WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 4th, 2022 (Ep. 567) 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.560 Welcome in everybody to Leading Off, brought to you by 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.320 bet MGM right here on Fantasy Pros. I am Chris 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:26.119 Welsh and joining me today for a magnificent episode of 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.479 Leading Off for all you Penis and cracker Jacks people 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.520 watching live or of course people listening on the podcast 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.600 is the great and powerful Nick Pollock. Pitch your list. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.319 What's up, my friend? What's up? Nick? 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.600 What is happening? So good to see you, Chris, Thanks 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:41.600 so much for having me today. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.760 I always love talking with you. One of the perennial 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.960 names in all of the baseball space. Obviously, you guys 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.839 know him. You get all of his breakdowns. You know 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.120 what the best part of today is too, I get 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:56.000 to potentially throw hitter things at Oh no, that's always 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.680 the problem because Nick, the number one thing we're gonna 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.520 be talking about, of course, is going to be over 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.960 on the padres. But I want to remind everybody you 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.720 can follow mister Nick Pollock over at picture List. You 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.240 can check out their incredibly, incredibly awesome website. What is 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.640 the version are we on on pictures at seven point? 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.280 Oh? I don't recall, it's it's pl seven When Stack 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:17.840 cast that on our player pages. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:18.640 It's wonderful. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.960 It is crazy crazy. If you want to do any 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.800 research on players, you've got to make sure you go 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.479 over there. They've got a litany of incredible podcasts, and 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.320 really Nick is the one of the biggest must follows 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.000 on Twitter that I possibly know, and a wonderful person, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.559 one of just my favorite, like genuinely great people, whether 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.920 it's on a podcast, whether it's in person, whether it's 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.240 giving advice. Nick has literally never said no to me, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:44.040 and I say. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.600 Of course, how could I not? And I can't thank 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.680 you enough for giving advice like this. I'm excited to 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.120 talk about everything baseball, yes, including the cardboard cutouts that 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:51.720 are hitters. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.920 Yes, there are a few. And there were a couple 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.880 that were traded. I know it's not a exciting pictures Nick, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.320 but there were a couple that were traded and made 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:03.320 their debuts Yesterdays. They came out with an absolute bang 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.960 with a nine to one victory with all their new guys, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.640 Brandon Drury first inning grand slam, Soto and Bell both 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.320 on base. Soto ended up going one for three with 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.919 two walks in the debut. Josh Bell oh for two, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.120 but he had two walks and two runs, Brandon Drury 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.280 one for three with a grand Slam for RBI, and 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.919 it was a polaroid moment. It was a huge, huge 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.400 build up to what had the chance to disappoint, and 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.520 it did not. Like I know, they are stinky hitters 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.359 and everything like that, but I mean we've been talking 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.240 a lot about the fantasy uptick on players and going 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.160 to new destinations. Soto's a kind of no brainer, Josh Bell, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.840 I think is a relatively good no brainer. What about 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.480 Brandon Drury? What were your thoughts on Brandon Drury and 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:48.760 having that big output. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.680 Yeah, So, Brandon Drury when we moved to San Diego padrics, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.280 you definitely know how you fit in with so many 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.840 options there. But it's so good to see him right 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.240 away making an impact for San Diego. And you gotta 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.280 think that they'll find a way to game his line 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.200 because he's such a good hitter this year inside of 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.360 Cincinnati and I'm just really excited to see him thrive 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.399 in Sandy U now in such a good lineup, grand 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.680 jury shoot succeed there. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.960 Yeah, exactly, Nick's got to run, go go do. I'm 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.959 not joking you. Nick is literally burning His food is 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.840 food burning his whole place might burn down, so he 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.839 had to run. Here's what I thought was interesting. Here's 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.160 a couple of things. Juan Soto hit two in the lineup, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.000 major check. That is exactly what we wanted to see. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.400 So think when Tatis comes back. If Tatis leaves off 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.040 and then you go Sodo Machado, it will be the 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.800 greatest one through three I can imagine. And I mentioned 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.880 it yesterday. The no run first inning bets on the 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.440 run scored should be really fascinating for the Padres because 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.240 you're not gonna want to ever take it on the under. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.480 Josh Bell hitting behind the major guys proves the incredible 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.720 RBI opportunity that's gonna be out there, even though he 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.280 didn't really do a whole bunch a couple walks in 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.200 their couple runs. And Brandon Drury dh in his first appearance, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.920 which I think was really important to see because at 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.200 the end of the day, you're gonna see him just 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.200 play all across the board, and they played him right 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.080 off the bat against righty's not that they wouldn't have, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.120 but if you were to pretend something nick Brandon Drury 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.359 is one of the better left handed hitters in I 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.040 mean hitting left lefties in baseball right now. I mean 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.400 he think he's like still top ten. Is not Paul Goldschmid, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.040 but you know he is a guy where if he's 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.279 up against a lefty and you're a better you want 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.359 to go probably take a goal total base proper you 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.520 can feel comfortable with the homer. So they played him 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.880 up against righty's as well. He could DH, he could 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.520 play second, he could play outfield. His versatility really showed out, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.000 and really everything we guessed that this lineup would do happen. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.479 Bell Rbi opportunity, Soto to Drury hitting in a pretty 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.039 solid spot and coming through and probably gonna get regular 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.400 playing time, which is what we need definitely. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.440 And it's also kind of interesting to see the Pieris 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.440 and the Mets maybe do this thing of game platwo 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.720 similit guys. You have Darren Roff now and Bogo back 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.320 with the Mets too. It might be what the Pyres 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.560 are doing, So it might not be in every thing 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.279 for brand juries, it might be need a little bit 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:02.960 more on lefties. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.000 Well, and they got Kim and they've got Profar and 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.039 Grishan was hitten out a little bit by the way 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:08.839 did your food. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.279 Burn It's all right. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.719 I just all of a sudden smelled it and I 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.599 was like, oh my god, I put it on too high, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.080 and I realized for thirty minutes, I'm gonna start a fire, 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:16.760 so I needed to. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.120 Okay, I'm glad. What I'm really glad about is I 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.360 didn't bring Nick Pollock on and his whole house burned 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.279 down when he's I got enough of my personal life 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.520 that's burning down. I don't need to burn down your life. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.279 So I'm glad we didn't burn down. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.640 The moment of oh my god, I'm thirty minutes and 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:34.520 it's gonna burned down. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.479 That's exactly right, lord. So it was magnificent on the 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.239 Padres front. Sandy al Contra through his third complete game 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.520 of the season. Nick, you are the picture guy. Actually 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.440 have two picture things I want to break down here. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.839 Talk to me about Sandy o Contra and how have 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.600 you dealt with him from fantasy As far as value, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.320 I know, it's not the most important thing in the world. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.760 He might be the most reliable, trustworthy picture of the 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.800 entire season. He doesn't have the best you know, like 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.960 percentage to Kate for nine or anything like that. But 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.680 as he goes so deep, he puts up stats. What 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.279 level of elite is al Contra through this entire season 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.000 for you compared to other guys like especially here's here's 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.520 a perfect example. Garrett Cole just got lit up yesterday 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.240 and he's really shown inconsistency throughout the board. Do you 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.800 think al Contra is no question more valuable than Garrett 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:22.920 Cole for the rest of the season. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.839 Yeah. I have him ranked above of Garrett Cole since 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.560 I believe two weeks ago on my weekly edition of 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.120 the list. And Sandale Katara does such a good job 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.479 of getting fastballs inside, getting awkward swings that create outs 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.360 in the field quickly. He makes it such a tough 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.280 at bat every time, doesn't waste many pitches, and when 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.240 we saw yesterday those three strikeouts not the best changeup. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.320 Insider that we've seen from him. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.600 But when you have three pitches actually really four if 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.320 you want to say, the Forestings sinc Are being two 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.880 distinct ones. Al Kantara just makes such difficult bats all 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.880 the time with the most ridiculous stuff, and we're talking 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.799 like ninety nine mile per hour fastballs and then amazing 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.800 drop on the change up Inslider two and because of 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.240 that constant pounding of the zone, tough swing decisions, al 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.480 Kantar is able to go deep into games consistently. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.680 And keep in mind, because he's going so long into 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:14.080 the games that. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.800 Earray and whip are higher expressed than guys going you know, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.760 thirty percent fewer frames because that's in the array. Yes, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.400 but if you're in a roto league, that means so 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.200 much more that he's doing over eight innings than six innings. