Episode 10: The one with Tim Heaney

ESPN's Tim Heaney is our guest for a great discussion on finding the  "Bob Ross of pitching" in your leagues. Matt and Mike break down OPS and discuss how it can help you immensely in your DFS and season long games. Waiver Wire ideas and more. 

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This evening's performance is about to begin. Thank you. Hey,

(00:51):
what's up everybody? Welcome, this is the Fantasy Baseball I'm
match striker and joining me as always or at least
most of the time. Mike the Rhodo cop. Mike, what's
going on? Mike is wearing a Paris San Patti San
Jermaine shirt. Are you really? I grew up watching football
player on PSG. Currently I can, but I can tell

(01:11):
you back in the day, yeah days of like uh not.
He didn't play for PSG, but I know all all
the footballers from Italia City A watching my friend mate,
I watched Boston. I didn't believe anymore. We can get
my friend Matteo on the line right now to talk PSG.
Why are you were in a PSG thing? Didn't Everton, Liverton,
Liverpool hotspurs PG fan, Oh look at me like all

(01:37):
of these questions about PSG history. You the first you
said to me, could you name one guy on PSG, PSG,
PSC and G they give you guests an electric I
thought you sold yourself short on that intro. You are
now match striker who appeared on MLB network Striker, Yes,
I am, thank you, and you, Mike the Rhodo cop you, sir,

(02:00):
I know Brian Kenny. That was my fifteen minutes of
favor to the to the viewers out there. I hit
Mike up and I was like, yeah, man, you know
I'm going on MLB and he rights back, You're so
leaving me in the dust. This was his tax I
went out of my way and made sure to make
sure to make sure that your name was mentioned not once,
but twice on national television. So don't be like one

(02:20):
of these like jealous girlfriends, like, oh my god, you're
gonna go out and be around all those divas and
you're gonna forget about me. That was great. The mention
was great and the appearance was good. I guess too. Thanks.
So while I'm on MLB network, what are you doing?
I am? What was I doing? I was golfing while
you were on M'LB networking. But I texted you that
I taped it a div order taped it with my dad,

(02:40):
but I got home in time to watch it lost.
Actually gonna hear funny story, the real story risk world. Okay,
we go. I went golfing. Didn't think I was gonna
make it, so I taped it and I was like,
you know, I'll just go to the gym and watch
it on my phone on Reddit. So I was live
streaming Reddit and we'll be now on Reddit while you
were on it. While I was at the gym, him
and I pulled into my driveway on the way home,

(03:03):
and that's when Brian Kenney said to Mike the rohotocop thing,
and I was like, oh ship, and I ran inside
and the copcorner on TV. So that's what really happened.
Look at that I made young michaelid with the MLB
now on the floor. People probably saw that and thought, like,
what the fund is wrong with this kid? What this
guy likes baseball. That's how it usually goes. Yeah, fair enough, alright, So, um,

(03:25):
a lot of things going on in sports world outside
of me being on MLB network. Um, so I'm a
big boxing fan. This weekend, I'll head out to Vegas
and be a part of the big title fight that
is going on. Mike, did you watch the fight? Yeah,
that Joshua over Wees fight. I actually fell asleep. I
caught it. The next morning. I woke up to a
couple of text messages saying that Joshua lost. He was

(03:46):
undred plus twenty mired in the fight where he was
whatever he was. And then I watched it and Anthony
josh was no competition for Deante Wilder or Tyson Ferry
at this point. Furry would pick him apart while they
would knock them out pretty much. And I think that's
the consensus. But right now, as far as the heavyweight
division goes, I mean, what else do you have to
clamor for who wins the rematch with Ruiz and Joshua

(04:09):
because the reason Yeah, but I just think it's an anomaly.
It's it's almost as if remember in Foreman knocks out
Michael Moore when you're probably before you were born. But yeah,
I just think, listen boxing, there's an old saying that
everyone has a puncher's chance, and listen to Rui's had
the puncher's chance and he died. Crazier things have happened.

(04:29):
You think he's You think he's an expert pugilist that
is going to retain the unilateral title. No, I think
he's a legitimate boxer, and he is a way better
boxer technician wise than Joshua is. Josh is bigger, stronger, faster, obviously,
but you can look at the two of them and
see that. But I think Ruiz is a very good
shot at winning the rematch. Okay, so that Ruise wins
the rematch and then you have the unification and give

(04:50):
him a shot at while there are fear what happens
there happened, sugar. But that's how little I think of
Joshua after this, all right, I'll make sure to tell
him that. My big thing is anytime you disparage someone
you did it with josh Fegley a couple of weeks ago.
I want to get them into you don't want you
to say it to their face. It's been hit the head,
it's it's easy to say it and be on a

(05:10):
show and go oh, Hunter Dozer should be dropped, and
then Hunter doors are standing in front of you and
you go, oh, Hunter Dojer. I love you. I'll tell
you something you did not remember. You did not remember
that show was supposed to do. That show was supposed
to do the read for the topics. I do remember it.
But we got into an organic conversation. I was going
to bring Joe in and night over there. You know,

(05:31):
here's here's what here's what it is, here's what it
is with you, all right, So things need to develop
organically naturally. Our friend Joe and I share a vocation
where we're both educators, and we understand how important the
flow of the classroom is. We'll get to our objective,
but how we get there that's which really, you know
what I mean, Joe, come on and open the MinC

(05:53):
is the teaching points. It's the teaching points. So it is.
And Mike is one of these young teachers that needs
to go exactly by his lesson plan. If he doesn't
go by his lesson plan, I think there's a word
for that, and it is, Joe, what's the word. Let's
let's just trade words. I go with neurotic, you go
with I go with obsessive, you go with yeah, type A.

(06:16):
I go with narcissism, you go with I go with control,
you go with order. I mean you know what I mean?
You mean, you know what I mean. So, now that
Joe has opened up his night after he came back
last week after his organic let's let's be organic. Ladies

(06:39):
and gentlemen are good man. Joe the sound guy, the
owner of Average Joe is a team that has gone
from eleventh place to second place because of Mike and
I working so hard, and he is now soon to
be a tenured educator, and he's a man that I
like to say. It's a good dude, Joe. What's up?
Not much? Guys, Well, thank you for that lovely introduction.
Let's get onto the news then, So NBA Finals, who's

(07:01):
gonna win it? What do you got? Mike? I got
the Golden State Warriors in six same, Yeah, I got
Golden State. And like I said, I want to see
Aubrey get punched in the face if they can't be
Golden State. When Curry's sick, I Guadala gets hurt leaves
the game in the first half, Thompson gets hurt, leaves
the game like Looney has a chess contusion and his

(07:21):
collar bones all this stuff. If they can't win that
game in Toronto, I can only give him one more.
It's an agreement. Joe. You're loving the basketball. You don't care,
You're indifferent. I mean, I'm watching it. I'm watching that
and the NHL Finals, and I've been pretty impressed so far.
Big news the cutching. Yeah, McCutcheon could use a hard
celtzer or two right now for the year. How my,
that one sucks. That sucks for the Phillies. That sucks

(07:43):
from a cutching. I saw a tweet that said, uh,
nobody on Twitter ever agrees on anything, but they everybody
agrees that Andrew McCutchen getting hurt is a bad thing
because he's such a good guy. And then everybody likes
to look up to him as a role modle, especially
young kids. From a cutching. It sucks for the Phillies.
It sucks. Now they call up Adam hayes Lee, who
was the eighth picking in two thousand seventeen draft. He's
starting in center field tonight, hitting eighth in the lineup.

