WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 23rd, 2024 (EP. 796) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.920 Welcome and everybody pass ross m LB. This is leading off. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.280 Love brought you buy that three six five? He was 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:13.720 a from Lofode leading off. When you do, it's me, 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.800 Joey p that's the Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.360 and the cracker Jacks in the chat hanging out with us, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.200 talking some baseball. Jared Jones was good. We're gonna get 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.480 to him. Mason Miller was good. We got some guys 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.320 who actually look like they know what they're doing on 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.560 the mound, which is a nice change of pace, but 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.400 a lot to get to on today's show, The Welsh, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.760 I just want to ask you. Did you blow out 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.640 some candles on your birthday yesterday? Do you have some 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:39.120 fun or what? 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.159 Yeah, we didn't do candles. Actually we didn't need to 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:44.839 another first year. I'm thinking about it. We did it 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.120 because we spread it out. We spread it out. Listen, 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:48.520 there's a lot of candles on there. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.920 So it wasn't that it's a fire hazard at this point. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.479 For it is a fire hazard. But yes, it was 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.920 very good. Thank you for asking, and you know, bye bye. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.320 I'll just bye bye with the birthday talk, don't you 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.440 I would think about it anymore? I'm getting too old. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.760 I feel it. I get really old. Also when I 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.800 watch like twenty two year old pitchers like Jared Jones 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.360 on the mat dominating, dominating the league, I'm very excited 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.880 to talk about him what he did yesterday. And I 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.280 don't know how much you watch of it, but the 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.840 Bryce Terrain strikeout was the grossest strikeout over the last 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.520 couple of years I can think of, outside of the 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.679 one Grand Polly took this year where he swung through 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.560 and then got smashed in the face. It was a 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.800 fatality of a strikeout Jared Jones, And yeah, maybe we 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.160 really do need to rethink, like how we're going to 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.720 treat a guy like Jared Jones rest of season, even 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.880 into the Rookie of the Year Awards, which he's like 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.959 third or fourth than NL right now, because he is disgusting, disgusting. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.760 We're also going to talk about the Orioles making some moves, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.880 more rookies coming for the Orioles. Were talk about this 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.600 guy too, Jackson Holliday. We're going to talk about him, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.000 but before we do, let's get into the headlines. Recool 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.840 picked up his third win on Monday, So that's a 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:09.200 good job by him nine k's, six innings, zero runs. Welsh, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.440 you said that he would be a cy young candidate. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.720 I was skeptical. I'm still skeptical, but I'm getting less 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.920 skeptical by the minute. Where are you at here with 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.440 schoobl and that potentially as we're looking forward here, because 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.440 he's been He's been fantastic as advertised, for sure. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.040 And sometimes he just does it with these you know, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.480 it's funny. Yesterday it was pretty good betting day, and 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.160 the two that stared at me the whole day and 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.000 I ended up really not doing anything with him was 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.200 Jared Jones strikeouts in Tarique schoobl strikeouts. Schooble was just 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.600 one of those like I just I want to be 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.640 out there. I want to be invested when he's doing something. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.000 Sometimes there's an ease to how he's going, and I 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.400 just wonder, like if the strikeouts aren't going to be 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.800 as prominent this year, the rays have just been pretty bad. 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.560 I mean, he ended up having those strikeouts on only 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.080 thirteen swing and whiffs, which seems kind of low, but 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.320 he had an overall thirty one percent swing and wiff 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.680 rate thirty four percent CSW which has been good and 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.399 he has continuously has been great. He's one of those 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.440 guys not walking a whole bunch. He is just pounding 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.600 the zone. He's got the secondaries. I mean obviously you know, 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.040 the change up I think has just been absolutely disgusting. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.440 Sink or fastball. He owns the zone across the board. Yeah, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.320 he's an ace of ace and we just pray to 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.639 God he's gonna stay healthy. But he's one of those 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.079 guys from a betting perspective, I'm always gonna pay really 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.000 hard attention to. And you know, from a fantasy perspective, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.560 he's moving up the ranks as guys are getting, you know, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.760 ticked down. So at this point, you know, if you're 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.480 talking about the al race, like Kirby, isn't that great. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:32.919 I mean he's been great, but like. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.160 He well, Loo, Kirby and Castillo are still in the mix, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.000 so is and Burns, but all have been kind of well, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.680 somebody's been Nobody is separated from the pack yet it's 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.720 too early. Here's a question for you, if we're redrafting today, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.360 where would Schoogle go overall like of pictures or like 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.760 the overtures or just round whatever you want to say? 