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00:00We'll start with Philadelphia. The Marlins are at the Phillies. Cal Quantrill and Tyjuan Walker are your starters today.
00:08Connor Gillespie, Jesus Lizardo are the starters tomorrow.
00:13Unfortunately, the Marlins, for me, don't like to see them losing. They've lost four games in a row.
00:19I mean, look, this is just a really tough matchup against the Philadelphia Phillies. We saw it again last night.
00:24They got to Sandy Alcantara early and often, and let's just call it what it is.
00:30I mean, the Marlins do not have Max Meyer on the mound. They do not have Edward Cabrera on the mound.
00:34There's not going to be a ton of swings and misses in Philadelphia, so it's a little bit of a danger zone this weekend.
00:39Yeah, absolutely a dangerous spot for them.
00:42You were hoping with Sandy on the mound last night that they would be able to get that win,
00:45and then whatever happens in the next two games, whatever it might be.
00:49I think you fire up Walker and Lizardo especially.
00:52Like, it's just a fun matchup any time a pitcher's going up against his former team.
00:56Cal Quantrill, I wouldn't mind as a streaming option if you're playing, you know, in daily pickups,
01:01just because if he keeps the ball down, right, you're hoping he can get through five, only two, maybe three runs.
01:07Like, he won't blow up your ratios, but I would not be starting Connor Gillespie.
01:12I think Quantrill's a fine streaming option.
01:15All right, we've got the Royals taking on the Tigers this weekend.
01:17Let's look at those pitching matchups on Saturday.
01:19We have Seth Lugo, and Lugo, of course, coming off a great year last year.
01:24We'll see what happens at the end of this year.
01:26He takes on Casey Mize.
01:28Michael Wacca is the Sunday starter against Tariq Skubal.
01:32We don't need to advise fantasy players on Tariq Skubal.
01:35He'll be in their lineup, Tom.
01:37Yeah, I think it's a go-ahead for, I'm going to say all pitchers in this matchup.
01:42Like, all four go-ahead and start.
01:44Obviously, Skubal is the easy answer, but the Kansas City offense is doing nothing, absolutely nothing.
01:50They're not the offense they were last year.
01:51They are really, really struggling.
01:53They didn't get to Jackson Jobe last night.
01:55They got some runs late in the ninth inning.
01:57I think what we've seen from Mize is good to start the year.
02:00Obviously, a pitcher that was highly touted, dealt with some injuries.
02:03You could fire him off this today.
02:05Lugo's been great.
02:07Wacca, you know, he's not going to be piling up the strikeouts, but he had a good start last week versus the Yankees.
02:12I think you fire them all.
02:15All right, so what does the weather look like this weekend and the wind?
02:18I mean, this is really the key here.
02:19I don't know how to advise anything with Wrigley Field without knowing that.
02:23I mean, what a wacky game was played yesterday.
02:25But, I mean, the matchups do favor the Diamondbacks, I would think.
02:29I mean, they have Zach Gallin on Sunday and Merrill Kelly on Sunday, and Ben Brown starts for the Cubs.
02:34Cubs can hit the ball, though.
02:35I mean, this is sort of the issue here, and, you know, far be it from me to try to predict the wind for a Sunday game, Tom, on a Saturday.
02:43I'm not going to do that.
02:44Right.
02:45So, I am looking at today's weather.
02:47Temperature in the low 50s with wind blowing in at near 10.
02:51So, it does set up to be quite different than yesterday.
02:54Not going to see 24 runs.
02:55If we saw it, I would say even half that would be a ton.
02:58I would say this game finishes today with fewer than 10 runs overall.
03:02These are good pitchers.
03:03Like, maybe Tyone's not a Zach Gallin kind of quality, but, you know, what, Kelly had a good start, you know, last week or during the week versus the Morelands, if I remember correctly.
03:14But this is a good spot for all of them, essentially, outside of Jameson Tyone.