Leading Off: September 8th, 2025 with Ryan Bloomfield (Ep. 1129)

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy Pros. This is
Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host,
Joel Rico, joined today by a special guest making his
Leading Off debut. You've seen him on the channel if
you're here for Fantasy Fest. He's been a guest over
the years on numerous shows. But mister Ryan Bloomfield sitting
in the co host chair today's actually the first person

(00:25):
I ever did a podcast with, once upon a time,
four or five years ago. He's been a good friend
ever since. Ryan, thank you so much for stepping in
for Bubba today. Man, good to see you.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Happy to do so, my man. Great to talk to you.
And you know, someone's got to pick up Bubba's slack
around here.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
So usually usually I have to do it anyway, but
on our bubb In the bloom show, but I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'll do it for this one as well.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Different venue, but same deal, Ryan picking up Bubba slack.
Really good to have you. If you haven't followed Ryan
over on Twitter, it's at Ryan BHQ. He does fantastic
work over at Baseball HQ, so make sure you guys
are check him out following his work and listen to
the bubb in the Blue podcast. I have the shirt
somewhere here. It is. I got it right here from
first last year with the duo on it. It's a

(01:07):
great shirt. I keep it. I keep it close by.
I wore it the one day actually where Bubba had
the internet issues and I had to go solo. Funnily enough,
But today we're gonna be talking about some of the headlines,
breaking down some of the injuries, and doing all that
usual good stuff, and we'll answer some of your questions
as well. So if you guys want to throw a
couple of questions into the chat, I'd be happy to
answer them. I see Joe g is there, and we'll
get to a couple of these in a minute. But

(01:29):
let's start off with a couple of headlines. Let's start
off with Hunter Green. You know the Mets. I've been
I've been looking over the last three weeks, Like when
August ended, I started looking at, Okay, who are the
top performing teams in August et cetera, And the New
York Mets were the number one team, and they've been
good over the first few games of September as well.
They have won sixty three w RC plus over the
last couple of weeks, So naturally, Hunter Green goes in

(01:50):
there seven innings, twelve strikeouts, one run, two walks. Just
fantastic outing from Hunter Green. And for the season as
a whole, he's been He's been brilliant, he really, I
know he's had to miss some time, but when Hunter
Green has been out there, ninety innings of a two
five nine era, a point ninety three whip the walks,
the commands are like we've never seen before from him
with just a five percent walk. Great. So what are

(02:12):
your thoughts heading into next year on Hunter Green? Is
he somebody you'd trust as an sp one? Do the
ballpark in injury concerns kind of scare you off? Is
he more of a two for you? You? Where is
your evaluation come out on Hunter Green? Ryan? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
For me, And you're right, Joe, the walks, cutting down
on the walks. Hundred Green has gone from a thrower
to a pitcher pretty much, you know, this past year.
So this is a blind spot for me in terms
of like how to evaluate someone like Hunter Green. I
cannot get over. I'm not too worried about the ballpark
like he's just so dominant that, Yeah, you may give
up a cheap e every now and then, but Hunter
Green is just so good that I don't know. He

(02:46):
could pitch on the moon and be fine. My biggest
thing is always just the injuries, and again it's something
I probably have to get over because Hunter Green.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
On an per ending basis, I mean, is one.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of the probably easy in the top five pitchers in baseball.
I just worry about the volume, but maybe I shouldn't.
If you can get one hundred and fifty innings out
of hundred Green, which is what he did last year,
He's gonna clips another one hundred.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
This season as well.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's not that much below what you would expect from
a quote unquote safe starting pitcher, which doesn't really exist truthfully,
So someone who I need to probably bump up one
hundred Green's a blind spot. I don't have any hundred Green,
and I'm absolutely missing out. Very nice to see him
finish the season healthy for me. That's big whenever a
starting pitcher actually finishes the season. I know we've got
three weeks left, but that helps a lot in terms

(03:33):
of my off season evals.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
For these guys.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
So he went at the end of the fourth round.
In that early draft you guys did as the fourteenth
starting pitcher off the board. It feels about right. It
does feel roughly where he should be going into the fourth.
I could see him going in the third as well.
Once drafts really ramp up next season, I think it'll go.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I think it'll be higher, just because when we had
that meatball draft, to believe that was like August twentieth,
that it was just one start back, Hunter Green from
the IL and so you were kind of taking a
little bit of a leap of faith that Hunter Green
would be healthy.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Not that he's shown it.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I can see Hunter Green jumping up second, third round
by the time we get to March.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I can see it. Yeah, this draft was interesting. I
mean it's been talked about on a lot of shows,
but there was no pictures in the second, a ton
of pitchers in the third and fourth, and Green was
one of those guys in the fourth that maybe if
he was healthy, like you said, maybe he does go
on that Chris Sale, Logan, Gilbert, Joe, Ryan Range and
also a guy who went right there was Hunter Brown,
Hunter Green or Hunter Brown next season, it's a close one.
I don't know. I think it's gonna require the off

(04:33):
season of digging into the numbers. But off the top
of my head, I might go with Hunter Brown. It's close, though, Yeah,
it is close.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm gonna go. So I'm gonna back up what I
just said, and I think, like I think Hunter Brown
needs the volume to beat Hunter Green. And I don't
know if we can say with any type of certainty
that Hunter Brown is a quote unquote safer pitcher than
Hunter Green. So I'll take the better skills, I'll take
the dominance of Hunter Green over Hunter Brown. But I
certainly get if you want.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
To go the other way. It is. It is close,
that's totally fair. I think that's totally fair. Just wait
till Hunter Blue comes into the next next year, and
then we're not gonna have any idea what to do
about it. Let's talk about show Hey, Oh, that show
Hay is a popular topic of conversation. But when he
goes on base five times HiT's two homers, I feel
like he's worth bringing up one hundred and twenty seven
runs for the year. Forty eight homers, ninety ribby, seventeen

