 Hey, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Jim Sonis of Fandle. We're talking baseball. We hope. What's up, Jim? Yeah, it was fun. Well lasted Greg We had a four or five days of baseball and it was it was enjoyable to have it back on there and hopefully we get to Continue having for a long time. Hopefully people can be safe But a lot of uncertainty were right now. I guess we're just gonna plow ahead and you know Pretend as if these games will be going on. We'll see what happens, but it's definitely a Uncertain and weird time once again Two games as far have been canceled today That's the Phillies and Yankees the Orioles and the Marlins, but that leaves every other team playing Let's get you new at your top starting pitcher all the board today. Are these the highest price starting pitcher? He's having a glass now who started the season Awesomely last year and hopefully today Jim he gets off to just as hot of a start Yeah, definitely and we look at the pitchers on this slate Greg There aren't a lot of guys who can get strikeouts and glass now is definitely one of those pitchers last year before that injury A 3.18 skill interactive era with a 33% strikeout rate and a 29% hard hit rate allowed So all the numbers are there for Tyler glass now Especially against the Braves offense that will strike out to be the number one pitcher for tonight Now the reason I'm not going to glass down cash games just by liking for tournaments is I'm not sure what his pitch count will be He was a late arrival to camp because he tested positive for COVID-19 So didn't get there until later through 49 pitches in an exhibition 10 days ago And then went three innings in the exhibition after that. So Glass now I'm not sure what the length will be. He told Neil Salons of raised radio He wasn't sure how long he would go either, but when he's out there, we know he'll get strikeouts We know he'll be really good, which is why I'm still willing to go here in tournaments at $9700 glass now if he gives us five innings could be the highest scoring pitcher on this slate given the other options at our disposal So glass now despite not being a cash game play to me still very much in play for terms Keep an eye on the news throughout the day today if you see that glass That's going to be on a very restrictive pitch count Maybe you want to go elsewhere then but if we can get five innings out of him I could see this being good day for glass now regardless So still in my map for right now but monitoring the news throughout the day to make sure things don't change The rays are always a weird one too because we've seen how quickly they'll pull a starting pitcher coming back from injury They want to make sure that everything is good to go for the long term, right? There's this vision and that's the way the more the rays play baseball the Marlins too when they were black But when it comes to Tampa Bay They don't have the much time to make up this year, right? There's only 57 games left so every game matters 2.7 times that game Which means Tyler glass now if he is healthy and if he's pitching well, hopefully he lasts longer tonight Tyler glass now the top-starting pitcher on the board Which himself? But if you want to get a little bit cheaper, but we want to stay young it's good at Houston's Joshua James who was The apple of everyone's eye last spring when it didn't happen. He got hurt using the bullpen It was up and down for the end of the year He got a going and then in spring Dusty Baker announces He's in the starting rotation and unlike Tampa Bay and the Marlins Dusty Baker don't care about pitching limits. He don't care about anything. They don't care about pitches Isn't care about anything which makes me all in on Astor starters including Josh James Yeah, Dusty didn't even care about pitch counts in the exhibitions because Joshua James went 82 pitches in his final exhibition starts So yeah, he's transitioning from the bullpen to the rotation But if we're like making betting lines for for pitch counts tonight Josh James might be near the top of that list given how long he went in that exhibition And that's a good thing because there's not a lot of certainty from a pitch count perspective on the board For tonight, I'm going to take it where I can get it in addition to the pitch concern to you with Joshua James We also get a really good situation because he is at home in a pitcher friendly park and face the Mariners the Mariners Not really the most inspiring offense if we're going to be nice here in 88 WRC plus last year for their active roster against righties with a 26 strikeout rate And we know that Joshua James despite the walk concerns that kept him in the bullpen these past couple years You can get them strikeouts 16.2 percent swinging strike rates last year as a reliever. So Yeah, it's concerning to use a guy transitioning into the rotation because he may not be able to maintain The highest strikeout ways he had before but you know, if we take down that strike area from where it was Put it down, you know, like even 10 percentage points He will still be the number two guy on the slate behind Tyler glass now from an expected strikeout rate perspective So I think Joshua James actually is my cash game pitcher for tonight Given the pitch count given the matchup given the park I think everything aligns for him to be a cheap cash game option, which is something greg I may not say the rest of this season, but I think here it does apply for James $6,700. You can go nuts at hitter I think that James makes sense both for cash games and for tournaments Josh james has the matchup. He has the team He has the ballpark and he has the price here jim a cheap cash game option Not something we're used to under $7,000 for the picture of your choice in a cash game Doesn't happen often. Let's take advantage with josh james and the astros tonight Let's move on to the top hitters on the board, which leads us of course to christian yellow It's yellow. It's $4,400 and that mini slump at the end of the spring It's over now. So let's take advantage Yeah, yellow just is someone we can actually afford for today given that we have josh with james as our number one Pitcher for cash games for tonight. So whatever you can afford christian yellow You should be inclined to take advantage I think this is a great spot to do so for tonight and the weird thing with the brewers here is that they're facing A piggyback situation with steven brawl and chat cool Which means when you target brewers hitters, which you should