WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 17th, 2022 (Ep. 576) 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.279 Leading off stars right now on Fantasy Pros. I am 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.320 Chris Welsh aka the Welsh, and it is yes, a 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.360 wonky Wednesday. It is Kelly Kirby in the house. We 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:30.120 see Penguins in the chat. Chat get the Penguins continuous going, Kelly, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.720 What's going on? 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.920 Not a lot? I started Mitch Keller last night, but 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.239 I managed to get up today. So thanks for good that. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.640 Yeah, it's actually good to have you here. You always know, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.160 by the way, if you guys don't come and check 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.640 out the YouTube live, you always know it's a Wednesday 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.400 by the Penguins absolutely dominating the chat with our Peanuts 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.159 and Cracker Jacks. All are awesome people hanging out with 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.280 us today as we are going to be going through 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.440 everything that went down in baseball, everything that's coming up, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.680 and contract extensions. I know they're not quite exciting, except 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.720 when these really really young, crazy hot prospects signed big money, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.800 taking out all of their arbitration, taking out their free 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.679 agent years. And the realization that Michael Harris who signed 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.720 congratulations to him an eight year, seventy two million dollar deal. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.600 But I'm gonna throw this at you, he will not 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.880 be a free agent until he's thirty two years old. Like, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.800 think about how young he is, how great he is. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.840 That's a state of baseball. Sign a contract. It's pretty 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.880 good money football. Derwin James is safety just signed a 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.080 four year, seventy six million dollar okay, eight years, seventy 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.399 two million dollars for Michael Harris. He will not be 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.919 a free agent until thirty two. I still will stand 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.679 that this is bad for baseball, but it's great for 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:42.200 the Braves. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.160 Kelly absolutely, I'll be fifty two when his contract ends, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.360 so let's not put our age. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.280 You're like, he's like, I'll be oh boy, I don't know. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.080 Yeah, no, I know. Even typing it in, I was like, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.080 thirty two. No, I think it's great for them. The 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.600 fun fact I put in there later is it's just 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.440 kind of insane for what the race. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.960 Give us a fun fact. Let's just rock it right now, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.920 because I think it's a it's kind of a wild 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.840 thing to process, and I'll let you do it if 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.320 you want. It's it is a one. This actually looks 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.040 like a dynasty trade. I'm gonna ask to throw this out, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.960 So think of like a dynasty trade in your mind 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.000 of these players. But go ahead, with that fun fact. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.720 All right, So Ronald Ducunya Azzi, Elbi's, Austin Riley, and 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:29.040 Michael Harris have now signed long contracts with the Braves. Combined, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.600 they are going to earn four hundred and nineteen million dollars. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.440 Mike Trout signed a contract for four hundred and twenty 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.679 six point five million dollars. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.360 So that's four years ago this dynasty trade, where it 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.239 had been like do I want all of these young guys, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.880 especially on the same team, it worked out. Here's another 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.560 one to throw at you. I don't have the exact 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.239 number here, but I just thought of it and think 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.240 of the Rangers who have Cory Seeger and Marcus Simeon 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.960 at like five about half a billion dollars, and it's like, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.000 you know, what would you rather have? You get one Trout, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:00.840 you get a secret and me in, or you're getting 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.679 a Kunya Albi's, Riley and Michael Harris. It's pretty good. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.119 The Braids are pretty good at what they do. They 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.239 for whatever reason, don't seem to have any issue buying 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.600 out all these guys arbitration and buying out free agent 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.160 years and having control through really like you know, twenty 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.040 twenty seven is for the most part for most of 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.520 these guys, so they don't really lock up the pictures. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.720 You know, it's funny. We were talking about the Rookie 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.320 of the Year stuff yesterday and how Spencer Strider is 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.960 a current leader and Michael Harris is the plus money 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.560 right behind him and Strider, you know, good start this week. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.600 But no contract extension for Strider and Michael Harris, I 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.000 believe came even later in that process. But they love 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.880 their hitters. It seems like they have the inverse Mets 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.440 thing where it's they want to pay the hitters and 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.960 then they are going to go and buy the pictures 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.200 into the future where the Mets used to pay the 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.200 hitters and homegrown the pictures in whatever attempt when it 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.000 was no Cindergarten to grom But do you like this deal? 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:58.400 I mean, do you like I mean, obviously you like 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.000 it for the Braves, but do you like it for 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.960 Michael Harris? If we wanted to play that card, if 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.280 we wanted to play the player's card. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.640 Yeah, it's so long, I mean eight years. I kind 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.640 of I wish I wish it was five. I think 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.400 five would just feel a little bit better for him. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.839 But I was just thinking about it. None of them 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.520 are represented by Boris, right, I mean. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.039 No, Michael Harris. Actually, it's funny you say that because 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.240 of a friend of mine, Dennis Sidler, who owns a 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.680 great company called sids Grafs does all these autographs. He 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.880 has an exclusive deal with Michael Harris that he signed, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.159 and Michael Harris is so all of like when he 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.440 signs bats and stuff, he can only do it through Dennis, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.719 So sidsgrafs dot Com. There's a nice plug for him. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.680 And we were actually talking about this, and you know, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.159 he's got a smaller agent, you know, not he not 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.640 even an agency really, it's like a smaller kind of 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.080 very individual agent that got this done, not Boris, Like 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.120 any of those guys are Boris. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.040 Yeah yeah, well, I mean because he usually just absolutely 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.839 prevents people from doing the extensions. So for for Harris himself, yeah, 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.159 I I think I think it's good because he's super young, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:04.839 but like, yeah, I kind of agree with you in 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.200 terms of it's bad for baseball. And it was like 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.280 the eight years, it's just a really long time to know, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.240 you guys not going anywhere. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.680 And we know nothing I'll ever get fixed with baseball. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.240 I mean, they can't, like, you know, they can't play 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.120 while trying to figure out what's the best thing for 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.559 the game. So they hold out, and then they try 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.160 to come up to other agreements that might help baseball, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.680 like let's even say the International Draft, and everybody just says, no, U, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.240 let's get what they want. So why do we ever 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.520 think there'd be any type of cap or your cap 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.839 or anything to contracts. I mean, this is good for player, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.280 This is good for the teams more than anything else. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:37.960 And I suppose you cand always argue it's good to 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.200 see players stay on the same team. It's just I 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.840 don't know. I see eight, ten, twelve year contracts and 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.839 it's just like okay, like it's wild. But to be 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.760 fair in baseball, you know football, Like I mentioned this guy, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.240 Dorwin James with the Chargers signed a deal four year, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.919 seventy six million dollars. I think today, you know, he 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.960 will get his second contracts still in his twenties. But 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.680 baseball's life span is so much bigger. So even though 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.599 Michael Harris will be thirty two, as long as he 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.800 doesn't pull like a Jacob Hayward or anything like that, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.280 that at thirty two, you can still sign a massive 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.599 another second deal and that would be the big, big 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.599 money day. They don't all get like one. So so 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.120 Michael Harris is huge year is going to pay off 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.320 and we'll see what happens with the rookie. Speaking of 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.960 the Mike Trout comp here, Mike Trout could return to 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.920 the lineup this week and if not, it could be 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.480 probably early next week. But either way, Kelly, we are 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:34.880 getting Mike Trout back very soon. Are your expectations anything? 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:41.479 No, I have no expectations for him at this point. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.320 I feel like they're going to try to keep him healthy, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.040 which means we're going to just see so much more 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.680 of him Dhan or just doing less of what he 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:50.679 thinks her. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.400 In weekly leagues to that point right there. I mean, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.479 you always have the advantage of being able to just 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.680 throw guys out at DH, except you have Shohio Tani. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.400 So it's just like the Angels have with us as 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.880 fantasy owners. When you draft Oughtani and have the two 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.640 way player, your utility is pretty much locked up. You're 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.000 not gonna go and be able to have a lot 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.720 of flexibility. Do you think because of Tani is gonna 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.040 be locked in at DH? And how the season is 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.960 going and Trout's current health that there could be a 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.920 tiny bit of danger in weekly leagues. I don't know 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.520 if there's a there's a way that we could ever 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.440 justify not starting him in really any capacity, but weekly 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.480 leagues could get messy. If he plays two days, sits one, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.360 then there's an off day and they're trying to give 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.200 him two straight days and all of a sudden, you 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.800 know you're getting maybe three games out of him in 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.120 a given week when you could get six from a 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.040 Von Grissom. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.400 You know something like that, right, right, Yeah, especially like 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.120 the counting categories is you just can't. Yeah, when he's 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.280 in he could be fantastic, but we also don't know 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.000 what that's going to look like with the back injury. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.800 You know, does it does he swing less hard? I 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.760 have no idea. I just could cup on everything. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.960 It's actually gonna be really important, to be really important 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.520 to watch Mike trot. I think it's gonna tell a 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.640 big story about what we might be in for. It's 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.200 gonna tell everything for next year because when the season's done, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.640 Trout rests, you know, we come back, but I really 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.760 want to see, like, how does he perform. You know, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.080 I don't really care how the Angels treat him, but 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.720 is how is all of this going to Readjust are 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.520 we really going to be on the down side of 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.400 this or we're going to look back on this, which 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.800 I think is most likely situation. We're gonna look back 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.400 on all this stuff and we're gonna be like, Ah, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.040 wasn't that funny when we like doubted Mike Trout and 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.800 we can just still never doubt him. But the back 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.400 issue is no good. The other headlining piece, though, I 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.080 do think it's funny. I think it was like John 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.640 Hayman and a couple of people were like Yankees top prospect. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.280 Estevon listen, Estevan Floriol has had all the opportunities in 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.160 the world. He ain't a top prospect anymore, so don't 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.280 get it twisted. Estevon Floriel puts up video game type 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.920 of numbers in the minors and completely disappears. This is 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.520 an Atari versus a PS five type of thing. He 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.319 is PS five and Triple A, and he is Atari 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.400 when he gets to the majors. He doesn't steal those 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.319 thirty two bases that he has in the mind. He 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.880 doesn't hit those fourteen homers. He has a career two 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.360 h six average in the Major though it's been short stent. 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.000 I've seen him so much live in the minors from 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.840 a couple of different AFL stands. He has got all 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.560 the intangibles except a consistent hit tool. It's actually very 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.040 reminiscent of Jared Kalnick with just actually higher speed potential. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.240 But he's getting called up, and I think we're in 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.960 a real big kind of prospect, you know, influx right 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.040 now where it's like, hey, Shane Lngliers even came up 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.280 and he's rocking and Von Grissom and all that. But 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.880 it's like Floriel to me is not that guy, very 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.160 true quad a player. But I know he's gonna get 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.480 He's gonna get some ramp up. He's gonna get some 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.040 ramp up by a lot of people. Do you have 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.080 any interest in Floria because he has a power speed 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.120 combo guy, No doubt. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.160 I don't at this point with him because because exactly 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.040 that when he gets called up, it just goes away. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.160 The only thing I like, you know again is the 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.439 Yankees in that ballpark, in with that lineup. If he 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.720 does get on, he could boost like runs and whatnot. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.600 But I just don't trust it. I don't trust Kalenik. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.880 I mean, they're just guys that I can't put on 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:03.559 my team at all. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.280 So yeah, I mean there's big strikeout numbers, but you know, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.680 to be fair, he had. What he has changed is 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.439 really got back on the bass. Pats last year played 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.040 seventy eight games in Triple A and only stole thirteen bases, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.760 and he stole none in Double A for a little 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.040 tiny stent. Average was crap last year. This year in 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.679 Triple A, he's hitting right around to eighty, stole thirty. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.880 Power numbers seemed to be in line, but strikeout numbers 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.000 also seemed to be relatively in line. So as where 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.400 I said, like, I would go and speculate on Shane 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.839 Langelier's early on which I think is look good. It 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.679 looked good, great, you know, power hit double. I think 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.520 in his first hit. Florida is not a guy that 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.640 I'm looking to speculate on. There's other guys and actually 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.840 we'll talk about one in just a minute. Some injuries, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.680 Jorge Blanco out of the lineup against the Royals today, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.160 Kyle Schwarber out of the lineup that was fun call him. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.640 He was out out Tuesday, out Wednesday. Led Me's dias 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.000 could be placed on the IL the ten day, according 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.040 to Dusty Baker, and Clay Holmes need a fifteen day 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.440 il stent due to a backage. You may need a 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.360 season long il stent due to everything. Well, remember when 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.240 he was good, Remember that point in the season where 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.080 we were like, Clay Holmes should save games over a 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.960 role as Chapman. And here we are now, Kelly. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.640 I literally dropped him for Matt Bush in the league. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.640 Yeah it was ugly, but I was like, I gotta 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:23.360 get him out of here. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.440 Hearing that it was a little rough, that's all. Yeah, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.760 you gotta do what you gotta do. So if you 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.280 are looking for prospect to pick up, because that is 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.680 the fun, that is the trend. There are guys we've 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.439 talked about. Obviously, Corman Carroll is someone. Corban Carroll and 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.760 Gunner Henderson are the two biggest impactful players that are 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.800 floating around. We just don't know what the teams are 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.960 going to do with them. Another guy that, though I 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.200 do not believe he has enough games under his belt, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.880 is absolutely terrorizing baseballs. And it's I talked about a 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.079 couple weeks ago because I was at his season debut 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.240 Josh Young. Josh Young is someone that you guys need 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.040 to pay a little bit more extra attention to if 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.400 you haven't, because he played a couple games in Complex, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.959 moved up to Triple A, and he is destroying. He's 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.600 destroying at a level where it's a disservice for them 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.280 unless it's manipulation to just continuously keep him down there. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.920 At this point, let the Rangers use it up in 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.480 the majors. Josh Young hitting three twenty on the season 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.920 with a four hundred OVP and an eight hundred slug 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.079 in that good old three four to eight slash that 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.160 everybody knows about. Seven homers with a stolen base in 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.559 seventeen games or no, I think it's nine game nine 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.640 ten games, but either way, ten of his seventeen hits 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.640 this season have been extra base variety. He had six 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.920 games so far in Triple A. He's hitting four hundred. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.160 I don't think he's gonna come up this week, but 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.280 I think this is the preemptive move to get your guy, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.320 get your prospect. The contact ability has really adjusted. He 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.040 looks so much better than he did when I saw 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.080 him here in complex. He's getting the ball up even more. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.760 The power is going through the roof. He makes immense 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.400 contact and he looks he looks like he d even 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.080 some weight, very athletic. How willing are you to be 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.040 speculative on a guy like Josh Young that you would 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.760 have to eat days? 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.120 Oh yeah, I wouldn't have any trouble doing that, depending 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.640 on how deep the league is and where I'm at, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.440 if I have the space to kind of hide him 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.400 on my bench. I drafted Johnathan India all over the place, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.080 so I that bench is a little busy right now, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.280 but I would could totally take him at any time. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.800 So in let's say a twelve team, you could use 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.199 some bat help. But that also means you could use 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.560 some bat help and you could use it now, would 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.280 be willing to drop You know, I'm trying to think 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.439 of like a speculative bat bench guy that comes off 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.000 the top of my head. But like, let's say you 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.480 know you got a relatively shorter bench. Is he the 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.640 type of guy that you would want to have on 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.480 the back because he's going to hit for high contact. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.000 Are you going to sacrifice a bench spot to maybe 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.040 let's say eat a week a week and a half. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.040 Would you do that for Young or is it just 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.480 is it just not advantageous because you might you're in 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.120 a potential like playoff ish run. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.720 Yeah, depending again, I would do it if the rest 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.680 of even in one of my leagues, I think we 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.480 have three bench spots, I would have no trouble dropping 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.200 any of the guys I currently have been there for him, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.840 So I'll wait on him. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.240 Get some Josh Young before you know, pops up. They 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.440 obviously he needs the at bats. I do think he's 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 a potential guy for the Arizona Fall League, so they're 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.920 not going to want to exhaust prospect eligibility, but just 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.760 keep an eye out for it. He makes a lot 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.200 of sense. Get him some at bats of the Majors, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.200 throw him over to the Arizona Fall League for more 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.440 bats since he's missed so much time this year. But 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.400 Josh Young definitely one of the big names as we 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.280 continue to speculate and try to find the next big 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.760 guy that's going to get a call up, because we're 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.160 all having fun with that. This day in Baseball nineteen ninety, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.760 in Chicago's four two win over Texas, Carlton Fisk Homer's 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.560 offer Charlie Hugh to become the all time home run 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.360 leader with one hundred and eighty seven in White Sox 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.560 history and the all time leader in home runs by 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.440 a catcher at three twenty eight. And when you know it, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.440 we got more catcher questions here, Kelly, I don't think 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.400 you saw the answer to this because I quickly deleted 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.400 as it posted it. But I have a trivia question 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:07.000 for you. Francisco Alvarez, speaking of top prospects with the 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.800 New York Mets, is just the third catcher to be 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.920 MLB dot COM's number one overall prospect? Can you name 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.880 the other two? Can everybody name? 