(05:20):
steals in a ops, that's just over one thousand. There's obviously,
no fantasy moved to make. My question really is is
either undisputed number one next year or do you think
it'll be like kind of like this year where we
see Judge go first a couple of times, maybe Bobby
Wit or somebody else sneaks in. If you have the
first pick, are you going show hey?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
You think, yeah, don't get cute, don't overthink it. Show
Hayes is being show hey. And I remember back to
when you know, back this past draft season. You know,
maybe we're worried about the shoulder injury that he had
last postseason and whatever, but no take show Hey, don't
think twice at all?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, no consideration for Judge.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Not really.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I had I had the second pick in the in
the aforementioned much discussed the meatball draft that we that
we had a few weeks ago, and like, I knew
Judge was coming to me, and I was praying, I
was praying that Otani would somehow not get picked first
by Steve Weimer.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
But I knew that was gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
So just me going through that mental exercise is, yeah, Otani,
I think is like even if you can't use him
as a pitcher, like whatever format like, just put him
at ut and enjoy.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
You won't get any argument for me there. And I
think even though like NFBC leagues or leagues where he
is one player, you're probably not going to ever use
him as a pitcher. But right maybe you get to
August and your offense is stacked and you've lost five
pitchers and you just need an Otani week and you
have that luxury to do it. Not that you would
very often, but even if you do it once or
twice in the season could pay dividends for you with

(06:43):
mister Otani. Let's talk Jacob Mizerowski. He got back on
track with a great start i'll be it against the Pirates.
Seven innings, three hits, one earned run, two walks in
eight strikeouts. It had been pretty miserable for Jacob Mizerowski
for a while before this, but overall the numbers are
pretty damn good. A four h nine era is probably
the ugliest of the surface stats that you'll see. He
has a three twelve FIP, one oh nine whip, twenty

(07:05):
four percent strike up minus walk. Right now, where did
Miserowski go in this draft?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Um?

Speaker 1 (07:10):
He went in the tenth round. I don't know. That
we're gonna see him fall that far once people really
get into drafting, and once the calendar flips of twenty
twenty six, I feel like whoever took Misowski here don Morello,
got himself a really nice deal in the tenth round.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Agreed, Agreed we'd take a tenth round price on the
Miz next season. Also, don't think you will be able
to get that price, just given the way that the
Miz has finished twenty twenty five. If I have to
pay a fifth or sixth round price or something just
kind of throwing out numbers here, I don't know if
I would do it. I just I worry about. For me,
it's two things with Miserowski. It's it's the walk rate.

(07:44):
I don't I think we're gonna get brilliant outings like
we just saw this past weekend for Miszerowski.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
But I think we're also going to get.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Some of those other types of outings, just the inconsistency
of everything that comes with miserowski skill set. The other
thing for me too is just can we trust a
guy to throw ninety nine one hundred for a full
season and just injury wise that that scares the crap
out of me again, that's more just the way that
eye draft. And I've been burned by that before by
by trying to kind of predict who will and won't

(08:13):
get hurt for starting pitchers. But that does scare me
when you're throwing that hard over an entire season, Ken
Misrawski do, I'd like to see him do it first.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
If I miss out, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
There's probably gonna be other really good starting pitcher options
around where he's gonna go.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, And I could also see him being the guy
where there's one person h Room who's gonna jump him
around just because the skills the youngest All not the
youngest All Star. But after like four games, people will
look at the kind of thing ninety seven mile an
hour sliders, very exciting stuff, but at the same time
not to be doom and gloom. But he's gonna go
unto the knife at some point, and you just don't
know when that's gonna be. You can't throw one hundred

(08:47):
and two with sliders that are only five miles an
hour slower and stay healthy for your whole career, and
you know that's gonna be a time bomb for somebody
one year. Let's keep it going and talk about the
other side of that one, which was a complete opposite
stat line from Bubba Chandler in his first career start.
You got a feel for this guy. He spends the
whole year in the miners, he gets called up, pitches
well in relief a few times, and then the first
start comes against the best team in baseball at this

(09:08):
point of the year. Two and two thirds, nine hits,
niner and runs, three walks and three strikeouts. Where are
you out on Bubba Chandler right now? Would you be
drafting him in the offseason expecting he's gonna get a
full run in the rotation next year, or do you
think there's potentially more games that are going to be
played in Pittsburgh with Bubba? I would?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I would.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
We could go off on a whole other podcast about
playing games with Bubba Chandler and how the Pirates operate,
but I would draft Bubba Chandler expecting that he is
a starting pitcher next season. It's just it's really tough,
Like if you hell, we had plenty of venting in
our bubble in the Bloom Discord Yesterday's like I helped
Bubba Chandler all year for this and it has. I mean,

(09:47):
it hasn't been bad until this most recent outing, but
certainly not what you want to see with Bubba Chandler.
I just I worry about I still like he wasn't
even that great in the minors this season. Maybe he
was just kind of doing whatever, biding his time for
the call up. And so maybe you take the twelve
percent walk grate that Bubba Chandler had in the miners,
which is really bad, maybe you take that with a
grain of salt. But I certainly think he's a step behind,

(10:11):
maybe multiple steps behind uh Mizerowski and even a healthy
Chase Burns.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Those types of guys. Yeah, I can't take him ahead
of those guys, ahead of Nolan McLain, Tom It will
be right, I don't know, especially because the team context,
right like Miserowski, good team, Tom McLain, good team Burns
better team than this. So I don't know. I think
that there is something to be said about he was
in the miners the whole year. Maybe he got a

(10:35):
little bit bored, maybe he was a little bit frustrated.
I don't think he is a true talent for era
guy in the miners, and I don't think that he
is somebody you can expect to have a seven plus
ERA in the bigs's. That's not who he is. The
stuff is still very good. I'm still very encouraged by him,
and if anything, what this might do is just chip
away at the price for next season and we get
some cheap Bubba Chandler shares in those early drafts. Let's

(10:56):
talk about his team mate O'Neil Cruz, who has been miserable, awful,
like dropable, I'd say in a lot of leagues. He
won gold Golden Sombraro yesterday over four He's now slashing
two oh one three zho two three eighty four with
a six eighty six ops. Now, the fantasy goodness is
still somewhat there nineteen homers and thirty seven steals. But
I don't know if I want really anything to do

(11:16):
with O'Neil Cruz heading into next season. He hasn't ever
really put it together over a full season. The exit
velos and everything are great, but he hasn't put it together,
and I don't know that I want to trust him.
Where he's likely to go in the second or third round.
Maybe he doesn't go that early. But what are your
thoughts on O'Neil Cruse.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, I just don't think he's a good hitter,
like a good real life hitter. The team context, as
we talked about, is is horrendous as well. He cannot
hit lefties at all.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
So it's tough if.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
You're in weekly leagues or even I mean if daily
like you're I don't think in daily formats you can
even start O'Neil Cruz against lefties even if Pittsburgh throws
him out there, So that's tough.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
The one thing I will say, like the fantasy floor
for O'Neil Cruz, like, for as horrendous of a season
this has been for him, he still has the thirty seven,
still has the nineteen home runs, like you kind of have.
I don't want to say like a twenty forty floor,
but like you have a twenty forty baseline, and it's
just how do you build around that because the batting
average are two to one batting average, Like I don't

