WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 25th, 2023 (Ep. 655) 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.000 This is Leading Off Live, brought you by Prize Pick. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:09.800 Sign up today for Prize Picks. You use that promo 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.640 code leading Off. When you do get one hundred dollars 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:15.800 up to your match, there are one hundred percent that 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.720 of course. Is the Welsh looking really snazzy today. It 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.000 is a little shirt. You got it going on there? 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.400 You got a big day ahead of you. What's going 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:23.800 on there? 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.040 I don't. I have a big day of talking to 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.560 all you fine folks and talking about some fantasy baseball 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.600 and some bedding and Jake McCarthy getting optioned down to 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.000 the miners. You know that type of stuff. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.800 Yes, one of Welsh's bold predictions going into the season. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:38.760 My bold prediction was that shirt. You were going to 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.479 lunch with somebody at the very least he taking a 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:42.440 meeting you should it is? 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.960 It is kind of address. I want to change it up. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.159 I don't want everything to be expected. I don't want 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.960 it to always be black shirt and backwards hat or 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.600 hoodie and the big hair. So I just want to 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.520 keep you guys on your toes. Don't know what's coming. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.640 I don't know what's that's good. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.120 Apologies ahead of time. I see some people saying that 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.240 you're having some trouble with the stream, I would just 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.320 try to reload it. It seems like we're having a 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.080 little bit of a problem there in terms of what's 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.840 going on. So if you haven't any issues, just reload it. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.240 Everything should be okay because I'm checking the YouTube as 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.880 I'm doing it live, which is weird because I'm hearing myself, 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.040 seeing myself all those things going on at once. So 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.400 I don't know what's going on here, but we're gonna 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.920 try to do the best show we can as always 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.760 every single day because that's what we do here, and 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.360 I see the chat is live. Let's start with the 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.360 headlines at the top of the show today because right 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.880 now what we've got going on is a whole lot 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.280 of baseball, so that's always a fun thing. And we'll 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.360 start with Spencer Strider, who is pretty pretty good. We 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.240 talked about him as a wager for Cy Young going 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.520 into the season. While that number is going very quickly 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.640 and getting very smaller as we continue to look at. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.920 The point, is he number one in the NAWL right now? 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.880 Oh yeah, he's number one. And what's coupled is you 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.840 have these shus of Verlander taking themselves out immediately in 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.000 these first few weeks almost you have our contra doing 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.840 with an injury. You have Corbyn Burns whose health and 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.920 hasn't been great. So all of like five of the 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.720 top ten guys, the only people are really standing really 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.600 Gallon and our boy Spencer Strider went eight scoreless innings 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.840 with thirteen strikeouts yesterday against the Marlins. And the Marlins 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.960 offense is future, but I don't care. That's terrific. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.440 Had a no hitter through seven. I mean he had 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.320 a that was kind of a big deal. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:19.600 Joe. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.480 I was thinking about something. I want to ask you this. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.560 Think about this yesterday because that performance was dominant. I 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.160 believe it's like nine straight games with nine strikeouts or 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.160 something that Spencer Strider has going on. And I saw 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.000 this post our mutual friend Aert Cross. I've had Sean 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.640 McClanahan is like my number one Dynasty picture for a 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.880 long time, and he made a proclamation He's like, Shane 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:45.000 McClanahan is now my number one Dynasty and someone you 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.960 know in truth be Trupe. Someone came in and was 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.480 like chirpin' but the question was really fascinating to me. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:55.920 The person said what makes Sean McClanahan better and more 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.760 trustworthy than Spencer Strider. And I was thinking about this 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.680 after this start because of how dominant, and I can 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.040 only come up with one thing with Spencer Strider, because 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.120 the way this guy pitches, the way he approaches, the 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.880 way his stuff fools everybody. The only thing I can 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.960 come up with is that he is still a two 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.200 pitch pitcher. That is all. I don't want to say, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.440 that is all that he is. To take away from him, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.919 he had thirty one whiffs in this game. Seventeen came 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.919 for the fastball, fourteen from the slider. But that's the 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.440 only thing that I could come to terms with when 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.560 I'm thinking dynasty value or any value, is the two 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.200 pitch pitch side of him. Is the thing that just 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.200 holds us off from all unanimously being like, this is 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.080 the best pitcher in baseball. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.880 Well, you know I've heard this before, the where you know, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.160 the two pitch thing, And I always go back to 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.240 Dwight Gooden back in the day in nineteen eighty four, 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.320 when he came up and dominated the entire league. He 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.280 was the best pitcher in baseball for nineteen eighty four 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.520 nineteen eighty five, he was a two pitch pitcher, and 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.400 you can. I mean, it's about location. It's about changing, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.440 you know, location, changing the playing of the fastball. It's 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.200 doing all that those little things. It's about pitching with 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.840 those two pitches. And I understand in the grand scheme 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.880 of things, Yes, in this day and age in baseball, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.160 you know, the two pitch pitchers typically sending to struggle 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.440 a little bit. And that's why even what about a 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.640 year ago when we had a conversation about Schrider, I thought, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.680 maybe this guy would be a dominant closer, Maybe we 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.240 should think of him that way because of the two 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.600 pitch mix, how good he could be there, he'd be untouchable. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.960 But look, he's been absolutely tremendous, There's no doubt about that. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.400 And the saw young race is started to get away 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.080 a little bit already. So the big concern with him 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.880 was innings. We'll see how that goes, but right now 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.440 I think it's about three three and a half to one, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.520 depending on the book. But I would definitely be looking 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.120 at if you drafted Spencer Schrider as your one, which 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.840 was another conversation we had from a fantasy perspective, Welsh 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.159 a lot of people didn't feel comfortable one hundred percent 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.000 with him as their number one. I did. You did, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.359 And if you drafted him as such, and you stuck 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.840 a little bit earlier, and maybe you took two hitters 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.080 in a row instead of went going hit or pitcher 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.880 with the first two picks, you probably got him in the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.080 third round. You probably did pretty well. Tosh. Bradley did 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.960 pretty well also, three runs in five innings on Monday 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.520 and a win over the Astra. Six strikeouts for him, 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.839 no walks, eighty two pitches, fifty three of them for strikes. 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.400 He did give up two solo bombs to Bregman and Painia, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.359 but a really good outing for Bradley. We talked about 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.120 these being kind of the starts to test him a 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.159 little bit, and I would say, so far, first test 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.000 was passed with flying colors. What do you think? 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.240 Yeah, I mean, he just hits zones. He knows how 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.760 to pitch that curve. I love his curveball. I love 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.599 the pitch mix. And behind him, he's got the best 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.239 offense in baseball supporting him. Maybe the best home advantage 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.159 in baseball is the raised one. I think it was 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.159 the modern day era of fourteen straight home victories to 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.160 start a season or however the hell it is. It's 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.240 a good backdrop for a young pitcher who's got a 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.080 great pitch mix and is a really good pitcher. You know, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.560 we always have that discussion pitcher versus thrower. I wouldn't 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.800 want to claim that, like Mason Miller is a thrower, 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.359 but he throws really hard, and that's built around a 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.520 lot of like why you know the fastball is rated 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.520 so great and stuff plus, but like Tys Bradley is 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.039 a true, true pitcher. And this is why we made 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.920 the bet. This is why you go in and you 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.120 spin the fab you did early on, because this guy 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.719 might walk away this he might inject himself into this 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.720 Rookie of the Year conversation like we never expected and 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:14.320 everyone was like. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.440 Already him today, Well everyone's like this morning for Rookie 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.599 of the year because that outing yesterday to me was 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.360 enough to prove that he can stand up to some 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.680 of these better offenses. And if he can do that, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.520 I told you, iningks for me is not as big 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.160 of an issue as from other people. I think he's 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.080 around one fifty this year, which is what you get 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.400 from most pictures nowadays. Like I mean, here, one hundred 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.080 and thirty last year, one hundred and fifty is not 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.520 pushing it. I understand if he, you know, falls off 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.000 a little bit towards the end, but mechanics wise, he 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.360 is so fluid. I don't see him being one of 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.400 these guys that I'm really worried about in that sense. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.680 Yeah. No, and he's super repeatable. What I was going 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.440 to say was, like, how Strider was everyone's Accou's the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.120 next Strider does Betty, it's not a Strider, but in 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.599 the same respect of how Strider came up last year 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.240 kind of unexpectedly got all those starts and won some 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.719 of the like I think it was like the ap 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.800 rookie of the Year, but then it ended up going 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.000 to Michael Harris. Like TODs, Bradley is one of those 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.400 guys that is probably gonna get considerations, especially if he 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.040 ends up having like twelve wins and a good k 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.320 PRI nine and his era is in the threes. He's 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.480 gonna kind of stick into that spot. So it's just 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.920 a I don't like to call him like a safe 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.760 fantasy guy because he's still a rookie, but everything so 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.240 far pretty good. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.760 He's worthy of the overpay that I was pushing for 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.320 two weeks ago. I was like, let's overpay for TODs 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.200 Bradley because the upside there is what we're starting to 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.040 see already. And with the way the pitching market's been 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.240 in April, which has been pretty rough, I mean, let's 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.920 be honest. I bet if we go back, maybe we'll 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.280 do this at the end of the month, go back 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.320 and look at the top twenty starters and kind of 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.040 grade where things are right now. It's been a rough 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.760 month for those of you who invested heavily in pitching 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.720 to start your drafts, so we kind of warned against that. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.840 So if you did a listen, I don't know what 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.680 to tell you. J Full Metal Jacket buy away our 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.320 boy j Full He said that he got Spencer Schrider 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.760 plus a thousand, so did I, and I just doubled 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.200 down on it again. Today I actually took one of 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.320 those free fifty dollars bets that I had, and I 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.000 threw it on there. Fand gives your money sometimes, they liked, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.040 they give me free money. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.920 No, no, no, what is the number? What is the number? 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.320 Now? It's plus three fifty, oh man, So now's the 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.400 time to get in again, because if it goes minus, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.480 it would take an injury for him to go in 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.040 another direction. By the way, we have some new people 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.840 joining us drink beer and travel. Huge fan of the show, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.520 keep it up, first time joining us live, and we 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.360 encourage everybody to join us live here on the YouTube channel. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.480 It's a fun way to, you know, spend your lunch hour. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.400 If you're on the East Coast and on the West Coast, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.240 it's a fun way to start your day, just sweaking up, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.959 that's right. Mist part of waking up is Welsh in you. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.400 I didn't tell you yesterday too, by the way, you know, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.200 for the birthday weekend, I turned my alarm off so 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.400 I wouldn't be disturbed through the weekend. Well, guess what 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.520 I didn't do yesterday? Turn it back on. And luckily 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.599 I had done some of my work before. But I 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.280 woke up about eight minutes before the show did naturally 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.080 and I went, oh my god, and had to get 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.240 on and was able to still rock. So yeah, some 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.760 of us West Coasters can sleep in a little. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.200 Bit sometimes so so well, how bad does one have 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.840 to get to get removed from an a's rotation? That 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.520 is the question, because that happened to Shintaro Fujinami. He 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.640 is going to the bullpen. So when you know when 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.280 things are going bad for a deep and you're on 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.520 a reversation, and look, it's good for Mason Miller, right, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.720 it's good for those people who are hoping. He continues 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.280 to say in rotation. But I just saw that this morning, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.600 and I just thought, oh, that's just sad. If you're 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.800 pitching so bad that the A's can't keep you in 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:32.600 a rotation. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.000 Well, I would actually say that the Angels, who they 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.760 were just playing and played in an absurdly stupid game last night, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.600 which of course I had a bet with the Angels 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.160 on that. There is a picture on the Angels that 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.480 is very A's like in Jose Swarez, who might be 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.160 so when you're saying, like, you know, who can be 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.960 worse or anything like that, I don't know Jose Swarez 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.719 versus a centaurro. Oh yeah, because Swarrez is maybe the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.800 worst picture in baseball. I just I wanted to point 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.320 out last night, like you know, I I know, if 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.400 it's arguable, I think he might be the worst pitcher 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:03.280 in all of baseball. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.200 We got some minor league stuff to talk about too. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.760 Here's one of them, Welsh. This is from Mark in 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.040 the chat. Your boy Bibby was scratched. Is he going 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.080 to pitch this week? Biby baby? 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.080 The early look is yes. It looks like he's going 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.800 to get the start on Wednesday. So far fifteen innings, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.640 nineteen strikeouts in three starts. He's got a sub to era. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.080 And this is another one of those like commands spin 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.320 type of pictures that is just like it's fascinating watching. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.320 I never, in my wildest dreams would have thought that 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:40.200 before May Peyton, Battenfield, Logan Allen and Tanner Biby would 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.880 all hit that rotation at some point, which I would 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.520 just throw out at this point, you can't discount that 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.800 a guy like that Gavin Williams might not come up. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.400 Who is the best picture in that organization. He is 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.040 phenomenal and he might come up. But Tanner Biby is 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.880 a must pick up if he's out there because he 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.680 has a chance to stay in the rotation. I like 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.839 him better than Battonfield, and I like him as a 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.040 better pitcher than Logan Allen. But Logan Allen, like with 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.679 the success he had the strikeouts, being a lefty, I 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.800 think kind of keeps him in that rotation. But Biby, 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.120 this is a very very good sign. If he's coming 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.760 up and it looks like he did he is Wednesday. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.319 And let's not forget Espino in that minor league system too. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.680 I was coming back from injury, but yeah, pitching this 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.839 year he got. Yeah. But they've got some fantastic young 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.000 arms potentially in that rotation for the next couple of years. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.839 We'll see if it comes together. It doesn't always happen 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.280 for teams. All right, Let's talk about some of these 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.480 other guys though, too. Because Brian Bellow goes down to 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.959 Triple A, Red Sox optioned him. The Blue Jays recalled 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.040 Nate Pearson from Triple A, so he was pitching out 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.439 of the bullpen. He was available there so far over 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.160 a few innings in Triple A eight and a third, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.760 sixteen strikeouts, five walks in the eight appearances, so obviously 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.040 they need some depth. But Pearson, once upon a time 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.280 was one of those guys everybody looked at, well, you know, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.000 he's gonna be in this rotation. Is it is that 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.120 dream over for Pearson or is there still time for 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.600 him to reclaim that potentially if you pitches well this year. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.680 No, I think it's over. I think that's done with. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.360 I think he's a reliever. You know, I got to 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.560 see him in the AFL some years back, and I 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.120 remember he had spent that time in between working at 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.240 drive Line and then he was going to drive Line 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.000 after this AFL stint, and he just was never able 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.720 to make a big pitch mix work. Plus with injuries 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.719 and stuff like that, that this is a better role. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.199 This is just sometimes what happens with these guys that 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.079 he's better concentrated in a shorter outing. He can obviously 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.280 pump triple digits. This is something he did. One of 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.000 my favorite moments was in the AFL All Star Game 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.800 that year. He hit one oh three on the gun 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.760 and then Pete Alonso took that out at like one 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.839 eighteen out of the stadium. He had a homer off 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.800 of him, and Pearson dropped it to one oh three. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.040 So this is a good sign learning to pitch better. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.600 He's having great success in the bullpen and could be 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.000 like a sneaky closer option if you're in a saving 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.400 holds league. I actually like Nate Pearson as a pickup 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:55.800 right now. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.679 All right. We also have a lot of people talking 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.480 about Lance Lynn. Another disappointing day for Land. It's Lynn. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.280 I want to bench him. Some people want to drop him. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.040 I mean, I just don't see a chance where he 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.800 loses a rotation spot. And last year, I mean, he 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.560 was so bad in his first seven starts last year 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.800 and so good over the last fourteen I don't want 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.760 that to happen again. So I don't know if it's 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.120 a situation where he's having trouble getting ramped up for 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.280 the season. I don't know if it's trouble where you know, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.800 the colder weather. I don't know what it is. All 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.480 I know is I think to drop him is a 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.880 little crazy right now. To bench him is fine. I 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.240 bench him this week in favor of Toads Bradley Lynn 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.920 a two starts Bradley at two starts. The two starts 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.319 for Bradley on paper looked very daunting. I threw Bradley 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.360 in there, and I'm glad that I did. But I 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.720 think you bench not drop. What do you think. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.280 Welsh in like a ten man league? I think you 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.280 can drop. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.280 League is different. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.280 I think yeah, you could. Stream I'm with you. I 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.000 think April and May are for the time of like 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.000 benching and experimenting with your pitching staff, for things to 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.440 get better, for summer to come in, for the season 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.640 to get right. Three or four starts is a it's 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.800 becoming enough of a sample size, But like, is it 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.280 an enough to quite give up on a player like 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.560 Lancelin or someone? Just in the chap mentioned Chris Sale. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.839 You know, Chris Sale was crap and then he had 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.280 one good start and I saw people just like dance 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.360 Oh Mary, I like, hey, told you not to. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.360 I was reinvesting yesterday. He was one of my prize picks. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.160 He was again he was yesterday. So take the huge 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.360 l on that one. By the way, I just want 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.480 another point out to you. I mean, I look at 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.360 it's just starting to feel like a victory lap kind 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:26.760 of a show here, and I don't want it to 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.680 be like that. But I don't want to talk about 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.840 Taylor Ward, who was a player that scared the crap 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.800 out of me going into the season. He did two 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.320 sixteen right now, he doesn't have three homers, so he's 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.800 got that going for him. I know the Angels have 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.960 had issues. He got sixteen runs because he's going to 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.400 at the top of that order. Still to sixteen batting 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.800 average is certainly a problem. I keep pointing out to 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.400 people last year who only wanted to see the good 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.480 months and not the bad months of Taylor Ward. That 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.520 could just be who he is. He could be this 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.840 kind of player that gets red hot and an ice cold, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.640 or he's maybe just never as good as those hot 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.960 streaks were. And I think all those fas you know, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.200 some people loved him going into this year. To me, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.680 the ADP didn't not match the risk. There were other 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.960 players that like to round that same ADP. What do 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.320 you think about Taylor Ward? Is he a guy that 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.040 turns things around? 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.000 Yeah? I think so. I think there's been a lot 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.840 of struggles. Maybe some of it is like built around, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.840 you know, the rotation and just how underperforming it is overall. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.920 But I watched you know, there's a couple of teams, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.640 like the Cardinals have been super offensively underperforming. I think 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.400 the Angels have had some games where it's wild how 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.960 they're not. I'll also say, like, I think that range 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.400 of outfielder, how kind of stinky is that outfield range? 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:33.680 Right now? 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.440 Dude, Jake McCarthy, Taylor Ward, they're both stinking up. I 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.880 guess Kwan has probably been a little bit of a 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.600 better get Nick Castillanos has been in that. It's just 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.040 been a really weird range. I think daylor Ward can 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.000 turn it around. I think he can get these of 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.160 those stolen bases and some of that power. He's another guy. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.040 If you're gonna go and take guys like lenn and stuff, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.440 and you're gonna keep them but not start them, just 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.720 put Taylor Ward on the bench and hold it out. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.280 I don't see why you can't do that for two 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.080 or three more. We to see if it gets right 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.200 and if the months turn, because sometimes these guys have 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.480 a bad month and it's a bad start to the season. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.800 I think he's too good of a hitter. He's not 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.400 striking out a whole bunch, but the contact woes are 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.800 pretty serious and that's something we do have to watch and. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.280 It's something we've seen before. But speaking of that range 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.400 of outfielders, the Giants activated Mitch Haniger. There you go, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.000 run to the waiver wire for the ten day. Il 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.680 your Nolvarez also Jordan Alvarez or jor Don Alvarez, however 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.200 we want to call him on the show. From now on. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.480 Oh you know what, let's have an official statement or 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.760 because people get like pissy about using the Jordan which 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:36.320 was out there. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.120 This was the original name, by the way, for everybody. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.880 You know, everyone gets very uptight about it. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.800 Let's just call him and Jordan. Alvarez was held out 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.720 of the team starting lineup on Monday. Lucas Giolito went 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.880 on the bereavement list. Chris Bassett said he won't even 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.760 miss a bullpen. He's okay. He had a little back issue. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.520 He was pulled right there, so just keep an eye 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.120 on that. It was tightness in the lower back. And 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:02.000 congratulations Max Munsey on the paternity because he's officially my daddy. Now, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.120 I figured that's where we're going with that. Now, well, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.960 we are the People Show, and I'm all about consistency, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:10.480 and we you know, we try to get into the 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.880 comments of the YouTube channel. If you haven't already subscribed 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.679 to us Fantasy Rows MLB again the fastest growing YouTube 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.200 baseball channel on the planet. But here's a fun one 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.320 from one of our We've had to go naked here 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.720 to get this up here. So what this is. It's 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.960