WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 22nd, 2022 (Ep. 579) 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.960 Leading Off starts right now. Friends, I am Chris Welsh. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.320 That is Andrew Seifer, and welcome in and thank you 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.079 for hanging out with us. Leading Off brought to you 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.480 by bet MGM. It's a brand new week. We are 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.920 almost in September. We are in the final stretch, and 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.000 Andrew and I are here to help you out. Andrew, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:32.199 how was your weekend? My friend? 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.560 So good man, I just you know, I was telling 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.199 you right before show. I took my daughter to a 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.800 little butterfly garden, got out in some fresh air because 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.360 you know, with all the sports watching going on, sometimes 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:43.960 it's hard. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.640 To get out of your your living room there. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.040 But you know, especially with football coming too, I know Sunday, 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.080 you know, Sundays and Saturdays are going to start getting 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.840 booked for me for a lot of TV watching. So I 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.600 got to take those nature opportunities when I can, you know. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.280 Speaking of bet MGM, I found myself even on another 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.160 realm of wanting to bet this week, and because there 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.280 was even preseason NFL, and it got my baseball juices 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.679 going a little bit more. I did think I cursed 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.480 it though. I had one bet yesterday and I'm sorry 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.440 I had two baseball bets, and they both surrounded around 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.600 Shoho Tani and the Angels and couldn't have done a 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.880 better job about that, cursing Otani having one of his 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 worst starts of his career, eighty five pitches through four, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.480 couldn't strike anybody out, couldn't command anything, couldn't do anything. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.480 Angels had an opportunity. I also had a total team 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.920 total runs in the first five they had all the 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.080 base I think the bases were loaded with hern Gifo. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.080 It was a. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.400 Disaster, but we're gonna change it this week. Whether it's 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.680 football and or baseball betting, We've got the whole gambit 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.160 of stuff to talk about, so let's get right into it. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.480 Cardinals sweep my Diamondbacks over the weekend to extend a 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.200 seven game winning streak, and I picked up a couple 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.200 homers from Goldie. So again, I don't I think I'm 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.320 at like thirty maybe maybe thirty homers go Cards probably knows. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.440 I don't exactly know where I'm at. Look at the 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.960 home run board, because we do have a new leader 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.840 here in just a little bit. It would be a 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.640 miracle for me to get in there. But I think 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.919 I am crossing the thirty home run mark, which I'm 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.720 very happy about. The Cardinals sweep the Diamondbacks over the 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.480 weekend and now seven game winning streak be as they rock. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.400 In twelve games with the Dodgers, Andrew Joey Gallow has 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.600 slashed two sixty seven, three seventy one, six sixty seven. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.400 The Yankees, he had a one fifty nine, two eighty two, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.440 three thirty nine slash line. Joey Gallow was not done. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 Shout out to Wonky for it. How much does your 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.400 how much in your belief does Joey Gallow exist like 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.160 rest of season into next year? Was this really a 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.679 change of scenery that was needed because we're seeing that 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.560 remember that theoretical time where we look at Joey Gallow's 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.240 numbers when he was with the Rangers, were like, if 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.120 he could just hit two thirty, he would be this. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.360 He is doing that in a platoonish type of role 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.720 with the Dodgers. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.960 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think Joey Gallow 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.480 is what joe Gallop has always been. And people, you know, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.240 it is funny what you said is totally true. With batting, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.600 average people always can kind of just dream because you 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.000 know there is more fluctuation with that stat from year 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.000 to year, So there will be some years where he 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.040 hits for a higher average. There are also be years 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.680 where his average, like this year is like one seventy, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.680 you know. And I think going to the Dodgers sometimes 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.880 you get excited, you know, you get a short term boost, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.080 but I don't really see that as something that's going 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.200 to be changed his outlook longer term, even for the 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.200 rest of the season. Like you said, he's he's a 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.480 platoon player. I mean, he's only he's only playing against righty, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.120 so you know, it's it's you know, I'd almost rather 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.680 have Albert Pooholes, honestly, you. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.840 Know, it's fine. I remember back in the day, we 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.800 would you took a look, you take a look at 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.320 like kind of stacking players in fantasy, and we would 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.440 go if you had I'm trying to remember who the 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.480 runner was. Maybe it was all who is the astros guy? 