WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 10th, 2023 (Ep. 707) 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.680 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.520 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Picks. Sign up 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.880 for Prize Picks today. Use that promo code leading Off. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.160 When you do, it's me Joey p that's the Welsh, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.440 and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks hanging out. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.520 We've got a fun day plan for y'all today. Welsh 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.400 and I are live today on the program. Just a reminder, 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.040 we're not live tomorrow, but Wednesday. We have a very 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.520 special MLB Draft podcast audio only, so if you watch 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:35.879 us on the YouTube, youre gonna have to go over 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.360 to the audio feed if you haven't subscribed to Fantasy 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.600 Pros over there the MLB show, the MLB Fantasy of 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.120 Fantasy Pros. It's so beautiful, it's so fun that way 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.440 you can listen to it and check out all the 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.080 amazing content. Because Welsh was going through all of the prospects. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.080 He's a big time prospect guy. Everybody knows that he's 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.080 on TV this weekend talking about prospects. So it's nice 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.200 to have not one, but two television celebrities here on 0:00:59.200 --> 0:00:59.680 the show today. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.880 First TV stars. Yeah, I'm very tired. I'm very tired 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:08.960 from yesterday. And TV's fun, especially when there's a chance 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.039 that they thought you were someone else. That is also 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.560 the other like amazing thing. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.800 There's no yeah, tell me a story, because apparently they 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.880 booked you, but somebody in the production pipeline thought that 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:24.200 you were Chris Welsh, the ex picture and broadcaster, not 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.000 Chris Welsh, the co host of Leading Off of the 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.080 host of Prospect one. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.639 Yeah, and this is actually not the first or second 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.240 time that this has happened. I feel like I need 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.360 to start doing it. So I didn't even know this. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.040 So I was on CBS Sports HQ this weekend awesome 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.840 by the way, with Larry Ridley. He was great, and 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.680 you know, we're doing the thing blah blah blah, lots 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.800 of stuff. And then I get a text halfway through 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:51.040 from Frank Stanfol and Frank goes lo ol Chris Welsh 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.720 the picture and I go what And then I see 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.680 a text about it and at some point in the 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.320 under overlay Chris Wells should get blah blah blah. Jim 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.560 Boden was supposed to be on this and he wasn't 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.200 and I was there, So maybe there's somebody that thought 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.920 like they were getting that, and then there was a 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.760 moment like after the first hit. I did like four 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.640 hits with them, and there was a moment off like 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.160 the first one they got in my ear and they're like, hey, Chris, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.600 what's your Twitter handle again? And I told it to them. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.520 I didn't think anything of it because this then happened 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.960 like twenty minutes later. So there's like a chance that 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.320 just one person. They were all awesome, by the way, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.960 but there one person was like, oh, awesome, we didn't 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.040 get Boden, we got Chris Welsh. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.320 The pitch even better. I don't think I know. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.160 I'm aging, but I don't think I looked like I 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.200 pitched in the early eighties. I don't think I have 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:38.800 that look. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.680 But no, I don't know. I mean maybe with the mustache. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.079 For those of you who missed that show last week that. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.720 I actually think I looked a little bit younger with them. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.519 I think when you put the glasses on, that was 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.280 really little look. But regardless your TV star now, no 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.560 matter who you know, I should start pretending that I'm 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.720 David Draymond from Disturbed, or you know, maybe I should 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.480 go buy the Joe Pisapia, you know, the guitar player 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.280 for the band Guster. Maybe somebody get in some fancy 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.680 restaurants or something. You know, there's funny. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.640 There's this. There's a picture this weekend of like a 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.280 lookalike Taylor Swift with Drake. If you did the thing 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:14.360 with the lip. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.640 The little lippy thing one piercing you. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.000 If you walked around. I guarantee, if you walked around 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.840 New York with the lippy thing, you would get people 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.280 wanting to take your picture. One hour of walking with you, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.000 no less than ten autographs picture. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.000 I'm all for it. I have called, by the way, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:39.000 and made reservations at restaurants for pretending to be other 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.080 celebrity people or taking care of it. I have done 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.320 that in the past and then use the reservations for 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.000 myself when I worked at the hotel and a lot 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.840 of fancy people coming around with fancy places, so I 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.480 would often, you know, say hey, you know I couldn't 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.200 get into a restaurant, couldn't get into a place. I'll 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:54.880 take care of it. I'll call from work and pretend 0:03:54.920 --> 0:04:00.560 that I'm making a reservation for somebody else, and you're like, hi, guys, yeah, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.040 executives coming in from X y Z. Yeah, yeah, I've 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:04.400 done that. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.120 It's a good time. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.360 Let's get to some baseball talk, shall we, Because again, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.080 just to reiterate Wednesday, we're dropping the MLB Draft Podcast. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.120 On Tuesday, no show, no show live, We're taking the 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.720 day off All Star Game. Everybody enjoyed themselves Thursday's and 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.960 off day. Then Friday, Scott Boggman and myself we're gonna 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.640 be here live on leading off. So if you want 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.640 the live action, come join us again on Friday. Then 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.640 back to business as usual next Monday. Just to give 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.239 everybody an idea, So Monday here, Wednesday, audio only, MLB 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.600 Draft Pod, Friday picking things up again, looking forward to 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.280 the weekend, so everybody takes a little breath, a little reset'. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.279 Let's talk about what happened on the weekend. Mae Machado 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.800 picking up some steam, back to back wins against the 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.919 Mets there, so he had a nice pair of home runs. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.160 The overall stat line starting to come up a little bit. Still, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.880 some things obviously that are going, you know, to look 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.560 bad at the end of the year because of the 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:57.120 long stretch of well not being good. But nonetheless Padre's 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.000 pitching looks really good too. Joe Musgrove really good performance. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.280 Seven k's and six shutout innings. Blake Snell another double 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.320 digit K game, Welsh eleven strikeouts this time. I'm telling 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.960 you the Blake Snell narrative is going to start to grow. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.479 I might have to, now that Clayton Kershaw's having some 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.040 health issues, start to hedge a little bit with maybe 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:22.240 a little Blake Snell share, little Blake Snell. Oh on 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.960 the say, young man, that is a trip. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.080 Man, I'm staying hydre. Yeah, great baby. The manamn Chada thing. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.239 By the way, three straight months of boost on his average. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.240 He was down to two seventeen in May, hit two 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.600 sixty two, up to four hundred this month, and he 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.039 has more homers in July than he had in June 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.160 and May combine. So it's just about these guys. Click 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.719 and Savant. Page still looks pretty crappy, but it's just 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.680 starting to move up. He's starting to, you know, get 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.640 collected with all his stuff here. This is why you 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.960 make those bets, all those guys, I mean under the 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.359 biggest thing that that team had struggling with themselves is 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.880 there was a collection of some of their best players 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.839 that were struggling at the same time as one Soto 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.599 Hitt an elite level. No, but Joe Musgrove looks great. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.680 They're pitching and it's all led by Blake Snell, which 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.719 is the wildest. So all they're waiting for now is 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.520 you Darvish to find his rhythm and that team's gonna 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.000 be wild as we go into break with the Diamondbacks 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.120 and Dodgers like tied. I think the Dodgers might be 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.800 a half game up or they're tied with like a 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.440 tiebreaker of playing the series going to the d Backs. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.640 But like this division is still wide, wide open, and 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:27.920 the Padres are running. Man. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.520 Yeah, the Padres, I'm telling you, if they can just 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.359 get hot at the right time and just backdoor themselves 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.559 into the playoffs, there're gonna be a lot to handle 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.280 with Snell Musgrove and if Darvish can figure himself out. Also, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.760 I'm remiss. I want to give a shout out to 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.240 our friend the Wonky Penguin, Kelly. You filled in for 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.640 me Fridays or I could take a day off with 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.280 the Kato's. We went to SmackDown at Madison Square Garden. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.960 We went to Italy and New York. We went to 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.320 Madame Tusso's. We had a great time and a lot 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.680 of wax celebrities. It was great. So Kelly does kick ass, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.800 and Kelly will be on the show more when I'm 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.320 not so fear not, whether she likes it or not. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.680 The Wonky Penguin's gonna come back with more baseball talk. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.600 What was the creepiest of the wax figures? Was there 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.599 one that really got. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.960 You to got me? Or that I took a few 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.480 selfies with? Is that what you mean? Because I may 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.280 or may not have taken a couple of selfies with 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.480 myself and Scarlet Johansson. I'm just saying it may or 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.480 may not have happened. It probably did happen. In fact, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.000 I think it did happen. That's what I'm gonna say 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.640 about that. Let's move on to the next. Hazel's Lizardo. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.680 Let's talk about him. There, Well, the best one though 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.320 there wasn't Eli Manning. So I did take a picture 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.880 and said that to Debro because we always have the argument. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.960 I always call him Hall of Famer Eli Manning, which 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:43.119 makes Debro upset. Hazel's Lozardo Welsh. Here we go again, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.680 six and a third nine strikeouts. I'm telling you, I 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.480 want to hear you say it. He is elite? Can 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.720 you say it now? After this performance and we got 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.840 in there, you keep saying he's, well, he's kind of 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.480 right around there. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:55.880 He's pretty close to elite. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.680 Can we just call him elite? Like? What are we 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:58.360 waiting for here? 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.400 Can we just you don't need my validation? 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.320 I feel like I do. I feel like I want 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.560 your validation. And I don't know why I'm having this issue. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.680 Two more starts. If he does this two more starts, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.640 I will call him elite. I would want to buy him. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:11.160 You know why. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:12.640 I would want to buy him too, because I don't 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.280 think he lives in that territory of elite, so the 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.840 cost isn't in that. So it's like a second half buy. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.720 I think it's a great person buy. It's not someone 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.680 I'm trying to sell. There's a borderline. Like I think 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.360 Blake Snell is the most difficult because I was the buyer. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.360 I think I put him twice in the buy videos 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.520 in the first half. I was buying. Now he's so good, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.320 it's like, oh my god, they're gonna keep being this good. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.760 This might if you are the seller type and you 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.960 like to move these type of guys where I don't 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.960 think Hazus Lozardo is someone that is so good that's 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.120 not sustainable. Not saying that Blake isn't also not sustainable, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.800 but I would like to buy Hazu's Lizardo for the 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.080 potential that he is elite in the second half, because 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.560 he doesn't come at that cost right now. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.120 Well, just so you know, Blake Snell is the fourth 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.640 pitcher in strikeouts, tied at least with chovo Otana one 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.920 third two right behind him at one twenty nine has 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.080 Lizardo the Jesus lizard. That's right. I just wanted to 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.280 take a quick look too, because I want to take 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.280 a look see about the play of future is on 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.599 betting pros and see where Blake Snell's best number is. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.920 Right now, you want to take a guess what that 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.400 number is now for Cy Young, for Blake Snell. Just 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.439 want to throw that out to you. It was plus 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.240 thirty three hundred where it opened. No, it is not 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.720 six to one. It is still plus eighteen hundred. You 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.640 can get it. You can get it at Caesar's at 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.280 plus eighteen hundred on betting pros plus twelve hundred on 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.040 bet MGM and FanDuel who's above and a d DK 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.800 is already a plus nine to fifty, still above him 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.280 usual suspects. Kershaw is at plus four hundred, Gallon at 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.760 plus two fifty, Stryder at plus five seventy five, and 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.600 then Blake Snell. So I'm just saying, Blake Snell, if 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.160 he keeps on this path, it's gonna be him and 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.559 Strider at the end. Now, I made the early investment 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.200 on Strider and Gallon. I'm still happy with that. I 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.160 hedged on Kersh. I usually don't hedge at all, but 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.400 now with the Kershaw injury, I feel like my hedge 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.520 with Kershaw is looking dicey. So I'm concerned. So I'm 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.360 watching this number very closely. Y'all should be watching it too. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.040 Steven matts or season high nine strikeouts five and a 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.760 third on Sunday for him, so he kind of working 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.320 his way potentially back into good graces now that it 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.720 matters for the Cardinals. Shoe Heo Tani went three for 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.200 four over the weekend, hit his thirty second home run. Unbelievable. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.840 TikTok shoe Heo Tani trade tick talk. Spencer Strider another 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.600 great performance for him to eleven strikeouts six and a third. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.360 I'm telling you the Blake SNeW Spencer Strider strikeout props. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.600 Even when these numbers are eight and a half. Dare 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.160 I say nine and a half. You gotta go the over, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.880 which is crazy right now, but Welsh, that's where we're living. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.600 I want to talk about this too because we got 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.720 some rookie lookie stuff to talk about. Again. Just a 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.000 reminder if you're just joining us live Wednesday, we're gonna 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.240 drop an audio only podcast. MLB Draft was fun. Scott 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.600 Bogman was there. I can't wait to talk to him 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.600 live about it and see takeaway was. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.079 He'll be and this is what it's gonna be great 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.240 about you guys talking with bugs. He was at the draft, 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.280 he was at the Futures game. He's going to the 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.840 home run derby tonight, and he's going to the All Stars. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.640 I mean, he got the whole strip. He's going to everything. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.800 So he will what good insight, show me what life 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.280 looks like with no children for a thousand, It's. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:28.280 Yeah, show me the privilege time. Oh He's like, I'm 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:29.920 just like, hey, what are you doing? He's like, you're 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.400 staying up late, eating horrible food, taking ubers and just 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.960 having the time of his life. Like I'm like, oh, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.240 that's great, man, I hope you're. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.720 Having freaking jealous so freaking jealous of him, rookie. Looky, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.800 Miguel Vargas got sent down to Triple Egg. Now he 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.040 has not been good, So we'll see if he can 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.000 get right. We'll see if they recall him after the break, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.640 if they want to get more at bats or not. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.480 I don't know what's going to go on here. Pay 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.960 closer to attention to this. We had this little discussion 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.160 right about well, you can move Max Munsey the second 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.920 if you take on the run Dome contract. By the way, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.640 the Rendon contract thirty eight million dollars and twenty four 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.640 thirty eight million dollars and twenty five thirty eight million 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.200 dollars in twenty twenty six. Do you imagine how much 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.480 money is still left on that deal? 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.960 You know, I do like the idea. I'm still going 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.840 to hold to this, Like I just, oh, Donny, he's 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.679 not getting traded, but if he were, that team one 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.760 hundred percent wants to put Rendon, you know, feet to 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.000 the fire. Into trade, Like, if you're gonna take on Antony, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:25.720 you got to take this. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.720 But I don't even think you could take all of it, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.080 just a portion of Rendon. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.800 I don't see how a team does any of that. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:31.680 That is, I think they. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.920 Think a worship of tracks. It is going to be 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.280 what I mean, it's so funny. We keep looking back 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.520 in the Nationals after the World Series, they had that 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.360 dividing line of what they were gonna spend money on, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.800 and they had a choice. It was Strasburg or Rendome, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.960 and there turns out that there was no good answer. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.439 The correct answer was Juan Soto, but instead they played around. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.959 They pussy footed around with that and won. Soto ended 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.600 up getting too a bad spot and then you had 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.960 to end up trading him, and I guarantee you they 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.280 regret that decision. That was the my only worst decision. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.480 Problem with that is the Angels can if they were 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.760 to make this move, they cannot afford for it to 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.760 look bad. So the problem is is if you put 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.319 Rendon in it, it lessens what you would get in return, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.040 and they're not going to be able to sell that 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.400 to anybody. There's no chance they do that. I think 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.400 Rendon can't be involved in it because they need to 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.720 get the biggest freakin' hall that they possibly can. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.920 If you're going to rebuild the Angels organization, as important 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.280 as it is to have you know, a wealth of prospects, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.240 if you had to maybe get one big prospect or 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.360 two as opposed to three or four and get them 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.839 to take a piece of the Rendount contract, that frees 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.640 you up, I think a lot more as an organization, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:38.080 does it not? 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.800 Yeah, I mean I know it frees you as an organization, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.040 But to be like, okay, you could get you know, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.600 three huge impact prospects close to the majors and two more, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.599 or if you get rid of Rendon and have a 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.080 little bit more financial flexibility, you can just get to 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.040 one really great prospect in another. I think people would 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.880 be pissed. I think people would be pissed if this 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.040 doesn't look as big or bigger than the ones, so 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:01.280 trade even though. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.800 It's gonna be pissed anyway. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.600 But it's not gonna happen, so it doesn't matter. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.800 So well it's gonna happen, They're gonna be pissed anyway, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.000 so you might as well do whatever's best for the organization. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.640 Jackson Holiday, by the way, got a promotion from double 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.120 A to uh. Well, from no single high h double 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.080 single A to double A pardon to Bowie uh which 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.320 is where everybody sings like David Bowie. There he is 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.840 slashing three, fourteen, four, fifty two, four, eighty eight, five dingers, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.520 thirty five or seventeen steals, also fifty four strikeouts to 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.960 fifty walks over fifty seven games. Are you happy with 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.880 the progress from Jackson Holiday? If you're a Dynasty owner 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:34.760 right now, you were. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.720 About to do fifty five burgers fifty five shicks. You 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.440 know what's funny about that? I was doing I did 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.000 a show with a Stanfull and CBS and we were 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.800 talking about the guys that just got drafted, and in 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.800 the conversation it was like, oh, you know, there's some 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.680 of these college guys and you know they're probably not, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.600 you know, gonna be pushed super hard next year or 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.880 anything like that. And I was like, well, one year 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:00.680 ago today, High School Jackson Holiday, High School, Jackson High 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.200 was drafted and he's in double A. That means he's 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.640 going to potentially produce next year, like he is in 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:08.280 contention for. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.680 Could he get bumped again. Could he cause me a 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.720 triple a bump if he had Let's say, let's say 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.640 July goes crushingly, well. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.280 Absolutely can make the jump if he If he goes 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.920 July August and then September comes in you one hundred. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.240 I guess there's a minimal stuff in September, but one 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.000 hundred percent could get one more boost. I can almost 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.600 guarantee you he's going to the Arizona Fall League. Like 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.640 I'm starting to kind of collect in my mind the 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.640 players that will play in the Fall League. They talked 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.960 about it on the broadcast. Max Mayer is one that 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:39.760 we know is planning to go to the Fall League. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.480 Jackson Holiday will be there because he is going to 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.120 be in contention for a spot next season. He is 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.240 as soon as Ellie graduates, it's my number one prospect. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.760 Ellie's gonna probably graduate early next week and he will 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.880 be my number one Dynasty prospect as far as prospects go. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.480 Question for you on that discussion when it comes to 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.960 Jack and Holiday making this jump and potentially being there, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.160 does that make Jordan Westburg potentially available in a trade 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.360 for more starting pitching help for the Baltimore Oo's this 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.600 year because the Orioles are in it. I know Gibson 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.040 had a good performance this weekend. I know, you know, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.680 some of the other pitchers have had their moments. Grayson 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.920 Rodriguez could also just you know, be brought up and 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.240 they could say, okay, well that's our move. But do 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.760 you think that they trade one of these infield prospects 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.040 that they have since holiday is you know, on that 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.240 fast track to acquire a starting pitcher maybe for this 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.240 year and next, Like could they be looking at a 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.000 g lead or could they be looking at somebody like 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.400 that who you know, potentially could help them for a 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:34.920 year plus. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.680 Definitely possibility. I don't want to be like no, but 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.760 one of the reasons they could have brought them up 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.520 to start, you know, showcasing them. A lot of teams 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.720 are going to look for like major league ready prospects 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.840 in these type of trades, especially big ones. Someone in 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.640 the chat just said cease to Baltimore. There's actually been 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.960 a Arizona Diamondbacks Jordan Lawler for cease rumor that's floated around. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.760 I would say, Seeson Baltimore would make the same sense 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.560 that you know, if you've got these major league ready 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.639 guys that are showing that they can play at the level. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.760 Then it makes him, I think, exponentially more valuable for teams. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.199 So is it possible? Yes, Are they gonna do that? 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.840 I tend to think no. But they do have a glut. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:18.240 You know, Gunner Westburg, You've got Connor Norby that's coming soon, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:23.199 and Jackson Holiday all vying for essentially three positions to 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.200 mention some of the major leaguers they have got there. 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.440 So if they wanted to do it, I do think 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.280 someone like Westburg or Colton Kowser could become available. I 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:32.600 just don't think they will. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.840 I think you got a surplus. That team has been 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.679 so irrelevant for so long. A playoff run in Baltimore 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.600 would be a really good thing for that fan base. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.679 I think you have the Again, I wouldn't do it 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.159 for a rental. It was a guy you can control 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.880 for another year. I think it's a really good move 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.720 potentially for them. All Right, Anthony is begging us the 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.280 biggest question. So Anthony, here we go. Second place right now, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:57.080 twelve team keeper thirty round league can keep up to 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.280 three guys. Brett Baty I can keep in around twenty 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.360 four next year. He hold or drop. Well, it's hard 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:02.600 about seeing the rest of the roster. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.960 I'm gonna say it without seeing it. No, I would 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.640 agree three guys Brett Baty, which would better guys. But yeah, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.720 we don't know what the options are. I imagine, yeah, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.520 I imagine there are three better guys, even with the 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.800 rounds concern. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.320