Bullpen Bubba

This week on the Razzball Fantasy Baseball Podcast, Grey and B_Don kick things off with a breakdown of Cal Raleigh’s crazy-strong season, but does Grey think the power-hitting backstop is worth picking early in 2026? 


Next up is prospect call-up corner. We talk Bubba Chandler’s electric stuff and he fits in among the other impressive rookie arms of 2025. In hitter news, Carson Williams is called up. Can the Rays' top prospect handle big-league pitching despite sky-high strikeouts? We also discuss Jhostynxon Garcia and if the Red Sox prospect can help your squad.

Wyatt Langford is heating up. Has he finally figured it out? Plus: Vinnie Pasquantino’s home run binge, and Colson Montgomery’s power surge.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (01:18):
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Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hey, what's going on there? Beat him?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh? Not too much?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Just uh, you know, ready to talk some baseball. It's
a you know, it's a it's a Monday, so got
a full case of the Monday. I'm done with work though,
so let's let's talk some ball.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Gray.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I mean, I think we need to start with like
cal Raleigh, who had two more home runs last night.
That adds to you know, that adds up to seven
here in August. So far, he's been an absolute monster
this year. You know, you and I are are firm
don't draft catcher early. And while this seems in the

(02:00):
face of that, Cayl Rawlying as the number one or
even the number two catcher, Gray, So what are your
thoughts on on cal Raley, you know, kind of just
his season and then I guess we can look forward
towards next season. You know, are you are you willing
to make a rare catcher exception or is this just

(02:21):
kind of standard operating procedure with a catcher, Like they
have a good season, the next one's probably not as good.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Uh okay, Yeah, So uh there's there's a lot to
unpack there.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I just wind you up and then I just.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
That's that's pretty much what I'm here, right, Yeah, there's
a there's a lot to unpack there, Like, there's a
lot to unpack, and cal Rawley's underwear draw lots of
lots of cotton. I you know, I didn't drift Kyl
Rawley anywhere in any league this year. It could have

(02:58):
been worse. I could have been on the hook for
his the common expenditure for his uh, his behind behind
am I an eighty year old grandmother for yeah, kind
of behind cover? Why am I going underwear behind cover?

(03:23):
I'm sorry, I'm loopy.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean diaper dumper, you know, something along those lines
right sitting right therefore you Yeah, there's.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
The behind cover. Hey, hey, before you go out of
this house, you better have a hundred behind cover. I'm
really loopy. Okay, sorry, back back to back to reality here.
So I didn't draft Rawley in any league this year,
but this I think he actually does support the theory

(03:58):
to not draft to catch her high because he wasn't
going that high. I mean in two catcher leagues. I
think he was probably going around like one hundred and
maybe one twenty overall in snake drafts roughly maybe I
don't know, ten to twelve dollars. And that's in a

(04:19):
two catcher league. In a one catcher league. This is
he was basically a lottery ticket cal Rawley was. I
would guess in a one catcher league he was going
after two hundred overall. I wouldn't be surprised if he
was undrafted in some shallower one catcher leagues like he

(04:41):
was not. He was not like the one of those
William Contreras or I think Adelai Rushman was in the
top fifty or sixty overall in Snake drafts this year.
I mean, there was some ludicrous catcher drafting in in
like the early in the top one hundred, even I

(05:04):
think cal Raley definitely supports the theory to not draft
to catch her high. And I don't see how his
huge year, and it is huge, much like his behind
cal Rawly's year is huge, But I don't think there's
any way I'm ever gonna draft him next year. I mean,

(05:26):
there's absolutely no possibility unless like a tile from the
ceiling falls on my head and I accidentally I get
knocked out and my head hits the mouse button right
when it's my turn to tramp. Otherwise, there's literally no
way cal Rawley's ending up on my team next year.
I think it was in May, maybe May of this year,

(05:50):
where he was he started hot, I was hitting a
ton of homers, and I believe I said something like
he was gonna be a top twenty five pick in
UH twenty twenty six. I underestimate that, like I wouldn't
be certain. I want to be shocked to see him
go in the top twelve overall in some leagues, I

(06:13):
would not. It wouldn't be me. There's no way. I uh,
I think it's you know, it's awesome that he's having
this great year. If you drafted them, Man, you you
stepped in it. I'll tell you that like he uh
you you stepped in the in the big dumper. I
wish I would have stepped in that, because I mean

(06:34):
you can't. You can't find anyone else nearly as valuable
when you consider draft cost. I mean he was like
he right now, he's on the player raider. I don't
have it open in front of me. I'm assuming he's
top three. I mean he was nowhere near I want
to say, in one catcher leagues. It was like, there's

(06:56):
no one near that valuable when you factor in draft pick.
He was just so I mean he was really like
he was the guy to get. He was. If you
have him and you're not doing well in your leagues,
like I yeah, I mean, I don't know if I
can help you at this point. There's there's or at
least doing well for hitting. I mean there's like if

(07:18):
you like you drafted basically a team for for all
intents and purposes, you drafted a team that was like,
you know, strong on power or weak on power or
whatever you did, and then you just drafted a catcher
as a second like as an afterthought. So you basically

(07:42):
drafted your team like whether you took Aaron Judge in
the first round and then it felt like you were
strong on power and then you took Cal Rawley in like,
you know, round eighteen. I mean you just basically just
like you literally were just like, oh, I don't know,
I'm just gonna take a catcher. It was like there
was no intention of you being like, yeah, I'm drafting

(08:04):
cal Rawly to help my team. You were drafting him
as a catcher to fill in a spot in your lineup.
So yeah, man, you you got real. You got lucky.
I guess the closest is Pete Crow Armstrong for a
fantasy draft price versus value, he's obviously come down in
the second half. I don't think there's anyone even close

(08:28):
to those two. But yeah, at least for hit Her. Yeah,
I wish I had cal Rawley, man, I I you know,
he was the perfect guy to draft. There was it
was like, that's that's what winning fantasy teams are made of.
And I don't. I don't really know if there's any way,

(08:51):
like people say, like you need, you know, some luck,
but I mean I don't. I don't know there's any
more or bigger indication that you need luck in this
and drafting cal Raleigh because I mean, of course you
were expecting you know, you were expecting thirty homers a
to twenty two thirty average and like maybe some RBIs

