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Speaker 2: leading off. It is me Joey p That of course
Speaker 2: is the Welsh and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker
Speaker 2: Jacks talking baseball. We got another call up, Welsh, another one.
Speaker 2: The rookie lookies never seemed to end in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about that, what you should spend in
Speaker 2: terms of fab how long this player is going to
Speaker 2: be up. We're going to talk about the re juvenition
Speaker 2: of Gunner Henderson and a whole lot more here, Welsh.
Speaker 2: I think we got to jump right into the rookie
Speaker 2: lookie because Luis Matos got called up by the Giants
Speaker 2: Madge Hannigher with an injury. We'll get to him in
Speaker 2: a second, but it looks like Matos is gonna be
Speaker 2: playing center field, batting second today. The twenty one year
Speaker 2: old was hitting three to ninety eight with a four
Speaker 2: thirty five obp a six eighty five, slugging seven homers
Speaker 2: six deals in twenty four games since getting the bump
Speaker 2: up to triple a he started out in this year,
Speaker 2: so I know people are excited for Matos.
Speaker 1: But here's the big question.
Speaker 2: Is this a short term kind of fix or do
Speaker 2: you think Mantos has more long term appeal for our
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1: I should do.
Speaker 3: I think this is like a long term thing. He
Speaker 3: was bound to come up. He's younger of funny enough,
Speaker 3: I've kind of cited this exact thing with Marco Luciano
Speaker 3: throughout the year of why he stinks of how he
Speaker 3: came up with Corbyn Carroll and CJ. Abrams. Well so
Speaker 3: did Matos, and Matos is already here. He's got this
Speaker 3: really easy kind of like standy upright swing, doesn't do
Speaker 3: too much, makes beautiful contact, the ball can actually fly.
Speaker 3: I kind of think we might be a little rookie
Speaker 3: lookie drunk in some of it, where you could have
Speaker 3: your expectations a little too high. But I do think
Speaker 3: Mantos can be like a fifteen to fifteen guy at
Speaker 3: the majors. I don't know if it's gonna go bonkers.
Speaker 3: I feel like he stolen bases, might be a little
Speaker 3: bit more than power. All that aside, I think he's
Speaker 3: a potential twelve team pick type of guy, because I
Speaker 3: do think he's gonna stick around for quite some time.
Speaker 3: And what he did. The other thing you got to
Speaker 3: remember is like, as a twenty one year old, got
Speaker 3: a under seven percent strikeout rate in triple A, which
Speaker 3: is crazy. It's crazy numbers. It was nine percent at
Speaker 3: double A. He also played in the AFL and was
Speaker 3: one of the best hitters. He's just a complete package.
Speaker 3: Just that package isn't like La Da La Cruz or
Speaker 3: anything like that. This is definitely a very exciting, exciting guy.
Speaker 3: But I'm I'm going to also watch if he goes
Speaker 3: through some slumps, if there's any you know, ups and
Speaker 3: downs and backthroughs. But power speed, let's do it. Go
Speaker 3: pick him up. Twelve teen probably not ten well.
Speaker 2: Hanneger suffered a fractured right forearm was hit by a
Speaker 2: pitch yesterday, so that's gonna be a while. I mean,
Speaker 2: anytime something breaks, you're looking at a month somewhere around there.
Speaker 2: So that's gonna be a problem. So we'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see if Mato's can get.
Speaker 1: The job done.
Speaker 2: Here's a question for you too, in terms of fab budget,
Speaker 2: how aggressive are you going to be on that waiver? Wire,
Speaker 2: and let's say it's a twelve team league. Let's say
Speaker 2: all things being equal, or at this point in the season,
Speaker 2: maybe you got half of your budget left. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if that's practical at this point,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure with all the injury you've had and
Speaker 2: all of these rookies that have been called off even
Speaker 2: so aggressive, I bet we have more like thirty five
Speaker 2: to forty percent of budgets left.
Speaker 1: Really at this point, I'll bet you it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet it's closer to like thirty percent of
Speaker 3: what everyone's got.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: This isn't the hyper aggressive to me. I think there's
Speaker 3: a potential he might be a little bit more exciting
Speaker 3: in points leagues because of his inability to strike out
Speaker 3: in a good way, you know, so he's not striking
Speaker 3: out a whole bunch, which has been nice. I just
Speaker 3: don't I don't know what the number is. Maybe fifteen
Speaker 3: percent of what I have left. I might go in
Speaker 3: if I have a need at outfield. This isn't one
Speaker 3: to me that is hyper aggressive. But I'd also say this,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I was like crazy on Matt
Speaker 3: McClain and Matt McClain has been kind of bonkers this year.
Speaker 3: So you know, the rookies are playing at a completely
Speaker 3: different level. Stolen bases are accessible at a completely different level.
Speaker 3: Just know what the power is going to look like
Speaker 3: in San Francisco for him. But if you can manage,
Speaker 3: you know, some decent batting average, not striking out, stolen bases,
Speaker 3: runs at least three categories, be happy and then maybe
Speaker 3: maybe we'll see that bump up a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the rest of the headlines for today,
Speaker 2: that was a big one that just dropped not that
Speaker 2: long ago. Jake Fouz Now, Jake, we love Corbyn Carroll here,
Speaker 2: but I just want to point this out, he says,
Speaker 2: the corbyin Carroll MVP odds now at plus fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: I got him at plus ten thousand a week ago.
Speaker 2: Good on you, cash out. He's not winning MVP. I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you right now, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Unless Akunya gets hurt. Unless Acunia gets hurt. It's the
Speaker 3: only way.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I think that would be the only way.
