5/7, Part 2: Love for Bauer, RIP Vince Velasquez, and more...

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amazing guy. All those guys that declined the trade of Tommy fam and Chris Paddock for Chris Arthro or Jack Flaherty up because nobody trees and they all got declined. I was giving them a great offer. They still decline it. That's what it comes down to. And that was right now, they'd be you know, very happy. What again, Tommy fam also had a monster day yesterday. He's having a monster season overall. He's one of the best style fielders in the league right now. Um is that a keeper league

is a keeper league. I think you have to hold Paddock then, So we talked about this a little bit in the first hour. If you played in a re draft league, at what point do you kind of poy with the idea of selling Paddock because of the innings limit or do you just ride it out and say, are you even if I only get a hundred innings, they're gonna be really good a hundred forty innings. I'm

just gonna keep him. See in like a league where where we're playing in the pit league where E R A and whip matters more, and uh, the innings don't matter as much. Have to head categories league yet, right, you don't need to I think you hold. You don't need to trade him because the innings limit isn't really gonna affect you as much. Whereas you're in the points league, innings mean a lot. And I think in a redraft points league, I would consider selling. He's at an absolute

high top twenties starting pitcher. You get something really good for him right now? What is it I would have to do to pop into my head immediately? Greg Jack Flaherty. I think I would do that. I would give up Paddock to get Jack Flaherty. I watched Jack Flaherty pitch multiple times this year. He's got filthy he so he struggled on the road so far this year. His home road splits are very bad, and he's had something of matchups again. He faced the Brewers I think three times already.

His underlying numbers are really good, though, if you can make that happen, I know it's hard to part with Paddock in the pit League. I traded away Pete Alonzo to get Steven Strossberg. It was hard for me to do because I've loved watching Pete Alonzo play. He's been awesome. I didn't want to trade him but to get back a starting picture. And and before I even made the trade, um, James Paxson had gotten hurt too, so I kind of

needed a starting picture. I had to do it. So sometimes you just you kind of even if you really like a player, you kind of just gotta swallow your pride and whatever. Let me see what I could get for this guy. But if you're thinking about it logically, as as much as it pains me to say, I think Paddock is awesome, but if you do have concerns about the endings limit at some point in a redraft, especially like a points league, I would throw him out there, and I think you might be able to get a

top twenty starting picture and return. I like Jack Flaherty a lot many No I do too. I agree. I tried to that. That's one of the things I tried to do, was a Paddock and fan for for Flaherty declined. If I did Paddock and you could do, there's people out there who will accept that trade, but it's hard. Now, you're right, I like that deal you made with Strasburg. Starting pictures are just super valuable, especially ones that are that good. Especially in our league. We're in a fourteen

team league with nine pictures starting in our lineup. There's nine starting pictures every day. We gotta plug in. In a fourteen league, you're throwing scrubs out there, then, you know what I mean. There's a lot of teams that are throwing just scrubs out there. So to get a picture like that in return for Pete Alonzo, which you could get from you know, you get a similar season maybe from a Christian Walker, maybe not, but at least maybe a little less, whereas you're gaining so much in

the Strasburg, especially after the injury you just got. I think that's a great deal. Getting pitching is just hard to do. It's hard to trade for pitching right now. Right, just to let you inside the mind of some of the listeners and watchers and how they feel about Chris Paddock. William Friedman, no effing way a moving Paddock, and I

think that's how most people would feel but think. But it's also when you react that way, there's no better time because that everyone feels that way about Everybody wants Paddock right now. I'm just throwing it out there. I wouldn't want again. I understand how funny is to watch. You also have to remember it's not even just the way he's pitching, right, it's the feeling of fantasy owners that they got it right, that they nailed this young

guy was gonna be the guy. They got him in the middle rounds of their draft and they nailed it. You have that as well. It's like an ego boost a little bit. But here's the thing. The best fantasy owners are going to be the smart ones that sell because you can't have attachments to these guys. The best fantasy players don't have attachments to these guys. And when you have like this personal attachment, I don't want to let him go. I picked him right, and you know,

I'm just gonna ride him out. It might work, but you have you know that innings cap is there, and the and the logical and the smart thing to do is to sell him at some point, And now is the time you're gonna get the most out of him. I mean, who knows. Maybe you get a little more in a couple of weeks, maybe as another two great starts. Now he's had an all time high, you know value. But how much more value you gonna get out of him than what you're getting right now? You know what

I mean? I don't know that it's ever gonna be higher. Like he's got a one ar a. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news. I feel like a Chris Paddock fan clubs about to barge in here, like throw tomatoes at me or something. He's got a five year A, he's got a three three X fit, he's got a one seventy six badbit against right now. Yea, even if he's the best picture for baseball, there's gonna be some regression. I'm storing out there without down. He's

he's awesome, he's really fun to watch. But I'll just I'll throw it out there. It's almost impossible to sustain a rookie to sustain one five five r a one point seven whit like that's that's Clayton Kershore in his prime, Like you know, getting that. You know, do you know what team he came for, Greg? And what the trade was? I saw this last night. Yes, I'll ask Ventraventra, do you know what team Chris Paddick came from before the Padres? Was it the Red Sox? It wasn't It was the

Miami Marlins. And for who Fernando Rodney like five years ago? Straight up. Now, I don't know what if there was anything else involved, but and you know what, I started instantly thinking about this, Greig. This is the same Padres organization that traded James Shields away to get Fernando Tatis Jr. The Padres are crushing it right now. Yeah, and then let's let's take this once up step further the Marlins.