(09:17):
you weren't expecting like Aaron Judge type numbers. You weren't
expecting h fifty homers going on, like gonna be fifteen
to twenty steals and also hitting for a good average.
I mean, come on, it's like crazy. That's not even
what the runs in RBIs that go with all that too? Yeah, man,

(09:39):
oh well, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, before somebody yells at us in the comments somewhere, Yeah,
Saron Judge hits for a much better average than cal Rawley,
but it's still absolutely ridiculous what he's doing. You know,
the number one catcher Gray was William Contreras. He's having
a fine season. You know, he's he's a very solid catcher.
You know, among catcher he's currently he's currently fit. That's

(10:03):
that's kind of catcher. And he did it back to
back season, so you felt as good about him as
you did about really anybody coming into the season at catcher.
And he's fit, which is again fine, But if you
reached for him because he was a catcher and you
thought he was going to be the number one catcher,
you know, that's that's the problem, uh with with that

(10:24):
really and and why neither of us will probably been
on on cal Rawley next year because you know, again
at catcher, and he's not just dhing every day like
he's playing catcher seventy five percent of the time. You know,
he said ninety eight games by at catcher, he's you know,
he's played one hundred.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
And twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
So it's it's definitely a thing where he's gonna be
behind the plate. They feel like he's good enough to
be back there, and you know, they're paying him to
be a catcher, so they're sticking him back there. Hunter
Goodman the number two catcher, Shay Langelier is number three catcher,
both pretty much undrafted and even two catcher leagues Gray

(11:02):
maybe anter. Goodman went because he did have outfield eligibility
and there was talking about at him playing you know,
more often, so he went he might have gone into catcher.
But yeah, after that, it's you know, it's it's tough.
And we've seen him with salveart Opress. Salved Opress put
up any miraculous forty eight home run two seventy three season,

(11:24):
and then the next year he went back to being
twenty three home runs two fifty four.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Like it's it's so hard to do that catcher back
back seasons.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Let's move off of that, though, Gray, Let's talk about
Anthony Volpe, who got the voted dread of confidence. He
is the starting shortstop as as they say it to
change it in the next week or so. What are
your thoughts on on the Yankees, you know, former top prospect.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
You know, I mean for all purposes that there was
no reason to think he wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right. I Uh, I was listening to the Yankees Red
Sox game. Uh serious, XM, and I guess they have
they don't. It was ESPN. I'm serious, but I guess
they don't pay for ESPN announcers. So it was a
New York telecast, so it was Dave Simms and uh

(12:20):
and other other Yankees radio people and uh. At one
point they had they were like, oh, this uh, this
this inning is sponsored by New York Lottery Commission, And
I was thinking that's it was kind of fitting because
it was like a commercial for like a reliever coming in.

(12:44):
So it was like, yeah, like, what's the uh, what's
what lottery? Uh? Are you gonna get a winning ticket with.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeerie Dayless Santo's or a or a loser with Devin
Williams or a winner with Bednar But anyway, but then
they started talking about Anthony volpe and they're I mean,
they were basically.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Talking about how like he is, you know, he's struggling
defensively was their bigger they're they're they're big points where
about his defense? And I would just wonder. I was
yelling at the radio, like have you guys looked at
his offense? That's not good either. He It's crazy that

(13:33):
the Yankees have at the bottom of their lineup the
eighth and ninth hitter, Assuming Volpey and McCann McCann are
in there, they have possibly the two worst right they
have the like the two worst hitters versus Righty's. Unfortunately,
Ryan McMahon has managed to become a.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
Lefty who can't hit righty's which is really bad, and
Anthony Volpe is it's just awful, man Like, it's just
like watching them and watching Volpe specifically, it's just like
he he can't make hard contact for his life, like
I've never like he is.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
I wonder too if it's a matter at this point
where he kind of just needs a change of scenery,
like it might do him him and the Yankees well
to trade him in the offseason. Otherwise I don't know.
I don't know what the future is for Anthony Volpe.
But he looks lost, man. He looks lost on defense,

(14:34):
as I was saying they were talking about, but he
also looks lost in the box, like he can't he
can't make hard contact for his life. It's just it's
pretty pathetic. His uh, Like, his numbers are just awful,
just incredibly terrible. I And I know everything gets blown

(14:55):
out of proportion with the Yankees and their fans are
especially difficult on their players when they're struggling, But I mean,
this is a case where it's deserved. I mean, he
looks like he should not be playing, unfortunately, or I
guess fortunately for him. I don't even know. If he

(15:17):
actually I don't even know if it's fortunate for him
that Boone gave him a vote of confidence. I don't
know if it's fortunate that Volpe is gonna be playing again,
Like I think it's it would be fortunate for him
not to play, because he looks so bad that I
think it's actually better for him if he doesn't play.
But I guess unfortunately, he will be playing. According to Boone,

(15:42):
he will be the starting shortstop. And I don't think
going back to fantasy, I don't think he's really roster
ball outside of like I guess, ale only maybe maybe
if it's a deep mixed league. But I, you know,
thinking about him for next year, A lot can change,

(16:05):
Like I said, maybe they trade him, maybe he's not
in uh, maybe he's not the starting shortstop coming out
of you know Spring. You know, so a ton can change.
But I I don't know. I don't really buy into
a bounce back here because like if you look at
his numbers over the course of three seasons, he hasn't
really ever been good with the bat. That is obviously

(16:28):
not great with the defense. This year. Last year he
was better with defense. He's he's got he's got a
case of the yips, i'd guess. But with the bat,
he's just not he's just not been very good outside
of like, you know, empty sort of empty homers and steals.
You know, he's got the power speed thing, which is nice,

(16:51):
but it can only go so far when you're making
really bad contact. And you know, when you have only
twenty four percent rikeout rate and you're hitting two oh eight,
that means you're hitting you're hitting a ton of awful
hits like you're in his case for this year, his
fly balls are really terrible. His fly balls are out