(12:12):
see that getting a whole lot better. Like O'Neal Cruz
has still young, but he's had a lot of time
in the majors at this point to where like I
think we know this is who he is, and yeah,
lefty heavy weeks for Pittsburgh. It's just like you're getting
nothing from O'Neill Cruise.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, where's the swinging strike rate at It's improved a
little bit, but contact rates are not great. I just's
there's nothing here for me that says like, yes, he's
a second rounder. Like the raw data is phenomenal. The
hard hit rate at fifty seven percent is his best
ever nineteen percent barrel rate, but the launch angle of
seven degrees right, and I don't care how hard you

(12:49):
hit the ball when you're hitting it into the ground
like he is forty seven percent of the time. So
I think he's the type of guy where if he falls,
if I get him in the fourth round, maybe I
take a chance on him. But we're three hundred and
fifty plus games, fifteen hundred played appearances in here, O'Neill Cruz.
This might just be who he is now. I think
I'll probably spike a couple of great seasons and big dances,

(13:09):
asking like keep O'Neil Cruz in round twenty four. Absolutely
in the twenty fourth round. But at the same time,
maybe we have to recalibrate expectations from a couple years
ago where people thought this is gonna be a first
round fantasy player. Maybe he's more of a third or
a fourth round fantasy player going forward. At maybe even
that's being generous. But let's talk a role as Chapman.
Fifty consecutive batters retired for Chapman, he is an era

(13:32):
below won this season, it's at point nine to eight,
a point six y four whip, eighty one strikeouts, twenty
nine saves. He struck out four batters in one inning yesterday.
He literally is invincible right now. I don't know how
much I trust the rold As Chapman, though at this
stage of his career he is no spring chicken. A
Roldest Chapman is gonna be thirty eight years old next year,
and as brilliant as this year is, I don't know

(13:53):
if I want to go into drafts trusting him as
my first closer next year? Would you or would you
be more willing to take him as like a second
closer or protect even just fade them.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Probably a second closer. But I mean, how do you
argue with anything the rold As Chapman has done? Like,
I mean, you're the only like, yes, this is not
the same version of the Reds or you know, vintage
a roled As Chapman, but like this version's pretty damn good,
so I I certainly for me, it's just it's the
age I I and just volatility of relievers you just

(14:24):
never know coming off of one elite but just kind
of one season for rold As Chapman like this, at
least recently. He's obviously been very lockdown closer for you know,
early mid career, but at least the last couple of
seasons it's been hit or missed with the role.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Is so yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
I mean the other part of that is the closer
pool for next season is already just is already a show.
There's just not many good options, maybe eight or ten.
When I was going through the potential you know, true
rp ones for next or at least just even good
relief pitchers that have the job for twenty twenty six,
it's like eight to ten guys. So that is the
other thing. It's just like a supply demand thing a role.

(15:01):
This is one of those guys, and so that that
asset will probably get pushed up to a point where
I'm like, I don't know if I want to do it.
But anyone who took a role this chap in this
season adp like two hundred. I mean, that is just
that's a windfall, absolute windfall.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
If you're like a shallow league player, like if you're
in a home league or something, this is probably a
waiver wire for ye or maybe in your last round.
But just looking at the player raider for closers this year,
you're not wrong. Man, it's looking a little dark now.
Maybe we get like Ryan Hell's lee resurgence next year.
Devin Williams. I'm not sure if Dovall is a free

(15:36):
agent or not, Like, maybe some of these guys signed places.
Maybe Alexisia some sign somewhere and figures it out. But
it's pretty rough. It is pretty rough right now looking
at the landscape. And I was talking to Spore on
the show the other day and he said, like, maybe
I take two closers in the first couple of rounds
before I even take a starter. And at first I'm like, oh,
maybe that it might be a little much, Paul, But
maybe it's not considering the landscape here, especially if you're

(15:57):
drafting early right like if you're drafting in November and December,
I don't really want to speculate on clos. There's a
whole lot. There's so much that's gonna happen. If I'm
drafting a part of the part of the season, I
kind of want Diaz a hater or something like that,
just to lock it in because I have too many
Luke Weaver Alexis DS teams from this year to look
back on in shame, look back on in shame. Joe Adell,
let's talk about him. Another home run on Sunday, his

(16:20):
thirty fifth of the season. Now, he did have to
leave early with some kind of illness. It doesn't seem
like it's particularly serious. But this is a legit breakout.
You know, earlier in the year we were kind of like, well,
maybe maybe it's a breakout, but he kind of did
this last year. But we're talking thirty five homers, it's
going to be one hundred plus ribies, one hundred and
twenty WRC plus. He's been fantastic. Joe Adell next season,

(16:40):
top twenty five outfielder or does that feel a little
too rich? Maybe off the top of my.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Head for me, that feels a little too rich, and
but it's hard to tell, Like I haven't looked at
the outfield pool for next season. It's more just like
with Joe Adell, like this is the breakout we've been
waiting for, and so you can kind of take this
as two sides of the coin is like, Okay, he
actually really good. Now, this is the kind of the
guy that we were waiting on when he was twenty

(17:05):
two to twenty three, and now he has now taken
that next step and can sustain this. The other side
kind of the glass half empty, is this is a
guy who does have a very long Major league track
record of.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Being pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
So do you expect this to continue or do you
expect it to fall back? Like Joeidell hit two oh
seven each of the previous two seasons, has more home runs,
had thirty eight home runs entering this season for his career,
and now just thirty five. So to me, everything kind
of thinks I think it's going to fall back a

(17:39):
little bit. And then and when you don't have the
running game that we thought Jo Adell might have, and
maybe that's team context, maybe the Angels run a little
bit more next year.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
A hell of a season for Joe Adell. I just
I have a hard.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Time thinking this is who he is all of a
sudden now, and maybe I'm wrong on that, but because
this is somebody who had all the prospect pedigree and
just maybe it just took him a while to figure
it out, it's a fascinating kind of question, that fork
in the road on where this could go next year.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's it's an interesting situation for sure, because, similarly to
O'Neal Cruz, some of the data is off the chart.
Seventeen percent barrel rate, fifty percent hard hit rate. Yes,
the launch angle is pretty solid. And then you also have,
like you mentioned some of some of the downfalls with
Joe Adell. He has thirty five homers, he's only scored
fifty seven times. That lineup is not anything to write

