Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Freeman, Thames, Buy Low/Sell High

Episode Date: April 18, 2017

Eric Thames is out-homering MLB teams and Freddie Freeman looks just as good as he looked last year. Would you swap Thames for Jose Abreu? Swap Freeman for Josh Donaldson? ... Plenty of trade talk today as we give our favorite buy low and sell high candidates. What could you get for Mitch Haniger and Jake Lamb? Which closer are we telling you to buy low on? ... Thoughts on yesterday's standouts such as Jordan Montgomery and Chris Devenski. Plus widely-owned players you can feel free to drop ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even if their dogs are great, help me find a hero, Twitter, Chapman. Contest, more home runs than Boston. Yes, you heard that right. And have you heard of the new Cubs second baseman, Anthony Rizzo? We got a big show today on Fantasy Baseball today, including Team Name Tuesday. But first, are you hiring with ZipRecruiter.com? You can post your job to 100 plus job sites, including social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, all with a single click. Try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash strike.

That's ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. All right, we are non-zero chance. The band is back together. All four of us are here, and we've got, I think of fun show today, some Bilos. So hi. Chris DeVinsky with, Chris Tavensky is the number 11 overall pitcher in Roto leagues right now, and he is the number one relief pitcher in Roto leagues, except for Dillon Bundy, who I don't really count.

Good morning, guys. Guys, you watch Brockmeier yet? I have not. I have not. I need to. Brockmeier, Heath. Are our co-workers in that show? What's Brockmeier?

Well, I told you about it yesterday on the show. It's the Hank Azaria baseball show. Is it good? It's amazing. It's not amazing. It's very funny. Our co-worker, Jonah Carey, is in the most recent episode, apparently. I was watching a preview for it.

Oh, very exciting. All right. Well, I just want to plug that again. I want to congratulate you and Scott. On what? Well, you only have. I've had three category wins for the whole season, but you've already got three through Monday of this week. So you got a shot.

Of course, the other guy hasn't had a pitcher go yet. All right. Thank you. Thank you for that. Pouring cold water on it. So listen, Eric Thames is our Trevor story. We found the guy that's moving up the rankings or at least making us think about moving him up the rankings. I wish you were shortstop-eligible-like story.

But Thames is homeward in five straight games. We'll get to that. Ryan Braun's off to a great start. I got some guys that you might want to consider dropping. Jack Peterson already. He's sitting against lefties. He has sat five of seven times against lefty starters. But let's start with the position eligibility thing.

Because thank you to the listeners for alerting me. You guys were aware of it. Anthony Rizzo has made two appearances at second base. Awesome. The circumstances suggest he might get to five and become second base eligible. And there is some controversy brewing in Fort Lauderdale. Can I just, can I, this is how dumb this thing is. He got, he played second base on Monday night.

No. Played in quotation. He played second base on Sunday night because when they do their bunt defense, they move him to second base and Javier Baez or Ben Zobras to first when they're playing second. Fine. He got second base, a second base appearance on Sunday because he fielded a ball and threw it to the first base.

He threw it to the second baseman. Turn to the double play. Throw it to the shortstop. Roll the pair. Throw it to the shortstop. As second baseman do. Yesterday, he did the same thing, except the ball was not hit to him.

So he did not get a second base appearance. I thought he got his second game yesterday. I do not believe he did. He has two games now, and he had one yesterday. Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with him fielding the ball. Oh, no. Yeah, the whole rants. No, no.

Validated. situation where because they align their, when they know the opposition is bunting, they align their defense in a way so that Baez is technically standing closer to first base than Rizzo does. And certain umpiring crews, it seems to be a judgment call. But they apply, they apply, they apply a rule where they make Rizzo take off his extra long first baseman's gloves. Since he's not the closest fielder to first base. And I think whenever that happens, it's officially documented as a. a position change.

Yep. And it's happened two days in a row now. So it happened once last year, I think, just once. But obviously it was the same umpiring crew working yesterday and two days ago. So it's happened now twice in a row. And I would imagine there are other umpires who are going to enforce it too. It's extremely dumb. Yeah.

I love it. It's like when you shift and a lot of teams will bring their, they'll leave their shortstop on the left side of the infield and bring the third basement over to the right side of the field. Isn't then the shortstop playing third base by that same logic? No. Yes. Well, I think since the umpiring crew is not having to intervene, it's not documented as a position change. It's just, it's just a shift in that case. I think that's what would make it get annoying. Like, I'm not as annoyed as Chris is. I think it's kind of interesting and a little cool, though, you know, obviously I'm going to be annoyed when somebody's starting Rizzo at second base against me.

That's what's wrong. It's that someone's going to get an elite first baseman whose second base eligible because of shenanigans. But it's an aberration and, you know, aberrations can be cool. What will drive me crazy is if the Cubs defense against Bunce proves to be so effective that everybody starts doing it. And suddenly every first baseman becomes eligible at second base. Then at every second basement at first. Yeah. Which is great.

Who doesn't want to play Josh Harrison as a first base? We're getting kind of ahead of our first base. ourselves with that, but it's conceivable it could happen the way teams copy each other. I'm just searching my lineups hoping I have a team with Daniel Murphy and Anthony Rizzo so I can play Rizzo at second and Murphy at first. Well, I mean, okay, we can debate the merits of it and whatever, but if it happens, how big of a deal is that for Anthony Rizzo? He's the number two second base.

That's really valuable. Yeah, but he's arguably the number two first baseman also. Right, but it's a lot easier to find. the number 13 second baseman's not nearly as good at the number 13th first baseman. I would much rather start Brandon's belt or Hanley Ramirez than whoever the number 13. Those guys are higher than 13th at first base, at least Ramirez is. Hey, Eric, James. I've got Ramirez exactly 13th.

Yeah, I think I have him 12. Okay. The replacement level at first base is a lot higher than in. I really don't think that's true, especially with all the players who've gained eligibility at second base this year. It's arguably the deepest position. and fantasy. Eric claims his first base eligible now, too. Okay. I definitely don't think that's true. At the very

least, not everybody who has Rizzo is going to suddenly start playing in the second base. It's not that big... I think it would be pretty close to universal. Well, not if you have Al-Tubei. It's pretty close to you. You're not going to have both of them. One theme of your league has Jose Al-Tuva. I mean, we were just debating yesterday whether or not

to drop Devin Travis. I don't think we've had that that debate about Brandon Bell or any of the other similarly regarded Well, Devin Travis has been awful. Also, I have Devin Travis 21st in second base. Just because he has been awful. We're talking about, yeah.

