WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 7th, 2022 (Ep. 590) 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.800 Leading off starts right now on Fantasy Pros. I am 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.479 Chris Welsh. That right there, that's Kelly Kirby. It's a 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.440 wonky Wednesday. When we say it's a Wonkee Wednesday around 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.960 these parts, it doesn't mean that things are going haywire crazy. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:30.920 I mean, maybe some things might be going haywire in 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:32.880 the background a little bit, Kelly, just the time event, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.400 but it doesn't mean it's anything bad. It actually means 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.600 the opposite. It's the best. It means we get a 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.040 little bit of extra juice on our home runs today 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.760 and I get the hangout with the wonky penguin. Kelly, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.800 what's up? Not a lot? 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.520 I was gonna give you a twenty two minute standing 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.200 at like ovation just to you know, take some time. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.840 But I just will tell everyone I have six dogs 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.280 right now in a very small square footage. A friend 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.880 of mine is having kind of an emergency surgery, so 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.520 I'm going to keep them as quite as I can 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.880 for the people listening. But YouTubers, I can't help you 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.880 if I have to mute and turn around and yell 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:06.240 a lot. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.120 So I do think we could make it into like 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.080 a drinking game. And of course it's very early so 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.319 we can make it maybe coffee or shots of espresso 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.000 or something that we were sitting right before the show 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.319 started and then we're just about to go and I 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.280 hear and I was like, there we go. So if 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.840 you hear dog sounds, take a drink, Yeah, take some 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.200 caffeine and something like that. I'm all for it. I'm 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.240 all for it. I've got some dog that thinks the 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.280 pool man is hades himself is the devil and just 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.880 has to scream, and the dog screams, so it happens. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.440 It's the world of podcasting. But Kelly Kirby in the 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.640 house for Milwaukee Wednesday, and we got a lot to cover. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:41.760 I got a home run board, by the way, I 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.280 can tease that we got an update and the home 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.680 run board, which would be nice to check out. But 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.680 let's get right into it. Christian Yelich yesterday hit a 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.000 four hundred and ninety nine foot home run, which was 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.520 the longest home run of twenty twenty two. And for 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.200 some reason, I'm very skewed by video games sometimes, like 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.280 I forget maybe every like six months. My brain just 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.440 resets that we don't have five hundred and twenty five 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.040 foot homers. You know, I think old MLB, the Show 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.640 and MVP Baseball and everything just screwed up my brain 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.799 when I think about it, because I hear four ninety nine, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.720 I'm like, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Well, it's 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.600 so good. It is the highest this year, and it's 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.560 the third farthest ever tracked on stat cast. Kelly and 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.720 Christian Yelich putting in some I know, that's what I read. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:28.960 It was. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:29.680 That's surprising. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.000 That's very surprising to me too. It was the third 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.600 highest in the stat Cast era. So Christian Yelich, so 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.120 far on the season, he's had so many comparisons to 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.760 Cody Bellinger him, those two have fallen in the same realm. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.000 They're not because Bellinger has been completely worthless. Yelich is 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.880 quietly putting together a season that we actually might be 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.080 able to justify where we were taking him. You know, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.080 post one hundred, around one hundred's twelve homers, sixteen stolen bases. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.760 I would have never guessed eighty five runs on the year. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.800 A little, tiny outside shot might be able to get 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.200 to one hundred, hitting right around two sixty, double digit 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.360 walk percentage. I mean, Kelly, Christian Yelich kind of became 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.600 useful again. He's just not elite, right. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.320 Yeah, I got burned by him last year so badly 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.720 that I was just refused to draft him anywhere this year, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.960 and I have kind of kept tabs on him. And 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.839 as a player, I've always I've always really actually enjoyed him, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.119 even as a Cubs fan. So I'm glad to see 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.240 him doing well. I just and I'm glad for fantasy 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.959 managers who picked him up way late in drafts. But yeah, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.520 that those numbers actually just surprised me incredibly ones. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.080 You know what's also as interesting is I kind of 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.600 feel like Christian Yelich is a guy that we all have. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.600 This Usually sometimes it comes from like us not owning 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.600 players that we might not check in on guys a 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.720 whole lot, But y'all, you also have guys that just 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.720 what they are in your mind is already done, like 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.640 it's already over, Like you don't you don't need to 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.640 really go and check in. You don't need to. There's 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.240 no highlights of it. But Yelich has quietly been kind 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.880 of fixing himself. If he started off the season around 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.520 two thirty, he hit two thirty in March April he 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.600 hit two thirty in May, but then June and July 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.400 he was right around two ninety's dip down in August 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.240 back down, but it's in the two fifties, and what 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.599 you're seeing is an overall improvement of two fifty one 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.560 in the first half to two seventy eight in the 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.040 second half, and a significant amount of stolen bases, though 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.880 thirteen of the sixteen came in the first half of 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.840 the year, and the second half is registered almost about 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.360 half of what the first half has. So if you 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.440 can you know who's on first, you can follow that. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.080 It's just the stolen bases have come down when they 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.919 were a lot more significant in the first half. But 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.080 he's still showing off the power, he's showing off the 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.280 speed and feels like one of those guys we might 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.920 be able to buy back into next year. Is because 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.240 he's going to come at a reduced cost. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.840 Right, Yeah, if there's enough of a discount, I think 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.880 I would be willing to go back into, you know, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.840 rostering him and kind of writing out because he's I 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.560 like when he's a consistent player. Obviously everyone does, but 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.680 there are times where he swoons to dis agree that 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.800 he does and even look like his back is functioning 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:02.120 at all. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.120 So it's a good point. But you know, when his 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.599 back is going, he's dropping him four ninety nine, Big Dogs, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.560 Big Dogs. An interesting group of players that he might 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.720 be around. We could argue some of the rookies. So 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.680 I thought, let's get a little bit of a rookie 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.599 update on the top guys you'd put on here that 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.200 Tristan Cassis was called up, made his major league debut. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.599 Eccentric guy. I don't know everyone saw his debut. When 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.719 he was got to the stadium. He took off his 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.960 shirt and he just had some shorts on and he 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.000 walked out and he went out onto the field and 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.800 just laid in the grass in the sun, and some 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.200 players were like, what are you doing. He's just being him, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.400 being his guy. And he made his major league debut. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.440 He goes one for four with a homer. He had 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.599 three strikeouts. But also did you see the controversy of 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.080 the guy where he hits the bomb and the guy 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.800 gets the ball and won't give the ball back like 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.240 he was holding a hostage. He was holding the home 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.200 run ball hostage from Cossas and there was like ushers 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:02.960 trying to figure something out I didn't. I don't know 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.440 if I saw what the ending was to it, but 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.920 you know, I was thinking about this. This is going 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.520 in completely different tangent, but man like, baseball fans have 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.679 some of just the worst, like like dirt bag fans, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.240 And I was like, football is hyper aggressive. Like when 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.159 I think of football fans, I think, you know, they're 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.400 all drunk, they're all fighting, they're all doing this. But 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.920 baseball fans are just like there's just like a lot 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.040 of bad people. The video of the guy the player 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.880 throwing the ball to all the girls and the guy 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.279 who a soda jersey comes in and steals the ball, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.800 Zach Hambell. In general, this guy, I don't know why 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.039 this keeps happening, but I guess that's a whole nother 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.920 side story. But Tristan Coss is showing off a little bit. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.000 Any early impressions on being able. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.400 To get to see him, I haven't gotten to see him. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.440 I was busy last night, so I didn't I missed 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.520 his intro. But I do love you know, people are 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.000 always like, hey, act like you've been here before, And 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.599 I love when guys are like I worked my entire 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.320 existence to get to this moment, it's like in the 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.600 field and get some sign that's awesome. But otherwise, no, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.120 all I know is that Gems McSorley called him for 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.559 his home run call. So that was an impressive shot. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very true. So on the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.880 other rookie side, I just got me thinking with Tristan 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.960 Cossa is coming up. The positive is they said they 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.320 are going to let him run every day. Obviously not 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.240 going to let him exhaust his prospect eligibility if that's 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.240 even a possibility at this point, but they said they 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.360 are going to play him every day. Has we're not 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.640 going to come back. Bobby Dollback was sent down, So 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.240 this is Costas's job to roll big power. Makes better 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.080 contact than Dollback. Three strikeouts not great, but it's not 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.520 something I'm crazy worried about. So Costas is going to 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:41.680 be one of those guys who's going to be a 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.560 good source of power if you're looking at it for 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.840 your corner infield, and he's going to get every day 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.960 at Pats and that's what's a big key. But it 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.040 got me thinking about the other rookies, and we've had 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.000 two different sides. So Corvin Carroll over the last week. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.960 Corby Kiel's essentially been here for a week, hitting only 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.920 four for eighteen with one run, one RBI. In hitting 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.480 two twenty two off of a very nice hot start, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.000 he has sat where I don't think we've seen Gunner 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.000 really sit. Gunner in that same period of time nine 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.280 for thirty one, two runs, a homer, two RBI is 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.720 still in baseball hitting two ninety. So the infield position 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:20.840 player has been much more valuable. Are you out on Carol. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.280 I'm not gonna even ask you Gunner, because I think 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.840 Gunner has been more than serviceable right now. But when 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.080 you see Carrol's early stat line here to twenty two, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.080 he's getting to play mostly every day outside of an 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.160 occasional sit on a lefty. Are you moving on from 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.040 Corman Carroll right now? And I don't know if you've 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.000 got to pivot for it. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.480 If it's a redraft and I'm like in the playoffs, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.760 then yeah, there are enough outfielders. I would just want 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.400 to protect more of my average. I think, like, I'm 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:50.319 not going to chase him doing high counting stats for September, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.680 So yeah, I'm out in that regard obviously. In keeper, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.440 if I'm not in the playoffs then for you know, yeah, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.800 I would write him out for the rest of the year. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.880 But no, that's the thing in draft leagues for me, 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.000 where you know, they call up all these guys and 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.920 it's again it's kind of that like, oh, I want him, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.720 I want I want the best version of him on 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.400 my team, and they do this like sort of you know, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.360 the four for eighteen or whatever. So yeah, so I'm 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.480 out on him just but again, I'm out on a 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.439 lot of rookie call ups if I'm in the playoffs, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:19.920 just I don't trust them. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.400 It's it's still to continue. Like the Burn and Churn, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.920 You burn and Churton players, you drop guys that had 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.920 big names for the rookie guys that came up. Cormin 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.920 Carroll has struggled. McCarthy's been amazing, you know, that's been 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.280 a big one. McCarthy. I I think Bubba had shared this, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.560 Bubba or Mike Kurlin over the last thirty days that 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.600 Jake McCarthy leads the league in stolen bases. He's been 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.600 your leader in stolen bases here. So Burn and Churn, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.480 So the same thing we would apply to the Wit Maryfield. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.640 Why Wit Maryfield would be a guy we would cut 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.959 for Corbick Carroll, Corbyn Carroll for the next guy. That's 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.640 what you would do. Here, interesting conversation going on in 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.720 the chap where this is coming out about the ball, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.240 where Gokards is like no obligation to give up the ball, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.960 and it looks like Jim said that deal on the 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:12.080 table with the interviewer was a Cossus signed bat, a 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.080 Bogart signed ball, and an item to be named later 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.319 for the home run ball. So here's my question, M 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.920 I don't have a problem cutting the deal. If I, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.560 let's say I would have catch Tristacassus's ball, I'm one 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.160 hundred percent going to give him the ball. But it's 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.840 definitely like, hey, you know, let's give me a sign Jersey, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.760 give me something like that. I'm down for that, But 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.320 I'm not a I wouldn't be I wouldn't be a 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:40.000 hold hostage type of person a Kelly, would you hold hostage? 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.080 Would you hold a hostage for you know, a couple 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.800 things like they said, or obviously if this guy didn't 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.839 take that deal, this sounds like someone who's trying to 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.760 hit eBay and trying to put it out on the 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.200 auction block. What would be what would be your mo here? 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.000 If you caught Tristicassa's first career home run ball. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.360 My first thought, honestly, because I'd give it back. I 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.840 would probably give it back for nothing. At ball means 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.240 nothing to me like it and it means everything to him, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.480 So I don't see what I would need. But my 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.240 first thought was I was just like, yeah, I mean 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.960 he could sign a different ball, or just even honestly, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:18.000 like a picture with him and like a thank you note. Look, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.720 I would just want to be like, thank you for 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.920 giving my ball back, here's my autograph, and here's a picture. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.760 If I get the sunflower seeds and maybe like a 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.679 prep seed and then like a picture, that would be cool, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.440 Like yeah, I know I kind of agree with you, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.079 Like I have a guilt and a shame where I 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.959 wouldn't be able to like I couldn't be the person 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.599 that was like, what do you got for me? I 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.120 might be like, you know, here's the ball. Could I 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.680 maybe get like an autograph jersey or a bat or something, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.880 and hey, I really like Xander, Like I would probably 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.720 go that level. But if they told me no, I'd 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.959 probably be like, Okay, you know here I would probably 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.000 be a pushover like that because I wouldn't be able 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.320 to take him take it away from him. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.599 But you know, you know, for me, life gets a 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.200 lot more fun when I don't look at like everything 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.520 from what's the financial worth of this? And maybe it's 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.560 a female thing. I don't know, but I just really 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.000 I'm like that again, like I said, yeah, the ball's nice, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.839 but it just means nothing to me. Yeah, I caught 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.160 his first home run, and I'm I'm a jackass for 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:16.600 keeping it. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.400 Yeah, if I caught like a Corbyn Carroll the first 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.080 home run or something like that, And I was like, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.559 the diavs should probably just want to give me season tickets, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.200 like it wouldn't even be where. They're like, even if 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.240 you don't catch it, you can have season tickets, the 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.920 tickets with Boston that wouldn't work in other places. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.199 So I can see Arizona. I can see Arizona doing 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.120 like we're gonna do a drawing for season tickets and 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.040 then surprise, everyone here gets them. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.280 Like yeah, it's like one of those scams where it's 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.120 like one person's gonna win, but really everybody wins because 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.240 we have to get people. That's actually always been my thought. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.840 By the way, my capitalist mind doesn't necessarily work. I'm 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.760 always shocked at the team, the not great teams, like 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.080 the Diamondbacks of Pirates. Why they wouldn't just give out 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.680 free tickets, Like is the money really going to be 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.520 made on the seat? No, the money is made on 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.520 the parking, it's made on the food, it's made on 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.319 the items that are going to buy. Just get people 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.320 in states. Just give them, you know, give them free tickets, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.760 like it's the Arizona Fall League. Just let them get in, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.560 especially for bad teams that have ten thousand people in 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.160 the stadium. Don't worry about the ticket prices. Worry about 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.840 your beer because that's, you know, be the thing marked up. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.920 I agree entirely, and I think that Doc in the 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.520 chat there has the best option that he would make 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.000 a deal. But for something really weird. He wants a 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.679 bag of only banana runts signed by the nighttime janitor 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:33.240 at the field. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:34.640 Like that, that seems perfect. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.240 I like that. Yeah, you're like a like a what 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.160 is it called, like a writer? You know, you're just 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.120 like I want a bag of blue m and ms 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.160 and then I want only cherry Pepsis that have been 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.480 chilled to this degree. I like that. I like doing 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.760 like a writer. Yeah one, yeah, I would probably want 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.000 to do we move on from. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.120 This, but like, you know what, actually you can do 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:53.959 a whole podcast on that. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.480 We can do a whole podcast on it. But I 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.640 just thought of like the one unique thing I would 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.319 want because it'd be fun to get, you know, a 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.320 baseball or something, but take batting practice. That would be one. 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:04.800 I would be like, can I take batting But then 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.360 they would say no, and they'd be like, Okay, here's 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:07.720 the here's the ball. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.880 I could sign up for that as long as they 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.760 promised that I get to use the team trainer when 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:12.600 I throw my back out. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.800 Yeah. Actually, you know what, maybe that's all you say, Like, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.360 I just need to see the team trainer. That's it. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.200 That's all that I want. Can I please see the doctor? 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:21.560 That's all I want? 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.600 The doctor might be the only thing that I asked 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.720 for as well. All right, moving on here from the rookies. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.480 A lot of rookie conversation. The crux of it is 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.680 the guy is struggling. Move on, You're okay, Carol, You're okay, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.640 Donnard Henderson. If there was a better hand out there, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.400 go for it, but you don't need to hold on 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.520 too tight. On the injury front, Max Sure's are is 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.960 placed on the fifteen day IL. Earliest return date is 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.160 now September nineteenth. Helly, this is big, no bueno. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.800 Yeah, this is terrible, and especially because the Braves just 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.800 caught him, right or did they pass them? That is 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.000 not what nuts fans want to hear. And today I 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.800 miss Joe and Dan and watching their said faces discuss that. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.840 But yeah, it's fun watching the met fans struggle and hurt. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.160 And hey, by the way, not the picture you would 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.240 have thought that would have got hurt. Jacob Grom, I 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.240 know so. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.120 I mean one took the whole first half off. The 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.400 other one's kind of taking the second. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.520 Half be great. I truly hope that he. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.480 Can come back for the playoffs, but from a fantasy perspective, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.320 that is terrible. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.640 Timing their powers combined, they'll make the number one pitcher 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.880 in baseball when they're all put together. We put those 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.360 seasons together. Other On the injury front, Starling Marte out 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.320 us to be another met Ones out of Game one 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.040 on Wednesday with a hand injury. By the way, make 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.800 sure you are tight tight in on making your roster 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.640 moves and your you're setting your lineups in daily leagues, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.840 because I forgot to do it last night. Luckily up 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.240 earlier doing stuff for the show. I literally got my 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.160 rosters in probably five minutes before the double header started, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.160 and I had a Jacob de Grom share and that 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.000 would have got locked. Because you know how ridiculous. It 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.160 still pisses me off that all of these systems haven't 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.240 figured a great way out. Maybe someone does it, but 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.040 if a guy's on a double header and they don't 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.280 pitch till the latter half of it or something, they're 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.520 just gonna lock everybody. They lock everybody. So just make 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.640 sure you're in it and make sure you're on all 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.480 of it. This is just a reminder for every single 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.320 day for everybody to get your stuff in and set 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.400 your rosters, maybe the night before so you don't want 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.520 to have a playoff hit for you. Xanda Bogart's left 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.200 Tuesday's game with back spasms. Maybe that's why he can't 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 They can't get an autographed ball for the costs thing 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:35.600 because he left. Louis Robert got hit in the hand. Jesus, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.920 I can't even get through the Louis Robert got hit 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.240 in the hand with the Logan Gilbert pitch. X rays 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.400 are negative and it may be only a contusion. My god, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:50.440 who is more prone to crazy injury stuff? Is it 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.280 Louis Robert or Gean Carlos Stanton? They are magnets, magnets 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.560 two balls hitting the skin. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.560 I mean one hundred percent, like you, you know, I 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.280 do the sheet every day, so I go to the 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.480 injuries and I honestly did not know if that was 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.040 new or not, Like I had to click into it. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.080 It's like, I was, like, it's just like an old date. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:10.680 It's like, is this new? Yeah? 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.040 And it hit him on the same hand he's been 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.240 having the issues with and it's just I don't know. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.560 But Stanton is so he's got a longer track history 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.920 of weirdness. Like, but I mean, Robert's coming on hard. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.720 He's coming on hard and fast. And you know what, listen, 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.080 I was, I'm a I love Luis Robert. I think 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.119 the talent is there that we are borderlining into a 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.240 place with him where he is so inconsistently on the 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.800 field and he's so hurt with different things left and right. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.200 He cannot find a rhythm on the field to tap 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.040 into that talent that you know what was it? Bisi 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.720 Rizza had said dealing Robert in April was the best 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.520 move they made all year. You know, I kind of 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.760 have thought he was underrated in Dynasty, but I'm really 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.760 starting to kind of push off a little bit, like 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.560 I'm getting over it. Like it can be really frustrating 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.119 and dynash, especially when it's not like I mean, de 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.080 Gram is frustrating in that this happens, but when da 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.720 Gram comes back instantly, the top guy, Robert cannot find 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.960 that rhythm and he's down to seven in the order 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.120 today I think it is, and he was the other day. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.480 So Robert is, well, we're not going to be I 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.399 don't actually he was in the drafting stuff, but I 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.359 don't think he's actually going to be in there after 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.800 being hit in the hand. But we'll see. But it's 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.359 just increasingly frustrating and hitting seven and not getting any rhythm. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.680 It's crazy. Also, Adam Euler placed on the fifteen day 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.160 IL with a rib issue. Mike Mayer is still around 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.639