(08:05):
So that's something to look for, says are Hernandez leading off,
so it gives him a little bumping value. But yeah,
this some cutching things sucks for the Phillies. And there
is a weird way that he got hurt. Jean Sagoura
was up run of mc cutcheon, was on first, no out,
pops it up to Kinsler second base. Kinsler lets the
ball drop to get the double place Sigore and never
runs out of the box. So mc cutchen is in

(08:25):
a bad spot, so he starts running too. Second runs
back to first and Rundown comes up lane. And obviously
when I first heard about the j. Bruce deal, I
thought that it would be problems for Scott Kingery owners.
But I guess the silver lining in this now is
if Cutch says out for the year, that definitely opens
up playing time for Bruce four Kingary, for the kid
they called up for. I don't know herm winning him.

(08:48):
Anybody who hits anybody, anybody who especially in the Philly
this year, so definitely a loss of them. Hitters are important,
but so our pitchers. It's called a segue, Joe. That's
the last thing on the list. We got Kaiko and
Kimber We sure do, and look I like how you
say we got Kaiko and kim bro. So here's the thing,
A lot of people were sleeping on that that the
draft is coming gone. The whole losing a pick thing

(09:11):
when you pick up either Kimbroll or Kaiko is is
kind of alleviated a little bit. I have already heard
Kaiko's name bandied about as well as kimberll Um Mike
your thoughts if these guys were available in any of
your leagues, are you going to get them? Or are
they pretty much all owned? Well as far as um
Kaiko goes. It's weird because it came out yesterday before
the whole Yankees thing came out, that he would be

(09:32):
willing to shave his beard to play for the Yankees,
and then twenty twelve hours later, I guess it was
it came out to the Yankees emerged as the front
runners enter the most likely to get Kaiko. Would you
save your beard for a workout? Come on? You kidding me?
Yankees for a work opportunity? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, yeah to me.
Gotta do what you gotta do. I totally agree. Most
people don't. I get it. The whole I know a

(09:54):
lot of people have beards. A lot of guys think
that they've achieved something by growing their beard, like you know,
you didn't. He did what people have men have been
doing for thousands of years, far better than you or
I throughout the times of Egypt Mesopotamia. So these guys
all my beard defines But no it doesn't. And if
you're gonna get six million, twelve million, fourteen million, what

(10:16):
else do you hear? Mesopotamia and baseball on the same
we're gonna show you don't. But yeah, seriously, I would.
And the thing with Kaiko, um, you know, left the arm.
That's good. He's got a handful of pitches. In six seasons,
he's had three sub three e r A seasons, he
won twenty games once and he won fourteen games back
in seventeen. But I think he can come and when

(10:37):
you like ten games or something like that, signing him
for the playoffs and he's going to deliver in the playoffs,
I'm not concerned with I mean, fantasy wise, you're concerned
with how he does out with the regular season, but
it's all gonna be a tune up until that playoffs start.
When they need him in a deciding elimination game. So
that would be great for the Yankees, who have dealt
with a ton of injuries this year, and Craig Kimberrell.

(10:58):
It seems like it's got to be down to to
the Braves are the twins? I mean, some people are
saying the Rays, some people are saying the Cubs, but
the Braves. The Braves seemed like the most logical destination
for him in my opinion. I agree. I think I've
also heard Kaiko attached to the Braves as well. Let
me just posit this notion. Float this down your ear canal.
If the Braves picked up a Kaiko and a Kimbel,

(11:20):
what does that mean to you? Rest a season for
the Atlanta Braves definitely put them in an even better
position than they're already in. I mean, they got the lineup.
The lineup is not the question. It's the pitching. Sirok
has been insane, so that's helped them out a lot.
But the back end of the bulf and something that
hasn't been solidified between Jackson Newcome. Like we're talking about
guys here. I've never pitched in in pressure situations as

(11:41):
far as playoff games go, or wild Card games, So
getting Kimber would definitely be huge. I don't know if
he'd jump into that closer role off Bat. He might
need a little time to whatever warm up his arm. Um,
what's the word I'm looking for, rehabilitated arm? Sure? What
do you say to get reacclimated? Yes, yeah, that one too.
I love it. Mike, you stand no chance because you

(12:02):
are just like you're You're in the in the middle
passage of the great like trying shirt waist fire of
Joe and I as educators did middle passage get you
were trying to mixed things that just came about all
at once. Joe, do you watch Sheepardy by any chance?
I do every night, not every night, but followed this

(12:22):
whole James thing. Yeah last night. I didn't see last night.
I heard a bet on the radio this morning. And
the only thing I keep thinking about is the Ken
Jennings alleged loss that happened. I don't know how many
years ago now. So I emailed James to come on
the show about two weeks ago, and he sent the
best email back that was so candid and so James,

(12:43):
like Matt, unfortunately wasn't as excited as I was, but
maybe I was a little over excited. He messaged his
whole thing back saying he would love to, but with
all due respect, he the clients clients clan, and then
he goes and tell Matt he should really go back
and w he had start announcing again, there you go.
And then today he made a reference saying, maybe you'll
see me in a w W ring or on American
Ninja Warriors. Interesting. That's interesting. It's a little way to

(13:06):
tie everything together. No, I don't see what kind of
Gordian not this uses to tie anything, because I was
the first one that he mentioned w W two and
now he's all over the w W dirt cheats. That's
how shameless self promotion. It's called the plug. Unbelievable. What
am I to do with you, Mike? I thought it was.
I thought it was very interesting. Like I find myself

(13:28):
often like listening to the show and going like is
he for real? Like is this guy for How can
they find yourself doing that when I say the w
W words wrestling. No, But I just I try to wonder.
So here's my thing, I guess, just going back to
be a teacher. I want to know what inspires scheme.
I want to know what inspires you to think and
learn and put things together, and how you arrive at something,
how I arrive at something. What are your motivations, what's
relevant to you? Bla bla black And I often try

(13:51):
to I guess over psychoanalyze people's motivations for stuff like
why do you think something's funny? And the rest of
the room goes, no, it's not funny. I don't know.
I just thought James was a hot topic in the world.
Are okay? So it's trending, it's being a part of
a conversation. We're finishing the current events bit right now.
It's something miscellaneous. Thank you, all right, let's move on. Uh,

(14:13):
every week, it seems in baseball, guys just start coming
on gangbusters and Mike, you and I have been really
on point the past few weeks when we're doing this
this topic, this segment of is he for real or
is it for real? Uh, we we nail everyone right
on the head pretty much. So if you've been listening
and you've been picking up and dropping guys that we've
been talking about, kind of like average Joe's team, you're

(14:36):
moving up in your standings and the first guy that
I see a lot of people jumping all over and
want to ask you, is he for real or not?
Or is it for real or not? Is Derek Dietrich. Yea.
Dietrich is interesting because he already has seventeen homers. Seventeen
bounds for Dietrich is a little less surprising than it's
two seventy average, though, because he's not typically an average hitter.
His ops is over the thousands. So the big change
in his in his approach, I should say, was that

(14:58):
he's not chasing balls near the amount he was last year,
so that that's obviously helped him a lot. But his
swinging strike rate is up and his contact rate is
down from last year, which is interesting because it kind
of contradicts the chasing the balls on the outside, So
he might not be going for worse pitches, but he's
actually doing worse in the contact department, in the starving
strike department. His hard hit rate for a guy was
seventeen homers is below average, and so is his exit velocity.

