WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 15th, 2024 (EP. 812) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.640 Welcome and everybody in the Fantasy Rose MLB. This is 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:09.320 Leading Off. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.040 Live, brought to you by Bet three six five Bet 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.560 five bucks hit one hundred and fifty and bonus bets 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.840 when you do when he used the promo code leading 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.279 off at Bet three six five, it's me Joey p 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.600 That of course is the Welsh and it's you, the 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.240 Peanuts and the Crackerjacks here on the show, hanging out 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:24.759 with us, talking a little baseball. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.800 We've got a lot to get to today. We got 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.400 the injuries, we got the headlines, the ups, the downs, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.520 and so much more. And Welsh, how much does stick 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.440 in your craw that Josh Neller hit a home run yesterday? 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.720 Please tell me you switched your home run at the 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:38.400 last minute. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.479 I didn't know that he did. And yeah, what did 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.120 I say? I'm like, oh, Phil a Josh Naylor. But nope, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.519 I'm gonna go with the stupid bet. I'm gonna do 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.559 the no home run call. I'm you know what I'm 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.560 really good at, not home runs. I'm the Louisa Rise 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.760 of home run calls on the home run. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.400 Comcast, not the Spencer Turklesid anymore. Because he's got a 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.760 couple of homers. All right, let's get into it. Let's 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:04.000 start with something fun. Ronel Blanco was ejected yesterday. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:04.600 This is fun. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.640 Ya Oh, it's fun. It's fun because there's always an 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.760 answer to certain questions. So he was ejected for a 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.640 foreign substance. And if you're wondering how a thirty year 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.560 old guy who was pitching in the Independent League all 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.720 of a sudden is now dominating major league hitters, you know, like, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.600 how did this happen? What a wonderful story. Well, most 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.920 of the time these wonderful stories. If you go look 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.200 at the fairy tales of the Grim Brothers back in 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.360 the day, they all have some darkness to them, and 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.440 it feels like, I think, now we've got some answers. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.800 So Rene Blanco got caught and now I think a 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.720 lot of his success this year makes a lot of 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.360 sense to me. Welsh, with this news that you've gotten 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.520 with Blanco, would you be trying to unload him after 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.480 a very good start to the season based upon not 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.880 only the ten game suspension he's gonna have, but also 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.360 what's it gonna be when he comes back. Is he 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.040 going to be back in the Eastern League in a 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.040 couple of weeks, like it does a lot more questions 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:01.640 that answers. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.480 Well, I think the big thing before being like it 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.400 was all the foreign substance and we're done and everything 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.040 like that is going to be what happens moving forward, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.640 because now he's going to have the target on his 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.239 back as far as as far as like umpires, you know, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.680 paying attention and looking in this spot like he's not 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.680 going to be able to do or hide this. If 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.320 this has been a thing moving forward. I've never really 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.120 been the biggest runout blanco guy. The positive to what 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.160 you're saying, as you can get out now, and that 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.640 would probably be the thing to do, you know, before 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.239 anything crazy happens. And this isn't like you know this happened. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.720 He got blown up, blah blah blah. It's like, no, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.840 he got thrown out. But you can see, interestingly enough, 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.280 there were some downs overall. He was almost a full 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.480 mile power down on his slider, almost a full mile 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.640 plower down on his fastball. The current everything was just 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.480 kind of down in general. And yeah, I would I 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.239 would be out. I think he's the type of guy 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.240 that I wouldn't trust. I didn't trust long term and 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.600 now that you're going to take away substance which you 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.480 know clearly was helping as far as grip. This is 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.400 also a primary slider guy, so you know, even having 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.040 more of that grip has been as more important than 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.200 ever and that's something hit a forty percent with rate 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.360 on his slider in this last game, So you know, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.960 if he's gonna have a worse feel for the slider, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.600 he's gonna be in for a bad time, in for 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:19.679 a bad time. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 Bad times. If you pizza when you're French fry, you're 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.360 gonna have a bad time. Ye have a bad time, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.520 You have a bad time. Do you remember after the 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.079 no hitter, I was like, I don't think I want 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:28.520 to add him? 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:28.720 Do you? 