September 8, 2025 • 65 mins
The Mets called up Brandon Sproat. Despite his lofty pre-season ranking, is he fantasy-relevant? Then, we dig into the second-half power surge across the league. Kyle Schwarber is once again proving he’s one of the most underrated power bats in the game, and he’s currently sitting at #5 on the Player Rater. Is it finally time to draft him like a top-tier slugger?
Jo Adell is showing signs of the breakout we've been chasing for years. Is this real or is this just fantasy? Willy Adames is putting up another strong second half. He may be a 30 HR shortstop, but do we want him?
We also dive into the unique value of guys like Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Corbin Carroll. Do we like them for 2026? And how do we value the pure speed threat that is Chandler Simpson?
All that and more on this week’s Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast!
Jo Adell is showing signs of the breakout we've been chasing for years. Is this real or is this just fantasy? Willy Adames is putting up another strong second half. He may be a 30 HR shortstop, but do we want him?
We also dive into the unique value of guys like Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Corbin Carroll. Do we like them for 2026? And how do we value the pure speed threat that is Chandler Simpson?
All that and more on this week’s Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast!
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Speaker 4 (01:09):
Hey, everybody, welcome back is the Rasball Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
I am beat On, joined by the one, the only,
the Fantasy Master with a or himself. Great, albright, how's
going over there? Great?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hey? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
If you're watching on YouTube, you can watch me play
a little tiny piano. I don't know why my background
is different. I don't know what's going on. Man. I
I am not there wherever this is, that's not where
(01:43):
I am. But yeah, Hey, what's uh?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's up beat on?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Hey? I'm exactly here right here?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
How about those bears?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Or should I say?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Man? What a bum wrap they got or how do you?
I don't know. I don't watch. If it's because we're
recording this as the Bears game is happening. So if
it's go Bears and they do well, then yay. But
if it's uh, oh no, what happened and they do poorly,
(02:22):
then we have h you could just edit it so
we have whichever one we need.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A right, Yeah, I'll go back and edit the podcast.
I cant. I get paid enough to do that and
I have for that. Yeah, that's going to happen. Uh,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I was speaking of football. I was saying to Coops
because Beaton on Sunday Beaton reached out to me. I
was at I was at brunch. I do brunch like
a you know, real Angelino. So I'm at brunch and
I get a text from Beaton and he's like, oh,
(03:02):
I just wrote up an article for football dot rosball
dot com about the uh the first half of the
football games. And I'm like, okay, yeah I can. I
can publish it when I get home. Because Sky our
football wasn't around, wasn't near a computer, so uh, Beaton
(03:24):
was asking me to publish it. So I was like, yeah, yeah,
no problem. So I get off, you know, I put
my phone down. I tell Koog's what's going on, and
she's like, beat On's right. What I'm like, I, you know,
I think beat On has a serious girlfriend now, so
he's like not going out and drinking as much. Maybe
(03:46):
I don't know. I think I think he's become responsible,
and he's like, yeah, he's like writing stuff. I don't know,
you know, Gray, I would love for.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That to be the case, and then like I'm getting
responsible and things. Really, you know, normally I have a
buddy who comes over Sunday and we prints watched like
first you know, set of games and maybe the second
set of games. He had a kid, so I can
no longer hang out with him on Sunday. Also, I
(04:18):
just thought it was a funny concept to write an
article about the first half of week one of the
of the first set of games, and so I wrote
it up. And I don't know if anybody actually read it,
but I wrote it up. It's out there if you
want to go read it and then see how wrong
I was about the second half about what was going
(04:39):
to happen. You know, I was just sitting there and
just just dawned on me to write it. Gray. That's
that's that's honestly what happened there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You could, if you want, you could do like me
and I, uh so, after I published my preseason rankings
and and they get locked in uh at the end
of right before the season starts. And then in like
May June, I go in and I fiddle with all
the rankings. So I look a lot smarter than I
(05:09):
actually was.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So you want to remember that trick?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, I get. I could go into your Sunday post
and make you look smarter.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
If you need it, I will have to send you
what to change. But yeah, well we can work on that. Gray.
Let's you know, football this season is full swing, Gray,
but we're not there. There's plenty of great content on
football dot rasball dot com. There's great stats over there.
There's stats that you can't really get anywhere else over there,
(05:41):
or if you get them, you're paying a very hefty fee.
So go check out football dot rasball dot com. Lots
of great stuff going there. Your podcast, person, we got
our football podcast up. I don't know if I'm doing
one this year or not, because I couldn't rope Rudy
in and DT has disappeared into another hut. I think
so will. We will see about finding a podcast partner,
(06:03):
but until then Gray is my partcast partner and we
are doing baseball. Let's talk about Brandon Sprout. He was
called up by the Mets one hundred and twenty one
innings this year. He had a four to two four
ear a a one two four whip. He had a
twenty two point one percent strikeout rate and a ten
point four percent walk rate. Back in the preseason long ago,
(06:24):
before we changed our ranks, Itch had him as his
number two Mets prospect Gray. He does have a ninety
six on hour fastball, sinker, slider, occasional curve, and Chain
did throw the curve a good amount in this first start.
What are your thoughts on Brandon Sprout? Where are you
looking at adding him to your roster or are you
(06:44):
looking to m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I mean well, I'll say I'm immediately talk like an
oxymoronic dope and say that I wouldn't add him, but
I did add him, If that makes any sense. I uh,
you know, I would say that. I you know, I
wish I kind of I kind of wish I would
(07:09):
have reached out to Itch and texted him and asked
him what his thoughts on Sprout were for this season,
because I'm going off of I'm inferring what Itch what
I think Itch was thinking, because Itch wrote him up,
as you mentioned, he was his number two Mets prospect
in the preseason, and then Itch didn't mention Sprote at
(07:31):
all during the season like in any of his stash lists.
So I'm kind of assuming that Sprot sort of fell
off this radar because he didn't really have a very
good season. So I think that's what happened. I don't know,
maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm I'm putting words in
Itch's mouth, but I would assume that's what happened because
(07:52):
Sprot didn't really have that great of a season. I mean,
his command was really wonky, a near four walk per non,
a eight and eight point four k per nine, a
four point two four era, and that's in one hundred
and twenty one innings. It's a lot of innings. So
(08:13):
I you know, I think, out of Jonah, Tang and McLain,
I actually Sprot is my least favorite of those of
those three. So I'm not really that interested in Sprot.
And if this were Uh, like may or June, I'd
(08:34):
probably be saying, you know, use caution. I would be uh.
I wouldn't be telling you to grab them in like
a twelve team mix league or anything. But at this point,
with all that said, I mean, there's so little time
left that if you like, are struggling to find a starter.
I believe he gets the Rangers this week, a team
(08:54):
that's not very good. They've lost a Dallas Garcia, They've
lost Cory c they lost Evan Carter. Actually those three
guys losing them is probably a good thing for them,
So maybe they've actually gotten better since they've lost those guys.
But no, I mean they've they really struggled offensively this year.
So and I think Sprout Sproute is at home, so
(09:18):
I feel like the matchup's okay. It's not bad. I
picked up Sprout in a NL only league. I didn't
pick him up in a twelve team mix league. I
probably for a streamer. I mean, it's fine. I'm not
really sold that he's really either ready or you know,
(09:41):
he's not exciting me with his numbers at least, I'm
I'm kind of like whatever on him. But with all
that said, I mean it's so late in the year
that if you really need a starter, then you know,
go for it. Whatever, But I feel like you probably
can do better. There's guys on waivers, like people are
mentioning the comments, Guys like Emmit Shehan, who gets the
(10:03):
Rockies this week. I mean that is better than Sprote
in my opinion. Shean just in general, I think is better.
But yeah, so there's there's probably guys available in some
leagues where if you're looking for someone, you could probably
do better than Sproute. But I mean, if you really
need it, against the Rangers at home is not the
(10:25):
worst of matchups.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, And in regards to the prospect ranking, sprot did
go through three levels last season. You know, when you
go through three levels and you look really good through
the majority of the two levels, you kind of get
a pass with a third. He did struggle a little
bit in triple A, but you know, he is a
good prospect. He came in and is a more developed
college arm. You know, he he does have the pedigree
(10:52):
to be a good picture. But I'm with you then,
I think if we asked, it's where they would have
ranked before their call up. I'm sure Ola McClain probably
would have moved above him, given what he did at
Triple A at least ol mclan if not Jonahong. As
you mentioned, let's do I'm just gonna throw some names
that you are, that that has that I have in
(11:14):
my streamer options Gray. That will kind of ruin what
we're you gonna do later, but hey, let's throw some
names you already mentioned Himachian. Would you rather have Ian
Seymour at the White Sox or Brandon Sproute versus the Rangers?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think I should. I'd go Ian Seymour. I like
what I've seen so far from him.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Okay, let's go with a couple of old guys here,
Max Schurzer versus Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I mean I think Schreser was tipping on the
Oh sorry, I just put on the Mets game. I
think Suzer was tipping his pitches this weekend, which is
which accounts for why he struggled so badly. I still trust,
I trust Sures to figure it out. I would go Sureser.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I agree, And if if you go this one over
over Spro, we will know where he belongs. Martin Perez
at Cleveland or Brandon Sprout versus Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
N Martin Perez over no one, no no, Martin Perez,
Martin Perez, noe.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
All right, that's that's fair. He has been fairly solid
for like a month, month and a half. But it
is Martin Perez. He's only gonna help you so much
even when he's going as good as he can go.
So completely understand there. Let's move on, Gray, Let's talk
about some of the second half performers and really some
(12:46):
of the second half leaders in their stats. And you know,
as we're looking at the numbers in general, home runs
are up second half compared to first That could be
warm weather, that could be a random new ball that
got in introduced. We will we'll never really know that
part of it, Gray, But for most home runs in
the second half right now, it is Kyle Schwarber. I
(13:09):
said in the preseason, I said, in the second half rankings,
we always underrank him, we always underdraft him. He is
currently number five on the season Long Player Raider. He
has forty nine home runs, ten stolen bases, ninety eight runs,
one hundred and twenty RBIs. He's hitting two forty two,
three sixty six, five sixty three. He has a career
best hard hit rate, average exit velocity, and barrel rate.
(13:33):
Are we gonna do it again next year? Gray? What
are we doing with Kyle Schwarber. Why don't we keep
underestimating the schwar Bomb?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
We are going to underrate Kyle Schwarber again. We will
continue to make the same mistakes that we made in
the past continuing into the future. We will never ever
fix our mistakes. Sorry, our mistakes will continue for as
(14:04):
long as we want. Okay, Yeah, man, you know, kys
Warber is actually a really difficult one for me specifically
because even like even in the preseason, so at the break,
at the All Star Break, I did a top one
hundred and in there in my top one hundred. I
(14:26):
you know, I admittedly I point out how I was
too low on kylege Swarber, like I underrated him in
the preseason. Absolutely I goofed up. I messed up, I
dropped the ball, Okay, and then in the in the
second half rankings, I did it again. I continue to
(14:47):
do it. I messed up again. I absolutely underrated him
in the second half rankings. I just continue to underrate
Coylege Schwarber. And you know, I think I might do
it again next year. I'm not doing it on purpose,
but I think I'm going to like so Schwarber. For me,
(15:10):
it's difficult because I don't like the two years where
he hit barely two hundred are really throwing. It's like
it's it's messing with my head a little bit because
I feel like he's hitting, he's hitting, he's hitting. He's
hitting two forty plus now two years in a row.
(15:32):
But I can't help but look at him and think
he's a two twenty or lower hitter. I struggle with it,
and like last year, he definitely fixed his launch angle.
It was a lot he leveled it off. He hit
a lot fewer fly balls, which in a lot of
ways was better for him because he was still hitting
(15:52):
enough flyballs to hit for power, but he hit a
fewer to hit for a better average. It didn't it
Actually it absolutely did not hurt that they got rid
of the shift either, so that that definitely has helped him.
That's probably the shift being done away with. Its probably
added twenty points on his average, if we're being fair.
(16:14):
So I thought he was a, you know, a two
ten hitter. Maybe he's neutrally a two thirty hitter. My
problem is if he hits thirty eight homers like he
did last year, and hits two thirty and steals five bags,
it's so like, it's such a it's not really a
(16:35):
top twenty type guy that I won, right. I would
prefer someone who is a little bit more well rounded.
