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Sanuel Contra could have get traded Showhill, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.000 Tony could be out for the year. Wan Soto hits 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.720 a homer there on here. By the way, Wan Soto 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.960 does own some property here in Arizona, specifically at Chase Field. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.720 Well look in all fair a Welsh, How old were 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.639 you the last time the Diamondbacks won a World Series? 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.880 I was like eighteen or no, yeah, something like that. No, 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.359 two thousand and one. I don't know my age anymore. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:12.640 I was like, twenty something. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.760 What's what's his age again, everybody? I was eight the 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.640 last time the mess won the World Series. It's been 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:18.240 a long time. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.400 This is a game in May. I'm just pointing out 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.239 games in April and May are getting to the show 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.520 sheet when when they do anything, I will say the 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.640 one Soda thing is relatively interesting. I don't know if 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.600 we talked about it here did the Betting Pro show 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.720 talking about MVP awards and stuff. Something did stand out 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.280 to me that I didn't talk about on that show 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.000 was at that time, twenty five to one one Soda 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.919 was still sitting there for NL MVP. Now it's the 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.080 longest of long shots on the planet because you've got Otani. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.400 You know, you got Gordan Carroll that's pushing over the 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.760 statis junior. But to count out Jan Soto's overall tracking, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.520 I was looking a year over year changes of like 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.639 Barrel and hard hit. He's like one of the biggest 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.839 losers across the board, but to a point that it's 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.760 so not believable, and because he's such a great player, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.320 and guess what he's heating up? 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:07.200 Oh, I get that. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.200 That's why I start my point to that, and. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:11.640 That's why it's the top of the show sheet. My 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.600 point is, guess what after maybe a couple weeks of 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.400 a little pressing, wan so to starting to get hot 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.519 also looking good too, because I know we talked about 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.120 him in live streaming yesterday code I Senga six shoutout 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.520 innings for him. His ERA is down to one point 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.760 one six. He is the prince that was promised thirty 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.680 five strikeouts, seventeen walks and thirty eight innings. Look the 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.120 Mets really today now, yeah, but look, I'll take the 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.720 one era. You know, it's not gonna hold. He's gonna 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.520 probably settle somewhere on the low threes. But the Mets 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.360 desperately need that guy at the top of their rotation 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.480 where they feel like, okay every fifth day. We know 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.960 we're gonna be competitive to get a w here because 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.840 the rest of the guys are you know, they're kind 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.320 of the no name starter bunch. They are all performing 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.800 pretty well, but they are no name guys. So Senga 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.160 needs to perform at a high level and hopefully he 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.720 can stay healthy this year. Devin Williams possibly moving in 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.000 the right direction struck out three batters with one walk, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.400 so another walk you don't love that, and hit another 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.040 guy in the Scoorel's tenth thning and he got a 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.880 win over the Padres. So Devin Williams, let's take the 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.640 temperature Welsh, what does it say today? 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.279 I think it's the same as I've been, Like, I'm 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.480 a little away from the camp of he's done forever 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.920 and like everybody else is cutting him and don't worry. 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:24.880 I mean like, I think there's a lot of justification 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.240 where you can Yeah, I saw that one where you 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.360 can cut him in ten team leagues and stuff like that, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.039 and I think there's a big question will he get 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.120 back in the role. But to put him back in 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.760 like leveragy spots like that and for him to be 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.480 successful have big strikeouts, that's classic old school or really 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.960 any manager. I suppose taking the pressure off of a 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.279 guy to see how they perform. That's gonna be the 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.080 biggest key. You take him out of this role for 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.159 a tiny bit, you've taken the pressure off. After two weeks, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.560 they might just throw him into a random spot. So 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.119 as much as I've thought may is for Luke Weaver, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.480 I just don't think Devin Williams is quite done. Everything 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.880 is still really poopy across the board. Though he's you know, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.080 not striking out like he does. He's walking guys like crazy, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.440 seventeen percent walk rate. But if he starts putting a 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.200 couple of these together, he's not gonna be available on 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.320 the wire anymore. So that's why if I could hold 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.200 I would. If he's out there, I would pick him 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.040 up just to see what this next week or so becomes. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.000 Because guess what if you had Devin Williams June on, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.040 He's still probably going to be one of the top 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.240 closers if you would agree to form so I would agree. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:26.760 That's why I would. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.800 The guy Van Rod with a fun one today. Predictions 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.240 of how Jack Lyder will do against the Red sucks 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.119 is what he said. Wellsh any predictions here from Jack Lyder. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.840 I'm going to abstain because we got to a Jack 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.320 Lighter conversation yesterday last star for Jack Lighter. That's so great, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:43.960 that's two, that's so great. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.920 I don't think it's gonna be a great day. Shout 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.159 out the Boston Red Sox are I still think they're monsters. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.520 I talk a lot about them and the Betting Pros episode. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.320 Shout out to our boy Erickson, who I threw him 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.400 some bets last night, Joey and I threw him three 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.760 and then I said, I actually I got a parlay 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.279 for you, and he took the parlay and then he 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.599 texted me and he said, the only bad thing is 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.200 I didn't bet more because it was red Sox to 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.200 win on the full money line and Bregman to get 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.520 a hit. I'd also give him Bregmant total bases all 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.080 those hit, which was great. But Boston's offense is picking 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.880 back up. MAT's a point of where I'm going with 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.159 this that I don't like this matchup. I think this 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.880 might be an overruns type of thing with a Lighter 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.200 and Bayo going today. But I mean I would say 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.159 that it's probably a four run game, at least for Lighters. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:30.039 I don't think it's going to be. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.000 Super pretty five runs two. Homer says Razor. Good to 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.840 see Razor in the chat. What's up, Brazer? How you 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.919 doing all right? Let's get to some more closers. Your 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.360 Emmanuel class A he's back, got his eighth save scorelessenning 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.960 against the net so Crisis averted here class A a little 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.000 hiccup that we're back on track. Jackson Merril two for 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.600 four with a solo homer two. Ribby's good day for him. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.440 Hove here Baias cannot be stopped. He drove in four 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.840 more runs. I've got bets on him today. We'll get 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.000 to that later in the show. The Tigers pounded the 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.680 Rockies in this one. His slash is now up to 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.080 three thirteen three p fifty two four seventy five. I 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.200 know we've discussed Hobby Bayaz a little bit, and we 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.960 talked about him on the waiver video. If you missed that, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.560 go back and watch. It's on demand on the YouTube channel. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.120 But it is not you. You don't have to watch it. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:16.600 You were in it. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.160 No, you know, I don't not want to watch it. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.400 Whatever you're gonna say, no, Joe, don't do it. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.840 I guess here's the thing. It's you know, Jaby or 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.920 Baiaz is not going to hit three hundred doll year. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.080 I don't think that's going to happen. But if you 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.000 were one of these teams that's had some outfield injuries. 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.240 Let's say you lost Alvarez, you lost Taskar Hernandez, and 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.520 you're looking at the outmans and the Evan Carter's gross 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.760 or you're looking at Taber Bias, who's hitting and playing 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.280 at the top of this order. I won't Biaz, I 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.080 think yeah. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.440 I mean we talked about it in the video, like 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.640 I had to pick him up in one spot. He's 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.120 weird and it's goofy. He has dramatically changed his swing. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.920 He's he's dropped the depth in the box. He's shortened 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.760 his stand, like the open stance thing. It's dramatic. It 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.960 was like a thirty three degree angle with like ten now, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.720 so I mean he is really shortened that in. He's 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.520 dropped the length the tiny bit of that swing, and 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.600 he's seeing some pretty great results. I mean he's hitting 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.520 three thirteen, he's got three homers. But you know, I 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.480 mean he's cut the strikeouts down. But he's done that 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:20.840 for the last like three or four years. But you know, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.800 if you look at it as a whole, he's not barreling. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.120 He's hitting the ball actually on average less hard this year. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.560 The hard hit rate is down that he's not getting 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.800 it in the ball, getting it in the air as much. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.920 He's a two forty expected batting average guy. THAT'SOK, seventy 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.480 points lower. He's a very He's a serviceable fifteen team 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.040 fifth outfielder for sure, but you got to have a 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.160 quick trigger finger if he starts to struggle. I just 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.400 don't buy. I loved Javier Bias back in the day. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.040 That was my guy, back when he was a Cub. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.200 But yeah, he's gonna come back down to earth, and 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.000 I'm not cutting anything of substance, you know, Like I 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.680 see his name right here, someone wrote like Dylan Cruz. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.679 Like if someone were to ask that question, like, oh, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.600 dyllon Cruise sucks, Like, I'm not going to do that 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.560 in a ten team league. I don't know whysidered Bayaz 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.880 Still I would cut Cruise. But I'm not gonna cut 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.400 Cruise four Baias because I don't believe. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.240 Well, that's why I believe. I think that's that's like 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.520 I'm thinking, like, you lost somebody, you're looking for a 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.520 part time piece here right. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:17.880 This is your side with you on that. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.200 But you're and I agree with your point, which is 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.040 you're not running to pick him up in lieu of 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.440 somebody else. You're trying to add him. If you've had 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.600 an injury and you want an easy roster move to 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.160 make in two weeks because I think. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.280 Which exactly what I had in the league, and that's why. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.240 Yeah, and I think that is the fit for Bias 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:33.959 Lee was a fun one here. I wanted to take 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.760 Soda on the home run, did not didn't want Jinks 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.560 the Mets, so I took Josh Daniel Road for four. Hey, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.280 I took Alonzo yesterday and that didn't work out. So 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.319 what are you gonna do? I can't. I'm stone cold again. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.000 A brave you for the Red Sox. Three for four, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.120 two homers and a double, three ribies, so a good 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.800 day for him. Jacob Wilson four for five, span can't 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.360 be stopped. He's in three fifty seven. I enjoy Jacob 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.560 Wilson's game more. Jacob Wilson's in baseball. Just guys who 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.840 put the ball in play. I think that's good for baseball. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.840 You know, who needs walks and strikeouts, get up there, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.680 swing the bats on. And this is the big question too. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.440 You know, I'm not sure what the Savant page says 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.679 about Jacob Wilson, but you know, sometimes with these contact 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.959 guys who you know don't walk a bunch, is there 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.760 a danger here? That at some point, you know that 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.720 expected batting average comes back down. Well, I mean three 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.640 fifty seven is very high, and I don't think that's a 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.520 sustainable mark. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.160 Well, it's three twenty seven is his expected batting average 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.520 right now, because he just makes all the contact in 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.600 the world three twenty seven he doesn't. But it's you 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.160 see this with those contact guys like the Luisa Rises 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.080 of the world, where you get these really low barrel rates, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.800 they usually have like a slower swing. I'm not looking 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.720 at his swing right now in a in a in 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.800 a shorter one. Yeah, so this is a sixty three 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.680 mile per hour average bat speed. That's dramatically it's one 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.480 of the lowest in the league. But also it's a 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.600 short swing, so he's slow to it short to the path, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.600 which gets the bat in the you know, in the 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.760 base path, and he makes tons of contact. He doesn't 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.040 walk because he makes so much contact as well. So 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.680 this is pretty prototypical of those type of hitters. You 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.080 would love it if he could get the ball in 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.000 the air just like a tiny bit more simply because 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.760 that ballpark is just like a little tiny box and 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.520 just start crashing out some homers. But Jacob Wilson is 