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And a weird 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.960 weekend of home run calls. According to the Wonky Penguin 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:05.280 and apparently over the weekend, just one home run from everybody. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.000 How could that be Welsh? How could that be? How 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:09.000 it wasn't for me? 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.880 I can tell you because it was. No judges, no 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.080 o Tawnis. That's probably why everybody doing the Joe piece 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.560 Apia School of home runs just put one of the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.959 top two best home run hitters for the entire week 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.520 in in perpetuity and try to go with it. It 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.280 didn't work. Didn't work. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.919 It did not work. Also not working. The top story 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.039 today in the headlines the Justin Steel's elbow, it's not. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.479 Working arms of an angel. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.560 Justin Stealing four will not be pitching again this season. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.400 He will undergo the traditional Tommy John procedure or the 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.319 internal brace. We don't know which one we're going to 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.559 get yet, but his twenty twenty five is done and 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.240 it's April, which means that we're probably looking somewhere around 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.760 what like mid twenty twenty six that we get Justin 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.440 Steel back. So brutle loss for or fantasy managers everywhere, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.720 but I honestly also a bigger loss to the Cubs, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:07.280 because although the Milwaukee Brewers' rotation so far has been poop, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.000 you can look ahead, and you see Myers on the horizon, 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.280 You see Woodroff on the horizon. You see a prospect 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.359 we're gonna talk about today that we've already mentioned last 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.320 week on the horizon. They're gonna figure it out. I 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.560 think this now becomes the Brewer's division to lose again. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.960 I don't think the Cubs with Imanaga and the rest 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.160 of those Jebbronis in that rotation can compete well. Sho 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.080 am I overreacting. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.480 Uh No, I think like that he's the ace, he's 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.440 the top guy of their staff. It already was kind 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.720 of like a little bit of a looser rotation. If 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.440 they were to go and make a move, it would 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.720 have made sense for the pitching. I will say this, 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.640 we are going to talk about a Cubs pitching prospect 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 in prospecting with the Welsh that could potentially be a guy. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.080 But that's it, Like this is this one guy I'm 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.720 talking about's kind of like the guy. They've got a 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:59.320 ton of hitting trading assets. We're gonna do it. Marlin's Cubs. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.560 They should have an nice, good phone conversation because you've 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:08.520 got Kevin Alcantra, James Treanto's Moises Ballastero's. They've got hitting 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.920 prospects above hitting prospects, just not a ton of pitching. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.639 Maybe that's where there could be a home. But yeah, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.240 this is a brutal blow to the Cubs. I think 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.160 they need to be aggressive in that division because not 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.959 only like you were saying, kind of poopy for the Brewers, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.720 they got guys looming. The division is very obtainable right now, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.960 and losing a guy like Justin Steel, you could lose 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.400 that division. So I wouldn't be surprised that they don't 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.600 start making some calls and try to get whoever is available. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.600 That's the other tricky thing, like we just know Al Contra, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.920 we don't really know anybody else that's available. But very 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.160 very sad for Friend of the Show. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.560 Justin front of the show, we wish him well. Is 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.240 a shame too, because you started to turn things around. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.280 The last start was really good, and then that second opinion, well, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.800 it's never good. It's never good. Let's turn our attention 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.440 to something that was really good yesterday, and that thing 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.640 was Garrett Crochet. He got really close to a no hitter. Ironically, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.360 Chase Mydrath, who was part of the deal for Garrett 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.880 Crochet with the Red Sox, who, by the way, as 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.840 a four to twenty five career OBP. I was just 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.720 looking more deeply into him because I picked him up 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.119 in my home league this weekend. If you're an OBP league, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.120 you got to pick up the skit. He's playing second 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.920 base two, He's doing a little bit of everything he is. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.280 He gonna hit for power, no, the little stone bases, maybe, 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.400 but he's gonna get on base in points leagues. OBP 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.440 leagues pick him up. But anyway, this is about Crochet 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.599 seven and a third innings was toying with a no hitter, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.520 eleven strikeouts. It was against his old teams, against the 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.640 White Sox, and it was such a stunning performance and 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:38.120 so moving that our own Mike Mayer was moved because 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.360 he had basically had it with all of the negativity 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.880 that the Welsh was throwing and all the raised eyebrows 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.039 about potentially what Garrett Crochet mayor nine looked at early 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.640 in the season. So let's take a live look here 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.960 at Mike Mahyer returning serve here after Garrett Crochet's near 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:58.839 no hitter in brilliant performance. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:05.279 Happy Monday, America, or should I say Happy Monday to 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.520 everybody except Welsh. And I say that on behalf of 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:13.080 Garrett Crochet, who went out there on Sunday and shoved 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.400 And when I say shoved, I mean shoved it in 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.800 Welsh's face, because Welsh came on here last week trashing 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:25.559 Garrett Crochet. I'm worried about Garrett Crochet. He doesn't look great, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.240 he doesn't have the fastball, the change up, doesn't look good. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.640 The guy at a one point four or five era, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.640 and Welsh came on here last week talking about him 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.880 like he's Paul Blackburn. Get out of here. Oh, isn't 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.800 good enough for me? Eight shutout hittings against Oriols doesn't 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.040 good enough for me? Get out of here, man, ridiculous. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.520 How about flirting with a no hitter? Is that good 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.279 enough for you? Is that gonna do it for you? 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:50.640 Welsh? 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.440 Flirting with a no hitter? Or are you gonna have 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.440 some excuse about how he didn't look good in this 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.600 start too? You know what, Cally, who makes all of 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.960 our lovely graphics with all the jay's in him that 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.839 we all love, Let's have a new spelling change for 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:04.760 the rest of the season. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.159 Let's start spelling. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:13.240 Welsh's name differently, Let's do lowercase W, lowercase capital L 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.800 for Garrett Crochetes L, lowercase S, lowercase. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.479 H, because you have to own the L here. My man, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.080 you were wrong, dead wrong. He came out there, looked phenomenal, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.479 flirted with a no hitter, eleven strikeouts. I don't know 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.040 what you're gonna say about this one, but I'm sure 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.920 you're gonna have something to say that he didn't look good. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.440 And I just got to say, get out of here, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:36.240 Get out of here. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:36.440 Man. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.040 You don't have to go home, but get the heck 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.400 up out of here with that nonsense. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:48.880 Wow, you just got lowercase by Mike Mayer. Angry Mike Mayer, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.680 who had had enough after watching Garrett Crochet's near no 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.080 hitter bid Well, it's tough to get lowercase. And if 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.160 you look right now on the graphic below you you'll 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.000 see it's happened. You are now, Chris Tell. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.880 Actually it's kind of lowercase. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:08.280 Well, lowercase W, E, upper case L, lowercase SH there, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.800 so that happened real fast. What's it like to get 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.640 lowercase on a Monday morning? By Mike Mayor. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:17.240 Yeah, I mean, do you remember the movie Office Space 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.520 where it walks around, they say where whatsoever his name goes. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.400 You ever had somebody tell you it's a case of 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.200 the Mondays, Like, oh, hell no, that was a case 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.960 of the Mondays right there. That was How long was 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.000 that video, Kelli? Could you tell me the exact time, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.960 because if it was sixty two seconds, it was sixty 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:38.600 seconds too long. The things we've actually ever done, I 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.680 can appreciate the pick on about questioning. I mean, I 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.040 forgot we're here on a minut at forty three minute, 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.000 forty one too long. I forgot. We're on a show 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.720 where we don't actually question anything tangible. We just look 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.120 at everything surface level, like make me maybe Mike Mayer 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.080 does on the cycle, and we just look at surface 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.800 stats and we just say, this is the best thing. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.280 But Garrett Crochet had not been great. This is also 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.080 coming from the guy that is Garrett Crochet at four 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.720 in his overall rankings this year and was the biggest 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.000 Garrett Crochet guy. And they're almost as stupid no hitter 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.160 against the White Sox. I'm all here for Garrett Crochet. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.120 I'm the number one Garrett Crochet guy. But it was 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.280 right to question things look kind of weird with Garrett 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.720 Crochet early on, but it was cold. We mentioned that 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.880 probably rightfully to answer some or ask some questions. But okay, 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.200 I'll take the l if. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.400 I guess that's the question. Are you still concerned all 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.160 those concerns now gone away? 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.160 Listen if you? Okay, a couple of things. First off, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.760 Like Garret Crochet is my guy, Garrett Rach, I'll I mean, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.679 if there's an L to own, I'll totally own it. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.120 Garrettkrousche is my guy. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.360 But like that's true. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.960 I don't think like almost no hitting the White Sox 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.839 is something to be like, hey guys, he almost no 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.560 hit the White Sox. Everything is okay now, like no, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.120 but the start was like freaking great. It was incredible 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.800 as fastball was back, big wift percentages, Sinker was doing 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.920 some business. Why socks hand hit fastballs. I love me 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.400 some Garret Crochet. I will take whatever l this is 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.720 supposed to be. But I also had Garrett Crochet higher 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.840 than anybody on Fantasy pros, so suck it. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.240 Yeah, I mean I thought I was the angry one, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.560 too bead, but apparently it's Mike Mahyer nowadays. So Monday morning, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.200 Mayor the mayor Bear was a little upset there. Good times, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.080 so we'll see. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.160 Well worth the segment on the show definitely made the 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:30.720 show better. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:31.880 Oh hilarious. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.880 I thought I laughed the whole time. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.800 You laughed on the inside. All right, let's talk about 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.120 some aces that looked really good. Michael King another rarity, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.760 complete game shoutouts. Well, we had one Sunday the Rockies. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.440 Of course, you know, not great opponents, but who cares 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.200 because the Padres are in first place? And Nick Pavetta too, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.400 I don't want to lose the Pavetta start on Saturday. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.400 Ten strikeouts from him. Also fantastic, Nick Pavetta, What is 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.440 going on? I'm telling you, man, the Padres get their 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.560 hands on a picture. You draft that guy. Logan Gilbert 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.240 also fantastic. Seven strikeouts, five innings, two three eight ERA points, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.959 sixty six whip thirty two strikeouts, just four walks in 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.640 twenty two winnings. Cold Reagan's also great. Struck out ten 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.720 and seven two thirds against the Guardians one hundred green 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.320 seven shoutout innings, got more one hundred mile an hour 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.760 fast balls than anybody else in baseball. He struck out 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.920 eight against the Pirates outside of Garret Crochet. Of the 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.440 rest of these performances, which one was your favorite? Which 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.439 one stood out the most to you? 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.920 Welsh Nick Pavetta. But you know, I mean again, you 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.360 gotta be careful because if we just look at the 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.400 cycle surface stats here, Nick Favetta is a cy young 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.360 potential winner because he was so good. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.240 Dragon worm into this, This is this is just Mayor. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.560 Well, I'm sorry, yeah, I don't want to. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.840 I don't want to unfairly drag the worm into this. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.640 This is all Mike Mayor. So far is a far 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.720 I don't know who was holding the camera. It looks 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.400 like it was just on a tripod. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.440 So I'm just saying, but Nick, Nick Pavetta, But it 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.040 was against the Rockies. Like, let's also caveat some things 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.440 when they're worth caveating. Nick Pavetta was absolutely incredible, but 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.960 it was against the Rockies. But it doesn't take away that, 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.400 like he has been great. He's giving up a lot 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.440 of barrels right now, which is something to watch. But 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.520 his strikeouts are about on par where they were last year. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.720 He's just not giving up a whole lot of runs. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.599 He's great in San Diego. It's kind of everything that 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.840 we were kind of hoping for. But you know, take 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.680 this start move it forward, as like you can feel 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.480 very comfortable with him. I don't think there's any type 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.640 of cell or anything like that, but as far as 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:27.040 like what you weren't expecting necessarily like Pavetta's Pavetta's early 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.120 onset of the season should like have everybody pretty excited 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.599 because he was kind of free ninety nine. You know, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.640 he's probably like sp like oh yeah, five or six 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.360 or something like that. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.840 League winner. Right now, here's one from link. Would you 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.720 start Carlos Estevez er job versus case in a weekly 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.480 points league, wins or three quality stars are five, saves 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.880 are seven. If I'm just sitting in forgetting for a week, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.920 I'm gonna take my shots with Estevez. I actually like 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.400 the Royals today against the Yankees with Lugo in the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.360 mound against Carrasco. So that's seven points right there for 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.600 a save. I'm thinking, So I'm going to Stevez, how 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:56.000 about you? 