WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 19th, 2023 (Ep. 693) 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.320 Is leading off Live brought you by Prize Pig. Sign 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.200 up for Prize Pig today and use that promo code 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:11.639 leading off. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.120 When you do, it's me, of course, and the Welsh 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.840 and it's you, and it's back to business. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:17.600 It's Monday. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.520 Happy Father's Day out there, related to all the dads 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.919 out there, hope you had a nice Father's Day. I 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.880 spent my Father's day coaching my daughter's flag football teams, 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:27.920 which was great fun. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.280 We had a great Sunday. It was a beautiful time. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.040 Welsh said he did nothing, which is exactly what he 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:33.559 wanted to do. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:35.319 But Welsh, the opposite of. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.200 Nothing is going on in the chat we have once 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.360 again before you even start the show, We've got about 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.000 eighty messages in here. I see people making trades, people 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.519 talking about stuff, and we're getting really close. We're at 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.960 thirteen point nine now, we are less than one hundred 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.040 subs away from mustache Day here on the show. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.680 But Joe's Great Mustache, right is what it's called. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.560 That is not what we're calling it. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.120 But yes, there will be mustaches if we get to 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.600 fourteen thousand subs by the end of the month. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.440 Now we got some time here, Welsh I think this 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.559 crew can do it. What do you think I think? 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.560 So? I mean I am shaved, everyone can see. It 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.800 takes me quite a bit longer then yeah, completely just 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.560 topped bottom, rip it off. Father's Days yeah mm hmm. Yeah, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.000 because I'm going to be doing a swimming competition, that's right. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.679 Can you imagine just a speed? It's just what an 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.600 absolute nightmare fuel But yes, I have time to grow 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.160 it back. If you guys want to get the subscribing 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.920 and liking and all that up so we can get 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:40.440 to fourteen, we will have the Great Mustache Extravaganza. Mustache bros. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.360 You know what the funny part is, you know, speaking 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.280 of Dad's and Father's Day and all that stuff. I've 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.160 never seen my father without a mustache in my entire life. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.080 That's always my entire life. I've never seen him clean shaven. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:51.320 Ever. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.880 That's always so weird too, when someone has established like 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.280 a look that is always that look forever, and then 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.640 it's completely dry. My uncle kind of did the similar 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.880 thing and then like when you would shave it, I 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.000 could shave like thirty years later, You're like, what is 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.760 going on? He should change it up? Can you think 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:08.880 it could grow back quick. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.400 I'm sure it can, but I mean, I guess the 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.680 bigger point is, it's just it's like even Tom Selick 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.079 shaved his mustache for. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.360 A little while, you know, I mean, did that have 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:18.600 any big movie roles. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:20.880 Not that I know of, not that I know of, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.320 But they would not call it anything about mustache rides. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:25.639 I can tell you that. Let's get to. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.400 The headlines, and we have to start with Lance Linn 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.480 because there's a bunch of wacky headlines from this weekend, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.560 a bunch of the upside down. I think we were 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.760 living and Lance Linn had sixteen strikeouts. I can't even 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.840 say it because it's so absurd. He had sixteen strikeouts 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.239 over seven innings. He didn't get the win in this game. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:43.840 No, no, no. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.040 The White Sox continue to be just the most bizarre 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.040 team that I've experienced in quite some time. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.080 I feel bad for White Sox fans. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.600 You have Tim Anderson dealing with another injury now, so 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.440 he wasn't in the lineup this weekend. But you know 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.440 the Lance lid you look at, he goes towards the 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.720 top in terms of strikeouts on the year. The strikeouts 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.160 were never an issue that Eri is still kind of 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:05.200 absurdly high. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.840 So I think we have to ask ourselves right now. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.760 It is the nineteenth of June and again the happy 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.400 June tenth to all they're celebrating. My question to you 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.960 is this rest of season, Lancelim? Is this a player 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.960 that you want or do you want to trade him 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.080 off of this sixteen strikeout performance? And if you still 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.000 somehow have him on your roster or someone dropped him 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:25.600 and you picked him up, is this the time to 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:26.000 get out? 