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.120 a real deal. Jacob Wilson has also held the lead 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.120 for like three weeks on Rookie of the Year. It's 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.680 him over and Christian Campbe's hitting like three hundred. Jacob 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.040 Wilson has still been the odds on favorite in the AL, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.000 which you know, if you have a ticket for that, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.679 I want to see it. Let me know that, you know, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.760 this feels like the Jackson merrill of last year. I 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.839 wish I was on it. I'm not. I'm on the 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.040 Christian Campbell and I had a cam Smith ticket which 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.600 I can burn. But you know, like I don't know 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.360 if he can hold on to this unless he hits 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.439 three thirty or three forty, it's going to be tough 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.040 to beat Christian Campbell. But Jacob Wilson is Fantasy relevant 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.640 even though he's in that Luis Risey, I don't have 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.559 a lot of counting stats type of territory. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.599 Just want to shout out calling seventy one subscriber, a 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.760 Tier one and gifted five subs. It's very cool, very 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.560 cool on the twitch. We love that. 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It's absolutely free, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.480 and someone might gift you a sub. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.600 Yeah, and when you subscribe, you get rid of those 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.160 pesky commercials. Nobody likes those. Nobody likes that. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.239 So except the one that Joe's, except. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:45.400 Only the commercials that I do. Those are acceptable. The 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.080 A's they dropped Lawrence Butler to six in the order 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.439 he homered and walked. Yesterday you mentioned Butler. He didn't 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.800 make our by Low video. But I do agree with you. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.760 I think Butler's an intriguing by Low at this point. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.280 Yeah, I have on my Patreon in this league dot 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.600 com cheap plug. I do like this weekly just like 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.840 little like Preppy Sheet. I just do lots of stuff 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.720 like prospects and pickups and streamers, and that kind of 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.840 like flows into what I do during the week. But 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.240 I do like players. I'm trading four and trading away. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.240 And I told you before we did our video, Lawrence 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.680 Butler was on my trade four for the week because 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.199 he had struggled. Like his counting stats were up there 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.360 enough that no one's being like, I got to get 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.160 him out of here, but it was to the level 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.560 where someone might be like, oh, this isn't actually really 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.480 working out. Six homers, six stolen bases to forty average. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.200 His expected batting average is lower than his batting average, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.640 which is the worrisome part. Eleven percent barrel, forty two 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.439 percent hard hit rate. He's getting the ball in the 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.160 air more, he's getting to that sweet spot on the 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.160 launch agle and he's in this incredible ballpark where the 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.000 summer is just ahead of us. So that's what I'm 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.439 trying to buy on here. Lots of loud counting stats 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.079 and good to see him kind of start that bounce back. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.000 But the buying opportunity, I don't know how long it is, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.760 but I think I'm going to take the risk with it. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.319 I would dig the ricks as well. Strikeouts are still 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.719 a lot. But I just enjoyed the player. And if 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.400 he gets hot again the summer like he did last year, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.160 forget it. Like that ballpark is going to be unbelievably 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.840 good for him. Kiren Powis signs of life to run 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.120 Homer for him. It's funny. Do you think it's anything 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.760 to the Kiren Paris emergence and the Kaisa Treks sponsorship 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.720 in the same year. It feels like too much of 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.160 a coincidence. I don't want to be a weird conspiracy theory. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:27.440 Got side moving on. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.440 He's keeping it up. The stats are not. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:36.480 Say no, although the ops did rise after yesterday's performance. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.400 So yeah, all right, I've got a great stat for you. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.000 We wash you like great stats. Everybody likes great stats. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.480 The New York Yankees have a higher batting average, on 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.240 base and selecond percentage than any other team of Major 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.680 League Baseball this year. Okay, just putting that out there, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.240 But if you take away Aaron Judge from their totals, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.800 their fourteenth and batting average, eleventh and ob and third 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.280 and slugging. So that's kind of interesting that when you 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.880 take that one guy away, the batting average goes all 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.480 the way down. To fourteenth and the OBP goes all 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:12.480 the way down to eleventh. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.640 So not really, that doesn't really surprise me. The guy's 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.560 like hitting four hundred, he's the best player, Like he's 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.800 one of the best players in baseball. I've actually I'm 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.160 a little surprised the slug is still so high. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.040 If Aaron j just see, I'm not surprised a lug 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.520 is a high because all the Yankees do is at 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.880 solo home runs. If you look at the statue, there 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.120 are a bunch of two twenty hitters who have you know, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.080 solo home runs. They have got eight home runs and 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.640 ten RBI, Like that's what that's what they look like, right, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.200 And I just thought it was so fascinating because I 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.000 don't think when you take one player away it should 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.000 impact anything that much. You know, it's one player out 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.440 of you know, fifteen or whatever you've got there that 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.440 are offensive players on your roster, give or take. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.520 It's why is minus one thousand foot al VP right? 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.840 Just it's like easy statistic. Yeah, at the end of 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.840 the day, I just wanted to share that the Orioles, though, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.200 can't do anything right. The Orioles have made it deal. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.040 He acquired Louis Castillo from the Marrigers, but not that 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:08.120 Louis Guesstillo, not the good one, Louis F. Castio. So 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.680 I feel like this is like classic nor McDonald is like, oh, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.440 we just made a deal. Well Louise Guesstillo, Oh for 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.480 the Mariners. Oh he's really minute. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.440 That's f in his middle name. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.800 That how we got the wrong one who restrains me Kobe. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.960 This reminds me of all those people in like Best 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.560 Balls and like the n FBC's that they're like, oh 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.640 my god, I got a great value on Julio Rodriguez, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.080 but it was like the catcher Julio R. Rodriguez or whatever, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:35.520 very very funny. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.680 Just the word oh geez, oh, there's mudim mud on 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:39.080 my face. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:44.000 There there rumors. There are rumors that, by the way, 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.880 the Orioles I saw it last night on and there'll 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.080 be scoops, Twitter or whatever that they're looking at Mitch Keller, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.680 that they're talking to the pirates, or there's some rumors 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.840 about Mitch Keller and the Orioles. Just what the Orioles. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.520 Need, you know what, whatever Mitch Keller for Kobe Mayo 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.160 do it. Just let everybody get out of their own spaces. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:07.760 Kobe. No, no, well, you're not getting You're not getting Mitch. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.280 He hasn't done anything. He's oh for eight and five 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.080 strikeouts in three games right now. I don't know where 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.000 that stock is right now. And he's a complainer in 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.200 the organization doesn't like him. Michael has a great one here. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.159 We have Louis Castillo at home. Yes, that's right. You 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:25.280 don't need that. We have Louis Castillo at home. Oh goodness, gracious, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.560 let's get to the rookie. Speaking of Kobe, Mayo's oh 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.760 for eight with five strikeouts in three games so far 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.760 this year, Gunnar Hoglin made a second major league start, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.080 two runs, five and a third innings. It was pretty good. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.040 The second run came in the sixth, though Hogland was pulled, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.760 so it was given up afterwards, but still only five 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.920 of the eighteen balls in play against him were heart hit. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.360 I think he's gonna have another start now next week. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.200 The start is against the Dodgers. That's the only thing, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.439 so just you know, keep that in mind. Maybe not 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.840 the best time to run him out there, but maybe 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.200 being new is exactly, you know, the thing that could 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:57.880 beat the Dodgers. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.560 Percent walk rate two percent, two and a half thera 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.879 with an expected two and a half ERA right now, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.760 gunnery is pretty interesting, but avoid it all costs that 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.080 Dodger matchup. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.640 Yeah, Dodger's a first team of twenty five wins. Bubba 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.919 Chandler allowed three runs on five hits, two in a 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.240 third innings. So Bubba Watch, what do you think, Well. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.000 Yeah, we had got this info during the live stream yesterday. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.199