WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 30th, 2022 (Ep. 543) 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.160 Good morning and afternoon peanuts and cracker jacks. My friend's 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:22.760 over here at leading off. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.040 It is your. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.360 Dear friend, your dear friend who's not going to talk 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.160 about you know who today Chris Welsh, of course on 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.440 the host seat as Joe will be back with us 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.240 again tomorrow. And joining me today is our dear friend 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.839 Casey Bubba beat the intrick on Twitter in the house, Bubba, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.640 what is up my friend. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.400 Much man, Thanks for having me today, talk a little 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.839 baseball with my friend. Oh here Chris Welsh, And you 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.680 know I'll do my best to impersonate Joe Picpa, but 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.800 no one can do well. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.479 You can take your hat. If you take your hat off, I. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.199 Think, yeah, we got half we're halfway there. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.360 You know what I got to tell you. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.080 I think you don't have to do it, of course, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.680 but if your hat was off, I think everyone would 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.880 feel a little bit more comfortable that there's a ball guy. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.160 Not a balding guy like me, but a bald guy. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.280 Yeah no, no, we're going to keep it that way. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.200 I don't have the Harry Potter you know, stuff going 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.680 on like Joe does. But we'll stick to it. We'll 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:09.720 stick to baseball. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.880 Today we've got lots to talk about. Everything to talk about, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.480 of course, except a certain you know who who went 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.840 over to with a strikeout in a couple walks no 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.320 hits yesterday. We're not going to talk about that guy today, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.039 of course, who didn't do anything that was in the 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.840 home run call. But we did get somebody that took 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.800 advantage of the double rookie home run call yesterday. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.600 We've got lots of fun things. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.319 We actually have a very cool back to back trivia 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.640 in this day in baseball history, and we're going to 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.080 look at some props, which I actually think it's a 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.240 very difficult day to really lock down on props for yesterday. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.639 There was so much to choose from from top to bottom, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.800 and great pictures going and there's a lot to go with. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.840 But how about let's jump right into the show, Bubba 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.840 and look at number one show Heyo Tani yesterday, who 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.280 was one of our three picks on the prop sheet. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.000 We were two two for three, yes Sho. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:05.279 Haotani fan eleven batters in a victory over the White Sox. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.680 And let me ask you this. I don't want to 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.519 beat this over the head or anything. Since we've talked 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.200 about it so much over the last couple of weeks, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.160 but Shoho Tani's MVP odds have now dropped to two 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.320 point fifty. Joe and I were on here when it 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.959 was what was it five hundred? We're telling you bet bet, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.639 bet bet, it went down. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:22.400 Came down to four hundred. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:23.880 We thought it would go down a four hundred after 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.280 the big thirteen strikeout performance and went down into the 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.120 three days. We're now down to two point fifty. Bubba, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.440 your take on the Aaron Judge Versus Otani MVP award 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:35.679 race that's going on right now. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.120 Oh, it's Otani's an award to lose doing what he's doing, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.160 and it's just not fair to pretty much anybody else 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.760 because Aaron Judge has been amazing. There's no sugar coating that. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:45.359 Do you still you feel that way? 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.639 Also knowing Judge's minus money, I mean he's been minus 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:49.520 money for over a week. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.400 You still hold to that. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.120 I still hold to that as long as he's pitching 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.880 and hitting the way he is is great Now to 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.120 be careful. In his last at bat last night, he 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.320 tweaked his back. It looks like so that's something to 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.160 watch with Otani because he had a couple of swing. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.679 He's grimacing a lot, so that could affect things big time. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.760 But for me, as long as he's pitching and hitting 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.560 and he's just a clear cut favorite, they might have 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.000 to just create a separate award so people like Judge 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.000 can get the rightful MVP he deserves. It just won't happen. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.119 Well, you know, there's a couple things in here too. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.600 Mayor just jumped in and he's proving a great point. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.600 He goes devers for MVP. But Wonky, you bring up 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.000 a great point. I think that is all across the board. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.680 The books are going to make a freaking killing that 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.680 guy Baltimore Cruz, who. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.320 We don't talk about. The Rookie of the Year in 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.800 the NL is hysterically stupid. The AL is hysterically stupid 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:37.560 in a different way. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.560 Rookie of the Year award winning bets if you want 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.600 to do because it's it's an open race. I mean, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.440 Julia looks amazing, but Bobby WIT's coming back. All the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.880 races are open right now. The Wonky's right, The books 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.320 are going to make an absolute killing across the board 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:53.480 on all of these bets. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:54.960 But I just find it interesting. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.680 After another double digit strikeout performance Atani has been amazing 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.240 and we are teetering down into only two and a 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.320 half on your money, where it was like ten days 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.320 ago it was five to one on the money and 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.760 Judge is incredible. But this race continues on and obviously 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.960 we'll continue talking about it. This was an awesome story, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.720 especially for someone like me as followed prospects and everything 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:14.920 like that. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.600 Over time. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.520 Mark A Pell made his debut we talked about a 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.480 couple days ago because of Pel obviously got the call up. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:22.960 Which is like a super special moment. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.120 You guys know the story like Apel was drafted, went 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.800 back drafted number one overall ahead. Chris Bryant played with 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.000 the Astros for a bit, retired I believe it was 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.000 four years, made a comeback, and he made his major 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.960 league debut last night, having a nice clean ninth inning 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.440 if I remember correctly, believe. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.599 He got his strikeout one single olhways did a single. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.800 Okay, close to clean, but very whippy, very different than 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.080 what I remember him being. But obviously he's you know, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.240 he's just kind of changed his trajectory. And Bubba twenty thirteen, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.880 he goes back and we actually did a trivia question. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.359 I think it was on Monday where in that same draft, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.600 because everybody talked about, you know, he Chris Bryant was 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.280 the pick after Markapell. Aaron Judges was the thirty second 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.040 pick in that draft as well. So you've got the 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.400 MVP that's floating around the Tim Anderson as well. Markapell 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.640 in his career almost put up five hundred career innings pitched, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:20.640 and the guy hadn't pitched from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.080 He did those years he didn't pitch almost five hundred innings, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.880 had a five ERA five point zero one ERA in 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.720 his minor league career. This year though, in Triple A, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.640 a one to six ninety ARRA with five wins in 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:37.599 nineteen games pitched only in relief. There's nothing fantasy relevant 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.120 of it, but pretty cool to see Markapelle actually out there. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.200 I think the oldest first overall pick to ever make 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.160 his debut. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.040 Yeah, it was great to watch. I was actually watching 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.480 it live on MLB Network and it was cool watching 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.720 him When he struck out Duval, he smiled and kind 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.720 of looked around like he's taking it all in and 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.000 sawim in the dugout afterwards Hoskins and guys were like 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:56.520 high five and I'm gon giving him hugs. It was 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.000 fun to see him finally get his like you said, 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.839 so it was a great baseball story. Yeah, no fantasy 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.360 relevance right now, but good to see. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.559 Marco pell is probably like one of those really great 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.360 teammates to have in the minor leagues because like he could, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.720 he could offshoot as most of those guys. Dad, you 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.880 know what I'm saying, Like it go old enough to 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.120 do any of the stuff he's got to do. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.960 It's the oldest rookie. It's very cool. I don't know. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.599 Where the career fully goes with him, though, I will say, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.360 like you said, looked a little bit whippy on the mound, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.239 looked a little bit deceptive. Might there might be something 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:25.520 in there. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.080 They're closer. Their bullpen's a mess, so there's an opening. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.840 And uh mayor close for the Red Sox right now. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.719 Probably maybe we'll see a career. Maybe we'll actually see 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.000 a career out of it. Brian Reynolds three dingers, drives 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.320 in six and win over the Nats. Probably at least, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.560 you know, for many of the haters in the chat here, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.960 not the pirate player they wanted to see hit three 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.680 homers yesterday, but Brian Reynolds did it. Rowdy Teles your twin, Bubba, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.240 Rowdy Telez right goes deep twice in a win over 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:57.720 the race. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.839 What do you think is more relevant? Rowdy Teles is. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.760 Your twin or Alejandro Kirk is Bogman's son? What do 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.880 you think is What do you think is more accurate? 