WEBVTT - Leading Off June 28th, 2024 (Ep. 851) 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.920 Joey Bee man with stance and hands filling numbers that 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.600 crane a sand fantasy. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.000 Talking about diamond dreams sheakes and players with throwing their scheme. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.320 So welch breaking it down Real Sowars is howling in. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.000 The radio school talking monsters on the based off field. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:31.280 Was its swinging his bets and magic shields Stanity Baseball. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:38.680 In the nine podcast, there's giving enough fat size, class. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.840 And looks and starts still lie. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:49.000 Dreams of gloomy eye. Welcome everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.280 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.400 three sixty five. Bet five bucks get one hundred and 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.920 fifty in bonus bets when you use the promo code 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.440 leading Off only at Bet three sixty five. It's me 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.760 Joey b That of course is the Welsh. It it's 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.920 you that peanuts and the cracker Jacks. It's a fun 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.280 Friday here around the program. Hope everyone is having a 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.000 good weekend coming up, the holidays coming up July fourth, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:15.240 Independence Day, cookouts and fireworks and swimming holes and all 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:21.319 that stuff that makes aliens sure makes America great baseball 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.679 and baseball all the America you can handle Welsh. Do 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.319 you have a do you have like a certain flag 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.680 shirt you're gonna wear on July fourth or the upcoming 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:30.240 big festival. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.560 Well, no, see, July fourth isn't July fourth around these 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.480 parts because my daughter and my wife's sherry birthday and 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:43.600 it's July fifth, So July fourth, my daughter has taken over. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.520 It's actually very appropriate for July fourth in America. She 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.040 has taken over. July fourth is her day, and then 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.600 July fifth is like pseudo my wife and my daughter 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.320 still takes that one. So we're coming up to a 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.800 birthday week of again fireworks for my daughter. It's maybe 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.680 for the country, but my daughter's like, oh you guys 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.160 got fireworks for me, So that's how it's going to go. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.240 But no, no flag shirts. I do have a Cubs 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.520 flag hat or something maybe I'll wear, but not a 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.080 lot of I don't know us July fourth flair, how 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:13.359 about you? 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:14.360 I can definitely see. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.160 You in a like a sleeveless whatever they are. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.640 Yeah, I've got a whole. Yeah, I'm gonna have one 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.560 of those one of these rompers is that what they're called. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.160 I'm gonna get me one of those. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.720 Like ROMs definitely see maybe face paint like a little 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.760 Jojo siwa, but jojo piez of pia. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.560 Don't put that evil out there for the piece. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.800 Oh it's out there now, a little jojo, a little 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:35.760 jojo piece of pia. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.480 We got a lot to get to. But where else 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.400 would we start a show this week if not for 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:41.400 the Yankee rotation? 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:42.040 Uh? 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.920 First it was Coal, and it was Heel, and today 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.639 it's Carlos Rodond who gives up eight runs in five innings. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.680 Not that great of a performance for Carls. I don't 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.840 care about the strikeouts. Eight runs is eight runs, Welsh 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.600 fun facts, ready for fun facts. Garrett Cole sixer and 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.639 runs last start. Heel twelve earned runs in his last 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.280 two starts, and Carls we're done twenty earned runs his 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.200 last three starts. So now you're gonna have the Dodgers 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.120 of the Yankees, two teams at the very top of 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.400 the food chain fighting in July in the pitching market. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.320 And I wonder what the price egg is gonna be 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.840 for some of those Garret Crochet types. Wherever else becomes 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.080 available when someone is quote unquote out of it. Theoretically 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.919 in July, but I don't know, man, that arms race 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:25.880 is looking real interesting right about now. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.880 Yeah, I mean all we're waiting for really is going 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.680 to be who are those pitchers that are going to be, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.080 you know, really actually be available, because again you go 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.560 and look at the you look at the standings, and 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.680 everybody's pretty close. Everybody's in the general range, So like 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.160 who are the sellers And it might be more about 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.080 the buyers being more hyper aggressive. I just don't know. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.680 I mean, this is just a weird flip. You're also 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.560 having like seasonal flip here between like what I mean, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.880 we can always joke about, you know, the baseball's being 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.840 changed and whatever, but like, you know, ball's starting to 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.360 fly a little bit more and you might have to 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.560 have some actual pitching changes for the dun start yesterday 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.200 was really weird. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:02.760 By the way. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.280 He had a huge variance of over five mile an 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.800 hour difference between the low and high on his fastball. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.920 He had seventeen whiffs in a game where he gave 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.560 up eight earned runs, and almost everything was kind of 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.320 up in general on vel. So I think this is 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.760 a blip in the road for the Yankees. Yankees fans 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.359 are freaking out and losing it. You have these guys 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.760 in fantasy. You're absolutely losing your mind. I think it's 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.560 a blip that's going to be adjusted. And I did 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.560 an episode of the cycle that's going to be out 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.640 later today, and Worm asked me, He's like, hey, what's 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.960 the you know, the big game you're looking forward to 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.600 this week? And I was like, Garrett Cole, Like, Garret 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.880 Cole's all that matters right now because it has been 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.560 disaster after disaster for the Yankees, and Garret Cole not 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.680 only is it so important for him, but it's important 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.479 for the Yankees to turn that around, because yeah, man, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.440 it's bad in the Yankee sp streets. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.279 It is definitely that also bad in the streets. Rice 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:05.080 Harper left hamstring injury, so we're gonna get more. I 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.560 don't seen an update yet to have been doing football 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.560 shows all morning and other stuff, so I didn't get 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.080 to see anything recently, but I have to keep a 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.160 close eye on this. Hopefully it's just a little cramp 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.320 issue or something like that and nothing serious. But everyone 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.320 holding their breath first to lose bets. Now I'm gonna 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.600 lose Harper all of a sudden. Showy al Tani the 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.000 DH is the de facto MVP of the National League. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.159 It's looking more and more possible. Every single week that 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.719 goes by. Chris Sale was tremendous. Eleven strikeouts got the 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:35.240 over to ching yesterday. Oh what a week, my ROI. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.320 This week is unbelievable, which is great because I've had 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.520 some bad weeks in May. May it was kind of 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.600 a crappy, but June has been a tremendous Betting but 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.920 follow me at betting pros dot COM's last year it's 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.760 a look. You can't get down on yourself Welsh. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.200 Unfollow me, unfollow me at fantasys dot com or betting 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.000 pros dot com slash well unfed. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.919 Why do you do this? You have to learn to 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:56.600 take the good in the bad. You have to say, hey, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.040 I'm struggling right now, but I'm gonna I'm gonna make 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 a comeback here. You get so down on yourself or 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.760 you like this as a little kid too, How do 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.240 you like baseball? Baseball is all this failure in it, 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.039 and and you you fail a little bit, and you 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.000 get so down on yourself. I want to pump you up. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.680 I need to We need like an Uno card, like 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.760 I need a thing to put on my profile that says, oh, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.599 you should just fade me. Does fade anything? I say, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.560 do the opposite right now. Yeah, failure is if consistent. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.880 Failure is rough. I would be a rough starting pitcher 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.479 in baseball because one bad outing and I'm I'm Jordan 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.240 Montgomery throwing one blow. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.360 And say, don't let Welsh close games. You know what 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.200 the P stands for and Joey P positivity, That's what 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:38.840 it stands for. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.880 Horse, Come on, Jojo positivity. That's that's your character. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.200 So Chris Sale make a lot of headway in the 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.960 National League Young race too after this performance yesterday to 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.120 that numbers move significantly interesting to watch. Also interesting to 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.080 watch Corbyn burns one run seven innings on the America 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.000 League side of that, another good star for him against 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:00.720 the Rangers and strikeouts. Noel ve Marte uh showed back 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.320 up three hits yesterday, so he was back against the Cardinals. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.320 I don't know if he saw any of the Marte 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.719 work or some highlights, but do you have any thoughts 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.800 on the return of NOUELV. Marte to the reds now. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.160 The Marte parte if you will. That's what That's what 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.000 we did out here in Arizona when we had Katel 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.800 and starling Marte, we had the Marte partey. Yeah, it 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.080 is good that he is back from being a big, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.040 massive cheater and he can go about his non cheating 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.760 ways now. Of course he's non cheating now and get 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.920 back to it. Three hits is a great thing. I 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.400 will tell you this. Noelvie has somebody. I watched him 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.360 literally before he made his professional debut with the Mariners. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.800 I have seen him transform into just this different player 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.600 over and over and over. Where he was just like 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.119 really athletic, good contact hitter. Then it was like big 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.240 power struggling with the batting average and besides, you know, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.600 whatever illegal activities get him suspended. I will say he 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.480 is making like impressive headways as far as the hitter. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.680 He's becoming not selling out for power, being able to 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.960 really be a force on the bass paths. He stole 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.320 a base right away, got three hits in that debut. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.880 There's no I mean, why would we even look at 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.480 like analytics too, by the way off of like one 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.240 game or like did he barrel or anything like that. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.080 But he hit the ball hard. It was an average 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.600 of ninety four ex velocity on the hits he had 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.400 and the balls he struck here. But you know, like 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.720 we've been saying you should pick him up, he should 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.840 have picked him up. I think the ownership is in 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.200 the sixty seventy range. This probably is a reconfirmation. I 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.240 think this is a good sign. I don't think he's 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.920 going to be a league winner or anything like that, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.439 but I think the stolen bases kind of like an 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.640 Ellie type of thing. I think the stolen base's hits 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.439 could overpower some of the power. But good to have 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.600 him back. And you probably should have been on this, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.520 you know, two or three weeks ago. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.840 Yeah, well there was a show talking about this for 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.440 like a month. It was called what was it, Oh, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.760 leading off right, leading off with Joey positivity. We warned 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:01.120 you pick up no foot But look, it's a no brainer. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.120 And and hopefully he can pick up where he left 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.600 off last year, because last year it was a thirty 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.080 five game sample. It was a tremendous sample size. He 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.719 had for average, he had for power, he showed you 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.080 to speed, he showed you everything. And and carnasciels Strand 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.000 is out for the year, there's more opportunity. Matt mcclean's 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.520 not back yet, so this is a great opportunity for 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.000 Marte to stamp these next you know, three or four 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.240 weeks for himself, as Hey, I'm an everyday player. This 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.960 is my gig. Get out of the way. So hopefully 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.720 he does. And if he gets off to a hot start, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.240 and yesterday was the beginning of that, hopefully things are going. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.480 To be a top one hundred player. It could be 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.800 a top one hundred player the restless season. I wouldn't 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.280 I wouldn't discount that. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.040 One hundred percent for fun, a little bit of fun. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.040 Adulas Garcia another guy we were talking about buying low 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.920 homer yesterday against the Orioles, so that's some signs of life. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.800 Louis Robert also showing signs of life. He was my 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.280 buy low earlier. Still hitting under two hundred on the year, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.959 but another home run for him. He's playing his way out. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.520 Nolan Gorman, we just talked about this yesterday. Was he 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.360 gonna be out the lineup? He was Welsh, he was 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.079 they we're facing a lefty, so Jose Fermen got the 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.520 start at second base. Uh, is this the beginning of 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:08.840 the end of Nolan Gorman? Here? 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.760 I would say no. I actually want to go back 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.640 to a doles here in a second, but I would 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.960 say no because similar to this is like super high end, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.040 high level stuff with Ellie. We know, like Ellie could 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.960 disappear for two weeks and then he can go and 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.800 become the best player in baseball. That's not Nolan Gorman. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.720 But what we do know about Nolan Gorman at this 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.520 point is he can have two weeks that are great 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.000 and two solid and two weeks that are bad, or 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.640 three weeks that are bad and a week that's good. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.400 He just goes through these flows. He's got that strikeout problem. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.480 You know. The upper zone is always to see. Yeah, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.439 the upper zone is always a prop for a week. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.040 He just hits a couple of home runs in a week. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.800 Hit the ball. He hits the ball crazy heart. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.080 Yeah. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.240 So that's the thing. I think he's like, I. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.240 Want him to hit it toof guys aren't or hit 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:55.680 it pie. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.440 If I just don't think this is the end, because 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.920 I think this is what he does. I think this 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.480 is the exact thing that he always does. We need 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:04.840 I want to talk about a dollars. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.680 Ye, I don't know what that means, but I don't 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.800 like it, so. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.920 Real quick, Joe I want to talk about adulties for 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.000 one second, but our chat is blowing up with something 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.760 that could make Welsh very very happy. Could maybe you 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.280 confirm while I talk about adulties real quick, because. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.439 I did want to. There's a good question there too, 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.840 but I'll have to go down here. Okay, but real 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.520 quick on adult James Wood actually going to be making 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.800 his debut on Monday? Is this true? Could this be? 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.240 I will confirm that in the meantime, I want to 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.560 get to Matt Hoey's question also, so put Matt one 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.120 question up here so I don't lose that. Continue on. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.000 I'll look for any James Wood stuff here. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.280 Okay, Oh wait, what do we do? I said, I 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.719 want to talk about adolies, So we're going to the 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:43.400 question what. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.240 Do we talk about? You can talk about whatever you want. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.520 Okay, that's great, Thank you so much, Joey, positive welcome, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.959 just real quick on the adults front, and then we'll 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.680 go to that question. He has not actually shown real, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.079 real signs of like a massive bounce back because he's 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.360 hitting one eighty eight this month, but from a profile perspective, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.600 a lot of it is still there. It's double digit 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.920 barrel percentage. He's hitting the ball hard. Those are just 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.040 small ticks down. He's actually striking out less, which is 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.800 a really good sign. So I think Adulis is a 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:20.360 pretty pretty solid buy right now. His zone contact is up, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.720 while his chase contact percentage is down, and he is 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.319 first pitch swinging through his shoes around thirty three thirty 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.480 five percent, he's up to forty seven percent. Stop swinging 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.560 at first pitches, get back into that profile, and we 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.640 will get the original Adolis Garcia pretty goodbye for the 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.400 second half. So I'm with that all right. So what 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:38.720 do we doing? 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.200 I do have a conversation. I do have the confirmation 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.840 from Graham Paulson, who friend of mine, somebody I trust, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.720 done shows within the pass from the DC area. James 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.560 Wood will be called up to make his debut. He's 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.880 reporting it on my We have ex'cide entamment against the Mets. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.680 Was hitting three forty six with a ten to thirty 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.679 six ops and triple A this year. So there you go, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.600 boys and girls, you did it. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.840 It's freedom. My guarantee you did guarantee it earlier this week. Oh, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.000 I guaranteed he come right after the All Star break. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.320 He come up right after the All Star break. There 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.280 you go, you're gonna get him right or wrong. I'm 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.640 just more right. I just get more extra points. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:15.880 Right. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.320 So it's July first. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.040 I should look at Welsh's mood has swung. Look how 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:21.080 much happier he is now. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.000 I mean, I'm so happy for James Wood. This is 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.520 the guy. And that's what I said yesterday was you know, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:32.240 he is the guy that you stash, so bang boom. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.880 All right, Matt Howey wants to know Joe and Welsh. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.040 Who would you rather have rest of season? Brian Reynolds 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.800 and Nicko Lodolo or Julio Rodriguez with the Ray Renalds 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.880 the way Reynolds has played and Lodolo is pitched and 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.319 it's only a blister issue, It's not an elbow or 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.360 a shoulder. I want the combo. I want the two 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.280 players Welsh and I can't believe I'm saying that, but 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:49.400 I am. What do you think. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.920 I would not blame anybody to want that duo, because 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.120 here's one thing you get about Lodolo has been strong, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.400 and here's what you it with Brian Reynolds. You get consistency. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.640 You're just gonna get it. It's beautiful. But I'm gonna 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.720 say with Julio, I believe that there's gonna be like 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.880 a strong second half coming for Julio. He's a top 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.679 overall player if I need a depth though, this is 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.200 actually like a classic redraft type of trade where it's like, hey, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.360 this big super guy is not doing super great for me. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.680 I need the depth. My problem with Lodolo is always hurt. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.720 He's hurt right now, you can get hurt again. So 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.800 it's like, how much are you actually getting at elbow? 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.640 It's it's elbow. It's not a shoulder. It's a blister issue, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.840 Like it's a blister. That's like he's he's not structurally wrong. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.520 He's got a blister. Like that's something you know the summertime. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:38.960 It happens with some guys I got. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.360 By the way, am I was I salty today? 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.520 Everyone's like sad about your betting losses. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.320 You were, Oh no, I'm just I'm I'm trash, I'm garbage. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:48.120 You know that show? 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:48.680 Are you? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.720 Are you trash? 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:50.440 Oh? Yeah no. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.800 James Wood isn't gonna fix my my betting. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.240 Your mood though, I just want to make you happy 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.120 going into the week on Friday, you're not having any fun. Rookie, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.680 lookie time has Cire's toad two for three with a walk, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.720 two run score to homer and three RBI. That's a 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.720 good thing. David Festa did get a w but he 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.320 gave up five runs and five innings against the Diamondbacks. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.040 So takeaways from the David fest to start against your 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.360 d Backs. I'm not ready to drop him after one start. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.720 I'm still very curious about him. It's his debut. I'm 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.360 gonna give him a pass. But what did you make 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:21.720 out of it? 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.040 Yeah? God, I'm trying to think of who it was. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.080 It did something. It's out of my brain. But Festa 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.520 had no hits through three innings. Also, if you look 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.000 at the line, you wouldn't know that he didn't have 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.880 any strikeouts. Dimonbacks are very tough to strike out. He 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.600 walked one. He had three no hit innings, and then 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.160 I could tell Marte got to him. My boy, that 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.040 was the guy that I picked on. Diamondbacks are a 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.600 really tough team. That's what I had been saying. I 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.440 said to sit David Festa, and to the first three innings, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.080 I was like, okay, Like I'm an idiot, like he 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.280 had no hits and stuff like that, and then he 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.520 got kind of blown up. That's a really tough tough start, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.480 so I don't think I would take too too much 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.720 out of it. I'm gonna get him back out there 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.640 like again, you know, second ish third time through the 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.960 order made it a lot more difficult, but he was 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.120 becoming unhittable and then it kind of unraveled. So you know, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.200 wash that out of your brain and maybe get him 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.840 back out on the next start, all. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.280 Right, Moving on to the three up and three down. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.480 Ellie de la Cruz three for five with a homer, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.960 a single, triple, a an RBI n a steel Zach Wheeler, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:28.920 two runs and six and two thirds. Are they good 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.760 start for him? Could get no decision unfortunately. Wow, And 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.160 as you mentioned, Katel Marte made the ups this Friday, 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.200 homer and a double and a blowout against the Twinkies. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.120 Three down. Jack Flaherty took the l five runs, five 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.080 and two third, John Gray eight runs in five innings, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.160 and not to be out done, Miles Michaelis ten runs, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.160 nine of them earned in four and a third. So 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.520 some bigger and run numbers. Jack Flaherty I know you've 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.840 been waiting for the regression of Jack Flaherty, but is 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.200 this regression or is this just poor health poor? 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.440 Oh, I don't know if it's poor I mean, I guess. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.320 I can deal with that issue. And he's been missing 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.880 starts and getting things bumped around, like dude, I don't 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.360 know which one it is. I was hoping. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.080 I'll tell you too again not to like be crazy 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.840 pluggy about this, but it's just because we did, like 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.320 this very specific show, the ital show we did yesterday, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.520 we redrafted the first four rounds, and in the fourth 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.879 round I was really I'm kind of regretting it now. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.520 It sounds stupid, but I was like, all right, guys, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.000 I'm going to surprise you with this picker is right 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.960 at the end of the fourth round. I took Flarity 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.240 the top four rounds because I was so anti Flarity 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.960 at the beginning of the year, and then he had 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.960 warranted so much attention, so much attention to focus in 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:44.200 on all of his stuff and the changes that he's 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.440 made that it's like, you know what, Flirty has become 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.480 a different person, and here's my other piece of logic. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.800 He's going to get traded too. I think he's going 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.800 to get moved and then he can be you know, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.439 maybe you get traded to the Braves and then all 0:17:54.440 --> 0:18:00.879 of a sudden support or the Dodgers. I think obviously 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.600 we could pay attention to the injuries. The stuff is 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.399 still there. It's thirty percent k rate. He hasn't walking guys. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.840 Of course, I bet on him yesterday and it just 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.159 like I should have did strikeouts didn't work. He got 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.320 him tiny bit. I don't. I'm not going to let 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.679 the injuries shine me too far away. But these like 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.480 little blips, I personally think like blip, like this is 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.919 a good opportunity to jump on right now, where I 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.280 think anyone viewing him like a top fifty overall player 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.240 is going to kind of like, oh no, I don't 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.679 think he is. So you can get a better cost 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.679