WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Sept 1st, 2023 (Ep. 734) 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.600 What's up, friends, and welcome into Leading Off. I am 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:13.360 Chris Welsh. That is the Bubba Casey Bubba, and yeah, 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.040 I was gonna do a thing to do that. We 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.320 are brought to you by Prize Picks. Use the promo 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.800 code Leading Off, get a one hundred percent matchup to 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.960 one hundred bucks. Download the app, make a deposit, use 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.200 the promo code, and have so much fun. Hello Peanuts, 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.440 Hello Cracker Jacks. It's very nice to see you on 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.960 a Friday. I am, you know, in my fun Friday shirt. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.360 This is my most of dad's shirts. I possibly have Bubba. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.600 I don't know if you can appreciate. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.720 I'm proud of it. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.880 It's almost Tommy Bahama ish, if you will funny enough 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.040 like I have. I actually like two of these and 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.960 i've both times my kid had like a you know, 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.120 meet the teacher type of thing, like the student council 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.960 people were there and this one girl would be like, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.160 I like your shirt, and I'm like, you're being condescending. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.720 You're being very and I know little. Yeah, it's a 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.559 very bad type way to do it. But welcome into 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.160 the show. Friday Playoffs. Big Playoff runs starting next week. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.360 Bubba I know, maybe some people have kind of jumped 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.120 into it this week, but for every league that I 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.480 play in and the majority of what I've seen online, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.040 most people are getting down with it next week. So 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.000 what's your attack for the playoffs this coming weekend? You 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.840 got a bunch. You're a big best ball guy, so 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:24.479 I don't know what you're. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.120 I'm best ball in Roto. I don't play a ton 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.160 of head to head, so I just I just grind 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.840 with the grind. But I've helped I have a lot 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.080 of people in like Discord and stuff that are playing 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:33.759 the head to head game. So we were looking ahead 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.640 to like two week matchup setups and those kind of 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.200 situations as a two start worth of more than a 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.959 single start. Or's some questions in the chat with similar 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.360 kind of thoughts on this, So it's a big deal. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.640 It's like I've been telling people for about a month now, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.680 stop worrying about the rest of this season, worry about 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.800 the weekly matchups, because you got to get there first. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.440 That's right. Well, glad to have everybody here, Glad to 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.480 have the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks all joining us today. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.440 We're going to be talking about the crazy prospect influx 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 that just happened. We're gonna be talking about everything we 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.840 can to kind of prep you in. We're gonna go 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.480 through our bets. It's gonna have so much fun. It's 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.080 such a big streaming day for me too. I got 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.360 like six hours of streams we're doing. If anybody wants 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.200 to hang out on the il twitch stream today, breaking 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.239 cards doing that, I'm gonna do my first time. I've 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.320 never done an immaculate grid in my life, by the way, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.079 in my life, and we're gonna. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.720 Do one live. I love baseball. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.799 Everyone that knows me says it's built for me because 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.079 I love old school baseball. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.519 But I just become addicted. I don't need another advice 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:31.959 right now. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.200 And see that's my problem is I actually don't. I'm 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.600 not like a big old school guy. Like I'm not 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.400 a big old school baby now. I'm like my I'm 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.839 like a nineties, like early two thousands type of guy. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.280 But you know, like Joe and I'll do the show 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.320 here and Joe will be like, you remember blah blah 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.520 blah from like eighty two, and I'm like, nope. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.760 Yeah, but Joe still has his Newsies capen. He was too, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.520 so it's like we understand he's little old school like that. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.519 We weren't all born in the seventies. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.720 Y yeah, we weren't having that papers. Why baby Ruth 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.160 was hitting home runs and going through parades. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.960 It's just yeah, exactly. I say, You've also got a 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.040 where in the world are Welsh of Corbin Carrol? I cannot, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.240 for the life of me come up with the clue 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.720 that is not going to absolutely give it away. So 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.840 I'm gonna just I'm gonna just fly with it. I'm 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.679 gonna live, fly with it. So that's a lot of 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.000 stuff that's going on. Love to hear what your guys's 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.399 plans for the playoffs are. What you're doing, and Brett said, 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.600 currently in first week of playoffs in my league, team 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 is on fire and hopefully you can keep adding to 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.360 it and hopefully we can help you with it. Maybe 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 you're rocking with Ronald Acuneho's on fire, three for four 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.080 with a grand Slam and a stolen base on Thursday 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.440 and the first I still can't fathom this, the first 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.800 player in Major league history with thirty homers in sixty 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.320 stolen bases. I don't know why, but it was it 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.960 stood out to me as like no one's ever done this, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.680 like no one ever, like I guess in verse. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.160 Week, Ricky sixty. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.400 Thirties, Yeah, yeah, rick Ricky Henderson feels like he'd be 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.560 one that with was on thirty sixty with I'm gonna 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.120 look up his numbers now what we talk, because he's 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.400 got he had to be pretty darn close. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.320 I just it's a home run totals. Now, has anybody 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.480 ever done a sixty thirty season? 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.839 I doubt it. I did like Bonds did the forty. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.280 There's been a few forty forties. I think Bonds can 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.640 close to fifty to fifty. But like the hardcore Steels guys, yeah, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.240 the most Ricky had in nineteen ninety he went twenty 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.440 eight sixty five, so he was like super close. And 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.240 in nineteen eighty six he went twenty eight eighty seven. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.640 Wow, okay, so he was like real okay, so. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.800 We almost thirty ninety. He almost went thirty ninety in 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:28.640 nineteen eighty six. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.520 What was that number again, twenty eight homers in eighty 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.719 seven steals, he almost went thirty ninety in nineteen eighty six. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:36.760 Well, I mean a cunya could go you could go 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.200 thirty seventy seventy. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.359 I'd say seventy seventy five is it's still very possible 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:41.839 for Greener. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.279 So one thing I wanted to bring up, and not 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.839 to be outdone. Mookie then goes off and he goes 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.480 two for four, two homers for RBI, I want to 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.320 bring something up. You remember a little conversation you and 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.479 I had some time ago where I presented this really 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.720 nifty thing where it was Ronald Dcunya versus the field, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.599 and at that time we weren't even talking about Muki. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.040 I was very intrigued by that field bet where you 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.839 got plus at one point I think it was six 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.000 hundred and then it went to five hundred. The odds 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.599 now going into today, at least in one book that 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.000 I saw Acuna minus one thirty Bets minus one ten. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.279 They're both minus money. Had you laid that bet we 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.039 talked about on the field, I mean, it still might 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.359 be a cocune going thirty sixty, I think is going 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:34.359 to be incredibly difficult to overtake. Still, but bets is 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.080 a is in play here and in some of those 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.800 places also. Now, this book isn't the one that like 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.600 let you buy like every single day like you know, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.600 like I mean, Fandal's the one that lets you kind 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.200 of like buy out. It's not that place. So they 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.120 I don't know. I don't think they had a field bet, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.760 but I'm just wanting to say that field bet is 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.120 looking mighty mighty fun right now if you were invested 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.080 in it, because these two were going in the race. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.120 So who do you think? I'm just curious where do 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.320 you think this is going to go? You said a 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.960 kunya before things have opened up. A kuna is incredible, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.280 but Mooki bets insanely underrated. What what's your side? 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.719 Yeah, he's insane, the underrated bets is. But it's still 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.599 a kuneos in mood pie. I'm not wavering from that one. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.480 As long as he keeps showing up and playing like 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.800 at least six games a week, he's not gonna let 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:18.040 it go. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.640 And do you think it's gonna be like a unanimous. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.120 I think it'd be pretty I doubt it'll be fully 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.360 unanimous because writers have egos these days and they don't 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.800 want anybody to be unanimous, but I think it'll be 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.440 pretty darning an like he gets at least eighty percent. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.400 Of the gonna. I was gonna say, I think it's 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.880 gonna be like twenty two first place votes eight for movie, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.160 Like it'll seem like a little bit more lopsided than 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.880 we think it is, at least like what the odds 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.039 are laying. But you know, listen, Mooki is doing incredible 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:43.920 well deserved. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.040 You know, it's just those It happens every You could 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.280 look back at MVP Awards almost every season there's always 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.280 a runner up for like Dang any other year, like 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:51.839 that's his years, Like all the time. 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:56.080 Do you think is Mookie the number two fantasy guy 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:56.839 next year? 0:06:58.520 --> 0:06:58.800 You did? 