And look, it was the ownership group before Jeter that made a lot of these trades and the general managers whatever. But they are also the same team that traded away Luis Castillo to get Dan Straley Padres Marlins. Well, to be fair, that that that got reversed over here, that well, Luis Castio tree got got reversed with the Podres because a J. Pelor lied to the to the Marlins. Wait, so was Luis Casti originally be part of he was was originally traded to the Padres in the this what

was the what was the deal? Remember this now? It was for a bunch of players and Louis Castillo. That trade got reversed because the Padres had lied about their players being hurt. They traded the Marlins. It was and I remember it was some starting pitcher like failed the physical or something like that. It was Andrew Cashner. Wasn't it was Andrew Cashner trade? I want to say, yeah, yeah, it was Colin It was Colin Ria. Yes, it was CoA, Yes,

it was the Andrew Cashner trade. Though yeah, right now, it was Louise Castiolan just didn't want anything to do with Louise Castio. Huh, they did not want this guy. No injured reliever card to Caps was involved, Cass he was good for a second. Remember is going to be the next big clos right along with Kevin Quackenbush. Jared Cosart was another one involved that who was also highly crowded too. Yeah, so oh Mike in this the Fernando Rodney trade was actually straight up Chris Paddock for Fernando

Marlin's Marlin. Man, Oh my goodness, gracious to me. Honestly, I don't even remember Rodney on the Marlins, Like I remember when it was half a season. I don't remember. They don't even remember one of the Marlins. It was like it was him and um it was the guy A j. Ramos were and they were kind of making a run that year. Here Brad Ziegler might have even been on that they were they were kind of making a run. Um it was you know, Stanton was hot.

The outfielders, it was Haim Mozuna yellow and like everyone was kind of jelly d Gordon. That might have been a year or one of the years that he had like the batting title. But we can't bash the Mallins

too much. I know this ever is bad, but they also won two World Series there a very young franchise technically because they haven't been around that long, and they won the World Series where no money they got these guys and they gave him all away the year after both those world series, so the team completely fell up. But they still won two old series in like a decade span, so that's pretty good. It's not good. You haven't been out in the playoffs since the teams that

haven't even won the haven't been to a World Series. No, I understand that half the Marlins way of operating. He's not good. It hasn't been good. You just don't have money. As much as we're crossing them to like you have money. That's not sure. They have money. That's bessy. Every team has money to spend. There was true, and they're also money is also not a small mine. Is also not a small market. That's that's just afforded to sign every

single team, every single team. They don't get, uh, they don't get anybody watch the games and stuff like, they don't make money from that. I mean, I know, any owner could spend any money they want, like you know, there's no cap, so you could do what you want realistically. But these small market teams, it is hard to try to figure out different ways, Like Oakland tries to figure out what you know with literally bean ball and all that stuff money ball, like you know, you try to

figure out different ways. I don't know. I like the moll I like how the Mallins won two World Series in that time. Can you name every team Fernando Ruddy has played for? Definitely out, but I can try you want, you want to try? Sure, Tampa Bay and ten of them, Bamba Bay, Miami, Oakland, Arizona, Minnesota at some point last year is either last year? Yes, gosh, um you're you're rising, the only you're rising. The first two teams he played for, um and who was he on back in the day,

and you're rising? Two others he was on. We got six You're you're missing four out of the first five clubs he played for Detroit's that's the first thing he played for. Oh yeah, it was him. And who was it do with the big Beard? Was Valverde No, No No, not him. Zumaya was a nut job He also heard himself playing guitar hero. So that's bad. That's something I can imagine, like game doing. Yeah, rope, he plays real good time. Are you we got seven? We got seven

out of ten? Yeah? There don't remember. I feel like he played. One of them is really gettable. The other two are tough. One of them that one of them hard. If it's for Baltimore Seattle, that's correct, alright, Seattle was gettable. I thought he's either two are impossible. One of them is really tough. I don't think the other one is. I give up. So after the Tigers, they traded. He said was a free agent for two years eleven million dollars with the Los Angeles Angels of Ada. I was

gonna say Angels. I thought that. I thought about that too. He was in a red jersey at some point outside of Arizona. The Mariners ultimately cut him, and he was then traded for cash considerations. This is the one that I had no recollection though. The Chicago Cups, I don't remember that. I do remember that. I don't remember that it was a short How long was he there for? Not long? Right? Like? How many appearances any making a cub uniform? Greg that's a really good question. You just

had like his fan grabs page. Oh my goodness, and Rodney, what an interesting career. You don't say what you want about the guy. He's done it for a long time. Man, He's been one of He had some really good closer years. And I brought this question up before the end of the hour. Someone askeds on Twitter at to night Nick Luciano on Twitter rank and this is gonna be tough for you. There's a few guys on this list that you really like him Anderson, Elvis Andrews, Ory Polanco, Fernando

Tatis Jr. Jonathan VR. Five shortstops who were you know, maybe Jonathan VR wasn't undervalued during draft because he was drafted highly because of his stolen basis, slightly because he also he's in Baltimore. But Elvis Andrews was a guy who was undervalued, Horry Polanco, Fernando Tatis. Obviously, once we knew he was gonna start the year in the majors, he climbed up forts but before that undervalued. And then Tim Anderson. We spoke about that a lot, and we

did our shortstop preview how he was undervalued too. So how would ranking's guy you name five, right, Polanco, Tim Anderson, Andrews, Polanco, Tatis, Johnny VR So. I think number one for me would be Tim Anderson. I agree with you. I agree as well. Uh number two I would go with, right now, Polanco. I actually just picked up Polanco Frank Lank Polanco last, did you well, he's probably doing it from a points leak perspective. If that's true, I would put Polanco second.

