5/23, Part 2: Dr. A from Inside injuries, Torres on a tear, and more...

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Did let me just become best friends? Fantasy best Friends Forever? We are back here on the Fantasy best Friends Forever. I remember two. That's Frank stand Well. I am Greg sous been joined today as we are on most days. And how number two for the Closer Chris met chall Chris, what's up? Guys? How are you doing? What's up? What's up? It's your boy the Closer and uh, Labor Beast. Do you have any shares? I don't, which is upsetting. It

was a big I don't have any shares either. It was a big price to pay. I mean you were looking at a fifth, sixth round pick. I mean a lot of people were excited about Labor tourism, rightfully. So the prospect pedigree, what he did last year before he

got hurt. Yankees good ballpark line up, there's lots of like there zero just count whatsoever when it came to labor touris also Frank, You've talked a lot about your decision in the main event where you took Chris Sale over Garrett Cole and he just thought it was like, hey, Sales there, how do I not take him? And you regretted that decision. You were not regretting that decision last night as Garrett Cole faced the White Sox and he got bombed five innings, seven hits, six runs, he walked one,

he struck out seven. He allowed two solo home runs, one to Eloi him and Az and one to jose A Brave. They're both so little shots. And then the six innings where it is where it all went down into hell as Joshua James he allowed a grand slam. Some of those runs or all those runs, I should say, we're a charge to Chris Sale. That was a big blast against him. Yeah, this wasn't the best performance obviously for Garrett Cole here giving up a couple of dingers.

Nice to see Eloy Amenez kind of get off the schneid here. He's been struggling. A lot of people asking questions, do I drop Eloi Amenez? Oh, you don't drop Eloy Amenez, even for some of these other prospects. He was one of the top prospects coming into the season. And the weather is just going to continue to heat up in Chicago. The ball is gonna start to fly out, So I'm not worried about Eloy Amenez again. He had a home run off Garret Cole last night, and then he hit

his second one off of this gentleman, Rady Rogers. So he gets he hits, he gets the two home runs last night. But overall for Garrett Cole, look, if anyone's freaking out about him, like do anything you can to try and buy low and if it's if it's at all possible, He's got a four point one one ear A. He's got a two point three three x fit right now. His home run the fly ball ratio is twenty point eight percent. Last year it was ten percent, which lent itself to a two point eight eight e r A

over two endings pitched last season. His k per nine is up this year. His walksbur nine are down this year. His swinging strike read's fifteen point seven percent. All the underlying numbers for Garrett Cole are absolutely phenomenal. Still has

a one point zero eight whip. If anybody in your league is freaking out about Garret Cole, you need to I think, even even if they're not freaking out, you have to do your due diligence right now and try and figure out if there's a way that you can get Garrett Cole on on your team for cheaper than what he was heading into draft season. Venture. I don't see how anyone's freaking out. I mean, even though the r a s foll of one, but like you know,

week like deceiving, it's so deceiving. A hundred k, six innings, seventeen walks is incredible, so there's nothing to worry about. Those are the real numbers you need to look at, not not the four one one. Right. His whips one point oh eight, so you know, obviously you're doing well when it comes to walks and hits against um. It's just that once in a while he does get blown up, but that happens to everybody, so that he already will go down. What was his expect you said two point

three three? So ridiculous. Pretty damn good. Hud strikeouts at sixty five and a third any space that scary Cole Justin Verlander also very very good. Yeah, Ivan Nova interesting stopped by last night. Seven thing is a three room ball. I told you that you're pretty pumping. He's the astros. Wow, this guy huh strike ats one walk like, okay, start. What I didn't tell you was he l tenants the whip. Not so good for ev Nova, but I want anyone Knowva to be this week's like veteran pitcher. You talking

your something to Frank. That's what I was hoping for. I almost did a couple of weeks ago, but there was like no, no back to back starts in one run. Then he faced Toronto and getting a bomb for nine runs. And that's what That's what you get yourself into when you start talking about in von Nova. I'm gonna see here, Greggy.

I don't have any shares with Alex Bregman, who had his fifteenth home run on the season last night, back to siventy two a b P. I know all these home run numbers are just out of whack now because they're always going to be in the juice ball era. But it's so really impressive and Alex Bregman just doing having a fantastic, fantastic season, and we just haven't talked about him, Yeah, picking up where he left off last

year in the second half. Greg, if you remember when we started very early back in mid January talking about certain players. We were talking about the Astros one day and everything that they did in the off season. You asked me one word to describe how I felt about Alex Bregman this year, and I said boeing, And that's exactly how I still feel. A out Alex Bregman. fIF home runs in forty eight games, thirty two runs, thirty

five rb i s to seventy two batting average. Ideally, you'd want to see a better batting average, and I would think that that's coming. He's got just a two forty six babbit. The fly ball rate is up a little bit, but also hitting the ball much harder this year than last year as well, uh striking out three percent more but still nothing crazy fiftcent that's much better than league average. Walking more this year. The obps at

the batting averages don't even get better. Um, there's not really anything more that I could tell you regarding Alex Bregman. You're not gonna be able to trade for him unless you give up your entire team or you know. I mean, at least that's what I would demand. And it's not a sell high situation either. It's just he's a really, really damn good ball player, and I was excited about him coming into the year. Venture. Yeah, I don't have any shares of him, but I mean one of the

best players in the league. That's all I gotta say. Young too, I mean, you said it all. What can you really five years old? Just he's getting better every single season. It's just a start runs in a hundred and fifty seven games last year, He's got fifteen this year in forty eight games. The guy might hit forty home runs. Greg, He's well on his way there with shortstop and third base eligibility. He's very, very, very good at baseball. Yes, I'm just looking at all these home runs.

