WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 8th, 2024 (EP. 807) 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.760 Welcome in everybody in the fantasy pros m LB. This 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.319 is Leading Off live walking about that three six five 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.600 used that promo code of leading off. When you sign 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.520 up today, it's me, Joey p that's the Welsh and 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.119 it's you. Actually, that's the Welsh. I went the wrong way. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.400 Everything's opposite on the camera. Stop poking me. It's the Welsh. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.919 And of course it's the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks hanging 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.160 out with the chat. Don't forget Friday, join us or 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.880 a special tribute to all of you, the Peanuts of 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.200 the Cracker Jacks for a very special edition of Leading Off. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.040 Make sure you join us live on the YouTube. Be 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.840 there for it. It's going to be opening day ish, 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.199 but but better so. Welsh, I can only ask you, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:41.839 did you have a chicken cutlet for dinner last night? 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.400 I didn't have. Everybody Canoli's and cutlets and all these questions. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.240 Listen colors, fine set my autobiography. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.559 That would be a great book Connolly's and cutlets. I'm 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.360 the joys of the story. AM a inquisitive individual. I 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.080 ask questions. Everybody just goes around and just agrees with everything, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.639 and I was like, what exactly is the cutlet portion 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.800 of it? Is the cutlet like you know, the type 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.839 of the cut of meat, or is it the way 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.199 that it is cooked or something. That's all I was asking, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:14.920 kind of like a file at, like filay's are not 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.520 very the way flay is the way it's cooked, correct, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.240 because flays are not good. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.119 No, filay is also the way it's caught, typically a fish, 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.399 you know, like you it's a you filay it with. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.760 That night, I asked questions, and I am here for 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.199 all these people that pretend I'm. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.360 Just sad about your food knowledge, I think at the 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.399 end of the day, so let's let's instead be happy. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.039 Let's be happy. It's all in baseball. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.160 It's all in prospects. In baseball, there's no food, there's 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.720 no other things. Everyone's like, hey, let's talk about going overseas. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.199 I've been to Nashville. That's all I've been. I don't 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.920 go anywhere. I go to the backfields, I go to 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.760 complex league, I talk to prospects. I know baseball. I 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.120 don't know other things. So we're learning along the way. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.760 Joe, there you go. Choto Minaga pretty pretty good. Yesterday 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.120 seven more innings struck out eight guys, so we got 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.600 the over on that number yesterday. Horay. Also Cody Bellinger returned. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.880 That was a fun little nugget there, and what a return. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.560 It was three for four with a homer, So shouto. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.320 Imanaga continues this first time around the league to be 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:18.080 just filthy, just dominant, just awesome. So people are asking 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.760 me should I be selling high and cashing in and 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.040 getting someone to overpay on Imanaga because I do understand 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.240 the perspective, which is he has been so good, so dominant, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.440 he's not gonna have an era, you know, under one 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.120 all year. So what do you think about that prospect 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.400 of maybe selling and cashing in for a boat load 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:40.600 for Imanaga. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.920 If there's actually a boatload. That's I think the biggest 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.880 question here because everybody, at all times, you're looking at 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.560 any player that's performing really well, and the and the 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.720 underlying stats do say like he's gonna have some type 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.440 of regression, So it's like, okay, get out while you can't. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.520 Get out while you can. But I think what gets 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.040 lost in that translation is just how good season and 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.720 why is Choteau Imanaga going to be And that's kind 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.919 of the tough part. The thing I've never really loved 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.480 is that he is kind of just a two pitch pitcher. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.359 I mentioned this before. It's fastball and splitter. That's when 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.800 he throws. I'm looking at now seven and I'm trying 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.480 to do quick man. Seventy three percent of his pitches 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.320 thrown yesterday were fastballs or splitters. Now you know, he 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.320 alter where he's throwing them and makes them, you know, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.560 become better pitches and stuff like that. But those type 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.600 of guys are a little bit tougher, and sometimes when 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.919 it goes wrong, it goes really wrong, and specifically high 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.520 end splitter guys. If that splitter's not working, you only 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.680 have the fastball it. But even though the fastball is 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.480 in a powerhouse, the stuff plus goes across the board 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.920 because he can command it. He's deceptive. It's the reach, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:44.680 you know, the. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.360 Over like the IVYB. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.160 The visual view of how the fastball comes out for everybody, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.200 it's devastating. So coming back to it, the question is 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.200 is like, yeah, he's going to regress in some level, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.920 But is that regression going to make him SP twenty 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.880 eight or is that regress just gonna even him out 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.880 to being like a top ten sp the rest of 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.000 the year, and that's my struggle with it. I lean 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.320 to not move Imanaga unless someone is going to blow 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.200 you away, unless someone's gonna trade their awesome superstar that's 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.760 struggling those Julio Rodriguez sellers those I mean, not Randy 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.680 rose Rain. I don't think that's enough. But like in 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.560 line with that, I tend to think that Imanaga, yes, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.640 he will even out, but it's going to be good 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.920 this year, and I would love to see a little 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.760 bit more of a pitch mix in here. But I 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.160 don't know, Like you guys, tell me, what are the 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.680 potential trades that you could sell. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:42.040 For theoretical overpay Logan Web and Man, how about Logan 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 Webb and Marcelo Zuna? Would you do that? 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:47.479 It's a pretty good trade. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:48.840 I think that makes you. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.160 I just think that team that makes your team offensively 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.840 pretty good. It is a step down pitching wise, Like 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.520 Emanaga Overweb, I think rest of season kind of feels 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.400 like the deal or give me another Come on, jeez. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.200 I had to work really hard for that one. I 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.000 wasn't expected to. But that one's very interesting though, because 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.800 Web theoretically there's no brainer. Everybody had Web ranked way 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.440 above the Monaga going into this year. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:11.920 Yeah. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.320 No, So that's one of those things like do you 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.599 trust the past in the process, so you trust what 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.920 your eyes are telling you right now? All right, let's 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:18.520 see here. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:20.400 I have one for you. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.880 Okay, you give me one? Yeah, that's yeah. Why don't 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.120 you do one of these versus I'll do it. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.120 And by the way, I just before I get away 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.480 from me, I just wanted to mention in that matchup yesterday, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.120 he had twenty total whiffs. Fifteen of them came from 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.440 his splitter. There's god there, does I mean even now 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.200 I'm saying I'm not gonna hold onto him. There's gotta 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:36.920 be a point. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.599 Whereto Corey Seeger from the chat from Kiko. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.160 I swear to God, that is what I had pulled up. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.120 I have right here right on my thing. I just 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.360 didn't get to see it yet, am I the thing 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.880 right up here that you guys can't see. I had 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.839 pulled up Corey Seeger wh was doing my little narrative 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.359 about how he was yesterday. I just wanted to let 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.880 people know everything was off the splitter yesterday. At some 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.440 point they're gonna stop swinging at it, and that is 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.360 maybe a little. I literally put up Corey Seager. I 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.000 want you to answer that. That was my question. Who's 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:05.480 who else? 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.360 Well, I don't want to give this crappy It depends 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:13.000 on your roster construction answer. Don't so I won't. I 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.440 want showed Tomaga Cory Seer over Corey Seeger. Yeah, Segar 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.599 always gets hurt. That's just it's one of the ways, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.680 like Mike trout inevitabilities, where I hate saying it. It 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.679 hurts my soul to say it, but it's just true. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.200 Let's talk about another good thing to tell Marte in 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.239 a home run. We'll see if Welsh got on the board. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.719 Corbyn Carroll, I don't know. Is he back three straight games? 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.440 So they hiss another guy. We kept saying bye like 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.200 he was never gonna be terrible all year as long 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.040 as he was healthy. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.280 So well, I've been of the come on, sorry you're 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.599 ah No, I'm. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.960 Just saying like, it's time, it's time to turn around 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.520 Corbyn Carroll. It was going to happen. I don't think 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.000 the window of trading for him is closed, do you. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.120 No, no, no, no, no no, don't people learn like listen. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.360 I am of the likes that he's not gonna be 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.279 able to get back to where he was. His you 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.760 has changed, he acknowledged the other day. Because I've been 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.080 droning on about what the hell's going on with the 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.200 shoulder and all the things, and he acknowledged that he 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.680 got his swing too flat, is what he said, and 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.080 he was really weird about it. So I like that 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.840 he's changing that. But he said something interesting. I've been like, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.760 why the hell are you swinging at every first pitch? 