WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 17th, 2024 (EP. 792) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.319 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Gros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.320 Off Live, brought you by Bet three six five five bucks, 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:14.440 get one hundred and fifty and bonus best when you 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.920 do want to use that promo code leading off, it 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.800 is me, Joey Pa, joe p Zapia, That of course 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.560 is the Welsh ed. It's you, the Peanuts and the 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.279 Cracker Jacks. A fun day of baseball was had by all. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.280 Today we've got some day games going on, lots of 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.160 fun action breaking down. We taught Welsh what a canoli 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.199 was yesterday, which again, case you missed it, go back 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.920 and watch. I did walk off the show for a 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.839 brief moment. But did you have any desserts yesterday? Did 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.440 you head out to the Arizona Olive Garden and find 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.360 yourself a bottomless Canoli's? I don't know what the hell 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.200 they do over there. You know, well, it's like endless 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.800 breadsticks and bottomless canoli's. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.200 Or something stupid. Its bottomless. That sounds like too much. No, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.680 I didn't. It was very busy day. We didn't have 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.920 any of that. But we do have a special surprise 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.440 is because things always happened here on Leading off ladies 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:03.960 and gentlemen. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:10.680 Oh no, Oh, it's cousin Donny, cousin Donnie with the Canol's. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.200 I can only assume what's in the box. In the 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.720 words of Brad Pitt, what's in the box? Look at 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.200 that's daddy Island. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.920 This is my Daddy's Italian Bakery. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:29.160 Oh, I got a little plethora. Who's the tricolor cookies? 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:29.520 I said? 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.679 He said he didn't have the last week, and I 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:32.080 was mad. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.200 And then he said he didn't have the Canoli's and 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.039 I couldn't have that face looking at this face knowing 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.959 no Cannoli. So this is further ado. Oh my god, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.440 live Canoli's on the show. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.000 We're gonna do a live canoli testing one bite. Everyone 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.120 knows the rule everywhere. Let's go all right, here you go. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.760 There's sprinkles on this. Everyone want to take a look. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.640 Joe really quickly rate the visual of this before I. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.080 It looks pretty good. It seems like the chocolate chips 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.280 are throughout. Is that chocolate chips, I'm sing? 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.440 Or sprink you know these are sprinkles. They didn't have 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.280 a chocolate chips. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.520 I'm sorry. Right, well, that's already a negative. So already 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.880 you can't score higher than an eight. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.240 Okay, but this is already a great surprise. A true Italian, Donnie, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:15.040 here we go. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.600 He's a true Italian, that's for sure. There we go 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.280 one by Canoli for Welsh. What does he think? 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:22.720 This is a ten? 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.600 You don't know what it is you come to book. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.720 But it says my Italian bakery. This feels authentic. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.600 It's one of the better ones you can get out here. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.880 There you go, Cousin Donnie, everybody host of shooting straight 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.640 with Donnie c and of course my relative now, Donnie, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.600 it is hard to find good Italian stuff out in Arizona. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.519 I know you've lived out from there for quite some time. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.720 So how would you rate this bakery on that scale? 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.040 This bakery is about a seven ish six or seven 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.080 for out here. It's great. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.320 But for what we're used to, what we know, it's 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.600 definitely no. I brought enough with a whole family. Look 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:00.799 at it. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:07.040 Because when you hear on leading off, cousin Donnie, everybody, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.640 what a fantastic thing. You're so lucky to be neighbors 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:10.320 with my cousin. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.880 Let me tell you my cousin, Donnie, my cousin Donnie. Yeah, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.000 I got the official delivery, Donnie is the best, no 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.320 better way to get it. Cannoli from a true Italian 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.240 and the Italian bakery. And it is pretty pretty damn good. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:22.960 I'm not gonna lie. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.880 Now. You got to come to my house so I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.400 can fill you with all the Italian meats. Oh but 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.400 I didn't think. Well that's that's a more issue for 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.880 your carry on right there, I'm over to all right, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.520 all right, thank you guys, everybody. I love you. I'll 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.200 talk to you later after the show. Look at that. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.360 I knew something was up. That's all I knew. I 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.320 always knew something was up. Uh So I think cousin 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.200 Donnie has a probably a I guess a key to 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.640 your house? Now? Is that what's going on? 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.160 Pretty much? Did you see this box? By the way, 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.680 Look at all there. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.840 Look the Napoleon's my favorite. I don't see Napoleon in there, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.200 but I do see the little pinoli cookies. Those are good. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:06.160 Is that what this is? 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.080 That's what that is. That's a Pinoli cookie. But you 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.040 can eat that while I'm doing the headlines. Let's start 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.720 with the headlines and get some baseball in here. That's fantastic. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.719 I'm so happy right now. Jared Jones struck out seven 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.080 guys in five innings yesterday. Unbelievable. Start. My buddy Kurt, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.839 who was a huge Pirates fan, is so excited that 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.400 the Pirates are relevant again, and he's like, I don't understand. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.160 It was a fifth inning and he had fifty nine 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.680 pitches and he's dominating and they took him out. WTF, Welsh, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.120 It's fifty nine pitches. Like, I get it. We're trying 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.760 to save this kid before what a rainy day. It's April. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:35.919 You're the Pirates. You're good. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:36.760 Let him go. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.800 I don't know, seven innings, it's seventy five pitches. It's 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.279 not like he was at one hundred pitches in the 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:41.799 fifth inning. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.440 Hey, Jared Jones is the Canolia pitchers right now. A plus, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.920 he's a ten. But you gotta take care of these Cannolis. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.720 Look at what what is one thing you know about 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.320 a Canoli? They get messy and they can break apart. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.760 It's not really breaking, but they can break apart. And 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.480 that's what happens with these pitchers is they can break apart. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.240 Jared Jones said after the game. I think he was 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.200 even a little bit of no, he said, I was 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.120 going five innings. No matter what. He could have had 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.640 thirty five pitches, he was going five innings. That also 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.600 brings it an interesting question. He's an extreme max type 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.839 of guy. Like his fastball has been insane. It's rated 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.400 near the tippy top of stuff plus. Overall, he's got 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.680 the we mentioned this before last outing, he's got the 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.320 second best stuff plus in baseball. But maybe it's not 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.320 just about the actual executed pitches in a game where 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.039 it is the length and how long you're straining on 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.040 your aren't like maybe teams are experimenting with other thoughts. Plus, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:37.719 he's a rookie. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:38.880 It's stupid. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.360 It's annoying because like any of us that had him, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.479 he had seven strikeouts through five. Looks like he could 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.080 have had a complete game. But this might be the 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.800 world where we're like really, really really babying these guys 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:50.840 a little bit more, and we're just. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.520 Gonna that's worked so well, because all the babying works 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.599 so well for Uri Perez, and all the baby is 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.720 working so well for everybody, And that's the thing that 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.200 drives me crazy. It's like, you know, uh, I know, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:01.760 it's a dead metaphor. I'm gonna use it anyway. You 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.440 keep trading everybody for a sprint and you expect him. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.599 We are on a marathon. That's what the Major League 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.760 Baseball season is. It's a marathon, even for pitchers. And 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.920 when you go back and look at the Leo Mazzoni 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.320 brave pitchers, I know they're all extremely talented, but they 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.080 had certain throwing programs. Why people aren't copying this to 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.599 this day, I don't know. Those guys through a crap 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.000 ton of innings every single year. It wasn't until they 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.400 got into their late thirties that they all broke down. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.920 And even so when they rebuilt them, they came back 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.200 and pitched into their forties. So I mean, it's it's dumb, dumber. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.000 I said it, it's dumb. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.320 Sure, we get to just to go back real quick 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.560 on Jerry Jones, Like this. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.480 Is one of the most cannolis For a second there. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:41.560 I know, I had to get a little drink to 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.839 get that out. One of the most absurd things hasn't 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.520 just been his strikeout rate thirty six point four percent, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.920 but like it's a two point three percent walk rate, 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.000 which is so crazy. Right now he is and he's 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.520 getting away with some stuff, I mean, pretty high barreling 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.520 against him, like you're gonna get some hard to hit stuff. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.719 He's got a one ten Max TV. But he is 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.640 so good, so deceptive. The league hasn't caught up as 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.479 as pissy as I could see us getting about him. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.600 Let's have him for the year, and he even I think, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.520 said as much, like, you know, would you rather have 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.720 me the whole Like, let's have him the whole year? 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.240 At least he's going five. But we could maybe like, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.240 let's have seventy five pitches or something like that. But 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.600 I might regret that trade difference. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.520 We've seen these guys talk about like there's outings where 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.040 everything is going good and you feel great and you 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.800 go and there's outings where you labor and and you know, 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.080 seventy five pitches feels like one hundred and seventy five. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.720 And this clearly was not one of those outings for him. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.760 If you watched, it wasn't like that. I want to 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.080 take a question here because Alex was in here in 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.360 the chat, like the second person in the chat before 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.120 the show even started. So I want to get Alex's 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.280 question Max Free today against Houston, you want to bench him. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.480 I think it's okay to do that if you're concerned, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.800 Like I don't have a problem with this Welsh, do you. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.720 I'm not sure I have like a problem with it. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.640 I actually think it's a semi decent matchup from a 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.200 win perspective. And JP, I'm gonna be when we get 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.840 to the bets, I'm gonna be kind of going against him. 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.040 J France has not been great, but Max Freed has 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.160 really not been great so far this year. I've never 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.120 been a big Max Freed guy. But his k's are 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.960 way down, his walks are up, but he does have 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.480 quite a better expected batting average against I actually think 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.440 this is one I could simmy get down with. But 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.520 you know, if you're worried about ratios or whatever, sure 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.600 you you could. He just hasn't been good enough to 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:22.240 get out there. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.360 I love that we're like, you know, becoming a show 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.320 that has like other characters now ant Larry people. Yeah, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.120 we have the wonky Penguin, we have Mike Mayor, we 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.839 have cousin Donnie. It's like, I just it's kind of 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.320 too I mean it's pretty good, but see now imagine 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:38.839 chocolate chips all throughout it. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.800 Yeah, not gonna lie, that's what's sounds. It sounds pretty amazing, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.880 like chocolate chips do. Sound pretty amazing on these I 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.600 don't know where these have been my whole life. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:51.880 Like I Holy Conoly baby, all right, I can't tell Marte, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.560 Holy Cannoli. Four for six and a homer in the nine. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.320 Nice day for your d backs, Mookie Bets. I mean, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.520 this guy can't be stopped. More on Mookie Bets. We 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.280 get to the best today. He was five or five with 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.840 two doubles, two Rubies win over the Nats today. I 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.560 like the over in that game. We'll get to that later, 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.360 like I said, but again, Mookie Bett's pace is incredible 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.680 right now. Ranger Suarez complete game shutout for him, struck 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.920 out eight five nothing win there. Yes, it was the Rockies, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.360 but it just continues to show you when you have 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.160 these pitchers, whatever the k prop is, you're looking for 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.120 the over right now when it comes to these guys. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.920 And if you have streaming pitchers or you're looking at 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.320 stream somebody and they've got the Rockies, you got nothing 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.000 to lose here, Welsh. I mean, at this point, the 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.559 Rockies are just the gift that keeps on giving. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.200 Yeah, it's gonna it is gonna stabilize. I had some point, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.160 but I don't know if the strikeouts are ever going 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.240 to really stabilize. Ranger Swarrez has just been good this season, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 and this was a uniquely great matchup this. I mean, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.200 he threw one hundred and twelve pitches as well, he 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.800 had sixty one swings on those pitches, thirty percent of 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.960 those were for whiffs. He had seven whiffs on the curveball, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:59.240 five on the change up. And clearly, clearly this Rockies 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.280 team can not manage big breaking pitches. So pictures that 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.760 utilize like really good curveballs. I mean, my god, you 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.480 get me Nick Lodolo versus this Rockies and he's striking 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.360 out ten, You give me big sweepy sweepers, you know, 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.439 big biting sliders. These guys are gonna eat. So yeah, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.320 I think the play here is from a betting perspective, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.840 is like getting your pictures for the strikeout prop against 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.320 the Rockies is a decent play. But also just from 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.800 a streaming perspective, if it's not in Colorado, they're often stinks. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.960 They strike out a whole bunch. You can play against them, 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.360 and Ranger swar has had a complete game shutout. Ranger 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.040 Swarez has definitely gone from this kind of like fringy 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.600 sp out there to an absolute must start like every 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.520 single outing. And I think it's moving up the rank ranks. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.440 So we actually just did a rank update a few 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.400 of us. Mike Mayer was heading it Wonky myself. If 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.160 you're looking for rest of season ranks, we're gonna be 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.480 doing those every single week here on Fantasy Pros, which 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.640 is really fun. And you know two guys we just 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.080 kind of b loop past them. Katel Marte moving up 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.559 in my rest of season ranks and Ranger Swarez is 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.040 definitely making a big move. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.520 Yeah. Look, you know I like the Phillies to win 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.520 that division. You know, I've got money in that, so 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.200 we'll see how that goes. Hunter Brown to run six innings, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.000 So here you go, Like it was looking so good, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.920 all the numbers are there. That's been the way it's 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.680 been the last two weeks. Like I just can't catch 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.000 your break Brown. Yeah, I was on the planet all 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:21.959 of a sudden was unhittable for a few and. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.960 You were ready, but you were ready to be like, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.680 he's got to go play in Mexico like you were done. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.120 You were like he is, you were out on Hunter Brown. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.640 He looked pretty dang good. And that homer, Oh my god, dude, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.240 if you guys watch it. I was watching it the 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.040 break because I had the Braves money line, the Braves 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.160 Orlando RCA hits a homer that was like a little 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.199 bit questionable on the top. And the the Houston Astros 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.880 comment team commentary too, they were losing their mind about 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.360 this homer. No, it's not, it's not. It was a homer, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:53.400 like they called it a homer. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.480 I don't have to tell you, guys, announcers that are 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:56.840 no pun intended homers. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.800 It was crazy. It was wild. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.439 I never realize this because when you grow up in 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.880 the New York area, that typically doesn't happen. They're very 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.600 like by the board, and a lot of the guys 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.079 who do the New York stuff do a lot of 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.000 you know, like Ron Darling, you'll hear on other things, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.679 and you know, like you'll hear them do national broadcasts, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.680 so they just kind of call it down the middle 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.520 for the most part. You know, they really don't. I 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.199 remember first time was in Chicago and I heard a 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.760 Chicago announced I was like, well, there's a great win 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.400 for US. I was like, us US. I've never heard 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.800 an announced say US a day. Whatever you're talking about, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.920 this is we and the US stuff. It was very jarring, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.400 but good on Hunter Brown, bad on my bankroll? Booh, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.800 Blue Jay's beat up on the Yankees. You say, Kakuchi, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.920 how about nine k's for him over six innings and 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.720 Jordan Romano returns from the darkness to get a saved. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.800 So Blue Jays moving in a good direction. But Kevin 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.800 Gosmin's on the mound today. Well, things have not been 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.880 good for Kevin Gosman. I am still worried about his 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.360 health now. Last start, his velocity was good, the results 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.280 were bad. So do you start him today against the Yankees? 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.439 I don't know how Man? How you so well? You 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.400 certain to get into this range where it's like you 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.760 make these investments on these guys. He's been like this 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.240 elite pitcher. But boy, do I hate this matchup. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.120 I really do. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.280 I'm in the top BVP guy, the player with the 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.800 most homers versus a pitcher going today as Aaron Judge 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.240 versus Gossman. I don't even see this. He has an 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.760 eleven point five Vra and we're like, Okay, yeah, that stinks. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.640 He has a ten expected it still sucks. He's not 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.079 walking guys, but he's not striking out guys. You've mentioned 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.640 this stuff has just been kind of down overall, and 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.560 the whips have been down across the board. I don't know, man, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.560 I uh, if I was being really really picky, I 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.000 might not do this. But it's still so early in 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.280 the air. Take Hunter Brown. You're ready, you call off 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.640 Hunter Brown. He's completely done. Kevin Gosman is an elite, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.959 elite pitcher who, like Zach Gallon, may have taken a 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.360 couple of starts to get going. I think this is 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.400 the time where Gossman can start to get going. It's 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.720 just a horrifically bad matchup against like Judge and Soda. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.319 My gut says I'm gonna do it. My gut says 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.800 I'm gonna do it. But you know, when he gives 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.400 up five earn runs or six and runs through two innings, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.440 I'll go back and I'll be like, see I was Waffley. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.360 I said to not start him the whole time, but 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:03.760 I will. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.720 Yeah, good now, I was just talking about Waffles, all right. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.880 One more here before we get through the headlines, Logan 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.960 Gilbert one run, six and two thirds. Well, I gotta 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.080 ask you. Every time Logan Gilbert has a quality start, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.400 do you die a little bit inside? 