WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 14th, 2023 (Ep. 726) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.879 What's up, Brindos and welcome into Leading Off. It's a 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.600 Monday edition. I am Welsh, it is Bubba, and Leading 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:14.280 Off is brought to you by Price Picks. Go and 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.840 check out Price Picks today. Use promo code leading Off. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.680 Get a hundred bucks matched up one hundred percent of 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.760 one hundred bucks matched on Price Picks. Just go use 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.479 a promo code, make a little depositive deposit, have some 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.640 fun today. Oh hello, Bubba, what a weekend of he 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.559 knew he who shall not be named players, huge home 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.919 run board changes and a whole bunch more Bubba, How 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:38.880 was your weekend, my friend? 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.680 It was good. It was a chill pretty hot where 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.599 I live, pretty hot where you live. It's a relaxing 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.159 weekend actually for the first time god knows how long. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.000 So yeah, just watch some baseball, watch some golf, and 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.720 so far I am not in do not fly list, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:54.360 so we're good. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.040 That's right, that's right, Bubba and Welsh. He's staying out 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.440 of trouble. I'm gonna stay out of trouble. In this segment, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.360 we will talk about that thing here in a little bit. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.200 Tons of talk about and we have a brand new 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:14.319 where are Corbin and Welsh today. Uh, in just a 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.000 little bit, I'm going to give you the hint, and 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.800 then at the end when we get to the home 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.400 run contest, I am going to We're going to get 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.440 into it. Remember, I'm gonna start tallying. So this is 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.920 going to be done only in the chat. So once 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.360 I give the hint, and you know, leading up to it, 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.720 you guys can give some guesses. I will tally in 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.240 and I'm gonna have a little you know, autograph Corby 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.800 Carroll card to give at the end of the season 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.240 for everybody that hangs out and plays the game. Where 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.440 are where are we? Now? That's what we're doing here. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.679 Over the weekend, Matt Olsen took over the home run 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.440 board not just here and vaulting me up a little 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.440 bit more. And Joe, Joe finds this amazing way every 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.200 year to hone in on the player. When he leaves 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.240 that he's just like, I'll take the player and that 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.320 guy just has homer's galore because he took medals and 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.800 I took medalson this week in Bubba. He had three 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.320 homers this week and including a double dong day now 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.880 forty three. I believe that is too up on Otani 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.959 for the league lead in home runs. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.200 It is two up on Otani. It's got well over 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.919 one hundred RBIs this year. It's crazy as recording a 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.400 show on Sunday night and just bone blasts one off 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.880 of the eighth inning, and I'm just like, the guy's 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.080 just not human. It's like I just said it a 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.040 while ago on Twitter. While the brains are a cheat 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.240 coild right now and they don't even need coors Field, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.280 that just wherever they play. It's insane. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.239 He has nuts that you remember that bet we were talking 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.600 about last week, the Akunya or any other player. Yeah, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.440 that's still live on DK. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.679 Olson's making an argument, but it's moved down. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.400 Just a little bit. It moved the plus was five hundred, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.320 it's moved to plus four hundred. Acunyas is still the 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.960 exact same. Matt Olsen. Not to say that it would happen, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.639 because especially when you have two players eating into each other, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.400 but you do want to start talking about the crazy 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.800 things that can happen with still like almost two months 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.000 left of a season, he's got forty three. He's plus 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.320 eighteen hundred. If you are trying to bet MVP Freddy 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.480 Freeman is plus four hundred, and those are probably your 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:12.160 two biggest bets. You're you're essentially betting Olsen and Freeman 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.520 to beat Akunya when you get that plus four hundred. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.400 But if you want to bet Olsen eighteen hundred, the 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.119 better odds are just sticking with him. He has been 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.520 absolutely bonkers. I mean, do you think, how badly do 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.000 you think we underestimated Matt Olsen? And how much do 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.480 you buy this version of Matt Olsen right now going 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.280 into next year. I know that's kind of a weird question. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.359 But he's got his batting of which is two seventy three. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.280 He's already hit over one hundred rbi. He's this week 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.720 he's gonna probably crush thee hundred run marker. And you 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.400 want to talk about, you know, baseball savant fishing. Here 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.240 he is the king of Kings. It's ninety nine percentile 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.720 bill percentage, ninety nine percent to a hard hit, walk 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.120 is ninety six percent, oile x lug ninety eight percent 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.600 tile Outside of the strikeouts, he's improved in every other facet. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.240 I just made an adjustment in my dynasty rank to 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.680 kind of re establish who he's been this year. Do 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.000 you think we're gonna be paying next year for what 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.000 Olsen did this year? And that's gonna hurt. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.120 Us one hundred percent. You're gonna have to pay the 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.119 piper on this one. I think he's close to this talent. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.520 I think he's more of a two fifty hitter, but 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.640 the power's legit. This is who he is, especially in 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.440 that ballpark he got to Oakland, which we all knew 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.560 would benefit him in a big, big way. So yeah, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.960 I think he's worth every penny. He's like, I guess 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.599 in the grand scheme of things, we're paying the price 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.760 because if people like Pete Alonso, why don't you like 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.279 Matt Olson, Like they should be going to the same 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.360 conversation now come draft day. Alonzo's proven he can it 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.880 for a better average, more consistently throughout his career. But Olsen, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.000 You're gonna pay the price. And that's just the way 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.719 it's gonna go. It's gonna be interesting to see if 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.800 it's worth enough, because he got Freddie Freeman, not his 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.159 gold shmitht fall. Even more, he's not having the greatest season, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.000 but still a good season. Like that's a whole other 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.400 discussion for later. At a different time. But yes, you 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.400 will be paying for med Olson and it's probably worth it. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:04:59.840 Just know it ain't gonna be this good. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.240 Yeah, And like it doesn't mean it's like a negative 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.320 when you say you're paying you know this for last 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:07.640 year's production. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.599 You're pretty good. You're getting forty plus homers, even if 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.359 it's two fifty average, he's gonna get one hundred rbiyes regardless, 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.080 Like it's still going to be a great pay spot. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.159 But you will be paying. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.120 It's just like I think this year we paid for 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.160 pet Alonzo the previous year, and that's maybe a little 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.240 bit of disappointment, not to say that these are going 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.000 to be the same. The strikeout worries definitely are something 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.040 with Matt Olson, but you also can argue like there's 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.719 so much lineup protection. And also walk made a great point. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.640 You want to talk about beneficiaries of the shift. That's 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.400 one of the guys right there. You know it's a 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.800 it's a big victory lap. He said the shift rules 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.160 benefited him even if he's just. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.120 Hitting it over everybody. Yeah, did they shift in the bleachers? 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.040 Did I miss that part? 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.800 Well, I mean the homers have been to yeah, but 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.159 to that point, though I don't know. I don't know 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.320 how much quantitative stuff we have. I don't have it 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.240 like in front of me, but without the shift. I 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.840 do think there are some pitchers that are pitching differently 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.280 a la Sande Contra. I think the approach to pictures 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.400 might be a little bit different on heavy pole guys. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.960 And Matt Olson is one of those players. So he 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.360 did good by me this weekend, my friend. So wait 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.120 till you see that home run board. Wel she's coming. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.200 If I could do the whistle the nigan, the. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.960 I was gonna say, I go say Omar's coming from 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:21.360 the water. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.160 Oh that would be another Yeah, see right there, I 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.560 nailed that Nigan's coming. But it's well, So let's get 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.720 that photoshop in here, please, we're all photoshopped out. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:30.080 Hey. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:34.760 The Yankees absolute collapse. This is a quote by Clay Holmes. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.720 Over the weekend. The mountain gets bigger with every loss. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.760 We put together some wins and string them together and 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.080 get some momentum going and then pull down the drain. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.520 And they gave up. I think it was a five 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.080 run eighth or ninth, was it? It was a five 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.800 runner from the Marlins, and the Yankees are in a 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.880 full on collapse, So you know, we're not trying to celebrate, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.480 but a little bit, a little bit, yeah, yeah. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.680 A little bit. The Evil Empire for a reason. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.080 What do you think, by the way, is going to 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.880 be the fantasy catalyst from this collapse? Is it going 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:13.200 to be aggressiveness and free agency for players that they're 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.120 going to go pick up. Do you think someone's losing 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.160 their job? Do you think there's a player two that 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.320 is going to get ousted? 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:19.440 Like? 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.160 How do you think they're going to rebound from this? 