So say, if you're looking at like him or Jackson
Churio in the first round in the in like the
end of the first round next year, where I think
they're probably going to be a relatively close to each other.
I mean, Cheerio to me is just more well rounded.
(16:57):
He has upside. It's just it's a bit of a
struggle for me to get fully invested in Kyle Schwarber.
So yes, I'm gonna underrate him again next year. Again,
I'm good. Continually, I will absolutely mess up. Sorry, I'm
sorry for future gray. I can't help myself. I I
(17:21):
wish I could. Also, you know, he's gonna be uh
he's a free agent, so he could potentially be somewhere
else next year. I want to be shocked if the
if the Phillies back up the brinkstruck and you know,
make sure he stays a Philly for the rest of
his career. It wouldn't shock me if that happens. He's
he's he fits well into that lineup. They seem to
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really love him. He does well in that park, So
I wouldn't shock me if he stays a Philly. I
you know, there's certain places where I would be a
little bit even more timid on Schwarber, Like if he
goes to the Mariners, I doubt I doubt they get
they pay for his services, But I would, you know,
(18:04):
I wouldn't be It wouldn't really be great for him there.
San Diego wouldn't be awesome. It wouldn't be uh wouldn't
be my favorite place. The Rangers would be awful. I
would really not like to see him in Arlington, But yeah,
I mean I would. I would kind of be shocked
if he's not a Philly again. I feel like he's
(18:25):
gonna just return to the Phillies. But I guess we'll
see on that. But yeah, I mean, in general, I
feel like he's gonna be top twelve next year in
the preseason rankings, and I think I'm gonna be lower
than that on him. I don't think I'm gonna be
(18:46):
quite there for him. So yeah, I think, uh, I
think I'm gonna miss down on Costa Werberg again. And
I do. I really do like him, like for real baseball,
Like he's fun. I like watching him, like I don't
have any real problems with Kyle Schwerber like, but I
just struggle with his profile when it comes to fantasy.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean it is definitely a specific profile that
has has ways to go wrong. That being said, the
season you mentioned last season where you hit two forty
eight and only had thirty eight home runs, he was
still number twelve on the Hitter Player Raiders, So I
do think, you know, having him in the first round
(19:32):
is probably fair. After this season, I know you threw
out the number twelve. I feel like there's gonna be
enough people kind of in your camp, and there's more exciting,
you know, power combos, be players like I still feel
like he's gonna drop to where he shouldn't, Like it's
just gonna happen, even though year after year he does it.
(19:55):
And yes, I pray he doesn't end up in any
of those destinations you mentioned, and I wouldn't hate it
if he ended up back in Wrigley, you know, the Cubs.
I feel like maybe Schwarber was the one free agent
they kind of whiffed on letting go, even though it
seemed like a really good movie we went to. You know,
he was hitting one eighty eight when he left us,
(20:16):
so it felt like a pretty decent move. But I
could see that happening, especially if they don't back up
the Brinks truck for Kyle Tucker and they let him
walk for some stupid reason. I could definitely see them
going after Schwarbro. I did see the Phillies supposedly offen
him five years one point fifty, so I mean that
(20:38):
feels fair for Schwarber, especially since he doesn't play defense
in any way, shape or form. But I think that's
less than Matt Chapman got, and that doesn't really seem
fair considering the two offensive profiles. So I don't know,
let's move on. Contract stuff isn't really our stuff anyways.
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There was other people close to the home run lead
and Kyle Schwober, Junior Caman Hero. We just talked about
Colson Montgomery, we talked about recently Shaling Eliers are Tani,
who we don't even have to talk about. We know
he's amazing, and of course second half Julio Rodriguez is
up there, but a guy who is number one on
the seven day Player raiders up here gray for the
(21:19):
second half home run leaders, and that is Joe Adell,
who has well sixteen home runs, sixteen home runs, two
stolen bases. Is it two forty three In the second half,
he has thirty five home runs, five stolen bases and
hitting two forty three for the season. We've got a
career best at Jackson vlosity, heart hit and barrel from
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him as well. You know, it may not look like
what I had pictured when we heard about Joe Adell
for the first time, But is this the Joe Adell breakout?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I I look at his numbers and I'm actually I'm
you know, It's like, I'm not if a guy breaks out,
which I think Joe Adell has broken out, I'm not
gonna you know, I'm not gonna be uh, I'm not
gonna fight it. I for a while, I Joe Adell
(22:16):
really did nothing for me. I'll be honest. I was
one of the last people who really got on the
Joe Adell pandwagon. For many years, people were a lot
more interested in his numbers than I was. I didn't
think he was capable of hitting for a decent average.
I really didn't see. I didn't see the upside. And
(22:37):
you know, it did take him close to thirty five
years to get there. Now he's actually not that old.
He's only twenty six. He doesn't turn twenty seven until April,
which is surprising, but because it did take him like
four decades to finally break out, Thank you Angels coaching staff.
(22:58):
So they are really they're they're working with a lot
over there. I you know, I think Joe Adell is
like you look at his numbers and you're like, okay,
so the power looks real. The average now, I mean
you mentioned he struck. You know, he's he's cut a strikeout,
so I mean he's hitting two forty three as we
(23:18):
record this, I think he's a two forty hitter, which
is two forty five, you know somewhere in there. Two fifty.
That's fine, I mean that is okay. Uh, thirty five
homers definitely looks real. Uh is actually you know, stealing
a lot fewer bags, which I think, you know, when
(23:39):
Ron Washington, uh, when he comes back next year, which
I do believe it will be back, because you know,
it would be it would be something for the Angels
to firearm after a quadruple bypass, just like I feel
like there's there's probably hippo laws or something against like
there's workers comp or something. You can't I don't know,
(23:59):
Like they leave it to the Angels, they probably will
find a way. No, they seem actually very committed to
Ron Washington for you know, I don't know if I
if I fully buy into that for the reasons that
they do, but I I do think Ron Washington will
steal a bunch of bags, like he will have his
player steal a bunch of bags. That is so I
(24:21):
think Joe Edell, actually, you know, this year probably is
going to look in hindsight after next year. I think
he's probably gonna do better next year for steals. So
if you have the same amount of power thirty five
homers and you get a two forty five average and
you throw in fifteen steals with that looks really good.
(24:42):
You know, right now he's barely in the top one
hundred on the player Raider. That probably has a lot
to do with the fact that he has fifty seven runs,
which is awful, but you know, that's you can't blame
him for that. So if he gets thirty five homers
and fifteen steels next year in a two forty five average,
that's really kind of interesting. That's like, I don't know,
(25:05):
maybe top seventy in a preseason rank type. Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in on Joey Dell. I mean, I'm not like,
I don't I don't think he's a top twenty five player,
but top twenty five outfielder. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm I'm bought
in on Joey Dell.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah. I think he's you know, he's looked good this year,
and I believe in everything he's done to make it
to this point. You know, I think there's still a
little bit of speed that can come back. I think
the average can continue to approve a little bit. I
don't think it's gonna, you know, shoot up to be
a the three hundred hitter we thought he was gonna be,
and we thought he'd be three hundred and forty home
(25:45):
runs and twenty stolen bases or more. I don't think
that's necessarily coming, but I think it can all kind
of continue to tick up. They've just wrecked his arbitration
and everything. I mean, he's still got as long as
we've been listening about Joe del Gray, still two more
years of arbitration after this before he's a free agent.
That's absolutely crazy. And in regards to the runs, I mean,
(26:08):
when you can get you on Mancata batting out of
the three hole for you and you can you can
have my number one avoid of the season, Luisa and
Gifo right behind him along with all the castaways. The
other castaways they got along with Moncatta, got Parazza who
the Yankees didn't even want anymore, Travis Darnault, who's like
(26:28):
sixty years old, Chris Taylor. I don't know how the
doctors let thirty eight year old Chris Taylor get away
from him. Scott Kingery, Like they just just signed off castaways.
They didn't work elsewhere that we were excited about, like
seven years ago, when they were excited about Joean Deell.
Actually they weren't excited. That was the problem. They were
(26:48):
excited about Joean Dell. He might have actually, you know,
developed like you should have. But yeah, I mean it's
just it's kind of a mess there. It's not not
a Della's fault where they have him hitting or who
they have hitting behind him.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They're gonna be like the the Angels next the Angels.
This uh, this offseason is gonna be like we got
We're gonna get Sterling Marte to leadoff. Yeah, we're bringing
in Rhin O'Hearn to hit third. We're gonna have let's
see who else. Oh wait, wait is Hobby Bias? Is
there a way to trade for him because he's he's
(27:24):
starting to come around resurgence. Yeah, to get in on
that urgence looks really good. Right from from Anaheim, which
is nowhere near Los Angeles, The Hobby Baia's resurgence looks
really good. Man, Christopher Moral feels like he would really
fit into their plan.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, I mean they could. They could probably add like
Yondi Diaz, that'd be a that'd be a good look
for him. Maybe Ramon Loriano. You know he sends he
gets a new team every season randomly in July. That's
that's another fun one. Yeah, I mean there's plenty of
guys they can they can add behind him to do
the same.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
If there's a place in MGM bet MGM, if they
have a bet where I can put money on Paul
DeJong playing for the Angels next year. Let me make
that bet right now?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Oh yes, please, oh my goodness. Yes, the guy that
we don't really bet on Gray maybe we should. Maybe
maybe he's starting to earn it. But that's Willie Damas.
You know, we just kind of don't believe in him,
I guess, but he keeps doing it. In fairness, in
the first half he went two twenty hit twelve home
runs in four stone bases. You wanted them nowhere near
(28:49):
your roster. And in the second half he said two
forty five better than the first half. Fifty done runs,
more home runs the five Stone bases, more Stone bases,
and fifty two less games. You know, I mean, I
think we have to give Thamas credit here for the power,
like like we were talking about previously with Schwarber and
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even Adell, like the power. He's done it three or
four years, he's been he looks like he's gonna be
a thirty home run guy. But like, do you really, like,
can we can we move him up our ranks? Can
you believe in him more? Because this is another guy
we just we you and me specifically do not do
not want to end up with this guy in most
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draft seasons.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
No, no, I don't and I and his second half
hasn't done really much of anything to this, uh, to
dissuade me of my hate for William Domas, I I
don't love like the fact I don't know if he
could have done anything really in the second half. To
to sort of assuage my feelings on him, I I
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am kind of out because like, if you you're drafting
a guy like it's okay, so it's a little bit
cost dependent, just like every guy is. Uh, but William Domas,
if he goes where I think he's probably gonna go,
which is, you know, roughly around like one hundred overall,
I'm out because, like, if you're drafting a guy who, say,
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you know, hits twelve homers in the first half and
two twenty, I can't, like, like, if he does that again,
I feel like such a sucker, Like come like June first,
I'll be in it. It'll be awful. I like, you can't.
You don't want that on your team for the first
three months of the season. I don't care, Like it
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doesn't matter, Like if he comes out of it, it
won't matter by that point, because you know, it's like
if a guy's that bad in the first half, it's
just gonna be like you're gonna either want to sell
him for cheap or you're gonna like you're you're gonna
be so far out of it, you're gonna be like,
who can I'm not. It's like it's not worth it.
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It's just it's just too much of a hole he's
dug himself in the first half of this past season
where I don't want to have anything to do with it,
and it's really like it's kind of a career long
thing where he just hits better in the second half,
which is fine. I mean, I'm glad he's able to
come out of it someone in the second half, but
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I don't want that on my fantasy teams. Like it's
just not worth it. It's a little bit cost dependent,
of course, like if he's going you know, like one
seventy or something in drafts, which I don't think he will,
but if he's going that late, I don't know. Maybe
in some leagues I'll take a flyer on him, like
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in a fifteen team mix league where if he's like
if he's as late as an am, I okay, but
he's not a shortstop. I wouldn't draft him as a shortstop.
