5/7, Part 1: Met Gala, Monday night MLB recap, love for Bauer, and more...

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy best Friends Forever. To Do to Do Di Do to to to Dina, To Do to Do to Dinna too? Yeah? Oh, this is the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here are the Fantasy Sports are Radio Network alongside a Rage Staville. I am Greg Susman, Frankie, what's going on? What's happening? Happy Tuesday to your budd Interesting night last there. He had some great basketball games. We had Paddock versus de Graham

absolutely insane. But then after that you went to sleep, Greg, how did you sleep? Buddy? So Judy spent like four hours watching the met Galla red Carpet. Do you know what that is? The met is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, right um, so I'm guessing they had some kind of event. Greg, Right, you're right, So it's like outside of that, I don't know.

You're all good. So it's like the biggest night in fashion where all these like celebrities go to the met and sponsored by Anna windsor don't worry about It and Okay, so all these celebrities were like ridiculous fashion and they walk this red carpet and you analyze it like it's the Oscars type of thing. So she had DVRD that

and watched like four hours of it. So by the time she was done, it was like I actually worked out all right, because it was right at the end of the Rockets game, like around midnight, so she was done. She came in, she watched like the last minute with me good, like I'm great now, I'm gonna go to sleep, feeling good. Right. For some reason, she was hyper. It's just yapping away and I'm like, listen, I'm trying to sleep. I'm tired, and she's just like yapping away. I finally

fall asleep and I wake up. I'm tired still now because I was ready to sleep and I couldn't go to sleep, so I was just very tired when I woke up this morning. I'm sorry, I'm very tired as well. You made a lot of noise when she was getting ready for work today, and I know that frustrates you exact great. Yeah, I'm not really a morning guy outside of that. Yeah, a little creepy this morning as well. Um,

more complaints about the weather. But whatever. Outside of that, life is good, Greg, That's always good, Frank, always good. Unless you started Merrill Kelly, because I had a home league where I started Merrill Kelly and Pedro Stroke. Gregg, would you like to take a guess on what they combined for yesterday? Your e r A is probably on its points league? Oh god, negative points, yes, lots of them. Yeah, negative twenty combined. I wouldn't have gone that. Yeah, that's

a negative twenty. That's Pedro Stroke unable to get an out against the Miami Marlins of all teams, and Merrill Kelly negative eight. Those two basically canceled out what basically fanning game. So good times. Well, that's kind of what happened in my my whole league where I picked up Merrill Kelly, as I said yesterday on the program, and started at the same time as I started Blake Snell

and that they cancel each other out as well. Blake Snell was, alright, let's let's start with Merrill Kelly, as you mentioned him twice. Blake Snell versus Merrill Kelly and Blake Snell. How they returned to dominance where he was perfect through five, then hit a batter and allowed basic got pulled after six was amazing. Merrill Kelly not as much as Merrill Kelly's line here, Frank was four innings, seven hits, seven runs, three walks and two strikeouts. Can

you drop Merrill Kelly? Yeah, I'd say so, Yeah, yeah, twelve team leagues, probably even in fifteen teams overall, even the underlying numbers are not great. He's got a four eight five r A. The underlying numbers are pretty much in line with that. He's not a guy that gets a lot of strikeouts, and he's also walking a decent amount of batters too. He's got a three point nine two walks per nine greg and his kper nine is just over seven, so it's not really a good combination.

He doesn't blow people away. He's more of a paint the corners kind of guy. Power fact all, he's a big curveball. But Oral just doesn't have enough stuff. That's what it comes down to. He doesn't have enough swinging miss stuff. He walks him any batters, So overall, I would say you can drop my almost like hate dropped him last night. You ever do that, Craig, like hate drop a player. Oh yeah, you give me a negative eight points hate drop with Meryl Kelly last night. But

there's like nobody good out there. So he's still my team. Well, I have uh fab in my league. My home league goes through Wednesday night, Friday night, and Sunday night, right, so he'll be off my team Wednesday night. Nice, let me pick up for because I'll try to do the same thing. I think you can confidently drop him and then Blake Snell. Look, if they would have just kept him out this long and maybe he came back for this start, then we wouldn't have had the two blow

off starts. It seems like he's kind of getting his legs underneath him again, no pun intended, even though it was like a broken toe whatever. It seems like he's starting to establish himself. Maybe he just really struggles against the Kansas City Royals. Maybe that's it. Because those two starts that he had where he was not himself, the Kansas City Royals bombed him. So it's either the Kansas City Real see him really well or he was still kind of battling this fractured toe that he was dealing

with and that ultimately affected his production. But either way, he got back to dominance last night you mentioned it. I mean, he was just lights out. This was the Blake Snow that we saw earlier on in the season. Six innings, one hit, zero runs, zero walks. That's what I really love to see, man, the zero walks here you mentioned he had the one hit by pitch, nine strikeouts. He was absolutely dominant. I just kind of wished, uh, just kind of wish the race kept him out for

a couple more weeks. It seemed like I tend to lean towards that he just wasn't and he's probably getting closer to that now. So it's good to see. You needed to see that as a Blake Snow owner very much. If I owned him, which I don't um not that I was opposed to taking him, I did have some concerns, But if I owned him and I saw these last two stars of like this broken toe thing is going to be a thing all season long. Now I'd be

freaking out. So it's good to see a dominant start like this and kind of everything down great, very much. Agree with that. Two runs by the Rays yesterday, obviously, Garcia and Tommy Fam each homer for Tampa Bay. Garcia has gotten most of the playing time for Austin Meadows. He was three for four, still playing very very well, while Tommy Fam continues to, uh, do you very well? I know he's just something a little bit. But the OBP over four hundred, average still over three hundred. Tommy