(17:14):
of control that he's hitting a ton of It looks
like he's hitting a ton of two hundred and seventy
five foot outs, which is not It's not good. So yeah,
I don't know, man, I think I think he needs
a change of pace personally, but I can't imagine he's
anything more than a flyer at the end of deep
league drafts next year. And I don't know if I'm

(17:35):
taking that flyer.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I might try it, just because you know, he is
still giving you the power speed. It does feel like
it's a little bit of just he's in his head
at this point where he can't get it right, and
now it's, as you mentioned, now it's affecting his defense,
which you know, it wasn't amazing, but he was at
least like league have bridgid defense last year the last

(18:01):
couple of years. You know, the metrics say he was
even positive on defense last year. I don't know if
I necessarily believe that, but it also feels like there's
there's potential for him to move either in a trade
or over to second base. Trent Grisham will be gone,
Paul Goldschmith will likely be gone, so there's openings for

(18:26):
Jazz or Jazz to move the outfield and then Volpe
can move to second You know, that kind of feels
like a better fit for him. He's not a great
arm talent, like most of what he brings to shortstop
is speed related. He's quick, so that helps, but if
you can't make the throw, which he can't right now,

(18:47):
you know it's it's not great Josey Cabiro, who is
who the Yankee? You know, fans are yelling to take
his place. I mean, obviously he's stolen a ton of
basses this season, but he's not exactly great on defense.
Or offense either. But at this point I understand their
their desire for change. Speaking of change, let's talk about

(19:10):
some of the call ups that are changing their scenery
and moving up to the majors. This week, Gray Bobo Chandler.
We waited all season for him and then he's coming
up in a bullpen.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Roll to play.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
This year, he had one hundred innings, four h five
year right one four eight whip, twenty seven point four
percent strikeout rate, twelve percent walk rate. He's got a
ninety eight plus fastball, slider curve change.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
You know, Like I said, there's not nuch to.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Talk about for this year, but what do you think
about him for next year and maybe against some of
the other pitchers that we've seen come up and you know,
be successful.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, I didn't. I don't know if I realize how
similar he looks to Paul's schemes. I missed that he's
like basically is his twin. I I was so excited
when I still got called up, But like I did
the old you know, I got like excited, I did

(20:10):
the old Tiger Woods fist pump. I got I got
a little crazy. I started dropping people on my team
and picking up Bubba Chandler everywhere, and then they were like, oh,
by the way, it's a bullpen roll. And I was like, yeoo,
I pulled up. I pulled a hamstring for that. What
are you doing? Man? Come on, Yeah, it's unfortunate that

(20:34):
he's up in a bullpen roll. I you know, I
still actually ended up bidding on him in a few
leagues because it's like, yeah, what the hell. I mean,
you know, maybe he gets four innings a week, and
you know, they used him in Ah, they used him
as to end the game the other day where he

(20:56):
got a four inning save his his first appearance, So
you know, maybe he does that a couple times. I
don't know. And in some of my leagues it's like
I just sort of like at this point, I'm like
throwing crap against the wall. I was just like, ah,
what the hell, maybe Bubba Chandler could save my sixth

(21:19):
place like whatever. So yeah, I ended up bidding on him.
He didn't go for much in any of my leagues
at least. It was like basically I just threw a
couple bucks and it was able to get him, and
that's a couple bucks out of a thousand, So yeah,

(21:40):
but yeah, I mean, he looks great. I can't wait
until next year, I think, you know, realistically, I want
to say he's probably like I'm not gonna say Paul
Skemes because that feels like that's absurd and no one's
really all schemes, even though he does look really a

(22:03):
lot like him. But you know, it's like, that's that's
kind of an absurd expectation to put on a guy.
I don't want to say that, but you know, maybe
what's like, you know, hopefully better than rookie Suzak, you know,

(22:26):
maybe like one hundred and was what does he have
this year? One hundred and thirty innings? He's he's got
a ton of innings right, uh twenty, He's got like
one hundred and he looks like he could do one
hundred and thirty innings this year. So that puts him
roughly around between well, we'll say between one hundred and

(22:48):
thirty five and one hundred and fifty next year. One
hundred and fifty innings from a guy, a rookie pitcher,
I want to say, he's probably in possibly as good
as like, you know, a number two ish, like maybe
like what we're getting from you say Kakuchi, for instance,

(23:13):
He's right now. Kokuchi's around a three four era with
a nine plus k per nine maybe a little bit
better than that. But the the walks are a little
concerning with Bubba. Uh So there's a chance here for
a little bit of, you know, some riskiness. I want

(23:34):
to say I'm in for next year. I think for
this year. If you want to take a flyer on him,
it's fine, but he's probably not gonna be a difference maker.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I mean, I just don't think it's it's it's this year.
Like you said, he could still be helpful. He's gonna
get in theory, good innings, strikeouts, walks are a little high,
so you may have to deal with that a little bit.
But in short bursts he's he should be amazing, you know.
I guess let's talk about him for next year.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Though.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
You know, we've seen a number of great call ups
this year. Gray, I mean, Kate Horton's been amazing since
he's got called up. Jason Jacob Misrowski was amazing while
we saw him. Jackson Joe got called up, Chase Burns,
Ronnie and Riquez has been I think the best of
all the rookies just by the numbers Logan Henderson is

(24:29):
right up there too, like when we're looking at this
this just stacked group of rookie arms, like, can you
give me a top two or three of this group?
And does Bubba Chandler fit in it? Uh?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, I mean I think it's so. I think rookie
pictures are just such a difficult thing to project out.
But I say, Misseroski and then Bubba, I would guess
would be u you know, it would be for next year,
that would be the rankings. I'm assuming Meserrowski's probably gonna

(25:06):
be in that like seventy five to eighty five overall
range where it's like you're taking a flyer on a
high rookie pitcher who might give you like insane numbers.
And then I think Bubba is going to be right
after that possibly, and yeah, and that's it. I would think.

