WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 12th, 2022 (Ep. 487) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.960 I hate this place. Let's play ball. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.120 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is Leading Off, 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.280 brought to you by bet MGM. It is me, Joey 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.279 p Joe Piezapia, That of course is Byron Buxton, I 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.200 mean the Welsh, and it's you. And today we're talking 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.680 all things baseball, as we always hear every single day 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.560 noon eastern here on our Fantasy Pro's MLB channel. The 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.199 Welsh and I are breaking it all down, fantasy fantasy baseball, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:44.519 regular baseball, betting baseball, DFS, baseball, basically, if it's got 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.159 baseball in it, Welsh and I are going to talk 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.200 about it. And Welsh, I don't think it's a coincidence 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.760 that I took the last couple of days off. I 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.600 was off on Sunday, took the kids on a little trip. Monday, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.640 stayed away. Byron boxing Buckson was very red hot those days. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.680 Everybody knows you're big Buckston guy, so I thought it 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.039 might be safe to come back today. We'll see how 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.640 it goes. But you gotta be loving life. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.959 So far, the Byron Buckson train is running on full speed. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:10.920 It's a good one. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.319 There are so many things to get and we will 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.840 get wrong that when you can hold on to one 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.440 of those really loud correct ones, it's very exciting. And 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.640 I had my home run call yesterday was Buckston in 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.240 honor of him. And I don't know if you saw 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.919 he missed a homer by that much, by like an inch. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.240 He missed his fourth shot of the year, the league 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.720 leader and what have put me in a tie for 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.800 the home run call game that we play here. But yeah, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.680 Buxton looks red hot. And this is the point where 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.160 we start crossing our fingers because now everybody get this 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.959 happened like last year too. Everybody starts get in, oh 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.960 my god, Byron Buckston, he's amazing, he's the best, and 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.760 then il stint. So we've got to avoid the il 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:53.400 stint here. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.960 For a couple of weeks. But like I said, looks 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.280 like a first round talent right now. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.600 Tell me the greater number Byron Buckston home runs or 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.880 days spent on the IL in twenty twenty two. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.640 Oh man, you're a brutal. I'm gonna say home runs 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.240 because I'm an opohol. As an operating man show always, I. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.360 Am a pessimist, so I will go Actually, no, I'm 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.880 not a pessimist. I'm an optimistic realist and I'm gonna 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.760 say I l but I hope I'm wrong. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.080 I keep saying I hope I'm wrong. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.480 But if you've got a home run call tonight, you 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.480 got to get into our discord chat and go ahead 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.280 and drop that bad boy in there as well. I 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.880 see we've got a couple people already at two again. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.600 I took a whole day off and you know this, Welsh. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.560 You know when you take a trip with your kids, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:35.040 that's what it's. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.160 It's a trip. It's not really vacation. You know. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.880 A vacation is someone bringing me cocktails on a beach, 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:40.840 on a hammock somewhere. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.120 That's vacation. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.800 I've never had a vacation since I had children, like 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:48.280 I've I've taken trips with my kids. I've taken them 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.760 to San Diego and Lego Land, but I've never had 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.880 a vacation ever. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.440 You and me this summer, Welsh, Joey p vacation. Maybe 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.480 we'll bring bobbing with us to let him do pool boy. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.639 That'll be fun. All right. Let's kick things off here 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:03.680 with some of the headlines. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.440 Alec Manoa shuts down the Yankees, six innings, pitch, no 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.400 earned runs, seven k's, four walks, just like last year 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.560 in that debut. The stage is never too big for 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.240 alec Manoa. Another great start for him against the Yankees. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.079 That's huge too. I think those those confidence builders of 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.640 those young pitchers against those division rivals. You know, you're 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.440 gonna have a lot of starts against the Yankees this year, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.960 and I think that's very important that he feels confident. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.640 And that the Yankees don't. If the Blue Jays are 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:27.720 gonna really win that division. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.960 Michael Lorenzen tosses six strong innings, it'll win over the 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.079 Marlins in his Angels debut. Very exciting all these two 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.680 way players. It's gonna be great waiting front of the 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.640 coach's son to play shortstop after he pitches. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:39.480 It's gonna be awesome. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.720 Also, speaking of you know, personal things here, Taylor Rodgers 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.600 earns the same for the Padres in a win over 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.000 the Giants, and his twin brother, Tyler Rodgers takes the loss. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.520 Of the same game. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.680 So this is kind of tough if you're the parent here, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.320 what do you do? Whose phone call do you make first, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:57.160 Who do you text first? 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.520 What do you do in this scenario, I. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.080 Don't know, like you know what when I find I 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.720 know he's tougher. Is where like the kids are playing 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.720 at the same time in important situations, where like they're 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.520 playing like both playoff games and what and the parent 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.000 having to choose, I think is the ultimate test, like, Eh, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.440 this isn't like that bad, Like this one is like, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.800 you know, sorry you lost. You chalk it up to 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.840 the game Taylor Rogers gets to save. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:20.040 I think you. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.560 First call the one that lost, and then you call 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.920 the winner after. But I think the real real test 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.560 is the opposite end of that, where it's like two 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.000 guys big playoff situations, they're not in the same Like 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.000 if the Rays and Rangers were to make the playoffs 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.480 and be playing different teams, what the low family would 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.760 have to do between Nate and Josh. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.360 That's the real real test. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.039 Well, I think the real test is we need to 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.760 have people stop naming their kids the same name, almost 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.280 when they're twins too. Why why do people have to 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:50.600 do that? 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.480 They already look the same way that Taylor and Tyler 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:54.800 and Jimmy and Timmy, Like. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.479 Why do you have to do this? Why can't we 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.680 just name them completely opposite names. If you had twins, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.640 would you name them the same or sim names? 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.440 No, No, I'm not like that, but like, do you 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.640 remember Roger Clemens named all his kids with the name starting. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.440 Yeah, Kobe, Yeah, Ross yeah whatever. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:10.279 Can't stand that. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.520 Also, you should note all this for those Daily Transactions lineups. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:18.000 So off Boston's Trevor's story is out for Tuesday's game 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.880 with an illness. Also, the White Sox rejected an offer 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:28.520 apparently for Frankie Montas for our boy Andrew Vaughan. Now 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.800 the caveat here is, of course, is a Bob of 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.360 Nightingale story, So I don't know how much you want 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.720 to believe in this. JP Barrosi and Nightingale don't usually 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.559 get a lot of things right. But if this is true, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.239 and as any smoke to this, if I'm the White Sox, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.120 I'm doing whatever it takes to get Montas. You got 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.279 Gelido on the shelf, you got lance Lit on the shelf. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.280 Montas is a fantastic starting pitcher. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:47.600 I'd be doing. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.680 I'm moving the heaven and the earth right now to 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.720 get Frankie Montas if he is available, and we all 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.839 know he is with the Oakland A's and I don't 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.920 think Andrew Vaughn is too much of a price. If 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.000 this theoretical trade was in play, would you make this 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.240 if you were the White Sox. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:00.240 Yeah, I think so. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.479 I don't think they've got see the problem is is 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.800 like andre Von's bat's been pretty hot to start the year, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.360 but Luisa just doesn't seem like he's super locked in him. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.839 You know, I had reported back he was playing second base, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.360 which again I think maybe shows some of the versatility 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.400 of him. But at the end of the day, like 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.800 what are they holding back of Frankie Montas might be 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.080 the piece that they need. This is a championship based team, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.800 They've got some flexibility roster wise. But they did just 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.760 lose Pollock, which is a downer. They traded Zach Collins, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.919 you're kind of getting. You are getting down a little 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.640 bit to the uh peven Smith of being able to 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.040 move around. So I guess I understand the flexibility and 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.960 maybe not wanting to give up on the back, but 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.600 you're getting Frankie Montas, You're getting a guy that goes 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.720 at the front of the rotation when you just lost Ugh. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.599 By the way, my Cy Young pick Giolito to the 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.240 IL so it makes all the sense in the world 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.960 to me for them to take it. It makes more 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.680 sense that the Age would ask for that, because I 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.760 saw a rumor that it was like it was like 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.840 Peven Smith and some other pitching piece, and that just 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:00.440 wouldn't do it. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:01.240 If I'm an A's fan. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.800 To me, it would be Andrew Vaughner Buss And I 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.120 think this is one of those trades that helps and 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.200 benefits everybody and makes all the sense in the world. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.440 So I'm a little surprised the White Sox aren't doing it. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.880 Yeah, well, let's see again. We'll know if it's true 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.200 or not. Taiwan Walker started off good last night but 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.080 then left. Now he's got a shoulder issue. So the 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.840 knee was bothering him. Now he's a shoulder issue. This 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.400 guy just can't catch a break Welsh. No matter what happens, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.360 it's going for an MRI on the shoulder, So hold 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.360 your breath there. And sometimes when you have one problem, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.920 it ends up leading to somebody's mechanics getting off and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.720 something else hurting. So this is a terrible thing. Also 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.560 might trout out with an illness as well. This is 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.160 the opposite of Joe's tough guys. I think I got 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.000 to talk about this because I was in Philadelphia. I 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.360 wasn't there for the game. We were in Philadelphia. We 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.640 were hung out for a couple of days, lots of cheese, 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.160 steaks of Gino's Mets. Happened to be in town, but 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.640 I did not go. So don't say I'm the Jinx, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.680 but Alec Boom apparently after a couple of hours a 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.520 couple of errors yesterday in the game, could be heard 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.480 mumbling under his breath, I effing hate this place, referring 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.280 to Philadelphia. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.400 Well, let's correct. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.760 Two things here, Joe, Let's correct two things here. Yeah, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.640 three errors in an inning. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.800 And he wasn't seen mumbling. He was filmed walking over 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.480 looking at a player as the crowd cheered because he 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.600 actually made a throw. The crowd cheered, and then he 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.040 was filmed looking at his teammate and mouthing, what you 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:24.679 just said. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.120 And it's my favorite thing of the season. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.640 So far, because also he was asked about it and 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.800 he committed to it, and he's like, yeah, I said 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.120 that heat of the game. But the worst part was 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.880 he then pushed off of his heel nature and then 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.080 he was like these fans are just so great though, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.320 they just want to fans like no, dude, Like he 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.160 came out, he was like, listen, it was the heat 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.719 of the moment. We all want he should be like 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.560 heat of the moment. We all want to win. I 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.560 don't want to be booed. They don't want to see errors. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.080 We move on. That's how you do it. But he's like, ooh, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.679 the fins is so great. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.680 It's like, no, they're not great. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:00.480 Bo a clause. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.040 I lived there for six years during the height of 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.520 the Donovan McNabb era, and there were more David Akers 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.280 jerseys being worn on a regular basis than Donovan McNabb jerseys. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.319 It's a very difficulty. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.000 There's gonna be more Dura cells reaching first base than 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.439 balls from him at third the next time. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.920 He's more to the point, this is and and although 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.360 this is like a haha, funny thing we're talking about here, 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.080 there is something to this and it's something that I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.679 will take a stand on it right now. If this 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.360 is how this kid's going to be here in this scenario, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.520 him having success in Philadelphia is going to very hard 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.439 to come by. He's gonna need a change of scenery. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.840 I can tell you right now, I'm not buying into 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:37.960 him the rest of the season. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:39.559 I'm gonna wait and see. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.640 Personally, I think he needs to I think this is 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.240 a bad spot for him. If this is how it's 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.080 gonna be. He needs to go to like southern California 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.800 or something, or everything's just laid back and you know, you. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.599 Know, like a quiet, sleepy town. He needs to go to, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:53.160 like Kansas City. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.640 I don't know if you remember Joe Not to throw 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.160 it back out, but this is Alec Bohm was my 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.640 weirdest interview I've ever done of any like I was. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.040 I walked out and I. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.880 Was like, I that guy's weird. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:06.520 Yeah. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.719 It was during the Arizona fallI a couple of years ago. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.280 It's on my Prospect one show fee if people want 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.200 to listen to it. It's about eight minutes back in 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.560 the locker room. It was odd from the top to bottom. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.480 He was super like about analytics, just everything you asked him. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.760 It was one of the more awkward and I got 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.679 it shared in some other spots. So again, I think 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.800 he's gotten better about that, but his personality just doesn't 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.800 jive with Philadelphia and. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.640 I don't know they I don't want to watch him 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.800 there anymore, or he's terrible, you can't stand watching him. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.800 Boom's terrible, Boom you get. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.480 Get some other John over there at third base. My god, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.640 he's awful. All right, there's my little Philly accent for you. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.760 All right, let's move on to some fun facts. Showy 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.240 Otania and Michael Lorenzen both playing today. That was yesterday, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.800 and the Angels the first team with two two way 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.640 players since I think it was nineteen fifty nine. They 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.160 would put that out the Reds for the last one. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.439 Let's get to some stat Hero of the day Nick Martinez, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:02.920 a guy that I have in a lot of leagues 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.200 where it's a mandatory RP spots because I just wanted 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.280 to see what happens. Six innings, no decision against the Giants. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.600 He looked pretty good. Five and a third. Dylan Bundy 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.040 only two strikeouts, but he did give up zero or 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.040 should I say, didn't give. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:15.880 Up an earned run. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.800 Paul Blackman no earned run, seven k's over the Rays, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.000 so that one kind of came out of nowhere. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.480 Matt Manning two k's of his. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.880 Own, one earned run the hitters yesterday Haesus Sanchez having 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.960 a good day with two bombs. Michael Franco hit a 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.040 home run. He went four for five. Big day for Franco, 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.120 three for three for Ben and Tendy with a dinger. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.760 Brandon Marsh another one of the big Angels prospects with 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.840 a home run for RBI yesterday. Springer three for five 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.120 with a home run. Stephen Kwan cannot be beat. Joe 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.520 Adell shows signs of life with a home run himself, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 and of course Byron Buckston two doubles, a walk, two runs, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.319 and a partridge in a pear tree. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.120 Let's talk about the. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.840 Quan because the Quan was a phenomenon over the weekend 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.400 when we left on Friday together and I've been back 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:57.400 to talk about him since. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.320 What do you make of the Quan? 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.520 I mean, the Quan is everything that we've kind of 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.880 talked about, at least I've talked about, and I think 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.960 some of there's I gotta give shout out to my 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.720 boy Eddie Allenngerff for Prospects Live. He was on the 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:13.000 Stephen Kuan train quite some time ago. My problem has 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.520 always been, I'm kind of just repeating myself, is that Kwan. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.520 I would like him to like Luisa. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.640 Rise or take his former college teammate Nick Madrigal, lots 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.600 and lots of contact. You just are trying to find 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.680 where are the counting stats? Now he looks like he's 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.200 on another train and another plane of existence on how 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.520 this guy is able to make contact. He also doesn't 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.079 strike out, so like, I'm with that, and I think 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.520 that opens up more possibilities. Like the problem with Nick 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.240 Madrigal is he's also just not finding like fantastic contact. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.880 Luisa Rise actually did just run into a homer, and 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.240 I think that's a prime example. I think though in 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.520 all of the excitement of Stephen Kuan, there's the fantasy 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.720 values in different league formats and stuff, and he's a 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.440 no brain pick up if you had been sitting on him. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.480 I find it hard that his value will never be 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.680 like this again, Like I find it hard that his 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.280 value will ever be higher than it is at this moment. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.040 And I think because of overreactions that happened in the 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.640 first week or two, it is the prime time to 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.520 go and see what people will pay. I don't want 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.320 to be the anti Kuon guy, because dude, he looks 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.760 like one of the best hitters in all of baseball. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.200 I think I saw someone post a stat that he 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.200 is tied or leads baseball in total bases and he 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.760 doesn't have a homer. Like that's a wild thing to 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.800 think about here, Like Byron Buxton obviously has I think 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.960 that that was coming into last game. He has, you know, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.920 three homers, which would be twelve total bases. But he's 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.960 gone off the walls. But I would be putting him 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.440 out there to see what the crazies would pay for him. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.840 But I think he's a relative man saying he seems 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.240 like the most prototypical number two hitter I've ever seen 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:51.880 him in life. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.360 Well, yeah, as you pointed out, as long as he 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.840 keeps making contact, he can be useful. But you know, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.720 the idea of what his power ceiling is is obviously low. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.080 And we see this every year every April. You're in Mercedes. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.360 Last year, one of our Peanuts and Crackerjacks bade that mention. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.800 I remember who is the guy for the Astros a 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.440 couple of years ago. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.440 Well remember he had a torrid April and then he 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.040 disappeared into nowhere. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.439 I mean, there's always one of those guys. There's always 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.920 a couple, Chris Sheldon ever send an inge. There's all 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.320 those guys over the years that do that. I don't 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.480 like to I don't like to say that Quan is 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.400 going to be that because here's the difference. I think 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:30.200 Quan will still be valuable. Where your Mercedes just disappeared 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.360 and Yerman just went into a month of being able 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.360 to make insane contact and then he just disappeared, Quan 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.840 the difference would be like he just won't have his 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.880 counting sets. He'll still hit, he'll still not strike out, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.240 but he might not make the impact. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.240 Everyone's excited right now. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.000 Because he had a three RBI triple. He hasn't struck out. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.160 He has lots of hits. But what happens when he 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:51.880 gets back down to earth and he hits like right 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.880 around three hundred or under and he's not getting RBI 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.880 and he's not having those opportunities, You're just gonna realize, Like, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.240 as fun as this guy is, he's not Miles Straw, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.160 I'm not getting the stolen bases, and he's not Amed Rosario, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.920 who's now going to be moved to theoretical five when 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.720 quantitting two and having RBI opportunities. So you know, like 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.080 here here would be one right now? Who would you 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.120 rather have rest of the season? I'm Ed Rosario or 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:14.680 Stephen Kwan. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.720 Oh, probably Rosario. I mean I've just seen a lot 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.720 more so I don't think that is like that, like 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.000 that's a trade you can make. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.440 That's absolutely a trade you can make right now in 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:25.880 a lot of leagues. All right, let's go with some 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.280 of the hitters who are been some stat zeros lately. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.440 Bobby Witt, oh for four three ks. We had Boba 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.160 Schett over five with three ks. Oh no, this guy's 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.840 following Bryce Harper over three three strikeouts of his own. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.080 So laer Austin Riley Chapman all oh for four to 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.960 three k's hitters are a little behind right now. I 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.560 and what what's it? One for fourteen now with seven 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:51.240 strikeouts for Julio Rodriguez by Julio Bye, Bobby wit don't 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.280 just don't. It's been a week almost. Oh, it's likely 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.760 you haven't been a week yet. Just go get him, 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:57.600 get him now. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.880 People are freaking out, especially people overpaid. Go make a move. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:01.720 This is your time. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.360 Ranger Swars, by the way, yesterday also a stat zero 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.080 five hits, one k no decision against the Mets only 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.400 two innings, and hu Oscar Youanoah also gave up seven hits, 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.480 four k's there and a loss to the Nats. I 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.480 want to move on to the home run calls. We 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.240 were cold apparently on home run calls yesterday. Three for 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.560 seventy eight is a group. What's going on? Peanuts and 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.000 the cracker Jacks. I'm used to like a fifty percent range. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.080 I think it's because I wasn't here. People were lost, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:29.560 and that's okay. The Lomer boy got Connor, Joe mo 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.480 Betts got George Springer, and Waking Life got hobby or Bias, which, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.520 by the way, that Bias shot Holy crap. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.680 Last night I saw that one whoa a monstrous. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.400 Hots a classical hobby Homer by the way, too, where 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.120 it's just good goo gone. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.480 Yeah, as soon as the as soon as he touches it, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.560 it's you know, it's out. 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