because I would second it's either brawl or cool You need to find guys who can hit both left handed and right handed pitching now yellow Just by being a lefty we know Can hit anybody who throws a baseball towards it because he's just that good So christian yellows $4,400 Definitely someone I want to go at for tonight, but I think in general when you are stacking this brewers team Just keep that in mind Do you want guys who can hit both lefties and righties just to smoke a switch hitter kesson hero? A really good right-handed batter ryan brawn as well So just keep that in mind But with yellows, it doesn't really matter You know, we can hit lefties you can get righties just the same So I think despite this being a not great part for offense in general It is warm in history for tonight should set up well for christian yellows And we can afford him So I think $4,400 yellows affordable for tonight and someone I want to target with regularity Why have the chance to do so getting josh james in the lineup? Well that provides a lot more and that includes christian yellows who were able to get in there tonight And hopefully he does what he did earlier this weekend and that's it bombs yellows Obviously in a great spot as he used every night and that means he should be in our lineup as well Let's move on to another guy that hits bombs and that would be peter alonzo of the new york mess The first baseman led the league in hole runs last year as a rookie He's still looking to get on the board here this year and hopefully he started tonight against boston Yeah, I think we're going to be targeting boston pitching pretty regularly this year gregg because To a great start and that was against the orials But now they face a really competent offense in the new york mess this time Josh osich will be the opener followed by zack godly and godly is a pitcher I liked a lot back in the day with diamondbacks But he's clearly not that pitcher anymore last year as a starter godly had a 5.82 xf 16 percent strikeout rate still had a lot of ground balls, but it came with a 43 percent hard hit rate allowed now He's facing a new york mess team that will definitely pop some dingers and alonzo very much on that list And it doesn't matter if you're facing the righty godly or the The righties alonzo a 40 heart rate rate with a 42 fly ball rate So regardless of whom he is facing we know alonzo is going to match So I think this mets team is the top stack of the night I know I like the brewers a lot too, but I think the mets are number one Good part for hitting a lot of good hitters involved and alonzo is number one at the top of that list Stacking the mets stacking the brewers. That's the plan. We'll continue all with that in just a moment But peter alonzo certainly deserves to be in our lineup. The price is right. So let's get it in there But like you said, we're we're stacking mets here and it's not just peter alonzo that deserves to be the lineup It's his teammate jeff mcneill as well another dude that just Smashes right handed pitching. What do we expect tonight, jeff? I expected to mash some right handed pitching tonight craig because that's just what jeff mcneill does and most importantly He does that while still never striking out last year against right He's a 39 percent Hard hit rate for mcneill pair to the 13 percent strikeout rate, which is just a phenomenal combination With josh josh osage starting you could be concerned that mcneill might get bumped down the order But even when they're facing lefties this weekend mcneill was still in the top third So he can face osage and be there and then eventually face godly as well And godly really did struggle with left-handed batter So jeff mcneill at $3,000 michael conforto at $3,100 good building blocks for tonight Pairing them with peter alonzo would give your lineup a lot of upside It kills me that we've already gotten to the point in the season where bashing is that godly like I like to build him up first like you normally do before we like Just totally go after him But it's day four and this is where we're at which is it hurts my soul But we're stacking mets we're stacking brewers peter alonzo michael conforto jeff mcneill Get them all in your lineup tonight. And thanks to josh with james. Well, we actually can afford to and that's the best part But josh james is not the only team player we're making sure he's in our lineup because we've also reached the point in the season Whereas avasiil garcia time. Listen, i'm a big garcia guy I have been since he was mini miggy and now even though walking and talking about stacking the mets You want to talk about stacking the brewers? Well, now it's our chance with avasiil garcia jeff says it way better than i do Yeah, avasiil garcia gregg is a guy who we target generally because of what he does against lefties But as mentioned with the yellow section We need guys who can hit both lefties and righties and garcia is at least good enough against righties We can take some swings here last year just against righties a 38 hard hit rate with a 24 percent strikeout rate the strikeout rate a little bit high He's definitely not jeff mcneill, but it's low enough where he will still put the ball in play and good things All in play and that's on top of the fact that he will probably get at least one played appearance against brawls Who is a lefty? So we get one played appearance against the lefty and then the other ones against the righty Where we can expect how to see it to at least put the ball in play and potentially Do some damage there as well He is $2,500 over the weekend when the brewers are facing just righties He did hit fifth and sixth in the lineup in the two games that he played So i'd expect him to bat right in the middle of that order giving you a good pop and potentially get Instant time against lefties. That's enough for me to take the dive on abyssal garcia at $2,500 You had me in avacio That's all i needed to hear in the lineup today for the brewers and eat your family lamb as well super super cheap Stacking the mats stacking the brewers and stacking yourself some cash That's gonna do it for us here on the band will hurry up jim. We appreciate time. Good luck today I appreciate it. Greg is same to you. Hopefully we're watching some baseball later on tonight And hopefully we're talking more baseball later this week as well. Absolutely more baseball more sports more fun tomorrow We'll be joined by davis maddox. We take a look at this week on the pga 8 soar. I'm greg susman. Stay safe everybody