He's absolutely killing and point lead right. UM three would be We'll do it from a points league and then I'll do it from a RODO For me would be I think Tatis, who's the okay seen we had Andrews's Andrews VR Yeah, so I would say Tatis three, uh VR four, Andrewses last for me? Okay, from a roto perspective, I put Tim Anderson first as well. Then I would put mm hmm. I would put Andrews is killing it though, yeah, he's really good man. I would put Andrews second in RODO,

and then I would put the R Tatis man. I don't want to put Polanco last. I like Polanco a lot patting average is awesome. He's basically he's gonna hill three categories. He's gonna give you batting average, he's gonna give you home runs, he's gonna give you run scored. The RBIs might not be there because he's gonna lead off or be at the top of the lineup, and he's not really gonna give you stolen basis. So he's a three category player. They're all really good, though, Man,

I don't want to rank him last. I really don't want to. They're all, you know, Tim Anderson first, Andrews second. You know, I would put Tatis last on this list, and redraft just because he does strike out a lot. I think there'll be some regression into batting average. This is a great group, though, man, I mean would be happy to have any of them. To be honest, I would be happy to have any of them. Elvis Andrews completely proving people wrong. Year in a year out his

stack cast numbers. I was just looking at it during the break. His sprint speed is not good. It's like in the fifty three percentile. He still has six stolen bases on the year. Elvis andres and he hits in the middle of the lineup in a really good lineup in Texas, we didn't think it was gonna be that good. It's been pretty good, better than with the Great Ballpark to hidden. He's hidden third, so he's gonna give you r BIS two and runs because he's got you know,

Shoy Gallow behind him. I get you probably fifteen home runs and stolen bases. Give you the Homer's man. I feel like the Homers are like. I like like this group a lot. I like this group of shortstops a lot. But yeah, I would put Tim Anderson first, UM and yeah, I probably put put Polanco let's say, fourth, and put fifth fifth and re draft because I think there's gonna be some he strikes out a lot, there's gonna be some batting average regression a little bit for him. He's

got to come back from the injury. I want to see how he responds to that too. Right now, on May seven, with him on the IL, i'll rank him one. We'll take a break here. When we come back, I want to mention what ve alaska Is didn't didn't do last night, and his opponent Miles Nicholas, and what he did as well. We're also gonna chat about Trevor Bower's

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How hard is this? Week days to the four pm Eastern on the Fantasy Sports Network and on your popular podcast providers, Fantasy BFS, Fantasy Sports Radio Network Ventra standfell all hanging out and I meagined before I wanted to get Intovincent velasque is and what he did last night, what he didn't do. What he did do was be terrible. What he didn't do it would be good. Velaska has when four innings, four hits, five runs, five walks. He

struck out of three, allowed three home runs. On the other side, Miles Micholas was excellent seven and things, three hits, no runs, allowed, five strikeouts. We said before, we said it last week too. Despite the ear A being under four, you can certainly drop Vinny Velasquez at this point. Miles Michelis needed a good start. His ear A still hovers around four, but he got a good start against a

tough offense here. Frank, Yeah, Miles Michaelas has been bouncing back his past couple of starts, so it was good to see this, especially against a pretty good Phillies line up here, very tough one for a right handed picture navigating. He was just outstanding. Seven shut out innings, three hits, zero walks is exactly what you want to see from

Miles Mikolas. And after his really really rough started getting the ear right down to four point zero two, and I think it's going to continue to climb, to continue to fall a little bit lower than this. He's not gonna pitch to the sub three ear a that he had last year, but I think he is a picture that ken pits two amid three z r A. I think he could be in that range. I know a lot of people like to flock to or its pictures

who gets strikeouts. And I understand why because the more you have a picture that allows balls in play, the more things can go wrong. Obviously, but we've seen guys make a career out of it. What about Dallas Kiko the past couple of years, he's been able to make a career out of the young guy who gets a

lot of groundballs and pitches to contact. Miles miekle Loss, I think is a guy based on his stuff too, Like he doesn't have bad stuff, he doesn't have swinging miss stuff, but he knows how to pitch, and he knows how to induce soft contact. And he's got like a you know, a load of mid nineties fastball. He's got a pretty wicked slider. Two. It just doesn't translate to strikeouts for whatever reason when it comes to Michael Uss.

But I do I do think he's going to continue this this strand of well, I don't know what consistency that he's putting together, right liability and like as a as an SP three SP four, maybe even in some leagues I'd be fine with that. And that's the thing. A lot of people think it's like, oh, I need to get guys that strike out, so Micholos kind of isn't as rated as high. I feel like a bit

underrated because of that. Sometimes, listen, there's a lot of bad pictures out there that could strike out people that have nasty stuff. You're talking about Corbin Burns before. Um, there's other guys like Vince Alaska's who is known to be a strikeout picture, but he just gets blown up and walks a lot of guys you Sometimes it's just not good pictures. So it's not all about the strikeouts.

You gotta bite the bolt sometimes and take a guy like Micholos who can get it done and give you a solid six innings, you know, three two out of three starts, you know what I mean. He'll give you a solid game and get you the points you need or get you the start you need. And yeah, he's not gonna kay a ton of people, but that's fine. He's not an sp one. You're not drifting him an sp one. You drifting SP three or four. And I

think that's about what he'll give you. Yeah, he started off a little rough, but be starting to come around. Last three out of four starts he's pitched very well. So you know, if you're a Miles Mikolos owner, you should be you know, at least have a little happier than you are at the beginning of season with him. I didn't really like him in points leagues too, because

he goes deep into starts. Yes, he's a guy who you know, he went to what was a Korea and then came back, so he's been around a little bit. He's kind of a journeyman guy. Uh, they don't have to worry about an ending's limit. They're gonna let him, you know, throw as many endings as he possibly can. And he's gonna get wins on a good st Louis Cardinal's team too. Uh, the strikeouts are gonna be there,

