WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 5th, 2022 (Ep. 568) 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.400 Welcome in friendos to leaning off on Fantasy pros. I 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.720 am Chris Welsh and joining me today is all of 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.799 the energy. It is going to hit you like a 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.040 ton of bricks. He is mister energy. Mister Michael Govier 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.800 is in the house, sitting in the co host seat 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:32.080 with me. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.159 What's up, Michael Welsh? 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:35.320 How you doing? My friend? 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.360 We cut it closer this morning, but it's morning for you. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.559 We've hitting noon on the East Coast, and I'm feeling good. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.520 I'm ready to rock. I want to talk baseball with you. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.360 And I don't think there's anything else I'd rather be 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.720 doing right now. Maybe taking a nap, but I can 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.360 always do that later because you're come first. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:51.479 I appreciate that. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.200 Yeah, in the chat, I said top of the morning 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.440 to everybody, or as we would say on the West coast, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.720 good afternoon, because it's nine am here you guys over 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.920 on your East coast, you're having lunch and you're doing 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.760 all that type of stuff. I don't want to touch 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.920 any food you guys are having all of that. Yeah, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.679 And as Kobe I was mentioning cutting a little short, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.479 it was about twenty seconds before. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.880 But I believe you just moved. I believe you just 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.360 moved to Did you move to the Canada? Did I 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:17.280 hear you? 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.800 Know you? 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.840 Usually those of you that know me, if you've never 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.480 seen me before, honey, how you doing. But those that 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.679 have seen my show, the plots of podcast or seen 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.320 me elsewhere, Ah, he's got top notched background. So I 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.200 always make sure I got the green screen rolling with 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.600 quality lighting because that's just what I do. But I 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.600 am doing my very first show ever from the great 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:37.920 country known as Canada. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.920 It's right, I am in Canada right now. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.080 Wow, you're from the Canada right now. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.119 Also, big news if you guys don't follow Michael on Twitter, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.120 MJ Govier Michael, it was just announced yesterday that is 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.600 joining FTN. So he's got his own podcast, a Plaza podcast, 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.360 but also going to be over with FTN. So congratulations, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:56.600 my friend. I think you're going to be doing a 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.800 bunch of football content. So the baseball people will boo 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.280 and hiss at you here. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.000 But I don't know, you'll probably have some baseball content 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:03.280 in there. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.120 No, baseball is very much a part of it. It is. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.640 That's like I'm doing college football stuff as well, but 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.240 baseball was the main thing to our main man's lad Settler. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.720 He really wants to grow the baseball product there and 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.840 we're all about baseball there, so that will definitely be 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.000 a focus there. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.040 You go, Well, Michael and I are going to go 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.840 through all the motions with you, as we've had a 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.920 star studded lineup the entire week of everybody from Mike 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:31.200 Kurlin to Nick Pollock to the debut of the Wonky Penguin. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.239 I hope you guys have been injoying it. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.560 But let's get into baseball and we've got all the 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.840 things under the sun. And number one, the Los Angeles 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.960 Angels hit seven solo home runs last night, two by Otani, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.880 and they lost eight to seven. Magnificent. That's a piece 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.880 of artwork right there, Mike. I have a couple notes here. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.720 These are both from Kodify and I found these fascinating. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.240 Sho Heo Tani became the first Angel ever to hit 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.600 multiple home runs in three differ differ games that the 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:07.760 team lost in one season. Codify then doubled down the 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.160 most multi homer games that resulted in losses in twenty 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.880 twenty two. Shoho Tani is the leader with three. As 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.640 I just mentioned there, were thirty six other batters that 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.760 had one. I don't know if you've looked at the show. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.040 Have you looked at the show sheet yet? 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:24.760 I certainly have. Yes. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.239 All right, then you know because. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.720 Number two on that list Kyle Schwarber. So Kyle Schwarber 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.280 had two that multi homers that resulted in losses. Thirty 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.520 six other show HEO Tani three. That is a spectacle 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.200 that I think is hard to defeat and also brings 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.400 up a question to me, Michael, we have spent so 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.840 much time on this show throughout the season, me and 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.680 PS and PA talking about Shoho Tani and the MVP odds. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.200 Do you think things like. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.640 These are going to swing the pendulum back? You know, 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.280 we had Judge and then we had Tani come in 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.680 like a fury take over the lead. I'm actually gonna go, look, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.600 I haven't see what the odds are, but do you 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.960 think I'm not sure where you stand on the MVP 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.720 race in the al in general if it is Aaron 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.800 Judges Shohio Tani. But is this the type of stuff 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.720 that you think that is gonna make him fall off 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:11.400 of this lead? 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:13.800 Uh? 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:14.160 Boy? 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.040 I thought Judge would tank second half. In fact, at Fantrax. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.520 We did these quick hitter fun clickbaity posts, So, hey, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.240 who is the guy who's gonna fall apart as an 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.440 outfielder or who's the hitter? 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:25.599 You're fading in the second half? 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.719 And I chose Aaron Judge as a hitter to fade 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.680 just because he was so good that I couldn't believe 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.280 he could continue that pace. Sometimes that's all it is 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:35.960 to me. I just think when a player does something 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.360 so poorly, they're not gonna be as bad as they 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.800 looked either. You know, I never believe it'll go for 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.960 that long. But Judge continue to kick it in the 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.400 second half. But what Otani has done is so legendary. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.080 And I've been sticking with Otani to win the MVP 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.760 no matter what, because he is two in one. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.960 He is both sides of the Oriel. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.760 Cookie, you know, and you get the fun, You get 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.920 all of it with Otan. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.120 It's so incredible that even my words of me getting 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.960 louder and getting more passionate about it still will not 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.840 tell you or allow me to express how incredible it 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.880 is what Otani does as a pitcher who's dominant and 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.200 a hitter who's dominant. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.080 It's amazing. I'm staying with Otani all the way. I 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.240 don't care what the yards are. He's gonna win the 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:28.080 MVP unless unless Judge hits a really high home run 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.880 mark that we haven't seen in a minute, and that 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.960 might be the only thing that changes it. But otherwise 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.560 it's Otani's game. 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.400 Like, yeah, pretty much what he's doing. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.040 Bye bye, Yeah, well that's true. Yeah, he is. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:40.760 Exactly what he's doing. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.359 So I looked at the odds, we're back into just 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.520 fun land here on DraftKings. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.159 Is just what I happen to pull up. Aaron Judge 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:48.480 is the. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.240 Current favorite at minus one seventy five and Otani is 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.400 now plus three point fifty. So this is swam the 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.960 last week and a half where you're getting three and 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.760 a half to one back on your odds on Atani 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.360 because the struggles are real. The offensive output is kind 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.359 of tapered back a little bit. Pitching has been okay, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.440 but you haven't seen the dominant performances. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.440 And it also what I think it's. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.920 Very interesting is it shows the market where Otani is 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.440 the leader when he is doing unhuman like things. When 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.600 he has four straight games of ten strikeouts, he immediately 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.880 jumps back. But as soon as that goes away, as 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.360 soon as he becomes human again and he struggles on 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.640 any point, it immediately is going back to Judge. Now 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.920 where the vote ends up. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.799 Going is going to be really interesting. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.719 But for the first time, I do kind of wonder 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.000 if Judge hits sixty and Otani keeps kind of struggling 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.479 with this Angels team that's falling apart, would voters really 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.120 turn it over at this point just out of like 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.919 I mentioned this very early on, because we just can't 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:49.200 do it. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.080 We just can't keep giving it to this guy for 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:51.560 the next. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.200 Five or ten years. The odds have jumped. If you're 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.159 still an Atani believer, three and a half is a 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.240 pretty good number that you guys can still get on 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.440 if you would like two and you know, I'm a 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.920 little bit curious. I'm gonna text Joe, I'm gonna we'll 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.040 get to check it next week if he's turned anything 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.040 about that. A couple other headline pieces, Edwin Diez gets 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.440 a six out save versus the Mets as they beat 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.080 their I'm sorry as they beat with the Mets. They 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.440 beat the Brave six to four, and we had that 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.000 note there yesterday about he could have the highest k 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.119 per nine in all of baseball, which is a Bonker's number. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.520 This and we've got a question or a thing that's 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.000 gonna come up here in just a tiny bit, Justin 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.040 Verlander pitched six innings, giving up zero runs, two hits, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.679 one walk, five strikeouts. He reached the one and thirty 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.160 innings mark, which triggered a twenty five million dollar player 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.040 option for twenty twenty three. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:41.120 Go Via. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:41.640 You know, I was. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.600 Looking at a lot of just the pitcher numbers, and 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.480 as I've done my redraft ranks here, one of the 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.360 things that stood out to me is I feel like 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.360 I want to be weird about Verlander, Like I don't 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:53.560 want to put him like crazy high. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.200 But when you look at the fifteen win total of 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:55.680 the sub to. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.600 Era on the season, how high is verse as far 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.920 as ranks go, rest the season sps like you get 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.440 Jacob de gromdback Sandyo. I mean him and Sanio Contray 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.040 the only two guys with the sub to era right now. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.040 You know Verlander, he's older, He's on a great team, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.360 is it? It is obviously trustworthy, But where does he 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.680 sit on the pantheon of other SPS right now. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.560 Coming out of the All Star Gate. There in the 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.560 second half, I did some show. I can't remember what 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:22.920 it is. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.520 I'm so busy, I have so many shows. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.200 To do, guys, sir, I can't remember where I was. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.960 But there was talk about, hey, Verlander, is this fluke? 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.680 Was this real? Are you fading him? The second half? 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.400 And I was buying him all the way back to 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.640 the preseason. I didn't get enough shares because his stock 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.760 started to really rise too quickly, and I was like, ah, 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:44.959 I was getting a little too high. But when he 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.439 was around EIGHTYP one hundred earlier in the draft season, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.240 I was all for it because as a Tigers fan, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.800 I've seen this guy in his mechanics and his delivery, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:58.480 and they're so effortless. They're so smooth that even though yes, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.320 he's thirty nine, he's coming off to you. I wasn't 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.839 worried about it, Chris, I really wasn't, because this guy 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.400 takes care of himself too, and due to those natural mechanics. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.640 I just felt that the way things are now, you 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.640 could pitch in your forties and it's happened in the past. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.559 Nolan Ryan was a fluke, obviously, but I'm buying Verlander. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.880 All day long. I'm not fading him, and I think he's. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.920 I think he's right there, Top twelve starting pitcher rest 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:27.800 of season. The Astros are competing big time World Series aspirations. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:28.480 They need him. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.360 He wants those opportunities. He's always been a clutch pitcher. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.959 I loved when he would destroy the Yankees back in 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.679 the day when he was a Tiger in the playoffs. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.240 Those were some of my favorite moments ever. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:38.719 Used to do. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.560 Yeah, he's amazing, So I'm all about it. Top twelve easy, yeah, yeah. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.720 And the better way to have asked that question is 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.000 really like where does he sit? That would have pay 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.480 on a better way for me to phrase it, because 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.680 it's like, obviously we're in and everything like that. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.600 It's just like when I was doing my ranks. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.160 You've got your top two tiers, which I think are 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.120 quite to like roughly your top ten overall sps. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.760 But like the grouping I have him in is out. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.280 You know what, Let's do this real quick. Let' see 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.120 if you can do it really quick. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.760 Al Contra, de gram Otanizer and Verlander, those are five. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.760 I have those five in a grouping. How would you 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.160 rank those. I actually just gave everybody that's that is 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.600 my current setup before I released my Redraft rank update. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.040 But al Contra, de Gram, Otani Verlander that is my 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.240 five of that grouping. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.520 How would you how would you rank those. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.120 Contra? I think I'm going al contra one. Okay, he's 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.520 my guy, He's to be more my guy. Now I'll 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.440 start saying everyone's my guy. By the end of the show, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.600 it'll be kind of ridiculous, will be nobody left. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.360 But it's a contra. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:49.040 Schurzer Otani de Gram and then yeah, yeah, I think, Yeah, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:48.240 I think. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.360 And Verlander fifteen wins currently over on the betting odds 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.400 here too, he is the lead over McClanahan and it's 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.480 minus one thirty four Cy Young plus two hund two 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.480 to one with Shane McClanahan. The more that I look 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.360 at it, you have a sub, I don't think anything 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.240 else matters, Caper nine anything. If you have close to 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.920 twenty wins and you've got a sub to Era, you're 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.800 just gonna take it home. And that's where he's at. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.800 So you know, Joe is gonna be absolutely unreal. Thank god, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.640 he's not here to have to listen. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.160 To that a fun thing. In the NL. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.040 The gap is quite a bit larger, al Contra minus 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.000 two thirty with Burns at plus. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.520 Seven fifty, so seven and a half. So that has been. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.840 All but locked up. As far as the UH, the 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.360 betting market goes, Wow. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.760 It's crazy, are that against Burns? Burns fallen that much 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.679 this year? I mean, I know he hasn't been as 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:40.760 dominant as he was. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.160 Recently, but he's still really good, isn't he. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.120 I mean, you know, but but I don't. That's not 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.440 a marker of him not being good. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.480 It's just a it's just a dictation that al Contra 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.240 is so much better than everybody else in. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.400 The NL that it's not remotely close. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.160 As far as the top ten pitchers on ERA, you've 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.320 got four coming from the NL, and number two is 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.320 al Contra with a one eight eight ERA. Corvin Burns 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.840 has got a two four nine. Burns doesn't have the 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.640 wins al Contra does. He doesn't have close to the innings. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.040 What he does have is the strikeouts. So you have 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.160 a two and a half ERA with the strikeouts, but 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.640 al Contras in the double he's got double Digi's on 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.880 the wins and he's got a Supreme Era four to 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.880 two war I think, which is highest of any pitcher currently. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.120 Yeah, it is. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.600 Is double digit's gone double digit's and Corvin Burns a three, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.320 so he's almost got a one and a half higher 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.480 war than him. So that's why the market is just 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.280 so done and over and it's al contra big time 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:42.400 injury front, Kyle Tucker was scratched from Thursday's lineup speaking 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.959 the Astros with an illness, but he should be returning 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.679 this weekend. Actually, i' gonna get this one out of 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.440 the way. Cole calhountin day al fine. Clayton Kershaw left 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.160 Thursday's start the fifth inning with back tightness. He's gonna 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.280 undergo test on Friday, LBA. The trade deadlines for Fantasy 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.560 might just they'll be looming. Can you trust Clayton Kershaw 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.240 for the rest of this year? Would you be in 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.439 any way okay to buy? And if you owned, would 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.840 you be getting out as. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:11.680 Quick as possible? 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:12.200 Yes? 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.360 Out. Don't want him, don't have him, I don't. I 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.160 don't have a single share. I don't roster him in 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.920 any league. I can't trust him. He's been he's been alright, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.120 you know, he does what he does still, but the injury, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.480 especially when you hear the back, Chris, you know that's 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.080 bad news. We know the back history with that man 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.160 in LA, so I'm not wanting to do anything with him, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:34.120 especially down the stretch. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:34.839 I try to sell. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.960 If somebody's like, hey, I believe in him, go make 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.880 a move, even if it's half priced. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:40.680 Get out of it now. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.280 If you're in a head to head situation where you 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.200 need a lock in a roster to make a playoff push, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.120 I don't think you could trust Kershaw right now. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.120 He won't be there for you. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.040 And you're gonna need pictures that you can rely on 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.079 post trade deadline because it'll be no more moves for 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.440 you to make. You'll only be able to rely on 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.800 the waiver wire. Depending how big or small your league is, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.680 it could be, you know, difficult to find someone that's 0:13:58.880 --> 0:13:59.800 gonna be useful. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:01.480 What's gonna be. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.839 Really interesting is if this team a decides to go 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.160 to a six man rotation. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.000 That's what I'm gonna be really curious about. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.240 They're gonna go back to stretching them out and b 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.520 if Kershawn's out, what is the full move that they 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.200 do because you have Dustin May who's getting close. Dustin May, 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.720 I think, is going to have to rehab starts more. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.800 I don't know if he's gonna go full games. I 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.680 think they would limit his innings the rest of this year. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:28.480 Coming off of TJ. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.280 You've got Walker Buehler that is in the wings here 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.000 a little bit, and then you've got Bobby Miller. Bobby 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 Miller top prospect they ended up not trading, who has 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.720 been phenomenal this year. I do think in the short 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.320 term Bobby Miller could be an option as I'm looking 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.760 through this, because Dustin May is probably still a week 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.400 and a half before he comes back, and Bueller's a 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.760 little bit more. But when you get those guys back healthy, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.520 I think this team moves to a six man rotation. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.840 Bueller on the back end and Dustin May plays a 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.360 bullpen roll. And what you can do is they could 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.280 piggyback and they could limit Kershaw's innings, or. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.640 They could just hold him back a little bit. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.360 So I still have some trust in Kershaw, but it's 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.920 not in that I'm gonna get full, big, deep games 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.960 where I'm gonna get a bunch of starts the rest 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.240 of the way through. I think it's gonna be relatively 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.920 short termed. I think the Dodgers are gonna start manipulating 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:20.400 on the back half of the year to make sure 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.280 everything's okay because they have so much depth. Like I said, yeah, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.520 you literally have what team wouldn't kill to get Walker, Bueller, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.120 Dustin May, and Bobby Miller into a rotation. And these 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.000 are like at this point would be six, seven and 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:32.880 eight for them. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.120 So can we trust Bueler laugh? Are you confident that 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.240 he's gonna be ready to roll? 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:37.120 No? 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.320 No, But see that's the thing is I think with 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.880 all of these guys, they're gonna eat It's gonna they're 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.320 gonna eat each other up. Like Buehler, you don't want 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.040 to go and have one hundred you know, uh any 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.840 any pitch games. You don't want to one hundred pitch games. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.600 You don't want to have Dustin May go deep. You're 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.720 probably not gonna want to have Kurshaw go deep. So 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.080 I think you could have guys piggybacking on each other 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.000 six men rotation to lower them. They're just gonna monopolize 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.320 each other, which is the So could you maximize it 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.760 if you were in a league that had like maybe 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.040 minimal starts per week or minimal innings per week. I 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.160 actually think that Kershaw could still have some value in 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.400 that if you're if you're in that limit when he's 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.200 out there. But the problem is is I just don't 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.400 know how trustworthy it's going to be. And uh, he's 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.440 not a trade four. I don't know if I would 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.520 completely trade off of just for like seventy cents on 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.400 the dollar, but I would look to move off of him. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.760 But you're gonna probably have to wait till he returns 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.280 and that that pass. That's that's the trick here. He 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.600 might allow for bus grade. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.040 Deadlines are done. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.920 Yeah for the Dodgers. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 Yeah, I got a trivia question, and I'm gonna throw 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.440 it out to everybody and then we're gonna. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:40.840 Keep moving here. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.240 So talking about this era, run two players currently in 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.040 Major League Baseball qualified pictures have an under two ERA. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.760 One of those is as old as me, thirty nine 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:52.280 years old. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.280 Here's your trivia question. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.440 Who are the only pitchers in the al NL modern 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.840 era since nineteen to post an ELRA under two that 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.280 qualifies for the league lead at the age thirty nine 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.200 or older. That's weird how they say that at age 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.760 thirty nine or older. I will give you guys the 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.240 answer here in a little bit go via. You can't 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.119 answer because he has the sheet. But again the question 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.040 is just since two thousand, thirty nine years or older, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:21.960 who has had. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.400 A sub to era. There are two pitchers. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.680 That qualify on that. Justin Ferlander is doing it currently. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.280 He will not qualify for this answer. Love to know 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:31.679 what you guys think, and I will give you all 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.280 of those. This day in Baseball, nineteen twenty nine, radio 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.320 station Katie Ka An announcer Harold Arlind provided the first 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.480