WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 9th, 2023 (Ep. 687) 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.280 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.559 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pick. Sign up 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.000 for Prize Picks today. Use that promo code leading Off. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.880 When you do, It's me Joey b Joe Piezavia. That 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.040 of course is the Welsh and it's a fun Friday 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.320 here as we head in to the weekend of Fantasy Baseball. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.840 My Waiver Wire video is up and running, so go 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.120 check that out on Fantasy Ros MLB YouTube. Click that 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.920 little subscribe button and click that belt to the goes 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.519 ding up to thirteen point eight, closing in on fourteen 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.720 very exciting times, fourteen thousand of you. 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Again, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.760 email us at mail bag at fantasypros dot com the 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.040 prof of your subscription and your your I guess your 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.600 the little sized T shirt you want your life? No, 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.640 all this, no, what you do is just hit us up. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.560 We'll take care of the subscription after that and we'll 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.119 get you all set up. So hit us up on 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.120 that email. Just brack congratulations. If you want to be 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.600 like Brad, drop a comment below. Yes Welsh, Yeah, and. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.320 Didn't you say at fourteen thousand that you were going 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.640 to get hair implants? Then you say you were going 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.680 to occuring. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.920 Fifteen thousand that I would do the week of the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.720 Week of wigs. But that's still very far away. But 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.640 fourteen I will do something. I'm open to suggestions from 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:48.960 the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.280 My new favorite, well, I want to say, my new 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.760 favorite bit in the chat is the absolute thumbs up 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.040 I'm getting every morning about the hair. I mean, your 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.559 hair is spectacular. It took it took twenty seconds for 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:03.800 the hair check to happen, but. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.800 You had that weird as you call it. The Jimmy 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.520 Neutron thing. It was like the thing that all the 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.160 girls had in the mid nineties early nineties were like 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.040 that that weird hairspray thing, going like I don't know 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.440 what was going on, and this looks was it was. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.000 My Cameron Diaz, the whatever the movie was, the this hairjel. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.400 They're saying, mustache is at fourteen K. Now, that's something 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.960 we can get behind. I could definitely do a mustache show. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.839 My wife would be so no, no, you just yeah, look 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.760 you have the beard them the whole the show or 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.560 just one. No, just to the one show and then 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:35.800 you shave it right after the show. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:36.320 Yeah. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.360 I could grow itto it. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.280 I could shave it. I could do it one hundred percent. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.880 It'll be a vacation from ourselves. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.480 Well what type of mustache should we do that? 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.480 I'll leave that up to your internal just like like. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.320 This one, or do like a handlebar. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.520 I think you'd look good at the handlebar. I think 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.400 you have a Sons of Anarchy kind of vibe about you. Anyway, 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.000 I think it would be a good look for you. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.800 So that was an insult somehow, that was an insult. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.000 No, it wasn't. I'm mad though, we have to start 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.120 off here with the baseball today. I'm mad because, as 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.959 everybody knows, I've been on the heater of all heaters 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.840 all week and my home run called yesterday before I 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.520 changed it was Jose Ramirez. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:15.000 Oh you can't be this hot right now. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.880 I know. It was almost like the gods were like, no, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.519 I changed my home run called. I don't even know 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.320 who I picked yesterday. I gotta go back and look, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.840 but I had Jose Ramirez and I changed it and 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.400 he had three home runs. So we got to give 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.560 some love to Jose. It's been a quiet year for him. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.720 He's getting no help for the Guardian. Zach Wheeler recorded 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.240 eight strikeouts, but not eight and a half, so did 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.720 Cash There let's go baby, give up one earned run, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.840 actually one run not earned in the no decision. Clayton 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.240 Kershaw was excellent against the Reds as we were fading them. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.440 Nine strikeouts over seven shutout frames. And then this is 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.560 the big news yesterday. A couple of injuries. First, this 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:56.080 one Jordan Alvarez, the oblique injury could wind up missing 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.160 some time there. So let's talk about that. Because the 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.200 Astros offense has not been good, losing Alvarez. They just 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.000 got al tuo Vea back from the same injury, this 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.320 oblique issue. So what do you want to do here 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.240 with Alvarez? Where do you go? Basically from here? 