Speaker 2: And even then, even then, I just don't know if
Speaker 2: he's a public enough figure in the media yet for
Speaker 2: that award.
Speaker 1: I just started.
Speaker 3: Don't think Joe, it's starting to turn. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you this.
Speaker 2: Well, you're in Arizona, so I think you have a
Speaker 2: little bit of a national view of how you want
Speaker 2: to know more embracing Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 3: You say that, I do. Lordscury has more fan votes
Speaker 3: than Corbyn Carroll for the All Star Game. That's asinine
Speaker 3: and that's coming out.
Speaker 1: Of his hair is very excitings hair is.
Speaker 3: Very cool like Corby Carroll's legit on pace to be
Speaker 3: easy thirty thirty guy. And I think there'll be more
Speaker 3: public spotlight, especially into the All Star Game. When he
Speaker 3: makes the All Star Game, that's his hometown. I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna be featured into that. The Diamondbacks being the
Speaker 3: top in the end, I think all those things are
Speaker 3: gonna get him pushed more into the public light. But
Speaker 3: again we're talking about like Acuna having to be hurt
Speaker 3: and having to miss significant time. Kerl's not gonna win it.
Speaker 3: The Ker's gonna run away with the Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year award.
Speaker 1: That's a hunder question at.
Speaker 3: This point, and he might run away with I don't
Speaker 3: know what they look like. It'd be fun to go
Speaker 3: and look, but what are the most dominant rookie seasons statistically?
Speaker 3: Corby Carroll's gonna walk away with what might be the
Speaker 3: most dominant rookie season at the end, because he's gonna
Speaker 3: he's legit, gonna go twenty thirty easy, that's our you know,
Speaker 3: minus three point fifty off and then you go up
Speaker 3: twenty five thirty five really really possible. He might be
Speaker 3: a third player.
Speaker 2: Two players have one MLB Rookie of the Year and
Speaker 2: MVP in the same year.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I I wasn't even asking that. That's a
Speaker 3: great status.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if anybody wants to venture a guess in
Speaker 2: the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks of the chat, there's been
Speaker 2: two of them. I'll give you a hint. They were
Speaker 2: both in the American League. But only two players have
Speaker 2: been named Rookie of the Year n MVP in the.
Speaker 3: Same before you and I were born.
Speaker 2: One of them was one of them not so much
Speaker 2: at all, and the other one is there was also
Speaker 2: one person.
Speaker 1: Who was named cy Young and Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I think they all lifetime at least I
Speaker 3: think a couple of the guys got the first one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Trent Fleming got it, Jerry got it or Heey
Speaker 2: got it. They were all over this Trent like, give
Speaker 2: it to me, give it to me, was your best.
Speaker 3: So there was a Cy Young MVP rookie, there was
Speaker 3: that Why Young, and there's another MVP.
Speaker 2: No, no, there was a cy Young rookie, and then
Speaker 2: an MVP rookie that we haven't mentioned. And this was
Speaker 2: a very other player. Ioul have borderline Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, no, no, I'm saying there's two that won MVP
Speaker 2: and Rookie of the Year, and then one that won
Speaker 2: Cy Young and Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: He is the rookie of the Year since we've been born.
Speaker 1: Since I've been born. Yeah about you? So, I think
Speaker 1: it's right on the borderline.
Speaker 3: I gets it into the low eighties, like between eighty
Speaker 3: and eighty three, everybody, So somewhere in there, if you
Speaker 3: guys are looking for, I have no idea who the like.
Speaker 2: David Johnson got it. It's Freddy Lynn of the Boston
Speaker 2: Red Sox back in the mid seventies.
Speaker 1: There. Fred Land was a great player at Liz.
Speaker 2: I want to say he was on the seventy five
Speaker 2: team against the big red machine, and he was ticketed
Speaker 2: for a big career, had some injuries, ended up in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, had some good years for the Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 1: They made the playoffs in eighty six.
Speaker 2: I believe he was on that team of Memory Serves
Speaker 2: and they lost to the Red Sox in the playoffs
Speaker 2: that year. So yeah, Freddy Linn and the pitcher, if
Speaker 2: you know the pitcher shouted out there, let's go to
Speaker 2: some boy headlines.
Speaker 3: Well, but the one thing I wanted to throw in
Speaker 3: real quick, I'm sorry I throw you off there. But again,
Speaker 3: back to the original part of the question would be
Speaker 3: like what do the most dominant rookie seasons look like?
Speaker 3: Eachi Rose Rookie of the Year season, he had fifty
Speaker 3: six stolen bases, but eight homers, two hundred and forty
Speaker 3: two hits, hit three point fifty sixty nine RBI, one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty seven runs, So that's pretty dominant. It's
Speaker 3: not in our.
Speaker 2: Heils like an enormous amount of media attention on him
Speaker 2: and came to the States.
Speaker 3: He's completely different. It's different playing professionally than corbucrrol. But
Speaker 3: my point is is like, what are the stacks there
Speaker 3: three fifty batting averages, a big guy one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty seven runs, fifty seven stolen bases.
Speaker 1: The corby Carl doesn't deserve to be in that conversation.
Speaker 2: I think the point I'm making is that the each
Speaker 2: Euro kind of elaborates what I'm saying is for this
Speaker 2: to happen in modern day baseball nowadays, it's gotta be
Speaker 2: some sort.
Speaker 1: Of phenomenon in each row?
Speaker 2: Was that Eachi row? Everybody hearing about each row? Each
Speaker 2: Euro came over and is that therookie I'm trying to
Speaker 2: remember what the Mariners did his rookie season?
Speaker 3: Was that the I don't remember when ye was one
Speaker 3: two thousand.
