WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 1st, 2022 (Ep. 522) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:17.200 Insufferable. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.759 This is leading Off, brought you by bet MGM, the 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.560 King of sports folks. It's me, Joey p Joe Pi's 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.599 apia with me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's you, 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.040 all of our lovely peanuts and cracker jacks, hanging out 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.879 talking baseball, looking at last night's action, talking about some 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.280 of the most important things going on in Major League Baseball, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.640 fantasy wagering. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.880 We do it all here and that's how we roll. Welsh. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:42.440 It's great to see you, my friend. How is your 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.680 holiday weekend? Because I didn't see it yesterday. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.440 Oh, stupendous. Couldn't be better, couldn't be better for a 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:49.879 wonderful holiday weekend. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.640 I'm sensing some sarcasm in your voice. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.200 Really are you? No? 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.920 No, I can't tell why, but it does feel like 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.960 I've been uh not here forever. But it was since 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.280 last Friday. I was off and then I am back. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.319 But I am back here for the next three days. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:09.880 I am excited about that. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:11.720 Yeah, buddy, let's go. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.360 And I don't know if you notice, I've been a little 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.080 home run streak. I got the two from mister Alvarez. Oh, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.040 I got Matt Olsen last night. So that's three and 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:19.840 two days. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.800 Somebody's in double digits. Let's go. Let's go. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.880 And Mike Mayor. I don't know what got into Mike Mayor. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.400 He decided to do a deep dive all of a 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.279 sudden before the show. Right before the show, he starts 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.160 sending me all of these reviews of the show. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.399 But I don't know what the reviews are like. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.200 He is cherry picking ones that basically say I like 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.160 when Mike Mayor does things I don't like Joe Kizepia, 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.480 He's the worst. Those kind of things right before the show. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.080 Not my confidence. I feel like a little bit. I 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.160 feel like this is just me by Mike Mayor. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.040 One hundred percent. Mayor's on something right now too. He's 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.440 back at his old home run tricks. Just would like 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.680 to point out I actually, late in the night worked 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.600 on the sheet put a name up for the home 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.120 run call. Oh guess what name I see under Mike 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:10.399 Mayor this morning. Absolute villainry is going on from Mike 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.760 Mayor and people that don't podcast don't know. There's nothing 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.720 worse than being knocked down a few steps before you 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.799 go on air to like entertain and talk to people, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.959 and you want to find maybe the worst of the worst, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.720 talk about reviews, like podcast reviews. There's nothing worse on 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.800 the planet. I gave up on it. I couldn't do 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.600 it anymore because it's evil. It's evil stuff. And then 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.480 of course you were getting some nice fun ones like that. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:38.839 He I was gotta say, nice one. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.960 Well, look, I mean, it doesn't get much better than 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.760 Joe Pisapia is an insufferable d bag. I mean, that 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.239 is about as good as it gets. I might make 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.680 that my Twitter wallpaper. I think that's my favorite one. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.400 And if anybody out there, you know, think about this. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.760 We give you free content every day we work for 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.680 I know, I put in hours before the show trying 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.160 to figure out what we're going to talk about, what 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.400 the pieces are, researching stuff, going through things. Mike Mayer 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.640 does a lot of work, no matter what I tell you. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.080 Welsh does a lot of work. Bogman does BVP stuff 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.120 every time he's on the show. He still contributes anyway, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.280 even if it's one day a week. Imagine your life 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.000 is so sad that something's given to you for free 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.080 and you hate it so much that instead of just 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.000 not listening to it, you're gonna leave a bad review 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.040 of it. I just can't wrap my mind around that. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.120 But I know a lot of you do like the show. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.959 So if you do go out there today and counteract 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.679 a little bit of the negativity and take a time 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.120 to say something positive, because we appreciate it and we 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.600 love doing this show. And I just don't understand why 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.800 people have a problem. Sometimes I don't care. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.120 I think it's gonna be this day. Like, look at 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.800 this right here. This is a prime example. This is 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.480 one hundred percent going to be with this day? Is 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.960 Joe Drew like love? I love Drew's comment here. Now 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.880 I know why Welsh is usually wearing a hat. You 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:49.680 want to talk about it. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.160 That's good natured fun now here in front of your face. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:55.200 And I think that's okay. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.760 Oh you know what, it's a it's it's a not 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.960 itune reviews. But the bar has been set for today. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.720 Thank you all. Drew dead to me, d bad guy 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.480 dead to me, and Mayor we know where to put 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.320 our villainry at. We know who the deal is and 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.680 somebody's got to be the bad guy. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.240 Well, to be fair, we have over eleven hundred reviews, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.120 and one thousand and ninety of them are five stars. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:24.880 So there you go. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.960 Well, now you know what those ten, those ten read. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.680 It's hey, well I've got a really bad hairline. Joe's 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.440 the dbat Mike Mayer signed. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.680 All right, Yes, he does look like John Lackey. We 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.160 all know he looks like John Lackey Welsh. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:40.960 All right, let's get on. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.200 I have many looks, many, many looks. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:43.800 You have to have many. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.719 You're so versatile. Let's get into the baseball here. Martin 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.279 Perez can't be stopped, no matter what. Mike Mayor actually 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.040 wrote a piece of him a Fantasy Pros yesterday. You 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.880 get check out about how you should trade Martin Perez. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.560 He's not wrong when a guy's era is under two, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.920 I mean seven more shutout frames on Tuesday for Mark 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.200 Team Perez. I'm telling you some contender is going to 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.159 go after him in the next thirty days. I don't 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.159 know who it's going to be. If it's gonna be 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:10.760 the Braves, if it's gonna be the Blue Jays, if 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.800 it's gonna be the Mets, somebody's going the Dodgers. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:13.159 I don't know. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.719 Somebody's gonna have to go get this guy, and when 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.040 they do, his stock will never be higher. So if 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.799 you could wait another couple days or a couple of weeks, okay, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.280 if you want to sell him now, that's fine. Trey 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.840 Turner extends is hitting Street to twenty three straight games. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.960 Matt Olsen exploded yesterday two doubles. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:30.240 And a home run. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.560 I am the slump breaker. Let's go baby. That's three 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.839 home runs in two days for Joey p. We had 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.320 Chaz McCool make a chazz picking up three hits in 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.240 the win. There a big late hit two in the 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.000 extra innings of Frankie Montas go seven strong innings, but 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.720 he ended up losing that game to the Astros. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.240 Christian Javier was not good last night. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.520 I'll take the l on that one, but he did 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.599 get a great performance from Adam Wainwright, who was my 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.880 favorite secondary DK pitcher last night. Ten k's against the Padres, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.880 who could use him off as of help right now. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.360 We talked about it yesterday, Welsh. We talked about Will 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.839 Myers not hitting, Trank Gresham not hitting. We brought up 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.640 the idea of Andrew Benintendi. Is there anybody else you 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.480 think might be able to help the outfield a little 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.520 bit offensively, because right now the Padres are struggling outside 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.320 of many Machado who got thrown out last night. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.040 Do you think that you were speculating that the Royals 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.240 would move Benintendee. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.880 I think that they Well, somebody at MLB network had 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.279 in MLB dot com, excuse me, how to peace yesterday 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:27.760 or over the weekend that I saw that I thought 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.599 was intriguing, So I of course brought it into discussion 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.640 of the show about here's five trades you know that 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.440 would be interesting to make for teams right now, and 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.159 one was Ben intending to the Padres, and I thought, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.119 you know what, having a guy with a four hundred 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.600 ol VP would really help this team at the top 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.240 of this order because they're not getting anybody on base 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.000 ahead of my Shado. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.760 Yeah. No, I mean I think, like logically that makes sense. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.560 I don't think the Royal Ben and Tendi has been 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.440 one of their best players, which is crazy. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:49.720 Where are they going? 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:51.760 Built out team? Yeah, I mean, but I think they're 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.560 still built. I think they still feel that they're in 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.800 a contention spot to win because I've had so many 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.920 guys that have underperformed from Carlos and Tan to mamy 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.120 Wit being maybe specifically the one while Benintendi is held up. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.160 But I agree the Padres have to do something. They're 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.840 the most, the most willing to move, and I'm surprised 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.800 that these moves have not already been done because Grisham sucks. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.640 It's brutal right now. They cannot get this thing going. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:23.160 Tatus is probably still at least what a month away. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.080 Probably post All Star Game is the most likely scenario. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.440 They need an influx. Like I said, the Mets, even 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.320 though they just continue to win games, need that pitching influx. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.680 The Padres should be doing the same thing. Yeah, ben 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.480 Intendi would be a great move. I don't know if 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.560 that's it. I'd love to see them bring CJ. Abrams 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.600 back for a little bit of a spark, and then 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.760 I'd like to see them I get what you're saying 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.520 with like the OBP guy, but I'd like to see 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.120 them really unload, like they've got these prospects. They still 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.400 got these guys in the minor leagues that they can use. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.000 Take Robert Hassel if you have to, and go and 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.720 move and get a huge, big piece, a real piece 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.680 that can get on base a power not even a 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.280 speed guy, but a power guy. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.640 I know the Nats just came out and said, everyone said, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:05.320 we're not trading one. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:06.800 No, don't do it. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.960 But I'll tell you what if you offered them Mackenzie, Gore, Abrams, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:16.520 whatever else like you mentioned there in that pile of prospects, man, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.920 that's quite a haul. You'd have to at least listen. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.600 To that trade. If you're the Washington National, you're not 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:21.640 going anywhere fast. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.960 I love that Rizzo said, we're not trading like so no, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.800 like it's we don't even need to discuss this. It's 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.480 not the move, it's not it's yeah, if they wanted 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.120 to go Gore and Abrams and they're not going to, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.679 they're one hundred percent not going to. But I would 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.280 love to see them go and attack and find a 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.520 team that you know is a little bit middling and 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.640 get like a big middle of the order piece, because 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.000 that's what's struggling here. You know. Machada was great, come 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:47.440 back Down. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.079 I don't know, but that's the album. I mean. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.079 Then boguards play shortstop, so I mean bringing in a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.880 piece like that, then you're gonna have to have to 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.840 relegate tattoos to the outfit, which maybe is a good idea. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.319 Maybe you want to do that anyway for them to 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.520 be a little bit. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.480 But this is why, this is why I've speculated that 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.720 I wonder if you're gonna really look at a situation 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.720 where trades are just gonna be silent. We're not gonna 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.600 get a bunch of trades all the way up until 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.760 the deadline, and the deadline could be a flurry because 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.360 there's so many teams that are gonna feel that they're 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.240 gonna be in it for you know, leading up to August. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.520 I have to imagine so many teams with the expanded playoffs, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.080 they're gonna go in. Diamondbacks would be a prime example. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.400 They're middling right now. You know they're getting wins, but 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.079 they're still a middling team. That's a team that might 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.120 hold all the way to the very end and you 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.400 still might not get you know, teams that are gonna 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.400 jump into the fray, which I think makes it difficult 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.040 and it makes them more costly. So I think trades 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.400 are going to cost more and we're gonna look and 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.800 we're gonna be like good lord, like it took Robert 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.160 hassel to get. You know, I can't even think off 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.160 the top of my head. You know whoever it is, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.280 you know some decent you know, some decent obp outfielder 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.040 out there, and we're gonna look back and we're gonna 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.160 be like Jesus, these trades do not make sense. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.720 Louis Castillo is going to be on that trade block 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.760 pretty soon too, especially after another album like he had 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.559 last night. Ten strikeouts over six scoreless innings. The sinker 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.960 was topping out. I think I'm sorry. His fastball was 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.920 topping out in ninety nine last night, So that's very high. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.760 You've seen some of those guys actually pop back. They're 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.559 doing some I cannot think of who the pitching coaches 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.640 off the top of my mind, but they're doing some 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.240 good stuff over there. Finally right now, because you've seen 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.400 Hunter Green make that deserted change of throwing sliders more, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.880 throwing it more than his fastball, and he's finding success. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.800 Maybe we'll see it tonight. You're seeing Tyler Molly, who's 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.400 been really brutal throughout the season, still kind of maintain 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.280 a lot of that underlying stuff and then what went 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.200 six no hit And now you're seeing Louis Castillo pop back. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.520 There's a formula that they're clicking back with. Some of 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 these pitchers all decent. Bye, I would say Castillo and 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.120 Molly are interesting buys in fantasy right now. And Haunter 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.040 Green though, my take is that he is more sustainable. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.360 So Luis Castillo getting better and then potentially going to 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.600 another team could be a room really interesting second half 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.160 boon for fantasy owners if it works out like that. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.280 Now, we told you yesterday Gobo be proactive because Wander 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.840 Franco was gonna go to the IL, and guess what, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.760 he went to the IL. So he tried to help 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.280 you out there. We tried to tell you some guys 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.200 you could add in the middle infield spot. Hopefully you did, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.080 because he's going to be out till at least what 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.199 ten to fifteen days, depending on how long he's gonna 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.320 be out there. A Nolan Gorman also is out again 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.000 in the lineup. He's doing with a back issue. So 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.000 if you have daily transactions, you're gonna get him out 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.240 of there. That's no good. Nobody, no, nobody likes that. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.720 Let's talk about this Welsh, the Phillies and Braves both 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.240 lost extra inning games last night, and as the calendar 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.480 turns to June, the Mets are ten and a half 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.120 games up on Atlanta, twelve and a half games up 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.280 on Philadelphia. The ten and a half game lead is 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.280 by far the biggest in baseball. The next biggest is 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.560 the Yankees eight and a half Excuday five and a half. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:54.280 Excuse me over Toronto currently. Now some little stats about this, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.640 the June first lead of that magnitude, we're talking to 0:11:58.679 --> 0:11:59.520 two thousand. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:00.640 And one Mariners fourteen. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.559 We're talking to the two seventeen Astro twenty seventeen Astros with eleven. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.840 The Mets are third at ten and a half, along 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.280 with the twenty nineteen Twins who were ten and a half, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.679 and the nineteen seventy one Giants at ten and a half. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:17.080 So that is some incredible elitist company. That Mariner team 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:18.480 from two thousand and one. I think we all remember 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.960 how good that team was and unfortunately they just didn't 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.920 get it done against the Yankees and the playoffs that year, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.120 and that was the nine to eleven years, very emotional 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.520 time in New York. So they kind of went into 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.720 that series I think with a bit of a deficit, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.840 you know, trying to win in that environment was very hard. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.559 It was a very passionate group of people. It was 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:35.679 a very sensitive time. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.120 But man, this is an unbelievable lead. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.679 This offense just doesn't seem to quit. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.720 It doesn't matter who they're plugging in their Welsh What 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.520 do you make of this enormous lead right now that 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.319 they just keep on piling on to this East which 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.840 was supposed to be the Kuyper competitive division, It looks 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:51.560 nothing like that. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.480 Yeah, And what's interesting is that, you know the offense 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.880 had had some stuttery points earlier. You know, it was 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.280 kind of like Alonso and everybody else was just kind 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.599 of slowly trekking their way up, and then lind Or 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.079 has just started to pop off. Everybody ed whar to 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.520 Escobar has gone. Everybody is startings to this is what 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.160 they make an incredible player, and this is exactly what 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.880 they needed to maintain with those rotation pieces hurting. But 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.760 I think you have to be aggressive. If if I 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.439 had a ten game lead, I would be hyper aggressive, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.040 pinpointing exactly what do I need? What do I need 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.480 to continue to maintain this because it's cyclical. You know, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.800 it's great that they got this lead now, but there's 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.760 gonna be you know, there's gonna be a little run 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:36.719 that's gonna start kicking back on them. They're gonna lose 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.480 some games they shouldn't lose, sure, and might unravel a 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.280 little bit. So how do you maintain that lead? Maybe 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.920 it's not on offense. Maybe it is that continued run 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.560 on unpitching that they should be doing. But yeah, I mean, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.120 you know, what do you make of it? They're one 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.840 of the best teams in baseball? Hey, any surprise that 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.960 you know lynnd'or with Pete Alonzo is working out to 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.959 be an incredible offense when you have a table setter 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:58.920 in Starling Marte. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.160 No, it's just I mean, but we've been talking about 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.520 this all the time, and this is the difference in 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.319 a lot of offenses that we see nowadays in Major 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:05.920 League Baseball. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:06.800 The station to station. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.240 If we're not hitting home runs, we're not scoring offenses 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.160 versus the do you have athleticism, do you have guys 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.120 that can get on base, take an extra base, good 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.280 base runners. All of those things do add up eventually, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:18.840 and then you have those guys to drive them in. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.320 And it's look, I'd like to see a little bit 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.560 more of that style baseball played, and there are some 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:24.760 teams that are playing it right now. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.240 You know that'say to be one of them. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.240 It's actually funny that you that you bring that up, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.680 because I was going through yesterday and I was just 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.800 starting to, you know, piece together and look at stolen bases, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.200 particularly as a Diamondback fan speaking two thousand and one 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.240 as a Diamondback fan, and some of the bottom teams, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.720 it's crazy frustrating the level of especially like not winning teams, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.920 how much they don't look to manufacture runs. And I 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.200 found it interesting when I was going through and looking 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.440 at like stolen bases by teams. It's never a one 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.400 for one, but when you go and look at the 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.760 teams that are aggressive on the base pass number one, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.840 Saint Louis, Hey, they're pretty good. Right now. Inside the 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.840 top ten, you've got Tampa Bay, You've got Cleveland, You've 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.760 got the Dodgers, You've got Milwaukee Angels. On the bottom end, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.880 you know thet and I was specifically look in the 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.600 Diamondbacks are six worse in baseball, but you've also got 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:21.280 like Detroit is in there, Boston has struggled, Washington is 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.080 in there, and you're looking at the top teams averaging, 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.080 like the top ten teams are averaging almost double the 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.400 stolen bases per game than the bottom ten teams, and 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.880 that is such a weird way to play. Ironically, the 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.880 Mets are kind of in the middle. But it's also 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.720 because their bats have been hot. You know they have it. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.320 It's not even stealing bases, it's going it's going from 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.200 first to third. It's it's having moving runners over runners, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.160 but beating out an infield hit. Simple things like that. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.520 Having speed on a team. Speed matters. By the way, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.640 I saw this yesterday, it's a little trivia question I 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.280 could throw off for everybody. Who is the current the 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.960 current leader of active guys in stolen bases in Major 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.760 League Baseball? Anybody got an idea? Drop in the chat 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.680 over there Fantasy pros. Again, if you're watching live, who 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.640 is the current leader of stolen bases right now? Is 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.680 it Starling Marty? It is not Starling Marte. It's a 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.280 good guess, but we'll. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.000 Go on to more things. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.080 George Kirby picked up his first major league win last night. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:18.360 Six shoutout innings. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.360 Another picture we liked as a secondary arm on DK, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.600 so we did pretty good on DK last night. On 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.320 the season twenty six innings, three forty six, a one 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.640 point one five whip, a two point eight walk rate, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.720 a twenty five point nine k rate. Eric Cross tweeted 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.320 all this our good friend Eric Cross from Fantasy pros 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.800 fan Trax black Book. He says, top fifty pitcher rest 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.720 of season? Do you agree with that? Is he a 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.240 top fifty pitcher rest of season? George Kirby, I think 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.560 he's right around there, But I think it's a good question. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.080 He's in that range. I don't know if I would 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.480 anoint him. I mean, it's fun after this start. He's 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.920 had two starts. I believe it's two. This last one 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.000 was great. By the way, I made this bet yesterday 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.960 and I did it as a solo bet and place it. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.760 George Kirby's k prop was three and a half and 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.480 he had eight. That'll go away. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:06.720 He talked about it yesterday. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.800 It's gonna be yeah, it's gonna be probably five and 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.960 a half to maybe four and a half if you're lucky. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.040 But like two starts ago, people were ready to send 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.480 him to the woodshed because he was he was allowing 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.119 all this contact. He was he was getting beat up 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.520 a little bit because all those pitches there weren't any 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.600 more whiffs, and he was getting hit hard and the 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.119 contact was getting hit hard, and you still see some 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.840 of that. He's I mean, it's not even in qualifications, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.280 but he's bottom five in the league so far of 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.240 average exit velocity given up, and he's bottom five in 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.520 the league and hard hit given up right now, So 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.720 you know this is this is a dude who's dialed 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.320 it back. I've seen I've personally seen him pitch hit 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.280 one hundred miles an hour and he's now hitting in 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.000 that like ninety six range. He's got a good mix, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.080 but his command is key. My problem is is I 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.840 still think he's a bit inconsistent, just like the Mariners. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.000