WEBVTT - Leading Off July 26th, 2024 (Ep. 873) 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.400 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.160 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.600 at five bucks. Get one hundred and fiftyen bonus bets 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.000 when you use the promo code leading Off. And is 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.840 me Joey p. That of course is the Welsh and 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.160 we've got trade winds a blow in. We spoke about 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.840 it last week Welsh. He said, look, the Mariners got 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.760 to be first to the market before the big boys 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.800 enter the dance, and sure enough they were. We had 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.960 a no hitter yesterday. But I want to start with 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.160 the Mariners making a move desperate to get some help 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.360 with the offense. Well, I know if it's too little, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.519 too late, but Randy a Rose Arena officially now a 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.080 member of the Mariner So the Rays making some room. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.680 That's a good thing I think for the Rays and 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.320 their lineups. But a Rose Arena is now going to 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.279 the Seattle side of things, to the West coast, and 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.800 I think it's a great move for the Mariners. I 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.280 hope it's a player that they plan to keep around 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.040 for a while, because can't just be you know, Rosarina 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.440 next year too, or is he a free agent? 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.280 The no I believe he's got one or two more 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.200 years under him, So that's why a very good move. Then, yeah, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.720 some of the things in this were maybe a little 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.560 bit of a question. I don't know the trade side, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.119 like I want to even hold back. Everyone's so bitchy 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.960 about like, oh we trade to this guy, you're trade 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.760 to that guy. And the cost and the dah da 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:19.119 da da. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.399 Dall Aidan Smith and Brody Hopkins, those are the two 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.120 pieces they went. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.760 I feel that that was kind of light in a 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.160 Randia Rosen rain of trade. I believe he's at least 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.280 signed through next year. I'm not sure. I don't think 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.880 it's anything beyond that. Aiden Smith has played really well 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.240 this year. Hopkins gets some really good grades. He wasn't 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.640 on like the big, big radar for everybody, even in 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.759 the Mariners organization, but we know they really like them. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.360 There's already been some breakdowns, really good fastball. Shape has 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.800 this really good sweeper. So it's like a classic raised 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:49.639 type of a trade. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.800 Two years so, I mean, twenty five, twenty six, still. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.400 See that, That's what I'm talking about. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.240 That's actually even Many's thirty. He's gonna be thirty next year. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.200 Year thirty one the year after. That's fantastic. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.680 I thought that they were going to be including one 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.840 of the upper prospects in a type peat. Now there 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.360 is a player to be named later and that could 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.600 be a bigger piece here, of course. But you know, 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.960 Aids bit this fine. Hopkins has been fine. But they 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.000 didn't trade a TYPEE. They didn't trade a Colt Emerson. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.079 They weren't going to trade on the tippy tippy top. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.760 But like Typete was the guy that I thought they 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.960 would do. And Randy's been struggling this year, hitting only 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.320 two eleven, but he's been hitting over two seventy the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.880 last two months combined two ninety one in June, two 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.440 seventy five so far in July seven homers. Seven of 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.040 his fifteen have come in these last two months, you know, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:39.959 month and a half or whatever it is. And we're 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.800 starting to see kind of the kickback. We're starting to 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.480 see him, you know, bring back the game that we've 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.400 known from Randa Rose Raina. His barrel percentage is moving 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.519 up career high launch angle, and I think that's also 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.359 been part of the pressing, is him getting the ball 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.720 in the air. But now, like you said, like too little, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.160 too late. I don't know. This is great lineup protection 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.560 for the future. It is a great stop gap piece 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.920 while they're trying to get Julio back so they can 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.800 get this offense kind of revved up. But the thing, Joe, 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.720 that I'm not even like surprised about, because it's so 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.680 much more difficult to do than just to say, I 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.200 really thought they would try to get eastoc Parade's package 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.120 in this deal as well, just do a big, mega 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.400 trade and really overhaul that offense. They got one piece. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.440 I think this is great and Toss. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.440 I mean that's possible. Maybe this is just, you know, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.359 one of many, because we know Julio is going to 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.000 be out for a while with that high ankle. It's 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.519 going to be a few weeks for sure. But I 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.680 think it's a great move. Rozori is a great player. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.560 He's an All Star caliber player, and now you've got 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.480 a core of an offense. Now you can go out 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.040 on the free agency and get some more pieces, and 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.120 you still have this tremendous pitching staff that's going to 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.880 be intact for another year next year. So this is 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.440 a good move for now, a good move for the 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.240 next two years. I absolutely love it. Also, as we said, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.840 Dylan Ceese made history a no hitter Thursday against the Nats. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.040 He was touching one hundred in the final ending amazing 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.560 step one hundred and fourteen pitches. He looked absolute spectacular. Uh, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.440 and it was great. It's been a great season for 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.760 Dylan Ceas three five zero ERA one hundred and sixty 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.920 eight strike outs. He's gonna have the Dodgers next week 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.080 at home, so congratulations to him. But this wasn't the 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.800 only news yesterday too. A lot of stuff coming in 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:16.080 the mall. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.400 Hold on before we move on, because I didn't want 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.000 to like move right past the seas thing. I just 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.320 want to mention two things on his actual stuff. Thirty 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.559 three percent whiff right, fifty five swings through one hundred 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.200 and fourteen pitches, eighteen swing and whiffs ridiculous, csw was good, 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.320 Vlo slider and fastball were up in this start like 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.680 over like a mile and a half over across the 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.320 board and this Unfortunately, there's always been some inconsistencies with 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.240 Dylan Cees, like people complain about like oh, there's you know, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.120 four run outing, but like this is also who he is. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.320 It's very like the Taj Bradley types. You know, Cease 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.440 is actually the pinnacle of it. He's the core player. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.200 Tadj Bradley is more likely Dylan Ceaese type. But this 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.240 is what you get sometimes from these guys. But a 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.279 fun fact was Luisa Rise was the player that broke 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.640 up his no hitter. Whatever it was a couple of 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.640 years ago with the White Sox, maybe it was like 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.960 a year ago or two. Luis Rise was the player 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.280 that got the final out for them and handed him 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.640 the ball from the no hitter. I saw them talking 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.279 about that. I thought that was like a really cool, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.080 like weird, you know, just weird thing that ended up happening, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.600 that had broken up. Yeah, very baseball thing to happen, exactly. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:25.839 That's the way those things go. But I wish I 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.160 had shares of Dylan Cease. It was a good trade 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.360 when the Padres made it. Padre is still kicking around. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.760 You know, they're not dead yet, for sure, the Marlins, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.159 they're dead. They traded Aj Puck to your Diamondbacks, so 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.960 a little bit of help there in the bullpen for 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:44.039 the d Backs. They traded Davison, Dela Santos, and Andrew Pintart. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.840 Now Dela Santos has been a guy who been talking 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.680 about forever leading the league in the minor leagues, I 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.920 should say at home runs, did this surprise you at all? 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.120 That that's all it took to get you know? For 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.359 all they got for Dela Santos was that, Like, I 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.520 guess this is the thing. The Diamondbacks's not to love 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.680 this guy in the first play, But I mean, how 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.800 do you argue with the results? I understand the rule 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.480 five thing and it came back and all this stuff. 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.760 It's been a weird road for him. I understand the 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.360 last couple of weeks have been a little slow, But 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.120 do you think they're just gonna say, hey, we got 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.599 to cash it on this guy now and Puck is 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.640 enough in terms of age that we're gonna give it 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.120 a shot. It's kind of weird one to me. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:19.640 Yeah, there's a couple there's a couple things with this, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.920 so like I instant rec and this makes me I 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.080 forget sometimes because maybe I'm baby they're coddled a little bit. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:32.920 Without having negativity on my timeline, I baby you too much. Well, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.440 the Peanuts, a cracker Jacks, everyone's so nice and stuff. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.680 I instant reacted to this trade last night because I 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:44.200 was like, what what? Because I've watched AJ Puck this year, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.440 but in transparency, I've watched him a lot as a starter, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.280 and he is awful as a starter. They moved him 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.320 to the bullpen. So my instant reaction, just instantly reacting 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.120 to it, was like, what are they doing? David the 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.880 Dea la Santos has been a top five overall Minor 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.360 league hit or the entire higher season the home run, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.040 and he's doing it at a really, really low age 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.520 to level. So you're trading off this huge bat. Andrew 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.840 Pinar is also not something to just scoff at. He's 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.600 played in the infield. He could be a super util 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.840 guy who can run blah blah blah. And I got 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.160 I was getting killed by people because I called puck 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.400 