I really would prefer not to have him. He's also
he really strung rug in San Francisco, his home park,
which is like, if you're struggling and you know your
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home park, it's like you have to rely so much on,
you know, road trips, and it's not it's really not
worth it. I don't know. I'm so I'm still not
really sold on Willie Damas. I'm I'm kind of out.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I think I'm with you Gray, Like you said,
if you can get him as a late shortstop or
a middle infielder, that's fine, but he'll probably go ahead
of that, just given you know the raw numbers. At
the end of the season. You'll look up, you'll have
thirty home runs and we've hit two forty two thirty
five somewhere in that area, and you'll just be like, ah,
that's fine. You know he's done it. But it's just
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it's done in such a manner that's so hideous for
you that you just have to run him out and
wait for like the hot streak to happen. Gray. Let
me let me give you his averages by month through
this season. Gray and you tell me how much you
want of this two to eight mos stix two sixteen
three thirty seven moving up.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
This sounds terrible. I don't even know how.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
You didn't start him July. You missed out on like
two home runs and like his five hundred week, like
you've missed out on a majority of what he's giving you.
It's just it's be fine in like a draft and
hold a best ball type of format type of thing.
But I don't think I want to deal with his
headache weekend, week out, day in, day out of daily leagues,
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Like it's just too much. I know the numbers are
there in the end of season, but I'd rather just
go in another another direction. And then you know, if
I want to trade for Willia Damas or Julio Driguez,
I'll do that July first, rather than dealing with them
being terrible all first half for me. And haven't forbid
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Willia Damas doesn't kick out of that terrible first half
and he just ends up being a two twenty twenty
six guy. And you're like, oh, that's that's even bad
for middle infield.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Right, Yeah, no, totally, Like that's the that's the real
fear it's like Willia Damas, You're like, well, at least
he'll be good come July. And then if he's not
good in July and August, you're like, oh, well that
was awful. For where do I write to get my
money back? This is ho's that's why I like, Yeah,
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I agree, man, I wouldn't want any part of them.
It's just not worth it.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Seven years, one two that's what Willia Damas got from
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Grey.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, if I'm sure, bro, I'm not taking one fifty either.
If I'm being honest, I'm just like, give me more
than Willia Damas got. At least. Let's let's be respectful here.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
There's a chance though, that the Rockies will be like,
we'll take the last six years and send you two
hundred million. Then William Damas is in yours.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm kind of interested if Willia Donmals gets in course. Yes,
that's that's all of a sudden, really interesting.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Gray.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Another another interesting tidbit here. Most stolen bases in the
second half one soda. Wow, that random drop off that
we thought was gonna come from leaving the Yankees and
looking terrible to begin the season. We forgot one Soda
just looks terrible to begin every season. He's now number
four on the season Long Player Raider. We're not gonna
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talk about him. That's Wan Soda. He's doing. He's looking great.
Justisham Junior is really where I'm going with. He's on
that stolen based leader board as well. Obviously the power
speed commo is there, but the average is not not great.
Gray He's he's hitting two thirty nine this season, but
he has these twenty at home runs twenty seven stolen
bases to go along with it. In the second half,
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he's hitting two twenty two, but yeah, that comes with
eleven home runs and seventeen stolen bases. Where are you
at on Jazz for next season? Are you? Are you
jazzed about him? Or are you? Are you more bluesy?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I you know, I actually I want to say about
Wan seta real fast So I was saying on the
on the site that I think he was eyeing a
forty thirty season. I was I said that last week,
and now since I said that, I believe he's eyeing
a forty forty season, which is just crazy and it
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shows you how nuts like with steals, where it really
just is a matter of whether or not a guy
wants to run. It doesn't matter at all. I mean
we see it with Josh Nailor more so than anyone
who will ever run right but want Zudo. I mean
the fact that he's running this much. I mean he's
again he's not a fast guy. It really like it
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shows you that it's just a matter of how much
a player really wants to steal more than anything else
with the pitch clock. So yeah, I mean anyway, going
to jazz Chisham Junior, I like jazz chism more than
I think I thought I would. I like him a
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lot with you know, because I feel like in Yankee
Stadium because it looks like he's not a free agent
until twenty twenty seven, so that means he's going to
be a contract he'sn't be in a contract year next
year in Yankee Stadium, which I'm sure I won't be
the I might be the first one to point it out,
but I won't be the last. That I like Jashchisham
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Junior in a contract year. I do think the only
thing stopping him from like a huge year is his health.
And you know, it's a lot of flukey injuries I
don't really like. I don't think he's necessarily injury prone.
I think he probably just has to take it a
little bit easy in certain situations, like when he's uh,
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you know, when he's running and when he's stealing bags
or when he's sliding. I think if he if he's
cape of staying on the field for one hundred and
forty five plus games next year, I feel like a
thirty thirty season is the base line, and I think
he can go higher on both of those numbers. I mean,
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call me crazy, but I in Yankee Stadium in a
contract year, a forty forty two sixty year him being
a top ten overall fantasy player. I'm I wouldn't kick
that out of bed. I'll tell you that, I know
his strikeouts are up a little bit this year, but
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they're not up to the point where I'm really that nervous. Sure,
his at batting average is down, he's being a little
bit more aggressive. All of that is true. I'm I'm
fine with it, though. I feel like the power at
thirty homers the baseline and thirty steals as a base line.
I mean, he's only he's doing this. He's a thirty
thirty guy right now and roughly one hundred and you know,
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twenty games if he's able to stay on the field
for a full season. I really like Jazz chishm Junior
a lot. I think I'm gonna be the high guy,
uh with my preseason ranks for him. I'm really I'm
kind of excited for jazzism Junior next year. I'm I'm
I'm in.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna end eventually end up building
myself a narrative to get in on Jazz Chism. As
you mentioned, it is a contractor year. It feels like
feels like Jazz is one of those guys that could potentially,
you know, put in the extra work for that season. Also,
the fly ball rate has gotten out of control. It's
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fifty point six percent. You know, that's that's absolutely crazy,
which is why the averages come down, why the Babbitt
is down. Like, just because his career babbit is three hundred,
it doesn't necessarily mean he returns back to that without
making these adjustments to get back under fifty percent over
fifty percent fly ball. But he's been like a thirty
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five to forty fly ball guy all his career. The
launch angle is definitely down in the second half, so
I think he's he's understanding that he's getting gotten a
little to lift heavy, a little too launch heavy. So
I can definitely see a scenario where the average does
come back. That should also help the strikeouts because him
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with a higher vertical, you know, swing is harder to
make contact, hard to make consistent contact. So that should
help the average, the strikeouts, all that should be helped
by that, and all that benefits us. And as we
saw last season when he got to New York, he
doesn't need to be hitting fifty percent fly balls to
give us power. He can do that and we know
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the speed is there. So yeah, as much as I
would like to say I don't love the high strikeouts
and the fly ball and the average, yeah, I'm probably
in unjust as but I'm putting them behind Schwarburg Gray.
That's that's happening. I'm making that right now a guy
that I don't know. And actually, one more thing on soda,
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since you brought it up and mentioned it, it would
be cool, just as a baseball player to be joined,
you know, and be the nineteenth person to do forty
thirty or the seventh person to do forty forty like
those are pretty exclusive clubs, so I can understand why
he's going for it, but it does seem does seemed
pretty random just to randomly do this as the Mets
(41:27):
are trying to actually win for change. I don't know
a guy that's not gonna be belosh whatever. Probably for
both of us is Corbyn Carrol Gray. First half, we
saw power hitter Corbyn Carroll in the second half for
stealing seeing stolen bases average Corbyn Carroll first half he
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hit two forty five twenty one home runs, one stolen bases.
Second half he hit two eighty four at home runs
fourteen stolen bases. All that adds up to your thirty
one runs, twenty twenty five stolen bases and a two
fifty nine average. Along with many of the guys we
talked about earlier in the season show career best average, eccevelosity, CRIB,
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best hard hit rate, and barrel, and he's still a
top ten sprint speed guy. What are your thoughts on
Corby and Carroll? The expectations may be a little kind
of all over the place, but they're all pretty good, right.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Yeah, no, totally. I think that's a good way of
putting it, because it's like his power feels kind of
like random, and his steals feel all over the place,
and his average feels all over the place. It's all
it's all kind of like vague, like what are you
going to get from Corbyn Carroll from season to season?
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But with all that said, I mean it does look
like I mean, once you do a thing, you should
own it. And he's hit thirty homers now, so I
feel like he owns that, so he should be able
to hit thirty homers again. He's also not that old.
He turned twenty five in August, so yeah, I mean,
I think the power is probably at its peak with
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you know, thirty to thirty five homers, which is good.
I mean, that's great considering that. I don't believe the
speed has has gone away from like when he was
able to steal fifty bags. Like, he's still very fast,
So I don't know, maybe he doesn't steal fifty bags
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because he's a three hole hitter now and he's like,
you know, his health is important. He wants to stay
on the field, so maybe he's not running every time
he gets on base. But if he's like a fifty
steal guy, and you even take off twenty steals just
because he's being more conservative about when he's running. I
mean still like a thirty two, thirty five thirty five guy,
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thirty two thirty two guys, thirty thirty guy even and
he's a neutrally he's a two sixty hitter as a
three hole guy, so he's gonna get the runs in
RBIs that goes with that? I'm absolutely in on Corbyn Carroll.
I'm I'm above Schwarber with Carol. I think almost definitely,
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uh schwart Yeah, Corman Carroll is going to be drafted
for me before Schwarber. I think Corman Carroll feels like
a baseline thirty thirty two sixty guy where everything it
feels like there's upside on all those, especially steals, like
I do think you know the fact that right now
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Juan Soto has more steals than Corman Carroll is just
proof that Corman Carroll, I think if he wants to,
he could steal fifty plus bags like no problem at all.
I think reality is he just doesn't want to steal
that many bags, which is fine. But if he's a
thirty five thirty five guy with a two sixty average.
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I mean that's you know, that's easy top ten player
for me. I'm I'm absolutely in on Corbyn Carrol.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Yeah, I mean Soto, Josh Naylor definitely proving a point
in regardless toll on bases. I'm in on Carrol as well.
He said, I don't know exactly what you're getting, but
all of it has the potential to be very good.
And if he can put it all together, we can
get that season we really want, which is like thirty
five fifty two ninety That would be lovely. I don't
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know if we're gonna get that, but he's still only
twenty four years old. There's there's all sorts of promise
here Gray of what could happen with Corby and Carroll.
A guy who could challenge Corbyn Carroll at a sprint
speed brace, which there's not many of, is Chandler Simpson.
He is all speed though for the most part. Here
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I mean ninety three games, he's got thirty nine stolen bases.
He's sitting two eighty seven, three twenty one, three thirty
six is a ten percent strikeoup rate, a five percent
walk rate. In the second half, he said, two sixty
four he has thirteen stolen bases. What do we do
with Chandler Simpson for next year? Because you know it's
not it's not cor and Carrol situation. We're not getting
power out of him, but we sure get a lot
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of speed. And really, like I'm looking at it, and
you know, the average hasn't been bad. What's what's going
on here with with Chandler Simpson. You like Chandler Simpson?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Uh yeah, no, I definitely do. I I like Chandler
Simpson a ton. I think, uh, you know, looking at
his numbers, like he looks like he is a guy
who could steal potentially seventy five bags uh and hit
two ninety like a like a like a Wampier in
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his heyday type insane year. I don't think we're gonna
get any any power. Uh Like he's not gonna be
uh Jose Reyes in his prime. Uh So we're not
gonna get like a random like twelve home and seventy steals,
but we may get zero homers, but seventy steals plays, man,
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it plays big time. I I'm all about Chandler Simpson.
I think you know he also, I mean he definitely
is steals first for sure, but he's hit three hundred
at multiple stops in the minor leagues. He's got a
ten percent strikeout rate right now in the majors as
a rookie, he really makes it. He makes a ton
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of contact, which for a guy like him, like he
has the perfect batted ball profile for a player who
could steal seventy five plus bags, Like he is that
guy who could hit two ninety plus and steal seventy bags,
which is like, I mean, yeah, it's like that wins
you stealed for sure, but it doesn't kill you. It
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shouldn't kill you in runs, it won't kill you. I
mean it's actually a positive and average. Like that's a
sneaky top you know, thirty type season on the Player
Raider where you think where you're getting it for a
lot cheaper. I feel like he's gonna be underdrafted in Uh.
