The Cycle: Pitching Streamers and Two-Start Pitcher Competition (Ep. 1041)

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello everybody, and welcome back in to another episode of
the cycle, the third episode of the cycle this week,
and we're going to close things out for the week
talking about pitching. I'm once again joined by Kelly Kirby
and Kelly I believe you are going to go through
some pitching streamers in a minute once once we get there.
But to start, if you watch the previous video you

(00:26):
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(01:09):
about seeing where players are in your league. And another
tool is the picture streaming tool, and that's what we're
going to use to talk picture streamers for the upcoming week.
And so I will hand it over to you, Kelly,
to go through the week and talk about some of
your favorite pictures to stream in your leagues, day by day.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Day by day. Yeah, so there's some interesting ones out
here I think this week that I liked. But I'm
sure once I tell you them, you'll tell me why
it's done and then tell me a different one. But
that's okay. I'm used to you by now anyway. So Monday,
So on Monday, if you watched the second of our videos,
I talked about how Uri Perez is kind of my
favorite picture streamer or my favorite wa waiver wear pick

(01:53):
up as a kind of why not he gets to
face the pirates. So on Monday, I'm going to start him.
It's in Pittsburgh. I think it's just a really nice
return option. I mean, they have a collective weighted on
base average of two eighty five, which is horrible. So yeah,
I'm going, what was that?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
So that's not good?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
That is not good for people if you don't know it.
So Uri pro is at Pittsburgh Tuesday, I must I
think he's he's still healthy from what I've seen. Kyle
Harrison is going up against Colorado. Anytime it's in Colorado,
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Doesn't matter anymore, It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, it's like a just block out what everything you
used to know about it, and remember that they are
also terrible, and so yeah, I'm gonna stream him. No
problem there because they're collective weighted on base everage just
two seventy eight, So I think it's like the only
one that's lower than Pittsburgh. Yeah, so when in doubt
stream against them. On Wednesday, I went with David Festa

(02:55):
at home against Texas. I think that one was a
little bit like more where everyone either had like all
the big dogs had the easiest matchups. So like, you know,
I can't recommend you pick up Max Freed or fran
Pravelda's So yeah, I would stream Festa just I like
his numbers. Texas also has not been good, and I

(03:18):
and I like Minnesota at home this time, like this
time of year going forward, it still plays a little
bit like a pitcher spark, and so I'm good with
that one.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I would say, real, real quick. I don't want to
interrupt you, but just for context for the people who
aren't as familiar with weighted on basic average and WILBA,
that's bad, Like to eighty, two seventy is bad. It's
not like batting average, we're like three hundreds really good
and like two seventy solid, Like two seventy WHOLBA is bad,
really bad, Like I think league average is like three

(03:47):
twenty or higher. So it's like a little bit higher
scale than batting average, and it's you know, that's really
takes into account your quality of contact, and so if
you're below three hundred, it's bad. And if you're a
two seventy, it's really bad as a team, not just
one person, as a team, that's atrocious. Future as you
would say.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, sorry, yeah, I almost wrote that down. I was like,
I guess apparently I'm stuck on that word today.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Sorry to interrupt you.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I just wanted to get I think that's good, to
remind them that, yeah, I mean this is not bad
and average, this is this is collectively they can't do
anything as an offense, so sticking with that. Hayden bird
Song also gets to face the Rockies on Thursday, and
once again, why not, let's do it. He's not rostered
in very many leagues, so I am totally good with

(04:32):
uh with running him out there. He's at thirty seven percent,
oh so a rostered, So I think you're good. Friday,
I have Michael Walka at home against the Athletics. He's
his numbers don't suck, so he's at like sixty eight
and two thirds innings and his ERA is two point
eight eight and he has a one point one seven

(04:53):
whip and at home. I'm fine. I would not stream
him if they were in Sacramento. And then Saturday, I
this one, This one was probably my this might be
my stretch, but I went with Logan Henderson for Milwaukee
at home against the Cardinals. That's a little bit of

(05:14):
a Harry prospect. The Cardinals are obviously a better hitting
team than the other ones that we've discussed. But I
like that he's at home. I like his numbers. I
so I'm I'm good with that one. Dustin may is
also he's going up against San Francisco and they as
a team are still under three hundred in weighted on
base average. So those were the two I was kind

(05:35):
of going between, even though Shane Smith is just sitting
out there. So and then the last one for Sunday.
I loved what I saw at a Griffin Cannon in
his last start, and he is going to be at
home against Tampa Bay, and I think that that's who
I would stream out of that day, even though Colin
Ray at home versus Pittsburgh looks a little enticing and

(05:57):
I'm kidding, yeah, don't pick up.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I really like, Sorry, I really like Logan Henderson. I
don't love the matchup obviously, but he's for me. He's
the best picture on this list. It's funny. I was just,
you know, we could talk about like sinct leagues. Whenever
I use this tool, I put in like our shallow
ESPN league to see who's available, and I was looking
at Saturday. I was like, why is Zach Gallon available?