(25:28):
I don't think anyone. I don't think anyone's gonna approach
those two. You know, it's uh probably, I mean I'm
in on Bubba for sure. I would say, you know,
I think this command is a little wonky. But Mezzeroski's
command looked wonky too when he came up, and he's

(25:50):
also you know, he struggled to been in the second half.
And actually I don't even know if Mezeraski struggled as
much as the Brewers are just throttling. But yeah, I
mean I like Bubba Chandler a lot. I would say
he's probably gonna be draftable roughly around I want to say,

(26:11):
between ninety and one ten overall and snakes and I'm in.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, I mean, he's he's been here.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
He you know, all the numbers say he's he looks
great when you if you saw him pitch in the
four innings that.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
He looked look pretty pretty good there.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Gray.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, I mean I think Logan Henderson and Ronnie and
Riquez probably deserve to be in that conversation, just the
numbers that they're putting up. But yeah, I mean there's
no reason that Bubba Chandler isn't among that group. And
and miss Rowski probably does get the full draft helium
given just how amazing he looked.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
But yeah, but they both kind of struggle with command
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's it's kind of a very similar profile and and
just hard fastball breaking stuff, and they could I could
see them going very close to each other in drafts
next year. Let's move on to the next call up.
Carson Williams was called up at the Raise number one prospect.
One hundred and eleven games in Triple A this year.
He has twenty three home runs twenty two stolen bases.

(27:15):
He's hitting two, thirteen, three, eighteen, four to forty seven,
does have a thirty four percent strikeout rate, but has
a twelve zero point four percent walk rate as well.
What are your thoughts on Carson Williams. Are you adding
him in twelve team leagues anything shallower?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Now? I think he's probably off the board for me.
In a twelve team league, I think I'm at this point.
It's like, you know, roughly five weeks left. I think
you're just going for hot bats at this point. A
twelve team league, A twelve team and shallower. A fifteen
team league is a little bit tougher, especially a weekly

(27:56):
league like NFBC where you have to bid on Sunday.
So there, actually I did. I got Carson Williams in
one league. Again, I wasn't expecting it necessarily, but I
bid three dollars out of a thousand, so I got him.
You know, I worry a little bit. Mostly I worry

(28:18):
about his average. You know the fact that he hit
two thirteen in Triple A and it was with a
really high strikeout rate. So I honestly don't know why
the Rays brought him up, to be quite honest, I'm
not sure. I guess, you know, to give him a
cup of coffee and then be like, Okay, we'll see

(28:40):
you later, we'll see you in March, and it's your
job to lose. I guess they were just like, you know,
preparing him for next year, which I mean I like
that for sure, but he looks pretty He looked pretty
overmatched in Triple A. If like you can you know,

(29:00):
if you can read anything into his numbers, like they
don't look great. He steals is obviously solid, but I
mean thirty four percent strikeout rate and a two thirteen average,
I mean I get that. You know, Hasan Kim was,
you know, I led, But even in that, even with that,

(29:23):
I feel like I don't know if Carson Williams is
really ready. And as I say that, I mean he's
hitting over four hundred in UH in two Kate, Well,
he's only he's only played two games and he has
a homer and a steel already, so he is. He's
hitting well, you know, and the Rays are a good organization.
They're a smart organization where you would think they know

(29:43):
what they're doing, so maybe they know something. I don't
know as far as like what he was hitting in
Triple A, yeah, I mean, I don't know. I like
the fire though. In fifteen teen mix leagues and deeper.
I think twelve team mixed leagues, you're looking for a
hot bat, and you know, I mean, like I said,
he did hit a homer in his first two games,

(30:05):
so that sounds hot. I don't know. It may be
worth a flyer in a twelve team mixed league if
you have a spot and you want to take a
gambling upside.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not opposed to gambling on the
upside at this point. If you're trying to chase down stuff,
he should provide home run and stolen bases. He has
a home run in one game and a stolen base
in the other. So even if the average isn't great,
if you're just looking on maybe a short day or
just trying to find somebody to patch the middle infield spot,

(30:37):
I don't mind taking the shot on Carson Williams. Just
be ready to pull the blog if it all goes
to crap and he you know, goes oh for fifty
and not you wait to fifty.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
But you know what I mean, just keep an eye
on it, see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
But yeah, I'm not opposed to giving Carson Williams a
try also because middle infield.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
You know, I heard it was really deep all preseason.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Great, it is pretty awful in the middle infield right now,
even in like a twelve team league. So I'm really
not opposed to going with Carson Williams at this point because.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'll give you I'll give you a hypothetical. So I I,
actually I need to pick up an m I for
Monday's Slay to games, and I had brooks Lee who's
batting third or Carson Williams. I went brooks Lee. I
mean I didn't even think it was really I mean,

(31:31):
that's so that's what that's what you're looking at with
a twelve team mix league. So I mean, I feel like,
there you go for the guy who's batting third and
you know, has been somewhat hot. I think brooks Lee
was in the top twenty five overall on the seven
day player Raider. So yeah, I mean, you know, I
mean there's there's guys I think probably available in a

(31:53):
twelve team mix league. But again the fire on upsides
not it's not a terrible flyer.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
I mean, if if I just go to our RCL
right now, Gray and I sort by last fourteen days,
you can start. You could go pick up Jeff McNeil
Jerry Triolo, who both have been good recently, saying I
like Jerry Trillo but not yeah, and he's at Saint Louis,
and Saint Louis is just hemorrhaging right now, everything Brian Rocchio,

(32:24):
So yeah, I think all those guys probably above you
know what we're looking at. With Carson Williams, it's it's
just it's really boring out there sometimes at middleandfield.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Unfortunately, you know, it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Fifteen team.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, I think i'd go ahead and grab him up
if he's still out there and you're looking for a
middle infielder. Let's move on to I don't really know
how to say his name, Gregs. I haven't watched him
play yet. Johnston Garcia what no, no.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
No, no, excuse me. I took thirteen years of Spanish.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
May may I please I want to hear this? Please?
I think everybody.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Host Nixonxon? No, isn't it hosting.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
It is now? That is one of thousand percent what
we're calling him from now on.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, man, yeah, they're obviously host Nixon.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Thank you, and uh it is j J h os
t y n x O n If you are wondering
what we're talking about on the podcast, here he is.
He is the Red Sox number ten prospect preseason from
the itch, although I bet if he reranked, you know,

(33:48):
team prospects, he probably would have moved up after a
very solid year between Double A and Triple A, which
saw him playing ninety nine games twenty home run sixth
on basis he hit two eighty nine three sixty three,
five twelve twenty five point four percent strikeout rate and
a nine point nine percent walk rate.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
What are your thoughts on hosting Nixon?