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I'm I'm liking Chandler Simpson a lot already. I'm I'm
already like I'm in before we've even started here, you know,
I'm like, we're not even done with this year and
I'm already on Chandler Simpson for next year. I'm absolutely
excited about him. I I like him a lot.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't expect any power or
any RBIs, but in runs steals an average.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
He's absolutely he's gonna I feel like he's gonna surprise
people with how good he's gonna be on the Player
Raider at the end of next year. I'm I'm really
excited about him.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
Yeah. I mean, if we just take him, we combine
him with with Schwarber, we basically have a lower ridge.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah. I mean, if you're taking you take Simpson and
you combine them with a guy who I'm probably not drafting,
it's perfect. My imaginary team that I haven't drafted. It's
really good right now.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Yeah. They always argue even once you've drafted them, they're
really good until opening the.
Speaker 6 (49:24):
Staedt. It's like, oh my god, it's so perfect. I
could see, Uh, you know, you've Anyo Suarez, Chandler Simpson.
I can make I can make Chandler Simpson work you.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
It's definitely gonna be a fantasy team dependent Like you
can't you can't draft Bryce and Stott and Chandler Simpson
and expect and Nico Horner expect to do well in
your league. But if you have Chandler Simpson on the
right team. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Yeah, I agree. It's definitely a Team Bill type of thing.
But he could be a very useful piece in that
team build. Let's sagn off it up grade. Let's let's
look at Cleveland where Kate Smith wills to save, but
he got two more after that. Are you concerned about
Kate Smith and Cleveland at all?
Speaker 3 (50:17):
No, I'm not. I'm actually I'm I'm wondering too because
the UH, the Guardians, if they go with Kate Smith
into UH next year as their closer, I'm I feel
like he might He's gonna be underrated. I think a
little bit. I'm kind of excited. I know we're talking
about this year with Kate Smith and we're not talking
(50:39):
about next year. But Kate Smith for next year, I'm
really excited about him for next year.
Speaker 4 (50:44):
But for this year.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yes, Kate Smith I think is totally fine. I know
he struggled a bit with a couple save chances, but
I'm not really concerned about Kate Smith. I mean, his
numbers are so good. He's got like you know, he's
got insane strike, He's got exactly what you want to
see for a closer. I think he could potentially if
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they if the Guardians go in to next year with
him as a closer, I could see him being a
sneaky like twelve closer off the board and become like
a top three closer. I'm I'm really, I'm kind of
inticate smith a lot, you know. Of course, you never
know too with Emmanuel class A potentially, I am. What
(51:30):
I picture is Class A is getting suspended for lifetime suspension,
like the Friday after Thanksgiving, like the worst but the
day when no one's paying attention to any baseball news,
that'll be the day Class A gets suspended for a lifetime.
(51:50):
But I guess we'll see. Maybe maybe he was maybe
Ippi ip A was using a class as MGM bet
MGM count. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
That's when you know, that's when it's really gonna come
out gray is when when something really bad happens, it's
gonna come out like run on the tail of that.
Are they gonna release it right before that, like I
don't know, like peachment or like the Epstein list gets released,
like any of these things could happen, and that's when
we'll get class news.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
Be like it would be like the gates open at
the prison, letting out Ipie, and just as the gates open,
mb MLB announces that ePIE is being looked into as
he was in charge of class as uh fan duel account.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
He's really just that guy from Breaking Bad who likes
going to jail. They just paying him to go to
jail for everybody.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Deal will be in a an uber on the way
home from jail. The uber driver puts on the sports radio.
It's like Evanuel class A recently revealed that it be Maszura.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
This is in charge of his fand.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Hey, at least when he checks his bank account there'll
be money there again, though that'll be you know, it'll
be a nice thing for him for the twenty four hours.
He's a Freeman Gray. Speaking of freeman, is Ryan Walker
gonna be free of the Closer duties after his blow
up on Saturday? Or are the Giants gonna keep rolling
him out there? So?
Speaker 3 (53:33):
Unlike Kate Smith, I don't like Ryan Walker. I don't
think Ryan Walker is very good. I wouldn't be shocked
if he continues being the Closer though, for the rest
of the season, because what's the point is San Francisco's
not going anywhere, and there's really no one behind him
who should take over for him. So I would say
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Ryan Walker is fairly safe getting the rest of the
saves for the Giant. But I don't think he's that good,
so you know, take it with a grain of salt.
He may lose the job to a committee if he
keeps blowing saves, but right now I think he's the closer.
Speaker 4 (54:16):
Yeah, I think so too. It was a blown save,
but he's he tends to kind of get back on
track and get a couple couple saves after that, So
as long as that happens, I don't know they're necessarily
pulling him from the role. If you're looking around for
somebody to grab, you know, I think joep Wero's on
the list, Maybe Spencer Bivens is on that list, and
Joey Lucasey and out of the Bullpen's been pretty good
(54:39):
as well. So if you're looking around for every single
possible save, waiting to see if Ryan Walker trips up,
maybe look at those guys over in Dodger Land. Gray
Jack Dryer gets a save. I mean, are we what
are we doing here with the Dodgers, Like the trying
to figure out their closer is just it's impossible, but
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but I'm gonna ask you Gray figure it out for us.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
I think the uh, you know, on August first, I
believe it was that I said that the Dodgers were
really dumb for not acquiring a bullpen arm or three
at the trade deadline. And I mean that's still I mean,
that's one of my few takes that actually aged well.
(55:29):
I don't know what the Dodgers were doing.
Speaker 5 (55:31):
Then.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I still don't know what they're doing. I think the
Dodgers are sorely lacking in relievers. Tanner Scott's a mess,
Blake Trining's awful. Casparis looks okay, but he's you know,
he's not really a guy. I think they want to
go to that often as a closer. Jack Dryer sounds
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like an eighties action hero. I don't know what they're doing.
I don't know. I guess Dryer since he got the
last save, I guess go with him. Casparis has been okay.
I guess you could try him, but otherwise I would
try and avoid the Dodgers bullpen.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah. I think that's probably for the best. I will say,
if you're gonna pick somebody up. Dryer's been good on
his own without the the saves, So at least if
you're gonna pick somebody up, I would go with Dryer
because you're not gonna blow up your ratios at least
that way. Whereas the rest of this bullpen's been been
pretty bad. You know, if it's not Dryer, I don't know,
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it could be anybody at that point. Anthony Band has
been pretty solid, but I doubt they're gonna give to him.
They'll probably go back to Kenner Scott or like Tryna
or somebody else if the Dryer messes up, or just
because they want to blow another game and don't want
Jack Dryer to get another save. Gray, speaking of maybe
not getting another save, are we gonna get another one
(56:54):
from Emilio Pagan this season? Because it's been uh, it's
been a roller coaster, Gray.
Speaker 3 (56:59):
Yeah, it hasn't been great. It's it's sort of been
like a.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
Like a slow drip of like bad outings, though like
it hasn't been like it hasn't been a tsunami of
just like awfulness.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Like he hasn't been like terrible in like back to
back to back outings. So it's like he's kind of
like been bad and then he comes out the next
game and he's okay, and then he's bad, and then
he's okay. So it's like it's hard to see like
them necessarily just replacing him. I don't know if he's
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he's definitely, I mean, he's been bad enough where and
Santillan's been pretty good, so I mean, I want to
be shocked if they start going with Santillan, but I
think at this point in the season, I also wouldn't
be shocked to see Pegan continue to get saves, even
if it's like, you know, maybe seventy thirty between him
(58:00):
in Santillan. But I guess you can go. You could
try Santillan. I mean, he even gave up a run
in his save opportunity the other day, but I guess
you could try Santillan. I would prefer you didn't try
Pegan because he's been really bad. As someone who has
begne in an NL only league where I really need saves,
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I'm running Pegan out there, but I haven't enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (58:29):
No, I don't think anybody's enjoyed it. But as you mentioned,
it's been kind of an outing here and out in there.
The numbers don't add up really well though, And Greg,
I told you, I warned you, nothing good comes from
giving a Cubs pitcher the closer roll. Daniel Poincy gets
absolutely rocked, blows the same and now he's on the
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il with a shoulder issue. Who are you cursing with
the Cubs roll? Next?
Speaker 3 (58:58):
It's the Cubs. The Cub's ninth inning is a little
bit us, a little bit confusing because like Keller was
the setup man, but kit Rich got the last couple
saves when uh Poalencia wasn't able to go. So kit
Rich to me, kit Rich seems like the closer replacement,
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but Keller could be the guy. So I'm not honestly,
I'd be one hundred percent honest with you. I'm not
really sure which way they go. I would go kit
Rich and then Keller. They might go Keller than kit Rich.
If they really want to lose the ninth inning, they
can go Porter Hodge. I mean he's around even though
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he had he has been better recently. I will say that,
but yeah, I'd probably I go kit Rich than Keller,
would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (59:54):
Yeah, port Hodge pulling his best William Domas in July
right here, doing really good for about a month, just
to throw his name back in the hat here, Yeah,
I think it's Kittridge. I do think he'll get the
first shot over Keller, and then I'll throw out Caleb
Fielbarr because he's been the one person that's bullpen who
doesn't suck. He is a lefty, though, so you're looking
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for like lefty specific save opportunities here. But if you're
looking for that, if you're doing that desperation point in
the league, Like I said, theil Barr has been pretty
good all season, so I really don't mind grabbing him.
And he's not going to get the closer tag, so
he shouldn't shouldn't blow up and die. Moving on to Arizona,
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Taylor Rashie gets a save. Is he the closer? Does
it matter in Arizona who the closer is?
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Yeah? I mean no, it doesn't matter. I like, I
kind of like south Frank still, but I mean he
is a lefty, so he's probably like you were mentioning
a thigh bar are South Frank's probably more situational. Woodford
seemed like he was pulling away with the closer job
and then they went back to Rashie. I don't. Yeah,
(01:01:11):
I mean, I prefer not to do any of them.
If I had, you know, if I had my choice,
I would choose none of them. But I guess. I mean,
I guess the guy who's gotten the last one is
the one you want, so Rashie, I guess. But I
mean I don't really trust that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Yeah, I don't trust that. I don't know that I
really trust him either, So I mean, you can grab
him up. I think I would rather take my shot
on South Frank and hope for a lefty save or
I kind of like Woodford a little bit better. I don't.
I don't particularly like him or Rashie a lot. But yeah,
I mean, like you said, the person who gets the
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last one generally is the person you want. I guess
if you're trying to chase saves down. So for now,
it's but just beware the ratios may not be completely protected.
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
There.
Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Let's move on and talk about to give the people
some waiver wire bats.
Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Gray Okay, So on the seven Day Player Raider on
rasbull dot Com, it seems that jadable Day that's preseason
sleeper jda bl Day. He's at the top of the
board as guys who are unrostered in over fifty percent
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of league's so jj Boday, Andrew Benintendi looks pretty good.
Dalen Lil he's been good for about five weeks now.
He looks pretty good. He's been hitting clean up for
the Nats. Dalton VARs Show probably should be rostered in
more leagues or every league. He's been really solid. Jake Bowers,
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he's taken that Brewer's first base job and running with it.
Like Andrew Vaughn, something something good goes on in the
Brewers first base job. Brandon Marsh has been hot. Kyle
Teel White Sox catcher. He's been hot recently. Drew Gilbert,
Luis Garcia the National second basement. He's been hot for
(01:03:13):
Hey Polanka probably should be rostered in every league. He's
been hot. Carson Kelly had a duel a excuse me,
a two homer game on Sunday. He's been hot. Windsil
Perez he's been hot for a couple months. I think
he's been pretty good anyway. Royce Lewis has been hot,
(01:03:34):
stealing a bunch of bags. I don't know where those
are coming from. Austin Hayes has been hot, Harrison Bader,
Matt McClain beat on favorite has been hot.
Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Finally it's about time Gray, I mean he said, he said,
this is just like Melon's high enough, Valley's low enough.
That is that is Matt McLain experience. That's how it's
been all season. Dreaming options for your arms. It's pretty
good week for you know, middling arms with good matchups.
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Johan Oviado at Baltimore, Cam Shittler versus Detroit, Rice Elder
gets a two step versus the Cubs and versus Houston,
Davis Martin at Cleveland, Image Sheehan versus Colorado. We talked
about that earlier. You and just and Goms versus Tampa,
Bay at Cleveland, Parker Masique at Messick sorry at versus
the White Sox, Max Surezer versus Baltimore and Seymour at
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the White Sox, Martine Perez at Cleveland. If you are
looking down here, Mike Burrows as at Baltimore at Washington,
and Andrew Alvarez versus Pittsburgh. There are some streaming options
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get to it. May your lineups be perfect, May you
win all your matchups. I'll talk to you later, See
you great.