I'm looking at everybody in the league and at home and so, I mean it's ridiculous. Yeah, like that, I don't even know what the barometer should be because it's it's like ridiculous. It's skewing everything because I'm thinking certain guys are doing good, but there's so many guys doing better that it's like it's skewing you know what you think is good. I do want to have a quick

note from yesterday. Sean Kelly picked up his fourth saving back to back in with a save for Kelly off the I L right, so I know that I know that la Clark pitched two days ago in the eighth, did not pitch yesterday. Kelly did in the ninth, a lot of walk, allowed to hit, struck out two of the batters that he faced, back to back in with a uh save. I said, I told you I trust one right now, Kelly or la Clark was going to

be Kelly uh and for two games anyway. The Rangers agree with me, yeah, I would go back to saying I think the pecking order for saves right now with the Rangers is Shaun Kelly, Jose La Clerk, and Chris Martin in that order. Chris Martin, while Shawn Kelly was out, had an opportunity. He had allowed run scored in three straight appearances, while Jose Laclerk has now gone four straight

appearances without allowing a run. So um, they're moving in opposite directions, and I still think sooner rather than later, we're gonna get the clerk in the roll. Greg. Obviously, if Sean Kelly was dropped, he needs to be added again. I'm not, you know, blowing all of my fab I'm gonna spend you know, five six percent. You know, if you're playing in a thousand dollar fab league, fifty six bucks, try and get Shaun Kelly back on your team. You

could pick up a few saves. But it wouldn't surprise me if even before the All Star break, Greg, if we see jose Le clerk black back in the closer's role, shaking your head down. I am not not shaking my head about that. That I'm I believe and I could just come that here. That's not good. That happened a couple of weeks ago and he ended up hurting his He was also his calf. Greg, Oh, no, it was a yeah this. I don't think it was a shiny He's see here. I'm watching the play live. Maybe we

can get a live breakdown from Dr A too. Maybe probably not though, Oh he's fine, Fine, you're run on the chest in the shoulder area, and then of course threw it in the foul territory. It's not that was bad. That was second and third with no outs. So yeah, so things aren't looking great. If we were talking and we started the show talking smack about the Orioles, Greg and now there stand by the wouldn't tush Matt, it would be fine. I mean, they gotta win once in

a while, do they. I mean, you know they're gonna end up. We'll probably one fourteen fifteen games ready this year. Fifteen not bad. Last night a team that also doesn't lose very often, as the Los Angeles Dodgers. They did lose to Tampa eight to one. Rich Hill pitched very very well for lost Ange six hits, six innings, five hits, one run, walked two, struck out seven. We even got Mike Florio tweet about your We've been telling me about rich Hill. He's good. Do you want to expect right?

Do you not get that? Sweet? Did we Did you not see it? I didn't? Yeah, alright, so Rich the exactly I don't want I don't want to misquote my friend Mike Priese me. At this point, No Florio is a big quantity, greater sign quality, and rich Hill is the face of that movement. So, I mean, if you're going to preach here's the here's the tweet, then rich Hill's your guy. Of course, rich Hill just doing Rich

Hill things. Sub three r a good whip and well over a strikeout for inning and then rich Hill gift he loves him. I mean, how can I follow that up? Greg? So, I feel like you're honest. I mean, look, the guy is killing it this year. He's caper nine over ten. His walks for nine are you know, the best they've been since when he only made four starts with Red Sox one point six seven walks for nineties not walking anyone is getting a ton of strikeouts, a fifty one

percent groundball rate. I don't think anyone ever doubts that rich Hill is really good when he's on the mountain. Was never on the mount Endings pitched. He hasn't pitched more than thirty five and he's pitched in each of the past, you know, three seasons entering this year. It's and we never doubt that rich Hill is a good picture. It's just how long is he gonna be out there for you? Gotta worry about that. I understand you don't get a zero whenever he's not pitching. It's all right.

You put him on your I L you pick up another picture and hopefully that whoever you pick up gives you decent endings. Obviously not to the level of rich Hill, but he's a really good picture when he's on the mountain. You can say the same thing about Hinge and Ryoue, the Dodgers pretty much all the Dodgers guys right, really good when they're on the mound. But how long did they say? You know, he said that's enough. We said this about Rye the other day, Greg. I mean, if

you can sell rich Hill right now, would you? I mean, I think the easy answer is yes. But again, everyone else who's listening or knows anything about anything, everybody rich Hill is gonna get hurt at him. They do, but they also know keep him. I don't. I don't agree with that because this one's a little bit different, right because he's healthy now everybody knows there. You can sell rich Hill on the fact that the very truth that

when he's healthy, he's great, he's awesome. He plays on the best team in baseball that you can sell that even to to anybody that could then wrap their minds around that. All right, maybe this is the year he doesn't get hurt. Maybe this is the year they don't stay healthy. There's always the believer that somebody, Well, ultimately, I think that we do it all the time, where the yangas with Troy Tillewitzky, maybe this is the year that you won't get hurt, and get hurt every year.

