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What would you let the power to do? 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.280 Bank of America Restriction supply CPA dot com slash golf 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.000 with Us for complete details covered right twenty twenty five 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.440 Bank of America Corporation. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.040 Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.559 off live. It is me Joey, p Joepzapia, That of 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.360 course is the Welsh with Papa Joe, and it's you 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.680 the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks hanging out here talking 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.400 baseball and a lot of injuries as well. Welsh. I 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.960 don't know who is in charge of the MOLB schedule, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:59.040 but these day games in forty degree weather in Detroit, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.600 these April games in Colorado in early April, what are 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.280 we doing here? Guys are hurt everywhere I have no 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.120 idea why Major League Baseball can't just say, let's open 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.119 up in the West Coast or controlled environments as much 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.319 as we can try to limit all this stuff at 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.520 least till we get towards the end of April. I 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.080 don't know what's wrong. It's very easy. Everybody plays, everybody. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.000 It's not a it makes my head hurt. I might 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.319 explode before the show starts. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:25.759 But what are you gonna do? Like what I mean, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.759 like no, no, but like there's only so many West 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:34.119 Coast teams, there's like five or six the all MLB 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:34.959 for the entire. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.679 Weather controlled most of the time this summer year, You've 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.520 got Look, there's plenty of places you can play. And 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.680 I understand everybody wants to have for their home opener. Okay, fine, whatever, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.960 that's great, except for the fact that you know, this 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.520 cold weather stuff is not meant for these guys in 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.960 Major League Baseball. They're playing baseball in the forties and 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.400 then they're going to other environments and every single person 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:00.000 right now is on the IL. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.520 I feel like, yeah, and outside of the injuries too, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.800 that's gonna be the big focus here. We just dodged 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.360 maybe like one of the biggest injuries. I will say 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.920 it is really important to kind of hit home the 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.359 weather stuff and what can happen in like throughout April 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.079 and obviously the late March in some of the effects 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.840 of these guys, whether it's minor league guys kind of 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.880 like underperforming or take for instance, you know, just some 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.160 of these players that are just not used to it 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.200 or just being bogged down, like like I have a 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:33.160 particular player I'm avoiding getting with you guys and being 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.280 like I am worried about Garrett Crochet. Garrett Crochet, I've 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.919 watched all of his starts. He doesn't look great easton Lucas. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.799 Yesterday someone asked in the chat, like, hey, what do 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.480 you think East and Lucas. He looked pretty good in 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.200 the broadcasts that were like, man, you know, it's really 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.440 really cold, as the coldest it's ever been in Boston, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.240 you know, and Crochet kind of can't make get the grip. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.080 But Easton Lucas looks great, and maybe there's something to that. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.640 But like you take the weather stuff and how Crochet 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.040 has been battling these lives. A couple of matchups v 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.519 lo Is down, He's not getting whiffs his pitch mix 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.120 is weird. He's not throwing the change ups that could 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.600 be weather related. And some of these early performances before 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.200 we make these huge decisions, like man, I just don't 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.160 like this guy or that weather is going to have 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.600 a definite effect, and I'm keeping out of my brain 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.560 before I freak out and get all crazy about Garrett 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.639 Crochet and some of these underperform. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.360 I'm just gonna get all I don't think we could. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.880 Avoid like Colorado, and maybe. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.240 Like, yes, we can avoid Colorado right now, we can 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:34.080 avoid Detroit at one o'clock in the afternoon, Like I 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.440 just I just don't understand what's going on here. Fisher 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.080 King's got a question her Dynasty trade Roman Anthony for Schooble. Now, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.120 typically I like to have the position players, but I'll 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.880 take Schooble in this one. This is this is zero 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:46.440 chill for me. 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.240 I'm not yeah, I'm not like the biggest like picture 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.480 acquisition in Dynasty, especially the high end, but absolutely no 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.680 doubt I would rather have Jerik Scuba right now. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.320 All right, So let's get into the headlines because we've 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.280 got a lot of stuff to talk about today, and 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.520 let's start with the Padres imploding. That's right, friend, No, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.240 Tatis a weird swing, so he has shoulder discomfort. Remember 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.200 this is the shoulder that he's had surgeries on, so 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.840 what could go wrong here? He says he's okay day 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.640 to day for now more to come. Mike Schild told 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.520 reporters after the game that a twenty six year old 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.080 outfielder tweaked his surgical repared shoulder on a swing before 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.039 reaggravating it, so we'll see what's going on. He was 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.280 sliding and then it got worse. So I just I 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.280 don't like the sound of this at all. And on 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.640 top of it, krona Worth came out of the game 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.680 too because he has some cramping issues. He couldn't even 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.880 get to first base. And then Jackson Merril goes to 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.840 the io with a hamstring string. So Michael Cally, our producer, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.960 is freaking out because it was a bad night for 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.000 the Padres who have started off red hot. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.800 He's about to drop jays all over the place like 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.839 in every they had been leading off with you like 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.839 he's going to be in a panic motive. You also 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.600 lost Tatis after Maryland cronin Worth getting hurt. It would 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.400 have been really bad The maryl One kind of stings 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.680 the tatist one. I think it's gonna give you like 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.560 a tiny bit of a pause. You do need to 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.000 pay attention to it. If already this early in the season, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.200 you know he had a slight tweak to a surgically 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.080 repaired shoulder. That's actually not a good sign at all 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.719 for the rest of the year because he is just 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.680 a fast swing. It's kind of like with Corbing Carol, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.159 a lot of people assume that shoulder that or elbow shoulder, 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.040 whatever one that he has such a fast swing and 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.000 just such a big like turnback. There's so much momentum 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.000 that it was affecting him all year. I kind of 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.880 worry a little bit about that with Tatis. Definitely something 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.440 to monitor. And to Mike Mayer, yes, Garrett Crochet was 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 good in his last start, but two of the three, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.479 if you watch them, have been less than what you 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.719 expect out of this incredible. So that's why I'm saying, like, yeah, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.840 he had eight innings, it was amazing and da da da, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.560 but like you know, two of the three, some of 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.560 the stuff doesn't looked quite as good. But keeping in 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.400 whether in some of those effects is keeping me a 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.279 little bit safe. But maybe I'm just overreacting. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.800 I'm trying to remember last year because I remember Crochet. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.000 Maybe I'm misremembering. It's very possible, but I seem like 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.160 April last year was not good for him either, and 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:01.919 it wasn't. I'm looking at it right now. I finally 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.520 found it here, a five nine seven e RA in 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.240 April for Garrett Crochet. So Garret Crochet, no like you? 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.400 The cold Uh. He was pitching for the White Sox 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.040 last year, slow start, but then on close stark guy. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.040 Whatever it is, but I'm looking at it right now. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.840 The whip was okay. The strikeouts were there, forty seven strikeouts, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.320 but the ERA was five nine seven. Uh, it was 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.919 not great. Obviously, he gave up seven home runs in 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.080 that month too. It's more than he gave up in 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.039 any other month by a by a lot. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.720 So yeah, that's good. That's good info to throw. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.800 That's a little bit of a throwing there. Yeah. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.240 I just wanted to respond to you. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:35.400 You did. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:36.920 Could you want to talk about Garrett Carter? 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.040 I do. I kind of take but I will come 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.320 on and mayors, thank you for the current ERI. What 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:42.080 is mayarors problem? 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.680 Mayor ma I woke up this morning. I was working 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.080 on the show at six in the morning, and then 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.839 I see a message from Mayor trolling me about my picks. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.360 For you got trolled. There's another one in there too, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.320 you got trolled a little bit more. What I would 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.720 like to know in the chat is anybody at all 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.480 worried long term for the season on Fernando Tatis Junior 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.279 with him he dodged a bullet where great, he's having 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.599 an insane season, but is there any new worry now 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.120 that he's tweaked that and having the entire season in 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.280 front of you, is that giving you pause? Or maybe 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.080 even I could see people wanting to come off of him. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.440 I'm not sure if I am quite yet, but this 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.480 has definitely sparked something in me. Like Mike just said, yes, worried? 