WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 28th, 2023 (Ep. 700) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.440 Welcome everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading Off Live, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:11.680 brought you by Prize Pick. Sign up for Bride Fix 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.360 today and use that promo code leading Off. What you do, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.959 It's me Joey p That of course is the Welsh 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.320 with magnificent hair today bringing it for the seven one 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:27.880 hundredth episode. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go seven hundred episodes 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.639 of the Fantasy Baseball podcast and doing Leading Off every 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.880 single day, started with Dan Harris, our buddy, and then 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.560 of course the Welsh taking over last year. Is not dead. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.479 I don't know why I pointed to the sky. It 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.960 was just it was poppyl Love, Big Popu love, and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.159 of course the Welsh the last two years hanging out 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.519 with me every single day. But most importantly all of 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.279 you who continue to listen and watch the show at 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.160 an almost an alarming rate. We are very grateful for 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.080 all of you. It has been a really fun ride. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.640 We love the little crazy cult community we've created here 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.480 for baseball and fun and well it turns out that 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.399 you can talk fantasy and bedding and dfs and you 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.200 can do it all with a smile. It doesn't have 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.040 to all be boring and I love that about us. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.320 How about you? Happy seven hundred buddy? What do you 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.160 get for seven hundred? 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:15.880 I don't know, is that like? 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:16.319 Yeah? 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.640 I was about to say, is that like wood? Or 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.200 what are the anniversaries for a show? What are the 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.720 podcast anniversaries? 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:23.600 Like? 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:24.640 You should do them? 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:25.160 Yeah? 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.160 We should like it's tiara. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.039 Crowns, crowns and trs we have I mean I have 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.039 one close to me. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:38.760 If you might have I have one possibly maybe Wait 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.600 on here, do we do it now or do we probably? 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.119 No, let's do it now. It's seven hundred, seven hundred. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.960 Look how good that one looks on me too? With 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.200 that red Uh? 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.960 This is the shirt right here? 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.160 This is the T shirt? Yeah, please let this be 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.280 the damn T shirt. For the love of god, I 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.360 was just thinking to seven Thank you all. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.440 That's that's what the show is called. Now Welsh again. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.880 Now I gotta you know, take you take your tr off, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.440 stay a while. Let's let's get to the baseball and 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.080 the real king has got to be show Hayo Tani 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.840 at this point because another ridiculous evening of show Hao 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.200 Tony performances last night. He struck out ten guys six 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.560 and the third he also hit two homers, and he's like, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.120 he is like that kid who's much better than everybody 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.639 else in the Little League and he should be playing up, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.560 but instead he's still playing to his regular age group. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.400 That's what it feels like with Otani, where he's like, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.480 you know, he's twelve, but he really should be playing 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.840 with the thirteen to fifteen year old g. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.320 It's like that scene of Benchwarmers where it's just like 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.280 he puts the guy that puts out the piece of 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.400 paper and he's like, I'm twelve and it's just a 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.600 picture of him. He doesn't belong here. By the way, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.639 Also to mention, yesterday was not yet yesterday. It was 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.440 horrid for me for betting. But one thing we threw 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.280 out was the ladder betting for show Hayo Tani and 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.080 it was the ladder bet of ladder bet days for 0:02:59.080 --> 0:02:59.359 a time. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.040 He threw it out for Kershaw too, and that did 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.320 not go well. More on that later. What a disappointment, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.760 But I don't want to be disappointed yet. I want 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.760 to talk more about shoe Heotani because we can't do it. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.080 Somebody asked this provocative question on Twitter, and I have 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.639 a provocative answer for it. The question was, if Shoe 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.840 Heeotani stop playing baseball tomorrow, should he be in the 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.480 Hall of Fame? And I said yes. I said yes, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.560 I think this three year window of what he's done 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.160 in Major League baseball, I kind of I'm not usually 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.720 that person that hot take kind of person about oh, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.959 I'm living in the moment, I'm prisoner of the now 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.399 and all that stuff. I'm not like that. But I've 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.280 never seen anything like this, and it's so special. It's 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.960 so unique and so dominant that it's almost kind of like, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.680 you know, they talk about those windows of time where 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.839 you have players in the NFL, you have it, whether 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.480 it be you know, Terrell Davis or you know the 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.760 Bo Jackson's of the world, or you know, you have 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.120 players would do something so special. Both a tough one 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.160 because he really didn't play long enough. But if you 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.480 look at like Sandy Kofax is a shorter career right 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.600 it's it's longer than what Otani's done, but a shorter 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.800 career right now than what most of those Hall of 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.720 famers have done. If isn't career in it tomorrow, would 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.600 you say, yeah, you gotta put him in the Hall 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:09.839 of Fame to tell the story of the game. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.920 I wouldn't. I know where you're going with this. I 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.640 think the problem is is where you're thinking about. Uh, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.640 you're spanning him out. You're not not looking at you 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.440 like two years, it's been insane. You know what, has 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.360 he been here for three or whatever? It's not enough. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.320 Like he has been the best player in this time period, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.640 no doubt, but that time period is not enough. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.800 This can't. But here's the thing here, here's the thing, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.960 is it, how do you he. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.320 Can have his own wing, then he can have you. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:44.840 Give him a statue, but not a plaque. Is that? 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.960 The thing is that what we're gonna do. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.880 We have our Mexico artists make a show hey Otani 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.560 and put it in the Hall of Fame. And it's like, yeah, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.520 he wasn't quite good enough, but he did get a 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.919 statue from this guy, Like that's what he gets for that, He. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.680 Gets a whitch. And I said, I'm not usually like this, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.800 but I'm thinking about it. I'm saying, well, well, he's 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.800 the best baseball player I've ever seen. Yeah, agreed, period, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.960 Like I've never seen anyone do what he's done because 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.800 I've seen pictures better than him and hitters better than 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.400 him that I've never seen somebody could do both of 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.040 the things at the level this guy's doing it at 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.880 and consistently over the last couple of years. And then 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.560 the question becomes, well, how do you tell the story 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.839 of baseball without this guy? And how much how important 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.040 is it to be great? How much is greatness and 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.440 importance of you know, as opposed to the compilers of 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.040 the world. You know, the guys who was really good 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.680 for a long period of time who are in the 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.039 Hall of Fame, which I don't begrudge them those situations, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:31.600 but think about some of the guys who are in 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.200 the Hall of Fame in the last time fifty years, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.680 and some of them are no brainer guys. I mean, 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.719 there's some guys like Larry Walker. He was a nice 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.600 player for again, short periods of time. But do I 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.480 think of when you can't tell the story of baseball 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.840 without Larry Walker? Of course you can. You can't tell 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.080 it without show ay On Tommy. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.120 Yeah, okay, But here's the thing though, It's like he 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.920 is everything right now, but it's also got to be 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.159 about the long term stories that he hasn't. There's no playoffs. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.520 You gotta have playoffs. They're outside of what he's doing 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.040 on the field for what three years? That's it is 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.920 Hall of Fame stuff. It's about stretching over time. It's 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.800 about all it is is he's just dominating guys. He 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.680 hasn't been around long enough to start passing, start accumulating. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.960 I mean, that is what the Hall of Fame is about. Sure, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.800 he is the picture of now. I love I love 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.200 the question, but I'm not the guy. I don't like 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.440 the Trell Davis playing for a couple of years. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:32.400 I don't like his conversations anyway, right, conversations you all, I. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.160 Kind of I'm just not interested in them. I'm not 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.920 interested in that. But I think this is interesting for 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.600 what you're talking about. But I truly do think what 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.360 you're doing, and you're you're you are looking at the now, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.080 But I think you can't separate who O Tawani is 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.080 going to grow into and what it's going to look 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.120 like from where he's at. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.360 What into? I don't know what he's gonna go. I 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.280 mean he's already you know, Will and the rest of 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:56.920 the league is Japan. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.479 Here's here's a great question. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.159 Then what hall? 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.400 What is the lowest amount or least amount of games 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.080 played for a hal of that. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.880 That's something that's a good question. I'd have to do 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.760 some digging on that, rich and which over here has 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.560 a great question here if de gram is all famer 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 than shoe Otani is. See here's where I bucked the 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:21.000 trend on this one, because Jacob de Grom is all 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.360 world amazing short period of time dominant, But then shoe 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.440 Otani is also hitting thirty home runs, driving in one 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.840 hundred runs. Here you can't your mind is just so 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.000 blown by this guy. And I don't want to make 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.320 the whole show Atani thing, but it is pretty increasire 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.800 about that. I'm gonna also go revisit this one because 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.240 it was a fun tweet from a friend of ours, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.240 Vlad Settler. Uh Yes, today on the Twitter machine, Lane 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.120 Thomas two for five with a double, two run score, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.280 two Ribby's and he's currently outperforming first round outfielders Julio 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.440 Rodriguez won so too and Kyler Tucker. So just wanted 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.440 that to sink in for people there, And you know, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.560 Vladdie's a great baseball guy, and I thought that was 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.320 a fun tweet. Also fun you notice how Mayor went 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.560 on vacation. In fact, he went to International Waters on 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.880 a cruise. The minute Paul Blackburn got called back up, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.880 five more strikeouts for him in five and a thirds 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.760 w over the Yankees. So it's funny Mike mahrises, Paul 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.440 Blackburn get called up, and all of a sudden, Mike 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.960 Mayor is, I don't know, he's somewhere off the coast 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:21.600 of US. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.880 I gotta go get out of here. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.360 I'm out. Not only do I have to get on 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.240 a plane like I'm I'm getting on a cruise ship 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.040 to International Waters. That's where he is right now. That 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.120 guy's playing shuffleboard avoiding me. I'll be here when you 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.280 get back, shuffle boy, awful, I'll be here. Corbyn Carroll 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.040 two for four with a three run homer. He said 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.040 he was struggling yesterday. Well, doesn't look like the struggle 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.079 lasted very long. We said he was slumpproof. I think 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:44.360 he is. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.679 Yeah, Well, I mean he was on like a little thing. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.280 He had had like a couple hits in his last 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.520 thirty at bats or a few strikeouts in there. He 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.640 was hitting over three hundred, like a week and a 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.719 half ago, and he's dipped under that, So yeah, I 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.640 mean it was fair to say. But what I love 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.280 this is the second time we've seen Corbing Carroll go 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.439 through struggles this year, and he keeps breaking out of him. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.559 That is what real slump proof is about players that 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.120 break out of these things. He had that I can't 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.920 walk thing, and then he was striking out bad average, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.960 back up, struggling recently going back down, picked right back up. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:24.360 Guy is close to twenty thirty at the half. It's crazy. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.120 So yes, I will always be here to pick him up. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.600 I mean, we could all thank me, by the way 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.000 for that. I just want to point out we could 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.599 thank me solely for bringing Corbing Carroll back up. I 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.640 will always be here to keep him accountable and bring 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.040 him back up when he struggles. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.839 Speaking of rookies, I noticed that Christian Karnassi on strand 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:46.400 not on the futures roster. Getting what I'm laying down here, Well, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.079 did you make that equation? I just made that equation yesterday, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.920 and I'm thinking of myself. Perhaps we get the cees 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.439 call up very soon, perhaps right after the All Star break, could. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.240 Well, I mean it would have made sense if they're 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.560 not going to put him on the futures game roster 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.720 because of some bring up. Then they would have already 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:11.040 brought him up. We are at levels of like, what 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.280 the hell are we doing here? We're officially I don't 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.640 know if I've done this one yet. I know I 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:15.040 did it with it. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.640 Is that an official level? We are officially? 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.800 Well, I mean I can't say what I really want 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.080 to say, what are we doing here? Three twenty nine 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.480 batting average, seventeen homers, sub twenty five K percentage, a 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:35.600 ten percent walk, three four six slash he's got. It's crazy. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.480 It is crazy that he's not up right now, especially 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.360 with this team competing. I know there's positional stuff and 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.720 Voto and blah blah blah. I don't care bring him up. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.480 I agree. And the Vodo thing was the complication. I 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.199 think that's the thing. It really threw a wrench. And 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.240 I mean that's the only thing, the only reason you 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.400 could possibly fathom your stomach. The other thing I can 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.760 think of is that there's got to be machinations. Is 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.760 that the right word? Machinations match it? I don't know, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.520 there's gotta be machinations. I'm gonna the more time I 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:09.360 spend with you I love. Yeah, I think like the 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.360 macaccino cherries, like those, the machinations of a deal where 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.160 somebody's getting moved opens up a spot for him and 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.520 brings in a picture. I wonder if that's in place, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.199 which is like, let's hold everything together here now. I 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.080 don't know if it's a deal involving him or if 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.480 it's a deal where it opens up a spot for him, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.839 but let's keep a close eye on cs. I have 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.880 an answer for you. And damn. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.280 I by the way, why Will Benson is on that 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:36.080 starting lineup? 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:37.920 But I just don't think that was interesting. He wasn't 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.439 in the futures game, Like why I don't. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.840 I had, I didn't thought one second about that. He's 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.560 one of the leaders in Homer's I don't know the future. Yeah, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.680 there's well, if you also notice there is a triple 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.520 A lack of triple A talent. It's a lot of 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.199 double A and low A stuff, so they do keep 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.160 a lot of triple A. I think Kyle Harrison, I'd 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.840 have to go re look at it. But Kyle Harrison 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.800 is like one of the few guys. But I mean, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.360 I look at that roster and it just like I 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.000 know will Benson's out there as an outfielder, and you've 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.160 got to struggle with Vado, and you got Sinzel on 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.480 the bench. It's a glut of riches, but get him up, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:09.120 get him. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.360 So, yes, I was right, twelve seasons for Sandy Kofax, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.800 that is the least amount for a Hall of Famer. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.880 But then you also have Negro league players. Willard Brown 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.560 had one season. He's in the Hall of Fame. Such 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.520 again that's more complicated, more complex, Satul Page, he only 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.319 had six major league seasons. Monte Irvin had eight, but 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.360 they played a bunch in the Negro League, so again 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.240 I can't really put them in that same category. So 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.360 it is Sandy Kofax. So my head was in the 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.360 right space about that, and he was dominant for nine 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.160 of those. I believe of memory. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.480 Serve and he has six years under his belt. Otani does, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.760 and we would say the last three have been the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.200 absurd type. Because I was gonna say, like, Okay, if 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.640 you want to make does he need three more? What 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:53.960 I was going to say, it's like, if you want 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.880 to make the argument of twelve being the big one 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.599 of the number. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.679 Twelve good seasons. Kofax in ft twelve seasons. No, no, no, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.800 I'm not even inamation project when he's still pitched for 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.200 the Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved brook to LA. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.760 I'm just saying twelve seasons in general. And if you 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.199 want to be like, well, he's a hitter and he's 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.599 a pitcher, so maybe he needs less. I think that 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.720 number is like nine right now. I mean I'm looking 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.080 career wise. He's got five hundred and sixty eight career 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.440 strikeouts right now, seventy nine starts, thirty five total wins. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.120 Those aren't crazy. I mean it's awesome. Almost eleven and 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.320 a half k per nine and a sub three ERA. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.160 Those are his career pitching stats. Those are not Hall 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.839 of Fame stats. They're really good. They'll get there. But 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.520 on the hitting side, one hundred and fifty five homers, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.880 seventy seven stolen bases, I'd like to see him get 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.840 to like two hundred and fifty homers over one hundred 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.959 stolen bases. Continue his batting average and its pitching. I 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.679 think nine seasons. I think we can start calling that. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.520 I think that'll be a slam dunk if you stop. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.920 Now Otani is in. We don't even have to think 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:55.199 about it. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.400 I see in the chat very savvy gi Alido to 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.319 the Reds would make a lot of sense forever, buddy. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.319 I don't know what they would have to move to 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.080 get that deal done, but I like that move. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.439 I think they they're they're complicated because there was a 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.520 there was a report came out that said, like multiple 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.880 players inside the team wanted out. I personally assume Tim 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.679 Anderson and Giolito. That's just me not knowing the things, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.640 just that those are two of the guys that publicly 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.120 are you know, privately stated that they wanted out from 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.120 the team. But then there was a report about the 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:31.000 team unwillingness to move any of the big core pieces, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.360 that they would only trade these sing like the Joe 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.280 Kelly's of the world and stuff. So I don't know. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.520 I think it's silly. I agree Gilido makes the most 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.880 sense of all of them to move. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.800 Mob's not available. I'm telling you, Andrew Stieber, he ain't 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.640 getting traded. Cleveland's in this thing. They're in it. They're 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.840 gonna take the draft pick. They're in it. Zach Gallon 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.680 four runs in six innings, the guy who had a 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.680 one e RA at home it's a little bit bigger now. Still, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.080 they got to win over the race Clayton Kershaw. He 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.440 was great, except he struck out two guys. I don't 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.600 know what the hell going on there, but I'm not happy. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.080 Let's talk about Gavin Williams, another Cleveland starting pitcher outstanding. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.080 Got the no decision unfortunately against the Royals, but they 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.680 get six strikeouts and seven innings. He was leading My 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.000 waiver wire pickup video that should be dropping any minute 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.360 now on Fantasy Pros MLB, which, by the way, if 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.160 you haven't subscribed to the YouTube channel, we are so 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.760 close to fourteen thousand soths Olmert Scotts. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.280 We almost got it for episodes. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.640 Sel do you not want us to have mustaches on 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.240 the show? People? Like I'm trying to figure out what 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:29.080 the hell's going on here? 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.280 You guys wouldn't have to wait too right now because 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.200 like I have, my wife hasn't yelled at me, so 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.520 like I have, you know, just enough scruff going that 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.600 I could, like, you know, you can get away for 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.160 a little bit. I could justify it to do it 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:39.640 a little bit. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.480 But let's do this. What did you think about Gavin 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.760 Williams performance yesterday. Yeah. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.200 I mean I've been a big proponent like Gavin Williams. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.080 I didn't care about what some of the stuff came 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.640 out of the first start. If that worried anybody. I 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.480 think he is an elite talent, at least from a 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.440 prospect perspective. There's still a long way to go, but 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.200 I think he's the best of that crew. Thirty three 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.080 percent CSW. He had eight whiffs on the fastball, two 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:05.280 whiffs on the slider. Curveball wasn't much. Velo looked good. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.480 You know, he hit ninety eight ninety eight and a 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.120 half almost ninety nine on the fastball or no, yeah, yeah, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.200 right at ninety eight ninety seven point seven on the 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.880 fastball with where it was a little bit lower. But again, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.600 he's efficient. He didn't have some of the same command 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.520 issues that he had in that first start. I think 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.200 this is the best guy. I love the three combo pitcher, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:25.600 and I think he can go deep into games and 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.680 he's going to stick around. 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:31.440 Very very encouraging, very exciting. Let's get to any injuries. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.240 Some exciting news here. You're getting a lot of players 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.840 back for a change, which is good. Julio Urius expected 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.960 to be activated against the Royals in Kansas City, so 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.000 that's coming soon. Shane McClanahan likely to start on Friday 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.880 against the Mariners. He had left if you recall what 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.480 that back issue, So we'll see how that works out. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.800 Merril Kelly, myrle go to the IL. It's a calf 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.520 inflammation problem. Now I know it's not an arm thing, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.320 so we're excited about the fact that it's not an 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.880 arm thing, but still calf issues can be said. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.280 It was like a blood clot. I think here was 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.960 like a blood clot that was the inflamating. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.080 Yeah, just like hopefully everything is good for Meryl Kelly. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.320 He seemed very odd. He had been phenomenal. I don't 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.560 think he had even beaten up four earned runs in 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:10.920 a start. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.280 Well, we talked about him in the you know, in 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.080 the offseason, we talked about him as being one of 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.920 these pitchers that just gets forgotten. The shuffle that last 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.920 year was just really solid. And I feel like guys 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.240 like Merril Kelly in the fantasy world because they don't 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.399 have the big sexy strikeout totals or you know, he 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.239 pitched for the Diamondbacks, there was a lot of un 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.480 sexy things about Merril Kelly, but I think when you 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.360 step back and you look at the performance last year, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.000 he was a very viable, nice rotation filler kind of guy, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.679 and he's been even more than that this year for. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.159 The more yeah more. I mean I had highlighted him 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.040 as someone to trade four and that Giants start was 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.920 a big blow up. Was giving up hits left and 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.000 right immediate eel. I think he's gonna be sold. I 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.960 think people are gonna dump him, and I think that's 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.520 gonna be someone I'm gonna pick up once he returns 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.760 from the I L. And this probably looks like about 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.200