WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 6th, 2023 (Ep. 684) 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.640 This is Leading Off Live, brought you by Prize Fixed. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.120 Sign up with Prize Pigs today and use that promo 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.480 code leading Off when you do. It's me Joey Pa, 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.239 Jopie's a pea. That of course is the Welsh and 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.880 I'm sorry I missed you all yesterday. It was out 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.639 of my control. Exfinity was doing work in my area. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.600 I got a message in the morning a few weeks 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.520 ago and said, hey, we're gonna do work in your era. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:31.120 You might experience an outager two. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.839 Okay, fine, nothing happened yesterday got the same thing. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.880 I figured I was okay, Welsh. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.280 I was not, and thank goodness for you and Scott 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.400 Bogman to jump in there. But I have to say, Welsh, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.080 maybe I should miss the show more often, because yesterday 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:45.960 I picked Trey Turner for my home run call and 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.199 I got two home runs. I picked Aaron Nola for 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.280 my DFS pitcher on the show Sheets, which I hope 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.240 you told everybody about because he was terrific and basically 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.160 I crushed life. I was crushing life. So maybe you 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.680 think I should just sit this one out too, or 0:00:58.680 --> 0:00:59.200 what I don't know. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:00:59.960 Maybe that's like it. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.959 I think wah wah got to your internet. I think 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.240 that's really what happened. I think they heard what you 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.679 had to say about Kyle Schwarverer and schwerver Fest, and 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:07.520 wah wah got. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:08.600 To your internet yesterday. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:09.360 There it is. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.320 There's glory. It is glorious. Which, by the way, Joe, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.160 I don't know if you saw got me back on 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.840 the board and I saw you got a couple, so. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:18.200 I don't know. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.360 I mean, I think maybe you just needed, like your internet, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.480 a little reset, and you're back on it. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.679 You're back on a reset. Sometimes in life, Welsh, we 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.400 all need a reset. It's great to see all the 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.360 peanuts and cracker jacks here. I guess Cason is right. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.920 I look extra ball today because I shaved. I know 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.840 you now, I really look like the lead singer. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.319 You know what's the coolest thing to everyone? Look you 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.280 can see let's let's all point and look at Joe. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.160 You can see where the beard is because it's a 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.120 little bit lighter down here where it's a little bit hot. Yeah, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.040 you've got a glow to you, Joe. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:51.919 It's a internet. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.160 Because I'm so happy it's that's what it is. It's 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.640 my Internet glow, That's what it is. I I all 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.400 of a sudden, the Internet gets a little upgrade and 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.680 now you know, good times. Let's get to the baseball. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.800 There's a lot to talk about. I hate to start 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.559 off with negative. That's not true. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.080 I love starting off with the negative. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.600 Alec Manoa, Oh goodness, crisis, this is it, right, this 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.480 is our nightmare. He has lost seven consecutive decisions. He 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.680 got a total of twenty two outs in his last 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.040 three starts. The're just some fun numbers. I'm thrown out 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.679 at you. He has a six three sixty ra He's 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.640 got a forty eight strikeout to forty two walk ratio. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.800 Last night was a wacky day of him trying to 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.600 blow balls out of bounds and basically he's blown a 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.400 lot of seasons at the end of the day. So 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.080 Alec Manoa, I think you can cut him. No one's 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.960 gonna take him. The question is does he get sent down? 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.440 I mean, I feel like at this point the Jays 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.079 have to do something. I think you let you talked 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.519 about resets, right, this is the theme of the show today. Yeah, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.919 I think Alec Manoa needs a reset. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.760 They definitely need to unplug Alec Manoa and plug him 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.680 back in and wait twenty seconds or twenty days or whatever. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:57.880 That's a fact. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.040 I went and looked at Alec Mono. I am stunned 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.960 by this not to do this thing that we do 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.880 all the time, but I'm gonna do it. This was 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.399 one of my big five bold predictions of blow ups, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.280 was Alec Manoa, so thank. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.400 You to that. But I didn't think it was going 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.400 to be to this degree. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.440 So I want to take a look, like, what the 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.080 hell is going on. I've told you guys about I 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.200 think the new pace of play and his size, if 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.000 we're being honest, has maybe had a little bit of 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.799 a factor in it. But like as far as the 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.640 pitch mix goes, so a couple interesting things is he's 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.600 switched to being primary sinker over foreseen this year. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.280 He was primary forceeing last year. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.200 It's kind of like a three pitch mix by the way, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:40.120 but it's been primary sinker over forceeing. Well, that sinker stinks. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.040 He's got it dead middle of the zone where last 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.920 year he was cutting corners. It has an XPA of 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.360 over three hundred. Also, the slider, the slider is not 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.760 hitting bottom edges or outside of the zone. It's staying 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:58.200 in the zone and it's getting beat up more. Last year, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.200 the slider had a one ninety average against. It's got 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.760 a three twenty eight. He's also spinning it less. So 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.640 at the end of the day, what I'm saying is 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.080 is all of these pitches are sitting in the zone more. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.440 The sinker is way less effective, which has also made 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.400 the forcing fastball three hundred batting average against. The guy 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.200 is all over the zone and I think it's part 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.200 of the pace of play. And I don't know how 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.800 and when it gets fixed. It's just not going. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:25.280 To be this year. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.840 Based on how he's approaching the zone. I just don't 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.640 want any part of it because I don't see where 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.040 he's going to fix it in this year. It could 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.280 and it could be next year, maybe losing some weight 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.359 or something like that, but this is bad. He's not 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.159 getting any whiffs. I'm tipping to say things are over, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:43.960 but it's over. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.919 Well, it's over for twenty twenty three. I think anybody 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.880 who looked for regression potentially that was fair, but implosion 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.240 I don't think was on. It wasn't on my bingo board. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.599 I wasn't looking for emplosure when it came to alec Manoo. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.919 But this is where we're at. It's here the walks 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.440 were unsustainable. I thought there was a window there when 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.600 Jansen was catching him again, and then when Jansen got hurt, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.640 remember that was I said. You know, he started to 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.080 look better. But I don't know if it's the catching situation. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:07.960 I don't know if it's the pitch clock. I don't 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.360 know if it's physically how he feels, mentally, how he feels. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.800 Whatever it is, we definitely need a reset. Speaking of 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.599 resets too, by popular demand, here we go now that 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:22.200 I'm clean shaven, me and David Drason from this almost 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:23.880 looks like it could be from AI. If you're watching 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.159 on the YouTube channel, and again you should fancy ros MLB, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.239 you should subscribe to the YouTube channel. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:29.800 But there I am selling things. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.320 This is Joe yesterday, not having to do the show. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.640 He's like, I'm gonna eat some cookies and I'll put 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:35.279 on my wig. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:36.960 How about my chester as well? 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.760 I mean I really do look like it's not I 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.960 mean I slightly better looking, I think, But you know 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.920 what else am I going to say? Let's talk about 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.960 somebody who's actually been good lately, Blake SNeW believe it 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.520 or not, very solid, eight strikeouts and six innings. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:52.960 I still want nothing to do with him. I want 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:53.840 to trade him everywhere. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.039 I do want to talk about Trey Turner four for 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.960 five with two bombs going into the night, hitting one four, three, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.640 one two two seventy over his last fifteen games. Welsh 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.920 I wrote about him last week in the Fantasy Pros 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:07.800 featured Pro's article. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.520 On our MLB side of things. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.919 Mike Mayer puts that together every single week, it's a 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.039 great opportunity to look at some Builow candidates, and you 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.000 have to know trade Turner is going to turn things around. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.640 When the guy who is probably the biggest Trade Turner 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.240 hater is saying, go out there everywhere and buy him everywhere. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.320 You go out there and buy him everywhere. You'll figure 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.080 it out. It'll be fine. Maybe it's the Hogies. Maybe 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.720 a Schwarberfest. Can we get a Schwarberfest shirt? Do they 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.280 have shirts available for Swarfest? 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:31.680 They do? 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.560 That should be the June giveaway here for the home 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.320 run contest. I will be I will pay for a 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.200 shirt too. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.000 Maybe we could get like a poster done, and you 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.800 could like autograph it. You could autograph it. I want 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:45.840 a Schwarberfest shirt. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.240 The problem is I'm in Jersey, so like I'll have 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.720 to look at wah wah and see if there's a 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.839 Schwarberfest this thing or anything. 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:52.360 I'll ask them. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.680 I was like, hey, look, can I get it? Can 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.599 I get this when it? When it's over, I'm I 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.520 know the people tight with the people at the wall. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.880 It's not in pennsylvani So that's my only concern. So that's, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:02.960 you know, the only problem. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.560 What I'll say about Turner, I actually kind of wish 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.760 I had thrown him into some of my trade videos. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.960 Trade video should be out tomorrow and I hadn't. But 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.600 he falls along the lines of a couple of these 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.000 different players, and God, for the life of me, Bog 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.040 and I were just talking about one of these guys yesterday. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.000 There's a couple of those players that still sit out 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.680 there that you're just like, hey, I might not even 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.320 have all of the pieces of why this guy's going 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.800 to get better, but oh many Machada, that's who it was. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.360 Where you look at some of these players and you're 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.360 just like, listen, the underlying stuff don't tell me the 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.040 story of how he's going to get better. But what 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.440 I know of this player and the track record is 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.480 what I'm going to sit on. That was Nolan Ronado 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.440 a month ago. That's how I feel about many Machatta 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:46.960 right now. I think he's pressed out. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.960 He had some injuries too, so it's like he's been 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.880 he started to get better and then another injury. There's 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.480 a really good First of all, I want to shout 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.360 out Jacob b first time joining us. You didn't sleep 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.000 in way to go, Jacob way to be a member 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.600 of society and join us live on the show. Congratulations 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.960 and talk about always happening to have you guys here. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.960 I'm just kidding, but seriously, Uh, there was a question 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.320 in here. I guess see if I can find it, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.400 who would the Blue Jays replace Manoa with that. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.320 We did not touch on. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.200 Let's want to go back to the Manoa thing there too. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.000 It's not gonna be Pearson, uh. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.760 Simmon Woods, Richardson, Simon Woods, rich Simeon Woods, Richardson, if 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.920 I can say, that, would probably be the guy big 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:25.960 stuff plus numbers. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.600 They brought him up the country club name. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.480 Yeah, Ricky Tiedeman would have been the player, one of 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.319 the best pitchers in the minor leagues, but he suffered 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.920 some injuries. So I just don't think alec Mino is 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.679 going anywhere. I think they're going to have to just 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.200 kind of push through this. But if they did, I 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.320 think it would be Simmeyon Woods Richardson. So then let 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.920 me turn it back real quick. The last thing I 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:48.440 wanted to say was with many Machado, Many Machado, everything 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:53.600 is so wildly crazy bad that that's actually like the anomaly, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.920 Like it doesn't make sense how much everything is in 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.559 a bad place because I think he's pressed and the injury. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.600 So come back to trade Turner. I don't know if there. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.959 Was like resounding things I ever saw that was like, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.400 oh my god, he's massively going to bounce back. And 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.640 his hard hit numbers were down, his strikeouts were up, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.080 but it's like we know who he is, we know 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.400 he's going to bounce back, So oh yeah, Wodge Richardson 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.439 is a twin. Sorry about that that the trade happened 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.079 on there. So those are the type of players you 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.480 can just always count on without a whole bunch of 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.160 craziness and need here. So there's a big old circle 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.480 of pitchers and hitters and everything in there. And I 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.840 called SimMan Woods Richardson still a blue Jay, but he's not. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.840 So it's gonna be nobody there. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.800 You go, okay, So there you have it. A Braves 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.680 option Mike Soroka to triple A by the way. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:42.920 So short lived. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.040 And this is why I wasn't running out there. People 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.000 kept asking O we had Soroka. I was like, nah, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.280 I don't think we should. He had rolled nine runs 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.680 allowed in twelve and twelve hits, five strikeouts, just six plots, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.240 six walks more than strike I mean that this is crazy. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.160 He can't have more walks of strikeouts to be successful. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.400 He's never a big strikeout guy. And you know me, Welsh, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.440 if it's not a big strikeout profile picture, I'm just 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.200 not interested. He had nine to two thirds innings over 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.280 the two starts. Again, you walk six guys, you strike 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.199 out five, you ain't gonna last very long. So we'll 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.640 see what goes on there. It's going to be a J. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.360 Smith Shaver. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.920 I hope I'm saying that Corcer. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.520 You nail it, You absolutely nail it. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.800 AJ Smith chav who is also going to take over 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.200 when he was going to drive his Mercedes there to 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.400 the wolfplan and he's going to wolm up and then 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:27.480 come out onto the field. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.440 Cobblot, Sam and Wolf Richardson and A J. Smith Shava. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.640 So the twenty year old he's got a one o 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.480 nine e r N, a point nine to four whip, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.040 forty five strikeouts, twelve walks so far. Uh, and he's 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.480 been a couple different levels here the major League. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:44.400 So is a J. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.040 Smith Chava worth the selection of bringing him up there 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.080 too of Fantasy team? 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:49.680 Yeah? 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.280 I mean I they brought him like everything he did 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.960 was insane twenty year old kid that was at high 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.880 A to So he's up in the majors right now. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.520 This feels very it's but it feels very Mason millerish 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.160 where you look and you're like thirty innings and then 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.640 you come and look at it just Smith Schauver and 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:06.959 you're like, what he's here? 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.880 By bought him us. It's like Elder comes and hits 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.360 and then you had I'll go, who was it like 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.880 a week ago they came out of nowhere was it? Shuster? 