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.280 Yeah, I'm down with that. Like job definitely looked better 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.719 in this last star. But yeah, if you're gonna get 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.760 seven points per seve, if it saves are more than 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.120 a win, go with it. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.319 Hate that this is why I don't like five x 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.439 five rodal because it's like, oh, I've got Chase saves 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.040 and something that saves three outs. It's one freakin' inning. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.720 It's it's three outs. I mean sometimes it's more, but 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.480 rarely nowadays. And it's just so frustrating. A win is 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.560 five innings at least of pitching, right, a minimum five 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.200 innings to get a win, and yet it's valued the 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.439 same or in this circumstance and a bad points structure 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.520 less than a save for its three outs. It's absolutely dumb. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.080 I hate it. It's stupid. Now I'm mad, all right, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.640 let me get happy again. Spencer Schreider is going to 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.360 be back on track to make his debut Wednesday against 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.360 the Blue Jays. This is great. He looked filthy. Five 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.320 and a third innings, thirteen strikeouts in the rehab start. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.320 Nothing left to prove. Marcus Simeon took a spot on 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.719 the bench one of our by lows. Look it's rock 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.520 bottom here right now. He's getting one twenty three, one homer, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.480 no steals. I mean, Marcus Simeyon is good. I can't 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.000 think of a lower point in his career, all the 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.800 way back into like this, beginning of Oakland, Like that's 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.840 the last time you could see Marcusimey in this low. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.079 So I'm buying everywhere. This is a unique opportunity Welsh 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.000 and now it is officially rock bottom. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.440 Oh okay, yeah, how you were saying that. I wasn't 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.160 sure if you were like just saying like the output 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.880 is low and you're still a by or you're just. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.920 Like the output were about twenty three and we were 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.560 talking about how you know, just last week that he 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.800 was a by low. Now he's getting benched. You know 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.679 he's still get at the top of that order. I mean, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.160 I'm buying Marcus Imyan. Still, this is great news if 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.080 you're still in that market. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.560 Yeah, I've I've been saying it, but yeah, everything just 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.920 doesn't look good. But the Rangers as a whole, you know, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.800 Jack Berger doesn't have things going, adult East is trying 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.400 to bounce back. Simon is one of those. Simon is 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.280 the one that's the interesting thing about is just like 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.000 everything is low from like an underlying standpoint, Like he's 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.720 not hitting the ball as already striking out more, he's 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.080 not barreling. Like everything just looks bad. So I think 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.360 there's that little thing that's in people's minds. That's like, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.959 you know, he's getting older, four years old, like when 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.080 is it gonna start downticking? But that offense is just 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.800 it's too it's too big. The environmentally great. He's leading 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.080 off like he's gonna he's gonna bounce back, and if 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.559 he doesn't bounce back, then it's like, you know what, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.360 then you can keep that. You can keep that L there. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:15.920 By the way, it's kind of a nice logo, by 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.160 the way, the we with the big L s A. Yeah, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.080 I kind of like it. It's it's not about the 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.000 only thing the logo. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.640 The only My only critique of Mayor is that he 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.520 gave the L in the wrong direction when he was 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.320 throwing it up there. But that's hard sometimes because you 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.200 don't know which way the camera's going. That's all right, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:30.280 that comes with experience. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.280 Thank you Kelly for keeping this up. We'll keep this 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:33.240 up the rest of the show. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.200 Then, oh, we are a couple questions about Michael Bush. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.280 Be weezy, you pick him up, you think he stays hot. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.360 You have McGrady here with the question is he must 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.920 pick up? Any thoughts on Michael Bush's recent hot streak. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.760 Here, Yeah, I think he is. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.040 Should people be chasing the hot bush? I guess that's 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:49.560 the question we're asking ourselves. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.239 I would be chasing the hot bush. But here's the problem. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.440 Every damn player that is really good right now is 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.560 like a first basement. Someone asked me on Twitter before 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.080 the show, like, Hey, They're like, hey, Tristan Constans is 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.000 out there, who should I drop? Sodastrom Torque And You're 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.720 just like, oh my god, Like you know, they're all 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.800 just in a really good spot. But you know, Michael 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.000 Bush is almost fifty percent hard hit right now, right now, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.480 strikeout rates going lower, launch angles up, He's barreling the 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.520 crap out of the ball. He's putting a pretty good 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.760 prime spot. I don't know, Like, if you had to rank, okay, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:28.600 rank Michael Bush among let's put let's put yeah, torqu 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.120 and soda Strom. Let's just put him out there. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.680 I'll take Torkals, I'll take Soderstrom, Torkalsen Bush. That's my ranking. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.080 But is there a tier difference? Because I think that 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.160 might be the right one. But is there a tear difference? 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:46.920 Yeah? I think for me still, I think that Well, look, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.560 the soda Strom hawstreak has been fantastic because of that ballpark. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.280 I think I'm still gonna I'm gonna keep those two guys. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.640 I'm gonna so Stroms here. Okay, I'm gonna go give 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.680 me the levels. Here's the level for this is very technical. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.000 So if you're watching, this is helpful. If you're not, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.720 if you're just listening on the podcast, it's not gonna 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.280 be helpful at all. Go watch on YouTube. So sod 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.640 Frum's here, Towrklosen's right about there, and then Bush is 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.560 a little bit lower in this tier here, so you're 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.000 a little bit. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.640 Of sealation ginormous. How you did that, by the way, Well, no, 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.600 it's a huge tar well like you used the whole screen. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.960 Michael Bush. I kind of know Michael Bush is not 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.000 Spencer Torkosen was a top overall prospect at one point, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.680 so there's always that hope that all of a sudden 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.680 he figures out and becomes a star. I don't I 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.480 don't think we're ever going to get that, but it 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.640 still exists. Michael Bush is just a nice player, Like 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.320 I never thought Michael Busch was going to be a 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.960 franchise building player, whereas we all thought Torkosen would and 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.320 Soda Strum again, it's the ballpark factor that I just 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.880 can't deny right now. I've got to stay locked into him. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.840 I think Bush is in the corner endfield like pick 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.960 up twelve team corner infielder. I think you think you 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.400 can pick him up right And he said, nuver three 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.800 hundred XBA is like right under three hundred. He's doing 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.080 a little bit of everything great, not even pulling the 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.760 ball a ton in the air as much as he 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.360 did last year. I think he's in that range of 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.960 those players. He just actually might be available, you know 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.399 where Sodastrum and Torque would have already been picked up. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.080 Want to shout out correlation first time on the twitches 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.200 here used to be on the YouTube side. Welcome Correlation. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.960 We love having you here again. Twitch dot tv Sash 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.800 Fantasy Pros where you can watch us live every Monday 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.359 through Thursday here noon Eastern, and of course you can 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.880 always watch us back video on demand on our YouTube channel. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.800 Subscribe trying to get to thirty thousand subscribers. Let's talk 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.199 about Mike Trout for a moment. Mike Trout up to 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.240 six homers, tied for the league lead. He has fourteen rbi. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.200 He is hitting just one ninety six though, with a 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.800 two ninety nine OVP. Now last year, right, if you 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.919 just kind of duck back a little bit, you know, 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.440 to the twenty nine games that he played in twenty 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.280 twenty four he had two twenty he had ten homers 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.959 and fourteen RBI. And we started to ask ourselves in 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.800 mid April, is this the time to trade Mike Trout? 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.440 Do you remember this conversation we had last mid April 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.520 where he was starting to get hot with the homers 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.320 and we thought, up, he's back. Do you want to 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.439 get out from Mike Trout? So twofold question here is 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.879 it time to get out from Mike Trout? And second 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.520 question Welsh? Can you get out from under Mike Trout 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:07.240 if you want to? 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.240 I mean you know the answer for me, it's gonna 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.040 be no. You hate Mike Trout. I love Mike Trout. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.199 I was Trout well, I mean you were like, you 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.919 don't draft. I mean I had him so much higher 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.280 than any of you guys, Like Mike Trout was on 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.520 my All Welsh team for this year. I'm a big 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.600 buyer on him, regardless of the stupid injury stuff. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.720 Can hold on it's not stupid injury stuff. One hundred 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.200 and thirty four games in twenty nineteen. He has only 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.480 played Okay, we had the short season in twenty twenty, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.080 then thirty six games one hundred nineteen eighty two, twenty 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.640 nine and fifteen so far this year. So it's not stupid, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.000 it's relevant and it's real. Just saying, I mean, I 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:46.159 dismissed it, say it was. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.080