Like, I think you're talking about comparing Hanley, Thames, Carlos Santana to LaMayhew, Farazza. But you're not really talking about that because all those guys are owned. So if you really want to think about it, like replacement level,

if you move Rizzo to second base, you've got to be talking about guys who are on waivers, that you could pick up and play at first base. Well, presumably, everybody who owns Rizzo doesn't have a waiver wire second basement. They already have a pretty good second basement. So it's not like they're just going to dump that second basement because they can play Rizzo there now. But some of the first baseman you could conceivably pick up would be like Lucas Duda or Ryan Zimmerman or Mark Reynolds even.

Like, I just think the replacement level at first base is a lot higher. I just don't know that that's the right way to analyze it because rosters are already constructed now. Nobody's constructing a roster off the waiver wire. It gives you a ton more flexibility. It does give you more flexibility for sure. And, well, look, Matt Carpenter is first, second, and third base eligible, right? And I think a lot of people, we talked about this during draft season a lot. Like, you're somewhat likely to be playing that Carpenter at first base, even though we're second.

Daniel Murphy, too. I own Murphy in quite a few leagues. I think I'm playing at first base and more than not. You drafted more second baseman than anybody else, though. Your common theme was you had two or three second basemen on most of your teams. Because there's a lot of depth there. It's not like I – it's not like I reached for extra second baseman. No, I just think you like those guys a lot more than we did.

That's why you think second base is a lot deeper. All right, let's move on. And also position eligibility, Josh Harrison is now eligible at third base, and he was hit by a pitch and four straight plate appearances over two games. So congratulations, Josh Harrison. Let's talk Milwaukee Talkie. It doesn't really make sense, but we're going with it. Eric Thames has homered in five straight games.

He has hit more home runs than the Boston Red Sox and as many home runs as the Toronto Blue Jays with seven on the season. And Thames is the number one hitter in fantasy batting 368. Actually, I think I might be wrong about that because he now has seven home runs. He's a number one hitter. He's taking 405 with a 479 on base and a thousand slug. He was hitting 368 yesterday. So now it's 405 with seven home runs. Five walks, 11 strike.

out. Does anybody have something to say about Thames that we did not say yesterday? We would sell high on Thames for Encarnacion, maybe for a guy like Carlos Santana. Anyone want to update their Eric Thames's thoughts? And of course, Chris, you weren't on yesterday. So take it away. Well, I do want to point out that the strikeout rate has come down over the last five games. And part of that's just that he's hitting the crap out of the ball. But a few days ago, he was striking out about a third of the time. But his swinging strike rate is exceptionally low. It's 7.8%. That's the kind of number you usually see from like Muky Betts or Michael Brantley. Not a big hulking all-out power hitters.

So that's really interesting. And it's very early on in the season, so we'll see. But that seems to be a promising sign for me. I will have to put my trade chart out tomorrow, which means I have to really feel confident in where I have Eric Thame. ranked and I'm going to struggle with that

I think you have to put him at least as high as 14th at first base I'm not sure what to do with him in the Santana, Breu Hanley range I will probably leave him behind those guys for now. I didn't, I actually

only slotted him 16th for now. I mean another day I may have to, another day with the Homer I may have to look at it again but I don't want I don't want to lead my opinion with Thames with me calling him a cell high. The only hurdle he has to clear now to convince me he's a good player is, you know, the only question for me is how soon does he start playing every day

against all left-handed pitchers? And I think it's inevitable if he keeps performing anywhere close to this level. But I think he's going to be a big deal. And it is worth noting that he could get exposed playing every single. every day. You know, facing more lefties. There's a chance that... Yeah, he could. It's that he can't hit lefties. I'm thinking of that as a positive development, if it happens. Are you guys going Thames or Greg Byrd at this point? Thames. Thames. He's one spot ahead of Bird for me. And he's right behind Hosmer and Poohulls. That's

where it gets tricky for me. I could see leapfrogging him and making him 14th, like Keith was saying, which would put him behind Chris Davis and Hanley Ramirez. Yeah, it'd be interesting if someone, if I don't know, Eric Thames, but if someone offered me Jose Abraeu for Thames. Abraeu is off to a terrible start. But don't you... We've seen that from him before, too. I know, but it lasted like half a season last year, you know.

I don't know when he's going to come out of it. I feel like you've got to take that, right? You'd have to trade Thames for Abraeu, right? If I had Thames? Yeah, either way. Like, you'd rather have... That's what I'm really struggling with right now. I kind of feel like with Hanley...

My breaking point is probably Santana. I would have to take Santana. In a points league. I don't know that I'd have to take him in a Roto. With Hanley and Ramirez, I would just kind of feel like I've already got Thames. I'm not sure that there's a big difference. I'm probably not making that trade. And I understand my hesitance, even though I haven't ranked lower than Thames, sounds kind of funny.

But I do think there's something to the idea that when you have the player who looks like he could drastically outperform expectations that improves your season's overall your team's overall potential ceiling and you're kind of sacrificing

a little of that for Abraeu who's a borderline top 12 second first baseman even at his best oh borderline we all rank him barely inside the top 12th well you're ranking based on the best he was that was his best his best is clearly a top five first one right

Because he's been that. All right. Yeah. Fine. He's been a first round caliber hitter in the past, but I'm not thinking that's the realistic outcome for a brayu anymore. All right. All right.

So let's continue our Milwaukee talking with Ryan Braun, who is the number three outfielder in points league, number four outfielder in Roto leagues right now. And Bron is off to a good start. He has four steals. He has, I believe, five home runs. And, yeah, he's batting 289 with five home runs, nine walks, 12 strikeouts. And this was poo-poohed by Chris and Heath when I brought it up in the preseason. This is his first healthy preseason for Ryan Braun in three years.

Two off-seasoned him surgery, last off-season back surgery, and nothing this year. So I think he's only missed one game. He had like a back thing. But, yeah, no, Braun's off a great start. And for a guy who was the fourth best outfielder in points per game last year, being drafted, you know, around the 12 best outfielder, it's encouraging. talk someone else Brian Braun

I mean I didn't have any real concerns about him coming in so he's being the stud I expected him to be All right would you guys rather have Pollock or Braun I would still rather have Pollock This is one of those situations where I don't think anything I've seen changes my opinion about Ryan Braun at all Like is there any reason to think he wasn't capable

of this kind of 13 game stretch No, four steals is pretty good, though. That's true. And not just that. Like, he was, as I mentioned, the fourth best outfielder on a per-game basis last year. So, it's just a matter of how many games he's going to play. And they don't seem to be handling him with Kiglub's yet. That could change.

