NFL Coaches on Hot Seat, Bullpens, Rays Not Using Starters, Rapping Athletes

all the microphone. You know that yet you know what it is. It's your point Martinez, a k A. Speeds a k a to Spitting Statistician, and you are listening live to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on a Fantasy Sports Network. I guess your boy, Dane Martinez. They called me Speeds, the spitting Statistician. They called me the stable genius. They called me to vocal minority. And we get it on and pop in here on the Fantasy Freestyle where we keep it so hot that we

sweat steam. We got the stats overbeat Cipher. Check me out in the chat room. Okay, if you're on YouTube, check me out on Twitter, check me out on periscope, on Twitch, on Facebook. Right inside studio thirty four. Here we give you what you need to win your leagues and win that cash. I got the whole crew down there on the fourth floor in the pit of misery. We got my man, my best friend forever, Mikey Florio

holding it down. We got the Night Owl JP. He's gonna be joining us a little bit later on, and of course Danny Otto as well, hooking it up right there managing the chat room. Don't forget to catch him on popping off on Wednesday night. We got a big show for you, okay. We got some NFL stuff we want to get into. I have something I'm doing on Roto Experts in the morning seven and nine am. Right here on this network. We're getting ready to release the

seatings and the brackets for the Face of Baseball. Another kind of bracket contest we're gonna be doing over the next couple of weeks. I'm gonna get my best friend forever to chime in on that. I'm gonna tell you also which positions, um you want to invest in for rookies, okay, and which positions you don't because of their kind of natural arc and curve. We're gonna be talking about that,

and you know we put the fun and functional sports content. Okay, we got a rapping athlete to break down, I got some other stories to share. We gotta pull question up as well, Okay because check this out. I don't know if you guys saw, but over the weekend there was some stuff that went down in Dallas with the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, First of all, wide receiver Terrence Williams gets gets arrested,

is drunk. He crashes his Lamborghini. Right, Um, remember when I asked, like, which cowboy will be the second one drafted after Ezekiel Elliott? People might have guessed Terrence Williams because he was slated to be like the number one wide receiver. There. They bring in Alan Hearns, They got Cold Beasley there, right, but he was slated to really

take a big jump, not if he's crashing Lamborghinis. But what also happened in Dallas is Terrell Owen comes out former Cowboys says he doesn't know how Jason Garrett still has a job, you know, saying that the Cowboys have not improved under his tenure. And it got me to thinking, is Jason Garrett on the hot seat? You know what if the Cowboys. This could go off the rails pretty quickly. You know, um, you know the kind of wide receiver they might need, guy like Dead's Bryant. But we'll get

into that a little bit later on. So I don't wait a second. Is Garrett on the hot seat? And then I thought who else might be on the hot seat? You know a coach that we talked about for a while a couple of times, Hugh Jackson, He could be on the hot seat. You know who else I think could be on the hot seat? Is the cursive hard knocks Dirk Cutter in Tampa. If Jamis doesn't take another step they've been talking about Old Tampa's primed to take a step. It hasn't happened in a couple of years.

So we got a poll question up right now, okay, and you can catch me on Twitter at spitting speeds. Which NFL coach enters two thousand eighteen with the hottest hot seat? Is it a guy like Jason Garrett? Is it a guy like Hugh Jackson? Is it Dirt Cutter? Or is it someone else? We got people putting in writing candidates right now, left and right. Okay, think about a guy like maybe Vance Joseph, think about a guy

like Marvin Lewis. Okay, So that is the question we are asking you here on this episode of The Fantasy Freestyle. By the way, this is episode three hundred and nine, maybe three hundred and ten. A lot of episodes here of the Fantasy Freestyle means all of y'all out there, the stats over beat Cipher. You continue to want what you need to win your leagues and win that cash.

We talked about what was going on in Dallas. The big other NFL news is listen, we got O T A s starting to pop off, right, And you know what's interesting is Odell Beckham is there. But here are the people who are not. TB twelve Tom Brady still not working out with the Pats, Gronk still not working out with the Pats. Do you think maybe the two of them are sending some kind of message to the Belichick regime. Maybe they want to instead work out with Oh,

I don't know, Alex Guerrero TV twelve Fitness. Are they sending a message or is this must do about nothing? Um? I think in the Patriots case, it would be interesting. Remember I've been predicting the fall of Rome for a couple of months over there. No Julio Jones in Atlanta. He wants to revisit his contract. We'll talk about Julio Jones a little bit later on. And why I think if you're Julio, you better get your money now. You better do it now, similar to what Charlie Blackman did

ahead of the game getting that extension. We'll talk about that a little bit later on. Also, no Aaron Donald for the Rams. Remember he was thinking about holding it out last year as well. And no Levy on Bell for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was thinking about holding out last year as well. They continue to do the same old song and dance. They will be there for a

week one. Not a lot to think about on that. Also, I don't know if you um, I don't know if we've talked about this, but did you see that the Browns are named on hard Knocks? And I think that's interesting, Ay, the curse of hard knocks? Right, But you can't really go much further down than one in thirty one in your last two seasons, you can't go much further down

than ut of the poll. Right now, thinking that Hugh Jackson has the hottest seat of all I'm a little bit higher than most on the Browns because of all the storylines that are there. Honestly, Hard Knocks picked a great, you know team quite frankly because they got some weapons. Now, the Josh Gordon's story, well that's a weapon. The Drivis Landry story, that's a weapon. This running back room between