(15:20):
And he's still a platoon player. He only has sixteen
at bats against lefties this year, so guys are running
too the waiver wire to go get Derrick Teacher, not
realizing he might only play four times a week, or
he might only play three times a week if they
got a tough string against just say the Dodgers, and
they're racing kershial Hill and whoever else. So I'm almost
gonna say he's not for real. I'd rather let guys
go out there and waste their waiver or waste whatever

(15:40):
they want. Even if you wanna trade him and sell
high on him, I think would be a good move
at this point. But I'm gonna go not for real
for Derrick Teacher. There you go for me. I'm in
the same boat as here. I think you just ride
him till the wheels fall off. But I agree with
you if you can get something for him right now,
if somebody is just you know, enamored with the hot name,
the right ahead and swing that deal. Um. A name
that has come up in past the last season and

(16:02):
then really died down has come up now again. Is
Densby Swanson. Your thoughts on the brave The thing with
Swanson's only twenty five years old. So many people are
so quick to count count him out already, and he's
only twenty five. His hard hit percentage is way up
from last year and his O swing is way down,
so everything is trending in the right direction. He's in
a dangerous line up, like we mentioned when we were
talking about the bravest bullpen, how dangerous that lineup actually is.

(16:24):
And he's crushing off speed pitches in two thousand eighteen
six against off speed this series in three thirty three.
So that's the difference right there. That's something you could
just go on baseball smont and look how he's doing
against fastballs, um breaking pitches and all speed pitches, and
you could see where he was struggling in the past
and where he's excelling now. So everything points in the
right direction for dan'sy Swanson, like I said, he has

(16:44):
the five stole basis, so he's even running, so that's
a good If he steals fifteen basis this year closed
a huge win and he goes fifteen or even the
pace he's on, he might do a little better than that.
I think Swanson is is definitely for real, and I
would go out and grab him if he's available, or
if he's being old at at a reasonable price, I
would definitely go grab swonsor I agree with you. I
think this is the Swanson that that the Braves have

(17:06):
known about and that we got glimpses of. And also
I think that the Riley factor helps. Like you said,
the lineup definitely helps. And I too agree that Dan's
response is for real. And if he's out there, I
wouldn't necessarily hitch my cart to him as an S
S one, but he could be a utility player. He
could be a nice little addition for somewhere else. Um,
a guy that I actually drafted and people said to me, huh,

(17:29):
and I said, you know nothing. And that's Brandon Woodruff.
But he's come up a lot over the last month
or two for our podcasts and even on Twitter and
the fantasy baseball industry as well. Another guy twenty six
years old. These guys, some guys take time to really
excel in the major leagues. They're not just gonna get
called up right away. Well, the old saying is what seven,
that's the season that you you break out. Yeah, my

(17:50):
dad always says, you got the thirty years old to
figure out what you want to do with your life,
and then from there it's all downhill. So Joe, you're
in a good spot, sitting pretty brand the wood. You
have twenty six years old, eighty strikeouts and sixty and
the third innings, so zero is a little under four.
The key with him is the fourth team. The miles
power ninety point four is sitting at that's his average,

(18:13):
so he's throwing hard and that pitch value as a
nine point five. So I'm a big believer in establishing
the fastball, especially earlier in counts. I'm reading David Cohn's
new book, which you read. I can't remember I was.
I was like an elementary school joke right there. That's
what I can't remember the name of the David Cohne
just came out of the book. I'm only chapter three.
I just started having a much time to to really

(18:35):
get into it. He uh. He says in the book
that he believes any picture with a good enough fastball
could go through a game just throwing a fastball. It's
a pretty interesting read his take on it. That's interesting
if you could locate it. That's you know, he's saying,
if you if you know what you're doing with your fastball,
and you know where it's gonna go every time, then
you could go through a whole game with just your fastball.

(18:55):
So that was something interesting. And that's even further is
my belief that really iblishing the fastball is such a
key thing, And I think, do you really just hit
the nail and head would differentiates between a picture and
a hurler? There, Joe, do you want my notes? I
don't believe. So, I don't know if it's still in
my notes. Maybe I deleted it from my notes, but
I said he's becoming more of a picture than a

(19:16):
thrower somewhere in this somewhere and I can't remember where
it was, but you want me to leave the room
because you guys, I was like, that was Joe, I'm
right here. So on Savant, it also has similar pictures
based on velo and movement. It does the same thing
for hitters. These are three of the five pictures that
Baseball Savant, which is the be all end all pretty
much of advanced statistics, comes up with as a comp

(19:38):
for Brandon WOODWFF this year. Frankie Mantas, Max Scherzer, Herman Marquez.
So you don't gotta sell me anymore. Top of this,
he has good control. I think he's definitely for real,
and I think you were very smart for drafting Brandon
say that last part again, I couldn't hear. I'm okay, okay, fair,
all right. Another guy that people are asking you see
for real and I just don't know how he fits

(19:58):
in here, because to me, this guy's a pro. There
big injury on his team. He slides up now puts
pressure on the guy hitting behind him. I'm talking about
Alex Gordon. Dozer goes on the I l so Gordon
slides up in that line that puts pressure on Solar.
I think Gordon is a pro hitter. I think Gordon
is always for real. But there are sexier guys that
you can go out and get. But if if you're
one of these practical people, and you know, sometimes I

(20:19):
talked myself out of the right decision. Sometimes I talked
myself into yeah, I'll wear that T shirt. Yeah, and
I haven't. I haven't worn it since you know, I
don't know college. But I'm wearing no. I'm just saying.
And you put it on and you look like, you know,
I don't know, Mario Lopez like it. Just it doesn't fit,
it's his way, too tight. Whatever. This is a shirt
you want to understand start a revolution? What else does

(20:41):
it say? So this shirt has all different forms of
scriptures from all types of different theologies around the world.
Put on it in one and it's to represent how wow.
There may be different opinions and thoughts about ways to
get somewhere. We're all kind of going in the same place. Interesting,
Where do you get that phone? Can't tell you that? Sorry,
it's better than your usual gray pull over a hoodie