Speaker 2: And one, but then that was the year where they
Speaker 2: won one hundred and twenty games, do you remember or
Speaker 2: whatever it was, and then they lost to the Yankees
Speaker 2: in the playoffs after nine to eleven. That was that
Speaker 2: unbelievable record breaking team. A certain team actually going on there.
Speaker 3: I just want to point out, if we're talking about
Speaker 3: those rookies, a certain team won the World Series in
Speaker 3: two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: That's right, the big deal, But what again, it's like
Speaker 1: the counter to the other one. By the way, Lucas
Speaker 1: got it from Nono Lenzuela for non Dominia. I want
Speaker 1: to see that.
Speaker 3: I just think that Cormyn Carroll might walk out of
Speaker 3: this with the most dominant statistical rookie season. Will it
Speaker 3: be the best? Maybe not. You could argue we could
Speaker 3: go back and look at a couple. I mean last
Speaker 3: year Julio and Bobby Witt were awesome in their stats.
Speaker 3: But you know, we could get nuts. It might taper down,
Speaker 3: but guess what the floor is going to look like
Speaker 3: for Corbyn the rest of the year. It's still going
Speaker 3: to be five. That is I think the floor.
Speaker 2: Looks Look if you're playing on a spot where you
Speaker 2: got it plus ten thousand, you can cash out now
Speaker 2: now that it's plus one thousand, do it.
Speaker 1: It's just you made my mind on your rookie Ye great,
Speaker 1: I am je right exactly.
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown delivered a very good performance. Seven whiffs on
Speaker 2: ninety nine pitches, so that's good for him. He is
Speaker 2: now six and three on the season, A three three
Speaker 2: five era, a one one nine whip, eighty three k's
Speaker 2: twenty six walks for seventy five ings. He's been exactly
Speaker 2: the guy that I was hoping he would be I
Speaker 2: was all in love me some Hunter Brown. Gunner Henderson
Speaker 2: showing signs of life again. He's now hitting five twenty
Speaker 2: over his last seven games, got four bombs and two
Speaker 2: steals over that. So Gunner Henderson, for all of you
Speaker 2: that bought low, for all of you that stayed the course, congratulations,
Speaker 2: you're getting.
Speaker 3: Paid right now. Listen to the trade video. I want
Speaker 3: to point out with Hunter Brown, that's why the finger
Speaker 3: up here eight to one Rookie of the Year was
Speaker 3: at least yesterday. I really still like him.
Speaker 1: He's still in this mix.
Speaker 2: I've got a share of him, and I think I
Speaker 2: got it at ten or twelve.
Speaker 3: Yoshidah is still number one at least this is the
Speaker 3: last time I looked two days.
Speaker 1: With I don't see him betting that award.
Speaker 3: I have that bet so I love it. Josh Young,
Speaker 3: I think is maybe the guy. But Hunter Brown is
Speaker 3: eight to one right now. Gunner's falling down to fourth
Speaker 3: in that voting. I think Hunter might be the guy
Speaker 3: that you sneak in because he's gonna go the rest
Speaker 3: of the year. He's not coming off. He's gonna have
Speaker 3: double digit wins. I think he might be able to
Speaker 3: sneak in. I think that's a really good bet. There's
Speaker 3: no point in betting the NL Rookie of the year,
Speaker 3: but Al's got some value still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Al was definitely one that was tougher to peg.
Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson was my early investment. Wouldn't that be something
Speaker 2: if he came back all this way and just said,
Speaker 2: I'm because you know, you know, and I know if
Speaker 2: he has a monstrous last three months of the season,
Speaker 2: nobody's gonna care about April when it comes to Gunner
Speaker 2: Henderson and I actually have one that was in a
Speaker 2: very high number, which was Gunner and Corbin Carroll together
Speaker 2: to win both really and if that comes to fruition,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a very happy boy.
Speaker 1: You know what's not happy?
Speaker 2: Wilson Contreras adding fifth Tuesday, He's five for his last
Speaker 2: fifty nine or his last eighteen games. I think two
Speaker 2: to oh one over that stretch over sixty two games
Speaker 2: this year. Here's a quote from him too. I think
Speaker 2: I've lost my confidence. I lost my trust, and I
Speaker 2: lost the trust that I came into the season with.
Speaker 2: It just went away. Yikes, Welsh Wilson Contreras and the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: This has been a marriage made in hell so far
Speaker 2: for these two.
Speaker 3: Well, it's Marmal. It's mar Mal has been an absolute disaster.
Speaker 3: Who could blame him too? You signed this big contract,
Speaker 3: you leave. He wanted to stay with the Cubs, the
Speaker 3: cub couldn't be four. All that stuff was out there.
Speaker 3: He goes and signs his contract, and this team has
Speaker 3: botched every level of everything and particularly with him. So
Speaker 3: you know, it's I'm talking about this the other day.
Speaker 3: Actually it's funny in the like maturation prospect of prospects,
Speaker 3: how you can have this like really great offensive catcher. Actually,
Speaker 3: the guy in mind is a former Cardinal Carson Kelly
Speaker 3: talked about this long time ago where he was this
Speaker 3: offensive minded catcher who then his defense was so behind.
Speaker 3: He spent a year focused on the defense that he
Speaker 3: lost his bats and that kind of went away. So
Speaker 3: you kind of forget, especially from the catch position, because
Speaker 3: defensively it's so much maybe more in tune than anything
Speaker 3: else that you know, if your focus goes in one
Speaker 3: way or the other, you can lose your confidence and
Speaker 3: you can lose it all. And you know, like taking
Speaker 3: away the catching side may have just kind of defeated
Speaker 3: some of the confidence and that team is the management
Speaker 3: seems inept. I don't know what they're doing. I don't
Speaker 3: know why they're doing anything. I don't think anybody has
Speaker 3: a good read on it. So it kind of stinks.