But, like, he has a 451 Wobah, which is really good. He had, I'm looking at the rolling 13-game averages for last season. and he had a 50-game stretch like this. Last year, he had another 30-game stretch like this. Like, Ryan Braun is perfectly capable of this. This is exactly within the expected range for Ryan Braun. So it's just... This hasn't changed my view of Ryan Braun in any way.

Fair enough. Let's see if your views have changed on these players. This segment is called Get Out of Dodge with a question mark. And it is inspired. Yeah, Heath likes it. You like it. I like it a lot just because of the first name on the list, and Chris's, this hasn't changed anything. Well, it's inspired by two Dodgers, not just the first one.

The first one is Jack Peterson, who's 86% owned, and last year he was the number 47 outfielder in points leagues and number 44 in Roto. And Peterson, you know, he was 246, but he hit 25 home runs and stole six bases, 26 doubles. but he only had the 54th most played appearances among outfielders. MLB outfielders, not outfield eligible players. Anyway, Peterson is 86% on it. And he's off to a slow start, but he's also sitting against lefties. Five of the seven lefties they face. That's a lot, by the way.

I don't know why. He's hitting 429 against him. Yeah. That's the – my opinion on Jock Peterson's skill set hasn't changed at all. He still has a – he has a 97-mile-per-hour average exit velocity. He's got a 38% hard hit. rate. I still think Jock Peterson's a really good hitter, but I thought he was going to play more against lefties. When do we start saying about hitters? Well, his velocity's down. You know,

it's still too early to say that it's a changed skill set. No, no, I mean, like, that we always say about pitchers, oh, that his velocity's up, his velocities now. Now it's stat-cast. We're talking about hitters in terms of velocity. We'll start saying it about hitters, too. Well, what do you think, Chris, you really like Jack Peterson? Are you, are you, are you, Are you worried? And do you think that 86% is too high for Peterson? Probably. The Dodgers don't seem to like him as much as I do.

And then that seems to be the main thing. I expected, or at least I was hoping, to see him play more regularly. And since that's not happening, it doesn't really matter how good I think he can be. Adrian Gonzalez is 94% owned. He has no extra base hits against lefties, and he sat yesterday against the left. He's just been bad. He's batting 250 with no homers. But seven walks, seven strikeouts.

So I know we don't talk about Adrian Gonzalez too often, but do you think that he's going to just have a terrible year? I think 94% is too high because I don't know that I really have a spot for him on a standard. He could be on my bench in a standard points league, but I'm not starting him. Ryan Zimmerman is 66% owned, and I'd rather own Ryan Zimmerman. Okay. I can't imagine I'm owning Adrian Gonzalez unless it's a middle infield. corner infield league, right? Yeah. And even then, there's so many good

third basemen. Yeah. Like Mustakis, you'd rather play Mustakis over Adrian Gonzalez at corner infield, right? Right. That's close. That's really close. I don't know. How much is Nicholas Castiano's owned? He's 80%. I would definitely rather have Nick Castellanos than

Adrian Zalas. Mustacas is about 70%. And, yeah, and Gonzalez is almost universally owned. Okay, so he stinks. How about these two outfield that are 80% own. Cole Calhoun, who's off to a slow start, and Carlos Beltron, who is six days away from his 40th birthday, he is off to a slow start. He's batting 260, but two walks, 13 strikeouts, no home runs, three doubles in 13 games. Cole Calhoun and Carlos Belchon, 80% own.

Should we get out of Dodge with these guys and exchange them for a hot hand? I'm much more concerned about Beltron, obviously, because a couple reasons. The age is a big one. but the crowded playing time issue there as well. If he's bad for a month, you just may see him as a pinch hitter. Yeah, he hasn't gotten squeezed yet, but it's certainly possible. And he's another guy, his exit velocity is down to 79 miles per hour, which is bad. Yeah, he's a player.

Beltron is a player. I've been dropping for some hot hand outfielder, who I think are probably too highly owned now for you to get. and, you know, like Mitch Hanigur, Manuel Margot, even. I think I'd rather have him than Beltron at this point. But I don't think Cole Calhoun, if we're talking like shallower leagues, like his final stat line is probably going to be about what we expect it to be,

but it's just not a very imposing stat line. It's one you could probably live without. And you may be too late to Margo and Hanager. You may have to wait for the next crop, of outfielders to really grab our attention on the waiver wire. But I don't think in those shallow three outfielder leagues, Calhoun is undropable. Well, Calhoun is best in OBP leagues or points leagues because that's what he does well.

He walks. He was the number 23 outfielder in that format last year, number 21. He was number 36 in Rodo, and that was playing 157 games. So, you know, Aaron Judge, by the way, is 81% own, Chris. But I'm thinking more along the lines of, like, you sure, you could drop Calhoun and Beltron for an outfielder. You could also drop them for a two-star pitcher that you're just going to dump the next week. I mean, I think they're sort of replaceable parts, you know?

Just don't make it two-star, Tom. That didn't end will. I mean, it kind of goes without saying. If your league is shallow enough that you can afford to bench Calhoun, then I don't think he's going to be a real difference maker for you even when he does heat up. Yeah, I'd be willing to drop him to pick up like Matt Bush or Brad Brock even. Yeah. Okay.

We'll talk about Jordan Montgomery a little bit later, Sam Dyson on the DL, buy low, sell high, that's coming up very soon. Would you guys get out of Dodge on Jarrell Cotton? He's 81% owned. He is a two-star pitcher, so I'm sure that's part of it. But, you know, people had some high hopes for Jarrell Cotton. He's had only one good start in three. What do you think about him?

It does seem kind of high given, you know, kind of a middling prospect pedigree, and he made, what, five starts last year? which were good, but like this year, nine walks already in 16 and two-thirds innings, and control is supposed to be his best asset. So I'd be comfortable letting him go for a more current pitcher off the way, one who's attracting more attention now. I think there's a good chance you're picking him back up later in the year, but he just does not seem to have the touch or the feel right now.

