WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 18th, 2024 (EP. 841) 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.520 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.360 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.800 Bet one hundred and fifty. Don't know how much do 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:15.440 you eat the five bucks? Five bucks you get one 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:20.560 hundred and fifty components Batti billion dollars one million. Hell, 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.840 you're off to such a good start for the first 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.840 three words of this show. Anyway, bet five bucks win 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.680 one hundred and fifty when you use the promo code 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.320 leading off at Bet three six five, it's me Joey 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:31.960 p That of course is the Welsh and it's you 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.519 the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks Welsh. I'm so happy. I 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.920 think that's what's overcome me because all of the work 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.400 in the bathrooms has finally done today Today is it. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.560 There's a shower and a toilet upstairs and running water. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.800 I'm so happy. It's just it's the small things in life. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:47.840 But you know, when you go a month without those 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.920 things upstairs, it's a lot. And I think that's why 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.240 I'm just I'm just overjoyed at all of it. At 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:54.920 the end of the day. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.880 Also, there was a there was a short period of 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.480 time where I wasn't gonna be on today's night either. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.120 But I am here today, and because Welsh made a booboo, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.840 the MLB Draft Combine is here in Phoenix, going on 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.120 in about thirty minutes. It's gonna be broadcast. It was 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.839 fully open and everything last year, so your boy Welsh 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.080 thought nothing of it, didn't think to do anything. But 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.240 it's closed to the public this year. And I didn't 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.680 go to my media pass. 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.360 Because Major League Baseball other things going on, like what, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:28.679 I don't know. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.880 They got to hide. They gotta really protect pitching ninja. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.280 I think that's there, so the millions of hordes of 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:35.959 fans don't get to hit. I don't know what the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.760 deal is, but I forgot to do the media thing. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.720 So then I just said, all right, we're not going 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.080 to try to go down that route, but that is happening. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:48.520 If no, it's been open for years where you could 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.880 go and do the whole thing. So I just thought 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.800 nothing of it because I wasn't going to try to 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.440 go on field or anything that. But a friend of 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.240 the show, Lance Brasdowski, is here doing some of that. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.720 Some of the industry people are there tons a prospect, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.760 but you can still watch it if you would like. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.400 To watch. But I was going to be there. I 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.520 was gonna go down and I was gonna say, screw 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.919 the show, and you guys fin for yourselves, and I'm 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.800 going to hang with the draft prospects. But now I 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.720 got hang with where we're betting a million. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.960 Dollars, betting a million dollars getting a million dollars back. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.560 That's actually not it. It's five. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.560 I should have done that yesterday. By the way, three. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.120 Yeah about me and three horrendous pauses can go screw. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.720 But it's okay. You know what WHI Welsh? Because as 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.680 Evil Zillis is, you gotta believe Joe the Mets are 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.320 for real woo. I don't know if they're for real 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.520 or not Welsh, but I do know this that there's 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.680 a little bit of a happy meal right now when 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.520 it looks to the Mets, because ever since Grimace throughout 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.600 the first pitch, the Mets are now six and oh. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.440 So I don't know if you saw. I don't know 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.480 if he came up with it, but it's who I saw. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.720 Say this. Did you see Devin Sawa the actors, tweet 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.760 about this. He's a big sports guy. Did you see 0:02:58.760 --> 0:02:59.520 his tweet about the. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.400 The I don't even know who that is. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.960 He was the kid in The Little Giants who played 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.799 the quarterback. He is an actor. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.800 He was in a lot of movies, A famous Little Giants. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.120 Giants one of the great movies ever made. But he 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.600 made a hilarious comment, I can't say it. Just go 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.079 find it. Say it. No, I can't. I can't say it. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.080 Say it. I can't say it. But it's very fun, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.240 wasn't Rick? Yeah, Ried O'Neil, it's a classic. My kids 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:23.520 love the. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.519 Only Okay, you know what? 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:25.280 That's it? 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.040 Though, I couldn't name you any kid, But I'm not 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.960 one of those people everyone's like, oh, what's the Oh God, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.919 everyone's gonna go kill me for this. But what's the baseball? One? 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:34.239 That ever? 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:40.320 Sandlot, Peppercorn, the Sale? Everybody? I'm sorry, everybody like the 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.240 characters in this, I don't know. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.600 You never watched their name? I don't. It's wrong with you. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.160 No, you know, I watched a Sandlot. But everyone like obsesses. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.400 You could probably rattle off the actors that play I can't. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.240 None of those kids became famous actors. You know. The 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.280 Little Giants quarterback, Yeah, I remember, Well, he was in 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.240 other movies. In the nineties too. I think he was 0:03:58.240 --> 0:03:59.760 in one of those. I got a look. He was 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.360 in a bunch of movies in the nineties too. It 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.920 was kind of like mid range famous in that like 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.240 weird mid and late nineties teeny bopper movie scene and 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.760 stuff like that. So and I was in high school 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.320 around that time, so I remember these things anyway. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.840 Very important. Can you put Grimace back? 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.440 But six? And oh Welsh six and oh for Grimace? 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.000 And a great night from Brandon Nimmo, a great night 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.960 from Lindor who Lindor was our main guy today? So 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.560 look at this. So I guess the question is is 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.200 the Hambler hamburglar next? Like, who is the next guy 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.480 to throw out the first pitch so the Mets can 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.239 keep the winning streak? 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.880 Ooh, yeah, it needs to be someone that like the 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.839 hamblerger would probably make sense, like the Astros, someone that steals, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.720 you know what I'm saying, A good mascot for Yeah, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.520 maybe something like that. I mean I saw somebody say 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.640 that they quote tweeted a picture Grimace and said, I'm 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.760 gonna tell my kids that this is Bartolo cologne. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.760 So I like that. People think that you're not the 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.000 right age that you say you are, But James O. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.679 Jones is in the sand Blot. That's an actor of note, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.400 you know, just saying. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.200 I wouldn't have known that. Yeah, how do you not? Like? 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:01.800 All right? I'm just gonna move on. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.680 I mean, I saw it. I saw it, But I'm 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:04.480 not one of the. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.120 Great baseball movies ever like this. And you've got little 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.680 kids like my kids are, We're obsessed with that movie. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.240 It's one of them. It's both of their one of 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.880 their favorite top ten movies of all time. And they 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.200 don't even like baseball. I can't guess tom watch a 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.520 baseball game, forget it. No way, Garrett Cole, He's gonna 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.520 be playing in a baseball game come Wednesday against the Orioles. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.280 Oh are you excited? Welsh? Because I'm pretty sure we 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.320 set your clock? When's when's Wednesday? Is it tomorrow? Welsh? 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:31.839 Tomorrow? 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.800 What was Garrett Cole day? How do you feel about this? 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:34.960 Do you have all the feels? 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.440 I'm very excited. I just updated my ranks over on 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.480 the Fantasy Pros and I put Cole but I'm top 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.520 ten sp rest of season for my rest of season ranks. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.840 I threw him right back into the fray, not trading them, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.080 just holding on, riding away, very excited about it. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.279 While you're talking, I'm gonna order my costume on Amazon. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.080 Let me just I hope you know what. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:03.120 I hope you did. God, I've never never I don't 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.680 need to be right about a lot of stuff like 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.279 well joke will be like, hey we were right and 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.919 blah blah blah, and everyone wants validation. I need to 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.760 be right pretty cheap like. I need this over Joe. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.520 It's the it's the one thing I've never exciting. I 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:21.520 could lose my I could lose my incredibly smart ellie. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.640 I'm gonna lead the league in solo base bet that 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.039 I said preseason. If any of you listen, I could 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.360 lose that. Cor Big Carrol, he could be out for 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.760 the season. I could lose that. I need this against Joe. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.280 I need to be right and Joe needs to be 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.120 wrong on this more than anything. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.200 The funny part is, though it's not gonna be one star, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:40.960 like I said, it's gonna be a couple here and 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.800 at some point in time we'll see how it goes. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.280 Like I'm tomorrow, We'll have to stay tuned to the 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.360 betting and see what happens, Elie de la Cruz. Great 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.000 day still is thirty seventh base Welsh thirty seventh stolen 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.320 bases already for Ellie to La Cruz. How amazing? Pretty good, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.040 pretty deep, pretty good, pretty goods At least I got 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.680 seven guys. It was not enough. I went all in there. Man. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.920 I feel like every time I'm in on Skeens, he 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.080 like kind of shives me in the back. And then 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.080 every time I'm like, Nope, you're gonna just stay away 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.480 from Skeens and not take the temptation. Is when he 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.800 like strikes out twelve guys. What? OK? 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.320 Yeah, because I actually liked the under I know you did. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.760 The strikeouts were kind of worrying, worrying me and everything 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.800 like that, but I forgot that was your bet, was 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.000 the strikeouts. Because Pittsburgh ended up pulling out the win. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.880 They were part of my money line parlay as well. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.640 But you know, both of those pictures we talked about 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.760 Jared Jones cooling down. Jared Jones is cooling down a 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.080 pretty aggressive degree. I'm not saying that Skeens will because 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.000 he's done just such a good job of manipulating where 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.320 they're going. It's a heavy fastball game. It's a heavy 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.840 splinker game. I think that splinker pitch that's the new thing. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.000 Next year is going to be. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:47.720 This. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.200 I like, oh, we need a picture to do that. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.240 But like you know, every year there's some new thing 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.280 that's added, Like that's the new one. I think Paul 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.040 Skeens is gonna continuously be good. I think him and 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.680 Jerry Jones could go in opposite trajectory. But yeah, you're 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.440 gonna get smacked around. I mean still like you're acting 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.400 like he got blown up right a bad start. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.120 He's still struck up the winner of the chat today, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.840 and I know we just started the show with Jeffrey 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.840 to go. Devin Sala was also Stan in the eminem video, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.360 the famous video of Stan. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.120 So you are familiar that kid, but that kid was 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.160 the one in the what's the movie with the logs 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.080 that fell Final Destination or something? 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.680 Right, Yeah, a lot of those, Kate. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.000 He's like, a that's a better. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:34.840 Movie then Little Giants. Absolutely not absolutely, Now the ice 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.920 box would disagree with you put into the chat right now. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.920 We need a poll for that. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:40.800 I can't. I don't know how to make the polls up. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.600 Can Walkee? Penguin do it or Meg Maher's not here, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.520 God forbid mayors here. I don't know how they pull it, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.680 but like we need that made anyway. Austin Riley signs 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.240 of Life two for three, two doubles. That's good. Had 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.800 a home run over the weekend. That's very good. Maybe finally, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.120 Austin Riley is a guy we could buy him. Kyle 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.319 Schwarber hit a pair of home runs. Yes he ed 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.319 Swarburn the home contest was a good day for you. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.000 Some fun things though, Welsh too. From yesterday. Freddie Freeman 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.160 singled and walked five times. I don't know if you 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.920 looked at the show shee, because I know you. Sometimes 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.719 you gloss over and tell them do you remember the 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:18.120 last guy to walk five times in a game? I'll 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.640 give you a hint. It's a third basement, okay, and 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.640 a guy that you would never think would walk twice 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.800 in a game, but he walked five guys. Oh, yes, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.760 he's still get in twenty twenty one. The last guy 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:37.200 to do it, he's bounced around. No, not many machado, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.320 not many machado. He played for the Oakland A's at 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:40.800 one point. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.360 Josh Donaldson, Oh, he doesn't help playing match. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.440 Matt Chapman is correct. Here's the funniest part. The last 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.720 guy to do it, to walk five times and get 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:56.480 a hit was rugnet o'door in twenty eighteen. Another guy 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.439 you would never imagine not only walking five times in 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.520 the game but also getting a hit in the same game. Bizarre. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.080 If that's not the weirdest base what. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.720 Is that's so many at bats? I know that that's absurd. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.080 What's our poll again? I think I can put it up. 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.880 What's a better movie? Little Giants or Final Destination? Like 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.560 this is gonna be a ninety to ten with this crowd, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.120 there's gonna be an If you don't like Little Giants, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.400 get out of my chat. By the way, Andrew Skinner, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.559 first time. It looks like in the chat FP subscriber 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.840 first time poster. Good on you, Andrew, Welcome aboard, Welcome 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.719 to the show. Also fun Reese Olsen, who had not 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.560 been very good lately. He had given up seventeen earned 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.760 runs over his last three starts. His era is ten. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.520 He threw six shout out of innings yesterday and a 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.280 no deicision against Atlanta against the Braves, So again, baseball's weird. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.640 Those are two of the weirder things, and they both 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.560 happen on the same night and he comments about Sulsen. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.599 Yeah, I mean, well, ree Sulsen, like he's had this 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.360 really like solid underlying season with a bad stretch expected 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.679 era right like where his actual ERA is around three 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.960 and a half. He has given up not a lot 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.520 of hard contact. It's actually in the lower half as 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.560 far as far as Berlin goes. The hard contacts actually 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.400 a little bit harder. But he's had a huge wiff 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.560 rate forty plus percent on his slider and changeup, which 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.320 he throws a combined I'm fifty percent of the time. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.520 So actually kind of solid season that's fallen apart. But 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.319 he to me falls along the line of the lines 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.560 of like like a streamer in ten maybe twelves where 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:34.959 you got it. If you have to make a decision, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.480 you can move off of him and you can go 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.360 into another spot. But I think Reeve Sulsen can actually maintain, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.000 like back into the rotation for the rest of it. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:43.839 You know what. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.800 It's funny because Olson was a guy that was on 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.120 the wave Wire video about a month ago, and I 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.640 was like, okay, look, you know we pick him up. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.280 You see how you know how far you can ride this? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 And then obviously he came crashing down for a couple 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.199 of starts, and I'm sure he was one of the 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.719 most drop players in last week. And then he goes 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.599 out there six shut I things against the Braves. I 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.400 mean this bizarre rookie lookie a lot of rookie stuff 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.280 to get to. Today, the Yankees selected the contract of 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.400 Ben Rice infield nerves slash catcher. Uh, he's me playing 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.840 this week because Rizzo goes on the IL. Now. Rice 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.360 is a guy that I saw play in person, and 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.280 you recall Welsh when I was texting you from the 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.360 game at Double A in Somerset, Jones was very impressive. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:20.959 I kind of went there, you know, hang out for 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.160 the night, see what Spencer Jones was all about. But 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.920 Rice was the guy that really stood out to me. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.719 And they ended up scoring like fourteen runs in that 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.120 game too. He's twenty five, so a little older for 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.680 a prospect, right, but yeah, a nine to twenty five ops, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.480 fifteen homers and nine steals since he's was at Double 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.560 A and then he moved up so far three thirty 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.440 three batting average four forty six nineteen with three Homers 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.160 is getting moved up. So is Rice a guy that 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.439 you think might be able to get up to this 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.120 major league level get a little playing time, or do 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.000 you think this is just a bench depth kind of 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.679 thing and you don't even waste fab on him, Like 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.400 I think it's gonna be le Maye at first paced. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:58.320 Are they gonna like play that. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:59.760 Or play every single day? 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.080 I don't get stick. Does he even get a look 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.000 or is this literally just a roster because people will 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.440 see this, They'll see those numbers and they'll say, oh, 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.040 Ben Rice, look at this guy. Now he is a 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.800 little older too, so twenty five. You don't know how 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.200 you take those numbers necessarily. But at the same time, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.679 Rizzo's been so bad. Is it in the Yankees' interest 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.440 to get this guy someatt bats take a look at him, 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.880 want to showcase him for a trade potentially because the 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.760 Yankees are, you know, in the front of the pack 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.360 there and they're going to want to acquire more things. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.559 And Rizzo's been so bad. So I guess this is 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.079 more intriguing than I think some of the other guys 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.240 that get called up, because there's an opportunity here where 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.360 it makes sense to play Ben Rice maybe, But do 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.439 you think that's what the Yankees do? 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.640 Yeah, I kinda like. I here's what I do think. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.199 I think putting a guy like Ben Rice on the 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.679 bench for too long it is not advantageous to his development. So, like, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.319 you don't want to bring up these guys to not 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.600 play them whatsoever. LeMay Hugh's interesting. I don't think they 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.040 want to overdo LeMay Hugh. So I think, like you 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.720 could see Ben Rice maybe twice a week at first base. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.840 Maybe he's also a catcher, so they might be able 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.960 to sling him in there. I think there's the opportunity 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.960 that he could get regular playing time. His bat is live, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.160 he's got that two position eligibility that they could throw 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.640 him around in that lineup. But I also think it 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.199 would make a lot of sense that this could be 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.880 somebody that they're gonna end up moving. I mean, you've 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.800 got that. I think they're very comfortable with Austin Wells 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.600 and Trevino. Ben Rice would probably be somebody that any 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.560 team would look at. They've also got Augustin Ramirez is 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.680 one of my favorite prospects this year. He's in Double A, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.120 he's not coming up. He's a catcher, but he's more 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.760 of a first baseman. So I actually do think a 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.120 guy like ben Rice this could be a showcase for 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.200 a future trade if this team decides to take me. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.800 I'm probably not being aggressive about ben Rice and picking 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.240 him up because of Lemayhew, because Lomayhew getting that plenty 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:49.520 of time. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.400 Yeah, Like, I don't know. They say those are gonna 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.080 playm against rities, but again, I'll believe it when I 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.040 see it. You know, we got a lot of stuff 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.200 about how they're gonna play hessen Kierstadt at Baltimore. That 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.760 didn't work out either. Helio Ramos two five with a 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.040 so homer. He is up to three twenty eight with 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.520 a ninet eighty one ops. Welsh thoughts on Ramos and 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.400 what he's done so far this year with San Fran. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.680 Yeah, if you guys remember I talked about him during 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.600 the spring because I got to see him playing a 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.120 little bit of the minor league spring training games. And 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.760 Helio Ramos, he's gotten you guys can see it. He 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.080 has just gotten so physically big. I remember being at 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.120 his professional debut in Complex League years and years and 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.920 years ago, and he is filled out. We saw the 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.520 huge power, but It's so funny because it's like him 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:34.080 and Nick Gonzalez are these super post hype sleeper guys 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.760 that were like they never added up to any of 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.520 their talent. All of a sudden, they're just popping, and 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.280 he's doing it in a huge way. Fifty eight percent 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.320 hard hit rate right now, it's one of the best 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.760 in the league. That he is pairing well, of course, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.840 an eighteen percent barrel rate. Those two beautiful marriage. Expected 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.400 batting average in the two eighties. It's about forty points 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.320 lower than it currently is, but that's fine. Double digit 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.920 walk rate, under thirty percent k rate, and the guy 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.280 is absolutely destroying fastballs, hitting three sixty two against fastballs, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.000 and guess what when the league adjusts, which they will 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.960 because he's seeing sixty percent fastballs, he'shitting two ninety eight 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.480 against breaking pitches and two eighty six against off speed pitches. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.360 Those are some absurd numbers. Hard hit rate and good 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.600 barrel rates. They're a perfect marriage for results, good things 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.480 to happen. It is for Ramos and I think Rama. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.280 I think Ramos and Nick Gonzalez are two guys that 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.080 are gonna end up being like pseudo top one hundred, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.360 maybe one hundred and fifty guys by the end of 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.200 the year that we're all gonna be shocked about. So 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.800 you got you, you should try to get helly O 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:36.560 Ramos now. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.600 Uh yeah, I mean I can't disagree with any of that. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.040 Ramos is more surprising to me than Gonzales. I don't 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.000 know how you because you kind of looped them in there. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.640 So Ramos, yeah, yeah, I know, I guess I would 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:49.320 Gonzales to me. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.480 I always felt like Gonzales would figure it out because 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.480 in college she was such a contact titter kind of guy. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.560 Like I figured, like, you give those guys time, they'll 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.160 figure it out. But Ramos was the one that I 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.240 installed out. I thought, man, maybe it's just never going 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.040 to happen, you know. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.680 Steven actually, and I don't disagree with that. The only 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.680 thing that happened with Nick Nonzalez was like he got 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.160 really really bad in the upper zone, which some guys 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.439 just don't recover from, and then he couldn't do anything. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.520 But then he did. But bat speed is on display. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.159 He can run. Steven said something interesting which I was 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.360 just thinking about. He said he picked up Ramos when 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.119 Michael Harris went down and I was talking about this 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.800 on ITL yesterday in that a guy like Michael Harris, specifically, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.919 he's going to be out for a while, it might 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.120 be like two months. His season has been as such 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.600 that I don't think he's performed at a level where 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.480 where the eel is insane right now what we're dealing 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.000 with that I'm comfortable cutting him in especially a ten 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.840 team league, maybe shorter twelve team leagues if someone's like, hey, listen, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.840 my il's full. A guy like Ramos is out there, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.639 But I'd have to cut someone I'm not against if 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.720 you had to do it. It's been an okay season 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.440 for Harris. But like guys like Ramos and guys like 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.400 Nick Gonzalez, if you were out this big blow Gonzalez, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.119 if you lost Mookie Betts is a is A the 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.960 best pick up possibly have? If Harris best pickup you 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.320 possibly have. And I think Harris is the type of 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.040