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.120 Yeah, he looks. So this is the wildest thing. If 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.480 I know you guys watch it. I was watching it 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.840 because Joe and I both were on the seven and 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.480 a half under strikeouts. He struck out the side in 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.640 the first inning. I almost tweeted, he's striking out twenty 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.240 in this game because the Reds just stood there and 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.240 watched him throw strikes. Was interesting though. It's kind of 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.080 the thing I pick on for some reason. He was 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.000 just throwing a ton of fastballs right on the corner. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.640 He's just a magician as far as command goes. That 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.200 is what is so uniquely awesome about him. And these 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.440 guys were looking for secondaries. They weren't expecting fastballs. Then 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.280 I think he struck out another two in the second inning, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.640 but as the game went on he got less consistent, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.800 less consistent. He struck out three in the first inning. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.040 He finished the game going like seven innings, striking out six. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.840 So our bet hit, but the secondary stuff really fell apart, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.480 completely lost the curveball slider was gone later in the game. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.360 But he's just so much better than what I had expected. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.280 So it absolutely just tears little pieces of my heart, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.760 just like a flower pedal coming off every time. He's 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.520 so good. And Castillo and Kirby have not been as awesome. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.440 But I don't know. The late game thing is I 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.480 think something to consider to watch for Logan Gilbert moving forward, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.840 because he really got inconsistent later into the game. But 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 you know, you command on those corners, you can get 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:35.320 away with a lot of stuff. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.600 All right, let's do some fun things here. Aaron Savali 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.680 three earned runs, five hits over six innings, struck out eight. Guy. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.760 Savali has been one of those guys that we talked about, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.520 you know, Tampa Bay. When they get their their claws 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.320 on somebody, they tend to get the best out of them. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.080 These league average pitchers. They see something in them. I 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.760 don't know what it is, but it's magical. He's got 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.360 a two seven to four E and a point nine 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:01.160 to one whip. He's been just fantastic. Unfortunately, Jadi Martinez 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.320 hasn't been at all, and it's unlikely he's gonna be 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.920 up for the West coast road trip, So who knows 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.000 when we're seeing him, but we are gonna see Justin 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.400 Verlander on Friday, maybe Saturday against the Nationals one of 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.720 those games. So would you throw Verlander right back to 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.880 the Wolves on Friday or Saturday against and that's I would. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.040 I would, But it doesn't feel as like, you know, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.800 it's the Rocky, you know, the Nationals, like c Jen 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.600 has been pretty good. This is actually one of the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.160 higher walk sands strikeout team. So, like, I don't know 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.840 if Verlander is gonna have this incredible big outing. Their 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.840 offense has been better. I don't think it's gonna be 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.040 a high strikeout game, but I think it could be 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.040 an easy, like win ratio type of game. Maybe goes 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.160 five pitches eighty something, probably strikes out maybe four. I'll 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.160 be very curious at what version of him. But if 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.360 you're gonna do it like this is where you do it, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.160 anything like bottom fifteen or twenty, you just don't want 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.600 to start him against probably teams like the Diamondbacks and 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.120 the Braves, like the Royals at this point, teams that 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.560 are putting up like massive amounts of runs. But yeah, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:00.760 I would put them out there. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.200 Yeah, I would. I mean, look, youve been waiting for Verlander. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.280 Pitching's rough right now you go out there, maybe it's 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.040 a five inning outing. But then again, that's what you're 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.359 getting from just about everybody. So what's the difference. Uh, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.159 Dylan agrees with you. A connoi waffle sounds like a 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.640 good move. There's actually a cool little Italian breakfast slash 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.840 lunch brunch plays by me that does the different French toast. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.600 They do the Conoli French toasts. They do the tier 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.840 massoux French toast is very good. And to Angelo's point, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.000 you know waffle Italian waffles a pitzel. Now do you 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:29.840 know what a pitzell is? 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.040 I have no idea what aze We're going. 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.920 To educate you on the Italian foods. Here, go go 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.720 google pitzel and you might be to find those in 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.119 the grocery store. Maybe not in Arizona. I don't know, 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.160 but we'll see. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.160 I thought it was a pizza thing when you When 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:44.240 I saw that, I was like, oh is that? 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:44.480 Like? 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.680 Uh, what's the pizzaert? 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.200 It's like a little tiny thin waffle. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.280 Olmost it might be in here. There's so much stuff 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:51.720 in here. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.200