which hurts a little bit for Rhodo purposes. But if he gives you a good e r a a good whip, and he's gonna get you wins because he has a good Cardinals offense behind him. And I think you're right with that. You know what you're getting from Miles miek Loss and I think he's starting to do exactly what you wanted from him, Greg, and we have a funeral on today's show, and uh who and we just end the Vince Alaska stuff and we just do it, and

we just put his fantasy value to rest. I know Handsel Robost isn't coming in, but if someone downstairs, if you give me the Undertaker theme song, and we could just have like a little eulogy for for Vince Alaska's fantasy. I don't want to do it. Don't have to do it, you know, I said, we don't know anyone can do. I don't wanna, you know, I don't want to give what are we doing? He's how to give you and strikes out for any anything else like his walksber nine

is four point four five. He's got a three eight six e r A four point nine five xfit five point a more depressing song than the Undertake Alaska's. You had years of upside, you had a few double digit strikeout performances. And yes, you'll still give us a strikeout per anyone, which helps in rhodo, but you're gonna hurt every other category. R A whip walk to many batters, you give up home runs. You're pitching a bad ballpark of the vision. Vice of Alaska's doesn't go deep into games.

I know you're only twenty six years old, but I'm here to lay your fantasy value forever, forever. Watch next year, it's the year of Vince of Alaska. You're Vince Alaska and dropped in Filaski with this guy the San Francisco Giants. Maybe he'll be all right. It's just it's not gonna work in Philly. It's not gonna work for him. He don't go tired of putting him in my lineup getting excited about the strikeout. It's excited about the upside, and

then you get these just blow up performances. Five walks, three strikeouts, five and runs. I'm tired of it, Greg, I'm not gonna leave him in my lineup for the one good start and then the three terrible starts that come after it. It's just he's not even one of those guys where you say I take the good with the bad, because there's just so much more bad than always the good. It's over. I'm sorry you can drop him, Greg.

I know it's a very somber note for you in a fifteen team, and maybe you could stream him or even own him, you know anything. He's a tough time for can't he still likes him, That's fine. I don't like him. I don't. I don't want to own him. I just feel bad barry him. He's my guy, he Mike, you never know. He could have a monster second half. He's always been my guy. He's not having him a monster seconds, not this. Uh well, I agree with you, Michaels.

Also the quality starts. He'll give you a lot of those. Yes, that's the goal, obviously, Miles michels Um. One name I wanted to bring up here on this program was Matt Carpenter. W Homer was the fourth time on the season yesterday venture I wanted to go with you here Carbon exactly. Mac Carpenter was amazing last year. We had a really really really rough April. Sam if you said this year where he had a really really really rough April. Obie pits Obi Pi sas at three the average sits. I

don't know. Well, I'm not now killing Matt Carpenter. We like mat I think the undertaking music here not Hansel Robots is coming in the room. Greg, I'm not I'm not trying to kill what's what's happening there? I don't know. Okay, anyway, So Matt Carpenter obi seven. The average is to fifteen. That's gone up in recent days as he's has three consecutive days with hits, has six hits in his list

three games. Yeah right, I'm not saying you're worried about that, Carpenter. Chriss, what do you think we should expect the rest of the way from more of this? Alright? But obviously the average isn't gonna be super high by the end of the year or anything, but it's gonna be better than two. You know. Obviously last year had a slow start, same thing this year. Now is the time you should not like sell him right now. This is when he's gonna go off. You'll be giving him away to somebody else

getting all the benefit of him. Uh. Now is when you'll benefit from Yeah, he had a slow start. You just gotta be patient. This is mconference. This guy has been doing it for a long time. You know he's gonna end up giving you a lot of homers by

the end of the season, thirty plus. Uh. You know he walks a lot ob p with a two fifteen average, he'll be you know the walk the plate discipline for him is still You're still getting production in the OBP category, court category from so you've got a couple of stolen bases. I think this is when you want to own him. So if you've been patiently waiting for the breakout, it's kind of coming out right now, and I think it

will continue for a while. He will get into his cold streaks, but for the most part the rest of the season, you should be okay with that. Aver should go up to to sixty. Great song by the way, patiently waiting, great song, whether or not weather storm, all right? This guy, well, Ventra is the rapper on the show. Actually if you're wanna start rapping recently waiting. But when it comes to Matt Carpenter, he is a player I would be looking to buy in a points league, in

a rotal league, I do have some concerns. He strikes me as a two category contributor. Greg in a rotal league. He's gonna give you run scored. He leads off for a great lineup, and I do think that the home runs are gonna come around. Vents. What you said that he's gonna get to thirty, I think you don't know he's gonna get to thirty. He's only had four right now and it's already made seven. Now he can go on one of those street streaks that you know, similar

to what he did last year. But thirty six summer last year was by far a career high. He comes close to thirty, but in a rotal league, he just strikes me as a guy only gives you his home runs and runs. He's not a plus contributor in batting average. He you know, maybe he'll get up to to fifty, but doesn't give you RBIs because he leads off, not gonna steal bases, so he's really just a two category contributor. I wouldn't be looking to buy in a rotal league. If I play in an ob P league, sure that's

something I would look into doing. In the points league, sure I'll try and buy him there too. The battball profile, the line drive rate, the fly ball rate pretty much in long life last year, but the hard hit rate is actually down ten percent from where it was last year. So he is one year older. He is thirty three

years old. Maybe this is a time when we should kind of like lump Joey vatdo in with him right now, Greg, because I have concerns over Joey Votto too, like mid thirty, I think voto concern is more at this moment than Matt Carpet. I would agree with that. I'd be more apt to buy I Matt Carpenter that I would Joey Votto. But I just I still overall, I just don't know that Matt Carpenter is gonna live up to what people

were expecting him to do this year. So I think that's why I'm kind of lumping them in together because I have serious concerns about Joey Botto. It might be one of those things where you just kind of like like the bullet because you can't you can't drop Joey Bottom, can't trade him right now unless you and you just kind of gotta bite the bullet unless you package him in. And he got five RB I adventure, yeahs got five