(18:27):
home about. Mike Trout's gonna be a year older next year. Now,
you know, Nato o'hapi. It's not a terrible team, but
it's not a team that you can rely like fifty
five homers over the last two years, it's one hundred
and eleven runs, Like there's nobody else to help him there.
If he's gonna score, it'll because he's driven himself in.
So you kind of have to look at the whole
picture here with Joe Adell and weigh the pros and cons.
I honestly top twenty five. As I said that, I'm like, now,

(18:48):
maybe that's a little bit rich if he's falling, Like,
did he go in the first eleven rounds for you guys,
I don't think he did.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I don't think he did. I don't think Joe Adell
went in the first eleven rounds.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
That's one hundred and six sixty five picks. So maybe
he's like back end of the top one hundred. Maybe
I can be convinced there. Maybe I can be convinced.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
And there's fifteen teams probably on average two or three
outfielders per team, so that's like a top forty five
something outfielder. Then I'm you know, then the prices, Yeah,
like I would expect once we resume that draft twelve round,
jo Adell will be picked rather quickly.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, I think that that's probably the case. Interesting season
to follow and we'll see maybe he ends up with
a forty plus homer, hundred plus RB guy season. And
then once you hit that forty home run number, that's
kind of the magic number for people in drafts. They're
just like oh my god, forty home runs Anthony Santander
from this past season. But I don't want to talk
about Anthony Santander. Let's talk about something nice, which is
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(19:42):
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(20:04):
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your questions here. Who's starting for the Dodgers today? Picked
up Shean thinking that he was starting. I don't believe
Shean is today today is listed as Glass now. I

(20:24):
believe it is Tyler Glass now pitching for the Dodgers
today unless I have missed something, but she and I mean,
he's still going to get the Rockies away from Coors
in a couple of days. So if you pick him up,
I wouldn't be cutting him because he's not pitching today.
I think that's still a pretty viable viable picked up.
There is Uri Prez a drop with Tyler Wells and
Luis Garcia available. Are you willing to move on from
Uri yet? Ryan?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
I am willing to move on from here.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
I think just at this point in the season, you
need to be cutthroat on how some of these guys look.
And eury Perez to me, does not look good right now.
And maybe that's just you know, we all know the
injury history with Ury Priz. Maybe he's just wearing down
at the.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
End of the season.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
And and does he even start the final week or
two season for the Marlins.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
You don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
So I don't know. Tyler Wells, he's like a whip legend.
I love the walk grade. So if you're if this
is like a you know, rotisserie league or whatever, check
Joe where you're at in that category. Luis Garcia is
probably my favorite ad of in terms of faby yesterday

(21:25):
Luis Garcia, So I would. I would drop Uri Pres
for Louis Garcia, the Houston Astros Louis Garcia. There were
plenty of Angels Louis Garcia pickups that I saw yesterday,
which not great.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Not great this time of year. I get it. It's
like this a lot going on. Sundays are so busy
to see Garcia. You type it in, you click bit
and it can bite you. For sure. Tyler Wells does
have the Pirates this week. Luis Garcia has a two
star matchup where you'll start against my Blue Jays and
then go to Atlanta. So I honestly think they're all
pretty viable. If you can't sneak in Wells against the Pirates,

(21:59):
I'm not going to fight you on that. I think
that's that's a solid streaming opportunity as well. Twelve team
had to have points. Sodastrom, Manzarta or Rice. I've been
on the Ben Rice train. He's been really, really solid.
Manzardo's picked it up as well, but I'd have to
go with ben Rice here.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I would go with Ben Rice as well. Monzardo not
a bad backup. Cleveland gets six ridies this week, so
Manzarta should be locked in and have a pretty good week.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, Jake Berger's available. Is he worth a pickup in
a deeper league? Maybe? I don't think in a standard
ten or twelve teamer.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Agreed deeper league.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
I mean, Jake Berger has not been playing regularly at
least until the last few games, So you did that
automatically is a disqualifier. But yeah, I'm not I'm not
super stoked on on Jake Berger until he starts playing
every day.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Is Spencer Strider droppable? Man? Can you imagine getting at
the beginning of the year. He's facing the Cubs this week,
who haven't been amazing offensively. I'd prefer to not drop him,
but I also wouldn't blame you if you benched him.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Right and honestly, not even Strider any but he's droppable
at this point. It all depends on matchups, what you need,
if you're in a category league or what. But yeah,
like this has not been the Spencer Strider down the stretch,
and we know or we actually we don't know with
the internal brace, just like how long term, how we
react to that. I think he's breaking down rest up

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for next season.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Strider.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, I don't know what to make of him for
next year. Like there was a stretch, there was a
stretch where he looked pretty good. But overall the numbers
are awful. Four seventy eight FIP, he has a one
thirty nine whip, the strikeouts are twenty four percent. There
is a guy who had a thirty eight percent strikeout
rate when he debuted. His stuff is grading out below average. Yep,
I don't know what to make of him. I really don't.

(23:43):
I hope that he finishes off with a couple of
good starts, which will give me, you know, the nice
taste in the mouth heading into the offseason. But yeah,
I don't. I don't mind dropping him. Honestly, the more
I think about it, as crazy as it feels, if
you if you got to move on, I would you
drop for Tyler well so that Pirates start? I think,
honestly at this point I might do it.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
It's funny just thinking that same thing. It was like
comparing Strider to Wells and Luis Garcia. In my head,
with Strider, it's it is the Cubs, like you said,
But then it's next two starts would be at Washington
and then at Detroit, So I would I could see
you dropping Strider for a streamable Tyler Wells or a
two step Louis Garcia right now.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, I think I can too. Is ta Oscar droppable?
I haven't really been that tuned in on Taoscar's he been.
Has he been that cold?

Speaker 2 (24:24):
He's been cold?