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.440 You did the draft, and it won't be. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.320 He'll be mid to late first round still, just because 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.600 he'll fall back with like if Corbyn Carrell stays healthy. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.120 With Julio's rise, people still love that Tee Spencer Strider 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.320 is getting towards the top e though with second base eligibility, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.960 it'll be the stolen basis will move people ahead of him. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.080 That's just the way it'll go in draft season. I'm 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.600 not saying it's right or wrong, it's just that's just 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:21.360 what's going to happen. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.280 I think, Wonky, is that you running the fantasy person? 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.360 I mean, can we run a poll. I would be curious, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.640 Like I'm trying to think of how how do we 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.400 phrase the question, like you know, who do you take? 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.360 Maybe it's just who do you take? Number two? Overall? 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:35.800 In drafts? 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.200 After Acunia and put like Carol Julio Betts, is there 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:40.880 one other person? 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.720 It will be Julio Betts to tease, Carol Streider is 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.559 the one. Strider is the one that people are taking 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:48.920 up there. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.480 That's your NFBC stuff. That's it's not happening. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:53.640 You're asking about. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.920 Yeah, okay, that's true. But like I think high dollar 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.720 NFBC leagues, you're going to take a picture that high. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.600 You're not going to do it even in roto right now. Yeah, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.360 I would be curious to see who do you take 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.840 number two? And call if you want? 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.360 Yeah, to play Bets at second base as an elite option, 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.000 there's no denying that. I just the way people talk 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.680 every draft season, it's stolen bases. We need stolen bases, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.720 and that always gets Smoky to fall to like mid 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.720 to late first round. That's just how it goes every 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:19.480 single season. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.480 Yeah, no, I mean, you're not wrong. It definitely lies 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.200 in there. You guys have questions by the way, for 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.640 the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks, drop it. We will 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.440 get our little section where we are going to be 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.080 answering some of your questions. I'm already starring some of them, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.560 so do it in the chat. And why would you 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.200 not hang out live with us if you still have 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.160 an opportunity All September long, We're still doing these shows, 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.280 so come and hang out with us live on the YouTube, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.560 the Fantasy Pros YouTube channel. We did get resolution to waivergate, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.360 but it got messier and yuckier because we all found out. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.920 I saw Darren Herron Dan Herron post about this thing. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.640 Completely agree because I didn't remember this. But apparently one 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.640 team gets to just claim everybody and it doesn't reset, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.360 which is insanely stupid. I was don bogginging this yesterday. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.160 Seems like MLB should maybe run their waivers just through 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.920 like Yahoo or fan tracks or something like that, because 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.280 I don't understand why the Guardians were able to claim everybody. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.520 I do understand, but it's stupid. The Reds and Guardians 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.800 claimed absolutely everybody, So you guys know, Gili de Lopez 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.319 Matt Moore were claimed by the Guardians. The Reds, they 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.319 claimed Hunter, Renfro and Harrison Bader. We got Renfro in 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.280 the lineup today at four hitting four here, and I 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.959 also want to point out his total base prop today 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.160 is one and a half plus one thirty, So I'm 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.280 kind of tempted about that. Your winners for this waiver 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.920 deadline move, I think there's one clear winner, But I'm 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.559 curious really if gi Alido and going to Cleveland does 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.200 anything for you. But as far as these new destinations 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.240 for these five players, is there any like big fantasy 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.600 bump for you either way? 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.520 If anything, it's Renfro getting into great American small park. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.839 It's just like we're seeing it in Game one of 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.360 the doubleheader. Lefty Wicks on the mounds, so there's no freedom, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:09:59.560 no Benson, you got Renfro. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:09:59.959 Bay. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.520 I'm curiously a Game two's lineup looks like with the 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.720 riding on the mound, the Reds have a full on 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.440 platoon situation in the outfield now, and Jake Frayley also 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.000 got activated from the IL before Game one, so they 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.320 have three really good outfielders that are left handed. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.840 Now you got at least two if you want to. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.680 Throw a sinzel, and there you got three really good 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.000 right handing outfillers. There can be a massive platoon situation 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.400 taking place there. So I really want to get it 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.800 plays out this weekend before you get overly excited on 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.280 any It's a great baseball move. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:24.520 Sow. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.000 The Braves do it when they last to Qune a 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.000 few years ago. Get all the outfielders platoon them. It 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.600 works great fantasy wise. It could be a very very 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.400 big headache. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.559 I mean, I'm in, I'm you know, do be saying 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.520 like Freiley's back, the Reds don't need Renfro. That's in 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.120 the chat, Like maybe, but I think that power potential 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.480 is huge for him. I not no shocker. Usually every 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:48.000 single player there expected home run totals are highest in Cincinnati, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.040 and that's the case for Hunter Renfro. But like it's 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.520 we did this on ITL. It's a skewed thing because 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.120 it says like if you were to have all your 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.240 hits in your own ballpark, this is what you would do. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.640 He has nineteen homers. He was actually projected fifteen if 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.360 he were just hitting every single game with the Angels, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.440 twenty five with the Reds. It's number one of any 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.560 team there were only seven other teams. I believe with 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.280 twenty plus homer projected for Hunter Renfro, so it's a 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.079 very hitter friendly ballpark. He hits the ball really hard. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.000 He's going to be hitting a primary part of the order, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.160 So I don't know, man like Strand has been kind 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.080 of stinking it up a little bit, Like I think 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.440 this Renfro move is a must. I would go and 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.800 actively pick him up, like he's the only one of 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.319 this group. I don't like I'm intobator, but I think 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.160 it could be a little bit dicey because what you said, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.040 all the platoony stuff, and I don't think I'm like 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.280 crazy about Gielito right now, Like he's been awful, and 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.040 I don't think there's enough time for the Guardians to 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.199 like really fix him or change this. I don't know 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.080 if you feel different. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 No, I think he'll be fine, Like he's had really 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.680 good moments of pitching this year, really rough moments. He 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.720 still has the velocities decent and the swing of miss 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.600 is great. He's just giving way too many runs so obviously, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.120 which is a problem for our game we play. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:03.400 I think he'll be fine. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.320 You'll get a few more games against the al Central, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.880 even though it's a you know even schedule this year, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.480 but I wouldn't get too excited. Renfro is the clear 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.640 winner here because the other reason, unlike you know, the 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.520 other players, the offensive players, Renfolk play outfield, first base, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.400 and DH, so his his options to platoon are like wider, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.920 if that makes sense. That's why you mentioned Strand even 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.120 Vodo's coming back early September. Bottowin Renfro can split DH. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.040 Why Renfield goes plays the outfields sometimes like there's avenues 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.080 for Renfro where a lot of these other guys feel 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:31.800 very platoony. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.319 Yeah, I just don't feel like there's this even though 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.640 I know it was like, hey, they don't need Renfro. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.240 I don't feel like a situation where they're going to 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.200 find ways to not have Renfro in there. I think 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.240 you're gonna find ways to get him in the lineup 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:42.160 every single day. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.680 It just depends if they cherish defense or not. And 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.520 I don't know if they do in Cincinnata at. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.640 The h Yeah, let him d every single day then 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.839 that I'll take that bat over anybody. What was it 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.200 wonky interesting? Gilido and Lopez have been on the same 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.600 four teams for the exact same period of time always 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.800 claim traded waved or together, people forgetting that they were 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.160 both nationals together, traded for Adam Eaton, and then that 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.680 one White Sox and then yeah, then Angels and then Garden. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.040 Maybe even more amazing than that exact stat is they 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.120 have been on the same team at the exact same 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.600 time three different teams this year and one year. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.480 That's big, and then and that Adam Eaton deal. Ronaldo 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.640 Lopez was the high prospect, not Gelito. That was That's 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.920 the fun one that people might forget that what stay 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.560 it again? Ronald Lopez was the cherished prospect people wanted 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:33.280 in that early. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:37.839 Early Yeah, I mean Gelito was still there. Lopez was like, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.199 it was huge, And what was the other piece too? 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.480 It was it was Matt Manning. It feels like it 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.800 feels like no, it's another picture. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.760 Like that though, Rinaldo Lopez, Jane Dunno and Dane Dunning 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.160 one hundred percent, it was Dane Dune. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.120 It was an ing so I was like, I know, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:53.840 this one. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.760 One of the most ridiculously lopsided, I mean. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.000 White Sox doing White Sox things. Maybe some move that. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.080 The Diamondbacks would have done and just give up everybody 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.920 and it's like, Okay, we got nothing. A couple other 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.080 notes here, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that Walker Buehler 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.320 is going to begin a minor league rehab assignment this 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.680 Sunday in TRIPAA and Oklahoma. He said that he's going 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.840 to throw roughly one or two innings in the rehab 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.960 debut and will require at least three rehab outings before 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.840 he's ready to return to the Dodgers, whatever pitching mix 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.480 that's going to be. So if it's Sunday and they 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.080 go by a five, because I still don't know how 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.640 he's going to be pushed into major innings, but if 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.480 he goes five, that's going to line him up to 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.520 what like the end of next week, maybe the beginning 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.040 of the following week, which really kills for anyone in 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.360 fantasy playoffs, maybe gives you two solid weeks of whatever 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:47.960 that production is going to be. So the question is, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.000 do you have any interest in Walker Bueller in his comeback? 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.520 No, because the Dodgers been it very clear they're not 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.440 bringing him back till he can be an everyday starter 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.240 and every five day starter for them. They've said he's 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.920 going to need at least three more starts after this one. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.720 Like you mentioned, their goal I think is maybe at 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.480 one or two starts at the end of September before 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.200 the play. They want him. They want him in October. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.000 They don't care about our fantasy teams. They don't care 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.800 about September. They want him in October. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:11.320 Yeah. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:11.800 Uh. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.160 The last little bit beasts of news before we get 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.760 to the rookie lookie. Brewers signed Josh Donaldson. So there's 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.280 like a rumor like, hey, this should be a fit, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.640 and they signed him to a minor league deal, which 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.880 I hope they keep him in the minors. I think 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.160 that would be good. I bet he'd be like a 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:25.960 really great. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.440 Great mentor to those Yeah. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.720 I'm sure he's going to be like really excited. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.480 No one of those pros that goes and buys all 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.360 the dinners and everything to like let him know the 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.160 show's all about totally one of those guys. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.160 I'm I'm sure he's gonna go buy everybody Chipotle or 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.080 something's gonna be. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.080 He's gonna be your own gualk though I'm not buying 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:41.920 the Guak kids. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.800 Yeah, him and Granky they got issues with that. On 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.320 to the rookie lookies. I didn't know. I actually had 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.000 as Bubba before. I just couldn't remember how this happened 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.600 when we were doing the show. I think it happened 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.080 a little bit later. But there is a barrage of 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.120 prospect call up. So the biggest one is Jason Dimingez 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.040 being called up to the Major's gonna play for the Yankees. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.120 Might be in the lineup today, I'm not one hundred 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.880 percent sure. They also called up Austin Wells, and then 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.520 Joel Sherman reported that Ronnie Mauricio is getting called up 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.000 by the met So let's stop there into that group 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.960 because I'm going to do little pairings here Jason Dimingez, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:20.239 Ronnie Mauricio, and Austin Wells. Rank your level of interest 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.960 and maybe you don't have interest really in any standard 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.440 format for any of these guys. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.520 Yeah, I'll be up front first. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.560 I'm not really excited to go crazy on many of 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.560 these prospects. But if I had to go through these three, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.400 I'd be Domingo's Mauricio Wells. That's how I look at 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.200 this one. The Martians have studded, but he can't even 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.120 buy his own beers yet, so this could be a 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.920 shell shock he's played seven games in Triple A, like, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.520 let's slow the beat for a second. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.920 But that would be the order I would go if 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.840 I was going to go. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.920 Yeah, I am in the same order, but they are tiered. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:17:00.520 I think Jason Dimingez is close to a close to 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.520 like a must pick up in a twelve team. Five 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.800 outfielder I would speculate, I will bet you your fifth 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.800 or even if you have a bench outfielder is not good, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.440 not good enough that you don't want to not speculate 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.760 on Jason Diviningos because I think'll play every day. Baiter's gone, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.800 He's going to get to play center field. He'll be 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.960