WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 8th, 2022 (Ep. 548) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:17.680 Devers Station, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.000 This is leading off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.000 the King of sports Books. It's me, Joey p Joe 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.599 Pizzavia with me as always is the Welsh and it's you. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.920 It's a fun Friday. The All Star Game voting comes 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.720 to an end today, so if. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:32.720 You want to get in on that, now is the 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.159 time to do it and right the wrongs of the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.400 people who vote for the players just on their own 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.720 team that they see every day. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.800 I know, Welsh, you're not a fan of that. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.720 I'm not a fan of the fact that we're not 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.600 gonna see Jordan Alvarez start this game and we're not 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.479 gonna see Jose Ramirez likely start this game either, if 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:49.680 the percentages hold true. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.159 Right now, silly? 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.880 Well, okay, who is the placement on both of those guys? 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:55.640 Who's over them? 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.400 I can stomach that one, I get it, But the 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.560 other one is Devers who look at himself and night. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.440 We're gonna talk a lot about raviol Devers having a 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.360 great season, but Jose Ramirez, I mean, that guy's been 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:09.680 the one man show for Cleveland. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.360 But what do you do what do you do. Like, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.560 my complaint is the absolutely silly, ridiculousness of letting fans 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.840 have a decision, because fans are always a disappointment everybody. 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.840 They make the worst decisions the years of no mar 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.360 Garcia Para getting it. I mean, it's always from basketball 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.080 to baseball. Fan voting into All Star Games is stupid 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.080 and it takes away from like, you know, earned guys, 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.680 guys that deserve to be there. But in your scenario, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.160 what do you do in that It's like, okay, Otani's 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.280 or now those are just great players not winning in space. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.000 Maybe it's a little bit more popularity contest Boston over 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.160 the Cleveland market obviously, Otani in the LA market over Houston. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.360 That is kind of what it is. Actually, don't hate 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.559 on that one. I hate the general sense of fans 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.520 being able to vote and just click click click, I 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.680 remember they, I mean, do you remember, Like people would 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.720 like talk about it after the fact, they'd be like, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.360 I voted seven hundred and eighty four times for this 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.280 guy that didn't even play. I mean, there was a 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.680 one point that Fernando Tatis Junior was I believe fit 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.880 in voting in for shortstop in the All Star Game. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.760 It doesn't played. It's crazy. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.560 Well, I remember going to the ballpark and it was 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.040 so exciting thing to get the little ballot and you 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.600 punch out the little baseball hole and you'd stuff your 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.760 ballot in there. It was a very exciting thing because 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.560 it was the internet. That's this is how you voted 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.600 for the All Star Game. You literally had a ballot 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.399 and you put it in there, and that was very fun. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.960 It's right now, no one in an Anut and Manny 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.639 Machada or tied fifty to fifty right now in the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:35.360 National League. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.040 So that's gonna be an interesting That's good. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.919 I mean, at least for the most part, it sounds 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.680 like it's like the right guys, that's what you want. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.920 It is. It is. Nothing's perfect, nothing ever will be. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.399 You know, we're all gonna sit back and we're gonna 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.560 watch this game, and we're gonna really analyze it and 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.919 break it down. We're gonna watch this highly competitive All 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.560 Star Game. It's gonna be such a great time. Let 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.160 me ask you, Joe, do you actually watch this game? Uh? 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.520 I typically do watch the first couple of linings of 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.200 the All Star Game. I don't watch it like I 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:02.919 used to it when. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:03.560 I was a kid. Man. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.440 This was a big deal because you got to see 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:06.959 a lot of the americaning players and I used to 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.960 watch the Yankee the Yankees quite a bit, but you know, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.400 to see all the stars. At one time, it was 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.040 it was much more of an event and there was 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.639 much more National League versus American League vitriol that doesn't 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.000 exist nowadays because if interleague play and all that stuff 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.639 like it just doesn't happen. So back in the day, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.720 in the eighties as a kid, I mean even in 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.120 the nineties, All Star Game was fantastic. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.000 It was it was musty television for me. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.919 And now it's you know, you know, you get really 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.920 jazzed about the guy who like take his hat off, 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:36.840 like oh, that's my player, that's my dude, you know, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.080 and you get excited about it. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:39.920 But I don't feel like it's there was fun. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.520 Composition stuff like yeah, I don't know. There was something 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.200 about like, you know, some of the players having like 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.720 intersquabbly type of things, like it was fun seeing like 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.440 Tory Hunter take a home run away. But I'm just 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.559 an All Star Game guy, Like it's NBA Baseball votball 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.440 way down here. Like All Star Game. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.440 I told you the only way to fix the Pro 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.800 Bowl is to have the two best Madden players on 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.320 the planet play with those two rosters, and then I 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.800 would have all the guys that they drafted on either 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.520 side and just video their reactions to what's going on 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:11.640 in all the trash talking. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.000 I think that would be musty television. I would watch that. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.000 I would watch the. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.800 Two best Madden players in the world play those two 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.120 rosters and have all the guys yell and scream at 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.760 each other from either side of like like benches where 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.479 they were just sitting there and then maybe yelling at 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.360 the guy because they used him wrong or stuff like that. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.520 I think that would be hysterical fun and nobody would 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:29.960 get hurt. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.120 And look at this what is up with Wonky? What 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:32.960 is this snark? 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:33.200 Here? 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.039 Look at this comment? Up next, Welsh tells us why 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:37.800 the Home Run Derby should be a contest of who 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.360 can take the most walk? What's with this snark? What 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.240 did I do to you? Wonky? Am I not on 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.040 your side? You don't like on this show? 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.720 Now that I love the I still like the Home 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.800 Run Derby that I still always watch. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.039 Them, of course, because that is actually a fun thing. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.400 And I like the evolution of the derby over the 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.800 years has been very good too. Like I like the 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.279 time limit things, and I like all of that, and 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.760 it becomes more of an. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:00.640 Athletic feat and he doesn't. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.200 Yeah, these guys, they add more time. I like skills competitions. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.280 See that's the differy too. I like skills competitions. They 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.760 also did they they're bringing it back, not that anyone cares, 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.640 but the airson A Fall league they had a home 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.000 run derby years and years ago where they put up 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:20.120 different obstacles around the field and they gave points. It 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.200 was actually a hitting derby. Now they think about it 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.120 and you would get points by hitting certain things. I 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.600 thought that was kind of cool. I like home run derby's. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.880 I like all of those type of things. I don't 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.280 like all Star games because they're not competitive. Guys are 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.720 not really trying, right, and it's just it's it's I 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.440 don't know, it's kind of a waste of our time, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:41.120 to be honest with you. But skills competitions aoka by 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.600 me home run derby is the king of all of them. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.360 So basketball owns all star games, Baseball owns single skills competitions. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.440 Let me tell you, dude, the Dunk Contest this year 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.960 was the worst thing I ever saw. I those the 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.120 worst dunk contest in the history of dunk contest. The 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.919 Derby's gotta beat by a long shot. Josh Donaldson's lambs Boston, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.839 sending the Yanks to their sixtieth win. That's right, Mike Mayer, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.920 that's for you. The Yankees have won sixty games. Rafield Devers, though, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.520 continues to own the Garrett Cole with two more home runs. Unbelievable. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.720 We'll get more to that a little bit later in 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:18.160 the show. Joe Musgrove seven shutout innings against the Giants. There, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.680 Mookie Betts hit two home runs, so Mookie's picking up 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.200 where left off. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.719 Tony Gonsolin can't be stopped. Seven frames went over the Cubs. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.200 I mean, what can you do? 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.240 I mean, Tony Gonsolin's era is the best in baseball. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.240 He's got a perfect record. It can't go anywhere but down. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.279 This is all I keep saying. We'll see what happens. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.280 It's one of those things why we might all die 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:38.920 on a hill. By the way, just pointing that out, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.039 that's okay, we'll die. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.840 It's the hill. I'll die on this hill. Congratulations to 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:43.560 Atlee Rutchman. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.920 He got his first home run at home in Camden Yard, 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.320 so hopefully many many more Welsh. How'd you feel about 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.279 Spencer Stryder's twelve k's against the Cardinals yesterday? 