(06:19):
And I realized, oh, I dropped him. That's why Zach
Gallon's available. Like I personally dropped Zach Gallen. That's why
he's available. So that surprised me. But if you want
to stream Zach Gollen, I wouldn't against the padres, I
will say on Saturday, a Lance mc color is against
the Twins. I don't hate that one.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean you have a love affair of Palancema
Colors going. So I don't like his one point four whip,
and I don't think Minnesota is terrible. So I mean,
depending on who's healthy by then for them, I don't.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Know, right, Yeah, depends on which way the Iron Buckston
wind is blowing that day. Yeah. Sorry, I'm just going
through looking at some others, not the second guess you.
I just like to look at the list myself. Did
you mention Jamison tyone on Thursday against Pittsburgh?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I did not, but I have. I've liked how he's
looked lately, like he keeps popping up on VVR when
you look at your like weekly streamers list, So that
one looks good too. If the wind, yeah yeah, that's
this time at regally start to get little.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah that's a good point. Yeah, check the wind on
Thursday and see if you want to stream jameson tyone.
But that Thursdays is such a small slate that you
know he he could be available. All right, we don't
have to do anymore. You already nailed the good ones.
We can move on. Let's talk about our two star
picture competition, and boy, why I hope wheream listens to

(07:50):
this because I graded our most recent matchup and he
threw out a clunker, so he he gave you some
flak when he was out, as he always is, as
you're always feeling in for picking up his slack. He
criticized you for using Shane Smith. Shane Smith got fifteen

(08:16):
point eight points that week. I had Zach Wheeler who
dominated you and got forty six point five points, so
not even close. What are you gonna do? But this
week Worm picked his own player and he did it
even worse. Worm picked Jacob de Gram and he got
twelve points. So you could argue that you dug deep

(08:37):
into the barrel, didn't waste a good pitcher and got
someone sixteen points out of Shane Smith. He got twelve
points out of Jacob da Gram. I used Garrett Crochet
and got forty point nine points. I almost feel like
I should get two wins for this week because of
how dominating it was. I won't put it on there,
but I got the win for that matchup. I'm now
winning five to three on the year. As you mentioned

(09:01):
in the first video, we next season, we probably just
should do all three of us, especially as we rotate
on and off, you know, as me and you have
surgery and Worm takes vacations. I want to clarify I
am kidding about that stuff, because the YouTube comments get
like really mad at me. I just like to give
Worm a hard time. One person actually said, like he

(09:21):
swears that we hate each other, which is it's not true.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, no, no, this is just this is just the
language in which we express love for one another. It's fine.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, yeah, I did laugh last week because I watched
the show. I did laugh. What do you call this,
like the surge was surgery triplets or something?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, the surgical trips?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah yeah, because we've all three of us have missed
time for different procedures. I was out again last week
for a various procedure. I'm obviously back now. But Worm
is just, you know, taking vacations. Now, what are you
gonna do. It's bad enough he's leaving soon to go
cover football who knows when, but you know he's to
take vacations to come on, stay committed to the show
man exactly. So it's a little confusing. So week nine

(10:05):
coming up, I see Kelly's picking Worms pick and I
was like, where's my pick? I was like, oh, yeah,
you filled in for me, so for the current So
that was for two weeks ago. For the current week,
we don't know who won this one, but you have
Joe Ryan, I guess for me, and Worm has Carlos Rodon.
Maybe we should just go back and like remove your
picks and just tally them all for you and like,

(10:27):
if you won, take it away from me and Worm
I love to stay, and Worm approves that we'll just
like picking up going forward. All right, Stall long enough,
tell me your two star pitcher for this week, which
maybe is for Worm, maybe it is for you. We'll see. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I mean this one just jumped out and he hasn't
used him yet. So I am going with Chris Sale.
He is scheduled to face Milwaukee in Milwaukee and then
he gets the Rockies at home. I predict that he's
going to have Garrett curschet like scores and it should
be good.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I in turn, am going with Andrew Abbitt, who has
just been really really good this year, Like I keep
waiting for him to not be good anymore. But everything
is checking out. He looks really good. Underlying numbers are
backing it up. Like as I said in the first video,
like if Andrew Rabbit was breaking out, this is what
it would look like. His matchups are at Cleveland and