men and everyone's like, oh, the disciplined you haven't looked 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.520 at He's been awesome in July. He is one of 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.720 the worst starters. There are two things I counted on 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.200 earlier in the year. Joe it was six Do Sanchez 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.440 the team against him was going to score all the runs, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.960 So take the overrun total and AJ Puck walking three 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.320 or more. So if you got two and a half, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.320 you would always bet the over on walks because he 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.600 was awful. So my instant reaction was that before looking 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.280 into it, and people were just being such whiners about it, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 and he has been good, but to their credit, AJ 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.840 Puck has been good July, he's striking out guys the 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:57.840 walk numbers. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.080 Or he's not a starting down. That's it. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:00.200 He's not a star. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.600 But to the main you want to give up a 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.480 twenty one year old power hitter for a bullpen guy, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.800 and I think the answer is unequivocally no. To me, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:08.640 I think it's a bad. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.560 Move and attempting not to make it a stupid middle 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.760 relief trade for the Diamondbacks into ten minutes and stuff 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.720 like that. My reaction is like, well, you're doing a 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.760 good job. I am doing a very good judgment, even 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.360 with Puck being good over this period of time. To 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.080 trade one of the best minor league hitters for a 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.440 middle relief guy, I don't like it regardless, even if 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.640 Puck has been good. But to your point, I was 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.600 told the Diamondbacks do not trust his defensive ability. They 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.440 really didn't feel that they had a future hurt for 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.760 him in the National League. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:38.719 Now for years, but. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.000 They didn't value the offense enough. There was also maybe, 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.839 like I saw a radio person out here locally talk 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.680 about maybe work ethic was a question. I'm not really sure. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.480 A bad kid and like that's why they roll find 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:49.880 him in the first place. I don't I don't know 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.080 the inner workings. And maybe he is. Maybe he's the 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.760 next yoan Moncata type guy, Like I don't know. All 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.600 I know is twenty one year old guys leading the 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.000 minor leagues at home runs should bring you back more 0:08:59.040 --> 0:08:59.640 than a middle. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.920 I completely agree, and I just want to point out principle. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.000 The relief market is a wild, wild place. There was 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.080 a rumor that Dinonbacks could have had Tanner Scott in 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.280 this trade, but they didn't want a rental player. That's 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.520 they did prioritize getting someone they had control of INMPUCK 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.640 if they're going to give up Dayla Santo's. But a 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.200 big point here is that relief market is going to 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.679 be ridiculously stupid, So just keep an eye on it. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.840 It is going to cost more. I mean, perceivably, it 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.760 seems like it costs more for aj Puck than Randy 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.840 rose Arena. You can make that argument and that's gross. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.360 We don't know the player to be named is here, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:33.640 but the relief market's stupid. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:38.040 Question here from the Penuts and Cracker tracks from Dev Brau, Hey, guys, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.320 do you like Yamamoto or Corochet more and Dynasty? That's interesting? 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.040 I like Crochet more about you. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.559 They're so so close, Like I want to say Crochet. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.080 I'm going to say probably Yamamoto at this second, but 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:51.600 the answer might be Crochet. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.719 Okay. More trades and things going on, potentially. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.640 We have one just happened by now what just happened? 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.679 Literally just happened. Yeah, sorry, is going to go to that. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.360 The Phillies acquired Austin Hayes from the Orioles, and the 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.640 Orioles picked up sar Anthony Dominguez and Christian Pashe. This 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.280 happened and in the chat like three minutes ago. So 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.400 that was a weird, like outfielders swap Austin Hayes. Though 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.560 there's I mean, if he's gonna get regular time, there's 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.240 some fantasy implications for him in Philadelphia. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.559 Because there are. That's not an if you're the Phillies 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.959 and you're trying to beef up man, Austin Hayes is 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.960 not the answer, like like there's got to be something 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.240 else for you there. That's that can't beay a move. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.000 But it's also that is like the most low impact 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.840 trade of all time to get someone that you can 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.480 maybe put out as a starter every day. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.640 I don't know, Philly fans are not gonna be happy 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.240 with that. What do you do in Austin Hayes What 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.679 kind of trade is that? It's crap, That's what it is. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.480 Blake Snell apparently getting some interest to the Giants are 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.280 kicking the tires. The Astro is one of those teams 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.720 interested actually in Jamison, tai On and the Pirates apparently 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.800 are sending some scouts to look at Jazz Chisholm Junior. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.400 I think Blake Snell could help a lot of teams 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.960 Welsh certainly, you know some teams like the Red Sox. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.679 I would think that the Houston Astros. You know on 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.079 Snell Snell, I think is is the way he's pitching 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.240 his last couple of starts could be a huge game 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.760 changer for rotation because I think he's finally right after 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.520 all these many months of being wrong. He just looks 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.120 like the guy who want to sell young so I 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.360 think now's the time, and we knew it was going 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.160 to be a rocky road and has been. But now 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.360 he looks finally like himself, and I think that could 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.880 be a huge difference maker down the stretch for. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.480 I think there was a report that was even saying 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.200 these last three starts, seeing that he does look right 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.000 is the reason why that market has picked up so much. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.520 He's had it looks like fifteen strikeouts over his last 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.640 three starts. He's gone five through the last three. He's 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.120 still having a little bit of a walk thing. But 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.720 we also know that about Snell that he is like 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.040 a controlled chaos type of guy. Like he will he's 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.880 not afraid to walk players to kind of just matain 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.680 his game. Yeah, control like Snell and a controlled chaos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.400 I'm kind of an outwardly chaos type of guy. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.439 You're kind of yeah, You're I'm more controlled chaos. That's yeah, exactly. Cool. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.559 Guy Clayton Kershaw was back six case for him in 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.319 four innings, could start against the Giants and Max Schurzer, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.320 who was apparently dealing with some arm fatigue and some issues. Well, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.679 nine strikeouts later in six innings, pretty good for the 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.680 Rangers to get the win, although it was against the 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.520 White Sox. Here's some fun things. There's been two guys 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.240 been absolutely crushing life for the last month. Lawrence Butler, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.200 who had another two run home run yesterday, and TODs 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.520 Bradley another six innings, struck out seven guys. How good 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.720 have these guys been? Well in the last thirty days 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.320 Lawrence Butler slash four oh eight four sixty two nine 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.720 with a thirteen ninety two ops. That's how good he's been. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.240 And then on the pitching side in the last thirty 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.840 days for Todd Bradley in five starts a point two 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.319 zero ERA, four wins, thirty one innings, thirty six strikeouts, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.640 nine walks, point seventy nine whip. Butler made an adjustment 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.000 with his hitting coach about keeping his head still and 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.679 it's something I actually saw a little breakdown of and 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.000 it was really interesting and you could see how much 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 he is doing that now, and my god, what difference 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.200 it has made. This is a strong athletic kid, and 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.800 if he can harness that athleticism with good baseball fundamentals, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.040 all of a sudden, Laura's Butler is not a flash 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.800 of the pan. Here this month. If this is something 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.480 we can like start to watch the development of a 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.560 kid at the major leagues. And then Bradley another guy 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.320 talk about Night and Day. Last year it was a 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.040 complete disaster. He was rushed to my major leagues because 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.200 of injuries, and this year he is looking like, oh 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.880 my god, him springs next year along with McClanahan potentially 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.800 in that rotation, the Rays are gonna be back in 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:31.720 a big way next year. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.960 Yeah, you know, on Butler real quick, it's interesting bring 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:38.280 up bt Fouts kind of snarky comment. It's not at us, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.520 but it's just at life, saying I love how nobody's 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.640 talked about Butler until he's over seventy five percent roster. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.720 And I actually think that's an interesting thing because, like 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.920 I brought up Butler yesterday and on ITL, I was 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.800 talking about him last week, but we heard a couple of. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.800 Weeks ago, and I think the answer was the same thing, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.400 which was, yeah, this kid's had some struggles in the 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.679 minor leagues and he I mean, just like Reese Hines. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.960 We were saying, look, this kid's you know, maybe not 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.160 you know, you got to take the great assault with 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:03.720 a hot week. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.400 Yeah, but not me. I mean, like, let's sit in 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.400 bt Fouts's snark for a second in that you're not wrong, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.200 You're not wrong that like, like specifically me, I was 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.360 discounting him a bit and I wanted like Jacob Wilson 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.280 over him, like two weeks ago or whatever it was. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.240 But one of the things that I've kind of come 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.560 to terms with too is he's been in A And 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.960 I don't want to put like big markers on A's players, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.120 even though they've been really good. But there has been 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.240 something at the major league level as far as what 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.280 they're doing with the hitting coaches, Like you're talking about 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.280 keeping your head straight. This isn't just Butler. It's been 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.160 Brent Rooker this entire year. We've seen Geloff have the flashes. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.680 We've Abraham Toro was one of the leaders in like 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.160 hard hit and barrel percentage earlier in the year. What 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.520 they're doing and this is not something that I caught 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 onto early enough to be like, oh, we do need 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.320 to click on those that they are doing something at 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.080 the major league level that is activating a lot of 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.720 these powers from these guys. And Lawrence Butler, you're seeing it, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.360 You're seeing fifty two percent hard hit rate paired with 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.240 a twelve percent beariate. Those are phenomenal. I'm gonna love 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.480 those every time. Also in it, he's got an almost 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 seventy five mile per prower swing on the bat speed 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.080 seventy five, it's four point seven, which is way above average. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.840 You've got this fast swing for this guy that is 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.840 keeping it all in line. Good barrel, good hard hit 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.640 and expected batting average that is actually better than it 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.440 currently is. All of those things have activated and locked, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.960 and he's becoming this really, really great player with all 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.760 those tools. But I was dismissive of it simply because 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.080 of the organization and it's like what run supports out 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.520 there in the A's. But it took me too long, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.800 not about Butler, but to connect that. Oh, the A's 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.200 are actually doing something developmentally great at the major league level, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.960 and they have activated these guys of like Abraham Torel, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.800 Lawrence Butler. Those were just not big dudes. So if 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.680 he's out there, Schumann is another one of those. Lawrence 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.960 Butler one hundred percent should be owned if he's not 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.120 already owned. And we were talking about that as a 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.760 replacement to yell At yesterday. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.960 Yeah, Oh well, yellich more to come on that too, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.840 also fun. James Paxon got picked up by the Red Sox. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.880 So there you go, going back to Boston again. James 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.040 Paxon journeyman. I don't know. I don't know what the 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.040 Dodgers are doing, get rid of starting pitchers. I just 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.240 standing at all. They need starting pictures, like, I don't. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.760 Know if they need Paxton. They might need pictures been 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:24.480 not packs, then. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.280 Why Paxton has been at least he's been there. At 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.480 least he's made the starts. I mean, look, I mean 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.360 I look. I'm not saying James pax is the greatest 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.560 thing ever, but but I mean, at least he's been 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.240 present for all of his starts, which is not something 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.160 I guess we all thought would happen. Where what are 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.840 the you know, what's the now that we've sullied his name? 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.360 What are the starts on Pack. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.440 Four four three e RA A worst expected era, career 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:53.080 low strikeout percentage, one of the career worst walk percentage 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.320 twelve point three. That's one of the worst in the majors. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.400 That's equivalent to aj Puck as a starter. He's giving 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.360 up some really bad hard hit numbers, but he has 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.119 put up a bunch of innings eight point nine, but 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.159 he's got a one point four to six whip and 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:07.480 he has an eight and two record because he was 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.640 a Dodger like six. Okay, so yeah, that's like, that's 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.520 a good fifth starter who you're trying to replace. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.520 Y I guess, I thin guess he's taking the ball 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:16.919 and he's given him innings and I think that's what 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.000 they've needed so far. But yeah, again, we'll see what 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.760 happens here. Yeah, all right, let's do a little up 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.960 and down here, three upland door about those Mets well 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.639 to run Homer Thursday extra ning win over the Brave. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.560 I think they said they're buyers now I think they 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.040 even need a statement that they're gonna they're not gonna sell, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.240 that they're gonna go buy stuff. Now, that's how fun 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.440 is that? Windows? 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.440 Yeah, sure, great, we'll see. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.600 Who would you like to buy? Who's on your buy list? 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.040 I don't I don't see that's the thing. I mean, 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.399 they're getting Senga back today. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.159 We get Snell, Oh my god, go get Snell. Put 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.120 him with Sanga. What an epic awesome disaster that could 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.360 be or greatness? 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.080 I don't know Snell isn't met Maybe maybe he's the 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.119 exact goofp all they need. I don't know. Chris Sale 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.240 nine strikeouts, two runs in that same game, unfortunately, no 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.480 decision for him right in Lao four for four with 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.760