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.440 My guys, Spencer, Hey, let's the heat check Spencer Strider, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.479 Aaron Ashby, let's do that heat chill it and it 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.760 continues that I got again. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:02.919 No. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.200 So, Strider is phenomenal. If he can keep the if 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.800 you can keep the walks down these type of strikeouts. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.720 I believe he hit his k prop before the third 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.360 inning came through. I mean he was. He's an absolute 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.840 stud and he's moving into that. Shane McClanahan, you just 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.360 take it, you don't even think about it, and you go, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:23.640 he's a budding star here. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:23.920 You know. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.760 He's kind of to me, it's kind of like a 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.720 Dylan Cease light. But he's actually having a lot better 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.320 early success than Cease had to go through. I'm I'm 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.960 very all in on Spencer Strider. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.240 And look he's saving their bacon too, because uh look, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.440 Freedom Morton have been good, but Anderson right have not 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.360 been lately, so having having Strider be that guy has 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.920 been outstanding. Also, Trevor Williams combined for a two hit shutout, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.160 another shutout for the Mets, who lead the league and 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.520 shut out all the teams. Jabir Bayez hit a home run. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:53.320 His eighth of the year. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.160 Hooray wow shot. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.760 Unfortunately, though the White Sox, Dylan See has a wasted 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.320 good performance for him. He struck out eight in that 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.160 loss to the Tigers. I mean, you gotta beat the 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.120 Tigers right now. If you're the White Sox, these are 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.600 the games you gotta win. Speaking of the Tigers, Miguel 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.360 Cabrera was added to the American League roster for twenty 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.480 twenty two and Albert Poohols for the National League roster 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.760 in the I don't know what we're calling this the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.160 old fart addition to I mean, these are two first 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:25.040 ballots Hall of famers asks. I mean, look, I want 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.240 these guys around, especially pools. It's last year. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.680 Are they telling us that that Miguel Cabrera is walking away? 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.400 Is this like an indicator yet? 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.560 I mean, I think they just had to find somebody 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.160 like to justify because like, what do you what else 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.800 are you gonna do otherwise, by the way, you're gonna 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.199 just have like poolholes and little cart like waving to 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.320 everybody going by, like they had to have another whatever 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.880 they're calling their legacy guy. He's perfect by it. But 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.400 I mean it does kind of spark up a little bit. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.200 But there's no way, there's no way that like even 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.559 Baseball would let Miguel just go without kind of a 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.760 farewell to or Miguel would want a farewell tour. He 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.559 likes kind of the limelight and stuff like that. I 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.079 don't think so. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.680 Yeah, I look, I don't know, man. I mean, he's 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.920 got a lot of salary left to get paid. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.120 There's another reason he could just keep behing and just 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:09.839 make that money. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.320 That's what I thought too. Now, Look, sometimes guys go away, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.439 they're like, you know what, I just don't want to 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.320 do it anymore, you know. I mean, he's he's made 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.800 hundreds of millions of dollars. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.480 Yes, it'd be nice to make some more, I'm sure, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.719 but you know it just look, I want those guys there. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.280 It's fun, but it's just it's a little weird, you know. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.400 I don't know. That was a strange thing we. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.439 Got to talk about injuries last night, scary moment on 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.000 the field in all seriousness, Jerks and Profar ran into 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.480 I should say c J Abrams and Jerk and Profar 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.520 ran into each other and definitely took a knee there 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.880 to the head area. Profar got back up, started to 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.160 walk off, and then as he was walking off collapsed. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.319 He's being evaluate at the hospital. Obviously some sort of 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.400 concussion issue. So no update on that yet. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.360 Kind of scary that we don't have a scary stuff. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.240 I just want to point out, you know, well, no, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.520 you totally understand that, but like there's something, you know, like, hey, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.160 it was just you know, looks like it's a mild concussion. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.680 We're just gonna be monitoring. There's just like no update. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.559 That always kind of weirds me out coming off the 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:11.599 night of an injury like that. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.560 Yeah, also injury, Yes, Jay brustol gaderall exits with an 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.960 injury against the Cubs, and Mike Soroco, who's coming back 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.320 from that Achilles' injury, has been shut down from throwing 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.280 after being hit in the knee by a comebacker in 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:25.199 batting practice. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.480 So sometimes when it rains, it poors, well, she when 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.280 it rains, it pors. Speaking of rain, it is pouring 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.040 on Garrett Cole. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.079 Whenever Redfield Everes comes to bat, he has a three 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.839 or four batting average with six on runs and fifteen RBI. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.000 After the game, here's the quote from Garrett Cole. He's 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.679 just been able to hit everything. I mean, there just 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.559 hasn't been a mishit roll over one time, nothing line 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:51.400 out one time. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:52.319 I mean, you're. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.079 Supposed to fail seven out of ten times in this gig. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.520 I don't know what the deal is. And he said 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.800 at the end of it all, I'm open to suggestions. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.160 I'm open to suggestions. You know what's funny he had yesterday, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:05.959 you know, especially if we're gonna play the games that 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.720 we do, like the Home Run Contest, and you want 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.600 to check out BVP. He was one of the best 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.199 BVP options. But you're like, that's Garrett Cole, you know, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.040 like you just you talk yourself out of like taking 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.120 those really great hitters against really great pitchers even in 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.199 BVP situations, thought about it, didn't do it owns him. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.079 I do like the meme. I like the meme of 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.520 daddy Daddy Devers holding little baby Cole. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.439 Well, you could see the especially the second one, the 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.960 frustration on Cole's face where he's just like I can't 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.839 He's just in awe because he made a good pitch. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.360 Tevers just took him deep again, and it is. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.880 It is wild sometimes how that happens where you know, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.360 it's even more strange in those moments, like Joe McEwing 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.880 used to own Randy Johnson. That kind of stuff was 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.240 always hilarious, Like whenever you see, like Joe McEwing was 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.119 on a team, Randy Johnson's out there, Joe McEwing. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.360 And be leading off and you guess hee, Randy Johnson 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:54.760 was just so mad. I actually owned it. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.199 I actually think that's something really special to baseball in 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:03.040 like just every regional market, like for the Diamondbacks, as 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:09.040 I'm a fan, Andre Ethier absolutely owned. But everybody has that. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.079 Like you could go to everybody and you know, whatever 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.560 team you follow, and there's gonna be not only great players, 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:20.000 but I love the obscure randomness. Some random dude out 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.439 there just absolutely owns the team, hits four hundred every 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.800 time he comes into the stadium. That was Andre Ethier. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.319 That's actually something cool. My never do it here. We 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.640 would never have time. I would love to know, like 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.920 you know, the most obscure own player for every team, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.679 like who owns the Cardinals, who owns the Brewers? Just 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.320 of weird players, and I bet you could see spouting 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.439 off of a bunch of a bunch of listeners and 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.480 different weird players for their teams. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:48.960 Here's a question for you too. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.240 If Profar is out for an excepted period of time, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.800 will San Diego call up Ruiz that's from hell or 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:55.440 high water? 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.679 I think that's a really, really great call. I mean, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.559 I think it would be there's some extent playing time 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.360 on some other spots, but that's what everybody's been trying 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.439 to do. When can we get his story up there? Yeah, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.079 I think it's possibility. Guy is stealing, he's hitting homers. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.880 I think he doesn't have a whole lot left to prove. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.599 It has taken quite a while to get there. But 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.480 he's kind of like I would say, actually, he's kind 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.960 of like a Profar a little bit, and he can 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.599 obviously he's transitioned into the outfield from the infield, So 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.679 I think that is a definite possibility. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.720 All Right, it's official. The World Baseball Classic is coming 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.400 back in twenty twenty three. Welsh I know you don't 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:32.400 care about the All Star Game? 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.439 Do you care about the WBC? And again we're back 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.040 to another year. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.920 We're going to have an awkward offseason for pitchers and hitters, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.959 and that is That's the one thing is like, man, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.439 after last year, after COVID and then last year with 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.480 the labor agreement, and now WBC three years in a row, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.000 forget like spring training is such a cluster f I 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.120 can't even handle it. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.280 It is gonna be. I mean, I'm selfish, and yes, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.319 I do like it because it comes to Phoenix and 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.319 I've been to some WBC games. I'm met Javier Bayez there, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.959 I met Carlos Korea. I think it's actually pretty. I 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.920 love the concept of it, but in person, I also 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.679 also like watching the games, but I do hate like 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.400 it taking away from players being on teams, maturation time, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.720 stuff like that. I don't love that. But I love 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.320 the competition. I kind of love the uh, you know, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.040 the world versus world situation. So yeah, I'm a fan. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.600 But maybe I don't know, maybe just don't do it 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.160 in you know, spring training. Maybe you could do it 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.360 like in January or something. I know everybody wants days 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.120 off and time off. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.120 There's no good time. That's the thing is, like, there's 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:35.160 no good time to do it. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.240 You can't do it in January because guys aren't ready, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.880 and then you can't do it in the middle of 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.440 the season because you know, don't want anybody get hurt. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.040 What about if you did it right around Arizona Fall League, Like, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.000 I know guys want time off, but do it just 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.440 right after the season. Just throw it in right after 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:48.960 the season. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:49.880 Can you do that? 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.840 Or do you worry about guys and we're just gonna 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:52.840 get buried by NFL. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.840 I don't think. I guess there's a ratings wise that's 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.680 a problem. Now, Look, I like WBC, there's no good time. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.040 You gotta just do it spring training. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.680 But I'm just telling you what again, we're gonna have 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.280 the same head eggs we've had the last three years, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.880 which is the stop and start of all of this. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.280 So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be ragged, man, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.480 I'm telling you right now, another crazy year of this. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.960 Fun facts, Welsh, I know you love fun facts, and 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.840 typically they're about shoe heyo tani and typically this one 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.560 is also so highest slugging percentage with runners in scoring 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.880 position over the last fifty years, Welsh sho Heo Tani 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.840 at six twenty one, Mike Trout at six sixteen, Mark 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.160 McGuire at six fifteen. Lowest slugging percentage with allowed with 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.760 runners in scoring position by pitchers in the last fifty 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.640 years sho Heo Tani number one two to oh one, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.200 Dylan Patansis at two to eleven, and e oldest Chapman 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:40.920 at two twenty six. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.760 That is insane. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.600 It is. It's very obscure, but it's so relevant because 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.840 they pick Jeremy Jeremy Frank who did at MLB random 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.040 stats picks with runners in scoring position, and to have 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:59.240 the guy be the most proficient hitter and pitcher with 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.600 runners in score position. That actually might be my favorite, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.120 most random stat that I've seen in quite some time. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:05.720 I love. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.160 It's just it's mind blowing. Also, what it reminds me 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.720 of is Mark McGuire should be in the Hall of Fame. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.760 I mean, it's just so dumb. I mean, he is, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.280 he is so important to me. Two, I mean it's 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:17.960 just so dumb. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:22.480 It's ridiculous anyway, also dumb and hilarious. I saw this 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:23.840 tweet and I had to bring it up because this 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.200 is a fun fact. Uh, there was a picture they 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.080 had of that day in the seventies where people weren't 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.440 getting you know them major bats. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.320 I don't even know if they do that anymore. They 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:37.040 were getting full out just thirty two twenty eight bats. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.480 Like just just thirty two ounce bats. Here's your bat, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:41.200 here's your bat. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.600 Here you go, here's a real bat. Could you imagine 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.400 nowadays the carnage in the stands if you gave everybody 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:47.960 a real bat? 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.200 Oh my god, you give you give third Rowe or 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.360 third deck Mets fans a bunch of full sized bats? 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:55.080 Are you kidding me? 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:55.880 Hey, guess what. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.440 It's also five dollars beer night. I don't think. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.520 Well, that's the thing. Like back then, beer were like 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.800 two bucks and they gave real bats out and there 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.960 was no carnage. I can't even fathom if they did that. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.040 Nowadays you see people all I can't tell you how many. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.720 How annoying it is when you see so many of 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:15.840 these videos of people getting in fistfights at sporting events nowadays, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.760 and I'm sure that always happened, and now we're just 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.600 videoing them all Like I'm sure it always existed, but 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:21.240 I don't know. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:22.520