WEBVTT - Leading Off September 23rd, 2024 (Ep. 906) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.879 What is up, Friendoz, and welcome in to leading off 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:10.480 right here on Fantasy Pros. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:11.479 I'm back. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.640 It's the Welsh I got Casey Bubba in the house. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:20.680 For the final countdown. It's the final week of the 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.520 fantasy season, the regular season. We ended all it is, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.880 like Michael Ipo said in the chat, yes, bittersweet at 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.280 the end of the regular season. All good things must 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.159 come to an end. But it's only like the phoenix 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.479 to burn it down. So we rise again, bigger and 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:37.840 better into next year. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.199 What an introduction. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.040 I'm glad to be here with you all, Glad to 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.920 talk to you all in this final week, Bubba, you 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.760 guys have been holding it down like champs. A lot 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.120 a lot of baseball this year, a lot of crazy stuff. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.000 In the show, we're going to be talking about a 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:52.280 few streaming pitchers you can do. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.040 Over the next couple of days. We've got the biggest. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.880 News, We've got some injuries, and obviously we've got our 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.640 big bets. But hot tip to you and Joelrico where 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.480 on Wednesday that'll be your guys' last like show together. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.000 As you guys have been holding it down a bit. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.200 Yeah, no, it's been great. Love coming on every September 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.640 for the last couple of years now to help bring 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.200 the people home to the championships. Hopefully all the football 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.640 people go do football things and in typical football fashion, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.160 they'll be back on Friday, folks, So enjoy the show. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:22.200 But thanks for having us. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.120 Well, that's right, that's right, I will do it. Some 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.280 good stuff in the chat here. Patrick took down my 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.880 championship with twenty two homers and one hundred and seventy 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.440 forty seven total bases in just one week. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:31.959 Thanks for all the. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.920 Advice, Welsh Bubba, Joe and Joe all the Joe's out there. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.240 Michael also is saying started doing fantasy baseball eight seasons ago, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.840 started listening halfway through my first season, and the last 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.600 seven seasons have finished first or second every time. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:44.640 Championship week. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:51.560 Mah beautiful love love to hear it on the episode. Boy, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.160 do we have the most ridiculous thing ever to talk 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.360 about that the news has carried over a whole bunch 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.240 of stuff, So hopefully we can carry you into this 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:00.840 final week. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.160 Oh, by the way, are you. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.000 Big into I feel like a lot of people, maybe 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.240 more leagues than I was prepared for. We're playing into 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.400 this week? But are you a big play the final 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.280 week fantasy guy? Like, in many instances people are done, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.840 you ended before the final week. I've said this a 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.280 couple times since I've been on. Things have changed. In 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.519 the old the forty man, you know, September call up days, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.120 like everything would get disastrous and ruined because you'd have 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.600 these weird rosters. Now it's different because there's not as 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.040 many players up. But are you a big play till 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.920 the you know this Sunday the final game stuff? 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.320 Well, I play season long, rod. Oh, so that that 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:36.840 is the case. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.320 I guess that's a head to head question. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.480 I just asked you for head to head though. No, Like, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.200 I'm helping my people messaging me questions and it's just 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.720 insanity of what they're trying to do streaming and whatnot. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.160 So yeah, no, I think you should do not play 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.560 the final week. I'm starting to become more of a 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.880 Joe piece of po let's stop on September first type guy? 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.560 Uh huh, I am too. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.880 I like you know, I've mentioned and we did this 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.720 new version of a league, our home league, where it 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.440 was two leagues split into one. It's the first half 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.280 at all Star break, it ends that's Rodo and then 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.080 we play from All Star break on and we do 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.240 head to head and it goes into a playoff mode 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.399 and you can have two champions to kind of keep 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.400 people more invested. We also redraft at that middle point. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.960 That would be an instance where I think I would 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.840 be good going into the very very final week obviously, but. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:25.360 I don't know. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.320 I think I'm still a proponent of like ending last 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.880 week and not going into this week. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:31.600 Not to say that. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.120 There aren't some important things and not that there's like 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.440 a bunch of dudes that are gonna get pushed off 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.720 of starts and not starting and whatnot, but injuries are 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.440 more brut I mean, roe Field Dever is. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.160 Just like, oh he's done, just done for the you 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.920 can take that. We're out, We're not going to do it. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.600 So we're going to see a lot of that this week. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.600 And that's a lot of stinks, and that's what kind 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:50.680 of stinks. So be prepared. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.280 Make sure you're checking out all the tools over at 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.680 Fantasy Pros. You can check out some of the hot hitters. Obviously, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.480 my playbocus hooked you up all season, so make sure 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.120 you were doing all of that this episode also brought 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.440 to you by Bet three sixty five promo code leading off. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.600 Get five dollars, bet five dollars, get. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.840 One P fifty in bonus bets today. 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Now there's a 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.880 lot of I don't know if it's this information whatever. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.800 There are photos that are out there. Some people are 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.480 saying it's from some time before. There's internet social media 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.040 chatter that part of this eight am session was because 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.919 CJ Abrams. This is all alleged lost one hundred and 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.159 eighty thousand dollars gambling. And I will tell you as 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.120 a as a gamblers, as a person that has left 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.480 the casino has entered at night and left in the morning. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.640 Poker player, the only reason you're usually there too ungodly 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.800 hours is you're chasing your tail, and that, unfortunately seems 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.120 like a chasing the tail situation. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:35.960 This bad one, this is gonna haunt. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.840 There's this really funny moment in the Mets broadcast where 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.920 they were talking about it, and then Keith Rnandez is like, hey, listen, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.040 I get four am, but not eight am, Bubba. Do 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.120 you think this is gonna carry over into next year? 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.040 Are we just gonna kind of move past Are we 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.480 gonna move past past this like we are like Jamison 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.680 Williams who bet and had parlays last year and everyone 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.720 loves him now in football, we're just gonna move past 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.400 it and just not think about this with a or 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.720 do you think this could be something in the off 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.920 season where maybe they move off of him. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.320 I think it's just a weak punishment. He's on timeout, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.920 pype deal and he'll be back. They've already said he's 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.560 a part of their future, he's part of their family. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.919 They'd be crazy to move off of him. The talent 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.159 like he was actually heating up again before this took place, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.760 so he'll be back. He'll be there on opening day. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.080 And I think this is more of a hey, you're young, 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.720 you made a dumb decision, get it right, and we'll 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.200 move on from here. Because they did the same thing 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.560 to Luis Garcia last year. They sent him down for 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.520 disciplinary reasons. So this is a Nationals situation. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.400 Was he at the re light table? Was that part 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.120 of the problem. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.039 I don't think so. Maybe he was getting a massage. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:40.760 I don't know. But he was out late apparently and 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.600 got a punishment as well. I'm just speculating. I don't know. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.040 Maybe I'm not going to go any farthers of fans. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.400 But pretty far from saying out gambling and getting a massage. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.600 What are you talking about? What do you think would 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.120 keep you at the casino until eight am? 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.360 Oh he's losing. He's losing his dire game. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:58.599 Clearly he's losing. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.960 Abrams lost a lot of money in the last week, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.200 not just gambla. You know what, probably I don't remember, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.200 you know what, if he's done his old contract or 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.320 his rookie contract. Now i'm thinking about it, the gambling 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.880 was probably more any normal athlete. You probably lost more 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.120 money than what was just gambled by being kicked out 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.000 over the next you know, week and a half. But yeah, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.800 what's the game that's going to keep you there? 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.640 For me, it's black chack. It's always been blackchack. I 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.040 can play blackjack till the sun comes up like that. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.040 If you have a good crafts table, that's goore. But 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.960 that can you can lose money quickly. Blackjack will sit there. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.120 Craps is amazing, and you need a good table. Like 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.080 those people that sit there and play crafts by themselves. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.760 That's a lonely life, that really is. But if you 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.440 have a good table, craps is amazing, it's so much fun. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.160 But for me, I'll sit there and play a blackshack 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.960 till the sun comes up. I've done that many times, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.240 and most of the time it is chasing the dragon 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.720 type scenario. But it's that now. I heard the new 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.960 cool thing is people go play was it pie galla 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.720 or whatever that goes till the god ungodly hours of 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.800 the morning. But I'll play blackjack all day, every day. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.000 Yeah, I think blackjack is an ob one. I think 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.280 the picture of him was at a roulette table. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:04.400 Poker. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.040 For me, poker's an easy, easy one to just play 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.800 all night keep going. But blackjack definitely has an element 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.160 because like poker, even like a twelve hour session and 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.400 just it's whatever, But blackjack is chasing the dragon type 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.000 of situation. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:19.760 So I don't know. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.280 I think it's something to keep an eye out for. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.360 I think the obviousness for this team. They have a 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.840 lot of young talent. They've got James Wood, They've got 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.680 Dylan Cruz. You don't want to set a precedent of 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.320 one of the I don't even know if they would 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.040 consider him a leader out till eight am, you know, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.520 rocking a blackjack table, and maybe they want to, you know, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.600 have him. It's not a scapegoat even it's just like 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:39.839 you can't do that. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:40.640 That's part of it. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.600 I do think there's something to take a look at 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.400 that this team could just be like, hey listen, this 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.160 guy up and down, we don't maybe he's really contrite 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.720 about it and whatever. I wouldn't be completely dismissive that 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.239 this team doesn't look to do something in the offseason, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.640 not saying that they will if this is a major problem, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:09:00.320 because that is a dramatic punishment that's not like like, hey, listen, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.960 you're gonna sit for the rest of the season on 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.840 the bench and you're gonna support your players and you're 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.600 going to show up two hours early. That's get the 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.200 hell out of here type of punishment. And that's why 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.480 I'm making maybe making a tiny bit more about it. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.520 But real quick question. So this was eight am for 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.280 a one PM game. What if it was a seven 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.160 pm game? But this has been a big of an issue. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.000 Probably not, that's my point. Yeah, so CJ not tell 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.560 you to get him out of the doghouse here, But 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.559 I wonder if there's more to it than just this 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:26.160 one time. 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.280 Uh, yeah, there's. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.400 So that's that's what I'm talking about too. This could 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.280 be like a thing, this could be I've experienced it. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.800 We have casinos out here in uh area. Actually been 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.000 there right next to Salt River Field. Yes, I've been 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.839 there behind Top Golf. Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.000 us have been there, and like I've gone there. Athlete 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.080 Charles Barkley would hang out there. I remember being on 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.079 field a couple of years ago in the Arizona Fall 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.679 League and god, I'm forgetting the guy's name, who's the 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.600 Yankees prospect. He was so excited he told everybody around 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.920 him about how he went out and was at the 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.440 I see you know all night that night and won 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.520 twenty one hundred dollars, and he was telling everybody that 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.480 would listen to him. Not I don't even think he's 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.800 in baseball anymore at that time. So it's not uncommon 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.320 for them to, you know, kind of feed that need. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.480 But eight am is part of the problem, So CJ. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.679 Abrams will be on the lookout for it in the offseason. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.720 Let's talk about some other stuff in here. How about 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.480 the White Sox. They are record holders and mate might 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.560 make more records on Tuesday. White Sox now have tied 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:31.480 the record for most losses since nineteen hundred with one hundred. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.920 And twenty and they got six games to go. Bubba, Yeah, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.800 they're gonna break some records. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.319 Yep, yeah, No, it's pretty much a lock. I could 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.360 even agree with the Nightingale who tweeted it, who usually 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.360 ruins everything from happening. So for some reason, the White 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.960 Sox sweep the final six games, you know what direction 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.280 to point. But I'm thinking they lose least four of 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.079 these six just the way they're playing, And this might 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.120 be like one hundred and twenty four games and one 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.320 hundred and sixty two game season. Just wrap your head 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:00.239 around that. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.640 That is insanely I think they. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.640 Will be horrible. Like they make movies called Major League 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.040 about this. They weren't even that bad bad. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.160 Yeah, I know, it's historically bad, you know, and hat 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.760 tip to them for being like literally the worst in 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.120 over one hundred years. Like they're they're gonna stack that, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.240 Like think about that like a team. How embarrassing for 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:23.800 Andrew Vaughn and Luis Robert and Garrett Croche. Garrett Crochet myred, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.440 I mean up and down season. I believe he's like 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.360 the first or the third or it's like it's not 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.120 many with under one hundred and fifty innings pitch over 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.360 two hundred strikeouts. That's an absurd number. But they will 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.800 always be remembered as the worst, so you know, and 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.000 you're gonna have to carry that in the next year 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.880 because they also said they're not going to spend they 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.079 want to cut payroll today. Care definitely will have an effect. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.920 If Garrett Crochet were a brave, we'd be talking about 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.200 him as a top five sp but we can't with 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.680 the White Sox because not only are they historically bad, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.400 they're probably going to get worse next year. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.960 Now, which record gets broken first, the White Sox lost 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.440 record or cal Rifkin's record. There's your debaate for first 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.440 take on Monday, September thirtieth, and there's no baseball going on. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.760 Yeah, well, I'll tell you White Sox are going to 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.720 put out a similar roster next year, So they're going 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:10.120 for gold. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.000 Baby, I can't wait too. If you're a runder is 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.240 on bet three sixty five. 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:14.200 Yeah, exactly. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.080 The Reds fired David Bell as their manager. We got 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.079 that like a week or so and a half before 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.040 the end of the season. I kind of took this 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.599 as a way too talented of a team to disappoint. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.920 Maybe at the level that you had, maybe they want 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.800 to get new blood in there. Maybe he wasn't speaking 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.320 to the culture of the clubhouse. I don't know, but 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.360 I don't know if you have any thoughts on David Bell, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.000 and I would pay attention. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.520 Sometimes the managers can have effected. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.120 I don't want a manager that's going to come in 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.120 and slow down this team from running. I want them 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.080 to be hyper aggressive. I have no idea who they'll 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:44.640 bring in, though. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.920 Yeah, it'll be interesting because he has signed a extension 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.600 through twenty twenty six this season, so that that's a 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.439 big oof. And the management already came out and said 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.680 there was some differences between the two sides, and it's 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.680 tough for David Bell when you look at that roster. Yeah, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.360 there's a couple of good players, don't give me wrong, 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.400 but when like Benson and Marte and company aren't producing, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.600 it's kind of tough to be successful. Yeah. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:06.960 Well, and you know, in a fun note, I just 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.080 want to throw out here. You guys know Bubba's wearing 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.839 his Peria Havevelina's hat. If you saw my photo back here, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.240 I've got my customized AFL jersey. Well, the rumor is 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.160 today or tomorrow the Arizona Fall League is going to 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.480 release the rosters, so we'll know all the guys that 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.200 are going to be sent to the Arizona Fall League. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.080 Some of you probably don't care about it. I cover 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.840 it because I go every single day starting in October 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:33.000 to all the games of note, Christian in Karnosi on 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.560 Strand is set to come and play in the AFL, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.640 which is kind of weird. We don't see that a 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.559 lot we have seen in the past, like Kyle Schwarber 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.959 returning from a season long injury, came and played in 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.640 the AFL for three or four games. Tyler O'Neill last year. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.199 I believe it was came for like one game if 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.280 the Cardinals were to advance. Those things can kind of 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.840 happen occasionally, maybe those two years ago. But in Karnacion, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.120 Strand is like lost his project prospect eligibility. So I 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.240 think they're giving him an exemption because of the season 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.000 that he's lost. And so there you go. There's a 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.320 Reds player that's going to be out. Christian and Karnashianstram 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.319 scheduled to play in the Arizona Fall League, which starts 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.760 October seventh, and Bubby, you will be out like roughly 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.679 a month, roughly about a month or so. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:16.480 Five weeks. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.040 It gonna be awesome and you get to see him. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.480 Some notes on some players from Sunday here. Tristan Cossis 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.640 big game, three homers, seven RBI now twelve homers in 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.960 a little under two hundred of bats this year. Just 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.440 a quick you know, are you gonna be a big 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.000 buyer on Tristan Cossas. I think he might come at 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:39.320 a discount esque type of flow because it's like one 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.440 hundred and ninety something about but two forty one batting 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.360 average right now, so he's gonna have an under two 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.960 fifty season, a lot of injuries. Production's okay, I think 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.720 his costs could probably be relatively nice. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.440 Yeah, no, I'm a big fan. He will come at 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.640 a bit of a discount, but first base drives up 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.680 rather quickly in your drafts when you start prepping for 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.200 twenty twenty five, and Costas is one of the last 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.760 men out there for now. That could change, but I 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.640 am a fan of the potential price tag on hopefully 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.200 a healthy season from Tristan Cossus. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.360 Almost you almost hate to see having a three home 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 run day because that's like that little oomp that pushes 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.080 the stats up. Had he not had no it would 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.600 have been, like, you know, maybe under two forty season, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.040 maybe he gets to ten homers by the end of 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:19.440 the year. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.000 But it's this just like irked it. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.440 And pushed it up just a tiny bit more, which 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.760 is san Speaking of insanity, and those stats moving up 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:33.280 show Heyo Tani combo meal yesterday. It seems like a 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.000 decade ago that we cared about a fifty to fifty 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.920 because Otani is now up to fifty three homers, fifty 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.720 four stolen bases. He had one homer two stolen bases 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.520 on Sunday legit shot at fifty five to fifty five, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.640 and a lot of people just kind of jokingly being like, hey, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.800 sixty sixties not out of the realm of possibility for show, Heyotani. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.840 I also saw a lot of instant Atlanta brave accounts, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.080 but a lot of people complaining about like Lucien Okunya 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.080 was forty seventy really dismissive, Like what O'tani is done 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.240 is uniquely incredible. The guy might pitch into the playoffs, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.800 he's the one one across the board. Do you think 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.320 there's gonna be any discussion about Otani being the one 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.000 to one as a DH next year in Fantasy? Do 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.200 you think that's even because that was something I said? 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:25.080 If people remember TONI was adp like ten nine. Somewhere 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.400 in there. I pushed him up in that final month 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:29.800 of the season we were talking about shows. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.720 I pushed him up to like five, and I was just. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.000 Like, you know, let's kill the like I don't care 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.320 about the DH. I care about the stat return, and 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.440 I'm going to put a hyper focus and not even 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.560 worry about the DH thing, but that's always in people's minds. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.160 Bubba, do you think. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.080 That is completely scwashed going into next year or do 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.800 you think Bobby Witt, Aaron Judge DH. Let that be 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.080 a differential factor and moving him down maybe a notch 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:53.360 or two. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.440 There will be some people that use it as a factor. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.040 It should not be a factor. I think if you 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.560 did one hundred drafts show, hey probably goes number one, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.240 like ninety of them, I would say, and then you'll 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.880 get some cute you know, Bobby woos and Judges in there, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.639 but the utility DH things should not factor at all. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.720 He's an absolute monster and that should continue for you 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.200 next year. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.359 A couple pitching things to throw actually, also speaking of 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:18.800 the other guy that could be out there, Aaron Judge 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.280 two for three with a homer, a couple walks. Judge 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.080 up now to fifty five, breaking some other of his 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.320 own I think career highs, not the home runs. Probably 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.159 not going to get to the sixty, but you know what, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.400 he could have a three home run day and never 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.520 say never with a guy like Aaron. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.560 Dude missed like a month of baseball two, which is crazy. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.120 Some pitching updates. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.359 Luis Heel got his fifteenth win this weekend against the 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.720