RBIs he's a guy. What do we doing? No? I know, listen, he has mileage and he is a guy I'm concerned about because he's also older, like to the point where what is he thirty five, thirty six something like that? Right, he's thirty five thirty five. So that's when usually when guys start to deteriorate a little bit. Oh, I'm sorry, he's six arev guys sold? I'm short now Carpet only has eight, but he's a leadof fitter um, so he's not gonna give you that. But bottoms leading off now

for the Reds. Yeah, so he has been kind of expecting that the run scored is gonna be what what he's gonna Votto is gonna get leading all, that's what you're gonna look at. But anyway, Carpet to thirty three, he's not an old thirty three I think about it. This guy came into the league when he was twenty six years old. But he's had so many injuries, you know, like his body has taken a beating. He's been beat up the past couple of years. He's missed time. He

kind of cancels out. You're right that he got a later start, you know than most guys, but he's also dealt with a lot of injuries. So it's it's a pro and it's a con. He started late, but he's had so many injuries, so he has kind of beat up at a little bree years old. I think the batting average will get better. You don't think he's a two fifteen hitter. I get it to like to fifty. But overall, I just I do have my concerns from in roto leagues. He might he just might not live

up to what you wanted from him. I'm not worried about him in points leagues or I mean rotal leagues, don't you know. I guess you could be a little concerned. You're right, but I'm not worried about the age, is what I'm saying. Like, I don't. I think you're gonna get this year and one more really good year at a carpet to than the age might take a toll because I think he still does a lot of things well. And reg said it before early in April. Last year also had a really bad start. So this could be

like a trend thing. As the summer, you know, as it gets warmer, the summer comes, he gets better and better. I think you'll see that. For the compence is a professional ballplayer, like he's been around for a while. He knows what he's doing. I don't. I wouldn't be too concerned. I can understand him. Rodo being a little concern, though I understand the reasons to be concerned, but I hate

to just do this. Just look at last year. I hate to do that, but I think it's a legitimate frank, Like, there was no sign that he was gonna all of a sudden turn it around. Last year. Well, he was hitting the ball extremely hard, to hitting a lot of fly balls, and normally those things in conjunction lead to a lot of home runs. So I'm pretty sure like

last year he was doing exactly that. He had the little batting average in the little battit because when you hit a lot of fly balls, that leads to Yeah. But you know, I remember Modica mentioned it. I jinked him last year. I said, you know, Matt Carpenter, like he I said, he went over for where I said, from now on, the over will be known as the Matt Carpenter And after that day he took off. Do you want to say to anyone else? Want me anyone

right now? Who who positive? Who's sucking right now that you want me to jinks Joey Luke Casey, Maybe I have to do it for vince Velaski's the getting rocks. Well I'm not. I'm not gonna do it for the Mets. I'm sorry, Martino. Now you guys still have really pictures. Come on, you'll be going to figure this out. Getting blown up in the start is now known as the Vince Velaskis. That's what we're gonna do here, Greg, Trevor Bauer. Last night he got Vince Velaski's vince Velaski's last night

it was bad man. So now Vince Volaskis turns it on, we're gonna have to do a reverse a reverse funeral. We're gonna have to, you know, we'll we'll dress ventrop Is the night King or something. We'll bring Vince Velaska and I mean, you know you like to do all the crazy hair stuff. We'll figure it outur last night ten hits, eight runs allowed, seven or earned, five innings, seven strike as, and his opponent, who's got who had the worst earrate in baseball coming into the start? Seven

in things? Eight hits, one run, one walk, five strike ads. That was Ivan Nova? Mr. Was it like opposite opposite they here? Did he space jam all of his skill out of him? Did they must team skill? Here? Greg, I'll tell you what it was. It was my boy Moncada basically wrecking him and uh Tim, Tim and Tim and Jon had a couple of hits. You know, they spread it out. But Tim and this in Makada are killing it right now. I mean this team could blow

up your pitcher by themselves. Those two guys. Literally, bre was over five. I was watching the start yesterday too. Forever Bauer just left a lot of pitches in the middle of the zone. They did not miss it. He spoke about it after the start to he was obviously trying to like find a positive in what he did yesterday, and he's like, well, I was trying to pitch more in the zone because I've been walking a lot of bad ters recently. And all right, well, great Bauer. He

only walked one battery yesterday. He gave up seven er and run. I'd rather you go back to walking, guys. Yeah, the one walked. So he was trying to you know, again, he's trying to find the positives here. Reading the quotes about him, I want to see because there's something I didn't know about. He's like, well, I wanted to pitch more in the zone in the start, I didn't I wanted to limit the walks. It was something that you know, it was cognizant of coming into this one. He's he

just said, right into the White Sox. Man, He's like, I thought I made pitches. They were just better today and they mash it. I mean they were what he said, they were significantly better. But it's just been a weird season overall for Bowers. He's trying I think he's trying to do too much, and he throws like five different pitches. He messes around with all this stuff in the off season, with his drones and all these pitching analytic uh guns and stuff that he has, all the like I did.

