WEBVTT - Leading Off May 22nd, 2025 (Ep. 1021) 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.559 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.240 off live. It is me, Joey p joe Pizipia with me, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:12.880 of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.200 the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks here on our twitch live watching. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.520 It's twitch dot tv slash Fantasy Pros. That's where you 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.200 can see us every single Monday through Friday noon Eastern 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.520 and of course you can also check us out video 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:29.040 on demand whenever you want to on Fantasy Pros MLB 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.120 YouTube channel. Subscribe today, drop your comments below and you 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.760 might win yourself a spectacular Jose Ramirez jersey from our 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.320 good palsover a pristine auction dot Com. All you have 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.720 to do subscribe to the channel, drop your comments below, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.720 bring the belt, lay goos thing. That's it. That's all 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.519 you gotta do. Welsh, good to see you, my friend. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.120 I can't wait to give this Jose Ramirez jersey. Wait 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.440 at one of our wonderful listeners. It was a good 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.040 night for home runs. Two guys went yard twice yesterday 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.880 and both made me smile very very much, but for 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.320 different reasons. Okay, I guess, okay, I guess it's Kurtz. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.800 It's well Nick Kurtz, first of all, because okay, not 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.000 only did it go yard twice, there was some moonshot 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:11.920 one Like, he is hitting the ball hard. He looks 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:13.640 like the guy that I kept watching at Triple A. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:15.640 I don't know if you saw the home runs last 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.240 night or just saw the box score, but I saw 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:22.800 the homers and they were spectacular. They were mammoth Nick Kurtz, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.760 big time power. Now is he gonna play today against 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.840 the lefty? That's the question, Like we're gonna give him 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.840 a rest. I hate when guys do that. You know, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.120 a guy gets hot and all of a sudden you 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.440 sit him. But Nick Kurtz hitting those home runs, starting 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.000 to rack up a few more. He's starting to look 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.319 like he's settling in and patience is being rewarded. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.480 So the game works with a lot of these rookies. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.119 He doesn't have a hit versus lefties yet. By the way, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.080 he has had some at bats, but he does not 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.520 registered to hit. It'd be probably behoove them, especially if 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.000 they're committed to not having him in a platoon, like 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.440 they said that they would let him get some at 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.800 bats versus lefties. But no, this is the game with prospects. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.760 I think there's a bigger question about the ROI where 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.160 you get this, you know, great young guy and then 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.480 they're awesome and then they kind of pair back down 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.760 and they come back like, what's the level of roy 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.760 you need really for investment? But Kurtz wasn't a pre 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.800 drafted guy. He was a player that you did spend 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.200 some fab on and things are starting to click. That's 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.040 all that you've been looking for, and the underlying stuff 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.800 is pretty phenomenal. The strikeouts are still the problem, but 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.000 that thing is cut from you know, into the forties 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.079 down to it's still thirty five percent. It still sucks, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.200 but you know he's getting there. He's getting acclimated. It's 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.120 an incredible ballpark for him to be in. Nick Kurtz. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.959 My pushback for weeks against all of you, all of you, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.320 Joe and all of you has been that we hold 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.120 on and Nick Kurtz is starting to click a little bit. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:46.960 So it's nice. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.120 Also, two home runs, but this isn't the other one 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.800 I'm referencing is logo o hoppy four seventy. Yeah, that 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.240 was a far shot too. Sears was throwing BP yesterday 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.760 in that ballpark. It was a crazy town. Shout out 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.519 to Iron Mike, who just subscribed here on our twitch. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.919 But yeah, logan o'happy two homers. The Angels won ten five. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.200 Also in that game, Lawrence Butler hitting a home run, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.720 So maybe, just maybe, you know, getting a little hot here. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.320 Hopefully that'll work out too. Also, when I was watching 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.959 a Mets game yesterday, Mets red Sox, which was entertaining 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.400 the time, stressful at others. The Juan Soto at bats, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.960 Everyone's gonna make a big deal out of it, because, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.040 oh mon Soto never strikes out three times. And again 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.320 it's Garrett Crochet. He's one of the best left handed 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 pitchers in baseball. Give him a break. And then when 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.480 they went to the bullpend, he hit a ball that 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.359 all night the wind was blowing in, and he hit 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.560 a ball that probably would have been out in a 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.200 lot of places, but it went all the way to 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.440 dead center in Boston. And Duran hit a ball too 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.320 that just died. It should have been a Grand Slam. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.960 I couldn't believe it didn't get out of that ballpark. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.240 It died the way the wind was blowing in yesterday. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.080 So take things with a grain of salt. Jason Dominguez, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.240 he took your salt and he threw it over the fence. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.680 Solo Homer for him wins the game. Ryan Yarborough also 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.360 really good. I did watch some of that game last 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:02.640 night too, flipping around one run, eight strikeouts. I don't 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.200 know what version of Ryan Yarborough all of a sudden 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.680 has just dropped into the Yankees lap, but it's been 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.720 pretty decent. And I've been, you know, trying to get 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.280 him bounce from this rotation. I still think he's going 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.159 to get bounced from this rotation eventually. But Yarborough, is 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.480 this a guy potentially you want to stream just simply 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:20.839 based on the fact that he's a Yankee. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.680 I think if you're in a spot where you know 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.120 it's a really good matchup, I would consider it. But 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.120 my interest in Yarborough's kind of minimal. My interest in 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.440 Dimingez continues to roll. I think back in a very 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.760 I Told you So a moment preseason where I was 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.839 doing this big industry prospect draft and I had taken 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.560 Dimenez at the top. I still doesn't look like phenomenal, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.200 but it was this Rokie versus Jason Dimingaz situation and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.120 just haven't had people in the camp with me about 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.960 Jason Dimingez. And you know what, again, things are clicking. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.960 You Sometimes you bank on that talent skill set and 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.840 you just hope that the player has enough to be 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.479 able to know bounce back and show progression. And that's 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.080 what he's done. Jason Diminga still has an elite fifty 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.279 four percent hard hit rate so far this year. Barrel's 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.000 dipped a little bit, but he's getting the ball in 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.520 the air. He's tripled his lawnch angle, he's hitting the 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.240 ball on that sweet spot better. He's walking more. You 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.400 love to see it, and he's diversifying his ability of 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.880 different pitches to hit and he smacks the crap out 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.880 of the ball. He can run some Jason Dimingez. You know, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.039 we've been a little wishy washy about that. I feel 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.240 like the questions we've got on Dimingez where it's always 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.080 like Domingez or you know, like even Chandler Simpson, Diminga 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.120 has been a little bit dicey. But it's really starting 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.279 to click and you're seeing some of those loud stats 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.919 and Mike quietly walk into like a twenty twenty season 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.279 when it's all done. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.960 Also yesterday, walking into not one but two home runs. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.360 My pick from yesterday, Jake Berger. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.480 Oh, I didn't realize that. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.640 Smash Burger yesterday. That's right, smash Burger is everywhere. I 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:55.840 got two of them, so I don't know my I 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.880 up at dipple digits yet. Can we get a get 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.800 a verification now? 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.920 I think was I had eight or seven? 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.400 I don't know if I was at seven or eight. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.600 If I was at eight, I'm at ten now and 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.599 I'm coming for you ambout eleven. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.120 Oh oh, well, surely a couple away from me. I 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.480 cold Stone, cold cold Stone. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.960 Oh I'm Smashburger right now. All those two home runs 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.640 were so good. Yesterday also so good. Jacob de Gram 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.120 three hits, two runs, one walk, nine strikeouts, and seven innings. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.479 He got no decision. Unfortunately, the Rangers could not handle 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.799 their business against the Yankees. We talked about the Dominguez 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.000 walk off, but this was exactly what I expected yesterday. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.160 This is the only one of my couple bets. Unfortunately, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.160 besides the home run and the d Gram strikeout total 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.280 they'd hit. But this is what you want to see 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:41.920 out of Jaob Gram. The last couple of starts he's 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.359 really settled in and I'm gonna take the l on 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.080 this one. I was very afraid. I'm still very afraid. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.159 Every time he goes out and has a start like 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.039 this and looks really good pitching deep into games. That's 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.560 the thing that I think you look for with Jacob deGrom. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.719 I hope it holds. That's all I hope, because he 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.799 is one of, if not the best bitcher and baseball 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.320 and it's been so unfortunate that we haven't had him 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.080 for about four years now, maybe even five, when you 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.040 really can think twenty nineteen was the last really good 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.120 Jacob de Gram moments, but it's been so difficult to 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.760 think that a guy can miss that much time with 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.280 all the injuries and all the surgeries and all the issues. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.920 To come back and even find some remnants of himself 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.760 is very encouraging. I'm not holding my breath that it's 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.120 going to last all year, but you have to be 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.520 really impressed with Jacob de Gram has done so far 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.040 in the last couple starts especially. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.320 Yeah, I think maybe you can hold your breath a 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.080 little bit, like you do know the injury lingers out there, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.120 but you know, I've been speculating on this for a 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.120 couple of weeks, and you just you continue to see 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.280 it kind of playing out that. You know, he he 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.520 down ticked everything for about the first month of the season, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.080 and maybe that was strictly a health situation, you know, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.160 and his velo is down a little bit. Results were 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.880 a little bit different. We've also seen a very concerted 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.760 change in how he uses a change up. Last year 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.920 he threw it only five percent of the time, you know, sample's, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.320 of course, but this year he's throwing at nine percent 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.360 of the time, almost ten percent. Let me look if 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.840 there any other years of high usage, Yeah, eight percent, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.800 eight percent. In twenty twenty we saw sixteen percent. So 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.680 it's kind of getting back to those roots. Vilo is 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.080 up as of recent starts. Change up. It's starting to 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.280 get going, and you know, he's he's lowering barrel rates 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.560 pitched against and he's just not trying to be the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.920 fifteen strikeout guy every single game. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:28.200 Yeah. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.480 I really do think that this version of him is 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.000 a sustainable version. Now, I don't know if I'm going 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.719 to pay top five sp or anything like that. There's 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.280 an argument that maybe you can sell high on him, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.480 but I also think there's you know if someone were worried, 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.719 like I would be comfortable maybe buying in on him 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.680 for the rest of this season that he can he 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.880 actually legitimately might put up like one hundred and fifty 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.400 innings at this point. With how how this is working? 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.240 Well, remember they talked about an Ils did for him 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.480 some point in a year, just to give him a breather. Yeah. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.600 I recall Pedro Martinez towards the end too, when he 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.280 wasn't the guy finding a different version of himself as 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.800 a pitcher. I don't think with the velocity this all 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.640 last night that that's quite where we're at. But Pedro 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.120 had some really successful years towards the end there with 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.240 the Mets, when he wasn't quite the dominant guy of 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.880 nineteen ninety nine anymore. Lucissero's I want to shout out 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:21.160 because they graduated today with a master So congratulations. That 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.920 is how you could get a master's degree and still 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.720 be here every single day watching this show and it 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.600 not make you dumber. I don't know, I don't know 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.400 how that works, but congratulations. That is really something FORGID. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.880 It's like graduation any time, So congratulations, Yes, everybody. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.480 I'm going to a graduation right after this show. I'm 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.680 going to one. But so everybody congratulate Lucissero's in the 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.400 chat though, that's a great thing. Picked too, Augustin, Jason, 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.000 josh Lo, Nick Kurtz. I guess, just in a vacuum, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.559 who do you want rest of season? I don't want 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.920 to let go of Kurtz. I think it's Kurtz and 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.800 Domingez or the guys that I want. How about you? 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.080 I think it's low and Dimingez, but like I don't 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.200 know how I have catchers might make it important? About Agostin, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.559 I think those are all really close. Unfortunately at that list, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.960 Kurtz might actually be at the bottom for me, or 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.559 he is not might but he. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.280 Is game OVA. Who do I drop when Akooney is activated? 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.920 Viento's Doyle or Augustin? I think Doyle boy, He's he 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.640 dropped off. What an incredible drop off year over year. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.600 Doyle was so solid last year, and I know people 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.280 were saying was gonna regress, but man, Welsh, that guy's 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:27.920 just falling off a map compared to what he did 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.520 last year. And last year people were saying, oh, it's 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 not gonna last, not gonna last, and he kept going 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.240 in the second half. This year has been nothing close. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:35.000 I think it's Doyle. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.160 I want to look to Uh. By the way, I'll 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.440 be very self deprecating. I'm doing a little too much 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.280 of like I was right. So well, we'll knock myself 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.640 never enough pages. I definitely will knock myself down a 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.680 couple pages. But I have to have been one of 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.840 the lowest on Brenton Doyle. Yeah, he was absolutely straight 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.360 fade for me into the season. He had huge uh 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.040 he was hit like two hundred on the road, I 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.600 think three hundred at home. He had HUGEZ didn't buy 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.679 the crazy big counting stats. I say all of this 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.320 in that like putting him at high high points of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.840 the lineup. He's got four homers, five stolen bases. He 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.199 could still be a twenty twenty guy this year and 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.120 be relatively ish successful. But it's pretty bad. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:16.760 It is. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.360 The results are bad. The stuff though, I will throw 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.360 out he might borderline by right now because he's got 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.480 a two fifty four expected batting average, thirteen percent barrel rate. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.600 He's not striking out anymore. The profile looks this just 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.240 looks very similar and guess what, shocker, he's underperforming against 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.360 four seam fastballs. That is something that tends to bounce 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.679 back for hitters that have any real juice to them. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.200 So maybe he's a little bit of a buy. But 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.280 on that list, I think he would be the guy 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:44.880 I would cut. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.319 Angel theory has a question, who could I get for Eavaldi? 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.160 Sell high head to head? Well, I don't think you're 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.640 so on high. I've ald he's been really good the 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.080 last couple of years. I would think the return for 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.920 him you're not gonna get like super elite. Could you 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.199 get a James Wood for him? Who is like kind 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.400 of that tiered in that next grouping? Like I'm just 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.040 looking at names like Saya, Suzuki, James Wood. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.960 I think I think player is too low. I think 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.679 James Wood might be too high. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.240 So it's Goldilocks. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.520 Yeah, we need to find that just perfectly. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.199 I want to play it just right back in my trade. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.920 Like I actually am. I'm kind of with the Selish 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.840 thing on selling Evaldi high, but I don't know like 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:27.440 it should get you. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.760 What about Bregman? How about Bregman? Is that the one 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:30.360 I can give you? 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.200 I would smash take? 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:34.920 Okay, all right, I have always really good. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.280 He's been amazing, But like, I don't know if I 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.680 buy the k percentage increase, sticking three percent walk rate, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.120 that's I mean, I guess he has had some four percent. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:45.480 I don't know. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.240 I don't I had last year in a lot of leagues. Man, 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.520 he is just he's quietly really good and just nobody 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.520 seems to care because all the hype is always around 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.040 the other bigger names in that rotation. It was Sureser 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:57.680 for a while, and now as the GRAM everyone's talking 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.440 about nobody talks about Evaldi. Kevin Gossman, let's talk about him. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.520 I've been waiting for this. I've been laying in the weeds. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.440 No runs, nine strikeouts, no walk seven innings. Let's go 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.959 against the Padres too. Take that, Michael Kelly. Uh, how 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.880 about that performance from Kevin Gossman. Tommy Edmund I even 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.680 seen him in a long time. I know he's been hurt, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.480 so hopefully he comes back, because right now, Kevin Gosman, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.160 I think with this performance, it's kind of leapt back 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.720 into the lead in that big one. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.480 Yeah maybe, I mean, I don't remember, like how we 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:29.920 judge it. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.360 By the way, I know it's hard because Edmond's not 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.640 playing so I. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.800 Gotta go backwards for just one second. Todd and the 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.360 chat mentioned Eovaldi as far as first halves go, and 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.360 this is interesting. He has been a first half guy 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.079 for years two nine to seven pre All Star era 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.480 last year four eight one in the second half first 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.680 half two eight three. In twenty twenty three second half 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.640 seven point one eight oh twenty twenty two three point 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.280 three four in the first half second half four point 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.040 nine to one. So that is years upon years of 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.960 over a run differentials first and second half. Sometimes you 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.120 have first and second half players. But yes, oh Joe, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.680 it was all right, Gosman, Tommy had. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.360 That was pretty good last night. Padres would say, Kevin 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.120 Gosman was pretty good. I just I just want the 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.160 starting pitcher, not the utility infielder that had a good 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.680 month against the team that he always crushes, which was 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.000 the Cubs. Fabby Davis Junior says more Goldilocks or Joe 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.640 Jodlock's voice, Do we approve that message? Or now one voice, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.640 the one that I just did like this? Oh goodness, gracious. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.560 It's a grave voice. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.080 So you like that, all right? Videos, Yeah you think so? 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:42.040 Six innings struck out six for Gavin Williams yesterday. Good 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.800 to see him starting to get right. Hunter Brown got 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.400 wrong though. Five runs, seven hits, five innings. It's funny. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.720 The last time he struggled was also in a day game. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.080 I know because I was on TV hosting In Game 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.080 Live at the time for Sports Grid and we were 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.120 watching a Hunter Brown game and he kind of rallied 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.480 that first inning. He was really rough against the White Sox. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.000 Maybe Hunter Brown's just not a day game pitcher. I 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.960 don't know, but we can look those are the only 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.080 I'd love to see the splits on that because this 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.560 was very Hunter Brown. Like, I am not concerned in 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.760 the least about this performance. It was against the Rays, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.280 not a great offense. So I understand why people are 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.680 puzzled right now. We're all puzzled, but I will say, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.760 like that's, you know, it's it's not something I'm gonna 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.040 get concerned about necessarily. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.320 There is a big differential. But the day games he's 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.480 still a great pitcher. So he has a point eight 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.520 three ERA in night games right now, so there's five 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:35.040 starts at night ridiculous, point seven to seven whip point 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.520 eight three ERA day games, he's got a point or 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.160 he's got a one point zero seven whip three and 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.160 one record but a three four one ERA, so it's 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.560 over two runs differential. But that's still a pretty great 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.800 pitcher that he is in the day. So I'm not 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.320 sure if there's a I mean, there's kind of a 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.360 correlation there for sure, But you know that that was 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.960 a I don't know if that was like the tough, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.680 tough matchup that you're staring at. But he's gonna regress 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.440 a little bit, like he's expected. He already told us 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.440 that story. He's still pretty a lead across the board. Well, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.080 you're more worried about is if they start to stack 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.160 and he starts to look average, and you know he's 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:13.880 not getting away with maybe some of the stuff he 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.960 was getting away with earlier in the year. That would 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.360 be what we're watching. He's also he I don't think 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.640 I realized this. He's a pretty high percentage with fastball guy, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.880 and you don't see I mean, I guess you got 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.040 to look at k percentage, but yeah, she's for k 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.280 percentage from his forcing fastball. That's not something we see 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.680 a ton of. You usually see forcing set up a 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.000 lot of other stuff. So that's all. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.760 A guy who knows how to locate a fastball. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.920 Do it feels sticky, but he's done. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.480 Sticky if you know how to locate it. I think 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.480 that's the problem. Everybody throws a hundred. They just throw 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.680 it straight. They can't locate it. They can't change the 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.760 eye angle of the of the hitter. Todd also says 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.160 that my Jodylock's voice is across between Jackson Holiday with 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.240 a bad British accent. I would agree. I think that's 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.040 exactly what I was going for. Nailed it. Also a 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.560 Christian Yelich. We talked about him yesterday in the Q 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.320 and A. We have big discussions, so I don't want 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.600 to go too much into it. Go back and watch 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.639 a Q and A. It's on the YouTube channel Fantasy 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.880 Rose MLB. So Yelich was somebody we talked about off 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.359 air yesterday after we recorded the Waiver Wire show, also 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.359 available on demand on the YouTube channel. Coincidentally, I think not, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.480 and then we got into a bigger discussion about Yelich. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.800 The counting stats are still there, the home runs, the 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.840 stolen bases, the batting average hasn't been He grounded out 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.719 four times and struck out yesterday against the Orioles. He 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.399 has a sixty four percent ground ball rate. Well just 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.720 thought that was a little high of a number there, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.520 twenty eight percent strikeout rate, and it's just not been 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.320 good for Yelich. My concern with Yelich and people say, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.720 well do you buy what do you do a player 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.440 who was chronic back issues is just not when I 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.080 want to make investments in. That's it. It's as simple 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:51.639 as that for me. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.480 Yeah, I saw somebody put I'd mentioned this on the 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.080 live stream, and then I think it was this morning 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.280 someone mentioned a it's one of the worst ground ball rates. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.240 But he also the new stat on a baseball savant 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.000 with attack angle, because like you'll see, some of these 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.919 players like Jacob Wilson and stuff have these really really 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.800 low attack angles, which is just letting the ball travel 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.160 more and more and more and not not being afraid 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.280 to put it in the ground. But Yelich isn't doing that. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.320 Yeliwi has like league prototypical attack angle of like a 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.200 ten degree, So that means he's getting on the ball 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.679 at the proper time, which in theory would not increase 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.840 ground balls like crazy. That would be as if he 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.919