Speaker 3 (24:25):
But the thing for me with like hitters versus pictures,
with hitters, you just never know when they're like tay
Oscar's really good. This isn't like a degraded like a
Spencer Strider where it's like a or Uri Perez where
they're like degraded versions of themselves right now, at least
in my opinion, Like I think with with good bats,
with good hitters like Oscar Hernandez, you just kind of
ride it out, take the bad with the good. At

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the end of the day you will be happy that
you hopefully kept kept tay Oscar active. I have a
bunch of ta Oscar. I'm still rolling with them. You
just never know when it's gonna pop off with him.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, and that lineup b like as much as they've
been struggling, if the Oscar had a weekend where he
had three homers and drove in seven. Nobody's gonna be
surprised by that. And that's exactly what happens, right when
you put him on your bench, if you even the
rest of us a service if you put him on
your bench. But I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.
Who had the better comeback, Orioles versus the no hitter
that was crazy or the Bills last night? I think
I'd go with the Orioles. As much as the Bills

(25:18):
are impressive. That's my closest team to my hometown. That
I mean, I feel for Yamamoto. Man. That was brutal.
That was brutal.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I am a tortured Bills fan.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
That is my team. So I'm happy this morning. But
it's got to be the world. I cannot believe you
are one out away from a no hitter and yet.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
You lose four to three like that is.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
That is much more rare than a fifteen point comeback
in football. That happens semi regularly. So that was just
bonker stuff between the Dodgers and Orioles.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
This weekend.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Shades of my childhood hero Roy Halliday and his second
career start eight and two thirds, no hit ball that
was broken up by a homer. We'll see if you
have a moto and have a holiday like career, wouldn't
shock me. Probably not to that level, but it wouldn't
shock me. Tanner, Scott Hoffman or Jose Ferrer. I think
it's Hoffman as much as I don't love it as
a Blue Jay fan, I think I think he's the

(26:12):
one that's most secure in the job here, still on
a good team. What do you think here?

Speaker 3 (26:16):
I mean, Hoffin blows a ton of saves, but he
also gets a ton of chances and gets a ton
of saves. So I would go Hoffman, Ferrera, and then
tenor Scott last.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, I agreed, let's keep it going here and do
a little three up and three down. Andrew Vaughn four
for five with a run and an RBI. You know,
he had really cooled off, but he's actually put together
a couple of good games recently. What do you think
Andrew vaugh here? Do you think the fresh start in
Milwaukee is exactly what he needed? Or did he just
get hot for a couple of weeks and we're going

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to overreact to that forever?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
I mean I guess leaving the White Sox can cure
a lot of ills that that that can help. Very
impressive season from from Andrew Vaughn, who I will admit
I was late to the party on Bubba was Bubba
was in on him early when we do our Lee
Fab previews over at Bubba and the Bloom and I
kind of gave him some crap for it, and I
was absolutely wrong. Career best barrel rate for Andrew Vaughn

(27:09):
up to thirteen percent, which is really good, and he's
not selling out for the carriages below twenty percent. Anytime
you have a double digit barrel rate like that and
a teen's strikeout rate, that is really good stuff. Milwaukee
obviously believes Andrew baugh They've basically held back Reeze Hoskins
from even returning because they know Vaughn is locked in there.
So I'm I'm yeah, then you throw on the context

(27:31):
of leaving the White Sox really like what Andrew vaugh
did this year. He was also not drafted in our
eleven rounds of that Meatball draft as well.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
First base is a gauntlet. First base is going to
be very hard to figure out at the top with
the Nailers and pass quantinos coming up, Devers will be
in the first base pool. Olsen like, it's gonna be
kind of tricky to figure out that, like five through
maybe fifteen range. Let's look out. A Lope is another
guy who's a little bit tricky for me to figure
out from a fantasy evaluation standpoint. You know they act

(28:00):
real life numbers ninety two WRC plus. You know the
ops is six ninety one, but fourteen homers, twelve steels,
seventy ribis. He's not killing you with the two forty
eight batting average. It's been a pretty decent year for
Auto Lopez. Any interest in him going forward in the
next year as a middle infield option, maybe potentially somebody
you'd start at second base? When do you think of

(28:21):
Outo Lopez? Because I kind of like him.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'm a big fan of the Auto man. We call
him the bus driver on our show. He's he is
the big thing for me. He can compile, Like there
is a thing to being an everyday player on a
middling team. I'm not even gonna call the Miami a
bad team at this point. They've kind of turned things
around a little bit lately. But Ota Lopez plays every
single day. I think that is absolutely a skill. And

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when you do that, if you can rack up I
know he was hurt for a little bit this season,
but still going to clips probably five hundred and fifty
played appearances with that il time. If you can rack
up plate appearances like that, it just sets your floor
so high. And Otto Lopez does not strike out his
for some pop. He can run like, just does a
little bit of everything, and I think that's a perfect

(29:03):
like middle infield kind of filler in twelve teamers that
you can totally bank on With Auto Lopez.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, he plays an excellent second base and short so
his playing time is secure. I do like Auto. I
do like Auto a lot. And I think he was
a Jay and traded from the Jay's at one point.
I forget who for or whatever, but interesting player, interesting
season he's had, and au Haaneo Suarez a couple of
home runs from him, And somebody said this the other
day on Twitter, you can always tell when au Haaneo

(29:31):
Suarez has a big day because they're not playing in Seattle,
And I think that's that's probably pretty fair. Forty five
homers for the year, one hundred and nine ribies for him,
one thirty three WRC plus. Now he is a free agent.
You are not not a full blown like Mariners fan,
but you're you're kind of tuned in. Yeah, yeah. Do
you think that he goes back to Seattle in the offseason.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
He's already left Seattle once. I think he will do
it again. It's just it's just such a tough, tough
park to hit in. So I think it's a rental
of the Mariners acquired him as such. And maybe, yeah,
maybe he does. He's near the end of his career.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Maybe you hein Yo.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Suarez just says, I want to chill here, But my
gut says he moves on and goes to a better
park and puts up numbers elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, we won't complain about that for fancy purposes. He
is right pushing a fifty home run season, and he
has a forty nine home run year under his belt already,
and for the career, three hundred and twenty one homers
at age thirty three. He does this a couple more times.
I veu Annio Suarez enters the five hundred home run club,
that'd be pretty remarkable. He will not be doing that
in Seattle. To be sure Aaron gifts first time chatter.