(21:03):
that you wear with you. Why are you talking style?
Stupid converse? But seriously, why do you why do you
attack my style? Listen? I come from My father always
taught me the most important thing at the end of
the day, be comfortable, man, be comfortable. So why can't
I be called? Why do you have to judge me?
And I just said it's better. I didn't better. Imply

(21:23):
say it's better or it's worse. We can Alex Gordon
to seventies seven nine, don't look at Alex Gordon two six.
Go ahead, give me every metric you can, or you
could just say Alex Gordon is real or not and
we can move on. Doesn't hit since two fine? Neither
of I what else? Are slightly above average? But I'm

(21:47):
gonna go with not for real one in part because
it is Alex Gordon's is not Scordon that we knew
from the World Series runs or even before the same
This is not the same guy. Progression is in the cards.
He hasn't expected batting average of two nineteen against breaking
balls this year, but he's in two seventies, so that's
definitely gonna go down, which overall is gonna bring his
average down. It's thirty five years old at this point,

(22:08):
that he is what he is. So I'm gonna say
not for real on Gordon. Maybe you could plug him
in on off days if you're in the daily league,
or maybe you catch a hot week from him, but
I would say not for real. Who else are we
talking about here? Um? I get his last start. He
looked good, but it was against the Mariners. I think
Tim Beckham took him deep, and that's a pro hitter.

(22:31):
I think this whole opener thing is interesting. I think
that Paina is kind of in the same breath as
some of the other uh maybe Torontos or Means or
Beaks or whoever else, But yeah, yeah, the pain You'd
rather have John Gant rather of Josh James, rather Carlos Martinez,
I'd rather have Zach Oddley. You know, I'd like to

(22:52):
have any of these guys that Vince Velaska is is
getting a sixth and seventh inning work, I'd rather do that. Uh.
Mentioned John Gant, he get another save the other Yaman Hicks.
You need to get like a John Gan Jersey if
we go to the whole Star game. If if I
think the second where's the Cleveland Joe's common anyway? Um,

(23:14):
Felix Pain, Yeah, I would say not for real. Also,
even though this isn't Joe, he is slowly learning. He
is slowly learning out a pitch. So you were right.
So that's man. Guys just disapplied. Kenny Laggins sounds familiar. Yeah,
you think he played center field for the Cleveland Indians.
His slider usages up and that's been a key and

(23:37):
he has a six point one pitch value on that slider,
so it is helping him a lot. But he's getting
hit hard and the fast ball is not good enough
for to be thrown nearly sixty percent of the time.
So I'm gonna say not for real. For Felix paina
what are you writing down? I saw you write something
that wrote nothing down about Felix Pain. Interesting? Uh, not
for real Felix Paines. So when we look at all

(23:57):
these players, I worked my waiver wire all the time.
There's there's certain metrics that will always look at, and
then there's something that I won't um. I was on
a show yesterday and I was talking about how with
all the great advanced metrics, I still go back to splits.
I still splits, you know. It's just it always works
for me. And another metric that I always go to

(24:18):
is OPS. And you have to explain how OPS I
think is just the best indicator of an offensive production
of a player. So basically, OPS is on base, which
is the frequency of reaching base plus slugging, which is
the total number of base as a player records per
at bat. So OPS is a player's likelihood to both
get on base and hit for power. I like to
look at OPS more than I look at average. Your thoughts.

(24:42):
OPS is something that's widely accepted, and that's why you
here here so much about it. It's it's almost so
much simpler than all these other metrics out there, so
why I like it. But it's also not as accurate
as all these other metrics out there. So OPS is
a good gauge for I guess a common fan is
what I would use, but it translates well. It translates

(25:04):
well though to finding out who is the best hitters
out there, and I think it gives you a much
clearer picture of production as far as fantasy goes. OPS
is valuable to me because I want to know who's
going to produce in these high scoring categories. For for,
you know, my dad watching the game, he doesn't care
what's so and so's ops is because he was raised

(25:26):
in a world where you're batting average and your e
r A are what define you. Yeah, I understand what
you're saying, but the only problem I have with it
is that o BP is two times more valuable than slugging,
when when calculating ops are almost two times more you
have to take into consideration where so o BP is
is the frequency of reaching base. But that means you
can be hit by a pitch, you could be intentionally passed,
you could be walked. So that right, and in fantasy,

(25:49):
those things don't get you the same amount of points
as a double or a triple does. Just just to
put things in perspective, career O B P leaders And
I'm sure if you thought about this. You could be
able to name three of the top five Babe Ruth,
Barry Bonds, my favorite player of all time, Kai Cob,
Ted Williams, and Lou Garrick Alright, career slugging leaders Babe Ruth,

(26:10):
Barry Bonds, Lou Garrig, Mickey Mantle and Stam Usual. So
why aren't Williams and Cob on the slugging list. The
enter is because they didn't have as many extra bass hits.
Williams was his hitting singles all day, so that to
me is in his career OPS leaders the first four
are left handed batters. I don't know if there's a correlation.

(26:32):
We have to get somebody to do that. Career OPS
leaders are Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Blue Garrick, Barry Bonds.
Mike Trout is number nine out of ten. Joey Votto
is number nineteen and he's a lefty. So just to me,
that's why I like OPS because it gives me a
bigger picture and it shows me the difference between a
Babe Ruth and a Ted Williams. Yeah, so we're friend

(26:52):
tops In today's world, the seven ten is an average OPS.
Anything over a thousand is excellent and the chart closed
like that. OPS plus is something that you should also
consider because it normalizes OPS by using things like park factors,
which OPS doesn't use. So that's another intriguing part to this,
and using OPS plus also, and it's based on a
pretty easy scale of a hundred or plus. If it's

(27:14):
over a hundred, that's the better. If it's on their
a hundred, that's the worst. So OPS plus and wOBA
are more accurate. But like Matt said, trans OPS does
translate well do you know who? Well, similar to what
you just said about the top five being the same
in opp and slugging, the top five in the same
as distinct differences, which is what we were top three,
I think top three are Ruth and top two Ruth

(27:37):
and Bonds. Ruth and Bonds. Okay, so in in today's
Major League based on two thousand nineteen, the top five
is Bellinger, Yellish, Rendon, Meadows, and Josh Bell. Which are
five are the best players this season? And who are
the top five war guys? I think those are the
same top five War guys, top five wOBA guys in
the same exact top which is why knowing what you
don't have to know what wOBA and bad bade n

(28:00):
o p s and slugging and this are if you
know what one of them are or two of them are,
because then at least you can understand the the stimulus
or stimuli put in front of you. I don't need
to understand in all five values. If I can make
an educated guest. If I know two values plus my
knowledge of baseball, I can make it an educated decision

(28:21):
in DFS and rest of the season, in a waiver
wire pick up, in a trade, anything like that. Yeah,
in most cases, yes, you are correct, all right on
the line right now. As part of the Fantasy Baseball
Our Special Guest List, Mike the Robo rodo Cop has
pulled away the red velvet rope and has allowed the Great,
the one and only Tim Haney to walk in at