Hide and Chubb and Duke, these are weapons. The quarterbacks saga with Bigger Mayfield with T Mobile, who I think is going to hold onto this starting job and leverage better weapons than he ever had with the Buffalo Bills and lead this Brown's team to a number that is well over their over under that you can check on my bookie dot a g Right now, I believe the overunder for the Cleveland Browns right now is five, and

I think they will win six games this year. I think they will not be in last place in the a f C North. We'll get into that in a future episode of The Fantasy Freestyle. Okay, we're gonna be giving you my kind of early read on over unders on division previews. We're gonna be getting into that in a couple of weeks after Memorial Day hits and we're officially in a summer, we're gonna start our division by division prep. We're gonna start our over unders for teams

because now because it's legal, uh in some places. Maybe on my bookie Thatt a g you're gonna try and make that cash. Also interesting note about the Detroit running back room. You know that they're gonna sign this kid carry On Johnson's their rookie out of Auburn. I believe they got Legarrett Blunt who they signed in the offseason. You know theoretic is there as a pass catching back. Keep an eye on a mirror Abdullah. I think a mirror Abdulah is gonna be the guy without a seat

when the music stops. I think a Mirabdulah will be looking for work sometime potentially the summer. He'll either get cut or he'll be a little bit of a trade bait, you know. Um with guys like Matt Jones taking visits and signing with guys like Terrence West making the rounds. With DeMarco Murray still out there, keep an eye on a mirror Abdula. I think he is more viable than a guy like Terence West if he would ever be out there on the open market. Also gotta let you

guys know that Johnny Football. Yeah, I said it, Johnny Football signed with the Hamilton's Tiger Cats. Big shout out to my man lin Manuel Miranda. When it comes to Hamilton's, I wonder if he greased the wheels at all. They're doubtful, but um, I think it's actually a good move. Listen, he only had maybe like five suitors in the NFL anyway,

and they weren't gonna take a flyer on him. Now that we're gonna wait for injury maybe much further down in the summer, you know, So this is an opportunity for him to play professional football, put some stuff on tape, continue the narrative that he is rehabbing his image. I think this is a good look. This also proves that, like he does love football. You know, he's kind of eating some of that humble pie, taking a step down a little bit, and like, no, I'll do whatever I

gotta do to play football. So I like what's happening at a Johnny Football. I wanted to mention that, but I did talk about this aging curve, which is something I want to mention here on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle, right here on the Fantasy Sports Network Award nominated Fantasy Freestyle. By the Way, your boy, Dame Martinez Speed has spitting status this or the Staple Genes and Vocal Minority Award nominated Big Things here on Fantasy Sports Network.

One of talk about the aging curve by position. I keep on telling you guys that rookie tight ends are fool gazy forgot about them. Rookie tight ends you want to forget about because they and you're one. It's too hard for them to learn the new blocking schemes and the route tree. I tell you that all the time. Okay, Evan Ingram, you're gonna be like Dane. What about Evan Ingram? He was a top five tight end this year. He

was a rookie fo gaz forgot about him. And let me tell you why the Giants wide receiver corps was eviscerated last year. Oldell Beckham gone, Brandon Marshall gone, Sterling Shepherd, who I interviewed when he was sitting here right in this very seat in Studio thirty four. Gone for some of the time right there was no one else left for targets. So that's where Evan Ingram popped off. I think Evan M. Ingram is a prime regression candidate. If you want to know the truth, all of a sudden,

Odell Beckham is back. All of a sudden, you have Sae Kwon Barkley, you have a healthy shep. I don't think here as high on the pecking war or kid. Sorry, but in general, I don't like first year tight ends. Okay, And I got some data from PFF that back it,

backs it up. They did study looking at all like positions, so running back, wide out and tight end and kind of their career arc, you know, and they and what is kind of the baseline of like their maximum value and tight ends in year one only realized thirty of their actual value. That's their breakdown. Okay, So but the tight end see a huge jump in year two. They go from thirty three pc of their value to of their value. So what does that mean? That means the

breakout concept of the tight end. You know, guys who have been you know, either learning under others or guys that are in their second year that can be taking a jump. These are guys that I like for your for your tight ends. I don't like Kevin Ingram, okay, but I love me, you know, as does everybody. I love me some Hunter Henry. I love me some Trey Burton. And I love me some Ricky Seals Jones out there in Arizona. I'm telling you right now, he is my

tight end, Diamond and the rough Ricky Seals Jones. Okay, this is the second year guy primed to make this bump. Defenses are gonna be keying in on David Johnson d J. Two K. Defense wives will be keying in in the passing game on Larry Fitzgerald. And I think you know, Bradford, who's made of eggshells, is gonna be gone by October onet. Anyway, by Columbus Day, it will be the rookie quarterback. What's a rookie quarterback's best friend, his tight end over the middle,

his security blanket, as it were, the Lionus factor. Okay, and that's Rickie Seals Jones. I love me some Rookie Seals Jones. I love me some Hunter Henry. I love you some Trey Burton, another second year guy to keep an eye on. I'm gonna make my man Mike Florio down there in the fantasy pit of misery laugh a little bit. I was early on him last year, Mike, but I didn't realize that you're only thirty three percent of your value in year one and then you jump

up in year two. I hope you know who I'm talking about, because Jimmy g is never lost on the tight end. He's gonna be throwing to is my man, George Kittle. Keep an eye on Kittle and Ricky Seals Jones as second year tight ends. You know you know about Ingram, Fazy, you know about O. J. Howard. He still needs to compete with making America braid again. Okay, So I like some of these other off the radar tight ends if you want to kind of stream tight end.