He's trying to do too much. Man, He's like introducing a changeup now that he's throwing more of this year. He throws like five six different pitches. This is what we've heard about Bauer for a long time. He has a lot of tarot. We saw it last year. But when the manager and the pitching coaches, when they try to coach him up, he just thinks that he knows better than everyone else. Right now, guess what, Trevor Bauer, you don't know better than everyone. You have three four

two year a fine. That's not that's not the worst. You know, it's not terrible. The case per nine are down this year. The walks per nine are way up. Four point one walks per nine, that's the that's the highest it's been in any of his previous six seasons that have been full seasons for him before. I mean his previous high before that was four point zero four. That was back when he had a four or five

five year Yeah, it's hard hit rate this year. I'm sure last night contributed to it because these guys were just squaring him up. Forty two point seven percent, that would be that would be a career high for Trevor Bauer. Swinging strike right down. The first at strike percentage down. He talked about pitching in the zone last night. His first pitch strike percentage last night was still sub fifty percent, Greg fifty, less than fifty percent of the batters that

he faced. He threw a first pitch strike to those guys. Why do you look so surprised, I'm not surprised, Baer. I mean so this, I guess it. It goes hand in hand with both both him and Zach Wheeler. They made huge gains last year, and I was banking on those two guys picking up where they left off on the gains that they made last year, and it hasn't been the case. And and a lot of people just

like everybody was pretty much on that band. Wigan. Yeah, like Zach Wheeler has done some really nice things this year. He ultimately has not lived up to my expectation thus far. It doesn't mean he won't be able to. But Trevor Bauer all the games that he made last season in terms of limiting walks and limiting home runs and limiting hard contact and getting as many strikeouts as he was all those games that he made. Greg we all kind of assumed that he would just stick up from where

he left off, and it hasn't been the case. It's been very frustrating season. Bower. Lots of really good, lots of yesterday was just really bad. That's why I didn't I don't want all of the pay. We'll take a break, these guys go more in it. I think I'm done and I don't know I'll fight now. Made Sailors is the leading cleaning service in New York City and Boston. We service homes, offices, corporate departments, and Airbnb turnarounds. Give us a call or a text at two and two

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with Dr Rodo and Adam Ronas. I'm actually gonna be joining Rohnas at three twenty a day to talk about the NBA playoffs, So that should be a lot of fun. We're talking about Trevor Bauer before the break venture. I wanted to bring him back up to you. Didn't really give you a chance to uh opine on Trevor Bauer. It's been a little bit of a mixed bag though. I'll open up the floor to you regarding Trevor Bauer. What have you seen? Do you have any shares? Were

why were you avoiding him? So I just wanted to say something quick. Um. The reason why I'm not surprised is because, like I wasn't on him as much as everybody else was. I feel like he was going a little bit too high for my liking, just because and I know he had a great season last year and it looked like this is the turnaround for him to break out basically for the rest of his career. But there's so many years behind that where he had over a four r A and you know, just couldn't seem

to figure it out. You know, he's got talent, but maybe he has mental issue with overcoming things. And you know he's got a big mouth and all that. He gets in trouble with the media. He's crazy analytical, he overthinks. There's a lot of mental uh you know, problems or issues at play here with Bauer. I think so I didn't want to pay that much. I liked what he

costs years prior, which was a lot cheaper. And I think you're gonna see something in between last year and you know, the year before we had a four one nine r A. I think he's somewhere in the middle of that. I don't think he's this as good as he was last year. To two one is absolutely fantastic, it's elite. I don't think he's that type of picture. So that's why I'm not that surprised that he's pitching two or three four two, which is still very good.

Let's be honest, it's still a very good and he still has sixty two strikeouts in fifty two innings, so the strikeouts are still very good. The walks are a problem, obviously, but he'll correct himself here and now. But he's gonna have blow ups, and I think it's gonna have to do with his mental capacity. Certain guys can't overcome certain things, or they overthink, or whatever the case may be, and I think that's gonna be an issue with him his whole career. Quite honestly, Uh so I think this year

is gonna be a mixed bag. You're not gonna be happy about it because you paid a lot for me, you expected a lot. I get it, but you know, for me, I just never expected. I do have own a share of him. I'm in six leagues. I own one share of him. Uh So I'm okay with that. But I know he's a good picture. He's just not the great picture we saw last year. I don't think he is that guy. So that's what all I want to say. That's why I'm not so surprised at this

rocky kind of start. He's still having a good season, though, if you look at it face value without thinking about you know, where you drafted him. You know he's still having a pretty good season. Where would you rank Turbauer right now? Do you still think he's like a top ten starting picture. No, I'd say he's top he's top twenty five. He fluctuate. Well, there's pictures that are coming up that a you know, I'll do you know, I'll performing him right now like a glass. Now, you know

there's guys that are stepping up. You'd rather have Glass down the bower right now. That's a good question. I don't know about that venture. Glasstown has been really good. He has been great, heed himself at the top, maybe top twe because last year you're saying, or because of who Bower? I mean, yeah, I mean I just crushed the guy. But he's still not even having that bad

he's not. I mean even after yesterday give me up seven and runs, he's got a three or four two e r A. But it's past couple of starts have been very frustrating. I own him in multiple leagues, and so but that's what I mean before that, before Bauer is great season. Last year he was a guy that was getting drifted well outside side the top what thirty pitchers,

top forty pitchers, even right outside the top forty. Okay, So now all of a sudden he's a top ten I say, he's somewhere in between that, And that's what I always thought. The last now has a one four seven r A, a point eight six. With the guys absolutely dominating right now, it wouldn't surprise me if Last Now by the end of the season was a better picture than Trevor Bower, because I don't think Bowers is

that good. I just don't. That's just me personally. I know a lot of people do, and I understand that, but I just don't think he is. I think he's more of a very good picture, not an elite picture. You know, you know what I mean. You're watch him pitch though, like he has talented. Movement on his pitches is nasty. It's slide pieces, his mid nineties fastball. Again what I said before the break, I just I think he just tries to do a little bit too much.

