WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 29th, 2024 (EP. 821) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.000 Well command everybody, the Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.800 Off Live, brought to you by a Bet three six 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.520 five bet five bucks get one hundred and fifty opponus 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.439 bets when you use that promo code leading Off, it 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.439 is me Joey p Joe Pie's a p of that 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.320 of course, is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.599 and the Cracker Jacks hanging out here talking baseball with 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:25.880 us today. We've got a lot of injuries to get 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.360 to today, some actually positive for a change, players working 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.240 their way back. It's tremendous. What a time to be alive. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.000 We've got the three up, the three down, and of 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.320 course we've got you the Welsh hanging out with us. Welsh. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.320 How's it going, my friend? I want I want to 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.519 I want to do a wellness check because it's two 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.880 months into the season. A welshness check, A welshness check, Yes, 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.400 two months into the season. You know we're a third 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:50.680 of the way they are. I just want to see 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.080 how you're holding up there, Bubba. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:57.280 Well, Corbyn Carroll still stinks, so that's a negative. Ronald 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.160 Acune is out for the season. Best players in baseball, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:05.280 that's not good. Julio hasn't recouped. We're losing pictures left 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.600 and right. Prospects stink. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:13.160 Things are good. I've got I got waxed and bedding yesterday. Okay, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:14.800 Top of the morning, Joe. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.880 I think somebody needs a canoli. That's what I. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.360 Think I might need a Yeah, it's I'm gonna work. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.040 For a whole dozen. We get a whole DoD just 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.520 boss on the couch, just just watching scoobl and Jones 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.080 after this, just eating canos. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.040 I'm also on the opposite end of that right now. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.440 I'm like, I'm like, all right, we're gonna get back 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.399 on it. So now I'm getting back on it. So 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.160 that means no more bad things. So now I have 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.959 no Oh you're on the fittes, so it might be 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:38.000 extra cranking. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.400 Ah well that years. Yeah, you know what, pick up smoking. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.720 I hear people you know that helps a lot to. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.520 Oh that's really good for the health. You know what, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.120 good on you. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:52.040 Doctors in the fifties said, uh, said, go for it. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:57.920 Smoking's good for you. You know, my grandfather smoked for seventy years. Right, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.840 he's probably smoking since he's like eleven year old, probably right, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.480 and he just quit Cold Turkey in his eighties, and 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.640 I remember something like how did you you know what? 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.840 He's like, Well, I just decided, you know, my doctor 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.520 said it wasn't good for me. I was like, what 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.080 do you mean you die? Like all of a sudden 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.560 just now you can just heard that now. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.600 Thirty year gap between doctor visits, like oh, they like, yeah. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.880 Yeah, my doctor said it was bad for me. So 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.680 I quit. This is crazy. What are you gonna do? 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.400 Medicines come a long way. Josh Nayler's come a long 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.640 way too. He's been a little rocky last couple of weeks, 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.320 but he was good against the Rockies yesterday. Oh what 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.360 a segue. That was two homers for him yesterday. Tristan 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.800 McKenzie seasoned high nine strikeouts for him. Jose Ramirez, who 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.760 is better than Barry Bonds. Acquiting to Jose Ramirez, homer 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.959 doubled walked twice. Big day for the Cleveland Guardians. David 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.080 Frye also three for three with a three run homer 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.600 as well. Fry's been really hot here three fifty seven 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.160 ninety two six twenty two seven homers, four steals. What 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.520 do you make of the Fry guy. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.320 The Fry Guy is the real guy. We talked about 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.360 him a couple of weeks back. We did pick up 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.200 speculative ads you run with that he's been. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:10.840 Let me pull this up. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.400 It's funny because there's a lot of things that you 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.480 unpacked in there that I want to talk about. Josh 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.359 Naylor was being one of them. But on the Naylor side, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.480 hitting three fifty seven, seven frickin' homers this year almost 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.720 as a higher walk rate than strikeout rate, forty two 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.000 percent hard hit rate. That's higher than last year. Incredibly 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.400 great launching. I mean you can see his plan of attack. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.119 Hit the ball hard, get it in the air, eighteen 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.680 degree launch angle, which is nuts, with an average exit 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.800 velocity of ninety And the dude is hitting over two 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:46.200 seventy against all pitch types right now from an expected Sorry, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.800 he's actually hitting three point fifty. Oh no, it's even better, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.160 three forty or higher against all pitch types with an 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.240 expected of at least three seventy. So he's not getting beat, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.360 he's not striking out, he's walking, he's getting ball in 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.200 the air. It seems like it can last. This seems sustainable. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.520 David Fry as an absolute bye, just like Josh Naylor was. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.240 Actually wrote him up in uh we have one of 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.520 those like buy sell articles on fantasy pros that dropped today. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.440 I wrote it yesterday, and then he goes and hits 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.920 two bombs because everything is telling an incredible story for 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.839 Josh Naylor, and he's kind of tough because the homers 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.440 were high before I wrote. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.480 Before I wrote that up, he already. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.960 Had thirteen homers, but he was only hitting two twenty nine. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.479 But he had one of the highest expected batting average 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.680 in his favor great hard hitting out. I mean, everything 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.640 across the board was saying, oh, this doesn't work. And 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.360 by the way, one of the lowest babbabs in all 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.039 of baseball. So Josh Naylor was an absolute bye. It's 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.960 tough to buy him coming off of a two home 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.960 run game, but if people are still sitting on the average, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.279 I think the best is yet to come for Naylor, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.080 which might be like an incredibly crazy year. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.560 One of our peanuts here Elias traded Race Andrew swore 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.719 as for Tyler Glass. Now, well done, That's all I 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.320 can say. I think that's I think that's a win. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.400 Well that's huge, Joe. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.159 I want to ask you though, because you and I 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.480 were talking lately off air about the Josh Gibson stuff 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.280 and all the stats being changed. That makes me think 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.640 you hear Jose Ramirez say I'm better than Barry Bonds, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.240 and I'm just I'm just thinking about, like, you know, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:24.600 all the trajectory of baseball. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.120 Guy like Ramirez say that. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.880 Oh it's ludicrous. And I love Jose Ramirez. I think 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.360 it's great that Jose Ramirez has the confidence to say that. Good. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.200 Good for you, big fella. Good for you, big dog. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.600 I love I love it for you, buddy, Good for you. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.080 You're adorable. Jose, Jose Ramira is a great player. He's 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.200 an MVP candidate every year. He's not Barry Bonds. He's 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.320 not wrecking the league. Barry Bonds wrecked the league for 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.120 about a decade. It's just it's crazy. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.640 I watched that video for whatever reason it was on 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.040 my timeline yesterday was when the Diamondbacks walked Barry Bonds 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.280 with the bases loaded, you know, the bottom of the ninth, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.160 two outs, bases loaded, and they were just like, Nope, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.159 we're gonna walk Barry Bonds. We're going to put that 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.240 run in, and that was like the first time that 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.479 had ever happened in history. Soon Bonds is also on 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.320 top of my mind. Like I appreciate the confidence, but 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.160 I don't need I mean, of all the players, if 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.480 you were to say, hey, this player or someone says 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.680 this player is better than Barry Bonds, and ain't gonna 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.039 be hot their mirror as it comes up. He's a 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.919 fantastic player. But I don't know, man Bond. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.080 Should be in the Hall of Fame. I mean again, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.440 the whole that's a whole other can of orders with 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.080 the st right things and all that stuff. He was 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.919 pretty much a Hall of Fame before. Anyway, It doesn't 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.200 make a difference to me. And there's already guys in 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.800 the Hall of Fame who took stel right. So tell 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.360 the story of the era. The era might not be 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.839 a pretty one. But if you're telling the story of 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.080 the era and the best players who played in that era, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.680 and it wasn't illegal when they were doing it, then 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.479 what's the problem. I don't understand it. I don't abdicate it. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.200 I'm not saying go out there kids and go you know, 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.599 eat yours and take your steroids about saying that. I'm 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.039 saying Rafael Palmarrow was a great hitter. Rafael Palmaro was 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.680 a great hitter in his era. And you look at 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:09.680 the other guys that are in the Hall of Fame 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.040 ahead of him, and it's a joke. It is Harry Bonds. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.960 It's actually interesting Clemens more than me. I hate Roger 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.960 Clemens on so many levels. The levels of hatred I 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.600 have for Roger Clemens are so high. He should be 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.320 in the Hall of Fame if I had a vote. Oh, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.160 I can't stand him, the person, the Bravada. I don't 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.840 like anything about the guy, but he's a Hall of Famer. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.600 At the end of the day, he's one of the 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.560 greatest pitchers ever lived. You can't tell the story of 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.240 baseball from the mid eighties to the early two thousands 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.400 without him. You just can't. So whatever that's not I 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.080 think it's leading off stuff. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.280 Well, but it's also it's it's a little bit relevant 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.720 with the stuff that's going on right now. You know that, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.560 you know they're bringing back in with Josh Gibson, everything 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:51.840 like that. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.480 Like you think about like these you're. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.160 Talking about eras of baseball, and you think, you know, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.440 we get into the discussions of Babe Ruth and back 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.680 and it's just like we're doesn't they going to ignore 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.480 these couple players because they were maybe more outwardly known 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.600 to be doing something that everybody inwardly was doing. Is 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.720 in the Hall of Fame. Like I actually completely agree 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.440 we should look at baseball in eras and block it 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.240 out and kind of have like that vision of it. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.679 And to say that that wasn't. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.160 I mean, look, I think we look at the dead 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.760 ball era of baseball and we see it one way. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.400 I think we look at you know, when we see 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.600 baseball in the fifties and one way, I think. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.960 But then we're we're cherry picking those eras though you are. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.840 But I think I think it matters then when you're 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.040 a great hitter in the late sixties, when Bob Gibson 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.800 and all those guys are pitching and thom sever and 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.360 guys are pitching a one eras like I mean before 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.240 they make the change to the mount. I think, you know, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.320 you look at the eighties in a certain way because 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.080 the game was different, So guys like Mike Schmidt really 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.520 stand out because of the power they had. When guys 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.160 were you know, it was more of a make contact 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.000 steel basses kind of game, and then you get into 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.720 the nineties when it becomes a power game. You have 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.480 to look, you just got to keep it real, Just 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.840 keep it real at the end of the day. And 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.880 I do say the one thing, and we're not going 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.800 to get into this conversation in here because that's again 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.440 the whole other show. But you did mention how MLB 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.040 is moving these stats in from the negro leagues, and 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.560 you know, I am. I love the Ken Burns Baseball 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.680 documentary about the you know, the two sections in the 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.400 a routh the negro leagues are so interesting, and I 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.440 think they took so much pride in creating their own league, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.200 in their own situation there, and I think in some 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.079 ways it's kind of odd because there were so much 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.920 pride in that being its own separate thing. To then 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.160 put it all together seems an odd choice to me. 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.040 But it doesn't matter. If that's what's happening, that's what's happening. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:32.880 But now that the record books are going all over 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.559 the place, it does now open up the door for 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.679 Major League Baseball to shorten the regular season, add more playoffs, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.920 and say, record books, schmicker books, let's just play baseball, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.800 and that could be the beginning of that starting to 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.680 open up the vice a little bit of the old 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.640 school baseball mentality of like everything is gate kept and 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.280 everything is special in every you know, like no, like 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.520 maybe it is going to be a different eraror we're 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.160 moving into because you have to, you have to evolve 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.120 the game. Freddy Peralta, he's been evolving. One earned run, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.880 eleven strikeouts for Freddy p great performance man, Hunter Brown 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.880 was good. Do you believe that? And Alex Bregman in 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.080 the same game, nine strikeouts for Hunter Brown. Bregman two 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.959 for four with a homer. What's going on? Welsh? Rapaieol 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.840 Debra's four for five? Good night for him. Kevin Polar, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.240 This is a fun story. So the White Sox released 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.600 Kevin Polar after he goes four for twenty five. Now 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.679 he has been slashing four thirty one, four fifty nine, 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.839 seven fifty nine with five homers and seventeen games for 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.679 the Angels. Do you pick up Kevin Polar? I mean, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.720 we all know it's not gonna last, but Welsh, it's 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.320 pretty unbelievable right now. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.200 Yeah, he's getting run. It was funny. He was on 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.880 I think he was on foul Territory the day he 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.440 got cut or something like that. It was like he 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.520 was talking about the craziness of why he signed there 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.319 and then he got, you know, cut from the White 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.800 Sox and all this nonsense. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.200 And he is a solid player. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.679 I'm you run it while you can, and then you 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.880 move on when you're out. Like Kevin pilar is on 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.320 a little bit of a heater. We've seen some of 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.360 those angels be able to pull up, you know, some 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.120 pretty good production, especially hitting higher in the lineup. I'm 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:09.719 cool with Paulari right now, but I'm going to have 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.560 a quick trigger finger for sure. And I just wanted 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.679 to mention on Hunter Brown. Lance Brosdowski had brought up 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.559 I have to watch the video. I haven't done it yet, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.040 but he has this cool video that he's talking about. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.120 Like in season changes. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.600 A lot of players in general kind of suffer from 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.200 not doing in season changes. And he was talking about 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.960 pictures George Kirby being one of those that started implementing 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.240 some in season changes and Hunter Brown was one of those. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.760 And I think what it was in mentioning in his 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.079 short preview video was that Hunter Brown decided to start 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.520 throwing a sinker midway through. He's had massive struggles early 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.040 on in the year, and then because last year he 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.080 barely threw it zero point two percent of the time, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.440 it's up to almost seven percent of the time. Because 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.000 I think that's the new addition to try to make 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.680 some of these pitches a little bit better, and it's worked. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.560 You know, this edition of that sinker looks like it 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.520 has helping him kind of rEFInd himself. So it might 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.240 be a half decent by time for Hunter Brown right now. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.920 It very well might be certainly a time where you 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.520 could pluck him away. I mean he might be on 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.079 waiver wires in the shallow leagues too. Tyler blast Now 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.920 struck out eight two earned runs over seven innings. But 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:17.800 on the other side, Tyler McGill w or I told 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.199 everybody in the last waiver wire video, Adam pick him up. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.959 He was really good going into all these rehab starts. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.160 Nine strikeouts, seven scores against the Dodgers, no decision, but 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.080 against the Dodgers. So McGill's another guy you should be adding, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.760 all right, let's have some fun here. Juli Rodriguez two 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.440 for four. I think we're gonna be okay. Boys and girls. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.520 I think, I mean, the slump lasted a little longer 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.880 than we wanted. I don't think it's all his fault. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.520 He has a zero line of protection there. Get this 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.600 man some protection, please, Jose bre you by the way 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.120 over three with two strikeouts, Welsh, your thoughts, Jose Braio, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.400 Uh oh, guys, has been very good, very good. Cole 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.880 Reagan's nine hits, three earned five innings. The enigma that 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.320 is Cole Reagan's start to start, Welsh. This is kind 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.760 of when I got into the big fight with Nick 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.760 Pollock in the off season on the show here, this 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.800 was exactly what I was saying. I think Cole Reagan 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.440 is gonna be guy who's kind of have some great starts 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.640 and then some starts where you're kind of scratching your head. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.720 And you know what, We're two months into the season. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.199 He's had some great starts and some starts where we're 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.800 kind of scratching our head, and I think that's okay. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.319 I think the long term projectability is still really interesting. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.720 He's certainly got all the makings of it. Could be 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.760 a really good front of the rotation starter. But if 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.200 you're gonna be a fantasy ace, if you're gonna be 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.360 you know, drafted and lauded as a guy who's gonna 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.600 carry rotations at the big league level. Consistency is one 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.200 of the things you need the most, and Reagan so 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.800 far hasn't quite found that, but maybe he will as 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.560 the season goes on. Do you think he will? 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.000 Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna bet that he's going to 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.240 I don't want to bet against that in general, that 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.439 you know, he's that it's gonna be kind of lost 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.400 and everything like that. But you know, I'm taking a 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.600 look at this last start to the first start, and 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.480 I feel like I think it was the slider that 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.560 was added. You know, that was the big thing that 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.760 ended up being added to the repertoire, and he had 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.880 a forty percent with rate on it last year. He 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.560 throws five pitches ten percent of the time and that 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.920 hasn't changed, and actually the usage is exactly the same, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.840 But the slider is wildly ineffective this year, and that 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.160 would be something to break down forty percent with rate 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.960 last year twenty two percent withff rate last year was 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.520 the highest wift pitch. This year, it's the lowest wift 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.800 pitch and in this last start, he threw eight percent 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.840 sliders with his zero percent withft rate. He only had 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.480 whiffs on his change up and fastball. It was two 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.400 pitches plus. He was not in the zone at all. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.480 I mean thirty eight percent change. I mean not that 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.000 you want to be in the zone with a lot 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.000 of these pitches. Thirteen percent zone rate on his slider. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.520 He doesn't have his slider, And even though that's a 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.560 low usage pitch, it seems to be kind of adding 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.240 to the inconsistency of him this entire year. The four 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.720 seam fastball has been better, the change. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.160 Up looks worse. The cutter is a lot worse. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.480 It's getting hit three eighty five batting average against this year. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.720 It was two seventy last year. So cutters and sliders 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.960 have similar variants of each other. That pitch, that grip 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.440 is not working for him right now, and it's making 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.040 him less effective with some control issues. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:21.120 So what does that mean? 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.320 It's going to be tough for him to be like 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.520 a cy young Ace top ten sp Is he going 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.760 to probably printally be like a solid by Low when 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.400 he struggles? Maybe you're gonna have to know that there's 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.680 some ups and downs with him and some big strikeouts. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.240 So that's kind of the breakdown. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.960 I don't know, maybe there's mid season changes he can make, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.680 you know, do something to the slider, stop throwing it, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.600 stop throwing the cutter. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:43.520 I don't know what that is. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.320 But he hasn't made an end season change, and he's 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.640 been pretty inconsistent, and at least we can kind of 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:49.640 identify where it is. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.440 Yeah, I think I said it's the consistency that makes 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.400 you great. It's the difference of you being drafted as 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.800 a top fifteen starter or as a top thirty starter. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.120 And I think if you're gonna get to that fifteen range, 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.160 you gotta be a consistent guy. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.520 Would you rather have Reagan's or Jered Jones? Rest of season? 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.240 Knowing Jerry Jones is like I've been throw Skins in there, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.560 like let's do a well, let's just do a ranking. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:15.800 Let's not do the other thing. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.920 That I say, Jones, Reagan's Skeens still. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.040 Okay, So Skeen Skeins is at the bottom Skeen Skens, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.680 but Jones is ahead of Skins. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.080 Rest of season for. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.840 Me, yeah, I mean Jones, dude, I mean Joe's has 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.480 been unbelievably good and he has been consistently good. Now, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.040 I know that train's gonna pull into the station sooner 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.040 than I wanted to. But I think I'm gonna take 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.160 my lumps that way, especially in season long roto where 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.320 I just want that consistency every week and when it 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.400 shuts down, shuts down. But Reagan's going out there being inconsistent. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:46.800 I think it's gonna hurt me in the long run. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.680 I'd rather have the put this. I'd rather have the 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.000 incredibly beautiful one hundred and thirty innings or whatever I 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.160 might get one hundred and twenty five innings, then one 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.960 hundred and sixty inconsistent things I might get out of 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.880 Reagan's rodod might be different. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.399 Mike brings up a good question, but I'll alter it 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.560 just a tiny bit. He says, do you sell Reagans 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.560 after the next good start? But the same thing is, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.560 what are you more likely to do? Sell Reagans after 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.040 the good start or buy him after the bad start? 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.119 Which one are you more team of? 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.760 Wait? Say that one I'm trying to find. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.440 Would you rather? Yeah, right there? 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.160 Would you rather sell Reagans after a good start or 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:24.400 buy him on. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.399 The bad start? That's very zen. Buy him after a 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.840 bad start because you can't have enough pitching. That's my answer. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.399 It's a it's a good way to put it. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.920 And like, if you're selling Reagans off of the good start, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.440 what are you buying because you really don't have enough pitching. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.320 We can never have enough pitching into this year. So 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.880 what is the thing that you end up buying from him? 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.000 I'm not sure, Yeah, I hear you, all right, let's 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.320 continue on the three up and three down. Gavin Stone 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.080 seven strikeout, seven shutout innings yesterday against the metsis Max 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.680 Freed eight shutout innings, not to be outdone, striking out six, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.199 and Matt Waldron struck out eight Tuesday four nothing shout out, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.320 but it was the Marrow. But three down bisn Stott, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.399 who's always been an up and down, streaky guy. He 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.080 went on for four. He's in one of those rough 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.720 patches right now again. Grayson Rodriguez four runs, seven hits. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.200 He's been a little spotty since returning from the injury. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:13.800 Do you think he's one hundred percent Welsh? 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:14.480 I don't know. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.119 Everybody goes to the injury thing. I'm not sure, Like 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.919 I don't, I don't. I guess I don't blame it 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.720