WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 14th, 2023 (Ep. 690) 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.440 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.280 This is leading off live broud toy by Prize Pick. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.840 Sign up for prize picks today with that promo code 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.239 leading off. It is me Joey p That of course 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.080 is the Welsh and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.640 Jacks talking baseball. We got another call up, Welsh, another one. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.840 The rookie lookies never seemed to end in twenty twenty three. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.240 We're gonna talk about that, what you should spend in 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.120 terms of fab how long this player is going to 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.680 be up. We're going to talk about the re juvenition 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.200 of Gunner Henderson and a whole lot more here, Welsh. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.880 I think we got to jump right into the rookie 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.479 lookie because Luis Matos got called up by the Giants 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.280 Madge Hannigher with an injury. We'll get to him in 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.839 a second, but it looks like Matos is gonna be 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.760 playing center field, batting second today. The twenty one year 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.400 old was hitting three to ninety eight with a four 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.120 thirty five obp a six eighty five, slugging seven homers 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.200 six deals in twenty four games since getting the bump 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.040 up to triple a he started out in this year, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.680 so I know people are excited for Matos. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:04.840 But here's the big question. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.800 Is this a short term kind of fix or do 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.840 you think Mantos has more long term appeal for our 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:11.919 twenty twenty three season. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:12.880 I should do. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.000 I think this is like a long term thing. He 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.360 was bound to come up. He's younger of funny enough, 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.800 I've kind of cited this exact thing with Marco Luciano 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.920 throughout the year of why he stinks of how he 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.200 came up with Corbyn Carroll and CJ. Abrams. Well so 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.600 did Matos, and Matos is already here. He's got this 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.600 really easy kind of like standy upright swing, doesn't do 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.160 too much, makes beautiful contact, the ball can actually fly. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.399 I kind of think we might be a little rookie 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.959 lookie drunk in some of it, where you could have 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.160 your expectations a little too high. But I do think 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.760 Mantos can be like a fifteen to fifteen guy at 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.680 the majors. I don't know if it's gonna go bonkers. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.480 I feel like he stolen bases, might be a little 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.320 bit more than power. All that aside, I think he's 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.160 a potential twelve team pick type of guy, because I 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.200 do think he's gonna stick around for quite some time. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:04.960 And what he did. The other thing you got to 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.120 remember is like, as a twenty one year old, got 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.359 a under seven percent strikeout rate in triple A, which 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.840 is crazy. It's crazy numbers. It was nine percent at 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.280 double A. He also played in the AFL and was 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.200 one of the best hitters. He's just a complete package. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.760 Just that package isn't like La Da La Cruz or 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.799 anything like that. This is definitely a very exciting, exciting guy. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.560 But I'm I'm going to also watch if he goes 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.440 through some slumps, if there's any you know, ups and 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.760 downs and backthroughs. But power speed, let's do it. Go 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.239 pick him up. Twelve teen probably not ten well. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.720 Hanneger suffered a fractured right forearm was hit by a 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.640 pitch yesterday, so that's gonna be a while. I mean, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.200 anytime something breaks, you're looking at a month somewhere around there. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.840 So that's gonna be a problem. So we'll see, we'll 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.720 see if Mato's can get. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:54.079 The job done. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.400 Here's a question for you too, in terms of fab budget, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.720 how aggressive are you going to be on that waiver? Wire, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.799 and let's say it's a twelve team league. Let's say 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.919 all things being equal, or at this point in the season, 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.160 maybe you got half of your budget left. You know, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.079 I don't even know if that's practical at this point, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.040 because I'm sure with all the injury you've had and 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.040 all of these rookies that have been called off even 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.680 so aggressive, I bet we have more like thirty five 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.160 to forty percent of budgets left. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.480 Really at this point, I'll bet you it. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.640 Yeah, I bet it's closer to like thirty percent of 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:21.600 what everyone's got. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:22.560 I don't know. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.239 This isn't the hyper aggressive to me. I think there's 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.919 a potential he might be a little bit more exciting 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.639 in points leagues because of his inability to strike out 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.120 in a good way, you know, so he's not striking 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.800 out a whole bunch, which has been nice. I just 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.360 don't I don't know what the number is. Maybe fifteen 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.840 percent of what I have left. I might go in 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.400 if I have a need at outfield. This isn't one 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.280 to me that is hyper aggressive. But I'd also say this, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.640 I don't know if I was like crazy on Matt 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.400 McClain and Matt McClain has been kind of bonkers this year. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.040 So you know, the rookies are playing at a completely 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.680 different level. Stolen bases are accessible at a completely different level. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.240 Just know what the power is going to look like 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.200 in San Francisco for him. But if you can manage, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.320 you know, some decent batting average, not striking out, stolen bases, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:11.000 runs at least three categories, be happy and then maybe 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.520 maybe we'll see that bump up a little bit more. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.800 Before we get to the rest of the headlines for today, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.320 that was a big one that just dropped not that 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.080 long ago. Jake Fouz Now, Jake, we love Corbyn Carroll here, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.080 but I just want to point this out, he says, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.280 the corbyin Carroll MVP odds now at plus fifteen hundred. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.520 I got him at plus ten thousand a week ago. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.200 Good on you, cash out. He's not winning MVP. I'm 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.400 just telling you right now, it's not gonna happen. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.120 Unless Akunya gets hurt. Unless Acunia gets hurt. It's the 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:37.480 only way. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.840 Unfortunately, I think that would be the only way. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.600 And even then, even then, I just don't know if 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.760 he's a public enough figure in the media yet for 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:46.240 that award. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:46.880 I just started. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.040 Don't think Joe, it's starting to turn. I'm gonna tell 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:49.320 you this. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.000 Well, you're in Arizona, so I think you have a 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.280 little bit of a national view of how you want 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.000 to know more embracing Corbyn Carroll. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:01.799 You say that, I do. Lordscury has more fan votes 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.680 than Corbyn Carroll for the All Star Game. That's asinine 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:05.760 and that's coming out. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.400 Of his hair is very excitings hair is. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.240 Very cool like Corby Carroll's legit on pace to be 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.200 easy thirty thirty guy. And I think there'll be more 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.919 public spotlight, especially into the All Star Game. When he 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.200 makes the All Star Game, that's his hometown. I think 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.440 he's gonna be featured into that. The Diamondbacks being the 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.200 top in the end, I think all those things are 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.320 gonna get him pushed more into the public light. But 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.160 again we're talking about like Acuna having to be hurt 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.919 and having to miss significant time. Kerl's not gonna win it. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.560 The Ker's gonna run away with the Rookie of the 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.039 Year award. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.560 That's a hunder question at. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.960 This point, and he might run away with I don't 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.800 know what they look like. It'd be fun to go 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.159 and look, but what are the most dominant rookie seasons statistically? 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.440 Corby Carroll's gonna walk away with what might be the 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.000 most dominant rookie season at the end, because he's gonna 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:58.080 he's legit, gonna go twenty thirty easy, that's our you know, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.640 minus three point fifty off and then you go up 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:06.240 twenty five thirty five really really possible. He might be 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:06.800 a third player. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.360 Two players have one MLB Rookie of the Year and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:12.520 MVP in the same year. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.880 Oh wow, I I wasn't even asking that. That's a 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:15.480 great status. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.640 Okay, So if anybody wants to venture a guess in 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.960 the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks of the chat, there's been 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.440 two of them. I'll give you a hint. They were 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.880 both in the American League. But only two players have 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.520 been named Rookie of the Year n MVP in the. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.119 Same before you and I were born. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.920 One of them was one of them not so much 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.240 at all, and the other one is there was also 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.200 one person. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.200 Who was named cy Young and Rookie of the Year. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.039 Okay, well, I think they all lifetime at least I 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.719 think a couple of the guys got the first one. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.200 Yeah, Trent Fleming got it, Jerry got it or Heey 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.640 got it. They were all over this Trent like, give 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.000 it to me, give it to me, was your best. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.280 So there was a Cy Young MVP rookie, there was 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.960 that Why Young, and there's another MVP. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.840 No, no, there was a cy Young rookie, and then 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.919 an MVP rookie that we haven't mentioned. And this was 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.320 a very other player. Ioul have borderline Hall of Famer. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.440 I'm saying, no, no, I'm saying there's two that won MVP 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.600 and Rookie of the Year, and then one that won 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.200 Cy Young and Rookie of the Year. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.480 He is the rookie of the Year since we've been born. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.960 Since I've been born. Yeah about you? So, I think 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:19.920 it's right on the borderline. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.400 I gets it into the low eighties, like between eighty 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.680 and eighty three, everybody, So somewhere in there, if you 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.880 guys are looking for, I have no idea who the like. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.880 David Johnson got it. It's Freddy Lynn of the Boston 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.800 Red Sox back in the mid seventies. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.440 There. Fred Land was a great player at Liz. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.480 I want to say he was on the seventy five 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.400 team against the big red machine, and he was ticketed 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.800 for a big career, had some injuries, ended up in 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.280 Los Angeles, had some good years for the Los Angeles Angels. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.680 They made the playoffs in eighty six. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.920 I believe he was on that team of Memory Serves 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:51.800 and they lost to the Red Sox in the playoffs 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.720 that year. So yeah, Freddy Linn and the pitcher, if 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.560 you know the pitcher shouted out there, let's go to 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:58.480 some boy headlines. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:07:59.760 Well, but the one thing I wanted to throw in 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.760 real quick, I'm sorry I throw you off there. But again, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.800 back to the original part of the question would be 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.520 like what do the most dominant rookie seasons look like? 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.760 Eachi Rose Rookie of the Year season, he had fifty 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.360 six stolen bases, but eight homers, two hundred and forty 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:23.120 two hits, hit three point fifty sixty nine RBI, one 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.680 hundred and twenty seven runs, So that's pretty dominant. It's 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:27.320 not in our. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.040 Heils like an enormous amount of media attention on him 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:31.960 and came to the States. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.920 He's completely different. It's different playing professionally than corbucrrol. But 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.160 my point is is like, what are the stacks there 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.319 three fifty batting averages, a big guy one hundred and 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.079 twenty seven runs, fifty seven stolen bases. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.240 The corby Carl doesn't deserve to be in that conversation. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.400 I think the point I'm making is that the each 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.560 Euro kind of elaborates what I'm saying is for this 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.160 to happen in modern day baseball nowadays, it's gotta be 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:54.000 some sort. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.040 Of phenomenon in each row? 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.880 Was that Eachi row? Everybody hearing about each row? Each 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.719 Euro came over and is that therookie I'm trying to 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.720 remember what the Mariners did his rookie season? 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.560 Was that the I don't remember when ye was one 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:06.400 two thousand. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.360 And one, but then that was the year where they 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.560 won one hundred and twenty games, do you remember or 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.760 whatever it was, and then they lost to the Yankees 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.600 in the playoffs after nine to eleven. That was that 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:19.000 unbelievable record breaking team. A certain team actually going on there. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.440 I just want to point out, if we're talking about 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.840 those rookies, a certain team won the World Series in 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.680 two thousand and one. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.360 That's right, the big deal, But what again, it's like 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.440 the counter to the other one. By the way, Lucas 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.400 got it from Nono Lenzuela for non Dominia. I want 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:33.679 to see that. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.080 I just think that Cormyn Carroll might walk out of 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.280 this with the most dominant statistical rookie season. Will it 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.640 be the best? Maybe not. You could argue we could 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.040 go back and look at a couple. I mean last 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.400 year Julio and Bobby Witt were awesome in their stats. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.560 But you know, we could get nuts. It might taper down, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:50.959 but guess what the floor is going to look like 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.800 for Corbyn the rest of the year. It's still going 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.640 to be five. That is I think the floor. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.880 Looks Look if you're playing on a spot where you 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.880 got it plus ten thousand, you can cash out now 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.640 now that it's plus one thousand, do it. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.200 It's just you made my mind on your rookie Ye great, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.040 I am je right exactly. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.120 Hunter Brown delivered a very good performance. Seven whiffs on 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.000 ninety nine pitches, so that's good for him. He is 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.760 now six and three on the season, A three three 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.560 five era, a one one nine whip, eighty three k's 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.720 twenty six walks for seventy five ings. He's been exactly 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.000 the guy that I was hoping he would be I 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.600 was all in love me some Hunter Brown. Gunner Henderson 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.280 showing signs of life again. He's now hitting five twenty 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.839 over his last seven games, got four bombs and two 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.560 steals over that. So Gunner Henderson, for all of you 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.679 that bought low, for all of you that stayed the course, congratulations, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:41.520 you're getting. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.559 Paid right now. Listen to the trade video. I want 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.360 to point out with Hunter Brown, that's why the finger 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.520 up here eight to one Rookie of the Year was 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.680 at least yesterday. I really still like him. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.840 He's still in this mix. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.960 I've got a share of him, and I think I 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.560 got it at ten or twelve. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.800 Yoshidah is still number one at least this is the 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.000 last time I looked two days. 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:01.679 With I don't see him betting that award. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.000 I have that bet so I love it. Josh Young, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.600 I think is maybe the guy. But Hunter Brown is 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.320 eight to one right now. Gunner's falling down to fourth 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.640 in that voting. I think Hunter might be the guy 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.760 that you sneak in because he's gonna go the rest 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.400 of the year. He's not coming off. He's gonna have 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.920 double digit wins. I think he might be able to 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.840 sneak in. I think that's a really good bet. There's 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.760 no point in betting the NL Rookie of the year, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.480 but Al's got some value still. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.680 Yeah, Al was definitely one that was tougher to peg. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.640 Gunner Henderson was my early investment. Wouldn't that be something 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:32.959 if he came back all this way and just said, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.559 I'm because you know, you know, and I know if 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.760 he has a monstrous last three months of the season, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 nobody's gonna care about April when it comes to Gunner 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.679 Henderson and I actually have one that was in a 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.440 very high number, which was Gunner and Corbin Carroll together 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.840 to win both really and if that comes to fruition, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.120 I'm gonna be a very happy boy. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.240 You know what's not happy? 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.800 Wilson Contreras adding fifth Tuesday, He's five for his last 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.719 fifty nine or his last eighteen games. I think two 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.960 to oh one over that stretch over sixty two games 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.920 this year. Here's a quote from him too. I think 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.280 I've lost my confidence. I lost my trust, and I 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.400 lost the trust that I came into the season with. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:15.400 It just went away. Yikes, Welsh Wilson Contreras and the Cardinals. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.079 This has been a marriage made in hell so far 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:17.640 for these two. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.240 Well, it's Marmal. It's mar Mal has been an absolute disaster. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.000 Who could blame him too? You signed this big contract, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.240 you leave. He wanted to stay with the Cubs, the 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.400 cub couldn't be four. All that stuff was out there. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.520 He goes and signs his contract, and this team has 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.520 botched every level of everything and particularly with him. So 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.200 you know, it's I'm talking about this the other day. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.160 Actually it's funny in the like maturation prospect of prospects, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.319 how you can have this like really great offensive catcher. Actually, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.280 the guy in mind is a former Cardinal Carson Kelly 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.360 talked about this long time ago where he was this 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.000 offensive minded catcher who then his defense was so behind. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.880 He spent a year focused on the defense that he 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.720 lost his bats and that kind of went away. So 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.040 you kind of forget, especially from the catch position, because 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.360 defensively it's so much maybe more in tune than anything 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.640 else that you know, if your focus goes in one 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.600 way or the other, you can lose your confidence and 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.560 you can lose it all. And you know, like taking 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.360 away the catching side may have just kind of defeated 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.240 some of the confidence and that team is the management 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.600 seems inept. I don't know what they're doing. I don't 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.920 know why they're doing anything. I don't think anybody has 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.000 a good read on it. So it kind of stinks. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.400 And I kind of think Wilson Catreras is just too 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.440 talented of a player, so I don't know if his 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.640 value is really low. I probably would try to go 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.920 by if people are just like, what the hell's going 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.320 on and not, you know, looking at the bigger picture. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.079 You know, confidence is such a big part of it all, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.520 you know, and what a player loses confidence, We've seen it, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.120 you know, whether it be the Steve Sachses of the 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.080 world or Chuck Knoblocks of the world or Rick Angkeel. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.800 You know, when you lose that edge as a professional 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.160 baseball player, it can all go down south. That's why 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.480 Ankeel to me is, uh, you know, one of the 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.120 great stories. You know, the guy who just come you know, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.560 is such a bright young pitching prospect who just completely 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.720 imploded on the biggest stage of the playoffs, no less, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.160 and lost it and then somehow was a good enough 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:08.920 athlete to come back. You know. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:09.360 It's funny. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.160 We talked about Otani so much and oh, you know, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.040 and and we roll out the red carpet for him, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.839 and we should. But looking back on it, maybe Rick 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.040 ang Keel, if he had been you know, pitching and 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.680 hitting at the same time and they just let him 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.720 do both, maybe we'll be able to clear his head 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:23.760 and just go out there and have a good three 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:24.800 for four night and come back and. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.480 It wouldn't have bothered him as much. I don't know. Well, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.120 we'll never know. But you know, Rick Ankiel know this. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.080 I never think of him whenever I think of Otani, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.080 but now, you know, it kind of makes a lot 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.680 of sense. Maybe that was the guy we could have 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.640 had first do all this stuff that Otani's do. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.440 There's a magical offensive player. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.760 I would love everybody to watch this show, by the way, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.680 you know, YouTube show YouTube, yeah, YouTube dot com slash 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.760 Leading Off or Fantasy Pros MLB YouTube channel, because there's 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.120 this moment there I loved, which became very MPR where 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.280 Joe is his guy, he's got his lighting going on 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.920 today and he goes, you know, confidence, confidence really important, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.040 and then you just went on this like very like 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.720 podcast he Dietra. I loved every moment of that Joe Balls. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:07.720 Is that what you're saying? 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.440 It was very MPI. You're like confidence. Let's talk about 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.200 confidence for a minute, and your beautiful lighting, spotlight lighting. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.120 Confidence so underrated. This is crazy. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.080 Let's talk goodness. Let's get to the rookie lookies here. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:24.040 That was really funny. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.680 Ronnie Mauricio day to day with that left ankle bone bruise. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.080 He took a real shot and for days there was 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.960 nothing on him, which was pissing me off. I'm looking 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.400 at Twitter for the entire weekend. You can't get any 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.480 update on this guy about this ankle injury. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.600 All you do is you saw it on Twitter. I 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:39.960 was like, oh my god, that he break his ankle. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:40.520 What happened? 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.240 It was it was a play at second base and 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.760 the guy came right into him and luckily he's okay. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.880 But geez, like, can we get some information for goodness sakes? 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.320 The Rangers promoted right hand or Owen White. He was 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.320 highly regarded top pitching prospect twenty three years old. He 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.600 was selected the twenty eighteen draft. He has a strong 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.640 three fifty four Era one one four whip forty five 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.080 ks to twenty two walks. Again, the k rate a 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.760 little lower fifty three innings. What's your what's your take 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.560 on him making the jump from double A triple A. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.320 Owen White deb He's not a guy that I'm chasing. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.480 Should other people chase? 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.840 No, I don't. He's not like a big aggressive on me. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.960 I know, you know, was kind of into it. Yeah, 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.520 he got lit up though yesterday strikeouts are way down 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.320 the I never loved the stuff. He worked a lot 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.200 with the major leaguers. There were a couple of guys 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.000 that were like hand in hand with the major leaguers 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.360 pretty much the whole time. He was one of those guys. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.040 Slider interesting, got a big curveball. He pitched in the AFL. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.400 I just don't think the strikeouts are he and it'll 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.200 be interesting to see like a bigger start. You know 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.080 what the pitch mix looks like. I actually I haven't 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.360 gone and looked at the pit and looked at it. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.560 While you look at the pitch mix, we look at 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.800 the peanuts and cracker jacks. Because Tim Sawyer says I 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 can't wait for motivational Mondays with ops Apia, and then 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.520 Lucas says, I have a velvet voice. I have the 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.880 worst voice, which is hilarious because of what I do 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.160 for a living. Now, maybe everybody hates the sound of 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.159 their own voice. I've gotten numb to it. But I 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:04.560 don't know. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.000 I don't know. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.080