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.920 Well, I mean where do you go? You don't? That's 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.000 like the old adage of like how do I replace him? 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.720 You don't. You just hope to be able to get 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.600 whatever you can off the wire. You know who came 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.680 into my mind immediately was Luke Rayley as someone that 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.159 you could go and probably make a pivot to. Really 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.360 has been really good. He's been playing kind of platuning 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.200 a little bit similar to what they've been doing with 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.800 Josh Lowe in Tampa Bay. But Raley might be someone 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.040 I'm looking at in probably like twelve team deeper leagues 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.119 if you're looking for some production. The Astros just don't 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.400 really have a big guy to be able to turn to. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.799 Justin Durden is somebody that I haven't seen any moves 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.440 and what they're going to do. But Justin Durden is 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.680 someone that could bring out little power speed combo. He's 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.520 kind of a fun bat. But I just don't think 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.520 there's anybody coming from Houston that you're going to go 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.040 with so now Luke Raley, Luke Ridley was one of 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.920 the first ones outfield first base eligibility, has some big power. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.080 There's probably a couple others. Unfortunately, this might be even 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.400 a streaming hitting spot where you just got to kind 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.039 of follow the hot bass right now. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.080 Christian Walker an interesting by low too. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:17.200 There might be some Absolutely, yeah, every time every time 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.600 I pick him, he just keeps kind of bringing back down. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.480 But I mean absolutely masher for one of the best 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.200 teams in baseball, and because he's been down so much, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.360 people aren't really in on him. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.120 So yeah, yeah, but the deeper stats are all good 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.800 on Christian Walker. Yeah, that's why I think you could 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.320 still pry him away potentially. But that's what you look 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.680 at who's on a good streak right now and try 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.599 to figure it out from there. Pe Alonzo looks like 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.880 his streak is ending. He's going to the IL most likely. Again, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.839 we're still waiting for the official official word, but seems 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.160 like all the rumblings are putting us there now. That 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.599 being said, once again, this is another big injury and 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.760 a huge impact to this Mets starting lineup. Because you 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.200 take Pete Alonzo out, this is much different. Just like 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.960 when you take Aaron Judge out. So this is a 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.240 big problem here for the New York Mets lineup. You 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.360 would imagine you'd see a little bit more Viento's, you know, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.080 Francisco Alvarez kind of been that one lone bright spot 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.520 for that offense. Another crushing loss for them last night. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.840 He's been unconsciously good man. But I mean this is 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.000 these are two MVP caliber, top tier first round pick 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:18.719 kind of bats. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.400 You know, someone's out there with that toster, you know 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.520 that they had like Jrdan Alverreez, mpe Alonzo. Those are 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.719 like the you know, top two picks for big power. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.240 And now, as Wonky said, really all of those first 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.640 base outfield guys are in play for you to be looking. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.200 Here's a good one too. Doobie brings up Nolan Jones. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.159 Now that's a guy who's probably floating out there in 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.840 a lot of formats right now. He's a plug in 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.400 play potentially if he need some more power. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.599 I like that, Okay, but that's what I was talking 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.400 about with like, what you might want to end up 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.000 doing is streaming the position. What do I mean by 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.599 that is just like Turnstiles follow you know, look at 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.279 last seven days follow those don't get too hardcore stuck 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.720 with a single player and just tried to move through 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.479 them because I don't know what you guys are going 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.240 to available. But I would rather have Luke Rayley than 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.919 Nolan Jones. But if Nolan Jones is getting going in 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.680 Colorado's score and run, sure that's one percent. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.120 Connie's got a question first, who Xander Bogart just got 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.200 dropped in my league because of his wrist issues? How 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.880 much should that person be shamed? A fair amount? I 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.720 don't know why you would drop five man if you 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.440 have if you have no il spots, like I don't 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:19.880 understand what the circumstances of that. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.240 There could be. It could be like an eight man 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.840 league with no il spots. That would make sense. If 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.520 it's a short league like that, I mean. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:26.840 Yeah, you should just don't do that. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.240 Two belts too shame bells like shame. Yeah, like you 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.280 don't need to do a whole walk, but just like two. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.320 But if you're discontented with a player, put them up 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.840 on the block. I mean to just drop a player. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.680 To me, that just makes no sense. I don't understand that. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.120 That makes absolutely no sense to me. A couple other 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.280 pieces of housekeeping. We got to talk about this because 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.880 it's big news. Joe Adell two hundred and fifty one, majestic, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.600 unbelievable home run. It was crazy, one hundred and seventeen 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.600 miles hour off the bat. I mean it was. It 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.160 was alarming for sure, and Redebtmer's got to win. So 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.320 crazy things happening. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.320 We were in the upside down. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:10.160 We are so I assume Jodell was watching the show 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.400 yesterday didn't care for Welsh's comments and said, you know what, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.320 I'm gonna go out there and put hurt on it. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.360 Is it just me? Jodell looked a little bit more 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.280 swole than last time I saw him. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.920 Well, I mean he is like from the day he 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.400 got drafted. One of the big things was like this 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.760 guy is a workout. Okay, he's a really smart guy. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.480 He's pokier too. Then yeah, well but that's what. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:30.280 He focused on. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.559 He was one of my favorite interviews of all time 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.439 because I remember in that Arizona Fall League I'm talking 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.440 to actually talked to Josh Lowe. I talked to different 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.920 guys and I'm asking them. I was I was having 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.679 this focus on like how their power approach is and 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.600 what their approach was, And all these guys were giving 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.920 me cookie cut answers like, oh, you know, I'm not 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.360 trying to hit homers and I'm just trying to spray it, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.040 you know, doubles, blah blah blah, all the same answers 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.839 Joe Adell did not. Joe Adell was like, Oh, I'm 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.440 one hundred percent trying to tap into my power. He's like, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.080 I know my own raw power, and I know when 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.120 to turn it on in games. The only problem was 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.320 he actually didn't know when to turn it on in 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.360 games because he couldn't hit high fastballs. He had no 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.040 off speed recognition. But this is a guy that was 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.320 doing the like the jump up onto the boxes that 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.920 are like six feet tall. He's always working out, he 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.240 liked to do the vests. I mean, he was an 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.520 analytical smart guy that he's been so far behind. So 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.319 that's why, like I'm dismissive of it, because he was 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.439 still hitting or still thirty percent strike out rate in 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.120 the minors. But this is a guy I do believe 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.160 at some point is going to click. I still don't 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.120 really think this is it, regardless of hitting majestic cool 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.040 awesome homers, But I'm open to the possibility. And guess 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.160 what you lost, Jordan, You lost Alonzo and you're looking 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.320 for some I don't know, some power potential just to 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.160 you know, dark. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.559 Run out of them at the very least. Here's a 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.720 here's an interesting question here. This is from Ian Fernando 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.520 Rodriguez vill Reno, and I hope I won't say that again. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:09:59.120 Do that again? 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.360 No, that was it? Just get at once. If I 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.000 do it a second time, it won't be good. How 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.480 do you handle leagues that barely make trades? Now? This 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.000 is a good question because I think we've all been 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.840 stuck in those scenarios. Now. Luckily, if you choose the 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.080 right people, you choose crazy people in your league that 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.360 are ready to have fun and make moves and do stuff. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.520 But I've been in these leagues before, and sometimes it's happens. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.880 Sometimes in these quote unquote expert leagues do they're really 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.240 hard to deal in because everyone thinks they're the smortest 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.400 person in the room. So I get that. I think 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.160 when I'm in a league of that nature, Welsh, my 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.040 whole thing is you have to put enormous amount of 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.640 energy into the draft. You have to be very calculated 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.000 about the risks you take, because if you do have 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.680 injuries or bad luck, it's one of those things like 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.400 you can't trade out of it. And then the other 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.040 thing is really being ahead of the curve on waiver wire, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.320 like you have to use your bench almost like like 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.040 you should have been the team that had led other 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:51.960 crews a month ago. You should have been the team 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.000 that was way ahead on you know, certain Bobby Miller 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.600 and all of those kind of things. Like that's the 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.520 kind of operation you have to run in that format. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.640 That's my take, what's yours? 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.000 Yeah, I would agree with that. I will tell you 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.880 I like, I like to trade, but I'm not the 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.360 best trader because but I'm a little bit different. I'm 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.960 super busy, and uh, I need I need more active. 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.920 Like if I was a relationship, I need it to 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.000 be about me, and I need I can't give as 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.920 much as I'm going to take in that so I 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.920 need people to spoon feed me deals closer deals because 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.199 the problem the art of the trade is most people 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.600 are going to send you a trade that sucks, and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.360 we all know it sucks, and then that's the starting 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.800 point you work towards it where sometimes I think in 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.080 those type of leagues, you you can't so much look 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.240 at trades being like this is what I need, and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.880 you've got to focus on like what makes sense for 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.880 them and send a trade that is close and you 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.280 be the active one. It may not help, it may 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.120 not work, but being more proactive, even than the frustration, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.679 is the best way to do it. And then you know, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.000 ping the people maybe take a chance. It may not 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:58.560 change trade. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.640 Everyone's trying to win the trade. And what I do. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.560 Oftentimes there's players that I want to acquire, and I 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.719 will sit there and I'll look at a roster and 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.120 I'll say myself, I can't justify what I have on 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.000 my roster to make that trade for that player that 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.840 I want, Like it just it doesn't match up, and 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.240 I will not even make that offer. But if you 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.400 can really put yourself in the other team's shoes and 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.320 honestly do it, then I don't see any reason why 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.679 you know, you can't have some trades go on. I 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.600 think probably people are annoyed because people get crappy offerers. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.760 They get those dumb pile up offers like here's ten 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.040 players for your one good one. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.440 Yeah, and dissect like you're saying and dissecting where the 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.280 other person's at. Because I've gotten trade offers in a 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.360 couple leagues this year where people are trying to unload 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.120 big like let's say call them like little biggerish names, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.120 but they don't make sense for my team, Like there's 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.720 no like, why do I need these four guys when 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.000 two of them I don't actually really want, so, like 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.719 make sure they make sense. It may not cure it, but. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.840 It's I mean, honestly, you should just play more best 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.200 ball then too, Like if you're a smart baseball person, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.080 you know, just do those drafts and hold kind of formats. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.000 By the way, Ian says that I pronounced it better 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.000 than the announcer and his graduation. So there you go. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:11.800 And what you said, I can't do the Villerino. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.040 I can't, probably because it's got the little till day 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.480 over it. I think that's called a till day. I 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.480 don't know, I'm gonna call you till day till day. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.600 Let's get let's get to the injuries. Besides Alonzo and Alvarez, 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.600 Laya Menez day to day saught me. Have you heard 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.000 this one before? Lower left leg injury? Oh, God, uh, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.839 the White Sox really should just you know, I think 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.880 the White Sox should just take a year off in baseball. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.640 Can they do that as an organization, just be like, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.480 you know what their players do, step away. That's a 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.520 good point. Maybe it's time to just step away. Adam 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.160 and Duval is returning, though, he's stepping back from that 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.320 risk injury that you know. He was red hot. He's 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.080 the highest all over in baseball in terms of points 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.760 and home runs and everything, and then he got hurt 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.760 right away. He's finally gonna be back on Friday. We'll see. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.959 This was the same risk that he hurt previously. So 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.600 I'm not holding out hope. Julio Yurius is gonna be 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.320 back on Sunday, so kind of wait and see it 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:07.959 starts against the Phillies. I would wait and see a 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.040 Lance mccolor is gonna end to go in MRI after 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.079 his recent setback. Also, Welsh Alex Verdugo was benched yesterday 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.560 because of lack of hustle. Alex Verdugo has always been 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.760 one of these guys that you know, you remember Alex 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.520 Verdugo very well. I'm sure Alex Verdugo has been one 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.320 of these guys historically that not very well liked amongst 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.520 his peers. Uh, certainly talent, but always kind of gives 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.400 that vibe off of the guy who was really good, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.840 always knew he was really good, got to the big leagues. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.240 He's not as great as he thinks he is, but 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.040 he still acts like he's basically kiking. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.920 I've heard a really nice guy with fee. He might 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.000 be stuff like that, but he also did as far 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.720 as I was told, he got sent home when he 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.280 was back way way back in the AFL. He'd got 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.000 Dodgers with him. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.880 To remember, they had all kinds of issues with this 0:14:54.920 --> 0:15:00.480 guy in the clubhouse. I remember, Yeah, all that rookie 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.480 lookie time A J. Smith, Schwarver, Cholver not Schwarburg. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.920 I've got we're gonna talk about short, We're. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.600 Thinking about hogies. I'm hungry. Cholver is going to make 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:15.920 his debut. What do you think of investment wise here? 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.840 If you picked him up, would you be starting him 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.280 or are you getting the wait and see pile here? 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.600 Yeah? And by the way, it'll be his starting debut 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:26.040 because he did make his debut against Arizona Diamond back third. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.440 They're pretty good, They're pretty sweet. Struck out Corban Carroll 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.480 and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm actually cares still. I'm 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:37.000 a little bit invested in him today because that fastball works. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.680 The sliders great. I'm really gonna be interested to see 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.800 how the curveball lands. He could not land it in 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.080 his relief appearance. It was just up and down. I 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.240 mean it was nowhere in the zone. Wasn't getting any swings. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.080 But the slider is a punch and the fastball is 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.320 a punch. I hope they let him go deep into games. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.960 He's very young, but I like this matchup, so I'm 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.400 a little bit investor. We'll talk about it later. I 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.800 would be cool with making the start, but I do 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.840 think it's gonna be a little bit of a push 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.640 for him to get to five full. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.600 Look at this wonky penguin bringing a question to the 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:12.200 table today, contending team wants my Joe Ryan, offering Nolan 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.160 Gorman or Royce Lewis. Now, the circumstances are it's a 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.120 four year max contract, so I can only assume that 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.480 Joe Ryan's contract is expiring. So we're looking ahead. So 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.600 which do you rather invest in? Royce Lewis or Nolan Gorman? 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:24.840 It's a great question. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.040 I do your favorite things, It's like, yeah, I'm gonna 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.240 choose between her favorite books or something. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.920 That is those are two of my favorite things. I'm 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.160 pretty enamored with Nolan Gorman. Like I love Royce Lewis, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.480 But if I'm thinking about, like there's a four year window, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.000 which one of those guys has the most likely opportunity 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.200 to get like really hurt, it's Royce because that's his 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.480 second favorite thing to do. Nolan Gorman has made so 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.680 many big changes hitting three in that lineup. I actually 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.840 think that's kind of cool in a keeper league, especially 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.280 if Ryan has like, you know, two more years left 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:57.240 and you get four of Gordon. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.760 I'm assuming thin gets fair. Look, if Ryan has any 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.320 time I'm left, I'm keeping Ryan. But if Ryan's you know, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.399 basically done this year and you're getting what if it's. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.159 Like the rest of this year and next year and 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.480 then you can give four years. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.240 And I keep because I believe in Joe Ryan. So 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.960 I would still keep Joe Ryan on those guys. And 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.560 I don't like Nolan Gorman, but I agree with you. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.920 I think Gorman is the better guy, by the way, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:19.840 you know, looking back on it, Oprah did give us 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.040 a lot of great things over the years, but she 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.760 also gave us doctor Oz and doctor Phil, and I 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.919 think she should be taking a task for that. I 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.400 think that's a lot. I mean, she gave us those 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.679 two things. If it wasn't for her, those things wouldn't 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.199 be in our public psyche. I think better. Yeah, I 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.200 was thinking about Oprah's favorite things, and I was thinking about, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.400 you know, doctor Phil and doctor Oz and all those people. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.640 And I think about those two yahoos and think about 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.280 how much better a world it would be if nobody 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:45.200 knew those guys. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.880 Yeah, I completely agree, But what got you there? 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.040 I don't. I said, like, no, I said, you have 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.359 to choose between Royce Lewis and Nolan Gorman, like between 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.119 her favorite things. Just thinking about I'm telling you, I 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.000 was like, you know, it's times I just think about 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.240 Phil Donahue. Does anybody know who Phil Donna Hue is? 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:03.680