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.720 And he said last year to get out of his 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.000 funk is he got hyper aggressive early on. So that's 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.800 what he's trying to do. It really hasn't worked, except 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.680 as of recent things are starting to turn around. He's 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.720 got hits in six of his last seven games, three 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.119 straight games of the hit two of those are multi 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.920 hit games, and he had an opposite field homer yesterday. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.680 Those are good signs. Here's another bad sign though. He 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.880 hasn't stolen a base since April seventeenth, So Corbyn Carroll's all. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:43.360 Over the board. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.440 I agree with how far down Carol went. This is 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.360 an interesting time to buy because I think some people 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.800 are seeing this as oh, I can get out from 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.480 Corbin now. I'd be willing to buy Corbin on the 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.120 lo Loo, but I don't like coming back to Imanaga. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:04.080 I am the lo lo the low I. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.680 Think you mean down low. There's like Lolo I think 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.680 is pretty I'm pretty sure that's one of like the 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:09.920 Real Housewives of Atlanta. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.480 If it's not, oh lol yeah low piece of there's 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.720 like there's a low and then there's like a lo 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.600 lo my wife that you definitely would have a house 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.880 Real housewife whatever. But there's like low which is like 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.560 maybe like ninety percent, and then lo lo is in 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.640 like the eighty percent tile range of what you're paying 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.800 for Carrol's perceived value. I would be interested in buying 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.840 that lo low value. I don't know if i'd buy 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.520 the high hide because I don't think he's gonna get 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.359 back to being the first or second round player. What 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:40.000 are you losing? 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.800 It about the dumbest conversation. And that's saying something because 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.640 we've had a lot of dumb gun the low low 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.320 or the high highs' trying to talk in Layman's sounds 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:50.760 like the wiggles or something. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.400 But every single baseball person's like the now four times 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.400 talk about the expected I mean I do that too, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.359 but I'm just trying to talk in some highis. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.840 I can understand. Thank you for dumbing it down for 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.480 all of us with the high eyes and the lolo. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:11.000 Justin Verlander he was very low low seven runs, eight hits, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.120 that good against the Yankees. Any fear about Justin Verlander here, Well, 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.520 I grasses. Actually it's a good pie for you weird. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.520 Let me tell you man, I have a photo. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.240 I have a photo where I had the mustache and 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.199 I took the pictures. I looked like, who is Rasball? 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.400 Was it Gray not Grant? 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:34.079 Huh? 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.000 You know, I look just it just looked just like 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.400 it was great. Justin Verlander, Yes, absolutely worried. He looks 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:44.040 super old. He's older than me. That says something. I 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.280 don't feel super super optimistic that it is all going 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.080 to like turn around and get back to vintage Justin Verlander. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.520 It's just gonna be a little bit dicey. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.000 Okay, I'm not investing in forty something year old pictures. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.240 I get up every morning and things hurt for no reason. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.720 I can't imagine what's like to play me baseball. And 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.600 that's why it's starting to worry me. The Max suers 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:04.960 Er thing like, I was so excited he was coming 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.599 back early, and then this thumb thing cropped up and 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.760 I was like, oh, here we go again. It's like 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.920 maybe this is another thing too where Surezer gets back 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.920 on track and maybe we do shop him around. I 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:14.600 you got him on your roster. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.880 Yeah, what he can bring that, And it's something to consider, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.840 Like it's probably like more about consistency and how they're 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.439 able to keep going because looking at Verlander, his villa 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.200 was up across the board. Because it's fun to mention 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.839 like what they did in this start villa fastball was 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.840 up half a mile, power slider was up almost a 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.080 mile per hour, which is good, but it was getting 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.400 no whips. It wasn't around the zone. Really a ton 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.880 outside the zone. His top two pitches he throws around 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.160 seventy five percent of the time twenty eight and seventeen 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.640 percent swing rate outside of the zone. So the fastball 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.880 insider just weren't fooling anybody outside of the zone to 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.880 get some of those swing and whifs. So then that 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.240 brings your pitches inside in in the zone, Joe, It 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.920 brings them in in, and then that makes you more 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:57.640 hit hittable. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.400 Dear God, all right, let's get to the next one. Here, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:06.880 Wilson control his zone contact rate, and I. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.040 Believe wels is what he's trying to say is the 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.640 zone contact rate is a bit er from which we've 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:16.040 seen it normally from the statistics here in the Savant page. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.480 Hmm, Wilson Contreras, this was not good. I watched this 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.199 happened live last night. I was watching the game, and 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.720 I was like, oh goodness, gracious, like so as soon 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.760 as it happened, I thought it was his hand, but 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.520 turned out that it was his forearm, and it was 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.680 it was nasty. So in case you didn't see this, Wilson, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.000 Controller's got hit by JD. Martinez and it was weird 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.840 because Controller's was as far back as you could be, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.199 but he reached so far forward and he got caught. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.880 There with the bat and I was the swing JD. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.000 Martinez swing Jadie Martinez swing right onto his forearm, and 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.719 it was I mean, he was in substantial pain. I 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.000 mean they say six to eight weeks. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.880 Fractured his arm instantly. I mean a bat. He literally 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.480 got beat by a bat on Yeah, risk. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.640 That's like someone taking a bat to your forearm and 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.920 broke I'm like, hopefully it's a clean break. They already 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.960 doing the surgery, Like we're already there. Frankie montos May's 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.400 return two runs, only one earned, six innings, four hits, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.840 not bad against your niemabacks Yoshinobu Yamamoto five hits, eight innings, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.120 a two win for the Dodgers and Kyle Harrison part 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.760 of a shutout. He threw seven innings and the bullpen 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.080 came into the rest against the Rockies. Oh, the Rockies, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.800 Welsh the gift that never stops sting. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.120 But by the way, Harrison, you guys remember, like my 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:30.040 favorite thing yesterday was Imonaga four strikeouts compared with paired 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.280 with Harrison for five against the freaking Rockies. Yeah, Harrison 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.679 was awesome, but no strikeouts. He had like two strikeouts 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.760 over seven innings. It's one of those like, oh, the 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.920 the process was right, but he just didn't didn't need 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.000 to strike any beat his pitching to a ton of contact. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:48.600 He got. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.920 We've got dinner, compan we got a late dinners plan 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.160 for tonight. Can we just first, let's let's get this going. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.640 They're bad, you know, it's it's depressing when you can't 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.520 look to the Rockies for offense. I got like, think 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.240 about that, think about in our lifetimes of fantasy, right 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.080 I started playing fantasy. I think in nineteen ninety eight, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:06.880 I want to say, is when I started really playing 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:11.040 fantasy baseball, like like I cared about it. And it 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.880 was always Colorado. Was the days of Vinnie Castilla. It 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.160 was the days you know, of the Dante Bichetts of 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.320 the world and that grouping and the Coloragus and like 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.360 to think that we've gone through that, through the holidays 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.040 and the Todd Hiltons and all that, and now we're 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.520 sitting here like, yeah, well Tovar is pretty good, and 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.520 you know, maybe Nolan Jones will come back healthy. But 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.080 it is it's sad. It's depressing. You can't look for 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.800 offense there. Gabriel Moreno, I want to talk about this. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.360 Not in the line up yesterday. He was sick. A 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.520 lot of people have been asking me about dropping him. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.560 We just did a piece on you know, who to 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.720 drop and who to keep guys who had slow starts 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.560 who are believing in So you can check that out 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.199 on Fantasy Bros. Dot com. That should be out probably 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.760 later today or tomorrow. And for cleaning up that's gonna 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.440 be the theme today. I think so if you're joining 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.360 us after the show for the show after the show, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.440 which is kind of high high and low low sometimes 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.800 or not, it's the show show. We're gonna have that 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.760 conversation with a lot of players. If you've got players 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.200 that you are trying to process, should I drop these guys? 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.720 Should I hold on to these guys? I want you 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.480 to bring those to the table in the conversation today. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.239 Join us live over on our discord for that conversation 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.400 right after this cleaning up, literally right after the show 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.920 again fast roos dot com slash chat. If you haven't joined, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.240 joined it because I think that's an interesting conversation. But 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.280 going back to moreno is moreno one of those guys 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.760 that you are in a single catcher league, especially just 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:27.480 cutting time with. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.200 Yeah, I mean that's it's a big l for me 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.560 as far as, like you know, him being one of 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.960 my big sleeper catchers of it. The offense has not 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.640 gotten there whatsoever. Poor barrel rate, poor hard hit. It's 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:39.280 worse than last. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.240 It's so weird because he's such a good contact guy. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.760 Like to me, if process was good, the results are bad. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.040 Up about this yeah, well, no, I don't really care. 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:47.720 I mean catchers. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.880 That was also my big narrative. It's like you just 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.880 take catchers late and you jump on that. Yeah, he 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.480 is cuttable. I do think he will bounce back. The 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.960 heart of heart says this is going to change. But 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.320 you can cut him, and you know the the number 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.320 one question I've been getting asked is could you cut 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.280 moreno for Ivan Herrera, because I was gonna tell you 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.200 we moved past it. But I think Ivan Herrera is 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.320 an absolute pick up. He had some big hard hit numbers. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.400 Somebody just asked me this, would you pick up Herrera 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:11.960 or Garver? 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.320 Herrera Garver stinky? I mean unless he's been I haven't 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:17.960 paid attention to him in the last week. If he's 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.560 turned it around, but he's looks so bad most of 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:20.680 the year, I would think. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.880 The attles just cook collectively bad. Like I just think 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.240 that offense is gonna turn things around. Good Herre Herrera, alright, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.760 three up, three down. Marcus Simeon. Oh, he was good, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.080 four for five, leadoff homer for him, five ribbies, A 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.200 good day. Marcus Simeon, Man, I don't know if there's 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.160 a guy in baseball who has had such a fantastic 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.200 arc to his career that seems to get I feel 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.200 like zero respect every year. This year in fantasy drafts 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.720 and fantasy draft season, I feel like I took him 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.480 a ton in a lot of our mock drafts. I 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.320 just feel like this guy does not get enough credit 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.520 for whatever reason. Maybe it's because of the markets he's 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.280 played in, like Oakland and Texas and then he was 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.160 in Toronto for a short period, but Marcus Simeon, Man, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.920 that dude's just be awesome. Bryce Harper is also awesome. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.640 Three for three with a granny and Zach Gallon six 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.040 shoutout innings, So he looks fine. That's good news, man, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.640 not fine. I don't know how many times we talked 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.120 about selling this guy, but winter came for Jose Burrios 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.760 eight runs, seven hits, three and two thirds. Now was 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.920 against the Fight and Phils. It's a good offense. But 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.320 still I didn't have Trey Turner in it. We've been 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.520 talking about the regression. We've been talking about the e 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.160 RA versus the XCRA and the X fIF and all 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:27.360 the X men. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.440 I mean, this was a big X I'm a big 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:31.960 X men guy, a big X men I bet no 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:32.920 one could know, Mike, it. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.760 Was your guests, your favorite X Menu. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.160 I was about to say, I bet you can't guess 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:42.000 who much you believe. Yeah, of course it's not. I mean, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.560 Wolverine's the best. But X Men ninety seven series is 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.080 one of the best shows on television. 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.360 I haven't watched it. I'm saving it like the summertime. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.720 I feel like is when I'll be able to watch. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.640 I'm watching Showgun and I'm watching Showgun. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:54.640 By the way, is it good? 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.520 Phenomenal, It's amazing, it's amazing. I'm watching two of the 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.320 best shows on television right now. It is killer. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.160 It's absolutely okay, your favorite character. 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.000 But you have to guess in the chat I want 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.960 people Tom No, it's not Gambit. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:10.280 That's a good guess. I have. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.320 Oh the Brios thing. I'm definitely gonna do this, do 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.720 this all the time. Yeah. Brios was on the trade 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.720 video to Trade Away weeks ago, and I just love 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.480 it only because I remember after he had like a 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.800 little bit of a bad start, somebody was like, oh, 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.400 it was just gonna start celebrating about it. No, I'm 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.840 gonna wait a little bit. Now we can start celebrating 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.000 about how right that was, how regressive he was going 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.439 to be. And he's also not striking out guys. So no. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.040 And by the way, JP nailed it, JP Boy, JP 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.440 nailed that's my night Crawler. Kurt Wagna is my favorite. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.479 He was always my favorite X Men growing up. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.359 So there you go, big Alan Cumming guy. That's the 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.680 Welsh big fan. He did a great job with that 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:51.520 character in the movies. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.439 I thought, yeah, I mean he was better than the 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.359 kid in the First Class series. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.639 Yes, that's also true. I love his skills the X 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.480 Men movie, some of them got a little goofy as 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:03.120