(28:43):
Team Haney. What's going on? Tim? Hey, guys, thanks for
having me on, Mike, Finally, nice to have an extended
to talk with you. We always keep running into each
other things, but never never have time to talk. And
Matt big fan of yours with all your wrestling commenting,
so really honor for me to be on with you. Guys. Yeah,
for sure, thanks for coming on it. Somebody has to
be a fan. I appreciate it. Actually, I'm a fan

(29:05):
of you. I'm a big fan of this article that
you read. But before we get into that, Mike's been
chomping at the bitt wrote that that I read that.
He wrote, thank you. I used to be the school
teacher and Mike's just a jerk all the time. So, Mike,
you had some pressing questions for Tim. Yeah, I just
wanted to start off by giving you a little promo
Tim between I mean, you're all over the place. You've
got the ESPN Fantasy stuff, you got the Fantasy Black Book,

(29:27):
now you're doing it for football. If I'm not mistaken,
I'm actually just editing the Football book. I do a
little bit of baseball writing though. For the Black Book,
Jokes would be a great guy and one of my
good friends in the industry, working with him on that
project for a couple of years there. And I also
do a little social media podcasting for rhydal Wire as well.
So yeah, I gotta kind of, you know, dip your
fingers in a lot of different polies here and then
you also got the in this ring pod also, Yeah,

(29:50):
I wanted to I wanted to wait on that one.
I would want to be too, or fourth probably back there,
but you asked to do. At the Wrestling podcast, Joe
and I in this Ring Wrestling Pod love that nice
little side T is hoping to get off the ground
of this, you know, near future, love talking wrestling. Let's
talking fasty sports. The heck of a mix. Yeah, you know, yeah,
I couldn't feel I couldn't feel the same way anymore.

(30:11):
Um quickly a w double or nothing or the last
n x T on Saturday night, which was better? Um,
usually slide with that XT. Just crisp production, crisp talent
because here pay per view doesn't go, doesn't go four hours,
you know that sort of thing. But it's interesting. A
lot of people talk about, you know, the quality of
what goes on in the ring and stuff. But essentially

(30:32):
we can have this conversation the production, you know, the
vehicle from which you see this. It really makes a difference.
And I just think that lighting and production and all
these things that you just illustrated were so important or
somebody at a w is certainly going to have to
at least match or bring something different if they want
to compete with the aesthetic of w B. Competition is
great for for everybody involved. I think if you really

(30:55):
want to embrace it, you can raise your own production,
your own content to the next level. I I love
a lot of guys of all and w and the
women's i've seen as well, So looking forward to kind
of seeing where each lies and you know, hope the
seats is kind of the next goal and age of
sports entertainment. Yeah, before we move on to baseball. I
know masking to kill me for saying this, but as
you said, competition is a great thing for for everybody involved.

(31:17):
But then you go and cut the Undertaker off and
the only promo that anybody's watching for last night, So
I don't know if competition is the best thing for
for everybody involved. You know, well, yeah, I mean I
I do love the Undertaker's edges and stuff that they
do take long so if they overrun that's a problem
you mentioned. And it's interesting because in the wrestling world

(31:37):
it's hard to get a seat at the table. People
don't tend to take you under their wing. I mean,
I was lucky to have guys like Tommy Dreamer and
Edge and val Venus and John Seena to an extent,
but um in fantasy sports world that seems to be
totally different. You mentioned Rod war Clay Link was one
of the first people to ever respond to me on
social media. He sent me a baseball book. I'm gonna

(31:57):
bother you and Joe to send me a black book.
And what do you think is the reason that it's
such an open arm fraternity in fantasy sports where we
all want to see each other succeed, as opposed to wrestling,
where it's like carry my bags, kid, and don't look
me in the eye. I think this there's a lot
of openness for content. It's not like there's a limited
amount of places you can get this stuff. And you know,

(32:18):
we do want to have a cooperative competitiveness. I think
the best industries do kind of thrive on that when
you know, as wrestling, you know, I just put it there.
You want to each offer your own perspective, but also
kind of you know, breed this community within each other.
I think that's really big. And you know that I've
talked to you through the world wire social Twitter account
a little bit sometimes that I know you talk to people.
So I'm happy to kind of come up from that.

(32:38):
Veneer and talk to you as as myself normally. But yeah,
I mean Clay is great. I mean, you know Steve
Garner USA today when I used to work there was
a big, big influence on me as well. He's he's
just an ace at everything. Uh Nicholas Metics from my
KFL days was a huge influence on me as well.
You keep giving back, you keep telling people that this
is a great environment to be and it's gonna be

(32:59):
a place where people want of work and people want
to create, people want to really expand the analysis and
make it better. It's it's it's best for everybody involved. Yeah, definitely.
And one of the guys that, uh you, just like
you were saying, I really reached out to people and
helped them out is Justin Mason of Fantasy Friends of
Benefits and he has the t g FBI, which our
listeners are familiar with at this point because we talk
about it so much. And if I'm not mistaken, you're

(33:20):
currently in second place out of three teams. No nice, Um,
I'm taking a screenshot of that before actually starts to
because I think it will last very long, very tough field.
But yeah, absolutely, just the heck of the field. This year, Mike,
you and I were in the same league, the same
you know, sub league, I guess you want to call
it there. We were fighting out a little bit in April.
I hope you can come back up with me. We can, uh,

(33:42):
we can roll through the rest of this competition together.
I've got dealt with the bad hand with injuries, but
that's no excuse because everybody else has. So it's definitely
tough competition. No DL in that league, though, interesting. So
here's here's the interesting thing. And there's a lot of
owners that are like Mike that are here in the
first few days of June. They're looking at their teams.
They're not happy where their teams are. They've been decimated

(34:03):
by injuries. You wrote this great article about trying to
find new layers of players and not just because it rhymes,
and you were talking about trying to zero in on
guys that have a frequency of a called strike and
things like that. How did you think this deep, like,
what was the thought process? Well, we live in an
era where strikeouts are so heavy, and I figured that,

(34:26):
you know, everyone's gonna be chased the guys that are
gonna be having that dominant fastball, having a swinging strike rate.
That's crazy. I think it's to kind of look at
the other dynamic now because streaming pitching has never been
more difficult than day, or at least maybe the last
decade or so hasn't been this difficult because pitching is
so it's overvalued and it will it's in high demand.
It's not overvalued necessarily, but I think it's just looking

(34:47):
for those pittures at the back end of your rotation
to seal things up. It's never been, you know, more difficult.
With this era of the juice ball seen coming into
this year. You know, you have you have to look
at the other end of things where you can kind
of manipulate the umpire and you can take advantage of
strikes as it might be a bit more generous, and
starters that are working with those catchers that can frame
pitchers really well. I think that you can find the

(35:08):
subset of creatures that you know isn't necessarily heavily owned
yet so kind of looking at the guys that aren't
really just blowing everybody away, the ones that are kind
of getting through, uh, you know, through the farious means
when it comes to deceiving umpires and letting those catchers
do their work there. Yeah, so I I couldn't agree more.
As far as the juice bawl and finding pictures hard
to stream, I'm looking at it right now as we