fail Avasale Garcia both doing overly well for you. Yeah, Yondi d has went one for four run scored in twelve team league, and I know the o BP is still a hundred points higher than the average in twelve team leagues. Yondi das droppable. I I don't think so. I know that he's kind of cooled off recently. The batting averages down to tifties seven. Um, I think we're gonna see some ups and downs, right Like this is his first time as a full time player. Are's still

doing a lot of really good things. He's walking a ton too, he's part of a good lineup, you know, Tampa Bay Rays. I mean they just continue to score. They know how to put it together. Right now, Um, the walk read, it's almost as high as a strikeout. Read does a strike out all that much? So you know, even in obviously I mean in points because he's even better the fact that he walks almost as much as he strikes out, hits the ball decently hard, still hits

the ball on the ground too much. We saw early on and see he was starting to lift the ball a little bit more, which is what we've talked about. If he can hit more flyballs, if you can hit more line drives, because a lot of hitters have this issue. I mean, it's basically the way that you're taught to play. If the way that he taught to play was taught to play was hit the ball as hard as you can and hit it into the ground, and that's what he's used to. But um, he made some adjustments early on.

But now we see the groundball rates start to to creep back up. It's over fifty three percent. I don't think I would drop him great. I think that I've seen enough earlier on in the season where I'm intrigued, and the walk read is still really good. I would hold on. I agree as Oh, I just realized now that we moved the batter, I can't see the clock. That's an issue. It's twelve twelve, Greg, thank you. Um. Anyway, with YONDI days, he wasn't one of the guys that

I picked up because they're hot. I picked him up because I thought that he could have a long term lasting impact. Just because he's a little bit of a slump right now doesn't mean that I want to cut Yon d d As. I'm holding onto him for now, even me, Frank, Yeah, I was looking at the most added and dropped players right now and Yahoo and yeah, top twelve right now in most drop players. Yeah, I mean it's it was a reasonable question. So let's see who's who's the most added to the most added bats

right now? Chris Taylor, who is red hot right now? It hits Chris Taylor a little bit. It's four multi hit games in a row. Am I dropping your d d s for Chris Taylor? I'm not. I'm not either, Derek Dietrich. You see, in a week like this week, they face what four lefties, Greg, It wasn't in the line up yesterday against Drew palm Rands. I'm not doing that either. Nick Senzel, sure if he was out there, but I don't think he's out there in a lot of leagues. This might be a fair question. How about

Howie Kendrick. He's been really good. He's batting, got five homers, sixteen ribs. Even with Anthony Brandon coming back, it seems like he's still going to play. I think because Matt Adams is hurt, and they, I mean, they could use them in the outfield a little bit. They can throw him at first base, they can move them around. MHM Das or Howie Kendrick probably an DS for me. That one was a little bit closer. Man, Howie Kendrick is

doing some really nice things this year. From a batted balled her perspective, that's clo I think I would lean with the Andy Das, but I do like some Howie Kendrick. Wait, well, nice little renaissance here from from Howie. Here points sticker average velocity for Howie Kendrick. His batting average is three thirty eight. Is expected batting is three thirty nine, So all of his number is pretty much lined up with what he's doing hard hit rate. Oh man, this is close.

If I knew long term to Howie Kendrick would have a job because I don't think. I don't worry about Yandy his playing time. I feel like he's going to be in there regardless of what's going on. They clearly traded for him, They clearly like him a lot. Man, if I had more of an assurance that Howie Kendrick was going to be in the lineup long term for the Washington Nationals, I probably go with him. Looking at looking at these numbers, Greg, I like what I see.

Before we continue on a bit of NFL news, I wanted to just quickly get to Adam Schefter just tweeted out that Jason Perre Paul stuffered up potential season ending broken neck in a single car accident last week in Florida, where he lives. He visited. He will visit next specialists this week to get their opinions to see if there's any hope to save his season. Wow. I know it's not fantasy related, but could affect those wind totals in Tampa Bay. What is it? What is the running right now?

To him? But you know, I think it was six and a half. I feel like I heard Gabe talking about it recently and he was really really bullish on the Bucks, which way over again, Bruce arians. They obviously bring Todd Bowles in six and a half defense, six and a half draft Devin White till they get their linebacker, but you lose a pass fresh for like Jppt. I mean even last year the tamp Bay Bucks defense was not good, but he's still He's still performed very well.

So yeah, that could potentially be a huge loss of Tampa Bay Bucks six and a half right now the over under in Vegas when it comes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Well, that is the division that normally we see a lot of halfer, a lot like one team will start at the bottom and then now we're here. Okay, that's a bad one. Say it's so confidently I understand. Okay, so Ian, you mentioned how he Kendricks let's get to

the Washington Nationals was up next? Yet Steven Strasberg go for Washington against a Leasha Greg I meant Max Scherzer, he's mad. Max. Excuse me, I wrote it down, different eye colors. I wrote it down. Maxser is the weirdest thing, Greaffer, it's two different. I feel like it seen that before. It wasn't always that prominent though, was it really even

back to his tiger's these m all right? I had some kind of conspiracy theory in my mind that he went and got like one of his eye colors changed, a contacting younger or something like that, but he isn't like that. It is very it is very interesting thing going on there with Max Scherzer's eyes. I do appreciate that his his fun um. You can't see the Max right now, but anyway, yes, his funcow, different eye colors, very accurate. I appreciate that. Chus Or last night was awesome.

