WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 18th, 2023 (Ep. 711) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.959 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.280 offline brought to you by Prize Pig. Sign up today, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.400 use that promo code. Of course, Fantasy Pros. When you 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.279 do it is me, Joey p That of course is 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.160 the Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts, the cracker Jacks, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.040 the people hanging out here in the chat. I know 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.680 it's summertime. I know a lot of people are out 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.919 there having fun at the beach at the pool, but 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.440 we're here working for everybody. That's what we're doing in Welsh. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.280 We're gonna do some work today too. We're gonna talk 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.559 about some of the rookie debuts last night that may 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.159 or may not have gone so well, and also a 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.880 rookie coming back that you were right and I was wrong, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.599 and now I'm gonna have to throw on that one. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.440 Okay, so good, you were wrong. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.400 It is your wife has never said to you for 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.960 one thousand Welsh. Also, we're gonna talk about twelve players 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:53.680 and I want to see if Welsh is gonna bet 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.480 on them to have a big second half. Welsh. It's 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.840 good morning to you, good afternoon to me. And last night, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.240 fun night, Major League baseball for sure, and show Heo 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.760 Tani continues to do show hel Tani things, or should 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.200 I say Joe hey Otani. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.840 Things, Joe Heyani. Yes, but he did do a homer 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.200 for both of us because we both did him. So 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.320 that was a beautiful, beauty miss thing. I don't have 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.440 no idea with our little like holdovers. It's a beautious thing. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.040 I don't know where we're at. I have no idea 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.760 where I'm at in the homers, where we're at in 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.120 the Homers, but I do know that we added one, 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.280 So thank god. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.280 That's good. As long as we keep adding one. Uh, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.360 you know, that's a little at a time, that's all 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.360 we need. Uh, that's slowly but surely making our way. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.080 I just want to see myself on the board once 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.360 this season, and I know I'm not that far away, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.160 which is one time it would be nice. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.280 But look, and he says that, by the way, he 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.240 says that before he goes, I. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.560 Want to be there. Yeah. Well, well, here's the thing. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.520 Everybody knows that come August first, and to let everybody 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.960 know August, we're going to be doing a lot more 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.400 betting stuff on NFL this year than we've ever done. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.640 Before I'm gonna be spearheading that. I'm also working on 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.680 the fans for August. But Welsh isn't going anywhere. He's 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.040 gonna be here. It's gonna be fabulous people continuing the show. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.080 So don't worry, boys and girls, it's not it's not over. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.079 It's not goodbye. It's just I'll see you soon. That's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.440 all it is. Welsh, by the way, I think that is. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.320 I think that's That's what I'm gonna say. Showy Otani 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.200 thirty fifth home run of the season, major league leading. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.280 It was a four hundred and three foot home run. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.600 In case anybody cared, one hundred and six point five 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.680 exit velocity and Welsh. Do you remember the last time 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.080 an Angel was tied for the league lead and home runs? 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.040 You want to take a guess on this, and no, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.079 it ain't Mike Trouton. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.560 Was it the other Fish? Was it Tim Salmon? 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.359 It was not the other Fish? Who Tim Samon? 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:45.880 Vladimir Guerrero. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.240 No, it goes back to the California Angels days this 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.560 late in the season that an Angel was actually tied 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:53.519 for the home run lead. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.640 Oh Garrets and Cracker Jacks. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.200 No, No, but good because Garrett Anderson did play for 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.160 the California Angel Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Trivia question for 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.520 you this late in the season. Who was the last 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.600 Angel California style to be tied for the league lead 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.680 and home runs at the very least? So that's a 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.959 fun one. I'll give you a hint, folks. One of 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.120 the great sluggers of all time. I know it's not 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.200 Troy Gloss, David. He is not one of the great 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.160 sluggers of all time. There you go, let's shake it. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:24.360 Best sluggers of all time? 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:30.000 Oh yeah, oh yeah, California Angels, California dreaming Baby. Let's 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.000 talk a little bit about the Reds. Ellie de la 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.800 Cruz hitting leadoff, Christian and Carnassio Strand hitting at the 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.760 d H spot yesterday. So what are your thoughts on 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.880 this positioning here, Ellie going up to the leadoff spot. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:43.840 How does this make you feel? 