Same goes for rich Hill. Save those kids, Ina, save goes frona U. There's always a time for those Dodgers. Pictures are really a lot of pictures in baseball that are injury prone. There's always a time that at some wily they will get hurt. And that's the truth of Rich Hill. But all you need is one person to sell it to that, Hey, maybe this is in the year. All you're doing. This isn't even uh a false narrative that you're selling. You're telling the truth. He's awesome when

he's healthy. If you don't think he's going to stay healthy, don't trade for him. But if you do, let's make a deal. But he's not gonna stay healthy. I agree, you agree. All you need to do is find somebody in fact, it's not even like a subjective statement. It's a fact. We both agree on this. But all you need to do is find somebody that says, hey, he's healthy right now, which is true. He's pitching well right now, which is true. That thinks that, hey, yeah, maybe you'll

get health, maybe you'll get earth this year. Or a team that you know is just so stacked with pitching and maybe they could use a spot starter type guy that's this good and they could, you know, afford to trade someone away to get him. You know, it's like a niche guy, you know, the right He fits perfectly in the right team, in the right system where you could plug and play him when you need to. But he's not like, you know, your number two or three starters,

So he's so important. You know, that's exactly right, And you said that, Uh, it's about fit. When it comes to rich Hill for fantasy, you can't have this guy on your team and him be someone that you depend on. Greg. It almost has to be a luxury more than someone that you actually depend on. He's got to be your SP five, your SP six, and I think for most people who drafted him, he's probably in that range because

he was going later on in draft. So you know, if he's your SP five SP six, like you can almost live with it, like you live with Okay, when he's here, he's gonna be really good for me. And when he's hurt, that's fine. I mean, he's like my SP five SP six. I'm not depending on him to be there all season long. And think that's probably the argument that Floria would make from two. And that's the other thing is that if you have him in that role, it's fine. But where you drafted, is that where you

were getting him as an SP five six. No, not in like fifteen team leagues, you'll probably get him it's like your SP three SP four, But I think in twelve teamers you might have got him as like your

SP five. You might got him in the four. Yeah, I think like it's he started to lose some of his luster this year in draft because everyone's just tired of Rich Hill and the Dodgers starting pitchers constantly getting placed on the I L. But here's what you have to ask yourself, Greg, if you're trying to shop and sell away Rich Hill, is it worth trading away a sub three e r A. Let's let's just say he pitches to a sub three e r A for a

hundred and thirty endings this year? Is it worth trading that away to getting a starting pitcher who might give you a hundred and eighty endings Greg, But let's say those endings come at a anywhere from a three five to three seven e r A, Like if you could turn Rich Hill, it's like Shane Bieber or something like that.

It does that make sense to do? Though? And think, is it almost better to keep a guy for a hundred and thirty endings where he's going to give you a sub three e r A as opposed to getting like a mid to high three s e r A over a hundred and eighty innings pitched? And that's what you have to ask yourself. I think ultimately depends on that player. I don't think it's just like Rho. I'd probably league right in Roto. I'd probably just keep Rich Hill.

I mean, he is the perfect Rhoto picture. And Florio has said that for years. I mean, we've all agreed on that. It's it's it's a factual statement. You know, in points leagues, he doesn't go all that deep into games, and you know he's done a fine job. He went six endings pitched last night, and it seems like that's been, you know, quite the norm for him this year. But you can't depend on him to give you endings every single time out and for the longevity of the season.

So that's why he's better for Rhodos. So I think that's probably your answer. Like, if you can get a picture that you expect like a mid threes e r A for the rest of the season, if you're playing a points league, then I would probably look into shopping riches especially, probably just keep him, especially younger pure who could be even better than right. Maybe he hands up with it three too. Yeah, I mean I just threw him out there. Bistically, can you turn Hill? Probably not, probably,

I don't know. I was just thinking of like a picture in that range. We'll say a break when we come back when you joined by to dr a today from Inside Injuries to give us the lead us on everybody that's hurting around the Major's We're gonna update on Gean Carlos Stanton. This is helpful way Davis as well, just stick around more on the way next on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever Lose Weight, now go to fat one dot com. Lose that unwanted belly fat today and

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you here on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. Chris Venture, Frank Stample Greggs all here with you to talk about some of the injuries going around Major League Baseball and to do that with us, we are joined as we are each and every Thursday, with a good doctor from inside injuries and that is Dr. Right. Let's going on, doctor. How are you guys doing today? We're doing really well. Man. How are you? I'm good I'm good. A ton of injuries to talk about today, always are, Man, how how

did you sleep? I slept? Are you? Who are you asking me? Yeah, I'm asking you. I just I slept great, and I slept great. I don't have a great two calf injury. I'm just making sure you're sleeping, all right, A fair question. I mean, we have to make sure everyone's getting that sleeping doc. You know, you know how important that sleep is very much. So all right, let's me give a Jean Carlos Stanton who bicep mystery shoulder hit by a pitch to his calf hurts. What the

heck is going on with Jean Carlos? Then, UM, I'm gonna try to explain this in the quickest amount of time possible. UM grade two, I mean grade one calf injury. I mean it's a um you know, getting hit in the calf with a ball and hit by a pitch, it can result in a calf injury. It's probably just a mild strain, but still it will shut someone down. We have a two week optimal covery time for that as well, so you know, the shoulder optim will every time.