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Garcia another guy who I actually I feel like maybe
people have checked out in my leagues.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Maybe that's why I was able to get these guys
because it's another guy that I put in like a
dollar bid in, you know, a thousand fab dollars and
it's well, obviously no one has a thousand yet. I
mean still, you know, people are scrounging for fab money

(34:39):
at this point in the season, so you know, and
maybe people are out drafting their football teams and not
paying attention to baseball anymore. It's possible. All these things
are possible. But I got them for like a dollar
in a in fab out of. Originally it was one
thousand dollars FAB, So I mean that's like nothing. I

(34:59):
don't know. I like, I think I like. I like
him more than Carson Williams. That was my original take,
just on the numbers. Like Hosty Hosty came on straw
this year, that is absolutely his name was pronounced too. Uh,
Hosty Nixon came on very strong, like he had a

(35:22):
really solid year. Now I do I feel like these
are unrelated players and I shouldn't be comparing them, but
I but it's hard for me to avoid the comparison
of you know the fact that Kristen uh Christian Campbell

(35:43):
was so good for the Red Sox Triple A team
last year and then came up and was awful. I
don't know what's going on there, and uh is it
Paul Tucket? I don't know what's going on there in
uh in uh Rhode Island, but something feels off with
the Red Sox triple A. And that's with a sample

(36:04):
size of one. So maybe it's nothing but Hosty Nixon
like power. He's got power, he's got speed. He hit
for a solid average in triple A and it was
a little bit inflated by a babbit, but you know,
he hit for He had made more contact than going

(36:24):
back to Carson Williams, So I you know, I feel
like again, it's like when you're looking at a prospect
hitter at this point, even picture I guess, but mostly
hit her because they play more. At this point, you're
looking at a difference between him or hot bat off

(36:47):
of Waivers. A hot bat off of Waivers is definitely
a solid possibility at this point. Like if this were May,
I would be all in on Hosty. That the fact
that it's almost September, you gotta look at like, okay,
like on Monday as we record this, he's not even
in the lineup. So there's that most days he probably

(37:09):
will play, I would guess, but maybe he won't play
every day. There's the whole uh, you know, he could
come up and he could hit you know, four fifty
for a month, or he could hit one fifty four month,
and neither of them are really any in any way
related to his overall ability. It's just like it's gonna

(37:31):
be a small sample size no matter what the case is.
So I like him. I would take a flyer, but
you gotta keep a grain assault with most of these
rookie cops at this point.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's wise. And you know,
he's probably his biggest asset at this point is kind
of average and hit tool. And I don't know that
either or average in power, sorry, And I don't know
that either is gonna carry over to a massive level
at you know, this short period of time. Not that

(38:06):
he doesn't have you know, power and speed, it's just
I don't know that it's gonna gonna really hit the
ground in Boston.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Didn't really run this year. I don't know if that
was just you know, the organization telling him not to
or what was going on there.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
But you know, he's definitely behind Carson Williams for me,
but not ungrabable. If you're looking for an outfielder, you
did need more of them. But yeah, I think we're
we're strictly fifteen team in that one. Let's talk about
some players who are starting to show up here at
Gray and you know, a couple of them are showing

(38:43):
up for the first time, and you know some are
some we have to talk about for next season. But
Why at Langford is one that you know we expected
big things for. It's maybe starting to show up. As
in now in August he has hit two eighty four
form runs, three stolen bases, is best walk rate of
the season. Uh, if you're looking at months, this month

(39:04):
he has a fifty five percent hard hit rate, ninety
one point eight average exit velocity. That is a eight
percent jump or a nine percent jump on our hit rate.
It's only like a point eight on average exit velocity.
But you know, is this is this why Langford making
the step we need to see for next year or

(39:25):
is this just upper middle class Julio Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
I would say I like that, I like that comp
you just made. But I will say that for some reason,
the Rangers, Why at Langford and Evan Carter, Josh jong Till,
Josh Smith, I just I really struggle getting excited about

(39:54):
these guys, Like I don't know maybe it's Arlington the
fact that it's like it plays as a pitcher's park.
But I don't know, man, why at Langford. It's just
like when you see the end of the year numbers
and it's like it's probably gonna look at like it's
gonna be like twenty four homers, twenty two steals. Maybe

(40:14):
is it twenty four, twenty two, two fifty. If he
has those numbers at the end of the year, it's
gonna like it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be valuable enough,
like it's gonna be disappointing for where you drafted him,
which and what you were probably expecting. But at the
end of the day, it's probably not gonna be the
worst thing, the worst numbers. But when you're going through

(40:37):
the season with that, like it's just so boring. It's
just so like, ah, like the three homers, three steals
a month type like type year is just so like,
oh god man, it's just really it just it leaves
a lot to be desired, Like, you know, it just
doesn't feel like a guy at this point he does

(41:00):
not feel like he's able to turn it on and
have a good like a solid month or two, Like
it just doesn't seem capable of it. It's now two
seasons we've gotten this from him, like almost identical years
from last year and this year, you know a little

(41:21):
bit better on power. I guess this year just a
hair bit, but like, I mean, he's still like you know,
last year was not that different than this year. Like
where is the I'd like to see a bigger step forward,
like I'm getting I'm getting kind of bored of the
whya at Langford thing? Is it valuable? Yeah? I guess

(41:45):
if you're drafting him at like seventy five overall, but
he was going at like you know, thirty over or
twenty five, twenty five to thirty overall, So it's like
he was not he did. He's just I don't know,
he's just kind of boring to me. I'm losing interest
in why I Langford to be honest.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, I mean I get it. It's it's been it's
been a disappointing season. If you were a Langford believer, uh,
you know, because if you drafted him, you you believed
in him because he was going very early. You know,
it's fine, like you said, but it's you know, it's
it's a step up from me in half, Like that's

(42:27):
that's where we're kind of at right now. You know,
the average is pretty much the same. He's a little
getting more steals, but the runs in RBI have been
a little been lower than what you would get from
a STANDARDY and hat. So I don't know, it just uh,
it does feel a little unrewarding. I guess hopefully he
can finish strong and make it feel a little bit

