WEBVTT - Leading Off May 19th, 2025 (Ep. 1017) 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.280 Off Live. It is me, Joey p joe Pisapia with me, 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.079 of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you, 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.360 the Peanuts and the Cracker Jackson on Monday morning. You know, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.240 I was noticing in that video and the intro video 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.720 for the first time, when we have beards and when 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.040 we don't. Sometimes we have them at the same time, 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.280 sometimes we have them at separate times. But I don't 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.760 ever see us both clean shaven at the same time, Welsh. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.360 I thought that was a little interesting on the timeline 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:33.240 of Leading Off. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.199 Oh that's interesting. I mean, that's more you because like 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.520 I can only go so long until I'm forced to shave, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.920 so it's it's not often that you are completely clean shaven. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.000 I think that would be actually very disturbing, if I'm 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.880 being honest, I think it would be a little jarring 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.600 for everybody. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.239 Thank you. That's why I'm here for both of. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.760 Us at the same time, not you, not just you, both. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.720 Of the audience and the audience. We're all here on 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.480 Twitch as always, Twitch dot tv, Slash Fantasy Pros. That's 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.880 where you can watch us live every single Monday through 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.040 a noon Eastern time. You could also watch us on 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.480 demand on Fantasy Bros MLB. 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I just dropped 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.200 a short video here talking about how Romano over his 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.679 last six innings ten strikeouts nowhere and runs one walk. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.320 He's been excellent just in time, luckily. But the Phillies 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.080 have a bigger problem now, which is they don't even 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.240 have him for the postseason. As well as the eighty 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.680 game suspension, this is a huge blow to that Phillies 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.800 bullpen because arguably he is the best arm they've got there. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.520 It's pretty nuts, especially whenever you get any of these 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.480 relievers jumping into this. And I don't know if he's 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.160 starting to get this little cult following, because Josel Verado 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.320 he's like, oh, I love coffee, and everybody was jumping 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:14.680 to this. They're like, oh, what fun it is? And 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.720 he throws one on one and he's gone. I think 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.760 this might be to the level where the Phillies need 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 to potentially look at some more bullpen depth. Probably gonna 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.720 have to wait until near the trade deadline when a 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.440 few more teams are out of it and they can buy. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.799 Because are they comfortable enough, you know, Strom can get 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.079 by with it. They move Tywan Walker to the bullpen. 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:34.960 They do have a lot of young guys. That's the 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.360 other interesting thing. I mean, Mick Abel just absolutely was 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.600 filthy this weekend. And that's a guy. You know, if 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.280 they ended up wanting to do anything nuts, you could 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.400 throw him in the rotation. And if you were taking 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.600 a ranger or hell, at this point, Aaron Nola doesn't 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.320 look like he should be in the rotation. You know, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.840 they could move some pieces around but at the end 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.840 of the day, losing this this seems to thrust Jordan 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.359 Romano back into the role. Might have an offhanded save 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.320 of Walker or Strom, but they might have to go 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.080 get somebody, and it's probably gonna The determination is probably 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.760 going to be if Romano can be consistent over the 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.560 next little bit, if they're not going to go out 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.120 and try to acquire because like you said, it's not 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.960 just the eighty games, it's the playoffs. You know, your 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.239 most dominant reliever is out for the playoffs, and he 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.520 said it was due to some weight loss drug. And 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.040 I will to this day just be amazed that these 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.239 athletes and everybody. Maybe we're giving them too much of 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:34.000 benefited out, but it's amazing that nobody ever consults the 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.520 place that they work with. If there could be anything 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.680 that could get them poppable, if there's money and the job. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.560 I age it takes very long. Email, you call somebody, OUF, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.080 there's gotta be a hot line. Maybe it's along the. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.320 Lines of like if you go out to the bar 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.880 and you're just like, all right, I've had thirteen drinks, 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.600 maybe I'll call an uber, Like why do these guys 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.280 with all the money in the world not call an 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.920 uber uber black whatever you want call one of those. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.640 But why also, can't you just call the league be like, hey, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.800 can I take whatever I'm about, you know, whatever excuse 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.840 I'm about to say. But also that's why because. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:10.520 He was on the weight loss drug go way way way, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.160 go way, go sit and not collect a paycheck for 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.920 eighty games. I think that's the name of it. Anyway, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.719 I don't know. Well, by the way, not losing his 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.880 rotation spot, that ain't happening. Let's get to Van Rod's question. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.159 She's got a questionnaire. Who to pick up to replace Lugo, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.520 Will Warren, Taiwan Walker or Poulante. I'm gonna go with 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.120 Will Warren. He's been pretty solid lately, and the Yankees 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.720 are the Yankees, and they're still at the top of 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.240 this division, so I'm gonna go there. The American League 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.760 is week two. I want to go with Will Warren. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:37.440 Where do you want to go? 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.120 Yeah, I think and we'll we'll get extra points with 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.360 Van RD for picking a Yankee too, so I'll go 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:43.520 with all. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.680 Well, then, right, automatically, I'm still sour about yesterday, So no, no, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.480 I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready. Although I did 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.560 enjoy Wan Soto tipping his cap on Night one to 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.440 the Yankee crowd for booing the hell out of him. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.960 I thought that was terrific. Speaking of the Yankees, Cody 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.960 Ballinger three for three with a double and a grand selm. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.400 That just put the knife in the heart last night, brutal. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.400 Whatever go Yankee you want. Merril Kelly was terrific. I 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.920 want to talk about Meryl Kelly because he's been really 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.000 solid lately. Also, he had eleven strikeouts and seven innings. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.800 His era has done a three to two six his 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.039 whip as it won. He's got fifty two strikeouts to 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.560 just fifteen walks and fifty eight innings. What do you 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.039 think of the Meryl Kelly renaissance going on lately. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.680 Meryl's always been a good spot starter. This was the 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.320 Colorado Rockies, you know, like he gave excuses to our 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.599 boy Jack Lder and having a good start because it's like, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.560 well it was Colorado. Like Meryl did have an absolutely 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.360 dominant performance against Colorado, sixteen swinging whiffs in this one. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.880 He changed up his pitch mix too, and that might 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.680 be some of the change something for us to watch. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.359 He's been forcing change up cutter, and this one he 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.520 went cutter and change up for change up and cutter 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.440 is his top two used pitches, and they had pretty 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.120 high wiff rates, so that might be the ultimate change here. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.120 I still don't know if I trust him as like 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.920 a long standing starter. Just think great matchups like this 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.760 against Colorado. I'm gonna throw him out there at the 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.200 end of the day. His k's are up a tiny bit, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.920 He's era looks good, but the expected is over four. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.080 He's giving up a ton of barreled contact. It's still 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.360 pretty hard. I would tread lightly with Merrill. If you start, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.880 if you start to feel too confident, that's when I 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.720 think you need to jump ship. That's what I would 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:23.360 say about Meryl. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.039 Fair enough. Here's one from Doddler. Louis Robert was dropped 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.760 in my league. TJ friedel or bray you worth dropping? 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:29.440 I say, freedol. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.040 Let's say you and not dropping, not dropping a bray you. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.200 So yeah, exactly, and I would do it ago too. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.840 We got a lot of news today too. We got 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.359 prospecting of the Welsh coming up. We've got a lot 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.200 of rookie news. We got a recall as well, so 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.159 very exciting things. Is ti Oscar officially back today? I 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:45.960 have not heard anything about ti Oscar today and I 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.840 just looked and swept everything before the show. So if 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.560 something breaks during the show, we'll let you know. But 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.920 I don't believe as of yet we've gotten that. However, 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.360 more news, Jack Lighter's up to two two good starts 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.279 in a row, seven innings. No decision, but I'm going 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.000 to give him the good start. There was a good day, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.040 three hits, seven innings, three runs, so that's quality. Let's 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.480 go seven innings. Very impressive. That's two four more to 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:06.760 go before he becomes a real boy. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.520 Yes Welsh, Okay, well, I think just having four good 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.440 starts not in a row for the year is fine, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.920 but we can keep doing this Tasker is activated today today. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.400 I do see that coming out of reporters that he'll 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.960 be activated according to Dave Roberts, who will be activated today. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.560 So very good signs for and you agreed to it. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.840 Six straight good start so he's at two so this 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.240 is cake. He's only got four more. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.520 This is gonna be well no, but again the deal 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.600 is like for for you, for me, I said before, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.120 like I don't think he's a great starter. I think 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.640 he's a serviceable MLB starter and he is like Stacking. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.800 I don't think I'm not gonna say he's elite. I'm 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.560 not just saying he's going to be a real boy. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.160 You know what we need? 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.920 Then it's a lighters versions of this and if he 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.680 and if he has a blow up start, it goes 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.360 back to zero. So I have two. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.040 Different versions of this one and Cali, we might need 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.000 to do AI for this one. Is he is Pinocchio 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.880 with the super long nose, and as his starts get better, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.160 the nose comes down and we just could have art 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:05.520 for that. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.680 Or I thought I thought that would get bigger. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.760 Well, no, like it gets bigger when he's bad, so 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.240 it's coming down, yeah, I say, Or we do this 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.040 like Major League, and I don't really want to take 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.800 clothing off like they did, but like, you know, maybe 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.600 we could just add clothing on or add his glove on, 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.120 which we add things on. Maybe the Pinocchio one is 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:26.720 a better I. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.000 Like the Pinocchio one that was good, so he should 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.680 like a stands at it and left on the high note. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.480 Royce lewis first homer of the season, so there you go. 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.800 But he almost had another one too, Jackson Cherio ended 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.200 up robbing him. I want to talk about Alexander Canario, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.360 who won for three against the Phillies yesterday. He's now 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.360 fourteen for forty three, hitting three twenty six with two 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.560 homers six rubies. In May, this was a guy that 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.079 was in the Cubs organization. Then he had a pretty 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.120 good spring with the Mets. They had no room for 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:54.920 him the forty man roster, so he got cut. Now 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.920 he's in Pittsburgh. It's becoming an everyday player in deeper leagues. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.680 Is he a guy that you should start to monitor 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.440 or pick up or be paying attention to, because I 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.400 think now in May, that we're sitting here again with 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.520 some of the outfield injuries we've had, Canario becomes at 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:10.359 least intriguing. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.600 I think, yeah, I think you should take a look 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.280 at him in like fifteen plus leagues. He's super high barrel, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.720 hard hit guy, which is phenomenal. He's getting the ball 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.839 in the air great, his strikeouts have come down, he's 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.080 walking like all that stuff looks solid. But kind of 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.559 a primary fastball hitter, which he's absolutely dominating right now. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.320 I imagine he's gonna the pitch mixed changes are going 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.280 to start to happen a bit, and really low contact 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.880 percentage seventy two percent zone contact percentage. But can he 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.880 be a two to forty hitter? His underlying profile is 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.719 a guy where if he were hitting two forty, he's 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.200 gonna hit twenty plus homers. So he's going to be valuable. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.200 And here's the other positive. That team is just messy. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.240 They're a disaster and playing time as the season goes on, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.480 it's just going to be more and more. Let's see 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.920 what we've got. And Canario looks like a player that 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.959 they're going to want to see a full season out of. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.280 So I do think there's some value in picking him up. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.320 Would you trade Ozzie Albi's for Luis Castillo from frov? 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:04.800 Uh? 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.199 Yeah, I'm good with that. I think that's fair. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.080 I think I would. I'm not I'm a super not 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:10.760 Louis Castillo guy right. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.200 Now, the big Ozzie guy either. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.439 If I'm not either one of them, I guess it 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.600 would be maybe dependent on like my need, if I 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.480 like super need rotational depth or something like that, I 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.959 guess I would consider it, but I'd rather have Ozzie instead. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.839 Zebbi, Jack Lighter, Ryan Weathers rest of season from laser sharp. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:34.079 I think I say Jack lighter, I'm gonna surprise people here. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.240 Are you gonna go lighter? 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.160 I'm gonna go lighter because I think Texas is going 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.360 to be in this thing eventually. Corey Seger at some 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.800 point will come back, probably get hurt again, but he'll 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.320 be back eventually. I don't know. I feel I mean, 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.360 the Zebe start wasn't great already in Ryan Weathers pitches 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.040 on the Marlins, and I think there's limitations there. I 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.560 think it's between Weathers and Lighter for me rest of season, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:54.400 But what do you think we wash? 