WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 20th, 2023 (Ep. 694) 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.280 Welcome into Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading Off Live, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:11.680 brought to you by Prize Picks. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.160 Sign up today for Prize Picks and use the promo 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.720 code leading Off because it's good for your health. It's 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.600 me Joey p Joe Pizabia, That of course is the Welsh, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.680 and it's you the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks hanging 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.160 out talking baseball. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:24.960 We got a lot to go through today. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.840 Razor Ramon must be a happy boy in the Peanuts 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:32.040 and Crackerjacks chat. Because Welsh, his Cincinnati Reds are at 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.520 the top of the National League Central who thought, let's 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.040 go end. We are inching ever closer to our fourteen 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.919 thousand subscriber goal. If you haven't already made sure you subscribe, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.920 click that little belt to lit goes ding. Also because Welsh, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.600 I told my daughters that if we get to fourteen 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.280 k we're doing a show with mustaches. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:50.720 So they both subscribed. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.279 They don't like they I got to. I actually got 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.000 to spend some time with your daughters when you were 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.400 out here and knowing their personalities I've been. They were 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.200 telling all their friends and everyone they know, so they 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.240 could also probably mess with that I imagine they want 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.559 you to have like evil, you know, evil henchmen. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.360 Like like I mean, I don't know, I don't know 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:12.720 what it's gonna be. I don't want to I don't 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.360 want to put a label on it. Yeah, but that 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.600 stuff takes like a month at least to probably for you. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.880 You got to buy mustache, wax or kinds of things 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.800 that you need. But uh, we gotta start with this. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.160 We gotta start with the big Red machine. Because Joey 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.520 Vado came back yesterday, had a beautiful moment with the 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.880 crowd everybody cheering for him. He went two for three 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.200 with a homer. The Reds win. They're at the top 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.039 of the National League Central they are now a half 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.160 game above. They are nine and one over their last 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.880 ten games. They have won nine games in a row. Welsh, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.600 this is great. Like I feel, we've talked all year 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.320 about all these feel good stories in baseball, right the 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.640 Cincinnati Reds right now, they might be the top one. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.200 Well, but it would have thought in the NL that 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.800 the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Cincinnati Reds would be a 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.600 of their division. I think both of those are big stories, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.880 but the Reds worthy, I mean I said it like 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.080 six weeks ago, a month ago. I was like offhandedly talking, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.880 I'm like, ah, the red stink and blah blah blah, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.120 and Razor got all pissy and people getting mad up 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.120 there in the check as I said it, because it's like, well, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.239 it's perpetually a bad team, and there were some bad pieces, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.080 and then they've started to implement in some of the 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.600 young guys. The pitching was coming through, but they're doing 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.519 this without Nicko Lodolo, who might have been their most 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.160 lockdown pitcher of all of them. Hunter Green not this year, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.320 but Hunter Green has made it happen. They you know, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.799 they've got the pieces. Man, They've got some veteran talent. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.400 They've got some rotation pieces they need to get going here. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.960 They've also got a bullpen, they got Alexisds. I mean, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.600 it's an interesting group there, led by Matt McClain, Elie 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.720 Day La Cruz, and they still got more to come. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.280 Well, here's the you know, the disappointing parts. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.560 Hunter Green going in the IL so that's no fun, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.400 Like that's that definitely hurts them. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.960 I mean the pitching and you can go out there 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:01.560 and acquire some help. That's great. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:02.880 I mean, maybe you could say in this but if 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.960 you're the Reds, you gotta you have to support these kids. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.520 You have to send a message, and they might not 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.240 want to go out there and you know, blow up 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.840 the system because the system obviously is why they're competing. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.040 But I think to the to the point of if 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.920 you've watched some of these teams that have rebuilt the 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.840 right way, it's through young position player talent, which is 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.720 why I haven't lost all hope for the Mets yet. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.720 But if you look at what the Cubs did back 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.400 in the what twenty fourteen, fifteen sixteen era, Yeah, if 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.560 you look at what the Astros did right bringing up 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.640 Alvarez and Tucker and Bregman and all those guys, and 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.080 Altuve could even be part of that discussion too. It's 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.920 about building those internal systems where you have position players 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.240 and then you go out there and you find prime 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.640 time pitching talent that's been out there in their you know, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.360 mid thirties, because those guys typically do hit the free 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:51.680 agent wire, and those guys you bring in those hired guns, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.480 whether it be John Lester Right or Justin Verlander, or 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.640 or you make a trade for a Garrett Cole, you 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.360 do that, we have enough capital. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.080 To do it, Richard said, just a tiny vidego which 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.720 we talked about. And I still feel pretty strong about 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.720 this Shane Bieber. You know, Shane Bieber. It seems like 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.800 the guy this year that they can go out in question. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:11.840 Shane Bieber, that's the question. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.320 But they've got pieces throughout. I mean, I don't think 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.719 Shane Bieber is gonna take big prospects. But the Reds 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.240 are top to bottom. They've got big, lower end names. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.600 Carlos Orge is kind of a stud, Hector Rodriguez, these 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.120 are both guys at low Ay. They've got some guys 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.919 here in the Complex League. They've got upper players. But 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.040 I don't think Shane Bieber. I said this the other 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.600 day on IL, I think we're going to be surprised 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.560 at what the return looks like in a Shane Bieber trade. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.360 And the Reds have all the pieces. They share the Complex, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.760 there's familiarity, and the Reds should be pretty hyper aggressive. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.720 And there's also like, you know, not a weird conflict 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.719 of like Bieber going in divisional stuff. It's not whatsoever. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.320 I think that makes a ton of sense for this 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.800 team gets some veteran leadership in the bullpen as well, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.240 guy that can go deep into games. Even though you 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.080 know I don't love them for fantasy, I think it 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.200 makes a ton of sense the world. I would would 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.240 move them to be one of the first to make 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.360 one of these trades as well. The Reds just jump 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.719 right into the market. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:07.160 Now. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.120 I don't know why people are complaining about my audio. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.719 I've got everything the same that I do every single 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.600 day for all these shows, and I'm like the loud Italian. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.320 So I don't know what's going on. Well, should I 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.360 say loud enough to you? 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.920 I mean, you don't sound like crazy loud. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.560 We saw this thing going on here. I don't understand. 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.200 Maybe I'm too loud. Maybe I've become too loud and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.320 you are. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.880 I want you to be super loud. So maybe we 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.920 should put a pole up as Joe's audio. See Bryan says, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.280 your audio sounds fine to me. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.440 Your audio sounds fine. I just think I am louder 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.000 than yours. You're just coming in lower, like I was 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:40.799 telling you yesterday. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.440 Should put the mic up here? Should I put I 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.400 gotta talk like this, I gotta talk very close? Is 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:46.760 that good? Like me? Yeah? 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.159 Technically and rating. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.360 Hello, I'd like to order something. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.000 That's what I'm gonna talk about, the three three finger 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.000 rule for good microphone skills. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:56.080 I'm not touching that. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.159 All right, let's go to the Louis Arise portion of 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:04.240 the show because we can another five hit game, unbelievable, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.279 the Marlins crush the Blue Jays eleven nothing yesterday, Arise 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.080 averages back up a D and now he is in 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.320 a situation with Ty Cobbs, Dan Usual and Tony gwynn Ichiro. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.640 Those are the guys who have had four hit games 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.800 in a season. He's had four five excuse me, five 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.400 hit games in the season. He's had four or five 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.000 hit games in a month, So that is absurd. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.239 He's playing on a whole different level. Well, you're feeling 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.719 he's crazy. Man, he's crazy. I know my stuff with 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.279 him and everything like that. It's awesome. He's like the 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.800 coolest Points League guy. And you know, funny thing Bug 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.080 and I were doing the other day is when you 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.239 get into the world, like I don't play any leagues 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.400 on Yahoo anymore. I don't know if you do. I 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.240 play in some other sh. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.160 No no, no zero, yeah zero. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.800 I play in some other spots. But there's something I 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.360 always liked back in the day about the algorithmic rank, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.320 you know, where you just go and you look, Oh, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.440 this guy is, you know, twenty fourth on Yahoo, and 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.920 their whole stuff is built off of you know, whatever 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.640 the hell they're doing. It's like they wait different stats 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.200 to be more important. Well, I don't see that anymore 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.520 because I don't play on Yahoo. I don't really play 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.160 on places that have that. But to go and look 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.040 and see what the algorithm puts out for some of 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.440 these players is wild. And even a Rise who and 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.680 this is all about a Rise here, even though you 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.800 know he does nothing in your counting stats whatsoever, He's 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.600 still like top seventy or sixty overall in fantasy according 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.400 to Yahoo in their algorithm because his hits are so much. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.040 I just think it's always weird and crazy going and 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.760 look and then kind of thinking about like, oh, how 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.200 does that arbitrary rank number for them actually work? And 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.680 definitely batting average has always been like a big piece 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.000 of it, because like, do you think Luisa Rise is 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.880 a top one hundred fantasy player? 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.000 Oh, top one hundred in rodeo? See with you know, 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.360 batting average being a depressed thing. I think he is 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.280 as long as he's scoring runs, as long as he's 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.240 getting on base, Like I mean, I think it's I 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.480 think he is, and I've never been being Lewis Arise 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.960 guy my coast on Sunday, Matt Striker loves him. 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:14.680 Every year. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.600 He always talks about Lewis Rise and I get all 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.560 the things you're saying too. I think he's right on 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.480 that fringe because again, he is not a multidimensional player 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.920 because he doesn't all a few power. He's not going 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.440 to drive in a ton of runs, probably depending on 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:25.560 who he's sitting in the batting order. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.920 He just doesn't. No runs, no stolen bases. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.640 No, that's like definitive, And I think that's that's that's 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:33.160 the problem. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.200 That's the that's the difficult passage there when you're trying 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:38.880 to evaluate him. But he does that one thing so 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.800 well that you know, and it's such a deficit everywhere else. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.320 I means, so hard to find me who's hitting three ninety, 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:46.480 who's hitting four hundred? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.760 Yeah, no, there's no doubt formats. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.600 I get it in head to head, rotal categories, I 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:52.640 totally get it. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.760 The top one hundred, do you believe any player who. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.480 Is right now, who are the names around that that 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.480 I don't have it? You should? 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.920 If you argument you should, I'm going to bring up 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.480 Yahoo and all that. Well, I actually don't have a league, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.960 bog and I would create a league every year just 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.440 so we could look at the ranks even if we 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.319 don't play. But I don't even have a league that 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.000 I'm playing on there. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.320 I don't. But like if somebody, let us know who. 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.360 About this league put it in the story a top 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:19.439 one hundred player. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.320 Again, it's like fringey. I mean in my world, no, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.679 but I understand the justification. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.679 But if a Rise is a top one hundred player, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.280 Estuary has to be a one, a top one hundred 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.560 player because that's because he is the number one stolen 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.040 based guy. He is two stolen bases. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.760 Specialists, the high end specialist being in the fringe of 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.199 one hundred. I want to know the names of the 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.280 five guys from ninety five to one hundred and one 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.280 hundred to one oh five. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.120 Yeah, someone look standard five by five. Don't don't do it. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.720 If you have like an ob league or something. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.760 Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. Let's do the 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:52.440 rookie lookie. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.920 Though Henry Davis made his debut, had a double one 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.040 a walk, not too shabby, so we'll keep a close 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.800 eye on him. Spoiler alert, he will be in the 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.520 the video this week for the Way of Wire. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.280 I got to talk about him. Also rookie Loki here. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:11.559 The Diamondbacks recalled Alec Thomas from Triple A and so, yeah, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.800 he was demoted after hitting a buck ninety five with 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.640 two dingers and then came up yesterday, twenty three year old, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.160 former top prospect hitting three forty eight with three homers 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.640 two steals in twenty six games at the Triple A level. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.040 What are your thoughts on Alec Thomas rest of season? 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.000 As the Diamondbacks continue to send guys down get adjusted. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.000 McCarthy came back better, Thomas hopefully comes back better. The 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.160 Yankees are probably looking at this going maybe we should 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.920 do this with Anthony Volpie, give him a couple of 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.199 weeks off and let him figure it out. So do 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.280 you think Alec Thomas is a guy worth targeting? 