(42:50):
better if if you've spent on him, But yeah, I
don't know, Like even if he stays hot for the
rest of the season, Gray, are you believing in him
to draft him again at like his VP of this season.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
If he was, I mean, you know, compared to Jackson Merrill,
he's basically Bobby Wit junior. There's no why Why Langford
is a three time MVP compared to Jackson Merrill season.
So there's that I where because they were I bring
Jackson Merrow up because they were drafted back to back

(43:23):
this year. I would probably take a flyer on Why
Langford before Jackson Merrill, but not at his ADP this year,
And I don't think it's going to be at the
same spot if I if I have anything to do
with it, Wyatt Langford is going to be probably a
around sixty maybe fifty five, fifty five to seventy overall

(43:49):
i'll say next year, and at that price for Wyat Langford, yeah,
I could see that because he's right now, he's hovering
around one fifteen overall on the play Raider. So if
he has a you know, and if he has a
solid final five weeks, he could probably get into the
top one hundred on the Player Raider. He's within you know,

(44:11):
he's close to that. So yeah, I mean, maybe fifty
five to seventy next year, and at that price, I'm in,
But not at you know, his price this year, at
twenty five to thirty five where he was going this year, now,
there's no way I'm in on that. I don't think
he's gonna be there though, I don't think he'll be
that hot.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, I understand what you're saying about Jackson Merrill. And
believe me as somebody who was very very high on
Jackson Merrill and has dealt with his very unproductive season.
You know, at least he's been injured all year Gray,
I mean, he's had something every single month this year.
I can at least hang my hat on that a
little bit, like why at Langford has been a picture

(44:54):
of health and he's still been just just like Okay,
He's definitely better than what Jackson Merrill. Believe me, I
really wish I had made that swap, given what Maryl's
given me this season. Just just writing some narratives here
in my head and I can at least write one
for Merrill.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
I don't know Langford.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I feel like Texas is either really bad at developing
hitting prospects, which is very possible, or that Park is
just sucking all the fun out of this otherwise pretty
solid lineup.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Yeah, I mean, it could be, It could be.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
It could be.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Uh, it could be a combination of both. I you know,
I think a Dollas, Garcia and Corey seekers solid years
were you know, probably hinting at the fact that Arlington
can play, you know, for offense if the guy is
hitting well.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah, but nobody's doing well this year. I mean, Langford
is by far the best offensive player.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Terrible.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Everybody is terrible this year.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
Everyone's terrible this year, go off except for.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
I mean, it could be like like how Wriglely played
last season, where it just unexcusably blew in Uh, you know,
in an inside park. That's That's definitely my favorite joke
to make on this podcast. Benny Pascentino power breakout?

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Is it happening? Gray?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
He has six home runs in seven games, nine home
runs in fourteen games. The underline numbers look the same. So,
like the hard hit rate is up three percent, which
is negligible. Uh, the average eggs velocity is up less
than point five and the launch angle is pretty much
the same. So are we seeing something here with Vinny

(46:52):
p or is this just the miraculous run that we
saw from him like never before.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
I really don't know, like what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (47:03):
He does not have this kind of power, ye, Vinny Pischetti.
I you know, I didn't think. Yeah. I mean, well
you say he didn't have it, but he's doing it,
so yeah, yeah, I mean I was in the same
I was in the same camp as you that I

(47:24):
didn't think he had the power in him. But he's
doing it. So, you know, I don't know. I was
saying this on the on the site, so this is
this is a this is punishing the people who actually
read what I write. But I was saying on the
site the other day that like, if you have you know,
a good if you have a great month and not

(47:46):
a terrible other five months, you're basically, you know, you're
like a top fifty to seventy overall guy on the
play Raider, which is a really solid season. I mean,
that's what what Vinnie Pascatino's doing. He's he was a
solid ish I mean, he was like, Okay, he wasn't

(48:10):
like he wasn't necessarily like the worst hitter in the
world for five months or I guess for at this
point for four months, and now in the fifth month
in August, he's having a great month. So it's like
that's all you really need in order to like propel
yourself up into a fantasy you know, somewhat valuable fantasy asset.

(48:35):
I like him usually, like he's having a bizarre year
because I liked him coming into the year and I
drafted him because I was expecting like twenty two to
twenty four homers and a two eighty average, and that's
not what he's doing. Where he's like he's become like

(48:55):
this power hitter and he wasn't hitting for a decent
an average for a while until he got hot this month,
and now his average is up a little bit. It's
actually up over what it was last year. Even though
I always thought of him as like, you know, the
two ninety hitter that he was in his rookie year,

(49:16):
which was only half a season, but still I thought
he was I thought he was going to be a
to eighty to two ninety five hitter. That's what he
always struck me as, uh and not really like huge power.
But yeah, I guess, you know, guys grow into their
power a little bit. He's twenty seven years old. Things

(49:39):
look like like they check out under the hood. He
never was a guy who struck out a lot. So
if he's able to do this, I mean we've been
asking for, you know, a first baseman to like, you know,
show themselves for like next year. And it looks like

(50:00):
Vinnie Pisquetti is you know, it looks like he's doing
that a bit. He's uh, he's he's showing you know him,
and it's gonna be Nick Kurtz Vinnie and then you
know those other guys now, I mean, Alonzo and Flatter
are still good, but yeah, I mean it's like I

(50:22):
think it's a it's a promising thing for Vinnie Pascatino.
What he's doing this year, or excuse me, what he's
doing in August. But you know, back to my first point,
you're gonna draft him in like the top fifty. Next year,
you're gonna get to May. He's gonna have three homers.
You're gonna be like, what did I do? Why did

(50:43):
I do this? Why did I Why did I draft
Vinnie Pascatino? God damn? And then you know, and then
you're gonna go and draft your fantasy football team and
happen to catch the ticker on the bottom of the
sports he's gonna say Pascatino hits his twelfth homer of August,

(51:04):
You're like, ah, now, but yeah, I mean he looks
like he's he looks like he's a solid hitter that
didn't necessarily have power, I guess, you know, like he
always made good contact. He's he's solid in that respect.