He went six innings, allowed six hits, two runs, only one of them were earned. He walked when he struck out ten on the other side, at least seen did enough. Five innings, three hits, two runs, two walks, three ks. Why am I going in this game? Well, Howard Kendrick one. The second thing is who got the save in Milwaukee last night? The bullpen blewett uh for Max Scherzer and co.

And for the Brewers. With Josh Hayter needing a night off, Jeffy Jeffers pitched the eighth, and Junior Ghetta pitched the ninth for his second save of the year. Frank Jeffers in the eighth, Garrett in the ninth. So my first initial instinct was to go back to the play by play and see who was up in the eighth for the Nationals. Kurt Suzuki, Brian Dozer, William Dafoe, Wi Willim

Defoe was an actor. That's right in the ninth where you saw Junior Gara, Michael Taylor, Carter Cure Room and not Aaron Nola, but someone named Noel still filling in a first base for them right now. Not Matt Adams. Okay, he's got him. What do you make of this in Milwaukee? I think it's just very clearly Junior Gara, former starting pitcher. He's been pitching well out of the bullpens. I I honestly can't answer that question. But he does have two saves on the year. Josh Hayder has nine. They have

twelve as a team. Alex Wilson had one as well earlier on in the season. He is not when they signed him, but it does seem like Junior Gara is the handcuff here behind Josh Hayter, and it's not Jeremy Jeffers, who has also pitched. Well, you got two point zero eight er a one batting average against Junior Gara a little bit better, one eight teen batting average against a zero point seven nine whip. He's get seventeen strikeouts and twenty and the third so not getting a ton of strikeouts.

Listen to this, great, this is crazy. Junior Garra has seventeen strikeouts and twenty and one third endings pitched. Josh Hayter has seventeen in two thirds innings pits, so about to three innings. Lest again, Junior gar had seventeen strikeouts. How many do you think Josh Hayter had? He's twenty two more strikeouts. That's absolutely insane. I don't I'm not reading too much into this, Greg. I just think if anything were to happen to Josh Hayder, it would probably

go to a committee approach kind of thing. But I think as of right now, Junior Garat is the next man. If you're not in a key re league, should you drop Carter keep him? Not yet. I'm not ready to give up. You know, we made a lot of references to Alex Bregman when Hard keep him first, I got called up Alex Bregman did something very similar to this, and then he took off. I'm not gonna open. We'll

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watch horse racing or only the Kentucky Derby. I told him I owed a horse and I go to the metal age every day. It's like, okay, okay, okay. They basically wanted to talk whether we do we're good talking about or not. I said, yeah, I just wondered, do you guys like follow this top fs? It just sort of week days before you gamm eastern one pm Pacific only on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network bff's Fantasy Sports

Radio Network Stanford, Susman. And while most of America was watching the Rockets and the Warriors of the hell of Baseball game that's going on out there in San Diego, the Padres and the Politans would have thought the Politans worst record in the Padres year at this point. Padre said at twenty and sixteen, the Mets now sixteen and nineteen. After getting shut out in San Diego last night, Chris Paddocks everything that fantasy experts wanted him to be when

this season began. Only Hazy s Lozardo was there as well. Paddocks seven and two thirds, just four hits allowed, zero runs allowed, one walk, eleven strikeouts. He threw just pitches. On the other side, take with the ground was very good as well, just not as good. He went seven intings a lot of four hits, two runs, one walk, and he struck out seven. Franc This one was good.

It was really good. And you're right about most of America watching the Rockets in the war as I had that on the big screen and then I had Paddock and de Grom on the laptop, so I had both of those things going on at the same time, and it was well worth it. You had to watch what was going on in this game, and like Paddock was just a madman. Last night I tweeted about how angry he pitches. Greg He reminds me of Jake Peavy back

in the day. A lot of people used to call Jake Peve the bulldog you watching pitch, he was just like snarl at people while yesterday and addic dude a lot of the same man. He's just angry. He's striking

out Pete Alonso. He's walking off the mountain. I didn't know that he had such a rivalry with Pete Alonso until I was watching this start, and then I saw stuff like afterwards while it was going on that apparently on Instagram, Chris Paddock commented on MLB's post about he de Alonso winning the National League Rookie of the Week, Rookie of the Month or something like that. He was like, yeah, we'll see, We'll see on Monday eyes emoji. So he

was fired up for this one. He was ready. Um, he got the best out of Pete Alonso as well, and he just been awesome. Uh. Seven and two thirds and eleven strike outsoles were both season highs from obviously career highs its first season in in the big leagues, twenty one swinging strikes. Overall, this Mets lineup has not been good over the past couple of weeks or so, so I would not be opposed to streaming starting pitchers.

I almost went as far as to suggest a Cal Quantrill as a streamer tonight on my Patreon Greg, but I was like, oh, I can't do that. Yeah, it must have been bad, but I don't think I can. I can recommend. I considered picking Listen. I consider picking up Cal Quantrill, who has the project pedigree, uh, former top pick for San Diego, who has not exactly lit the world on fire in the minor leagues. But I'm interested in Cal Quantrill to see what he couldn't become

in the major leagues. By the way, I just randomly looks up because you're talking about Padocks. I looked in Hazis Lizardo see if I can find an information. There's something been written about him in like the last couple of weeks, and we started a pro throwing program about two weeks ago. Now do you know where he went to high school? The answer is Marjorie Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida.

