WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 2nd, 2022 (Ep. 501) 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:17.680 Lower power. Let's play ball. Welcome in, everybody to fantasy pros. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.520 This is leading off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.599 the King of Sports Books. It's me Joey p Joep's 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.239 a p A Happy Monday, everybody. Look, it's the Welsh. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.960 He's still alive. He made it through the weekend. So 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:33.440 happy to see Officer Welsh. Friday, things went south after 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.280 Officer Welsh came in and blew a bunch of post 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.440 it notes up in the air. Julio Rodriguez boy hit 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.240 a home run. Though Welsh keeps calling home run calls 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.839 correctly too, So maybe Welsh, the secret to your success 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:44.280 is a little bit of day quill. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.400 What do you think Apparently? Yeah, I had three straight 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.040 days with homer calls. I'm up to four, all while 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.319 I was on my deathbed. So I probably have one 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.279 or two more days while I'm still sick to make 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.080 the calls. But catching up, I'm gonna catch up. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.959 There you go, catching up the Welsh, and let's get 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.440 you caught up on everything that happened, some injuries as 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.240 well as some demotions and DFA's coming. Because it's cut day, Welsh, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:10.920 it's cut days at the time, when you go to 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.200 the gym and you look and mix your you made 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.800 the team. You see your name on the lissive. Yeah, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.720 you make the cut or not. So we'll get to 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.760 all of that. Let's start with Willy Calhoun, who did 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.600 not make the cut. He is seeking a trade following 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.480 his demotion, So that would be an interesting name to 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.600 land somewhere in a good spot that could use some offense. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.720 I'd like to see what he Willy Calhoun could do, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.959 maybe in a fresh start. Dominic Smith last night had 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.200 four hits and led the Mets on Sunday to a victory, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.520 with Max Scherzer striking out nine over the Phillies. Jady 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.759 Martinez crushes a Grand Slam and a lost to the Orioles. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.640 Poor Red Sox Aaron Judge Homer twice is leading the Yankees, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.160 who are streaking. Remember a couple of weeks ago when 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.639 the season started and the oh god, the Yankees are terrible. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.280 Everything's good, The Yankees are so bad? Well, they're in 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:54.800 first place? 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.440 Welsh, so is the k Is that how the anti 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.720 Yankee guy sounds too? 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.160 Just a Yankee guy? So I don't understand, is undred 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.200 sixty two games you should be undred sixty two went 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.200 all I don't want to stand with the problem is 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.799 Brian Cash was gonna go, you don't know nothing about baseball. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:10.880 You about Miles Straw? 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.720 All right, Yeah, you see the video. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.120 Do you see the up close video by the way 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.760 of when Miles Straw jumped up is out there. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.440 I saw him jumping, but I didn't hear the audio. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.560 There's an audio the guay, Yeah, there there's audio. There's 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:22.840 the guy. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:23.119 Yeah. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.000 If you saw like the faraway video, there was somebody 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.760 like filming right in front of Miles Straw. Well, that 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.840 video has taken to Instagram and TikTok, and Miles Straw 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:34.519 was ready. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.040 The insta tuck. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.040 Yeah, I have to go to He essentially said hit me, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.080 and with other words in there. Miles Straw was telling 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.399 the Yankee bros hit me, but heeded some other colorful language. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.320 What a shock, fake tough guys out in the bleachers. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.760 All right, Joe muskrove our favorite guy with eight in 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 a win over the Pirates, and they're getting Clevenger back 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.120 in this rotation. Man oh man, this pojo rotation is good. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.120 More on that later. The Royals recall prospect MJ. Melendez 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:07.040 from Triple A. Give us the prospect breakdown on MJ. Melendez. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.560 Welsh massive power led the miners in homers last year 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.720 with forty one forty one homers. His dat is actually 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.919 a catcher as well, I think from Miami. I was 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.639 actually at his like pro debut with the Royals when 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.800 he was there, and he's grown into this huge power guy. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.760 He struggled this year. He's only hitting a buck sixty seven. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.840 The Royals guys have gone kind of up and down 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.720 in that, Like in twenty nineteen, he struggled. In twenty 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.920 twenty one, he was practically a Minor League player of 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.720 the year. Not crazy strikeout numbers, walk seventy five times 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.920 in four hundred and just about fifty at baths. So 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.600 I mean, this is a guy that can bring real power, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.000 very salvy like if you will. But two homers, three 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.960 stolen bases, hitting under two hundred to start this year. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.280 We'll see where it goes. But he makes really really 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.520 great contacts, got a great swing and if they give him, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.920 you know, any type of regular time and a two catcher. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.520 I picked him up this past week and I put 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.360 some fab on him on uh what was it? TGFBI 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.440 I think it was I put some fab on him 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.520 to pick him up, because this is just game changing power. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.600 He's just off to a really bad start and that's 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.640 what I'm worried about with him. But he is not 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.760 worth it, probably in a ten or twelve, but monitor 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.960 him anything deeper. Maybe check him. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.760 Out monitoring the peanuts and the cracker Jacks. In our 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.120 live chat here on Fantasy Pro's MLB that Brooklyn accent 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.839 is impeccable from doctor Glenn, thank you, But I'm cheating 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:28.799 because I'm from there. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.080 So if it's not impeccable, I mean, you are one 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.200 of those guys, You're just not. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.159 I turned into one of those guys when you know, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.839 whenever you're around your cousins and things like that, like 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.560 my cousin Donnie, I can. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.599 I can attest to this. I can attest to this 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.520 when I'm hanging out with you and your cousin. You 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.640 turned into the New York You. Let me let me 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.159 tell you something. Let me tell you something. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.120 Listen to me right now. You don't anything you're talking about. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.240 Listen all right, listen. Let me tell you. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.800 Know what the Mets did. They dfa'e for to get 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.920 out of there going on an assignment. Robinson Cano, You're done, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.839 it's over. And this is the difference between ownership I 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.560 think of the Mets in the past and ownership now. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.120 There's a huge money commitment to Robinson Cano. Steve Cone 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.279 doesn't care what's best for the team is what's best 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.760 for the team. And this is huge. I mean, this 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:18.120 is an unbelievable It is what for culturally Met fans 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.680 have dealt with. I mean, the Bobby Benia thing is 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.880 part of the Mets culture right where we have to 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.120 live with mistakes for the rest of our lives. That's 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.520 the met culture. Steve Cone saying, no, you don't, we 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.440 make mistakes. That's okay. I'll write a check. Thank you, uncle, Stevie. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.560 I love this. I love what he's done here. So well, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.320 Robinson Cano, catch on somewhere else, Welsh or is he done? 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.800 No, he's done. That was kind of my like, well, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.560 I thought he would have been done beforehand. Just get 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.440 him out, you know, get him out beforehand. If you 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.000 were like, oh, they're gonna get rid of the mistakes, 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.360 you never would have even given him opportunity coming off 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.159 of this. His bat was already dead coming off of 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.200 the steroids stuff, I cannot see unless there's a desperate 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.040 team in there for a D eight for a bat 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.320 that's not really great. Maybe you sell a couple of jerseys. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.240 I mean, listen, there might be someone that's gonna throw 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.559 a bone. But in my eyes, Robinson Cano is done. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:10.839 He's washed, all right. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.560 Let's move on to some of the injuries. X ray's 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.719 negative for Robbie Grossman show. Otani planned to play on Monday, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.279 but it looks like he is going to be sitting 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.720 out now. So that that's changed in the last twenty 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.520 four hours or twelve hours, you should say he's dealing 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:25.919 with that little bit of a groin issue there, So 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.440 just keep an eye. They should give Otani as much 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.120 time as he possibly needs because you can because the 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.560 Angels have played well there at the top of the 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.960 standings too. This one is important though, member, boys and girls. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.679 For the last couple weeks, we were talking about adding 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.960 Nolan Gorman before you have to pay for Nolan Gorman. Well, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.000 I hope you listen, because we've been on this train 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.840 for a couple weeks now. It hasn't gotten official yet, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.600 but Tommy Eman did leave the game with a hip 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.680 flex or tightness, he goes in the IL in the 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.120 next twenty four hours. I'm hard pressed to think that 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.840 they don't give this guy a call. Now. I understand 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.600 the roster's strunk and all the other stuff going on, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.680 so they don't have to, but it's only a matter 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.560 of time. The guy's got what wasn't a fifteen game 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.400 hitting streak or something crap like that he was on 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.240 this weekend hole. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.080 I mean, come on, in the minor leagues, yeah, he 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.960 leads the league. H They've also got another kid, Moisis Gomez, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.799 who used to be with the Rays, who is second 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.120 in homers. So they've got you know, twenty one homers 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.480 between those two guys. You know, I think there's a 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.880 decent possibility. They still are bullheaded about not bringing him up. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.480 They've got in Mundo Sosa, who they move around, not 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.200 saying that they won't, but the timeline moved up a 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.600 little bit where the possibility is there. They got to 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.520 get live bats at Mundo Sosa is not a crazy, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.240 big live bat. DeJong has struggled. I'm hopeful you should 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.200 pick him up to speculate, but be ready that you 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.000 might have to drop or maybe they don't make the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.320 move because they've continuously not wanted to make this move. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.480 They kept saying, They're like, eh, we keep hearing about 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.640 Nola Gorman down there, but you know, we need these 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.760 major league guys now, and why would we You know, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.480 their big thing was, why do they want to get 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.040 a great uh Tommy Edmund off a second base and 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.120 move him to short or something like that. This is 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.680 an opportunity. I'm just not sure they will, as someone 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.440 in the chat pointing out, he's still striking out at 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.440 a pretty heavy clip, so monitor it, but you should 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.720 be picking him up because it's game changing power. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.600 Mister Buster is raining on my parade this morning. He's 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.520 saying Gorman is still striking out thirty percent of the time. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.480 I know who cares, so is everybody else? Okay, I 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.200 don't care. This is major league baseball now, so we 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.360 can't keep throwing out that this thirty percent strikeout rate 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.360 for sluggers, especially who offer big time power, is somehow 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.040 culturally not part of what we are right now is 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.320 a baseball world. This is part of it now. So 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.800 if it's gonna be part of it, at least give 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.640 me the power along with it. That's all I'm asking 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.480 for for God's sakes, Yes, you are right. He strikes 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.959 out too much. He doesn't walk, so does everybody else 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.720 pretty much major League Baseball. I don't care. Is he hitting? Yes? 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.520 Are the Cardinals better off for it? Yes? Is the 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.679 DH available, Yes, let's go. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.480 And I think it's the thing though, that they can 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.040 use as an excuse to not do it. They like, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.559 get Mundo Sosa and they can put him at second base. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.760 It's just it's the thing that they can cling to 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.520 because you're gonna have reporters, people like everybody here that's 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.560 gonna be like, well, now, why are you not bringing 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.320 up Gorman? You know this guy Leeds miners in Homers. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.920 He's a phenom at twenty two years old. He's been 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.280 playing second base now for about a year. What's the 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:07.840 reason now? And they could go, well, he's striking out 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.760 a whole bunch. You know. It's kind of like the 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.920 O'Neal Cruiz thing that's going on as well. Oil Cruzo 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.760 is struggling. That's the difference. Oneal Cruz strikes out and 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.800 it's still struggling at triple A and everybody wants him 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.280 to be up Gorman. The only thing they really have 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.360 is that unless you know, they could also say, oh, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.160 we want to see what we have out of a 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.320 mundo again to get him full time. But you just 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.320 never know how these teams are working, how these guys 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.120 are gonna go trying to put the you know, the 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.119 backs on a young kid. But we have to speculate 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.280 and we've got to pick him up regardless. We just 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.720 can't lose our minds. If he doesn't get the call up, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.640 he can Oh you guys told me to pick up. Yeah, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.679 you have to pick him up. This is the opportunity. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.280 It just may not be the one that the managers 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.960 finally pushed because these baseball managers are stubborn. They're the worst. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.240 They're the worst man you know. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.800 But look, I just know what's gonna happen. Is he's 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.400 gonna get called up and then everyone's gonna run to 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.840 the wire. Just do it now, Adam for a couple 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.200 of bucks. Now if he's still floating around there, And 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.240 look see I held and stashed though, and I convinced him. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.440 Look see I convinced him with my argument. It's it's honestly, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.120 it's it should be a convincing argument, because find me 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.040 the great sluggers. I mean, you can count them on 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.120 one hand who aren't striking out at alarming rates. It's 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.040 just unfortunately, it's part of what we're doing. Speaking about alarming, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.400 Let's get to Can we talk about this? Can we 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.360 talk about the Reds. They're bad, They're very, very bad 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.480 right now on the IL Also for the Reds, Tyler Stevenson, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.079 Jonathan India, Solano's on the IL, Frehley's on the IL, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.280 Nico Lodolo went on the IL, Castillo's on the IL. Uh. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.880 The whole team is hurt, and Joey Vono was sitting 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.760 there making a lot of money and making tiktoks, and 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.360 I don't know what else to do, Like if I'm 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.040 the Reds, If I'm the Reds right now, you know 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.920 you were hoping Mustak has got off to a good start, 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.120 maybe you could flip him. You would hope that Castillo 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.640 is healthy. Can't flip him right now. In terms of DFS, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.920 in terms of setting weekly fantasy lineups, in terms of 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.800 prop bets, I'm going to hammer the Reds for as 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.080 long as I can. Well, what are your thoughts on 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.200 this horrendous beginning of the season for the Cincinnati Red. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.360 I'm with you. It's kind of like what I was 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.160 doing with the Diamondbacks at the beginning of the year. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.760 Just take the team and the pitcher that's going up 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.280 against them. The Reds are atrocious. It's embarrassing. All of 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.000 the like craziness that's going on in Oakland. I'm not 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.040 sure why we're not seeing more of that in Cincinnati. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.520 It's a garbage team. To be fair for them, I 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.120 suppose they attempted a few things. You know, they could say, oh, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.640 we didn't have Castillo, and you know, we did bring 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.400 in Tommy fam and stuff like that. But it's it's 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.640 embarrassing how they put this together. And the other problem 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.520 is they just don't have a lot of stuff to 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.760 bring up. They don't have got I mean, they designated 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:37.960 remember Aristv's a Kemia. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.080 Well, they had the pictures, they brought up Lodolo and Green. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.800 Then Lodolo got hurt immediately, you know, So, I mean 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.040 they have the pitching, but you're right from a position standpoint, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.480 it was India and then you know, this is what 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.200 happens when you whiff on number two overall picks guys 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.520 like Nick Enzel, you know, like when you when you're 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.640 in a top five, you better come away with a 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.240 player that's going to be in your lineup for ten 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.079 years and being a productive player. Like that's the. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.079 Gulsole maker's right, but also making the right trade. Look 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.080 at teams like you know Minnesota, Minnesota traded two months 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.680 of Nelson Cruz to get what I think might now be. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.920 I mean, you know, our Bold Prediction show cares what 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.280 we say, but Bold Predictions. I was like, Oh, Bobby Witt, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.400 Joe Ryan to me looks like the front runner for 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.319 AL Rookie of the Year, which, by the way, I 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.839 would go take a look at your books because he 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.920 might be around plus six hundred. They got him for 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.160 two months of rental service. That's a good scouting department 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.520 and bringing in the right bodies to be able to 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.400 get you service all time. The reads don't have that 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.040 aristatas a Kenio. Everyone was like, Oh, we're super excited, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.680 and then he's gone. They designated him for an assignment 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.440 this week. They don't have great live bodies to put 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.480 this team together. So I agree with you. I would 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.000 be hammering against at every opportunity. I have. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.560 Yeah, a lot of people asking me Joey Votto. You know, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.760 people were asking should I pick up you know, Hark 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.400 Hosber still out of the waiver wire, Should I pick 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.280 up Joe Should I drop Joeyvaddo for him? And I 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.800 said yes, yeah, Like why not. It's not like the 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.920 Red lineup is going to get markedly better. Even when 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.760 everybody gets healthy, it's going to improve. Joey Voda will improve. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.480 He's still get of a hitter. The other problem is 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.040 Joeyvoddo can't be moved that contract. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.080 That's just say, it's not like he's not like we 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.720 can play the game where it's like, oh hey, guess 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.280 what Vodo could be with the Yankees in two months. No, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.719 he can't. He's stuck here. He's not moving. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.400 Unless the reds eight fifty percent of that contract, and 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.960 they might, like if there's a team that's if there's 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.360 a team that's desperate for Look, Joey Vodo, good dude, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.040 good defenders. Still could still hit if you put him 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.280 in a nice short I mean, if you put him 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.720 on the Yankees ones. I mean, it's not where he's going. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.000 But I'm just saying, like you don't need him anymore 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.040 the Risen, but you put him in a good situation. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.120 There's every reason to believe that Joey Vodo can help. 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.760 And I would like to see Joey Vado in a playoff. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.360 That'd be fun to see. But you know what, unless 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.000 the unless the Reds excuse me, eight half of that salary, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.360 it's very difficult to see which. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.719 They should though. But you know what, the Reds could 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.760 go back to the what was it? Was it the 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.640 Braves that they know the Braves go back and do 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.920 what the Diamondbacks did. It's the worst thing in baseball, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.840 but it's something you have to do. Pair him with 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.160 a good prospect and sell off. The Diamondbacks did that 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.240 with Bronson Royal. They wanted to get out of this 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.360 god awful Bronson a Royal contract that they had, so 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.640 they went to the Braves. They gave the Braves two 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.000 key des Saunt to take on the contract of ronsin 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.679 Royal and that was it. The Diamics didn't get anything back. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.160 They just gave them a top prospect at that time. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.840 And the guy the red shil consider doing something similar. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.719 They got a lot of low a type of guy, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.400 you know what, give something off with Vado to make 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:20.040 it work. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.600 You know, Louis Castillo is the piece to give because 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.960 Louis Castillo and Vado together for a team that needs 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.440 to make a run, that is a big help to 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:29.000 a team. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.120 Potentially have to get stuff back a little bit. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.880 And the ste young enough and still has upside enough 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.240 that I think that's an intriguing move for a certain team, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.920 but that that that would be the way. Also, on 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.880 a better note, we've thrown a lot out. We were 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.040 breathing fire here on the show this morning. He had 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.960 a lot of feelings. H shout out to Kelsey Whitmore, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.560 who played left field and bed at night the Staten 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.480 Island Fairyhawks on Sunday, becoming the first woman to start 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.840 a game in the Atlantic League and one of the 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.680 first to do so in a league connected to Major 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.320 League Baseball. So congrat to Kelsey Whitmore. It was a 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.120 fantastic weekend for women in sports. My daughter Friday night, 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.680 nine years old, All Girls Football League touchdown pass this 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.240 beautiful thing rolling out to the right. You could see 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.400 it on the Twitter machine. I posted It's glorious. And 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.400 then in the boys league. She's the only girl playing 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.080 in the all in the co ed league right now 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.120 for some reason. Two girls, she's one of them. Interception 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.720 for a touchdown, intercepted the ball, ran it back for 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.720 a pick six. Unbelievable. The entire crowd, especially the crowd 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.240 of moms, just went off the hook. It was. It 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.520 was an amazing moment to behold. So women in sports 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.040 this weekend. Nice stuff, all right, Let's get to a 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.480 little bit of trivia here for our peanuts and cracker jacks. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.560 Which Three pitchers selected in the first round of the 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.120 two thousand and six Major League Baseball Draft went on 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.200 to win Cy Young Awards. Three pitchers selected in the 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.520 first round of the two thousand and six MLB Draft 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.360 went on to win Cy Young Awards. Who are they? 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.960 Give us the names if you know who they are 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.200 in the chat over Fantasy Pros MLB, because remember, if 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.400 you subscribe to Fancy Pros MLB, we are here every 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.400 single day, Monday through Friday, doing this show live for you, 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.920 and of course the podcast comes out later too, so 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.440 we want our subscriptions to go up. We'll see if 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:07.640 anybody gets this right. Give me. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:10.760 With this too. I don't know if we want to 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:11.520 get hints at all. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.200 Well, two of the three are still pitching. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.240 Okay, Well I got a different hint, Can I give it? 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:16.720 Okay? 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.480 Sure, they all were drafted from the same division. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:21.920 Oh yeah division. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.440 Right, that's my favorite one. Yeah, exactly, because I think 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.280 the two of the three you can kind of put 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.480 that together. But they all were drafted in the same division. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.360 And Caleb gets it right, Clayton Kershaw one of them, 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.440 So there you go. Wonky Penguin also got it right. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.040 Always the Wonky Penguin always knows. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.440 So the division. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.760 That's one. Now you know the division, So go get it, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.960 Go get it, Peanuts and cracker Jacks. Let's get to 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.160 the stat heroes of the weekend. Ready, they're gotta take 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.600 one deep breath. Let's see Corbyn Burns seven innings, ten k's, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.640 Marcus Stroman actually had a good start for a change, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.080 now earned run seven innings. Boy you need that. Josiah 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.360 gray A three k's but now earned and verse six. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.960 Nady Evaldi eight strikeout, seven innings, Pitch Merrill Kelly's seven innings, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.920 four k's, Dane Dunning's seven and two third seven strikeouts. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.560 Eric Lauer continues to be great. Let's pause, there is 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.240 a running out of breath. Eleven strikeouts, one walk for 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.919 Eric Lower. Holy crap, where does this come from? Welsh? 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.680 Can we talk about Eric Lower for a moment? 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.359 Successful fastball our boy Nick Pollock. I don't want to 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.040 steal his stuff, but he had posted out about with 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.760