WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 3rd, 2023 (Ep. 639) 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.200 Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome in to leading off right 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.160 here and finishing growth crow to you by Prize Picks. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.200 I am the Welsh, that is the worm, and we 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:16.599 are here and says the worm down there. I didn't 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.280 even notice that on the overthlay Ryan Wormley a awesome, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.480 fantastic weekend of baseball. But you had a big move. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:24.240 How you doing, buddy? 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:25.479 I did have a big move. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.040 Anybody who's seed me on shows before can probably tell 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:29.960 from the background that looks a little different than usual. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.120 This is not a final setup of what my podcast 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.519 studio will look like down the line, but it's what 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.600 I could throw together here. Yeah, big move this weekend 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.440 bought my first house. Very exciting and a special thank 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.080 you to my parents who flew out from Virginia to 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:45.040 Denver to help. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.040 Me with the move this weekend. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.199 So I really appreciate all their help because it is 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.800 a lot moving by yourself. Is I was telling you 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.320 before the show my fourth move in the last three 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.319 and a half years, So hopefully this is it. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:56.920 I'm done. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.520 I'm gonna be here for several years and can finally 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:00.640 just settle in one place. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:01.600 Where are you at now? 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.240 I am just north of Denver. I'm in North Glenn. Technically, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.080 it's like twenty minutes north of the city. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.320 What's your address? Give your address out. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.480 That's just that's as much detail as I'm willing to get. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.680 I just wonder. I just wonder we can get your address. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.960 Awesome weekend of baseball and we've got it all here 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.840 for you today. We've got the headlines, We've got lots 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.840 of injuries. We're gonna bring back the stats. We are 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.479 also going to give you price picks, our best bets 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.160 in DFS. It's all going down here and leading off, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.240 we are day two of No Joe Piece Apia by 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.399 the way, which, by the way, just a little sequitor. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.600 When I'm out of here about an hour or so after, 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.399 I am going to be with Joe in about two 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.280 and a half hours. And I'm not joking you. When 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.360 he texted me his kids are here, so we're gonna 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.080 go meet up at David Busters. I think we might 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.160 video the basketball contest, which I'm going to smoke him in. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.600 But I'm not joking you. He said, we're thinking about 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.320 going to an escape room. I've never done an escape room, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.280 so I might be doing an escape room with Joe, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.640 with Joe and his kids here in a couple hours. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:01.960 So you've never done one. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.200 I've never done in. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.800 This Oh they're so fun. I've done a bunch of them. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.720 We've done them. It's sort of a tradition to my 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.760 friend group. At everybody's bachelor party or the morning of 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.040 the wedding. We've done them, and so it's kind of fun. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.520 We did one that was Serial Killer themed and it 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:17.959 was like it was like movie themes, so it was 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.240 like Saw and seven and Silence of the Lambs and 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.120 it was funny. We started off, they individually handcuffed everybody 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.720 to pipes around the room, shut off the lights in 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.880 the pitch black, and just left and we were talking. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.440 That was the morning of my best friend's wedding, so 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.040 we were talking to all the bridesmaids you know, later 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.920 that day and they were like, oh, well, you know, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.360 we had some nice mimosas we did our hair this morning. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.519 We were like, yeah, we were handcuffed in a pitch 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.800 black room somewhere that was themed like Saw. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.839 It was very different, but it was a ton of fun. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:47.800 I love escape rooms. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.320 Yeah, I've had some, like wedding parties handcuffed and dark rooms. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.200 But there was a saw theme, Ryan, So I don't 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.760 know what you're talking about. That's nutty, but just letting 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.560 everybody know you can be on the lookout for that. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.120 Let's talk some baseball, Let's talk some stuff. Also, welcome 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.919 into the peanuts and cracker jacks. With all of the chat, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.440 feel free to throw out stuff. See if we can't 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.560 comment as we go. You say nice things, we respond, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.560 You say mean things, and we will lose it and 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:12.359 chastise you. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:12.520 You know. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.400 That's how it goes. This week in big headlines, stolen 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.440 bases are up. I want to say the final number 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.600 with seventy nine. I could be maybe incorrect about that, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.200 I know. On here the note we have is the 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.240 Orioles pace of stolen bases, because I believe maybe it 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.280 was ninety or something like that, but I believe ten 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.680 stolen bases off of the first four games came from 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.560 the Baltimore Orioles, who are accuorating to more than ten 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.920 percent of all of the stolen bases in baseball. They 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.280 stole ninety five in twenty twenty two. So the final 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.480 tally here worm is we have stolen bases way up. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.120 The leader is Cedric Mullins. We've got I believe, four 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.280 guys with three stolen bases, and we're going to talk 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.960 about one of those guys, one of my favorites that 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.800 was able to put up three so stolen base big time, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.960 my friend. And it is maybe could taper down a 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.200 little bit, but it's looking good. Yeah. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.160 You know, the Orioles, like you said, they're at ten 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.880 no caught ceilings. Obviously a success rate one hundred percent. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.560 They're going to keep running, especially with their fast guys. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.840 We talked a little bit about that on Friday. But 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.719 there while they are, you know, clearly pacing the field here, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.160 they're not the only one. The Astros have six steals, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.800 White Sox, Guardians, Yankees each have five. Those next four 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.960 teams have combined for only three caught steilings. So again 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.120 it's not just a volume that's up, it's the success 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.920 rate is way up. I think Jeff Passon had something 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.919 that was like eighty three percent success rate for the league. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.600 I don't remember if that's exactly where something like that, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:41.920 which is an absurd number. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.039 This is what we expected. Again, we talked about this 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.560 on Friday. We thought this is what we were going 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:46.040 to see. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.800 We saw it on an opening day, We've now seen 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.120 it throughout opening weekend. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.200 This is a thing. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.920 It's here to stay and it rises everybody's stolen based 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:55.919 potential outcomes. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.080 Whether you're one of the fast guys or the slow guys. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.279 The opportunity is just there. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.000 Yeah, the success rate is what really stood out to me, right, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.080 The success rate is something I think to monitor. Everyone's 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.080 talking about the overall number, but that success rate does 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.599 I think that could be the game changer for the 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:12.200 rest of the year. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.320 Yeah, I think for sure, because I think that's what 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.640 you're going to see. I think the attempts are just 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.800 going to keep going up if people are keep being successful. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.920 I mean it's sort of a simple concept, right. If 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.080 they were not getting these stolen basics, they're getting caught stealing. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.599 Every time the number was going to go down, they're not. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.800 There's now added value in running and you're going to 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.520 I know, fre Rob Manfrey would like to keep saying that, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.640 you know, analytics are bad for the game or whatever. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.039 That's a longer conversation for a different time. But the 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.599 analytics quote unquote, if you run bases and you get 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.440 on without getting out, it's better they're going to keep 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:46.880 doing it. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:48.320 I just think it's going to keep going up. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.520 Yeah, And like Wonky said right here, if the picture 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.599 can throw over, the success rate is going to be 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.200 better than that. Hey percent, It's just going to keep 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.520 going as that's going on. Jeff Passen also jumping back 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.720 on that, he had a great thread of everything where 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.799 we saw game time cut by about forty minutes overall. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.640 Twenty twenty two, average game time on the first four 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.359 days of the MLB season was three hours, nine minutes. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.120 It was two thirty eight, which is crazy. It's about 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.159 the same amount of games. Batting average is up by 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.560 about fifteen points. It was two thirty in twenty twenty two, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.200 two forty five this past year. Obps up, sluggings up, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.760 all that, and the stolen base is seventy of eighty 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.000 four from twenty nine of forty three is what we 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.760 had last round, which is just it's absurd. It's really absurd, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.920 absurd in the best ways. By the way, I'm all 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.720 for everything being fun, and I'm all here for the 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.520 stolen bases. Like doctor Glenn, I would like you to 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.240 strap in my friend because he even had to throw 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.760 Look at the saltiness. He threw a welch. I know 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.599 someone salty when they throw a welch instead of welsh 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.520 because he knows. I'm gonna talk about the other big headline, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.160 Corbin Carrol. Calbyn Carroll stole three bases against the Dodgers. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.080 This is what's on our headlines. I didn't even put 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.640 it there, but this is part of that stolen base thing. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.960 I think he's ready to run wild. And obviously I'm 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.919 a big Corbyn Carol fan. He stole two against No. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.880 A cinderguard. It's that big deal, you know, like you 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.880 have to have an exchange rate. We've talked about this. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.680 Everyone got on me about Jeff Springs this weekend because 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.360 I was like having a little bit of fun and 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.640 everyone's like tigers and it's like, okay, well, what is 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.760 the exchange rate then? Is that eight strikeouts versus a 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.520 really good team, or nine strikeouts versus a decent team. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.200 Stealing against No. A cinderguard? Okay, no throw overs? Right, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.920 they didn't even attempt to throw on the first one, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.800 and the very next pitch he stole third without a throw, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.360 without a throw, and then he proceeded to steal one 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.280 more base. He is now second in baseball after one game, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.680 and he had two lefties up going in the early front, 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.000 which he wasn't running at A side note, I want 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.240 to give as well to everybody that's kind of like 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.600 still weird about him Wonky I was gonna say, but 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.280 you know, take that it's not Wonky Penguin. Is that 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.200 on the broadcast the Diamondbacks openly talked about it is 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.960 so weird too that Tory Leavello his number one question 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.960 he's asked Ryan is why is Corban Carroll not leading off? 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.960 And he said he did not want to put the 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.760 young guy in that position early on, which is stupid, 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.280 which is such silly old baseball stuff. But he acknowledges 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.320 that he's going to get there, but he purposely is 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.560 doing it, not to put the pressure on him. Not 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.400 that he's not set well. I think after stealing two bases, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.560 putting himself in by the way, that two stolen base 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.800 he got from stealing second and third put him in 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.400 run position where the Diamondbacks then scored on the very 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:32.959 very next play. That's the type of stuff that old 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.559 baseball heads love and will put him in a better spot. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.679 So three stolen bases a pretty big day for the 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.400 rookie Corbyn Carroll, right, and there's a lot of stuff 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.080 that I just threw up. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.240 Yeah, No, I think it is kind of silly. On 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.320 the one hand, I do think that, you know, a 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.880 manager knows his players better than we do, so like theoretically, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.920 maybe he's like trying to use some insight into oh 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.000 this kid actually might not, you know, want to deal 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.240 with the pressure leading off. I think that's kind of 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.240 bogus though, Like I agree with you if you're a 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.679 really good player, like you're going to be a really 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.560 good play player, especially at the top of the lineup, 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.800 where you can help your team more and find more 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.160 early success and then just gain that early confidence. So 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.520 I do think that's kind of a weird notion on 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.480 the on the steals and on Carol, I wanted to 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.800 ask you how high of an over under what I 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.200 need to set for you to not take the over 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.160 on his total stolen bases this season? 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.360 Oh my gosh, Like well what's the number? Oh? 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.480 Why? Like like sixty? 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:30.280 Oh, I'm not ridiculous. I mean, if people have been 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.400 following along, there's a point the projections had him under 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.520 twenty to start the year. I just want to remind 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.920 everybody the bat X had him under twenty way over. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.800 I think he's gonna seal forty plus this year. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.600 Ryan and I do too, but I'm not. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:50.319 I'm not totally against saying some pretty outlandish numbers because 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.080 of this first weekend we've seen again, I think the 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.920 attempts are going to continue to go up as the 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.040 success rate stays high. I think these rules are gonna 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.200 have that big of an imp and a guy who 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.320 has elite speed like Carol if his team is gonna 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.559 let him run like I don't see any reason why 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.520 a guy like him, or like Mullins and Mateo and 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.200 Baltimore or some of these guys that we already kind 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.480 of look at as elite level speed guys in elite 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.960 level base dealers, I don't see any reason why they 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.320 couldn't go well above fifty or even sixty. I I 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.760 am not holding back my enthusiasm for this new new 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.679 landscape of the league at all. And I guess sort 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.040 of a second follow up question that I have for 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.319 you is, as a fantasy manager, when you look at 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.080 so and bases being up across the board, do you 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.960 take the angle of Okay, I really need to invest 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.720 in the elite guys because it's gonna be harder to compete. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.080 Or do you say, I don't need to invest as 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.680 much draft capital and you know, trade value in the 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.280 elite guys because you can find them on the margins 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:47.640 more if everybody's running more. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:48.679 How do you approach that? 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.120 I lead, Okay, that's a really good question because I've 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.920 always leaned into having a couple elite guys. I don't 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.079 think you have to have the Outaward demond sies or 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.079 anything like that. But I was leaning into the guys 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.440 that were thirty plus. I thought Andres Jemenez would be there. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.880 That's a big target of mine. I do think with 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.600 the waters rising a little bit, you can start to 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.920 stack but still have a top guy, you know, still 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.839 have an upper tier two upper tier players, and stack 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.560 a whole bunch of other guys. So, by the way, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.800 apologies off my own it's being weird. I can see it, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.640 but I love you all. I just want you to know. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.720 Let's move on. Joey Gallo homers twice and doubles after 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.600 beginning zero for six with forced trikeouts. We also had 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.720 yal Mancotton now Homer and double twice on Sunday, Ryan, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.000 are you back on Joey Gallo and or yal Moncotton. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.600 No, I'm definitively not back in on Gallo. I would 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.199 say I am on My god. I mean this is 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:45.000 kind of like a post post post post post hype sleeper, right, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.720 I mean a guy not that he's never had a 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.040 good season obviously. Uh, you know a few years ago 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.559 he was really good, but really up and down, never 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.560 quite put it all together in the way his elite 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.920 prospect status would have had us all hope to see. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.320 But he looks really good to start. The tools are there. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.760 He's still only twenty seven years old. Like, this is 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.360 the exact type of high ceiling guy that I'm willing 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.840 to buy in on a sort of a later career 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.440 breakout that we've gotten used to with a lot of 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.600 these top prospects, you know, in the last decade or so, 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.760 it seems like everybody comes in and makes an early impact. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.000 Just because he didn't reach those lofty levels and expectations 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.520 we had doesn't mean he can't. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.319 Again, he's still twenty seven years old, So. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.760 He is a guy that I would would be very 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.440 willing to buy back in on and see what happens. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.880 It takes one of those high upside swings Gallo. No, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.440 I mean he had he had a great game. Congrats. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.240 I didn't think he was never gonna have a good game. Again, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.360 it's not nearly enough for me to buy back in 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:34.640 on it. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.560 Shame on. Yeah, you can't get full No, I'm not 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.160 doing that. Also that point out sometimes there's got to 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.000 be players where it's like, even if they you just 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.240 have to be committed. And it's like, I'm committed to 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.280 never committing to Joey Gallo, even if he becomes the 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.320 best player in baseball, I'll just be wrong. We'll just 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:50.720 be wrong. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.800 I'm not I'm willing to be wrong on Gallo if he, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.360 you know, explodes this year. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.679 Yeah, exactly, And I'm with you. I actually I am 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.760 very much fear for the Moncada stuff. Another one of 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.120 those guys. I would just throw out. What I'm super 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.800 interested in the stolen base market is the guys that 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.120 go from two or three up to ten or twelve. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.600 And that's what that's what like what you were alluding to, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.400 and having the elite guys would change it. Also want 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.760 to point out we have a celebrity in the chat. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.240 By the way, Joe pisa Pa is here, big t. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.760 By the way, Joe, I told him about our escape 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.040 room that I might potentially be along with you guys 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.720 with But I also said, you and I are going 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.240 to have Joe Pisap and I are going to be 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.160 having a basketball shootof competition in a couple hours and 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:29.920 we'll get it filmed. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.640 That'll be going, yeah, if we get that filled, We'll 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.040 get that on the fantasy for his MLB Twitter account. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.560 That's a promise, we'll get it. Yeah. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.480 But back to the baseball buying on Mancata, not on 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.440 Joey Galla. We had some injuries. Anthony Rendon dealing with 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.800 a knee issue and also being a huge, huge a 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.680 hole if you will. I don't know if everybody saw it. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.320 This weekend he grabbed a fan, said a few choice 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.160 words and tried to swipe at him and Baseball. They 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.000 said he's dealing with a knee issue right now, but 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.800 Baseball is also looking into a potential suspension on Anthony. 