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.280 So do not undervalue that from a Sandi al Kaintara. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.120 It's been an amazing season. I don't really see it 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.000 slowing down at all. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.240 Yeah, is he number three overall? He's number three. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.840 For me, it's carbon Burns, It's see McClanahan and all cantar. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.760 But then de Grama's back and how do you deal 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.120 with that? But that's another story. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.080 Wow, that's a whole other thing that I would dive into. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.840 But I saw mich McClanahan was on that list on 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.680 the other side, boy, I mean, I can't be any 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.680 colder betting right now. We can talk about that later. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.920 But Freddy Praulta did make his debut back from injury, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.760 going three and two thirds he ended up giving up 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.960 to he walked to struck out three. He only went 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.640 sixty seven pitches. Looked like he was really moving and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.640 shaking in that bottom of the fourth inning, gave up 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.920 those runs and then they pretty much immediately yanked him 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.800 and didn't look like that strikeout prop was going to 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.280 go great. Eight swing and misses on the day. Change 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.720 up I think was at like a fifty percent with rate. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.200 Fastball wasn't really doing a whole bunch slider low slider stuff. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.600 I think it was all in like twenty five plus 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.040 csw What were your thoughts on the return of Freddy Perlta? 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.559 Did this look like the guy that everybody was trying 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.960 to push as a top ten sp Do you think 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.920 he is going to need some time to work back? 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.320 Are you back into ultimate trust of Freddy perult especially 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.960 if people like in a fantasy trade deadline might be 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.800 looking to maybe acchoir Freddy Peralta. You know, if they 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.400 want to make a push, is that a guy people 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.040 should be trading for with short innings coming off of 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.880 the injury? And I don't know, did his stuff look 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.040 good enough for you? Right? 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.440 It didn't for me? What you want to see from 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:53.880 Freddy Peralta is just strikes. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.479 You want to see him pounding the zone with fastballs 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.880 and hopefully the slider gets strikes as well on top 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.360 of them. As long as this heater inside the zone constantly, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.080 and I'm talking upper third of the zone, we're just 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.439 anywhere really inside that box, but hopefully upper third for 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.079 Alta will have a great start yesterday, very volatile, very 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.000 erratic in a bad way with that heater. I call 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.760 him Professor Chaos because of how much is strikes imply 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.000 just normally looks like just an array, but normally inside 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.560 of that zone. And if who wasn't there yesterday, it 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.600 could be a product of injury, it could be product 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.000 of jitters. You just came back for so long and 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.040 you're really excited and that can affect you too. So 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.520 it's really hard to tell at this moment if Peralta 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.400 is going to make those adjustments to get back into 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.080 any sort of rhythm as that sp two that we've seen. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.079 I want to believe he will because he has done 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.199 it for a decent amount of time. He does pitch 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.520 cross body, though, and that's something that requires a lot 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.680 of rhythm to get back into the zone constantly with 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.200 a timing on on release, so it might take a 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.160 couple starts to get there. Interesting to maybe wait if 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.160 you're looking to trade for him for another week, wait 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.560 for another bats art, because I don't think a manager 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.040 would be willing to give him up for cheap at 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:03.439 the moment. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.640 Yeah. Well, okay, so that's interesting because you turned it 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.280 back into kind of like a buy and I wasn't 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:09.480 sure if it was going to be a buy or 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.040 maybe a sell off. If you don't want to wait. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.320 Trade deadlines are not created equal in fantasy. I've had 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.520 some that just hit on the first you get some 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.640 I think that will be usually mid August. You might 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.240 have some push even a little bit further, maybe even 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.199 to the end of August. So if you can get 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.160 one more bad start in, that might be the time 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.040 if you believe there's going to be a tick back. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.840 But maybe if there is no discount required off of 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.280 the bad start and you can still get full value, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.080 you could even look at maybe not playing. You know, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.840 you could move off of him for the rest of 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.800 your year if you don't want to play it through, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.920 because unfortunately, it's going to have to be game time 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.360 and Freddy Brot has never been a big innings guy, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.280 and he already won sixty seven pitches only through four, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.800 So you do have to question long term, if the 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.680 stuff is just a little bit shaky over the next 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.320 three or four starts, how comfortable will they ultimately be 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.680 just pushing him in in to win opportunities. And he's 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.120 the polar opposite of Sandy al Contrac where Sanuel Contrac like, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.960 if he doesn't go seven, We're like, is he injured? 