(11:23):
at Detroit, So I don't really love doing two road starts,
also against like two pretty good teams. But you know,
I'm rolling the dice. I have a healthy lead in
the contest. I'm rolling the dice a little bit. Some
other names to consider. Not Meryl Kelly, although he's been
pitching very well, but his second started against the Padres,

(11:44):
so I would not stream Meryl Kelly. Jeffrey Springs has
been better and he gets the Angels and Royals. It's
not terrible. Yeah yeah, not for the contest. But if
you're looking to stream a two star pitcher, that one's
not a bad. Brian Bay I wouldn't do because one
of those starts against the Yankees. Matthew Boyd been pitching well,

(12:05):
but he's got the phillies for one of those starts
to do anybody else boobitch one starts against Yankees, don't
want that. I want no part of Clinton Kershaw. Freddy
Parlt's got two starts, but it's Braves Cardinals, so I
like to not the best matchups there. I don't trust

(12:29):
Wie Matthews for his two starts. Oh I thought Zach
Wheeler got two starts, but he doesn't. Paveta but he's
got Dodgers Diamondbacks, Logan Gilbert but he's just coming back
from the i L and he's got Diamondbacks Guardians. Staying

(12:50):
away from that, I think we picked the two best ones.
I don't think there's a many other options. There's Mackenzie Gore,
Mets Marlins. I don't hate that one.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I don't hate that one at all.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
So that might be number three. But in terms of
like I'm looking for other like streaming ones. You mentioned
who was on your list on Sunday, Gryffin Canning. So
if it's a weekly league, I lost my spot on
the sheet here. If it's a weekly league and you
have to start Griffin Canning, you can get him for

(13:25):
two starts, with the first start being on Tuesday against
the Nationals, So that's also not terrible. If you want
to stream a two star pitcher Griffin Canning, that might
be the top streamer if he's available on which he
is in almost seventy percent leaks. All right, let's wrap
things up with some weekend excitement, a segment that Worm
forces us to do, and I'll go first. We have

(13:48):
the Belmont Steaks. I'm not a huge horse racing guy,
but now that I work for betting pros, I have
to be. And so I'll be doing a lot of
Belmont Stakes work the next few days and I'll probably
watch it on Saturday as well. And then also, I
wrote in the sheet Red Sox versus the Yankees, I
guess as a Red Sox fan, I will watch the series,
but it's kind of stinks, and the Yankees are really
good in the Red Sox are not so. But you know,

(14:13):
we can enjoy every weekend as much as we can
that we have baseball, So yes, I don't take it
for granted. How about you.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, I'm kind of in the same other sport focus.
My oilers are in the Stanley Cup and they won
an overtime last night and big win.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
I watched it. Look at me watching hockey.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Wow in dramatic fashion. So yeah, I if you check
out our live stream, we have an NHL live stream
Betting NHL live stream on Tuesdays and Fridays at three
pm Eastern. I famously am among the seventeen people that
I know have checked it out. I predicted us a
four game series, so I'm cocky and I think that's

(14:53):
a great place to be. But also on Twitch, right, yeah,
it's on twitch.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Thank you for that Twitch dot Tv slash.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Lashed Fantasy Pros. And then other than that, I'm WNBAMLB.
I've got the two stacked TVs in the living room.
If it even pretends like it might rain, that's where
I'll end up. And even if it doesn't. Sometimes in
the sunshine, I'm just like, it's really nice to look
out the window. I don't have to be out in it.
I'm going to watch baseball. So that's my weekend excitement.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Sweet. I find myself watching the w NBA schedule a
lot just because I want to bet the games now.
So yeah, even though I don't know a time about
the WNBA, I just do bet the math. So I
get really annoyed when there's a random Wednesday of no
WNBA games, and what the heck are we doing here? Girls?
Come on? I want some games, all right, anything else

(15:44):
before we close it out?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
I am I think I was good. This has been fun,
all right.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I'll be at the digit to that.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well, I was lying whatever.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
I was really salty at the end of this. So hopefully,
hopefully people appreciate my humor and they don't get mad
at me in the comments anymore. But uh, I am
who I am, We are who we are? All right,
that'll do it. Let's shut it down for Kelly Kirby.
I'm Mike Mayor. This has been the cycle, and thank
you for stopping by.

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