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.240 Yeah, I definitely think you watch. I don't know if 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.439 there's a format I'm gonna be like, hey, go and 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.760 look at him right now. But the cool thing or 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.640 the exciting thing from before was that he definitely had 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.280 some underlying stuff that told us he was gonna be 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.440 much better. Hard hit percentage ten percent higher than last year, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:03.760 had over two sixty XBA barrel percentage was doubled from 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.640 last year. So all of those things work really well. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.080 He just what like all these hard hits he was 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.000 putting up, he wasn't actually getting any contact into and 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.560 they're gonna give him a shot to just go forward again. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.600 Luis Josh Rojas who got sent down absolute just disaster 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.559 train this year. I think he was the second most 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.200 at bats in Major League Baseball without a homer. Andrew 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.680 vin Attendi was number one. It's Miles Straw and then him. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.080 So he's gonna go back and get that stuff going here. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.280 But some data here Welsh by Yeah, And by the. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.760 Way, I just want to point out hold on go 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.360 go three up there to Faby Davis. How is that 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.800 a bad comparison? This person's saying mine is a bad 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.080 bro Mine is the best comparison, because I'm giving you 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.120 the number one stolen based player who doesn't really provide 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.360 elite anywhere else, and I'm giving you the number one 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.040 batting average player. So I hope you're saying someone else 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.559 is a bad comparison. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.360 It's great because I like when you take things. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.840 Personally, don't I'm taking very. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.360 Who says number nine in y who, and then John 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.040 V says, Ruiza sixty eight arises twenty fifth, So I 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.240 guess it's their leagues, whatever that situation is. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.240 But and then Wonky said standard five by five on ESPN, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.480 according to player ranker, a story is ten and arises forty. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.560 I think that is so stupid on both sides. It 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.840 also right there, and you know what this does. This 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:27.800 shows how ridiculous these websites stupid little rank algorithm is 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.199 and how they waited because it's not evenly weighted as 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:35.319 it shouldn't be. But one categorical win waited. His history 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.400 is the tenth best fantasy player, and standard five by 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.439 five arise is the forty Get out of here. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.040 Get out of here with that noise. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:45.760 Yeah, I'm trying to see where he is in my 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.280 head to head points lead where everything is pretty well 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.400 balanced in terms of pitching and hitting and stolen bases 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:54.800 and all that stuff. So I'm trying to look for 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.520 him here and that in the meantime, while I pull 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.800 off that data, let's talk. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.239 A little bit about the injuries. We had Francisco Alvarez 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.440 negative X rays on his right hand. That's a good thing. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.240 Liam Hendrix is going to resume throwing, so fingers crossed 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:08.679 from him, but on the white sox side. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.520 Still. Uh. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.959 We had Tim Azerin out again with that shoulder issue. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.400 Alejandro Kirk is now hitting the ten day ill with 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.640 a left hand laceration, and Hunter Green, as I mentioned before, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.840 he goes to the IL, but that's retroactors the eighteenth 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:20.600 with that hip pain. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.640 Hopefully that something you can get past. We'll see. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.959 Cedric Mullins actually just saw this come across the wire, 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.240 begins to rehab assignment on Tuesday. It wouldn't be an 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.600 injury discussion without Anthony Redon. He goes to the ten 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.160 day ill with a left wrist contusion. I mean, I 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.880 just feel so bad for Anthony Redone at this point, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.040 Like it's it's not even a joke, it's just it's 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.160 just sad and frustrated. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.600 After he tried to grab that fan and like punch 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.880 him and get in a fight. You feel bad for him. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.520 Well, not so much that, but I mean, depending on 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:48.040 what that fan said. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.920 I'm okay, yeah, he's an injury. Good by the way, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.280 thank you, fab bab Babby has relented. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.800 You know, you want to run your mouth. Okay, I'm 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.080 going to cut a little wrestling promo here. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.040 You want to run Nobody is above getting punched in 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:01.400 the face. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.800 All right, Yeah, so that might don't run your mouth. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.120 You know you think that you just say whatever you 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.480 want to everything. There's no consequences. That's a problem nowadays. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.040 Yeah, I was telling I was telling Joe this story yesterday. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.240 I'll tell it real quick because there's something to it. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.480 So I went to the complex. I'll be quick about 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.080 the show, to the Salt River Fields. Two games are 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.920 going on yesterday, Diamondbacks, Giants, Cubs and Rockies. How cool 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.160 is that? And I'm over on the Rocky side and 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.560 Mark McGuire's kid is pitching Mason McGuire And would you 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.840 know it, Mark McGuire's there, and that's like a childhood 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.120 thing for me. I'm like, holy crap. Mark McGuire's here. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.880 Must have been in for Father's Day. His whole family 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.400 is there, the whole brood is there, the wife, all 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.240 the kids are watching their son. How cool is that? 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.120 And Mark McGuire is still big. I want to talk 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.200 to him for a minute. He's still a big guy, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.880 you know, big barrel chair, all that stuff. There's a 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.200 guy that was getting a little too close and hanging 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.160 around a little too much next to Mark and between 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.600 innings is getting me nervous, and I was thinking someone's 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.480 about to get punched or right in the face. And 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.520 that's one of those no one is above, even when 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.280 you're with your family, about getting punched in the face. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.400 And I don't think you want a smack in the 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.720 kisser from Mark maguire after seeing him, regardless of how 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:15.200 old he is. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.680 Right now, I found Louis Arises point total. He's at 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.960 two seventeen and a half. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.640 Uh, and that is in a point league, in a 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.240 points league I think is a very well structured points league. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.320 So he's right around the same spot as Yoshida. Excuse me, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.200 Jeffery George Springer. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.720 Looking around at what does that rank him? I gotta 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:37.680 look exactly where he's saying. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.040 But see like that's not That's never my point with 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.280 or right. Actually, my whole point of this has been 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.000 more about how silly these weighted algorithms, stat things are 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.920 that create these ranks. I think they're getting exposed points league. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.240 He's awesome story ross two hundred and eleven and a 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:52.760 half points. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:53.760 Yeah, he's still his point. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.000 That's how they should be valued. Closely, I think I 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.000 didn't neither elite. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.840 And I would throw in someone's I'm trying to scroll 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.320 because I want to give them like credit, but I 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.200 don't see who it is. Maybe it was Brian or something, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.800 but somebody, but somebody said, you know, like, hey, when 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.240 the story's in the lineup, it's like having you know, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.400 four stolen bases locked in. And it's like, yeah, okay, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.720 sure I agree with that, and I think that is good. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.320 But we come back to you know, these are one 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.800 category players being ranked top ten, top twenty five, Like 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.840 that's crazy. They are absolutely awesome and valuable, and I'm 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.360 a little weird about that. But you know, the weighted 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.240 algorithm of some of how these players are ranked, I 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.480 think is just crazy crazy in my mind, is three 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.360 tenth overall? 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:41.520 No, that's that's nut. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.880 One more injury note, Lars new Bar returns from the 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:45.880 tendail as well. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.880 That'll make Welsh happy. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.280 Also happening today, Yes, alec Minoa's scheduled to throw a 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.840 simulated game tomorrow. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.600 So the controlled though it's going to be the safe payment. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.920 Made completely of cotton candy and rainbows and sunshine. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.160 I don't think he needs cotton candy around him, though. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:06.720 After every pitch there will be a song playing or 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.359 something nice. There will be after the third inning. I 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.520 believe there's a massage chair that he gets to sit 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.720 in in order to, you know, go through that, and 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.880 then there will be positive reinforcements in the form of. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.560 I believe fortune cookies or something to that nature, whether 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:22.560 it just give you nice little things. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.720 I think you want to know a funny thing you 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.359 just said, though, yeah, I don't even know this, but 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.640 like in complex league games, when these guys are done, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.240 they actually do go over to a massage table and 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.080 they'll have a trainer like work. Why it's hilarious. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.960 you weren't joking, but no contact. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.800 In my day in nineteen sixty four, let me tell 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.159 you what we used to do, all right. We used 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.760 to go get hammered and then we got till three 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:42.240 in the morning. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.520 You wake up, you play a doublehead, and you know 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.719