(35:29):
speak at pitch Chase Anderson tonight He's given up two
runs in the first inning and Devin smelts I gave
up a homer to Lindoor. So it looks like it's
gonna be another tough week from my pitching staff. That
the article you wrote called strikes and pitch framing article
and how it relates to fantasy, if you want to
just dive into it, uh real quick for us and
let the listeners know what it's about and what the
outcomes of the research you did were. Yeah. Absolutely, I'll

(35:51):
also tweet that out after I'm done with you guys
and when the things posted. Uh, it's more so just
like trying to investigate if it's getting a cold strike
a skill. I kind of looked at the last three
years and around the league and seeing what the average
of you know, call strike percentage will be and then
you compare that with you know, the swinging swas the
swinging strike Grate kind of focused on players and pictures
that do get a lot of those, like Zac Greaky

(36:12):
of course, is a big one, Trevor Bauer, big one,
Aaron Nola, who's you know, having trouble striking out guys
this year, at least with his fastball. He's getting a
lot of kids. But definitely at the benefit of j.
T ro Muto's framing ability, which has improved, so you
kind of want to frame it as you know, I
looked it look to swing rate in terms of you know,
getting strikes looking versus strikes swinging, and Greenky has had
a great amount of that. Trevor Bauer has that, but

(36:34):
he also is great at, you know of coursing swinging strikes,
So those guys are kind of it's almost like a
bonus for those guys that have that really good swinging
strike rate like a Strasbourg and Wheeler, Chris Sale. Of course,
those guys are gonna be good at that anyway. But
then more of the finesse guys like Zach Greanky, Nola,
Marco Gonzalez who has had a real tough correction, and
that's the thing with these guys, they are sometimes raised
within margin for air. But you know, Jake Garriett is

(36:56):
the world that really lead on those called strikes. Sometimes
they can be useful, sometimes they're skey um, And you know,
I kind of just kind of translated that into to
framing and then looking at umpiring and kind of looking
at widespread frets like ESPN leagues that that might have
had some call strike advantages. So you gotta have some
actable advice to that. You can't just have that for
the guys that are heavily rostered. Yeah. So, as a

(37:16):
former educator as well as our producer, Joe Fan of
Literary Prose Deep in the article, you refer to guys
as the Bob Rosses of fantasy pitching, and I thought
that was absolutely beautiful. You know, happy little tree here
beat the devil out of the brush. Mike and I
were talking about guys that go from becoming throwers to pitchers.
We were talking about Brandon Woodward for at the time.
But can you give the listeners maybe three or five

(37:39):
Bob Rosses of fantasy pitching. I know that a lot
of the names are obvious, but is there anyone out
there that people might be missing in the happy little Trees? Well,
I mean a guy I've been looking at a little
bit more as Felix Paine of the Angels, the kind
of they've they've they've toyed between having him be a
bulky leaver primarily pitcher at a start. I think that
fastball is really good. I think the uh the sly
ball is a little bit concerned is most of these uh,

(38:01):
you know, finesse guys. But I think the Angels getting
him a little bit more time there's in the rotations good.
He's very easily available in ESPN things. I think he
was three point five percent as of last week. Hasn't
changed much. Jalen Beaks of the Rays I love. I
think that his stuff plays up a bit more as
the one of the Rays followers, So I think that
you know that that's something we're the swinging. That the
look strikes can be as helpful as well. Uh. Jordan

(38:23):
Lyles of the Pirates has gotten a little bit less
attention than most. I think that guy kind of change
at his curveball this year is really really big for that.
Wade Miley of the Astros. He doesn't get much credit
for his cutter. He's not really a big overpowering guy,
but that thing works the corners pretty well. Another readily
available guy in ESPN, Brett Peacock, Sonny Gray Chris Bassett
were the top three look to swing rate guys that

(38:45):
lean more heavily on strikes looking. So I think those
are guys that with the right umpire and with those
captures being really good for those guys, I think it's
really good, um best of all worlds to kind of
stream them. And it's funny because we were just talking
about Felix pain uh ree episode or every other episode,
we play this game called is he for Real? And
we do five guys that are on the cusp of
either breaking out or I've I've already had a hot

(39:07):
week or whatever it is, and Felix Paini was one
of them, and I actually said he was not for real.
Even though his slider is great, he does have a
great slider pitch value six point one. He has a
one thirty three batting average against. I don't think the
fast pall is good enough to be throwing nearly sixty
percent of the time, not to uh I disagree with
you a little bit on the Felix Paini and but
all the other guys you've mentioned are really good and

(39:29):
that's a good indicative of where they're going to be
in the future. I don't know if you're familiar with
Alex Fast from Pictureless wrote an article about cs W
Y he came up with that metric CSW So it
sounds a little similar that. Yeah, I mean what Alex
Fast is writing something you know, at least digging down
the right to past. Yeah, for sure. And even a
couple more Pictureless guys, they're they're coming up with something

(39:51):
new every day, a new metric every day to show
how indicative it is a bit of a picture's future.
So it's very interesting to read from all perspectives, yours,
alex is, and every body else's. Well. I think what's
truly interesting is it's hot topical news. It's relevant. Is
people talking about Dallas Kaiko and you you wrote in
the article here on Kaiko is a kind of guy
that lived on the called strike depending on on the

(40:12):
umpiring crew that he had, and that that has seemed
to be waning, or at least does every other season.
If Kaiko gets signed by the Yankster the Braves, what
do you expect. I'd rather get signed with the Braves.
That catching Tanner is much better at framing with flowers
and McCann. I don't like Gary Sanchez's framing. I love
his ability to throw runners out, I don't like his framing.
I don't like the way you can kind of manipulate things.

(40:33):
Roll mind is okay, and I think Kaiko, I think
that's what the market realized this offseason. Kaiko's kind of
reliant on his environment. I don't think that the cy
young and and the good numbers he's posted and that
he they kind of realized that his skills are not
really for this this pitching environment unless you have a
really good set up. But I think the Ashurals kind
of butches him a little bit with that as kind

(40:54):
of a guy that does rely on call strikes, and
the Ashural has always had a good catching pair as well.
So if he sounds with the Braves, I'm all it.
If he says that the Yankees, I'm a little bit scared.
And k is one of the guys that have not
benefited from this saber metric era of baseball, along with
guys like Eric Hosmer and a couple other names out there.
I want to do. Uh before we wrap up, got
a couple of thoughts on your game changing Pitches article.
I know you had Martine Perez on there. Who are

(41:16):
the other pictures you're out on there? If you remember
the top you're in Uh, Lyles, You know I just
talked about before Tyler Molly kind of being a little
bit more with the curve ball. I wish it was
a little more effective curveball. Uh. Spencer Turnbull the Tigers.
Part of his really ridiculous season has been looking into
a cutter, and I like, I like crits with cutters
because it's not a STREI was as a slider, and
like I said, some of these lower velocity guys that