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.200 What's going on here? 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.839 No, with Freddy Peerlte, We'll say the only true by 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.080 lows are where it's not a guarantee that he's gonna 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.680 do well again. Right, So, if you are really buying 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.679 on Freddy Perlze, you're kind of hoping that it does 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.720 go poorly the next two starts and then having that 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.040 faith that it'll come back up. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.079 Yeah, exactly. One of the top prospects in baseball did 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.000 make his major league debut, but probably the most boring 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.560 of names for many people just don't know him, Miguel Vargas. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.040 He ended up going two for four two RBIs. I 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.760 think he also stole third if I remember correctly, not 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.440 on the ear Miguel Vargas. This is one of those guys. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.280 I'm having these moments and I don't want to make 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.960 everything about me, even though it can be. But like 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.120 I have this shlew of these players that I saw 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.000 as the lowest levels, Like I remember Miguel Vargus in 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.280 like twenty eighteen or seventeen on the backfields of Camelback 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.959 Rants watching him, being like, man, this kid is really impressive. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.320 Not showing crazy stuff, but he's really impressive watching him 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.760 as this kid, and he's now up in the major 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.760 leagues right now, and he is successful, and he one 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.640 of the best prospects in baseball. Fifteen homers, twelve stolen 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.920 base is hitting two ninety one with a three eighty 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.240 two OBP in the minor league season and now stolen 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.400 base a couple hits in his major league debut. Can 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.240 kind of move around. As soon as I saw he 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.600 was actually called up, immediately tweeted out for everybody, go 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.319 pick him up. If he's still out there, go pick 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.720 him up. This is one of those prospects that you 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.600 know in the Dodger system. I don't know how long 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.600 that they'll let things hang around, but if he's successful 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.760 and he's here. He could play multiple positions. He's got 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.680 incredible hit tool, and he's always been patient, doesn't strike out, walks, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.079 has a high OBP OBP leagues is a good one. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.960 This is definitely a hitter that you guys want to 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.600 go and pick up if he is looming around and 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.560 you want to play the young guy game in redraft, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.760 which I usually don't like to do. Over on the 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.760 injury front, Michael Harris will scratched yesterday day to day 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.480 with a foot injury. This is blasphemous. I know he's 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.680 a cardboard, stinky hitter, but Michael Harris one of my 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.680 favorite players of the entire year, and really also Nick. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:03.079 I have to continue root and cheer for Michael Harris 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.199 because as oneal Cruz goes out and hits his eighth 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.400 homer and has a higher and fourteen EV and everybody 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.160 tweets me about it because I'm critical of I'm only 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.160 critical of onneal Cruz because the guy hits sub two 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.600 thirty and he was anointed the Rookie of the Year 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.000 through seven at bats through this season. That's why I'm 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.520 critical Michael Harris. I think the best guy in baseball 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.319 got to continuously root for are you a big Michael 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.000 Harris guy. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.920 I sure, I I'm I'm the one who will watch 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.280 every single thing that O'Neal Cruz does. So I feel 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.959 like I need to just say, Okay, I believe you, Chris, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:37.680 I believe you. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.640 I mean, like it's it's the most difficult situation for 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.200 me because it feels like everybody thinks I hate O'Neal 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.040 Cruz and I don't. I've talked about oneo Cruz in 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.320 like the week and a half or so. I don't 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.640 hate O'Neill Cruz. He's an insane video game challenge. I 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.880 got nine homers and five stolen bases on the year, right. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.000 He's great, but he's thaking two twenty five. He has 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.760 a sub two seventy OBP, which sucks, and he strikes 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.319 out a bunch. So he's a big He's like Javier Bias. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.920 He's like he's a bigger physical piece of hobbyer buyers, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.080 where how your buyers would be like, man, you're singing 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.040 things through a lot of stuff. But he does video 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.240 game stuff. That's what o'neol Cruiz is. He's a monster 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.680 and beast. And I turned Michael Harrison to oneo Cruise. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.680 It's like a it's like a picture, like a Matt 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.960 Brash kind of thing where you see the amazing breaking balls, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.800 but it's like, okay, what was the final line kind 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.800 of thing is what you're trying to say, and Michael 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.480 Hyris is just your Hey guys, I'm I'm Luis Garcia 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:31.480 and I'm just doing really good things. 