Max Fried Takes the Mound for Yankees Against San Diego

But we left off, Tom, talking about Max Fried and the Yankees, and again, pretty big, interesting litmus test for both these teams here tonight. Walker Buehler, now listen, not like he doesn't know the Yankees, he certainly does, and Buehler has been actually pretty good over the last couple of months. Max Fried, to your point earlier, how many innings do we get out of him? Is it four? Do we get five? Does the bullpen get involved? Does it matter, though? It's a great question. So he pitched on August 29th was his last outing. He threw 63 pitches. Prior to that was the 13th, and then he went on the IL for just a little bit of time. So we got 3.2 out of Max Fried the last time. I'm seeing Max Fried as the starter, and what I've seen based on reports is that Will Warren is the projected long reliever, quote unquote, wherever you want to call it. So if you're betting on a first five, I'm not sure we even get five out of Max Fried, and that's what makes it really, really difficult, where the under makes a ton of sense on his K prop. I don't want to pay the minus 170 price. We get four innings out of Max Fried, maybe 4.2, and then Will Warren comes in and gives you two or three, and then the bullpen, which has been downright great, they come into play. So frankly, I like the under in this game, because if we're just going to be rolling through and no pitcher's going to see the lineup more than two or three times, it actually does make things pretty simple from a lack of scoring standpoint, if that's how you want to play it. Yeah. I mean, I'll give Padres the bats have come alive. I'm not going to lie there, but I do think, yeah, maybe even first five under. Tom, can I interest you in a four? Sure. In a first five under. I guess I think that's what this game is ultimately going to be anyway. I like both bullpens. So no matter what happens, once the starters get out, I would tend to think that we are going to be looking at maybe less scoring and certainly not more scoring in that one. Should be a fun one here tonight with the Yankees and the Padres. I'm looking forward to that one, Tom, for the weekend here.