Speaker 3: And I kind of think Wilson Catreras is just too
Speaker 3: talented of a player, so I don't know if his
Speaker 3: value is really low. I probably would try to go
Speaker 3: by if people are just like, what the hell's going
Speaker 3: on and not, you know, looking at the bigger picture.
Speaker 2: You know, confidence is such a big part of it all,
Speaker 2: you know, and what a player loses confidence, We've seen it,
Speaker 2: you know, whether it be the Steve Sachses of the
Speaker 2: world or Chuck Knoblocks of the world or Rick Angkeel.
Speaker 2: You know, when you lose that edge as a professional
Speaker 2: baseball player, it can all go down south. That's why
Speaker 2: Ankeel to me is, uh, you know, one of the
Speaker 2: great stories. You know, the guy who just come you know,
Speaker 2: is such a bright young pitching prospect who just completely
Speaker 2: imploded on the biggest stage of the playoffs, no less,
Speaker 2: and lost it and then somehow was a good enough
Speaker 2: athlete to come back. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 2: We talked about Otani so much and oh, you know,
Speaker 2: and and we roll out the red carpet for him,
Speaker 2: and we should. But looking back on it, maybe Rick
Speaker 2: ang Keel, if he had been you know, pitching and
Speaker 2: hitting at the same time and they just let him
Speaker 2: do both, maybe we'll be able to clear his head
Speaker 2: and just go out there and have a good three
Speaker 2: for four night and come back and.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have bothered him as much. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll never know. But you know, Rick Ankiel know this.
Speaker 2: I never think of him whenever I think of Otani,
Speaker 2: but now, you know, it kind of makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense. Maybe that was the guy we could have
Speaker 2: had first do all this stuff that Otani's do.
Speaker 1: There's a magical offensive player.
Speaker 3: I would love everybody to watch this show, by the way,
Speaker 3: you know, YouTube show YouTube, yeah, YouTube dot com slash
Speaker 3: Leading Off or Fantasy Pros MLB YouTube channel, because there's
Speaker 3: this moment there I loved, which became very MPR where
Speaker 3: Joe is his guy, he's got his lighting going on
Speaker 3: today and he goes, you know, confidence, confidence really important,
Speaker 3: and then you just went on this like very like
Speaker 3: podcast he Dietra. I loved every moment of that Joe Balls.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3: It was very MPI. You're like confidence. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: confidence for a minute, and your beautiful lighting, spotlight lighting.
Speaker 3: Confidence so underrated. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's talk goodness. Let's get to the rookie lookies here.
Speaker 1: That was really funny.
Speaker 2: Ronnie Mauricio day to day with that left ankle bone bruise.
Speaker 2: He took a real shot and for days there was
Speaker 2: nothing on him, which was pissing me off. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at Twitter for the entire weekend. You can't get any
Speaker 2: update on this guy about this ankle injury.
Speaker 1: All you do is you saw it on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, that he break his ankle.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: It was it was a play at second base and
Speaker 2: the guy came right into him and luckily he's okay.
Speaker 2: But geez, like, can we get some information for goodness sakes?
Speaker 2: The Rangers promoted right hand or Owen White. He was
Speaker 2: highly regarded top pitching prospect twenty three years old. He
Speaker 2: was selected the twenty eighteen draft. He has a strong
Speaker 2: three fifty four Era one one four whip forty five
Speaker 2: ks to twenty two walks. Again, the k rate a
Speaker 2: little lower fifty three innings. What's your what's your take
Speaker 2: on him making the jump from double A triple A.
Speaker 2: Owen White deb He's not a guy that I'm chasing.
Speaker 2: Should other people chase?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. He's not like a big aggressive on me.
Speaker 3: I know, you know, was kind of into it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he got lit up though yesterday strikeouts are way down
Speaker 3: the I never loved the stuff. He worked a lot
Speaker 3: with the major leaguers. There were a couple of guys
Speaker 3: that were like hand in hand with the major leaguers
Speaker 3: pretty much the whole time. He was one of those guys.
Speaker 3: Slider interesting, got a big curveball. He pitched in the AFL.
Speaker 3: I just don't think the strikeouts are he and it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see like a bigger start. You know
Speaker 3: what the pitch mix looks like. I actually I haven't
Speaker 3: gone and looked at the pit and looked at it.
Speaker 2: While you look at the pitch mix, we look at
Speaker 2: the peanuts and cracker jacks. Because Tim Sawyer says I
Speaker 2: can't wait for motivational Mondays with ops Apia, and then
Speaker 2: Lucas says, I have a velvet voice. I have the
Speaker 2: worst voice, which is hilarious because of what I do
Speaker 2: for a living. Now, maybe everybody hates the sound of
Speaker 2: their own voice. I've gotten numb to it. But I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think you just hate your own voice. Did everybody
Speaker 3: else notice that?
Speaker 1: Was that? Just me?
Speaker 3: Like everything you said? But there was just this moment
Speaker 3: you were just like confidence. Guys, let's talk about are
Speaker 3: you lacking confidence? He just became like a whatever, one
Speaker 3: of those.
Speaker 2: I'd be a great motivational speaker. I think that's probably
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do as I get older.
Speaker 1: That's what all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you motivated all the time.
Speaker 1: By the way, Owen, why travel to all kinds of stuff?
Speaker 3: Forty four percent cutter, So he had he had the
Speaker 3: three variations of fastballs, sinker fourteen four seeing nineteen cutter
Speaker 3: forty four percent, the slider where he's got to get
Speaker 3: stuff going only through seventeen percent of the time through.