He introduces these new pitches and he he was working on the change up during spring and he's been using that more. I think he's just trying to do so many different things. Why doesn't he just master his craft, master what he's already really good at. And I understand why to introduce new things. You're frustrated, I know, like because it's a mental thing. It's not even his talent. His talent is great, his talent is elite. His mental capacity isn't there. It's just not he doesn't have the brain.

He doesn't have the um you know, like you know how Eli is where he's very like stone cold. He doesn't care if he does something bad. He kind of just shrugs it off. I feel like he's not that type of guy. I don't put Eli in stone cold in the same sense, but like he doesn't show Yeah, that's what I mean. He's like literally doesn't show emotion. He'll just go like this when a touchdown, you know that he makes the dumb face like but then he's like he moves on. He needs to be like that Bower.

I don't think Bower is like that. I feel like things affect him and it lingers with sall on him, snowball for him yesterday, right every any like I would come back to the game every ending, something news happening, what's going on with this guy? Especially against the White Sox too, and say they have Mankato, they have to manage it. But this is a lineup that you should be able to dominate. They still strike out a lot, and there they haven't been one of the better all

around hitting teams so far. In the middle of the road. You should you should be able to pitch well again the White Socks. So that's what I mean. You're expecting such elite performances. I don't think that. I do feel like the expectations just a little too high. Maybe he's gonna have some okay games and some bad games, but it'll have a lot of good games and he's still pitching good. So you can't complain too much, right You paid a lot, so it's like, oh, I want better,

I want better, you know. Yeah. Look, I drafted him in the Pit League in the third round as my sp one. Man. I took him as my eight we reg and I got him in g D D fifteen team Road League. You own him a lot. We spent thirty five bucks on him in an auction as our sp one. I think those are the only two shares that I have about it. Yeah, so I have two out of I think I have like seven leagues, so two out of seven shares. I was. I was expecting

some pretty big things. What I could tell people is if you own him, I think it just kind of sits height right now. Um, you can't. You obviously can't try and sell them or do anything after yesterday started. It's just it would be a bad cell right now. I agree with that. Let's let's move on. Let's talk about the Marlins and the Cubs. We haven't really touched on this game at all so far today. Cole Hamiles, I think a little bit disappointing last night. Three earned runs,

six innings, seven strikeouts. It's a good game, but against the Marlins. Overall, was expecting a little bit more. On the season. Cole Hamil's still been pretty good e r A. The whip hasn't been that bad either. Actually, I remember I had I like Cole Hamiles. I made fun of Florio one day he called it and we talked about Cole Hamils versus Kyle Hendrix. They ended up with no shares,

ended up with no stars of Cole Hamiles. But I like him and the underlying numbers with him really good three three r A six six five three x fit. He's got a fifty six percent groundball rate walks for nine er below three, which is good for him, although lately the walks have been up. He's got a one point one zero whip two two batting average against. That's that's probably gonna rise a little bit. He's two thirty five for his career. He's like what you expected right

at six babbit. He's two eight four his career. But yeah, I mean if he pitches to a mid three e r A and that's very good. Yeah, sub one to zero whip and a strike for any Oh man, you'd love that. Sign up for that every day of the week with Cohemil where you got him. Yeah, yeah, he's going as what barely a top forty starting pitcher. So I was on this, I was I was in on him as a kind of renaissance. He wasn't gonna do exactly what he did with just the Cubs last year,

which was ridiculous. Yeah, I mean he had a two three six r A. But strikeouts have been there this year. The swinging strike rate still there. You gotta be happy. The only thing I see is the last three starts. He has walked eleven guys in the last three starts, which those can be a bug about sixteen innings. That a lot of walks. But this is cal Hamils, a veteran. He knows what he's doing, so I wouldn't worry too much. Again, when you pretty much wanted out of Cale Hamils right now,

like maybe he's probably pitching around. I mean, look, I haven't watched his starts enough. I haven't watched every skill start to tell you this is exactly what he's doing. But when you just said he's a smart guy, he knows what he's doing, he knows how to pitch. I'm thinking maybe he's pitching around the best hitters of opposing teams. Maybe you know he's like, all right, I'm not gonna let these guys beat me. I'm not gonna give him

anything to hit. Let me just walk these guys. If you know, he's not that type of guy anyway, where he's wild, he's not wild. Pedro Strope brutal game in this one here Ventro. I picked him up in one of my home leagues, my points league where I lost. I drafted Cody Allen actually as my second closer. That's a disaster. And then pedro Strope and this one. He hadn't been terrible on the year, but he was terrible in this one. I was watching this. Three walks, one hit,

didn't even record an out, three earned runs. He gets tagged with the blown save the the ear right now over five, I'll throw this your way. If he continued to struggle, who do you think would be the next man up? In Chicago? They have Steve c Scheck, who has saved a few games so far this year, Brad Brock, who has some closing experience with the Orioles, and then they just recalled Carl Edwards, who threw a clean ending last night. If Peter Stroke continues to struggle, who do

you think is the next man for Chicago? I would say it'd be closer to I think. Um, I agree with you. But my thing is if fantasy guys out there and everything, I wouldn't really touch a Cub situation right now. It's kind of scary, it's murky. You know. Stroke's obviously he's got a five r A now, like you can't really trust him. Uh, I wouldn't really trust any sea Scheck has experience. He has done well with the Marlins in the past. Uh. He has gotten saves

before for teams, so he has experience. But like that's like a cheap closer. You can gree ab both the waive of wire understand that, but you don't know if he's gonna get the saves. That's the problem. I just want to stay away from Cubs bullpen in general right now. I just don't want to touch it, you know what I mean. I don't trust the situation. What's the guest on Brandonmorrow? I feel like I haven't heard anything on him. He's just still on the I l he's always just

