WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 24th, 2022 (Ep. 581) 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.560 Leading off starts right now. What's up, everybody, it's your friend. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.400 Oh it's Chris Welsh. That over there, that's Kelly Kirby, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.400 the Wonky Penguin. A little bit of congestion, a little bit. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.160 We went downhill, just a tiny bit. I'm pulling a 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.320 Buckston Kelly was going yesterday and I'm fading. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:30.520 Well. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.519 At least i'm playing though, Actually that's the difference. At 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:33.560 least I'm out here playing. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.400 That is very true. I am proud of you for 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.200 pushing through and not hitting the il. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.120 So thank you. Yeah. We joked before the show that 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.120 I said Derek Kelly might have the Wonky five, which 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.040 might be the Wonky twenty where I'll just get all right. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.040 Kelly just talked about stuff. I'm gonna sit over here 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.280 and blow my nose and cough for the next little bit. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.440 But I dy quilled up. I think I'll be all 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.440 right and we get to talk a lot about some 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.360 baseball stuff that's going down. Actually was a whole bunch 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.200 of news through and through, and let's get into it first. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:02.480 One. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.160 You know, it's actually funny is a lot of the 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.840 headlines are injury centric, but we're not quite putting them 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.920 into the injury category. Number one was Brandon Belt and 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.760 Brandon Belt dealing with an injury that apparently might be 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.760 career ending and career threatening. He had said, quote, this 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.080 one is barking a little bit more. There's just not 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.319 a lot more than anyone can do. They've literally done 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.399 everything and they can't figure it out. I'm not sure 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.720 there's anything that can be done. And he's a free 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.240 agent after this year. The thirty five year old looking 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.679 like Brandon Belt might be done. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:36.120 So Kelly, Yeah, it doesn't sound good anytime that somebody 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.240 says that they can't figure out what to do, and 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.360 when you're in your mid thirties. And I mean, he 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.039 was always kind of an on base machine, like in general. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.040 So but I feel like his hitting just has been 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.120 declining over the last couple of years. So maybe he'll 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.680 hang it up. It just depends on what side of 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.400 the dealing with his own mortality he's on. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.600 Yeah, I'd like to say, I figured like career enders are, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.480 you know, near the top of the list of a headliner. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.800 But the two biggest pieces really actually three biggest pieces 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.840 that covered yesterday Sandy Patters Fernando Tatis addressed the media. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.840 He talked to the media said there's no excuses for 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.040 the eighty game drug suspension, and he's also going to 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.040 have shoulder surgery. So two things came out of this 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.600 for me. One is that like that press conference was 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.000 treated so much so like somebody that was just admitting 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.720 to the steroid use. That wasn't like I screwed up 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.480 that he was controlling. He was like, sad, agents, I 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.120 really screwed up. Wait till people see what I can do. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.800 Blah blah blah, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. It 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.200 didn't feel like someone that actually in reality screwed up 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.919 with ringworm medication. That seemed like somebody that we all 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.560 know what's going on and we're all just pretending it's 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.960 about the ring worm and he is there saying like, hey, listen, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.160 I'm sorry, I screwed up. I screwed up. I screwed up. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.480 Like if I I just took to day Quill, there's 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.440 something in there that I wasn't supposed to do with 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.960 Fantasy pros, I'd be like, I'm sorry, that was my bad. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.640 But I wouldn't be like I'm gonna have a press 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.320 conference and say I wouldn't feel that bad because it 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.400 was just it was a dumb mistake that felt like 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:12.080 someone that was full on emittance of steroids Kelly it did. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.000 It also felt like I felt like the team sort 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.440 of made a deal with him, like you have to 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.400 do this, you have to do this press conference. And 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.000 I'm amazed that he kind of capitulated to having the surgery, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.720 where I'm like, how much pressure is the team putting 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.200 on tattoos right now to sort of become this like humble, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.800 don't hurt your image, try to recover things down. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.800 Off for like paintings and stuff. They were like taking 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.880 them on. Just really weird situation. Then the second is 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.000 he opts for the shoulder surgery, which is like a 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.520 wild cop out. And there's a part of me that 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.440 was like, don't you think like MLB, if they were 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.360 really trying to like crack down, they'd say, all right, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.760 well the suspension is gonna start after the shoulder surgery. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 It's not gonna start right now, because I don't know. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.400 It just seems so odd, like a no brainer, and 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.360 attach it to you probably should have had the shoulder 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.880 surgery earlier on you opted not to against I believe 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.440 it was the padres and the doctor's orders, and now 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.120 he's doing it like this is a guy that's just 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:07.840 he's giving it all up. He's just like, all right, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.960 I don't have any of that control that this you know, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.760 young twenties multi millionaire superstar of MLB has anymore. He's 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.080 just kind of laying over and praying someone to pet 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.279 his tummy at this point. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.120 Kelly, he is, and I think that again, I wonder 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.880 if they're taking away his motorcycles, that would probably be 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.479 the next step. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.640 I like jesse El, I like to pretend the Padres 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.120 are like his dad. They're just like, you can't have 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.520 you're grounded, you're grounded. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.000 I do like jesse L's comment where Preano tutis I 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.200 did not have performing enhancing relations with that ringworm. But yeah, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.000 I mean I think that's just where he is, and 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.720 with his age and with everything else, they're just kind 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.000 of putting a lot of pressure on him to shape up, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.800 which is you kind of have to do sometimes with 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.479 guys that young. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.599 The whole process was just weird to me. The whole 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.599 thing was just like, I'm gonna now do what they 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.039 said before. I'm super sorry it had it seemed like 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.960 nothing about the stupid ringworm. And you know, let's question 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.719 how quick he recovers, because some stuff he did before 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.040 might have been quicker recovery. So let's see if that's 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.839 going to continuously go on. The other big piece of 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.640 news was another injury. Los Angeles Dodgers Walker Bueller is 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:16.080 undergoing Tommy John surgery a flexor tendon repair, and he 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.320 will be out the entire year next year. You shouldn't 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.240 expect him, though. I think the timeline works where he 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.600 might be able to kick right off in twenty twenty five, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.120 but he's out the entire year next. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.360 Year, twenty twenty four. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.599 I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, I was. I was a year ahead. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.159 He's out twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty four would be 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.920 when he theoretically could return. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.200 Right, So what do you do with him? In dynasty leagues? 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:44.360 I'm in dynasty where you're covering everybody. I don't think 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.560 it's necessarily a problem, Like, if you're holding your entire roster, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.360 you're not going to just go dump them, Like what 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.279 would be the purpose of it, unless like it's you know, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.159 you can only keep twenty five yeah, blah blah blah. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.640 But then what do you choose him between like Eric 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.560 Fetti and Walker Bueller, I would hold same way. I 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.240 think a lot of people held with Tyler glass Now 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.440 like I held Tyler glass Now in a league in 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.839 Scott White's Big Points League last year because he was 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.760 cheap and I kept going. But if you're in a 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.880 keeper league and you're any less than ten, I think 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.560 it's a no brainer that you dump them. I don't 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.600 think there's anybody that you even consider. If you're in 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.159 like one of those middle keeper dynasties, I think you 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.920 could hold. But I don't really see any scenario outside 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.920 of a deep, deep dynasty or carry him, do you No, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:28.280 I don't. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.440 I you know, I don't play in a full on 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.440 dynasty league, but I do have a keeper kind of 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.520 keeper dynasty thing going on, and the guy that owns 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.919 Walker Bueler has been kind of in a sort of 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.159 chatting in discord about like what he's going to do, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.360 how he's going to decide, and I think that it's 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.440 very hard. I dropped Glass Now in a sort of 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.719 that same keeper dynasty legu last year after he. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.680 How many keepers, mostly because it was going. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.880 To keep he was going to cost me too much 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.760 salary wise. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.880 Okay, yes, you can salary attached. That makes it how 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.240 many keepers in that one in which one O the 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.840 one the your league with the glass the glass down league. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.080 It's whoever you want to keep for the salary. It 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.280 goes off five hours every year. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:08.159 Salary gotcha. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.440 And I'd had him since the minor leagues, so I was, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.520 but it was too expensive, by the way. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.320 He's also reported that Glassman hasn't ruled out returning this year. 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.920 There's something so on that he threw just yesterday the 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.920 other two pieces. Bryce Harper started his rehab assignment and 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.240 hit two bombs yesterday, and I I think young boy's ready. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.120 I think boy's ready to come back up. I wish 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.560 more of these guys would just rehabit the major league, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.040 so just get back like a guy like Harper who's 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.320 been there long enough. I just don't really just don't 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.840 get the benefit. I mean, I suppose if you haven't 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.560 looked at a whole lot of pitches a lot lately, maybe, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.640 but you don't understand these guys are out there. They're 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.400 doing simulated games way before they hit rehab stands with 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.600 a guy like Harper, they're doing with the Kershaw. They're 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.840 doing with Kershaw where Kershaw is not gonna have any 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.080 rehab starts. He's just gonna come to the majors. I 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.000 wish they would do that. I just don't see the 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.720 benefit to the minor leagues. It's great, let's just get 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.440 that at the majors and go. And this totally doesn't 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 have to do with my tout team that I could use. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.800 Harper back, Absolutely not, And especially with the MVP or 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.880 the DH now, like a former MVP doesn't need to 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.720 warm up in the miners. You just have him bat 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.400 and take his at bats in the major leagues. And 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.360 I mean, who else are you filling in there? 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.120 So yeah, and what is it? Just a guy that's 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:24.880 been around for so long. It's one thing if it's 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.160 like a young like a Josh Rojas or something, a 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.720 young guy. But it's like Harper's been around baseball for 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.439 a really long time, like just learn it at that level. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.480 And I think he'd be all right. I think so, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.600 But hit a couple of bombs. I'd make people happy. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.600 Over on the injury front, here we've got Byron Buxton, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.960 who hit the il No Bueno Juan Soto is likely 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.120 to be held out again on Wednesday. He was scratched 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.319 from their lineup on Tuesday after his back locked up 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.959 while taking pregame practice. Got the Sodo stuff, It's it's 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.000 just been nothing close of what they wanted. Do you 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.600 feel a Sodo run happening? You feel like a Soto 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.520 turn on in September getting into the playoffs? Do you 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.280 see this happening? Do you think it's just kind of 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.440 a lost like he's not playing bad or anything, but 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.360 this is just not the phenomenal phenomen I mean, many 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.360 Machada still looks like the best player on that team 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.400 right now. Sodo is just not playing at that level 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:15.000 since the move. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.439 He's not. And I actually one thing that I was 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.840 thinking about yesterday was did if the team knew about Tatus, like, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.600 you know, enough to get Drury, did they tell Sodo? 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.320 Did they tell Sodo about it? Did he go there 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.480 thinking that Tatis was gonna you know this, this was 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.720 his move? And and yeah, so that is actually my question, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.400 just a kind of for information. I know that the 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:40.400 Nats traded him, but. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.800 That's a great question because Tatis and Sodo were reportedly 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.160 like best friends. They're like great friends. So I'll bet you. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.280 The Padres did not say a word, but I wonder 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.520 if Tatis might have said something like, Hey, it's gonna 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 be glad to have you here, but I'm not going 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.640 to be here. I don't know. Sodo seemed a little 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.760 bit more shocked than everybody else. Everybody else kind of 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.280 had a like, go you know type of thing, like 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.040 everybody knew. I mean to think that this entire organization 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.840 didn't know for months and months, I think as simple. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.880 I think everybody's reaction told you the entirety about it. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.640 Sotos was a little bit more like, man, I just 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.720 can't believe this. He seemed to be a little tongue 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.560 tied when he had answered that question. It's a good question. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.240 Yeah, And so the actual question that you asked me, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.400 I don't see that coming. I mean, last year, after 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.200 the after the All Star break, right, he just turned 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.800 on every jet that he had and just cruised to 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.600 the finish. And this year, I just feel like everything's 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.040 kind of out of sync, and all of the Padres 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.840 moves are sort of flat, with Drury. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.800 And Drury falling off too, like Vapors said, and last 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.200 night that bad strikeout call just I mean, just bad luck. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.160 Going on, Yeah, they all have the there was that 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.520 Drury Grand Slam. But when have you heard from Drury 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.760 with the Padres outside of that one big hit, you 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:50.600 haven't heard anything. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.680 No. I think he got like one homer against in 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.320 the Washington series, and otherwise I can't remember him doing anything. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.559 It's crazy. And then and Eloy Jimenez X Rays came 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.640 back negative after he was hit on the left elbow. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.440 He was hit by a one hundred and two mile 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.520 an hour fastball from Felix Batista and he actually got 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.880 is somebody that has been like perpetually hurt and he 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.559 was able to avoid that big, big time luck right. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.000 Yes, absolutely, one hundred percent. I also if I ever 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.520 got hit with one hundred and two point three mile 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.240 per hour first ball like that, would I'd have to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.439 retire just from life in general. So I think the 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.360 fact that it's not broken is just crazy to me. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.120 I think I got hit by like a fifty mile 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 an hour like ground or pop up when I was 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.960 in like Little League baseball, and I remember that just 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.120 changing the trajectory of my life. Can you imagine one 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.640 oh two just right there? But he had an elbow 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.200 guard on there, So I think that's what say, ye 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.720 got a bubble boy all these players at the end 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:46.920 of the day. Let's go take a look at some 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.240 stat heroes. Trace Thompson had a homer. Alex Bregman three 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.000 for four with a homer, picking it up a little bit. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.040 Marcus Simeon had a bomb two RBIs two for five. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.280 Bobby wit Second, I think he's right two homers behind 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.360 Julio Rodriguez for the rookie home run title right now, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.280 went homer, one rbi, two runs, Nolan Aernato three for 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.439 four with a homer, Corey Dickerson four for five for 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.559 the Cardinals. Tommy Edmond also a homer, three RBIs, lots 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.880 of offensive output. Tyler O'Neill had a homer, Eloyd did 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.000 hit a bomb before getting hit. And Christian Bettencourt had 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.520 a homer with three RBI and I believe he also pitched. 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.280 I believe he got in and pitched and had a 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.720 scoreless sign Yeah, people, they were getting they're getting walloped. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.120 On the picture side, this was a wild one. Justin 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.079 Verlander actually screwed up the headlines too. I meant to 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:32.720 talk about this at the headline. I moved the Breton 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.640 belt one there, justin Verlander went six, struck out ten 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.280 no hit innings and the Astros brought him out. Kelly, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.559 were you watching this that the Astros took him out 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.480 after the no hit innings? And I'm a firm like, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.400 you never come out if you have a no hitter. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.240 I don't care about the circumstance. It never matters to me. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.160 Have I gotten to be bitter on show yet about 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.600 Clinton Kershaw getting pulled after eighty with a perfect game 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.480 to keep him off the IL? So yeah, no, I'm 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.440 not a fan of that. And it's Verlander. How many 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.600 pitches does Verlander have to throw before he would actually 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.480 get tired? And I need to come out? Yeah, I 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.600 just feel like it's infinity at this point. So no, 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:11.920 I wasn't a big fan of that at all. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.040 I remember seeing it live. I was watching that game 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.439 because I had a bet on Jordan Alvarez two total bases. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.920 He got one. His family was in attendance. It's one 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.720 of those dumb gambly things where you're like, Oh, his 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.199 family for the first time is seeing him in a 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.599 professional thing. And I was like scouring online while I 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.199 was watching, and Buddy Paul Sporr who loves Verlander, was like, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.280 what are we talking about here? He was like chastising, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.720 He was like, what are we talking about here? People 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.000 are saying the broadcast is talking about Verlander coming out? 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.840 What kind of sillyness is this? And then he came out, 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.679 and then they got him out and he was at 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.240 like Gruby said, he was at ninety run, ninety ninety one. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.360 Just no way, just no. I mean Verland. If there's 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.240 a picture that knows how to turn on, how to 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.880 just start hitting to contact, you know, and not trying 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.480 to strike out pictures, it's him. I'm just shocked. But 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.280 it's management this time of year. Astros have bigger plans. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.600 I get it. But taking a guy out a no hitter, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.800 I don't think so ten strike out, six innings beautiful. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.480 It wasn't a beautiful game. I don't think the perfect 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.680 game they wouldn't taken him out. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.040 Well it says no hits or no walks. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.280 Was there an error that must have been because they 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.840 were talking, I didn't see like what it was if 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.720 he hit a bat her or whatever. But if it 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.000 was a perfect game, there's no way you take the 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.280 perfect game out right. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.200 Right, So if you so if you were to go 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.720 back to back to draft season right and like where 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.000 would you draft him? Because I know everyone kind of 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.720 had this weird like I don't know how he's going 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:33.720 to be type of thing on on. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.440 I think he would probably be three or four. I 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.360 think easy top five. That's not even a question. You 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.000 know what A good one would have been Verlander or 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.720 Max Scherzer. Which of the oldies? Which one do you? 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.640 Which one do you want? Sureser or Verlander? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.360 When I did some best Ball drafts right like January February, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.840 because it's baseball and I have to do that, But 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.960 I think I went to Sures are like four or 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.800 five different spots that I have no Verlander. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.880 But right now would you right now. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.720 Right now, I would take right now, I take Berlander. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.920 I would I would prefer to take over Verlander. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.560 Honestly, with McClanahan doing what he's been doing. De Gram, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.080 I'm just I call myself the de Grump because I'm 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.080 just I stay out of all Jacob de Gram things. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.520 So I would I would take Berlander. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.120 I would take the Grum. I would always take to Grum. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.240 Max Fried went eight, struck out seven, gave up one 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.800 earned run, Carlos Daon struck out ten, going seven, giving 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.760 up five hits and won earn. Robbie Ray struck out 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.160 seven and six and two thirds. Pablo Lopez five strikeouts, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.560 six innings, four hits. I was actually kind of betting 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.120 against him in one of those. For the total runs 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.800 through five on your stat zero's Jake cave Oh for 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.840 four with four strikeouts, TRNK Grisham had four k's your 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.360 offers with three k's Julio Rodriguez, Kyle Schwerber, Franci Cordeo, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:54.280 and Caesar Hernandez. Julio, do you think there's any possibility 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.320 that Adley or Bobby Witt catch Julio Rodriguez On that 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.480 Rookie of the Year coming out here, we talked that 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.760 Adley moved into second place. I think when Bobby starts 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.080 getting rolling a little bit, he gets into that conversation. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.240 Do you think there's any possibility anyone overpasses Julio? And 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.120 if so, who is it? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.600 I think the only way that anyone passes Julio is 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:19.160 if Baltimore somehow, some way sneaks into the playoffs, then 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:24.160 I think Adley has a shot, But otherwise he's got 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.240 too much momentum, and with the home run deer you 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.920 win or the second place finish, I think that's he's 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.840 probably kind of pretty solid right now, even with this slump. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:33.840 I think it'll be okay. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.040 I guess the assumption would have been like if Julio 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.480 struggled over the next month and he just kind of 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.000 like really tapered down and you had both those guys, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.360 it probably still is Adli. The war numbers are going 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.760 to play a big toll in it of how valuable 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.760 he's been in a short period of time, So it 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.360 is probably Adly and Adley is around plus two hundred 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.600 something for that award, so it's not like a gimme, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.480 gimme over on the pitcher side. When Kowski, I think 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.200 we talked about him on the k PROP as one 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.400 of the algorithm ones, and I think it was three. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.760 He only had two give up six earned runs, and 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.560 two and two thirds Corbyn Burns three and two thirds 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.480 gave up seven earned runs, and Adrian Samson five earned runs, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.040 giving up a couple bombs eight hits. No bueno home 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.639 run calls. Wonky set us up for what the Wonky 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.879 Wednesday home run call is looking like. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.719 So this goes out a shout out to actively Lazy, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.560 who has my favorite username on Discord. But we were 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.400 chatting about something and he said, I think you should 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.560 do a respect your elders bonus, And so for today, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.439 if you pick a player whose current age is thirty 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.440 two or older, you'll get a bonus point for each 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.919 home run that he hits. So everyone run out and 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.400 picked pool holes as fast as you can. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.719 But are you you know you could have done too. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.520 Here'd have been another one. Every age over thirty two 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.840 you get an extra homer. So it's like, if you 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.520 picked pool holes and he had a homer, you get 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.800 like ten points. To make it crazy, that would have 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.800 been well. By the way, can I just point out 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.080 how like much it hurts that we're acknowledging that thirty 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.760 two are our elders for us that are over way 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.560 over thirty two, not quite forty, but still over thirty. Like, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.680 there's some people in the chat that are definitely triggered 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.639 beyond that too, thirty two being our elders. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:18.760 Kelly, I am one day younger than elberpool Holes. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.400 Oh okay, so one day. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.760 So if I had to respect my elder, I think 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.879