WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 28th 2022 (Ep. 562) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:15.840 Has the fish gone bad? Let's play ball. Welcome and 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.520 everybody to Fantasy Bros. This is leading Off, brought to 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.479 you by bet MGM, the King of sports books. It's me, 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.720 Joey Pa Joe Piezopia with me. Today is the Welsh, 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.520 and of course it's you and we're talking baseball a 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.880 lot to get to the big Mike Trout news that 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.320 dropped yesterday. Is it a big deal? Is it the 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.760 biggest deal? Is it not a deal at all? The 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.040 Mets sweep the Yankees. Max Schurzer gets a huge outing 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.319 on his birthday, but he doesn't get a w We've 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.280 also got a lot of injury news and another trade 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.279 to talk about too. The trade wins are starting to blow, Welsh. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:48.760 So are you ready for the wind? 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.640 I am ready for them. I'm ready to speculate and prognosticate. 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.080 I'm ready for all of the craziness to go on. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.960 I do love the daily Soto change, though, I'm gonna 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.760 tell you I'm gonna miss that in mid next week. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.399 Where yesterday it was the Yankees, today it's the Padres. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.760 The day before that it was the Cardinal, Like I 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.920 kind of am going to miss who he could go 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.160 to the game of musical chairs. But it will all 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.760 be taken care of by Tuesday. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.280 I've seen some of the dumbest scenarios out there. It's 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.679 like it's it's almost as though people covering baseball were 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.399 pretending to cover baseball, have no idea how the structure 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.160 of baseball works. I know, I don't understand. It drives 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.800 me crazy. It's hilarious, but that's fine. I mean, no, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.520 I mean, I've just seen some scenarios that people have 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.400 been thrown out there who work four places, even places 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.440 like MLB dot com where I just got I just 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.480 die just you know, really, really that's the scenario. You 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.720 would think that is what's gonna get SODO done. You 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.480 think you think the generational talent is gonna get moved 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:52.919 for that, that's the deal. Yeah, sure, whatever. But anyway, Welsh, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.320 let's start with the headlines from yesterday, and we have 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.080 to start with Mike Trout because that's the biggest man. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.560 He is diagnosed with a Okay, I'm gonna try to 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.480 say this right, controvertible dysfunction. Did I say it right? 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.200 We've always been a dysfunctional podcast. Now we're constravertible. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.240 We went to completely two different songs there by the way, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.680 I just wanted to point out. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.400 But it was like we were singing it in a 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.520 round almost. It was really nice, like controvertible function convert. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.320 So look, I mean, he's a one doctor says, here 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.480 you go, Doctor Robert Watkins says, who is a very 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.480 well known spinal surgeon in the country. This is what 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.760 he does. Uh, this is a very rare thing. He 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.880 has to manage it, not just through the season, but 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.680 also the rest of his career. Probably. Mike Trout says, dysfunctions, 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.120 fish function, no big deal. I'm all good. Uh, it 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.760 feels great. I'll be fine. Every day is improving. Look, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.840 it's it's always a I'm gonna harken back to the 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.760 David Wright spinal stenosis diagnosis that happened towards the end 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.760 of his career. I'm sure you would call that he 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.040 was never the same player after that, never the same 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.079 player after that. I think this is time here where 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.840 Mike Trout's had an amazing run, but I think we 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.959 have to come to that moment where we realize he 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.079 might not be that guy anymore. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.840 I think it's a yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, how 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.119 you said that? He is not. I have a hard 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.280 time believing he's going to be able to function as 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 the same player. The problem is is, I do think 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.200 over the last couple of years we've kind of gotten 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.840 a preview of what that Mike Trout would look like 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.160 because he's had constant issues and stuff like that. So 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.200 that might be where we're heading. I mean, he's been 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:33.960 missing games. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:35.960 Well, it could be part of what's going on here, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.200 is this condition is just yeah, it's causing him to 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.560 compensate or his body to move in different ways, you know. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.240 I mean that's the thing. It's like you can have 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.240 a back issue and then it ends up becoming another 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.120 issue somewhere else, or or you know, vice versa. It's 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.200 it's the body's a funny thing. It's doctor Glen knows 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:53.240 you hit over. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.920 Thirty and we all have had some type of back 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.720 issue which is pushed into something else. So I was 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.200 talking about the yesterday and it well, like I think 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.840 the dynasty value is hurt here, regardless of even if 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.440 it was quickly reactionary, we actually had talked about it 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.120 the minute the news came down. We didn't get was 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.280 how Mike Trout was like, hey, listen, It's really not 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.240 as big as everybody's making it out to be. Everyone's 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.480 saying my career is over. It's not. You know, I'm 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.320 gonna keep going. But I think from a dynasty perspective reaction, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.800 you got to bring him down, bring him down from 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.839 maybe he was sitting into the teens down to the 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.159 thirties at this point, and maybe further if you really 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.760 are worried about this. From a redraft perspective, he says, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.880 we'll be back this year. I have a hard time 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.279 believing why the Angels would do it at this point 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.320 and why they wouldn't just pack it in with him, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.400 let him take the rest of the year to recover 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.600 from this, to come into next year. This team refuses 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.480 to blow this team up, so they're going to be 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.680 at this same spot next year. And the third piece 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.960 Joe that I speculate on, So I wonder long term, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.960 I don't see how you can keep trotting Mike Trout 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.600 out into the outfield every day. Here's the problem they 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.240 have quite the dh in sho Aotani. I wonder if 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.240 they speculate, maybe not this year, but if they start 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.200 to speculate with Otani playing more positional stuff into the 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.080 near future and he gets that qualification because he's gonna 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.760 have to give that up a little bit for Trout. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.080 You're either gonna take it bats away from one of 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.599 the two, which I think Trout a little bit is 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.799 probably gonna have to sit more often than we expect. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.880 So I think future projections, I can't go over one 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.039 twenty on Trout anymore, and I won't for the rest 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.000 of his career. That's gonna be my projection. But maybe 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.760 we start seeing Otawni move into other spots. Maybe he 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.320 plays some left field, maybe he plays some first base. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.320 Next year, you're gonna lose, you know, some of the 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.120 guys that they've got in there. Just speculating on that. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.520 Maybe Otani is going to get some other value in 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.240 the near future. But they're really trying to play it 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.240 down for us right now. And we'll see. We'll see 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.880 how real Trout's words are. If he does come back 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.520 this year, if he gets back on the outfield, then 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:50.440 he doesn't miss games. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.000 I think the Trout contract's going to be, at the 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.479 end of the day, one that the Angles end up regretting. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.719 I do, really, I do. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.880 It sucks to think that, Like I just you know, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.120 because I'm just bringing up a spot track right now 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.280 because I wanted to see just how many years he's 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:09.000 got left here. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.840 I mean, I think he has signed into twenty thirty one. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.840 Yeah, he's actly, it's twenty thirty, right, and basically he's 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.040 making thirty five million dollars a year from now till 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.520 twenty thirty. And I don't think you're gonna get that 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.000 value out of that player. I just don't. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.520 I will never There's nothing you guys can tell me. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.040 I'll never understand. Because I see a couple people in 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.240 here talking about the contract. Red Baron had said, I 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.159 don't understand the ten and fifteen. I've been saying it forever. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.479 I don't get this every contract. I think it's a 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.520 disadvantage to baseball in general to be like, all right, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.120 here's our contract offer. It's fifteen years. Here you go, Soto, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.279 here's your entire cars. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.720 Well, they're trying to lock in the superstars before the 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.240 market goes into a crazy stratosphere, because every five to 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.680 ten years it does. But the problem is the commitment 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.119 to the players. I mean, it's it's a sport. Guys 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.760 get hurt, things happen, and it ends up most of 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.640 the time becoming a bad thing. Like the deals that 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.359 have long term deals with opt outs. I think the 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.240 opt outs are very good for both parties. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.479 I think it should be five years. You should have nothing. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.280 You should have nothing more than five years straight you 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:11.960 have no options. But if you have an eight year 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.680 contract all three years, well. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.160 The only time a ten year contract. I mean, if 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:16.520 you're going to do a ten year contract, you do 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.000 with a Wander Franco. You do it with a Fernando Tattis, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.400 you do with a guy in his early twenties. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.960 We also do it with Trout. You do it with Trout, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.120 a player like Trout. That's the type of player you do. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.120 But the problem is nobody can escape how stupid and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.520 bad fifteen year contracts are. The only time it's an 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.680 advantage to teams is when these guys are like Azzi 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.160 Albi's and Acuna like twenty one twenty two. The players, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.920 it's not an advantage because by the back half of 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.080 their contract they're being paid way lower than they probably 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.240 would five to six years max. That should be these contracts. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:48.800 It's good for. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.040 Everybody because baseball doesn't have a system to protect some 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.000 teams and the lower teams are the ones that just 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.280 decimate their rosters of these huge contracts. Then they're hampered 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.760 by the financial restrictions of thirty five to forty million 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:03.840 dollars baseball. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.560 The economics of baseball are broken, and they have been 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.080 broken for many years. They refusal to have a salary cap. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.360 It means that you're I mean, look, who are the 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.240 teams that are trading off. It's the Royals, it's the Tigers. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.520 It's the same old teams that are trading off. And yes, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.680 the Tigers have runs here and there, and yes the 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.480 Royals made it to a World Series and one they 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.960 had a window of time, but nothing sustainable. So unless 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.040 you have a real hard salary cap, which you're never 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.080 going to have a Major League Baseball this is what 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.480 you're gonna have. You're never going to have a competitive 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.600 balance that lasts ever. It's just not going to happen. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.840 So either you have to have owners who are willing 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.640 to spend and go into these markets and do that, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.520 or this is what you have, which is pretty much 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.520 fifteen teams are feeding the other fifteen teams. And I 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.840 know that sounds like a crappy thing, but it's true. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.439 It's pretty much where. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.920 The dogs Dodgers don't care about what they do. They 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.319 lost a picks, they lost a pick so they can 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:53.720 go over the cap. They don't care about. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:54.160 They don't care. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.880 And the chats again. I'll tell you this, like I 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.800 don't care about either side. Like I see, I think 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.920 it was Wanky's talking about, well, what the player gets injured, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.719 then they can cash. I don't want the player. I 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.040 don't want an injured player to take advantage of it. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.800 I don't want Steven Strasburg to be on this contract 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.240 for as long as he is when he's well. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:11.720 This is what happens when all the money in baseball 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.880 is guaranteed. And this is why in ANFL it's not 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.840 you know, and this is why baseball players, you know, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.360 in in a lot of senses. You know, baseball in 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.280 terms of path is a better one. All right, let's 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.440 talk about some other things here going on. Jacob Degram 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.360 did allow for earned runs to give up a bunch 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:32.240 of homers yesterday, but certainly on his way back, it 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.520 seems like things are going in that right direction. So 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.200 fingers crossed, I mean, spring training guys usually have that 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.199 one start where they're not quite there with their location. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.959 I imagine this is kind of that start for him. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.720 So I'm not freaking out like some other people are. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.240 As long as he doesn't feel ill or wrong after 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.240 the start, it's fine. Matt Olsen slugs his twenty home 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.120 run for the Bravest. I think Marte had that walk 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.839 off RBI after Max suerz Or went seven innings first time. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.760 Sures has gone seven innings, by the way, since his 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.000 injury when he's come back, So this is a night, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.080 this little demarcation for him. Bobby dallback homer twice, drove 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.600 in five runs, but it was a loss. We told 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.559 you get into that Cleveland Boston game last night, so 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.000 hopefully you did. Hopefully you had Louis Castil yesterday too. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.559 That was our favorite DFS pitcher that worked out. Also 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.400 of the Yankees acquired Andrew Benintendi from the Royals for 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:23.079 beck Way, Chandler Champagne and TJ. Sikima. Now Benintendi was 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.559 rumored to be moving for quite some time. He has moved. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.400 He's also said that he is going to now get 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.840 vaccinated because he's a Yankee and they want him to. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.160 So there you have it. Isn't that sort of an 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.760 interesting piece of news. I thought that was kind of odd. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.360 Yeah, that was kind of weird, just like if you 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.040 want to play. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.400 For US, well, I mean, I mean, I guess a 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:41.880 lot of jobs do that, but I just thought it 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.400 was kind of like, so it's more than to win 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.080 games for the Yankees, but not the win games for 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.200 the Royals. Got it? Got it, Andrew, I see how 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:48.480 it is. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.160 I don't know. All of this is weird. That was weird. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.840 The trade was weird. I thought it was pretty low return. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.760 Three pitchers. Beck Way is interesting. Probably the best long 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.880 term starter TJ. Tkhma just been kind of banged up 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.280 for a couple of years. Was a high pick, might 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.240 be a back end starter, probably more of a reliever. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.960 I just thought they would get a bigger piece for 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.839 a guy hitting three twenty, but they didn't, and they 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.200 just got kind of this weird haul. And there's also 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.240 off of speculation. It's not one hundred percent, but you 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.880 can theorize that this eliminates the Yankees and takes the 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.280 Yankees out of the contention of trying to go and 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.960 get one soda. They got their outfield. I think they 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:26.720 were priced out. 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.840 I told you before the Soda and the Yankees wasn't happened. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.520 They need a pitcher in the worst way. They be 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.720 Bo been helping out in the worst way. That's where 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.040 the Yankees are going. Maybe they'll get another bat and maybe, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.280 but it's not gonna be Soda. I just that that's farce. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.000 Camillo was the big one that they were talking about. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.360 That's gonna be the guy. And it's funnycause the Royals 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.280 are coming to play the Yankees this week, which is funny. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.360 It's like, Oh, you guys are coming over. Oh what 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.640 do you want to You want to bring a bottle 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:48.920 of wine? Not just bird springing out. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.720 Just bring Benny. Just bring Benny a little bit that. Yeah, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.439 the funny thing with the Castille thing too. Just one 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.800 random slide note as well. But the Yankees look like 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.600 they're gonna spend on pitching and they're gonna spin. Yesterday 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.679 on the show, I speculated to be Pablo Lopez. The 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.199 report came out that it is Luis Castillo or bust. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.680 So watch that funny note about Louis Castillo. We talked 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.760 about the prop yesterday. I think I had that we 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.720 both had that. I don't remember but it was. It 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.000 was five and a half. It then moved to six 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.240 and a half, went to big plus money, and it's 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.720 still cash. Castillo was just an absolute money maker yesterday. Regardless. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.760 If you go and look, the Yankees get cassed, they 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.480 need Castillo number one, number two. I think he'll I 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.520 think he will do well there. I think that's energetic guy, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.400 and I think he's going to do well there. Pouhos 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.320 ruined myke Kevin Gossman share though, yesterday because Poulos launched 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.480 the home run. I thought for sure, hey, let's troll 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.440 the Cardinals. Right. Nope, it turned out to be a 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.640 classic baseball moment where you know they line up with 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.439 nobody else in it all of a sudden, beat the 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.120 good pitcher, and it happens Gable a Day hit his 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.559 first major league homer. So congratulations for JJ and Castillo 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.760 picks up his winning which is probably his last start 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.080 for the Reds. Some good news, bad news and the 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.600 injury mix. Good news, Josh Young shoulder injury is gonna 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.640 be cleared for his rehab assignment. So this this is 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.120 a guy that can help you. If he's floating out 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.840 there on the waiver wire, grab him. He's gonna play. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.920 Well, guess what. Let me give you one further. He 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.560 is scheduled to d H tonight in the Arizona Complex League, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.000 and I will be over there because this guy's going. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.640 I will be right there as long as it doesn't rain. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.840 It's actually kind of rainy out here, but Josh, it's 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.800 been raining all lead. But I will be there getting 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.120 some video and stuff if he does and it doesn't rain. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.960 So good news on him. Good news on last. Mcclors 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.920 are through fifty two pitches in the rehab assignment. Why 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.719 he's throwing that many, I'm not sure, because he's just 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.720 gonna end up in the bullpen anyway, or traded for 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.760 all I know. I mean, that'd be fascinating. What colors 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.200 I think is a fascinating piece for some other team 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.719 to take on. That is one piece that I think 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.240 could bring something else. I've been thinking. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.600 Sorry, I mean to interrupt you. I'm just gonna always 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.880 do with him well, and I'm I like it to 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.480 something else, you know, the Soda trades. The rumor again 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.800 today is hey, Sodo to the Padres. They had the 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.720 best offer, and you and I have kind of agreed, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.800 like if that and I Potters were my number one 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.319 for a while. Here it's got to be Gore, and 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.440 then it's also got to be Abrams. But the Gore 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.480 injury makes it weird. How often are especially pitchers who 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.439 are on any type of injured list or injured in 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.520 some capacity, how often are they actually traded? And that's 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.120 why I'm liking it back to McCulloch, because he's perpetually traded. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.560 I just don't recall like a guy that was on 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.080 an I L or something being in a move around 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.200 the trade deadline. So I don't know, I mean, obviously, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:28.080 but nobody. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.760 Takes a guy who's gonna have Tommy John surgery or 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.560 just coming off. That doesn't happen. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.760 But would you even be comfortable taking the McCullers even 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.360 though he's kind of rehabbing, I mean, he's I. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.360 Would feel more comfortable taking McCullers on the way back 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.120 because he's also shown you at the big league level 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.560 he's had some pretty good success, Like there's there's something 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.520 to work with there, he's got a pedigree. But no, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.800 I mean that's not happening. Also, Well's headed to the 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.200 IL for Baltimore. He had an issue last night so 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.720 we'll see how long he's going to be out for 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.960 us a back injury and the Marlins Max Meyer is 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.880 gonna beat Tommy John surgery, which we could have seen 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.520 this coming. I mean, just so obvious. It was just 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.800 it hurt how obvious this was, and very disappointing because 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.400 we had high expectations and now they have gone up 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:10.560 in Smoke Welsh. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.760 I'm super super bummed about. I just saw this like 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.320 ten minutes before we started the show, and that one's 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.560 a bummer because he was a big redraft guy for me. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.080 He was one of my top pitchers in all the 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.680 prospect Land thought the strikeouts we are going to be there. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:24.960 I thought the opportunity was going. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:25.360 To be there. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.960 And now he is not back until twenty twenty four, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.560 and that decimates his value in Dynasty on the prospect list. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.600 He can return, he can be fun and stuff like that, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.400 but it is a far far plummet on Tommy John, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.680 especially nearing the back end of the year. It sucks. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.360 Yeah, let's move on to can We talked about this. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.480 Six swinging strikes by Aaron Judge ties his career game 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.920 high last night. All six were max schers or sliders. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.920 Which I thought was fascinating. He got him to expand 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.480 the zone and Aaron Joje had Iron Judge had problems 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.400 with that. Now I'm wondering, not like the book is out, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:03.880 because that's kind of silly, Judge. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.600 Oh are you gonna are you gonna say sell on Judge? 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:07.040 Is he done? 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.120 No? No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm just saying, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.200 is you know Max Schurezer basically gave you the blueprint 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.800 in the playoffs of what to do with Aaron Judge 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.320 last night. I mean, he just pounded that if you 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.000 if you have a good slider, you could pound the 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.440 slider on the outside corner like that. He is gonna 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.640 expand the zone. He's gonna go fishing for it. And 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.920 I think it's funny because Max Sure's are such a 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.640 relentless personality that he was just like, no, screw you, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.360 I'm gonna keep doing this because it's gonna work. And 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.800 I think people sometimes as pitchers, I think they they 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.920 lose that site. And I think it's the commitment to 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.200 staying with the game plan against a hitter like Aaron Judge. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.360 And look, if you're gonna be MVP moments like last night, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.280 can't happen like those are problems because those are the 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.600 things that stick in everybody's memory. Well, you had this 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.920 big spot in the big game, and what'd you do? 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.680 You struck out a bunch of times. That's not good. So, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.920 like Aaron Judge had a great season. I'm not saying 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.720 he hasn't, but I thought this was a very interesting 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.760 She's at bats. Last night when I got home from 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.159 football practice with my daughter, I was watching the Judge 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.440 at Bats specifically, and I was just like, Wow, Sheers 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.480 is just telling you this is how you do it. Kids. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.600 You just be relentless and you're just a bulldog in there, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.399 and you just keep pounding the same thing over and 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.520 over again because until he proves to you he can 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.960 do it, he can't. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.479 Yeah, i'd also throw out like the one of the things, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.880 it's not one hundred percent of One of the things 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.960 that also makes a slider so great is the offerings 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.600 that the guy is thinking about and wanting to you know, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.520 potentially Sureser's just got such a dominant basketball and just 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.679 dominant stuff in general that you're wanting to cheat in 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.679 every way that you possibly can. And you know, fastballs 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.439 are comfortable with and they feel pressed on other pitches, 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.040 and that's what also makes it so good. But I agree, 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.160