree on the same teamers, maybe twelve team leagues. Absolutely on the upside. Milwaukee Brewers. He's Bettingwa Brewers. He realized how good this guy is. I know what he's done. He got a three thirty with eleven homers in twenty

in thirty five games. And the miners this year and he Batson Miller Park, that's his home park, so twenty three runs scored. He's oh, he's over four hundred of the miners is here well, but he hasn't. Really that's a small sample size. Okay. The year before he hated to seventy in Double A with uh six homers eleven still in bases. Earlier in the year he had seven more homers and four still bases. He went thirteen fifteen

in the minor league season. Last thirteen homers, fifteen stolen basis right, eleven quot stealing like I just old though, yeah, twenty one years old. But that's the miners. Also. You know, usually first of all, you play less games, but you don't necessarily translate minor league numbers two major league numbers right away. First of all, it's impossible to project prospects right Lindor was regarded as a defensive defense first player. Yeah,

and look what he developed into. Well, nobody thought he was gonna be a thirty He had a ton of speed in the miners, so they knew he was gonna stot he was gonna be a thirty five home right hitter in the major Right. The power is the hardest thing to figure out because in the minors a guy is just younger. He doesn't he hasn't filled out yet. So maybe he that's the thing. Maybe he could develop one. But fifteen stone basis eleven quart stealing isn't very good either. No, no,

you don't. You want to see better efficiency than that at the minor league level. So maybe I was a little ambitious with the stone base. Maybe he's more like a ten soul and base guy. But I think he's someone that could hit for good batting average, And why the OTO more than I do? Maybe points leaks. I don't know if he'll he'll give you the points you want in points leak. Right now, he's only averaging two point four and points like, yeah, he just came up,

so obviously you know that could go up. But I don't think he'll be more than a three point three guy or three point two Gregy Frankie Montas in a little bit of trouble here is second and third with Frankie Lindor at the dishes full count two outs. The runners will be on the run and it will not be its second and third on the run. Frankie struggling here a little bit. So it's my my verse, Frankie, So it's my under in this game. That's also an issue.

Re zip Y Rodriguez not getting the job might be more in a moment, right what I gonna find out? You will know what, listen. I just want the quality start your fantasy best bet forever. I like Martin Perez night and the Twins money line. I also like are laying together the Astros to win and the Braves money line as well, Braves Giants under seven and a half for Chris Franklin. I am Greg, have a great night. We'll do it all gonnamorrow, we hope.