Oh really out. And he was supposed to actually have uh face live hitters, a live batting practice UM session in at Stoneman Douglas because he still works out there in the off season. I say, Anthony Risen also went there, by the way, Yeah, I remember he did it. He did a lot after everything that happened there. He was just obviously spoke openly about it and everything. But yeah, I mean I would expect Luzardo. I don't know what's

realistic early June. Maybe we should get an update from us. Yeah, maybe. So he's not supposed to be ready for the minors. I think I just right until the end of May. So you look at after the All Star breaking back. Anyway, Paddocks speached to being ridiculous and phenomenal and well great, we have to address the elephant in the room too going on here with Paddock. What do you do if

you own him? You ride the way and enjoy yourself. Well, you know, we get more of an update yesterday regarding his his endings limit, and they're saying hundred and fifty innings. I guess what. He just went seven and two thirds last night adds a decent chunk to that total. The saying I don't know that his value will ever be higher than it is right now in Keeper in Dynasty, I'm not trading him. I mean, look, I'm just unless I get give me your five best players, and I'm

trying to win it all this year. Outside of that, I'm holding onto Chris Paddock. But in a redraft, Greg, are you really? Are you? Is that how you actually feel? You're just you're just riding it out and then if it comes, you know, once we get to July, August, September, like they'll skip him a few times through the rotation, maybe just give him a phantom ay Elston and whatever.

You'll just take whatever you can get from him whenever he starts, because right now you might be able to turn him into a top twenty, top five starting pitcher who maybe gives you a hundred and eighty innings. You're not interested in that in all honesty, I look at Chris Paddock and I think more along the lines of what you were just saying the second half of your

statement that this team is contending. A team that is built to contend right now with Madame Machado and Eric has right and it certainly the future as well, but a team that has not been in the playoffs in a long time. I want to win now. I know that the update with a hundreds maybe he winds him in the bullpen at some point for the playoffs. But I don't just don't think he just shuts down and goes away. They don't think that happens, And I think down the stretch, I think he could. He'll wind up

contributing to your team. Do you think we could have like a Walker Bueller situation on our hands here? Similarly, how last year he goes hundred and thirty seven but then they kind of saved some of it for the playoffs. Who he ends up going like even when the playoffs combined, it was like a hundred and seventies something. You see that as like a real situation for Chris Pattick. Well, that would put him right around one forty for the season, and then then they'll say whatever else for if they

make the playoffs. Obviously, I mean, we've got a long way to go for the baseball season. Maybe they're playing like a wild card game. I would imagine he'd be the starting pitcher for that. A lot can change from now to the wild Card game in October. Right now, there is no doubt that Chris Paddock is the best picture on the San Diego Padres. It's not even close. No it's not it's not close. I'm not doubt in the town. I am realizing how good he is. I mean,

the guy was acstlutely nasty. He's only allowed one walk, or exactly one walk, in six of seven starts. His commanded is exactly what it was made out to be. His fastball changeup combination is awesome. He has a twelve to six curveball that he mixes in. He's absolutely legit. Just worry about the longevity of his season. Maybe maybe there's something that we come back to and maybe like a month or two from now, but as we get closer to that ending's limit, it's gonna be harder and

trading away. You know what I just found out. By the way, what another note as we continue on, Mike Florio still plays in an expit league. Oh no, this is how you roll your rise about something over there. There is nothing to do with John Gray. This is just he's he's an expit league, right Like there's something that's just slain to the advanced metrics. They just don't care about the results, and I think that's what Mike Florio is. You know, Sarah's tweeted out the picture who

were most projected to bounce backed. Based on Steamer. The number one picture is Corbyn Burns. Corn Burns is filthy, right. He also allows Homer Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer, Homer right, the option the miners that called back up what he do. Homer's like this a lot. I stow stand by. The corn burn stuff is absolutely filthy. It is filthy. But

he sucks. That's all I got. Yeah, and he's not I mean from a fantasy perspected to like they've already said he's going to continue to be a reliever, like he's not gonna be a starting pitcher. So I mean, I think he has nasty stuff. He does nasty, it's sick. You got to wipe out. But he's not gonna translate. It's because he sucks. It's probably gonna come at some point, Greg, But I mean just from a fantasy perspective, if you're looking down the line, obviously, like if someone if you

could buy him low in dynasty, sure that's fine. And like redraft, he's not gonna help you this year. I mean even as a reliever, maybe he'll get you some strikeouts, but he does have a ar a. Greg got awful he does have the three seven Oh, he's got a forty eight percent home run the fly ball ratio. I mean, that's just insane. I know he he pitches in Miller Park, but that's insane overall. I just don't think that he's gonna help you much this season. But what you play

in the Dynasty League, look to buy low. I do think that he has good stuff, but you're right. I mean the results have not shown that, and I I can't defend the results right now, but the underlying numbers say that he should be better. Gram As I said, it was very very good last night for a message. You got no help with the bat at all. Just four hits total four that's all night long, two which came up from the league. He was having like PTSD from last year. You know what, No, because I think

he was just WinCE. I just think he was happy to pitch well again. He I mean, look at his his past two starts. I mean he's a lot of tour and runs over his last fourteen and he's pitched over his last two starts. He had a bit of a blow up on April against the Milwaukee Brewers. It's the Milwaukee Brewers and that was his first game coming back from the flu. Whatever was going on in his elbow basically, um so give him a pass for that one. But his past who starts, he's been pretty standard, Jacob

the Graham, Um how do you feel about him overall? Right? Now? Do you still have the elbow thing in the back of your mind? If you're a Jacob gramowner, you know what, I don't actually own the gun anywhere you need, and I wouldn't have been a post to it. I would have taken him in the main event. He didn't make it to me. You're the Mets fan. Is the elbow in your back of your mind every start? Um? No matter who the picture is for, the Yobo is in