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:31.880 It's okay. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.600 Yeah. Yeah. Maybe also like like a Freddy Peralta, Like 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.800 Freddy Peralta has just absolutely bonker stuff, but he just 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.080 doesn't go deep into games a ton. I mean, it's 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.560 a word. It's not a great comp but it's like 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.360 that idea, like it's flash, it's got top end type 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.400 of stuff. That's who on'eal Cruz absolutely is. Next year 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 will be more fun. I'll be a lot more into it. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.920 But you know, like I don't get excited about two 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:54.400 thirty here. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.560 I can't wait for the the blind mock draft where 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.920 you yell at your co manag for taking O'Neal Cruz 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:02.640 in the third round. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.040 I catch such a blast with that nick and picture 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.520 con he runs. They did these blind drafts and right 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.400 now yeah, yeah, exact pitch con and I did this 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:13.200 last one didn't. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.680 I yeah, yeah, your back. It was great, you and 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:16.720 you and Bagman. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.280 I haven't seen the result. I don't know where the 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.960 results are that you're gonna do a mid season results. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.600 Oh, we we're gonna post them. Don't worry. Okay, good, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:23.760 I'm sure I did terribly. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.560 I will scream a little bit if they do something 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.760 bonkers like you know, take two years ago, Dalton var 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:30.880 show who didn't make the roster. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.680 Oh that was so fun. That was fun. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.320 Burned through the other injuries, Austin Hayes Island with an 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.560 oblique Brian Baiyo out with a groin injury, Gavin Sheet's 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.600 got a bruised ankle, Joey Bart left the game with 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.240 growing tightness. Ross Strippling placed on the al with a 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.640 leg injury. Creats some rotational stuff, and George Springer remains 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.840 out of lineup with an elbow problem. And as does 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.320 what mayorfield you know, at least in Toronto. So will 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.680 he lead off potentially when you get there. Here's a 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.360 fun fact by Sarah Langs that's slang on sports. Brandon 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.640 Jury is the first player with the grand in his 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.760 first played appearance with a team after changing mid season 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.040 with teams. He's the first player with the team that 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.560 Rip Ripulski of the Red Sox on May tenth, nineteen sixty, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.280 was I guess the next? Oh yeah? So since so 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.080 since nineteen sixty this is an oddly worded tweet, or 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.200 maybe I'm just reading it weird, but since nineteen a 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.400 better way to be with Since nineteen sixty, Branjurie is 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.040 the first player with the Grand Slam in his first 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.360 played appearance within a team after changing teams mid season. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:34.080 Thank you Sarah Langs for the tongue twister. Two more 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.520 and then we're going to get into some of the stats. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.040 This day in baseball nineteen ninety three, Tony gwyn had 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.320 six hits against the Giants. It is the Patter's outfielders 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.360 fourth game of the nineteen ninety three season with five 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.880 or more hits. He becomes only the third person to 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.400 get five hits or better that many times in a 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.800 single season. Very ironic that won so Wan Soto might 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.760 actually be okay, This might be contros on soda, the 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.920 best version of like a Tony Gwinn we've had since 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.960 Tony Gwinn, Is there any player that has been more 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.239 representative of like Tony Gunn is always unique in his 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.280 game and his contact. Do you think that's like a 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.400 Juan Soto. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.239 Like I think one SODA's too patient for that. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.320 Like Tony Gwinn to get as many hits as he 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.160 did is because he did not accept walks as much, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.400 I imagine as Wan Soda. I don't have the career 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.439 numbers of Tony Gwinn, but I assure you it's not 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:34.040 the same patience that has been instilled in the game 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.040 now still as far as overall hit tool goes, and 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.200 just like all right, I'm just gonna get Smiths today 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:40.760 or be amazing at the play. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.720 I can understand where you're coming from, and. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.359 Like you just prove it right there, like two walks 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.560 in his major league debut, like the hype, like players 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.120 will be swinging through their shoes like Brandon Jury. Here's 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.560 a trivia question for today. Edwin Diaz is eight point 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.120 one strikeouts per nine this season would set a record 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.080 for a pitcher with at least twenty saves in baseball. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.560 This is for the chat or anybody listening who holds 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.000 the current record. Nick cannot answer this because if the 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:06.560