Speaker 3: So he had a really good pitch mix, but only
Speaker 3: a twenty two percent CSW percentage twenty two percent whiff rate.
Speaker 3: The only two pitches he got whiffs off of where
Speaker 3: the cutter and the UH and the sinker.
Speaker 1: So those variations, Chad is really funny to them.
Speaker 3: Where's the confidence in your voice? Joe?
Speaker 1: I have confidence.
Speaker 2: I'm just numb to it, but I can I can
Speaker 2: honestly say. You know, for instance, you you have a
Speaker 2: great voice. Brian Drake, like friend of Friend of the
Speaker 2: the NFL podcast, great voice. I love when Drake's on
Speaker 2: because I just love listening to his voice. I don't
Speaker 2: think I have that kind of voice. I think mine's
Speaker 2: more of like the character kind of thing. It's not
Speaker 2: quite mad Dog russo it's not quite that annoying, but
Speaker 2: it's more of that charactery kind of thing.
Speaker 3: You have a character in this to it, but you're
Speaker 3: not giving yourself enough credit. We should turn that kind Yeah,
Speaker 3: actually going to do this here. Hold on, Joe, let's
Speaker 3: talk about confidence with your voice. You have to believe
Speaker 3: in your voice. Hold on, let's get even more. Your
Speaker 3: voice is great. You're good enough, you're smart enough, and gosh,
Speaker 3: don it people like you.
Speaker 1: You look really sexy in that lighting.
Speaker 3: And I want to tell you, hey, everybody.
Speaker 2: Twitter avvy right there. The only problem is if you
Speaker 2: just took the hat off. Maybe if the hair is
Speaker 2: not quaffed, I mean the hair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the hair is not good today we didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Now the hair is not good today. I mean, oh goodness,
Speaker 1: that was really funny.
Speaker 2: Like I actually got like a tear in my eye,
Speaker 2: like Rick Flair, who was as a tear in their
Speaker 2: eye the Yankees, because Anthony Volpi is not being good now.
Speaker 2: Last night the different couple of hits, and somebody pointed
Speaker 2: out on the Twitter machine, which I thought was a
Speaker 2: stupid that his stance was closed off more than it's
Speaker 2: ever been all season.
Speaker 3: You want to know who pointed it out? Actually, Okay,
Speaker 3: actually might get got here if this is because this
Speaker 3: was one of my favorite things I read. The thing
Speaker 3: I read, and again, this might be like I'm totally
Speaker 3: seeing something stupid. But the report was that he was
Speaker 3: like on an off day hanging with Austin Wells and
Speaker 3: a couple of the other guys and they caught it.
Speaker 3: They all say that they were like eating like spaghetti
Speaker 3: or something like something totally stereotypical. I might be getting
Speaker 3: got on a story. But the thing was that he
Speaker 3: was sitting with a couple of guys that he had
Speaker 3: played with in the miners, and they caught and saw
Speaker 3: that his stance was off right. And that's the adjustment.
Speaker 2: Here's a here's a question. I'm the professional hitting coach
Speaker 2: for the New York Yankees. This is my job every
Speaker 2: day to watch everybody and then to watch film of
Speaker 2: my younger players to see why they're struggling. At what
Speaker 2: point did somebody, like, did it take I don't know,
Speaker 2: twelve weeks for somebody to go look at that footage?
Speaker 1: If so, that I mean, And I'm not one of.
Speaker 2: These people that says you should fire the hitting coach,
Speaker 2: but that just seems to me like a huge drop
Speaker 2: of the ball.
Speaker 1: Yes, just saying.
Speaker 3: In my time, the people have done so many better
Speaker 3: things in baseball and been around and accomplished more and less.
Speaker 3: But like the amount of time I've been around in baseball,
Speaker 3: especially at lower levels. But afl to all this, the
Speaker 3: amount of hands off coaching that comes within organizations, I
Speaker 3: personally feel would blow your mind. You think, oh, no,
Speaker 3: teams would be we sit here and look at stats,
Speaker 3: We're like, oh this is you talk to players and
Speaker 3: like Curtis Mead with the Rays, that's one that always
Speaker 3: stands out to me. He had this amazing right he
Speaker 3: went and played during COVID during the Australian League came
Speaker 3: over to the race, had this awesome year send out
Speaker 3: to the AFL. Holy crap, what's going on with Curtis Speed?
Speaker 3: I talked to him. I'm like, oh man, you know,
Speaker 3: awesome year. Hey, what did the rais? What have the
Speaker 3: Ray's done with you? And he's like nothing, nothing, They've
Speaker 3: done nothing with him. And then you take on this
Speaker 3: report of baseball like limiting analytics departments and hires and
Speaker 3: stuff like that, and it's like, no, this is what
Speaker 3: we need more, We need more people to disast wash.
Speaker 1: This is visual.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: It's so easy to look at a guy who's had success,
Speaker 2: and this is the thing always makes me crazy. A
Speaker 2: guy has success and then sometimes and I don't know
Speaker 2: if this was the case too, sometimes somebody thinks they're
Speaker 2: the smartest person in the room and they try to
Speaker 2: change them and I don't unlike when they do that.
Speaker 2: You know, every you know, hitter has their own little
Speaker 2: tweaks and their own little things in every swing.
Speaker 1: Same thing with pictures too.
Speaker 2: Now that's different because mechanically speaking, there's things you can
Speaker 2: fix to do things better.
Speaker 1: You can do that with hitting. But if a guy's gotten.
