WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 6th, 2022 (Ep. 483) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:16.840 Guess who's back. Let's play ball. Welcome and everybody to 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:22.560 Fantasy Brus. This is leading off. We're back, baby, welcome home. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.680 It is me, Joey p Joe Piezapia with me this 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.480 season is my boy, the Welsh and baseball is back 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.720 and so are we and we're excited to be here 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.000 at a new time every single day, Monday through Friday 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.800 at noon Eastern. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.160 We're opening ourselves up to a. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.840 Whole other coast. Now that's right, we're going worldwide. Welsh, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.280 I'm so excited to be back. The Peanuts and the 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.159 Crackerjacks are back as well. In the YouTube comments, I 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.599 am so excited to see these names. I gotta tell 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.520 you it was get a little emotional before the show. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.840 I'm excited to be back and Welsh. I'm excited that 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.720 you're here with me all the time as well. What's 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.160 going on on, buddy may. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:06.800 I for a minute, Hey yo, what's up everybody? I'm 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.240 very excited to be doing it and I'm glad to 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.840 see everybody hanging out in the comments. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.959 It should be a it should be a year. It 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:14.040 should be a very very. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.479 Fun year, and it'll be cool to have you hanging 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.240 with everybody live every single day, well you every single day, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:20.680 me almost every single day. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.160 Almost every single day. We've got a lovely cast of characters. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.240 We've got Bogman joining us this year once a week. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.760 We're gonna have our boy. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.440 Ryan Warmly, it was gonna be joining us. We have 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:32.240 Mike Mahyor. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.560 We actually let Mayor on the show last year, even 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.360 though I protested he's gonna be back on the show again. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.040 I love you, Mike. I'm just kidding. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.160 But we're gonna have you, all of you together here 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:43.480 and all of us talking baseball. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.520 We're making baseball fun, that's right. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.760 We're trying to remind everybody it's a fun thing to 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.080 play fantasy baseball, and we're gonna be talking about that. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.200 We got some big news from the Cleveland Guardians. We're 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:52.800 gonna get to that. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.520 And today's show is our twenty twenty two Bold Predictions. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.840 So when we get to that, we'll do our little countdown. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.480 If you've got some you could drop in there. We're 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.240 gonna do the home run contest again. Last year we 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.840 did that. It was a wild success. So Welsh, Bogmin, Mayor, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.640 we're all gonna be there. You're gonna be in it 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.720 as well. We'll see if somebody is going to screw 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.240 me out of it like they did last year. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:14.239 That's right. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.840 I haven't forgotten, so I'm backed for a vengeance this year. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.560 Peanuts and cracker Jack, so we're gonna be doing that 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.640 again DFS. 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Before we do Welsh, I want 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.280 to get your thoughts on Cleveland signing Jose Ramirez five year, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.560 one hundred and twenty four million dollar extension. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:48.520 That's not too shabby. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.359 It's the richest contract Cleveland has ever given out to 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.919 a player, and it's for twenty nine year old who's 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.320 registered at nine to twelve ops in over twenty seven 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.400 hundred played appearances last year. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:01.039 Pretty good season. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.839 Thirty six diggers, one hundred and five arbi, twenty eight steals, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.760 one hundred and ten runs. Not too shabby, and he 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.120 played every single game. What are your thoughts on this contract? 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.799 Looks like he's not going anywhere anymore. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.279 Yeah, it reminded me of what the Diamondbacks just did 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.120 with Tell Marte, because you know, the Guardians team is 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.119 just kind of disassembled, if you will, Like they don't 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.480 really feel like they. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:20.719 Know exactly where they're going. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.560 There's Pseudo's still there with you know, they got Bieber, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.919 they've got a few pitchers, but you know they're still 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.520 putting out like a deconstructed roster. So then those rumors, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.839 I don't know if you heard those rumors that happened yesterday. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.280 Hector Gomez obviously speaking for an agent, there was a 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.760 Padres Jose Ramirez rumor that started getting hot and heavy 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.040 because there were a couple other teams, but Hector Gomez 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.080 tweeted out for the agent that the Padres were interested 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.200 and teams were looking and obviously this was you know, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.760 more of that kind of contract negotiation type of stuff 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.840 that was going on, and I legit thought that there 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.120 might be something to that. But you know, it's a 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.880 great deal. It's probably great for him to stay there. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.920 I don't I would have kind of liked him to 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:02.719 go somewhere else and be out of that spot. But 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.800 I mean, there are some players in the Guardians I 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.800 absolutely love this year. I've got a bold prediction on 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.200 a Guardian in this episode, not the one that you think. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.080 I mean, Miles Straw near the top of the lineup 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.520 could steal forty plus basis. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.920 So it's a sneaky it's a sneaky. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.599 Like old school like Royals, this type of team, like 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.800 they're just gonna have to manufacture runs. But hey, it's 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.360 good to see him all set up, all locked in, 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.000 and like I said, it just reminds me of like 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.960 how the Diamondbacks look weird and look like they need 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.039 to restart. But then they gave Katel Marte like this big, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.920 massive contract, and then the Guardians did the same thing 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.160 with Juser Ramirez, obviously him being the lynchpin of being 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.320 able to bring anybody in free agency in the coming years, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.599 because not a lot of people looking to jump over 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.200 to Cleveland in free agency, nor Arizona Bogs. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.080 Now, look, there's Mike May already chiming in. Rule number 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.119 one of baseball rumors. You can pretty much ignore anything. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.760 Bob Nightingale says that that is absolutely true. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.520 Or Hector Gomez, that's such a when you see their 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.960 names or JP like, yeah, they're like, oh, they're doing 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.000 a favor for an agent, that's what's happening here. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.000 They're doing a favor for. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.960 Some pretty much pretty much. Now, look, all your favorites 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:05.680 are gonna be back here. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.880 We're gonna do Joe's Tough Guys, We're gonna do the 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.960 stat heroes, and Zero's a home run contest. I want 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.600 to bring something else fun into the show, a couple 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.680 other new things, because we're always trying to innovate here, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:16.840 and one of them is can we talk about this 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.440 and it's and it's baseball related. I tweeted this out. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.560 I don't know if you saw this. Joey Vado did 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.800 a TikTok. I did TikTok addressed as Ron Weasley next 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.000 to some girl who's doing a sexy Ron Weasley dance 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.080 and he's doing the same sexy Run Weasley dance. I'm 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.640 trying to process this. If you haven't seen it, go 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.560 over to joe Piece of Pa seventeen on Twitter. I 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.400 tweeted it out. I'm still trying to process it. Wels, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:40.600 did you have any feelings about this? 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:42.880 I had feelings. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.960 I'm not sure they're feelings I'm gonna share live. I mean, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.640 good for Joey Vado for having an outlet. He's found 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.280 an outlet that he's really comfortable with, and it is 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.480 I don't know if you saw the one he did before, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.880 where it was a lady going like, where's all my 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.120 pool boys at? And then Joey's like huh. He gets up, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.840 he walks over to the corner. He's really far away, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.880 but he gets button naked in the birthday suit and 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.040 then he goes into the pool. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.280 I mean, Joey Voda is having the time of his life. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.360 But I really would love like focus on baseball instead 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.520 of Second Night Harry Potter dances. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.120 He had a great year last year though, but I mean, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.800 this has really turned me around on Joey Vodo. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.880 Also, we're gonna do this day in baseball. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.080 Which is gonna be fun, and tomorrow is going to 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.080 be first real official. This is kind of like the 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.520 preseason of Leading Off. Yeah, because we know everybody wanted 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:30.920 the show to come back, so we say let's bring 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.760 it back a day early today. In nineteen seventy three, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.559 Ron Blueberg became the first DH and now Welsh is 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.640 twenty twenty two. We got a DH in both leagues. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.640 In nineteen seventy seven, the Mariners made their debut as 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.079 an organization. Rick Suckcliffe threw the first pitch at Oriole 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.320 Park at Camden Yards. So some fun little tidbits of 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.440 today in baseball historically, but we want to make some 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.040 new history and I think the new history. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.040 Is going to be this, which is bold prediction. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.680 So we're going to a count down here, Welshy, don't 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.120 we start with your number five for twenty twenty two, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.240 And if you've got to make sure you comment in 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.560 the comment section here on YouTube, and you can also 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.520 you know, if you have a good one, maybe I'll 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:08.040 bring it up here. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.240 Make sure you like the video too. It's very important 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.400 we need the positive reinforcement. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.040 So Welsh, give me your number five on your countdown 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.600 of bold predictions for the twenty twenty two Fantasy season. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.760 H Yeah, And it's funny because I just did. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.160 I just did a bold prediction show, so I definitely 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.480 went and tried to pick some other ones. And I 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.200 would love to hear what people in the comments have 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.040 to say outside of Chad saying that I'm no Dan Harris. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.080 I am no Dan Harris, but I'm still a guy. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.199 I'm still a guy here. Come on, let's say he's 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:38.320 he's just a man. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.040 He has that's so lean, you know what I mean. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.840 I would liked to me last year either the Dan 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:43.320 Harris is. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.600 Very skinny and stuff like that. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.920 But one of the things we did on the end 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.319 this League show was we were also curating listener predictions 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.160 and just killing them, trying to kill and slam all 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.040 their bold predictions. So I've got some new ones too 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.160 that I might have done on that show. Number one 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.719 at five, I suppose Bryson Stott will win NL. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:05.920 Rookie of the Year. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.600 There's a part of me that was tempted to say, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.360 you're not going to get any guy that broke camp 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.200 in the NL is and like someone not breaking camp 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.760 was gonna win the Rookie of the Year, which could 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:17.040 have been a. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.760 Guy like Max Meyer, maybe even a Nolan Gorman, a. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.120 Couple of prospects that al is just stacked. But Bryson Stott, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.280 whom if you go look at team futures like we 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.120 talked about, I believe is like nine to one on 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.200 money sales. Azuki is the favorite. O'Neil Cruz makes a 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.160 ton of sense. But Bryson Stott a completely crazy patient 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.240 hitter who I saw in the AFL, a whole bunch 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.680 broke camp with Alec Bohm. He could play two spots. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.400 They could play him at second if they wanted, but 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.319 he could play short if d D struggles, I don't 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.480 know what their plan is, or third base. A crazy, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.280 crazy patient hitter can be explosive on the bat. I 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.600 think he can hit for high average. He's walked more 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.880 than he's struck out in the AFL, and in spring 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.800 training he was doing it for a period of time. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.000 I think Bryson Stott, given you know, five hundred plus 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.880 at bats, is gonna be a guy that can take 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.920 home that award because there's not a clear winner. You know, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.320 the AL is just so crazy stacked. So I'm gonna 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.400 go Bryson Stott wins NL Rookie of the Year. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.320 You're right that NL market is wide open, and we 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:13.960 talked about that on the Betting Show the other day. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.319 I'm gonna go nine number five here. Wander Franco will 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.160 hit twenty five home runs. Not one single projection system 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.880 has him for over twenty. In fact, the highest I 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.480 could find anywhere was nineteen. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:26.480 That's right. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.640 There's more power in this bat, just like everyone kept 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.800 telling me, Oh, Francisco Lindors. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.319 A doubles hitter, and I went yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.079 Have you looked at the size of this kid When 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.559 he has no shirt on, A guy is ripped, Okay, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:37.679 very strong kid. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.840 Power is going to come for wander Franco. He's just 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:40.240 a boy. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.960 He is just a kid, for God's sakes. And I 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.640 don't think he's gonna be a thirty five to forty 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.200 home run guy. But you know what, I think there's 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.360 more dingers in that bat that we realize, and I 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:49.880 think you're gonna see some of them this year. So 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.400 I'm gonna go out on a limb. Wander Franco twenty 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.680 five home runs. Let's go. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:55.600 Everybody knows I'm the Francophile. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.280 I'm the guy who loves Wander Franco more than anybody 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.160 except Juan Soto. I love him just a little litle 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.560 bit more, just a bit more. So that's my number five. Well, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.679 just go to you for your number four pick year 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.600 for your Bowl predictions for twenty twenty two. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.120 Well, you picked a pitching one, so we're gonna have 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.000 a little theme here for part two. My number four 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.560 is the al Cy Young winner going. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.400 To Lucas Giolito. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.880 My bold prediction is Lucas Gioledo is gonna be way 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.079 over two hundred strikeounts. Obviously, it's gonna have a sub 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.680 three ERA eighteen wins on the season and is gonna 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.200 walk away in a tight race with a couple different arms, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.880 but it's gonna walk away with the al Cy Young Award. Also, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.079 is a White Sox really push in and gonna probably 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.400 be one of the best teams in baseball. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:41.560 Love it. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.840 That was my pick on the show for Cy Young, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.640 so I of course turned my key with Welsh on 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.320 that one. My number four, I've got a signing on 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.160 my own and the Cy Young in the American League 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.199 is Justin Verlander. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.440 Let me go back in time. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.680 Twenty eighteen thirty four starts two hundred and fourteen innings, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.400 two hundred and ninety strikeout, sixty walks, a two five 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.640 to two point nine to zero whip. In twenty nineteen, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.439 thirty four starts two hundred and twenty three innings, twenty 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.880 one wins, nobody wins twenty games anymore, three hundred strikeouts, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.160 sixty five walks, a two six two ERA, and a 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.760 point eight to one whip. Justin Verlander is very removed 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.440 from Tommy John. Justin Verlander is on a mission. Justin 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.560 Verlander didn't just come back because Justin Verlander came back 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.000 for a reason, to prove again that he could be 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.439 one of the best pitchers in baseball. And I think 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.560 this al selling Ty Young Rice is basically open and 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.240 up for grabs. So I want Justin Verlander to get 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:34.960 that award. I already talked about it. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.000 I love it. I think you're drafting him right now. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.560 Is probably an SB three ish depending on the depth 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.520 of your league. He could end up as a top 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.800 five pitcher easily. So if you still got drafts going 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.920 on tonight, I'm all in on Verlander, so you get 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.640 all in on Verlander too, so we could ride that 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.480 train together. Let's get to number three on our list. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.200 Your bold predictions, Welsh, what do you got? 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.840 We're going bold right like when we do bold addictions. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.600 We got to go crazy and we've got to put 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.160 up stuff that most likely he's not gonna hit and 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.880 we're gonna get chastised about. But that's where my next 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.600 three will go. At number three, my bullet prediction is 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.480 three players are going to hit fifty homers this season, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:18.240 and one of those players will be Guardians. Fran mil Reyis, big, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.920 big power fran mil Reyis. I saw someone actually in 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.840 the chat earlier mentioning fran miil Reyis win because I 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.320 think everybody assumed if you've paid attention to me with you, yeah, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.760 there you go when when you and I have been 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:31.720 doing shows. I mean, Rosario is a guy that I 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.440 really really like this year, potential low key twenty twenty guy. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.920 But fran mil Reyis will be one of the big 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:38.760 power bats. 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.000 Not sure I'm super comfortable. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.600 Yet jumping in on him being my I did a 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.760 home run futures bet, but I didn't put it on 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.040 fran Mil but I think he would be one of 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.440 the sneaky ones if you want to put, you know, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.920 sprinkle a couple of bucks to try to take a 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.360 long shot. Three guys hitting fifty homers this season, one 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.480 being fran Mil Rayis. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.440 I love the for animal, and you know, some people 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.920 don't like to take certain guys if they would call 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:00.920 fight at DH. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.080 I just never understood that. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.120 I mean, if you're gonna get Nelson Cruz or Frandmill 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.000 Rayer or somebody who's gonna lock in productivity there and 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.120 you can leave him there, everybody else is just floating around, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.920 some dude into that utility or DH. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.840 Spot, get against thirty. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.600 Five bombs, everything's gonna be dead. NL d H is 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.520 gonna kind of change up the game a little bit. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.240 I think that whole narrative of like DH only or 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.440 whatever is gonna slowly go away. So I'm not yeah, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.320 I think it's just an old, dumb narrative of AL 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.360 versus NL. Freandmill has also worked at some other spots. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.160 I mean, it doesn't even matter anymore. He's not gonna 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.760 have to go to an NL park and try to, 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.640 you know, work out at first base. But he has 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.480 taken last two off seasons. He is they can work 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.440 out in the outfield and at first base, so there's 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:43.680 still a possibility there. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.160 But franmil is a live, live bat. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.960 My friends, Now I see all the peanuts and the 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.080 cracker Jacks, and of course make sure you like the 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.520 video Peanuts and cracker Jacks. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:53.200 That's important. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.240 But uh, you're gonna get to know all these people, Pickles, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.840 Wonky Penguin, go cards. Of course, mister Buster, who loves 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.320 to bust on me, and he wants to know what 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.840 jersey am I wearing it. I will show you, mister Buster. 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.280 This is our Oh yeah, official Fantasy pros jersey. We 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.400 got them at the Trinting trip in Arizona when I 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.280 got to go hang out with my boy the Welsh. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.080 But yeah, we all got to. Carrie actually was our 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.040 team captain, so she chose the blue. I like the blue. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.560 I was gonna I was wearing it today to represent 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.720 the team in the beginning of baseball and spring again 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.160 and all that fun stuff. And and of course, uh, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.720 there's Wonky Penguin. I thought Joey was out with a 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.040 thumb injury. No, it was a middle finger. I could 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.600 show it to you. But again then YouTube comes in. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.480 And they strike out the video and then we can't watch. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.640 I can't do that. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.040 It's getting much better though. It's it's actually straight again. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:47.120 You've been working on that. It was not good, yeah, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:47.840