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.680 I'm gonna go Weathers on this. I'm gonna go Weathers 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.240 lighter and than Matthew's because I don't know. I don't 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.560 know if Zebby is to have that rotation spot that 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.319 that's the question him infested. Maybe going back and forth, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.160 weather's been good. So if our one eight era and 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.400 I guess it was only one start, but twenty eight 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.920 percent K percentage low walks. I think all of these 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.800 guys are probably more streamers than anything else. So when 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.480 you're asking that question, I would just kind of line 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.320 it up. And then here's the order. I like, if 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.720 there's a cool matchup, I put one of those guys in. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:25.680 I don't know if any of those guys are gonna 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.680 be worth holding on to through struggles though. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.960 Paul Skin's another tough luck outing for him. One run, 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.800 three hits, eight innings, but again got a loss against 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.080 the Phillies. He had nine strikeouts, one walk, forty percent 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.560 with rate. I mean everything you can ask more, but 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.000 it's just been a little Maybe it's not been the 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.520 best stretch here for him, but the performance has been good. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.880 Results not always been perfect for him. But speaking of 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.520 the Pirates, we do have a Jostra Damas update. Over 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.760 the weekend, we hear Jared Jones suffer the setback in 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.559 his throwing program. He's gonna meet with the doctors tomorrow 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.880 and he's gonna have the elbow reading examined. A lot 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.199 of rumor circulating that he's gonna have Tommy John Joe 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.400 stra Damas strikes again. I hate seeing it into the 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.120 future sometimes Welsh, but we keep fooling ourselves, always thinking 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.319 it's gonna be okay, everything's gonna be fine. It's like 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.720 that meme with the dog and the room is on fire. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.679 Whenever we have a picture who's got an elbow issue 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.200 and we all just think it's gonna be fine. It's 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.160 never fine. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.559 Who could have thought in any world that a guy 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.880 who has i'll tell your issues and is on the 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.800 injured list? Who could only Joe stra Damas could have 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.040 possibly seen this. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.040 Kept telling everybody was stop wasting draft picks on this guy, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.120 and people didn't refuse to. They kept taking him. Well, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.560 I'm gonna take a shot on her, or well i'm 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.199 gonna you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna hold a wait 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.720 and see. No, no, it never works out. Well, it's 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:44.640 always a disaster. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.280 Every single show's like I saw fifty five thousand scenarios 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.040 and the only one was he would be hurt. Like, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.880 oh my god, Joe, how did you see it? 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.720 Ow? Yeah, thats exactly I Van Rod's right, that's exactly. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.680 Everything's fine. Everyone sits there. But it's it's it's this 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.679 cock eyed optimism that everybody has and fanis baseball. We're 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.840 just think everything's gonna be okay. He's oh, oh, he's 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.720 got he's got a problem. He'll figure it out, He'll 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:05.000 be okay. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.560 Who's that there's Jared Jones right here. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.040 There is, there is, there is, Everything's fine, there is. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.360 He's on fire. See the You should keep that handy 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.880 because that's gonna come in handy throughout the show. Because 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.120 also on fire the Baltimore Orioles who fired their manager 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.400 Brandon Hyde fifteen and twenty eight to start the season. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.760 Before the firing, So Welsh, this is the third manager 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.400 fired before Memorial Day? Pop quiz, hotshot, And for everybody 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.959 out there in the chat too, when was the last 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.920 time four managers were fired before Memorial Day? It's happened 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.160 in this century. I will tell you that. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.400 I would have actually said it hasn't happened. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.600 I don't know. It's this man, it's happened in this 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.719 century recently, Oh I don't know. Well maybe not too 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.719 recently for some people, depending on how old they are. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.600 But uh, oh okay, drop a year in the chat 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:51.520 if you want to guess what. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.600 Year nineteen ninety four? 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.040 No this century? 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:00.839 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, two thousand. Well, just as you're 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.120 saying when you said it's. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.040 The year two thousand, since the year two. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.440 Thousand, two thousand and six, No, it was not. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.319 Two thousand and six. See, people saying to twenty twelve 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.320 not so much. But look, here's the thing. It's not 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.240 brand Hyde's fault. I mean, you go into the year 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:23.440 vault with Zach Eflin, Charlie Morton, Sigano, Dean Kreamer, who, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.640 by the way, was also the dean in House Party two. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.080 I think a lot of people forget that that was 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.360 the name of the dean. But I mean, it's not 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.400 Bran Hyde's fault, and firing the manager is not going 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.360 to change anything, so it's gonna be a hot mess 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.640 for the Orioles rest of season. They also let go 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.240 of Kyle Gibson, so I guess that experiment also failed. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.320 What a shock. Tobias Meyer's more transactions, he was sent 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.160 down a triple A. My boy, Logan Henderson's going nowhere. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.520 He's going nowhere. Baby. I'm gonna cut a promo every 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 time he goes out there and starts, because that's my dude. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.600 He was great again last week and he ain't going 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.280 no place. He's sticking in that rotation this time. Also 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.320 in the rotation now Hayden Birds is going to replace 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.160 Jordan Hicks. Now bird Song has had two to one 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.480 strikeout to walk ratio era round two three. Sometimes the 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.520 control could be a little erratic. Had a great spring, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.120 people thought he might make that rotation. So Welsh, what 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.200 do you think of people running to the waiver wire 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.160 to add bird song? 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.480 Yeah, I think he's he tows the must pick up 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.360 line here just because of some of the strikeout potential. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.080 It is interesting though, because it's like, you know, as 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.200 a starter last year compared to this year as a reliever, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.840 his k's are down, but his walks are also down. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.000 But he has got some you know, he's got some 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.480 big whiff stuff. I mean, his slider's got a thirty 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.400 one percent withff rate on it, change up's got a 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.320 forty eight percent whiff rate. He throws both of those 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.440 a significant amount of the time, and his changeup has 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.680 a forty three percent K percentage. So remember with is 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.480 just swinging through that could be on one strike counts, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.200 but actual K percentage just locking these guys down, You 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.240 know that that is a massive strikeout pitch with a 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.080 fastball that has towed up a little bit. But again, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.360 now that he is going to be more in the 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.120 starter range, is he going to maintain ninety six? Either way, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.800 it's a great ballpark. Factor. There's a ton of young 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.720 strikeout potential in Hayden Birdsong era has been great two 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.240 three one in relief expected is up a bit over 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.600 four and the barrels are up. So I would lightly say, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.560 as you know, we had Sunday where everyone's like, oh 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.040 it's Waivers and blah blah blah. Bird Song you want 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.720 to pick up, but he's not invincible like he might have. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.320 He might be nothing more than a streamer. Like so really, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.880 you know, Dodgers, you're not going to want to play him. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.080 But I think with the strikeout potential alone, i'd pick 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.720 him up. And someone asks whether's over Birdsong, I'd actually 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.920 go bird Song over him. Right now we have a 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.560 bunch of like Wooojia rathers Horton or bird song. That 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.520 one's really really tough. If I want to chase the 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.120 strikeout potential, I'd probably go bird song. But I think 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.560 is going to stay in the rotation. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.640 But we'll see if he sticks in that rotation or not. 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.880 One more transaction. Colton Wong calls it a career too. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.360 So Colton Wong never quite I think my potential. People thought, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.240 of course he's a friend of Welsh Is everybody's a 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:58.800 friend of weal. No. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.840 Mary I told that story where all him in complex 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.240 and I was like, hey, Colton's good to see you, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.720 and he's like, it's not good to see you because wow, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.120 he didn't want to be no, because he didn't want 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:07.600 to be there. He laughed about it. He was like, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.080 I'm in complex league ball. He's like, it's not that 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.240 he just didn't like you. I mean, that's definite possibility. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.960 He also did say, by the way, he was kind 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.520 of like, I'm retiring because it doesn't seem like there's 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.840 any options, like we could see him in a little bit. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.399 But yes, Colton Wang, we bid you ado eleven years by. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.320 The way, Yeah, hey, a good major league career just 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.280 never reached. I think the potential that people I remember 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.400 him in that World Series and he was a rookie, remember, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.520 and people are like, Oh, this kid's going to be 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.720 the speed stories to steal eighty bases, He's going to 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.800 change the game. And you know what, maybe had the 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.600 rules changes been in there when he was younger, he 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.800 might have had a bigger fantasy impact. I think the 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.280 rules changes hurt players like Colton Wong back in that era. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.480 I think you can move back to that, you know, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.400