WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 17th, 2022 (Ep. 512) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:17.119 Johnny Quato sighting, let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.439 leading off right here on Fantasy Pros it is B 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.960 Joey p Joe Pi's appear with me is Scott Bagman, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.279 and we're coming to you courtesy of bet MGM Sports, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.320 the King of sports books. That's right, Scott Bagman, and 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.600 I got all the MLB action to break down for you. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.360 Monstrous Luis Robert Holme run, Wilson Contreras, congratulations on his 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.240 hundredth home run. Everyone, everyone's in a hundredth home runs 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.720 this week. It's very cool, all the milestones going on. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.360 Of course, we got the peanuts of the Crackerjacks commenting 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.480 as we always do right here on a glorious Tuesday. Yesterday, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.160 my kids got sent home from school early in fear 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.880 of these terrible storms that did not happen, did rain later. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.760 It's amazing. You know the difference between when we were 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.080 kids and kids now. It's like, well, we want to 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.720 be safe for sorry. There was no kindness for us 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.720 as children. It was like, well, if you get hit 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.440 by lightning, that's on you, tornado tap, that's you know, 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.479 we could care less. Do you get that feeling? 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.360 I do remember walking to school and like seeing the 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.679 rain drops freeze on my hat when I walked in, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.399 and like and be like, man, I probably should not 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.720 have been walking to school today, but that's just the 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.720 way it was, you know. So, uh, it didn't have 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.240 to do that for very long because then I moved 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.200 to Arizona where it doesn't rain right and it's just 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.160 always hot. So never happened again. But it did happen 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.440 to me when I was nine or whatever. So uh, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 but yeah, I'm let's talk some baseball, man, I'm ready. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.280 Yeah, let's do a baby, Let's do it. If you 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.039 want to talk with us, make sure you subscribe to 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.040 our leading off show right here, which is on Fantasy 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.800 Pros MLB. Subscribe to our MLB channel, Fantasy Pros, and 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.960 then you can make some comments and become a peanut 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.400 and a cracker jack in your life becomes complete. I'm 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.040 telling you it's the way to go. Let's kick things 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.680 off here with Gary Sanchez homers and doubles in a 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.600 win over the A's My boy Freddy p Freddie Peralta 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.400 fans ten over seven scoreless innings. It was a beautiful moment. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.960 One of our peanuts and Crackerjacks actually hit me up 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.880 in the Discord channel because he won five hundred bucks 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.600 last night playing DFS with Our Lives last night. Pretty 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.040 pretty good, not too shabby. I think it was like 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.440 a five dollars entry or something like that. So, oh 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.040 we go, nice return on your money. Over the last 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:25.680 five stars for Freddy Peralta one five, seven, Era six strikeout, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.840 I mean, excuse me, I'll just six walks over that 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.720 period of time. The guy's been absolutely electric in what 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.160 he's done. Eight is the web point eight zero is 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.440 the whip right now for Freddy p. So people get 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.440 concerned or freaked out over a short period of time here, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.480 you gotta just calm down, like you know, especially in April. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.160 This is the first thing and people started freaking out 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.639 about Freddy Peralta in the first two weeks. We were 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.840 practicing patients on this show, and if you had patients, 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.639 it certainly paid off because he's been dominant. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.160 Yeah, and there's just no reason panic could tell about 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:54.800 six weeks in. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:55.360 I mean, if a. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.920 Guy is you're the six week guy, yeah, if because 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.920 that's when teams start to panic. That's when Jared kell 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.040 Ncott sent down, you know, that's when the teams start 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.400 to go, all right, we've had enough. We're not letting 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.480 you come out of this anymore. Go figure it out 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.480 down in the minors and then come back up unless 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:17.760 they're really young. So there's just not especially with established veterans, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.520 there's no reason to panic early in the season. I mean, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.000 remember Paul Goldsmith had the worst like eight week stretch 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.880 ever a couple of years back, and then was an 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.680 All Star from that point on. Sometimes it's just guys 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.840 are in a funk, can't get right whatever. And all 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.400 I'm saying is if this happened between July and August, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.920 we wouldn't even notice, you know. But because it's at 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.840 the beginning of the season, we noticed, because we're waiting 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.120 for all of these numbers to come back. But I 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.600 think I was most oppressed with Johnnyquato last night. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.840 No Johnny Quato throws six scorrels in his twenty twenty 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.240 two debut. All right, Bobs, what are your thoughts on 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:53.920 Johnny Quato? 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.000 All the stuff we said about Jose Quintana, I would 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.800 rather I feel like I'd rather have Johnny Cuato. But 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.240 I know I know it's coming, Like we know we 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.000 know it's coming with uh these guys anyway, you know, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.600 the veterans that have been around for so long, Wait 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.680 a little bit. He looked great last night. I think 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.640 I'd make him an add in a deeper league. But 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.080 you know, the other shoe's gonna drop. He'll give up 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.719 eight at some point or whatever. But uh, I like 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.760 riding the wave. John e Quaida looked good last night. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.000 I just don't know how long you can keep a 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.159 rotation spot too. Because you have Gilido coming back today, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:36.080 you have, I assume at some point, right eventually. You know, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.040 it's funny we've getten updates on you know, we've gotten 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.720 updates on d Grom even we've certainly gotten updates on 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.880 Chris Sale that he's throwing. A don't know what that means. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.960 He's throwing he's playing catch, which is great. I play 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.080 catch too outside, so I don't know what that means. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.839 But I haven't I even heard boom out lancelets. I'm 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.680 hoping things start to trickle down. By the way, I 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.120 missed a freight per alticetat. I just wanted to uh 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.960 to throw out there. Thirty eight strikeouts over the last 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.360 five starts, just six Walks. I missed the strikeout total. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.360 That's what I was looking for, and I had the numbered. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.320 I lost it. That's a pretty darn good Kito walk ratio. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.960 I just want to throw that out there. Louis Robert, Yeah, 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.599 hit a phenomenal home run, his tenth in the tenth 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.080 excuse me against the White Boy. Oh boy, I'm having 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:18.040 trouble to day. Bogs. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.200 It's the morning, you sound like I do. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.159 It's not the morning, it's afternoon for me. It's fine. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.120 I'm just overwrought. Let me try this again. Louis Robert, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:27.760 who plays for the White Sox. I hit a home 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.080 run against the Royals in the tenth inning. It was 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.680 it was monstrous. It's funny. I actually cashed out my 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.479 Louis Robert MVP bet at thirty to one that I 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.280 was so excited about making the beginning of the year. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.720 I just feel like there's just no way he can 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.360 get there, no matter how good he is. I'm at 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.800 that point where I'm looking at my Otani bet and 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.200 my Robert bet. Those are the two al bets I made. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.960 I'm like anything. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.120 Anything that's not bet is a suckers bet, even if 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.200 it's flat and I love Ladd, but I mean, how 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.040 is anyone supposed to beat him when he's hting forty 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.599 homers and pitching one hunred and fifty innings Like, you can't. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.480 No one's going to beat that. You can't. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.679 It's impossible. No Cinderguard, you could beat him. So, yeah, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.920 this is fascinating because no Cinderguard's last start or two, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.120 you start to see the strikeout total creep up a 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.640 little bit. That was very exciting. Uh, And then all 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.760 of a sudden he has this outing with where he 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.080 gets what two thirds of an inning? I think, right? 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.000 Did he didn't even get out of an inning against 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.440 the Rangers. No less, Now I understand, like these blow 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.039 up starts happen sometimes. You know guys who are going well. 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.560 You know, Eric lower had less than thrilling start, but 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.320 he still struck out a lot of guys. You saw 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.159 Rodin finally have a bad start. These things happen, But 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.880 this was really bad. So when you have a picture 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.600 like Cindergard that you already have concerns with all these 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.200 injuries and all this history and things are going well, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.960 is it easy to shrug off this kind of epically 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.560 bad start or is this tougher to get out of 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.880 your mind when you're trying to evaluate him on your roster. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.039 I feel like it's tougher because it's like, Okay, you know, 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.520 if he gives up a blip to the Dodgers or 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.680 the Astros or the White Sox, like someone with a 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:10.200 superb lineup, You're like, Okay, he was off. They took advantage. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:15.000 But also with these big games, when you don't last 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.239 out of an inning, I gotta feel like he was tipping. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.720 You know, I haven't seen anyone say that yet, but 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.040 but I almost feel like you have to say he 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.800 was tipping because he looked good in the other start. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.320 So I'm not that concern. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.200 But it makes it dicey to start him at any 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.160 point when he gets rocked by the Rangers, you know 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.280 what I mean. So it makes it tougher when he 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.160 gets beat by a team like this. But I gotta 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.960 imagine if he comes out and the next start is okay, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.320 I gotta imagine they had. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:41.920 Something on him. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.480 I have to imagine I'm gonna have to pick up 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.880 Yonah him too, Yonah him the Oldeni. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.120 I've picked him up. I picked him up in a 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:49.840 couple of spots. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.760 I have Carson Kelly on the il and too many spots, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.160 so I was going home er at the catcher position. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:56.560 Give me Jonaheim. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.560 He said, everything we wanted Mitch Garver to do, Jonaheim 0:07:59.640 --> 0:07:59.920 is doing. 0:07:59.920 --> 0:08:02.000 I know. But Garver is on rehab right now, like 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.320 he's coming back right So that's my thing. It's like 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:05.560 I didn't pick him up because of that, and he had 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.400 another home run, and I keep looking like staring at 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.240 him in the waiver wire every week, and every week 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.080 he's there because nobody picks him up. It's a fifteen 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.120 team league and only one catcher, so nobody has to 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.760 pick him up. And I just, I don't know, just 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.440 I keep looking at him and I watch him take 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.440 up bats. I'm like, I like this guy. I'm just 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.720 worried about the playing time. But I guess a catcher, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.440 if you play three times and you're good, that's good 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.680 enough probably anyway, it just depends on how many games 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.280 he plays when Garver comes back. Other injury news, Brandon 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.040 Laue to the io with a back issue. Dylan Bundy 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.640 is gonna start today actually coming back from the COVID list. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.920 Carlos Korea could return during the A series that just 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:40.840 came out recently. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.559 Well, Jacob get hurt again, Carlos Korea, you know. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.640 Yeah, God know that that massage was a funny injury. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.800 It's like he got hurt in. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.400 My it's my favorite. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.959 Yeah, he's not gonna be. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:55.880 He's not gonna be. Robert Craft. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.559 I knew you were gonna go to Robert Kraft, one 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.280 of all of them things you could have gone to. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:02.280 You're here. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.600 I have to go with Robert. I know, come on, hey, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.000 get Robert Kraft. Go get a massage. Anyway. Jacob Deerzi, who, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.640 by the way, before he exited with the leg injury yesterday, 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.800 did hit the over on the three and a half 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.640 k prop so he got four. He got the four, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.360 but it stinks that he had. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.760 Thank God, you wanted some money before you got carted 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.040 off in your careers in Jeopardy, Jaco, thanks a lot, buddy, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:26.000 appreciate that. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.439 I just I don't know if his. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.480 Careers and Jeff and we gotten to that point with this. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.880 I thought he was being evaluated still, that's the. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.880 Last thing that mattered. I mean, it did not look good, dude. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.160 I thought it was Tucker at first in the outfielder 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.600 in the outfield because I was I was doing my 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.320 stages last night on Discord and I looked up at 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.320 my TV and I just see an Astros guy rolling 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.800 around on the ground and I think outfield collision. Maybe 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.079 is that is that Tucker? But then it was Odorizzy, 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.000 and Yeah, carted him off. It did not look good, man. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.040 He looked very upset. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.679 And it's upsetting too because he was a guy who 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.920 last week was looking at It was like, hey, got 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.920 two starts over the last. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:11.439 Trusia and Quintana. You know, I much rather have Jacoberrizzy, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.440 but not now. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:14.880 This is why we can't have nice things. All right, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.079 let's talk about this before Monday night's game. Cody Bellinger, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.360 Max Munsey, and Gavin Lux all practice bunting to beat 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.200 the shift with manager Dave Roberts, who was a pretty 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.720 good bunter back in his day. He was a bunting 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.120 speed kind of a player. In the sixth inning, Max 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.520 Month he laid down a perfect bunt and it was 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.360 right up the third base line against the shift for 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.800 a hit, and Chris Taylor followed up with a two 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.720 run home run. A baseball game broke out your thoughts 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.640 on this and will teams start to do more of this, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.680 especially any offenses that might be struggling when they have 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.240 that shift to come up there. I mean, look, if 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.440 they're giving it to you, take it. I feel like 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.880 the individual ego has gotten so out of whack sometimes 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.440 that people forget they're about winning baseball games. And if 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.160 it helps you win a baseball game against the shift, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.240 go butt until you have to force everybody back over 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.959 and be neutral in the I don't think it's your ego. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.120 I don't think it's ego. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.199 I think it's analytics. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.560 I think it's analytics. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.520 I think a lot of time they say don't take 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.480 the bunt because you're probably gonna get thrown out. But 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.679 if you can lay it down perfectly, you're gonna get it. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.040 This feels pointed at me, Joe, because it was against 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.840 the d Backs, but that's all right. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:16.760 I'll save that. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.839 Yes, more more teams should do this, especially teams that 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.520 are struggling to hit. You know, it just would make 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.080 more sense. Get a runner on, make the pitcher feel 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.920 a little bit of pressure. So every guy should have 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.000 this in his back pocket. They should all practice it 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:34.560 way more. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:35.760 They don't. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.679 I don't understand it at all like you you said here, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.400 I don't know if it's ego, but it's something teams 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.640 just don't want players to bunt. They don't want it 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.320 as an option for whatever reason. But I think it's 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.600 smart and it's been part of baseball for a long time. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.040 It's gone away over the last whatever decade, but yeah, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.800 I think we need to bring it back. And you know, 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.080 if Dave Roberts is the catalyst, so be it. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.040 When the CBA next year they can have the adjustment 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.920 to the shift, I believe, which I don't remember offhand 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.559 all the rules about it. It had something to do 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.559 with the outfield grass and how far over all these 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.000 guys look. I thought it was very simple. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.080 I'd be like in the NFL if you say you 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.040 can only line up three guys on the line of scrimmage, right, Like, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:18.480 I don't like that, I think. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.360 I think it's dumb. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.120 Yeah, but it's it's different in the sense of that's 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.720 different because you're guarding certain individuals and if you're running 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.880 a play to the left and that's where you think 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.640 the play is going, then you want to cheat over there. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.920 I understand that that's what the players are in this 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.959 You have such specific positions in Major League Baseball, I 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.120 think when you I think shifting is fine, but I 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.480 don't think you should be able to shift players out 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.240 of position. Like if you're shortstop, you should be able 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.880 to go all the way to second base, and that's 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.800 where you stop once you cross second base. I don't think. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.120 I think that is an overshift. I think that's ridiculous. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.199 Or when you legitimate just take a player from the 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.199 left side, just stick them out there in short right field. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.120 I think that's a lot, by the way, so you 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.720 can't play. They can't play in the box anymore. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.679 It's I don't I don't think base on football is 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.120 a good I think analogy for this, I don't, But 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.320 I don't know. I can't get there. Go Cards is 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.760 on my side, by the way, it is ego and 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.120 being more worried about your paycheck than the team. That's right, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.240 Go Cards, That's that's right. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:14.360 I don't know. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.440 It's just when you're playing defense against an individual versus 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.800 playing defense against possibly where a ball is going to 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.800 be in play, you're playing statistical averageest out of a 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.440 human being of where they are. I think it's a 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.000 little different personally. I understand your point of view, I 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.640 disagree with it. It's a good point of view. I'm 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.960 not saying it's bad. I'm just saying I disagree with 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.800 what do you think of this shoey Otani has a 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 higher OPS seven to ninety one than Alex Bregman and 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.599 as a lower ERA two point seven to eight and 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.199 Walker Bueller though. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.360 This is why I said that any bet that's not 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.320 Otani for al MVP is a suckers bet right there. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.800 That is the exact reason he's going to have a 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.720 set like that at the end of the year too. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.560 He's going to have a better slugging percentage or OPS 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.880 or more homers and sole on bases and whoever, and 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.360 a better era than whoever. It's gonna be that way 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.600 at the end of the year as well. The only 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.280 way you're gonna get Otani to not win the MVP 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.920 in the near future is an injury or you know, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.360 voter fatigue. They're tired of voting for him. He's won 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.520 three years in a row. Let's let's give it to 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.720 Vlad or whoever you know so well. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.400 And I kept saying, the only reason you even got 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.520 positive money at three to one, three and a half 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.080 at the beginning of the years because of the injury 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.960 risk that you have in the Otani investment because he pitches, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.240 so he has a higher risk of injury than any 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.200 other player in that same category that's being considered for 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.720 that award. So that's an interesting look at it. But 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.560 I saw that yesterday on a tweet and I went, wow, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.880 it just I mean, not that you don't realize these things, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.320 but to see it in black and white, it's just 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.760 stunning to look at. And I know Welsh and I 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.080 have a big conversation yesterday about if we're gonna see 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.800 more young players who can basically do both. You canna 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.040 see if they can why not? You know that My 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.680 point yesterday Bogs was these small market teams investing in 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.920 players like that, because hey, I'm getting two players in 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.200 one even if he's a believer, if you could swing 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.480 to bat and give me an inning, hey, that makes 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.160 a big difference on the roster. Today, I wanted to 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.720 highlight some of our great writers over on Fantasypros dot com, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.680 and of course, our good friend Eric Cross, who writes 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.880 for fan Tracks and The Black Book, also writes over 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.840 for Fantasy Pros, and he did a piece about Dynasty 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.400 stocks going up and down, so I wanted to talk 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.000 he's got Shane McClanahan. Obviously he's pitching out of his 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.520 mind right now as a stock that's going up, and 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.360 I want to talk about mcclanahan's Dynasty value right now 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.960 because at his age, what he's doing right now, there's 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.080 certainly the reason to start to look at him maybe differently, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.640 and this might be the window where you can buy 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.000 a premium and actually get premium productivity. Where do you 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.360 stand on McClanahan and Dynasty leagues. Do you think he 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.880 is going to have a run here next three years 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.960 as you know, one of these top tier, top ten 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.920 type starters, or do you think this is just a 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.920 really good run. What are your thoughts on the klanahan? 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.800 No, I believe in him. I definitely think he's a 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.960 top ten picture moving forward. He's been outstanding this year. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:18.080 All he has to do is get the innings, like 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.000 you know, a couple of big innings years under his 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.600 belt and proved that he can do that, which you 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.440 know is bumpy for some guys. Looks like Julio Rius 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.320 might have been overused a little bit last year and 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.360 having a little bit of fatigue this season, there are 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.280 many times that that has been an issue as well. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.480 So that's really the only thing he has to prove 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.400 to me is being able to stay healthy and make 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.600 it through a couple of seasons back to backup thirty 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.920 starts here. So if he can do that, then he's 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.080 definitely going to be an opa Echelon picture moving forward. So, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.720 you know, I think that's the only thing left he 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.120 has to prove because, like, you know, looking at his 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.240 strikeout total tonight, I think it's six and a half 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.720 or whatever, and I'm like, how could you bet against 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.440 you if you don't want to go that high? I 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.679 get it, but you can't take the under because he 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:06.880 can definitely get that. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.480 Here's some names, Okay, dynasty rankings right now, Corbyn Burns. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.840 I think we'd agree we'd rather have Corbyn Burns, Yes, yes, yes, Okay, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.600 Garrett Cole. I think we both still want Garrett Cole, Yes, yes, okay, 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.760 Walker Bueller or Shane McClanahan. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:22.800 Hmm. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.160 I'm gonna go with Bueller, but it's slight, very slight. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.680 I'm gonna go with Bueller also, you know, just because 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.399 the team situation, right, you know, the Dodgers investment, the 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.360 team and the quality of everything going on there. And look, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:36.959 just because he's having a bad run here, he's had 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.199 some very good runs. Also, what about the other two 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.159 guys in Milwaukee, Brandon Woodrooff and and my Boyfriddi p 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.760 Who would rather have those two guys? 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.240 I think I would rather have McClanahan than Peralta. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:52.479 Woodroof is close. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.280 Yeah, I think that's where I would probably stick him 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.119 behind Woodroof. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.359 All Right, The biggest in the same piece of Eric 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.400 cross As is Joe Adell, and with good reason. I think, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.040 you know, we've seen this act now for a little while, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.080 and there's certainly still plenty of time for him to 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.199