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.000 Let us know YouTube in the comments or live on 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.640 the mombar here on twitch. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.320 Sure surgically a pred shoulder. Yeah, I'm I'm always worried. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 And I watched it. It didn't look great, like you could 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.160 tell he was in pain, so we'll see big strikeouts. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.480 That was also a headline from yesterday. We had col 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:39.120 Reagan's look fantastic eleven strikeouts for him. Clay Holmes ten 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.640 strikeouts against the Marlins out. The Mets pitchers are really 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.200 just eat up the Marlins. The Marlins young manager, too, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.960 is terrible, like he is. The broadcast, the Mets broadcast, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.080 if anybody's been watching, is just crushing this Marlins new manager. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.840 He is a rookie manager. He is setting up guys 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.280 in weird positions. He's he seems all out of whack 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.520 with where to defend people. And you should have the 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.280 infield in when they should be in double play depth. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.239 The whole thing seems like a hot mess right now. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.520 So although the Mets pitching staff looks terrific, they have 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.360 played the Marlins a lot. I know, they played the 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.680 Jays two. That's a good lineup. They played the Astros two. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.760 That's fine. But let's not get too crazy with how 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.760 great this Mets pitching staff. But a nice bounce back 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.920 performance for Clay Holmes. Some good wood yesterday from James 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.000 Wood three for five, two homers, So huge day for 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.440 James Wood. That's got to make those people in the 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.960 James Wood investment space very happy. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.559 Welsh Oh me, yeah, hundred percent. You know, it's really funny. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.760 I was doing like a little live stream on my 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.160 my little end this league twitch, and I was talking 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.080 about James wood in that like I love everything about it, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.320 and there's still people that are really worried, rightfully so, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.880 because there's some stuff. But you know, the average was low. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.840 This game alone put him over two seventy five, twenty 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.360 four percent barrel, sixty four percent hard hit rate, huge 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:56.079 max ev he's walking and also, weirdly enough, this is 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.040 the weirdest split so far, short sample size. He's hitting 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.360 four to twelve against lefties, one seventy four against righty's. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.719 I wonder if that's going to change, and it's only 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.520 going to make things better. You're not gonnait four hundred 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.960 aast lefties, but you're also not going to hit sub 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.440 two hundred against righty's as a left handed hitter. I 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.959 just really like James would always have. You're seeing the 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.080 big output of what he can possibly do and his 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.760 ability even though he does strike out to hit lefties 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.760 if it calms down a little bit, he's showing an 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.600 elite skill set and it was I think it's going 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.400 to be a big payoff of acquiring and investing into 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.000 James woodarly in the year. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.480 All right. Zach Vien made his debut one for four. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.040 It was a bunt single, So good on Zach Vien. Well, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:35.920 I would have been leagues. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.120 I think it should have been minus money that his 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.760 first hit was going to be something ridiculous like fun. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.600 I would have bet that. I totally see it, all right. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.800 There was on pitching duds too. I was invested in 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.200 the under, and by the third inning that got blown up. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:54.000 Chris Sale got beat around five runs, four and two thirds, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.600 so not a good start for him. Again, Braves continued 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.800 to look weird. Zach Wheeler also struggled, So there you go. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.720 He was terrible. Five runs on eight hits and five 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.680 and a third innings at work. So so much for 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.680 the under in that game, So much for all the 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.839 fantastic starting pitchers that were on the slate yesterday. We'll 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.959 get the Schemes performance later in the show because he 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.160 stunk it up too, So there you go. Not too 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.240 much movement there in the National League, young Grays, because 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.400 everybody basically stunk yesterday. 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Welsh, we are 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.960 pushing subs every single week here. We're gonna do some 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.520 fun stuff here because the subs are coming, get fast 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.800 and furious. Let's shout out some newbies here joining us 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.839 on Twitch dot tv slash Fantasy Pros live today and 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.400 every day Monday through Friday noon Eastern. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.760 Well they'll slow today, Radio Peppery most recent on the follows. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.960 Shout out to Radio. But as you mentioned, our goal 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.840 is definitely get to that one hundred sub mark. You 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.760 guys can do that with the Amazon Prime and followers 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.280 are closing in on seven hundred. So I would say 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.400 if we get to like I think the month goal 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.160 should be let's call it one thousand followers and one 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.600 hundred and twenty five subs. I think if we get there, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.240 that would rock. But shout out to all the new people. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.240 And if you guys do the follows of the subs, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.560 we will give you those shoutouts. There you go. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.200 You could tell Welsh was never in sales, even if 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.760 it's a slow sales that you say, oh I got 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.520 so many, But you know, I think this one, I'm 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.840 gonna single out this guy because I like his screening 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.600 whatever it is. See, you know, I spent time in sales. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.960 I hated it. I was good at it. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.080 I'm not trying to sell you. I'm trying to nerd out. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.240 Let me talk about barrel rates and hard hit percentages. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:03.080 That's what I'm selling. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.880 Yeah, all right, fine, let's talk about some guys down 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.520 on the farm, because there are some players still crushing life. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:10.760 And I know it feels that we talk about these 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.320 guys all the time, well because every day they do 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.000 something else awesome. So Jack kag Leon, if you haven't 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.800 seen this one, a one to eleven exit Vilo home 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.280 run four hundred and sixty eight feet. It's on the 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.480 front page of MiLB this morning. When I woke up, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.240 I went over there to take a look at it. Boom, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.240 it was right there. Massive home run from kg leone. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.200 So I don't know how much longer they're gonna keep 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.439 him down there. Nick Kurtz again, I know it's every day. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.200 We got this Nick Kurtz meter two for five, three 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.359 run homer for trip A Las Vegas, and Tyler Soderstrom 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.840 was removed yesterday with right calf tightness. So Welsh, you 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.400 think there's an opening here. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.559 If he goes on the il, without question, they got 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.240 to bring him up unless they're not trying to like 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.160 start some clock or whatever. I can't do anything more. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.280 It's just a rinse and repeat conversation. We should cut 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.360 it and we could just play it through again. It's 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.360 like this, Nick Kurtz is the best triple A hitter 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.000 right now. He can't play anything but first put Rooker 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.480 in the outfield or soda Strom in the outfield, make 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.240 room how else? I don't know. Only other thing is 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.120 an injury. I would assume if Soda strim it doesn't 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.880 look like this is going to be something serious. But 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.280 if you were to hit the il, Nick Kurtz immediate pickup. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.120 And he's the type of guy too that no matter 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.760 what he does, I'm sorry if he is dominant, I 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.240 don't think no matter what happens after the fact, they 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.839 would send him back down. If he comes up and 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.360 he hits like three, if he just keeps a way 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.079 to bomb or two, They're going to figure something out. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.040 But Nick Kurtz the reason we keep talking about him 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.839 because he's going to be up soon. And I think, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.040 by the way, I think he's up before CAGs. I've 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.520 said that before. I think Kaggs is more of a 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.560 medeear guy, regardless he is in CAGs in double A. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:48.920 Nick Kurtz is in triple A. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.240 Though. Solar's got a question here. And it's funny because 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.200 I just did this in our shallow league. Are we 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.760 dropping causes for TORQ? Yes, and I did on Monday 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.200 because I've had it, so I'm riding the wave in 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.200 the shallow league. I'm willing to make that move. So 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.480 I guess Harry did it. And here's another one BD 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.720 with Francisco Alpaz close to you like Camra, Kybert Ruiz 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.360 rest of Season Alpharez a thousand times, a thousand times 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.880 not even close. So those are two easy moves you 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.880 can make. Also potentially some openings too for this young man. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.120 Zebbie Matthews struck out nine, allowed two runs five innings 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.800 on Tuesday and start at triple A. So Zebbie Matthew 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.160 is another one too that's kind of scratching at the 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.880 big league level. And Pablo Lopez had a little bit 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.680 of a hamstring issue last night, so keep an eye 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.920 on that situation. Do you think zeb would be that 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.120 first call up? Because if so, I can see us 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.680 on the waiver wire video tomorrow talking about stashing Zebie 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:38.720 Matthews sooner than later. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.440 Yeah, I think so. I think early in the year's 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.440 a little question would it be David Festa or Zebbi? 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.320 Zebbie like he's a big command I mean, he's just 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.320 like these other guys, Like what are like Pablo and 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.680 Joe Ryan, Like what do they do? They don't walk guys. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.760 You know they'll have some good strikeout and like that's 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.720 who Zebby is and he can go deeper into game. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.120 So I do think Zebi would be that guy all right. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.800 Also, Bubba Chandler eight cas for him and four shoutout 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.560 innings on Tuesday, so nice to see him having a 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.120 good start. Let's talk about more things that are exciting. Oh, 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:05.600 Wick's good. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.400 Well, I just wanted to say sure. I said this 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.280 about Bubba Chandler and it literally hit fifty two pitches 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.480 in his first start. I said, they're gonna they said, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.640 you know, Cap, They're going to build him up. I said, 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.680 next start is going to go to sixty. This start 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.920 sixty pitches, So next start will go probably to seventy, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.640 and that means after the next start he could come up, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.960 or it'll be one after. I personally think they goes 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.960 seventy and then seventy five, So I think at least 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.360 two more starts before he's viable to be called up 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.440 if you are stashing Bubba Chandler, but they're running it 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.280 right out. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.160 Some Kurts questions, So let's get to these. Bz weezy 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.680 or be weezy, excuse me, Vien or Kurts would you 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:45.080 rather have? 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.800 I mean, I if Kurtz was up, I would want 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.920 him over Veen, like without question. I know you're asking 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.720 Veen right now. I'm not that enamored with Vien, but 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:56.160 if you're. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.520 Not a star base Gus, then sure I'm team Kurtz 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.760 on this one positive grouch with a question is just funny. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.800 I think it's just a troll. Are you saying Hurts 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.760 or Kurts? I need some help with this, Pan Pan 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.240 Pan Pan. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:08.480 You're saying pan. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.680 That's that's that's stupid, stupid name. Uh? You not like 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.240 an idiot Ozuna for Kurtz in a Dynasty league, you're 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.200 ready to pull that trigger on that one. O. Zuna 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.480 could be at the end of his tail here a 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.320 little bit still in a good season. I'm sure he's 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.040 gonna be good this year. But in Dynasty, man, I 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.040 think I want Kurts. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.280 Yeah, without like it, especially if you're not competing at all, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.840 Like that's a no brainer. Ozuna is like thirty six. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.600 Kurtz is gonna have, as you know, fifteen years probably 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.080 in front of him, So no, as a little tougher 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 if you're like a heavy competitive win Now team to 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.200 trade a guy that you know probably has like top 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.400 fifty bat upside for a guy like Kurtz. So we 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.960 really just don't know and his blocked, but I probably 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.360 still try to make that regardless. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.800 Fabby Davis Junior. Are we dropping Ventos now? 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:52.080 Uh? 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.640 If you're dropping Casus in a in a small ten 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.840 man league, I think you can drop Vento's in that 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:58.360 same one. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.440 Who are you dropping them for? I mean, first you 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.040 have Rice ortorkal Sin, you have all those guys. I 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.800 mean there's not a third base, so the third base. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.280 But that's the problem, the third base. I don't think 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.880 you're doing that move. I just don't. It's just truld 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.119 be worried about Santandero. Hold on, I'm holding on it. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:16.600 You know, new space, big contract, YadA, YadA. I don't 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.160 have any concerns about that. And do we care about 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.560 Nuelae Marte getting called up too because mclan goes in 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:20.920 the io. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.960 Yeah. I think it's interesting. Nouelvie strikeouts are low, He's 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.200 stealing a bunch of bases. He had no homers, but 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.800 he had six doubles in triple A so far. He 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.760 has all the tools in the world. But I'm still 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.400 worried about his pitch recognition and his ability to hit 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.120 major league pitching. But guess what, he's still super young. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.560 You're going through that transitional period deeper leagues. I think 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.920 he's worth testing the investment. Do I want to drop 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.199 Vento's for Nowelvie, I don't know, maybe again in like 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.560 a small small league, but I'm looking at newelvi in 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.800 a little bit deeper. I do think he's worth the 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.679