A lot of people are talking about if you don't wind up with Gronk, if you don't wind up with Kelsey, if you don't wind up with Earth's to drop down is big to the what some people think of Ingram, I don't. I think it's Hunter Henry still the Delaney Walkers of the world. Okay, and then some of these other guys take a chance on them. They are primed to make a jump in running backs. You can get them a little bit earlier. We've seen this with girly.

We've seen this with Zeke, We've seen this with four Net. Recently, we've seen this with Kamara. Guys like Kareem Hunt. Okay, running backs value, Um, they get eighty what is it? Let's see they get eighty eight percent of their baseline value right away. So rookie, rookie running backs coming and come in and produce for you, all right? I think some will in year one this year as well. We know about Sae Kwon Barkley. I think there's a couple of guys who are primed and ready to go. I've

been telling you about this for a while. Elijah Penny three down back potential, Ronald Jones and Tampa nobody in front of him, you believe in pop Quiz Jocquiz, I don't anymore. Okay, But the guy I like is Royce Freeman in Denver, I don't believe. And DeVante Booker I believe if anything, he's the third down kind of back. Think about Royce Freeman out there and wide received. And but what they do say, excuse me about the running

backs is that they peak in year four. And there's a couple of fourth year running backs that I think are very interesting the first that I'm gonna give you. I am high on this guy. I am high on Jerick McKinnon. He's entering year four. The San Francisco forty Niners paid money to go get him and sign him. Kyle Shanahan talking a lot about how he's gonna play the DeVante Freeman role in that offense. I love me some Jerick McKinnon this year. Uh, Davante Freeman in his

fourth year. I also like Freeman this year as well. Okay, that's the sweet spot. The wide receivers are a little bit different. Okay, same thing. Rookie whiteouts don't usually do it. I'm down on Calvin Ridney Ridley fantasy herd. Okay, you got Julio, you got Freeman, you got Mohammed. HiT's a new day. Keevin Coleman as well. All Right, Calvin Ridley is gonna be a better football player than fantasy football player in my opinion. D J. Moore is the lone exception.

But I like some of these Year five guys. They have Year five as the peak for wide receiver guys like the Landry the feeling, the Davante Adams, Davante Adams and Mike Evans setting up to have huge years. In my opinion, they both are wide out ones. But here's the interesting part, and I'll leave you guys with this. They consider year eight the start of the decline for wide receivers. And there are some big name wide receivers entering their eighth year. Julio Jones among them. See how

Right bring it full circle? Julio Jones among them seeing O T. A. S. I think he needs to get an extension now because he may start to be on the decline and not get as much on the market. His stock is high right now. He needs to cash in. A. J. Green fits into this category of year eight. Remember we've we've seen him have some injuries in the last couple of years, so maybe you know that's something to worry about.

What a J. Green. Here are two other guys that are entering year eight that I think are going to go down this year, and not only because they're on the downside of their career trajectory, but also because I don't buy in their teams or how they're being used this year. The first is Doug Baldwin. Doug Baldwin entering year eight. Okay, I'm worried about the Seattle offense. I think they're gonna change it a little bit. They're gonna try and let Penny be the bell cow here. They

believe in some of these other wide receivers. They love lock It. If you listen to the King Scott Angle, they love Amari Barbo out there. I wouldn't be surprised if Baldwin takes a slight step back. He's always been one of the tried and true, under respected borderline wide out ones, wide out twos. He's gonna back up and be more into the back end wide out to category this year. The last one is Randall Cobb. Randall Cob, I think is also on the downside of that. Davanta

Adams is the one that's rising up. Remember Jimmy Graham. They're also taking away some of those probably touchdown targets as well, So there's a little bit of look at that. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we're gonna turn our attention to baseball here. I got some news and notes for you, some very interesting things with the Tampa

Bay Rays starting rotation. We're gonna get into and also we're trying to set up the brackets here for the face of baseball tournament brackets. I do this on road too, Experts. In the morning, I'm gonna get the inside from the selection committee downstairs, including my best friend forever Mikey Florio. All that and more right here on the Fantasy Freestyle stats over beat, Cipher, answer the poll, start chatting. It's your boy, Dane Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician, the stable

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We got a lot of stuff coming up. Okay, what I'm gonna start doing, maybe even starting as soon as next week, okay, because it's after Memorial Day, right, so we're gonna start maybe shifting a little bit over to football. I'm gonna do division by division. I'm gonna tell you diamonds and fool gazes for every division. I'm gonna tell you where I think are the value on the over unders and some other bets. We're gonna start previewing. I know it's still early, but I'm getting excited for football.

I know you are too. I also got big news coming out. Catch me on Twitter, Okay, catch me on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. They got big news on other ways that I'll be showing you how to get ready for football season. We're gonna be doing it on Rhodo Experts in the morning. You can catch me seven and nine am Monday through Friday right here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Catch me on subscribe to stats over Beats.