Speaker 2: Too the big leagues and been a top prospect, you
Speaker 2: kind of just let him be him. So look, it's
Speaker 2: it's a it's something to really monitor right now. So
Speaker 2: if all got dropped in your shallow league, if he
Speaker 2: could be had for nothing in a dynasty league, right now,
Speaker 2: I'd be buying everywhere just to see, because I've watched
Speaker 2: the kid play in person, and he's a terrific young player.
Speaker 2: He is much better than what he's shown so far,
Speaker 2: and he's shown you basically nothing. I mean of the
Speaker 2: last few weeks, hitting one twenty seven with three homers
Speaker 2: over the last twenty five games. I mean that is
Speaker 2: that he should be sent down for that. But if
Speaker 2: this is just a matter of closing off the stands
Speaker 2: a little bit and getting back to something he used
Speaker 2: to do, it's either the hitting coach's fault for changing
Speaker 2: it or the hitting coach's fault for not recognizing it sooner.
Speaker 2: Either way, somebody's got to be accountable here.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's like recognizing it. That's
Speaker 3: the thing that now.
Speaker 1: I sound like mad Dog. It sounds like Mike and
Speaker 1: the Mad Dog from New York Spert. Somebody's got to
Speaker 1: do something at Welsh.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on here, But somebody's gotta
Speaker 2: do something because it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Is that a whack? It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: By the way, Mike there suggestion motivational penguins would be
Speaker 2: a great mascot.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that would. I actually think a motivational series
Speaker 3: like Joe's Corner, Like we have Joe's Corner where it's
Speaker 3: like all then it's back.
Speaker 1: In the day. As a message, no, let me tell
Speaker 1: you, you know with Volpi.
Speaker 3: The other thing this might be, oh did I do
Speaker 3: a Welsh's I don't know if I did a Welshism.
Speaker 3: Someone's saying I did a well notice I didn't even Yeah,
Speaker 3: tell us what the Welshism was? iRED percent probably did it.
Speaker 3: And maybe this is like a cretchy thing. But when
Speaker 3: I see a guy with Volpi's talent who has fourteen
Speaker 3: stolen bases, nine homers while hitting about ninety one, I
Speaker 3: go back and I'm like, this is a guy when
Speaker 3: he gets it going, is going to absolutely ball out.
Speaker 3: So like to be able to rock this while struggling.
Speaker 3: I'm very much into Now. I'm dying to know what
Speaker 3: my Welshism was.
Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, Tim, yes, my kids do
Speaker 2: look forward to care I've already spoken to my kids
Speaker 2: for whatever career day.
Speaker 1: Their classes they wanted me to come in. I did
Speaker 1: cool stuff.
Speaker 2: I set up kids in their class like they were
Speaker 2: hosting a show and I was counting them down to
Speaker 2: commercial and doing the whole thing, and like, you know,
Speaker 2: behind them saying okay, you know, thirty seconds, you got
Speaker 2: to get out on time. All this stuff and they
Speaker 2: had a blast with it. Was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Uh, they loved it. It was a big hitter.
Speaker 3: Joe walks in. He's like, kids, let's talks about confidence.
Speaker 1: I'm a television star.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you I'm on TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What's the Welsh? I don't understand? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like five people. Wonky said it was her favorite
Speaker 3: in a while, and we don't know what it was.
Speaker 2: Canse somebody please put what the welshism was? I don't
Speaker 2: positivity with Pieza Pa. Larry did it? Larry never lets
Speaker 2: us down. I haven't seen Larry in the chat in
Speaker 2: a while. Where you been Larry? All right, let's get
Speaker 2: some more stuff here. A bunch of injuries we mentioned.
Speaker 2: Mitch Haniger, Max Munsey was out yesterday. Ryan Mountcastle goes
Speaker 2: to the ten day IL retroactive to the ninth for Vertigo.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine it was because Mike Mayer was
Speaker 2: hanging him upside down or something like that from the
Speaker 2: Dong Bong Aloja Menez still out, you know, I think
Speaker 2: I think everybody you know, if you want to have
Speaker 2: a voodoo doll of Eloijamenez at this point, like I
Speaker 2: think you're allowed. I think it's just gotten ugly. It's frustrating.
Speaker 2: He has been the most frustrating player, I think in
Speaker 2: the last two years, because he's that constant teez if.
Speaker 2: He starts to hit and then he gets hurt, and
Speaker 2: then he starts to hit, and he's out for a month,
Speaker 2: and then he's out for three months, and he goes
Speaker 2: back and he hits and he's out.
Speaker 1: It's the worst.
Speaker 2: Brandon Belt went to the IL, told you yesterday that
Speaker 2: was gonna happen. Joey Gallo came back from the IL.
Speaker 2: Jazz Chism told reporters that he'll undergo off season foot surgery.
Speaker 2: Welsh foot injuries for players like Jazz Chism are.
Speaker 1: Typically not good.
Speaker 3: I don't like this at all.
Speaker 1: I would be looking to move on in keeper formats
Speaker 1: from Jazz.
Speaker 2: Uh. If you can get the right deal. I would
Speaker 2: rather have Volpie than Jazz Chism rest of career.
Speaker 3: Oh hot, take man, that's the yeah, that's kind of good.
Speaker 3: That one's I think it is. That one's a little
Speaker 3: bit tough. Who would you rather have Eloy or Jazz?
Speaker 2: Have we forgotten what Anthony Volpi was doing at double
Speaker 2: A last year?
Speaker 1: Ye, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Who'd rather have e Lawyer Jazz in Dynasty?
Speaker 1: I'd rather jump off a tall building.
Speaker 3: I think Jazz Unford. I said this before the season,
Speaker 3: Jazz might be the next big I'm always injured guy
Speaker 3: like can never live up to it because he's always
Speaker 3: got a thing, and he has always had a thing.
