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When you use that promo code leading off, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.520 it's me Joey p That of course is the Welsh, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.000 and it's you, the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks, Guys 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.200 getting called up, guys getting sent down Welsh. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:26.759 This is a very very busy show. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.200 We have today, a lot going on, but I think 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.800 we got to start in the keeping it real category 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.880 because once again I will get the crown here. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.240 I am the king of keeping it real. I sucked 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.720 yesterday with the betting. I sucked so bad. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.640 It was awful. I was over. Everything that was on 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.479 paper that should have been good was bad. The upside 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.240 down was upon us and Welsh. You were speaking to 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.760 you before the show. You did not fare much better. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.760 No, it wasn't a good day. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.960 And I was telling you like I got a not 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.960 I get annihilated. Sometimes volume can annihilate you, but also 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.959 just because I get hinged into something, and you know, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.240 parlang is never a good idea. So if you get 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.559 into that range as well, but looking to simplify, looking 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:14.240 to get into simplification today, whether even though I have 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.440 like one money line parlay thing I'm gonna do, but 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.160 trying to simplify some stuff because wolf On a lot 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.119 of ends kind of similar to Jordan Walker. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.199 Well, look the thing is, I mean Michael King against 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.680 the Rockies that should have been good, he was bad. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.600 And not only he's still almost. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.400 Got to by a proc but he fell a little short. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.479 Twins obviously upside down. I mean, we could just get 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.320 through the headlines, might as we'll just go to it here. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.080 Jordan Walker getting sent down, that's probably where we got 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:43.680 to start. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.560 This is the second time now that this has happened 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.440 in two seasons. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.480 So what does this mean to the long term value 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.360 of Jordan Walker? Were also short term? Do you think 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.600 this is just the latest in another outfielder gone wrong 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.040 for the Saint Louis Cardinals that will end up somewhere 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.320 else and turn things around. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.520 This one kind of confuses me. Not that like like 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.960 he was stinking, Like That's not what's confusing. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.799 The confusion is like I think last year was a 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.840 lot easier to stomach. He was sent down hitting two seventy. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.160 Defensively, he was just kind of like the you know, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.120 like that I kind of got where we were with 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.480 that this year. I don't because you've had an entire 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.400 offseason to work through. There is kind of a plethora 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.840 of outfielders, you know, like we've had a year of 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.680 this and it's been so bad. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.320 Also, I was a little defendie. Someone asked this. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.040 I don't remember if this was itl or here, but 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.480 someone had asked, like, hey, do you think Jordan Walker 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.600 is going to be okay? Outside of like the injur 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.400 face statue, he's hitting like one fifty five that stinks, 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:43.120 doesn't have a homer. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:43.720 That stinks. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.040 But from an underlying perspective, though his strikeouts are up 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.399 a little bit. Hard hit was in line with last year, 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.359 pretty good. He was barreling the ball more. He was 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.800 hitting the ball harder ninety one point seven average so 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.400 far this year, but the expected was trailing. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.680 Strikeouts were up a little bit. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.040 It just felt like he had some of the workings 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.160 of like, oh, if you are digging into him deep, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.200 we think he can get okay. He can turn this around. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.160 This tells a completely different story, especially to a team 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.560 that I think does pay attention to this stuff. I'm 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.800 a lot I'm more pessimistic about this for sure. That 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.639 you know he's sent down, what's the path to get 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.799 back up? When guys like Carls are going to come back, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.679 Tommy Edmond's going to come back if there's an opportunity, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.320 Does Victor Scott come back before him? I mean, his 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.560 bat is broken, and I don't know what their plan. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:30.880 Is to fix it. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.760 Obviously bringing him down to fix it, but yeah, I 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.280 mean any optimism I think has to go out the window. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.640 And he I saw someone yesterday say they were already 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.120 cutting Jordan Walker kind of an easy cut, and I 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:42.680 don't think this is one of those like, oh, you 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.480 go and swoop up and pick him up and hold him, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.760 because it's like, why the Cardinals didn't even let the 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.600 Oriels are letting Jackson Holliday get through this, and the 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.119 Cardinals are not letting Jordan. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.800 Walker get through this. That's telling. That's pretty telling. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.800 I don't think Jordan Walker will be a Cardinal at 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.920 the end of the year. I think they have soured. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.760 I do, and I know it's early this hour, but 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.280 it just feels, as you said, they don't need him necessarily. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.480 So if he can't contribute right away and there's pressure 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.600 on the Cardinals to bounce back from last year's disappointing season, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.560 then if Walker can help bring you in, you know, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 a veteran starter to help you in the second half 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.600 of the year, I could see something like that. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.120 I don't I don't think that's gonna happen. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.440 I think the Cardinals are super super like hold on 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.159 to everything even when it fails, Like they just don't 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.920 ever see them make those Dylan Carlson, they're still like 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.400 grabbing well, no, no, like, who are the young. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.440 Of I'm just thinking of Stephen Piscotti and I'm thinking 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:39.200 of God, there was another one before Piscotti too, Grendall Gritchik. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.640 I'm thinking of Randy rose Arena. I'm thinking of Adolas Garcia. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.240 Okay, well now Adul listen, Randy completely different, I think 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.560 situation kind of all of those are different than these. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.520 These weren't all different, but they're all just different versions 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.400 of the Cardinals failures. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:55.320 Yeah we're not done. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.919 Yeah no, I mean it's also versions of their failures. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.039 Like it's hilarious saying they can't develop Dylan Carlson. They 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.119 can't develop obviously, Jordan Walker. I love Lars, but Lars 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.800 is always getting hurt. Tommy Edmonds hurt. Like they get 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.920 rid of Tyler O'Neill. Boy, that would have looked great 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:10.160 to be. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:10.520 On his team. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:13.000 Forgot about this. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.840 You imagine that outfield right now could be Randy Rose, Arena, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.680 A Doulas Garcia and Tyler O'Neill. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:18.880 That would be great. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.760 So they can't obviously, the organization that develops outfielders, it's 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.080 such an alarming rate that end up going somewhere else 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.920 and becoming halfway deastant or good. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.080 Like you know, it's have they gotten. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:28.880 Rid of Dylan Carlson? 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.360 How they got rid of Dylan Carlson and they were 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.280 a little bit more trigger happy? I think I would 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.080 agree with you on this. I would say though this 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.440 team is kind of a disaster. The old pieces are 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.640 kind of failing. They toyed with this idea last year. Hey, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.039 we might revamp and just kind of retool. I don't 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.560 think in retooling you go and trade. Jordan Walker, I 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.320 think they're gonna hold on to that. They're gonna whatever 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.200 they're gonna do. If God knows what they're gonna do, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.120 in the minor leagues to try to fix that. But 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.760 I think this is just a bigger outwarthy problem. That 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.520 the only fantasy takeaway here. If you believe that, I 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.240 think that's great. If he we go to another team, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.279 that might be the best thing that happened. I don't, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.880 and I think that actually furthers the point of why 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.120 it's a bigger disaster the rest of the season for 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.520 fantasy and might not even be an option until this 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.480 team finally gives up and stops trying to play veterans 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.039 and starts moving the veterans, not the young guys. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.880 I understand the Pascatti situation was a little different, but 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.080 if you are a great asset to the team, they 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.120 are going to tell you. Look, I'm sorry, but we're 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:25.960 gonna keep you. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.680 You know, I don't think they know what great assets 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.680 of the teams are. They know how to spend two 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.480 hundred million dollars, they don't know how to develop. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.559 Yes, that's true, So let's go do something good. Max 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.760 Freed was good. Struck out six complete game shutout of 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:39.360 the Marlins. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:39.880 The Marlins. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:44.280 All right, mess Logan Gilbert, money in the bank, Logan, Gilbert, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.640 you should just put every honestly Welsh, you should just 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.520 be betting every Logan Gilbert start whatever. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.279 Well, you know what I did bet, by the way. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.839 The Rangers two six and two thirds innings, two hits, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.520 I mean, great, great one for him. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.360 I had bet his under walks because he had been 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.760 really under control of that. And then I think he 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.240 walked three in the first life five bats, you know, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.400 like one in two thirds of an inning or something 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.320 like that. But yes, he's consistent even when that offense 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.880 doesn't get going. Also, can we get hyped that Julio 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.200 Rodriguez finally got on the board? Could this be the 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.560 start where I'm put in the trade video go buy 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.120 Julio right now. We saw your trade, your trade idea, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.800 the one we brought up on the show. I saw 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.960 someone actually make and tweet us that they traded their Mike. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.240 Trout to go get Julio Rodriguez. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.040 And you know, we'll see how that looks at the 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.680 end of the season, because you know, Mike is still going, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.520 our buddy Mike is still going. But Julio, this could 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.680 be the trajectory to start getting him going. I'm I 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.280 was very excited about that last night. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.920 Yeah, look, this is just again, this is a great, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.120 big duh, Like, of course he's gonna start hitting at 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.240 the end of April. This is what he does every 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.920 single year. I mean, the numbers don't lie on this. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.160 This is this is not a one off. It's a 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.760 very strong trend, and it's something that when you draft 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.880 him you have to have a plan for now until 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:55.760 he proves otherwise. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:56.560 And maybe one year. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.040 He'll prove otherwise, or maybe when he ends up some 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:59.760 other location, maybe it's Seattle in April. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.520 I don't no. Whatever it is, he is not good 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.400 for the first few weeks of every season, and then 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.400 after that he is MVP caliber and. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.720 That might just change where you draft him early on 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.160 in drafts, like maybe he's not gonna it's not gonna change. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.800 It's just gonna make sure that, hey, I'm to make 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.520 sure I take one more outfielder or if there's somebody 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.360 else in the waiver wire early on, I'm gonna grab 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.240 an outfield just and not that I want to, said Julio, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.120 but I need to have a hot hand out there. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.360 I can't just sit and have two guys in my 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:24.679 outfield that are kind of sucking. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:24.920 Win. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.560 Eric Fetti, he was sucking strikeouts eleven for him, eleven 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.960 against the Twinkies two seven three era thirty K's nine 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.400 walks over twenty six innings. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.280 You're buying the Fetti. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.440 I'm kind of buying the fit. I don't buy the big, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.480 massive strikeouts that he put up. I mean, though this 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.760 would have been the world's greatest ladder of all time, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.280 and also because the Minnesota Twins strikeout like crazy, so 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.240 it kind of is staring you in the face. But 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.920 he's not like the ultimate big strike up guy. He 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.360 had seventeen swinging whiffs in this though, which was a 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.680 thirty nine percent, So in this game he was cutter, sinker, splitter, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.240 all had at least five swing and whiffs. That's we're 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.160 looking for. The actual called strike percentage of the CSW 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.680 was a little bit. I mean, it was so great 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.600 thirty four percent, but it didn't equate to like the amount. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.720 Of strikeouts he got. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.720 This just kind of comes back to, like the Twins, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.640 if you get someone who's either painting corners or is 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.360 a you know, big power pitcher, like big strikeouts are. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:17.680 Going to happen. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.840 So I wish I had kind of saw this. Fetti 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.600 has been relatively consistent early on. It's just on such 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.920 a you know, garbage crap team I had, I got it. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.719 I gotta take a break from little nerfies for a 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.240 little bit because I had played this game, and I 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.360 think Fetti gave up. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:33.920 I think he gave up. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.400 A homer, like right off the bat or however it 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.360 was like it's a little bit frustrating to see like 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.920 the early ons, but he really settles in and he's 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.440 look good and he one of those guys deep deep 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.160 in drafts you get in the three hundreds. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:47.760 You should be happy about it if you own them. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:55.319 So you're pro Fetti, not Confetti. Cody bellingerry in a 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.040 home run yesterday and then ran into a wall. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.560 But it's okay. He's got X Rayser negative on the ribs. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.120 Guys coming around a little bit. Also on the headlines, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.839 Riley Green two for three, two home runs. It's a 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.800 good day for him, Christian and Karnassio Strand three for four, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.600 two RBIs for him, and Eloya Mens two for three 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:17.240 with a home or so Green cs ELOI. Things are 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.560 starting to look up right, So there's opportunity here still 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.280 to buy these players. Look, guys, look guys of talent 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.000 aren't going to be down for too long. Guys have 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.400 down months all the time. When you go back at 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:27.640 the end of the year, you're gonna look at all 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.280 of the different, you know, month to month statistics of guys. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.800 You're gonna see like, oh, that was a bad month. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.080 But when you have the bad month in April, people 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.640 lose their mind, and it's something you have to remember. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.000 It'd say, Okay, a bad month of a player that 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.920 you really like and you really thought was gonna be good, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.760 like a ceas Ces excuse me, or like a Riley Green. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.360 Think yourself, Okay, pretend. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.160 It's June, that this is the bad month he's having, 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.040 and then go about your business. And then if he 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.080 has a bad May too, or a couple weeks into May, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:56.760 then you can start going, all right, I need to 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:57.880 evaluate and make some changes. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.199 Do you agree or disagree? And what do you think 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.040 about these three guys coming around? 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.040 Yeah, I mean I for the most part agree with 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.439 like what you're saying, Like this is just the thing 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.000 we've kind of been talking about all April, like making big, big, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.360 massive decisions on players you've invested in in April with 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.920 some struggles, it's kind of it's kind of black, like 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.240 you might have a league format that you have to 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.720 make that if you're in a ten team league and 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.000 there's really great guys on the wire, like, okay, you 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.760 can start making those decisions, but you know, this is 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.240 the adjustment period time of all those guys. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:28.520 Like I think it's all interesting. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.199 You know, Eloy win Healthy is just always someone you 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.280 can I mean, he was the best player in spring. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.439 You can count on the bat if he's there. Though 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.319 none of his you know, Luis Robert and Joelman Cotter there, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.199 but it's Riley Green. Riley Green is the big one 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.240 for me. We had somebody tweeting at us yesterday about 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.160 like they wanted to cut Rightley Green and then they 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.720 had benched him, and it's like, that's the one I 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.760 don't get over because you know, the herd hit numbers 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.560 are down a little bit from last year, but the 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:54.360 strikeouts are down. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.000 He's walking like crazy. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.520 Serviceable XBA barrel percentage, crazy, hitting the ball hard. Yeah, exactly, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.720 Like those are the reasons I like Ridley Green. And 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.800 he's hitting in that third part of the order, and 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.120 I think it's gonna catch up because he's a good 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.440 contact guy. Who's showing the underlying stuff to take that 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.240 contact and put into power. So like I'm an apologist 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.800 to Riley Green. So when people are like, oh, I'm 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.360 kind of done, like I'm not. I'm probably gonna hold 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.679 until he gets optioned, which is not gonna happen, like 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.360 Jordan Walker. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.480 Uh, Connie in the chat, by the way, one hundred 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:25.640 percent again, I'm keeping it real. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.520 Today's very keeping it real kind of day. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.480 Connie says, Joe's face when he's listening, but really, just 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.240 reading the chat is my favorite. I am listening. I'm 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.319 also reading the chat. I'm also producing the show. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.199 It's a lot going on here. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.000 There's a lot going on. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.240 I mean, yesterday Joe asked a question about cleaning your 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.520 glove and I'm like, I shave or whatever it was. Y. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.880 What's Welsh's excuse he's not producing the show too. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.440 I'm doing this Okay. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.000 I'm doing the same thing, though, I gotta look up stats. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.760 I gotta talk through. If you see me looking down, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.079 I'm looking at the chat. There's a lot going on here, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.439 so be very specific when you're talking about shaving cream, Joe, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.079 I was. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.080 I was talking about the loves and break in the gloves. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:02.040 You say it a lot of times. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.000 People are always like, hey, please repeat the names of 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.800 the players, repeat the glove or the face or the 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.040 topic of shaving cream. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:08.320 Please. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.400 All right, well let's repeat the giveaway. See, because I 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.040 am producing the show. See, I gotta look to bring 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.680 up slides like this trophy smack Fantasy Baseball Championship Belt. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.480 This one can be yours. All you gotta do. Subscribe 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:18.120 to Fantasy Bros. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.840 MLB, comment on any video and you are automatically entered 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.920 the hose, air mirrors, jersey, poof, it's gone. The trophy 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.280 s MAAC Fantasy Baseball Championship Belt is here. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.199 What would you put on that belt? The trophies mac 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.040 says text. It says custom text at the top in. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.640 The middle instead of the baseball because somebody on Discord 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.720 made an emoji of me, I would put my face 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.439 emotion that know. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.720 You would put your face on your own belt. I'm 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.720 all the money on what would you put on there? 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:47.320 Would you put? 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.840 Like, I don't know, trophies mac one that says mister 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.280 black Book, actually have one or I got to do that? 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.200 And it says mister black Book and the whole thing 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.680 and it's quite nice. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.160 It's up there for another one of the many expert 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.680 LEA championships that I've won the last few years. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.760 And so yeah, no big deal, no big deal, just 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:05.480 drop it. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.640 Speaking of that, somebody saying about dropping Langford, I agree 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.000 with Eric, do not drop Langford. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.040 I agree, I'll drop him. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.280 Lots of questions about Langford lately, People are like, should 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.520 I drop Langford for Heston khurshtad. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.720 No, we don't know the level of commitment that they're 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.600 gonna have to the Heston Kurstad with. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.840 Just because Austin Hayes is out, they got a bunch 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.640 of lefties and I it just doesn't look like it 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.680 fits one hundred percent like they're going to keep them 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.680 up the entire sity. Not saying they won't, but you know, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.400 it might be kind of platoony. So to drop a 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.400 player like White Langford who is also struggling early on, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.160 not struggling beyond belief, like a holiday, but you know 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.240 he is not living up to expectations. I if anything, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.880 my goal with a White Langford would be to get 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.080 him on my bench and make moves somewhere else that 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.960 I can put a serviceable player on until he gets right, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:51.960 because I do think he will. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.840 All right, let's continue on. There's one more thing to 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:55.120 get to. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.000 Francisco Alvare is gonna be out two months with the 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.320 surgery on his thumb, and Causus is going to be 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.800 out for a while with that roof fracture. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:03.840 One of the. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.040 Best guys there, like, I know what's talking about Waiver Wire, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.720 and I got the Waiver Wire video coming out too. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.400 But Ketcher's always a tough one. Who would you recommend 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.040 right now? People will look at me because this is 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:13.920 not like a two week injury, the two month injury 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:14.320 at catcher. 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:14.800 That stuff. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.960 First base is easy. It's Nathaniel Low for me, that 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.000 is just not rostered enough. Leagues, I'd run and pick 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.840 him up everywhere by casas. But what about the Alvare situation. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:23.920 That one seems harder to me. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.800 The one that just jumped up to me is Ivan 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.360 Herrera with the Cardinals. Because Wilson Contreras also got reinjured 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.200 last night. He's been getting some time at DH They 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.920 just got rid of Walker. By the way, for the Cardinals, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.840 you get Walker, that's one less person, that's one more 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.480 opportunity for another bat. To go into the outfield and 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.640 a guy like Ivan Herrera. If Contreras was there, he 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.480 could be dhing. If not, he's a great option because 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.400 he should get a lot more playing time right now. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.840 The power is real, Angela said in the chat Travis 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.080 dar I know who we've talked about. Absolutely, that'd be 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.840 another one if he's kind of floating out there. I 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.480 think Ivan Herrera, though, fits the mold of like, oh 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.840 my gosh, the league has picked up all the catchers. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.880 There's not a lot of options that would be the guy. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:04.760 I probably go look at. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.360 The tough thing I should say with Darnault is Murphy's 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:10.120 imminent return. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.440 That's kind of the point, like he's good for now 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:13.880