Right, yeah, very good, very good. Would you drop to Rell Cotton for Jordan Montgomery? No. Sure. Maybe. Jordan Montgomery couldn't have asked for a much better start with Tampa Bay and the White Sox that should be noted. And neither of them have, neither of the starts have been that great. This one was pretty good.

He's even below, like I called Cotton's prospect pedigree, middling Montgomery's is below that. He was pretty good last night until that seventh inning. He also had like 17 swinging strikes in the first start. Right. That's really good. How many do you have yesterday? Like 11 or something? He had 11, which is a pretty good number.

I'm just not sure that's enough of the number absent anything else to really make me devote a roster spot to him. Well, we're talking about dropping cotton. Then I just want to say about Montgomery, he did have six scoreless innings, and he gave up an infield single, then kind of a softly hit single, and then a very hard hit three-run homer, and that was it for him. so he didn't record it out in the seventh. But, yeah, he did well. But, man, the White Sox, especially without Todd Frazier.

I mean, that's an Brayu can't hit anything. It's an easy, easy task. All right, yesterday's standouts, you know, we talked names. I think Chris Devensky needs to be discussed. He's 35% owned. Two scoreless innings, no hits, no walks, four strikeouts. As I mentioned, Devensky is the number 11 pitcher in Roto. The number one true relief pitcher, Dylan Bundy, is ahead of him.

Davensky's actually a reliever. He's got a 0.82ERA, 21 strikeouts to one walk in 11 innings. Amazing. And a 4-5-5 whip. And I do think there's a chance he could join the rotation at some point if fire stinks. But yeah, would you rather have Dellen Batanzas or Chris Dvinsky? I think that's right where he deserves to be.

I'm not sure. Like this is a weird situation where I'm not sure I would drop Dellen Batanzas. for Chris Davensky, but I think Chris Devensky's probably must own in Roto. If they're both on the waiver wire, I'm still picking up Patances, but I do think Devinsky needs to be the next non-closer

that you're looking at. Were there any other big standouts from yesterday's games that we didn't talk about? Probably. There were lots of them. There are the notes, right? Who? It was a big night for lots of different players.

Freddie Freeman? Many players doing things. Matt Holiday had a three-run home coming back from injury, I'd benched him in a lot of leagues, but I still like his setup the way the Yankees are playing him every day and batting him, what, clean up most nights? Did you know he hit the second longest home run of the season? It's like 400, almost 470 feet, or almost 460 feet, I think. Yeah, it was the fourth longest, according to hit tracker online, 447 feet. I read in two different spots it was the second longest.

There's two different ways of measuring home runs. Stupid! Constant disagreement between the two of them. Stupidity alert. That's so annoying. It makes it hard to believe anything. Well, are you, it's whether you're trying to measure how far the home run actually landed away from home plate or how far the home run would have landed if whatever it hit wasn't in the way.

Okay. I don't think that's really it. You don't? No, that's not. They're both trying to measure how far the home run would have gone. Okay. From to ground level. There's just two different ways of doing that.

It's just that you're estimating from that point on. Okay. Because there's like 30. But if the math is accurate, there should only be one estimation. Yes, that's correct. No. No, there's someone's math as well. It's a really nilly estimation of two different.

We are not zero chance. Okay, so let's go to the big news then. Sam Dyson's on the deal. We'll talk about Freddie Freeman, by the way. We have some emails to read. I know people want to hear about Freeman who hit two doubles and two homers yesterday. Now, you should check your league setting. I'm pretty sure that anything.

hit off Jared Weaver, they only give you half of the total bases. So he basically had two singles and two doubles less. Actually, no, only three of the hits were off Weaver. So you have to check your league settings. Sam Dyson's on the DL with a quote-unquote hand contusion. Right, wink, wink. And contusion my foot. Exactly.

Matt Bush is going to get the first chance at saves. All right. Any reaction here? We kind of knew. We kind of figured that, right? No, that's great. I mean, it's great for a couple reasons. Dyson going on the DL means the Rangers can't change their mind tomorrow. And they've singled out Bush as the favor to replace him. They're not going to keep his guessing.

They said Bush wouldn't necessarily get all of the save chances, but I imagine if he converts the early ones, he'll keep getting them. And I would guess, I think he's the most talented reliever in the Rangers bullpen, so I don't think he looks back. I think he's just their closer. Okay, if not him, who? Jeffress, I think. Yeah, probably Jeffers. Though Leclerc, I don't think we've... I could see him getting involved to

if Bush struggles or his shoulder hurts again or whatever. They called up Keone Kele. I've seen him picked up, and I think two of my leagues, but they demoted him because he was kind of a jerk face that was not doing well in the clubhouse. Right. No, that's true. I mean, he's better than Jose LeCleckleckleck.

Lark, probably. So if he, you know, if Bush only has the job for a few days and during that time, Kayla dominates, I could see him getting back in the mix, too. All right. Well, let's just hope Matt Bush, you know, takes it and runs with it. Must, must add, I would say, unless saves just don't matter in your league. Rich Hill is on the D.L. with the blisters. And are they thinking about putting Rich Hill in the bullpen? I believe they did say that was something they have to consider. I kind of interpreted it as a reporter, asked them that question specifically, and they weren't just going to shoot it down. Like, they're paying them too much to make them a reliever, right?

Well, the theory is, you know, if he just can't throw that many pitches because of the blisters, they have to move. But that seems like giving in too quickly. I know they're talking to like one of their old trainers, I think, who has some remedies that might help. They're talking about... Get Josh Beckett on the phone. They're talking about changing the grip on his curveball, which probably wouldn't be for the best. I mean, the curveball is so good that you'd hate to mess with it,

what makes it so good. But they're throwing a lot of options out there, things they can try with Rich Hill. They're letting him throw through it. He's actually throwing on the side right now because Dave Roberts said, look, he had a whole offseason to rest. We don't think rest is going to be what fixes it.

All right, so would you drop, would you drop Jarrell Cotton or Jordan Montgomery for Alex Wood? I mean, it is interesting that Alex Wood is throwing a lot harder. I think he's three miles per hour up from where he was last season. He kind of blew my mind in that Cubs start. It wasn't a good start, but his stuff was so electric. He was absolutely nasty against the Cubs. The thing is, he didn't even really need to throw hard to be a mixed league relevant pitcher. So that's, I mean, it's kind of a nice bonus.