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.680 I think Ellie in the leadoff spot is good. I 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.600 mean more at bats are great. Maybe there's going to 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.200 be a different approach. I saw the chat kind of 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.960 starting to spark up a little bit, and we are 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.040 in exactly what Ellie is going to do. Because first off, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.800 Ellie is he's exciting. I think I mentioned it yesterday. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.320 We did a new format of a league in our 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.480 home league, where it was first half is rodo and 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.200 then completion, which I won and just got paid, thank 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.400 you very much for my money. The second half is 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.240 head to head with playoffs, and we redrafted, and I 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.120 think I mentioned I got the first pick because I won, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.279 and I took Otani yay, because I get him in 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.120 both spots. But Ellie day La Cruz went six overall 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.440 in the second half league because. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.719 Of the exciting fact question, right, do you think that's 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.120 I mean, think about it right now, Like Acunia is 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.600 the one Otani won, Like, okay, those guys, if you have. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.320 A daily moves, Otani's cool r one. Otherwise it's akunya. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.200 I mean, I imagine you're still gonna have Julio Soto conversations. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:48.160 But Ellie as three, I mean, it went on impossible. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.559 It went Carol three, and then it went Mookie four 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.039 I'm trying to remember, and then I don't remember who 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.720 five was, and then it went Ellie. And that's kind 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.280 of the thing, like people get kind of jazz up 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.359 on Ellie right now. But my point of all this 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.080 is the chat was kind of talking about early before 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.679 we got in the problems and what are those problems, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.960 the inconsistencies. He still has a thirty percent k rate 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.839 twenty nine point nine, doesn't walk a ton, he has 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.039 a thirty point differential between his XBA and his actual 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.240 batting average, and he has a barrel percentage if you 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:23.760 just want to like throw it out there, you have. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.880 He has a barrel percentage that is likened to these 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.200 guys that hit three homers that are in you know, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.440 the high contact no powers a four percent barrel rate. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.080 That doesn't mean he's not gonna be good, But what 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.240 I do think it means is there's inconsistency in the 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.400 game where you guys are gonna get like pissy for 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.360 a little bit until he throws, you know, ninety five 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.160 point seven miles an hour and everyone's like, oh my god, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.960 he throws so fast, or he runs really fast and 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.640 he or he has one of those big blowout games, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.640 which he will do because he's a great player. So 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.039 the leadoff spot might be something to try to just 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.160 get more at bats and maybe change and maybe mentally 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:56.320 have him change his approach. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.040 Right. The Christian contacts for a in there. I mean, 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.800 I agree a lot of it. You know, also, you 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.400 got that speed and that electricity at the top of 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.560 the order. That's very exciting. So you know, taking a 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.160 little bit of the run production pressure off of him 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.360 makes sense. Wander Franco is an otherwise guys having a 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.840 great season two power speed. You talk about Bobby Wit, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:13.760 I mean, next year, there's gonna be a lot of 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.960 guys in that first round that are thirty thirty contenders, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.120 And I don't remember the last time we said that 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.120 in a Fantasy Baseball universe, and that that's legit, like 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.839 just off the top of my head. Akunya, Julio. We 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.960 just talked about Ellie, Bobby Wits got that potential, Wander's 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.239 got that potential. Who else am I forgetting thirty? Mookie 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.919 Bets has that potential? Might want the mookie in that? 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.880 Yeah, Kyle Tucker, you could throw in that could be. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.279 A thirty thirty guy. That's nuts when you think about it, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.320 it is, when's the last time we've we used one 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.640 or two guys? You might be able to go ten 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.320 deep with that conversation right now, And that's that's amazing 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:47.839 from em. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.680 Well and that ten deep pushes back. Still, some great 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.880 players it'll push back, you know, the Sotos, it might 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.320 push back. It's gonna push back these great hitters your 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.159 now Varez, that are just not not putting up the 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.480 speed numbers, right, And that's also going to make it 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.000 a little bit more. It's gonna make it a little 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.560 bit more important at the top. If everybody is getting 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.400 these guys that can be thirty thirty, you've got to 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.040 make sure you get one of those lockdown thirty thirty guys. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.240 So it's it's going to be super weird next year. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 And if Ellie can finish on a high note, he's 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.080 going to get put into that and he and he 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.680 was six in the second half draft. I think top 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.000 twenty is easy right now for him. I don't even 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:24.720 think it's close. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.520 Corbyn Carroll, another guy you're gonna put in that convers 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:28.400 That's what I said, Yeah. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.320 Corby Carroll, I mean he went and he went three 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.320 in this. And then lastly, just to add in an 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.680 interesting thing was that me and Eno we're talking about 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.440 this yesterday that C Trent Rosencrans had mentioned the plan 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.920 even though they completely went against the plan. By the way, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.880 the plan with Strand is that when he's third, India's 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:54.680 at DH with Elliott Short McLean at second. When he's 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.040 Strand is at first, it's because Vado is dhing. Ellie 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.000 moves over to third and that put a damper into 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.480 Spencer Steer. But last night they DH Strand. So there's 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.280 a lot going on with all of this. You know, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.200 Strand didn't really get anything going. Steer is being pushed 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.600 into an outfield platoon. It looks like and didn't play 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.080 last night, which I think really stinks. So we're gonna 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.560 have to see how it plays out the next couple days. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.840 Nothing to take away from Strand in this first one, though, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.040 but you know he absolutely mashes baseballs and he's gonna 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.280 get to going with that very soon. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.400 Yeah. Absolutely. Also, Barry was thrown out a bunch of 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.360 names for the trivia question. He threw out Movall and 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.600 that was a fun one, but it's actually Reggie Jackson. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.800 So Barry eventually got it right Reggie, and he was 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.440 tied with Gorman Thomas. I saw that this morning, of 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.199 all people, the old Milwaukee Brewer. There you go, the 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.800 old gormanstache. That's a mustache. This is my child. All right, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:46.160 let's go. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.000 You could pull off, by the way, you could pull 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.439 off a very good like handlebombing right now. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.439 The Lebowski kind of yeah, I can't do it. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.480 Was really tough on our mustache day. See this gets 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.360 thin here, I can't do it. You could pull off 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.960 a great hand of bar. You could be a great bike. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.360 You'd be a great uh what is it the y 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:03.040 M c A. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.000 I'm what's called conveniently ethnic looking, so I can kind 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.680 of fit into a lot of things, you know. So 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.560 that's kind of fun for me. You know, it's good 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.520 wherever I go. People speak the language to me wherever 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.080 I go, which is always fun. If I go to Mexico, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.440 they speak Spanish to me. If I'm in Pirates, They'll 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.880 speak French to me. Italy they speak Italian to me. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.719 No matter where I go, they just assumed that I'm yeah, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.360 lehold runs. Well, was it pitch? All right? Let's get 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:32.760 to the rookie lookie and not a good day for 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.240 the rookies last night. Indie Rodriguez, oh for four three 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.400 k's Quinn Priester gave up seven runs and five and 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.199 a third. I mean to see that one coming. Uh, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.640 And Grayson Rodriguez gave up four runs and five innings. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.560 No decision for him. Well, can you just talk about this? 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.040 I didn't understand, you know, the big moment there with Taylor. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.840 I get all that one sixty nine ERA a point 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.640 nine to nine whip in thirty seven innings down at 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.240 Triple A. He comes back and now is he at 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.480 seven thirty five in the major leagues. It's just so frustrating, Okay. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.360 But the one thing to point out, though, this did 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.079 happen late in the game. I believe a lot of 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.640 the damage the Grand Slam that happened when he was 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.040 eighty five plus pitches in. He had held them to 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.760 nothing through I think three, and then it was one run, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.880 So I mean he couldn't go maybe it was eighty pitches. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.920 He couldn't go super deep. He ended up only throwing 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.920 ninety one pitches. What was interesting though, was his fastball 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.120 was absolutely on point. It was a mile. It was 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.520 a tick up full mile an hour. He hit one 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:37.120 oh one on the fastball, which is fantastic. He was 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.920 a tick up on the change up, which you don't 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.480 really want, but two ticks up on the slider, two 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.160 miles an hour, almost two and a half miles an 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.800 hour more hitting eighty five, which is great, But the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.000 cutter was gone. Just like I mentioned in the miners, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.520 that was what he had been doing. That's completely gone. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.040 He was fastball change up predominant, and then it ended 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.280 up being the slider. The slider was not hit, but 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.760 he only threw it like nine percent of the time. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.760 He looked good early on, So the new work for 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.800 him is going to be getting into quality start range. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.760 This might be very Blake Snell esque from early career. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.280 You might not want him to go more than five 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.760 because he was dominant early on and then it just 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:15.120 kind of. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.880 Went unreveled, veled. Yeah, and you're one hundred percent correct. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.880 The pirates guys, obviously, Yeah, the pirates are like, hey, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.040 we could call prospects due whether they're ready or not. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.080 Let's just willy nearly do that stuff. They should No, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.400 they should not have. Let's fly through the injuries. By 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.679 the way, I have a new name for alloy m 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.640 I'm gonna call him ilmns for il hims for the 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.320 rest of his career. A Wade Miley fifteen day IL 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.480 retroactive to the fourteenth elbow discomfort e Raphael Devers was 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.320 held out yesterday Monday tightness in the right calf, and 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.760 Yondi Diaz came back from the paternity list. Congratulations, Daddy 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.680 had a nice All Star game weekend. For Yondi ds 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.400 a nice season two. It's nice to see him finally 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.560 play for power. All Right, here we go. Welsh MLB 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.280 dot com had a fun article I want to talk 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.560 to you about it. Twelve players that could use a 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.360 big second half. I'm gonna throw the name out. You 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.120 tell me if they're going to have a big second 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.199 half or big finish to the season because they're kind 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.640 of pass the halfway mark already, or if you're not 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.080 buying it. So, I don't know what you want to 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.760 say for each thing. You know, you call it Welsh 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.120 or Quelsh. I don't know. I don't know what he 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.280 didn't come up. We didn't think about this enough. That's 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.840 basically at the end of the day, we just didn't 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.800 do enough work on this. But I want to play anyway, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.360 so let's play. First guy on the list, jose A Braiu, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.520 well documented has not been a good first half for him. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.880 Second half, you know, recently shown some signs of life. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.520 Do you think that he can have a good stretch 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.160 run here help the Houston Astros. I do. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.199 I do believe it, even though he's kind of tapered 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.240 back in July hit two ninety two in June, he's 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.240 hitting two sixty five here in July. Seven of his 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.720 eight homers have come since June. So obviously there was 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.840 just something missing, something awry that whole first couple months 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.720 here through May. The power output was more of an anomaly. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.360 The batting average wasn't there. He seems to have kind 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.720 of found that rhythm. So yeah, I do think he 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.760 can have a pretty good second half, and that's one 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.600 of those players I would focus on if he's still 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.600 sitting out there and he needs some first base. So yeah, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.200 this is somebody to have. Beefkertins said, rebound. This is 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.320 kind of a rebound for a second. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.440 All right, we got eleven more, so we'll do them 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.000 quicker here. Sure four seventeen ERA at one stretch. He 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.959 had five six three ERA from June seventh and July ninth. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.719 I had a good performance on Sunday. Do you think 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.839 Surezer can finish strong to the season, and do you 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.320 think he finishes strong for the Mets? 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:32.880 I don't you know what. I kind of don't think 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.000 he finishes with the Mets. I think this might be 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.520 the one where he doesn't. Though I did think the 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.439 Mets might be stubborn enough that it's like, well, we're 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.360 gonna sell, but we're not going to sell, you know, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.000 the real pieces, because they're going to compete immediately next year. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.360 But I do say, off Conna and Marte and they'll 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.040 bring up Mauricio and they'll pretend to still be doing. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.840 Something exactly exactly. So I do believe he can rebound. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 Yes, there we go, Lee did it? Thank you? Lee? 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.040 This is why the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks are the best. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.400 Welsh or Washed. I love it. That's the game. Welsher Washed. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.800 Well done, Lee? All right, do we do well? 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.720 Wesh? Do we do we do well? 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.800 Welsh you Welshed so far? No washed Alec Manoa. Welsh 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:12.080 or Washed America's new favorite board game, The Nation we Wash. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.200 It's like Cards against Humanity. I could we could do. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.640 That version show is a card against humanity. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.720 Man. I'm you know what I hate to keep doing. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.000 I'm gonna have Welsh him. He's welshed. I know I 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.200 don't want to, but like that was a good performance 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.320 coming back. His expectations are so low and so bad 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.720 to cut not even rosterble. I kind of think that 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:35.560 he's gonna be welshed. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.360 He's washed Korea. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.200 I say washed washed. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.560 That's an easy one. Trey Turner welshre washed. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.120 I think, whatever the. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.800 Game, we should bring this back in January and February 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.240 when we start doing Welsher Washed as players on ADP, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:54.000 I love this. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.600 This is I'm gonna go with Welshed because but I 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.560 don't think he's gonna have a big second half. I 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.720 think he's gonna just kind of continue you where he is, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.080 which is still great. So he's welshed. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.000 Sabos Goggles very funny in the chat. I can't bring 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.720 it up here, but it's very funny. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.880 I like what everyone else is playing to. By the way, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.720 so now you have got everybody playing there. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.680 I want everybody to play the game. You say, if 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.480 it's Welsh, you're washed. Hey the player is all right, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.560 We've got a couple more here, let's go through them. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.960 Julia Rodriguez, he's definitely welshed. I don't think absolutely welshed. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.720 Carlos Stanton, by the way, who made the three down. 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.920 We'll get to in a second. Another zero for five night, Welsh, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:27.440 You're washed. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.680 I'm gonna stick with my early take from like three 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.440 weeks ago. I think he's washed. He's gonna have those moments. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:35.960 Welsh. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.320 Yeah, I'm I'm I'm a washed on Stanton because I 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.200 think he's interchangeable, like you could just go and pick 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.520 up somebody in other league. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.240 So eight point two percent walk right, the lowest of 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.240 his career with a seven forty seven ops's, and Andy 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:57.720 al Contra Welster washed, Welshed, Welsh, do you go? Okay? 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.240 All right? Continuing on here. Next on the list is 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.920 Martin Perez. Welsh're washed? 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:05.640 Is it the washed? 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.640 The washed? Okay? Willia Domas, who we had high expectations 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.480 for and it's been kind of a struggle. Hard hit 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.120 rate dropped from forty three point six to thirty five 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.680 point three percent year over year, eggs of velocity downsitting 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.240 two twelve. So what do you think? Welsh're washed? 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.600 I'm gonna go with wash. We just haven't. I mean, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.760 the you know, the power thing is kind of still there. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.600 But if you're gonna prinally be a too ten to two, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.880 I mean it's the same thing. I don't know Buckston's 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.800 on this list, but it's like Buxton's in the same 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:33.760 plane here, man. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.080 He's Buxton's. No, he's on a list. We'll get to 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:41.920 him in a second. The washed you, Julio Urius Welster're washed. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.920 Well, struggle with Welsh for Juliorius. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.160 All right, this is we're gonna do this all the 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.640 time now. I'm just was that it like, no no 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.040 one more here. Ryan Mountcastle Mike Mayer's favorite. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.000 Ooh, I need mount Castle to be Welsh because I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:17:00.480 just took him in that league. He has been pretty unlucky. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.440 Lock Ray cheery bad. You know what I'm gonna say, washed. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:06.280 I think that's a. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:13.000 Tough Oh, Nocastle no good, good good. You know what. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:14.919 He hit the dong bong a little too hard in 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.320 April and May. This is what happens you get hungover 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.120 in the summertime. All right, very fun, good stuff there. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.400 All right, let's get to some other news and notes. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.280 The three up and three down from yesterday, Nick Vetta. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.400 So they had the opener in case you missed this yesterday, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.280 and then Nick Vetta comes in. It strikes out thirteen 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.280 athletics I know it's the athletics, but still thirteen. He 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.040 did get some help from the umpire though. I saw 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.600 some of the clips and I was like, geez, there's 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.680 a moments there for sure, but give him credit. Nick 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:40.520 Vetta was great. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.080 By the way, playing the A's is like playing on 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.240 rookie mode. I'm inn yeah, playing the show, it's just 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.320 like playing the standard format and you just like, I 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.639 put up twenty two runs and I struck out you know, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.680 forty two, and you're just like, oh, okay, yep, that's 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.240 how it goes. That's what's Playing the A's is like, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.720 it's a padding of stats. 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.040 It's somebody said, we want to play Joe or schmode. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.159 Saw that Seane McClanahan pitched six innings, two run ball, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.880 struck out six in his return off the IL. That's 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.000 great news for Tampa. Griffin Canning about twelve strikeouts for 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.639 him five and two thirds. Who saw that coming. But 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.280 the Yankees are struggle boss right now. That's why I 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.560