WEBVTT - Leading Off July 2nd, 2024 (Ep. 854) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.000 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.840 Off Live, brought to you by Betts three six five 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.080 Bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifteen bonus bets 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:15.840 when you use the promo code leading Off only at 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.000 Bet three six five. It is me Joey P. That 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.200 of course is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.040 and the Cracker Jacks. Not a lot from yesterday in baseball, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.040 but certainly we're going to talk about the James Wood debut. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.160 Very exciting stuff there. The baseball world was a buzz. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.280 A lot of games today, full slate. We've got some 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.800 bets for you. We've got a lot of fun things 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.080 going on end. Because of the July fourth holiday, we 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.599 will not be working July fourth, everybody. We want you 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.000 and everyone else out there to enjoy the holiday, but 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.519 us more poortly enjoy the holiday as well. We want 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.120 to take some time off here, a little. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.320 Bit of a getta. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.280 Yeah, Welsh needs a blow on July fourth there, so 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.080 we're gonna give him a blow on July fourth. All 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.280 the fireworks is gonna go, enjoy them, and we'll be 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.360 back on Friday. But because of that, we're moving things 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.840 up prospecting with the Welsh tomorrow today waiver wire, just 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.800 so you get all the information you need Welsh. First 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.080 of all, I have to start the show off with 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.760 an apology because I bullied you into a home run 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.200 pick yesterday. Ah, because I just wanted to have fun 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.319 with you. I just wanted you and me once to 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.680 have fun. And if James Wood, after all the James 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.800 Wood stuff, hit a home run in his debut yesterday, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.679 we would have been so happy together, frolicking hand in 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.880 hand through the AI. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.560 It had been you, me and James Wood holding hands 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.560 running through a baseball field. Everybody in this live stream 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.640 knew your Alvarez was hitting a home yesterday. As soon 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.959 as I was like, well, I was gonna take your Valvarez, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.319 but I'll go with you, the chat was like, and 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.760 guess what, I didn't know your Nalvarez hit a homer, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.039 except it then got tweeted Twitter Cot And as soon 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.600 as someone just tweeted me Jordan, I went h we 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:50.880 all knew it was gonna happen. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:52.480 I should have went with it. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.480 I would probably be at twenty two homers right now. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.240 Had I just followed the path that I've laid out 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.680 for myself, but I dev eight from it because I 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.040 get weird brain thing and I did follow the Jason Wood. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.360 But I'm okay with giving you the home run. But 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:08.640 I'm sure fred Dinger won't. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.720 Oh wild cards would. 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.240 Just go cards, would you know, take it to the 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.720 League office, probably take. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.880 It to the Supreme Court. We're not gonna do that, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.480 so don't worry about that. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.520 We got some rookie lookie stuff though, too, a lot 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.360 of rookie stuff going on. But let's just jump in 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.160 right to the James Wood singled, had a walk, five 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.320 played appearances yesterday. The game went to extra innings, so 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.840 you know, it's a nice first moment, you know, comes 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.239 up there, gets a great ovation from the home crowd. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.640 Good to see the Nats fans excited, you know, really 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.040 excited again for something like this. You know these you 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.200 know back in the day we're excited for Strasbourg and 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.080 so and all these things. It's been a while if 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.800 you're a Nats fan since the World Series, basically that 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.920 you've been excited for anything. Three of the four balls 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.120 you put in play yesterday, one hundred and seven mone 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.040 hour single all had ninety six ninety five exit v 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.320 low if you're into that kind of thing. Mackenzie in 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.600 that game as well, one runner five and two thirds 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.360 struck out eight mets yesterday, So they just wanted to 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.079 kind of revisit the Sodo trade for a second. Now 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.440 that we have James Wood up, Mackenzie gore sixteen starts 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.600 this year, six and seven, a three six zero ERA. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.280 He's got a kper nine over ten cj Abrams hitting 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.679 two eighty two with a five thirteen slugging and a 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.639 fifty two ohps, thirteen homers, forty two RBI, thirteen steals. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.080 James would obviously up already had a great triple A season. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.880 Robert Hassel forty nine games, still kind of, you know, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.440 mid figuring things out a little bit there. It's got 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.800 eleven steals, hitting two seventy eight, but the slugging is 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.720 only at three sixty nine. So looking back on it 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.360 all now we have a little bit more perspective, the 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.240 Nats made some hard decisions. Clearly, the best decision would 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.280 not have been to spend money on Stephen Strasburg. It 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.360 would have been to spend on the position player. They 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.960 did not. After that decision was made, Now that you 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.880 have some perspective. What is your perspective of this trade 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:59.880 looking back on it a few years later. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.160 Yeah, I mean it doesn't look good like that's the 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:04.840 easy way to say it, but there is. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.200 I'm surprised. That's that's the take here, Expelled. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:08.360 No. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.200 I like you can do the path though, because then 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.560 they trade well, because here's the deal. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.240 They traded three. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.839 You know, major league level players. You know, they traded 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.880 away and you've got Gore, You've got James Wood, which 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.680 could be helping this team right now. What I look 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.840 at though, is they traded away Sodo and they got 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.880 back Drew Thorpe, and then they then turned Drew Thorpe 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.159 into Dylan c So you know, you can kind of 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.320 run through the path of like, all right, they got 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.920 a year of Sodo and then they turned Sodo into 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.760 Dylan ce S, which I guess it kind of like 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.760 it helps itself. My problem is is when you trade 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.200 that weight of great players, I mean specifically it's Gordon Wood. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.600 When you trade that way, well in Abrams, I keep 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.960 forgetting about Abrams was sold. He's the I mean, he's 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.760 the core piece here. When you trade that level and 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.240 then you can't re sign and. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.080 Bring Sodo back. Then, I think it's a failure like that, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:04.040 And I always. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.840 Thinking from the okay, so I'm I'm thinking from the 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.600 NATS side that I think they've done pretty well here. Oh, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.359 I think they have to get about Padres. I'm I 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.760 was even thinking about the Padres. I'm talking about the 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.640 Gnat side of this deal. I'm looking at it and 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.560 it was heartbreaking at the time. It's still not the 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.320 right decision. He should have paid total whatever he wanted 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.120 and bought out all the years and just backed up 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.520 the truck for him because you knew it was gonna 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.080 be your franchise talent for the next decade. It's dead. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.280 They didn't, but now Abrams would Gore. Is that enough 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 to show for that move? I thought it was. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:34.920 I always kind of thought it was, though, like when 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.279 that trade happened, I got. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.720 I was not. I was skeptical, far more skeptical at 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:39.080 the time. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.640 I think like I had optimism to mckinzi Gore though 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.560 during that time McKinsey Gore was kind of a mess. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.760 With the Padres c j Abrams believed in and James 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.680 Wood we knew the upside was plus they still got 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.480 Yarlands Susana, and I think Hassle's not gonna happen, but 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.760 Susana has a chance to worst be you know, a 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:56.720 relief pitcher in there. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.080 But this is a it's an interesting trade in. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.040 That deal too. Let's he was playing in New Mexican. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.320 I will say multiple teams that have traded off that 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.479 felt wrong have I think the White Sox are another 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.080 example of like it was like, oh, we're trading away 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.400 Gilito and we're trading away Dylan Ceese. But then you 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.800 look and you're like, there are a couple position players 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.200 and their miners away from having like a really great 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.480 system in bouncing back. I think the Nationals are proof 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.360 of that. And a guy like James Wood in that debut, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.240 you got to see a little bit of everything on hand. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.080 You got to see him work that first at bat 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.039 really hard. I mean he drove that count up. You 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.400 get to see the hard hit drives an opposite field 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.159 single one oh seven. You saw the speed they ruled 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.880 the second one in error. We're gonna be honest with you, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.000 like he was right there at first and then he 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.360 moved over to second. You just didn't get to see 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.000 him get the ball in the air and see some 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.960 of the wild stuff that he can do. As I 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.360 mentioned like left easy doesn't put big extra base hits 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.680 on a bad strikeout, but he was also taking early 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.039 strikes just to kind of see the counts I thought 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:56.320 there was. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:57.640 Again, it's one start. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.680 There's so much good out of it for James Wood 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.080 should be and people should really be excited. And also, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.640 just to reiterate your other point when you brought up 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.159 Mackenzie Gore, I think McKenzie Gore has just been sneaky. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:08.760 Sneaky good all year. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.480 This is the Gore that I saw coming out of 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:11.920 high school. This is the gore I saw in the 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.360 backfields for the Padres, whipping that curveball in through it 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.720 nineteen percent of the time in his last start, had 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.360 a forty five percent whiff rate. The curveball looks amazing. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.119 Slider's eating thirty eight percent whiff rate in this start. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.800 Mackenzie Gore is a great Dynasty buy right now as well. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.600 But James Wood should make us feel pretty good now. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.960 I think we can spend the next month hopefully feeling 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.960 really good about prospects. Is as we mentioned yesterday, Cherio 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.640 in length right now, James wood Is that we can 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.640 feel positive and camon Aro probably going to be an 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.120 option coming off of the All Star break, but we'll 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.160 talk about more of that tomorrow. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.440 I suppose mord to more teaser, that's what they call it. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.720 The business Hunter. Brown still good on the roll, six 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.200 scoreless innings, more for the Astros, beating up on the 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.280 Blue Jays three one. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.800 He's so good. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.000 Brown has by lower the year right now, probably live anyway. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.040 I think his last five starts he's had like a 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:09.200 sub one era. He's just not this major whiffy strikeout 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.280 pitcher because he's become more heavy sinker. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:12.920 But the sinker has saved him. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.480 He had forty five swings in this start yesterday, only 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:22.880 eight induced whiffs, and the called strike ratio was down 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.160 as far as like wists go, too, because that's just. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.400 Not necessarily his game. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.760 He'll pump in the fastball that's actually getting some of 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.160 the strikeouts. Sinker cutter week contact. He's been so good, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.240 you said it, one of the best buys of the year, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.120 and I just roll the rest of the season. I 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.880 don't think he's going to be sub one era or 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.920 anything like that to finish out, but I think he 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.200 is going to finish out very strong, and we're gonna 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.840 be talking about him maybe as a top fifteen sp 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.480 next year if he continues this role. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.560 The Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake has been working with 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.840 Carlos Rodan trying to get a better approach in terms 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.640 of fastball, because we mentioned earlier this week that Carls 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.640 Rondon up to twenty earned runs now his last three 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.920 stars guys are have opposing batters have a twelve fifty 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.199 three ops over that spand so that's not been good. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.760 H tonight, you guess, Louis Heel, so Welsh, how are 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.840 you feeling about this start here for our boy Louie tonight? 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.280 Paid tension, little. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.480 Tense, little tension, A little tension up. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.199 Shout out my boy. Dennis Hitler actually was with Louis 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.840 Heel yesterday. There's a thing at a brewery or whatever. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:37.400 But on paper, in theory, this is a good spot 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.920 for Louis Heel. This is a team that you know, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:41.960 the walks aren't gonna be up there. You're gonna have 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.520 guys swinging through their shoes. His k's have been solved. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.400 The only problem is is he's been his stuff has 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.520 been a little bit off. He's been sitting inside the 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.280 plate a little bit more, and then when he gets 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.320 inside the plate, he starts throwing balls. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.120 He has gotten to get back to that big. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:01.760 Efficient, crazy pitch mixed stuff. I'm cush optimistic for what 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.520 cold did for me on Sunday or Saturday whatever it was. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.079 Heel gets back to heelness and becomes the king of 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.079 the heel. Luis got to do some business. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.160 Oh that was it. That was a really good dad 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.520 joke to give me the heel. That's solid, solid work there. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.040 All right, let's have something here, boss. I don't know 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.920 if you buy Bob Nightingale. Uh, track record's not always 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.000 great about reporting things. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.480 Is there anybody worse? Is there anything ty for guy 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.280 you have a thing with? 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.760 I don't have a thing, but it was pointed out 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.400 to me years ago and ever since it's like, you 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.160 know that thing that you can't see it once you've 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.719 seen it. And then every time I see him in 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.120 the off season, all he does is basically create clickbig nonsets. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:46.840 Like I mean, that's Nightingale. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.320 Who was the guy that also got destroyed about the 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:51.320 Otani Toronto thing? 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.320 Or was that him? I actually thought that was Nightingale. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:56.320 To be honest with you. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.120 It might have been both of them, but Moros. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:10:59.520 Maybe they're one person. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.720 Maybe they're just like those clickdate accounts that are out there. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.840 Apparently, now that the Mets are hovering around five hundred, 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.520 that Pete A. Lonzo may not be traded at the DAD. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.200 We'll believe that one when I see it. However, the 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.640 White Sox do intend to trade Garrett Crochet, which, by 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.600 the way, fun fact leading the league in strikeouts Garret 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.960 Crochet and more than Tyler Glasnow I did not have 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.240 that on my Bengo car Gras I. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:24.920 Did a video. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.120 I just did the video on him. I think I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.800 mentioned on here. But since June first, thirty seven percent 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.800 K percentage and he has the best K minus walk 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.360 percentage since June as well. He has been unreal. But 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.000 that was the thing that was why we presented by 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.880 dang It. I completely forgot about this same dang it 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.760 because we asked people to, you know, should we trade 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.240 Garrett Crochet in the videos and people were commenting, and 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.040 ah man, someone had such a good comment, and I forgot. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.679 I don't know if I can pull it back up. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.640 You guys have more things to roll through. If you 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.080 want to go see if you can find the comment. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.880 So I'll look here. Rookie Lukie time the Brewers sent 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:07.079 Tyler Black down to Triple A again. Kobe Mayo Apparently 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.480 a little interview yesterday with Michael Ayas says that Kobe 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.000 Mayo really doesn't have much to prove left in the 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.520 minor leagues. Well, should we going to get a Kobe 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.719 Mayo call up soon? It feels like we might. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.320 Feels like said there was only two guys worth stashing, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.200 and that was James Wood last week and Kobe Mayo. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.200 He's absolutely on fire. They just got to make room 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.600 for him. I don't know how comfortable this team is 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.480 with you know this many rookies. Jackson Holliday didn't work. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.960 Kerstad has actually been pretty solid since he's gotten back, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.440 So I don't know how they make it work, but 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.880 I completely agree he does not need to be in 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:40.680 the miners anymore. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.240 He's gotten very little to prove. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.440 The White Sox are promoting Kyle Busch from double to 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.599 Triple A. He's twenty four years old. He was the 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.480 guy in the Giolito Lopez deal five and three with 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.040 a two point one two era, a seventy eight to 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.840 thirty three strikeout walk rate in eighty innings. Is this 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.959 something that the dynasty folks should be paying attention to. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.480 I know he wasn't like the highest rated prospect necessarily, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.000 but certainly from a performance standpoint, you know, put up 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.360 a two era in double A like that has my attention. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.040 Yeah, all those guys, That's what I was talking about 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.880 with the White Sox, Like their system is so unique 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.000 and interesting because they what they did was they build. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.880 They did the anti dynasty thing. That's what I tell 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.800 a lot of people. People will send me these trade 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.280 things and we'll be like, hey, I'm trading away these 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.560 great prospects for a pitcher, and I'm like, Eh, don't 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.280 go by pictures when you're revamping your dynasty. Do that 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.040 kind of lasts or don't have you know, trade away 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.720 great hitters and be the centerpiece be pictures. But in 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.720 real baseball, that is what you want to do, and 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.839 that's what the White Sox did. They prioritize getting guys 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.920 like Thorpe and Eerie Rt and Ky Bush, Nick Nastrini 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.760 from the Dodgers. I think Kay Busch is more of 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.960 a back end rotation player. But the good thing is 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.360 they've been they've all been working and that's why they 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.679 were all in Double A with Edgar Querrel. They've all 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.840 been working with their same guy, and I think that's 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.280 built a lot of confidence. I think again, it's a streamer, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.800 it's not someone and we're looking to pick up big term. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.760 But by the way, here was the comment on Garrett Crochet. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.120 Because we wanted all these people's take, which there's some 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.679 good ones in here we had. I'm holding no trade. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.000 Garrett Crochet will get traded. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.120 And get an extension with somebody's take a bunch of others. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:14.520 That's a take I agree with. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.000 Football Mania said, I believe it would be insane to 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.640 trade Crochet unless you get a huge holse starters, not prospects. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.760 That's what I would do. But this was my favorite. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.520 The moving blanket said I'm buying yarn to knit because 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:27.720 I believe in Crochet. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:28.520 That was. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.080 The dad joke inside of me that loved that comment. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.320 So good job making comments from everybody on the video. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.560 Marcelo Mayor was not playing yesterday in Double A. He 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.520 has a back issue he's working through, but Welsh mentioned 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.200 him the other day on his video too. I believe 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.520 Marcello Mar's other guy that you were talking about or recent. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.280 A while back. But I want David. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.040 Hamlett last one by a couple one onth ago. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.520 Yeah, and David Hamilton, that's been the big one. I'll 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.600 say the batting average is like tapering down a tiny. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.080 Three seven, three seventy one, four seventy nine slash A 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:01.040 that's pretty good. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.520 No, it's really good, and that I had pointed him 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.440 out and I but at the time I was, I 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.360 was very dismissive of David Hamilton. I was like, the 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.120 only thing holding Marcella Mayor back from coming up is 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.240 David Hamilton. To a degree, I think that's like that 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.800 still kind of applies. But Hamilton two seventy twenty one 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.880 stolen bases, He's expected batting averages around the general same area. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.840 He's barreling up like he's just had like a really 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.800 solid good season. But in May when I was dismissive, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.640 he was hitting three thirty three. In June he's down 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.480 to two fifty three. But he did just steal twelve 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.840 bases in June. So I think Mayor is a guy 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.560 that they could look at especially as they're looking to, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.040 you know, continue on win games and stuff like that 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:40.720 if Hamilton tapers back. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.360 But they do like Hamilton right now. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.560 You know what time it is, Welsh, It's time to 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.360 hit the waiver wire for week fifteen with Joey p 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.640 and the Welsh. I've got some names for you, I 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.600 believe it or not. Two Mets. I don't know what 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.640 the world's coming to. Christian Scott's going to get the 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.840 call again, coming back up to make a start Wednesday 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.000 against the Nats, and he's roster in just fifty four 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.480 percent of leagues. A lot of people had to drop 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.520 him roster crunch. I understand the guy was spectacular when 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.640 he was pitching for the New York Mets. Looking for 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.640 him replacing Tyler McGill long term. In this people are saying, well, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.600 they're not committing to him. I'm gonna commit to him regardless. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.920 You gotta add this guy as soon as you possibly can. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.800 Fifty four percents too low for Scott, and the Mets 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.240 are hovering around five hundred all of a sudden, are 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.760 more relevant. He's got a three nine zero ERA, twenty 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.920 five strikeouts, just six walks over twenty seven innings with 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.760 the Mets this year. Another Met and I'm putting this 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.360 out there because he was on a waiver wire video 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.680 I did like a month ago. And he's still just 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.920 sixty six percent rostered even though he has a nine 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.000 hundred OPS and it's Mark Viento's. How is he still 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.160 just sixty six percent rostered? Okay, let's just talk about 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.160 this for a moment. Over his last nine games heading 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.680 into this week, three twenty four batting average, seven rbi, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 ten runs scored. Okay, On the year, he is slashing 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.000 two ninety seven, three fifty five five to seventy eight, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.320 ten homers, twenty three RBI, twenty four run score. Now 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.320 he's not stealing any bases, that's fine, But Welsh Mark 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.840 Vento's qualifies a first qualifies the third plays every day. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.000 He's got a nine hundred ops. How the hell is 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.280 he just at sixty six percent? 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:10.080 Hands up? 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.600 I'm putting my hands up because I completely agree. Like 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.639 I did this on IL yesterday, Mark Viento's is the 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.200 number one pick up if he is available in any format. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.080 And guess what he was under like if e goes 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.560 under sixty two percent in CBS when we did it 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.359 yesterday way under another formats. You did some of the 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.520 surface level stuff. I mean ten Homer's three zero one 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.400 batting average kind of speaks for itself, but underlying an 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.160 elite fifteen percent barrel rate, he's hitting the ball really hard, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.240 averaging over ninety EV with a one thirteen max. And 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.600 he's cut his strikeouts by eight percent down to like 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.639 not just that's a solid number. He was thirty percent 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.359 last year, he's down to twenty two percent. Just making 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.800 great contact with huge, huge power that can pull it 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.520 on all sides of the field. I am a big, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.480 big Mark Viento's pickup guy, and you, I think you 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.840