But it's funny that you talk about his stuff being electric because I always saw him as a guy who, this stuff's pretty marginal, but he's effective anyway because his delivery is so deceptive. So if he can combine the two, I mean, I don't even know what that kind of upside would look like. I would rather own him than Montgomery, even though I think he'll eventually going to be back in the rotation, who knows what all changes for the Dodgers' rotation between now and then. All right. So that's Alex Wood.

is going to have surgery. He's going to be out for a while. He'll be re-evaluated in six weeks. Wrist injury. Simeon's gone for a while. Adam Rosales is going to be Oakland starting shortstop. Kendall Graben's on the D.L. with a shoulder injury. He may only miss one start. Good news for J.Hap and Aaron Sanchez. It seems they might not miss that much time. And Heath, I know Carter Capps got roughed up in a rehab assignment on Sunday, but, you know, you look at the back end of the Padres bullpen and Caps is 41 percent owned. Do you think that? ownership number should go up.

I think, I don't really care that he got roughed up in a rehab assignment. Brandon Mauer got roughed up in a real baseball game. And he's going to continue to get roughed up because he's not very good. If you've got an open DL spot, I don't know why you wouldn't. Yeah, but he can't be too far away from coming back. No, no, he's got to be pretty close. Can't be more than, what, 17 days? Because of the rehab assignment rules, yeah.

Yeah, it's 20 days or 30 days? 30 for pitchers, maybe? Okay. Are I making that up? I think you're making that up. I think it may have made that up. It's just like the home run distance. That sounds right.

I actually ranked DL stashes right now in fantasy, and Caps checks in 25th for me, which means, you know, 12-team league with only two DL spots. He's just outside of that, but probably somebody has more than two of the 24 ahead of them and is having to stash one on his bench. So I would say he's pretty much worth stashing across the board, Caps is. Yeah, and look, we can't just assume that Carter Caps is going to come back from Tommy John and be the same. But he did have a 116 ERA and struck out 58 batters in 31 innings. He was arguably the best reliever in baseball in 2015. So worth a look. I'm going to tell you who I think the ultimate sell-high candidate is after I tell you about ZipRecruiter.

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at ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. Give it a shot. All right. Last year, I said, early in the year, that Dexter Fowler was the ultimate sell high candidate. And I didn't mean that in a sense of, oh, Dexter Fowler is bad. You're going to rip someone off. You're going to get a great player and give away a bad player and Fowler. No, I meant he's good.

And you can actually get maybe a great player who's struggling for a good player. And that is how I feel right now about Mitch Hanager. Mitch Hanigar's good. I'm convinced he's going to be on rosters all year. But let's turn Mitch Hanigar into a struggling stud. Let's turn Mitch Hanigar and someone else into Edwin and Carnaccio. Isn't there a better version of this? Eric Thames?

Yeah. Okay, fair. Like the number one hitter in fantasy who's not playing every day? Isn't that the much better sell high option? Fine, fine. We already talked about him in that context, though. Exactly. The ultimate one that we haven't talked about.

And look, you want to put Nomar Mazarra in there? That's fine. But Hanaker... No, I don't. You don't? No. Why not? I think Nomar Mazar is better than Mitch Hanaker.

And I don't think Mnizara is going to be as good as he has been so far, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if he's a top 20 outfielder. Okay. Well, my point is, I think that Hanager's a good player. I think you're going to give somebody that's productive, that's valuable, but let's get somebody great out of it. I'm not just going to say, oh, you know, so high on, you know, some scrub who's been producing. So that's where I'm coming from this. Anybody have a problem with selling Hanager to get what you thought was an elite player? Provided it's actually high. I mean, you've, you've, you know, you've added your addendums and clarifications. So, addenda. Did I? Would you trade him for Jose Batista? No. And I think Batista would be better, but it just seems too risky to me.

And I feel like I can do... One for one, I don't know what I can get for Hanager. But, like, I have Hanager and I have Jake Lamb on the same team. And I feel like I could turn them into somebody really... Like, Edward Encarnacion. Would you trade him for Andrew McCutcheon? I wouldn't trade... The Nard Span for Andrew McCutcheon.

You would train Hanigar for... I would not trade Hanigur from McCutche. Yes, I would trade Hanigur for him. Of course I would. I have him ranked like 30 spots higher, Adam. Yeah, but what I'm saying is... I don't necessarily aim higher. You know.

Aim higher. Well, I don't have to be a slave to my rankings. I mean, that's... I'm not saying it's like 21 versus 18. Yeah. It's like 43 versus 14. I think I would trade Hanigur from McCutcheon, but there would be some hesitation. But I hate McCutcheon.

You know. You do. I don't hate anyone, but McCutcheon, not my guy. So. I like the kind of deal you're proposing. What about Polanco? If it's... I'm just worried about his health.

But I would probably take a gamble on that. Like, I expect Hanigur to be better. But I love Polanco. I think Polanco is so much better than McCutche. I only asked because I was trolling you and you did exactly what I hoped you would. I'm using the word expect here. I expect Hanager to be better than Graschenchenchenchenchenchen. than Gregory Polanco was last year.

So it depends on A, Polanco staying healthy and B, him taking a step forward for me to justify that move. I mean, I got Hanager inside my top 40 outfielders now, so it's not like it's... See, my ultimate sell high is a little bit different because he has been one of the best in baseball before, and so I think it's easier for everyone to believe that he's one of the best in baseball again.

Dallas Keigel. Well, it's funny you're bringing up a Mitch Hanigar trade, Adam, because we share a team with Mitch Hanigar on it, and we were offered a trade that includes Dallas Keikl. And I just think the outfielder involved in the trade isn't good enough, but it was an interesting trade. What was the trade? It was they were giving us Dallas Keikle and Carlos Beldron, and we were giving them Rick Porcelo and Mitch Haniguer, which I think was based on the discussion a couple days ago, that we would both prefer Keikled to Porcelain. So if he wants to make that offer straight up, we could go for it. But yeah, I agree with you. I like Hanager quite a bit more than Beltron. You would rather have Dallas Kikell than Rick Porcelo?

Yeah, Adam and I both would. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I would have Dallas Kikele than Rick Porcello. I think they're very similar. They're in a similar spot in my rankings. Yeah. They weren't far apart to begin with, and I think the way early season events have played out.

