WEBVTT - Leading Off August 9th, 2024 (Ep. 883) 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.160 What's up, friends, and welcome into Leading Off right here 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.200 on Fantasy Pros. I'm Chris Welch. That is Casey Bubba. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.320 We are here for you on a baseball Friday to 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.760 get your prep for not only today this weekend, but 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.279 next week as well. And Leading Off is brought to 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.600 you by our friends over at Bet three sixty five, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.400 where you can bet five dollars get one hundred and 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.040 fifty in bonus bets. Sign up today, download the app, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.720 check it out. Use promo code leading Off. That's promo 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.040 code leading Off at Bet three sixty five. If you 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.280 get a gambling problem called one eight hundred bets off 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.280 or one eight hundred gambler. Terms and conditions apply. Casey 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.800 Bubba back in the house for us rocking some good bets. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:45.280 Last week. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:46.559 We got a few that are going to be coming 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.080 up here in just a tiny bit Casey Bubba. Casey 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.920 sounds weird calling I call you Bubb. I don't know why. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.160 It's actually very similar to when someone they someone was 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:56.680 doing this the other day and they were saying Chris, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:58.840 and everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA What are 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.920 we talking about? Don't say Chris. That sounds weird and 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.440 I feel like I'm my mother, is you know, getting 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.280 mad at me saying the full name or whatever? But 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.840 were you a part of yesterday's big barrage of it 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.240 was kind of an awakening for some reason where everyone 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.560 was like, whoa, Jackson Cheerio is really good? And I 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.360 was chatting with somebody via text about the irony and 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.840 how hilarious it is, but how it's all rooted in 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.920 this hatred that had happened for rookies. Because everybody was 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.000 very excited because people like me and stuff. Hey, you 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:36.640 know Jackson Churio, Jackson Holiday. The failure set so many 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.960 people up to do the thing that they always do. Oh, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.640 these guys are garbage, they'll never work out, blah blah blah. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.399 And then all of a sudden, everybody is presented with 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.720 this greatness greatness and air quotes or whatever. But Jackson 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.600 Holliday has been absolutely dominant, Jackson Merrill has been one 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.480 of the most valuable players this year, and Jackson Cheerio 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.440 has been an absolute freak. He went three for five yesterday, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.840 two home hitting three fifteen in June, three seventeen in July. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.799 Are you on the bandwagon? That Jackson Churio is a beast. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.080 One hundred percent. I've been talking about it on my 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.080 shows for a couple of weeks now at different shows. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.360 I do just because the dudes was hitting two a 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.560 seven to start July. He's hitting two seventy seven on Friday. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.679 That's ridiculous. He's sitting over four hundred over the last 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.200 two weeks. It's amazing what you know, a little time 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.520 and you know going through struggles a young player can do. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.120 You mentioned Jackson holiday. We talked about him on Monday. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.240 Jackson Merril Turio' is awesome. One of the big conversation 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.880 points I've been having with my co host Ryan Bloomfield 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.000 is where does he go in draft next year? Is 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.840 this a top hundred pick? I think it is. This 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.000 is a legit, you know, twenty five twenty five guy. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.679 I think he's got five homers and five steals the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.120 last two weeks. He's a beast like I like him 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.920 a lot, so I am on board with you. It 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.600 is fun. Like you said, to see the quote unquote 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.480 Twitter verse just all of a sudden start to acknowledg 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.400 him and everyone tweets about him at the same time. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.400 Yeah, I mean and something like sure we can, we 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.080 can figure this out next year. Do we need to 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.560 speak more about the ups and downs? I feel like 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.919 we try to. We try to have these up explain like, hey, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.840 by the way, these guys can you know, kind of 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.280 go through the motions and you need to maybe prepare better. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.320 The nice thing about this year was, regardless of the rookie, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.239 the cost didn't really like go nuts, you know what 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:24.200 I mean, Like Holiday Cheerio, I mean like holiday didn't work. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.799 That clearly didn't work. He was sent down. He was 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.560 a disaster. But Cheerio was the one where it was 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.560 like all year long, people are like, no, no, no, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.080 I don't know. I might you know, cut him? What 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.240 about this guy? What about this guy? Now you're at 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.400 a point. I asked Bogaman this one yesterday. Wh would 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.240 you rather have rest of season Jackson Cheerio or Randy 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:41.880 Rose Arena. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.320 It's a great question. Someone in the chat even threw 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.680 that out there a little bit ago a wild you know, yeah, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.800 if I missed it now, but for the rest of 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.480 the season, I'd have Cheerio. Like and I'm a huge 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.560 Randy Roseraina fan. He's on Pace for twenty five, but 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.560 he's hitting like two thirty, which is crushing you. I'm 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.000 Cheerio through and through, and that's why I'm really really 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.920 looking forward to seeing how he finishes the year and 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.560 where we go from here, because the talent is undeniable 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.400 for twenty years old. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.840 Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, you know, technically on 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.240 a run of three straight months of hitting over three hundred. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.040 He's had every month if we're not hunting March, but 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.240 every month of June it's been multi stolen bases, and 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.839 he's had every month but may be multi homer months, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.560 and it's just taken a little bit of time to 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.440 start connecting and get going. But underlying stats, they're in 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.279 a decent spot. You know, hard hit rate, great, K 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.160 percentage low. His expected batting average is actually at just 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.600 a notch better than his current The only thing he's 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.240 got to do, like a lot of young guys, is 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.000 that he's got to start turning. Not Lawrence Butler, but 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.320 you got to start turning and beryling. And he's not 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.120 one hundred percent bareling, but that's going to be the consistency. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.240 There was something about Randy Rose arena in that he's 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.040 already almost twenty twenty, and he's hitting like two twenty 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.920 that it's like, oh, if the regret, the positive regression 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.000 starts to come into play, you could see where the 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.520 big counting stats are. But Schurio is creating himself as 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.560 a baseline player. The strikeouts are lowering, the averages staying up. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.240 He is getting those big counting stats. He might easily 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.760 just be a twenty five to twenty five guy into 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.640 the near future and just walk right into it. You know, 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.400 maybe the floor is old school Starling Marte and the 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.120 ceiling is going to be God knows, you know, God 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.680 knows where it's going to go. But Jackson Curio, everyone's awakened. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.880 The awakening has happened to Jackson Curio August ninth for 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:27.360 some reason. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.360 Yeah, it's pretty wild. He feels like what we want 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.360 Kyle Tucker to be. But Kyle Tucker's been hurt. This 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:32.000 is your guy now. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.279 It feels like, yeah, we're going to talk about Kyle 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.800 Tucker here in a little bit. Laddie Junior missed out 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.719 on the cycle by a single. I actually didn't think 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.640 I would ever really say that, Yeah, that it was 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.440 going to be on that front so far twenty three 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.280 homers seventy six RBIs in one hundred and fourteen games 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.200 so far this year. Vladimir Guerrero Junior. We think the 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.200 value looks like on him next year. He was a 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.280 big bye and a lot of the videos that I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.400 was doing early on in the year second half player 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.880 I really bought into also, like everything was screaming at 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.040 you outside of him getting the ball in the air 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.280 and he started to do. So, what do you think 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:10.599 the value is going to look like? 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:10.680 Like? 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.680 Is he done enough where he's gonna keep doing this 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.840 thing where it's like, hey, top fifteen again, I'm right 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.760 at like fifteen to twenty. He's gonna do that mid 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.400 second round thing he always does and then struggles in 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.240 the first two months and builds it back up. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.440 Yes, I believe. So he's gonna jump over metals and 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.880 I think he's going to be in the peat Alonzo conversation. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.840 It's going to feel like twenty twenty three all over 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.279 again with flag Guerrero. Who would you rather have? 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:33.960 Pe Alonzo? Verre flat did that now that you just. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.440 Thought, I'll take vlad Because I'm a big Pede Alonzo 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.200 fan and I always thought his bad and average wuld 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.240 be better. It's just not improving. The skills are still undeniable. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.360 But Vlad at worse is going to hit for average 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.160 more often than not because of how hard it's the ball, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.760 even on the ground, And like you said, everything pointed 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.440 to positive aggression. Just get it elevated. He still has 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.440 over a fifty percent ground ball rate and he's doing 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.559 what he's doing. Just imagine if he just fix another 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.320 minor like five percent tweak like, he could be a 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.160 forty plus guy easily in the home run department. The 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.200 sky's the limit for Vladi. So I'm becoming more and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.960 I've been an anti Vlad guy for a long time, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.200 so I'm just my my brain is starting to work 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.760 into a let's appreciate who he is and the talent 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:11.040 he is. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.160 Remember that debate, we'd always see where it was Vlad 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.880 or Jordon Alvarez, like do you think that how close 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:17.560 do you think that is? 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.120 It's Vlad all the way from me because I was 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.080 nervous with jord On because the dude just can't stay healthy. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.840 It's great. I compared him in preseason. He is the 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.200 Greg Odin of the MLB. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.360 Craig, I mean, that's a little bit dramatic, like, but's 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.160 done stuff, but you have. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.000 To take in the first round, so you got to 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:35.560 be dramatic. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.680 Yeah, I guess I suppose you're right. You're not wrong 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.840 about that one. Kevin Gossman has been the topic of 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.200 a ton of stuff here so far this year, just 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.800 really and also I would say, just my disbelief in 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.120 him being able to like really turn it around. He 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.520 could be decent, but not the Kevin Gosman of old. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.400 He limited the Orioles to two runs, three hits, eight innings, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.680 getting his tenth wins so far this year, but just 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:04.000 two strikeouts. Very strange season, lots of inconsistencies. Do you 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.720 trust Kevin Gossman rest of this year going into the playoffs? 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.920 And when I say trust, I mean you're not gonna 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.440 worry about matchups, You're not gonna worry about maybe benching 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.760 him or something like that, Like you're just gonna blindly 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:16.600 throw him out. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.840 Now. A couple of weeks ago, I took the l 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.320 on this one. I was loving the discount on Gospen 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.040 because he was heard entering the season, but they said 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.040 he'd be fine all these these things. And it's been 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.680 so inconsistent a couple of months, a couple two, three 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.080 weeks ago, I fled out said he's a spot starter 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.000 based on matchups. I had him benched last night in 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.640 my weekly leagues. He was benched and like the aightiens 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.440 is great. The two strikeouts doesn't help me at all. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.480 It doesn't do it. So he's strictly a matchup dependence. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.000 So to your question, do you just lock and load? No, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.880 you do not with Kevin Gospen the rest of the season. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.080 Yeah, I don't think so either. I mean the overall 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.800 stats still they just you know, they're in the stinky range. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.920 I'd have to look over his last couple of games 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.640 if we've seen a little bit more implementation. His slider's 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.760 up to like seven percent usage, but it's been mainly fastball. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.040 It's been mainly ineffective. That's been his big thing. Strikeouts 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.280 are way way down, his expected era is still over five. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.400 And I hate these type of guys. And you know 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:14.200 what hand up for the preseason because I was a 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.240 big like, oh, I can get a discount on Gossman 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.959 and I did it. I did it in a couple spots, 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.560 so that's l for me. But I've turned and I 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.080 turned a while ago that I don't even think like 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.400 in smaller leagues where you were able to make a 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.200 move off of him, I would have made that move 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.960 off of him already. And I hate these type of guys. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.920 It's brutal, like where it's like, all right, you know, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.720 I think I can get to go Oh nope, you 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.440 know they're crap. All right, put them on the bench 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.480 and then they go out have eight. Now you're gonna 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.280 feel compelled to put him out in the next start, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.280 and then that struggle comes back. One of those guys, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.680 you always make the wrong move. It sucks when you 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.920 always make the wrong move on a guy. Some other 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.680 news and notes. Walker Bueller allowed one run over five 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.480 and one thirds of an inning on Thursday in a 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.560 minor league rehab assignment in Triple A. That means we 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.280 are super close, Walker Wheeler. You start him off of 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.680 his first start back. This is always like my big 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.800 thing with any of these guys first start back. Are 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:07.640 you putting him out there? 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.360 No? I'm not, because I still think he's broken. He 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.840 was a shell of himself before he left. He pitched great. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.360 He's going to face Milwaukee, one of the hottest offenses 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.160 in baseball. I'll sit back and watch and sadly we'll 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.800 see River Ryan go back to Triple A. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.200 I know, River Ryan's been so good. I'm gonna agree 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.080 with you speaking of you brought him up a little 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.520 bit earlier. On Kyle Tucker, the athletics Chandler Rome reports 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:34.480 that Kyle Tucker was progressing to more explosive movements such 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.880 as sprinting, and that was it. That's all he said. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.400 Such a sprinting, which they're hoping is going to move 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:47.120 along the process. It doesn't feel like you're going to 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.000 get Kyle Tucker back at all this year, and if 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.760 you do, it's probably going to be more relevant or 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.360 the most impactful two head to head leagues where you're 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.120 playing in the playoffs at Roto at this point, you know, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:01.800 maybe you get him back to the final two weeks. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.640 I'm not sure where that puts you over, but in 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.880 a head to head, if you got him back before 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.200 the playoffs, that can be a complete game changer. But 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:15.199 he doesn't seem right. They're literally calling his explosive movements sprinting. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.560 We haven't got into games. We're not getting into like 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.400 live sessions, BP, swinging bats, anything like that. It's August ninth. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.360 I feel relatively adamant you're not getting him back. It's 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.280 not that you should go cut him or anything like that. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.280 If you have il spots, you should put him out there. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.920 But I don't know if people would need to make 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.520 that hard decision. I do not think we are going 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.480 to see Kyle Tucker. I really don't even know. I 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:39.800 don't think we're going to see him at the rest 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.360 of the regular season. I'll hold it at that. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.240 I think if we see him at all, it's the 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.480 final two weeks, kind of like Christian Yelich last year 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.600 at the back injury. Get him loosened up, get him 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.360 ready for the postseason. That's all the Astros care about 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.240 right now at this point. So for fantasy purposes, I'm 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.319 with you. I've said he's a hold as long as 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:56.880 you can hold. But if you have no one else 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.200 to cut and you don't have any al spots, then 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.880 you move on from Kyle Tucker unfortunately, but you hold 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.720 as long as you can and just don't expect much. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.240 Oh what do you think that's gonna do for you? 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.160 For his value next season? Like you're not looking at it. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.240 I haven't started my ranks to next year because I'm 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.880 not that psychotic, but like you know, he's always he's 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.280 been first round for a couple of years. Let's break 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.880 it down like this. Let's start here, Kyle Tucker first 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:22.600 round next year. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.439 I'm still leaning yes, but. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.440 Really I thought we were going to keep going. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.360 Okay, well, I still think I'm hoping a full off 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.480 season fixes things, but it has been a weird injury obviously. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.360 I actually start my first draft on August twenty first, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.400 the one we start every year, that fifteen of us 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.280 start our early draft Champions Draft, so we'll find out 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.319 real quick through in fifteen rounds that night, out of 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.840 the fifty, so we'll know for sure. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.480 I think it's gonna be mid second, and I wouldn't 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.920 be shocked if there's some thirds in there. You do 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.920 have to remember not trying to be dismissive of him. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.480 You do have to remember, like he was awesome, he 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.600 was an MVP candidate before you go yeah yeah, yeah. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.640 So like you know, that doesn't take away from the 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.800 overall production. And August will be interesting because I don't 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.000 think that'll be out of people's brains. But come November 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.640 that'll kind of washed away and people will be able 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.160 to do it. But you know, I think there's some 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.760 other guys that have jumped up obviously, like Ellie now 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.640 owns a first round pick. I think some of the 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.240 younger guys, like a Jackson Merrill, Like I haven't even decided, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.120 Like where's Jackson Merrill gonna go next year in fantasy, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.400 because like he's gonna pull up on a Kyle Tucker 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.160 type season, healthy and playing in the outfield. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.119 Do you go, Jackson Merril, Jackson Cherio. That's a fun conversation. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.520 It is a fun conversation. I mean, and like, are 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.800 both of them that far off from Kyle Tucker? 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.920 Because aren't they better than Michael Harris who was a 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.920 second round pick last year? Like these are the things 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.000 that make then there's your Kyle Tucker comunit. Like maybe 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.640 they do jump him and he moves back into the 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.760 second or third. There's only so many spots. There's only 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.080 fifteen spots, twelve spots, depends on your league. So that 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.679 doesn't make a good yet it does. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.400 Uh, Hey for knows, I was watching the chat here 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.760 and I was starring, as we call them, on the 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.920 back end of our stream yard. Here is a starring 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.440 some questions. So we love to answer the Peanuts and 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.080 the cracker Jacks, So we're gonna answer some of your 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.440 guys's questions. We're also gonna be looking at some two 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.120 start streamers here in just a minute. So I saved 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.320 a couple questions. Bub, I'm gonna fire them at you. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.360 Matt Flood dropped a Conforto or Kelnick for this weekend. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.040 I say Conforto because Kelnick has been. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.520 I'm with you. Kellen Nick's been rough, Conforido coming off 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.360 a good road series there, and they get the Detroit 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.520 Tigers this week, and so give me Conforto. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.120 Yeah, and I picked up Conforto in a league as well, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.480 like kell Nick has been just not even justifiably startable. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.960 Shane says Netto or Tovar rest of season. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.840 I've been I actually rostered both those guys in a 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.320 lot of leagues. I'm gonna go Neto. I've been a 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.120 big Neto guy preseason. I thought he was a twenty 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 twenty guy, and we're seeing it now. Tovar is good, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.320 he has cooled down a bit. But give me Zach Netto. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.000 Okay, Well, I was about to say say his name 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.480 again you're going to Netto Nickto. I said it, you 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.800 said it straight, you strung it, then you went Netto. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.040 I feel like I feel like I feel like Bogman 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.240 late nights uh in Arizona. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.960 Yeah, what does that mean? Particularly I would go, you know, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.680 it's funny. We did this debate yesterday on IL and 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:23.520 it was Tovar and Tyler Fitzgerald, which is a wild 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.680 one because you know, obviously like Fitzgerald has been absolutely 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.040 going ballistic and by the way, we're gonna talk about 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.920 him a little bit, all the stolen bases yesterday and 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.200 this makes this might kill me. I picked Tyler Fitzgerald 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.000 the rest of season. I did it yesterday too, before 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.800 the game over. Tovar and Tovar has been good. He 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.000 has been like I feel like we've had a lot 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.320 of negative stuff around Tovar because there's a lot of 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.000 underlying expected stuff. If we're being frank, he has one 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.760 of the worst looking baseball savant underlying pages. But he's 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.480 defying that, you know, so good for him. Good for 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.000 him on that. There are always players that are going 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.840 to defy it. But he has like literally the worst 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.080 face rate in baseball. It's like forty it's the bottom 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.320 one percentile of the league. It's like bottom ten percentile, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.000 Like you know, expected slug da da da da all that. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.280 Yet he still is hitting like a good average. He's 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.720 got like eighteen or nineteen homers. He's at a decent, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.840 decent season that he's defying that. Do you feel like 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.920 you're waiting for the shoot to drop? Tyler Fitzgerald not 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.200 only is on a hot streak and not only has 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.040 a great compliment of power and speed, but a lot 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.160 of the underlying things are telling a really good story. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.280 Like he doesn't hit the ball really really hard, but 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.360 his barrel numbers are up, he's getting the ball in 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.200 the air, and he's making really good decisions. And then 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.840 he rattles off three stolen bases yesterday. So I think 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.440 I might. I think I would go Netto in that 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.240 as well, But I think I would take Tyler Fitzgerald 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.920 over both. Right now, I'm I'm drinking the Tyler Fitzgerald 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:46.400 kol aid. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.720 It's good kool aid, welcome to the party. And I've 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.120 been saying his speed's better than his power. I've been 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:52.840 waiting for him to run. So, like you said, we'll 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.600 get to it, big Thursday for Tyler Fitzgerald. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.640 Exactly, Michael says Hudeck and Michael, by the way, was 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.160 shaming me earlier, saying I'm not punctual. Hey, Michael, there's 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.680 stuff in the background. We Bobba had to get the audio. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:06.879 I got to set the things. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.600 So we were doing the stuff and things. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.560 Okay, let's go and count how many times we started 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.879 at nine thirty or twelve thirty one Eastern with Joe 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.159 on the show, Michael, who to cut when Julio returns? Cowser, Burlson, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.760 Doyle or Pasquantino. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:21.320 What a group? 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:22.520 This must be a ten league. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.280 I was about to say, that's a league I'd like 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.720 to be a part of, because that is a tough 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:31.280 first world problems there. I think it's Oh, it's probably Burlson. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.240 Unfortunately it's between Burlson and Doyle. But that's tough. That's real. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:36.800 I go Burlson, but it's real tough. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:38.680 It's not Kowser, no. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:40.679 Fire. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.280 Yeah, Doyle probably for ballpark and stolen bases. So I 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.760 would say Burlson too, but I do not feel good 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:48.080 about it. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.280 I love Barlson, So that's that's a tough one. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.800 Yeah, Hey, Barry says, should we be worried about Taj Bradley. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.359 Taj had been rattling off great starts across the board 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.720 strikeout numbers and then walloped walloped the other day. Didn't 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.640 look good at all, just the overall stuff, Like there's 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.240 these guys. Dylan Ceese is like this. I know there's 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.159