(51:24):
And if he could add you know, thirty homers to
what I think is a potential two seventy five to
eighty five average, yeah, I mean that's good.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah. I don't know if I'm willing to give him
a two eighty averages at this point. I know he
hit two ninety five his rookie season, but he is
I mean, he's not even hitting you know, even with
this hot streak, He's hitting two sixty four on the season.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Gray.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
If he continues this to the end of the season,
he might get to like, well, like two seventy maybe
low two seventies. If he's really hot the rest of
the season like his that I don't know. I don't
know if I'm willing to give him a two eighty
bump off of a month of being hot.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
It is a great hot streak.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
It is better than you know, it is proven that
he is the rich man's Eric Cosmo, or not the
class Eric Cosmer at least, But you I think there
is something to look at here, like his his average
bat speed and his fast swing rate are both up
significant amounts this year.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
So I do think he's just he's.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Kind of decided he wants to swing harder like and
he If he makes that decision and he continues to
hit two sixty five to two seventy five like, then
he becomes an interesting player.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
I don't you know.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
We'll see how where that kind of caps out at
where the swinging harder affects the average, but right now
it's absolutely the working for him. Let's talk about a
rare topic for us.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Gray.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
This is this is something that we don't really dive
into too much, and that is somebody who plays for
the Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
And we're talking about him in a positive way.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Yeah, I mean we were not just putting them down
over and over and over again. Here we're actually gonna
bring up.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Something positive and that is Colson Montgomery Gray. He has
eight home runs in August. Now I'm gonna now say
something negative about him because it's the White Sox.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
He is only hitting two o three.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
It is two twenty five to the second half, so
this second half little bit better, but two three in
August run.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
He's hitting two thirty. You're you're missed you type Okay.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
I didn't get the update for today. I guess when
I was putting the notes together. Sorry, sometimes you do
the notes before the stats get released, because you know
that's that's how it goes when you have a job.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
But hey, what can I say, Greg?

Speaker 1 (53:52):
I will say in August hard hit is up to
from thirty seven and a half or sorry that Yeah,
average exon velocity is up to ninety point six from
eighty six point one, and the launch angle's up from
fourteen point nine to twenty point eight. I don't know
that the launch angle boost is really helping that average
as we're seeing, but it's certainly helping the home runs.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Is there something here that's useful on the Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I just looked up his his splits and he's batting third.
A small sample size, but he's hitting one one sixty
seven as he when he bats third. Ooh, trying to
try to make this positive. Hold on me, let me regroup.

(54:43):
Hold on, I gotta find positive. No, you know, honestly,
I like I like what we're seeing so far in
the since its call up. I mean, he's got thirteen
homers in the second half.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That's good. There's nothing wrong with that. I think there
could be something here as far as power. But I mean,
you know, you you might have I said one sixty
seven for batting third, you you said two oh three.
I mean it might have been a Freudian slip. Maybe

(55:22):
its two thirty. Whatever the case is. I mean, you
can't hit for average, so that's a problem, right. I mean,
I'm just throwing that out there. But you know, it
seems like that could be an issue that even even
when he's hitting well, he's not hitting for a good average.
You know, right now, he's currently sixth in the league.

(55:46):
Well he's actually he's tied for fourth in the league
for homers in the second half. He's behind Sae lang Lear's,
Kyle Schwarber, Shohey Otani, and he's tied with Pascatino. And
you know, all those guys are excellent or excuse me,

(56:06):
a junior Camerino. Did I say him? No, I don't know. Yeah,
he you know, all those guys are excellent, and he's
the only one that really isn't. But I mean he's
also a rookie, so it's like there's there's a chance
for him potentially. His k's are way too high, he

(56:28):
doesn't walk at all. I mean, there is there's definitely
issues here with his profile. But he's a rookie and
he's hitting a ton of homers, So you know, I
would say, potential is you know, off the charge. Really,
I mean, the potential is really good. He was considered

(56:48):
a you know, a decent enough prospect, but you know
in TRIPAA he hit two eighteen. He can't make contact
in the majors. There's there's some real serious issues here
where I struggle to see him as a long term

(57:09):
solution without like some major adjustments or something something changing
in his profile. Because right now, I would say, projecting
him for next year, I would probably project him for
like twenty four homers, five steals, and roughly two fifteen average.

(57:29):
I mean, it's okay for a deep league, but that's
that's hard to roster in most leagues.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Yeah, you know it almost.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
It kind of feels Jack Peterson, like, like he cannot
hit lefties gray he's one seventy one versus lefties. He's
hitting two fifty two versus right e's. It looks like
a little Jack Peterson, he like he can hate the
ball hard, but he can only do it versus right ees.
So it feels like a platoon situation if he was
on you know, a real team. But because he's on

(58:01):
the White Sox, he's gonna play every day and he's
the average is gonna hurt for it.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
But if you're in daily and.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
You can start him just versus righties, which again should
be about uh more than half sixty percent of time,
Like that. That feels like a winning strategy if you
can kind of kind of pair him with somebody in
a daily league. But yeah, for for the average, if
you're gonna play, if you have to play him in
a weekly league, it's definitely gonna take some hits here.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
I again, I don't hate him. The power is real,
and you're chasing power alone. There's there's a lot worse
places to put your put your bet.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Right, it feels like a guy who is excellent for like,
if you can get him cheap enough for an am I.
I'm thinking twenty twenty six here. If you can cheap
enough for an am I in an ale only league
and you back into twenty seven homers and a to