UH should have you know, sort of happened by you know, they've reached the healthy to return date already. It's really the UH now the cap which is a two week HTR and so June three is kind of when we

see the calf come back. But this is, you know, like we've talked about over and over again, the i L is going to be very common to Stanton and my hope is and I think the Yankees hopes are as that you know, um, he can have these tiki tach little injuries, but when come when it comes down to crunch time and playoffs, etcetera, you know he'll be

able to be um fully healed. My my personal advice, if I was advising the Yankees, uh, I would say that he needs to be shut down for a longer period of time in terms of addressing some of these multiple factors UH to all of these tiki tach injuries so that he can heal completely and then restart again, because in order for him to have good longevity through

the whole season, you know, that is what's needed. If if they're doing what they're doing right now, then the risk is that he'll have something significant at some point and he's out for the season altogether. And that's what we're looking at. I mean, his HPF is so he's not going to be really doing great trying to battle through these injuries, and his injury risk is a third basically, Doc, I have a quick question just to follow up here with gian Carlos Stain. I asked this to Brad Ziegler

earlier on in the show Former Major League. Is it possible that having too much muscle mass is bad for a baseball player? Because you know, we've heard this before with NFL players too. You know, the way that guys are built now, it's almost too much for the body to handle. And I think you see it sometimes with you guys like Aaron Judge, who as strong as he is, you know, maybe he suffers an oblique injury because he's swinging like, way harder than anyone else, because he's way

stronger than anybody else. And maybe that's why Stanton originally has this this spice of injuries, because you know, he's swinging harder than anyone else because he's that much bigger, he's that much stronger. Is it possible that these guys are just too muscular, they're too strong for their own good. Well, just by the natural laws of physics. UM, the tendon um connects the you know, muscle belly to the bone, and the tendon is not something that increases in size

when you work out. It's the muscle. So now instead of a normal size muscle that these tendons have to deal with, you have doubled the size or you know, significant amount of muscle mass, right, and so you're absolutely right that there is a higher propensity of injury when these guys are um uh you know, have muscle masses that are so much bigger than what their original muscle

mass and their body was designed to do. So that's number one, but number two, you know, that's why a lot of a lot of finesse and stretching and uh motion uh teaching the appropriate motions for power to optimize

and reduce the risk of injury. It's um that's really the way the future of um UH sports medicine is from a preventative standpoints, where you see a lot of physical therapist training athletes on how to react to certain situations and what types of motions that they should use UM and and and working out and working on certain muscle groups versus others so that they're mechanics and forces are better from a protective mechanism standpoint. You're gonna follow

up from earlier on the show. I think these guys have to go on the CC Sabathia diet Man, it's more of a great for example, Die, Yeah, that's that's too big. That's that's too big, doct um. Let's move more to the bullpen here. Obviously for fantasy baseball, uh, these injuries to closers is so valuable because we need to know who the next man up is. How long

these guys are gonna be out? And like Aaron Judge, Wade Davis is now dealing with an oblique strain, the left oblique and I mean, you know this is always this. This is like a nightmare. There is a nightmare for NCY baseball purposes. You know, people use a decent pick, uh for Wade Davis. Um, how long is he gonna be out? Can we expect this to hamper him all season long? What do you guys have on Wade Davis? So, Wade Davis grade one oblique strain um, which is good.

It's not a grade two. Uh. So there's no intercept, there's not a significant train. It's just a mile strain of his oblique. But you know, we still requires a two week optimal recovery of time. So it's healthy to return date for us as June the five. You know he he um risked worsening this injury if he comes back earlier than June five. All right, so Wade not so bad. Actually it's okay. It's really a grade one oblique injury there for Wade Davis, he's gotta be careful.

He has to be sure he gets healthy. Does because we have seen those injuries come back to haunt players and they come back too soon. Ope, Louie Davis does not uh do. A guy that we we're really upset that we didn't get over the weekend was Willie Calho. We did you pick him up in other places, but of the teams that we owned together, we don't have them. And now we feel kind of good about it because he's well, I'm playing at all because he's on the I l How serious is his injury to Willie Calhoun

and when can we expect them back? So here's the difference, right, Uh, grade one oblique is um one thing, but a grade one quad um, which is what he has um effects an outfield are a lot more because of the range of coverage that they have to do when the outfield to track down line drives and foul balls, etcetera. So in this particular case, the optimal COVERE time is three weeks not two weeks, and the HTR is June eleventh instead of June five. So some more grim news here

when it comes to um. When it comes to Willie, and you know, I've actually like hurt my quad before playing solid and i'd be I still played through it, but like even with like a week off between games and stuff like, it was clear that I needed more time than that. So yeah, I'm gonna piggyback off what Doc said there, and I think there's something that can

actually linger a little bit long. I'll say this. I heard my calves doing something at some point, and it took a year between one of them probably just walking Greg most likely, yes, uh, into like a year with one of them to fully heal, and the other one still seems to be sore. So these things, yeah, yes, they do, Greg, And then I'm getta the overcompensation. Now we all eat. That's how like I injured my right calf because my love one is really hurting, so it's overcompensating. Well,

and now the right ones really store. My loved one is good now, so hopefully my loved one doesn't get sore again. Do we almost sound like doctors? Now? Yeah, it's your type of doctor talk. I don't understand it very much. That makes sense, Uh, Doc Chris Davis, the way that he's been handled, you would think that this guy plays for the New York Mets, because what is going on. I mean, he injured his hip a couple

of weeks ago running into a wall. I think it was in Seattle, and it seemed like it has hampered his production ever since then. But for whatever reason, they've said that they were gonna put them on the I L. They didn't, and they've kind of just been going back and forth, and here we sit, he's still not placed on the I L. What is going on with Chris Davis? Why are they handling him this way? And and should he be? Should he be on the I L? Right now? Well,

here's what I think. What happened is that when he aggravated the hip on Tuesday, and which is really what he did is aggravated the oblique. Um. I think the initial assessment by the team doctors was the fact that it wasn't that big of a deal and you know, it's okay, But then I think something has done, something happened, whether he complained more of pain and and he had you know, sort of limited rotational ability, or something has happened that they had ordered an m r I on him.