You'd rather have Kikeld and Porcelo, wouldn't you? Yeah, I mean, I'm just shocked. Why? Scott liked Kikele more than us at the beginning of the year. Yeah, I guess. But back to why he's basically, he's got a 357 FIP in his first three starts. He's got a 3-5-5- or a 3-7-1 FIP over his career. He's not striking people out.

He's one of five pitchers in baseball that's yet to allow a runner that got on base to score. He's pitching like his 2015-so, or 2014-so. An extreme version so far, yes. Well. But when you say all these things, like Dallas Keikl's going to regress, it's not like he has a 280 ERA and it's going to go up to four. He's got a sub-1 ERA right now. So, yeah, of course he's going to regress.

I would think he's probably a mid-3s ERA pitch. He's a mid-three, yes. Oh, I'm going to say he ends the season sub-3. I don't think if he'd done this for five or six starts, then I would say I'd probably agree with you because if he was a mid-threes guy the rest of the year, he was probably still below three. But I would guess he's going to finish right around three, between three and a quarter and three. 3.5. All right, so tell me who you're trading him for. I'm sorry, Chris.

If you think Kikil's a cell high, tell me who you're trading him for. I would trade him for Cole Hamels. Okay. You're not concerned? I think I would trade him for... I think I would look at a sell high by low opportunity with Garrett Cole.

Oh my gosh. You take Garrett Cole over Dallas Kikl? Yes. I don't think Cole's been impressive enough so far to justify that. And I really liked Garrett Cole coming into the year. Yeah. I would trade him for Danny Salazar, no matter how mad you were over his start last night.

No, I was very happy with his. Danny Salazar's start was so Danny Salazar. The guy could not throw – not that he wasn't throwing strikes, but I think Chris, you said he doesn't have control issues. He has command issues. He could not command anything for two innings. I'm sorry, I just saw your tweet that said terrible Salazar tonight. Well, that was two innings. He was awful.

But – no, but here's the thing. Like, if you're selling – that was Keikel for Garret. at Cole, that is not executing his sell high. Because that is, like, you don't know who's going to be better. You have to sell him for, like, Jacob de Grom or better. You have to sell him for Quedo. You have to sell him for an ace. And he still might be better than those guys, but at least...

Yeah, I just, I don't think he's... I don't think there's a very good chance he'll be better than them. I think that's a really low chance. That's why you sell him for them. If I could get him for Jacob de Grom, who I think is one of the ten best pitchers in baseball, yes, I would do that. No one's doing that. But nobody's doing that.

Which means you probably shouldn't trade him. Sure. Yeah. I think we're missing the most obvious SELHA candidate. Who's that? Michael Paneda, yeah. What are you getting for him? There are still people who believe that this is the real Michael Paneda,

and everything he's done before is the fake Michael Panetta. And I am absolutely targeting them to trade him to. Two words. Two words. Tell me if this impacts you at all in Panetta. Contract year. No. And those people.

People drafted him. They already have him in here. You could get, you could potentially get like Kintana for Paneda. Mm-hmm. Hey, look, we see. I just, I just had someone on Twitter tell me that they were offered A.J. Pollock for Michael Paneda. Exactly. We see dumb trades all the time.

It happens. That is a perfect sell high, by low. Yeah. We don't play with enough dumb people is the problem. No, we don't. But we're, yeah. We're giving advice to people who do play with dumb people. I just had a trade offer rejected like five minutes ago.

I offered a Ledmus Diaz. Could you always say that, don't you? I imagine that you have a stream of emails that just has a straight offer rejected it at all time. I offered a Ledmus Diaz for Zander Bogart. Zander Bogartz is someone I'd like to buy low on, and I think the buy low is that I'm going to give today are guys that I think people are maybe a little down on. And I think because Bogart's, he's hitting 333, but he has like no extra base. say is, I don't know, like one, two doubles. No power right now.

And he's hitting sixth. And I think that's making people regret Zanderb... Not everybody, but some people might be regretting their Zander Bogart's picks. So I still think it's fine, even if he's hitting six. So I offered a Ledmus D.S for him straight up. It got rejected. Can I throw out a controversial sell high? Yeah.

Someone who I own pretty much universally. Danny Duffy. I know he's been good. The 1.8 ERA is really good. and he has so far managed to avoid my concerns about his diminished velocity, which is it's down two miles per hour from last year. But the strikeout rate is way down. The walk rate is way up.

It's only three starts. So, you know, that's what it is. But I remain concerned about him. Well, when you say the velocity is down for Duffy, Heath brought this up. Is it down from when he was a reliever last year at the beginning of the year? No, he was around, even when he first started starting, he was still like 95, 96 early on. He went down to about 94, high 93 in, like late in the season when he ran out of gas. But no, it is down from his entire season.

All right. Any other by-lows or sell highs? I also made a trade-offer last night that I'm sure will be rejected pretty soon. my Neftali Feliz for his Senuano so that'll probably get rejected I feel like Sanguano is a really good by-low because I think people don't buy it

I get the feeling there's going to be some Trevor Rosenthal hype starting to build because O's been so mediocre so far and Trevor Rosenthal's throwing hard but I just I still think Sanguano is just a dramatically better pitcher Yeah, he probably is, but I'm worried about him because it doesn't take much for a closer to lose his job.

And he's made five appearances. He's allowed an earn run and four of them. Yeah, he's pitched very sporadically, though, because they haven't been winning. And I actually think that the Cardinals might have a bad year, so he might not get as many save chances as I thought. And here's the other thing, because I thought about that. Like, let's just say Tobin, the Cardinals fan who owns Sen. Juan O and is no way going to trade him for an Fali Fleece. Let's just say he clicks accept, and I now have Seno.

Yeah, maybe I'll just pick up Rosenthal. Nobody's picking up Rosenthal right now. Just stash him for a little bit. I can get him for a dollar. So, you know, if you're the San Juan O owner, you can prioritize Trevor Rosen. Right. But I think roster space is one of the most valuable commodities this time of year, too. So I don't necessarily think that's a solution.

It depends on the league, I guess. Who else? Who we buying low on, selling high on? It's too bad Kendall Graveman got hurt because he was an obvious sell high candidate. So now he's a buy low. He might be able to pick him up. I'm getting tweets almost every day should I drop Jose Bottice yet. if I can trade the worst player on my team for Hose-Bautista, I'm taking a chance on that.

