Weekend MLB Previews: Alcantara on the Mound for Miami

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00:00the Braves and Marlins Grant Holmes has done such a nice job for the Atlanta Braves we know

00:06Yuri Perez is going to get it going for the Marlins too on Sunday Bryce Elder starts for

00:11Atlanta and Miami has Sandy Alcantara who his last two starts looks exactly like

00:17the Sandy Alcantara we've been waiting for all season yeah right and that's really what uh where

00:23my eyeballs will be is on Alcantara because I still think uh once he turns around he looks good

00:28again now he could get dealt he could be the major guy getting dealt that could really turn around

00:32a playoff uh you know if he goes to Boston you know or the Dodgers or someone like that he could

00:37really uh make them the favorite Dodgers are already the favorites here uh goes to Detroit

00:40who I think might make big moves here you know so I'm very curious to see what that will happen

00:44with Alcantara over the next six weeks here does he keep pitching well does he get moved here very

00:48curious uh still wondering why the Braves does I mean they started Fuentes last night Holmes Elder

00:54Sales, Schwellenbach, Strider why did you feel the need to throw a did you just think you would

00:58automatically beat Miami no matter who you threw out there last night just found that strange uh

01:02didn't work out well uh well for you at all this is why I just don't think that I don't think

01:05they're gonna make the playoffs not with this uh this bottom of the pitching rotation here and

01:09they keep losing teams they should beat here so I think they'll split this weekend with Miami

01:13Royals and Padres Noah Cameron has done a pretty good job here for KC starts against

01:19Dylan Cease always does a good job for the Padres Seth Lugo goes on Sunday against Randy

01:25Vasquez it's the Royals George I mean they gotta be careful here they're falling too far back

01:30not hitting right just I mean you already said Cameron's pitched pretty well for them

01:35you know since calling up he's another guy who's a pitcher he's not a thrower he's a pitcher sort of

01:39old time here uh and Lugo's come back and look pretty good as well Dylan Cease by the way has not

01:44pitched all that well for San Diego I don't know you know can he be that guy over the second half

01:47as far as acquiring somebody he might be somebody wanting to go out and acquire because you don't

01:51have to pay full price for him you know you might want to take a shot on Dylan Cease there so uh Kansas

01:55City gotta start the hit Mets take on the Phillies in the battle of first place in the National League

02:01East Griffin Canning is the Mets starter against Mick Abel and then Sunday David Peterson starts for New

02:08York against Jesus Lozardo who seems to have uh right the ship now after I I guess it was George after

02:16like 20 runs and two starts they looked and said oh you're tipping your pitches they got that fixed

02:21yeah they did right that's what the other rumor was there that uh he was tipping it they figured

02:26it out so tomorrow night I think Sam told said that that that is the ESPN game the night game tomorrow

02:30so I'm certainly looking forward to that should be a good pitching matchup today Abel the youngster

02:36pretty good earlier this week here we'll see what's happening Mets have lost six seven in a row here

02:40I know I'm seeing on my uh the Twitter feed that people are flipping out here our old friend Mark

02:45Healy saying this is the one of the worst stretches he's ever seen of Mets baseball so I know at this

02:50point I think the Mets would just take a split this weekend and be happy yeah I think so too the big

02:55start of course coming Sunday is going to be Shohei Otani but by start I don't really know what that

03:00means maybe it means two innings maybe it means three innings I'm not really sure he'll face off with

03:06Michael Soroka but Saturday it is Jake Irvin and Dustin May but uh George what would you project

03:12for Otani I mean I know over the course of the year Otani five six innings but could he go three

03:18innings you think someday is that a stretch I mean if you believe the team they said he's going to go

03:24one inning each time uh one inning plus so he went one inning first so he'll two innings tomorrow but

03:29if he only throws 17 pitches I would think he'll go a third inning right that's the way I would I

03:34wouldn't I wouldn't put him on an inning limit maybe a pitch limit sure uh pitch count you know 30 32 30

03:38whatever it might be here but I'm not putting on an inning maybe gets through it quickly what if he

03:42throws 78 pitches in the first inning then he's not going to go a second inning whatever it might be

03:46he'll be uh we're not really going to see the true Otani to probably add to the all-star break I think

03:50that'd be the earliest you would think about putting him in your uh your fantasy rotation here but yeah

03:54all eyeballs will be on that all right we've got the Diamondbacks taking on the Rockies

04:00Rockies starting to play a little better here finally Merrill Keller against Carson Palmquist

04:05and then Sunday Brandon fought against Antonio Sensatella that's the game Sunday to bet the over

04:11that's all I got for you I think any game in Colorado might be the game to bet the over I

04:16don't know if Kelly's going to do all that better today either here uh for Arizona you got to put

04:21W's together I don't care playing you got to be Colorado and you said they are Colorado is playing

04:26better right which is not very difficult for them they couldn't play any worse than they were earlier

04:31this year but they are playing better but Arizona has to string W's together especially if they want

04:36ownership to go out there and you know buy them another pitcher you know City Alcantara keep saying

04:41that uh whatever they feel like they may uh they might need here but they have to keep they have to

04:44beat who they have to be

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