WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 23rd, 2023 (Ep. 730) 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:09.799 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome into Leading Off. I am the 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.719 Welsh that is Bubba and Leading Off is brought to 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.040 you by Price Picks. Go and check them out today. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.239 Use the promo code Leading Off get a one hundred 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.600 percent matchup to one hundred bucks. Welcome into the show 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.200 where Bubba and myself we'll be talking about the latest news, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:30.800 answering your questions. Where in the world are Welshin, Corbin 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.440 Ka Roll, Price Picks Bets, home run calls. That's what 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.680 we got on the docket today, Bubba, damn it. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.519 Yes, yes we do. I was like, where are you 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.400 going with this one? Yes we do. It's gonna be 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.440 a fun day, fun Wednesday. I can't wait to find 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.720 that we're Cormyn Carrol on the Welsh are after having 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.479 a little sies still on Monday, so I'm really curious 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.360 to see. You know, he's still short, looks banged up. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:52.960 Maybe he's in an operating room. I don't know. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.320 Well, we're actually going to talk about him in just 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.440 a little bit. There's been a lot of chatter online. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.960 I want to talk about the Rookie of the Year 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.040 stuff that's going down with him, because I think that 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.479 race that looked like it was who was the horse 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.040 that won the secretariat? The secretariat looked like it was 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.679 a secretariat one. I'm just hoping Gorby Carroll doesn't get 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.720 turned into glue after this is where I'm going with it, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.920 because the race is slowing down just a tiny bit. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.959 I do want to remind you guys, as we have 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.679 done and I'm going to do the rest of the way. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.200 You guys have fantasy questions, drop them into the chat. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.440 I will ping them and we will have a segment 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:30.840 here in just a little bit where we're going to 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.800 answer any your fantasy questions, your starts, your sits, you 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.360 could be asking about, dudes, whatever you got, we will 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.400 be answering all of them. But let's kick the show 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:43.240 off today talking about the absolute garbage show that is 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.480 the White Sox. And while we were gone the White Sox, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.600 they s canned the entire management crew and it just 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.160 continues to get worse. So you had Kenny Williams and 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.160 Ricon fired gone. See ya report came out today that 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.919 looks like they are going to hire Chris gets Former 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.760 like a basement utility player, to be their new manager. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.600 But also what came out with it was the team 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.200 being interviewed, Eloy jimen Is being interviewed completely just nothing, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.720 I've got nothing. And then the White Sox their TV 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.320 coverage after with Ozzie Keihan and them just absolutely tearing 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.480 apart the team, blaming the players for everything that's gone 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.040 on with the culture stuff. So, you know, the fantasy 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.400 relevance here is tough. I will say, I think you're 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.480 gonna get a dragged White Sox team the rest of 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.200 the way through media is dragging them management. There's a 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:39.000 lot of blame, seems like just awful, awful vibes that 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.280 are going on with the White Sox, which you know, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.240 from a fantasy perspective, if you've got questions about players, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.960 maybe you don't want to go out there. We know 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.880 with fringy ish players, I don't trust some of the pitchers. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.320 I'm not trusting Kopek today. I just want to get 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.680 your take on the White Sox situation. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.560 It's that meme of a dumpster on fire. That's the 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.000 gift you're looking at right there. The crazy thing is 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.080 we thought we hit rock bottom with Tony the Russo 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.200 last year. We thought things would be better this year. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.880 Uh huh, like you said, the Eloy thing was just 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.320 so telling. Well, first off, you have first you had 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.480 the Middleton and lance Lynn basically saying, yeah, the clubhouse 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.960 sucks is what it comes down to. And then they 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.359 ask Eloy, does anybody trying to become a leader say 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.280 they want to be a leader? He says nope, that 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.919 was his answer, and it's like, wow, that's that's bad 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.520 right there. What I want to know is was this 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.920 like different when jose Or Brady was there because he 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:27.440 felt like kind of the elder statesmen. They have a 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.960 lot of Latin players. But then again that was last 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.359 year and that was still a problem. So I don't know, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.000 it's a mess. They're talking about moving to Nashville like 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.280 they have all kinds of stuff going on. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.680 There's no anything to Nashville. I don't I don't buy 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.400 any of that stuff, but a brain you definitely was 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.680 a leader. They've got a lot of Cuban players that 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.080 are in there. And the problem, I guess is like 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:53.520 when you only had one real actual clubhouse leader and 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.880 then that person's gone, no one was a step up. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.960 I mean, Luis Robert literally came out like a month 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.760 or so ago, and it's like, yeah, I'm not a leader. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.280 He doesn't want to be did the old like Charles 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:03.760 Barkley Like, I don't want to be a leader. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.600 I'm here to hit bombs and steal a few bags. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:07.200 It's about it. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.520 Well, he always not around the clubhouse enough. He's always 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.520 injured and he's always on the il so. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.200 He's not the operating Yeah. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.760 So there is a mental aspect to this that you 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.640 know that this White Sox team, it's sluggish and poor. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.119 Between Tim Anderson's garbage the whole year and then and 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.960 Eloy Jimenez with injuries and production, Luis Robert has been 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.120 a really a really solid bright spot. But it's gonna 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.000 it's a disaster and I'm just predicting here, complete wipe. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.120 There's going to be a huge old wipe of this 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.120 team in the offseason. You can't do anything with Robert 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.719 unless you really want to blow it up and you 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.280 want to change out the you know, the structure of 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.240 the team. I don't think they do that. I think 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.560 Vaughan and Robert are probably untouchable. I don't think a 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.400 single other player is untouchable on this team, and they 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.400 I think they're going to implode this roster next season. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:55.159 They're going to have to. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.359 Yeah, they're gonna have to. So why can you man 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.520 me laugh with this too, saying, uh, she took eighty 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.320 three and a half win line, And I agree with you. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.760 Is there anything worse, by the way, than being so 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.480 right about something and not not just putting every dime 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.680 you have in I had this my bets on Monday. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.320 If you guys listen, absolutely smashed my bets. I wish 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.599 I had bet my entire account on them. There's no 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.040 worse feelings. This would be a really big one. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.840 What we're gonna say, I'd say that the craziest thing 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.800 that it's gonna be tough to figure out that this 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.320 White Sox. Though you mentioned Vaughn, you mentioned in Robert, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.360 it's how do you get a leader to come to 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:34.560 the team, because that's how they're going to do it. 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.800 They're not gonna build it from within. That's obviously what's 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.000 taken place here. So you got to sign free agents 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.320 that are willing to be leaders. Obviously that might start 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.600 with like your manager and whatnot, but you still need 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.440 players in the clubhouse. Players respect players before the managers. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.160 And I'm really curious to see how that's going to 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:48.599 play out. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.800 Well. The the other key is going to be like, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.719 who is it? Who does this team think they are? Like, 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.800 are they going to They've got some young pieces. Now, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.480 if you want to talk, I'm I'm saying I think 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.240 there's a lot of underperforming going on. I also want 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.719 to throw out that, you know, with young guys getting 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.200 some extra run, you may have some players that step up. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.600 Lenyon Sosa, the team is finally going to let him 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.919 get some run. That might be a deeper league middle 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.039 infielder that you can take a look at. And if 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.440 they do that, you know, are they going to build 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.520 pieces that are going to be two years away or 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:18.760 are they going to try to just fix it and 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.440 go right back out. If you go back out and 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.719 fix it, then I don't know if you trade Ceas, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.120 I don't know if you even consider Robert Andrew Vaughn 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.360 seems to be a core piece to this team. If 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.039 you are going to completely play a rebuild, then se 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.159 should go. You know, because someone asks like what pieces 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.760 do they have? Well, Tim Anderson's going to get something. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.880 Dylan Ceese is definitely something you can put out there 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.359 and get multiple But after that, you're right like it 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.080 starts to kind of fall apart. The team is pretty bare. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.400 It is a bit of a disaster, a turnaround, and 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.520 I'm curious at how serious is turned around. You believe 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:56.080 Jesus Lozardo, So Lozardo amazing through the year, Joe Piezapia, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.280 every time we come on, is no fallen apart to 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.120 the point that we've talked about not only maybe sitting, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.280 but if it's going to continue to go. You can't 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.760 trust Lazardo at all. Well, record seven strikeouts over six 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.280 shutout innings. On Tuesday against the Padres, he had a 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.320 thirty four percent swinging with rate, which was solid thirty 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.120 one percent CSW. I went and looked at his usage 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.360 roughly the same, maybe a little bit less on the 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.120 slider than he usually uses, but it was still in 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.800 the twenties. The same three pitch mix was going on. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.880 He also had an uptick on velo across the board 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.080 between probably on average about a half mile an hour, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.800 so he was pulling it back a little bit. Do 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.760 you take this outing against the Padres as a sign 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.200 of trust for Hazes Lozardo moving forward regardless ish of 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:48.760 the matchup. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.640 No, no, I don't. I'm still kind of wary of 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.320 what's going on. I think he's a great pitcher. He's 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.000 going to be a great pitcher someday, but I think 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.000 he might be hitting a wall as well this season. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.960 My thing is, as I mentioned in on my DFS show, 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.360 is the Padres are one of the biggest juckle on 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.200 hide offenses you will face all season long. They like, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.280 show up one day, don't shove another. It doesn't matter 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.720 if they're facing. It's just weird like that. So I'd 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.040 have to see Lizardo do it again type thing before 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:12.960 I really buy back in. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.200 Oh, you know, I feel like it would be a good 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.320 The Padres and the White Sox would be a good 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.800 team to talk to each other, like, you know, you're 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:21.360 not gonna. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:23.120 Tatists. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.800 Yeah, it didn't go so well, but like, like, let's 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.960 just hypothetically, I don't think they would consider trading Robert. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.000 The White Sox would. But let's say they did well. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.200 How about the Tatis. You know, if you're looking at 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.199 all the money that's out there, what if that team, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.520 you know, Tatis, goes back to the White Sox. I love, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.480 I love that idea, And then you know, I don't 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.440 know how the pieces work. The only problem with that 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.079 trade is, like you know, the White Sox, maybe Tatis 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.920 is not a good team leader, and if you were 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:53.760 to trade Robert, you probably want like a bunch of 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.360 pieces to rebuild that team. But I mean, I think 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.640 the Padres are another one of those that there's gonna 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.160 be some version of an overhaul that they're gonna have 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.600 to do next year because this nucleus doesn't work. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.800 It doesn't work, SODA's not going to be around for long. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.160 They can't afford to pay all these guys. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.040 So yeah, on the Lozardo thing, just one last thing 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.240 was you know, Lee was mentioning, you know, he's never 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.280 pitched more than one hundred innings. He's at one forty. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.800 Now there's definitely the slowdown on the wall that's going on. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.840 And I look at this as like the inconsistent pitcher 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.240 that's going to be out there. So semi favorable matchups 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.560 like Brewers, Padres, those are kind of like in the 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.760 top end of what I would do. Obviously, like the 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.839 lower end guys I would jump in. But if you're 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.839 going against higher power offenses, guys that make a lot 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.959 of contact, that would be like a Diamondbacks team makes 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.079 you know, a decent amount of contact, Those would be 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.800 the teams. I might hesitate a little bit putting him 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.360 out there, especially if you are gripping to ratios in 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.679 whatever capacity. So pay attention to that. But a very 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.920 very good sign for Lozardo. So here's my question before Bubba. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:03.040 Matt McClain versus Corbyn Carroll has been a serious uptick 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.640 in conversation, whether I like it or not, whether I'm 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.040 listening to it or not, that the Rookie of the 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.640 Year race is not locked now. I went to look 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.000 this morning on DK and there was no sign of 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.040 the NL. They do just don't want you to even 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.400 bet it because Corbyn Carroll's had it. But a lot 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.920 of people have been pushing the narrative of Matt McClain 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.800 so and not being the biggest homer on the planet 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.800 and saying it's locked up like I have with Corbyn Carroll. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.480 I want to present it to the audience and I 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.319 want to present it to all the peanuts and Crackerjacks 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.360 if you guys have an opinion, because what Matt McClain 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.640 has done this year has been phenomenal. He is going 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.440 to push Jonathan India off of his job. He's been 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.760 the most consistent read. We all talk about Ellie Day 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.960 La Cruz, but if not for Matt McClain, this team 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.920 probably wouldn't be as good as they've been this entire year. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.480 So here are the two. Here are the stats. I'm 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.880 going to give you across and you tell me is 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.000 there really a race going on? So let's start with 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.439 Matt McClain. The most impressive number to Matt McLain right now, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.000 and one of the biggest things if you're looking at 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.560 real baseball, is war. He's got a three point two war, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.320 which I believe actually didn't look at this, but I 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.520 believe this is the second highest of any rookie so 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.360 far this year, and it's growing and it continues to grow. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.520 He actually has a three point two war in around 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:21.240 one hundred less at bats in Corbyn Carroll statistically fourteen homers, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.000 eleven stolen bases, fifty eight runs, forty five RBI, hitting 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.840 two ninety five in. Like I said, I think it's 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.760 about four hundred at bats. It's pretty good. Corbyn Carrol. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.080 Corbyn Carroll has a four point two war that's about 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.480 a full war higher than him in one hundred plus 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.560 at bats, twenty one homers that is seven more than McLain, 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.000 thirty eight stolen bases that is twenty seven more than McLain. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.280 He's hitting twenty points lower at two seventy five, but 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.920 he has thirty more runs. He has eighty eight runs 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.440 and sixty one RBI. That's more RBI. So I ask you, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.800 is there anything that Corbyn Carroll can do or not 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.960 do to win that Rookie of the Year award for 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.880 Matt in favor of Matt McLain. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.680 Keep slumping for the next month of the season. Yes, yes, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.199 So do. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.200 You think you think if he stanks it up, Matt 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.760 McClain can come in and be mister I snatched? 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.360 It would have to be worst months of baseball. Like, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.440 I find it hard to see Corby and Carroll not 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.439 winning it. But McClain, especially the ballpark he plays in, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.320 He's gonna putup pretty good numbers the rest the way. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.760 That's gonna be the helper. It should be Carol. He's 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.680 done it for a full season from from the go. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.160 But this this does not look good. And honestly, the 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.120 shoulder engine. What if he hits the I L and 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.079 now he's out for a while. Like there's a lot 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.600 of scenarios that take place here at court. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.800 Okay, so that so that's a fascinating one because here's 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.920 a couple of comments in here. Jason says McLain is great, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.360 but Carroll is a lock Wonkey said the I agree 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.840 with this. The only thing McClain has his recency bias because. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.120 He's been so good that that is a key that 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.360 w a large chunk of recency bias. Though he's done 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:54.920 it for It's not just like a couple of weeks here. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:55.400 He's done it. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.360 No, No, And I think one of the biggest things 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.160 that works in favor of Matt McClain and why I 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.880 think it's going to be eye opening when we look 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.559 at how we're drafting him next year. Matt McClain has 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.240 been good all year long, no doubt about it. He's 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.120 just I don't know if there's been a given strake 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.520 I didn't pull it up and I don't want to 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.360 send us on a whole thing, but he's been consistent 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.559 the entire year where Corbyn is not. Corbyn coming out 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.599 of the break the first thirty days coming out of 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.000 the break was hitting like two twenty. He started the 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.679 season off without having a walk through three weeks. He 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.080 has been inconsistent. Matt mcclin has never been inconsistent. But 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.760 if Corbyn Carroll were to stop playing today, does anyone 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.000 really think Matt McLean can take that over. Let's say 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.480 Matt McClain gets to twenty homers, he gets a twenty 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.640 stolen bases war is about the same. Can he still 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.360 even take that award from Corbyn Carroll if Corbyn Carroll 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.120 just stopped playing right now, because I just want to 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.600 remind you that, like the War is fun, but categorically 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.640 it's not even remotely close between these two players. Corbyn 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:02.160 Carroll destroys out of the batting average twenty seven more 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.680 stolen bases, seven more homers, thirty more runs. The only 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.160 thing that he could catch that would be well, I'm 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.600 just saying, the only thing he could catch would be 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.640 homers and probably RBI and it would still be three categories. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:15.800 He's not getting steals. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.439 But you know, if we don't use war, what is 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.520 it good for? So we got that going. The one 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.240 thing I will say I did a too early DC 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.080 on Tuesday night. Mclan went picked fifty four middle round four. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.280 I think he goes higher next year. I think he 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.479 legit can. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.920 Say we're talking in the recency bias game, like with 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.920 a guy a bunch of quote unquote guys that play 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.280 this for a long time now. He went pick fifty four. Yeah. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.360 See, I'm not surprised about that. I just I'm very 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.840 interested in it, and you know, like I would be, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.800 I'd be sad, and I think it would be kind 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.440 of a bad call if if that were to not 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.760 go to Corbin at the end of the day because 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.800 of this. But like Matt McClain has made it a race, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.360 and I think everybody in here kind of agrees. Yeah, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.800 so McClain only had a bad stretch for two weeks. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.960 Here's a question for you, Okay, who has a better 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.800 shot of losing their award? Ronald Cunr Junior or Corbyn Carroll? 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:11.560 Uh corp Oh, I would say Corbyn Carroll. There's someone more. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.600 I mean Matt McClain or not Matt McLain. Matt Olsen 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.920 is on Ronald Lucunea's tail too. But well, okay, so 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.160 what's a closer? Yeah, what's a close? Is it Olsen 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.520 to akunyapp or is it McLain to Carol I gotta 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.040 tell you now that i'm thinking about it, I just 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.040 don't see that there's a way that Matt McClain can 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.320 take this from Carroll, even though the war's getting closer, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.800 and I kind of do see a scenario where Matt 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.400 Olsen could take this over if he hit sixty homers 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.000 or something like that. I'm I'm curious of what you 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.520 guys think. I'm curious of what everybody to say about that. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.160 So that has been a race that's out there. Somebody said, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:47.960 you know how you do the al just want to 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.720 point out Gunner Henderson is running away with this award 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:51.680 three hundred. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.240 He's taking that one to the bank, and he's heating 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.040 up again. He's slumped for like two weeks. He's heating 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.200 up again. It's over. Yeah. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.600 I think there's a better opportunity though, that someone like 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.720 Yosh playing all season long and consistent could take it over. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:08.120 Though over mcclaim taking it over. Carrol at this point. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.880 Also kind of stinks that all these races are pretty 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:10.360 much done. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.920 Yeah, I know, like Josh Young, we're still out there. Yeah. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.520 So speaking of I'm trying to I'm locking in a 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.240 couple of your questions because we're gonna get to questions 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.240 here soon, so any other fantasy questions put it up 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.880 so we talk about it. The hint for where in 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.800 the world are Welsh in Corbin Carrol today? You can 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.640 put it in the chat. I'll be giving away an 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.800 autographed card to the person that is the most right. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.320 I'd also say feel free to keep track of your 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.200 correct answers as I go here. The hint is marble. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.480 Marble is your hint today? P At the end of 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.960 the show, we will look and see where are Welsh 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.800 in Corbyn Carrol. The only other thing I had here 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.960 before we get into all the ancillary stuff was Bryce 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.280 Harper two for three with a homer, two rbi, one 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.800 run scored in a win over the Giants, and I 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.400 wanted to point out how good Bryce harper second half 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.880 has been. We were I was ready to write off 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.080 where we were, obviously the injury was Gonnaz that power, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.560 he's finding his rhythm, he's feeling healthier. First half, in 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.760 fifty six games he hit two ninety, which was good, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.560 but only three homers thirty six games. In the second half, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.600 he's up to eight homers, hitting three to zero six 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.479 on the season. He has become a problem again, and somebody, uh, 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.080 we are going to get a discount on in redraft 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:27.520 next year. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.600 Yeah, he was a round three pick last night in 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.800 our draft, which is going to be ridiculously cheap. He's 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.600 heating up, like you said, he's getting healthy. I watched 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.600 a lot of his games last two nights against the Giants, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.000 and just in general, this Phillies team, they're looking scary again. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.720 They're looking a lot like last year all of a 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.920 sudden when they caught fire. But yeah, Harper's doing Harper things. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.040 He might finish. You know, he can get hot. He 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.640 gets close to fifteen sixteen, seventeen homers by in the season. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:52.560 That's a heck of the season. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.399 Yeah, very good. And by Marble people, I'm like a 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.960 mush understand completely. That's just it's not like a mush 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.040 mouth idiot. Everyone's like, oh Marvel. I mean I do 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.960 like Marvel, So that's it's not unthinkable or anything like that. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:12.120 Marble is it my friends? All right, rookie, lookies, I've 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:13.840 actually got a couple I just want you guys to 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.120 pay attention to. But Kyle Harrison made his debut, surrendered 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.240 two runs over three and three thirds. He struck out 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.520 five in this short stint fourteen swing and whiffs in 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.440 that a thirty seven percent CSW rate. So I'm I'm 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.320 wonky Penguin on Kyle Harrison moving forward. He did exactly 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.399 what I thought wasn't going to get stretched out to 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.040 a bunch of innings, but looked pretty good. Your thoughts, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.320 Bubba on Kyle Harrison. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.600