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Speaker 4 (01:09):
Hey, everybody, welcome back is the Rasball Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
I am beat On, joined by the one, the only,
the Fantasy Master with a or himself. Great, albright, how's
going over there? Great?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Hey? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
If you're watching on YouTube, you can watch me play
a little tiny piano. I don't know why my background
is different. I don't know what's going on. Man. I
I am not there wherever this is, that's not where
(01:43):
I am. But yeah, Hey, what's uh?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What's up beat on?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Hey? I'm exactly here right here?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
How about those bears?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Or should I say?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Man? What a bum wrap they got or how do you?
I don't know. I don't watch. If it's because we're
recording this as the Bears game is happening. So if
it's go Bears and they do well, then yay. But
if it's uh, oh no, what happened and they do poorly,
(02:22):
then we have h you could just edit it so
we have whichever one we need.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
A right, Yeah, I'll go back and edit the podcast.
I cant. I get paid enough to do that and
I have for that. Yeah, that's going to happen. Uh,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I was speaking of football. I was saying to Coops
because Beaton on Sunday Beaton reached out to me. I
was at I was at brunch. I do brunch like
a you know, real Angelino. So I'm at brunch and
I get a text from Beaton and he's like, oh,
(03:02):
I just wrote up an article for football dot rosball
dot com about the uh the first half of the
football games. And I'm like, okay, yeah I can. I
can publish it when I get home. Because Sky our
football wasn't around, wasn't near a computer, so uh, Beaton
(03:24):
was asking me to publish it. So I was like, yeah, yeah,
no problem. So I get off, you know, I put
my phone down. I tell Koog's what's going on, and
she's like, beat On's right. What I'm like, I, you know,
I think beat On has a serious girlfriend now, so
he's like not going out and drinking as much. Maybe
(03:46):
I don't know. I think I think he's become responsible,
and he's like, yeah, he's like writing stuff. I don't know,
you know, Gray, I would love for.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That to be the case, and then like I'm getting
responsible and things. Really, you know, normally I have a
buddy who comes over Sunday and we prints watched like
first you know, set of games and maybe the second
set of games. He had a kid, so I can
no longer hang out with him on Sunday. Also, I
(04:18):
just thought it was a funny concept to write an
article about the first half of week one of the
of the first set of games, and so I wrote
it up. And I don't know if anybody actually read it,
but I wrote it up. It's out there if you
want to go read it and then see how wrong
I was about the second half about what was going
(04:39):
to happen. You know, I was just sitting there and
just just dawned on me to write it. Gray. That's
that's that's honestly what happened there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You could, if you want, you could do like me
and I, uh so, after I published my preseason rankings
and and they get locked in uh at the end
of right before the season starts. And then in like
May June, I go in and I fiddle with all
the rankings. So I look a lot smarter than I
(05:09):
actually was.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So you want to remember that trick?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, I get. I could go into your Sunday post
and make you look smarter.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
If you need it, I will have to send you
what to change. But yeah, well we can work on that. Gray.
Let's you know, football this season is full swing, Gray,
but we're not there. There's plenty of great content on
football dot rasball dot com. There's great stats over there.
There's stats that you can't really get anywhere else over there,
(05:41):
or if you get them, you're paying a very hefty fee.
So go check out football dot rasball dot com. Lots
of great stuff going there. Your podcast, person, we got
our football podcast up. I don't know if I'm doing
one this year or not, because I couldn't rope Rudy
in and DT has disappeared into another hut. I think
so will. We will see about finding a podcast partner,
(06:03):
but until then Gray is my partcast partner and we
are doing baseball. Let's talk about Brandon Sprout. He was
called up by the Mets one hundred and twenty one
innings this year. He had a four to two four
ear a a one two four whip. He had a
twenty two point one percent strikeout rate and a ten
point four percent walk rate. Back in the preseason long ago,
(06:24):
before we changed our ranks, Itch had him as his
number two Mets prospect Gray. He does have a ninety
six on hour fastball, sinker, slider, occasional curve, and Chain
did throw the curve a good amount in this first start.
What are your thoughts on Brandon Sprout? Where are you
looking at adding him to your roster or are you
(06:44):
looking to m Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I mean well, I'll say I'm immediately talk like an
oxymoronic dope and say that I wouldn't add him, but
I did add him, If that makes any sense. I uh,
you know, I would say that. I you know, I
wish I kind of I kind of wish I would
(07:09):
have reached out to Itch and texted him and asked
him what his thoughts on Sprout were for this season,
because I'm going off of I'm inferring what Itch what
I think Itch was thinking, because Itch wrote him up,
as you mentioned, he was his number two Mets prospect
in the preseason, and then Itch didn't mention Sprote at
(07:31):
all during the season like in any of his stash lists.
So I'm kind of assuming that Sprot sort of fell
off this radar because he didn't really have a very
good season. So I think that's what happened. I don't know,
maybe maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm I'm putting words in
Itch's mouth, but I would assume that's what happened because
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Sprot didn't really have that great of a season. I mean,
his command was really wonky, a near four walk per non,
a eight and eight point four k per nine, a
four point two four era, and that's in one hundred
and twenty one innings. It's a lot of innings. So
(08:13):
I you know, I think, out of Jonah, Tang and McLain,
I actually Sprot is my least favorite of those of
those three. So I'm not really that interested in Sprot.
And if this were Uh, like may or June, I'd
(08:34):
probably be saying, you know, use caution. I would be uh.
I wouldn't be telling you to grab them in like
a twelve team mix league or anything. But at this point,
with all that said, I mean, there's so little time
left that if you like, are struggling to find a starter.
I believe he gets the Rangers this week, a team
(08:54):
that's not very good. They've lost a Dallas Garcia, They've
lost Cory c they lost Evan Carter. Actually those three
guys losing them is probably a good thing for them,
So maybe they've actually gotten better since they've lost those guys.
But no, I mean they've they really struggled offensively this year.
So and I think Sprout Sproute is at home, so
(09:18):
I feel like the matchup's okay. It's not bad. I
picked up Sprout in a NL only league. I didn't
pick him up in a twelve team mix league. I
probably for a streamer. I mean, it's fine. I'm not
really sold that he's really either ready or you know,
(09:41):
he's not exciting me with his numbers at least, I'm
I'm kind of like whatever on him. But with all
that said, I mean it's so late in the year
that if you really need a starter, then you know,
go for it. Whatever, But I feel like you probably
can do better. There's guys on waivers, like people are
mentioning the comments, Guys like Emmit Shehan, who gets the
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Rockies this week. I mean that is better than Sprote
in my opinion. Shean just in general, I think is better.
But yeah, so there's there's probably guys available in some
leagues where if you're looking for someone, you could probably
do better than Sproute. But I mean, if you really
need it, against the Rangers at home is not the
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worst of matchups.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, And in regards to the prospect ranking, sprot did
go through three levels last season. You know, when you
go through three levels and you look really good through
the majority of the two levels, you kind of get
a pass with a third. He did struggle a little
bit in triple A, but you know, he is a
good prospect. He came in and is a more developed
college arm. You know, he he does have the pedigree
(10:52):
to be a good picture. But I'm with you then,
I think if we asked, it's where they would have
ranked before their call up. I'm sure Ola McClain probably
would have moved above him, given what he did at
Triple A at least ol mclan if not Jonahong. As
you mentioned, let's do I'm just gonna throw some names
that you are, that that has that I have in
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my streamer options Gray. That will kind of ruin what
we're you gonna do later, but hey, let's throw some
names you already mentioned Himachian. Would you rather have Ian
Seymour at the White Sox or Brandon Sproute versus the Rangers?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think I should. I'd go Ian Seymour. I like
what I've seen so far from him.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Okay, let's go with a couple of old guys here,
Max Schurzer versus Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, I mean I think Schreser was tipping on the
Oh sorry, I just put on the Mets game. I
think Suzer was tipping his pitches this weekend, which is
which accounts for why he struggled so badly. I still trust,
I trust Sures to figure it out. I would go Sureser.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I agree, And if if you go this one over
over Spro, we will know where he belongs. Martin Perez
at Cleveland or Brandon Sprout versus Texas.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
N Martin Perez over no one, no no, Martin Perez,
Martin Perez, noe.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
All right, that's that's fair. He has been fairly solid
for like a month, month and a half. But it
is Martin Perez. He's only gonna help you so much
even when he's going as good as he can go.
So completely understand there. Let's move on, Gray, Let's talk
about some of the second half performers and really some
(12:46):
of the second half leaders in their stats. And you know,
as we're looking at the numbers in general, home runs
are up second half compared to first That could be
warm weather, that could be a random new ball that
got in introduced. We will we'll never really know that
part of it, Gray, But for most home runs in
the second half right now, it is Kyle Schwarber. I
(13:09):
said in the preseason, I said, in the second half rankings,
we always underrank him, we always underdraft him. He is
currently number five on the season Long Player Raider. He
has forty nine home runs, ten stolen bases, ninety eight runs,
one hundred and twenty RBIs. He's hitting two forty two,
three sixty six, five sixty three. He has a career
best hard hit rate, average exit velocity, and barrel rate.
(13:33):
Are we gonna do it again next year? Gray? What
are we doing with Kyle Schwarber. Why don't we keep
underestimating the schwar Bomb?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
We are going to underrate Kyle Schwarber again. We will
continue to make the same mistakes that we made in
the past continuing into the future. We will never ever
fix our mistakes. Sorry, our mistakes will continue for as
(14:04):
long as we want. Okay, Yeah, man, you know, kys
Warber is actually a really difficult one for me specifically
because even like even in the preseason, so at the break,
at the All Star Break, I did a top one
hundred and in there in my top one hundred. I
(14:26):
you know, I admittedly I point out how I was
too low on kylege Swarber, like I underrated him in
the preseason. Absolutely I goofed up. I messed up, I
dropped the ball, Okay, and then in the in the
second half rankings, I did it again. I continue to
(14:47):
do it. I messed up again. I absolutely underrated him
in the second half rankings. I just continue to underrate
Coylege Schwarber. And you know, I think I might do
it again next year. I'm not doing it on purpose,
but I think I'm going to like so Schwarber. For me,
(15:10):
it's difficult because I don't like the two years where
he hit barely two hundred are really throwing. It's like
it's it's messing with my head a little bit because
I feel like he's hitting, he's hitting, he's hitting. He's
hitting two forty plus now two years in a row.
(15:32):
But I can't help but look at him and think
he's a two twenty or lower hitter. I struggle with it,
and like last year, he definitely fixed his launch angle.
It was a lot he leveled it off. He hit
a lot fewer fly balls, which in a lot of
ways was better for him because he was still hitting
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enough flyballs to hit for power, but he hit a
fewer to hit for a better average. It didn't it
Actually it absolutely did not hurt that they got rid
of the shift either, so that that definitely has helped him.
That's probably the shift being done away with. Its probably
added twenty points on his average, if we're being fair.
(16:14):
So I thought he was a, you know, a two
ten hitter. Maybe he's neutrally a two thirty hitter. My
problem is if he hits thirty eight homers like he
did last year, and hits two thirty and steals five bags,
it's so like, it's such a it's not really a
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top twenty type guy that I won, right. I would
prefer someone who is a little bit more well rounded.
So say, if you're looking at like him or Jackson
Churio in the first round in the in like the
end of the first round next year, where I think
they're probably going to be a relatively close to each other.
I mean, Cheerio to me is just more well rounded.
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He has upside. It's just it's a bit of a
struggle for me to get fully invested in Kyle Schwarber.
So yes, I'm gonna underrate him again next year. Again,
I'm good. Continually, I will absolutely mess up. Sorry, I'm
sorry for future gray. I can't help myself. I I
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wish I could. Also, you know, he's gonna be uh
he's a free agent, so he could potentially be somewhere
else next year. I want to be shocked if the
if the Phillies back up the brinkstruck and you know,
make sure he stays a Philly for the rest of
his career. It wouldn't shock me if that happens. He's
he's he fits well into that lineup. They seem to
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really love him. He does well in that park, So
I wouldn't shock me if he stays a Philly. I
you know, there's certain places where I would be a
little bit even more timid on Schwarber, Like if he
goes to the Mariners, I doubt I doubt they get
they pay for his services, But I would, you know,
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I wouldn't be It wouldn't really be great for him there.