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.560 I'd say Alejandra Kirk is Bogman's son. I It's very 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.680 very accurate, to be fair. I've also been compared to 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.480 Dan Vogelbach show. We got that going for me too. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.320 But lazy now that they're just that's too easy, that's 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.560 too easy. Now, yeah, I'd say Kirk Kirk for Boggs 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.760 for sure. Now at least I'm not at least I 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.760 have fat John Lackey. So That's where I'm sitting at right. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.400 Those are my John Lackey one And people don't even 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.680 say fat John Lackey. But let's be honest. You know 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.440 he's lost a decent amount of weight. I'd have to 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.240 like really get it in to be John Lackey. Like, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.960 so I'm still not really happy about it. Buba Justin 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.320 Verlander becomes the first pitcher to ten wins. I think 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.560 his brother was tweeting this out as well. I mean, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.040 the guy coming off of you know, double Tommy John 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:47.800 big deal. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.360 Sure, sure, this is a big one. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.920 Sures throws eighty pitches in the rehab start dealing with 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.600 the oblique injury, and this aligns him up if they 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.960 want on Sunday rest of season, Bubba, your comfortability with 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.720 Max Sures? You're moving forward because I saw a trade offer, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.360 someone sent me a trade offer that came in that 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.720 I'm going to ask you about. But are you full go, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.040 full steam go on Max Suer's the rest of the 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.120 year or with this oblique injury and the injury stuff overall, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:16.960 is that going to linger in your mind about how 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.200 he's valued rest the season. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.000 Yeah, he's a full go for me. Like we knew 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.920 going into the season, he was banged up. We've seen 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.200 this from time to time with him getting backs, injuries 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.160 and other things. But when he's out there, he's good 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.600 to go. He's going to pitch if he can. They're 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.520 not going to baby him. So the fact that through 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.080 eighty pitches yesterday is big and once they put them 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.439 back on the mount, I'm a full go with Max 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.000 shars Or. He's not one of those kind of soft 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.880 guys like others. He's good to go. Okay. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:40.800 Oh and Larry just confirmed I didn't even see the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.720 sus are scheduled for Monday, so. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.600 Beautiful to start on the next one day one. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.160 I just gotta get everybody around them right. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.040 Pre All Star game going. Okay, So somebody's sent me, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.079 you know, not a request, but they just wanted to 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.599 know what I thought about this trade. Pretty good in 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.800 pitching guy had Shane McClanahan had a couple other good arms, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.679 like I would call it a serviceable staff. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:02.439 If Suerzer's not. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.880 On there needed some hitting, and he said, my sureser 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.560 for Manny Machado. Who Manny Machado has gone think seven 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.079 straight games with not playing. They just decided we're not 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.640 going to even put him on the IL though he 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.840 was an MVP candidate and I believe he still owns. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.000 Let me take a look here the third highest NL 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.640 MVP odds right now after Paul Goldsman who's minus money, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.320 and by the way, Pete A. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.800 Lonzo is second. But at five point fifty. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 Would you move do you think it's fair? And would 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.480 you move your suzer to acquire Manny Machado. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.280 If you need offensive help, I think it's quite fair. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.960 I think it's very very fair. Now Machado is running 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.120 before this injury. This seems like a pretty bad ankle injury, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.040 so we might not be running anymore. But if you 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.040 need offense, I'm good with that. I think it's fair 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.760 because both guys have their risk involved. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.040 Yeah, and if you're not worried, if you're sitting in 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:49.839 a space where you're just like, I'm not really worried 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.960 about any of the injury stuff or anything coming back 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.480 on Max Schuzer, then you know who cares. By the way, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.920 it hat tip to him, he fed the entire clubhouse. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.920 They didn't say what he bought though, but I'm assuming. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.840 It's like he said, they ate good, and then one 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.480 of the players that was playing another quote tweet and said, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:05.400 we ate very good. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.640 Oh so maybe maybe went to a little steakhouse. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.719 Yeah. They they said he was very nice to them. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.280 Yeah, sure, sure, She's a good dude. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.440 He's a he's a great guy. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.520 I got to Bogman and I met him when he 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.200 was a diamondback, and I don't even think he had 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.360 made his major league I've told this story, major league 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.440 debut and I had this like card when he was 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:25.160 with Vicelia. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.360 It was like the High a affiliate of the. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.800 Diamondbacks, and you know, I didn't know anything about them, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.080 and we were there, and you know, Bogman's talking to 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.080 Augio Haeeda if you remember Auguioheeda five foot five, Aggio 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.840 hadad Yeah, exactly, they were and I gave Max the 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.880 card and he was like enamored with it. He's like, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.920 this is the cool because it wasn't like the normal 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.520 big car it was just a minor league card and 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:48.080 he loved it. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.160 And I don't know, there's always been something about Max. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.640 I absolutely love that dude. Love love Max. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:53.199 Uh. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.680 Scary moment yesterday Jordan Alvarez Jeremy Pania collided into each other. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.360 But the good news is theoretical good news is it's 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.680 just a concussion. It looks like they're both being evaluated 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.800 for concussions after the collision, but Jordan alpers was carted off. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.200 I don't recall a guy being carted off in a 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.360 concussion standpoint, but that must have been really nasty and 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:16.719 really bad. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:17.839 It was a scary moment. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.280 Yesterday, Bubba, Yeah, it was pretty early to see it 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:22.960 all come down. Like you said, a guy gets carted 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.040 off usually not a great thing, not good, Bob. But 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.120 maybe it's like he's a size of an alignment, so 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.520 they can't really help him off the field, so it's like, yeah, hey, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.600 let's throw him on a cart. I get it, I understand, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.839 I relate, But yeah, it was not looking good. But 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.040 all reports are pointing two good things. Maybe miss a 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.600 game or two. But big jord On and someone mentioned 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.120 it in the chat that we're not even talking about 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.920 him for MVP and he deserves it, like he's been 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:44.760 a beast. Yeah. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.080 So, actually, Bugman and I on ITL which is dropping today, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:49.400 we were looking. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.080 I think this is still relevant. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.839 It could have changed a tiny bit, of course, over 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.319 a day. But there are seven players with twenty plus homers. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.440 The only player with twenty plus homers in Major League 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.840 Baseball to have three hundred batting average is Jordan Alurez. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.800 He's the only one to have a three hundred plus 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.600 batting average. Three of the seven have an under two 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.560 forty batting average, which was even more mind boggling of 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.440 home run hitters Right now, Garrett Whitlock is expected to 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.679 return as a reliever. Thank you, Mayor, you got to 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.959 be excited. Put him back, put him in the closer role. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.600 Please get him back in that fire roll. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:22.040 Please. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.480 Injury Wise, Jazz Chism placed on the IL. I've always 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.960 worried a little bit Bubba that I don't know if 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.800 I want to tag him with the injury prone stuff. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.520 Bogwin's kind of relenting with me. He's an all or 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.160 nothing player. He's hyper hyper aggressive. He's more hyper aggressive 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:42.080 than Haabi Baias. But he's got insane trajectory of how 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.640 he swings a torque in his body. He's heavy pull, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.240 he's just, you know, balls to the wall type of guy. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.199 And he's back on the IEL. And I feel like 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.320 this is kind of a trend for him. So do 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.200 you have any long season worries? I mean, he's been 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.760 probably one of the best middle infielders in all of 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.400 baseball from a fantasy perspective. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 Yeah, I'm a diehard Chism guy. I was hard on them, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.240 uh draft wise this season, so a stinks. I'm not 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.720 super concerned because like he tried to play through it. Now, 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.120 I was gonna put him down and let him get 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.480 fixed back stink because they they flare up easily. But 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.680 you're not going to stop the way he plays. That's 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.079 just who he is. And so this might be a 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.640 yearly thing. Like you said. Last year is like the 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.480 ankle and some other stuff. This year it's the back. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.600 So I'm good with them once he's back, but it 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.680 definitely stinks. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.280 Neck back all that. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.800 Other injuries, Herman Marquez leaves a start due to a 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.280 cut in his right thumb, says he couldn't grip the fastball. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:27.880 That's no point. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.560 No Mooki Bets expected back before the All Star break, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.679 so that's becoming a little bit more official on his 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.040 return back. I believe he is fourth in betting currently. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.720 This would be something I would throw out to people 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.600 that mookie Bets is. We've we've seen it this year. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.319 I think it was fourteen homers in a month. I mean, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.280 second half of season's mookie Bets can go nuts. He 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.200 is fourth in betting on an l MVP right now, 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.640 and he'll be back for All Star breaks for the 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:51.720 entire second half. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:52.600 That's pretty good. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.280 Other injuries, Tyler Stevenson taking some bating practice on Wednesday. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.840 Sales Suzuki, who had been out here in Arizona actually 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.400 training at the Sloan Complex, is beginning a rehab assignment 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.719 in triple A today. Nicolodelo is set to return to 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.880 the rotation next week, thank you, and Tyler Naquin going 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.280 to begin a rehab assignment on Thursday injury wise. Also, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.119 I would throw out a Joe's Tough Guys or Welsh's 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.440 herdoes if you will one of the two, whichever one 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.200 you want to go, Wonky pointed out, can we talk 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.920 about how about Josh Naylor with his head butt celebration 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.680 on a helmet he had? 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.440 God was it Terry Franco? 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.600 Didn't he head butt Terry Francona's helmet last night in 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:34.160 a celebration? 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.640 Yeah? It was pretty wild. I love Naylor, man. The 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.320 dude's awesome, just absolutely amazing. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.600 You know, I've been around Naylor a whole bunch when 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.440 he was like a padre and then he got traded 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.440 and stuff like that. I never saw this energy when 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.000 he was out here in the AFL. I've seen him 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.680 on the backfield. I feel like it's something that kind 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.800 of picked up and then he knows it and recognizes 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.480 it and carries it because he is insane. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.440 He's like insane energy. I gotta love it. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.080 I think it's a great bit, especially because I think 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.240 it is a little bit bit ish. He's been kind 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.120 of quiet. His brother Bo Naylor, who's killing it right now. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.680 He's a catcher, outfielder. It's going to be up pretty soon. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:14.920 Bo is more athletic, not quite as you know, not 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.960 like Josh Naylor sometimes. But this energy thing came out 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.080 of absolutely nowhere, and I love it. Can we talk 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.920 about this bubba? Nick Castianus is in danger of his 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:29.040 first homerless month since September of twenty fifteen. That was 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.960 a tweet by Mark Farzetta. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.240 No homers. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.360 I mean he's got one day. He's got today be 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.920 the first time since twenty fifteen. What is wrong with 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.040 Nick Castianos? 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.040 I know it's pretty wild. You know, maybe he needs 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.560 a deep fly ball to the left field with two 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.920 outs or something to get him going, But are you 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:50.040 mad face? It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy because he's 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.320 still hitting the ball like pretty well, it's just not 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.040 elevating it and a great American small park usually helps 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.400 with that. But he's not there. He's in a good 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.640 old citizens Bank, which is struggling as well. So we'll see, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.600 we'll see what happens that Schwarber. Maybe maybe Schworber should like, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.520 you know, go major league and rub his bat against 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.080 his bat and see what happens. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.920 Dude, he absolutely he needs something. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.840 They need something in all the chicken. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.000 I don't know. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.240 Maybe, yeah, maybe I'm forgetting the name now, I always 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:16.800 forget it. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.440 What's the doll from Major League? 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:20.200 Jobu? 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:20.880 Jobu? 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.240 Yeah, jobo. He needs like some jobo. He needs something 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.360 in that. He needs some milk or luck. He does 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.240 have seven homers on the year, three stolen bases, but 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.840 a pretty high strikeout rate, I mean, second highest since 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.880 twenty sixteen when he was at Detroit, second worst batting 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.480 average in his career actually on the season, and he's 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.720 got an over three hundred BABO. So it's not like 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.880 a major major struggle. The power has just kind of been. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:47.480 Zapped a bit. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.120 It is the lowest ISO of his career except for like, 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.880 you know, a stupid eleven game stint in his rookie debut, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.240 so you wouldn't count that. So yeah, he needs to 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.480 like do anything possible. Maybe a break is going to 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:02.280 be really good for him. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:02.920 That's called mars. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.280 Yeah yeah, well, I mean, what what is it going 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:07.680