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.400 Is he a third round pick right now, like if 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:54.160 you were drafting right. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.680 Now, probably like that's where I kind of dive into pictures. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.360 A bigger question might be where would JR Joe go? 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.480 You know, how close did Jared Jones go to Tarik'skoople 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:04.480 in that list? 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.440 But I think pick because we're still waiting for the 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.360 shoot to drop. Well, let's talk about it. Let's talk 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.800 about the pirates, because the pirates were good. Oneo Cruz 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.960 did not get a home run, but he was three 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.280 for four double two ribis. But Jared Jones punching out 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.560 seven guys their one earned run in six innings. So 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.360 I mean, it's hard to argue right now. But again, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.520 what does it look like in August and September and 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.080 those had the head leagues. That's something you gotta ask yourself. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:28.320 And I think that's very important. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.560 Yeah, I completely agree, and that's been kind of my case. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.720 Switch is just wrong so far, Like you know, hand 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.880 up with my trade videos. I think it was the 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.320 second video it was like, hey, Jerry Jones is amazing. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.080 We're talking about him as the top thirty. Maybe we 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.919 should sell really high because more of like some of 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.400 this other stuff that's floating out there. We saw him 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.600 go fifty nine pitches in his last start. Why because 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.679 it was four days rest this one. They let him 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.359 just kind of do his thing. But it's still seventy 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.760 nine pitches. They are gonna, They're gonna baby to some degree, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.440 but he is insane. Twenty five swinging whiffs. I believe 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.559 I could be wrong about this. I think every single 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.640 start he's had, he has been the leader in whiffs 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.000 for that day among pitchers. His slider. I mean, let 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.760 me get back to it here. I was actually looking for. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.760 It's a tremendous While you're looking at that, it's a 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.240 tremendous if. But if he stays healthy in skiins, stay 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.640 healthy two years from now, you're looking at the best 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.599 one to two in rotation and baseball potentially. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.719 From a yes, from like a super young perspective, because 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.440 like you know, the Mariners still have Kirby and Luis 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.000 Castillo and there's some other good ones. But from like 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.240 a dynasty perspective, it's amazing. But the numbers fifty eight 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.120 percent swinging with on his slider, that's disgusting, forty six 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.680 percent swinging with on his fastball, which I can't believe 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.919 this league still is not caught up to the fastball 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.320 at all. Fifty one percent swinging with and a forty 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.840 three percent csw still a primary two pitch pitcher, he's 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.680 still getting this done just throwing big fastballs and sliders. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.039 I do feel like there's gotta be a point. But 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.200 clearly it's like the deceptiveness of how the ball obviously 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.360 like the release point. Guys can't pick it up. It's 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.400 incredible how the fastball travels past everybody. Even great fastball 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.240 hitters pretty much at all times, can wear down a 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.159 little bit later in the game. I've seen some big 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.440 hard hit numbers when someone does like lock up on him. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.919 I'm still worried long term the whole season about what 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.520 those innings, like you said, are going to look like 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.320 how it is on the end of the season. So 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.120 head to head it might be a tiny bit different. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.000 But we are now talking about a trajectory of a 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.400 guy where I was like, Hey, if you could sell 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.320 him for top thirty, this is cool. You're now he's 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.760 like legitimately in the top ten conversation thing for a 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:35.640 lot of people with how. 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.279 Sp has gone. Yeah, but again, it has an expiration date. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.200 In twenty four, so we just might be chasing that 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.000 expiration date. That's my only worries. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.360 How long do we take O But I want to 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.800 get out of that expiration date well before and it 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.920 will be selling high and it will be tough, Like 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.360 you're gonna have to look yourself in the mirror and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.080 you're gonna have to say, I am not happy about 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.400 making this trade, but you have to look into the 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.279 future and realize that, you know, August and September, specially 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.160 if we got playoffs, like I just can't imagine him 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.400 being there necessarily for a good chunk of it. So 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.760 maybe I'm wrong. We'll see Nolan Gorman game winning two 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.200 run homer for him yesterday, So a big win for 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.200 the Cards over your d Backs. Travis Darnaut has been 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.480 terrific since filling in for Sean Murphy has been out 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.640 with the oblique injury. Another two run homer for him. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.200 He's got five homers in four games. Great run for 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.400 him the Twins, big win for them. Chris Paddock, ten 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.840 K's seven shoutout innings, and Eduard Julian a good bounce 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.000 back day. He had had a rough go three for 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.280 four homer, two ribbyes. So that's good. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.440 Just point out like it's so funny. Someone had brought 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.280 up like, oh my god, I got Gorman and I 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.560 got Edward Julian, what do I do? And it was like, man, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.480 I felt more comfortable about Julian being able to bounce back, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.680 maybe not so much Gorman, and then they both kind 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.680 of shined Yesterday's things will start picking small sample sizes 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.160 are starting to get bigger, but hopefully a guy like 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.160 Julian specifically is the one I think was able and 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.280 can bounce back long term more than a guy like Nolanman. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.680 So uncle Ted, I don't know if Uncle Ted made 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.240 this or a manual class a for Jared Jones, Like, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.920 I don't think I want to do that trade now, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.200 Like that that's not the trade I want. Yeah, I 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.960 mean wait, I want him to continue to build up 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.040 and then I want to cash in for like a 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.600 true star. I'm not an even elite closer. I don't 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:19.400 think that's enough there. 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.400 But like, the only problem with a guy like Jared Jones, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.120 I just don't think you're gonna look at Jared Jones 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.880 being moved for like another starter, you know what I mean, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.800 They're not gonna be like starter for starter, so it 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.840 is gonna be like a closer, or it's gonna be 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.839 a hitter. So you're gonna have to take Jered Jones 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.520 and his production if you're trading him off to try 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.720 to go get a big bat. So hopefully everything else 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.800 is like in its right place as far as starters 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.040 that you have. But so then it's like, is there 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.760 any closer you would trade him for? It sounds like not. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.160 So then like, like, what do you think a hitter? 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.680 If you were to get presented with a hitter right now, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:51.640 what gets you turned? 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.839 Well, look, I'm thinking in my head the first one 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.320 immediately in my head or Randy Roseerana. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:56.960 Oh my god, that was mine too. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.880 That's weird. I'm like that, that's the guy that I 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.040 would be buying everywhere now because it's only a matter 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.840 of time before he turns things around. But like, that's 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.560 a guy that I buy into, I believe in. It's 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.880 a twenty twenty guy like that, that's the perfect guy 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.880 right now. Cody wants to know, am I wearing a 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.440 member's only jacket? No, I'm the same Patriots. It's cool, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.960 It's got like the different you know, NFL sleeve thing. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.719 My dad, however, did have a member's only jacket and 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.120 he was a member for a very long time. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.120 It did look very members And then also uncle ted ass, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.240 was this a Savannah bananas? Yes, it's part of the 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:27.880 hat rotation. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.600 Every time you're worrying about our fashion and just it's 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.280 I worry about it. I like it. This is, you know, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.400 not about the aesthetics so much as the content around here. Uh, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.680 the A's big win for them, Zach Geloff Homer in 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.520 the ninth and then Mason Miller came out, struck out 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.440 the side, including Sodo and Judge and it was awesome. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.480 Let me ask you something, I went from six to 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:51.440 midnight watching that. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.000 Well, that's that's kind of where I'm going. Are you 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.920 like the leader of the Mason Miller fan club like? 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.480 Which is so weird because I was the guy going, oh, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.480 this kid's I implode and he second, the only way 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.240 to possibly keep this guy healthy is to make up 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.640 a closer And then they did it. And I don't 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.120 always trust the A's to make good decisions. Historically speaking, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.920 i'd be right on that. But they made a good 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.280 decision and it's working out. And let This be something 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.600 for everybody else out there too. If you've got one 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.640 of these flamethrowing guys, like when they're young and you're 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.440 worried about keeping them healthy, and it's just you know, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.600 guys used to work out of the bullpen for years 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:24.600 and then they would. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.719 Go When I was hey, hold on, wait a minute, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.559 and I remember when I was watching baseball in the sixties. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.160 What they would do is you'd started to bow pen, see, 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.520 and you'd have the guy pitching the bullpen and if 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.800 you're good enough, then Evinji you get it started to 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.160 hear you go, kid, you go out there, you go 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.640 out you'd try to be a starting pitcher. Look as 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.920 recently as Johann Santana, that happened and he had an 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.040 amazing run. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.800 Of Johan Duran. Actually, Johann Duran was one of those 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.520 guys that moved from like a starter flame throw into 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:55.000 a starter. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.959 The first thing is like guys used to work into 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:58.880 the rotation via the bullpen. You didn't just get like 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.480 you had to earn that stuff off. And maybe there's 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.640 something to that, like maybe that's a that's a model 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.400 people should revisit an organization, say, you know, maybe this 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.200 isn't the worst way to do it. Maybe it's it's 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.080 about learning about what it takes the pitch in the 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.199 major leagues over a small sample size and then start 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:14.320 to grow them over time. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.360 I think the I think the ultimate problem with that 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.480 is look at how valuable starting pitching is and how 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.600 easy it is to lose. So it's like, if you've 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.319 got somebody you want to hold on and develop them 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.600 as a start, you see a lot less development of closers, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.040 of relievers or anything like that, more so than ever, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.720 even like Jacob Misrowski is a guy in the miners 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.079 that I think maybe exemplifies one of those type of 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:38.920 guys you know, those. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.840 Flames that it sounds like the lead singer of an 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:46.320 emo band from the two thousands. Yeah, misery. All right, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.680 let's get to just for fun. Craig Kimbrel moved past 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.240 Billy Waggs on the All Time Saves list with a 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.440 scoreless ninth. Here's a question for you, all right, what 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.520 active pitcher is ahead of Craig Kimberl Is only one 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.680 guy ahead of Craig Kimberle. That's still who is it? Peanuts, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.720 Cracker Jacks? If you know, don't google it. It's no 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.319 fun drop it in the chat. If you have the trivia, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:07.040 you have a guess. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.680 Well, Kinley, that doesn't sound right, Kenley Jansen. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.800 Jansen, Yeah, I'll tell you if you're right in a second. Here, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.360 let's get to the rookie. Lookie, let's talk about the 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.559 Orioles recalling outfielder Heston Kiirs. Dad. Why because Austin Hayes 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.960 goes on the IL. Just in case you're not keeping 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.679 up with it, he's in in three forty nine at 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.280 Triple A with eleven seventy six ops, ten homers for Norfolk. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.000 Kirsta has been amazing. Now you bring this kid up, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.760 you gotta play him. You can't just bring him off 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.040 for death right like. He's got to be playing every day. Correct. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.960 That's what we hope, and that's what I hope. But 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.200 I don't know if I'm hyper optimistic about every single day. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.200 Because here's the deal. Ryan O'Hearn has been great. Your outfield, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.520 Golden Kowser has locked himself in a lefty. Also, you've 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.560 got Anthony Santander, You've got Cedric Mullens another lefty so like, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.840 and then at first base you've got Ryan Moultcastle, So 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.400 where do you fit that in when everybody is performing 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.000 really well As far as positionally where he can play 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.720 what will be at the ex Austin Hayes wasn't really 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.280 playing a whole bunch. Listen. I believe you should go 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.560 and pick up Heston Kirsta. That's why I tweeted about 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.080 it last night the ten Homers. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.440 Pick up video two weeks ago. Two weeks so, I said, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.240 picking up for nothing. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.040 We've talked a ton about a guy like Joey Luperfido. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.360 What's interesting in comparison with those guys is like Joey Luperfito, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.480 I think has maybe a better opportunity as far as 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.400 playing time for the corner outfield, playing first base. Kurstadam. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.280 I think we're a little bit stuck here because I 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.120 think he might be righty platooned and and I've seen 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.079 some people already tweeting like, you don't bring him up 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.920 to put him in a platoon, But I think that's 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.640 exactly what they're gonna do, because again, the expense is 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:49.280 Mount Castle, Herne Santander. That's or I suppose Cedric Mullins 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.120 if you put Kowser in the office. So that's the 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.680 expense for him to play. I think they're gonna lock 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.200 him up against righty's, not against lefties. But the power 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.800 has been absolutely real. He's lowered his strikeout rate, He's 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.320 got one of the just he's got a beautiful swing. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:04.760 There are strikeout, big. 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.800 Strike issues with he's Will Clark with more power. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.360 Yeah, and there's big strikeout issues with luper Feto that 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.480 I don't think are quite there. With Cursed, I also 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.800 think he's a pretty good athlete. Like this is great, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.000 and here's what could happen. Here's the only other thing 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.800 I want to as I'm pouring some cold water on 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:24.040 it coldon. Cowser made the opening day roster in a 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.000 platoon situation, and he forced his way onto the everyday roster. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.960 You might see the same thing end up happening with Kurstadt, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.880 and that's why you pick him up. Plenty of these 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.440 rookies aren't working out, you know, hand up to the 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.960 Jackson holidays, that don't work out in the Victor Scott's 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.320 But this is that time period where you start to 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.440 look that he could hold it because he's ready. He 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.880 aged to level stuff. There's nothing left to do in 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.800 tripa a so pick him up if you can. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.840 I am also with the mind of I am holding 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.440 steady with Jackson Holiday. Just to read you the statue 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.280 of Jackson Holiday so far this year, nine games, thirty 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.600 two played appearances. He has zero home runs, one hit 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:06.600 thanks Grandpa, one hit one RBI. He's hitting point zero 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.000 thirty three with a point zero thirty three slugging and 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.280 a point zero nine to four obp. This is I mean, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.360 when your ops is one point two seven, that's that's 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.840 not good. So this is not just bad, this is awful. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.320 This is atrocious. This I mean can't get wars. They've 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.920 been benching him too, which is also kind of embarrassing 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.520 and stupid. Anthony Volpi struggled last year. He still put 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.080 up you know, twenty twenty just by hitting two hundred. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.120 I know you. You and everybody talks about the hit 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.880 tool of Jackson Holiday. You know how I felt about 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.640 Jackson Holiday. I liked the player a lot. I thought 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.200 power is going to take a long time to develop. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.360 I wasn't like necessarily in the like. It's not that 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.080 I like Kerstad more, It's that I was more excited 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.480 about Kuresad because I knew what the profile was. However, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.960 sure Jackson Holiday is so much better than this. He 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.400 is getting dropped all over the place. He is trade 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.120 fodder right now. This is your window to buy Jackson Holiday, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.680 would you agree? And especially in keeper dynasty leagues like 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:00.760 this is. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.400 Keeper dynasty, no doubt about it, There's no question about it. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.480 I'm buying all over the rookie fatigue that ends up happening. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.920 This is like full front. He's struggling. We've been through 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.040 this a gajillion times over. I'm buying it for sure. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.920 In Redraft, I do think it's tough. I do think 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.960 there's an opportunity that he does get sent down because 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.440 of Westburg, because of guys like kirstad You would kind 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.880 of think that maybe Kobe Mayo would be the beneficiary. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.720 I just don't know if this team is truly going 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.760 to just put their Norfolk team out in the Majors 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.960 with Gunner and Adley. So from a Redraft perspective, what 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.760 I'm doing is I'm monitoring Jackson Holiday because I think 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.320 this is going to turn at some point, not just 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.200 like turn where he's like okay, turn where we see 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.480 the real Jackson Holiday. But I think you can somebody 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.000 asks the question I think to you and I in 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.800 a points leeg, would you drop Jackson Holiday for Kurstad? Yeah, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.800 I mean you need points and Jackson Holiday is not 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.480 kidding that. I do think he will be He will 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.880 be a commodity that you want when he starts going, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.400 specifically in points leagues. But Kurstadd is a big guy 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.560 and he's probably gonna be thrown in hitting like six 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.720 right away. But I still think it's going to be 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.159 against just righty's. It'll be very interesting to see if 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.520 he's hitting against lefties or playing every single day. Those 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.440 would be the tall tale signs. But you know, if 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.360 you can hold you possibly should what signs? Tell tale 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.040 tall tale? 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.800 You seell tell tale? That's hell tell tell tell tale, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.240 tell tell tall tell tales, you tell tall tale? Tale 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.520 line is a telltale signe. It was his tilltale side. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:27.760 But you said tall tale. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:34.560 Tale tale. Do you use shaving cream with it? 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:34.960 Yeah? 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.840 Yeah today. By the way, you were right, it was 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.120 kin Lee Jansen. That's the answer to the trivia question. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.560 Barren can do that first, So credit to Barry. There. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.600 The guy in between them one of my least favorite 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.120 pictures of all time. Fun fact, John Franco four hundred 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.199 and twenty four saves, and four hundred and twenty four 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.360 of them were painful. All for twenty four were completely painful. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.920 Also on the Rookie Lookie Today, Louis Varlin, we just 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.000 talked about him yesterday. Well, they must have been watching 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.960 the show because he got sent down to Triple A. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.639 Rock Go Baldelli wasn't having it anymore, eh, Simeon Woods Richardson, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.200 is that the next guy up for the Twins? 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.240