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.280 Well? Should we say? You were like no, I don't 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.600 think I do either, which is kind of bananas when 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.040 you think about it, because it was obviously opportunity that 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.920 asked a rotation with all the injuries, with Furlander and 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.800 Valdez and everybody being out, but neither of us were 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.560 really impressed, and then all of a sudden it just 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.120 kept going and we said, all right, well we have 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.960 to act, we asked at some point and say, yeah, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.960 add Blanco while you can. But you know, I'm not 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.760 saying it's all because of the foreign substances. But I'm 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.800 not You're not not saying it either. I'm not saying 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.760 it either. I want to talk about some questions here 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.400 from the chat because somebody right here Radiant had a question. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.680 It's funny because I just talked about this guy in 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.960 the social video I just recorded. He's gonna be on 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.680 the Waiver Wire video this week too. If Fantasy Gros MLB, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 make sure you subscribe to the channel. Should I drop 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.960 Jake Berger for Reese Olsen? Now? Olsen has been winless 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.160 to start the year, but he's got a whip under 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.000 one an ERA of two oh nine, more than a 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.839 two and a half to one strikeout walk ratio. Now 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.520 historically speaking in the in the minor leagues, high ERA, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.039 high strikeout rate, high walk rate, you know, kind of 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.320 feeling his way out. This version of Reese Olsen we've 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.880 gotten over the first eight games of the season has 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.080 been really good. I think I'm okay with this move. Welsh, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.360 what do you think about Olsen? And what do you 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.640 think about this move here dropping Burger for him? If 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.520 indeed you need starting pitching. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.680 If you really needed starting pitching. I think you could 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.440 do it. I don't want to drop Jake Berger, you know, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.159 because he's just been hurt. I think everybody forgets about 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.040 you know. Oh yeah, Jake Berger, high barrel guy, huge 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.240 home run, you know, number four type blast rate. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.320 The blast rate was enormous through. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.800 The It's short, it's long, and it's big on the 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.040 last rate. I don't want to give up on Jake 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.120 Berger because I think that's one of those guys, you know, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.160 getting back in your lineup basade. But back to your 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.960 point with Reesulson, he added the change up in as 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.080 a bigger portion of his arsenal this year. So last 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.680 year he was like primary slider and then it was 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.320 fastball and then a little mix. This year he's been 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.039 a three steady fastball, slider and change up and that 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.960 change up it's a forty eight percent with rate. It's 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.919 been dominant, but his fastball is doing nothing. So you 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.720 go back to like the success he's kind of given 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.160 up on having being a big, massive strikeout guy. That's 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.160 actually lower than last year, but it is. Yeah, he 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.480 already to expected dra are both great right now. He's 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.680 not allowing these guys to barrel up, they're not getting 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.320 really good contact, and he's got three solid pitches again, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.799 the slider and the change up. Those are the ones 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.080 that are getting the whiffs. There's nothing on the fastball, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.320 and that's actually not a bad combo. So I do 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.360 think Ries Soulson has staying power. You were astute to 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.760 put him on the waiver wire if you're desperate. Again, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.120 I think, like, we're not gonna cry about losing Jake Berger, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.120 but I don't know there's a chance you could. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.760 Know what Jake Berger's walking into. Also, like I don't 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.840 know how long he's in for that stay in Miami either. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.680 Well even better, imagine if you know he were to 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:13.080 be traded. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.440 Yeah, but he still got June in July to get 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.719 through and whatever's left to May when Burger returned. Like 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.080 I'm just saying like it could be a long haul 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.839 there for mister Burger, all right. Besides Ron now Blanco, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.480 some good things Showeyo Tani three for five with a homer, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.280 But of course also Gavin Stone, another guy that we 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.480 were talking about, kind of the unsung hero. I feel 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.440 like the Dodgers rotation this year six innings for him. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.200 So the Dodgers beat the crap out of the Giants 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.320 today yesterday. Pardon me, Jack Lighter speaking of getting the 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:43.120 crap beat out. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.080 Of crap beating out you geez. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.880 Six earned runs. You know, I'm mad at myself because 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.000 I should have just been targeting it's instead of the over. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.000 I should have also. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.520 Been targeting the so it got the over that worked. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.480 But in the game yesterday, I should have been going 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:58.560 for the earned run properly. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.159 Remember that's what I did. Team total runs through the 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.640 first five innings for the Guardians, which was two and 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.080 a half, and he had they had six. They doubled it. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.839 We doubled the number in the second. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.440 In I'm sad to see Jack Lighter go like, that's 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.360 that's all because I can feel like he's money in 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.560 the bank for me because I just bet against him 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.560 whenever he's out there. But can we put the NEPO 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.720 baby to sleep? Can we do this? Let's put the 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:20.920 you and your nepo. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.640 Yeah, he's just not it's not the it's one of 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.560 the best college pitchers we've seen in like the last 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.920 ten years. Okay, but you've thrown out the NEPO baby. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.360 You're just like he's only here because he's the lighter son. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.920 That's not true. He was an absolutely insane His. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.680 Name was Jack Louder. Would we be so excited about him? Yes? 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.760 Might be brothers with read Louder and he's awesome, he's 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.520 amazing with the rest. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.320 His name is Jack Louder. Would we be so excited, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:49.000 Yes we would. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.960 It doesn't matter what a stupid name would be. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.880 But ever since the Jackets Green Jacket who you could 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.200 be excited about him as a college pitcher, that's fine, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.360 but there's been hardly anything to get excited about him 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.040 in the minor league. No, hardly anything. And that's the thing. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.400 It's like, he's up here now. Why because he had 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.400 a couple of good starts that spring and some moments 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:09.840 a triple A and now all of a sudden, the 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.440 Rangers like, okay, it's all good. Now we're gonna bring 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.800 him up here. It's been horrible. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.320 Oh it's done. I mean, yeah, we're moving into different 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.720 areas here. I'm picking on you about the NEPO baby. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.280 So he's not good. And that's on the unfortunate side 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 of this. They made changes with him that they thought 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.120 were gonna work. They saw it. They brought him to 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.760 the majors because that was that. Okay, here we go. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.760 They didn't have a lot of depth in the minor leagues. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.920 This guy Jose Corneill, who probably could have been one 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.120 of them, he's hurt. He's hanging out here in Arizona. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.880 So hey, Lighter, get a chance. Bang bang, boom blasted. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.920 There's your blast rate. Every damn game. He's got a 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.680 sixteen ERA with a nine expected ERA, a seventeen percent 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.560 barrel percentage against. That's bonkers. That's Jake Berger every single hitter, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.120 every single game against. That's Brent Rooker against him every 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.560 single game right now. Yeah, he's not good. So the 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.160 change probably going to be relief. Yeah, so any of 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.880 that like where I'm like, oh, I gotta like him 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.840 and stuff. That's done. He's not going to be a starter. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.560 It's gonna have to go to relief for spots starting. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.040 I'm sad because I really like Jack Glider, but yeah, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.400 come also sad of he's gonna go away because it 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.439 was a great bet against move and that's what I 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:23.199 did yesterday. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.920 And I think we get the kazoo salute to Jack 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:39.680 Lighter's career. I think it's time. It's a little Titanic, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.520 because that's that's kind of a reminiscent of the starts 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.000 of Jack Glider. So there you go. I haven't done 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.360 the kazoo in a while on the show. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.400 I haven't to tell you were happy about it. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.079 Oh, I was so happy. I was like, this is 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.839 a kazoo moment. I could feel at my bones and 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.240 we got it. Folks. By the way, I'm looking at 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.800 the Peanuts and Cracker Tacks talking amongst themselves in the 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.320 chat as they are one to do. And Angelo, apparently 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.720 he's retired. This is how he's decided to spend his 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.640 retirement is watching us every day. And I appreciate that, Angelo, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.320 I really do. I mean, that's pretty good. But I 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.000 was retired, this is probably that's probably what I would do. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.400 I was like, what's my favorite show. I'm gonna watch 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.440 it every day? Oh okay, thing. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.000 If I was retired, I would not be looking at 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.959 Joe every single day. I would probably be a lie. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.959 That is a lie. You would love to be hanging 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:23.959 out with me every sing. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.560 If you want to come out to the backfields with 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.160 me and you want to you know, watch you know these. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.160 Eight everything's gotta be in the backfield. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.600 Come on down, Come on down to Welsh's backfield. We 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.679 go watch baseball. Johnny Cquato, I said Johnnyquato the other day. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.120 That's how I want to spend out my my retirement 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.920 watching Johnny Quato, forty pounds overweight, trying to throw eighty 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.440 two miles an hour. Chris Paddock. What happened to Chris Paddock? 