WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 18th, 2024 (EP. 793) 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.559 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:11.600 Off Live, brought you by Bet three six five. It's 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.640 me Joey Pa. Jopis a p of that of course, 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.200 is the wel should make sure if you're doing your 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.080 baseball wager and you're doing it at Bet three six 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.880 y five and using that promo code leading Off bet 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.680 five bucks get one hundred and fifty in bonus bets. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.840 It's always a bonus whenever we get to spend quality time. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.720 No desserts today, which I'm a little bummed out about. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.839 I'm not gonna lie, but some good stuff here already 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.680 in the chat. I want to start with this from 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.560 The Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks Leeji, friend of the 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.199 show for I think since inception. Yesterday Joey p was 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.960 talking about all the other characters on the show, Cousin, Donnie, Walkee, Pengman, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.560 all the people. But what the show really needs is 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.760 a theme song, and a theme song written by Ai Welsh. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.120 It's hard to argue that this isn't the best idea 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.280 that we're gonna see all month. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.320 But now who sings it? What is the Ai voice 0:00:58.560 --> 0:00:59.800 of Leading Off? 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.440 I don't know I don't know what that sounds like. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.160 I mean, I can only assume it sounds something like, 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.679 Oh boy, you guys like leading Off? I sure do. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.279 I love leading Off. It's the best show in the world. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.360 We love baseball. Oh, Jackson Holiday, you're adorable. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.160 Why does he know? He's like the cartoon character from Shrek, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.800 like not my com drop button. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.920 Yeah, he's very Pinocchio. Yeah, it's some hybrid of all 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.840 those things. But let's get after. We've got a lot 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.280 to do today, and of course it's Thursday, and that 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.880 means we're gonna be prospecting with the Welsh. Hopefully we 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.560 can get that pick axe out of your head from 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.000 that graphic. If you haven't already, make sure you subscribe 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.440 to the YouTube channel as always and click that bell 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.199 for notifications. Ring it till it goes ding. Let's start 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.640 here with ten or how nine strikeouts for him, beautiful 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.240 complete game, shutout over the Guardians. We were in on 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:47.640 this bunch of ching. So I had a good day 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.720 yesterday on the betting side, which is good. I needed 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.760 it in the worst way of being stone cold for 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.160 about ten days now. But again, breakouts happen. Baseball's a 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.280 long season. Pace yourself. Also Welsh fun fact, it was 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.440 the fastest game since twenty ten. An hour and forty 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.480 nine minute baseball game. That's barely enough time to wait 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.840 on the line for beer or to go to the bathroom. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.280 Whoa was it really? I mean, this is that whole 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.160 you know, pitch clock and pace of game type of stuff. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.080 We've seen tons of minor league games push into two hours. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.480 It's something the experiment with the Arizona Fall League for 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.920 quite some time. But under two hour games are wild 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.720 to me. I didn't realize that it was that quick. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.400 I'm kind of down for it. I don't, you know, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.600 like the dragged on games or something about four and 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.960 a half hours invested into like a twelve inning game 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.240 or something that makes you want to dunk your head 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.160 and water. So our forty commitment, that's pretty sweet. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.680 Yeah, Donnie c cousin Donnie says, do it ninety six 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.280 com style. It might have to be we might have 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.480 to figure out how this works. Oh great, I mean 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.640 it should be like me turning around like, oh my, 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.040 just as Joe Pi's appeal under it. You know, that's 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.960 a great At a baseball game, he goes to catch a 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.800 foul ball or like the nights found ball away from 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.840 a kid and then like crying, and he's like this, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.600 He's like, actually, that's my Mayor's bit. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.080 And then you and I are and then and then 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.520 pans to you and I were like, Mike. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.200 Here's so bad, Mike Mayor? All right, but yeah, if 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.760 quick games are good, it's good for baseball. I like it. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.239 I got more fun facts I got. I got a 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.280 bunch of fun facts. Today. Christopher Sanchez struck out ten 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.239 unearned run allowed over six scorelessittings against the Rockies. Yes again, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.160 we said the same thing yesterday. It wasrez, We'll say 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.519 it against the Rockies. Who cares, I'm telling you, Welsh, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.519 I was worried about the only thing that worried me 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.079 a little bit about my wager this year about the 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.040 Phillies winning that division was one thing was a back 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.960 end of this rotation. I don't think I'm worried anymore. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.960 Those guys are stepping up, Sanchez, Suarez, all these guys 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.720 are stepping up, the guys at the top. I know 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.520 you can count on, Welsh. It feels like the Phillies 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.040 are the team to beat in the East. For me, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.720 I don't know if that's what you've gotten so far. Look, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.240 losing Spencer Schreider is that was that one thing too 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.880 that I was most fearful of. If Strider goes down, 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.880 What does the rest of this rotation look like for Atlanta? 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.240 I don't care how good the offense is. What are 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.000 your thoughts on the philm so far this year in 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:01.760 twenty twenty four. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.480 Yeah, and we've seen Wheelers had absolutely no run support 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.160 early on in this year. Aaron Nola up until that 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.400 last game had been kind of but like you said, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.040 you had Ranger and Christopher Sanchez just absolutely lifting the 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.440 team up. So it's great. Sanchez is a great fantasy option. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:24.120 His changeup has been incredible, big sweepy stuff. Like a 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.719 team like the Rockies. He's going to absolutely dominate. But 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.280 it's not unheard of to think that he's going to 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.560 be more than a nine K per guy all season long, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.560 with maybe better earned run numbers and stuff like that. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.680 So I'm into both of those guys. And if you're 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.400 talking about the grand scope of it, yeah, this team's 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.120 pretty dangerous. They've got depth in the bullpen. It would 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.480 probably behoove them to go and make a move a 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.480 little bit more in the bullpen, or like the Diamondbacks 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.599 did where they had the rotation kind of set and 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.920 then they're like, hey, we're going to go and pull 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.440 the trigger on Jordan Montgomery. They could go out and 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.039 just get one more piece to make that a robust 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.679 rotation and a robust pitching staff. When they're offense pretty 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.520 dang good. It's a pretty dang good offense that just 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.159 needs to click, and it has really started clicking. I 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.840 mean every year they do the same thing. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.760 They start off slow and they get red hot, and 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.719 then they make the playoffs and you know, we'll see 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.760 where they can gauge this year. But look, I think 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.120 this might I picked the Phillies to go to the 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.200 World Series too. I think it's the Phillies year. I 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.920 just I feel like that's it's, you know, one of 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.800 those teams where it just feels right to me. It 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.600 feels like they are knocking on the door. And it's 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.600 one of the few places that has a home field advantage. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.720 There's a lot of places aren't a home field advantage, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.840 and Philadelphia's still one of them. That place is raucous, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.760 it's loud, it's tough building to play in the playoffs. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.880 It's it's something that's for sure. Here's one from Star 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.080 Platinum to do the theme song to the Curb Your 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.160 Enthusiasm song. I do only can get the rights to that, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.200 but I would like that that would be this, that 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.880 would be the theme playing over my bets for the 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.120 last seven days. That would be. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.240 But see, that's where AI could come in, as you 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.720 could do like, you know, like a curb or office 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.120 type theme. Ask AI to do it again. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:56.719 But I don't know. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.400 Does AI make news. I don't even understand the whole 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.440 time everything. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:07.520 I'm actually artificial intelligence right now. I'm ninety you're the intelligence. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.600 I'm the intelligent. There you go. All right, let's talk 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.760 about some guys who had some big starts. Yesterday we 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.400 previewed them. Now we're gonna talk about the aftermath. Kevin 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.479 Gosman one run over five innings fastball velocity was at 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.520 ninety four point eight. He topped out at ninety seven 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.880 to nine. That's a good thing. Obviously, fourteen swinging strikes, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.880 so good start from Gossman era still at eight. But 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.960 I think let's start with Gosman here real quick. Welsh, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.800 I felt good about the start. I think everybody should. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.160 Do you agree? Yep? 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.520 This is that what we talked about, like, hey, don't 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.440 freak out, don't lose your minds, buy in on some 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.159 of those elite guys, and Gosman's starting to get it 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:42.560 back going. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.560 Now. Max Freed gave up three runs and five innings. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.880 He walked four guys, gave up seven hits. Now it's 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.920 the astro. So again the level of difficulty a little 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.839 bit different here. But we were greating Gosman against the Yankees, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.240 so it makes sense to great Freed here against the opponent. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.200 And against the opponent, it was kind of a shaky 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.440 start here for Freed. So what's your panic mode on him? 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.800 I've been a little panic mode already, Like he was 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.440 one of the wish it wasn't Logan Gilbert. It was 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.240 like Freed and Logan Gilbert were like the guys that 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.600 I was a little like not into coming into the year. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.520 Gilbert's been amazing, Freed has not. The early walks. Is 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.960 it's either gonna be this bad trend that's gonna continue 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.040 going and it's gonna put him in really bad spots, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.800 or it's a complete anomaly. I'm not super super into 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.000 Max rate. I don't think he's looked really consistent, and 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.200 I just wasn't like an elite, elite guy. So it's 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.960 a little like my narrative base because like Goswen, I'm like, oh, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:33.480 he's good to go. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.960 He was. The health was a question going into the season. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.960 I put him as a red flag pitcher in the 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.960 Black Book this year with good reason. And here we 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.040 are and Strider's already gone. If Freed isn't right, this 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.160 is a problem for Atlanta, and it's gonna be a 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.120 problem as the season starts to go on because you 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.400 know other injuries are gonna happen. It's just the nature 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.280 of the beast. So it's already April and already in 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.320 here it's bad. Michael King was good, though very good. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.960 Ten strikeouts for him, just two walks against the Brewers. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.320 Hee had noel yelg in the lineup, but still seventeen 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.960 miss swings here, twenty five call strikes, one hundred and 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.080 nine pitches on this one. A lot of the data good. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.400 Ninety six miles an hour was where he was sitting 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.880 at so look, this was this was good. Here. He's 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.040 now two and one with a three ERA, so this 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.800 makes me feel really good because another bad outing for 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.640 Michael King was gonna start to worry me just a 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.600 little bit. This one was not just good, it was dominant. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.000 Now I feel really good and I feel stupid because 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.640 I had him on my bench in one or two leagues. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.440 I was like, Oh, let's just kind of a show 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.000 me start here. Well he showed me I'm wrong for 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.520 sitting him. What do you think about Michael King's start yesterday? 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.120 Yeah, I'm very very encouraged about it. You mentioned seventeen 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.000 swing and missus with for a forty percent swing and 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.040 whiff rate. In this game, he had a thirty nine 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.480 percent csw His fastball was getting stuff done. He actually 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.840 had a fifty three percent with rate on the fastball. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.280 His sweeper is just great. Villa was kind of up 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.760 across the board, which was a good sign. He looked 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.160 pretty consistent. I mean, he's a little walk heavy, he 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.840 gets a little like walky, but he gets a strikeouts, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.520 he gets a swing and missus And this is that 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.120 version of Michael King that I was trying to sell 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.440 in the preseason that he could be elite like this. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.040 And the dude had a no hitter going through like 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.600 five or six innings, so very very encouraged, great opportunities. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.000 If people were just kind of down on the slow start, which, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.680 by the way, you know, face the Dodgers multiple times 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.160 to start the year, it might be a little bit 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.320 of a more difficult struggle. And Michael King is really 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.760 coming into himself and those whiff numbers are very very 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.800 encouraging because it looks like the starter version of him 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.240 from last year, and that's what I love so much. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.880 I'm looking at some of the you know, rps and 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.480 cracker jacks of the chat and I'll often wonder, you know, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.880 people will come into this madness here who've just found 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.360 this channel this year. The amount of inside jokes that 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.880 are already like just for like two years are hilarious, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.640 like Michael talking about Schwarberfest being back again. I mean 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.720 like things like that. I just get imagine what people are, like, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.440 what are they talking about? Like, what are these crazy 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.200 lunatics talking about? Stick with us, watch us live, you'd 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.959 be part of the lunatic that's the way to go. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.400 Thing was the quahah thing, which, by the way, I 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.880 am so depressed because they closed the Wah Wah after 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.240 a decade of living in this town. They closed the 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.800 small little wah wah on the corner of my Stree 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.240 wah Wah. Well you, oh no, the wahwah. The waha 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.240 is the push you go for breakfast, sandwiches and coffee, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.240 and it's the place you go out for. You know, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.679 you stop by for a lunch, or you're you're driving 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.600 back from somewhere where you're going to the beach that day. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.760 You get some Hogi's. You get a hogi at the 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.480 wah Wah. I'm so mad just because it wasn't a 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.480 big enough wah wah. They closed it because they didn't 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.520 have a gas station of wah wah. It's our little 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.120 wah wah. You took it away from this and I'm 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.360 mad about it. I'm pounding the table about it. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.840 You're getting paid for every wah wah you mentioned there. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.000 I don't know, but they should be a sponsor the show. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.640 We don't have those here. We don't have those here. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.480 So Ezekiel Tovar three for five with a run scored. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.400 He is slashing three zero six, three sixty three four 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.319 eighty six with three homers two steals in his first 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.760 eighty played appearances. I love this. He was one of 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.439 our late pick guys. Elie de la Cruz his fifth 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.480 home run yesterday, and Juan Soto three for three with homer. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.640 So obviously good things from wan so will continue. Here's 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.520 some fun stuff. Farrest Whitley came up. Fares Whitley goes 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.240 down obviously because Verlander's coming up. Today's Jack Lighter's debut, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.480 so we'll be obviously talking about that tomorrow. Mason Miller 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.439 struck out two in another scoreless ninth inning, and his 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.880 Sterio Ruiz apparently came back as a power hitter. He 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.600 is reincarnated. He's still a base being another home run too. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.600 Are you buying the power of a story Ruiz? 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.400 This is actually the first thing I saw him when 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.520 he was in Complex Ball and he was a Royal 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.280 at the time before he got traded to the Padres, 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.360 and I thought he was like an Alfonso Soriano light. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.360 He had big power double. He led the Complex League 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.600 rookie ball at the time in doubles. It's always been there. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.280 It's just been how to tap into it is what's 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.800 fallen apart. They sent him down this year because they 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.720 said his bat stunk. He kind of heated every call. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.040 He started walking more, he got on base, and you're 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.520 seeing just a resurgence in the power. He's not a 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.920 twenty home run hitter, but like, could he hit fifteen 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.320 in the season if he was for high contact? Yeah, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:01.800 I kind of. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.319 Well, he's still sixty bases at his fifteen home runs. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.240 I mean, he is the top, he's the first round talent, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:07.240 but he's not got all. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.240 I mean, the problem is easy hits. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.480 Two ten, you know, or two twenty. But the A's 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.080 have already kind of made this commitment, Like if he 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.920 doesn't hit, he's not sticking around. So I don't know, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.079 I'm encouraged, and a lot of you might have had 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.560 opportunities to pick him up being sent down, people dropping him. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.560 He's kind of a must ad right now, especially because 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.120 his opportunity is back. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.880 All right, let's get to some more fun things here. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.920 Last year, I just I saw this and I'll show 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.840 and I just want to bring it up here. Last year, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.840 for there were three point five thousand stolen bases in 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.760 Major League Baseball, thirty five hundred exactly on the button 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.559 that It was the most by the way since nineteen 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.840 eighty seven, which was the record high by the way 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.720 three thousand, five hundred and ninety. I thought that was 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.400 fascinating that in one year that they that they almost 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.440 broke the record and it was the second highest number 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.840 since nineteen eighty seven and baseball nineteen eighty seven. You 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.240 had a lot of those guys, you know, the thirty 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.079 thirty Club guys, you know, the you know, the guys 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.920 like the Jose Canseco's and the you know, Daryl Strawberries 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.000 of that time. There were guys who had power and speed. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.199 That was the thing. It was this big power speed combination. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.559 You had teams like the Cardinals that were you know, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.400 and that were you know, out there steeling bases, playing 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.240 white herzog ball. It was a very different time. It 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.760 was my peak viewing time in the mid eighties of 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.600 like my youth of capturing me with baseball. But I 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.360 thought that's really interesting because I wonder, now, you know, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.000 you're talking about the early game, right with the quick 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.360 game hour and forty nine minutes, you're talking about the 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.200 steels being up. Maybe there is this opportunity here where 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.800 baseball can continue to be on this trend and hopefully 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.959 get this pitcher thing straightened out. That's really fascinating. Did 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.520 you know that did you know that this was the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.320 second highest total in the history of baseball? Yes? Last year? 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.080 Yeah, I mean I would have guessed it. The stolen 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:52.280 bases were up percentile wise by like a dramatic margin, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.040 like dramatic, dramatic, So I gotta be honestly, I probably 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.120 would have thought it was number one last year with 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.080 the amount of I mean, with a Kunya and as 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.440 story Ruiz and Cormick Carroll like, the stolen based numbers 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.520 were not just up on the top end, they were 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.520 up on everybody. And that's been kind of the key marker, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.360 which is so interesting because stolen bases went from this 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.880 thing where everybody's chasing in everybody wants to get the 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.200 high end stolen based guys, to it kind of being 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.960 a fade from last year into this year because it's like, well, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.080 everybody's stealing more, but the elite guys are still, you know, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.120 at the tippy top. But then there's the Bryce terrangs 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.280 of the world that are you know, leading baseball and 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.400 stolen bases right now that we never really would have expected. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.240 But yeah, I would have thought it was number one. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.080 Rapid flashes and or boguards has been hard. Yes, I 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.080 would buy him and I would buy Randy Rose Raina, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:39.600 both of them right now, two of my favorites. I 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.320 don't know if they made the Welsh video for next week, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.920 but we shall see. Also Sabos goggles Ai song Where 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.680 in the world is kentama Eta for Welsh? I support that. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.720 That's a good one that you guys don't forget now 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.880 now again, all the inside jokes are unbelievable. Welcome to 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.880 leading off. Here's a fun one too, The Dodger seven 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.480 through nine hitters so far this year and fifty one 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.080 played appearances, four doubles, four homers. Here's the slash line 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:09.240 one two twenty seven, two thirty nine. We talked about 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.400 this line of being top heavy Welsh. It's been top heavy, 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.000 but the top has been so good. What happens when 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.760 the top comes back down to earth and Mookie bets 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.160 stopped going five for five every day? 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.920 Well, I mean, the team's gonna get shut out by 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.720 the Nationals. That's what's gonna end up. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.920 There's talking about the way that was the only thing 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.040 I get't hit yesterday was the stupid It was nine 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.760 and a half. Even Vegas was like nine and a 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.800 half and they got it two. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.280 Here's the Here's the thing, though, Like we can do 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.800 those speculative things with the Dodgers, but like they lose one, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.600 they're not gonna lose all of them, but they lose one, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.640 they still have like Otani and Freeman or Bets and whatever. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.840 Like it's so uniquely great on the top part that 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.720 like we we can't even do this pure speculation. What 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.920 about the back But the depth of this team from 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.000 an on offensive standpoint completely suffers. Clearly, like they have 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.200 taken more of a priority to insively than it is 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.800 often on the offensive side. And it's like having Gavin 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.360 Lux out there every day doesn't make any sense. I 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.360 think he's one of the worst offensive baseball players out 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.440 there right now. So I'm not really sure what's going on. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.400 I do think they will make some type of a move. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.840 I don't know what that's gonna look like in the 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.720 mid season, but I think like that is something clear, 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.560 like you can't have that big of a discrepancy between 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.800 the top and like not just like that those guys 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.560 are so talented, but you're so bad on the back half. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.800 Like they're gonna fix that. The Dodgers are going to 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.680 be the team that will fix that across the board 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.680 because they got the assets to trade but have been 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.560 pretty good. If theyd Michael Busch though telling you right. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.000 Now, yeah, you would have been an out, that's for sure, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.480 rookie lookie. Then we get to prospecting with the Welsh. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.440 Parker Meadows his first homer. Here you go, congratulations to you, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.200 and jose Brew went over to and made an error. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.560 So I think it's time ladies and gentlemen to look 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:54.360 for Joey low Perfido. Because Joey the Pride of Philadelphia 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.920 twenty one runs nineteen hits, ten homers, twenty four ribies, 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.880 two steals, hitting two ninety seven with a ninety seven 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.880 OBP and eleven ninety four ops. I think people should 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.520 start picking up this guy. If I made my way 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.120 for a wire video today instead of yesterday, I would 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.280 have added him. Welsh, what do you think about this? 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.080 As we transition into more prospect talk. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.680 Well, I'll take him off the list because he was 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.480 one of the prospects we were going to talk about. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.520 Joey lous Well, no, no, no, no, don't. Instead, let's 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.920 get to it prospecting with the Welsh there's the pickaxe, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.040 and that's Welsh wielding it. And look at that. He's 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.240 discovered baseballs and he's going to discover some prospects you 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.560 need to add to your roster. So Welsh, let's start 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.600 with Joey low Perfido Joey Lowe because I like to 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.760 call him, although in Philadelphia be low Perfidu. That's WWA, Joey. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.240 Go get me a HOGI and a cake. Come on, Joey. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.560 All right, so let's talk about prospects that we are 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.639 gonna stash. Joey Luperfdo is near the tippy top of 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.680 the list. He is in this top five that I've 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.679 got for you because he has been the most prolific 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.840