WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 3rd, 2024 (EP. 782) 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.160 Welcome in everybody to fansy Bros. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:07.800 MLB. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.520 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by that 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.280 three six five. It is me, Joey p That of 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.800 course is the Welsh, and it's you, and we have 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.799 a fun day of baseball. We got some day games, 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.079 we got some night games, we got some more weather here. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.200 The Mets are never gonna play again because it's just 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.360 underwater in the New York City area. But I checked 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.080 the weather yesterday, Welsh, before I made my home run 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.880 call for the day. Mike Mayer, by the way, sat 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.120 Bryce Harper yesterday in his league. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.040 Can you imagine sitting Bryce Harper. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.160 Oh, that must really hurt. In fact, maybe we should 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.760 have a moment of silence here for Mike Mayor's fantasy 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.960 team sitting Bryce Harper. Never sit your studs. I don't 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.559 care if somebody on X says and you canna get 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.320 the thing and I can to pay in the game today, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.720 don't worry about it. You check the weather report with 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.520 Uncle Joe. He'll take care of you. But Bryce Harper 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.840 was pretty good, Let's start there, Welsh, because he was 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.280 good not once, not twice, but three times. And I 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.360 actually got to watch the first one live. I was 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.920 gonna catch up on some Curby R Enthusiasm. But as 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.880 soon as I sat down, guess what the Phillies game 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.920 was on? I said, let me watch the first Bryce 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.080 Harper at bat and I was a very happy boy. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.640 I got my homer. I turned over to Kirby your Enthusiasm. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.200 I came back and there was another homer, and then 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.480 I get a text from Welsh which was hilarious, which is, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.440 You're gonna be unbearable tomorrow. And I look and I 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.399 see the third one and a grand Slam and it's 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.560 a thousandth run of his career. I was not a 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.039 bad day for Bryce Harper. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.880 Yeah, And I was right. I was right. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.160 Guess what's at the tippy top of our show. I 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.679 wish you guys could see our show sheet. You know 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.319 what the headline of the show sheet is, Joe's amazing. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.720 Joe was correct. By the way, yesterday I was like, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.080 I was gonna take Harper, but I went against it. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.400 Let Joey take it. My Suzuki call completely down the drain. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.680 I went four and oh on best four day hot streak. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.760 But the headline Joey, Bryce, it felt like you hit 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:00.600 the home runs. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.960 I thought you I felt like. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.760 I hit the home runs. I like I hit by 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.800 the way. I'm on a hot streak too. I'm looking 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.200 on my betting pros right now. I'm on a three 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.360 day streak, so I'm right behind you there on the streaks. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.519 We look collectively. We're a team Welsh. There's no eye 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:20.480 here in Welsh. There is none in Joey p There's 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.160 no eye anywhere there. But yes, Suzuki goes yard, Harper 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.440 goes yard. I got the flin start I was looking 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.400 for on the plus money. We nailed that one. We 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:33.280 nailed the Shane Bieber nine strikeouts against the Mariners. A 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:37.280 great day for Shane Bieber. Bieber's back, Eflyn's back, Harper's back, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.160 We're back. It's a beautiful day. And you know who's 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.360 killing major League baseball right now? Mookie Bets. He is 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.960 just crushing life right now. Talk about a hot star 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.080 for Mookie Bets two for five last night, a homer, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.400 nistel eleven, Ribby's eight walks, fourteen run, fourteen runs. This season. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.160 I know you had the two extra games in Korea, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.640 but still, I mean, no one else in either league 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.560 has scored nine and this guy already has fourteen Welsh. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.359 What do you make of this incredible start to the 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:01.920 season for. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.840 Mookie, Well, i'll tell you what, Like he has been 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.679 lock locked in. I had this big old conversation in 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.040 the off season because I had Mooki over Carol and 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.239 then I would like change it back and keep going. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.400 And Mookie has lived up to it so much. So 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.960 do you remember last year when there was like that 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.760 bet like halfway through the year that was like okunya 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.640 or the field, Well, the field would be playing right 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.200 now because on some books Mookie Bets has moved it's 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.560 five game whatever, but has moved to the betting favorite 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:32.799 for MVP in the NL. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.560 I actually don't hate it. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.839 It's not the time to bet him now because now 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.440 one I'm looking at he's plus four to fifty. Akutney 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.520 is at six to one, so it might be a 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.320 coonie if you want to jump back in that market. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.600 But Mooki Bets has moved to the odds on favorite. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.600 The homers have been unreal. He's locked in. The RBI 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.600 numbers are always kind of dicey because the guy's going 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.560 to lead off, but he has been one of the 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.880 most prolific hitters so far to start the year, and 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.360 he's paying off fantasy owners at shortstop, maybe at second 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.760 base out. I mean, you know, all the position qualifications 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.920 are amazing for him. He's a perennial like he's not 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.440 a Kunya. Like we had that discussion in the offseason too, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.160 remember the projections thing with the fantasy pros people where 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.360 it was like, listen Otani is two players, but Mooki, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.599 But Ronald Acunya performed last year like two players, like 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.880 two fantasy players. So he's still in his own world. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.480 But Mooki is pushing that boundary right now, and if 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.479 he keeps this up, he will get that. But I 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.920 will throw out to people if there wasn't a time 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.280 to bet Ronald d'acunya right now. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.880 Is oh yeah, now it's time to get back. Yeah, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.239 one hundred percent. I see the Peanuts and the Cracker 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.960 Jacks here are a live and very excited Uh. Here's 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.240 biz and Rizza saying Mike Marris should be forced to 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:45.480 drop Harper as a punishedmle. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:46.160 I agree. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.760 I like that one a lot. Donnie c of course, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.159 cousin Donnie's saying Mets might not be able to lose 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.159 if they don't play, that's true. Can't lose if you 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.400 don't play, that's true. That's kind of like a w 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.720 right there, And everybody wants to know where's that hat 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.560 from that you're wearing today, because it is a very 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:00.920 cool one. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.839 Yeah, our boy Jesse, if you want to put put 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.000 the comment of Jesse all, this is the Columbus Clippers. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.080 It's it's one of the variants. I thought it was 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.880 called the like it was a Valero one. But he 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.880 said the copa day whatever? 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:13.599 That copa day what Welsh? 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.520 Yeah, I just I'm not. I don't want to. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.080 I already sound stupid, so I don't want to say 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.600 diver Yeah, there you go, you say diversion. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.520 Yeah, I don't think that's I don't think that's the name. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:24.599 I don't think that's the name. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.560 I believe it is. I'm saying it properly. I mean, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.440 I don't know. I feel pretty good about that one. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.800 It's just cool. It's a skull cool, but it is. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:39.040 It's a it's a Cleveland Minor League variation hat. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.040 You know who's cool right now? Well, maybe cold is 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.880 the better word for it. Logan web tagged for five 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.840 runs three and two thirds innings against the Dodgers. Now, look, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.480 it was against the Dodgers, okay. But but on the 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.600 last episode we did, it was an audio only pod 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.560 we did about the spring training risers and followers, and 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.760 I threw Logan Web on there as my father and 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.520 I I said, look, probably I'm overreacting to this. It's 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.320 not a big deal, but man, he's getting hit around 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.000 the ballpark, and man, it doesn't look very good. Man, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.720 that era is high. Maybe he's just working through some things. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.359 I don't know. I don't want to overreact, but it 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.200 was something where I said, you know, I'm circling this 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.960 and any late drafts. Maybe you don't overpay for Logan Web. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.560 Maybe that's the best way to put it. Not a 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.359 great start for him, any concerned here on the Logan 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.119 Web front, after what was a pretty bad outing against 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.520 the Dodgers. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:29.520 Yeah, I'm gonna look this up. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.800 Well, Man, for swing and whiffs, he had total he 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:38.039 had a thirteen percent swing and whiff rate. He was 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.720 just getting absolutely nothing on ninety six pitches. But CSW 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.560 was still kind of there. That's called strikes and wiff. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.359 So he just wasn't getting whiffs in this. Here's what 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.159 I'm gonna say. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:46.680 For next week. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.960 I will probably put Logan Web on this list because 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.239 you are carrying over the spring worries to this season. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.040 I'm gonna probably put him on the trade four. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.680 List because this is the Dodgers't him going up against 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.479 the Rockies and getting schalacked and not getting whiffs. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:05.479 It's the Dodgers. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.920 We just said the MVP front runner right now, Mookie Betts. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.520 I'm not really worried about it. The stuff is still 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.960 your over year the same, no big crazy spin variations. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.120 It's early in the year. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.280 We give a lot of other people, you know, some leeway. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.240 I'm going to give Logan Web leeway. And these are 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.720 the things I did the video about Zach Callen. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:25.280 Listen. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.200 Zach Allen performed well in his first but the underlying 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.840 stuff stunk. He's kind of the same Last night against 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.000 the Yankees, his stuff looked he looked off, but he 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.520 performed well and the stats were there. So maybe that 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.320 you know, up and down people scared is kind of 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.240 moving away. This is going to create more of that 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.480 worry for Logan Web. And these are the situations. The 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.040 whole point of that is that I'm going to try 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.240 to take advantage of and I will go buy Logan 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:50.760 Web if people are selling. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.000 I would agree. I mean that it's the Dodgers. I 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.040 think that's what I keep coming back. Yeah, it's the Dodgers. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.640 So let's let's not get out of shape on that one. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.960 I think that's the way to go on that one. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.240 Michael Kopek, Remember we talked about him towards the end 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.880 of the season of spring and we said, hey, moving 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:07.680 to the bullpen not a bad thing. First career save 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.400 and White Sox aren't gonna win a lot of games. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.320 But he did throw one in two thirds innings, so 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:12.520 it was a little bit longer of an outing, but 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.720 still save as a save as a save. So this 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.400 is good here, Michael Kopek hopefully working in some high 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.640 leverage situations as the season goes on. It's the right call. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.920 It's where he should be. There's nothing wrong with making 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.000 Michael Copek a closer and he could be a very 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.840 good one for the White Sox in this rebuild, or 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.600 a trade chip where somebody else takes him off your hands. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.520 The next thing you know, you can continue to get 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.080 more prospects. Zach Gallan Struck out six and six innings 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.880 combined with three relievers on a shutout. So let's talk 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.640 about Zach Gallen for a second, because he was in 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.559 your recent post on the social media side on our instagram. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.520 By the way, you can go check out our Instagram 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.360 page Fantasy Rose MLB. Well shot a little social video 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.640 up there about Gallen. You're kind of more in the Hey, 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.400 go get Gallen. Gallen's gonna be okay. I'm more in 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.240 the I'm a little concerned I feel. Is that accurate 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.120 or no? Are you a little bit more where I am? 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.560 I'm a little bit country and I'm a little bit 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.160 rock and roll If I'm being honest here. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.760 It's funny because actually, somebody I love about you. I know, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.600 that's what everybody always loves. That's what they think. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.319 They're like, oh, this country and rock and roll guys. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.160 I had some people that didn't watch the video and 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.200 that we're commenting online. They went at my buddies in 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.440 CBS being like, hey, there's analysts that don't like Zach 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.880 Gallen and are selling and then they tagged me and 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.480 I was like, no, no, you didn't watch the video 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.840 because I actually presented the video on both sides and then. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:28.800 You did you pick? 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.439 And I said you picked in the comments it was 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:32.680 me not taking a side. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.679 Here here's the positive. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.120 This start was good statistically, but the bad stuff is 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.439 still there. You'll talk about Logan web for swinging whiffs 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.559 for Zach Gallen, that's not good. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.680 The velo is still down. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.120 He did not get any whiffs again, they called strikes 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:51.960 and whiffs were down. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:53.880 He's not commanding this time. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.480 Every single pitch did have a fifty percent zone rate, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.959 which was a little bit better, but he was getting 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.079 away with you plays bad calls on Aaron Judge. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.640 I am worried a little. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.720 Bit about Zach Gallon, but I don't know if I'm 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.559 worried that, you know, the stuff is going to come 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.000 down and he's like, you know, the Bieber thing a 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.840 couple years ago when he had like two miles poor loss. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.640 I don't know if I'm worried in that degree that 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.720 he's falling apart as a picture these two starts. I'm 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.600 worried that maybe that toll of the innings last year 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.360 and going to the World Series really is playing something obviously, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.400 because he looks he looks lost. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:28.040 All of that. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.679 To say, I still would probably buy right now because 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.520 this is what he does. He gets into these funks, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.560 he finds himself. He's a command based pitcher. He had 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.079 a lot better command in this, but the stuff was 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.800 kind of wonky and not Penguin. So I'm still like 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.200 a bye on him. But I do think it's open 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.720 for interpretation. You know what, I'm more worried about Gallon 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.600 than I am Logan Web. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.679 Okay, that's fair. I mean the two forty three, I 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:52.959 can't it's the number I can't get out of my 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.400 head for Gallen because I just don't know if he's 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.199 built for that yet. And maybe I'm wrong, maybe he 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:57.920 will be built for it. One guy who's been built 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.000 for success so far, Garrett Crochet. Let's talk about him. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.920 Eight strikeouts, one run, seven innings against the Braves, Like 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.840 that's not some punging Judy line. I's got another start 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.200 later in the week coming up. So look, Crochet's got 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.240 off to a great start. You know, I was. I 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.120 was mixed because I watched them pitched in spring, and 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.120 they were things I liked when I saw Crochet and 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.040 some things that I did not like. It's been a 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.839 really good start to the season for him. How do 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.600 you evaluate this and he is he one of these 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.640 guys that you pick up or you picked up and 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.360 now you're loving life. Everything is great, and maybe you 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.760 start to sell high on him as he gets more 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:31.680 time around the league. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.959 Yeah, I think, well, I think any of these, like 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.079 younger pitchers, you can always look at guys and you 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.880 can say, you know what, what what is the crazy 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.600 scope of it? Jared Jones is one that I put 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.520 on there, like if people are going absolutely bonkers and 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.200 you know, you could get logan web for Garrett Crochet 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.400 and like a little other piece. Yeah, sure, absolutely. The 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.760 thing I will say about Crochet I haven't quite decided 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.640 yet is sometimes you'll see guys early on that have 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.160 like decent fastballs. They'll just kind of pop and until 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.160 the league catches up to him and he has an 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.240 incredible fast He was hitting ninety nine with it. He's 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.840 averaging on the year ninety six, just around essentially ninety seven. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.480 He was a little bit down in this last start. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.920 He had nine whiffs thirty six percent whiff rate on 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.680 this pitch, which was awesome. The thing that he's adding 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.719 into it though, is the slider cutter. He's not really 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.720 throwing a change up, so there's not insane velo deviation, 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.080 but still the slider is solid. Those both had forty 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.760 percent whiff rates. Those both both had really high csws, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.960 and they were all commanded over fifty percent in the zone. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.920 So what I'm saying is is sometimes I'm trying to 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.200 remember what the guy was. He might have met Eric 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.080 Lauer from like a year or two ago, who had 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.040 just this incredible fastball getting all the whiffs, and it's like, dude, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.320 he has nothing else, He's gonna blow up. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.559 That's not what Crochet is. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.600 He's got an incredible fastball and he's got two secondaries 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.240 that are continuously getting whiffs. I think Garrett Crochet can continue. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.599 The leg thing sometimes can be bad for some of 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.920 these pitchers. We saw it happen with McKenzie Gore. The 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.760 timing mechanism is perfect. He's been a starter at Tennessee 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.640 when he did it. Actually think the stuff is enough 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.360 that he's on a garbage team. But Garrett Crochet legit 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.000 could be like a top thirty five forty sp for 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.880 the year, So I don't think it's gonna be worth 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.480 trading him, at least on the White Sox. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.319 Even on the White Sox, I think with the run support, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.880 and if you were a brave, I think that stuff 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.839 could be a top twenty as well. But he's not. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:21.720 He's a white Soze. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.600 And that's why I said, like top forty like his stuff. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.319 Someone would probably argue with me, like what are you 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.959 talk good about? Like if he continues this, he'll be 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:28.960 blah blah blah. Yeah. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.520 But to Joe's point, bad defense, bad offense, bad every day, a. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.880 Lot of things, and that stuff piles up, and you say, well, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.480 how much is a pile up? Well, it's a difference 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.640 between you going like, you know, six scoreless innings and 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.520 looking really good and the difference of you going like 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.560 five innings some days and getting no decisions because they 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.640 don't score runs for you or there's an error in 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.760 the field. The next thing you know, now there he's working. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.599 He's got you know, one hundred and ten pitches in 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.600 you know, four and two thirds because he's working through 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.199 things because more guys are on base that shouldn't be 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.240 so all those things do come to fruition. It's a 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.400 gray star for Crochet. He's looked tremendous, a tremendous performance yesterday, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.960 not taking anything away from it, but he's definitely gonna 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.959 be one of the guys I'm circling and watching in April. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:06.640 And you're trying to sell it. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.280 Sounds like you're trying to sell I would, I would 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:09.680 sell high on him. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.199 But what is that I'm trying to think of the 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:11.679 name for you. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.559 A good question, that's a good question. I mean, I 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.000 don't I don't know if this is out of bounds, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.600 but I mean Verlander returning like people weren't wondering about 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.160 when that's gonna be. Is it gonna be soon? Would 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.360 you take this young hot picture right now? That's that's 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.720 looking great for the old forty year old Verlander, you 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:30.840 know what I think, which, by the way, is one 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.640 of my favorite movies, four year old Verlander. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.760 For forty year old Verlander, you're putting the Justin on 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.560 the pedestal. That's always the problem. The problem is this. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.480 I think we're I think we're in this like this 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.520 like middle zone right now where he's really exciting. People 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.960 are picking him up off the waivers. He's doing good stuff, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.800 but he's still like people are asking in the chat, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.280 how many innings he's a white SOX don't. Don't I 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.480 get equations to you, just hold I don't think you 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.040 can sell high enough yet, and I don't. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.960 I just don't think it works right now. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.240 If he pulls together two, a couple more starts, then 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.120 we can start talking about like sure, oh believe me. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.480 I'm not saying it today. I'm saying if you've got 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.720 him at the end of April, you evaluate it and say, look, 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.880 how good was he in April? Is that the best 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.160 I'm going to get out of him? And if so, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.400 then you think about putting him together and see you 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.800 can get something out of him. Look if you use 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.200 great in April and you got Max Suers are returning 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.760 to the Rangers June first, would you make that move 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.080 and just kind of coast and go through May I 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.880 think I might. I think I might, And I think 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.000 it might be one of these things where you are 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.520 looking at some of the older pitchers returning, and I 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.640 know that scares people, but youth and skill is no 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.400 match for old age and treachery at the end of 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.760 the day. 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