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.199 Ten strikeouts now, twelve hits, five earned, No bueno was 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.840 the Yankees? So okay, fine? Andrew Vaughan a pair of dingers, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.160 so that was good. Eric Fetti back on track two 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.880 six strikeouts over seven, shutout things again. And that's and 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.920 Chris Sale. How important has this Chris Sale been for 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.240 the Atlanta Braves. They've struggled offensively. Roll A Cooney has 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.440 an OPS under seven hundred right now. Uh, you know, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.959 Albie's had an injury, miss time, Olsen and Riley beat 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.360 stars for the season, Strider hurt. And then there's the 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.079 beacon of hope, Chris Sale. I mean nine strikeouts for him. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.400 This has been a tremendous, tremendous acquisition for the Braves. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.199 In the offseason. I got a hand. I was skeptical, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:29.880 but Sales been tremendous. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.840 Yeah, I mean, this is why I brought him up 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.439 in that Paul Skeins conversation when you know the world 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.600 was a buzz about Paul Skeens and what can we 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.560 get and what can we trade? And it was like, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.600 all right, you know, there's some levels where it's like 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.559 who would you rather? Blah blah blah, but like Chris 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.000 Sale was probably that line. But Chris Sale has been 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.959 a nominal. As you mentioned, he has a two five 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.880 four ERA and expected two five to nine ERA, which 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:57.520 is so dumb. He's not only over thirty percent K percentage, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.640 but he's giving up some of the least hard hit 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.360 balls in baseball twenty eight point seven percent hard hit rate, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.880 which is like top seven percentile right now, forty percent 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.480 rate on his slider that's up from last year, is 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.280 forcing fastball with rate up from last year. He has 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.000 been awesome. He's been consistent, and just imagine when that 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.600 offense is kind of healthy and getting to go, getting 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.760 going again. As long as he is still the same guy, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.920 don't be surprised when Chris Sale, I mean, I don't 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.360 even know if I want to say, but like top 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.040 ten sp top fifteen, he's gonna be in that he 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.760 has a legit shot if he stays healthy. That's the key. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.360 I don't want to be Mike Troudish with this whole situation. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.480 It's awesome and then gets hurt every year. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.680 There's there's moves that seem like a kind of big 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.160 risk reward moves. I mean, the stats on sale right now, unbelievable, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.640 sixty eight walks, eighty point eight nine whip like this 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.840 is this is say young caliber crap we're talking about here, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.680 and they don't make me want to move off. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.640 That's the other thing. Like obviously there are like performances 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.400 of players and you look at and you're just like, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.360 like I look at Flair. Every time I look at Flairty, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.679 I'm like, ah, even you know Imon, a guy I 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.440 keep can't get over stuff sale. But my blind spot, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.880 everybody knows what's my biggest blind spot. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.280 Is all handsome pictures like. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.559 With a great blast rate. Those are my big blind spot. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:17.160 But it's injury prone players. Injury prone players, Like if 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.560 they're good, I just stop thinking about the injury stuff. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.320 So I'm not that's not in my brain at all. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.720 With Chris sal Is dominant, like you know balls getting 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.440 hit off of him. Oh no, Joe, I don't know 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.480 if Joe froze, er eye froze, but ball's getting hot 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.440 hit off of you. It's pretty awful. Oh no, I 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.520 need to know am Ie frozen or is Joe frozen? 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.880 Because I'll keep going. We'll stop talking about the balls 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:46.480 and the ball rate. Of course, Joe FROs alright, look 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.920 at Joe's judging faces freeze. I'm gonna keep moving the here, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.080 I'll keep it along. I just wasn't sure it can 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.440 never screenshot that. We're talking about balls getting frozen, and 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.480 then Joe gets frozen on Chris. So that's a fun one, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.000 all right, Joey, you'll be back and unfrozen in a minute. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.640 As he's sitting here hanging with me. But let's go 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.680 to the just for fun. Oh no, I'm alone here, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.120 so here we're gonna do this. I'm gonna hang over here. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.680 You can see my entire setup as Joe we wait 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.640 for Joe to come back. Just for fun, Logan Gilbert. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.320 He lost to the Royals after allowing three runs six 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.480 and two thirds of an inning, but he was kind 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.920 of back to his business, which was the important thing. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.000 Logan Gilbert was on my trade video. He was the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.200 guy after the eight earned runs that I wanted to get. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.800 This is amazing here by the way, this setup, so 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.840 this is Joe, so Welsh, what do you think about 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.080 Logan Gilbert and that performance? Are you a cringing? Are 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.760 you excited? Tell me, well, Joe, let's talk about Logan 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.320 Gilbert in this. Let me pull it up here because 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.320 that nine earned runs I think it was from the 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.960 other day. That was the thing that I was rebuying 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.360 back in on his stuff and Logan Gilbert ate teams 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.440 swinging whiffs in the last start with thirty five percent 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.360 swinging with rate, eight whiffs on the fastball. He had 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.400 a whiff on every single pitch that he threw in 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:16.360 the matchup and three of the five over forty percent 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.880 with rate. Ironically the called strike and with the CSW 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.440 percentage was kind of low, so it was really like 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.840 the whiffs that were making the things happen that this 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.840 is what I was talking about. This is back, Joe. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.760 Do you agree, Oh Welsh, you were just really dumb 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.520 about Logan Gilbert and he's back, And I agree, Joe, 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.560 I was dumb, But your buying opportunity was just over there, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.000 and now hopefully you guys took advantage of it, because 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.240 I'm very excited about Logan Gilbert coming back here. So 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.160 let's see what happened to Joe. Joe. Oh no, he 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.520 just I don't know. He hopefully comes back here. Alex 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.880 Bragman two for four with a home run, and Tuesday 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:58.760 over the A's he's starting to pick it back up. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.520 Josh Naylor one for three with a three run homer. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:07.800 Kicking myself, kicking myself for not having him here in 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.160 the home run contest because I would be on the 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.480 board one that you haven't seen. Guess who is on 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.359 the board, Hey, yo, guess who is on the board? 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.400 Welsh Who Joe Me? Of course I am, and I 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.960 could have been on here if puppet Joe. If you 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.720 don't know from the podcast, I'm doing a puppet version 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.400 of Joe over here on the things. That's what this 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.640 voice is gonna be. Hey, yo, I don't want to 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.880 get like super Italian to get canceled, so we'll just 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.520 do this voice. But I wish I had Josh Naylor. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.680 I didn't because I'm stupid. Aj puck Picked pitched a 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.120 scoreless inning in the tenth during his first save of 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.200 the year. He's in full relief. And when the team 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.360 most likely decides to end up getting rid of Tanner, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.680 Scott probably gonna be an. Maybe they get rid of 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.520 aj Pup, but he would be a He would probably 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.800 be the guy moving forward. So, by the way, Joe 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.360 was blaming it on stream, yard, let me just text 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.720 him back. This is the other side of the show 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.920 that you get to get. Let's see. Oh he's restarting, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.200 all right, Joe'll be back in a minute. Otherwise we'll 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.439 get We're gonna get puppet Joe. I'm gonna let puppet 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.159 Joe do a few things here, all right, Welsh, let's heyo, 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.280 this is how he starts everything. Someone make me a puppet, please, 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.760 he go. Let's go to the rookie lookie, and let's 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.760 talk about the top prospect in baseball. I've been saying 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.639 it all along, me, I've been saying it. Heyo, Junior 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.200 Camonaro's coming, Welsh, what exciting thing happened yesterday? Well, Joe, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.919 the exciting thing that happened yesterday was Junior Cameronaro played 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.400 second base. So for all of you and your rookie lookies, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.440 that is a big key sign once they finally started 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.719 moving him around and seeing if they can get some 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.720 positional flexibility out of him. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:49.919 This is good. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.840 So Junior Cameraro playing second base could be within a 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.200 week of us finally seeing him. That's what I think. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.879 I think they're gonna see how they can get him positionally. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.280 But finally, my guests. By the way, sticking to it, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.119 I said May twenty fourth was gonna be my guest 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.040 for when he ends up coming up to the majors 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.159 because it's off of an off day and I think 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.840 it can happen. Oh no, I gotta go, hey, yo, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.520 I gotta go Puppet Joe out. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.440 WHOA what happened? The internet just completely cut out of 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.760 my house? But here we go. I missed puppet Joe 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.120 apparently because I see the chat going on here. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.280 Okay, before we move on, If I don't get some 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.160 love for being able to maintain that situation with Puppet Joe, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.080 if that wasn't a masterclass, I don't know what I'm 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.960 doing anymore. So please everybody clap. Everybody clapp now for me. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.080 Please went in doubt, always go with puppets. So what 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:43.600 did I miss? 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:43.920 Welsh? 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.200 We Well, Joe. Puppet Joe was talking about how he 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.320 loves and has always loved Junior Camonaro and how excited 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.920