Taj Bradley's Struggles & Potential: Analyzing His Road Starts

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00:00All right, here we go. Let's traverse the world and go to the Taj Mahal. It's Taj Bradley for

00:04the upstart Tampa Rays. Two road starts, one at Kansas City against the Bubala, Chris Bubich,

00:10and then the next at Baltimore against TBA, our favorite pitcher. Yeah, I'm going to do this here

00:19because I think Tampa's playing really well and Bradley is a part of it. And I just like the

00:23makeup of this team. Diaz at the top is just infectious. So yeah, I would start Taj Bradley

00:28in both of these road starts, Joe. Starting against our Bubala. That's a lot. That's a

00:35big expectation here. Bubala has been really good. Kansas City lineup, not so good. Now

00:40the hope is you get Jack Caglium continue to heat up a little bit. He's still hitting balls

00:45hard everywhere. And that's the thing, like you look at the baseballs of mom page for

00:47Caglium, he's just hitting balls hard everywhere. So it was only a matter of time when they started

00:51going out of the ballpark. But with Bradley, this is another one where I struggled. And

00:55I'm going to say no to this one as well. And here's why the last seven games for Taj Bradley,

01:01he's one and three with a five, nine, four ERA. It's worse than Bailey Ober. Now the strikeouts

01:07are better. He's still got 38 strikeouts at 15 walks and 33 innings. So you still like

01:10the strikeout rate. So that's fine. But that whip is at one, four, seven. And I think there's

01:15a certain point where you have to wonder, is Joe Boyle going to get a shot here or Ian Seymour

01:19going to get a shot? Letell has been better than you could have possibly imagined. Same with

01:22Rasmussen. Pepio has been brilliant over the last six weeks. He's really started to take

01:27up those strikeouts. Shane Boz has found himself again, which is great. So they've got four very

01:32good starters. And then Taj Bradley, who I'm starting to wonder if Taj Bradley is a guy that

01:38just needs a change of scenery. My cohort on fantasy pros, the well shed, I feel like Taj

01:43Bradley is going to be one of these guys that figures it out when he's like 27, 28 years

01:47old. And we go, Oh, look, there's Taj Bradley. We always thought could be that guy, but so

01:52far it's just not clicking. I don't know if he needs a change of scenery. I don't know

01:55what he needs, but it's not working for him at the big league level. I know Baltimore is

01:59really tempting, especially that start that daily transactions. Maybe I would throw him

02:03against Baltimore and see what I get, but I don't know against Boobich. It just seems

02:07like a really tough luck situation for him. I'm going to pass on this one. So we're split

02:11on Taj Bradley. I haven't seen enough of the last seven games to feel confident.