San Diego wouldn't be awesome. It wouldn't be uh wouldn't
be my favorite place. The Rangers would be awful. I
would really not like to see him in Arlington, But yeah,
I mean I would. I would kind of be shocked
if he's not a Philly again. I feel like he's
(18:25):
gonna just return to the Phillies. But I guess we'll
see on that. But yeah, I mean, in general, I
feel like he's gonna be top twelve next year in
the preseason rankings, and I think I'm gonna be lower
than that on him. I don't think I'm gonna be
(18:46):
quite there for him. So yeah, I think, uh, I
think I'm gonna miss down on Costa Werberg again. And
I do. I really do like him, like for real baseball,
Like he's fun. I like watching him, like I don't
have any real problems with Kyle Schwerber like, but I
just struggle with his profile when it comes to fantasy.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, I mean it is definitely a specific profile that
has has ways to go wrong. That being said, the
season you mentioned last season where you hit two forty
eight and only had thirty eight home runs, he was
still number twelve on the Hitter Player Raiders, So I
do think, you know, having him in the first round
(19:32):
is probably fair. After this season, I know you threw
out the number twelve. I feel like there's gonna be
enough people kind of in your camp, and there's more exciting,
you know, power combos, be players like I still feel
like he's gonna drop to where he shouldn't, Like it's
just gonna happen, even though year after year he does it.
(19:55):
And yes, I pray he doesn't end up in any
of those destinations you mentioned, and I wouldn't hate it
if he ended up back in Wrigley, you know, the Cubs.
I feel like maybe Schwarber was the one free agent
they kind of whiffed on letting go, even though it
seemed like a really good movie we went to. You know,
he was hitting one eighty eight when he left us,
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so it felt like a pretty decent move. But I
could see that happening, especially if they don't back up
the Brinks truck for Kyle Tucker and they let him
walk for some stupid reason. I could definitely see them
going after Schwarbro. I did see the Phillies supposedly offen
him five years one point fifty, so I mean that
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feels fair for Schwarber, especially since he doesn't play defense
in any way, shape or form. But I think that's
less than Matt Chapman got, and that doesn't really seem
fair considering the two offensive profiles. So I don't know,
let's move on. Contract stuff isn't really our stuff anyways.
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There was other people close to the home run lead
and Kyle Schwober, Junior Caman Hero. We just talked about
Colson Montgomery, we talked about recently Shaling Eliers are Tani,
who we don't even have to talk about. We know
he's amazing, and of course second half Julio Rodriguez is
up there, but a guy who is number one on
the seven day Player raiders up here gray for the
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second half home run leaders, and that is Joe Adell,
who has well sixteen home runs, sixteen home runs, two
stolen bases. Is it two forty three In the second half,
he has thirty five home runs, five stolen bases and
hitting two forty three for the season. We've got a
career best at Jackson vlosity, heart hit and barrel from
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him as well. You know, it may not look like
what I had pictured when we heard about Joe Adell
for the first time, But is this the Joe Adell breakout?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I I look at his numbers and I'm actually I'm
you know, It's like, I'm not if a guy breaks out,
which I think Joe Adell has broken out, I'm not
gonna you know, I'm not gonna be uh, I'm not
gonna fight it. I for a while, I Joe Adell
(22:16):
really did nothing for me. I'll be honest. I was
one of the last people who really got on the
Joe Adell pandwagon. For many years, people were a lot
more interested in his numbers than I was. I didn't
think he was capable of hitting for a decent average.
I really didn't see. I didn't see the upside. And
(22:37):
you know, it did take him close to thirty five
years to get there. Now he's actually not that old.
He's only twenty six. He doesn't turn twenty seven until April,
which is surprising, but because it did take him like
four decades to finally break out, Thank you Angels coaching staff.
(22:58):
So they are really they're they're working with a lot
over there. I you know, I think Joe Adell is
like you look at his numbers and you're like, okay,
so the power looks real. The average now, I mean
you mentioned he struck. You know, he's he's cut a strikeout,
so I mean he's hitting two forty three as we
(23:18):
record this, I think he's a two forty hitter, which
is two forty five, you know somewhere in there. Two fifty.
That's fine, I mean that is okay. Uh, thirty five
homers definitely looks real. Uh is actually you know, stealing
a lot fewer bags, which I think, you know, when
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Ron Washington, uh, when he comes back next year, which
I do believe it will be back, because you know,
it would be it would be something for the Angels
to firearm after a quadruple bypass, just like I feel
like there's there's probably hippo laws or something against like
there's workers comp or something. You can't I don't know,
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Like they leave it to the Angels, they probably will
find a way. No, they seem actually very committed to
Ron Washington for you know, I don't know if I
if I fully buy into that for the reasons that
they do, but I I do think Ron Washington will
steal a bunch of bags, like he will have his
player steal a bunch of bags. That is so I
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think Joe Edell, actually, you know, this year probably is
going to look in hindsight after next year. I think
he's probably gonna do better next year for steals. So
if you have the same amount of power thirty five
homers and you get a two forty five average and
you throw in fifteen steals with that looks really good.
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You know, right now he's barely in the top one
hundred on the player Raider. That probably has a lot
to do with the fact that he has fifty seven runs,
which is awful, but you know, that's you can't blame
him for that. So if he gets thirty five homers
and fifteen steels next year in a two forty five average,
that's really kind of interesting. That's like, I don't know,
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maybe top seventy in a preseason rank type. Yeah, I'm in.
I'm in on Joey Dell. I mean, I'm not like,
I don't I don't think he's a top twenty five player,
but top twenty five outfielder. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm I'm bought
in on Joey Dell.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah. I think he's you know, he's looked good this year,
and I believe in everything he's done to make it
to this point. You know, I think there's still a
little bit of speed that can come back. I think
the average can continue to approve a little bit. I
don't think it's gonna, you know, shoot up to be
a the three hundred hitter we thought he was gonna be,
and we thought he'd be three hundred and forty home
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runs and twenty stolen bases or more. I don't think
that's necessarily coming, but I think it can all kind
of continue to tick up. They've just wrecked his arbitration
and everything. I mean, he's still got as long as
we've been listening about Joe del Gray, still two more
years of arbitration after this before he's a free agent.
That's absolutely crazy. And in regards to the runs, I mean,
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when you can get you on Mancata batting out of
the three hole for you and you can you can
have my number one avoid of the season, Luisa and
Gifo right behind him along with all the castaways. The
other castaways they got along with Moncatta, got Parazza who
the Yankees didn't even want anymore, Travis Darnault, who's like
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sixty years old, Chris Taylor. I don't know how the
doctors let thirty eight year old Chris Taylor get away
from him. Scott Kingery, Like they just just signed off castaways.
They didn't work elsewhere that we were excited about, like
seven years ago, when they were excited about Joean Deell.
Actually they weren't excited. That was the problem. They were
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excited about Joean Dell. He might have actually, you know,
developed like you should have. But yeah, I mean it's
just it's kind of a mess there. It's not not
a Della's fault where they have him hitting or who
they have hitting behind him.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
They're gonna be like the the Angels next the Angels.
This uh, this offseason is gonna be like we got
We're gonna get Sterling Marte to leadoff. Yeah, we're bringing
in Rhin O'Hearn to hit third. We're gonna have let's
see who else. Oh wait, wait is Hobby Bias? Is
there a way to trade for him because he's he's
(27:24):
starting to come around resurgence. Yeah, to get in on
that urgence looks really good. Right from from Anaheim, which
is nowhere near Los Angeles, The Hobby Baia's resurgence looks
really good. Man, Christopher Moral feels like he would really
fit into their plan.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, I mean they could. They could probably add like
Yondi Diaz, that'd be a that'd be a good look
for him. Maybe Ramon Loriano. You know he sends he
gets a new team every season randomly in July. That's
that's another fun one. Yeah, I mean there's plenty of
guys they can they can add behind him to do
the same.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
If there's a place in MGM bet MGM, if they
have a bet where I can put money on Paul
DeJong playing for the Angels next year. Let me make
that bet right now?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Oh yes, please, oh my goodness. Yes, the guy that
we don't really bet on Gray maybe we should. Maybe
maybe he's starting to earn it. But that's Willie Damas.
You know, we just kind of don't believe in him,
I guess, but he keeps doing it. In fairness, in
the first half he went two twenty hit twelve home
runs in four stone bases. You wanted them nowhere near
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your roster. And in the second half he said two
forty five better than the first half. Fifty done runs,
more home runs the five Stone bases, more Stone bases,
and fifty two less games. You know, I mean, I
think we have to give Thamas credit here for the power,
like like we were talking about previously with Schwarber and
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even Adell, like the power. He's done it three or
four years, he's been he looks like he's gonna be
a thirty home run guy. But like, do you really, like,
can we can we move him up our ranks? Can
you believe in him more? Because this is another guy
we just we you and me specifically do not do
not want to end up with this guy in most
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draft seasons.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
No, no, I don't and I and his second half
hasn't done really much of anything to this, uh, to
dissuade me of my hate for William Domas, I I
don't love like the fact I don't know if he
could have done anything really in the second half. To
to sort of assuage my feelings on him, I I
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am kind of out because like, if you you're drafting
a guy like it's okay, so it's a little bit
cost dependent, just like every guy is. Uh, but William Domas,
if he goes where I think he's probably gonna go,
which is, you know, roughly around like one hundred overall,
I'm out because, like, if you're drafting a guy who, say,
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you know, hits twelve homers in the first half and
two twenty, I can't, like, like, if he does that again,
I feel like such a sucker, Like come like June first,
I'll be in it. It'll be awful. I like, you can't.
You don't want that on your team for the first
three months of the season. I don't care, Like it
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doesn't matter, Like if he comes out of it, it
won't matter by that point, because you know, it's like
if a guy's that bad in the first half, it's
just gonna be like you're gonna either want to sell
him for cheap or you're gonna like you're you're gonna
be so far out of it, you're gonna be like,
who can I'm not. It's like it's not worth it.
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It's just it's just too much of a hole he's
dug himself in the first half of this past season
where I don't want to have anything to do with it,
and it's really like it's kind of a career long
thing where he just hits better in the second half,
which is fine. I mean, I'm glad he's able to
come out of it someone in the second half, but
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I don't want that on my fantasy teams. Like it's
just not worth it. It's a little bit cost dependent,
of course, like if he's going you know, like one
seventy or something in drafts, which I don't think he will,
but if he's going that late, I don't know. Maybe
in some leagues I'll take a flyer on him, like
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in a fifteen team mix league where if he's like
if he's as late as an am, I okay, but
he's not a shortstop. I wouldn't draft him as a shortstop.
I really would prefer not to have him. He's also
he really strung rug in San Francisco, his home park,
which is like, if you're struggling and you know your
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home park, it's like you have to rely so much on,
you know, road trips, and it's not it's really not
worth it. I don't know. I'm so I'm still not
really sold on Willie Damas. I'm I'm kind of out.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I think I'm with you Gray, Like you said,
if you can get him as a late shortstop or
a middle infielder, that's fine, but he'll probably go ahead
of that, just given you know the raw numbers. At
the end of the season. You'll look up, you'll have
thirty home runs and we've hit two forty two thirty
five somewhere in that area, and you'll just be like, ah,
that's fine. You know he's done it. But it's just
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it's done in such a manner that's so hideous for
you that you just have to run him out and
wait for like the hot streak to happen. Gray. Let
me let me give you his averages by month through
this season. Gray and you tell me how much you
want of this two to eight mos stix two sixteen
three thirty seven moving up.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
This sounds terrible. I don't even know how.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
You didn't start him July. You missed out on like
two home runs and like his five hundred week, like
you've missed out on a majority of what he's giving you.
It's just it's be fine in like a draft and
hold a best ball type of format type of thing.