That's how we do it as well. Like I said, you know, put a little bit of myself on the ones and twos making it happen over there. Big shout out to my man Kenneth Cashman and Rhodo where for dropping that us. That's over Beats verts. Gotta love, gotta love that. All right, So news and notes here in Major League Baseball that I wanted to before we turn it to my man, Mikey Florio and we start talking about the face of baseball. Um. The first thing that

I gotta tell you this is very very interesting. The Tampa Bay Rays are like a um, They're like a Petrie dish. You know, they're really they they they're just trying things out and seeing what grows inside the Petri dish. They're like a little lab for baseball. And their newest idea is to have not one, but two bullpen days right now. Um. You know, Archer, Faria and Snell are there only starting pitchers, okay, and they are literally going at it a bullpen days, um now, two times in

a row through the rotation. Sergio Romo last weekend started on Saturday, went like an inning, and then he started the game again on Sunday, when I believe in ending and a third okay. And what they're doing is they're saying, hey, every man up, it's committee day, okay. And I think this is very interesting for a number of reasons. One seems to work. Zach cos Art on the Angels, he said he didn't like this. You know, the baseball players

are such creature of habit and routines. They analyze video, you know that they try to get the book on the starter. And when it's like an All Star game and the you know, the guy's gonna only be in for one inning, they can't get a read on it. You know, they gotta know who they're seeing for their first couple of bats. Zak Cozard said he does not like what they're doing because it messes with his routine check for the Tampa Bay Rays. The other thing is I think and I would love to get my momm

Mike Florio's thoughts on this. Mikey, I think this is brilliant for the Tampa Bay Rays financially. If you're a team that you know you're not contending, You've got a lot of young kids who you may want to get an opportunity later in the year to be able to get some innings, get some experience under their belt. Why clog up the rotation with other guys, the older guys. And here's the other thing, fiscally, I think it makes sense.

Why sign some guy to be your third starter to a three year, thirty four million dollar deal when You're not trying to win anyway. All that's doing is taking is dead money on your books. Let the kids play, you said to me, Florial down in the pit of misery. You're always about letting the kids play. They're just taking it to an extreme down in Tampa, clearing the way for everybody to be able to have some opportunity and flash.

And why have a contract saddled around the franchise's neck or the spot in the rotation filled you know, when you could be having kids up. And that's the way I think about that. I'm gonna get Florios thoughts on it a little bit later on. What I want to also really quickly tell you about is on Roto Experts in the Morning, we talk every Wednesday about the closer situations around Major League Baseball and we do that based off an article that George Kurtz puts out on Rhodo

Experts dot com, which is amazing. Okay, there's gonna be some clothes to talk tomorrow, but just some closer news and notes because this is you. There's some shifting roles here out there in the major leagues. Okay, And if you're in a Roodo format or head to head. You may need some saves, So I'm over here trying to help you. That's what we do. That's why we win. Chips. Baby, all right, So I'm gonna tell you right now. In Chicago with the White Sox, this is now Nate Jones's job.

In my opinion, this is Nate Jones's. Bob Sorio was nowhere to be found over the weekend when the White Socks need to nail down some games. They even had like Jace Fry come in. But he's really a situational righty, lefty guy. Nate Jones, I believe, is going to take that role. He's the one who I think gets saves moving forward for the Chide Socks. Okay, um in Anaheim with the Angels, there's an opportunity here. Okay, Middleton is done. I believe he's having Tommy john surgery. Okay, and a

lot of people on spec went originally to Jim Johnson. No, no, no, I think it's Blake Parker. I think it's Blake Parker is the guy you need to get. He got the last save I believe for the Angels. He's the guy I think if the Angels are in tight games, they're gonna be saving he's the guy with the best stuff, okay, and I think that's where social is gonna land ultimately. All right, here's another two other spots I want you to look at. One is Baltimore. Okay, and I say

this because Zack Britton pitching, pitching, batting practice. It sounds like next week he's gonna go on a rehab assignment. They said, after Memorial Day, he's gonna go on a rehab assignment next week. After that, it's just about, you know, getting him to be able to go back to back days, things of that nature. Zach Britton will be back pretty soon, Okay, I mean most people, you know, most leagues. I guess he's been taken and stashed, you know, probably already. I'm

looking in my league. I'm looking in my league where I did that. I took and I drafted Zach Britton and stashed him. And he is owned right now. Zach Britton is own. Let me bring it up for you. Zach Britton is only owned in of leagues. That means you and your boys are at the bar, you know, four of you two if you can go right now, pick up Zack Britton. Stash him on you d L, and then you will have a bona fide closer for

the second half of the season. He's coming along nicely. Okay, So that's another spot I wanna mention, and the fourth is keep an eye in Milwaukee. Keep an eye in Milwaukee. Okay. Listen, Corey Knable comes back from the d L. They're working him back in the same way. I was just telling you about um what they'll eventually do with Brittain Um and Cannabel did get the save for the Brewers, I believe last night. But I mean, Josh Hayder is ridiculous.

Josh Hayder is absolutely ridiculous. I think he's still gonna have this like two winning kind of Andrew Miller role. I believe you know, he's got more case for nine than anybody right now. Okay, So if you had Hayter, like keep him and you know, be very you know, I love the ratios that he gives you. All right, is what we're gonna do here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Network, which boy Dame Martinez be's

the spitting statistician, the stable genius, and vocal minority. When you're a league, when the cash with the stats over beat Cipher. I got Mikey Florio down there in the pit of misery. Uh, Mikey Florio, how you doing? Man? Are you with me? I'm good, I'm with you. Yeah. What do you think about that? Man? What do you think about? First of all, the Sergio Romo starting back to back games, and I would actually messes up Zach Cozard even he said he really didn't like it. It

messes up his prep. And I think it's a financial smart move financially for the Rays to do it in this way. What do you think about what they're doing? Not only that they could throw someone out there to pitch. You know a couple of innings, the guy on Saturday who came in after Romo went six and Yarbro I think it was right and got the win. He's basically a starting pitcher there, but using Romo first throws the

other team off. I think the race constantly gotta be innovative because they don't have the financial money to keep up with other That's what I'm saying. They're the Petrie Dish of the Major League Baseball exactly. And it also helps if you are a Blake Snell or Chris Archer or Jacob Fario owner because they're pushing those guys deeper into games because you gotta keep the bullpen fresh because it's bullpen day of the time. Now, apparently that's a