So whenever somebody orders an m r I on somebody, even if it's a professional team, UM, they are they've seen something clinically that they definitely want to further evaluate. So it rises to the level of a grade one when UM at least, So just school of our algorithm basically says is anytime here's about an m r I, it automatically a minimum grade one is what's there now based on what the results are, we'll see how high

it goes. So the optimal covery time now for an aggravate reaggravated oblique UM is a grade one, which is now two weeks and we're looking at June five, But that is a tentative two weeks right now because based on the m r I, if it shows that there's a significant amount of fluid within that oblique and it rises to the level of a grade two that that automatically moves it to the end of June. That's how sensitive it is. Basically, it's either the beginning of June

or the end of June. The asies to be really careful one of these Chris Davis, Yeah, please stop stop missing this around. You know we're gonna put them on the i L. We're not going to put them on the IL. Please. We need this guy for the long haul. We need them to get completely, completely healthy. One of the best sluggers in the game, Greg, we can't really afford to be without him. Absolutely, Chris Davis has to

get healthy. One of the other best sluggers in the game, at least this season, has been George Springer, who has been out for a while or all this week, I should SA with a back injury that we saw kind of creep up on him on I guess it was Sunday. How serious is back injury George Springer? We've heard this chance he's actually back this weekend for Houston. What can you tell us, Doc, Yeah, so it's funny. It's not funny,

but it's interesting that his injury risk is high. Um in general because of all of the injuries that he's had. I mean he's had a right quad in fourteen, concussion in fifteen, risk fracture in in fifteen, quad strain in seventeen, and the left thumb sprain and eighteen and another quad in eighteen, so he's not had a back injury before. And his m R I did not show a discarnation,

so that's good. So all of this is perispinal muscle stiffness, and so it's it's the highest grade that you can give him right now is a grade one, which is what he has, which is a two week optimal recovery time. HTR is June this second, so it's very soon. So that's not so bad here for George Springer Greggy, he's dealt with a lot of different injuries, but hasn't dealt with the back before. And Doc another slugger star player

in the league that's dealing with a back injury. It's been on and off, seems like, at least over the past month. Here is Christian Yellich arguably the league m v P right now, the front runner for it, and much like Chris Davis, we can't really afford to be without Christian yellis now if he needs an eye Elston to get completely healthy, I would be on board. I would support that. But what do the algorithms say about

Christian Yellich and this back injury that he's continuously dealing with. Um, so this is the soft tissue doesn't rise to the level of a grade one. The problem is is that he also had this uh in sixteen and in fifteen UM and UH, so I don't have a history of an m r I result on him. So UM, you know, right now we have to assume that this is muscle spasm them and it's an optical recovery time of one week, and his HTR actually is made the twenty eight, so

it's only in about four or five days. But they should really rest him for um a week at least, just so that he can have a good chance of he of relaxing those perisponal muscles, so that he can get the optimal chance to you know, sort of be performing on the field for the team at its peak. Like I realized that the Brewers are in a dog fight here in the NL Central. But if you're gonna rest him for a few days, maybe even a week at that point, don't you just put him on the

I L right away. I would think so. It just seems like, much like Chris Davis, they've been so off and on, like he leaves games with a back injury. The next day he's out, the next day he's out. It's been like off and on. I think you'll just give this guy ten days to recover because they don't think they believe the injuries attend to injury. I think maybe I think it's a three or four day injury to get him back. It just seems so optimistic sometimes

with these teams. Man. I understand they need him as great as he's been. I understand all that, but it almost makes more sensence to me to just shut this guy down for ten days, let him come back completely healthy, and then see if that helps him out, rather than all right, we'll do the three day thing. He'll come back, re injure himself three days again. It's just it seems like it all adds up to being ten days. On

the I l anyway when it comes. But when it comes to injuries, was we well, we have a good doctor. It's Dr Ray here joining us for a few more minutes. Bradley Zimmer has been out the entire season for the Cleveland Dean's Battley shoulder injury. We promised Ventra and Frank we would ask you about him a week ago. We didn't. Let's do it now, Radley Zimmer, how close is here to returning? Yeah, so, so he started playing an extended rehab. Um. Uh you know, uh, you know, expected to start a

rehab assignment in around a week, you know. Um, right now, he's on schedule. From everything that we've seen. Um, he's passed his optimal recovery time, which is good. I think they're becoming They're they're taking him very sensitively as they should with you know, great for shoulder injury, to repair the labor um um and so uh for all intents and purposes. Um, you know, he should be uh getting on hopefully back in the lineup in about two to

three weeks. That's what we're looking at you, Radley Zimmer. You know he's gonna have a long rehab assignment because he hasn't played baseball in a year. There's also a chance he's option to triple a even more of a rehab. Radley Zimmer, I think really the second half year could help the Indians. Could he fantasy unders talk a lot of it that yesterday. Yeah, I think in deeper leagues, and I've said this, you know five outfielder leagues fifteen team makes a l only I would go out there

and stash him. Now. He could be back in a few weeks and it's Cleveland Indians lineup has underwhelmed, but I think if they all start to click it together at the same time, they actually could be a pretty dangerous lineup. So unlet's see what happens with Bradley Zimmer. I would be stashing him in deeper leagues. We have another outfielder here. It seems like a bunch of outfielder injuries, but yajuries always always injuries. But a lot of outfielders

banged up right now. Y'as cil Plea dealing with this shoulder injury has not played the entirety of the week. They've been talking about, you know, him maybe returning for the weekend series. Um, what's going on with the yas with the shoulder injury. If he returns over the weekend, is that too soon? What do you guys? Too soon? Yeah, shoulder injury. It's Grade one. It's not a soft tissue.