But I don't think I want to deal with his
headache weekend, week out, day in, day out of daily leagues,
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Like it's just too much. I know the numbers are
there in the end of season, but I'd rather just
go in another another direction. And then you know, if
I want to trade for Willia Damas or Julio Driguez,
I'll do that July first, rather than dealing with them
being terrible all first half for me. And haven't forbid
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Willia Damas doesn't kick out of that terrible first half
and he just ends up being a two twenty twenty
six guy. And you're like, oh, that's that's even bad
for middle infield.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Right, Yeah, no, totally, Like that's the that's the real
fear it's like Willia Damas, You're like, well, at least
he'll be good come July. And then if he's not
good in July and August, you're like, oh, well that
was awful. For where do I write to get my
money back? This is ho's that's why I like, Yeah,
(34:30):
I agree, man, I wouldn't want any part of them.
It's just not worth it.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Seven years, one two that's what Willia Damas got from
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Grey.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, if I'm sure, bro, I'm not taking one fifty either.
If I'm being honest, I'm just like, give me more
than Willia Damas got. At least. Let's let's be respectful here.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
There's a chance though, that the Rockies will be like,
we'll take the last six years and send you two
hundred million. Then William Damas is in yours.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm kind of interested if Willia Donmals gets in course. Yes,
that's that's all of a sudden, really interesting.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Gray.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Another another interesting tidbit here. Most stolen bases in the
second half one soda. Wow, that random drop off that
we thought was gonna come from leaving the Yankees and
looking terrible to begin the season. We forgot one Soda
just looks terrible to begin every season. He's now number
four on the season Long Player Raider. We're not gonna
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talk about him. That's Wan Soda. He's doing. He's looking great.
Justisham Junior is really where I'm going with. He's on
that stolen based leader board as well. Obviously the power
speed commo is there, but the average is not not great.
Gray He's he's hitting two thirty nine this season, but
he has these twenty at home runs twenty seven stolen
bases to go along with it. In the second half,
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he's hitting two twenty two, but yeah, that comes with
eleven home runs and seventeen stolen bases. Where are you
at on Jazz for next season? Are you? Are you
jazzed about him? Or are you? Are you more bluesy?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I you know, I actually I want to say about
Wan seta real fast So I was saying on the
on the site that I think he was eyeing a
forty thirty season. I was I said that last week,
and now since I said that, I believe he's eyeing
a forty forty season, which is just crazy and it
(36:29):
shows you how nuts like with steals, where it really
just is a matter of whether or not a guy
wants to run. It doesn't matter at all. I mean
we see it with Josh Nailor more so than anyone
who will ever run right but want Zudo. I mean
the fact that he's running this much. I mean he's
again he's not a fast guy. It really like it
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shows you that it's just a matter of how much
a player really wants to steal more than anything else
with the pitch clock. So yeah, I mean anyway, going
to jazz Chisham Junior, I like jazz chism more than
I think I thought I would. I like him a
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lot with you know, because I feel like in Yankee
Stadium because it looks like he's not a free agent
until twenty twenty seven, so that means he's going to
be a contract he'sn't be in a contract year next
year in Yankee Stadium, which I'm sure I won't be
the I might be the first one to point it out,
but I won't be the last. That I like Jashchisham
(37:33):
Junior in a contract year. I do think the only
thing stopping him from like a huge year is his health.
And you know, it's a lot of flukey injuries I
don't really like. I don't think he's necessarily injury prone.
I think he probably just has to take it a
little bit easy in certain situations, like when he's uh,
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you know, when he's running and when he's stealing bags
or when he's sliding. I think if he if he's
cape of staying on the field for one hundred and
forty five plus games next year, I feel like a
thirty thirty season is the base line, and I think
he can go higher on both of those numbers. I mean,
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call me crazy, but I in Yankee Stadium in a
contract year, a forty forty two sixty year him being
a top ten overall fantasy player. I'm I wouldn't kick
that out of bed. I'll tell you that, I know
his strikeouts are up a little bit this year, but
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they're not up to the point where I'm really that nervous. Sure,
his at batting average is down, he's being a little
bit more aggressive. All of that is true. I'm I'm
fine with it, though. I feel like the power at
thirty homers the baseline and thirty steals as a base line.
I mean, he's only he's doing this. He's a thirty
thirty guy right now and roughly one hundred and you know,
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twenty games if he's able to stay on the field
for a full season. I really like Jazz chishm Junior
a lot. I think I'm gonna be the high guy,
uh with my preseason ranks for him. I'm really I'm
kind of excited for jazzism Junior next year. I'm I'm
I'm in.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna end eventually end up building
myself a narrative to get in on Jazz Chism. As
you mentioned, it is a contractor year. It feels like
feels like Jazz is one of those guys that could potentially,
you know, put in the extra work for that season. Also,
the fly ball rate has gotten out of control. It's
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fifty point six percent. You know, that's that's absolutely crazy,
which is why the averages come down, why the Babbitt
is down. Like, just because his career babbit is three hundred,
it doesn't necessarily mean he returns back to that without
making these adjustments to get back under fifty percent over
fifty percent fly ball. But he's been like a thirty
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five to forty fly ball guy all his career. The
launch angle is definitely down in the second half, so
I think he's he's understanding that he's getting gotten a
little to lift heavy, a little too launch heavy. So
I can definitely see a scenario where the average does
come back. That should also help the strikeouts because him
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with a higher vertical, you know, swing is harder to
make contact, hard to make consistent contact. So that should
help the average, the strikeouts, all that should be helped
by that, and all that benefits us. And as we
saw last season when he got to New York, he
doesn't need to be hitting fifty percent fly balls to
give us power. He can do that and we know
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the speed is there. So yeah, as much as I
would like to say I don't love the high strikeouts
and the fly ball and the average, yeah, I'm probably
in unjust as but I'm putting them behind Schwarburg Gray.
That's that's happening. I'm making that right now a guy
that I don't know. And actually, one more thing on soda,
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since you brought it up and mentioned it, it would
be cool, just as a baseball player to be joined,
you know, and be the nineteenth person to do forty
thirty or the seventh person to do forty forty like
those are pretty exclusive clubs, so I can understand why
he's going for it, but it does seem does seemed
pretty random just to randomly do this as the Mets
(41:27):
are trying to actually win for change. I don't know
a guy that's not gonna be belosh whatever. Probably for
both of us is Corbyn Carrol Gray. First half, we
saw power hitter Corbyn Carroll in the second half for
stealing seeing stolen bases average Corbyn Carroll first half he
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hit two forty five twenty one home runs, one stolen bases.
Second half he hit two eighty four at home runs
fourteen stolen bases. All that adds up to your thirty
one runs, twenty twenty five stolen bases and a two
fifty nine average. Along with many of the guys we
talked about earlier in the season show career best average, eccevelosity, CRIB,
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best hard hit rate, and barrel, and he's still a
top ten sprint speed guy. What are your thoughts on
Corby and Carroll? The expectations may be a little kind
of all over the place, but they're all pretty good, right.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Yeah, no, totally. I think that's a good way of
putting it, because it's like his power feels kind of
like random, and his steals feel all over the place,
and his average feels all over the place. It's all
it's all kind of like vague, like what are you
going to get from Corbyn Carroll from season to season?
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But with all that said, I mean it does look
like I mean, once you do a thing, you should
own it. And he's hit thirty homers now, so I
feel like he owns that, so he should be able
to hit thirty homers again. He's also not that old.
He turned twenty five in August, so yeah, I mean,
I think the power is probably at its peak with
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you know, thirty to thirty five homers, which is good.
I mean, that's great considering that. I don't believe the
speed has has gone away from like when he was
able to steal fifty bags. Like, he's still very fast,
So I don't know, maybe he doesn't steal fifty bags
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because he's a three hole hitter now and he's like,
you know, his health is important. He wants to stay
on the field, so maybe he's not running every time
he gets on base. But if he's like a fifty
steal guy, and you even take off twenty steals just
because he's being more conservative about when he's running. I
mean still like a thirty two, thirty five thirty five guy,
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thirty two thirty two guys, thirty thirty guy even and
he's a neutrally he's a two sixty hitter as a
three hole guy, so he's gonna get the runs in
RBIs that goes with that? I'm absolutely in on Corbyn Carroll.
I'm I'm above Schwarber with Carol. I think almost definitely,
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uh schwart Yeah, Corman Carroll is going to be drafted
for me before Schwarber. I think Corman Carroll feels like
a baseline thirty thirty two sixty guy where everything it
feels like there's upside on all those, especially steals, like
I do think you know the fact that right now
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Juan Soto has more steals than Corman Carroll is just
proof that Corman Carroll, I think if he wants to,
he could steal fifty plus bags like no problem at all.
I think reality is he just doesn't want to steal
that many bags, which is fine. But if he's a
thirty five thirty five guy with a two sixty average.
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I mean that's you know, that's easy top ten player
for me. I'm I'm absolutely in on Corbyn Carrol.
Speaker 4 (45:07):
Yeah, I mean Soto, Josh Naylor definitely proving a point
in regardless toll on bases. I'm in on Carrol as well.
He said, I don't know exactly what you're getting, but
all of it has the potential to be very good.
And if he can put it all together, we can
get that season we really want, which is like thirty
five fifty two ninety That would be lovely. I don't
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know if we're gonna get that, but he's still only
twenty four years old. There's there's all sorts of promise
here Gray of what could happen with Corby and Carroll.
A guy who could challenge Corbyn Carroll at a sprint
speed brace, which there's not many of, is Chandler Simpson.
He is all speed though for the most part. Here
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I mean ninety three games, he's got thirty nine stolen bases.
He's sitting two eighty seven, three twenty one, three thirty
six is a ten percent strikeoup rate, a five percent
walk rate. In the second half, he said, two sixty
four he has thirteen stolen bases. What do we do
with Chandler Simpson for next year? Because you know it's
not it's not cor and Carrol situation. We're not getting
power out of him, but we sure get a lot
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of speed. And really, like I'm looking at it, and
you know, the average hasn't been bad. What's what's going
on here with with Chandler Simpson. You like Chandler Simpson?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Uh yeah, no, I definitely do. I I like Chandler
Simpson a ton. I think, uh, you know, looking at
his numbers, like he looks like he is a guy
who could steal potentially seventy five bags uh and hit
two ninety like a like a like a Wampier in
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his heyday type insane year. I don't think we're gonna
get any any power. Uh Like he's not gonna be
uh Jose Reyes in his prime. Uh So we're not
gonna get like a random like twelve home and seventy steals,
but we may get zero homers, but seventy steals plays, man,
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it plays big time. I I'm all about Chandler Simpson.
I think you know he also, I mean he definitely
is steals first for sure, but he's hit three hundred
at multiple stops in the minor leagues. He's got a
ten percent strikeout rate right now in the majors as
a rookie, he really makes it. He makes a ton
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of contact, which for a guy like him, like he
has the perfect batted ball profile for a player who
could steal seventy five plus bags, Like he is that
guy who could hit two ninety plus and steal seventy bags,
which is like, I mean, yeah, it's like that wins
you stealed for sure, but it doesn't kill you. It
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shouldn't kill you in runs, it won't kill you. I
mean it's actually a positive and average. Like that's a
sneaky top you know, thirty type season on the Player
Raider where you think where you're getting it for a
lot cheaper. I feel like he's gonna be underdrafted in Uh.
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I'm I'm liking Chandler Simpson a lot already. I'm I'm
already like I'm in before we've even started here, you know,
I'm like, we're not even done with this year and
I'm already on Chandler Simpson for next year. I'm absolutely
excited about him. I I like him a lot.
Speaker 5 (48:30):
I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't expect any power or
any RBIs, but in runs steals an average.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
He's absolutely he's gonna I feel like he's gonna surprise
people with how good he's gonna be on the Player
Raider at the end of next year. I'm I'm really
excited about him.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
Yeah. I mean, if we just take him, we combine
him with with Schwarber, we basically have a lower ridge.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Yeah. I mean, if you're taking you take Simpson and
you combine them with a guy who I'm probably not drafting,
it's perfect. My imaginary team that I haven't drafted. It's
really good right now.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Yeah. They always argue even once you've drafted them, they're
really good until opening the.
Speaker 6 (49:24):
Staedt. It's like, oh my god, it's so perfect. I
could see, Uh, you know, you've Anyo Suarez, Chandler Simpson.
I can make I can make Chandler Simpson work you.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
It's definitely gonna be a fantasy team dependent Like you
can't you can't draft Bryce and Stott and Chandler Simpson
and expect and Nico Horner expect to do well in
your league. But if you have Chandler Simpson on the
right team. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
Yeah, I agree. It's definitely a Team Bill type of thing.