(30:39):
We appreciate you guys who are coming in for the
first time. I would imagine that a lot of you
guys are probably thinking, like, oh, we're gonna be doing
football stuff in September, but no, we are still here
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday doing baseball stuff. And we
didn't have any football questions today. For the first time
we hopped on the stream. The last couple of times
it was Jacorey Krofsky, Merit and Ricky Piersoll and I'm
all confused.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Heard of any of these people, So, yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
I guess my bad for even bringing up the bills,
but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
There was the question about like the comeback, that's right
prompted now that I mean, people kind of expect some
football content here, but we are here to bring you
the baseball goodies. But let's talk about the downs. Though.
These guys did not bring you the baseball goodies. Yesterday
Joey Wentz two and a third eight eurn runs on
eight hits. He didn't expect to be getting the start,
and this was like he was thrown into the fire
because they pushed back Strider by holy crap, eight Earn

(31:28):
runs on eight hits, and it killed the potential two
start week for him for next week. So not cool
at all, Braves. Charlie Morton three innings, three and runs,
four heads and three walks. The Tigers have not at
all gotten what they thought they were getting at the deadline,
but they've kind of gotten what they probably should have
expected everything considered with Charlie Morton, then Kai Wai Tang
this guy. I do a starting pitcher chart, and I

(31:49):
see this guy's name pop up every time, and every
time I go to write his name down, the numbers
seem to be worse than the previous start. He did
strike out eight, but he allowed four and runs three
hits and walk five. I don't know why the Giants
are rolling guy out. I really don't, because they're a
team that has like some chance of going to the postseason. Still,
I don't know. I don't know what this guy I don't.
I don't know, Bryan. It's just maybe the worst pitcher

(32:11):
I've ever seen. To be honest, I don't be too cruel.
He's just he's awful, really awful.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Your your guy did he did strike out eight with
no walks. It was in core, so you know you
gotta like that. But yeah, I don't like he's got
a five walk game. Tang has a against the Pod.
I'm just looking through his game, like, had a four
walk game with no strikeouts. Maybe that one's sticking in
your crass as worst pitcher ever.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
But maybe.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't go quite that far.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
But yeah, I don't really know either what to do
with this guy.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
So I am leaving Tang alone.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I'm being a little cruel. But seven fifty four, he's
got a one to seventy six. Swip the numbers, blow
the service a little bit better. Maybe I'm being a
little bit too harsh. You'll probably win the cy Young
next year, now that I've started flapping my gums.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Doubtful.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Doubtful, pretty doubtful. Let's go to the injuries. There's some
not nice things today on the injury report. Trade Turner
right hamstring strain, will undergo an MRI today. He's been fantastic.
He's having arguably the best year of his career. Yeah,
certainly one of the two or three best years he's
ever put up. This one. We're gonna just have to
keep an eye on the results of the MRI. Bobby
Wood Junior has missed a couple of consecutive games now

(33:20):
with back spasms. Any worry about Bobby Witt. Let's say
he doesn't get the green light, are you willing to
sit him in like a Monday to Thursday lineup context?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
It'd be a tough call, but yeah, if in backspasms
can be tricky, I just want to sit him, get
it right. If Wit is not in the first lineup
of the week for Kansas City, I you know, it's
not an auto sit, but if you've got any other alternative,
I think you roll with it. Trade Turner, it feels
like the writing on the wall, this might be it
for the season for him, just the way that like
the quotes, at least for the regular season. Maybe maybe

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Philly tries to get him right for the postseason. Just
kind of reading some of the things that Trey Turner
was saying after the game yesterday, it did not sound promising,
So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
That's not good. But going back to Kansas City, they
did get some promising news with Cole Reagan's He struck
out seven over three innings of one run ball in
his latest triple A rehab start got up to only
forty five pitches, so he'll probably need at least one
more before coming back. I'd imagine that there are leagues
where Cole Reagan's has been cut free at this point.
Would you be willing to throw a couple bucks on
him this weekend in FAB or did you yesterday in

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FAB in the anticipation of his return.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
I did not, And I wouldn't like throw you know,
whatever money we all have left in FAB or whatever.
I wouldn't go crazy over Cole Reagan's Like, yeah, he's awesome,
but you're gonna realistically get right if we just assume
one more rehab start, maybe he goes from forty five
to sixty pitches. Yeah, then he debuts, maybe you're getting
threes two to three starts of probably not Cole Reagan's

(34:46):
going ninety pitches. Like so, I just I don't the
win potential is pretty low, Like, yes, it is Cole Reagan's.
You gotta like the skills there, but I wouldn't expect
much in terms of like volume of strikeouts and wins
for Cole Raigan. I just don't think there's enough time
left in the season.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Yeah, there's what twenty games one more rehabs are like,
at best case, it's two starts. That probably is not
a fully stretched out Cole Reagan. So maybe he doesn't
even make it five And like one.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Of those starts is the last week of the season,
which why even you know, so.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, they might not even throw him. They might not
even throw him at that point, I mean, from his perspective,
from the team's perspective, they probably want to see him
back on the major league mound before the end of
the year. But if they see that once and it
looks all right, if that last start of the year
game one sixty one or whatever, like, maybe it's not
worth it, which would be kind of a killer if
you're in a head to head league that goes all
the way to the end. Yeah, we mentioned backs earlier.
Christian Yealiz. This has been the thing with him forever.

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He's now missed five consecutive games due to a nagging
back injury, and this is kind of the reason why
I'm a little bit worried about investing in Yellis for
next year. Even with as good as he's been, here's
a kicker. Nineteen games in the outfield this year, so
maybe he is one short in his ut only for
next season as well. What do you think, which.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Would be absolutely brutal. You want to you want to
watch that. This is tough.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
It is a yearly thing for Christian Yelich, but he
did have surgery to hopefully nip it in the bud.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
This past offseason and obviously.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yeah, you know, no back surgery is a guarantee that
it's just gonna go away. So obviously this is uh,
this is not great news for Christian Yelich, certainly for
this season, but it's also going to be in the
back of my head before I clicked that draft button
on Christian Yelich next year.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah, you know, he's been so great when he's been
out now, like twenty seven homers, fifteen steals, he's hitting
two seventy eight, ninety two ribies, eighty two runs. But
he's gonna be thirty four pretty soon, and I think
that's a little bit risky depending on the price. Right
if if this little bit of miss time potentially combined
with a ut only designation, if that cuts the price,

(36:44):
I mean not an a half, but if he's going out
like pick a hundred or something. Okay, if he's a
top fifty pick, I think I'm gonna have to tap.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Out Yellich or Adele. Since we talked about shoe Adele
at the top. It's just an interesting thought.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, I think I'd go Yellich, but I'm probably lower
on Adele than most.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
People go Yelich. But if Yelich, like let's say Yelich
doesn't return this year, then I think I would have
to go a Deel. I hope he does return, and
I hope they just, you know, just have him be
a defensive replacement for one inning in the ninth not
that they would be likely to do that, but I'm
being selfish here from a fantasy point. Get to twenty, yeah,
just get to twenty, man, Just get to twenty. You know,
we don't need to have you competing for DH reps