(41:37):
can work around the strikes on a little more effectively,
as in the case of Perez, who I think he's
coming back to earth a little bit obviously had that
disaster six one outing last time, but a little bit
a little bit more confident to him as a starting picture.
So rest the rest of the season. Out of all
those guys, if you want to give our listeners one
guy to really focus on, between Lyles, Molly, Turnbull and Press,
who do you got um? I think Molly has the

(41:58):
actually the best positive sit upside. I think there's a
little bit of a case of him. He gives a
lot of hard contact, a little bit of but if
things get right there, I think you could actually havent
throw things around a bit. I think, uh, you know,
if if Luke we were healthy, I would say him first,
of course, uh Eddie Gossip if you want another one.
But I like the way he gives a lot of
hard contact as well there. And Zach Davis is on
the flip side all the way down. I think I

(42:19):
think he's kind of working with a little bit of
magic right now. All right, we are being joined by
the one and only Tim Haney at Team Haney kind
of like got a team but teen Haney. And of
course my fantasy Black Book will be arriving at my
door very shortly. I'm sure everyone out there is getting
there's as well, because fantasy football is coming, you know,
uh XM serious Fantasy Sports Radio after July they only

(42:41):
discuss football, which goes to show you how important the
Black Book is. Last question, and it's almost like this
kind of fantasy thing. The year is fan duel, DraftKings,
monkey knife fight, they've all merged. Do we find ourselves
stacking battery mates and umpires? Based off of the the
logic here in your article, I would love to see

(43:03):
that type of game. I'm all for the innovative types
of things. I think it's important now to use that
kind of thing, you know, wire we have umpire reports
listened under our stats. Now it's got to be deal
to to kind of point out some of the guys
with with those big calls strike RCE here, I guess
some of the big one Adam Haamaar Kerman, Danley guys
I'm looking for right now, my guest of Brook And Yeah,
I think I think umpire is it's a part of

(43:24):
the game. We kind of lay off to the side
a little bit in terms of its impact. I think
that as we get advanced stats, we can kind of
judge umpire strike zones were we might have robots by
them though, So that's that's something that you might have
to look into. But yeah, I would love to kind
of see some more important place on umpiring and and
cature picture motives here. So yeah, I I would love
to see some sort of a version of that. And

(43:45):
and yeah, I would love to think of the name
of all those companies merging as well. Tim One last
question before you go, and I hate to put you
on the spot, but I'm gonna do it anyway. What
are your thoughts on what it would look like to
have advanced metrics in wrestling? Um? Oh god, I Joe
Joe Batten. I could probably talk for an hour about this. Uh, like,

(44:06):
you know pops earned during match or you know most
pyro per year would be a good one nowadays, go ahead, No,
I was saying, I mean I would have love to
find I want to to undergraud work got a little crazy,
so so Mike and I have we started talking about it,
and then we reached out to a professor in hashtra

(44:28):
and I've already started the process of copyrighting the The
whole thing is, basically, it's making it up. Cody Rhodes
goes for his dropkick the time and matches. When he
hits that dropkick, his win percentage is thirty one point three.
And we're thinking that some company would throw that graphic
up on the screen or or maybe an announcer and
say it or a ticker. Do you think something like

(44:49):
that could change how we watch wrestling? I mean, I
think a w should do some sort of fantasy thing.
I don't think I'd have enough events until TV comes,
but to have a micro game like that within the
sports entertain repression wrestling. I think that'd be a fantastic
way to connect and get more sports calls over people
to go there. You got, Well, it's already copywritten, but
you can you can come in on it because, like
I said, the guys that wrote a wire one of

(45:11):
the first people to ever even give me an opportunity,
and I really appreciate it. Um anything else you want
to say to listeners before we let you go. Matt
Striker is awesome and Mike is one of the up
and coming fantasy guys. Thank you guys for living me
on your show. And I hope this is not the
last time. No, definitely not appreciate it. Thank you so much. Man,
we'll talk to you soon. Alright. The one and only
Tim he coming in no relation to Andrew whatsoever. And Mike,

(45:33):
I gotta tell you that you just get the great guests.
You know how to use that thing. I don't know.
I'm to my first day on this planet. Okay, seriously,
I just landed from the mother ship. Tim was great,
good stuff. Tim has a lot of a lot of
knowledge out there, and he not only uh portrays his knowledge.
Is that the right word? To use. I'm all over
the last for my words today. He not only what

(45:53):
word am I looking for? Joe demonstrates, Okay, so Joe
and I as teachers, we know that we shouldn't laugh
at a stupid right, and we want to try and
use it. Was a PJ that said uses the child's
mistake in order to create a teaching moment. Was that PJ?
Was that Bronfit Brenner. You're a lot more well. I
just it's like that where it is not only gives

(46:14):
you the information, but he tells you how the information
translates to fantasy, which is a big thing I thinking
that we always talk about and that you get on
me for. But it is what it is the application
of knowledge. Yes, like that, the application you think an
application something on your phone. Yes, I'm doing completely outside
of everything. I found this awesome T shirt. I think
it's on road to where instead of you might be

(46:36):
too young. It used to be down with opp down.
You know you know OPP stands for America. You know
what it stands for, see you down? So is the
other people's property, which is a way of saying cheating.
Are you down to cheat? There's a cool T shirt
that says you down with O b P. Yes, I've
seen it and I want that. So my birthday is June.
Feel free to go, Feel free to stay at birthday

(46:57):
to let me not write that down. Feel free to
go to road aware and u geordware dot com and
you know, grab grab Maddie an extra large and something
extra large? Bro? Have you seen my shoulders extra large?
That it's an extra large? Yeah? No, I don't believe. Yeah,
and you were boring in Canada too, Yeah, I continue, well,
not an extra large. I think I'm a large. Largest
is not an extra argist? That's extra large? You got issues, buddy?

(47:19):
What are my issues with? Eight? You know? Extra large?
An extra large? I'm two and eighteen pounds? Wow? Do
you think it's a extra large? Show really? All day?
All day? There's my man, Joe, it's an extra large?
Whatever you say? Five you guys like you guys should
do this podcast. You're not sorry. I'm like five ten

(47:39):
to eighteen? Is that listed on the internet? The internet
one time and any newsday they had me at six one. Oh.
I kept that article on my fridge out like, yeah, man,
six one. If I was six one, I'd be champ
in the world, I'll tell you five. That's correct. Why
didn't they get a little a little taller because no
one would believe it? Because stocky. So when you see me,

(48:01):
you don't think that's five times? You know your build
weight is to twenty? Is it? Really? It's exactly there
you go, I can fight for the heavy right title?
About that? You could, Mike? What do you right now?
I'm probably one eight one? Maybe? Do you know that
science will tell us that Joe, you have a friend
is a science teacher. Oh yeah, yeah, science will tell

(48:22):
you that if I hit you with I will knock
you cold. Yeah that sounds right, will probably take about
sixty Yeah, that's that's that's that's the top before you
get brain damage. Remember that. Yeah, I get that fair enough.