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.400 Do you want me to take a guess? 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.360 You're a good guest, so, I mean chat can start 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.000 getting in here. I think Kelly might be able to 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.920 give this, But there were three number one overalls. One's 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.080 gonna probably be pretty easy here, the other one maybe 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.720 not so much. If you think about who would the 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.600 other two number one overall MLB pipeline catching prospects. Number 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:36.040 one overall? 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.240 Matt Wieters was the only one I could think of, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:40.840 But I don't know if that's right. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.840 That is incorrect? 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.720 All right, I'm off the show. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.080 Yes, Piazza, and it's a good guest. These are good 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.560 guests in here. I think there's one very very easy one. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.800 The other one when you know, when you know it, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.240 you'll be like, oh duh. But I don't think think 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.520 of it as I'm gonna be honest with Waiters. Would 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.120 have been one of the first I would have said, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.280 one of the absolute first. I would have said here, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.920 so I don't blame you here. Andrew absolutely nailed it. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.360 Joe Mauer and Adlei Ruchmand go Cards actually got Retchman first. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.720 Ali Richman and Joe Mauer were the top Rudmand was 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.800 or Adli Ruschman was their mid season twenty twenty one 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.960 top overall prospects similar to what Alvarez has right now, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.240 and Joe Joe Mauer was the preseason two thousand and 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.520 four number one overall prospect at catcher. Good guesses, though 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.400 you got like you know, Posey in there and stuff, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.080 so only so many you could do. But we're looming 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.760 into Oh, you know what, here's a great question. Who 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.120 would you rather speculate on right now? Josh Young or 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.800 Francisco Alvarez in redraft? 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.880 Oh, in redraft in Redraft. I'd rather have Young, but 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.240 like in the Dynasty, I might I might store Alvarez first. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.000 Yeah, I mean pitting your catching situation. What makes that tough? 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.040 Like what if you had like an Adlee already? You 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.600 know you would be resigned. I suppose you would be 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.600 resigned to utility if you were to bring up Alvarez. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.280 But Alvarez as bad as what's going to get him 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.320 in here? And he would DH when he comes up, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.520 So I kind of agree. I think I would go Young, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.520 but Alvarez might beat him there. So if anybody is looking, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.840 those are probably your two biggest guys. Some stat heroes 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.919 from me yesterday Rehys Hoskins three for six, two homers, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.240 five RBI with a stolen base. That's a combo meal 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.280 and I picked the wrong Philly. Ugh picked the wrong Philly. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.000 Nick Fortes also had two homers, going three for four. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.120 Nick Castillanos had a bomb getting on the offensive side, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.600 Garrett Stubbs with a homer, Julio Rodriguez three for five 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.720 with a home run, Kerry Carpenter with the bomb, Matt 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.760 Olson with a bomb, and Nico Horner. Are you with me? 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.640 Kelly on Carrie Carpenter's little run that's going on here, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.640 this power output. I feel like every day or every 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.760 other day since his call up, we have said his 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.640 name on this show that he is just putting up stats. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.280 Yeah, no, I am totally with you. After yesterday, I 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.600 picked him up because he was still available like Oliver everywhere. Well. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.240 No, it was a friend of mient Joe Rocca, who 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.359 has a couple great shows. You should go check him 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.560 out on Twitter. Had was nice enough to give me 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:09.960 a little bit of love, saying I had never heard 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.480 of Kerry Carpenter before I talked about him, and he 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.639 was a dude that was just really killing it in 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.879 the miners. And as I said yesterday or whatever it 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.440 was two days before that, the only problem was when 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.159 he was like twenty four years old at double A, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.120 it was kind of like, eh, you know, like let's 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.159 not go nuts about it. But then it's Triple A 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.920 the whole season in he's just consistently been hitting for power, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.879 hitting over three hundred. Now he's in the majors. In 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.360 a very very short sample size, he's hitting over three 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.119 hundred with two bombs already six hits. Playing some left field, 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.240 he also can be a corner infield type of guy. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.760 It's a very interesting bat and it's a wild thing 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.840 to think that the Tigers have prioritized him over Spencer Turklesen, who, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.600