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:03.839 Y don't the biggest takeaway on that whatever side you take, like, oh, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.680 screw fans and saying stuff to players or whatever, anthonyermand 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.319 don't look like a psycho. He looked like the joker. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.120 He could be the next joker. He had this like 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.680 crazy smile and he had like the big guys and 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.920 he's like, oh you call me, and it was a 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.320 wild I don't know if you saw the video orm Yeah. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:19.440 I did. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.920 Well. You remember when the movie Smile, That horror movie 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.960 was out and they kept putting all the actors in 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.760 baseball stadiums to say this smiling. He kind of looked 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.640 like one of those actors that had been dropped into 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:30.320 the stadium. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.800 He totally did. He looked like a total psychopath on there. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.960 And Baseball is reviewing it. Horgey Mintael, this is an 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.200 interesting one. This is the stolen bas episode. Horne. Mateo 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.040 was held out Sunday with a finger issue after stealing 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.040 four bases and he leads baseball. So, I mean literally 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:51.160 two games, steals four bases, leads baseball. Miteo right now 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.960 is everything that people wanted out of his story, Ruiz, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.760 and this is what Miteo kind of does. My only 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.600 problem with him in my big betlong term has been 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.600 can he hit consistently? And I don't think so. It's 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.680 also been my problem with a guy like historyuiz can 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.800 he hit consistently get on base to have those stolen 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.640 base attempts? But either way, Mateial's near the top a 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.280 little bit banged up. You also had Robbie Ray hitting 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.880 the eye l and this might be a much more 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.840 extended one. Also some vlo dips. I had major worries 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.440 about Robbie Ray coming into the season and it kind 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.000 of came to fruition. I don't know what you feel 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.400 about Robbie Ray right now. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.400 I was higher on him coming into the year than 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:27.880 you were. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.040 He's a similar to Max Freed, Like we talked about 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.480 a Friday where I just have him everywhere and then 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.120 the injury hurts me. Robbie Ray, I just I am 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.080 getting destroyed in this first weekend on the fitching health 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.720 you know front. But I know Ray is a guy 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.840 that I liked quite a bit. Obviously, you know, tons 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.000 of strikeouts, all that. Everybody knows about Robbie Ray. But yeah, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.040 really concerning just a the way he looked and be 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.680 now the fact that it might be an extended app sences, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.320 it's not good. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.680 Did you You don't have those two on the same team, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:56.040 do you? 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.600 I do in fact, it's my most important to my dynasty. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.640 Ly like most money you know on the table here 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.840 and both of Carlos Rodin, who even in Spragg had 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.240 already started off with the injury. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.160 Not a great start in that group. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.240 Oh, we are into this part of the season too, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.600 justin this is a good point. Don't draft starting pinchers 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.680 in the first nine rounds. Ever, that's what this is. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.440 The part of the season. By the way, I did 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.920 implement this in my final two drafts of the season 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:23.720 was something I kind of did not that it was 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.520 in the first nine rounds, but I really didn't go 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.000 heavy sps. So I suppose it's something that can you 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.600 can be not hurt, but you really have to. You 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.320 got to hit it off on a couple other players, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.960 which one we'll talk about here in a second row. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.200 Max Munsey dealing with groin issues. He's not expected to 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.360 land on the IL, but he might lead baseball and strikeouts. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.760 Currently get five strikeouts I think on Saturday, and he 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.280 just continues to strike out. Carlos for don it's gonna 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.160 be facing live hitters this week, which I think is 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.520 a really good sign. I actually believe I believe that 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.880 we're gonna see they said he's gonna throw one bullpen 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.240 session and then he's gonna have a rehab stint. I 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.480 don't know if how many rehabs starts he really is 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.960 going to need. So if let's just hypothetically say it's 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.440 one and one, you might have him back by late 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.119 ish April, which would be a very very good sign. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.520 So you know, Carlos Radon coming back where we're losing 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.520 all these other guys. Travis Story is going to begin 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.320 a throwing program in two weeks, which is going to 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.639 help the timeline. Joey bart lands on the IL as 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:24.080