WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 23rd, 2022 (Ep. 516) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:17.400 A one many band. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.079 to leading off right here on Fantasy Bros. Brought to 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.439 you by bet MGM, the King of sports Books. It's me, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.680 Joey Pa Joe Pisapia with me today. I'd say it's 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:28.440 Fantasy Pros and Fantasy Bros. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.320 That's what I's been to say. I wasn't sure. I'm like, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.960 did you know you said pros and just kept I did? 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.239 I I meant to say pros. It's Monday. It was 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.640 very very hot here yesterday, actually all weekend in New Jersey. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.680 Uh yeah, bald man, that's all. It's a lot to 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:43.000 take in. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:44.600 I'm familiar with the heat. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.720 Yes, I see that Welsh has gone uh full uh 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.720 full buzz cut. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.760 This is this is one of my Welsh variants that 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.040 everybody is getting to see. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.440 This is the Welsh variance. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.520 Yeah, I don't I don't know which variant this is yet, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.440 but this is one of the many looks. If you 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.160 go back and look, someone should do this at the 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.560 end of the season. Joe, you are consistent. You are 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.280 consistent of consistency myself. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.440 I get the beard sometimes. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:08.560 Okay, you know what that's true. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.959 It's get a little rocky with the beard. I do 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.319 the you know, that's like me and October. It's like 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.840 it's week seven. Try to get through the season. I 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:16.840 think that happens. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.240 Okay, so you might be like two variants, but I'm 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.240 gonna be like Doctor Stranger and the multim versu of 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.160 madness of people at the end, going. Look if you 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.720 take pictures because I had I had the glasses. Look, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.840 I'll have the beard, I'll have the no beard, I 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.000 got the long hair, I'll have the hat and one 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.959 of the. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.760 The glasses was a beautiful thing. There's no doubt about that. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.880 And it wasn't. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.720 But I look forward to your Disney Plus series, which 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.240 I know is going to be fantastic because everybody's getting 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.520 a Disney Plus series at this point. I mean just 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.600 everyone could use it, so the well should. I are 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.840 going to break down everything that happened. The Fantasy bros 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.600 of Fantasy Pros are going to tell you everything that 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.000 happened in the world of Major League Baseball. And this 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.200 is huge news everybody, because before you even start, we 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.000 are so close. Look at this six point nine seven 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.080 thousand subscribers. We are so close to seven k on 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.760 our YouTube channel we do on YouTube dot com slash 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.639 Fantasy Pros m l B. I'm asking you if we've 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.480 ever made you laugh, if we've ever helped you out 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.040 with a trade, helped you out picking up a player. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.720 Now's the time where three hundred subscribers away from getting 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.760 to the big seven K mark. Let's go. You know 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.640 what I should have today and liked the video? 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.400 Yes, I if I were thinking in my right brain, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.360 I should have offered once we hit seven thousand, we 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.519 would shave my head live on the show. That would 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.360 probably be and we just do like a big buzz 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.880 right in the middle. That's super uncomfortable thing. There's nothing 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.680 more disconcerting than when you have like, you know, like 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.120 grown out, long, full hair and then you do the 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.520 buzz in the middle and you find where you're balding, 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.840 and then you just kind of your life flashes before 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.480 your eyes. That would have been a really good look 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.920 with that buzz right down the middle for everybody. But 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.200 next time, let's get to seven. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.560 I think it's funny too that like you and Bogman 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.480 have we like Bogman every now and then will shave 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.160 his beard, which he did and send me a picture 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.560 on Friday, and I love whenever Bogman shaves Beard. Let 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.080 me tell you he looks like a toally different person. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:04.840 There's a lot of funny jokes. I'm gonna send you 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.840 that thread, by the way, the two of us. But look, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.720 here we go. I'm sorry. We're only thirty away, not 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.200 three hundred away. Thirty thirty. Let's go. We're only thirty away. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.440 That's where we are. Okay, not all right, so let's go. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.920 Come on, everybody, no excuses. I want this to happen today. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.520 Seven thousand subscribers. They said it could never happen, but 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.320 they're wrong. All right, let's get to some of our 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.200 great MLB content here. Let's just jump right in. We 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.000 had Adlie Rutchman debut, very exciting. We'll talk more about 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.040 him in a moment. My Trout hits his twelfth home 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.160 run on Sunday versus the a showy Otani in a 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.880 ball that hasn't landed yet over the greenery. It does. