WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 4th, 2023 (Ep. 722) 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.240 What's up, friendos, and welcome in to leading off right 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.920 here on Fantasy Pros. I am Chris Welsh, joined by 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 d D DA Bye God from the top rope. It's 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:17.920 Joe Pisipia. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.160 Just when I thought I was out, wesh, they pulled 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.640 me back in. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.560 Oh I was, I was in a football and now 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.440 now that I want me to do a baseball because 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.160 Buba had a he had an internet problem. Next thing 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.720 you know, they're call him Joey p and Joey B's 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:33.720 back talking to baseball. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.240 What's up everybody? What a fun surprise on a fun Friday. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:38.040 Who would have thought? 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:38.839 Look at that? 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.520 The crazy things happen. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.240 Yeah, look at that. Our our deer, our dear casey 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.600 Bubba apparently was having So we've had lots of internet 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.400 thingies over the past year. Here, well, he had complete 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.440 internet outage and Joe Pisa Pia, he waved through all 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.400 the people that were trying to get on the show today. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.080 He pushed them all back and he said, don't worry 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.760 about it. I got this, I got this, and we 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.800 got this beautiful ball to head back. Joe Piezapia, host 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.560 of Everything Betting Pros, got a big year ahead, but 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.160 we got you back. Joe. It's great to see your face. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.440 It's great to see that you still love us, my friend. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.959 Of course, you know, I love all a few people, 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.560 and you know, I'm sure all of you are wondering 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.800 my thoughts about the trade deadline and some of the 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:22.839 things that happened. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.480 But Welshiam Bubba did such a good job. I know. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.680 We do get to talk a little little. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.319 Verland or a little Scherzer though, because Schuzer did pitch yesterday. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.320 And I kind of love the fact that they've now 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.000 it's like two old farts thrown into and areada together 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.720 in the American League West to battle it out to 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:38.119 the death. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.679 I kind of enjoy that aspect of those trades, as 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.760 well as the pieces that we got back. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.640 As a Mets fan, I'm actually happy a Kunya, I'm 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.320 a big fan of I like Gilbert. I'm I'm very 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.040 pleased with what happened, and I'd rather take a step 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.120 back than have to go too far next year with 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.960 a bunch of foty year old pitchers and set the 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.000 organization back for I don't know, ten years. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.000 I think this is their job. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.280 This is the thing to ask him since you were 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.800 not here for all this, because this is the only 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.200 thing I would get your take on. Do you actually 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.880 believe that the Mets are rebuilding for the next years? 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.680 Do you believe? 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.799 Because I don't. I think this is all a ruse. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.000 I think this is sleight of hand. They're like, look 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.840 over here, and then they're just gonna go BAA in 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.760 the off season. I don't believe it. But do you 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.080 actually believe that they're gonna do this and build around 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.679 Gilbert and Kunya and the Pee Alonzo trade rumors in 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.679 the off season? Are you buying this as a Mets fan? 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.400 I am not buying that They're not trying to compete 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:33.760 next year. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.600 No. I think they told Max Sures or that to 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.160 get him the hell out of town. And let's be 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.400 honest here, Max Suers are crap the bet in the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.079 playoffs last year. You know, I make fun of Mad 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.800 Dog a lot because it's fun, but mad Dog was right. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.040 I don't know if you saw that ramp that he 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.240 had about the whole thing where he's like. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.000 Matt, surey, you pan them all his money and next 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.080 thing you know, I got that in to play. I 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.760 think about full home runs. I've never seen anybody boot 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.399 off a mound the way I seen that guy. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.400 And there's Stephen A Smith behind him, just kind of 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.720 chuckling with his hands over his mouth and stuff like that, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.720 and I'm and and I'm I'm like, you know what, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.120 You're right, And then you know he's had some injury issues, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.520 He's had some you know, other hiccups there. But to 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.240 be honest, if you're looking at the body of work 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.720 from Sureser, it was a little disappointing overall because the 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.040 big spots when. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.200 He was bitual against the Braves for the division, he 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.240 cropped the bed the next thing, you know, and then he. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.080 Goes out in the playoffs and what happened in the 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.200 playoffs full home run to get dude, I get the 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:24.520 said you. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:25.120 Have goo padres. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.400 They got the padres for god, take the next thing, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:28.919 you know, you're out there and then then now you 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:29.160 know what. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.400 Yo, Yeah, the organization had the right to trade you. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:32.919 If they want to trade you, they go ahead and 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.600 they trade you. And now he's intective. Don't see what happens. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.640 Then you're Russo impression. The audio of the Russo impression 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.839 versus the visual. People don't know if you don't watch 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.640 the YouTube, which you should subscribe to, the Vincy Pro MLB. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.000 The visual that Joe has when he does Robert de Niro, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.800 like you turn into Denier. Yeah, you literally turn into DeNiro. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.520 I don't know what's better. Is it the Russo impression 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.520 or the de Niro physical. Look, he's very you're very 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.440 good class six slapsticky, Joe. You really turn It's like 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:03.560 Jim Carrey. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:04.360 Yeah, pretty much. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.160 Sure, you know it's I will say this like I said, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.040 I I agree with you, just to recap in all 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.920 honesty that I don't think they're out of the Otani 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.840 sweep steaks. I think they're gonna be very much in 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.800 Giolito sweepstakes and very much in Aaronola sweepstakes. Like I 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.120 think they're going to retool the pitching. I think they 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.760 realized they tried really hard to hold on Real Type 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:23.599 for one more run. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.280 It did not work. So what are we doing here? 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:27.200 You need it. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.320 You get a bunch of prospects, And it wouldn't shock 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.839 me if they flipped those prospects to bring in Sodo. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.960 If the Padres thing all falls apart and they decide 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.800 to blow everything up like they've got a lot of 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.520 options now and not all these prospects are gonna come. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.920 Up and play for the Mets. And that's you know 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.560 that fact. I don't know if you saw that stat. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.600 The MLB coverage that they did for a trade deadline, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.680 but it was something to the long lines of you know, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.840 something like three or or eight percent or something like 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.720 that of so these prospects they go back and forth 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.680 and these deals actually make it impact. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.120 There aren't quote unquote. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.640 Yeah, it was like one in four, like one in four. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.880 Act up. We talked about this on Rates and Barrels 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.160 that one in four prospects on the deadline have an 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.360 over two career war which you know. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.479 Well, then there was a staggering stat of the number 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.040 of that don't even ever get to play in the majors, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.800 which was also stunning. So, look, prospects are capital at 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.200 the end of the day, It's what they are. Some 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.880 of the capitale heavier is very good. They can go 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.320 out in there and can make some moves. But I 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.000 don't think there I agree with you. I don't think 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.039 they're like, oh yeah, we're not competing for two years. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.800 I think that's the line that they sent to Max 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.160 Schurzer to get him out of town because they wanted 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.080 to get him out of town and they wanted him 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.960 to feel uncomfortable that staying here was not in the 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:33.760 plans for him because I think next year they didn't 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.280 think that he gave them the best chance to win. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.280 And that's just honest lowering expectations. You know, if you 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.080 if you've set a low bar in net. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.160 Fan since nineteen eighty four, I've been lowering expectations since 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:44.960 nineteen eighty seven. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:51.280 Lowered expect Hey breaking news from Anthony XC seven according 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.400 to Mark Tope Topkin that the Razor calling up Curtis Mead. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.560 Curtis Mead, who is one of their top prospects. Fun fact, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.280 anyone who's prospect one related knows it's my one of 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.840 my worst interviews I've ever done, so bad that I 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.200 didn't air it that I did with Curtis Meat at 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.440 the Arizona Fall League. I literally just it was actually, like, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.200 I think it was my first interview off of the 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.360 COVID year lost, so I was a little rusty and 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.480 I asked him just some of the dumbest questions and 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.800 he couldn't have been kinder and nicer, but it was 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.480 so bad I scrapped it and it just lives in 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.680 the Prospect Won vault of interviews. But Curtis Meat, high 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.680 contact hitter, kind of low counting stats, especially this year 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.320 he's had a lot of injuries. He would be somebody 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.280 you might want to take a look at, but it's 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.520 in the South Freelick Well self really has been going nuts, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.040 but it's in the South Freelick world of where will 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.960 you get the counting stats? He's very interesting prospect. Maybe 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.000 you guys want to go pick him up. But let's 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.560 look at the headlines. Shoe and how appropriate that shoe 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.080 Heo Tani is at the top because Shoeo Tani pitched 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.559 a little bit yesterday, came out with some cramp stuff. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:01.000 But fortieth home run of the season. He is top 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.800 to be. Fourteen stolen bases, forty home runs not traded 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.760 al MVP. Do you did you? Did you get a 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.400 ticket for Otani? 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.000 Oh ticket? I had a no ticket. I had I 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.800 had to mean a whole ticket. I had to be 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.800 an old tickets a long time ago, before the season 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.760 even started. No, I hadn't I had a no TWI ticket. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.440 Samuel ticket at the two and a half when the 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.760 season started, because I was like, look, I just have 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:26.880 to be in on this anyway. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.880 And then I had no tani Cy Young ticket as. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.280 Well, which is getting really interesting now that the McClanahan 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.040 injury is coming, which I know that could be a 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.720 nice little segue we're doing here, But if you look 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.040 at it, Shoey Otani right now is plus three thousand. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.680 So for that award, it was, you know, earlier in 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.920 the year, not even that good. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.720 And I feel like, if you're looking at the boring 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.320 thing is still Garrett Coles the chalk. But I think 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.640 that's just a really public nonsense number because there's a 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.480 lot of Yankee money. I think everyone if the Angels 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.520 make the playoffs, Welsh, don't you think they're good to 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.280 all push in and say let's just give Otani all 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.120 the stuff, because I know fra Amber Valde has had. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.200 His moment this week, but he had been bad. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.040 With you know, natiy Valdi missing time, like Garrett Cole's 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.280 been very steady's very at the top. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.960 All that stuff is great, but I don't know if 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:14.960 that's like the fun vote. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.120 If I'm a voter, I'm giving Otani all the awards 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.840 if the Angels getting the playoffs, I want to give 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:19.320 him everything. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.800 I agree with the playoff thay. The only problem is 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.680 what has been happening. What happened like right after the 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.040 trade headline passed, like Otani had the thing, he had 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.400 to come out of the game. What happened in this 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.840 one had a cramp, only went four innings. Little bit 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 worried about what the back half of this year is. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.000 There's a couple of little crampy things that are going on, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.439 not finishing games. But I agree he actually might be 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.920 the most fun bet because, as you mentioned Sean McClanahan, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:46.160 fifteen day il, they did not announce what the diagnosis is. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.760 This is on his forearm, and I actually broke this 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.480 down earlier in the week. One interesting thing that happened 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.600 pre injury was he was throwing harder. He was starting 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.840 his slider two and a half miles an hour harder. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.920 In the game where he then came out, you could 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.200 maybe say there's some type of speculation there, but then 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.079 he has a form issue. This is the quote I 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.400 didn't like. Club statement was quote. In the process of 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.760 gathering further information and updates will be provided of will 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.439 be provided when available that just seemed very like robotic, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.720 you know, very like we do not raise it doesn't 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.280 It just doesn't feel good. I don't feel like they're 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.920 not There's nobody being like, hey, you know, McClanahan had 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.520 a thing, we'll get out of it will be good. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.679 It's like, we really don't know. We have to check 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.679 this sole situation out. And this is very reminiscent of 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.679 Rasmusen and Springs and the whole process that happens. So 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.360 I am very very worried about it. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:42.480 You should be. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.599 If you have McClanahan still in leagues where you know 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.920 he is your ace, you should be terrified right now. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.520 I think the Razor are terrified. It's funny because the 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.240 Razor's still at the top of the betting board right now. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.199 Look at a FanDuel. They're still plus three twenty to 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.880 represent the American League. Yet they are not the team 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.880 that is slated to win the divisi The Orioles are 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.320 the minus one hundred favorites now. Whine is one ten 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.679 right now. So yeah, kinda kind of cuckoo, kind of 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:14.120 crazy there. And look right now, you've got the Rangers, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.440 the Astros, the Orioles kind of after them, the Astros 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.280 are plus three fifty. I'm looking at the Astros, you 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.280 know that. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago that number 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.480 was plus eight fifty. I told everybody before they make 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.240 moves bet it. Then after the Verlinder tried it went 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.040 down this trade it went down to seven hundred. Now 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.360 it's down to plus three fifty. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:29.439 So I don't know. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 At this point, you gotta make the wager on the 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.480 Houston side, Like I think, it's just crazy not to. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.839 Yeah, and I like what you talked about too with 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.440 that bet. If you're looking at that bet with Otani 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.079 on the the cy Young stuff. With everything that's going on. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.480 There also more headlines here. Ellie dla Cruz got his 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.640 what was it, eighth homer in a loss, but just 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.080 wanted to point out great on the homer. We did 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.760 this a couple of days ago, Joe. But Ellie's up 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.240 and down the season though he is a monster as 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.839 far as hard hit stuff goes, actually barreling the ball 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.400 quite a bit better than he was. I believe he 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.280 was down in the fours early on in the year. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.480 Forty seven percent hard hit thirty three percent K percentage 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.120 so far this year, which is no bueno, but he 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.719 does have an expected batting average that is close to 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.040 the current batting average. Maybe that doesn't make you feel 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.280 good if you're somebody that believes it's going to be 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.319 so much better. But also on the strikeout front with 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.600 something Bubba and I were talking about h five strikeouts 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.000 in his last two games, he has multi strikeouts. I 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.640 believe that's five games in his last seven he has 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.880 struck out more than twice as the batting average kind 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.280 of dipped. So we're you and I. You and I 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.160 remember a time when Ellie de la Cruz was you 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.839 might pass Corbin Carol and blah blah blah. I think 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.040 this is the Elie de la Cruz people need to really, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.320 you know, come to transit. Two sixty five hitter, big homer, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.760 stolen bases. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.120 Stolen base on a kid who's going to get better 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.240 over time too. I mean, like, like exactly look in Dynasty. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.120 I'm all over it still because the ceiling is ridiculous 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.480 because if we've seen kids with tools sometimes who figure 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.520 it out go on to just absolutely crush the league. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.800 I mean you could even point to rond Akunya. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.079 Early in his career is a kay who had a 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.520 lot of tools where you're just kind of looking for 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.839 him to put it all together, and then he did. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.240 And look how terrifying the player he is right now. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.040 And you know that size too. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.800 So the taller guys, the bigger guys Welsh, you know, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.800 they're more susceptible to the strikeouts because they have a 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.679 bigger strike zone. At the end of the day, you know, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.520 guys are gonna be able to pitch to them differently 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.959 as opposed to the guy who is, you know, five 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.920 ten six foot tall, aspose as the guy who's what's 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.680 cruise six five? 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.040 Oh, I think they list him at He's like, dude, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.800 he's like six six sixty seven. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.280 He's huge. He's a big dude. But he's always gonna 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:39.120 have a bigger strike zone. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.560 So therefore you have to always understand that in those 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.200 points leagues with the minus for the k's and things 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.480 like that. But look, if he ever harnesses everything in 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.960 a couple of years, it's gonna be scary. But Dela Cruz, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 especially in this new era of the stolen base, this 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.680 rebirth of stolen bases, I still want de la Cruz 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:54.160 on all my teams. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.040 The Yeah, it's it's not not why it just would 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.360 definitely point out nobody did it here. I don't remember, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.880 but I saw it on the internet of like the 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.000 the anger that would happen when anyone would question Ellie 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.760 de la Cruz and people are you know, he's a 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.080 first round or rest of season and people going nuts. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.040 But like, maybe listen to some of us when we 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.280 do look at that stuff that like you could again 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.760 he had there was a thirty day period where he 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.160 was the leader in stolen bases. Power wasn't there. He's 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.559 starting to redevelop into that, but there's a time that 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.920 you were able to maximize him for first round talent 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.439 in this year, and the hype kind of took a 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:25.079 lot of people out. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.839 No, you were right, and you did that video about it, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.360 and you were one hundred percent correct at the time. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.199 If you can get somebody to overpay and redraft, it 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.559 made sense. But in dynasty keeper formats, there's just out 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.839 of my cold dead hand, are you getting Ellie della Cruz. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.160 You were talking about the Mets pitchers real quick both well, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.120 we bought news on both. Max Scherzer went six, gave 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.240 up seven hits, three earned runs, nine strikeouts, in his 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.560 Rangers debut. It seems like a very this era Max 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.160 Scherzer line right there, You're always going to give up runs. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.960 Now he goes six. That's good for the bullpen, strikes 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.200 out a bunch. I don't know if there were any 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.600 thoughts at all on Suresier's debut with the Rangers. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.800 Oh, look, what you said was perfect, But I would 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.040 also add that let's see what the next couple are. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.079 Let's see does he harness the inconsistencies or you know, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.040 and gets back to being on track, or does he 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.640 have like the oh Max Scherzer came out because he's got, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.160 you know, a tweak in his back, or you know, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.640 he rolled his ankle a weird way. Like he's had 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.120 a lot of that in the last couple of years, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.840 even that playoff run in the Washington year where they 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.960 went won the World Series. Let's not forget he had 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.480 a couple of weird injury things. I just think the 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.240 body's breaking down a little bit. So you're gonna get 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:31.920 the good starts. I think this is the best of 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.280 those starts you get. And I know Verlander you are 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.160 gonna get on Saturday against the Yankees, which should be 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.320 really good theater. If you love baseball, it's gonna be 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.880 hard not to enjoy that. And look, I wish those 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.280 guys well. I Verlander was the one that hurt a 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.040 little bit more sureser to me. Just look, the intensity 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.880 is great, but I feel like guys like that that 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.040 are so intense they wear on you after a while. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.960 And I think it kind of wore on everybody. So 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.320 good luck to both of them. My money's on Houston, folks. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.680 There's definitely something in that water, though, because you know 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.680 he is popped back up Dane Dunning struck out eleven. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.120 There's some type of you there's again, it could just 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.240 be adrenaline. It could be an excitement, it could be seriousness. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.880 It could be actual pitching changes by Greg Maddox or 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.680 Mike Maddicks. I'm sorry, Mike Maddocks. Greg was also with 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.440 the team for a bit in the spring. But I 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.440 don't know what it is, but it's a positive turn. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.680 As you mentioned Verlander, rookie. Lookie, someone asked this earlier. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.400 They said, Welsh, what's up with Brandon Fott. Well, Brandon 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.600 Fott had his best start of his career. He wins 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.760 seven innings, Joe two hits, one walk, seven strikeouts, did 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.520 give up a homer. Here are the cool things. This 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.040 is why, like I know, like, hey, I'm the Brandon 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.880 Fought guy. Hey, you were wrong, but it's very excited. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.880 When we heard that Brett Strom made him move across 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.960 the rubber. That's a big change. So he's now on 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.080 the first base side of the rubber and we've seen 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.440 the results kind of work themselves out decently. Well, guess 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.880 what this start he threw his predominant pitch as a sweeper. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:00.960 There was a time this year where he was like 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:06.040 seventy percent fastball, thirty nine percent sweeper, thirty one percent 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.000 fastball in twenty three percent. Changeup was his pitch mix 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.600 in this start thirty three percent overall swing and wiff 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.720 rate thirty seven percent CSW. And what was so encouraging 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 to me was he had big outside the zone swing 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.320 in whiffs outside of them. People were actually trying to 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.440 swing at these pitches that were not in the zone. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.000 Sixty percent on the sweeper over twenty percent on the fastball. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.440 Brandon Fought might be figuring it out. And it's a 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.040 great bilo in Dynasty Joe. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:38.040 Yeah, it is. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.000 I think it was here with us together, where we 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.960 had that equation of here remind us of another you know, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.160 old Arizona diamonbacks pitchure named Robby Ray. Where you're gonna 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.840 you know, there's gonna be a lot of growing pains here. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.000 The strikeout potential is very good. You know, that's something 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:56.880 you want to look forward to and hope that it 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.680 goes well. And then you know, I always thought that 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.240 if they just decided to make him a closer, he 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.800 could be very good in that role because the effectively 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.800 wild portion of him really plays well into the closer 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.400 role because guys are going up there in the ninth inning, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.520