WEBVTT - Leading Off September 20th, 2024 (Ep. 905) 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:06.040 What's going on? 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.799 Everybody, Welcome into Leading Off the Fantasy Pros Baseball Podcast. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:11.840 We are presented by Bet three six five. If you 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.080 bet five bucks, you get one hundred and fiftyen bonus 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.279 bets when you use that promo code leading Off, and 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.959 that's only with our friends over at Bet three six five. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.200 It is the show, Hey Otani, Show Bubba. It's Shoe, 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.239 Al Rico and Casey Bubba joining you here again as usual. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.840 And I honestly put in the show sheet together this morning. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.639 I thought, should I just put one name on the 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:32.800 show sheet and we can just talk about Otani. We 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.520 could probably fill a half an hour pretty easily going 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:36.879 over what he did yesterday. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:37.879 We're gonna talk about him. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.440 We're going to talk about some other things as well, 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.680 but before we do get going, put your questions in 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.159 the chat. We'll probably get to a couple if you 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.600 got any waiver wire streaming even twenty twenty five questions. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.680 We should have a little bit of time later on 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.440 in the show, but we are going to start where 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.280 we have to start today, Bubba with one of the 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.240 greatest games. It's not even hyperbolic to say it's one 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.400 of the greatest games. In baseball history that show Hey 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.080 Otani put on yesterday, and also considering when it came 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.120 in the season it won, anybody who had him in 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:06.880 a head to head league probably won their championship. He 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.280 went six for six, three homers, four runs, ten Ribby's, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.080 and two stolen bases to clinch his fifty to fifty season, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.280 putting him into the history books. One uped himself and 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.280 got to fifty one fifty one yesterday. I don't even 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.559 really have words to describe this anymore. This is just ridiculous, Buba. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.880 It is the only words that come to that mine 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:30.080 are unicorn special, best ever like stuff like that. It's 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.640 it's ridiculous watching him and just watching the you know, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.920 the highlights because I wasn't watching it live, and seeing 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.280 the way he hits the moonshot, the moonshot for number 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.360 forty nine, I believe, to right field. Then he hits 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.480 the Appo Taco for fifty and then he just happens 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.440 to hit another one for fifty one. It was just 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.960 ridiculous what took place with show Hey definitely the best 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.960 we've ever seen in our ages, and we'll see where 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:56.560 it goes from there. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.560 It's unbelievable. You see him. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.440 I mean, I think most of us probably have Jeff 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.160 Passon notifications on, or we at least see his tweets 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.320 very regularly, and it's like, Okay, you got forty nine 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.560 twenty minutes later, fifty twenty minutes. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:09.840 Later, fifty. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.000 It's like I thought Twitter was broken for a second, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.959 as like, is this spamming me notifications or something like that, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.320 But no, this is unbelievable. I know that Otani is 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.639 going to be talked about if you listen to any 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.160 shows today, he is going to be the lead point. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.480 But he should be like, this is just one of 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.040 the best seasons I think we've ever seen in history. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.560 And I saw a couple of people talking Bubba. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.480 Each of the last three seasons, we've seen a really 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.640 historic accomplishment. Judge hitting sixty two, Akunyas forty seventy, and 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.519 now the fifty to fifty in your eyes as Otani's 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.320 fifty to fifty the most impressive of the three. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:48.160 I'd say probably yeah, just because I'm a Bonds guy, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.160 I remember seeing what he did. I remember Conseko doing 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.760 his thing, and a Rod doing his and all these 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.560 other guys fifty to fifty is ridiculous because he usually 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.880 don't see power speed like this. Not to mention he's 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.679 having Tommy John surgery while doing this, Just to put 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.120 the icing on the cake through all of this, I 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.280 think fifty to fifty is. You know, there's always gonna 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.040 be great records, there's always gonna be our you know, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.919 arguments that are valid for multiple things. But what Showyotani's 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.480 doing right now, as some of that's played baseball, it's 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.760 it's it's not earthly, let's put it that way. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:24.920 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.920 I think people were saying that the season long stolen 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.440 base prop was set at like seventeen and a half 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.119 or eighteen and a half. He's still twenty last year. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.160 I don't think anybody was expecting this now. And I 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.640 heard some people say, well, maybe he's going to be 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.560 a closer next year and have fifty saves and fifty 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.480 home runs and just keep rewriting the record book. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.760 I think that's very possible if they let him do it. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.560 I guess the smart move. Honestly, he needs to be 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.280 the closer. That's what I've been saying for a couple 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:47.880 of years now. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.480 Well, i'd kind of worry. And you know, we have 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.680 a question in the chat about where we're drafting. Show 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.920 heys a pitcher only next year because there are some 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.000 formats where he's going to be separate on Yahoo and 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.920 a couple of others. I don't know about just as 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.600 a pitcher only. I feel like if he does have 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.720 some kind of injury, that would be the first thing 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.760 that stops and they try and keep him on the field. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.280 If you're just looking at pitcher only, sho heeyo Tani Bubba. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.160 Is that a top fifty player? Is that a top 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.560 one hundred player? Where would you personally want to take him? 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.320 Yeah, pittuer only he's still an SP one. He's still 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.920 a stud. He's a top probably three or four round 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.640 pitcher because if he returns to the SP one of 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.240 old that he is a cy young caliber arm. There's 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.320 no denying that. I'm not going to draft him as 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.080 a pitcher, and I want that bat all day, every day. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.600 But if you are draft him as a pitcher. As 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.839 a question asked a he's a top ten starting pitcher, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.680 I'll say that, and maybe when I break it down 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.640 more it'll change, but I'd say he's probably a top 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.800 ten starting pitcher because he's already thrown. Now you got 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.839 to assume he's ready by opening days, so it should 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:44.279 be good to go. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.919 Well, they're talking about him pitching him in the playoffs potentially, 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.839 even though it might not be likely, but that shows 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.679 that he's at least within a stone's throw of being ready, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.920 and you've got six more months that should be full 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.280 ready to go by spring training. He's just I mean, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.680 I could talk all day about him. He's really justridiculous. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.720 You can keep him for a twenty second round pick 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.120 as just a pictures I think you're. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.600 Doing that all day, Yes, yes, yes, do that. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:09.880 Let's talk about Michael Harris. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.640 We're gonna talk about a couple members of the Braves 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.840 who went kind of crazy yesterday. Well let's start with 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.720 Mike Harris, because he just had a crazy series two 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.039 home runs yesterday, four runs, four Ribbies. But for the 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.640 series as a whole, four home runs, six RBIs, he 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.520 had six hits. He's kind of turned his season around 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.120 a little bit. I know that he's missed some time 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.560 with injuries, but Michael Harris generally speaking, was a disappointment 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.839 this year. If you look back over the last couple 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.919 of weeks, though sixteen for his last fifty nine doesn't 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.159 sound crazy. Hitting two seventy but six homers, thirteen ribbies. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.279 He's been pretty solid. Now, when you did that early draft, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.800 I think he was still like a third round pick 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.280 Bubba and a second beginning a third. Do you think 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.160 Michael Harris still warrants a top forty to fifty overall 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:50.919 price at this point? 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:52.480 It's tough. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.640 Like we've talked before, the Churios, the Merrills, the Lankford's, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.320 all those guys. I think he's more of the Langford category. 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.240 I think he got the Merrils and Centurials above him. Harris 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.680 is very good. Harris is more what we want Randy 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.120 Rose rain it to be better batting average, but still 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.480 a twenty twenty type guy. Maybe he's got thirty thirty, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.520 Maybe he pulls the centric Mullens out of him. So 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.280 third or fourth round I think is very fair for Harris. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.920 I've just tempered my expectations after this past year. Everyone 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.520 annointed him the best batting average ass said he's going 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.559 to go twenty five to twenty five, all these things, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.000 and you know he still could not gonna say he can't. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.839 But when Acuna comes back, Albi's comes back, does Harris 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.440 go back to the bottom of the order again, Those 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.599 are issues for fantasy. So I think he's still very good. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.440 I think he is valid of a third and fourth 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.680 round pick. I'll just be looking for the dip if 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:41.320 I can find it. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.400 Yeah, I think he to the last couple of years, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.360 we've all kind of thought that he could take that 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.320 next step forward. I mean, he burst onto the scene 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.360 as a rookie, went twenty twenty and just like four 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.280 hundred at bats. He looked like he was going to 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.120 be the next kind of not necessarily a Kunya, but 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.960 to your point, like a thirty thirty type of guy. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.240 He has dealt with some injuries, but he has also 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.279 fallen short of expectations over the last couple of seasons. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:02.960 So I think that we should get a discount. I 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.120 hope that we are able to get him, you know, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.280 past pick fifty or so, because if he's going in 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.080 the fourth round, healthy braves team around him, he could 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.200 be fantastic. He really could be a great pick there. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.000 But I don't want to be paying the premiums after 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.400 a couple of less than stellar seasons for him. Sticking 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.240 in Atlanta with his teammate Matt Olsen. You know, he 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.440 took the home run call for Olsen on Wednesday. He 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.600 had a home run on Tuesday and Thursday, as the 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.120 way it goes, but two home runs yesterday. Over the 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.240 last month, he and I talk about Harris turning a 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.800 season around. Olson really has turned a season around, hitting 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.240 three h eight over the last thirty days with twenty runs, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.120 thirty one ribbies and seven home runs. You know, we 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.040 were talking about Pete Alonso on the on the show 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.880 the other day, Bubba. Between the two of them, as 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.640 of right now, would you rather take Olson or would 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:45.640 you rather take Alonzo? 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.320 Heading into twenty two five, I'd still take Olson. Olson 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.560 still the guy for me. I like the team context better, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.120 and that's not saying much. The Mets are pretty good. 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.320 Like the Mets are playing well, but I'll take Atlanta 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 the ballpark. The team still much better. Get a kill 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.320 in your back next year, you get Riley back. I'll 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.680 think my chances with Matt Wilson. I think both of 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.040 them are probably getting drafted a little higher than I'd like, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.040 at least in the first draft. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:09.360 Obviously. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.560 I know I'm saying that with one draft in the books, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.400 But I take Alson over Pete Alonso, big meat Pete, I. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:17.000 Think I would too. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.120 Like I think in terms of the overall profile, it's 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.480 fairly similar. You're gonna get a lot of production in 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.440 three categories, not a lot of stolen bases. The batting 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.320 average could go up to two seventy for either one, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.240 but probably closer to two forty two to fifty. But 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.560 I think I will be on your side there in 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.840 default towards the better lineup that Olson's going to have 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.920 around him, for sure. Let's move on and talk about 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.280 Brandon Fott, who has been pretty inconsistent as a whole 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.760 this season. You know, I've done the game of putting 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.640 him in my lineup for the bad start, sitting him 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:45.120 for the good one. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:46.400 We've kind of done that a little bit. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.480 He had a gem against the Brewers yesterday, and I 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.120 think that as a side note, the Brewer is now 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.520 that they've clinched as a team that you can kind 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.480 of target here in certain ways. But Brandon fought seven 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.680 innings of two hit, one run ball. He did not 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.400 walk a batter and struck out twelve. When you look 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.640 below the surface at Brandon Fodd's numbers. They're quite a 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.640 bit better than what you're seeing just in terms of 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.360 the ERA, which is still at four six six. All 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.959 the ERA estimators are into the threes. You know, He's 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.160 obviously got that really solid command. Just a five percent 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.840 walk rate. Feels like somebody who could take another step forward. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.720 You know, the Arizona Fall League a couple of years ago, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.760 he was kind of the hot topic. He led the 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.439 minor leagues and strikeouts the year before. Development's been a 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:23.920 little bit slower than we thought, but I feel like 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.559 they're still an ACE level pitcher somewhere in Brandon five. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.000 I agree. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.040 I was all in on him this year. It was 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.840 really good for a while. I haven't pitched Hi much 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.040 lately because he mentioned the struggles. I think it's the 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.440 last six starts, twenty nine er and runs in twenty 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.520 nine innings pitched. So this Jim, let's just say he 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.520 was on my bench for because I couldn't stomach throwing 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.959 him out there. But I do think there's a lot 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.360 to like there. His issues A lot of this season's 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.160 been the home run ball and just consistency with walks. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.880 He's got strikeout stuff when he has when he's On. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.800 He has really good games. I think he has just 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.520 another like little tweak, maybe one pitch away from going 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.000 to be like does Zach Gallon of their rotation when 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.640 Gallon moves on at some point. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.080 So I think Fought is very, very good. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.000 He's gonna be interesting. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.199 And you know, those Brewers, they're gonna You're gonna be 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.240 drinking pretty regularly over the next couple of weeks, not 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.959 just because they are the Brewers, but because they are. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.320 Clinched into the playoff spot. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.440 So other than Jackson Cherio, you might see some hungover 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.200 players there in the Brewers side of things. Let's talk 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.600 zachly tell another guy who I really invested in heavily 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.040 as a waiver pick up earlier in the season. Felt 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.000 like a fool for a lot of the summer, but 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.600 he's really turned it on as a September playoff hero. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.280 Three consecutive gyms, three consecutive w's. But the cherry on 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.880 top of the cake was yesterday seven innings of one 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.080 hit ball against the Red Straw, the Red Sox striking 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:41.640 out seven. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:42.560 For the season. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.520 As a whole, it's a three five six ERA. He 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.880 has a one to twenty four whip walk right less 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.840 than five percent. I kind of like zachly Tell heading 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.320 in the next year. I don't think he's gonna be 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.280 anybody that gets any kind of hype, and you can 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.920 kind of take him as a fifth or sixth starting pitcher. Bubba, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.760 what's your interest level in Zach Lytel next year. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.920 I've always liked him as a deeper option, Like he 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.320 started the year really really strong, then he scuffled a 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.080 ton of late. So you mentioned the last three starts, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.760 zero earn runs over those three starts, like eighteen innings, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.960 fifteen k's. You mentioned the three ws seventy six pitches. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.280 Yesterday's been held with a seventy five basically since coming 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.560 off the il. That's why some starts were only like 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.920 five innings. But the skills he has shown throughout the 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.240 season have warranted a good fantasy pitcher. It's just he 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.079 had that speed bump that could get him at a 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.520 value for you. So I don't mind the idea of 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.280 targeting him. Let's just hope the rays devil magic on 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.319 the elbows takes turn on him next year because he's 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:35.400 kind of been the one that's. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.040 Got away so far this season. But I do agree, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.920 I do like the skill set from zecla lettell tough. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.720 To be a raised pitcher the last couple of years 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.800 and not going to the Knife, but hoping for the 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.640 best year for LATL. One more player I want to 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.160 talk about in the headline section is not make you mantle. Sorry, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.079 Anthony Santander. You can easily get them confused these days. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.240 He had his forty second home run of the season, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.680 driving in his ninety seventh run, hitting a home run 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.720 against your Giants yesterday by by Ryan Walker, who had 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.000 been going pretty well, but a bit of a stinker 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.839 from him yesterday. What is santan dere are going to 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:07.760 get this summer? 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.440 Where is he going to go? What's your interest level? 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.320 I mean, we can't really speculate on location necessarily, but 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.920 is he a forty home run guy going forward? Are 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.560 you going to be drafting him as such next year, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.360 whether he's in Baltimore or otherwise because he is a 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:18.880 free agent. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.360 Yeah, I was drafted him as like a thirty to 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.720 thirty five guy this year. I think no matter where 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.360 he goes next year, he's still a thirty to thirty 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.520 five guy with forty plus upside. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.199 That's not going to change. He's not super old. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.160 He should you'd imagine he signs in a place that 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.760 would benefit him, Otherwise that'd be just a cash grab, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.320 which hey, kudos to him too. At the same time, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.360 I'm just going to say I was watching that at 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.960 bat with Santander and Walker was throwing some filth, but 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.480 his sweeper was off one hundred pences in the booth 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.040 every time WALKERU throw a high fastball and tendre bad 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:54.040 swings and sweepers great foul offs, and Pence fight out said, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.640 do not throw your sleeper. Everything is to be a 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.760 high fastball. Either walk him or you strike him out. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.640 Foul ball, falball, sweeper bomb like that's just what took place. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.160 It was it, Pence nailed it and Walker was due 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.120 for a scuffle. But to your original question, sorry, I 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.439 like to go on rabbit holes here. Santander should be 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.520 a beast next year, and I'm hoping he's signed somewhere 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.440 very very friendly to take it. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:15.640 Go sign went the Giants. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.040 He could probably get twenty splash hits a year. That'd 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.680 be fun. So we'll see where that goes. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.160 Rockies opened up the pocketbook. Signed sometimes there. Let's let's 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.480 got a sixty home run season. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.800 I'll throw the White Sox in the mix there too, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.679 and get the best contracts and Andrew Ben and Tendy, Andrew. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.920 Ben and Tendy, who has outperformed Julio. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.880 And on fire. Dude. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.640 I took the bit, like I said, we took the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.560 l on that one. Like what he's done for a 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.080 month and a half is I had the double check, like, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.480 you know, here's another one for all the you know 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.600 the drug tests they make all these athletes take after 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.880 big games. Ben and Tendy better be peeing every day. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.839 It's a home run. That's all I have to say. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.440 Because where did this come from the last couple of months. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.559 It was like when Kevin Pollar was the number one 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.440 fantasy player for like three weeks, and I was like, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.520 he's getting the Batista treatment every single day, Because I mean, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.640 being a Blue Jays guy, Jose Batista couldn't hit anything 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.400 until he was like twenty eight. Then he gits fifty 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.120 home runs. I can imagine every single game he was 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.960 getting drug tested. Probably a similar thing happening with Ben 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.959 and Tendy. Who would have thought it? Who would have 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.560 thought it? But Hey, the White Sox, I think they've 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.720 won four of their last eleven games or something, so 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.320 for them, that's that's pretty damn good. You know, it 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.400 was sticking with Baltimore here for a second, off to 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.360 the santende are one. This is a couple of days 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.200 old now, But we didn't talk about on the show much. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.720 Actually we didn't talk about at all. Craig Kimbrel was 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.160 dfaid by the Orioles, kind of a surprise move, but 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.160 maybe not a surprise. At the same time. His first 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.760 half he had a two eight zero ERA fifty three 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.920 strikeouts to sixteen walks. Since the All Star Break, Bubba 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.800 Craig KIMBERLLL has a ten to fifty nine ERA, a 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.520 two to one eight whip and fifteen walks and seventeen innings. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.640 Do you think there's a chance that this is just 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.480 the end of Craig Kimbrel. Is he going to be 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.680 somebody that gets a contract this offseason? And assuming that, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.720 let's just say he is done. 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.280 He Hall of Fame worthy pitcher in your eyes, Hall 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:04.120 of Fame's tough. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.600 I think he's been amazing, Like I wouldn't argue it 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.720 if he was. But if guys like Billy Wagner aren't 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.480 in the Hall of Fame. It's hard for me to 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.360 see it. Craig Kimberrill get in the Hall of Fame. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.600 The move makes sense just because the Oriols are going 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.800 to the postseason. Kimberl's not adding any value to them 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.920 at all. They need a roster spot, like, it's all 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.600 just logistics at this point. Sucks for kimber because it 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.040 wasn't an amazing first half. It just has gone the 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.920 way of the Dodo. So hopefully he figures it out, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.840 hangs it up, or you know, one more trip around 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.960 the sun see where it goes. But Hall of Fames 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.680 just it's tough with the requirements on closers these days. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.760 The bar is so high. There's like what five relievers 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.440 in the Hall of Fame or something. I think Wagner 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.760 was pretty close last time, and I think he'll eventually 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.040 trickle in, but it is it is a tricky one. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.880 Like Kimbrell was so dominant when he was with the Braves, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.640 and for that the majority of his career has been 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.200 a pretty dependable arm. But the benchmark for closers tend 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.520 to be a little bit higher. Let's say you're drafting 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.080 in November December, he's unsigned, Are you gonna speculate on 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.920 him as a potential closer for next season? 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.880 Have to be coming out of really good value because usual, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.720 if I'm speculating on a guy, I know where he's 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.200 playing already, not that if it does he have the 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.720 role or not, that's not the question. It's Kimbra Legit 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.840 could retire, like that's an option, and now you're really 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.840 drawing dead. So it's tricky. That's a very very tricky one. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.600 I doubt I would right now. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.800 I think I'm on board with you unless it's like 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.000 pick you know, three seventy five or something, and it's like, okay, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.960 I might as well take a chance and maybe but 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.040 even then you're kind of maybe wasting a pick. You 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.840 could get twenty five saves out of it. You never 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.480 know what's going to happen. But it looks like we're 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.840 kind of on the on the back nine, if not 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.840 the final hole here for Craig Camberrell. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.400 At this point, let's. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.880