It's two weak recovery time. It's June two is when we're looking at if he comes back over the weekend, he's got a very high chance of reaggravating that injury, especially because it's a throwing shoulder and um, you don't know where the way the game can go, and if he has to be really aggressive with the throw or make some weird, you know, off balance throw, he could really do damage. So you know, if he starts back before June two again, I would take that as a

really really high risk situation. Right now, he's at thirty nine percent, so he's nowhere near to back to low injury risk. Be very, very careful with yahl we Um over the coming over the coming week, Doc, we have

time for just another player or two. But before we go, uh, franksmen talking a lot about Eff McNeil and j. D. Davis here this week, and a lot of that has to do with the opening in the outfield for the mass by looking forward was in the Iowa concussion and then Brandon Nimmo hit the i yesterday with a neck injury. We asked you about Hi a couple of weeks ago. How serious is this injury? Brandon nimmo. You know the

m R I. It's interesting. So the um, the m R I shows inflammation in the neck, but no structural damage. So translation, okay, um, no structural damage means that there is uh no um you know, discarnation or uh muscle um sort of tear like you know, all of the neck muscles, etcetera. But there is inflammation, which means there's fluid in the muscle. So it's a grade one injury. We don't know the exact muscle um. You know, you

know how you guys get like pretty like stiff. Next if you sleep with a crick you know, once it's kind of like similar to that. And so obviously that's pretty it hurts a lot, but so he needs two weeks for sure. June fourth. Is it bad to crack your neck? The general question. I don't think sometimes you have a chance you crack your neck like that. Yeah, no, I mean it's not really good or bad. It's just

you know, releases. These are these are tiny joints um the facete joints in the spine that crack and they just move a little bit then and they release a little bit of nitrogen gas. That's what happened, so it's not really good or bad story. Greg. One time I went to a chiropractice and they legitimately like crack my neck really hard, and I thought I saw the light. I thought I was done, and I never went back. Canna, I can't do this, shouldn't go. Don't go to chiropracor

dot Hey, chiropractors. Yeah, seriously, i'mbout I'm with I'm with the good doctor on this one, not going back to the chiropractice. Dry Provincent injuries. We appreciate the time. We'll do it again next week. Alright, guys, see you next week. Awesome. All right, we'll take a break here. When we come back, I'm grabbing it all up. I'll try me into the show coming out next. Made Sailors is the leading cleaning service in New York City and Boston. We service homes, offices,

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Radio Networks, Chris Adventure. All hanging out, hanging out? What do he seems so confused while you're saying that, I'm looking at the facilis person. Are we not? Are are we not? All hanging out? Yeah? So that's what I was. I did learn something just now, by the way from Dr I what's that? I'm the many things about injuries

or whatever, and about the neck. Now he said, for all intensive purposes, you know, he said that, you know, for all intensive purposes, I never knew that that was the phrase intents and purposes correct, for all intense and perfect is intensive. That's what I thought forever until just now when he said it was like a clear space, like for all intents and purposes that makes a lot more sense. And all intensive purposes it does, greg But my whole life I've always said, for all intensive purposes,

I think a lot. I think of all of us fit for the longest time. Not only is he the good doctor, he's the good teacher. Yes, here to teach, you see it, to teach. He's a doctor in a team. A lot of people say instead of supposedly, they say supposedly with a B instead of a D. You know, it really bothers me that a lot of a lot of people I know say use not good. I can't stand like referring to a person, what are you doing? What are you doing? You know? How many of you

I know I don't like you? Won't hear that in furious Maybe it's like they's not English. I don't like that one. Yeah, even my girlfriend does out here. Sometimes she's really yeah, come on, use yeah, like two utes it's like, come on, what that's from my cousin Vinny. Great, yeah, that's a that's a classic. In fact, I'm giving you just a bunch of fun facts today about myself. Almost I thought it almost died when I went to the chiropractor.

Other fun fact, I had the biggest crush on the woman in my cousin Vinnie Oh Morrissa to my eye, yes, yeah, yeah, she's really did you find your attractive when she was naked in the wrestler? I didn't watch that now I probably will, Yes, I didn't. The entire time I'm watching and I'm like, I think that's a woman from my cousin Vine and I had to reveal to my fiance. I was like, well, I used to have a crush on her back in the day. Would she start this

movie off not kidding? Do you really do it like that? Looks at my phone and sees all these models and just like, well, yeah, we know that about you, Greg, you are not, I don't know, excited human being. I don't know if she knew, though. Listen, I'm not I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed to look at pretty Instagram. It's like a fourteen year old kids Instagram. Why because models and models on it at least? Sorry? Is that all fantasy baseball analysts? Frank, I'd rather look at models.

