WEBVTT - Leading Off: Is Gerrit Cole Fully BACK? (Ep. 1346) 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.800 What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into Fantasy pros. This is 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.280 Leading Off Live, the Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm your host, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:14.760 Joe Rico. I am indeed back, had a nice little 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.840 vacation time off the last few days, but I am 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.799 joined here by my dear friend Casey Bubba. It is 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.160 year three of the Joe and Bubba Show. To close 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.600 you out here for the season on Leading Off now, 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.000 there will still be some mixing and matching. You'll see 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.440 some more wealth, do some more Bogman, and Bubba will 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.320 be paired up randomly with a couple of those guys 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.920 because I got some more vacation time coming later in August. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.880 But for now, it is the Joe and Bubba Show. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.800 It's great to see you, my friend. How you been doing. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.640 I am doing great. It's good to get back on 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.880 the mic with you once again. And like you said, 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.120 we got about well over two months of the Joe 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.920 and Bubba Show, which is always a highlight to wrap 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.960 up with the season slows down for some we keep 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.040 pounding along. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.959 Absolutely season three. A lot of shows do he can 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.800 find their stride and see you three, So we're hoping 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.000 we got some good stuff coming up. Here for you. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.040 We're against talk a lot of baseball. We're gonna talk 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.800 some Red Sox who are on a crazy winning street. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.640 Garrett Cole looks like he is back, but get some 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.880 questions ready in the chat. We'll probably have a little 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.480 bit of time today to help you guys out with 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.040 anything fantasy related, anything baseball related, anything at all. Drop 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.320 it in the chat. We'll be happy to help you 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.559 guys out. Let's kick it off today with Garrett Cole. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.560 He is the cover boy. He is on the thumbnail 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.760 for a reason. He has really turned things around over 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.760 his last couple starts. He went seven innings yesterday allowing 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.800 three runs on four hits against the Pirates, and he 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.760 struck out eleven. His previous start was also very good. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.280 He went six innings, actually worked into the seventh with 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.360 two run ball and eight strikeouts against the Dodgers. So 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.800 buba is Garrett Cole quote unquote back. We did see 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.720 a bit of a rough stretch from him there three 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.600 four five ear and run games. The strikeouts weren't really 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.319 as high as we're you, super Garrett Cole. But we 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.360 look at the season stats right now, it's a three 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.240 ninety two era it's a one to ten whip, twenty 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.760 one percent strikeout to walk. Great. Do you think we 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.200 see peek Garrett Cole? I'm back at any pointer. It's 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.400 about as good as we can hope for. You know, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.160 a couple of good starts in a row with some 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.480 inconsistency's what are your expectations going forward for Garrett Cole? 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.040 I guess is the best way I could put it. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.680 Yeah, I think we're seeing we're getting much closer to 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.160 the a Scarett Cole that we've grown to love. It 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.320 was a slow start coming off the il. He missed 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.760 so much time obviously, and the command was a bit 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.079 of an issue, but he's been locked and loaded in 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.200 the month of July. Four starts in July, we've seen 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.840 thirty two strikeouts to two walks over twenty four and 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.959 a third innings pitched. That's an almost thirty two percent 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.200 k to walk. Then is elked everybody, and to top 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.480 it off, he's given up to ten runs over twenty 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.040 four and a third innings, so it's three and runs 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.280 or less than every start. So three straight quality starts, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.880 three seven o ERA and one of the metrics I 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.920 always like to look at is he's got the the 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.639 area of three seven oh but a two four to 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.359 three si Era, so he technically in a weird way, 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.280 kind of unlucky. Garrett Cole looks a lot better. When 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.919 he first came back. I looked like he was just 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.320 trying to locate. I mentioned the control things, the fastballs 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.600 getting hit all over the yard. Now he's pitching like 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.519 the dominant guy again, and the Pirates aren't aren't a joke, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.720 Like they're one of the best offenses in baseball right now. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.760 So we can't even say that's what it was. He 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.840 looked awesome on Wednesday, and if you stashed him or 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.480 you were lucky enough to grab him before he came back, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.399 he is going to pay up dividends I think down 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:13.840 the stretch. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.640 So let's say Cole continues at this kind of pace 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.239 the rest of the season, with you know, eight or 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.920 nine really good starts to close things off. Do you 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.359 expect that people are drafting him next year the way 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.600 that they were drafting Pete Garrett Cole. Do you think 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.520 he's an SP two? Like? Where do you think people 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.000 will will end up drafting him next season? Should he 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.200 continue out of this space? 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.360 Yeah, he's going to be back in SP one probably 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.200 probably more SP two range, but only because of how 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.880 just diabolically bad the pitching has been this year. And 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.200 so if he were to give you two months on 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.520 top of this July finished two more strong months and 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.720 leave everybody with that great taste in their mouth like, Hey, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.000 this is he's back. This is Garrett Cole, a guy 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.960 that used to be one of the top five pitchers 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.320 in baseball. That goes a long ways because like when 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.600 Ryan and I recapped the first half already pitchers the 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.040 other night above in the Bloom, it was horrific outside 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.240 of like the top five picks, and then that the 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.240 pocket of youngsters. It was a war zone out there. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.000 So yeah, if you can get some Garrett Cole in 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.120 your life, pitching the way he used to pitch, his 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.080 value is going to go up astronomically at this draft season. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.279 I think there are certain things, certain players who are 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.400 of a Hall of Fame caliber, and you can never 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.400 really fully count them out, whether it's Mike Shroud, Garrett Pull, 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.200 a lot of other players who I mean Jacob b 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.880 Gram as well, we kind of assume that their careers 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.160 were at the end over the last couple of seasons. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.560 But when you have such a high peak, coming down 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.159 from a high peak can still be an excellent starting 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.880 pitcher or player in general. So even if Garrett Cole 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.840 is not winning Cy Young's he could still be a 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.840 very fible asset down the stretch. So who ever picked 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.160 him up, whoever stashed him, it looks like he will 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.640 be k at the evidends. I wanted to mention the 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.560 Red Sox because they've won if in in consecutive games. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.680 This is one of the longest win streaks now of 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.280 the modern era, of the expansion era, I guess since 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.560 nineteen sixty there's the twenty seventeen Guardians who won twenty 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.960 two games, the money Ball As had twenty, the Cardinals 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.120 in twenty twenty one at seventeen, and then the nineteen 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.400 seventy seven Kansas City Royals won sixteen games. Those are 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.040 the only longer win streaks than what Boston has done. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.279 Right now, they're tied with the one Mariners, who I 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.640 believe were the best record in Major League history, and 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.800 the two thousand Atlanta Braves at fifteen games. It's kind 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.599 of turned them around from looking like sellers. You know, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.559 Sunny Gray Chapman Jared Durant are going to get traded 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.080 to now they're potentially a playoff team. What do you 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.560 think of the streak that we've seen and how do 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.720 you expect it to impact the Red Sox over the 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.240 next couple of weeks. Do you think there's still a 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.840 chance we see them sell or has this completely changed 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.280 the way that they are going to go about the 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:42.320 last couple months of the season. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.520 Here Bubo, Well, I'll highlight one thing real quick. The 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.200 streak snacked in Game two with a double hitter on Wednesday, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.800 so it finished at fifteen. Still an amazing streak. That's outstanding. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.080 And it's crazy like they're probably buying or at least 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.159 staying pat right now because before the streak started, there's 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.360 been rumors and stuf where he's going around. They're like, hey, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.520 you know, a world as Chapman was almost as Cago 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.599 White Sox, like there was trade talk there and they 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.880 were shopping the masses out there, and right now it 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.760 seems like this team is clicking on all cylinders. You know, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.839 maybe they do still trade to Jaron duran but to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.840 upgrade elsewhere type thing, but it feels like a Chapman 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.080 he's not going anywhere, and they, if anything, I think 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.599 they're buyers now and continuing in an al East that 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.040 you know Yankees will stick around. The Rays are the Rays, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.800 but it's still a division the Red Sox can win. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.320 I think they can too. I don't know if there's 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.960 any team in the American League Geese that is so 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.400 far ahead here, Like the Rays have a two and 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.560 a half game lead on the Yankees, who have a 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.320 four and a half game lead on the Red Sox. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.599 There's still so much baseball up. We've seen much larger 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.679 leads evaporate much later into the seed. So the American 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.520 League Eese still feels like a huge, huge wildcard here. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.480 I think the Red Sox it'll all come down to 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:55.760 the next couple of weeks. I think for a lot 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.039 of these teams, even if Blue Jay has been terrible, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.599 and I still hear like, well it's the next couple 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.320 of weeks go Well, maybe they're buyers. And I think 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.599 a lot of American League teams are in that boat 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.720 because the American League's terrible. This isn't really awful. Well, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.520 I think the Red Sox are going to be more 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.760 positioned as buyers or at least kind of neutral. Maybe 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.320 sell a couple of pieces, maybe bring in a couple 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.600 other ones over the next couple of weeks. I got 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.880 to bring up my boy Kate Cavali year, who looked 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.480 like a disaster to start the season. He looks absolutely 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.440 terrible and he went into tour yesterday at six shatout 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.880 innings WHI allowing just four hits. A striking out Kate, 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.080 He's been really good for a while now, Kate Cavalie's 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.160 looking back. Since the end of April, sixteen wins, he's 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.880 won seven of them. It's a three forty five's a 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.239 three twenty three Sierra. The whip is finally below one twenty. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:40.640 He's given up a lot of hits this year, but 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.280 in that frame it's one nineteen and at twenty one 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.480 percent strikeout to walk great. Seems like he's finally arrived 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.280 by But what are your thoughts on Kate Cavali. Is 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.960 he somebody that you're trusting I set it and forget 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.840 it type of guy, or are you still looking matchup 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.800 dependent here for these next couple of weeks. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.080 Yeah, I know, he's definitely a set it and forget 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.120 a guy for me. I absolutely love what we're seeing 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.640 from from Cavali. It's a guy that we know. The 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.280 skills have always been very good, even in the miners. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.480 He's one of the higher end prospects, that is what 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.280 I would say, But injuries have derailed things. So he 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.120 came back after a short and twenty twenty five. My 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.440 biggest questions like, yeah, you're gonna sit and forget it 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.920 for now. But we're seeing one hundred and ten innings 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.040 pitched already this year. He's coming off of forty eight. Well, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.280 between the Bigs and the miners, it was one twenty. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.640 We'll say, how far do the Nats let him go? 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.960 Is My question is do does he go one thirty? 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.480 Does he go one forty? I still probably get some 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.840 close to the finish line, which is fine, but we 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.520 might see some tinkering here. But to your initial question, 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.199 I love what we're seeing from him. Strikeouts are grit there, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.160 the control is great. To your point, all the things 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.960 you highlighted, Cavali seems like a dude. And the one 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.880 thing with the Nationals for most of this season. In 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.160 recent seasons, they've had bats, they haven't had pitching. And 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.560 Cavali seems like a guy that can get him there. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.000 Absolutely, I'm very excited. I have a lot of shape 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.000 that looks horrendous to start the year, but things have 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.599 started to turn around. Off my boy Kate Savalie, so 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.040 I'm really you're happy about that. I wanted to shout 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.920 out Van Rod here on the street, one of the 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.520 most loyal viewers seventy five stream streak. That is phenomenal work. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.520 Thank you Van Rod for supporting the channel, always here, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.720 always throwing your questions and so we really really do 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.000 appreciate that Chris sailed down three. Nothing already in the 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.400 second not what we want to see. There are a 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.480 lot of early games today. There's not a huge late like. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.080 It's five total games with two in the afternoon evening, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.839 so a lot of games are already underway. There's a 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.680 question about and or Kate Cavalie, I should say in 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.040 relation to Kate Anderson, so I pick up Kate Cavali 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.200 over my Kate Anderson's fash I would say yes, yes, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.880 I'm not sure what the Mariners are gonna do, but 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.000 they have six pretty viable starting pitchers. I mean, Brian Wu, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.680 I know that pens of inconsistencies and Steo is not 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.600 the guy he used to be. But between Miller Wu 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.920 Gilbert Kirby to Steo Hancock, son't nope, there's really room 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:54.600 for Kate Anderson. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.040 Bubba, Yeah, I'm not sure if there is room Frankers 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.560 and they don't have enough room for their six as 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.839 you mentioned the piggybacks they've been doing and everything else 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.000 that's been crazy. Now, maybe they flip a guy to 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.600 build somewhere else at the deadline. That could help with things. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.520 But it's a problem. That's why we're going to see 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.080 Ky down there, I guess, not the Brax and Ashcraft 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.480 problems that we're seeing. That's a whole nother weird dilemma 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.240 in Miami. Kate Anderson just has there's no room at 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.120 the end, and they have Sloan also, who's a really 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.960 good minor league pitcher. So changes a lot to be 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.719 made in the off season, probably before we get really 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.920 excited about Kate Anderson. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.880 I think so too, Like this is probably a situation 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.000 where the Mariners do look to move off of a 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:37.000 Castillo or maybe Woo. I'm not sure what the calculus 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.440 looks like, but this does not seem like the year 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.040 for Kate Anderson. Barring an injury or barring the Mariners 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.720 trading two starting pitchers at the deadline, which I'm not 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.840 really expecting. Let's take another question here. I better call Bob. Hey, guys, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:54.360 I need your opinion on my pitching staff, Ms, Burns, Rasmussen, Riley, Bradley, Burke, Ray, Barlin, Durant, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.040 and go. That's a hell of a staff, good enough 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.120 to compete for a ship. I would say it probably is. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:00.319 Now. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.920 A lot of that does come down to what happens 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.880 with Jacob Mizerowski and Chase Burns down the stretch. I 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.560 would imagine they're limited to some extent. Miserowski only went 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.240 four innings the other day, four good innings. But I 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.760 think you might get crocheted from a couple of years 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.800 ago with the White Sox, where Garrett Crochet three four 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.480 inning outings. You're not trying to overwork him. Now. The difference, Bubba, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.920 with those situations is that the White Sox were historically 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.520 bad at the time and the Brewers are the best 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.480 team or maybe the second best team in baseball as 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.360 of today. Do you think that makes a huge difference 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.240 on how they will use Mizerowski. The fact that it's 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:33.959 a good team as opposed to a bad team. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:35.720 Well, I think it just means they want to limit 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.880 him even more because you need those bullets for October, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.240 right Crochet. They're just trying to keep him working and 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.640 you know, build up some innings for the following year. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.000 Like Miz, they might skip a start, it might be 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.000 literally like a one time through the rotation starts stuff 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.400 like that, because you need him to be able to 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.560 go six seven in October because he is that guy 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.080 that can get you a win by himself, and that, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.319 as you know from last year, how valuable that is 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.960 for the postseason. So I could see them really babying 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.680 them is here, especially in September, as they closer to 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.480 kind of figuring out their destiny as the best team 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:12.959 in baseball. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.720 Yeah, it's not something I'm really hoping for, but it 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.360 does seem like the prudent thing keeping a guy healthy. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.840 I mean, it's going to be hard to keep him 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.880 healthy forever, with hell hard he throws, but doing what 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.680 you can to keep him healthy in a season where 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.319 it looks like the Brewers do have a chance to 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.200 compete like they do in most seasons, but better not 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.440 to waste it and get him hurt. And then have 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.920 to be scrambling and acquire a pitcher or whatever you 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.400 got to do down the stretch. So I do agree 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.280 that they'll probably keep him three, four, maybe five innings, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.559 Bed saying, I feel like Tindra hesitant to push guys 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.160 with extra day's rest and would rather keep the rout 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.040 teem with less innings. I think that probably is going 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.600 to be the case here. Landin Roop is the next guy. 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:52.800 I want to mention that we do have a question 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.319 about him in the chat, which we'll get to in 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.960 a second. But landon Roope has been really really good recently, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.760 made through six scoreless innings before allowing two runs. In 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.679 the set against the Royals, he ended up allowing four 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.880 total hits, truck out seven and over his last three starts, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.800 you know, going back before the break against the loser 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.280 Blue Jays eight innings, one run ball, five strikeouts, coming 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.079 out of the break at Seattle seven innings of shutout ball, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.079 and then yesterday against the Royal six innings, two run, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.800 seven strikeouts. You're a Giants fan, but what do you 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.760 think of land and Roup Because you look at some 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.240 of the advanced metrics, you know, especially in terms of 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.120 the quality of contact he allows, and he's one of 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.400 the best in the game. Four percent barrel rate, thirty 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.719 percent hard hit, he's got fifteen percent strikeout to walk rate. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.880 I know that Mason is not a huge fan, but 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.320 what do you think as another another Giants fan in 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:36.800 the space. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.480 I am a fan of Landing Root for a couple 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.800 reasons here. Remember, he reminds me of like an early 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.080 Logan Web. He pitches is the way I say like 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.120 watching him throw. He's not just like trying to gas 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.040 guys up. He works around the zone like he has 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.160 his blow ups. A lot of four runs starts, but 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.320 a lot of two to one run starts also, and 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:55.960 he goes deep in the game. He doesn't want the 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.840 ball to get taken out of his hand. You mentioned 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.840 the swinging miss comes with a fifty percent ground ball, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.920 so that that's a plus. It'll keep him in a 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.080 lot of games as well. And I just I like 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.360 it's the stuff you don't see like on a stat 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.480 sheet watching him pitch. It's it's his intensity, his his 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.320 give a care is the way I'll say it for 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.960 the PG crowd out there. He takes it very personally, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.160 which a lot of guys watching the Giants this season 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.440 do not, and so that makes me appreciate him more. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.520 And he's gone out there, like after his last bad 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.520 start four starts ago, you mentioned that he's real off 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.880 three gyms, he's pitched great, and he's done that a 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.360 lot this season where he puts two three four starts together, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.600 which show you that there's a there's a room for 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.440 him to become a solid like SP two and a 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.640 in a rotation, not in fantasy, maybe more like an 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.000 SP three four, but a very solid piece to have 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.080 like I in fifteen ten leagues. He's almost just locked 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.160 in weekly for me, and if the blow up happens, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.440 it's fine. But he's I think he's very good and 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.520 I think he can only get better. That's that's the 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.440 good thing about him. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.040 Yeah, the blow ups have been really bad, and I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.400 know you can't really do this, but like you take 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.480 away the blow up, he's been a true, true ace 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.400 And it really comes down to like three, three or 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.080 maybe four bad starts out of twenty the one against 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.400 the Diamondbacks at the end of June, the. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.320 Dry because they had no bullpen that day. That was 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.880 just garbage. That was bad. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.640 Yeah, and even with a couple of those blow ups. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.480 The era is still under four. The fifth is a 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.840 three thirty one. So a guy that I do really 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.560 like in a very good park to pitching as well 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.520 in San Francisco. So I'm a fan of Landing Roup. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.480 Jay Chow's got a question here. It looks like you 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.000 got a peek at the show sheet before we started today. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.880 Ruper Cavali for two starts next week. Cavally has Toronto 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.480 and Atlanta. Rupe has Milwaukee and San Diego. If you 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:37.520 could just go with one there. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.760 But that's that's in San Francisco, I think right, I 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:42.360 think so. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.160 So the first one is at home. The second one 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.680 is at San Diego, which another good picture park. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.480 If I'd probably take land and Roupe. But Cavali has 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.280 a bigger ceiling for strikeouts for you, I'll say that much. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.600 Because the Jay is no offense to the Rica. It's 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.120 not a scary situation. Oh, it is a scary situation 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.760 for you, for you, not for the opposing pitcher. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.440 Holy crap, from the disappointment of the World Series to 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.960 you know, you bring in some new fans who watch 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.880 the playoff run and then they're watching this year, like 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.160 what the hell are we watching for. I've pretty much 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.160 stopped watching the Blue Jays. I got to protect my 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.840 mental health and they are not a good watch. But 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.800 to your point, Kate Cavali probably is the way to go, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.720 just because he's facing the Blue Jays next week. Let's 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.840 talk about Logan Henderson, a guy where there seems like 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.000 there's been some kind of injury concerns going back for 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.120 at least a year, but whenever he's out there, he 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.040 looks really good. Same thing yesterday against the Mets. Two 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.480 runs on five hits over five innings while striking out nine. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.040 I you know, going back to last year, I can't 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.600 believe they sent him down in the middle of the 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.080 season when he was pitching well. And this doesn't seem 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.440 like he's gotten that true, full fair shake. But maybe 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.880 they've been careful with him Bubba because of the forearm, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.120 stuffed the potential for a worse injury. But in his 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.120 eight starts as a three h five r it's a 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.760 sub one whip, it's a thirty one percent strikeout right. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.440 It seems like an ace if he's ever able to 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.760 just put together a consistent run of starts here. How 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.280 concerned are you from an injury standpoint about Logan Henderson 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.560 and trusting him going forward. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.240 Oh, I love everything about this guy. Like you mentioned, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.160 he is that good. It's just a matter of when 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.800 are we going to see all of that? If that 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.399 makes sense, they do baby like yesterday was another you know, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.600 eighty pitches and they're taking taking their time with him. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.960