Speaker 3: It's shoulders, his shoulder, head, knees and toes is where
Speaker 3: he's gone with it. So maybe I don't think I'm
Speaker 3: ready to be like that dramatic of what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: But I will say maybe Volpi and Jazz are not
Speaker 3: as far off.
Speaker 1: So this was the Welshism. Success is never having to
Speaker 1: say you're sorry?
Speaker 3: Did I say that?
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know why I said that.
Speaker 3: I don't know I say that, I don't even remember.
Speaker 3: That's actually a really great.
Speaker 2: Success means never having to say you're sorry, that's that's
Speaker 2: not accurate.
Speaker 1: That's that would be great.
Speaker 3: That's a very intelligence that goes right there with hit
Speaker 3: the ground rolling not what I said.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Jordan Alvarez won't participate in baseball activities for at least
Speaker 2: three weeks. Jose Quintana is beginning his rehab assignment yesterday.
Speaker 2: Joe Musgrove says he's dealing with precise and the ELMO.
Speaker 2: I guess in the elm.
Speaker 1: Elbow hurts so bad for Joe Musgrove.
Speaker 4: Elbow, no good, elbow swell up, Joe Musgrove, no elbow,
Speaker 4: no no good right now?
Speaker 1: Els what Joe Musgrove limited innings this is.
Speaker 2: This is, by the way, the numbers just keep going
Speaker 2: up for live watchers as the stupidity goes up.
Speaker 1: Today. I don't know why it's an elbow, I really don't, uh,
Speaker 1: but elbow issue for him, so just monitor that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't even to be affecting him.
Speaker 2: It just apparently went in the cryogenic chamber when he
Speaker 2: had the foot thing and it affected his elbow.
Speaker 1: He said, this is a wild story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like he went in there to try to like
Speaker 2: speed up the foot injury, but I guess it had
Speaker 2: like a negative effect on his arm.
Speaker 1: This is what he's saying. I don't know smoking.
Speaker 3: This is the experiment gone wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It sounds terrible, that sounds awful. I hope it's almost okay.
Speaker 2: Also, just for fun, Ramul Tapia signs a one year
Speaker 2: deal with the Brewers, so keep an eye on that
Speaker 2: if you want to. George Kirby on the ups one
Speaker 2: earned or earned run, excuse me, six innings, ten k's.
Speaker 1: Kirby was awesome. I'm sure Welsh loved this last night.
Speaker 3: Just pointing out. I did say he was like really
Speaker 3: good lynchpin of the thing, and someone got on my
Speaker 3: case about it.
Speaker 2: But said it Rocky Oldever's two provide with a pair
Speaker 2: of homers against the Rockies and Wheeler. Six innings, seven
Speaker 2: K's got to win the three down. Chris Bassett bad
Speaker 2: eight earned runs and three innings, eleven hits. I saw
Speaker 2: somebody tweet they said I thought Manoah was on the mount.
Speaker 2: Oh funny and true. Luis Evarino five earned runs and
Speaker 2: four and two thirds for him, he was bad.
Speaker 1: His era is over six and a half almost right now.
Speaker 2: Mac Sures are also bad six earned runs, three and
Speaker 2: a third. Here's a question. He up two our home
Speaker 2: runs last night. His the ra is at four and
Speaker 2: a half? Is Max Schures are closer to a turnaround
Speaker 2: or closer to retirement?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I would say a turnaround for this year still,
Speaker 3: even though it's been wonky as I would say, not
Speaker 3: the penguin, but I don't know that penguins. Would you
Speaker 3: rather have Joe Musgrove's Elmo or Max Schuser with the eyes?
Speaker 3: Which one is better?
Speaker 1: And one? Loved baseball so much?
Speaker 3: Your impressions get me every I'm still crying. I just
Speaker 3: have tears in my eyes.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said, no idea, it was
Speaker 1: just it was with the.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back on track. We're running along.
Speaker 2: We gotta we gotta tighten this ship up today.
Speaker 3: But today's oh yeah, yeah, weird.
Speaker 2: Very high live listeners today too, and I mean just high,
Speaker 2: I mean like high number.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Prize picks.
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Speaker 3: Hey, no big deal. Picked you guys a winner yesterday
Speaker 3: with all of the stuff and the things. Hopefully you
Speaker 3: guys played that. Those three smacked yesterday, so thank you
Speaker 3: for playing along. Uh this today, this say this week. Today,
Speaker 3: I've got Daniel Lynch earned runs two and a half
Speaker 3: over in the reds. I've got Josh Young hit run
Speaker 3: RBI one and a half over, and I've got Mookie
Speaker 3: bets score eight and a half cash it for two.
Speaker 1: Days in a row.
Speaker 3: That is what I am hoping to do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Tim is asking for motivational speeches from Elmo, but I
Speaker 2: think it's we're running along today.
Speaker 3: Maybe another day a series to do down the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get to some of the prize picks
Speaker 2: for me, Tyler Glass.
Speaker 1: Now all in today.
Speaker 2: This is my big investment. Eight and a half pitcher strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Whenever we see that number, it's a it's an under.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I know, I know you say, oh, it's Oakland all
Speaker 2: these things, but still eight and a half. It's a
Speaker 2: high number. You're better off with the under on that one.
Speaker 2: Elie de la Cruz eight and a half hitter fantasy
Speaker 2: score over Juan Soto seven and a half over on
Speaker 2: the fantasy points for him. On the betting side today,
Speaker 2: the Yankees minus one oh four on the money line,
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reads minus one oh nine on the money
Speaker 2: line on the road. Those are some really good ones
Speaker 2: right now. You can make some good money on that.
