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My name is Nick Pollock.

Today is April 23rd, and yes, we are going to talk about baseball. Peter Lambert had a golden goal in his first game for the Astros. Did he do it a second time? Well, not as good. The six innings of shutout ball, three hits, three walks, and eight strikeouts. This is awesome. It was against a left-handed crew of the Guardians.

I loved his four-simmer up and his chained up down before against lefties.

I was hoping it would stick around.

It did. This is awesome. It was against a left-handed crew of the Guardians. I loved his four-seamer up and his change-up down before against lefties.

I was hoping it would stick around. It did. But we also saw sliders and cutters, and I'll be honest with you, that cutter saved the day. It was a huge, huge pitch to mask his four-seamer when the change-up was bounced far more than I expected him to. So I dig this cutter that I didn't really know about before.

So it a little bit more, He's doing a little bit harder. The four Seamer had a 44% CSW. And the changeup with its 10% putaway rate, 10% won, led the meant that the change up, sorry, was not the strikeout pitch. It was the cutter, had four of those. So, what does that mean moving forward? Well, I would take a chance on the Orioles and see how much this lasts. I think the Astros are going to keep him in this rotation. I think this is just good enough for them to get the endings that they need with this very injured rotation that the Astros have. Now as far as fantasy upside goes, I would say it's more

like a high-end Toby back-end Holly. I don't think that Leant Lambert's 95 with 17 inches of

is that great because of the high arm angle. But he is a kitchen sink arm and they are certainly

letting him go. This was 96 pitches. He's also coming back from Tommy John. We don't know how much this is representative of the full year. But so far, so good. Max Green Ace is going to ace. It's wonderful to see it. Tyler Malley, oh my gosh, it is time to pick him up. 93.2 on the four-seamer against the Dodgers and went seven shut out. But wait, he gets the Phillies. The schedule changed. It's not the Marlins. It's the Phillies. I don't care. I'm doing it. Because then he also gets the raise in Tampa Bay, which is cool. I mean, would also be in Oracle Park? But then he hosts the Pirates. I mean, this is cool. This is the time that we actually want Tyler Malley now.

So go and get him. Shohia Otani, ace is going to ace with a golden goal, and he's gone six innings in all four of his starts and has what, a 0.38 ERA and a 0.74 whip, 75 whip. He's loud, was that one run, two run runs? Oh my gosh, it's just so good. It's so good.

You have Jansen Junking pulled after five innings and I don't really get it. 56 pitches. Clan McCullough said, hi, we are going to ensure we get a win. I'm like, what are you talking about? Jansen Junk's cruising. Why would you pull him? I don't know. I don't like the fact that Jansen Junk isn't

commanding any of his pitches as he wants to. And that's a real problem in my view, especially with the Dodgers next and the Phillies. So I think I'm moving on from Jansen Junk. Yes, I would get Lambert instead. I would get a lot of these prospects instead. This is, that's the, that's how it works. Jose Soriano has continued his absurd, absurd start to the year.

16 whiffs, five innings of zero and runs. That's how it works. Jose Soriano has continued his absurd, absurd start to the year.

16 whiffs, five innings of zero and run, seven hits, zero walks, and four Ks.

Look, 1.4 whip with a higher hip-or-9, right?

And he still did well because of zero walks.

He had at least a 65% strike rate on both fastballs and his curve.

And sure, yeah, there's a left on base rate thing going on where, like, he allowed one hit

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