WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 25th, 2023 (Ep. 677) 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.680 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.039 Off Live, brought you by Prize Pick. Sign up today 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.440 with the promo code leading off when you joined the 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.040 Prize Picks. It's me Joey p Joe Pi's a pea, 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.120 That of course is the Welsh, and it's you the Peanuts, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.480 the Cracker Jacks hanging out talk a little baseball. We 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.079 got a lot of fantasy to get to get a 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.279 little wagering, to get to a little DFS, little this, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.600 a little of that, and we've got some technology for 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.880 the show today. That's right. So you're listening to the podcast, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.400 you might want to just you know, drift over to 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.080 the YouTube channel because there's gonna be some visual stuff here. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.080 You're not gonna want to miss. That's a hell of 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.279 a tease, Welsh, don't you think. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.080 I don'tbody even know what it is. I don't know 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.280 what the technology is. I'm excited. Oh it's gonna be. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.400 Not a good artificial intelligence. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.680 Not excited, actually, now that I think about it. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:49.599 No, not excited. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.040 No, no, no, you're gonna look, you're gonna be excited 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.520 because you know, we have a whole thing here, Fantasy 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.240 Pros where they're encouraging us to use AI more. So 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.880 I used AI more for the show. So just sit tight. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.360 We'll get to it. Let's start with Sandy al Contra, 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.200 though surrender two runs and six innings Wednesday, you got 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.399 to win over the Rockies. His first win, by the way, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.600 since April seventh. He's zero to five since then, with 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.120 a six seventeen ERA in his past seven starts. Ironically, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.040 I just did a ride up yesterday. It just came 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.160 out on the buy low sell high on fantasypros dot 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.280 com about going after Sandy al Contra, because if you 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.679 look at the ERA and the fifth things are starting 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.520 to go in the right direction. The strikeout rate has 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.199 been right around nine and a half k per nine. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.360 That's where you want him to be. So for me, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.800 this is kind of that window, especially a good start 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.840 in Colorado. I don't think the window is gonna be 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.440 open much longer. So I think you want to stick 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:42.800 your hands at the window. I think you want take 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.440 Sandy al Contra off somebody else's team put it on yours. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.280 Wealth Welsh. I know yesterday you had a trade opportunity 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.960 with Sandy al Contra, but let's take that out of 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.880 the equation. Let's talk about vacuum trades. Now, are you 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.640 somebody that's buying Sandy al Contra or are you selling 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.280 him off after a good start because you're worried about 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.000 out what you've seen so far in twenty three. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.840 Yeah, I think I'm in general buying him. Like like 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.400 you said, there's like a lot of stuff that's still sustainable, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.239 like yues, there may be some lows. He's walking a 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.960 little bit more, he's striking out like a little bit less, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.160 but you know, as far as you know how he's 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.200 getting barreled and the hard hit like that's kind of maintaining. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.720 It's really all come down to the effectiveness of his 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.920 change up, and that has kind of dissipated. But I 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.960 do think that's fixable. I want to say, let me 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.000 pull it up here. So last year, the changeup had 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.360 a one seventy five no a one forty five batting 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.239 average against with a one sixty nine expected batting average. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.360 He threw that the most of any pitch twenty seven percent, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.920 almost twenty eight percent. This year, the change up a 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.359 three twenty seven batting average three twenty seven with even 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.200 a two forty four, So you can see even the gap. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.000 Even if, like the expected batting average against a changeup 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.160 is higher than it was last year, there's almost a 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.520 full hundred point gap between where it currently is and 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.359 where it should be. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.880 So he's just kind. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.560 Of lost the field this year for the changeup, And 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.600 of course I believe that's going to be able to 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.680 be rectified once he has a better feel, better grip. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.640 Maybe it's just a different arm angle and or you know, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.840 release point or something like that. But he's throwing a 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.520 little bit less because you can see he's uncomfortable with it. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.720 So I think that's fixable. I don't see any other insane, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.160 big worries, and he's probably gonna start rattling off seven 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.200 or eight inning games once we get into the summer. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.040 So yeah, I think it's a pretty decent buy. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.960 I want to give some love to a player that 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.880 I don't think we've talked about since the beginning of 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.400 the season, at least I don't recall it. Riley Green 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.200 two four with a home room two run scored. You know, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.400 quietly the Tigers have been competitive this year. Twenty two 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.440 year old outfielder is you know, looking pretty good. Last year. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.520 A lot of struggles. This is sophomore season where typically 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.320 you do struggle if you had a good year. But 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.840 it wasn't a great rookie year for Riley Green. But 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.480 here's the slash Welsh. It's two ninety one to three 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.200 point fifty two OVP with a four point thirty for 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.640 slugging percentage. You got five homers, five soulen bases, so 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.720 you know, technically you're looking at potentially what like a 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.920 fifteen to fifteen kind of player. If you can hit 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.240 to ninety the rest of the year, that would be tremendous. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.160 But this is another one of these reclamation prospects. That's 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.479 the theme of twenty twenty three right where it's just 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.520 reclamation project after reclamation project. Of these guys that didn't 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.800 live up to their hype is Riley Green. Another one 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.720 of those where you're starting to buy into what you're 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.919 seeing here early in the year because it looks pretty good. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.640 One hundred percent. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.479 I actually was just doing like random stat stuff last night, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.080 just kind of going through looking at splits and looking 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.880 at fun things, and I happened upon May and I 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:38.720 went into hitters. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:39.719 Riley Green. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.840 It has a top ten WRC plus in May at 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.520 outfield and he has the eleventh best war of any player, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.200 you know, so wins above replacement. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:51.120 How good he's been. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.119 Projections have him as like I think it's like seventeen twelve. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.000 That's kind of how like the bat X would end 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.320 up putting him. But I really really believe with the 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.479 strides that he's making that this could be like a 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.360 twenty ten, twenty twelve, even maybe even twenty fifteen. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.240 Type of guy. Because as you would expect, as we 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.080 would talk about. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.760 On here sometimes annoyingly, but like all the expected stats, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.960 they're underlining great. His barrel percentage is up, he's hitting 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.000 the ball harder, his average exit velocity is two miles 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.200 per hour harder. So he's just making better decisions, more 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.120 quality decisions. And I think he's moving up from being 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.480 like this fringy like you know, fifth outfielder to I 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.279 don't know, like a much bigger stable because he's also 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.840 going to be hitting the two or three for that 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.520 lineup runs a point, but twenty fifteen is on my 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:37.960 mind for Riley, and I'm a big buye. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.160 Yeah, I agree. I think this is a good opportunity 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.200 where it just I just don't feel like anybody's talking 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.000 about it. Uh, and you know, with shame on us 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.080 for not really acknowledging it sooner. Marcus Stroman of course, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.200 went out and stuck into the Mets yesterday. He's tossed 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.279 eight innings of two run baseball. He's got an ERA 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.400 under three right now, two ninety five, one point zero nine, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.400 whip fifty four k's and sixty. He's never been a 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.920 k per nine stud Stroman, but he's been oddly good 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.960 this year. Now. We've seen some good runs from Stroman 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.640 in the past, and then we've seen the bad runs 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.800 as well. So what do you make of stroman seasons 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.200 so far? Because an he r under three at this 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.320 juncture in the season, as we're getting close to the 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.240 end of May, is certainly something I think to acknowledge. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.080 What do you think about Stroman here being able to 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.599 possibly sustain this run that he's been on with Chicago. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.560 You know what's interesting, And it happened early on, and 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.800 you know, maybe I'm just crazy, but you know, one 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.599 of the things we saw in his pitch mix, I 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.680 guess I'm looking through like the different definitions of it. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.159 At one point there was a talk that he was 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.360 throwing more of a sweeper. But Baseball Savant has now 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.920 designated as a slurve, which is what he was throwing 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.240 last year. So the biggest you know, changes you've seen 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.080 is like a slight down tick and a cutter. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:51.080 Oh it's a split finger. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.360 Yeah, he's really out of the split finger, which or no, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.400 I guess that's what he cut last year, regardless of 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.919 I mean, well, it's getting close to it. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:00.520 But either way, I mean, by the so you've talked 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.839 yourself in circles about it, let's just call it this letter. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.520 It's one of those things I'm staring at and I'm like, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.400 why is this all just like not like registering in 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.560 my brain of what he's done. But it's been a 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.880 cutter a little bit more. Either way, what I'm getting 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.640 at is like that slurve or however it was called 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.480 as a sweeper. It's just been more effective this year. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.240 The whiff rate is up to almost thirty five percent, 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.480 and that's why he's gotten some more case tharing a 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.239 few more strikes. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.800 I think the pitch mix has helped him. It's been solid. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.600 I think he's like stabilizing a little bit, so he's 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.440 not in the early parts of the year, it was like, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.280 holy crap, Pabo Lopez and Joe Ryan and Marcus Stroman, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.880 they're all changing. Stroman's come back down. I'm into it. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.800 I think he's a guy that you don't have to 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.640 like stream you could hold on to. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.000 There you go. Bryce Elder has been terrific. Another good 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.160 start for him. He's got his eer right now at 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.480 two zero one. This is actually in that same piece 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.200 that I was talking about on Fantasy Pros that's out 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.760 there right now. I know Wonkey contributes, marri Coager becase 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.040 I contribute to it sometimes well shows to you know, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.760 the Bilow Cell high stuff. And I'm looking at Elder 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.960 and just like, I just don't know how long we 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.200 can sustain this. And I like, Bryce Elder is a 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.640 pitcher and you love environment. I just wonder if he 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.080 can get somebody to maybe overpay for him, because two 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.320 months of what Bryce Elder's given you has been spectacular. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.120 I just don't know if we're gonna get four more 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.000 months of this. I think it's a hard sell there. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.480 So even if he just kind of regresses a little bit, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.480 he's still could be a good pitcher. But I just 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.760 I want to kick the tires on the value now 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.440 and see just how high I can sell him off 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.080 of what he's done so far. It's not that I'm 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.920 looking to desperately unload him, but i want to see 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:26.640 what the value is on the market. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.720 I'm going to be doing a little bit more of 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.439 a breakdown on Bryce Elder today with you Know Seris 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.600 because I want to talk because there's also an interesting 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.680 thing that's come out, Like the problem with him. He 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.480 has maybe the ugliest baseball savant page you've ever seen 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.480 compared to a player who's been productive. But here's the thing. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.160 This is another one of those just random players I 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.040 was looking at last night. The slider has completely changed 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.720 his game. And actually, this is what I like about 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.839 Bryce Elder because I've never been a Bryce Elder guy. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.040 His slider's his most used pitch last year through at 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.080 twenty six percent of the time. This year thirty eight 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.840 percent of the time. We've seen this bere so effective 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.400 with so many players ovi eighth Hunter Green kind of 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.280 changed who he was as a pitcher doing that. And 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.480 the thing that's so unique about it for Bryce Elder 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.560 is he's throwing it for strikes. It's an over fifty 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.720 percent zone percentage. So I mean this guy can throw 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.800 not just a slider across his zone. There's lots of 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.240 guys that have these like twenty something percent slider zone 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.559 percentage because they're just throwing it across getting whiffs. Now 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.400 this guy can get it in the zone. He can 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.079 get called strikes because he can throw it for a 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.280 strike at any time, and it's his number one pitch 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.280 and that just makes your other pitches more effective. And 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.760 he's been living off of that slider. I think it's 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.320 gonna be pretty hard to sustain because like maybe we're 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.320 just wrapped into our little world. But like when you're 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:46.240 bottom ten percent in like everything hard hit, you know, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.600 spin rate, whatever it is means come back around. Velocity, Yeah, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.720 it will come back in maybe a weird way. But 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.480 I just don't know if there's any value. Like who 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.640 the hell's buying Bryce Elder. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.760 Well, I think people that have huge injury and pictures. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.360 I think people who have Corbyn burns and are really panicking. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.960 I mean that you never know you could put. I 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.680 mean it gets to a point in the season when 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.400 we get to June where people start making some hard 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.040 decisions on guys that have underperformed. If you put Elder 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.960 in a deal with another picture for all contra or 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.200 or a big time hitter, I wonder if you can 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.480 get that deal done. I mean, think of what Sandy's 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.080 done to your e Ra this year, and Elder looks 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.240 like a really good bye. I mean maybe he's lower 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:24.760 that e Ra. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.079 There's a tiny little part of me that might actually 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.080 be like he might be a bye. And and I 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.559 don't like doing it because. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.120 I understand pages. I think that's in a sharp league. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.120 He's a bye because I think all the sharps are 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:39.960 looking at and saying, okay, you know it's time to 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.800 get out. Whereas you know, in the more casual formats, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.760 he might be a bye because people don't realize just 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.920 you know, how valuable he might be. So I think 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:48.840 that's an interesting. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.920 Dangle him out there, man. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.800 That's a Welsh's advice, is everybody dangle him out there. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:01.160 Edward Julian and whatever's left of the Minnesota Twins. Julian 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.880 let off the game with a homer, his first career 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.200 leadoff homer. Joe Ryan went to seven and one, So 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.320 good stuff there for my boy. Edward. And speaking of rookies, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.160 let's talk about Bryce Miller, your boy. Bryce Miller struck 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.600 out six batters over six shutout innings. Yes it was 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.680 against the A's, but we told you go in there, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.240 go in hard against the A's every time. It just 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.839 always works out. For the most part. It's gonna work 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.920 out one hundred plus times this year. So I'm just 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.360 saying like they're gonna be one hundred lost team. They're terrible. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.120 But what an incredible start at one point one five right, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.680 a point five to one whip twenty eight strikeouts in 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.040 thirty one innings. He's got the Yankees and in his 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.680 next start in Seattle on Monday, so that'll be fun 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.480 to watch Zach Netto three for three with a home run, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.959 So a little sighting for him. He's been relatively quiet 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.120 since getting a little publicity with his call up, but 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.400 you look at the slash two sixty six, three thirty three, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.800 four eleven. Now, Mickey Moniac, our best friend is sitting 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.280 today for. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.760 Oh no, the starts sitting. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.600 He's sitting today, which I don't know why. It's like, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.400 do the Angels not want to win baseball games? I 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.240 don't understand. This is what he had. When you are 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:09.360 you know what it is. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.520 This is true. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.040 This is when you are too loyal to the veterans. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.080 This is what happens. It's like, Okay, Taylor Ward happen 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:16.520 said too. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.280 Many ward in too. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.560 I believe he is Taylor Ward. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.000 Let you put Vick and keelback out there. Here is 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.280 Taylor Ward in over Mickey Moniac. Oh my god, the 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.760 chat must be livid, the Taylor Wards. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.800 They should be eduard O Sealazar from Triple A getting 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.600 called up by the Reds. Uh this year in seventeen innings, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.079 he got twenty five strikeouts, three walks point five to 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.240 one e RA point ninety six whip. Is this a 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.959 guy that can help you with ratios in some of 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:45.720 those deeper leagues? 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.079 Potentially he's a Red so he's kind of a more 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.400 of a pop up. I had big stuff plus numbers, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.200 Sure I would take a look at it. But this 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.040 is not the this is not the Reds that I'm 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.760 trying to buy into. I'll point this out and I 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.280 talk about it on CBS last night. Andrew Abbott for 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.520 the Reds twenty one swinging whiffs last night. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.600 I mean everyone's like, oh, Double A. I don't know. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.360 I don't know. Double A kind of inflated him. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.520 He had twenty one swinging whiffs in that game, and 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.080 he had nine strikeouts. I believe it's like four of 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.840 his five triple A or five of his six triple 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.480 A starts, he's had seven plus strikeouts. Andrew Abbott's the 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.760 guy that I'm looking for. The guys like Salas are 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.920 that it's more like Bullpenny type of stuff. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.960 Like I'm i'd be very. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.640 That's what I mean. Like we're talk about ratio, some 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.680 extra strikeouts, maybe some holes you get for him. That's 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:37.720 what the plus. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.560 Numbers would make me pick him up. We would make 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.000 me like maybe speculate, but like I'm gonna say no, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.720 but I do that sometimes. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.160 I'm just no Mickey moniac. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.840 You know. He's also in the rookie Lookie, Matthew Libertor 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.200 is going to start on Friday, which is no surprise 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.960 because guess what, Stephen mattch crap the bed again, So 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.920 no surprise there. This could be an interesting thing to 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.480 watch today. Danny Jansen was removed from Whens his game 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.600 get the groin tightness. He's going the MRI route today. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.280 That's never a good thing typically, so I imagine he's 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:07.880 going on the IO, which means Kirk is gonna be 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.720 catching again. Now when you have Kirk and Minoa together 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.040 hasn't been great this year. So if Manoa hasn't excuse me, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.640 if Kirk hasn't fixed up that whole issue of setting 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.280 up too early or whatever that is preparation, what whatever's 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.840 going on there with Kirk that was giving us bad 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.360 results and aiding some of the bad stats for Alec Manoa. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.120 Keep a close eye on today and what happens here 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.840 going forward, because that's another one of these things. If 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.520 Dan Chance's out for a long period of time, I 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.160 don't know what we're gonna do there. Eloya Menez will 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.359 begin a minor league reab assignment on Wednesday, so I imagine 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.560 if he's Wednesday, then he's probably gonna be back. He 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.160 would assume sometime next week. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.320 You know, Monday, like it doesn't need that much, like maybeybe. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 Maybe he's even back like Sunday. I don't know why 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.600 you dream of Sunday. I'd say Monday, Well, he's he's 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:53.920 gonna be. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.080 If he starts on Wednesday next week, then you would 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.160 imagine Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I would think they'd probably give 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.480 him through the weekend, but you never know. Maybe just Wednesday, Thursday, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.680 maybe they get back Saturday, Sunday. We'll see what happens. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.040 Manny Machado took some grounders on Wednesday and Julio Urius 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.040 to read bullpen session. Yondi Diaz. It's also away from 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.200 the team for a family matter, so keep that around 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.160 as well. I don't know if it's I hope it's 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.360 nothing serious. I hope it's you know, everything is okay 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.120 for Yandi. We're just saying nice things about Yondi now. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.400 Speaking of nice things, I teased at the top of 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.200 the show. And it's funny because Thursday is always like 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.120 people think, oh, you know, it's Thursday. It's a light slate, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.360 you know. They this is tend to be when we 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.440 do our best work. I feel this is when we 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.720 sang boys to men just a few weeks ago on 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.960 Thursday show. We did another wacky thing last Thursday. So 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.960 I read a piece on MLB dot com about Francisco Alvarez, 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.920 Brett Bady and Mark Viento's going to I guess the 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.600 apartment or condor or whatever wherever mister Alvarez is living 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.400 and Alvarez invited them all over and made lasagna for everybody. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.240 He made like a Spanish lasagna, which you know, the 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.480 sauce is a little bit different, it's not quite you 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.760 know's what's this sort of like a red chili sauce 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.200 than like a traditional tomato sauce. But it's like the meat, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.840 the whole things. And I read this article and it 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.360 was really nice. So talking about the guys kind of 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.200 hanging out, you know, kind of being together. And you 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.400 know that Alvarez is a pretty good cook. And we 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.560 even encouraged here Fantasy Pro to use more AI technology. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.000 And that being said, I asked Ai, I said, can 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.680 you generate me a picture of Francisco Alvarez, Brett Batty, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:30.400 and Mark Viento's at Francisco Halvearez's house making lasagna together? 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.760 And so AI did that for me, and it is 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.480 The results are terrifying. So I want you to take 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.200 a good look at this. So here you go. Ethan 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.960 did this up for us. Dinner is served. As you 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.880 can see, it's a pretty much giant lasagna. I'm not 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.360 exactly sure what's happening here. Also, you could tell the 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.080 logos for the New York Mets don't have I guess 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.520 official licensing on AI, so they're very strange looking. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.360 I mean, Brett Batty is nice. I'm assuming that's him 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.520 nice mare Fuel that looks like he's like it's the 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:08.159 Powder meets the Goonies guy that from the Goonies. Francisco 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.760 Alvarez is missing an eye. God, yeah, it is so terrifying. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.359 Look at the fingers that are melting with the cheese. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.560 What is this? Why would you do. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.639 This to us? Because it's funny? Uh and because it 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.400 was a nice story. So here says in the left, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.920 I guess that's Viento's I assume that's theirn Uh. Yeah. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.720 AI is terrifying. And this is I again. I wanted 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.320 to share this with everybody because it made me laugh 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.360 out loud when I plugged this into AI and asked 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.800 him for a picture, and and you know, it's it 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.760 definitely gives you some sort of zombie Lasagna sort of 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.240 feeling going on with these guys. And you know, it's 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.879 really scary to recognition. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:48.920 Look at this. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.080 Look at the upper half of Alvarez's body and then 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.840 compared to the lower half that's under the bowl. Like 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.080