great point. That's a great point, Florio. So you know, if you have an Archer, if you have a Fario, if you have a Snell, right, they're gonna push it. Does that hurt those guys because all those guys are pretty young too, Florio? You know all those guys, you know, are they still in the range where they like have innings limits later on to the season. What happens when they're pushing a hundred sixty eight innings and they literally don't have an innings eater on the rotation? Yeah, luckily

for them. Blake Snell last year went about a hundred and eighty in the year. Archer is like, but but yeah, y him, I'm not sure about But I told Greg this on BFF the other day. I was watching Blake Snell because I I have I Mr Blake Snell. I have to watch him. He goes six innings, he's over a hundred pitches. I actually turned the game off. I imagine he's done. It wasn't until I checked the box score like ten minutes later that I was like, they pushed him back out there for seven. He only got

two ounces and the seventh. But it's stuff like that where they will push him. If you're sitting at five and a third at a hundred pitches, maybe you know they might just let you get that quality start, all right. I like that. I like that there's another impact for it. That's why I got a man, Mike Florio joining us for a couple of minutes here on the freestyle. He is one of my best friends forever. You can catch

them every day. I believe it's two to three pm, correct, Mike, two to three pm, best friends forever making it happen Monday through Friday on the Fantasy Sports Network. Am I correct? You are correct? Sometimes you just get Dane Martinez walking around. You never know, man, you never know. Yeah, that's how we do with popping in, with popping off, doing all sorts of kinds of things. Real quick. Floria, before we get into this rankings and seatings, had another quick thing.

I wanted to bounce off you. I've been telling, uh my man, the King's goot angled that I think Goldie is there's something up with him. You know, he's hitting like two oh four, and he was like, I was worried that maybe it was the humid or at first, but I think I know what it is now. I think he's old and I think that's an issue. Check this out, Floria'll check this out. Okay. Remember how like the hot stove was really lukewarm this year, and like

people were not signing, especially veterans. You know, Matt Holiday is out there. He's got a career eight nine. Yes, he's got a career three fourteen home runs. I think Matt Holiday is on the street still, you know what I mean. Guys like um uh, Mark Reynolds just signed. Okay, And and and here's the thing. Check this out. You mentioned it before. The bullpens and what they're trying to

do with starters outside of the Tampa bray Rays. Starters are trying to just go to two times through the order, and then they're bringing in these huge fireballer relievers, one more powerful than the next. One oh one used to Jordan's Um. Yeah, Jordan hits one like one oh five the other day. Here's what anything is going. Check this out. Check this out Florio, twenty two players have seen thirty six pitchers of ninety six miles an hour or more

without getting a hit. So far this year, twenty two players have seen that many pitches of ninety six kind of like the super fastballs without getting a hit. All of them Florio. All twenty two are thirty years old or more. Names like Kindler, Span, Sean Rodriguez and Goldschmidt. Florio Goldie has seen seventy seven pitches this year of ninety six miles an hour or more. He has not recorded a hit. That is the most in the majors.

And here's the other stat for Goldie. His strikeout rate has gone up from two to thirty one percent this year. For Goldie, he can't handle the heat. Trust me, when you're in your thirties, you know the quick twitch. The reaction time is a little bit slower. These guys can't get around on this new level of heater that is coming out. Goldie strikeout rate is going up ten pc. You combine that with a Babad dip of about fifty points this year, and that's why Goldie is hitting two

oh four. What do you think Florio I didn't know his struggles against velocity. That is an amazing set. My man in Goldie, you know what he needs to do. He needs to hang out with the one of my favorite players, Joey Vado. Joey Vodo is old, but he just keeps thinking of he like holds the bat almost at the barrel now and he just keeps getting that. Might be it what you say, he's choking up right, Maybe come back that reaction time gap. You gotta you know,

it's like the same thing on the pitching side. Fireballers when they get into the thirties, they become pictures, right, they use location, they lose their arsenal, they're off speed stuff now. So of these hitters may not be able to adjust as they get older. And what the you know, the influx of these big time arms coming out and seeing them more in the bullpen because the bullpens are dominating games. I think this has merit Floria. I'll send you. I'll send you a link to the article I read.

It was by you know, Mr Buster Only we'll talk about that. UM, I'll show that to you. I think it's pretty interesting though. A specifically, these thirty year old guys, they can't handle the heat that's coming in this new era of Major League Baseball, and maybe that's why some of these guys were left on sign But real quick, we're doing over on Roado experts in the morning. Okay, if you're part of the status over beat cipher, you

know about fantasy freestyle, you know that speeds loves brackets. Okay, guys, maybe JP the Night Album might remember we did the greatest TV show of all time. And Florio, you were talking about this as well. You know, we did the greatest TV show of all time. It was in fact, breaking bad over Seinfeld. We did the greatest sports movie of all time. I believe Rocky won those brackets. What

I wanna know is the face of baseball. So we got some names, Florio, I sent them to you, and you know, JP or anybody else can comment as well. And and the way I had it was, you know, Trout, Judge, Altuve, Harper, Otani, Kerkshaw, Stanton Pool, Hols, Bryant, Posey, Corea, Verlando Cabrera, Machado, Syndergarten bets. This is like kind of remember, the face of baseball is not necessarily the best player in baseball, but who

might we have the most notoriety, the face. People be like, Oh, I know that guy that's Aaron Judge, right, Oh, I've seen that guy that's Mike Trout. You know, Syndergarden isn't here because it's long flowing locks. If you want to know the truth, That's why guys like Pooh Holes or Cabrera Posy are still in there. They're part of the marketable marketability of baseball, the face of baseball. You know.