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next year with the show Hayes and the shore Bers
in the fantasy world. Daniel Palencia don't like this one.
Could end up missing time with shoulder tightness. He has
been the Cub's closer for pretty much the entire season.
I don't know where they would even go here. Maybe
it's Andrew Kiddridge. Maybe it's teal Bar, maybe it's Pomerants.
I don't I don't really have a great feel on
what the Cubs would do if Polentcia has to miss

(37:42):
a bunch of time. Is there even a pickup that's
worth making considering how they've looked recently.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Right that I mean?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
And that's the thing. And is it even going to
be one guy? Are they gonna kind of circle around?
So I've got plenty in a few leagues. Didn't drop him,
but added added Brad Keller in labor. I my hunch
is like it's either Brad Keller or Andrew Kittridge, but
we don't know or will it again?

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Will it even be one guy? So it's tough.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
I think definitely if you have Palencia, look for backup
options because shoulder tightness on September eighth, Like, that's, uh,
that's that's not ideal for a return.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
No, that's we probably all know the way that's heading,
so act accordingly. Maybe don't cut him yet, but it's
not looking good Byron Buckson was removing the game on
Sunday with a knee intusion after being hit by a pitch.
There's always something. He's made it through most of the
year healthy Buckston, but there's always there's always something with him,
And will you buy back into him next year expecting
another healthy season or kind of just take what you've

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gotten this year and tap out.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I mean, you know me, man, I draft like a
hundred year old man.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
That just that just avoids anybody who's ever been injured
in the history of time. So I voided Byron Buxton
every season. I don't like. I he the heck of
a season and that he can stay healthy. I'm not
touching Byron Buckston next year. Again, maybe to my fault
in the way that I old man draft, but whatever.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
No, I think that's that's totally fair. I mean, Buckston,
you might get ten games out of him in a
given season. You might get on one hundred and thirty
hundred whatever he's done this year, which has been very good.
But how many times has he done that in his career.
Max Munsey is expected to be activated from the al
ahead of Monday's game against the Rockies. Was a pretty
sneaky pickup if you were able to get him over
the last couple of weeks for a couple bucks. I

(39:22):
know I did in one or two leagues, and that
should be nice because since he's gotten the I forget
if it was the lasick or new contacts or something.
They fixed his eyes in some way in the middle
of the season. He had been able to see for years,
apparently still hitting thirty home runs. But now Max Mounsey
does seem like a guy who could potentially even hit
for a higher batting average, maybe a couple more homers,
and in that lineup, I'll be in a bit of
a struggling lineup and still somebody that you should be

(39:44):
you should be sticking in there. This week. I mentioned
it a little bit earlier, but Stryder was scratched from
his start on Sunday. Apparently it's not injury related, but
I do want to keep a close eye on this,
just considering the way that Stryder's season has gone. Samuel
Basaio had to miss Sunday's game after taking a foul
tip off of the right hand. He added Tosio right away,
and I think a lot of people did just based

(40:05):
on the hype. It's been a little bit rough to
this point. He's saying two four through sixteen games, a
couple homers. Where do you think he falls among catchers
next year because the catcher pool is so deep. We
got the Teals and the Baldwins. Augustine Ramirez is of
the world coming into the pool. Is he a basio
a top fifteen catcher, you think, top ten, top fifteen?
Where does he lay for you?

Speaker 3 (40:25):
My guests, catcher is is pretty deep and pretty good
again next season, my guess would be like ten to
fifteen catcher for Basio, and I feel like he will
end up nowhere in that range. He will either be
like top five by the end of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Or in wherever they played Triple A. So nor think so.
It's just a wide range of outcomes for Basiah.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
The Orioles are hoping it goes better than their previous
top prospect catcher, which is yes, great at the moment.
Previous couple yea, yeah, well, I guess Weiders was kind
of I guess he kind of panned out but maybe
not really.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Like supposed to be elite, elite, hall of fame type guy,
and he was.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
He was decent, but not what they wanted.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, Lee saying, is catcher deeper? How we all just
lowered our standards, which I think is a reasonable question.
But like when I first started playing fantasy baseball, there
was like four catchers that you'd feel pretty good about,
and everybody else was garbage. And now you got Raleigh Goodman, Langeliers,
the Contreres Brothers. Wilson will probably lose, and he will
lose it, will Smith, Salvey, ben Rice, Augustinermirez, Kirk Baldwin, Jiner, Diaz, Real, Mudo, Wells,

(41:38):
Jeffers Moreno like this. I haven't even gotten to a
Hoppy and Kyle Teel yet. Like it's it's deep. I
think it is deep, especially if you're in a one
catcher league, there is no reason to take a catcher
until your last pick. I think this year is a
really good year for that. If you're in a two
catcher league is a different story. But the pool is
a lot deeper than I think it's personally ever been.
Is that fair to say that the catcher pool is
deeper than ever?

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah? I think so.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
I do think like once you get past like fifteen,
I'm just playing in a bunch of fifteen team leagues
with two catchers. Like the bottom half of the catcher
pool is still really bad. But yes, you do have like
ten to fifteen really good catchers and full degree if
you're in a one catcher league, like just the spread
is not there from one through fifteen to where like, yeah,
I would just wait and grab whoever's still available, because

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they're all pretty pretty good.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
At that point. Yeah, once you get into like the
fifteen through twenty five range, it flattens out a lot,
Michael saying catcher is a kicker of baseball. We just
have one because we need one. You and Jake Seely,
I think would probably get along very very well. Peeker
Armstrong could potentially return to the Cubs lineup on Monday
for covering from a bruise right knee. They gave him
a bit of a mental reset last week. Let's say
he's back in the lineup. Would you even put him

(42:44):
in the lineup right now? Or is he somebody that's
worthy of being on the bench.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
I yes, we were a getting We were fielding questions, Bubba,
and I do I drop Pete krow Armstrong like in
twelve Teamers? And I guess not? But like, what has
he actually done for you? Like the in the second
half the plate approach is just is just horrendous. I
don't know, And I feel like this is a different

(43:07):
thing than like a Taoskar Hernandez, who we were asked
about earlier, like Tayo. I think we know who Taskar is.
We as a track record, like you just roll with him, Yeah, Pca,
I don't know, man. I think if you've got other
good options, I would. I could certainly see benching PCA.
Right now, he's just not doing anything and we've got
three weeks out of the season and it's put up
or shut up time.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Yeah, that draft price for next year. At once I thought, well,
he's probably a first round. There were people, i think
at the beginning of the or middle of the year
who were like he might go one on one in
some leagues. And then it's like, well, maybe he's a
first rounder, and then it was maybe he's a second rounder.
Now it's like, well, man, a three four turn i'd consider.
And it's just like every week it seems to get
a little bit worse for him. I think he's probably
a third rounder. I think that's probably where he'll end up.