And I think you might be able. You can't. Not the worst player on your team. Like, it's going to have to be someone who's good. Travis Shaw. Playing well. Yeah, like Travis Shaw. Travis Shaw's not playing good anymore, so you probably can't do that.

I would trade Travis Shaw for Hosea-Bautista, yes. Somebody that's kind of hot right now. Well, Hanager was a good example. Eh, Eugenio-S-Warez. Not quite that hot. Swara, sure. Yeah, Suarez, I'd do that. Aaron Judge

Rose Batista Do you guys think Blake Snell counts as a cell high because he has a 276 ERA Just hope that the person Who owns him has not watched him pitch at all No he's like 60% owned Okay

I wonder about Back to the cell high real quick But we can talk about two possible By lows with it Freddie Freeman looks like an MVP candidate again Would you trade him for MIGI or Encarnacion I think he could. Well, first of all, we should mention it seems like he's definitely in a hitter's, more of a hitter's park now, right?

The new park? It's a little early for me to, I would not make that declaration at this point. Okay. It's, you need to see at least five games? Yeah, it's too early to say it, but just, like, judging from the dimensions before they ever even played a game there, I would have said it'll probably be a hitter's park. So. All right. That's a good one, Heath, because, you know.

youth is on his side. Yeah, I don't think I would trade him for one of those two guys yet. I'd want somebody else, I think. I'd say Freeman for Incarnacion and somebody startable for me. Like, I still have those guys ahead of Freeman and Carnacione and Cabrera, but I don't feel great about it. Are we buying Freeman? Yeah.

I am. Like buying that he'll be just as good as he was last year? Yeah, when he was the number six first baseman and point. points number seven in Roto, but had an excellent year. I think he could be just outside the top five first baseman, yes. Okay. He's, yeah, off to a good start. I think he was mine.

But if we think he's number six or seven, we should be probably trading him for a big year in Carassione. But if... There's a close six or seven, though. I mean, there's a non-zero chance. Yeah, we are. That this is the year Edwin in Carnacion fades into oblivion. It is. I'm betting against that.

but am I betting Freddie Freeman against that? I don't know. So you're more likely to buy low one in Carcinone than sell high on Freeman? And look, it's really hard to make a trade between two guys at the same position who are separated by one or two spots. I think it's kind of a dumb trade to even make. Yeah. Just because you're leaving yourself, like, if Freddie Freeman's better than Miguel Cabrera this season, like, there's probably a 40% chance of that.

And at that point, you're just kind of leaving yourself up to the whims of the universe rather than anything that you can control. I just, that's the kind of trade that just doesn't ever make much sense. It's like in football, should I trade a running back for a running back? Would you trade Freddie Freeman for Josh Donaldson? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Although maybe if I'm 0 and 2 and I'm worried about, like, the short-term ramifications of not having Donaldson available, that that might be. But I'm probably not O and 2 if I have Freddie Freeman. It's not, it's, yeah, that's, it doesn't have an easy answer. Because we don't really even have a timetable for Donaldson. We think it's going to be a minimum stay, but string cap, I mean, that could be six weeks. And we've also seen it not be as easy to handle as they expected to be. Yeah, right. And he had calf injuries last year.

He had calf injury in spring training. So he's a risky one. You have to really buy low. Like, I would trade Hanager. for Josh Donaldson. Yeah. Yeah, I would do that. I'd trade Hanigar and Travis Schafer or Suarez or Ustakis or whoever, whatever low in third

basement you want to throw in there. Well, I offered Jake Lamb. I think we offered Jake Lamb and Carlos Gomez for Josh Donaldson to a 14 team league. It's so insulting. If you did that to my face, I would punch you. Hey, listen, listen, before Jake Lamb got hurt last year, He was one of the best third baseman in fantasy. He had a 9-59 OPS.

This is a 14-team league where there's no easy Josh Donaldson replacement. The guy's got a terrible third baseman now. So I knew that was- Adam. That was Jamie's idea. You're hoping to rip someone off. Yes. Do you write the explanations in your offers in the comments? Don't try to justify it.

I actually have someone who does that in football and he's the worst. So wait. What if I... That's a bad approach. Our former, our co-worker does that and he is the worst. What if I had offered Jake Lamb and McChanager for Josh Donaldson? No. I mean, I wouldn't take it.

It's not that ridiculous. I could see how some people might take it. I would be really upset if someone in my league accepted that often. We need to start talking about Jake Lamb, though, because while I do think he's a so high candidate, he's been one of the best third basement in fantasy, we might just be missing the boat on Jake Lamb. Like I said, 959 OPS before he heard his hand last year in 94 games. And he's again off to a great start, and he doesn't sit against lefties. He's also striking out in nearly a third of his plate appearances. Who cares?

Well, we do care. No, we should. Like, he's proven that he can strike out and still hit home runs. Well, no, his strikeout rate's up. All right, it's two and a half weeks. But he's a 250 hitter with a 25% strikeout rate. If he's got a 30% strikeout rate, he's going to be a 20-240 hit. Also, like, if we're writing off the strikeout rate as two and a half weeks,

then we're writing off the performance. No, because it's 94 games last year of a 950 OPS, 960 OPS. But then what happened after that? He hurt his hand, and he sucked. All right. So you're making the injury ruined him and not his own peripherals ruined him argument, which could be true. It's reasonable, but the peripherals are also a very good argument.

Yeah, and I don't think it was just one. I'm sure he would have regressed a little bit. Not going to hit, you know, not going to have a 960 OPS, but I think Jake Lamb is good. I think Jake Lamb is good, too. But you're talking about trading for Josh Donaldson. Yeah, I know, but I think there's a lot to fear with Josh Donaldson. I don't think Josh...

Like I said... I think there's nothing to fear but fear at the hell. There's just one thing to fear with Josh Donaldson, and it's an injury that he played through last season and was what, the number three hitter in fantasy? Yeah, I remember off top of my head, but you're right. It is just one thing to fear, I fear it a lot.

Yeah, I don't fear it enough to trade him for Jake Lamb. And Mitch Hanager. No. Yeah. Okay. 14 team league? You need some depth. Anyone else, guys?

Oh, crap. I mean, you have Cal Cager on your list. I think that's a great one. We saw him last year get off to a rough start. I don't really have any concerns about him. I think he's good. Bidlo. Bailo.

