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It is meet Joey p joe Pisapia with me. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.080 Of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you, 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.760 the beautiful Peanuts and Crackerjacks here on our twitch, Twitch 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.879 dot tv Slash Fantasy Pros or if you're watching us 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.280 on demand on Fantasy Pros MLB, subscribe to the YouTube 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.360 channel Welsh. We got a lot to talk about today, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:52.280 tons of runs, loan saves, big news, and of course 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.880 more star studded friendship circles with the Welsh. I guess 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.400 you were out hanging out with Rhet Louder and clintonhaw 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.320 yesterday just hanging out with the boys. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.039 Yeah, no big deal. Yeah, hanging out with the boys, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.080 That's what it was. I mean, Welsch goes out and 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.200 they're just like, hey, listen, can we stop our double 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.280 a rehab assignment. Let me come down to Arizona. I 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.399 gotta see my boy, gotta hang out. So yes, it 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.920 was just Welsh hanging out with a couple of his 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.959 best friends again. Rhett Louder with the locks. Clayton Kershaw 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.560 was rehabing future Hall of famer and needed to spend 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:28.360 some time. But it was hands down, probably the best 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.760 backfield matchup you're ever going to see in a current 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.720 kind of young, studdish pitcher who's been hurt all season 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.039 in Rhet Louder and then a Hall of Famer Clayton 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.000 Kershaw pitching on the backfields and report back Rhet Louder 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.200 looked pretty good. Velo was mid nineties or low ish 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.000 nineties commanding. He did give up a two run homer 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.520 to some seventeen year old kid, a little bit of 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.720 hard contact. Clayton Kershaw unhittable. He gave up a couple 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.000 big flies that were caught. Six innings, no hits. He's 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.160 here because he's going to play this weekend ball is disgusting. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.880 Rhet Lauder told me he's leaving here. This is his 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.680 only start and he's going to start his bigger rehab assignment, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.400 so he should be back, I think in a couple 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.920 of weeks. Kershaw this weekend. Check out my Twitter if 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.200 you want to see some of the videos. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.280 Big yeah, no, big deal, all right, big deal yesterday 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.160 for the Yankees. They exploded for ten runs at the 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.399 seventh inning to beat Michael Kelly's Padres. All Ill said, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.440 wells in a grand slam. Here'll be talking trash about 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.040 yesterday and wanting to drop him. Uh so that was 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.440 good Clark Schmidt. This was his first start back after 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.000 the injury. Two runs and six innings. Michael King underwhelming 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.160 at the strikeouts Blue the strikeout prop for me Boo, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.480 but he gave the Padres a chance to win. Aaron 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.200 Judge his twelfth homer, So more good for the Yankees 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:41.760 here as this bottom of the order started to come 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.359 alive a little bit. And look, maybe they needed to 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.519 get called out publicly Welsh maybe at the end of 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.000 the day, but that's what they needed. They watched the show, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.040 they said, you know, Joe's right, and they started hitting 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.639 baseball's all over the place, So good on them. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.359 Well, you know, not envisioned. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.000 And now we need AI to do this. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.320 I envisioned the entire locker room sitting around and looking 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.280 up at a TV watching TV and has Joe piece 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.440 of Pia on it and just chastise them. And then 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.720 they're looking around and they're like, guys, Joe is right, 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.000 we need to fix it. We could just a whole lot. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.280 Judge is like that beautiful, bald, handsome man is right. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.160 I keep coming up there. Nobody's on base. You guys 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.799 gotta be better, you know, just be better. That's all. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:22.480 Be better. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.200 It's like a lot. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.320 It's like the any given Sunday speech, but it's Joe 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:26.560 and then the rest of the game. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.560 Yeah, you line ups not good right now? You gotta 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.079 you gotta figure out what's going on in that offense? Yeah, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.960 almost is bad. Anthony Boby, you gotta you got a 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.640 two twenty batting average. You ain't even hit your weight. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.800 Austin Wells, what's going on? What's happening here? Let's get 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.800 to Giants. Blown saves scored nine in the eleventh though 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.000 to beat the Cubs. But I think the fantasy news 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.240 here is really Ryan Walker second blown save of the 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.720 season era is not good. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:51.400 Welsh. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.920 We were talking last week about, you know, picking up 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.800 Dovall because he has pitched much better. So Walker had 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.440 gone three straight scoreless innings before two night, which completely 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.080 imploded in Ryan Presley, of course, then got obliterated right after. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.280 So not a great night for bullpends just generally speaking. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.480 He gave up nine runs, Presley eight, earned five hits, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.720 didn't record a single out in the eleventh inning. It 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.600 was brutal. But do you think the Giants might make 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.240 be making a change here with the closer situation. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.880 Yeah, fire up your Kamilla Deval shares and fire up 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.520 your Porter Hodges. Kamilla Deval should have already probably been 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.920 picked up. He had been getting save opportunities. He has 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.040 been phenomenal this Year's not striking anyone out, which is weird. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:34.760 You know, this is like a twenty eight to thirty 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.800 percent k guy. He's at seventeen percent, but he's got 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.080 a one and a half hera. His walks are the 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.040 lowest of his career right now. He's giving up the 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.000 least amount of barrels being he's become a different pitcher. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.600 I think that is the guy. That's the guy. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.320 He shouldn't be out there. But you should also go 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.440 and run and pick up Porter Hodge right now because 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.400 the Ryan Presley experiment is not working. They'd already told 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.160 us that they were going to give him some saves. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.679 This is probably going to lead to a few more. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.600 What a weird world where it's like Ryan Walker and 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.839 Devin Williams are not going to be trusted and it's 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.160 going to be you know, Luke Weaver and camulodvall back. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.360 So I would go and fire up both of those 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.880 players because we're at a point in the season where 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.040 if if maybe these both of these guys of Presley 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.760 and Ryan Walker didn't have any issues prior to this, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.279 I'd probably just kind of like, you know, just like 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.280 move on, like they're going to get a lease. There's 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.800 still a decent amount they can run with. But these 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.640 guys both have had issues leading up into this first month. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.360 It's enough so that you should make sure that those 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:35.880 guys are not on the wire and you should get 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:36.279 those saves. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.440 Saves are always bountiful. You'll find them every April, every May, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.080 and then again in August you can find them too, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.320 and everybody gets traded in, more jobs opened up. It's 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.440 just it's beautiful to watch every single day. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.760 A greeting card there. Saves are always. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:55.880 Been, Saves are plentiful. In August, trades happen more, saves 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:56.839 come without delay. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.520 I don't know. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.520 I'll work on it, work on it. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:01.800 That was our Hoglin Horton. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.960 That was funny yesterday. That was actually pretty good. Some 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.640 big k performances. Chris Sale ten strikeouts, six and two 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.440 third shout one innings, but no w brutal. Pablo Lopez 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.640 also great eleven strikeouts yesterday and five innings. Zach Wheeler 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.280 had nine shrikeouts against the Rays. So some big performances 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.120 for some big dogs. Who was the biggest of the 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:23.880 big yesterday? 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.120 For you, Welsh, Well, I think Pablo Lopez is the 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.520 most interesting to me. It's funny those names you were mentioning. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.600 Because I'm doing a betting Pro show that should be 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.040 out later today or tomorrow. We're kind of regrouping and 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.360 looking at betts for the season, and we're kind of 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.039 retreading what we had talked about preseason, and one of 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.080 those is talking about like the cy Young race, and 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.080 the Cy Young race is just weird right now, even. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.800 In the NL. You know, I think like schemes. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.960 Is at like the best value you're probably going to 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.720 see him at if you still buy it, even though 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.599 he hasn't been great. But Zach Wheeler, I don't mean to, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.600 I said Pablo, I'm just bringing this back to Wheeler 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.600 for a second. Wheeler's like eleven to one right now, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.800 NL for scient and like that. Those odds seem really 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.320 really great. So there's quite a few players that you're 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.320 jumping out around. But of those names, I think there's 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.320 the most like fantasy relevant and prevalent right now. Seemed 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.960 to me to be Pablo Lopez. Because Pablo, there's just 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.040 some early trends. I think that was not making us 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.320 feel comfortable. There's a lot of narrative stuff around it. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.640 And he went heavy fastball in this matchup great WIF 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.880 percentage his top three pitches, he used thirty percent or 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.200 higher whiffs in this game. He ended up having a 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.680 thirty nine overall with percentage because he had eighteen of them, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.760 so he was missing bats in a great way and 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.720 csw over thirty. I think it's a very positive, big 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.720 win for us for Pablo Lopez because I think he 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.480 had lost a lot of steam. So I think this 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:43.440 is something we can build up. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.000 Speaking of the futures market by the Brewers are plus 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.800 six hundred for that division right now. The Cubs are 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.920 minus three fifty, which is an absolute freaking joke. Even 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.239 August Hurt steals out of the year. The bullpen stinks. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.760 The offense eventually is going to come back down to earth, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.480 and now's the time to bet the Brewers. Everybody go 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.000 make some money. Uncle Joey just told you already, did it. Yeah, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.280 you can all you want. That that ain't going to 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.280 carry them into the postseason, I'm telling you right now. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.760 But it's also okay to your point. Yes, like I 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.920 agree with that the Cubs need to be aggressive, but 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.840 the Brewers are still rolling out like Quinn Priester. You know, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.880 shame on me for Chad Patrick and stuff. And I 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.840 know they've got reinforcements start away. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.680 They just Myers just came back, so I want to 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.640 give him some time. Logan Henderson look really good in 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.960 his start. Mizowski's down there. They've got a lot of 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:27.560 depth in that. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.760 It's a smart, smart, smart tet by you. I'm not 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.240 the Brewers always figuring. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.000 Out it's the smart And again, if you can't pitch 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.320 and you can't close games, you're gonna struggle down the stretch. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.960 Speaking of Skeens, also struggling, he's not against the Cardinals. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.760 Maybe he's oh, four and five starts against the Cardinals. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.920 He's fourteen and three against the rest of Major League Baseball. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.760 So I guess we could just chalk it up to 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.080 maybe there's an interesting Skeens oppo play against the Cardinals. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.480 Maybe they just have his number for whatever reason. I 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.000 walked a couple of guys yesterday, so as Welsh mentioned, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.800 an interesting time to get back in on the Skiens 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.439 market if you like him. Also, Zach Wheeler, Jordan Walker, though, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.040 we got to talk about that Cardinal over two. Here's 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.520 the slash ret you're ready wash one ninety four sixty three, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:09.520 two sixty. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.600 Nine terrible nice? 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.760 Oh my god, Is it time to send Jordan Walker 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:16.640 back to Triple A again? 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:17.400 No? 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.280 I think at this point you have to They need 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.160 to move on from There's only so many times you 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.360 can continuously keep sending him down. I mean, I guess 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.000 you can send them all the options that you possibly have, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.760 but I think it would be a really bad precedent 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.719 for from a developmental standpoint if you did this, for like, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.240 it'd be like the third fourth time, I think that 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.000 they've done it. But like to your bigger point, yeah, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.280 he stinks. He's been really bad. I mean, there's some 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.480 underlying stuff that feels okay, but his strikeouts are the 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.320 worst they've ever been. So not only is he just 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.400 not hitting the ball a we don't see any type 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.160 of supportive data that's like, oh, he's going to a 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.480 two fifty expected batting average that's gone. Now that's the 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.200 sample size is kind of leveled itself out. But also 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.800 he's striking out worse than he's ever done. So it 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.080 didn't matter what offseason he work he did. We figured 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.160 that out that you know, he was trying to shorten 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.840 his swing stand so he could get to the path quicker. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.400 Didn't work, didn't happen, and it's a it's a shame, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.760 and we might be at the point where it's like, oh, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.800 it's a little bit of a lost cause. Maybe a 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.959 new team, get your mind out of it and you 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.880 can fix it. Or he's the next Joe Adell slash 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.480 Jared Kellnick and it's just a star in the making 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.400 that just could not get the stuff to work. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.280 More questions here, Ja Rivy Wolshwell and Ball get back 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:28.280 on track anytime soon. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.040 Welsh, I think he's gonna get I mean, I'm gonna 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.080 say yes, But I think he's been super mediocre this year, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.600 and even in all of my praise and you know, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:38.880 must draft. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.320 And everything like that to start. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.920 Yeah, yeah, no, and everyone was like cy Young, cy Young. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.920 And now he's up to a three nine two ERA. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.560 But you know, taking a look here, he's expected era 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.920 is actually three nine nine, so it's almost at four. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.680 He's giving up a lot more barrel, lot more hard hit. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:58.400 His strikeouts are down. It's it's it's pretty worrisome. The 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.040 four seeing fastball also seems to be one of his 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.920 bigger problems. That he's got more whiffs on it. But dude, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.680 guys are hitting it really hard ninety three point four 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.839 average exit velocity. That's it's three and a half miles 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.920 an hour higher than last year. And his split finger 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.840 I guess the split finger usage is up. I guess 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.560 it's the cutter. The cutter is really getting demolished and 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.080 he leans on that pitch a lot. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.280 So will he fix it? 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.840 Yeah, I kind of believe he will, but we might 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.640 just be like men on Schwellenbach where I'm like, oh, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.600 you buy, you buy, you buy, you might just get 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.000 what you paid for at the end of the day 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.400 instead of having the biggest return. But it's it's a 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.720 month and he's like a super talented guy. I'm pretty hopeful. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.360 But yeah, it doesn't. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:38.880 It doesn't. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.679 It looks like like I look and I'm like, oh, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.520 I think I see a fix or two on maybe 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.959 pitch usage and stuff like that. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:46.880 I just don't know if he'll be comfortable with that. 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.400 That cutter. He needs to drop that cutter in. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.960 Some roadsplits too, three twenty eight at home for eighty 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.000 six on the road. Just something to keep in mind too, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.520 if that's a trend, would you drop Ryan Walker for 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.640 dov All? Right now? I would. I would probably go 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.079 that d I'm not waiting around and I'm not waiting. Also, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.240 I'm not waiting for Marcelo Mayor because I think Trevor 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.679 Story might be opening the door. Oh four to three strikeouts. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.960 We told you Winter was coming on the trade video 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.400 a couple weeks ago for Trevor Story to trade him. Now, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.800 it couldn't get any better? Was that two weeks ago? Welsh? 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.240 And it's been crap. Ever since three strikeouts for him 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.600 in ops all the way down to six point eighty. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.640 It was like a thousand at one point. So things 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.480 have hit hard here for Trevor Story. It's time to 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.040 move things around, make some moves here. If you are 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.120 the Boston Red Sox Marcel Mayor just crushing it down 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.040 at Triple A right now, you don't have to play 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.240 Trevor Story every day. I don't care. It's about winning 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.960 games right now. Jock Peterson signs of life two two 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.960 for three with a double yesterday. So one guy going up, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.360 the other guy going down. Go ahead, Welsh. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.640 Well, I I'm still just like I'm an idiot about Jock. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.839 But you know, I will say that when we did 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.000 that video because I put Trevor Story on there. I 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.439 put him on there when he was still hitting over 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.640 three hundred because it actually wasn't really built around that. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.559 I thought he was going to completely just fall apart 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.440 as a fan player. It was built a little bit 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.720 more around like, look at how he's performing to his 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:09.160 injury history. But what's also following is like underlying everything 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.720 is coming back down. He's dropped like fifty points. I 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.920 think since we did that video, and he was striking 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.720 out a lot. So I think that that opportunity we 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.200 happen to jump right at the very tippy top height 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.400 of being able to trade him at a peak. Right now, 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.960 it's not quite there, and that's only going to speak 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:26.440 to like what you said, it's going to speak about 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.960 Mayor potentially getting a look, hopefully within the next month. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.600 I still don't think it's on the like horizon horizon 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.520 because they got to figure out who do they bring 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.400 up first? Is it may Or is it Roman Anthony? 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.880 I tend to think it needs to be Anthony, but 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.880 you know, we'll, yeah. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.680 It probably also tends to well more morecent. I'm gonna 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.240 keep that. I'm gonna I'm gonna push that those feelings 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.800 down for later in the show because I don't want 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:53.239 to get off track transactions. Yankees desigating Carlos Garrasco for assignment, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.520 So there you go, Ryan yarb Garboro, I guess is 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.720 going to be getting some starts here for the Yankees again. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.880 I e oh, Yankees. Oh, I know Carrasco wasn't good, 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.640 but geez, we're in a weird spot now. The Dodgers 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.120 they recall James Outman, after putting taskcar and does on 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.880 the IL everyone's excited for Evan Carter got called up again. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.880 Why I don't know, because he's slashing two twenty one, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.560 three thirty three with a four to sixteen slugging. He's 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.440 just not good. So great another guy who can hit 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.280 left dand and pitching who's just not echo. He's overrated. Okay, 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.040 I know the goods when I see the goods. He 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:35.360 ain't the goods. Alex Cora reaffirmed on Tuesday that he 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.600 has no plans through raphaeld Everes to first base okay, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.160 which means that he also confirmed that he's planning on 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:47.000 moving forward with Rome Gonzalez and Abraham Toro at first base, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.080 Which brings us to today's Chasing Challenges segment brought to 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.480 you by Microsoft. Just like the athletes who push boundaries 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.560 and redefine what's possible in business, decision makers today are 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.400 turning challenges into opportunities, and Microsoft meets where you are 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.200 age with a tool and guidance to help you make 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 an impact with safe, secure AI solutions. So whatever challenges 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.040 you're facing, Microsoft empowers you with the expertise to say, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.200 bring it on. In this segment, we're gonna talk about 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.480 the challenges faced by a powdy Rafael Devers. Oh, you 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.160 don't want me to play third base? Well, I'm not 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.480 gonna go play first base now because you wanted me 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.400 to be the DH because my defense was so bad. Listen, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.720 we're paying your salary. You go play first base because 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.080 it's the best thing for the team, damn it. Otherwise 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.920 you can go live in a van down by the river. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.280 I am sick and tired of all the pouting. Okay, look, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.520 it makes sense right now for Devers to just play 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.840 first base. Open up DH for Roman Anthony Or for 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.840 Trevor's story, and move Marcelo Mayor and get this rotation 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.920 of guys going a little bit. Rome Gonzalez, Abraham Toro, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.000 Boston Red Sox. Did you just move top prospects to 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.480 bring in Garrett Crochet to have this be what happens 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.040 here first base? I know trist and cos Is getting 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.360 hurt was not what you wanted, but it's what you got. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.800 So Unfortunately, Rafaeld Devers, you can help the team now. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.600 So if you want to pout about it, you want 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.640 to be there, that's fine. But I think that the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.080 Red Sox need to make some hard decisions and make 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.280 some moves here and bring up some of this youth 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.320 to get some injection into this offense that's striking out 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.480 way too much. And that's this week's Chasing Challenger segment. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.480 Remember Microsoft's AI solutions empower you to make bold steps 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.640 and new ideas, Alex Kra for your business to move forward, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.320 Boston Red Sox. With Microsoft as your trusted partner, you 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.320 can navigate your journey with confidence, finding innovative solutions and 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.960 reaching new possibilities. Visit Microsoft dot com Slash Challengers for more. Well, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.240 should you have any retorts for that? 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.800 Listen, I'm not a not an executive in baseball. I 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.360 didn't play professional baseball, even though my name and sometimes 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.600 CBS likes to think that I did. So I don't 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:50.840 want to be the one to be like I know 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.680 better than a lot of people, because I think that 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.120 gets overused by a lot of us. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.800 Arm U, what is it? Monday morning couch? 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:02.920 Oh my god, quarterback quarterback and Monday morning quarterbacks. You 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.520 made it an armchair Monday morning. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:05.399 I turned it into two. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:11.920 It's a class like an armchair Monday morning quarterback or field. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.880 Our chair Monday morning, Prince on Wednesday, that's all time 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:15.280 Welsh is. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:20.000 But this is one of the stupidest things, Like I 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.840 stared at it yesterday. To with a straight face have 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.760 a guy like Roman Anthony who had worked some in 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.400 spring at first, and a guy Rae Faeld Devers who 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.040 is not able to play third, who's a big bodied 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:34.719 guy and could get one of those bats in the lineup. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.840 To with a straight face have those two players and 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:43.720 say no, nay, we are going to have Romeganzo and 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:50.480 Abraham play first is the stupidest thing I can possibly imagine. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:55.800 It almost seems counterintuitive, like you are trying to sabotage yourself. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.080 Why is Roman Anthony on some super two thing that 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.399 they're trying to control. What is the possible reason to 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.679 do something so idiotic, or for Stevers to do it. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.879 You gotta tell me he's not proud of it. I 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.879 can't fathom that this is the solution. There's no world 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.480 where this should be the solution. So much the Padres 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.600 made the tough, tough decision two years ago, the super 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.240 tough decision when they sign Xander Bogart's They had an 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.320 amazingly talented, better defensive shortstop in Jackson Merrill, and they 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.360 made the tough decision to move him to the outfield, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.439 and it was a game changer and a winner. And 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:31.760 the Red Sox are not too easy to do that. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:32.720