the back of my mind. Um No. He had a similar issue to the beginning of last year and then it proved to be Um So, no, I'm not really worried. If he says he's fine, he's fine, but I don't trust the Mets managing him if that's the real question. Alright, So not really, he seems fine. So there you go. Martinos, as the resident Met fan here on the show, are you how concerned are you with Like, Yeah, I was

just gonna say everything I was going without. One by one, I was like, all right, how are you by every one of them? I am concerned by everyone except Petlan's own Conforto you well, yeah, um, I mean I understand Pete's gonna go through some ups and downs as a rookie, you know, but Conforto is still a beast though. I mean, when has this guy ever had protection in the lineup? Maybe when Cespitas was healthy. But I'm very worried about Cano. He's been hit on the hand twice and he hasn't

rebounded from it at all. Um nimmos like an almost an over thirty stretch. I mean, it's just really, it's just awful. It's just it's just like last year. Um, and I don't really see them turning it around at all. I would put Jeff McNeil in that category too, just so far this year. Squirrel, Yeah, I mean, his his bat to ball skills. He doesn't strike out again, He's a young Daniel Murphy, makes a lot of contact, goes two or four last night, uh three, fifty batting average

right now. I mean, this guy is gonna be a legitimate contributor for batting average. Outside of that, I don't know that he's gonna do anything else, Like I don't know that he has a lot of pop. I don't know that he has a lot of speed. But the batting average is gonna be there, and if he's leading off, he's gonna score runs. Uh. If you know, if these guys start to get going again, I mean Pete Alonzo over four or three strikeouts, but again, I think they'll

be all right. I was very surprised to see come back soon too, so maybe that's a boost. Where still they were talking about shortstop a little bit because Rosario has had like ten errors in the past, like six games. Yeah, I saw Hetcherea in the lineup last night and it was like, why is this guy in the line I don't, well, there's there's a lot of questions like, well, he does play good defense, and I saw some Mets Pete writers

sweeting about it last night. I think it was the como he was saying hegel has made at least two plays already to that I I question a Metrosario would have made. So that's why he's in the lineup. They finally care about defense now. If they come back and they put short then they clearly don't care about defense, which has been the case for a long time with

the Mets. You would think they're kind of a team more built around their pitching staff obviously, like as good as they can be, you would think that they would surround them with better defenders overall. But that has the pitching staffs that can't hold on two runners on base, like Noah, I mean, I mean it's just terrible. I mean Wilson Ramos too, That's like, that's a guy who's been awful. I think I own him in one league. I mean, he just hasn't been able to get the

ball off the ground. There's been a bunch of groundballs too, can't throw anybody out, So I mean it's the same old story. They haven't fixed any issues, so it's most of the same stuff. But they have Peterlanzo man and that's the only difference. Yeah, I would say I feel bad for you and other Mets fans, uh, Martino, but

I'd be lying. In this San Diego game last night, Kirby Yates needed the night off and I had also blown the last couple of it was Craig Stammon getting the four outstad coming in the eighth for Chris Pattick getting the out and staying in there in the ninth, Stammon's first saving out of the year. Curby rates job is not in danger. But Frankie, if anything happens to Curby Rates, it looks like stabbing is the handcuff. Yeah.

I don't have my updated closer tracker coming out these next couple of days on my Patreon account ding, but yeah, basically do who's the closer for each team? Who's the handcuff, who's the next man up? And then who's like the next man up after that? If you want to get real deep and just to have an idea. So I think Craig Stammon is unquestionably the next man up. I've had him as that all season long. Uh, the strikeouts haven't been there this year for Stammon, but he hasn't

been walking anybody. He's got two seven five e r A, he's got three six seven x fips, so overall it's getting fifty ground balls. If anything were to happen to Yates, who's been, you know, one of the three five best closers in Fantasy so far this year, I think Craig Stammon would be the next man up. Speaking of closers, let me it out to Los Angeles where the Dodgers takes up a victory against the Atlanta Braves. As Walker Bueller goes seven innings five it's three runs, eight strikeouts.

Would you think of Buller's performance? I have cautious optimism here, Greg, and here is here's why I'll say it. I love that he didn't walk anyone yesterday because we've seen a few random starts. This here where he struggled with command, and that's not usually something that Walker Bueller struggles with. He does give up two home runs yesterday, once to Freddy Freeman, once to Mark Cacus. Those came later on in the game, you know, third time through the lineup.

That was Freeman in the sixth, that was Mark Cacas in the seventh. Overall, I was impressed with what I saw. He had a strikeouts that was a season high for Walker Buler. He goes seven innings. But here's why I say cautious, Greg. He through se or seemed fastballs. He

had a hundred pitches and through seventy five fastballs. I'll throw this your way because this is my thinking and this is just me being speculative, another conspiracy theory, if you will, why is he shying away from throwing breaking balls, Gregg, That's what I want to know, and I'll keep going back to what we heard in spring training. He was dealing with dead arm, something in his arm. It didn't feel right. He was going with what was working last night.

That's fine fastballs. Yet thirteen swinging strikes overall on hundred pitches. It was his best start. He was establishing the fast the strike zone. I read about it afterwards. Dave Robert said, this was my design. Is what we wanted to do. We wanted him to establish the fastball. We wanted to see good command of the fastball, and that's exactly what

we saw. But I will just store out there Greg that I am, ever so slightly worried that he isn't throwing as many breaking pitches this year, and it might have something to do with the arm. I'll just store it out there. So my answer to last night was you talked about how he has struggled this year, how you haven't been confident in him. I think he had a game plan. I'm just going to work my fastball in more that I have get that confidence and if it's working, awesome. If it's not, I'll go back and

trying to throw the junk. And last night, for the most part, very successful with those seventy five fastballs. I think as the field gets better, he'll go back to the breaking ball. I think last night isn't necessarily a sign a major sign to come. But I'm not discouraged by the thought by the start, and we're encouraged by the start. Yeah, I like it overall too because I don't want to sound like I'm downplaying it. This is another great start that you needed to see from Walker Bueller.