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.520 It's not Willie Tavirus if you remember, like and maybe 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:59.880 I'm mixing it, but it was like if you took 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.440 a WILLI to various type of guy, and then you 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.520 took Joey Gallo, if you combine them together, you would 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.480 have like a first overall fantasy player. But it's the 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.360 dream on and there's a lot of those guys that 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.600 acusly would be a fun article of like who are 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.240 players we'd dream on? You know, we dream on Joey 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.160 Gallo doing this. We dream on Byron Buckston, you know, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.040 being out there. We dream on Mike Trout continuously being healthy. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.240 But this is actually something good for Joey Gallo's career. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.640 I actually think that this would continue. You know, Dodgers 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.279 only put him in in a place to succeed, even 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.640 if his bats at bats were lower. I would rather 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.240 four hundred at bats versus writings with Joey Gallo than 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.640 six hundred and fifty doing the whole thing and struggling 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.000 and losing time. This would I wish teams would take 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.000 some of these players because we're seeing like an uptick 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:46.360 in these like to ten to fifteen to twenty type 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.480 of hitters more and more. Let's just put them in 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.360 the best situations to succeed. You know, Brandon Jury kind 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.839 of bucked that a little bit, but why not? Why not? Andrew? 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.560 Yeah, I mean it's like it's so format dependent, honestly, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.400 with a player like Joey Gallo, though I feel like, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.520 you know, it's if you're in a points league, like 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.360 he's better, you know, because he draws walks and the 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.159 batting average doesn't kill you as much. If you're in 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.599 a daily lineups league and you don't mind a little 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.680 maintenance on your team, then yeah, you play him when 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.960 when he's playing, You sit him when he's sitting against 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.840 the lefties, and. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.080 You get the best out of him. So you can 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:19.640 make it work. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.080 You can also draft, you know, go into the season 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.480 and draft some high batting average guys to like offset gallop. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.520 So there are ways to make it work. He's a 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.000 high maintenance player in my opinion and for fantasy. So 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.200 if you're the kind of manager that just wants to 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.960 set it and forget it, or you know, if you 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.320 have weekly lineups, you're getting like a top one hundred, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.160 top one fifty at best overall player for the full 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.919 season when you factor in the warts. But if you 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.200 have some flexibility in your format, can he can be 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:47.080 valuable for you. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.040 Do an article called Once upon a Dream, and I'll 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.800 just take these players where it's like, if they could 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.560 just do this one thing, everything could be okay in 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.920 the world. They can only do one Alec Boom two 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.800 homers in the Mets loss. Boom now a three to 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.760 nineteen average in the second half compared to a two 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.200 seventy six. And I just wanted to bring this up 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.640 to you, Andrew, because I was just doing a little 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.719 deep dive on Alec Bohm and across the board it's 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.560 all better in the second half. I show up hard 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.080 hit was around twenty eight percent in the first half. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.279 It's up to thirty eight percent in the second half. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.279 I mean, you pick the number. Strikeout percentage has gone 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.279 down or k percentage has gone down by two. The 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.240 entire thing has fixed itself to a degree, of course. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.360 And over the last thirty days, at least on Yahoo's algorithm, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.160 he is a top thirty five overall player with four homers, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.760 twenty one RBI, seventeen runs and that three nineteen batting 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.559 average essentially equating to the second half is the last 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.320 thirty days. And do you think the death of Alec 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.119 Bohm in fantasy was premature as he's really found seemed 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.120 to find a stride even though none of it's elite. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.359 You know, four homers, blah bla blah, it's not going 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.440 to work. But he does have three homers in each 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.000 of the last two months as it's picking up Alec 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.080 Boum sixty percent owned and Yahoo Alec Boem Trust rest 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.880 of this season and into the future. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.360 I mean, I don't think he's going to kill you. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.040 I think he's got a really good hit tool. I 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.080 think he can hit for a pretty high average. To me, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.119 the question is really about the power because he doesn't 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.400 offer steals. So if he's not offering steals and he's 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.160 not offering home runs, he's not going to be that 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.640 interesting in a Rodo categories kind of league. You don't 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.480 want him to be Luis Arayaz, right, So you know, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.480 it is nice to see the upteck and power. I 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.240 don't know if you looked when you looked at his splits, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.160 if you happen to look at his launch angle, because 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.600 that's the thing I'm really wanting to see. His launch 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.320 angle's ten point eight percent for the season right now, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.320 so that's up from last year, but it's still pretty mediocre. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.920 It's not the kind of launch angle that is going 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.520 to get you twenty five thirty home runs over a season, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:49.440 I don't think. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:49.600 So. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.680 He does make hard contact, but he hits a lot 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.720 of line drives, hits a lot of ground balls. So 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.160 you know, I still am not really there in believing 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.400 that the power is come based on this short hot streak, 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.720 So I need to see it more before I believe that. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.640 But you know, he's only twenty six years old, so 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.360 he's got a long career ahead of him. I could 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.880 certainly see him making the adjustments to become more of 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.920 a power hitter. I just don't know if that's happened yet. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.080 I think there might be something in Dynasty for a 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.560 buy rest of season. I think you just you're comfortable 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.160 with what you know you have with him, and it's 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.720 probably shorter league where he's available first to second half. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.960 August has been a little bit of a drudge outlie 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:26.200 of the side of this last week, and it was 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.720 really July that he boosted. But homer und the fly 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.560 ball ratio eight percent in the first half jumped up 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.640 to almost fourteen percent this half. His ground ball rate 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.360 has also dropped by around three percent this half. His 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.960 slugging is up over one hundred points, So this is 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.880 really about what he's doing in the second half. Is 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.120 there sustainability? Have we found growth in him? And if 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.400 we take these numbers of what he's doing in this 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.600 short stin of the second half, can this be something 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.240 elongated over a season for next year? And I think 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.319 it might be. What it would do for him though, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.520 is this would probably be something where you know, he's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.880 like a poor, poor poor man's Alec Bregman, you know, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.480 Alex Bregman, where it's like, you're gonna maybe get to 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.720 twenty five homers, you could have a high adding average. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.920 Bregman's gonna get a more steels than Bom is going 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.720 to be just something to look out for as he 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.080 kind of picks that up. On the prospect side, the 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.319 Royals are calling up Drew Waters from Triple A. He 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.760 was he was acquired like last month in that brave 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.400 competitive balance pick trade that they did where the Braves 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.400 were just picking up the thirty fifth overall pick and 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.760 they got and the Royals got Drew Waters and he 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.719 was see blah blah blah two three ninety nine five 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.720 forty one slash is seven homers and the thirteen stolen 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.560 bases in one hundred and forty three played appearances over 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.480 thirty one games of the Royals so far. Drew Waters 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.600 was a very highly, highly tited prospect. There's a huge, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.720 huge bat speed in his game, There's a lot of 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.360 swing and miss. He's kind of stalled. There were big 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.120 stolen base numbers. This is the like the theoretical five 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.680 tool type of outfielder whose hit tool really really regressed. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.960 And now he's gonna come up with the Royals and 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.520 get an opportunity to have any interest in speculating on 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.280 a guy like Drew Waters who has some you know, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.520 power speed potential if he plays through the second half 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.200 of this year and really you know, also just him 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.440 having the potential to play when he's found his groove 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.560 with the Royals is a big move because the Braves 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.520 typically move up their outfielders. He was the outlier that 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.440 did not get it. So any interest in Drew Waters. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.200 I certainly would be interested in a speculative ad in 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.280 a Rodeo categories league just because of the sole and 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.360 based potential that he brings. You know, I feel like 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.600 he's very much the opposite kind of player as Alex Boem. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.040 He's very toolsy player. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.839 But you know, you look at the minor league numbers 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.200 and you mentioned he was hitting two ninety five in 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.640 the Royals Triple A system, but he had a twenty 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.600 eight point seven percent strikeout rate, So oh, you know, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.280 if you have that highest strike out rate in Triple A, like, 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.120 you're probably going to be striking out well north of 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.240 thirty percent in the big leagues, which means you're going 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.000 to be a major batting average liability. So like, it 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.839 wouldn't surprise me to see him kind of go the 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.080 root of like Josh Low, where it just doesn't work out. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.959 But it's fine to take a chance. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.920 I have no problem with that as long as the 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.040 Royals actually do give him regular playing time. We always assume, oh, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.880 this is a team that's out of it, like they 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.400 they why wouldn't they play their young guys the last 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.520 five six weeks of the season. But we've seen the 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.400 Royals frustrate us with some of this stuff before. I mean, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.640 they kept Carlos Santana around way longer than we wish 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.920 they would, and we had to wait on Vinie pas Quentino, 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.640 we had to wait on MJ. Melendez to get regular 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.360 playing time. Edward Oliveris is a guy people have always 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.320 gotten really excited about, and then he doesn't. He never plays, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.199 you know, so I mean, they still have Kyle I 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.120 isbel there, They've got Michael Taylor. There's some guys who 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.240 could be standing in his way for regular playing time. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.760 So I want to just kind of see how it 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:36.360 pans out. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.280 Something to be interesting to watch with him, Like a 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.280 lot of guys, there's kind of a I've seen some 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.200 chatter about this online over the weekend about how teams 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.560 are starting to adjust to Michael Harris and the big 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.520 I mean, it is like I really want to actually 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.559 talk to the AFL coming in like a month and 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.640 a half. I really want to talk to some prospects 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.640 about this and what changed and when this became the thing. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.720 But like one of the biggest issues in developmental changes, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.680 especially if you have really good hitters, is high fastballs. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.400 And like I got to report kind of really good prospect, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.520 one of the top prospects, and how the only hole 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.320 in their game currently is high velocity and in the 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.079 upper region of the zone. And that's something that kind 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.600 of like a lot of these guys are always dealing 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.679 with and always struggling through, where like Michael Harris has 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.920 been hitting nothing but fastballs. Guy's grooving in high v low. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.199 A lot of relievers and stuff and not throwing them 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.240 off speed pitches. And I'd be curious to see if 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.080 that's what Drew Water sees early on, because I actually 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.160 think he could have some early success if he gets 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.400 a bunch of fastballs. But then what's going to happen 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.800 is when teams start, you know, throwing in any breaking 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.680 pitches and then complimenting that with high zone fastballs. Is 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.439 he a higher upper zone fastball hitter. And I don't 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.920 think he is big strikeout guy. He's kind of a 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.400 chase guy. So just monitor him, just kind of throwing 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.640 it out there and letting everybody know that Drew Waters 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.880 is coming up. On the injury front, Braxton Garrett fifteen 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.640 day IL, Tyler Molly fifteen IL with shoulder inflammation. Actually 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.040 thought we were gonna not get him there, Sir Anthony 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.840 Dominguez on the fifteen day. George Springer was hit on Sunday, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.319 but otherwise he missed the weekend with right knee soreness. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:14.040 That's kind of just been a continuous thing with him. Unfortunately, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.600 Eric Costmer miss Sunday's game after leaving Saturday with lower 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.960 back stiffness. Granky was pulled from his start on Sunday 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.559 with right forum cramping. Look at all these injuries, King 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.080 Thompson on the fifteen goes Many grand Doll on the 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.520 ten day with the hyper extended knee, and Kyle Hendricks 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.920 out for the rest of the year. With twenty twenty two, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.000 we are in that like out for the rest of 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.800 the season thing here with this month ago, you're gonna 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.800 have teams just giving up pushing out. I expect to 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.559 probably see a big uptick in injuries, Andrew, don't. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.240 You like Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.320 I'm hoping with Tyler Molly that it will be a 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.720 short stay on the IL and clearly they need him. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.080 They went out and got him, so, you know, and 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.400 he had really turned his season around as well. So 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.840 I'm still like hopeful that we get a month more 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.000 of good Tyler Mole in September to you know, help 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.520 us with that stretch run. And Braxton Garrett is a 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.760 real disappointing one for me because I really he just 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.520 seemed on the verge of a huge breakout to me, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.400 and then he had this string of just awful matchups. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.240 I wrote about him in my waiver wire piece at 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.720 Fantasy pros on I wrote it on Friday. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.400 It came up Saturday morning. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.520 But you know, he was still a players recommending to 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.560 pick up just because of the potential. But I was like, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.400 you know, you're not gonna want to start him, probably 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.560 against the Dodgers, And now we have this, so it's 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.280 it's kind of a bummer. Maybe his maybe his full 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.080 breakout gets pushed back to twenty twenty three. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.120 But I still really like him for the long term. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.200 So I got a random it's a new segment. It's 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.680 a brand new segment on the show. You know, we 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.760 love to interact. We've got the peanuts and cracker jacks. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.560 We have one of the best chats. There's rocking through. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.520 Look at all these guys. If you guys aren't hanging out, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:53.720 get in here. You get the whole crew. And hear 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.600 Wonky is rocking with everybody. So man of the people, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.720 and I like to see what the chatter is. So 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.680 we are going to do a new segment. It's called 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.880 Twitter Chatter. What's going on? I'm pick a totally random 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.120 baseball tweet, has nothing to do with anything, completely random, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.080 and it close my eyes. Pick okay, here it is. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.200 This is from John Anderson from Rotoballer, totally random tweet 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.880 ONEO Cruz has been one of the worst hitters in 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.440 the league this year, So that's nine for Pirates fans. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.600 He's hitting one ninety six with a two forty four 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.240 OBP at three eighty six slugging. He's got a huge 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.160 strikeout problem thirty eight percent, and his sixty one percent 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.360 contact rate is horrific, and he's hitting way too many 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.640 ground balls fifty three percent when he does make contact. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:40.800 It's totally random. Tweet Andrew completely innocuous ONEO Cruz Rookie 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.880 of the Year, not so much heading under two hundred. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:49.000 You got it? Is Oneokruz trustworthy on your roster rest 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.400 of season in redraft. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.840 I mean I wouldn't say he's trustworthy, but I would 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.280 point out he's got nine homers and six deals in 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.760 fifty games. So like, that's that's a pretty good pace. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.800 That's that's a what twenty thirty home run fifteen plus 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.120 steel pace more thirty steel pace, So yeah, I mean 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.280 that'll play, you know, in a category rodor league at least, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.080 and at points leek it probably doesn't play at all. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.560 And I agree, I mean with that swing and miss 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.080 in his game, like the batting average is not really 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.120 a fluke. I mean, this guy clearly has some adjustments 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.480 to make to be a long term major League baseball player. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.240 But it's one of those things where in fantasy you 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:29.800 can kind of deal with it a little bit. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:30.040 You know. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.720 Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I obviously I disagree 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.720 a little bit when you say, like it totally plays like, yeah, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.640 the homers in the stolen bases, they play to a degree, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.280 but you know you're going to sink your batting average 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.080 and you're going to have you might have a week 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:48.640 of sunken stats. But again, oh no, Cruise, super crazy talent, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.600 just you know, one of the biggest strikeout rates hitting 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.440 under two hundred and maybe one of the most overrated, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.880 overrated guys as far as public perception for this year. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.960 But yeah, he's so young, now, I mean, come on, 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.000 he's yeah. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.880 It's my I have a big if you don't get 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.280 the bit here, I've been critical of him this year 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.960 and how he was anointed. He literally came up and 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.720 the first day he came up, he had Rookie of 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.160 the Year top odds. He was gonna win the award 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.600 this year. I think he's completely overrated. Long term, he's 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.760 a buye. He's his talent is stupid. The home run 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.159 when he gets it figured out. If he gets it 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.440 figured out, it's going to be well. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:28.960 It's like it's the same thing you were talking about 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.440 with Joey Gallo. Honestly, it's like people dream like, oh, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.560 what if he can only hit two fifty then all 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.439 of a sudden, all this power and speed, He's going 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.399 to be a stud, you know. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.399 But in my article, if I was writing that article, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.000 Joey Gallo would be in there. He would one hundred percent. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.719 I mean, because he's that guy that you know, even 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.000 in bad batting averages, you can probably still project high runs, RBI, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.520 homer and stolen bases. Maybe not iby and run are 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.400 gonna be a little dicey, maybe in the median range, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.640 but you can project if you're gonna get twenty eight 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.680 homers and twelve stolen bases, that's awesome. It just doesn't 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.520 feel great when it's attached to a one batting average Drew. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.640 But I'd rather dream on a twenty three year old, 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.399 you know, who's just getting his first taste of the 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.320 major leagues than dreaming on Joey Gallo, who we know 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:10.199 what he is one way or. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.760 Another context of what you're saying in redraft or dynasty. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.720 Uh well, I mean, honestly, I don't think i'd want 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.320 either of them in my starting lineup in a ten 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.720