Instagram is made for models, legitimately made for models. My entire Instagram is legitimately just models and food porn and food porn. That's that's great. It's not porn. There's no there's no there's like pornography models. Be very clear. I was going based off the hashtag, the food porn hash Yeah, Mark, you know they just text me like Lindsay Pylos. Yeah. Absolutely. I don't actually follow her though you probably have like a top five in my head. I do, Yeah, I

try to go for the lesser known ones. How do how do you not follow Lindsey Petty? I don't know. She's just like, I don't think I followed to mainstream. This is like the biggest cop out saying a thing to say ever to mainstream. It's not like is listening or anything. But I kind of feel bad. I kind of I just feel bad, like if I'm scing through my Instagram and I have you looking at girls? Oh god, come on, Frank, dude, I'm a nice guy. What can I say? I know, but like I have I have

noel Foley right. For example, mcfoley's daughter a pretty attractive woman. She's like this posting pictures of herself, like have naked all the time. I gotta stop, what why look at Instagram. She's gonna be like, well, what are you doing? What do you what you have? Man? Do you think? I don't know? Well, if she was looking at like half naked guys, I would be upset? Would you? Would you like?

There is you want under yourself? Well? Christ Colston his favorite person guy, well besides me, like Star is four a K, Chris Hems watch guy and I'm like, dude, he's so good looking and stuff. I wouldn't even mind, like you know what I mean. I'm like, go ahead, good, look at the Baker. I don't care. Judy's and Lord Russell Wilson, he's like the greatest looking guy ever. There you go. Mine is Halsey right now? Really all he knows that every time she's on she says, oh, look

your girls, Halsey. Hole. I love even though her has short She's like, yeah, she has really short hair. It's like a guy's hair, but she's so pretty that it actually works. And for most girls that does not work. I don't. She doesn't do it for me. She doesn't for me. I don't know why I like. I like everything about Halsey. All right, she's many others out there who are listening or watching. They probably opened up a

tab and typed in Halsey. She's gorgeous. I mean, you're out on a limb here, venture Really, you are out on a limb. You're not gorgeous. I don't know. Maybe it's the singing to that don't for me to singer. I really like her me, I admittedly, I'm I'm always an Emily Raddikowski mark. Sure, she's pretty. Yeah, she's like she's she's a real mark, just right. And we'll just write em rada e m r A t very skinny, but it's fine. Her features. Her features are not super skinny.

She was in the movie, she wasn't the rash movie. Yes, it's always about it. I mean, there's nothing good about it. Um. The Emily Rodicus is a good one. And then like, do you have your actions as you like? Like I've always been Attic Hendrick person. Of course, the girl next story.

You know, she's she's cute. She's cute. I've always been she's not like an Instagram model at a hendgra like that A right, right, right, you want he wants some Instagram models, Franko, we have it to show you my my phone later the list good, look at this good looking woman on that like Sierra Sky. Yeah, you always gotta do this every time. You're so good about other women. All these women, I don't think I spelled their name correctly. Well, I spelled it like the artist Sierra and and that's

not a yes. You should have said. Sorry. S all right, I'm not gonna say anything about you know, like that want me to let this one rock? You're like, well, if you can follow the trend, Greg, what I've done so far is the women that I haven't liked. I've said that I haven't like. Oh my god, said, uh, let's move on to the next topic. When it comes to Sierra st Oh my god, this guy you never know who's watching this. I don't care Judy. I'm happy if Judy's listening for these women over here there are

walking back and I looked at my screen. He said, what the hell is this guy looking at Well, he's supposed to be doing a radio What are you so embarrassed about? Man? There's a good looking at women in the world world, and you can't help but look sometimes, I mean, everyone's human nature. Greg's not. It's not a matter of Branks just looking at a girl who's walking by and he's actively seeking it out. That's okay. On Instagram, you're just looking. That's on Instagram, just looking. Yeah, fine,

I have a ton on there too. I mean you think I can't help it. It's not just Greg, it's it's Frank. That's odd here, Chris is a ton Martina. How's your models looking on Instagram? It is just Lindsey Payliss. Really, he's not tied down to anything. He can do whatever he wants. I'm not tied down either, Bud. Yeah, you're the closest one to getting married was already. I wish I could be the way you are Greg when I'm in a relationship, because I have like tunnel vision, Like

if I was Frank, I couldn't look outside jeseus. You guys, wow, if we're honorable Yan, Well, he's not. He's that story. That story doesn't end well. Frank, he's not. He's not tied down to anything either. He's like he kid just graduated college, shirt Stark would be proud of us. That Stark would be proud. You know what happens in star. So that's what you want to do. You know what? He died with honor, greg You you're various and you'll be burned alive. It's a little longer, but he he

does No. Barris doesn't make any sense. He didn't. He doesn't like anything. Yeah, you know what I want. You want to call me Brawn, I'll be brawn master of coins. Of course he wants to build brothels. That makes sense. I want to bls and get all the money and be in charge with the money. And like you're the master of whispers. Great, you always know what's going on. You always got your ear to the wall. You always got you got the pulse. You care about the realm

and we are the realm. And embarrassing, I mean he called it. He couldn't mean it. And you know, you know you lost your your dog or anything like that. He knows what's gonna happen two or three, you know, basically weeks before everybody else. He gets it from his little birdies. All right, Gregy, So tell me who who are the little birdies? Saying? Is the next pickup that

we should be making. Yes, you can look into the future. Yes, I don't know, so I'll ask Floria tomorrow that we will hopefully is that Wait, is this one of the weeks where he's too busy for us? And? Oh I think it is? Yeah, I think so. I don't know. I'll have to find to text them. Yeah, like, well, you could come on and defend your love of rich Hill. That might entice him. Yeah, I'll let me read this

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Just want to drop all of my rosters. Ridiculous, want to drop them. This soul is ridiculous. Man, David dal Daniel Murphy in games, they when they play in games, they strike out or they get lifted for Ian Desmond. David was playing center field. I mean he's probably hurt. I mean he's up. You didn't get lift than Desmond, right, pinch hit for him. Sure, he's hurt. It's a defensive replacement, exactly.

