WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 14th, 2022 (Ep. 595) 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.680 Hey, it's leading off right here on Fantasy Pros. I 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.440 am your host, Chris Welsh, and it is a wonky Wednesday. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.960 Kelly Kirby is in the house to break down all 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.520 the chaos that are your Fantasy baseball playoffs. Kelly, what's up? 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.920 Not a whole lot today, I'm still ahead in my matchup. 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.600 ESPN has those two week playoff championships and it's a 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.960 league I've never won, so I'm like, maybe this year. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.120 So I'm only checking it every three minutes. It's pretty great. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.280 So are you a big two week playoff championship versus sinkle? 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.480 No? I hate it so cause I cleaned up last 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.440 week and I'm just like, can we just end this mashup? No, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:52.239 of course not. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:57.639 Are you a big end everything before September or very 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.760 very early September person? Or do you like? You like 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:01.720 the current status? 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.080 I like the current status. It's different than football. Right 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.240 with baseball you can kind of pick up you can 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.840 kind of pick up people at a different rate, and 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.640 they can play differently and you can always get lucky. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.640 So I like September baseball. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.480 It's good point. I mean, there are league winners that 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.280 have been out there Jake McCarthy, Elvis Andrews probably going 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.120 to be in that mix. Some of the rookie pitchers 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.080 have been performing really well. Nick Lodolo actually pitching as 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.319 we're going right now. He's one of those guys that 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.160 we were looking earlier in the week. Last week, even 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.759 he was under fifty percent owned in a lot of leagues. 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.080 Not to say that majority of us hanging here and 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.680 playing are going to have Nicklodolo out here, But guys 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.600 like Nickolodolo and Hunter Brown, we didn't have to. We 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.520 didn't have to drink bleach or anything. Brown actually drink 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.240 It's great. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.080 Yeah, it was great. I was very happy with his performance. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.680 Yes, yeah, drink anything, just drink water. We could just 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.160 be happy about it. But we did not get blown up. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.480 So we've got all the stuff for you. We've of 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 course we've got you know, I didn't even look, be 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.920 honest with you, I completely forgot to look at the 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.160 wonky bonus for today for the home run. So that 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.120 might even change my home run call that we do. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.400 I imagine it's going to So we're gonna do all 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.760 that more and it should be so much fun. But 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.440 taking a look at the big headlines. Jacob de Grom, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.720 he took the loss yesterday. His k prop took the plus. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.320 I was seconds away from taking it too. It's just 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.600 so much. It was nine and a half. The algorithm 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.160 on betting pros wanted you to take the under. Bogin 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.520 and I were both like, m just don't want to 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.240 do it. I went on right before the game and 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.440 I was like, please be eight and a half, just 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.959 be eight and a half down. It was nine and 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.200 a half. I almost smacked it, but he hadn't hit it. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:42.960 I don't think in like three straight games. So I 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.600 decided not to, and of course he got it. He 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.040 got it I think in the fifth the middle of 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.480 the fifth inning or something like that. He got his 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.320 ten strikeous but he was outdueled by Adrian Samson. I 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.160 want to talk to Samson of the Cubs lost three 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.040 to one and Mets were minus four hundred going in 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:00.440 to the game. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.160 Kelly, Yes, I saw that. That's why I put it 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.440 on there. I alson I had to use the word 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:10.120 outdueled for like as a Cubs fan. But yeah, I couldn't. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.800 I actually couldn't believe it. I was watching it during 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.600 my trivia last night. And I'm like, we why are 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.840 we ahead? And then I checked to make sure de 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.000 Graund wasn't hurt. Honestly, it's like that's the only reason 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.160 we could possibly be winning this. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.200 So I had, As I mentioned a lot of people 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 like I'm going through. The September is like a big 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.959 rank update time for me, not only just redraft for 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.560 twenty twenty three, but Dynasty and prospects, and I put 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.240 my sole focus on just trying to finish the early 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.760 early twenty twenty three, and I have phases of it. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.720 This is phase one, where Phase one is like kind 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.640 of get everybody in the area. We're not going crazy 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.920 deep diving yet. And then once I've got everybody where 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.520 I kind of want them based on performances, I'll do 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.040 thirty day checks. I'll do season da, da da, how 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.720 statistically they performed. I'll do Phase one, and then phase two. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.320 After my initial update, I'll go through and I'll start 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.040 going through Baseball Savan, I'll start going through more analytics 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.280 and stuff like that. So I'm in phase one. When 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.160 I was doing pictures last night because this is my 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.960 last run, I'm just at pictures and then I'm going 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.960 to organize a little bit of the overall, and I 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.120 was staring at that top overall. I couldn't help myself. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.720 But right now to put to Gram at number one, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.039 I just couldn't help myself to do it. I know 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.479 it would be dangerous. The way he's performed, the way 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.279 he's looked, just one of those things. And I know 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.239 plenty of people probably won't have him in there. If anything, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:27.920 I think he at least has to be for next 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.080 year in that top tier of whatever it is for you, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.800 I think it'll be different for people. For me, it 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.120 was Burns and Shaye McClanahan. You know you might have 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.960 Sandy in there. I have a Tawny you might have. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.680 There's a couple guys I think the top like eight 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.799 pitchers actually are really solid. I just couldn't. I couldn't 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.800 help myself with Dagram for next year, Kelly, But I 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.960 know you will. You're still gonna shy away. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.800 No from rankings perspective. Never, I mean he when he's healthy, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.599 he's great, and so at the beginning of the years, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.480 I mean, you know everything is good then yeah, I 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:56.960 mean he'd. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.719 Be rafting perspective. Will you pull over? 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.919 I personally will not pull the trigger, but uh, you know, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.080 it'll just yeah, he'll be He'll be in my top eight, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:14.440 no problem. The injury would probably knock him behind probably 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.440 let's see the burns and maybe Otani McClanahan with the 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.120 injury also is a little scary. So I'm bordering on that. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.920 Yeah, if yeah, I mean, who knows what will happen 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.240 in the off season. If I'll be around here a 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.719 fantasy present. But if I was, and I am, I'd 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.400 love to be. I would love to be doing some 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 mocks with you. And it's something I do with Bogman 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.720 over at il Is. I'll go in and I'll press 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.359 him and I'll go listen, this is a strategy because 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.680 Max are for strategies, and I'll be like, do this strategy? 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:43.000 Do that? 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.720 I would one hundred percent be like, Kelly, We're gonna 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.279 do a mock. But you have to take to gram 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.279 as your first picture. You've got to commit and see 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.280 what that build looks like, just to just to make 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.760 you uncomfortable, because I think prep season is about being 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.240 uncomfortable with your players, just to see what it is like. Yeah, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.480 all right, Aaron Judge three for four hit, he hit 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.520 a parasolo home runs on Tuesday Night as Yankees beat 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.520 the Red Sox in ten, seven to six. He is 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.280 now up to fifty seven and has twenty six homers 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:17.680 in his last fifty one games. Kelly, Aaron Judge quite 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.000 the monster and continues, and it really I think we 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.160 can come to terms of this. He is just going 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.640 to have more homers than the home run contest than 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.719 the person. He's just gonna have more. I think we're 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.719 we have a difference about five. My judge is just 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.800 not gonna stop. So Aaron Judge. Technically, Aaron Judge will 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.440 win the Fantasy Pros home run Contest if we're being real. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.880 Yes, well, let's be honest. I'm sure that's his motivation, right, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.520 like his free agent year, He's like, I gotta win that. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:45.800 Gotta win it for Joe. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.400 Canta do it for Joe. Absolutely, yeah, that's totally it. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.520 This is my favorite thing. And when I say favorite, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.560 it's my least favorite thing. And it makes me mad, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.159 and it's just something I'll never whatever excuse and reason 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.920 you guys have won't register for me. So you're talking 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.839 to a brick wall about it. But Joe Ryan dominant 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.320 last night. He allowed just two walks over seven innings, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.160 but he was pulled after the seventh when he had 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.559 a no hitter going on one hundred and six pitches. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.720 I think his career high was one hundred and ten. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.480 And it will never register with me. Kelly, maybe you 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:27.440 feel different. Pulling a pitcher that has no hitter, whatever 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.040 the circumstance is, is asinine to me, and I will 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.680 always hate it. I was at opening weekend with the Diamondbacks. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.120 You Darvish had a no hitter going through six. He 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.600 walks them, they pull them. I don't care if they're young. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.120 I don't care if it's early, I don't care if 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.000 they have one hundred and fifty pitches. I leave them 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.320 out there, and then when they give up their first 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.520 hit out, I go talk to the guy. I say, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.400 pitch to some more contact, get it low, get grounders. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.080 You lose it. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.160 You lose it. But don't overstress yourself. Obviously, you don't 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:58.720 want to break these guys. And I know that's going 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.880 to be the argument for people, but I hate pulling 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.680 a pitcher with a no hitter and there's nothing else 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:06.800 that can be said about it for me. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.960 Do you think that people would tune into a half 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:13.480 hour podcast of You and Me a green this time. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:15.760 On this one. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.320 I'm still bitter about the Clayton Kershop perfect game in April. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.960 It's he had eighty I mean, come on, give me 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.080 a break, and it's kind of for me. I'm like, yeah, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.920 one hundred and six, Sure, that's a fair amount, but 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.079 you know what could he get like go cards is 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.959 He's saying you're not gonna let him go nine, But 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.360 I'm like, well, what if he gets through the next 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.680 two and like ten pitches in any And that's that's 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:40.120 why I go. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.319 And that's that's the tough part about this. I think 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.320 dang had said, like, not this lead in the none 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.360 of that matters to me. None of that matters. Obviously 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.080 I'm not a coach or anything like that, but that'd 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.640 be my point. He is at one hundred and six 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.960 through seven. That is a lot. But you go and 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.000 you talk to this guy and you get a game 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.920 plan and you don't let these guys work. I'm gonna 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.480 pitch into the zone. I'm gonna pitch probably lower in 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.360 the zone, try to let my defense play through. That's 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.160 just how I am. It's just wild. The opportunities, especially 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.960 for these guys, it's not going to come around. Maybe 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.120 some will never have the opportunity, and it's just a 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.480 historical piece of baseball. But I get it. I get 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:14.839 all the logic that you guys are gonna say. You 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.080 guys can put it in the chat and be like, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.400 not this late. He's young. The injuries that happened, da, da, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.360 da doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.400 My question is, aside from Edwin Jackson in the one 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.960 hundred and forty five pitches or whatever, they left him 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.080 in it that I think they connected to like being 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.520 an issue for him for the rest of the year. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.200 I'm like, has there been a direct injury for a 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.439 picture having been left in or is this just kind 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.400 of that theoretical If you let them do this every game, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.439 you're gonna lose them. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:43.880 You know what I think it is. I think it's 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.040 similar to like, you know, how Chris Sail's pitching motion 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.120 For ten years, Everyone's like, oh my god, he's gonna 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.679 tell me John and he never did, and then he 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.720 finally did, and everyone's like, see told you, and it's 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.240 just like, well, okay, you're having a correlation to something 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.480 that was all those years and now you know, now 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.240 he finally gets hurt. But it's it's a different game. Actually, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.240 Go Cards is kind of saying a true point, Go 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.160 Cards saying, Hey, the kids say leave him in, the 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.599 old guy says, pull him. Yeah. That's a difference. That 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.400 is an absolute difference. I think the game has changed. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.040 I think obviously, actually ironically, the guys don't go further 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.480 into games like they used to. But I just have 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.680 a hard time believing that, you know, you can't do this. Hey, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.000 you know what else you could do? You could throw 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.640 a bullpen sessions short earlier in the week. I have 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.480 a hard time believing these guys can't try to go 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.440 one hundred and thirty. But you know whatever, they pulled 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.599 a no hitter twins. You know, could have used a 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.360 little bit of positivity. They didn't have it, and he 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.200 was pulled black a couple other pieces. Astro's manager Dusty 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.920 Baker said Verlander tentatively scheduled to return to the rotation 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.560 on Friday against the A's. Boy, could that be a 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.199 better matchup? 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.199 That could not be speaking to a guy who could 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.679 throw one hundred and forty pitches, But yeah, no, he'll 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.120 I can't even imagine what the strikeout prop on that 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.720 will be assuming you know how the market sees how 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:57.720 many innings they think. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.520 It's not I'll bet you it's like six and a half, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.440 like coming off of the injury. But to your point, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.640 I'd also like to throw out, like you tell me 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.440 you're gonna pull Justin Verlander on the seventh with one 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.440 hundred and six pitches with a no hitter, I don't 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.080 think so great, No Scooter. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.920 Nope, And I really want to see someone try that 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.840 with Surger. Yes. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.040 To this point, it'd be funny if Joe Ryan like 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.080 started to play like he's like a fifteen year vet 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.920 and he's just like, no, he just wave them off 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.880 and get him on here. That's actually one of my 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.760 favorite things is when pitchers try to wave off. One 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.199 of the funniest moments in the one of the first 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.400 years I was really paying attention to the Arizona Fall League. 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.360 This is the Fall League, by the way, which is 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.200 like an exhibitional league in the off season for the 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.160 top prospects the finishing school using air quotes. And there's 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.240 a kid I don't think he even pitches even a 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.079 relief anymore. Connor Green. He used to be a top 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.280 prospect with the Blue Jays and I think he went over. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.240 He was pitching with the Cardinals for a bit and 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.840 Connor Green was like a practical nobody. And during the 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.440 Arizona Fall League, he's on the mound, he had pitched 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.720 a couple innings and the manager starts to come out 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.720 and he is shoeing him off. He's literally doing this. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.520 He's like, no, no, I'm not coming out and he's 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.520 showing him off. First off, I'm like, this is the 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 fall league, dude. But second off, any pitcher that does that, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.880 what's the success rate of your manager being like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.400 I'll go back like, no, that's not gonna work. It's 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.440 not gonna work. But I'd like to see Joe Ryan 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.720 do it. The final piece of our news Clayton Kershaw 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.959 seven innings, two hit shutout ball in Tuesday's four to 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.720 zero win over the Diamondbacks. That is two straight shutouts 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.520 they had on the Diamondbacks. Dodgers clinched the NLS for 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.120 the ninth time in ten years, and all is normal 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:34.679 in baseball. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:39.920 Kelly, Yep, that's just a staple at this point. That'll 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.240 be a fun trivia question in like what fifty sixty 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:47.000 years of how much did they lose that one year by? 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.839 Yeah, exactly. You know what was interesting too, Bog and 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.679 I were talking about this that like the dime, the 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.520 Dodgers had this locked up, but apparently going into yesterday 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:02.040 there was still this like one percent mathematical opportunity that 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.679 it was like if they lost all their games and 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.640 the Padres won all theirs, and it's like, give me 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.640 a break. So it's like the magic number is one. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.440 It was like that is are good. They're gonna be good, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.400 and then they proceed to, you know, shut out the 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.559 Diamondbacks essentially tend to nothing over two straight days. Dodgers 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.280 are just fine. On the injury front, Tristan McKenzie's next 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.439 start is going to be pushed to Friday against the Twins. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.040 Jordan Alvarez is being held out Wednesday did at some 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.760 hands soreness. This per Dusty Baker. I was actually kind 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.320 of looking at where he was. But they're going up 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.360 against the lefty today. Anyways, when I was doing the 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.079 home run contest stuff and the Angels place infielder Andrew 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.960 Velaskaz on the tenda il with a torn meniscus in 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.080 his right knee. That's not a good meniscus or a 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.079 tear to half. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.120 As I'm told, No, I imagine that's quite pianow. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.800 Here's a great stat that you put together from Sarah 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:53.120 Lang's slangs on Sport. Aaron Judge now has ten multi 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.960 home run games this season, tied for third most in 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.360 a season in MLB history, behind only Hank green in 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.520 nineteen thirty eight. Of course, old Hank Greenberg that we 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.200 all think about with eleven and Sammy Sosa in nineteen 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.760 ninety eight. Do you think he'll beat this? Do you 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.520 think you could take this one down? 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.959 Yes? I think you will. I think next couple of 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.280 weeks you'll just do it again. I don't know where there's, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.760 what their schedule is, but it's kind of a cake, 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.600 isn't it. They have a kind of an easy one 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:23.000 coming up. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.120 Just doesn't even matter either, just judge it doesn't. This 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.000 is one of those things I do like because, as 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.280 you can tell, something that really annoys me is when 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.240 the gas is taken off from teams in baseball, you know, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.080 back into the year any sport does it. Playoffs come, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.400 Guys start to sit, you start not getting I don't 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.640 like the pedal being let out of. But with Aaron 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.160 Judge on this record potential pace, they're not gonna like 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.040 sit him. They're not going to take him off of 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.080 anything he's going to be And obviously they're still you know, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.440 they're fighting for what they're fighting for, but there's not 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.320 going to be anything that's gonna let off. He's just 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.160 gonna get to go full bore. The only thing that's 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.920 going to stop him is really how al pictures are 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.280 going to attack him. If he's going to get a 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.720 lot of walk duty pictures, don't want to be the 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.280 one that gives up, you know, a record breaking Homer, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.840 you know, for him to pass Maris or anything like that. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.120 So Judge is going to get the full bore. I 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.800 think he ties this. I don't know if he breaks it. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.240 I think he ties this. I think he has one 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:17.840 more in the in the chamber. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.000 Yeah, I'm with you on that one. I think he'll 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.360 tie it. I don't know if he's got two more 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.760 of them, but I think for sure one. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.840 And it's still the worst thing is that Joe is 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.880 just attached to him every single year. Here's a trivia 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.520 question for you. Who was the last picture before sandeel 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.760 Contra to reach two hundred innings in a season in 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:47.240 fewer than thirty starts. So this happened within the last 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.800 just give you like eight years, so you know it's 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.680 a modernist picture. So the last picture before sandyel Contra 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.840 to reach two hundred innings in a season and did 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.000 it in fewer than thirty starts. And we obviously know 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.160 you know, he's been going six seven, he wants to 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.040 go eight. He gets pissed if he doesn't go seven 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.080 innings in a game. I think this is a pretty 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.320 fun one, Kelly, do you have a. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.200 Guess, lanceln would be my guess. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.960 That's a good guess. You know what it's not. But 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.680 I feel like it's in the same vein Jim's said 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:22.800 de Gram this picture still exists. He was on another team, 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.880 and it's not I'm just gonna give you. It's not 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.360 the like Cole's or de Grom. It's not that huge, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.120 massive of a name. It's an al picture I'm gonna 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.040 give you. So we'll sit on that, we'll ruminate on that, 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.320 and we can come back to it. See if you 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.440 guys can get it. Since Thatt Heroes Mark Matthias two 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.520 homers three for five, four RBI, three runs yesterday. Aaron 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.360 Judge had a couple bombs, as we told you. Doulas 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.200 Garcia combo meal two for two, a homer, three RBIs 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.240 with a stolen base and a couple runs, Thank you 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.800 very much. Jose Miranda two for two with a homer. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.920 Jill Orschella had a bomb. Jornalvarez getting the day off, 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.520 but he had a homer yesterday. Darmus Garcia, the A's 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.680 had a homer and four RBIs. Max Munsey continues kind 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.679 of his hot run key, Brian Hayes with a bomb, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.480 and Carlos Korea. There's multiple guys to really kind of 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.239 pick out of here next year. Let me do this 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.760 next year, Jose Miranda or Max Munsey. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.960 I'll do Jose Miranda without each lot of hesitation. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.800 Yeah, okay, me too. Just the solid return that months 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.640 he's had is kind of returning some of the value. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.760 Justin Turner's kind of done the same thing that I 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.840 think it's picked him back up. But yes, I agree 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.880 with you. It is Miranda and I, but I don't 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.160 know if everybody would feel the same way. Immediately even 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.720 though you didn't hesitate. I wouldn't hesitate. I feel like 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:37.360 some might. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.160 I think if anyone who's had Monsey all year will 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.159 probably pick Miranda because of how bad he was. He 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:47.919 still but yeah, as long as he's a Dodger and 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.560 he plays in that lineup like he has value from 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:51.280 that perspective. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.600 But have you also, I don't know what your take 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.000 on him into this season is, but I am so 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.960 one of the players I would say I'm most impressed 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.679 with this Seasonviously, there's a le any of them is 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.840 adultas Garcia, like, I was critical last year with Adulas 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.840 being able to maintain and this year he's just redoing 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.520 it again. He's closing in on I don't know if 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:11.879 he's going to get there, but closing in on a 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.280 thirty thirty season. His batting average is more than serviceable 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.680 in this era. He's not hitting under two thirty or 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.159 anything like that. He looks like an absolute steal. And 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.640 he was one of those guys when I was doing 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.120 early outfield ranks that you know, I think we prop 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.479 up guys like Randy Rose Arena, and we prop up 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.320 guys like Tiascar Hernandez. I don't think Adulas is really 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.800