Speaker 2: Miami plus one eighty why not? Why not against the
Speaker 2: against the Seattle Manners, It's possible. Miami's played really well.
Speaker 2: But here's my favorite thing. Three leg parlay Yankees. You
Speaker 2: take the Rays to beat the Oakland A's with glass
Speaker 2: now on the mountain and the Miami Marlins and the
Speaker 2: upset that gets you almost to plus six hundred on
Speaker 2: betting pro.
Speaker 1: So check that out. Ben Lively four and a half
Speaker 1: k's over.
Speaker 2: Also, Uri Perez five and a half strikeouts over in
Speaker 2: this matchup today, that team strikes out a ton and
Speaker 2: so he has a good shot there. And I'm going
Speaker 2: back to the Adolas Garcia one and a half total
Speaker 2: bases over getting plus one thirty five on betting pros
Speaker 2: on that Welsh What do you have on the betting
Speaker 2: side today.
Speaker 3: I've also got the Ben Lively. I like that one
Speaker 3: four and a half K's over I wouldn't be afraid
Speaker 3: to also throw that into a price pick. So I
Speaker 3: was actually just trying to pick some other ones that
Speaker 3: I really like. I like Garrett Cole six and a
Speaker 3: half strikeouts over minus one of five at least when
Speaker 3: I checked it last night, and The Red's money line
Speaker 3: through the first five was minus one thirty. So those
Speaker 3: are my three favorite plays so far today.
Speaker 1: What's this poll that has been put up?
Speaker 3: The mayor put up a pole like his vulpi the
Speaker 3: most overrated since Derek Jeters.
Speaker 1: Not, yeah, it's not, by the way.
Speaker 2: The real thing is love is never having to say
Speaker 2: you're sorry. That's the real quote, Not what did you say?
Speaker 3: Love is never well. I see in the chat Kelly
Speaker 3: said that Razor made up the welshism of success means what.
Speaker 1: That's that's you know what good enough for me?
Speaker 2: You know, people are now clamoring for an Elmo de
Speaker 2: la Cruz T shirt, which I mean he does play
Speaker 2: for the Reds.
Speaker 1: That is Elmo's color.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what's the saddest part, Like somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna be watching Joe Musker a pitch this week and
Speaker 2: they're gonna be flipp around the channels they're gonna watch
Speaker 2: Joe Musker and that this is all they're gonna think about.
Speaker 1: That makes me happy.
Speaker 2: Let's go on here to another thing that makes me happy,
Speaker 2: which is so rare. If you haven't already, give it
Speaker 2: a try, fanacypros dot com slash collect again, it's free.
Speaker 2: Welsh's got amazing videos up on the channel of how
Speaker 2: to don't be intimidated by it. It's actually really easy.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. You pick your players, you scout, you
Speaker 2: open the packs. These are your players, they're your digital cards,
Speaker 2: and then you go compete. You create your own little
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Speaker 1: It's really cool. Check it out and what you do.
Speaker 2: Make sure you also check out fantasypros dot com, slash
Speaker 2: Leading Off League and MLB so rare. Is a fun
Speaker 2: thing to do with baseball. Also fun in the Daily
Speaker 2: Fantasy World. Ben Lively seven point eight, he's your punt
Speaker 2: pitcher of the day. Tyler glassnew so that's my sweet
Speaker 2: spot ten point one, Garrett Cole ten point six. I
Speaker 2: kind of want to fade away from the eleven k
Speaker 2: guys of Kershaw and Valdez because they just don't think
Speaker 2: you have to.
Speaker 1: Valdez doesn't have Alvarez in the lineup.
Speaker 2: You know, Clinton Kersher, you can go up there, but
Speaker 2: it could save one thousand dollars by going to Glass.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't care. If the A's are starting to win games,
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: By the way, there's gonna be two A's in the
Speaker 2: waiver wire video if you can believe it. That's crazy
Speaker 2: Tampa Dodgers, San Diego. That's where you're looking for offense.
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward in the middle of that Dodger lineup two
Speaker 2: point six, but Shoto two point nine. Those are places
Speaker 2: to go. And I'm gonna try for some redemption here,
Speaker 2: at least Garcia. At at least Garcia Aldols. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with the home run call again. I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: one more time, shake it off and try to love again. Welsh,
Speaker 2: where are you going for your home run call today?
Speaker 2: And we'll get me back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: By the way, yeah, wish we had because I got
Speaker 3: Corey Seeker yesterday. I got that, So I don't know
Speaker 3: where I'm at now. Think I might be in the twenties.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Josh Low today, get him back
Speaker 3: in the lineup hopefully and smack a homer and get
Speaker 3: me to twenty one twenty. I don't know. I'm somewhere
Speaker 3: between nineteen and twenty right now. So Josh low my
Speaker 3: home run call.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Well, this has been a very special episode of Leading Off.
Speaker 1: I think the thing are so fun.
Speaker 4: Emma Lovely, Emmon love Welsh, em One love Peanuts, em
Speaker 4: One love Cracker Jacks and one.
Speaker 1: Of all of it.
Speaker 2: If you know, I catch it's gone up for that job. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I should have looking back on it. And you know what,
Speaker 2: Cason's right at the end of the day, you're family here,
Speaker 2: that's what you are. So we appreciate you hanging out
Speaker 2: with us. We'll be back again to do it all
Speaker 2: over tomorrow if you can believe it. So that'll do
Speaker 2: it for us. The story of the game goes on.
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Speaker 1: So we can grow mustaches next week. We're ready to go.
Speaker 1: And that's it. Welsh, We'll see you next time kids.
Speaker 1: Bye at more. Welsha