(43:48):
Does that seem right?

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Seems about seems about right. I'm not doing it, but
that seems about right.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah, must take a couple more questions before we send
you guys on your way today reallyppreciate all the chatter
in the chat. It is very much appreciated. Add Kenley Janssen.
The fact that Kenley Jansen is available to add is
kind of shocking. He's been very good this year two
eighty three e ra A. He has twenty six saves. Yeah,

(44:14):
if you need saves, then Minnesota stinks. Seattle pretty decent.
But yeah, if you need saves, that's a that's a
solid ad. Joe Adell over Yellich. What else is this
guy to do to prove his breakout is real? Look,
I don't think there's a hard stance here. I don't
think there's like you're crazy for picking either one. Yelich
has been great. Like Yelich, if you look at Player
Raiders this season, he's like a top six outfielder top

(44:38):
he is ranked as as a ninth ranked outfielder according
to fangrabs. He's been great. You know, I wouldn't fault
you going either way, but I think that it is
a worthy discussion. Sit one Joe adel Ramon Loriano or
Riley Green And that's tough. I think that is tough.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
I mean, Lorian, it is just on fire that's a
good option to have. I would look at who we're
really who whatever the worst matchup is amongst those I
don't have it off the top of my head, but whoever,
whoever's got the worst matchup as picture of posing.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Those guys, I would I would sit this week.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah, so Green's facing the Yankees. Lorion are starting off
with the Yankees, and then it'll be at Miami. San
Diego is at home for Cincy and then Colorado and
they play seven games. So I don't think I would
be sitting Loriano and then Joe Adell the Great radio
here seven games also seven righties. I feel like this

(45:32):
might be Riley Green because.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, I really just that extra game could be here,
which four actually, you've got pretty much built in four
extra played appear for fewer played appearances for Riley Green,
So yeah, i'd bench.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'd bench Green on that.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Green's also gonna face rodn I'm not one hundred percent
sure about his lefty lefty numbers, you know, Jansen John
Gary Prez later in the week. I shouldn't be putting
Chanson junkin that group. What am I talking about here?
That's where that's that's fhip casting. That's FIP casting.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Right, or Urie Perez for that matter, but that's maybe
a different debate.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
But Beavers or PCA next year, it's still PCA. I
like Beavers, but it's it's definitely PCA. Would you feel
okay starting Contrellers with the suspension or start Kyle Teal
if you're in a weekly league. I don't have any
problem starting Teal, but I honestly wouldn't mind doing that
even if Contreres was healthy. Teals went great, but I
think Wilson will be back Tuesday or Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
He misses one game this week. I believe those four
game suspension. I believe he missed Friday through Sunday. So
I would go Wilson Contreras. But not really a bad
decision there. Kyle Teal has certainly turned things around after
initially struggling. The White Socks get six games and the
Cardinals get six games as well, so you are getting

(46:47):
one fewer game. Actually I don't know. I mean the
Cardinals get they they have to face Brian wou George Kirby, Logan,
Gilbert Miserowski. Maybe I go Teal it's an easier schedule.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Uh yeah. The White Sox have Tampa's pitching houser who's
come back to Earth, Pepio and Seymour, who I like.
But then they get to face by b Messek, and I.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Think I'd go Tell. I think i'd go Teal matchups
are a lot easier.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I think I would as well. Last question for the
show picked to this week bo versus Yankees Elder two step,
Brios two step and Messic. I'm going Bayo and Messick.
I'm sorry, Like I don't trust Elders two step and
Brios has been awful for a while.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Brios, you just I mean, you're a Jays fan, you
know you just never you never know what you're gonna
get with those brings, Like it doesn't matter what the
matchups are. I agree, I would go Bayo Messick, Like
those two two steps could be double double damage as
opposed to double winds exactly.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
You know you're getting double the the awfulness in your
lineup you. I was looking at stuff numbers the other day,
Jose Brios. I know it's not everything, but I do
like to look at it as a shorthand Jose Brios
is the second worst stuff plus in all the land.
This year, but behind Zach Lettel, who's actually having a
decent year. But I just don't trust for Rios at
this point. Guys though, that is going to wrap it

(48:04):
up for us for the show. I really do appreciate
everybody who has continued to listen to the show here
in September. It's been a lot of fun doing it
with Bubba, and it's a lot of fun doing it
with his co host, mister Ryan Bloomfield, one of the
best in the business. You can follow him on Twitter
at Ryan BHQ. Ryan lets people know what you got
going on before we send you on your way today.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah, for sure, bubb in the bloom Podcast. We are
all fall all the time, twice a week year round.
We do not stop, so we will be doing shows
all fall and then my written work over at Baseball HQ.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
We're actually starting.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Up twenty twenty six Baseball Forecaster Talk already. October is
one of my actually busiest months because we're doing the
podcast and Baseball Forecasters. So appreciate everyone hanging around here.
It's awesome to see the chatter in September, and Joe,
thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
My friend.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Always a blast. We'll see if we get to do
it again this year. We used to do shows a
lot more regularly, and since my role has kind of changed,
I don't get to talk to you as much. But
we'll be shooting around a golf in Arizona. If you
got I mean we will pre plug here for HQ.
I mean go down to first pitch, Arizona in I
think it's November sixth this year, remember fifth, November.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Six, November six through ninth, yep.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
All on the website. It's it's a great weekend of
fantasy baseball, chatter, beers, panels, baseball games. It is a blast.
So'll make sure you guys are taking a look at
that at baseball hqq dot com. But for Ian Bluefield,
I'm Joel Rico. We'll see you again next time right
here on the Fantasy Pros Baseball Podcast. Thank everybody. Thanks
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