Of course, you would have liked to not see the home runs late in the start, but again it was the third time through the lineup. He still went deep into this game. He through a hundred pitches, seven innings, eight strikeouts. It was overall very good start and didn't walk anyone. So I like it. I don't want to downplay it too much, but I want to see moving forward because overall this season, Gregg he hasn't really been using his breaking stuff as much he's used he is

strowing more fastballs. He was starting about like sixty fast fastballs coming into the start. Well of his pitches in the start, we're fourcing fastballs. It did work for him. It's something that I'm going to pay attention to. I'll just I'll throw it out there. I have cautious optimism when it comes to walk with me. Let's take a break. I want to imagine you got the save for l A last night. We just how I got there, IVNS a couple other things like Chris Taylor and see how

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career save. If anything happens to Kelly Jensen. Do you believe Youuriosity the guy? It's a situation to pay attention to moving forward. Everyone Joe Kelly has been an adject failure in this bullpen so far this year. I think they like Pairebias more as a set up guy too, and he struggled with giving up home runs in the past too, So there's not a lot of talent here in the back end overall, or at least guys haven't shown up. Um. Dylan Floro is another one who's performed

well thus far but doesn't really have closing experience. I think Urias would be in the mix. Maybe it would be a thing where they where they play matchups. Maybe it would be a little bit of him, a little bit of Pedro Bayez based on who's coming up in the ninth. But it was it was definitely interesting to see you, you you know, Walker Bueler handed off to Tobias, then handed off to Julio Urias. So getting major contributions from their young players here are the Dodgers. But it's

not like Urias can't handle it. He's got thirty one strikeouts and twenty five and the third and he's pitched so far this year on batting average against. We all saw Kenley Jansen get bombed on Sunday, gave up the Grand Slam to Hunter Renfro, which really has inflated his e r A. He still has twelve saves and in

fourteen save opportunities. It's not the same picture that he has been in years past, where he was like the number one closer off the board going in the third or fourth round as lights out as he has been going back to last year I think, um it was seventeen. Going as deep into the postseason as he did, then he kind of messed him up. He's been doing that for so long. He's just not the same picture that he once was. But overall, he still has been pretty

good thus far this season. Um, but I think it's a fair question now that we see who are your eyes getting the mix? So if anything were to happen to Kelly Jansen, I think it would be a mixing Maxing Greg mix and match is usually what it turns into in these bullpens. When the closer goes down, you're asked will be a part of that. But he could

also get back into their starting rotation. Although I have a feeling ros stripling will be probably the next guy up if there is an injury in that Dodgers rotation. Chris Taylor at his third steel last night. As you mentioned earlier in the program, Frank, you got a little bit of hot as of late two or four last night. A couple of r B I. Uh, Batty average is still to thirty one. Oh, he still sits under three hundred. But Taylor has been a little bit hotter as of late.

Any injuries in him, and if so, how much, I would say in a head to head daily league where you can set your lineup and get him in there whenever he's in the lineup, I think that makes a lot of sense. If any in any deeper leagues, anything deeper than twelve teams, like for me twelve teamers. I'm not there yet with him, Greg, because I still do

have some questions about the playing time. But again, head to head daily leagues where you could set your line up, you could just get him in there whenever he plays, or anything deeper than the twelve fourteen teams are deeper. If he was out there, if he was dropped, he is only owned in well. I wish I could tell you Greg, actually, Uh, he's his name is Taylor. He's so not a lot of people still overall holding onto

uh to Chris Taylor. Here. I thought he would be owned in a little bit of a little bit less than that Greg. But he is hot. I mean, it just tells you how slow was already got off too. Even with how hot he has been been, He's still only hitting two thirty over the past two weeks A three sixteen batting average PS, two home runs, eleven ribbies, two stolen bases, five runs scored. I kind of like

Chris Taylor coming into the year. Um that was before we knew that he gat Hernandez was going to take over as the starting second baseman, just because I thought it was cheap exposure to the Dodgers lineup. He has a little bit of a power speed combination. He has played each of their past six games, so it is something to pay attention to. Head to head capital head to head daily leagues, and deeper than twelve teams. I would be looking for him right now, but both teams.

I'm not there yet. Great already twelve teamers. Not yet for Chris Taylor. You had Ozzie Alvis still his fourth base of the year, Dancy Swanson. He's double played partner still his third base of the year. Uh Swanson last night was betting six one for three, betting two sixty three. I mentioned going into the break Frank that I wanted to mention I wanted to mention John Means. And what John Means was. Now, I don't know if it was you, guys or somebody else on Twitter, to be honest with you,

that said hey, and he interested in John Means. This is last week. I'm like, no, I don't have interest in John Means. And then last night at home against Boston, the inspens really really well the finale and was seven innings, three hits, one run, He walked nobody and he struck out four. His season ear a sits at two point four eight. Josh Smith pitch for Boston. Nothing to see there. Boel Gibbon's got his fourth save and clearly solidified himself after a rough start as a close because we went

with a month without a save. But he's the closer out there in Baltimore. But more importantly, Frank, talk to me about John Means, who now sits at four and three. He started this season in the bullpen as recently as two three weeks ago. He's in the bullpen. Now, he's very firmly entrenched in the rotation. He said, I believe his last three starts win five innings, four hits, one run, struck out six started after that, both against Chicago Whites. The White Sox by the way, five innings, six hits,

four runs to homer and only struck out two. And then last night against Boston, I gave you the line he had eleven ground ball outs. Frank, what do you know about John Means? So I started looking into him last night once I saw his line as well. I mean, you just can't ignore going seven innings pitched only one earned run against the Boston Red Sox. It's not Boston Celtics, Greig.