So guys like Freeman they don't really get in. Guys like Votto who you just mentioned, or Braun, people don't know them as much. Goldschmidt. So Florio, I asked you, you've seen the list. Do you think that there are any glaring omissions or any of these top sixteen should definitely be dropped? And should any names that you think of that we have not captured at all, or anybody that you think is dramatically overseated or underseated from the list.

Thing I just gave um, I don't think there's anyone like missing. Okay, what would you do with this? How would you how would you move the rankings or the seatings up a little bit. Honestly, I think I would have Trout lower real, Like, right now, Trout is the number one seed. I believe he is the favorite as the face of baseball. That meanings like if you asked

Ran you know, we're in studio thirty four. If I went to Penn Station, you know, and I was like showing people pictures or of like, oh, who's you know name a baseball player right now? You don't think Trout would be the first one named, don't You don't think Trout? Uh is like maybe one of the most recognizable. Trout the biggest ambassador. I guess he's not on as many commercials and stuff like that. You'd have Trout lower. Huh. He'll still be in my top four. Okay, he'd be

in the kind of okay, the best quartile. He'd be in your top four. The others in the top four a Judge Alto and Harper? Are you saying that because you're such a millennial, Mikey, are you saying you bump Harper up? I would bump Harper for sure, and I think Judge over him as well. So you would do the top four more like Judge Harper Trout Alve. Honestly, I think I would do it. Harper tut interesting let

me know what you guys think. If you're in the stats over beat Cipher in the chat room on YouTube. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna be kind of norming this a little bit, and then we're gonna be doing these polls on Rhodo Experts in the morning right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network seven and nine am. It is me, It is the King Scott Angle, it

is the all in kid Jake Seely. You know, we put the fun and functional sports radio Florio every morning we cock a dood will do it from seven and nine am on the Fantasy Sports Network. What do you think about some of these older guys. Do you think Miguel Cabrera still belongs in the top sixteen? Do you think Buster Posey still belongs in the top sixteen? Should they be seated in this bracket? Florial? I definitely think they should be be it's bust Oppose He's still in

a lot of commercials. Maybe he was so good. Poogles both were so good for so long that I think the average baseball fans still recognizes them immediately. Yeah, alright, so we're gonna find out much like we found out about the TV shows. Much like we found out about the sports movies, we're gonna find out once we hit Memorial Day and becomes the Boys of Summer, We're gonna launch this bracket tournament. Maybe we'll do a little crossover to collabo with the bff's. You know, we're gonna start

getting into football as well. When we come back, though, we put the fun and functional sports content. We got rapping athletes to break down. It is prom season, so we gotta talk to my man JP the night out because you know he might still be a palm date these days. Um, all that and more when we come back gets the Fantasy Freestyle with your boy Day Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician, stable genius, vocal minority. You know what it is, JATHO say, come on back, It's Fantasy Freestyle.

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we put the fun and functional sports content. Um. I've been talking about Trevor Bauer for a few weeks now. Remember we talked about the sixty nine days of giving, how after his arbitration and kind of he won more than he wanted or that he you know, pitched originally he was trying to make a mockery of the arbitration system and succeeded. If I do days myself and just catch you up, Remember he's giving four and twenty dollars and sixty nine cents to a charity for sixty nine

days in a row. And know those numbers are not coincidental. And we're in about you know, I got it. It's about two more weeks left. And I was like, who should we nominate? Who should we nominate? You know the Slatto would beat Cipher. We gotta we gotta, we gotta nominate a charity and maybe the Bower outage Trevor Bauer would you know, donate and we could feel good about ourselves.

And I finally found the answer. Remember last week when I told you about Hugh Jackson, and I told you that Hugh Jackson was gonna go jump in the lake because He said previously last year that if the Browns went, oh, it didn't win a game, because I guess two years ago they go one in fifteen, right, and then they say if they don't do better than that, he would go jump in Lake Erie. And they wound up losing every game last year. So he's gonna make good on his promise. He's a man of his word. He is

going to jump in the lake. I think he's doing it on June one, but he he spun it forward and he did a real nice thing. He said he's doing it now to cleanse the losing ways in Cleveland, right, So I'm with that. And he's also encouraging everybody in the Cleveland Browns organization to jump on in with him. And he said he's going to donate a hundred dollars for every person within the Browns that jump in with him, and he's gonna donate it to his charity, the Hugh

Jackson Foundation. It's on my Twitter timeline right now. The Hugh Jackson Foundation. What they do is they support efforts to combat human trafficking in the city of Cleveland, Okay, And I think this is a great cause. I think it's great that Hugh Jackson is now turning this into a thing to kind of ceremoniously cleanse the losing out of Cleveland and to ceremoniously and to raise money for

his charity. Now, I bring it back to Trevor Bower. Right, Trevor Bauer was on the Cleveland Indians team that the Chicago Cubs beating the World Series. Maybe they are now cursed. Maybe they need to cleanse the losing. Right, this is Cleveland and Cleveland. Bauer could be, you know, supporting Cleveland sports and forget a hundred dollars for every Brown that

you know kind of joins in with you. Hey, Trevor Bauer, jump in the lake with Hugh Jackson on June one and give the guys at the Hugh Jackson Foundation four d and sixty nine cents. It's perfect synergy for the city of Cleveland. This is exactly what he should do. I find this as a no brainer. Hugh Jackson maybe

needs to do this to cletense the losing ways. Because right now on the poll question, thirty three percent of you, we got about almost a hundred votes so far just this last hour of you think that Hugh Jackson enters with the hottest seat. So jump in the lake, Bro and Trevor Bauer. Throw your four twenty and sixty nine cents over that way. That's what the stats overbeat cipher has to say. But what we're gonna do here, um, we break down the rapping athletes, right, So let's do that.

