WEBVTT - Leading Off September 16th, 2024 (Ep. 903) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:10.400 What is up my friends? Hello, everybody the Welsh lives. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.600 It's leading off right here on Fantasy Pros. I am 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.560 the Welsh, that is the Joe Rico. I am back 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.319 after a little bit of a hiatus. A Rico and 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.160 Baba have been taking us through all September. Still are 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.159 by the way, but I had been meant to be 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.360 here for Mondays. Wasn't last week. But I am here 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.040 and I am glad to see all of you and 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.480 talk to all of you. By the way, Leading Off 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.320 is brought to you by bet three six five. Use 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.080 the promo code leading off that five bucks, get one 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.000 fifty in bonus bets. You can go and do that today, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.479 get locked in over. I'd bet three six five and 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.280 if you've got a gambling problem, called one eight hundred 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.319 bets off or one eight hundred gambler. Oh yes, Joe 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.600 Rico been holding down the fort with somebody. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.160 You're back like the terminator. My friend. Is good to 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.440 see you. We've missed you on the show. We've missed 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.560 you on the show. It's been a lot of fun 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.040 getting to do shows with Bubba. But back into the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.880 old routine we had in July and August, getting to 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.160 do some shows together. So we got what two more 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.600 left this season together? Maybe one more if Bubba's on 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.200 next Monday. So this might be our send off the 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:09.679 two of us. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.160 I was about to say this. You didn't even think 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.160 of that. Actually, yeah, this might be the last one 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.200 you and I are doing. Yeah, the plan. It is crazy. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.000 I know everybody is dealing with, especially all the peanuts 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.160 and cracker jacks that are still hanging live. It's good 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.800 to see everybody, but like, it is crazy to think 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.360 that the season is just about completely done. We've got 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.480 this week. Some crazies out there. People play into next week. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.680 You people are insane, but you know you want to. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.960 It's a little bit less insane, I suppose we can 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.480 be honest. It was crazy years ago because of the 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.800 forty man roster designation that would happen in September, where 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.480 the entire forty man roster would become available and then 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.760 teams would just do like wacky stuff. It's not quite 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.360 that now. Starting pitchers are a little bit eh, a 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.680 little bit eh, you know, fore innings and stuff like that. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.880 Some bullpen open and whatever. But it's not as crazy. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.080 But it's still it's insane going through to the very end. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.640 But yes, we've got the rest of this week. The 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.480 next week most likely will be Bubba and I on Monday, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.280 and then the final show as long as everything goes 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.240 to plan next Friday. Just reminding everybody, Joe and I 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.079 will do a great return for the final in season 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.120 show that we're doing here on leading off, but lots 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.560 of cool off season stuff will be here for you. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.160 I know Joe and I haven't I especially have I 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.360 get the extra bonus points that Joe doesn't get. But 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.320 we'll be here talking you through to the end of 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.760 the season, getting you set into the off season and 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.360 some more Arico and Bubba. Let's get into it, Joe, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.160 I'm excited to talk some baseball. It's been a lot 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.600 of football lately, and let's talk about James Wood. Two 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.519 for three yesterday, two solo homers, he had a walk 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.320 as the Nationals beat the Marlins. Now with a two 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:57.360 seventy three slash and almost one hundred higher OBP, seven homers, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:02.040 twelve steals, sixty six games. If you want to play extrapolation, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:08.880 you're probably in the vicinity of like eighteen thirty, eighteen 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.520 twenty eight. We could almost with progression. Call this a 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.799 twenty thirty outlook. As he's improved his strikeout rate, he's 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.800 making better contact holding. The batting average I think is 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.320 so so key, you know, a big thing with like, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.000 I don't know how people are going to walk out 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.240 of this year with O'Neal Cruz. I think it's a 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.359 smashing success. I think what O'Neal Cruz has done, even 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.920 though he just got hurt, he's moved to centerfield to 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.840 hit the batting average that he's had pull out a 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.160 twenty twenty season. Thought he'd have more Homer's hand up 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.640 and stuff like that. That's a big win. The same 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.760 thing with James Wood, and we're getting into territory of 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.880 talking about twenty twenty five a whole lot, and he 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.840 hasn't quite got the love of the Churios and the 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.960 Jackson Merrill. Probably maybe it's because it's not as deserved, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.680 but the improvement of the batting average, the power speed combo, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.600 it's really been awesome. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.000 He's been amazing. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.280 I mean, especially in a year where most rookies have 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.640 fallen on their face and disappointed us, James Wood has 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.720 been one of the few where you used a mid 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.600 season pickup or you stashed him and it's actually paid off. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.000 It's a couple of little concerning things like the twenty 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.840 nine percent strikeout rate. I don't love. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.160 In terms of the steals, he has twelve of them, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.840 but he's been caught seven times, so I'd like to 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.320 see him be a little bit more efficient. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.520 But he's been amazing. And I think if. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.080 We're looking at early twenty twenty five stuff Paba did 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.520 that early draft, I think he went at the end 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.440 of the third round in a fifteen team or so, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.760 like the forty to forty five pick range. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.200 I think that's probably. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.320 Gonna be what we're gonna have to stomach if we 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.840 want James Wood on our teams next year. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.479 You know, it's interesting Bachman and I have been doing 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.000 this thing on the in This League Baseball podcast where 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.240 we've been essentially assigning this talent. So two weeks ago, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.479 we did these are the first round players, not like, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.080 here are fifteen guys. No, it's these are the players 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.919 that justify the first round talent. We came up with 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.680 only thirteen of them. We then did the second round talent, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.560 and I think we ended up with like eighteen players. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.520 That kind of quantified second round talent, and then we 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.920 had this fringy area. James Wood was kind of like 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.120 not quite talked about in the fringe. He maybe but 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.960 maybe he should be. And there were a few players 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.480 and we're gonna talk about one of them, like in 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.760 Cheerio Cheerio and Merrill. We did kind of just decide 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.360 to graduate into that second round talent. Wood will probably 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.560 end up being like a I don't know I had 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.000 a third or fourth round talent. People are gonna extrapolate. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.680 You're probably the strikeout rate might cool him on projections, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.680 but it's gonna be some pretty big numbers. And twenty thirty. Man, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.279 you know, twenty thirty. You can't can't be hating on that. Also, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.280 Jack Or did Jeb Moore and James Wood. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.160 I was gonna say, like the power, he might even 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.680 be leaving a little bit on the table, Like he 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.400 has seven homers in sixty six games, but fifty two 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.800 percent hard hit, ten percent barrel rate, that could even 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.120 be twenty five thirty home runs. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:51.159 It wouldn't really surprise me. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.240 Oh no, no, he's leaving it on the table, as is 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.320 O'Neal Cruse. I'll come back to that too, like O'Neil 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.799 Cruz has sacrificed. I think some launch angle an attack 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.320 for really good batting average, and then I think the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.239 next step is going to be to get the ball 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.839 back in the ear more. When you hit the ball 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.920 like one hundred and twenty miles an hour and you 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.880 have like, you know, huge average evs and max evs 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.520 like that, you're leaving power on the table. Cruise is 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.920 leaving and I think James Wood is doing it in 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.360 the same way. We just see like a common thing 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.480 with rookie young players is like getting the ball in 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.400 the air is a problem. You'll see launch angle be 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.479 the thing that is struggling when they have like you know, 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.680 really good barrel rates and really good hard hit rates 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.640 and stuff like that. One guy has not had to 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.479 struggle with it is Jackson Surio three for five, three 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.880 run homer, two run triple against my d Backs yesterday. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.960 Homer was his twenty first and this is a shoutout 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.279 to Rotal World for putting this together, placing him twenty 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.040 first all time on a list of players that are 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.360 twenty or younger. With I think it's that they didn't 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.480 finish their sentence of twenty twenty the twenty five if 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.520 he were to hit twenty five homers would put him 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.919 in the tie him with Eddie Matthews and Orlando Subpita. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.599 He's also now fourteenth on the RBA I list for 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.800 twenty year olds, which puts him in like ridiculous territory. Everybody, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.800 this is the time of year where we're like, you know, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.360 putting like this guy's in this list and this and 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.960 the jection ture has been absolutely incredible, and we put 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.680 him as a second round talent for next year. I'm 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.040 not sure how you feel about that, Like back end 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.040 of the second round twenty five to thirty is probably 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.760 going to be like an easy so like a third 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.520 rounder and head to head twelve team, fifteen team roto 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.240 probably the back end of the second round. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.080 He has such an amazing profile. Everything is, everything is amazing. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.400 He hits the ball hard, he steals you know, the 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.600 in game power is good. He doesn't strike out a lot, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.600 the walk rate's pretty solid, not a lot of Babbitt pluck. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.720 Like there's nothing you can point to really to say like, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.080 oh I don't really buy this, especially. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:49.800 Being twenty years old. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.200 Like if we're talking about him as the number one 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.480 overall player in fantasy like two or three years from now. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.600 I wouldn't at all be surprised by it. I think 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.240 he's definitely going to be a second rounder. If you 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.000 get him in the third next I'd be prett happy 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:01.160 with that. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.960 George Kirby allowed one hit over seven innings. He combined 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.120 with Matt Thornton and Edward Bizardo Edward Bizardo for a 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.800 seven zero shutout over the Rangers. This stat also in 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.880 rotal World. Kirby now six to zero with a point 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.080 nine two ERA and eight career starts against the Rangers. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.200 So I mean, like there's a place just built in 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.400 he's had rent free space in the Rangers head as 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.040 Kirby keeps going kind of disappointing, Like the up and 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.360 down of Kirby this year. I really thought he was 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.880 gonna be a cy young contender, but he has still been, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.520 you know, pretty phenomenal in points. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.719 Yeah, I mean I thought he was going to take 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.439 that step forward. I thought there was a chance that 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.079 he could break into like that top three overall pitchers 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.320 in baseball. But he's kind of if you look at 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.960 the preseason projections, just pulling up what they had in 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.400 the Fangrass projections preseason, He's kind of done like exactly 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.120 what they were thinking pretty much. Three five, three six, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:01.520 type era, twenty three percent strikeout rate, solid whip. I've 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.200 heard a lot of Mariners fans recently. I think it's 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.840 because of the bad stretch that you had talked about 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.680 how it was a disappointing season, but you know where 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.600 I drafted Kirby. I find it hard to be actually 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.440 disappointed in the production I've gotten. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.560 Yeah, I think a lot of it had to do 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.560 with it was just like sky high expectations. Like I 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.720 remember the moment for it wasn't everybody, it was for me, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.640 But it was like about ten months ago a little 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.080 bit more maybe here at first pitch out here in 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.920 Arizona and I'm on Rates and Barrels live show. It 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.680 was me Eno and DVR, and someone asked the question 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.839 because in the studio audience on the live show of 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.360 like you know who if it's not I think they said, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.080 you know somebody, not Garrett Cole or whatever, who is 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.440 the number one pitcher? And I had brought up George Kirby, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.760 And it was because of the command numbers and like 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.680 Jason Collett was with me and we kind of had 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.679 this long conversation around it where you know, a bunch 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.199 of us were picking on, like, because there's different elements 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.400 sometimes we're gonnaocus on. Sometimes it's going to be you know, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.880 obviously strikeout rate and pitchability. But it was like George 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.079 Kirby's command master, and it was like, if he could 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.440 just improve here, those command numbers could equate to him 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.880 maybe being like an elite strikeout player number one in baseball, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.560 but he just still is inconsistent. You know, he just 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.560 has those blow up games where you know he doesn't 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.600 want to walk somebody and he starts pitching to too 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.640 much contact and then it just gets blown up or whatever. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.680 Kirby's an interesting one. A couple of good guys that 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.520 have definitely helped up fantasy teams as of recent David 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.720 Peterson allowed four hits, one run with six strikeouts across 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.280 seven and two thirds and a no decision against Philly. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.920 He had eighteen swing and misses, which was almost a 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.240 season high. Also fourteen hard hit balls. I've seen that 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.439 quite a bit lately. I was doing some CBS h 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.280 Q hits talking about some pitchers with some really really 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.360 big hard hit numbers. And then the other one with 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.480 the Reds. Ret Louder allowed three runs on six hits, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.760 five and one third struck out five. They lost, but 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.880 has a one point seven to four ERA over his 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.760 you know, last four MLB starts has been great. He's 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.920 kind of a if he threw ninety seven, he'd be 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.720 a Kirby clone because he's a guy that likes to 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.480 hit the zone. He struggled a little bit with that, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.120 got that wipeout sweeper slider. He's been throwing thoughts on 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.080 David Peterson Rehet Louder right now. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.480 David Peterson is one of the hardest pitchers to evaluate 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.400 in all of baseball. Like he's having the best stretch 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.320 of his career to eighty five ERA, but it's come 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.240 with a nineteen percent strikeout rate, a one point three 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.200 to one whip, almost a double digit walk rate. I 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.719 don't really trust him, I really don't. I know he's 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.960 been mowing down solid teams here, but if I'm looking 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.200 at lineups for the last couple of weeks and having 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.520 to trust what he's done, I just don't know that 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.680 it's really that sustainable. Everything below the surface is a 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.839 little bit concerning for David Peterson unless he gets the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.840 strikeout rate back up to where it was because he 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.600 was an elite not maybe not elite, but twenty six 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.440 twenty seven percent strikeout rate down to nineteen, I just 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.800 don't feel a lot of safety throwing him out there. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.560 For Louder, he's also been good, but you know, he's 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.160 really and he's a younger guy, so it's a little 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.400 bit different, but he's way out performing his expected metrics, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.120 not a lot of strikeouts. So both of them kind 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.160 of make me nervous down the stretch here deploying them 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.080 over the last couple of weeks. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.480 To be honest, we're also in a point like in 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.199 the chat was talking about you, just like I also 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.679 people asking question here, question there, and it's like, it's 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.679 the last two weeks. You just got to have a 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.080 quick trigger finger. The thing that's really been working with 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.079 the Mets. They are one of the hottest teams in baseball. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.680 That was the thing I did. I think it was Saturday. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.840 I did a hit on HQ doing a couple we 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.520 were talking about maybe it was Friday, you know, I 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.280 think you know it was Friday, talking about like Jacob 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.440 de Grom's first start and a couple other things, and 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.040 the Mets had just pulled off a win over the 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.320 Phillies and they're like nine in one in their last 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.720 ten and they're you know, their bullpen era had been solid, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.680 their overall era over the last thirty days had been money. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.320 There's just momentum, and sometimes momentum carries. So like, I agree, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.920 I agree. I'm always paying attention to underlying stats and 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.800 overperforming and stuff like that, But when there's like, you know, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.240 two more starts to go and you have momentum on 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.199 the side, I think Peterson's pretty fascinating. I think Louder 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.240 is also pretty fascinating. And we'll continue, by the way, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.840 rest of the show talking about other ins and outs 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.360 of players that might be helping you guys, you know, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.600 over this next week, because, like I said, just you go, oh, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:22.920 guys not performing yet, Bye bye bye. Injuries at this point, obviously, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.880 an il stint is a season ender, but any type 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.680 of injury is warranted. So like I'm just gonna throw 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.400 this out. Who put this question in here? 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:32.800 R M. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.440 I'm guessing Garcia said, should I drop Kowser for win? 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.960 Robless or Pete Crow Armstrong head to head points semi final, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.480 not Robless. Robless is on our injury report, so I 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.520 would be scared about him. I might for Pete Crow 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.320 Armstrong because he's been one of the hottest players in baseball. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:50.719 I got him on the list by the way to 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:56.160 run homer victory over the Rockies on Sunday. I'm not 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.320 looking at it this say. I think he's pacing out 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.840 to like thirty stolen bases, just quietly having what a 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.520 Nico Horner year. He is Nico Horner in the outfield, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.640 except he had a really bad stretch run. And I 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.480 don't know why people don't perceive people perceive I think 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.120 him in a worse light. Nico Horner always didn't have 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.480 power projection, and he overplayed his stolen bases a bit, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.960 and I hated him this year as far as fantasy goes. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.080 But Pete Armstrong was free, has been free, has had 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:29.640 absurdly low percentage ownership percentages up until two weeks ago. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.160 A week ago, so he has been a massive pickup. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.640 He's been hot. Pick up the hot hand right now. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.800 Still in base guys don't really help in points, but 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.760 you know, a little bit of power is showing off 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.480 scoring runs. I'm into Pete ro Armstrong right now. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:42.320 Oh, I am too. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.160 I think the reason people were more down on him 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.640 is because it was just so bad initially offensively, like 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.200 what he did last year, what he did the first 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.840 half of this season. He had like a thirty six 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.000 WRC plus for the first half of the season. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:54.720 He was not doing anything. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.320 I know, over the last month, he's a top ten 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.760 fantasy player while playing some of the best defense in 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.960 the league. I think that people are kind of just 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.480 slow on the turnaround because of how low he was before. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.440 But yeah, he's only fifty six percent rostered on Yahoo. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.440 I'm sure it's even lower on ESPN and a little 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.200 bit higher probably on CBS. But he's available. I wouldn't 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.920 have any problem making that swap for Kowser. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.400 Yeah, I would make that swap if you want to 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.440 do that. That's a play to definitely go with two 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.280 on the interesting column. And I'm pointing this one out 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.280 because I literally this was the back to that TV 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.720 hit that I did. I was literally talking about this 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.480 and then I just kind of like laughed when I 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:33.120 saw it after coming into a tied game. Rice el Iglesias, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.400 whom I just want to point out had not allowed 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.920 a run since June sixteenth. He had had I believe, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:46.680 thirty four straight innings of not giving up an earned run. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.800 Gave up five runs in two thirds of an inning 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.400 as the Braves loss to the Dodgers, which is crazy 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.080 the not earned run. This is a note that Rotal 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.640 World had, which was when he took his own is 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.400 only lost in fifty nine appearances. This season's era still 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.360 under two, but it jumped almost a full run. I 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.520 just I like laugh to myself because we were talking 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.760 about this, and I'm like, yeah, Risler Glacier has been absurd. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.800 Thirty four straight innings, he's been so locked down, and 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:21.640 then probably most critical time, big playoff piece for people 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.760 going into Championship week, he gets blown up for five 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.800 and runs. I guess it wasn't a blown save situation, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.480 but takes a loss. I just thought that was fascinating 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.120 with Iglesias. And do you think Iglesias is going to 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.920 be like a top five closer next year? He's not 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.280 going to be in the pricey price range, but I 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.720 don't know, like he was around six or seven this year, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.760 so it's not going to be that much worse or 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:44.640 that much better. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.000 I suppose even he should be close to a thirty 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.840 one saves buck eighty seventy right point seven to two. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.240 Whip is just insane. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.120 So I feel like Edwin Diaz is probably going to 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.920 go ahead of him because of the name value and 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.840 a lot of leagues Class A will go ahead of him. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.880 Maybe hater he's top five, though he should be top five. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.040 It's funny the guy in the chance on the chat 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.240 Glaciers lost me my championship yesterday. So I was away 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.520 over the weekend with a friend and we were doing 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.679 all these pickups for the head to head semifinals and 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:12.120 like all right. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.520 Stream jpcars, stream, you know whoever else. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.919 Were talking, David fest and all this stuff, and it 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.280 he was up seven to three with like a couple 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.600 of games left, and I was like, all right, look, 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.040 you look like you're pretty good. Riise Ellah Glacy has 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:25.080 cost him his whole season yesterday is no whole season. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.119 Lost Whip by point one, lost e ra a. It's crazy, man. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.800 Head to head is all that it takes is just 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.520 one bad ye outing and your whole season is done. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:34.080 It's awful. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:39.040 It definitely will turn you into cry baby Rodo, Like yeah, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.320 like we have those stories. Our friend group has those 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.680 stories that our famous fam our little world was our 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.480 bogman and I's friend will. He was up in the 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.120 Championships Sunday night baseball Hunter Pence comes up, hits two 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.359 homers in the game, we tie eight to eight, and 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.399 I won because of tiebreakers in the regular season. So 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.080 he would change his team to like eight dash eight 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.280 would be his team name, like never for these are 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.000 the things that these are your villain arcs, this type 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.680 of the season. Bt Fouts Iglesias is his villain arc 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.520 right there. Can you imagine? It's just such a brutal blow. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.359 The other fun piece, I still can't believe this is real. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.040 Helio Ramos hit a game tying homer in the ninth 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.639 inning yesterday on Sunday. Giants ended up losing, but that 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:32.439 wasn't the story. Ramos became the first ever right handed 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.719 hitter in the history of Oracle Park to hit it 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.679 into the right field bay, to hit it over into 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:45.399 the water, the first right handed hitter ever. I can't 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.120 I isn't like twenty five years this day? 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:48.280 Is that? 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.639 Am I wrong about that? With a stadium that's a crazy, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.800 crazy stat to me. And it was Helio Ramos. So 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.080