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.840 It's going to be interesting because you know, Cashman's had 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.320 his leash forever, but it feels like it's either let 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.080 him spend all the money, which they've kind of held 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.080 back in the last few years because they said they 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.640 wanted to save Fortani and others, or Cashman's gone. That's 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.840 going to be the real That'll be the first domino 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.840 that will determine I think everything else after that, and 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.200 that'll be the interesting part for sure. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.560 I agree with that. Dane Dunning this week, and I 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.840 you know, we could have put him in the like 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.560 three up and three down, but I wanted to highlight 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:47.080 him with. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.280 The Giants first. I'm just gonna stop you right ahead. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.520 That's fine, but struck out twelve. He's now had double 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.880 digit strikeouts in two of his last three. He has 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.120 been kind of a monster. A three to ten ERA 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.920 has a big all expected era though over a run 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.440 over four point three five to his three to one 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:09.000 zero era. Guys are hitting him hard. But this is 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.480 one of those guys. I think we've talked about it here. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.200 You just have players, and especially if you make a 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.640 board of players that defy what the underlying things say 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.200 to you, I would say Dane Dunning is probably on 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.480 this because there isn't much working in his favor as 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.640 far as like what's good. You know, he doesn't walk 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.800 a whole bunch of guys. He's a command pitcher, pitches 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.000 to command. But he's taken this new step so far 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.200 kind of really. Ever since the trade deadlineer for being 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.640 on August, he's got a two to one eight RA 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.520 over his last three starts, twenty nine strikeouts in twenty 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.679 innings pitched, and looking at this, he did not have 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.400 one single month leading up to this one where he 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.480 had more strikeouts than innings pitched. Ever, and then this 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.040 month he's gone off. Do you buy Dane Dunning rest 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.240 of season because I'm pretty sure ownership is still very 0:08:58.360 --> 0:08:59.720 very palatable out there. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.960 The Dunning thing, he's still a streamer for me, is 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.920 just much more like towards the top of the streamer list, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.160 if that makes sense for people. Uh, there's gonna be 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.840 matchups where you might still get you okay racials, but 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.040 strikeouts won't be there. But there's matchup like the Giants, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.880 he had the whiffs and like if you see if 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.040 you're a CSW person, he had all that going. He 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.640 was shutting him down. He's in the same kind of 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.440 discussion as like a Brady Singer where they're getting you 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.120 the ratios, but the strikeouts kind of fluctuate based on 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.720 their outings. So I think Dunning is very very formidable 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.400 and you're gonna have chances for wins with that lineup 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.000 in a big, big way. So he's a good streamer 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.880 going forward. I still can't start him confidently every time out. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.640 Yeah, big strikeout teams do make me feel confident. I 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.000 don't know. I'm like, probably one more start away, one 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.600 more start like this, well. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:45.880 At least the middle of the pack team. I I'd 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.760 be like, Okay, now we can kind of live with it. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.040 Could the Rangers have later this week, let's. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.599 Go to like they have the Angels to open I 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:52.920 know the week. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.120 Yeah, I know they got the Angels right now, So 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.640 dunning would be let's look at Friday. That team is 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.439 a team with the name as the Brewers. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.960 Okay, so would you I'd start doing I started donning 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:05.520 us the Brewers. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.720 I think we're getting into a space where it's like, okay, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.480 so who are you not starting donning a gait? 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.199 Okay? The Braves a top probably like a top ten offense. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.240 I'm still staying away. Like the Ora, he hasn't face 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.559 the Rangers, so that's good. The Orioles, like if he's 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.200 going into Coors are great American. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.199 I'd be very hesitant you started versus team like Boston. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.240 Right now they're surging, so I'd be very nervous there. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.320 I'd be very nervous. That's why it's kind of like 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.720 a I really would be picking my bad, especially as 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.719 it's later in the season. If you get shelld it's 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.559 really really hard now to fix those ratios. If you're 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.160 in a roto format, I know, like you know itl 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.720 they preach the head to head this time of year 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.319 and everything. But if you're playing rotos, that he could 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.000 be one of those guys that'd either he's great for 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.280 you last few weeks or he could crush you in 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.000 the next two weeks. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.920 Well that's ahead. He can crush you too, crush any 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.719 possibility of your playoffs. You got to get ratios, right, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.520 That's why I get a little bit more worried. But 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.199 I feel like he has become more startable than not startable, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.160 and those are guys. Is that it's like, you know, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.800 maybe you can start taking risks with with there are 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.280 more teams that you can play him against than you can't, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.080 and that's a good thing. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.080 And he's got a good schedule. It's Milwaukee this week, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.120 at Minnesota next week. You're starting for both of those, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.240 So he's definitely on the path of you know, he's 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.000 only got six or seven more starts, so you're probably 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.600 starting at least four of those, just just thinking out loud, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.920 four or five at least. That's probably a pretty solid 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:21.880 ad for sure. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.400 Lead you right into fantasy playoffs or crunch time for roto. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.480 Interesting stuff in the chat going on a lot of 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:33.280 Matt Olson rank stuff. Vlad came in there, which is interesting, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.360 And you know, I just moved. I was moving flat 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.760 down a little bit of my dynasty ranks, and I'm 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.320 a little torn on Olsen versus Vlad long term, but 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.640 like if you are just coming back to it for 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:47.600 a second, Olsen has easily surpassed a Pete Alonzo, and 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.600 I think for redraft next year it's still Freddie Freeman, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.920 but then it's Alonzo like right there those So essentially 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.199 I think Olsen has flipped with Alonzo but pushed up 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.160 where I think those got. I think it'll be hard 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.760 pressed that Olsen and Freeman are both not top fifteen 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.680 picks next year, and I think you could argue there's 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.720 not a picture that deserves to go over them. So 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.840 you know, the first round should be all hitters next 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.280 year probably in most formats, and Vlad is tailing behind. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.520 A better debate would be Vlad versus Pete a Lonzo. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.000 I we I say, in reality, for me, it's Vlad 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.520 verse a guy like Paul Goldschmidt. I guess Lad fall 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.200 into fourth or fifth. I still have a Lonzo over Blad, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.400 but again that could be a debate. But how far 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.160 does Blad go because he's still having an okay year, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.240 but he's not having a it's not a good round. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.439 It's like it's tough to justify a top three round 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:33.880 pick right now. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.320 It's not good at all. Another piece here, This is 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.160 a wood you rather Dylan Ceese had a seven inning, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.320 seven K game. It has been a bad season, mainly 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.480 because of expectations and early victory laps by people that 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.360 didn't want to hear that Dylan Seas could be bad. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.920 Versus Freddie Peralta, who has been I think I think, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.640 I mean, I guess if you presented them all to me, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.880 I would have a better idea of like things that 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.199 I have got wrong or dismissed. You know, obviously I'll 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.640 have things that I get right, and I'll be like 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.320 annoying about it, but like I can one hundred percent 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.640 acknowledge of things are wrong. I feel like Freddy Perrault 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.000 is one of my biggest wrongs this year. I was 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.800 just done with it over it. The lack of command, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.640 the lack of consistency. It's still been there a part 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.720 of this season, but even when he started turning around, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.000 he has just been turning in around. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:20.199 Man. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.680 Freddy Perlta has been very, very good six innings, six strikeouts. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.439 I believe no earned runs in this one, and looking 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.959 over his last couple, yeah, he has his last four. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.560 He's given up four total earned runs. He did have 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.000 a big clunker in there against Atlanta, but you almost 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.160 just kind of throw that off or something. Yeah, but 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.760 he's got two thirteen strikeout games in there, hasn't struck 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.640 out less than six in his last two. So who 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.560 would you rather, not just like rest of season, but 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.720 going into next year, Freddy pralt or Dylan Cease. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.960 I'm team Freddy Peralta on this one overseas. Yes, I 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.760 was had seats to begin with because he had a 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.800 great year last year, but he's always been a high 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.920 wa guy and just consistency with him, so it was 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.320 like prove it to me again, and he's kind of 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.520 not proven it this year, if that makes sense to anybody. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.640 With Freddie, I've always liked fastball upside that he brings 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.080 for a strike up. He's like multiple fastballs. He can 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.520 is almost a little Lancelne light which what he does here. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.920 It's just it's also a walk thing with Freddie, who 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.720 he's been able to stay without ten percent, where Cease 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.440 usually goes over ten percent, So that's the big difference. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.960 Plus I like the situation of Milwaukee much more than Chicago. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.960 Yeah, you know, I think I'm the same. I mean, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.800 one of my big like he's gonna stink this year 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.080 bold predictions was Dylan cease and that got people up 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.640 in the arms. So that's what I'm saying. This is 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.960 actually like a one I got right when I got wrong, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.600 and I'm kind of flipped in the same direction. You know, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.280 you pictures in like Baseball Savant pages and the little 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.360 you know, scroll bars and stuff mean a lot less, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.320 but you want to dig into it, kind of like 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.720 you were saying, Like the K percentage is almost thirty percent. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.320 Walk percentage isn't quite where it was last year, but 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.160 expected era is a half run less. He's got a 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.520 four point zero eight with a three four seven this season, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.040 and we've just seen the consistency. The four seam last 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.400 year had a twenty it's essentially twenty five percent with rate. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.440 It's essentially a thirty percent with rate this year. Slider 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.240 forty percent with rate last year or at thirty percent 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.560 I'm sorry, forty seven percent this year. Way way more effective. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.600 Found his groove. Stella found his groove back, so I'm 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.080 with Freddy. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.760 He's also getting healthier, like he had the injury last year, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.320 so he's gonna slow start. I got a little speed 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.760 bump in the middle of the ear of the injury. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.440 He's last four start showing health and he's actually pitching 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:30.880 really well. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.960 Uri Prisla had four runs on four hits and four 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.240 innings and a no decision. Again. Yeah, well, the big 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.080 thing I just want to point out is he's definitely 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.800 he's on a strict pitch count. It was like eighty 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.160 two innings. He's still fantastic. I think he's gonna be rough. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.120 It's good just these type of guys, it's gonna be 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.360 rough the rest of the way through with their management 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.360 and stuff like that. So you know, if you've got 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.200 any keeper implications, you got a hold, but anything else, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.560 I think, I don't tell you to cut him or 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.960 anything like that, but you know what, you might be 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.440 better served to the guy like Dan Donning than Uri Perez. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.360 And I know that stinks like they'll be a good 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.440 starter or two. But there's only so far that Eurie 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.760 can go. So any bump or bruise in a long inning, 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.640 and he's not going to qualify at the wins. So 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.480 if you're really chasing wins and stuff like that, there's 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.720 probably better options just to rest of the way through, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.520 because yeah, you just send him to the miners. He's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:19.880 just it's just gonna be. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.200 Bl Yeah, and we're gonna see that with a lot 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.920 of these young arms coming up here, like the Guardians pitchers, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.600 they already we already do like a biby and those 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.400 guys that they already were stretched out. But a lot 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.040 of these young guys, you know, Wu's on the i 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.880 OW in Seattle speculating the might be more innings based 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.080 in the actual injury. There's there's a lot of guys 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.320 like that that we're going to see in the next 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.120 couple of weeks where it's be three innings here, skip 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.600 a start here, and it's really gonna make fantasy implications, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:42.520 uh difficult. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.320 Angelo, by the way, on the U parlt to see said, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.680 I'll take byb over both. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.240 Yeah, yeah, maybe we can. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.040 Maybe we could give Freddy a nickname. We can call 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.760 him Stella, like Wonky Stella, Founder groove back, and we 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.440 can we'll all just know that together, all right. Then 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:06.280 the last thing Wandafranco is potentially in trouble. Not gonna 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.359 do a whole bunch on Wander Franco today, not gonna 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.320 do what the Internet does with it, but suffice it 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.240 to say, if you have not paid attention, and you know, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.720 really not a lot of people knew what was going 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.080 on because it was very internet and based. But then 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.720 Jeff Passen kind of jumped into the fray. But Wander 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.880 Franco is currently being investigated for some troubles. Oslavia's Baisby 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.919 was brought up yesterday. They said it and early on 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.320 they said it was very like clerical. If I'm being 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.440 honest with you, I kind of don't believe the rays 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.800 where they were like, oh, during the game, we found 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.200 out about this stuff online. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.800 I don't think so you got tipped off. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.440 Yeah he's not he's not traveling. They brought up this guy. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:50.520 I don't believe it. But Wanderfranco is in some serious trouble, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.040 some serious trouble, some big allegations. You guys want to 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.040