But I'll do you one further. You you mentioned his last three starts, his last four starts, two against the White Sox, two against the Red Sox twenty two and pits seven earned runs, only fifteen strikeouts, only three walks as well, though over a four star stretch as a two point eight six e r A, the underlying numbers for John Means are not I popping. To say the least, He's got a two point four e E r A.

His X fit is four point four three. He does get groundballs, as you mentioned, forty percent at the time, uh. The swinging strike rate above average as well well above average almost fourteen per cent. I do have some interest in deeper leagues. If you wanted to take a shot on John Means over like a Merrill Kelly. Sure. I mean, he's still gonna have a lot of starts against teams

in the American League East. He doesn't pitch in a great ballpark in Camneen Yards, but he's gonna continue to get an opportunity because the Orioles pitching staff is just really bad. So as long as he's getting that opportunity, and as long as he's pitching pretty well again at two point over his last four, you can take a shot. But I do think that there is gonna be some regression the division that he plays in, the ballpark that he pitches in. It's just it doesn't all really add

up to being fantasy viable Greg overall. But if you wanted to take a shot while he's pitching well, dropped like a Merrill Kelly for him, I don't have a problem with it. John Means his second start this week. He's on Sunday at home against the Angels. Meryll Kelly, who's the example you gave the second start this week against against the Braves. Who would you rather start? Means? People start means okay? Yeah. The Braves overall this season

have been still a pretty good lineup. The Angels up and down a little bit inconsistent outside of Mike Trial. You don't really worry about much there. Um, I'll take John Means. Okay, So John Means will be your guy in that scenario. As we said, Baltimore won this one four to one. All of their runs come on a grand slam by Jonathan VR four VR. It was his fourth homer of the season. Um the hit that he had, Um and that was kind of it was a big

blow for Baltimore. No other runs were scored. Speaking of pitching and guys that you liked, Frank Martine Perez went into Toronto and that was the reaction that we just got. Martine Pere has seven innings, two hits, walked to but he struck out nine. Allow you can know Ronsin's a crossed the board for Toronto yesterday. Martin Perez now improved to five and oh on the season, Greggy, give me all the Martine Perez. I know it was against the

Toronto Blue Jays. They are a very cold lineup right now. Um, I thought he used cold lineup and not bad lineup. They're cold because I assume that they're gonna get better. I mean, is Viao mcguar gonna be this bad all season long? No, but everybody else will. Everybody else will probably be Come on, don't say that when you're leading it, when your top three hitters or Eric so guard Ferreddi Galvi's and Randall grit Chick. I don't expect much. I

don't care what their averages are this season. M any doon't expect much. But the reinforcements are coming great, not that soon. Frankie Gavon video is mashing in the miners right now. We'll see, we shall see. I think that the Toronto Blue Jays line up will get better. There have been a team that you could take advantage of. They swing and miss a lot, they strike out a lot, and Martine Perez showed that off last night. He was

absolutely awesome. Greg Um, you know, he had the seven seven shout out and he's here only two hits, two walks, nine strikeouts. The nine strikeouts were tied the career high. They're obviously a season high him as well. He's now five and now he's got a two point eight three e r A, get fifteen swinging strikes on a hundred and two pitches. Greg I thought it was interesting he threw his change up twenty six times. That was a season high for him, get five swinging strikes on that

change up. So he's doing things a little bit differently this year. I think it's an additioned by subtraction from Martine Perez because his fastball, according to pitch values on fan grafts, has been a very bad pitch the past couple of years, and now he's adopted this cutter that he's throwing about, you know, thirty five percent of the time this year. So I think the fact that he's using his fourcing fastball lesson using his cutter more and starting to to integrate a change up to now that

he's using um, I'm intrigued. I'm really buying in. It's the increased velocity from Martine Perez as well. His last three starts twenty one innings pitched, twelve hits, four walks, one earned run, twenty strikeouts. Greg, I'm all in, all in, all in on Martinez, all in on Marty Perez. In our own Frankie Stan I would drop Meryl Kelly for him. I could. I could probably find some other starting pitchers that I would drop for him to he he needs to be owned. I agree at this point Morton Perez

has done enough that he has to be owned. He should be own. Pick him up. You gotta pick him up. He's got the second start this week as well, Yes he does. That's part of the reason we were trying to get on him. We spoke about him yesterday with Modica too. I'm looking at the most dropped players in Yahoo right now. Vince Velaska has gone. I would drop him until of Martine Perez as well. Kevin Gausman, the

gas man, more like the gas can. He's gone from Martine Perez, Carlos Rodan, He's who knows what's going on with him. He's about to have Tommy John surgery. He's gone. Um Felix turning. Why was Felix changing his own in the first place. I know he has two starts, but come on, that guy's like a shell of his former self. He shouldn't have even been on your team. Gone through Palm, RAN's gone, Jeff some margin gone, Kyle Freeland gone, an Indiscofani I like to but gone. Look he's gone all

gone from Martine Perez. He's the guy, He's the top pictures that needs to be added right now. I hope I got two to everyone, Greg, I'm all in, I'm all in. You know a lot of phrases I never thought that I would say, are happening this year Greg and being being excited about Martine Perez saying I'm all in. A Martine Perez has to be at the top of the list or the top grade. I never thought i'd say. Never's on. Marty Tweaky your twinkies eight, Marty, Marty. Marcus

