WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 12th, 2022 (Ep. 593) 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.920 Welcome in friends to leading off. That's right. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.439 We are here, We are live, and we are here 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.000 for the playoff run. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.520 The Fantasy playoffs should be here. I am Chris Welsh. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:22.800 You can find me on Twitter at is it the 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.720 Welsh In Joining me today is Andrew Seifter on Twitter 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.520 Andrew underscore Sifter. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.000 It is playoff time, Andrew, How are we rocking? How 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.800 are we prepared? Who are we streaming? Tell me every 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.400 little detail about your playoffs? Go? All right? 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.400 Well, I'm a rotisserie league guy, so I like the 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:40.639 slow build to the end. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:40.880 Man. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.519 But I'm still in a neck and neck race for 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.520 first place in my oldest league, so I'm sweating it out, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.239 staring at the categories every single day, figuring out if 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.840 I can get that one extra saver or that one 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.480 extra home run that I need to jump up a 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.000 spot in the standings, because it really could come down 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.040 to anything. I remember a few years ago I won 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.800 I tied for the league championship on the final day 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.160 because Carlos Correa stole a base. So it really can 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.280 come down to the end, even in those retissary leagues. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.800 But of course in head to head it's even more intense. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:15.840 Yeah, we have that. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.280 I mean, y'all you have those memories too. There's that 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.880 There'll always be that one Fantasy Baseball memory, whether it's 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.000 roto or whether it's. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.600 Head to head. And I had one of those with one. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.119 Of our buddies where it was the last day, last 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.240 Games Sunday Night baseballs of years ago. Hunter Pence hit 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.760 two homers which tied me in homers, I think in runs, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.800 and we tied eight eight, and I moved on to 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.120 the tiebreaker to go to the championship. And one of 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.600 my good friends always remembers that that's what it is, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.840 and Fantasy baseball is built around the grind. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.520 So hopefully, yeah, and we count pens. This is awesome, man. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.680 I bet you he would appreciate that if you told 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.360 him that story on Twitter or something. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.280 Yeah, I probably should. I'll always remember him and me 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:55.840 and my buddy. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.120 What we do is we just text each other. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:57.560 Eight eight. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:58.160 That's it. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.680 The eight eight tie is what it was because it 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.080 was a big head to head categories league, very good stuff. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.640 But we are here for the grind and hopefully we 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.200 can help you make all of those decisions. We're talking 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.640 about Andrew's top pickups. We are going to be going 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.919 through all of the stuff and things stat leaders from 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.640 over the weekend home run calls. What do you guys 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.240 think the leaderboard looks like? Because I'm gonna give you 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.400 a little hinted tip. We got a brand new person 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.440 at the top. We have a new leader that we 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.160 have not had all season long, and we've only got 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.040 a couple weeks to go, so it should be awesome. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.600 What was awesome, especially as a personally Diamondbacks fan, but 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.560 was a really just great record. Zach Gallen had the 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.280 scoreless streak extended to become the number one Diamondback of 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.839 all time, but he just lost his scoreless streak, which 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.919 was forty four in a third consecutive innings. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:46.240 It was snap when CJ. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.320 Crown had an RBI single in the fourth inning, but 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:54.399 an incredibly impressive performance by Zach Gallen. And this had 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.320 me thinking over the weekend, I was working a lot, 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:58.960 and we're going on a lot of ranks right now, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.960 and I was working on my early twenty twenty three ranks. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.280 That's what I'm I focused. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.000 I finally focused, and I'm like, that's the one I'm 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.280 going to get done first, and then I'm going to 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.560 move to my dynasty in prospect get those cleaned up. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.280 But going through and looking at twenty twenty three ranks 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.960 and comparing performances can make it really difficult. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:15.720 On values. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.680 Zach Gallon is a tough one because he was dominant, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.240 had a lull, and he's gone back to complete dominance on. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.959 A subbish par team. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.640 But that scoreless streak nonetheless probably one of the more 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.200 impressive performances of the year. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.280 Andrew, Oh, yeah, absolutely, And of course it has to 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.520 end in course field of all places. Not really fair. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.920 I think that they should have like a stat for 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.680 consecutive scoreless innings at normal elevation, and we should be 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.960 able to just keep it going. But I'm glad that 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.040 he gave us a nice parting gift for fantasy with 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.840 eleven strikeouts in that outing, So even though he ended 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.440 up giving up a few runs, it was still a 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.680 very nice performance to help us for those stretch runs. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.000 And on the year, one hundred and fifty eight innings, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.840 he's a twelve and two record, a two five era 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.640 X fifth that is around three three to two. He 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.400 doesn't have a fifth that's under three. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.280 On the season. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.120 He's cut the homers by a dramatic marker was one 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.760 point four to nine last year down to point six 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.960 y two walks that were cut by a full walk. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.839 And the strikeouts. He's taken a little bit of a 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.400 tickdown in the strikeouts, but he's been phenomenal three three 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.000 three Sierra, which is just proven that he is in 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.000 the elite. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:28.560 Class of pitchers. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.840 And I think he's going to be a primary target 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.400 after the Big Dogs next year, whatever the big Dogs 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.920 look like, by the way, but Zach Gallon having that 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.920 streak broken really nonetheless impressive of what he does. Speaking 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:48.159 of impressive six ninety seven, Albert poolholes hit six ninety 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.359 seven off of Chase to Young in the ninth inning, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.880 passing Alex Rodriguez for fourth place all time on the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.200 home run list, now three away from seven hundred and 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.800 kind of a cool story. The woman that caught it 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.600 came back after they brought her back to give him 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.200 the home run ball, and she had talked about, oh man, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.640 it was like losing a job and had. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:07.880 Lost their father or whatever it was. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.080 There's a whole bunch of like stuff there, and Albert 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.040 ended up saying, you keep the ball, this will mean 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.560 more to you and signed a couple more. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.160 Balls for her, which is pretty cool. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.920 He's gonna probably want seven hundred, to be honest, if 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.200 he gets their Andrews. So we are now, you know, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.480 twenty less than twenty days away from the season, and 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.880 you and I were looking before the show and Pools 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.200 is still not playing every single day. They got to 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.160 get him out there every single day. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:34.360 He is three away. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.960 There's no way he can fall one short. They would 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.600 be everyone to be devastated. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.320 Yeah, I mean, this seems like a no brainer. They've 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.479 got an eight game lead in the division at this point. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.160 Just play the man. Everyone wants to see it, you know, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.640 give give your fans what they want. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:48.640 That's what the fans want. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.480 They if they come to the game at Bush Stadium, 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.159 they want to see Albert pooh holes. You know, they'll 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.760 be disappointed if they don't. And the way he's hitting, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.280 it's not like it's exactly hurting the team to play 0:05:59.360 --> 0:05:59.640 him either. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:00.839 By the way, and. 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.200 He's at home for the next two series. At least, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.480 He's got a two game versus Milwaukee and then they've 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.120 got Cincinnati, both at home. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.520 He should play all of those. He should be. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.160 Out there for every single one of those to break 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.479 this record because we are getting so close. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.600 But I just have an eerie bad. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.440 Feeling that we are going to end at six ninety nine. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.560 Maybe it's my anarchisis in that's inside of me. I 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.040 just feel like we're going to end at six ninety nine. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.559 Andrew, you're such a pessimist man. I'm saying he's gonna 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.239 break it with a week to spare. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.760 Oh okay, that'll be nice. Well, maybe we can get 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.800 it going pretty pretty soon. Some other stuff around the league. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.040 Kenley Jansen allowed two homers in the bottom of the ninth, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.320 took a loss on Sunday against the Mariners. I believe 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.800 that was the game that Julio Rodriguez had a one 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.560 seventeen ev home run. Who continues to be the top dog. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.839 And you know a big move I made. I hadn't 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.960 made this move quite yet, as I told you, I 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.200 was only working on my redraft, But in Dynasty, I 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.080 moved Tulliou to number one in Dynasty right now, and 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.839 I just think it's hard to justify anybody else. Tatis, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.680 you know, obviously going to miss games and questions. Akunya's 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.600 power has kind of wavered out Soto is a hitter 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.279 I think can improve, but doesn't steal bases. Just across 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.040 the board. There's a lot of big questions. But I 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.280 made this about Julio here, even though Jansen got blown up. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.600 Any Jansen or Julio takes. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.760 Well, there's the guy on the other side, Michael Harris 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.560 that we love, who's rocketing up those rankings as well. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.280 Maybe not quite the number one just yet, but that's 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.120 in the range of possibility for next year if he 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.720 keeps doing what he's doing this season. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.280 Some claiming for MVP votes for Michael yeah, wild. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:36.040 Yeah. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.960 With Jansen, I mean they they may need to give 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.800 him some low leverage spots at this point because he's 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.040 really been struggling for a while now, and you know, 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.520 they're in a pennant race. They need they They're not 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.640 like the Cardinals with an eight game leading their division. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.560 They need to win these games, try to win that division. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.840 It's it's neck and neck with the Mets right now. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.280 So I would yeah, I would expect, especially with a 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.520 guy like Razel Iglesias there as well, who's a proven closer, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.360 that they could, you know, move Jansen to some earlier 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.240 innings and let him work things out because they want 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.000 him ready to rock for the playoffs. I mean, he's 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.880 had some ups and downs over the over the years, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.720 especially in the last few years, i'd say, so you know, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.880 he does bounce back from those, and he can bounce 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.000 back from this. But they their priority has to be, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.840 you know, don't blow games now, try to win that 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.720 division and make sure that he's ready to go come 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.120 playoff times. So you know, it's not what his fantasy 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.920 managers are going to want to hear, but I think 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.520 there's a real chance that he doesn't get the next 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:36.400 save opportunity. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.360 Yeah, and that's the that's kind of the big rub 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.000 here is that you know, you might be out Kenley 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.200 Jansen's save opportunities in the most important time here. I 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.120 think they might want to push him back, and they've 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.200 got other options. That's why they you know, the main 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.840 moves they did Seay McClanahan, who had that scary injury, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.359 likely to return on Thursday and start against. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.960 The Blue Jays. So you guys can feel good about 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:57.680 that getting him back. I feel very good. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.560 And I know Wonky tweet about this saying, you know, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.640 I was probably freaking out somewhere and Chris Clig was 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.160 on the show. We literally talked on Friday about Josh 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.000 Young and I said, I was like, I'm not sure 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.839 I see Josh Young hitting a homer in his first game, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.480 but I absolutely see a hit, and sure enough, first 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.520 at bat gets his first career. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.240 Home run, Josh Young does. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.320 And since then I didn't even think to pull up 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.559 the numbers three for twelve. He's got that homer, had 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.360 he did steal a base hitting two fifty. I told 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.600 you the sneaky, the sneaky speed is out there. So 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.680 hits in two of his first three games. I've actually 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.440 got a double header here on Monday. So Josh Young 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.679 looking like a pretty good pickup right now. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.880 Andrew, Yeah, for sure, And you know we are going 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.920 to mention him again, I guess later in the show 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.520 because of the golden Sombrera that he just had. So 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.240 it's not going to be all smooth sailing necessarily. But 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.640 he's just such an impressive prospect. And he's one of 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.160 those guys where I feel like we haven't fully got 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.839 to see it because there's just been you know, circumstances 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.600 take looking over. He had that flucish injury last year, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.360 then he had the flukeish injury in you know, the 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.839 winter this year with weightlifting, so he's missed a lot 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:11.200 of time. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:12.959 But when he's played, he's he's. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.559 Looked exactly like the prospect that you would expect, and 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.280 the power is legitimate, batting average, abillia is there, as 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.280 you said, maybe even some sneaky speed. So yeah, there's 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.640 lots to like and the future is bright. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:27.160 Yeah. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.440 The speed thing, to me became something that like all 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.800 of a sudden appeared when he was rehabbing, Like he 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.079 became so much faster, he leaned out a little bit, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.719 and we probably would have seen a lot of him 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:36.960 had he not gotten injured. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.280 But he's a good bet the rest of the way. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.560 If he is still sitting out there, he is only 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.320 again read it for what it is for dead leagues 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.640 and whatnot, but twenty three percent owned in Yahoo, which 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.320 you know is probably closer to like of active league, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.559 probably like around sixty percent, So he might be sitting 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.240 out there someone I would probably take a look at 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:55.959 on the injury front, and then we're going to talk 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.360 about some pickups. Rolldis Chapman had a scoreless ending on 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.360 Sunday in a mind League rehab stint, which I think 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.480 the minor leagues are done or into the next day 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.160 or two, so that's going to be all done here 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.720 in double A, so he could be coming back here 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.280 in the near future. Mackenzie Gore toss one two thirds 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.600 one in two thirds of a scoreless frame on Sunday 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.480 in a minor league rehab start and triple A again, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.439 that'll be the last one. He'll probably get a start 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.720 at least started to to end out the year. Nico 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.840 Horner was removed from Sunday's game against the Giants du 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.080 to tightness in his right tricep and Trevor Story was 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.440 removed from Sunday showdown against the Orioles due to pain 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.560 in his left hand. Trevor Story had been a disaster 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.559 this year, and Nico Horner has been sneaky, sneaky good 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.560 in getting stolen bases, a little bit of power one 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.680 of those guys. Again, I was doing my twenty twenty 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.400 three ranks. I was really looking at and trying to 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.240 figure out how I want to value Nico Horner because 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.720 I feel like he's been sneaky, sneaky. But you know, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.600 with this any type of banged upness, you can probably 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.120 move on immediately with only a couple. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:49.439 Weeks to go. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.640 Yeah, I mean he's a player that I kind of 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.720 had dismissed really as maybe just like a point league 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.079 points league's kind of a guy. But then all of 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.880 a sudden, the soul basis just I've really come out 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:02.640 of nowhere this year. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:03.600 I mean not totally. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.120 He did have five and forty four games last year, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.840 but to be up to eighteen already this season, I 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.120 mean part of it's obviously playing time, but the power. Also, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.760 he didn't hit a single home run in twenty twenty 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.600 or twenty twenty one. It's got nine this year, so 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.199 still still not exactly Albert Poohols, but you'll take it, 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.320 you know. It's it's the sneaky production that can really 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.960 help you win if he's healthy. But again, don't hold 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.600 when he's day to day. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.520 No a last thirty days, six stolen bases, two homers, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.920 hitting two sixty two, sixteen runs and eleven are of you. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.200 And that brings us to the question of who are 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.880 you picking up? So even in the chat, if you 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.280 guys have any comments on pickups and who you're picking 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.920 up or who you might drop it. But Andrew you 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.960 drop an article. Who are you picking up? Who are 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:48.959 some pickups people should be focusing on. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.840 Well, I'm definitely picking up Hunter Brown, the pitcher for 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.080 the Astros. He's a prize prospect. He looked really good 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.880 in his first start against Texas last week. He gets 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.079 a matchup with Detroit. That's a really juicy matchup coming up. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.240 You know, we have to see about whether he's in 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.840 the rotation for the entire rest of the season or not. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.520 The Astros always have a lot of options, and if 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.000 Verlander does come back off the IL, we'll have to 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.840 see what they decide to do. They've been rolling with 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.440 a six man rotation recently and they'll probably stick with that, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.520 but even so, with verlanderback, it could be seven. Then again, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.360 a guy like Erkidi has been struggling, so you could 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.600 easily see him getting moved to long relief if Hunter 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.079 Brown continues hits really well both there on. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.439 Hunter Brown had worked some relief in the minors before 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.480 he was called back up, so they could put him 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.480 to that. But you know, Texas, he just diced six innings, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.320 had five strikeouts. He can give up an earned run 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.520 and then on Tuesday he's got Detroit it's like a 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.680 must star. That's actually one of the biggest must pickups. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.480 If he's still sitting out there, you could do is 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.920 Hunter Brown against Detroit. So I completely agree with that. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.520 Who else do we have for Yeah, he's only like 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.719 thirty four percent rostered or something like that. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.560 I believe in Yah, yahoo, So what thirty nine percent? 