(48:45):
What are you trying to say? I'm just saying. Remember
that reason was also about you know, thicker than undred five.
I'm not I'm not out there trying to fight. All
I know is that a friend of mine that was detective,
he was retired at acting. He said, especially if you
ever get into hand to hand end out there, you
only do enough to defend yourself. You do not inflict

(49:05):
any further damage. And when questioned you have to seriously.
I feared for my life. There was a brick wall
behind me. I had nowhere to go. Joe was coming
at me, and I feared for my life and how
to defend myself. You know what I mean? If I
hit you with an uppercut and on the way down
your head slams against the curb and all your Joe
brains are on the floor, you know what I mean? Mike,
this this took a real tarr you know, Fantasy Baseball.

(49:28):
Don't worries me about you. You're so nice to everybody,
and like you, you walk around like nothing is going on.
You're nice, nice, nice to everybody. I feel like that
one time you do get into that situation, you might
just unleash because you hold it all in. No. In
my row, my dad taught me the importance of restraint.
I hope, I hope that's the case. Disciplined. Yeah, all

(49:50):
right there, Yeah, so that's how I disciplined. I might
anything else you want to say. The people, they can
find you where they can find me doing DFS for
a picture list every Thursday. You don't want to do
a little DFS, we could do a little df mine.
Since you want to give yours in I've been I've
been doing. We're a lot of work with Scott angling
the guys over at when Daily DFS. You can check

(50:11):
them out at when Daily dfs giving all of our
DFS stuff. And also you can find me at Matt
Underscore Striker Underscore. You can read me on raz Ball
Instagram is real match striker. Uh come to Long Beach
and you can find me anywhere between one of six beaches.
I'll usually be the guy careful because people might show, hey, man,
that's cool, It's come on down. Is that cool? Yeah?

(50:33):
Why not give you a DFS before we get out
of him again? Wednesday, Ketel Marte against Kent my Ada
and Jose bre You against Annibal Sanchez. I couldn't decide
between the two, but if I had to pick, or
if you had to pick, I would say Jose Braider.
He's so he's a little dinged up though, isn't he?
He is a little thing up, But he's also thirteen
four against Sanchez and his career two homers nine RB

(50:55):
Fourteen of his fifteen homers have come against right hand
to pitchers this year. And when we do the show,
a couple of weeks go and we talked about barrels.
He is in the top two percent of the league
in barrels. Barrels, of course, is the combination of launch
angle that a pitch is struck at, said the English Major,
and the exit velocity if it reaches a certain threshold
that's called the battle correct barrels. So he's in the

(51:16):
top two percent of the league in that. So that's
something to keep an eye on Thursday, Michael Confordo against
Shawn Anderson and the Giants never faced each other before,
but Conforto is a very stricky hitter, and he puts
together those four for four games followed by those over
four games, so I think he will be a good
play on Thursday. Even though Anderson hasn't been bad and
does have a decent pitch mikes, he does not generate

(51:37):
as many swings and misses, and somebody on the Mets
will get him, and I'm hoping it's Conforto. Friday, Adam
Jones against Marcus Stroman n in his career. Give me
Adam Jones to continue his career resurgence. Even though Marcus
Stroman is not a friend of the show, but almost
a friend of the show, but honorable mention to Mike
Trout for Thursday and Friday. Thursday is going against Fires,

(51:57):
Friday is going against Barday Anderson. It looks like and
he has great career numbers against them as he does
everybody else. And let me ask you something, um two questions.
One is a patch guy. That's what I'm talking you know,
is from I man, I'm alive. I want to see
you against Marcus Stroman's dad. Do you know what he
looks like? What would mean against playing tennis? No, Like

(52:18):
we're talking about hand to hand combat? Why why am
I fighting Markus Stroman's dad? Look at this guy? Seriously?
That looks like why am I fighting? Flex Wheeler show
the periscope Pardy answer, Yes, why am I fighting? Johnson? Like?
Why is this happening? Ah? He is a He's a

(52:39):
very muscular man. It looks like if Ken Griffy was
stung by Beach remember on the Simpsons episode and Ken
Griffy had like giganticism. That's what Marcus Stroman's father looks like.
Oh man, Joe, what's up? But he got we got
a little future cast here from the podcast we had today,
So we got you looking at called strikes with framing
from our buddy Tim Heeney, and then we got the

(53:00):
A E. W keeps stats Already they're going with wins
and losses. Here they are going and wins and losses,
so allegedly allegedly, but you have someone to look forward
to in the future. Something's ring, somebody's buzzing, and that
could be Cody calling right now. Actually, um, what do
you think about advanced metrics and wrestling? Picture? Kofi Kingston

(53:21):
goes to the top rope and he's on the top
rope and then a little bar comes up that says
or as he's walking up there, it goes to like
seventy seventy four, like in the NBA when guys are
from the three point line to the hoop, and as
he's going up there, it goes up and then he
does the move and then maybe something comes up that
says he wins at a time when he executes this move.

(53:42):
I think it would be something that the production value
would increase with. Problem is too many little kids watch
and that's not the market point, right, So your production
costable obviously increases from your graphics. But I think it
brings an element where look, we know what wrestling is.
It's hard to bet on wrestling. It's John CENIVERSEUS match striker.

(54:06):
If you bet match striker, you may as well go
bet the who plays the Hall and Globe trotters at
Washington generals like. But if you can, if you can
have stats and do little prop bets on there's propensity
to do an arm drag. It makes it a little
more interesting. It makes a little more interesting. But you
gotta watch out for those, you know, telltale signs like
the Kane entrance. Where when's the pyro going to go off? For?

(54:27):
You know, is Rick Fair gonna wear red or blue?
So you always gotta watch out for that. All right,
fair enough? You know what I see. I see in
the future, and it's gonna just destroy wrestling for people
like me and Joe. I don't know about you, but
it's gonna be pick what move KOFE Kingston uses tonight
on social media and or pick what move KOFE Kingston does,
and people are gonna that's how it's gonna eventually gonna

(54:49):
lead to. That sounds like a Knockham Razor solution, so
he's probably right. They've tried something similar with the consert
called cyber Sunday. Yeah, not necessarily the move, but what
type of match and so on and so forth. But
either way, I just think that analytics and listen, I've
said this before. I took statistics in college four times,
and not because I like the class. Wink wink, you
know what I mean. So I just think that having

(55:09):
the application of statistics and probability just in your daily life,
and think about it. You take the same route to
work every single day, do that, you know? So what
is it? Is there anything to finding out that every
time you make the green light on main Street you
get to work on time, at the time or whatever

(55:32):
it is. And I just think that there's cool ways
to apply metrics to your life. Well, I think the
technology is just going to improve that. So we'll see
where it takes us, all right, So technology will improve,
but no matter what, we will always have a micro
rohto coop, the one and only for micro Rooto coop
for Joe. I am Matt Striker. We say good luck,
be safe, have fun, and we'll see you out there.