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.640 I don't know, that's like probably the question. Let me 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.480 give you, real quick some more absurdities with him before 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.680 we moved through, because I did a audible like like 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.840 like just like audibly freaked out when I looked behind 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.920 the scenes. He had thirty three swinging whiffs in this game, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:51.440 a fifty four percent with freight fifty four. That's crazy. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.760 He had he technically registers six different pitches. He had 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.560 four more whiffs on five of the six, already eight 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.920 percent CSW. Every single pitch that was used double digit 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.400 had over thirty five percent CSW percent. It was like 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.880 a crazy performance where this is definitely the big sell 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.360 high opportunity. And I don't know if you saw over 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.600 the week, and the White Sox also did a They're 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.279 not this is what kind of annoys me. They're not 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.119 willing to sell off at least at this moment. They'll 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.800 only sell like ancillary rental pieces right now, so they're 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.600 not going to go into a tank and maybe move 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:34.040 these players. But I think lance Lynn showed us exactly 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.400 why you can sit around and roster him. If someone's 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 willing to buy high because of sixteen strikeouts, I think 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.280 that's great and you probably should. But at the same time, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.520 I think he lives above waiver wire or streamable fodder, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.200 and these strikeouts are the type of things you can get, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.400 So he's like one of these, like big strikeout guys 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.840 or a guy that hits two fifteen like Kyle Schwarber, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.800 but can have five homers in a week. I think 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.960 he can. He can push you up on a really 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.600 great matchup for strikeouts more than anybody else, So I 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.480 think you can hold on to him. If the trade 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.760 market doesn't look really solid for him and people are 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.679 just trying to trade your garbage, I might be willing 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:10.640 to hold Do. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.760 You think a contender wants lands Linn like either that 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.760 the Dodgers or the break even the Phillies would be 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:16.400 interested in Linn. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.440 Yeah, I think the Diamondbacks would kill. The back end 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.520 of the rotations would be a good spot too. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.600 I think the teams like that would one hundred percent. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.240 Because he's a guy that eats up innings can theoretically, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.800 if he's going good, can get you out of the bullpen. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.040 This guy threw hilariously though still like fifteen pitches less 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.599 than what Paul Skeens has been throwing in the College 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.320 World Series, but he threw one hundred and fourteen pitches 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.840 in this game. So to have a guy that can 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.960 go that deep, whether it's good or bad, it's a 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.280 huge positive, you know, even if he's giving up three 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.920 or four earned runs, to be able to avoid your 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.760 bullpen like that, Yeah, one hundred percent. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.039 It's gonna be interesting to see what he does the 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:53.680 rest of the time. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.040 Blake Snell has been very interesting to another twelve strikeout 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.760 performance for Blake Snell Welsh, I don't know what to say. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.600 I mean, you know, in April, this guy is uh 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.600 is just terrible. I mean, I mean, like, let's not 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.640 mince worries about it. There's there's nothing good there that 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.560 you can possibly say, and then he starts to find it, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.359 and then it gets to this point where it's absurdly good, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.520 Like not a little good, it's absurdly good. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.840 And I just this is the kind of picture drives 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:21.239 me crazy. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.520 And I understand you know how so many people you 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.039 know always love Blake Snell and they like, this is 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.040 the upside, This is what I want, man, in your opinion, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.159 as I'm trying to actually look here, in the last 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.320 twenty eight days, Blake Snell has a point six zero 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.159 era where his last five starts forty five strikeouts and 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.159 thirty innings and a point nine zero whip. That is incredible. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.560 I think we can all agree on that. Then if 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.000 you look at the breakdown in terms of month by month, right, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.360 he had an era in April of five point four eight, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.359 in era of May of three point a two, and 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.400 so far the June era is point four to seven 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.560 Welsh your thoughts. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.560 I mean, I was like I kind of got him wrong, 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.400 like throughout the year, because I was if you watch 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.800 the trade videos, I was buying him early in the 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.159 year because we know he go I didn't think like 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.039 he was gonna be this dramatic of a crap fest 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.880 early on and then it was going to turn as 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.480 hard as it did. So I was buying him earlier 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.480 and that was a mistake. And now you're looking at 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:16.880 what he's doing and it's crazy. You know what it's 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.440 hilarious too, is everybody for last two years has been like, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.600 just don't throw the change. Yeah, everyone's like complaining about 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.320 all that, especially the big pitching guys, So just don't 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.840 throw that change up. It was the second most used 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.840 pitch over twenty two percent in his last start, and 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.120 it had a sixty four percent with rate and the 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.920 highest CSW percentage of any of them. So he's kind 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.080 of going back to what he's wanted to do and 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.440 he's found consistency with it. But like, does this scream 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:45.960 sell now? Yeah, because he is so wildly swinging up 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.480 and down. Like I think Blake snell Man is a 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.720 good pitcher and he has big strike that's kind of 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.800 like exactly what we talked about with Lancelinn, but with 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.720 a better offense. The only difference he's crazy, inconsistent and 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:02.640 he loses his feel like dramatically. But is it possible 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.720 that he holds on through the rest of the season. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.920 It is So come back to the Lance Lenn conversation. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.680 What is someone willing to spend on a Blake Snell 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.440 who was so bad, cuddable bad through the first you 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.000 know what, six weeks and then has strung together quite 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.800 a few really good starts. Is it gonna be worth 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.880 what you could get out of him? That? I don't know, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.720 But I'm a little bit of a risk taker, so 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.840 I might be willing to, you know, roll with my 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.040 Blake Snell if the offers aren't really solid lanceln or 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.359 Blake Snell rest of season. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.920 A Blake Snell, I mean, because I believe in the padres. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.640 And I think that's the next point of this, which 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.240 is now that Blake Snell's figured it out, Waka has 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.480 been great, Musgrove starting to you know, hopefully we'll keep 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.120 it on that el elbow. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.920 Oh you almost did it. You almost did it. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.520 And right when you got to Musgrove too, that's so weird, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.920 right when you got to Musgrove. Yeah, no, but you 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:55.559 can here's time. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:56.320 That's what I'm saying. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.559 So the other thing was, you know, you Darvish, you 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.520 got Sodo, you know, looking like Sodo again. Tatista has 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.080 been red hot, but shadohealthy again. The Padres are gonna 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.160 make a run. There's too much talent on that team 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.839 not to make a run. They have the bullpen guy, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.839 they have everything. All they need to do is just 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.200 play better baseball, and they have not. And they're gonna 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.280 be incredibly dangerous if they play really good baseball in 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.280 the second half into the playoffs. Because that team with 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.920 Snell must Grove and Darvish at the top of that, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:25.600 you know, playoff. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.800 Rotation, They're gonna be a lot to handle. Now's a 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.360 great time to be making investments in the Padres. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.439 You know what I wonder, and this is speculative. I 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.560 haven't heard anything. I would love someone to ask him. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.360 I wonder if you know, because like Waka has lived 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.560 off of this change up. It's it's a ridiculously good 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.439 change up that I wonder if Snell had a conversation 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.880 with him, because that has been one of the big 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.319 difference makers. Snell always wants to throw a change up. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.480 It's never great or consistent, and then all of a sudden, 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.000 Waka comes in, who's been great, and that change up 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.400 is kind of taking back over and becoming a dominant pitch. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.360 I just wonder if there's something, some type of tweak 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.400 that's happened, and maybe it came internally from that pitching staff, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:03.640 because there's a lot of stuff. I mean, I thought 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.599 I told you about how Musgrove was trying to readjust unchangeups. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.360 I just wonder if that's kind of changed the game 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.640 a little bit. And that's something we can consider because 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:11.880 I think a lot of people are gonna look and 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.400 be like this cool. Snell's going right now, He's going 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.320 to completely fall apart. But what if there has been 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.920 some long standing mechanical change, either in the delivery or 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.840 specific pitch like the change up. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.640 But you know this is I mean, Blake snells want 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:25.200 to cy young. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.959 I mean, he's That's the frustration with Snell is that 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.440 he is capable of being great, not good, but great, 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.640 and the frustrating thing is to watch him be way 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.640 less than great for long stretches at a time, and 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.920 it just seems like an annual occurrence. So head to 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.840 head formats, he's a tough roster. I think he's one 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.400 of these guys that if I'm in the season long road, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.840 oh I'm okay with Blake Snell because. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:45.079 I'm just gonna know. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.600 So there's some terrible lumps around, you know, along the road, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.760 and there was I think I just made a welshism. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.439 I think it's terrible lumps, lumps or bumps along the road. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.120 It's lumps along the road. So I just made my 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.240 first welshism. This is what happens when we do. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.319 A show is long. He's lamp. He's in my head. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:06.440 Also tremendous. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:06.960 Uh. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.120 Six innings of Hitler's baseball. Not too shabby here. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.240 Welsh Brian Bello was also good this weekend against the 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.000 Yankees last night, one run, four hits, pretty good, got 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.440 the w Justin Steele came back, so everybody was holding 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:21.480 their breath, including me. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.440 Uh, he was very solid to run. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.360 Do you the Justin Steel face? Do your steel my. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:26.959 Blue steel face. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.560 It's just blue steel. But I know, but do blue steel. Yeah, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:31.520 there you go, that's just. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.160 Blue steel existed. I'm just saying that. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:35.920 Actually, if you if people go back and look, well, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.559 I don't know the timeline. One of the greatest things 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.560 and let me give a plug. The greatest things you 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.679 can do in purchasing the Fantasy Black Book, whether it's 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.880 the baseball, the football that's out right now over on 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.760 Amazon is getting the blue steel photo of Joe Pie's 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.800 a Pia is worth it every single time, every sixty 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:55.680 of the time, every time where he's. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.240 All the time. Juliote Ron also it's like one hundred 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.520 percent of the time works all the time. Another w 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:00.840 for him. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.760 Who would you rather have rest of the season, Ryan 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.079 Bellow or Julio Tehran? 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:06.160 Uh? 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:11.160 Probably bao I. Julio te Ron is fun. I don't 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.360 think I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with that all see. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.000 I think he's really good right now. It's this is 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.800 a good, fun, streamable thing. I just don't think it's 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.120 gonna last. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.120 I'm so hot right now, That's what Bet says. All right, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.160 let's get to the rookie. Lookie. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.880 Mark Vientos was sent down because somehow we got Pete 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.280 Alonzo activate from the IL Like. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.760 I looked up and I said, why when? Why? Who? 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.560 I was completely confused, as everybody they said, like a month. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.360 Now all of a sudden he's back. This scares the 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.160 crap out of me, and I love a Lonzo is 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:37.640 a tough guy. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.040 But oh, you think it's gonna fall apart? 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.480 I don't know, man, I think it's desperation. That's what 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.120 it feels like to me. Uh, the pirates. Everybody's a 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.080 buzz because we got a lot of catcher promotions. We 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:51.240 got Bo Naylor and then Henry Davis twenty one excuse me, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.679 MLB draft first overall selection. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.280 He's twenty three years old. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.360 He hit two eighty four with a four to thirty three, 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.880 five fifty one slash, eleven homer, nine steals. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.120 You never get steals as a catcher. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.720 So how aggressive you know, are you on Davis after 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.040 these really solid numbers at double and triple A this year. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.520 I don't know if I'd be super great. This is 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.080 another one of those guys. You know you hear me 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.720 talk about it, and you probably hear me talk about 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.240 it so much because of the correlation. Another AFL guy. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.120 This is a guy that was in the AFL this 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.680 past year. Was kind of like the main force for 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.360 the local team right across the street. The surprise Suarros 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.000 played catcher the whole time. I think he's actually a 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.240 really good catcher, but the team has messed around. They've 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.000 had him in the outfield. Made a really nice diving 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.480 catch the other day. Strikeouts for his problem, but he's 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.240 lowered that he had an under twenty percent at double A, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.120 which I love. The power's always been there. The guy 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.320 can run. He did that back in his Louis Louisville days. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.640 I just don't think this is this isn't gonna be 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.439 like real Muto, which it feels like when you look 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.160 at it, you like all those stolen bases and look 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.280 at those homers. I don't think so. I think he's 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.880 at best like average as far as like what he's 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.320 going to be in the outfield. There's definitely pop though, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.760 but I do worry about some of the strikeout issues, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.679 kind of being like a long term fantasy type of thing. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.040 So am I in sure? But am I being aggressive 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.800 like some of these other guys. Nah, we're getting inundated 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.400 with a lot of the players. I like him a 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.840 little bit more than bow Naylor, but Bo Naylor's got 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.079 a little bit more power in the tank there can 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.040 also run pretty athletic. Actually, you know what, they're probably 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.120 about the same. I feel like I could talk myself 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.400 into Naylor, maybe even him hitting a little bit higher 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.920 in that lineup, looking for you know, some more offense 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.000 for the Guardians. But maybe if I had a catching 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.560 need to catch your league. I put both the same 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.560 bids little hyper like little tiny thingy bit more aggressive 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.600 and put the same bit on both and just happy 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.280 with which for one I get our good friend. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.480 Friend of the show, Craig Nish reported that Eurie Perez 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.160 is going to remain in the Marlins rotation. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.800 Edward Cabrera in case you're missing over the weekend, it's crazy. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.120 I had an injury, so he is going to be 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.320 on the fifteen day iol with the right shoulder impingement, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.560 which is never a good thing. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.200 So Perez for the time being. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.560 Again, these innings are going to accumulate at some points, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:59.080 going to end. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:00.640 The Marlins run has been fun. Welsh. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:01.080 Yeah. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.280 I continue to tell everybody this is a paper tiger. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.240 I'm telling you right now. If you don't think it is, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.840 and you are crazy. The Braves are by far the 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.440 class of this division. The Braves are going to run 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.640 away with this division. I think the Mets are done. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.240 I think the Phillies are last gasping and the Marlins 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.360 are going to fall apart at some point. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.640 I'm really worried about that. This one stinks for head 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.680 to head guys, because what this all but assures we're 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.200 not getting Urie Perez into the fantasy playoffs or when 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.120 it's important, because the whole point of this was like 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.320 they were going to send him down manage the ending. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.240 I mean, maybe they would have screwed us in the end, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.280 and you know, he would have been in some type 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.960 of like relief or piggyback role. But this assures it now, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.920 like the idea of what they were going to do 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.320 maybe would have saved it. We're guaranteed this now. If 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.920 he's going to stay into the rotation, these really valuable 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.680 innings are gonna get ate up unless the team wants 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.160 to buck the trend and be like he can go 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.000 well over his innings and they're not going to cap 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.320 them whatsoever, which I don't think they're gonna do. So 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.920 I think this is kind of a this is a 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.040 death blow to end of season, head to head Uri 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.720 Prez stuff, and I'd probably be in redraft looking to 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.280 you know, if you can still move him, maybe you 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.280 can still get some great innings. I still think he's 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.520 one of the best rookie pitchers, but I just don't 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.480 see him being around now. Towards the back end, though, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.520 I would point out like Cuato is coming soon, so 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.560 you gotta wonder they say they're going to keep him 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.320 in the rotation. Maybe that's only a start or two. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.800 I don't know if mission touched on that when quota. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.920 Is not not in this update anyway, I could text 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.560 Craig because I'm cool, because I just you know, throw 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.520 out stuff like that. I thix him and find out. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.000 But if you really want to know, I know a guy. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.600 Guardians put Tristan. Tristan McKenzie right back on the il 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.560 with a right elbow sprain. This is always the concern 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.160 with Tristan McKenzie heading into this year or two was 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.720 always the frame the body. You know, last year was 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.320 really good. He had struggled with injuries in the minor leagues. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.920 He had a really good, full clean season last year. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.840 This year it's been anything but. So it's unfortunate. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.120 Look for Gavin. Look for Gavin, that's a great question. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.360 I think everybody kind of knows that's possibility. I had 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.240 someone that is like in Connecty kind of tell me 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.640 that you should be on the lookout for Gavin within 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.719 the next two weeks because of this move. And they 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.120 didn't make the move for him early on and they've got, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.879 you know, kind of like a side plan. But I 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.440