Struman dropped to one in five last night. The ear a sistance under three. A little regression alert here, uh six runs allowed, five of them were earned, two walks, two k's eight hits against the ferocious Twins lineup, the ferocious This is now two starts in a row. Now for Marcus Stroman that we're starting to see a little bit of regression. But he wasn't going to pitch to the sub one or sub two ear A that he

had all season long. We knew that Uh still struggles with getting swings and misses, filthy walks too many guys at times. Uh finally allowed his first home run last night, and not only did he allow his first, he allowed his second. He allowed to home runs last night too, So there was gonna be some regression coming for Marcus Stroman. Still. Overall in the season, greggy, he's been very good. He's got a two point nine six ear A, but three

point five five walks for nine. It's just he has a lot of movement on his pitches and I think at times he doesn't know where they're going to go. As well. He has has he struggles with the strike zone at times, but he just doesn't strike out enough batters to mitigate his walks. Has always kind of been an issue for him. He's able to wiggle out of it at times because he has the fifty percent groundball right, so he gets a lot of double playballs, but doesn't

really have a good defense behind him. To Vladi mcgurero is not going to help out that defense, so overall he's going to continue to regress. He's got a two nine six ar A. He's got a three nine six x fit. I would probably bet on him landing closer to that x fit. I think he's probably more so three seven three e r A pictures just because of where he pitches the defense behind him. The American League Geese as well, the Yankees are hopefully gonna get healthy

at some point. The Red Sox offense is going to bounce back. So there there's gonna continue to be some more regression for Marcus Stroman. That doesn't mean drop him, but he's just not gonna put up the same numbers that he was early on in the season. Gree More. Yeah, Marcus Stroman, you can't drop him unfortunately, as you mentioned, but maybe Coastle was coming. Yeah. No, Well, a lot of people like Marcus Stroman. You know, they've seen what he's done in like the World Baseball Classic the past

couple of years. He's a fiery dude. Uh. You know, people are attracted to his personality, greg, the way he carries himself on act. He's a fun guy to watch, so I think that's why he might get a little bit overrated at time. You fancy and I've I've been a Marcus Stroman supporter in the past, but I think we have too much of a sample size now. I think he has really good stuff. You watch him pitch, but for whatever reason there are, he's just not consistent enough.

He doesn't put it together altogether enough for me. I think if you were able to harness all of the talent that he has on a more consistent basis, then you know, maybe potentially he would be a top thirties starting pitcher for a fantasy purpose, and he'd be able to help out the Blue Jays a little bit more. Now there's a chance that he gets traded. They've already

talked about that. There was a report from and Rosenthal over the past couple of weeks that the Blue Jays are gonna be fire sailing anyone who's over the age of twenty five basically, so that would include Marcus Stroman. I think he's talented, but for whatever reason, Greg, he's never been able to put everything together on a consistent basis. Nope, hes very very frustrating for Minnesota. Though. I wanted to have a conversation here on Hoy Polanco because he had

the seventh whole run last night. I mentioned previously at the beginning of the season, I thought Eddi Rosarios was underappreciated player in baseball, like Polanco might kind of hold that mantel now Yea, So we actually had a question Greg and I feel like it's a good time to talk about this. We just spoke about Jonathan VR as

well from Nick Luciano on Twitter. He asked us to rank we could kind of maybe do a little bit of a deeper dive on each one of these guys, but Tim Anderson, Elvis Andrews, Hory Polanco, Fernando Tatis, and Johnny v R. Five. Really it seems like now under rated, undervalued shortstops coming into the season. They're all mashing. He actually brought up a pretty cool confident I haven't really thought about. He said, Hory Polanco reminds him a little

bit of Jose Ramirez past couple of years. He doesn't have the same speed, He's not gonna run as much. I mean, even with Josierra is struggling this year. I mean, I think he still has nine or ten stolen basis, so he's been up there. But the bat to ball skills are absolutely I could see that comp with Jose Ramirez because thirteen point seven percent strike out rate. He

makes a lot of contact. He's making great contact this year overall, too, when he's putting the bat on the ball forty two percent hard hit rate, hitting more fly balls, something we've also seen Jose Ramirez due the past couple of years. He's up to a fifty four percent ground ball rate. I would argue that that's even a little bit too high for a guy like Jorge Polanco, but

he has been awesome. Three seventeen A, three eight O b P, six homers, twenty runs scored, only twelve ribies because most of the time he's at the top of that lineup. But as the weather starts to heat up in Minnesota, he could potentially be better. And you know the run scored are gonna be there because he hits at the top of this lineup. Grey Polanco pretty good ball player, greg, So how do you rank him, Frank?

That was the question of Nikola Giana of I would rank him, Man, It's interesting because I guess it would depend what format you playing, because everyone else that he's kind of lumped in here is gonna give you more stolen basis. So in Rhodo he might be towards the bottom of the list. And and it's no fault of his own. It's just the fact that everyone else on this list is gonna steal basis. Anderson these the American League. In stolen basis, Elvis Andrews gives you a little bit

of a power speed combination. Bernando Tatis saw him steal like what three or four basis and and Johnny bar can run. We can talk about this a little bit more when we get back, But yeah, and and these are a lot of guys that he likes you, so I would I would like to hear from We'll break it down, but Roto, I might have to rank him a little lower. Joined the Experts Live on the air every day by calling in at April four, six, seven nine to join the Fantasy Sports Network