dealing with so many injuries. This is why he was moving. He would be out for probably a month before before the season, during draft season, but now he's on the sixty day I l um, which means that, all right, we're not seeing this guy anytime soon. He's recovering from right elbow surgery. So yeah, just a messy situation. Maybe they're a team that gets in on Craig Kimberroll once the MLB Draft asses by. They could probably use him the Definitely, they're always a team that is willing to

spend money too. But if I am playing in a deeper league like I do in a few fifteen team roto leagues, I think I think it would be a smart move to throw a few bids in on Steve c Chick, just because, especially in those leagues, and we've said this before, whenever Modique is on, you want to

be one week early rather than one week late. Now, if praise your Strope goes out and blows another save this week, or goes out and has two more like rough performances, than everybody's gonna be in on the bidding for Steve cisheck right? But see what happens the rest of this week. It's something that I would throw out there. So you're playing a deeper league and you want to speculate maybe you own Page or Strope, and you want to lock down both Cubs relievers just to make sure

you have it. I think Steve C. Scheck is probably the next band. That was the last thing I was gonna say, is that, like, it's a sticky situation when closes, because like it's not like a hitter coming up from the minors and you know he's gonna get playing time and you know, take over a role like c Check. You could pick him up, and then Strop starts doing well again, he starts getting you know, more of the saves. It could go back and forth. It could be a

committee approach, it could be sloppy. So but if you do get Sea Scheck and Strop in a deep league, you know only in deeper leagues, really, uh, then maybe you have it locked up. It's just hard to manage that. You know, one week, you especially in a weekly league, one week you might put Strop in and see Check gets two or three saves and Trump doesn't get any, and then you know the next week's Check gets the saves. Like, I just don't want to be a part of that situation.

But if you need your desperate for something, I would. I would. I'm agree with you. C Check is the guy that you would want Besidestrop. Yeah, And I think in deeper leagues, in retal leagues where you just start the nine pictures, a lot of people like to go six starting pitchers, three relievers. Then you know you were probably taking stroke very late in your drafts. Anyway, you probably have another closer. Maybe you start that closer stroke

and see Scheck. So regardless of who is getting to save, you have that Cubs reliever in your lineup. So that's something that you can look to do in deeper leagues. Right now. On the other side here, obviously, the Marlins locked down the wind. They went at six to five. We spoke about Fernando Rodney earlier and all the teams that he's been on in his career and how he's been a journeyman. He's a veteran at this point. How

about Sergio Romo keeps getting it done? Huh. I mean, he's got a six E r A, but he's got six saves. The Miami Marlins, look, they have ten wins. He saved six of those. Yeah, it's a pretty good ratio. Yeah anything, he's one of the lower He's one of the lower end, like if you start a third closer in the Roto League. He's like on the obviously extremely low end here, bottom of the batrel. But hey man, he's he's six saves. He struck out the side. Yesterday he gave up a homer to Chris Brian but he

struck out the side. So the ear and the whip won't be great for Sergio Romo, but looks like he is fully entrenched in as the closer of the Marlins right now. Earlier on in the season, a lot of people were speculating on Nick Anderson here that crazy strike out to walk ratio. Um Teyron Guerrero is a guy that I've been kind of looking at the past couple of years. He's huge, massive guy towards like a hundred miles per hour, but at the time doesn't know where

it's going. So I think Sergio Romo is a guy that he's a candidate to be traded later on in the season. I don't know if any other team really wants him, but if he's traded, we're gonna have to start thinking about who's the next man up for these Miami Marlins. Uh, it was a guy I really think it about as a pickup? Was it in Miami Marlin? No? No, hope,

Oh no, no, you guys are touching on him before. Well, I mean, I'm sure everybody owns this guy at this point, but for some reason in shallower leagues, he's not that highly owned ESPN leagues. Joy Polanco I just picked up. I picked him up in my home league, a twelve team league. Or hey, Polanco was in the free agent pool. All right, Well, we're gonna have to have a talk with with the rest of your league there, I know. Well, the thing is, you know, the rosters are smaller. You

can't hold all these guys. There's some good guys out there. You gotta expand those rosters. Man, you gotta add the middle infield. You gotta add ever you get up to five outfielders. That's exactly what I was going to the last two years. I tried to do a vote, let's add a second utility because we only have one utility right now, nine hitters, and every time they decline they like the way it is. Fine. That's the way they wanted. But guys like Planco I picked him up. He goes

three for four, hits, a homer yesterday. I'm on board you at the Polanco thing. I wanted to say that Polanco should be owned in almost every league. Yeah, without a doubt, every single league. Maybe a ten team league. There's no room somewhere. But he's a short stop life. Wow. So the whole time we were talking about this, I was like, ventures crazy. I mean, Horry Polanco has to be owned everywhere. Right, He's only fifty two percent owned in Yahoo right now, That's what I'm telling you. How

is that passed under the radar? Man? He's too good not to be owned. That's insane, man. Yeah, I mean the guy's saying three seventeen, he's got twenty runs scored, He's got six home runs. I know here against the Yankees, he had a rough weekend. There's no tempt about that. Here. He was cold, he went over twelve, he went over twelve, and he's still hitting three seventeen. Where he was at ten doubles, four, three hits yesterday to run scored a

home run. Come on, everybody, Yeah, he's got Polanco has gotta be. You know, he's he's actually seventy four percent own the espan leagues. He's he's own more in Espanile and Yahoo He's which is odd you don't normally it's usually that it's lower. Yeah, I want to see how owned he is in CBS leaves. Yeah, here we go, get on at people planco percent on more like CBS. That's where the savvy owners for Greg Sussman for the Closer, Chris Vntra, I am Frank sample. This was the Fantasy

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