Let's break down the rapping athletes. We got a new one. I want to go down to the Pit of misery because my man Mike Florio suggested this one we talked about at the night Owl. JP is like, oh, I love this guy. We're talking about former Texans running back Aryan Foster. All right, here's the funny part. Okay, he goes by Bobby Fino. Alright, so check out his a k A. Is trying to be like Speeds and spitting statistician,

the stable genius and vocal minority. What is this the Bodega boys U a k A. Bobby Fino over here, Aryan Foster. He also has a few tracks out there. And here's what I want to say. I was talking to Florio before this. He says he thinks Aryan Foster is pretty good a k A. Bobby Fino. He thinks Bobby Fino sounds like j Cole. Alright, so we're gonna play some of this uh Aryan Foster a k a. Bobby Fino. What's going on, everybody, and tell me if you think this sounds like Ja Cole. This is Aryan

Foster with the track titled Joy. We're gonna play a little bit of that. We can play about seconds of that right now here on the Fantasy Freestyle with stats over beat cipher that I want to hear with j P has to say because he's such a big fan. And we'll see if Florio can convince others that are Yeah, it sounds like Jane Cole. All right, this is Arrian

Foster with Joy. Here we go, heart beating like I stole something my racing, like our role something I feel like that own loving like ain't no call of books, listen growing love and let me let you know, sithing girl on my olympus with et gypsums and gold dripping that dope for me that stick to the soul, pining words for you. Only John Lennon wouldn't know pain shrinking from my heart. So with all to the forbidden, we go, like Julia and Romeo day flights to Tokyo love growing

like brnning Okyo, my kids writing love. Let us to your brids, catch the Holy Thoks, girl to you comatose love, Let me overdose. You can be my medicine drinking this are thinking this forever that it never is, so you can let it leave. I've never been romantic, but I love walking with you on his canvas, you know. Yeah, as we go to the hook, that's maybe where it was Ja Cole ish as we get to the sing song, he hook wanted to be like Ja Cole and fifty cent back in the day. Alright, Florio, if we got

Florio in the pit of misery. Florio was high on this early on. He said he didn't know if he heard this track or others sounded like j Cole. Does this still sound like Ja Cole or you, Florio, what do you got? I still think his voice sounds a lot like Jacole. You would go defend this. You would defend this with the stats would be cipher in the chat room and stuff, not saying like he's as good

as Jake Coloria. All right, right, I just think when I heard his voice, so it's like, uh, it sounds a little bit like j Coole, Like, I think that's kind of the style he was trying to emulate. Maybe maybe he was trying to emulate that a little storytelling those sings song I am mad at you there. I just think, I mean, come on, let's let's not let's not put the expectations a little No, no, no, I'm not saying he's the next J Coler. Alight enough, fair enough.

Also down to the fantasy pit of misery is the night Ow my man JP, maybe the new head of marketing for the Fantasy Sports Network, my Man JP. The night Owl? You know you were saying, Um, you were saying that you're a big fan of Arian Foster. Um do you feel confirmed in that? Are you like, oh my god, yeah, this is great, like everything Arian Fluster does. What do you think about this night Owl? I want

to hear more. That's pretty good. You want to hear more. Also, I'll take the opposite opinion of Mike Florio and say the beat is almost J Cole. That brought me back to like interesting, Florio. I think the man, and by man, I mean kid makes a good point. Yeah, a little beat and it could be the beat. It could be the beat. I hear that oh, we like this. I'm playing this a little more. We like this. Wouldn't all right, let's uh, let's keep it moving here on the Fantasy Priestle.

I'll tell you what, JP. I like that. If you do want to hear more, JP, I got another track for you. We're not gonna play because it was a little foul mouth, like a potty mouth. Okay it was. He was cursing like a sailor. Bobby Fino was carson like a sailor. Check out a friend, a fan, a kid. It's an interesting song. He actually tells the context like each versus, like his relationship with a fan, and his relationship with a friend as he gets famous, and his

relationship with a kid. You know, it's just like wants him as a role model kind of thing. It's pretty interesting. He's actually telling a story there. I like that, but like I said, it was a little too potty mouth for me. We also got my man Danny Otto down there in the Fantasy Pit of Misery. You know, they're running triple duty down there, trying to make your boy's speed sound good, keeping it so hot that we sweat steam right here on the Award nominated Fantasy freestyle. Yeah,

fs w A showing respect. I like that. Um, Danny, I know you'd be man in monitoring the chat room. My guy's strong style Lance Davis Taco. What are they talking about that in the chat room? Let me holler at them. You know, if you guys are talking big time fans status would beat Cipher's strong style Lance Davis Taco, crunch big shout out to you guys. Hey, Danny, what are they talking about in the chat We're talking a

little bit about everything, christ the freestyle. I'll talk about anything, baby. What's up currently? We've been talking about TRL Okay, Carson Daily. I saw that. I heard that commercial to floor the young Buck. Gret Susman tried to get at him. Let me tell you something about that real quick. Everybody in the chat room. Back in a day, I used to intern, okay,

when I was in college, I used to intern at MTV. Okay, it was my job to, you know, do random stuff like answer the fan mail for Jan Brady at Nick and knight right and do random stuff like that. But this is when t R was big. So I'd go out and get lunch, you know, and then it would take me twenty minutes to get back to my desk because I had to fight the throngs of people that were waiting outside the damn window to wave at Bust the Rhymes and Janet Jackson. Okay, so I got a