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.920 Oh Sters has had a couple. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.840 Yeah, And everybody shows up there for the Braves except 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.199 for Mike's roka and he's like, yep, we. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.000 Can coet tribute, but this is why they can do this. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.680 But but smith schover comes up and they said they're 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.480 gonna put him in a bullpen roll. He made his 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.480 debut against the Diamondbacks. He went two and one third, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.680 didn't give up a run, got his first strikeout against 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.680 Corbyn Carroll. Curveball, very wonky, slider, looked good, he commanded 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.880 his fastball. And now they're talking about him going in 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.680 the rotation on Friday. My issue and this is just me, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.120 me all year, and this is not understanding all of it. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.080 I just got to tell. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.559 You, like, I just don't see him being in the 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.320 rotation the entirety of the year. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.160 I don't see it. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.520 So I've seen in the chat a lot of people 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.439 going Abbot or smiths Shover, and I'm going to go 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.720 with Abbot because I think Abbots already been given the 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.560 gig and he's good to go. I don't believe believe 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.679 smith Shaver is going to stay in that rotation. They 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.560 brought him up to be bullpen. I think this will 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.640 be very Strider esque in how they'll treat him. Get 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.080 some spots starts go long. They're using his arm in 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.680 the bullpen this year instead of the miners. He's fun, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.439 he's really good. He's going to be a great future 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.440 Dynasty piece, and I would spot start him in solid matchups. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.719 But I don't think I trust that he's gonna have 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.000 a rotation spot through the rest of the season. Like Andrew, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.280 Abbott has already kind of been handed. So I so 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.360 chat your answer. I'll take Abbot over A J A 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.920 S S A j SS right. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.960 In there. What would his his first name? 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And now back to the action. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.200 Andrew Abbit By the way, it was next on our 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.720 list to talk about because we are in the rookie 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.200 lookie officially, he won his major league debut on Monday. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.720 A fun stat here, Andrew Abbott is the only left 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.880 handed pitcher in the modern era on any team to 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.760 toss six plus shoutout innings with six plus strikeouts and 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.680 no more than one hit alout in his major league 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.280 debut so far in the Yeah, twenty four year old 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.440 southbaw two fifty era point nine to three, whip ninety 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.360 strikeout to just seventeen walks over fifty four and things. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.120 That was ten starts at double A and triple A. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:06.640 So I agree with you. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.120 Abbot is the guy that I would pick up. That 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.440 was the one we were gonna put together. But the 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.120 chat jumped the gun. That's fine, Chat, It's fine, Oh guy. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:12.600 That's fine. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.520 And to talk on Abbot, Razor just brought up something 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.320 the like whiff rate was low in this start. He 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.200 kind of pulled and man, it is like crazy, how 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.040 many of these young guys are doing this, But he 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.400 kind of pulled like the Bryce Miller Brandon fought heavy 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.320 fastball in this start. He went like over sixty percent 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.200 fastball sixty one percent and he didn't get a whole 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.920 lot of whiffs. But he's got a great curveball. He 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.520 hit the zone a whole bunch. Here's my concerns with 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.480 Andrew Abbott. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:39.960 Homers. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.680 He gave up like eight homers or seven or eight 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.920 homers in Triple A and that was over like seven starts. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.240 He dominated in Double A, but that was with that 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.560 Tacki ball that they were thrown with. He's big strikeouts 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.120 because he's got a big, breaking curveball. The fastball is solid, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.040 but home runs in Great America Ballpark, A little bit 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.520 worried about it. I knew the strikeouts were going to 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.120 be there in this start, so I'm gonna monitor where 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.880 the whiffs go and how big of contact he's given up. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.880 But again, this is just like one of those dudes 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.280 they said he's in the rotation now, so roll with it. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.040 Let's not focus too much on like whiffs and stuff 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:15.360 like that. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.440 If Abbot's good and it can get Lodolo back on 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.440 track some point in time this season, that Hunter Green 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:21.400 can make some progress. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.720 I know it's a lot to ask, but maybe it's 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:24.360 not this year. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:26.800 But you know, with Elie de la Cruz coming and 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.400 all this, like the Reds are all of a sudden 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.080 a really interesting organization. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.360 They're like, I see them kind of like the baby bag, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.200 Like how the Diamondbacks have come up with like some 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.400 of this young talent for and Carrol's coming up, They've 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.480 got some of that pitching. The Reds are that team. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.560 If I was a Reds fan, I would be pretty ecsthetic. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:45.760 Noelvie Marte just had one of the best maze any 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.119 prospect has had. This is on top of Cees dominating 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.040