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:06.960 But yeah, still pretty low. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.080 Cal Raley, you know, this guy is not exciting, but 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.720 he actually is right up there for the league leading 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.680 home runs among catchers. So and he's got a decent 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.000 number of RBIs for a catcher as well. So, uh, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.080 maybe that's a sign of some of those dead leagues 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.240 you're talking about that he's still available because there are 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.600 just there aren't that there aren't enough catchers to go 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.440 around at any given time. So if this guy's putting 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.280 the ball over the fence like this, I mean, he's 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.640 got twenty three homers and fifty four RBIs in just 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.400 three hundred twenty six at bats. Batting average is going 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:39.440 to be gross, we know that. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.560 But it's catchers two hundred over the last thirty days. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.720 But over the last two weeks he's up to two 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.240 forty two and has five homers in that period of time. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:52.080 Yeah, exactly. So you know hot bat had a weak position, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:52.640 go for it. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.880 You know, Pete. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.960 Fairbanks is you know, he's not going to be the 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.680 exclusive closer for the Rays, nobody is, but he's been really, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.720 really good and he is the leader of the committee 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.440 chair at this point. So I saw a stat that 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.160 he is the lowest expected weighted on base percentage out 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.800 of any pitcher in baseball according to Stackasse. It's a 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.400 pretty small sample size, but still like he's pitching great 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.600 and belongs on a fantasy roster at this point, I 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.320 would say. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.240 Some good pickups we got in the chat. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.960 We had McCarthy, Carroll, and Escobar as pickups, all guys 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.480 that you should be looking at. Diamondbacks roster in general 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.400 has been turning out some fantasy options and Escobar has 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.880 been a half decent corner infielder to take a look at. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.600 So there are some guys out there. For sure. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.400 McCarthy you can't imagine available anywhere, but you know, the 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.600 Carrol might still be floating around out there. JP Friedel, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.480 there's another one of those. Actually some good early matchups 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.560 this week. That's another one of those guys to take 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.360 a look at. Some good pickups if you guys are 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.880 looking for some hitters. Pitchers are a little bit tougher, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.600 but you know, I don't hate Cole Reagans. I don't 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.720 hate Cole Reagans. It's sitting out there. I think he's 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.640 got to start today and that'll give him a two 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:03.440 start for the week. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.920 So yeah, Bailey Falter is another one you could look at. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.960 Yeah, I believe he's got the Marlins again, and his 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.400 next start, he just pitched pretty decently against them, so, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.760 you know, not massive upside, but a pretty solid floor. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.120 I would say some pickups for you guys, and if 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.200 you guys have any questions during the week, feel free 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.400 to drop them and we might do a focus you know, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.240 maybe like mid episode. I probably need to dedicate a 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.360 time for it. But throughout the week, if you guys 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.320 have any questions in the chat, you can drop them 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.080 and we will will answer a few of them, and 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:36.760 maybe I'll tell you at the beginning of the episode. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.320 Win we'll do it so you guys actually know. But 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.120 you guys can drop it in today. Let's keep going here. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.240 Fun fact Edwin Jackson officially announced his retirement from baseball. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.120 This was on the tenth vias Instagram, and Jackson played 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.360 for fourteen different teams, which is an all time record. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.040 He also had the no hitter for my Diamondbacks. I 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.120 think he walked seven in it or whatever it was, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.720 and I actually have this memory of that matters to anybody. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.159 There's this series called the Dreams Series where it was 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.399 out here in Phoenix, and it's a series of like 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.680 it's like high school and down to fourteen year old 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.880 kids and stuff like that. It's like the Martin Luther 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.680 King Dreams Series, I think it is. And I remember 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.760 Edwin Jackson just rolled up and was talking. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:15.920 With the kids. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.520 He just rolled up in like, you know, whatever, big 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.760 suv and he just walked out and he was all 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.280 bling down. I always liked Edwin Jackson, But none of 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:28.160 that actually matters. But fourteen teams that Jersey room probably 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:29.520 looks quite amazing for him. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:30.480 Yeah. 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.760 Well, I was going to say the fact that he 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.960 played for that many teams is kind of fitting because 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.800