(59:00):
fifteen average, I'm happy with that in ale only in
a twelve team mix league. I don't think he's gonna
be roster ball in a ten team mix league. There's
absolutely no way.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
In a fifteen team mix league, I think he's gonna
be a flyer for you know, am I and hopefully
hopefully he figures out his average, or you just bench
him against lefties like you mentioned.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Yeah, I think that's you know, that's that's probably what
we're looking at here, and just to you know, figure
out the whole average situation, Gray. Two thirty is his
average for the season. That's number that you you were
saying to me, Oh yeah yeah. Two twenty five is
the second half. Two oh three is August.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Just proof that Great does not listen or read my notes.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Uh whoa, No, I.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Literally digest them. I'm like staring at the notes, but
I'm not reading them.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
Like reading the is so old, man, I mean, come on,
I hate to tell you, Gray, you're you're kind of
getting old. I don't know, I don't know how to
break that to you. I'm also getting kind of old,
So that's that's also a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
So is our audience or that's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
The they're they're aging with us, Gray, Uh bet right now?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Is our audience is too old to figure out chachip.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
They also cannot figure out how to unsubscribe from us,
so they just keep listening. Gray.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Really appreciate that about them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
You know what I else I appreciate, Gray is that
Daniel Polincia got four saves this week, and the national
nightmare that is the Cub's bullpen was solved for at
least one week. Do you feel like Polincia is is
now the Cub's closer or is this just you know,
kind of Philadelphia two point Oh they don't have one,

(01:00:57):
so you know, beware.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, no, I think he's I think he's the closer.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
I think what was it, Kittridge kit Ridge, Yeah, yeah, him.
I think that was actually a part that Francis McDermott played. Yeah,
you know, I I think Kittridge wash it looked like
a solid vulture guy for you know, deep leagues. But yeah,

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Plenty has, Plunzy has been solid. I don't know, I
haven't had any issues with them. I think you're you're
too invested at being a Cubs fan. I think Plenty
has been fine.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Uh you know, Gray, it's just again, as soon as
they get the closer role, things go back. Like the
bullpen itself has been much better, like the overall bullpen,
but as soon as we try to give somebody a save,
it just kind of falls apart. Like I don't think
Plancy had given up a run in like ten games,
fifteen games, and then they gave him a save up

(01:02:03):
and he immediately gave up around and blew the same
like immediately it happened. He's got it together though. Four
saves last week absolutely grabbed him up. He is the
Cubs closer for the time being. Also great Atlanta, they
didn't even have saves for a long time, so we
weren't even worried about it, but they had saves Gray

(01:02:23):
and it all went to Russell Iglesias.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
So is he the closer? Is he's worth picking him
up now?

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think he's probably rostered in every league.
But yeah, Roscio Iglesias. Actually, I just happened to have
the Player Raider open, and Rossio Iglesias has been a
top twenty reliever this year on the Player Raider, just

(01:02:52):
below Emmanuel Class. What happened with that? Wait? What happens
with Wait? Louise l Ortiz? I don't know what the
l's for. I'm thinking loser, But Louise l Ortiz and
Emmanuel Class, say what happened there? Bro? What happened? Are
they around? Still? Is that still going on? What are

(01:03:16):
they really are? They wait until had a big.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Broom out Gray and they just shove that right underneath
the carpet there. No, there's actually.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
You know Rob and Fred walking in with the with
the broom. He's like, what you get that? Lift up
the rug? We got some sweeping under to do.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
So there was some news yesterday and basically they said,
after reviewing the evidence to what they've seen so far,
highly highly likely.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
They are not coming back this season, which we all expected.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
So sorry if you were still hanging on to Emmanuel
class a uh over in San Francisco, Ryan Walker gets
called upon for a save Randy Randy Rodriguez.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
We now find out it's injured. So is it Is
it back to uh? Ryan Walker? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Yeah, I mean it seems that way. They they do
not seem like they want to just like declare, I
guess Randy Rodriguez is uh, he's got a bit of
an injury. So it's not fair to say they can't
decide on the guy when a guy they decide on
got injured. So yeah, I guess Ryan Walker would be

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my pick up if I were, if I were out
there looking for saves, Ryan Walker seems fine too. I
don't want to uh, I don't want to make like
it's uh, you know, a terrible pick up. It's it's fine.
I don't know if we have as of the recording
of this at least, we don't really have a definitive
knowledge on how bad Randy Rodriguez is. So if Randy

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Rodriguez was just out on Sunday and comes back on Tuesday, uh,
then Ryan Walker is going to go back to being useless.
So yeah, I would pick up Walker, but I don't
know how. I don't know how how good, how worthwhile
it's gonna be as of right now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yeah, and for what it's worth, Ryan Walker's been really
good anyway, so you're not really hurting yourself by picking
him up, even if he kind of loses the role eventually.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
The numbers have been really solid from him after a
little bit of a rough spell.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Let's move on to waivers. Great, give the people some bats?

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Oh keep dukes? So looking at the oh someone we
mentioned earlier? All right, so we have Jared Triolio. Triolio,
Mark Fiendez hit three homers in three straight at bats
and then and then started grounding out again. But yeah

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he's hot. Okay, back to the hot waver guy. Okay,
Mark Fiento's Jared Triolo Jeff McNeil we mentioned earlier, who
I probably wouldn't pick up, but he has been hot.
Luis Matos has been hot. He was called up recently.
Lords Gorriel Junior has been hot. Colson Montgomery, who we've

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mentioned previously, Ryan O'Hearn has been hot. Trent Grisham hitting leadoff,
hitting homers, been hot. Nathaniel Lowe has been hot, Sterley Marte,
Joe Adell, Tommy fam Alex Friedland, he should be on
waivers in most leagues. He's been hot. Alex call Hey,

(01:06:38):
what does this say? Alex podcast? What's going on here?
Mike Yastremsky he's been hot. Colton Kowser, I just got
a notification on my phone that he just homered. And
he's also been hot. And Carlos Correa has been hot.
So there's some names for you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
Yep, great names there, Gray. Moving on to the pitcher.
These pretzels are making me thirsty. Versus Colorado, that is,
Jason Alexander, Jose Cantana versus Arizona. I was gonna say
Dean Kramer, but he did not like Samuel Bassalo behind
the plate and it showed, So I am benching Dean.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Kramer for the time being.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
Taiwan Walker at the Mets, Colin Ray at San Francisco,
Tomo Juku Sigano versus Boston and at San Francisco playing
curse overs Cincinnatiquin Priest versus Arizona, Jose Soriano at Texas
at Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Do you have any other specific questions?

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
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the comments section on rasball dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
May your lineups be perfect, May you win your matchups.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
I know there are some head to head playoffs starting
this week, so best of luck to all of you
and I will talk to you later.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Great, all right, lads? Oh oh well she