Yes, Bilo, sorry. So I have the stat on, Will Myers, I had him maybe as a cell high because he's not running. He's got one, he's got no steals in one attempt in 14 games. Myers stole 28 bases last year. In his first 14 games, he had one steal in one attempt. I don't know if that means anything, but he's on the same pace, except he was thrown out. Same pace as he was last year.

I just wonder, like, how many times he's been standing on first with first base open? Because he only has a... Second base open? He's got one walk and like... Six singles? Yeah, he's got... probably hasn't had that many opportunities to steal. Right.

Right. One walk, 12 strikeouts for him? For riders? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he has, he has 12 singles slash walks. I don't think he can improve enough as a hitter that if he's no longer a base stealer, he's not a disappointment.

If that made sense. Sure. I mean, if he's a 900 OPS bat, he's probably not a disqualness. that he's probably not a disappointment. Yeah, maybe not. I'm glad, like, the Braves just finished up a four-game series against the Padres, so I saw a lot of the Padres the last few days. I'm glad I don't watch them very often because I think it would taint my view of Will Myers.

He is just so impressive to watch. He looks a lot better than he actually is, and obviously he's very good. Anybody who doesn't wear batting gloves, I think that's true of. Yeah, it is. I love the batting, gloveless look. You're bearing the lead, though. The most fascinating player on the Padres is by far Ryan Shemp. That dude is just amazing.

Do you think that... Rob Deer reincarnated. There's a more... Okay, I'll rephrase it. The one player in baseball that every time I see him step up to the plate, I'm looking at... I said, this is the best player in baseball. Just by the look of him, no, is Troy Toulouitzky. The guy is so...

He just has the look of... of the best player I've ever seen. And it's just not true. But he just looks it. That's Eric Cosmer. Mike Trout. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, because, like, it's a good-looking guy, big, lefty.

Team USA. It's Eric Cosmer, for sure. Eric Cosmer does look good. Eric Cosmer looks like a Hall of Fame. Eric Thames? Eric Thames or Eric Cosmer? Eric Thames. Pretty easy.

I think I'm ready to make that change in my ranking. I've moved Thames ahead of him this morning. Yep. Okay. Ain't that of Thames. Let's do some team names after I read you some injuries news and notes. St. Louis GM, John Moseilac expressed his disappointment with Yaddaer Malina's defense. Right after I expressed my disappointment with it, I don't think there's a coincidence.

John Moseilac listens to the podcast. Didn't they just sign him to a contract extension? They sure did. Jason Kipnis could be back on Friday. Carlos Correa sat. He might come back today. Alex Bregman has made two appearances at shortstop. Breggman, by the way, has walked in three straight games.

Looks like he might be coming out of his slump a little bit. Matt Kemp should be back Wednesday. J.T. Ray Almuto batted sixth at Seattle with Martine Prado back in the lineup. Gregory Polanco pinch hit. He had a pinch hit RBI double against Senwono. He could start today. John Farrell, and we don't talk about Craig Kimbril much, but he had, I think he faced nine rays and struck out seven of them in the four-game series.

And John Farrell said that Kimbril's delivery is the best it's been since he's been in Boston. Matt Carpenter sat with a minor finger injury. Todd Frazier's been out with an illness. The Yankee sat Greg Bird and Brett Gardner against the lefty, Derek Holland, but they say, Georgia already said, we think Bird is an everyday player. They think Holland is very tough on lefties. They wanted their righties in there. Gene Sugura should be back on Tuesday.

Is there any role for Taylor Motter who's been great? Yeah, I hit his third home run yesterday. He can play pretty much everywhere. And looking at his minor league track record, there is some legitimate pop. I just, I think it's not going to be consistent enough for him to matter outside of AL only. I mean, I guess the thought would be that the outfielders, besides Mitch Hanager, continue to struggle enough that he gets an opportunity.

But they made such a stink about the outfield defense being how they want to build their team that I think it's going to take a while for Dyson or Leonis-Martine to really be benched. So it's not just a moderate of time. Thank you With some water with you I like Sunny Gray through I don't like most

Sunny Gray through an extended spring training Gray could be back by the end of April All right Team name Tuesday I gotta tell you Some really bad team names

Not all of them But this is not a strong bunch This is from Caleb Caleb is sticking with The Christmas vacation theme Picture the neighbors With the team name Ben Zobrist

Then I'll show you Okay It's good. I don't like that one as much as the other. No. I get it. I don't know, Margo. It's going to make me laugh every time.

From Keenan Duke out of Los Angeles. The Fast and the Ureus. I like it. That's pretty good. And he says, P.S. Brockmeier is gold. Yes, it is. Wade and Fenton says, Dear Coop, Hawk, Andy, and Sheriff Harry Truman. I don't know.

Well, if we don't know the last one, we don't know it. Why? Because Yeah, Yeah, yeah. I've been, okay, so Let's see. Oh, oh, this is a funny email from Wade.

He says, I've been listening for a couple of years now, but pretty much every single day. But just made the mistake of looking at all of your pictures online, only to find out that none of you look the way you should, though oddly enough Adam still looks like a guy who would be really into terrible music. I feel like I probably look how I, how I sound.

I don't think so No, that's always a little disenchanting When you hear You know, a podcast or radio, whatever And then you find out what the person looks like And it's like, oh Hey, handsome Dan Right?

Yes No, I don't think that was the reaction But you know what that's, that's Ways' World too Here's Wade and Fenton's team name Hot Dogs and Hanigers Sure I don't know, these are Maybe I'm just in a jolly mood this morning

Because these are all making me laugh And then there's another Mitch Hanager One that's a lot more crude It's from Chris, it's just Mitch please Mitch please Yeah Okay

This is from James Who's a big fan of the musical Hamilton And he owns Trevor's story Who lives, who dies, who Trevor's story Yep, yep, that's a good one And then this is from Sean from a burg in Pennsylvania Machado Man Man Savage.

It's kind of a stretch. A little convoluted. Yeah, too many syllables at it. It's okay. I should have done it earlier in the show. I apologize. I hope everybody was able to hear. I really like hot dogs. Now I'm thinking of wrestling ones. Ryan Braun-Strauman. I don't know what that means. He knows it. I know it.

They broke the ring last night. He tipped over an ambulance last week. Last week they tipped over the ambulance last night. They collapsed the entire ring. Good. This sounds like very interesting stuff. So thank you for listening, everybody. And we're back tomorrow with some grade the trade.

And all the things from today's show that we didn't get to, maybe I'll throw them in tomorrow show. Goodbye.