lot of beef with TRL. But okay, we're talking t r L. That's my hot take on t r L. Danny, what else we got before that? I mean, they we've kind of been going through everything. I know. At the beginning of the chat room, we were talking about tight ends because you mentioned tight ends for we were talking about the tight ends and how I think the second year tight ends make a big old jump. I like that, so big shout out of course the Strong Style, Yo, Danny,

do me a favorite chat back. I want to know how Strong Style feels about the King of Strong Style, Mr. Nakamura and his hell turn. I want to know what he thinks about his heal turn. No speak of the English and stuff like that. Tell him Speeds wants to know about that. He'll turn a Strong Style hit me up. I want to know what you think about that? Do you like it better? Do you think it's developing his character? All right? And the last thing I want to do here,

because you know the status of beach. We we uh, we talk it all here. We talked sports, we talk sports culture. We talked about you need to when your leagues and when that cash um. But we also, you know, we talk love. We talked love here. Remember we had my man um with the love doctor, good old Donnie Burns. But we're back to JP, JP, I want to get your take on this story. It is prom season, you know. Uh, and you know, JP, you probably had your prom what

like two years ago or something like that. You had a prom two three years ago, two years ago? Okay, So check this out. J Feely, uh, you know, longtime kicker in the NFL. His daughter is going to the prom this year. Okay. You know she's maybe a senior

or whatever. She's dating this guy. Right. There's a picture that Jay Feely has on social media and it's uh, his daughter arm in arm with like her date, you know, and dad, and Jay Feely is in the back with a kind of threatening look to the dad to the kid, to the boy. He was about to take his daughter to the prom and he's holding a gun okay in this picture, right and the post just says wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom,

but he's brandishing the weapon, intimidating the kid. He got a little flak for this on social media, giving the timing, given the fact that there's you know, kids in schools getting shot up now it seems like every damn week in this country, right and then he uh, he had to apologize the next day. Jay Jay Feely puts out on his social media the prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joe. My daughter has dated a boyfriend for over a year, and they knew I

was joking. I take gun safety seriously. Then, in parentheses, he says the gun was not loaded and had no clip in it, and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue. JP. I have so many questions for you. First of all, how would you feel if your dad's you know, your dates dad, when you roll up, you know it's packing. How would you feel about that? I wouldn't feel great, Dane. Yeah right, you'd be a little intimidated. You'd have our home by midnight.

Oh yeah, there you go, fair enough before we all turn into pumpkins. But I think the point he was trying to I think he's just trying to like he was trying to be funny, but timing is everything. Now is not necessarily the time to play that. That's like, I'm not making domestic violence or sexual harassment jokes right now. It's a little sensitive right now. You know, gun violence is a very sensitive topic right now, especially with high

school students. Like just just just tone deaf in my opinion. Right So, so my question for you, JP is like, is this funny? I don't think it's funny. I mean, he's trying to make the joke, but wrong time, wrong place. He just completely missed the mark. I get what he's trying to get at, be the stereotypical like hard dad, but he just kind of he kind of missed the point.

I think he missed the point as well. Um, JP, just in case you're still on the prom circuit, because you know, now you're an older man to some of these women, watch it because they may be brandishing weapons when you go to prom. Also, remember last year we did that thing. Levan, the girl's name I think was Ava Tarantino. She was like, uh, Levan, we go to the prom with me? And he was like, listen, if you get whatever. It was ten thousand likes whatever it was,

and she blew past that. But then the school said, no, you can't bring Levan because he represents poor character because he was like suspended for marijuana or something like that or holding out, whatever the case. Maybe Levan big shout out to him helping Speeds his fantasy team last year get to a fantasy championship. Dilley, Dilley to everybody. I wrote, Levy on Bell Yeah, Buddy Levan, Belle DeAndre Hopkins did it for me. Zach Ertz did it for me. The

Minnesota defense and the Baltimore defense. My two defenses last year on Minnesota and Baltimore, they did well for me. All right, but I digress. So, yeah, I think this is bad timing. But I wanted to share that with stats over Beat Cipher. We got my man Danny Otto down there. Hey, Danny, what do you think about this poor timing and poor taste or funny? I think it's definitely poor timing in the poor taste. Well, you think it's funny just bad timing. Well, I think it's in

poor taste too. Yeah, but you don't say that. You're like it's in poor taste. It's almost like you feel you're obligated to say that yes and no. I mean I feel like you can. If you have timing right, you can get away with more sure like your boys Speeds has been statisation example. Alright, but I think, yeah, this is in poor timing, in poor taste. Fair enough. But we got going on on popping off tomorrow, Danny

Wednesday nights here on the Fantasy Sports Network. What we got on popping off tomorrow, popping off All Star Wars related. We're getting ready for the coming Friday, so we got a prep for it. That sounds good. Keep it locked on that for sure, Keep it locked to BFFs Fantasy best Friends forever, My guys, Mikey Florio, Greg Sussman, Susmania and of course my man wrote, Oh Frank Frankie Stanfeld. They hit it up big time over there. We might do a little collaboration with some of our brackets over

the summer. And big shout out thanks to the night out giving me context for prom season. You guys check me out at Spitting Speeds on Twitter. Alright, the poll question up right now, you say Jason Garrett has the hottest seat? Thirty three percent say you Jackson, say dirt cutter and uh you know, rate review, Subscribe, help your boy out. I'll see you next week. You catch me every morning here roto xpitch in the morning. Download stats over Beata as well. I'll see you next week right

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