He got hurt. You know, it's not like him just sucking, which he also does because it's only the fourth thing too like this. This is very bad. All right, we'll figure that out. If he's injured. I'm gonna look it up now on Twitter. Now you have nervous guys. What are you kidding me? Rather uh not, Well, someone in the check out of own dude, Charlie Blackman's out of

the game. No, but it actually says it on MLB Defensive Up dud Ian doesn't replace the center field David dal because David Donald moved to write to replace Charlie Blackman. Too tricky. You can't do that. You cannot do that. He's not hurt. I'm just going based off what I told you. Are killing me? Whatever, Man, David all sucks anyway. I mean, I can actually I need the Blackman's out of the game. I can't believe we're calling major league is that hit two nineties that they suck? All? Right? Well,

what is he? What is he doing over the last two weeks? He hasn't been great? Yea, I agree with that. He's not He's not very doing it right now. He doesn't get give you stats like there's no counting stats. They're about to go on a ten game homestand in Colorado. If it doesn't happen now, it never will, it never will. Nope. Over the last thirty days, how is this even possible? He must have got off to a really hot start last thirty days. David Dolls batting two fifty six ps

with one home run at bats. I still believe they actually played in my league, so I could trade him. I have a real injury note for you. The Rays placed Yandy Diaz on the sub optimal greg because we have him in our lineup, as do I in the pit league against you, that seems optimal. I did ask about this one day. I could ask himbout Jaculaz Well, I mean, look, we took a chance, and this is exactly this was the chance that I didn't want to take with Gregory Polanco, right. You know, how did I know?

I didn't know what was gonna happen. I didn't know he was gonna just come back in the lineup, and yeah, I chold to play it safe. And no, that's sometimes site, that's what you should have done with the andy he has. Like in a fifteen team league, we were deciding, you know, Yandy Diaz, I think six or seven games, although six it was six games coming in or Hayes's agil with five games against right handed pitching, and yesterday he sat

out for Eric Thames, So that's a logical choice. He just got hurt and you didn't expect that he was. He was hurt coming in the week. If he was gonna player or not. So we rolled the dice in it didn't they off turned out badly. Greg m did not very off. Frank, you know I could pick up in this league. I can welcome to the squad. JD. Davis or Roddy Tiles. Is he available? Think? So? Maybe that's the guy you just hit another he had a double and scored another runs. It's not available like Blue

like bluett owns him. Yeah, this league, there's nothing out. Just pick him up. I don't know, I'm not I don't have that in front of many. Do you have any best bets forever today? Oh? I should. Let's exactly do that four minutes ago. Let's do the fantasy look back at last night, and I don't want it anymore. All right, let's do the fantasy best bets forever. It's not really fantasy, it's it's it's true best best forever.

The most games today are in the afternoon, so only I leaves two games on later on, and I think this one's obvious. Man, at least for me give me at plus one six P four, I mean the White Sox later against Corbyn Martin and the Astros. Interesting plus I'm going I'm going back to what we what we like, and that's that's the four oh seven games today with the Minnesota Twins going up against the Angels, and um,

the odds are actually dropping. There's been more money coming in on the Angels, Greg because this was minus one fifty when I look before the show. It's now minus one forty. Beautiful money line for Minnesota, the Minnesota Twins, and Martin Perez on the mount. So I would take that money line here with the Twins. It's also interesting, Frank the who we're under that games ten, which is wild, but I thought about that. But the Twins could score

ten runs against Green. That's why I'm not touching that. But Nolah versus Lester that totals nine and a half. I saw that as well. You know what that tells me is that the wind is probably blowing out right. It's probably what we're looking at here must be because that seems that seems yeah, I mean the under. I don't think that the under is a bad play there. That's something that I was looking at as well. But it's look, Aaron No has not been himself this year.

John Lester has probably outperforming himself formed what we've expected from him, so this could be like this is this, this is a sucker play the under in that in the Chicago game. Don't get the sucker play. Und I probably just wouldn't touch it. Overall, I think the game you liked though, with the Astros and White Tux the over is a good beat over Night over nine minus one away actually prefer the under. Really that's a tricky one.

It's tricky because you got Covin Martin on the mountain who more than likely gonna get really good one was Matt and that was against Boston, so it's like the jury is still kind of out on Corbyn Martin, but more than like the gonna give a at least two or three runs something like that, okay, and he has the pedigree and you've got Glos pitch well, but he's playing the Astros, so he might give a four. I don't know, it's gonna be close. That's like day over there. Yeah,

I don't. I don't love the total in that game, but they do like the twinkies, like my twinkies minus one. I do agree that under ten the numbers probably too hot. Minus one ninety for the Astros. I like Gelto. I just old I would never touch minus one ninety with Martin on the mountain. You know, it's just it's just not It's either you bet the white Sox there or you just don't touch that game at right. Correct? Yeah, man,

So there you go. We only have five games left on today's slate, that most most everything taking place this afternoon here right now. Yeah, we got a lot of games for them started before one o'clock. How about that? About that? Well, they break for the next twenty two hours and then we come back tomorrow. Maybe my Floria, maybe not, maybe Chris Metro, maybe not. A freaking eye getting wrong, freaking eye. We're gonna be here. We hope

you will be too. For Chris Ventra, for Dr A, for Bran Zigler, for everybody downstairs, For Frank Staffel, I am grig Sells. Thank you so much for watching this fantasy best friends forever. We'll do it all again tomorrow, we hope.