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.360 It feels a tremendous over run. Manny Machado continues to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.520 just be amazing. Four hits for him, and then of 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.400 course he had the little U double dip in the Bronx, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:51.920 which I wasn't sure how much we were gonna get 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.960 into or not get into. But it is kind of 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.600 a baseball talk right now. It's not really fantacy related, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.000 it's not really betting related. But you know, I thought 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.080 about this whole thing with Tim Anderson and with Josh Donaldson, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.400 and I took my time this morning to to really 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.160 think about this and measure my words carefully about all 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:09.320 of this. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:10.200 And let's hear it. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.680 Josh Donaldson has a history Chris Meanie. One time interviewed 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.200 Josh Donaldson, and I asked then, I was like, how 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.080 did it go? And Chris Meanie, our good friend, friend 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.440 of the show for many many years and a good 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.400 personal friend of mine, might be the nicest human being 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.239 on the planet. I say, that's probably super Canadian, just 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.680 just just a brilliantly wonderful, kind human being. And he 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.159 was like, that guy's kind of off putting. That was 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.039 his big take away. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.160 He's like, we're not a couple of those. I've had 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.000 a couple of those in my time, even with prospects. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.960 I've had a couple of guys that were kind of 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.520 off putting. Major league major leaguers are a little bit 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.039 more frightening because they're more established in their life where 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.760 they're they're willing to go more full off putting. Like 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.720 I could tell you a couple of prospects right now 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.360 that once they get that money, they get that comfortability, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.360 they'll probably go into that comfortable uncomfortableness if you will. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.479 All right, Well, Josh Donaldson obviously made a remark he 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.279 called Tim Anderson Jackie like Jackie Robinson, like in you 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.920 know that article from twenty nineteen. I think it was 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.479 where Tim Anderson was saying that, you know, he wants 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.320 to be like Jackie Robins, or he sees himself as 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.880 Jackie Robinson, somebody bringing a fun intensity and a different 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.480 style of play. He wasn't trying to say, hey, I'm 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.240 you know, knocking down barriers and things like that. He 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.120 wasn't being hyperbolic in that sense in terms of the 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.360 Jackie Robinson because that would be foolish thing to say 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.640 because of what Jackie Robinson endured had. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.360 Said it to him. After this happened, I think Donaldson 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.000 had like that, like to be his little thing apparently right. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.560 And again that was his little thing maybe three years ago. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.320 But there's been a lot of things that have happened 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.520 in this country in the last three years. And I 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.440 think that Tim Anderson also has dealt with a lot 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.839 of things in the last three years too. Also, let's 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.520 not forget Josh Donaldson has got into it before with 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.880 some other players, Lucas Gielino, like, there's a lot of 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.040 guys that Donaldson has gotten into it with before. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.400 Donaldson's the nu Machiado by the way, I just want 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.840 to point out, if you remember, Machado used to be 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.479 the guy that got into it for everybody. That was 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.440 his memo, and it's now Donaldson. They know they just 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.039 he passed on the torch to Donaldson to just be 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.800 the biggest you know, doof in baseball. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.000 Yeah, And I guess what I came to the conclusion 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.280 is this, I do believe Josh Donaldson probably didn't mean 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.760 anything racially about it. He seems very sincere. However, you 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.920 have to be careful of what you say. And I 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.960 think even if it wasn't taken that way at first, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.800 sometimes people do laugh things off because it's either to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.719 laugh things off to get upset about it when it 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.159 comes to these sort of moments. And I think three 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.120 years later, maybe it's gotten to a point where the 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.560 situation was different, it was heated between the two of them. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.919 It's the wrong thing to say in that moment, and 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.000 Tim Anderson is right for being upset about it, and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.159 he has every right to be upset about it. But 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.680 I will take it one step further too. I think 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.280 it's also kind of if you if you want to 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.640 call yourself or you see yourself as a Jackie Robinson 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.640 mold and that kind of person was so important to 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.320 you and the class with which Jackie Robinson handle all 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.039 these situations, then I think after the game, too, you 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.599 find a way to elevate the conversation instead of saying 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.120 those I shut those mfors up in Yankees Stadium, mf 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.440 this blah blah blah. So I think everybody can be better. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.600 That is where I've come to on this. I am 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.680 more on the Tim Anderson side of this, because I 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.880 think it's important to understand that side of it a 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.920 little bit more. But I think everybody can be better. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.680 I hope those two guys get together and figure it 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.320 out and then have a more elevated conversation. So there 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.560 you go. That is I've really taken my time to 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.440 come to listen to everybody this morning, think about it, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.560 have my thoughts about it, and I'm bringing my thoughts 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.480 to you, Welsh. I'm curious what your take is, if 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.520 you even want to dip your toes in this water. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.040 No, I mean I kind of think just about the 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.600 same thing. I think they're both you know, they're both 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.640 complicit kind of like in the issue. I kind of agree. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.880 I don't think Donaldson had a bunch of necessary hate 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.520 built around all of it, but he obviously doesn't have 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:04.560 any like introspective nature to understand like you're you know, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.600 you're being awful, you know, like you are pressing somebody, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.880 and this can be charged in a certain way. He's 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.320 just like, I'm just having fun, just boys being boys, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.600 and it's like, nah, ain't a boys being boys type 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.320 of situation. I want one hundred percent see the instant 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.160 how that could affect him Anderson and why he would 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.760 be affected by it. And it's a good point. I'll 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.640 tell you. One thing I didn't think about was, you know, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.120 you want to be better in it. You try to 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.720 elevate yourself above. I don't think there's many baseball players 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.200 or mini athletes right now that really push themselves above 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.200 a certain situation to try to fix it. Everyone's very reaction. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.120 I'm not this. Do you remember when there were anti 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.600 semitic comments made and Julian Edelman reach out to the person, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.520 was like, I'm gonna educate that person. I don't remember 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.079 who it was about. Maybe someone of the Penis and 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.880 Cracker Jacks can remind me. You remember me some anti 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.079 semitic or they came off as anti semitic about something, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.320 and Julian Edelman, who takes it very seriously, said Hey, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.000 instead of killing this guy, I'm gonna go and reach 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.520 out to him and invite him to come to the 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.360 Holocaust with me. That's the kind of stuff we need 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.320 where we all just go, oh, I get it now. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.920 I think that's I think that's a better place to be. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.320 It's supposed to disciplining people and all these things. You know, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.520 look one hundred and sixty two games in a long season, man, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.960 and it's and you're playing in ninety five degree weather 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.280 and it's hot, and you know, guys get physical sometimes. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.040 It's a lot of things that can get out of control. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.440 And I just think that everybody. Donaldson certainly can learn 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.480 to be better because he has a track record and 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:29.199 Tim Anderson if he really is truly inspired by Jackie Robinson, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.640 then it's not about eating it all the time. It's 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.400 not about you know, dying at a young age because 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.400 you know, of all the things that Jackie Robinson had 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.920 to bear the burdens of, but I think you can 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.840 bear the burden of find a little bit more of 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.040 a class at the end of it all, because I 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.040 think that's a better representation for everybody, for the kids 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.560 who are watching the game. That's it. That's my two cents. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.200 Let's go talk to the rest of bats by the show. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:52.800 All right. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.400 Michael Kopek was fantastic, by the way in that game. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.839 Also Aj Pollock with the gohet homer in the ninth 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.600 in that first one. All right. Injuries Freddie Peralta, Oh 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.480 my god, I've got a team that's got the gram 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.200 Scherzer and Freddy Parolta on it. And Welsh I am 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.520 not a happy camp you had a team. Hey, I'm 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.920 still in second place out of fifteen, baby, because I 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.839 had Justin Verlander for a buck last year and I 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.400 kept him. Whoo, Rick Flair Freddy Parolta had the same 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.800 injury last year. Are we panicked? Because this is literally 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.800 the same thing. They shut him down, everybody panicked. He 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.120 came back and he was gangbusters rest of the season. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.640 So it's just a matter of, Hey, this is just 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.880 the Freddy Parolta pathway, or should we be a little 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.720 bit more concerned that it's twice in two years. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.480 I would be a concern that it's twice in two years, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.199 because we don't give passes to anybody that have multi 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.520 year injuries that are of the same, like like who 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.320 gets the pass? Look at the hitters. Byron Buckson's been 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.600 one of the best baseball players out there, and it's 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.960 like his track record of injury follows him. So we should, 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.520 especially with the pitcher, be a little bit concerned. But 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.280 I think it's also it's volatility. You know that he's 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.800 a volatile type of pitcher. You know what you're getting 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.520 in for. They've definitely pitched him higher. It's actually funny. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.000 I was looking at a lot of his prop jests. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.680 Is very interested in betting on him, and ultimately I didn't, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.160 and I was really paying attention to pitch counts because 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.000 you know, he's someone that I feel I can go 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.160 both ways, and they've pushed him this year. You know, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.880 he's pushed I think all but maybe two starts he 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.480 had gone over ninety pitches in games, so they had 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.440 really pushed him further and not babied him whatsoever. And 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.760 then look what happens and injuries kind of followed. So 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.800 he can be awesome. I just here's what I wonder 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.600 when he comes back, do they play the piggyback game? 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:25.920 You know? 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.880 I see some of the chat has already thrown in 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.840 some of those names that Aaron Ashby's are out there. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.800 They've got this really great minor league Antoine, Kelly, Ethan 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.240 Small as well. There's a couple guys out there that 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.880 I wonder if they start playing piggybacks so you don't 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.760 press Freddy perraulta to ninety two one hundred pitches. Maybe 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.000 that's part of the problem at the end of the day, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.480 and maybe they need to keep him. When he comes back, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.720 he can be great, But what if he is going 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.400 to be pushed down a little bit and you piggyback Ashby? 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.400 You know that the Potteris were doing it with Clevenger 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.240 and Gore. I could see it something. So again, you know, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.679 do you freak out? Do you freak out about any 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.760 of these guys. Know you don't go nuts, but I 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.360 will be concerned, and I would any injury concern you 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.959 would add to other pictures that you know, Clayton Kershaw's alike, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.480 I would throw in with with Freddy Peralta. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.439 I would add Ashby if I had that opportunity to 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.719 answer Eric's question, and I would also add insurance. That's 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.839 what I would like to do. Also, good job here. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.920 Aaron over here said that it was to Shaun Jackson. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.880 So the piance of the cracker Jacks remind me of 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.280 who that person was cause to Shawn Jackson. And again, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.839 I don't think it's something he meant to do or 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.920 it came off that whatever it was, at the end 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.240 of the day, it was insensitive, and it's okay to 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.400 be insensitive. Everybody makes mistakes. It says stupid things, my goodness, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.319 I mean, how many stupid things do I say in 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.760 a day? Doesn't mean I can't learn from the movie better. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.840 But let's not like you know, let's let's find a 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.440 way to elevate the conversation. I think that's that's the 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.599 best thing we can do. Taylor Award set again to 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.520 go an MRI exam on Monday. So all those people 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:57.240 who yelled at me about you know, I just nobody 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.400 said that I did want anybody to get hurt. All 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.440 I know is that Taylor Ward when something's good, too 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.280 good to be true, it always is. And I hope 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.640 he's okay. It is his frustrating. So you say, Joe 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.400 Adell time, Is it just as simple as that. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.280 Well, Jodell's been killing it in the minors. I think 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.760 that's the play. I you know, you send him down 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.600 to get regular bats to succeed. He's been doing that. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.280 He was the guy that was kind of the fall 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.760 He was the fallout of Taylor Ward getting the starting 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.240 gig and being successful. Yeah, I think that's the play 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.800 that they're gonna have to do if Ward is going 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.560 to miss extended time, Adele's got to come back and 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:35.000 for the third time, try to show some maturation, try 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.160 to show some growth hitting a breaking pitch and not 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.400 striking out thirty five percent of the time. So I'd 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.640 be interested in he's had a really really successful run. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.160 As you know, he's faltering between that quad A type 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.320 of stuff right now. You know, he kills triple A. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.600 He does not succeed at the majors. Something's gonna have 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.760 to bend at some point, and maybe this will be 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.439 the shot. I'd I'd be speculative adding Jo Adell right now. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.480 All right, U, Chad Green is already having howmy John 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.360 surgery now a role? This Chapman is dealing with an 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.680 achilles injury? What do you do with his Yankees bullpen? 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.720 Right now? Is there somebody in particular you are Chadigan. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.280 Oh, you go get Chad Holmes. You get him yesterday, Chadhame. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.960 If Chapman were to miss serious time, there's a serious 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.000 conversation going on. Even if Chapman doesn't miss anytime, that 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.840 Holmes might need to be the guy that takes over 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.520 the closing role. He's already got four saves, He's got 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.080 a boatload of wins. He's actually been probably the most 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:33.080 valuable reliever in fantasy baseball right now. If he were 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.480 to take over that closing gig, Clay Holmes, I said, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.760 chat Clay Holmes, I would probably say he immediately jumps 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.320 in his top four closers in baseball. So Holmes would 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.160 be the guy that you go pick up yesterday. And 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.840 everyone should be speculating right now. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.680 Yeah, and by the way, Aaron's crushing it today. Aaron 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.560 is the MVP of the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks crushing it. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.040 He has the right homes, He's got the right the 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.920 Shan Jackson call in there, Aaron. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.240 Well, the award MVB. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:03.800 That's a cracker MVB. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.000 About the jack MVP award for the day is there? 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.880 You get my undying respect and some crop reviver from landscape. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.760 That's what you get for your mom. Yes, all right, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.440 let's go to the minor leagues for a second, because 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.200 Ali Rushman came up and is now a Baltimore oriole 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.120 beautiful moment where he came out behind home plate soaked 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.840 in the crowd. It's beautiful. He seems like the best 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.960 kid ever. Certainly switch hitting catcher. You look at the 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.000 minor league track record over one hundred and seventy nine 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.640 games at two eighty two and the three ninety one 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.760 ovp A four eighty eight slugging a eight seventy eight ops. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.160 Typically speaking, you know, big time young catchers tend to 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.360 struggle because they're learning, they're they're they're trying to figure 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:47.680 out the pitching staff. They have a lot there's a 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.200 lot going on your fantasy teams. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.520 There's two you're learning two things on the fly. Not 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.720 that you don't know how to be a catcher, but catching, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.760 you know, starting pitchers and calling games and finding the 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:05.200 rhythm is quite an undertaking though many many believe, and 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.600 you know, Grayson Rodriguez, his teammate, believes this guy's going 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.360 to go down as the greatest catcher of all time. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.040 You know, obviously you got to pump up your guys, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:13.720 but Grayson touts. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.640 And also Rodriguez is also fifteen years old, so in 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.320 his mind, who's that, well, he might be. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.200 Funny thing is like, yeah, no, I know what you're saying. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.040 A funny thing though, it'll be really interesting to see 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:29.000 is Adley has gotten DL Hall and Grayson Rodriguez to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.120 a round a two to e ra when he catches 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.360 them and when he doesn't, those guys have ballooned up 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.600 into the fives and whatnot. I mean, great, Grayson is 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.960 a phenomenal catcher. But to your point, you're learning your staff, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.880 you're learning that thing, and then you're also learning to 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.920 hit at major league level. The thing about him, though, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.120 is this is an advance, advance hitter. This is a 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.880 big bat who doesn't need power. His first major league 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.760 hit was a stand up triple, though you know probably 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.280 call it a double because it was I think it 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.720 went past I don't remember what it was. I think 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:04.040 I saw also mayor immediate surprise. His first comment was, Okay, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.479 he gets his first hit, but do we really have 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.119 to say that's a triple? I mean he immediately crapped 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.240 on his first major league hit. I mean, it did it. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.240 It went past the guy bobbled I don't remember which 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.640 one it was, but advance advanced hitter. But you do 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.000 have to be a little bit cautious, of course, especially 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.960 with rookie catchers. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.960 Yeah, all right, let's go through some other things here. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.960 So Atli rutchmand up and look the moon of the 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.600 stars for this kid, like I want him to be 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.120 great right out of the gate, but if he struggles 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.200 a little bit, just understand there's just a lot of 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.399 responsibility at that position. And I'm not gonna make the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.840 Matt Wieders comparison, because I'll be honest with you, I'm 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.680 old enough to remember when Matt Wieters came up and 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.879 we heard the same thing, the same that this guy's 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.520 going to revolutionize the catcher position. He's going to be 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.440 the best hitting catcher, best offensive catcher, a perenhal All Star. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.040 He was none of those things watching Rutchman and tape 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.960 that I've watched him over the years. Totally different hitter, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.600 totally different thing. I think this guy is that good. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.239 But again, just remember there is a range of outcomes here. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.639 But you should be very excited that he's up. And 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.480