But he could be a very useful piece in that
team build. Let's sagn off it up grade. Let's let's
look at Cleveland where Kate Smith wills to save, but
he got two more after that. Are you concerned about
Kate Smith and Cleveland at all?
Speaker 3 (50:17):
No, I'm not. I'm actually I'm I'm wondering too because
the UH, the Guardians, if they go with Kate Smith
into UH next year as their closer, I'm I feel
like he might He's gonna be underrated. I think a
little bit. I'm kind of excited. I know we're talking
about this year with Kate Smith and we're not talking
(50:39):
about next year. But Kate Smith for next year, I'm
really excited about him for next year.
Speaker 4 (50:44):
But for this year.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Yes, Kate Smith I think is totally fine. I know
he struggled a bit with a couple save chances, but
I'm not really concerned about Kate Smith. I mean, his
numbers are so good. He's got like you know, he's
got insane strike, He's got exactly what you want to
see for a closer. I think he could potentially if
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they if the Guardians go in to next year with
him as a closer, I could see him being a
sneaky like twelve closer off the board and become like
a top three closer. I'm I'm really, I'm kind of
inticate smith a lot, you know. Of course, you never
know too with Emmanuel class A potentially, I am. What
(51:30):
I picture is Class A is getting suspended for lifetime suspension,
like the Friday after Thanksgiving, like the worst but the
day when no one's paying attention to any baseball news,
that'll be the day Class A gets suspended for a lifetime.
(51:50):
But I guess we'll see. Maybe maybe he was maybe
Ippi ip A was using a class as MGM bet
MGM count. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (52:03):
That's when you know, that's when it's really gonna come
out gray is when when something really bad happens, it's
gonna come out like run on the tail of that.
Are they gonna release it right before that, like I
don't know, like peachment or like the Epstein list gets released,
like any of these things could happen, and that's when
we'll get class news.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
Be like it would be like the gates open at
the prison, letting out Ipie, and just as the gates open,
mb MLB announces that ePIE is being looked into as
he was in charge of class as uh fan duel account.
Speaker 4 (52:45):
He's really just that guy from Breaking Bad who likes
going to jail. They just paying him to go to
jail for everybody.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Deal will be in a an uber on the way
home from jail. The uber driver puts on the sports radio.
It's like Evanuel class A recently revealed that it be Maszura.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
This is in charge of his fand.
Speaker 4 (53:12):
Hey, at least when he checks his bank account there'll
be money there again, though that'll be you know, it'll
be a nice thing for him for the twenty four hours.
He's a Freeman Gray. Speaking of freeman, is Ryan Walker
gonna be free of the Closer duties after his blow
up on Saturday? Or are the Giants gonna keep rolling
him out there? So?
Speaker 3 (53:33):
Unlike Kate Smith, I don't like Ryan Walker. I don't
think Ryan Walker is very good. I wouldn't be shocked
if he continues being the Closer though, for the rest
of the season, because what's the point is San Francisco's
not going anywhere, and there's really no one behind him
who should take over for him. So I would say
(53:56):
Ryan Walker is fairly safe getting the rest of the
saves for the Giant. But I don't think he's that good,
so you know, take it with a grain of salt.
He may lose the job to a committee if he
keeps blowing saves, but right now I think he's the closer.
Speaker 4 (54:16):
Yeah, I think so too. It was a blown save,
but he's he tends to kind of get back on
track and get a couple couple saves after that, So
as long as that happens, I don't know they're necessarily
pulling him from the role. If you're looking around for
somebody to grab, you know, I think joep Wero's on
the list, Maybe Spencer Bivens is on that list, and
Joey Lucasey and out of the Bullpen's been pretty good
(54:39):
as well. So if you're looking around for every single
possible save, waiting to see if Ryan Walker trips up,
maybe look at those guys over in Dodger Land. Gray
Jack Dryer gets a save. I mean, are we what
are we doing here with the Dodgers, Like the trying
to figure out their closer is just it's impossible, but
(55:02):
but I'm gonna ask you Gray figure it out for us.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
I think the uh, you know, on August first, I
believe it was that I said that the Dodgers were
really dumb for not acquiring a bullpen arm or three
at the trade deadline. And I mean that's still I mean,
that's one of my few takes that actually aged well.
(55:29):
I don't know what the Dodgers were doing.
Speaker 5 (55:31):
Then.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
I still don't know what they're doing. I think the
Dodgers are sorely lacking in relievers. Tanner Scott's a mess,
Blake Trining's awful. Casparis looks okay, but he's you know,
he's not really a guy. I think they want to
go to that often as a closer. Jack Dryer sounds
(55:52):
like an eighties action hero. I don't know what they're doing.
I don't know. I guess Dryer since he got the
last save, I guess go with him. Casparis has been okay.
I guess you could try him, but otherwise I would
try and avoid the Dodgers bullpen.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah. I think that's probably for the best. I will say,
if you're gonna pick somebody up. Dryer's been good on
his own without the the saves, So at least if
you're gonna pick somebody up, I would go with Dryer
because you're not gonna blow up your ratios at least
that way. Whereas the rest of this bullpen's been been
pretty bad. You know, if it's not Dryer, I don't know,
(56:33):
it could be anybody at that point. Anthony Band has
been pretty solid, but I doubt they're gonna give to him.
They'll probably go back to Kenner Scott or like Tryna
or somebody else if the Dryer messes up, or just
because they want to blow another game and don't want
Jack Dryer to get another save. Gray, speaking of maybe
not getting another save, are we gonna get another one
(56:54):
from Emilio Pagan this season? Because it's been uh, it's
been a roller coaster, Gray.
Speaker 3 (56:59):
Yeah, it hasn't been great. It's it's sort of been
like a.
Speaker 1 (57:05):
Like a slow drip of like bad outings, though like
it hasn't been like it hasn't been a tsunami of
just like awfulness.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Like he hasn't been like terrible in like back to
back to back outings. So it's like he's kind of
like been bad and then he comes out the next
game and he's okay, and then he's bad, and then
he's okay. So it's like it's hard to see like
them necessarily just replacing him. I don't know if he's
(57:39):
he's definitely, I mean, he's been bad enough where and
Santillan's been pretty good, so I mean, I want to
be shocked if they start going with Santillan, but I
think at this point in the season, I also wouldn't
be shocked to see Pegan continue to get saves, even
if it's like, you know, maybe seventy thirty between him
(58:00):
in Santillan. But I guess you can go. You could
try Santillan. I mean, he even gave up a run
in his save opportunity the other day, but I guess
you could try Santillan. I would prefer you didn't try
Pegan because he's been really bad. As someone who has
begne in an NL only league where I really need saves,
(58:23):
I'm running Pegan out there, but I haven't enjoyed it.
Speaker 4 (58:29):
No, I don't think anybody's enjoyed it. But as you mentioned,
it's been kind of an outing here and out in there.
The numbers don't add up really well though, And Greg,
I told you, I warned you, nothing good comes from
giving a Cubs pitcher the closer roll. Daniel Poincy gets
absolutely rocked, blows the same and now he's on the
(58:50):
il with a shoulder issue. Who are you cursing with
the Cubs roll? Next?
Speaker 3 (58:58):
It's the Cubs. The Cub's ninth inning is a little
bit us, a little bit confusing because like Keller was
the setup man, but kit Rich got the last couple
saves when uh Poalencia wasn't able to go. So kit
Rich to me, kit Rich seems like the closer replacement,
(59:20):
but Keller could be the guy. So I'm not honestly,
I'd be one hundred percent honest with you. I'm not
really sure which way they go. I would go kit
Rich and then Keller. They might go Keller than kit Rich.
If they really want to lose the ninth inning, they
can go Porter Hodge. I mean he's around even though
(59:44):
he had he has been better recently. I will say that,
but yeah, I'd probably I go kit Rich than Keller,
would be my guess.
Speaker 4 (59:54):
Yeah, port Hodge pulling his best William Domas in July
right here, doing really good for about a month, just
to throw his name back in the hat here, Yeah,
I think it's Kittridge. I do think he'll get the
first shot over Keller, and then I'll throw out Caleb
Fielbarr because he's been the one person that's bullpen who
doesn't suck. He is a lefty, though, so you're looking
(01:00:15):
for like lefty specific save opportunities here. But if you're
looking for that, if you're doing that desperation point in
the league, Like I said, theil Barr has been pretty
good all season, so I really don't mind grabbing him.
And he's not going to get the closer tag, so
he shouldn't shouldn't blow up and die. Moving on to Arizona,
(01:00:37):
Taylor Rashie gets a save. Is he the closer? Does
it matter in Arizona who the closer is?
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Yeah? I mean no, it doesn't matter. I like, I
kind of like south Frank still, but I mean he
is a lefty, so he's probably like you were mentioning
a thigh bar are South Frank's probably more situational. Woodford
seemed like he was pulling away with the closer job
and then they went back to Rashie. I don't. Yeah,
(01:01:11):
I mean, I prefer not to do any of them.
If I had, you know, if I had my choice,
I would choose none of them. But I guess. I mean,
I guess the guy who's gotten the last one is
the one you want, so Rashie, I guess. But I
mean I don't really trust that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Yeah, I don't trust that. I don't know that I
really trust him either, So I mean, you can grab
him up. I think I would rather take my shot
on South Frank and hope for a lefty save or
I kind of like Woodford a little bit better. I don't.
I don't particularly like him or Rashie a lot. But yeah,
I mean, like you said, the person who gets the
(01:01:53):
last one generally is the person you want. I guess
if you're trying to chase saves down. So for now,
it's but just beware the ratios may not be completely protected.
Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
There.
Speaker 4 (01:02:06):
Let's move on and talk about to give the people
some waiver wire bats.
Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
Gray Okay, So on the seven Day Player Raider on
rasbull dot Com, it seems that jadable Day that's preseason
sleeper jda bl Day. He's at the top of the
board as guys who are unrostered in over fifty percent
(01:02:29):
of league's so jj Boday, Andrew Benintendi looks pretty good.
Dalen Lil he's been good for about five weeks now.
He looks pretty good. He's been hitting clean up for
the Nats. Dalton VARs Show probably should be rostered in
more leagues or every league. He's been really solid. Jake Bowers,
(01:02:50):
he's taken that Brewer's first base job and running with it.
Like Andrew Vaughn, something something good goes on in the
Brewers first base job. Brandon Marsh has been hot. Kyle
Teel White Sox catcher. He's been hot recently. Drew Gilbert,
Luis Garcia the National second basement. He's been hot for
(01:03:13):
Hey Polanka probably should be rostered in every league. He's
been hot. Carson Kelly had a duel a excuse me,
a two homer game on Sunday. He's been hot. Windsil
Perez he's been hot for a couple months. I think
he's been pretty good anyway. Royce Lewis has been hot,
(01:03:34):
stealing a bunch of bags. I don't know where those
are coming from. Austin Hayes has been hot, Harrison Bader,
Matt McClain beat on favorite has been hot.
Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Finally it's about time Gray, I mean he said, he said,
this is just like Melon's high enough, Valley's low enough.
That is that is Matt McLain experience. That's how it's
been all season. Dreaming options for your arms. It's pretty
good week for you know, middling arms with good matchups.
(01:04:05):
Johan Oviado at Baltimore, Cam Shittler versus Detroit, Rice Elder
gets a two step versus the Cubs and versus Houston,
Davis Martin at Cleveland, Image Sheehan versus Colorado. We talked
about that earlier. You and just and Goms versus Tampa,
Bay at Cleveland, Parker Masique at Messick sorry at versus
the White Sox, Max Surezer versus Baltimore and Seymour at
(01:04:29):
the White Sox, Martine Perez at Cleveland. If you are
looking down here, Mike Burrows as at Baltimore at Washington,
and Andrew Alvarez versus Pittsburgh. There are some streaming options
for you. If you have specific questions, you can send
them to us on Twitter. I am at rasbeat on
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on YouTube dot com, slash Rasballfantasy, or the comments section
on rasball dot com. Send us questions, send us topics
for the show. Whatever you want to see here at
the end of the season, and we will try and
get to it. May your lineups be perfect, May you
win all your matchups. I'll talk to you later, See
you great.
Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
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