WEBVTT - Leading Off July 11th, 2024 (Ep. 861) 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.200 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:10.920 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.600 Bet five bucks get one hundred and fiftyen bonus bets 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.400 when you do only at Bet three six five with 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.400 that promo code leading off, It is me, Joey p 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:22.400 That is not the Welsh No, No, that my friends there. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.520 He is this way wrong direction. I don't know who 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.000 that guy is. But this guy, it's Joe Rico to 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.280 Joe's One Show. It's gonna be a beautiful day here. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.559 We're gonna break down a lot of baseball news, some 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.680 injuries to get to, some bets, a little up and down. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.559 But Joe, you're a Toronto guy. I'm surprised you made 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.400 the show today. I would have thought for sure they'd 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.280 be calling you up because everybody got hurt yesterday for 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:45.960 the Blue Jays. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.199 That was a tough game to watch in San Francisco, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.160 and even leading up to it, all the reports about 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.879 Ricky Tiedeman, who at this point, I don't know what 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.280 to even make him. I don't know if he's it 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.680 looks like Nate Pierson two point zero, but it's it's 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.560 tough being in Toronto. It's good to take a break 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.040 here and chat with you. Joe two. Joe's one show. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.280 We should do the show in Italian Dei Giuseppi today 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:03.600 on this show. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.839 Hey, Okasidy, Joe, what are you doing so? But seriously, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.280 it's great to you able to step in here. Welsh 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.680 going away for a couple of days, getting a little 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.000 time with the family there, So Arico joining us today 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:18.880 and tomorrow. Joe. Let's just get right to the headlines. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.400 Let's jump right into a baby and let's start with 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.040 the Dodgers' rotation, which was in the headlines yesterday here 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.760 in the program, and we got to bring it back. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.280 I was betting, literally and figuratively on Gavin Stone kind 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.840 of stopping the bleeding yesterday for the Dodgers. He did not. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.920 He struggled. It was not a good start for him. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.760 Four runs, nine hits, and four and two thirds innings. Yeah, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.480 I was against the Phillies, but I don't want to 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.399 give him too big of a pass. But that's not 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.360 the only story here, because Dave Roberts told everybody yesterday 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.160 that Walker Buehler is working on his mechanics, and my god, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.760 we're gonna have to get a mechanic to figure him 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.480 out because it has been brutal this year for him. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.000 And then on top of all of that, you get 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.120 Bobby Miller getting sent down, but nobody knows to where 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.080 or what's going on there. And I get it. We're 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.040 close to the All Star break, so sending Bobby Miller 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.880 makes sense somewhere to work on some things during the break. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.919 But Joe, the Dodgers' rotation is coming apart at the 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.440 seams here from a fantasy perspective, it's rough and Tyler 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.680 glassnow on the il yesterday. So what do you do 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.360 here right now if you're the Dodgers, because they got 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.520 to do something. I know it's the break, but they 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.560 got to come out with the with the plan here 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:25.679 after the All Star Game. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.919 If you just look at their rotation on Fangrafts on 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.680 the roster resource page, James Paxton is currently listed as 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.880 the Ace. So yeah, I would say that they're probably 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:34.880 gonna be probably gonna need to be doing at all, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.080 probably gonna need to be doing a couple of things now. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.919 I don't think Glass now is too serious. I think 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.440 that's probably just they're taking a chance to use the 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.720 All Star break as a bit of an extended rest 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.040 for him. Bobby Miller, I'm actually a little bit encouraged 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.720 by the fact that they didn't stick him back on 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.160 the injured list, that he went down to the miners, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:52.760 which tells you that he just needs to work on 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.160 a couple things as opposed to there's a foe arm 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.959 problem or something. So I think generally speaking, they're still 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.600 gonna be okay. But this feels like it's got Garrett 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.040 Crochet written all over it, doesn't It. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:11.000 A certainly certainly possible. I think that I still say this, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.080 and I know Shures are talked about it. Yesterday there 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.799 were some quotes going around where he was like, I 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.760 don't want to wait my not trade, blah blah blah, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.280 Like that's like, okay, well, I guess that's the I 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.080 don't want to wait my no trade unless it's somewhere 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.360 I really want to go. And I still think the 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.359 Dodgers are gonna come knock, and I think they're gonna say, look, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.680 we're in this thing. Next year, you get Otani back 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.160 in this rotation, You got glass now Otani Yamamoto that 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.920 you can live with. You need a stopgap. I don't 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.440 know if they have the bullets in the chamber or 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.960 want to move those prospects for Crochet, that it's gonna take. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.880 And I think they're gonna get a hole for Crochet 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.840 because he is the quote unquote guy and he's controllable. Now, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.800 I think it's a smart move. I agree with you. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.000 I would like to see them do that. But man oh, man, like, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.000 maybe it is a tie on. Maybe it is a 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.320 less interesting guy or a Sure's or a veteran guy 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.760 that Look, it's not like he's not familiar. He had 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.920 a good time in LA he talked about that. Everything was, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.720 you know, fantastic there. But man oh, man, like, it 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.160 is brutal for the Dodgers right now. I don't remember, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.520 do you remember, Joe recently a team's rotation, especially one 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.440 like this high in public in terms of like what 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.120 we think of the Dodgers being just absolutely obliterated one 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:18.360 through five basically the. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:19.800 Only one that comes to mind, and it's not the 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.920 same level, but it's the Rays from the last couple 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.880 of years with McClanahan and Springs and Rasmussen. That's kind 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.320 of closed. But I don't know if. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.120 Then Bradley got hurt too, Yeah, that's a good one. Oh, 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:28.760 that's a good one. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.599 But I don't know if it's on the same level 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.159 as the Dodgers right now. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.279 Not probably not on the same level of expectations, but 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.040 from our fantasy perspective, certainly one that people were looking at, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.200 but brutal. Oh thank god for good things. Marcello zun 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.320 has been one of them. He's gonna be in the 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.880 home run Derby. He hit another home run thirty three 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.840 years old. He's got twenty four bombs right now. He 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.240 had a great season last year. The slash is two 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.960 ninety six, three seventy four, five sixty eight, fifty five 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.320 runs scored, seventy five ribies. What do you account for 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.040 this Marcelo Zuna renaissance here in his thirties, because this 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.719 is usually the time where player goes in the opposite direction. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.920 But ozooa last year a fantastic season. I thought he regressed. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.599 He did not. He's been even better than last year 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.160 in some regards. So what do you make of this 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.880 Ozuna renaissance at this age? 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.360 It's hard to know what to make of it because 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.599 a lot of the Braves have actually struggled this season 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.520 quite a bit, and then you got Marcelo Zuna, who 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.400 a lot of people were fading coming into the season. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.120 The utility only the age factor, and we're close to 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.919 a fifty home run pace. He might have one hundred 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.200 and thirty ribies. It's really hard to say, Like his 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.120 babbup is a bit higher than usual, which might be 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.760 helping out the batting average, but I think it's just 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.080 the power has always been there and this maybe is 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.159 maybe the last time we're going to see it to 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.279 this degree. As you said, he's thirty three, he's going 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.120 to be thirty four years old later this season, So 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.280 not sure how many more than we can expect, and 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.560 not really sure what exactly to attribute it to, but 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.360 pretty pretty excellent stuff from Ozuna overall. It's just there's 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:52.960 nothing really in the numbers to say like, oh, yeah, 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.080 you should have looked before the season and expected this 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.440 to happen again. It's just one of those baseball things 0:05:58.480 --> 0:05:59.640 that's really hard to put your finger on. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.120 It's like he's becoming Nelson Cruz or something like before 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.640 our eyes, and I feel like that was the same conversation, right. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.880 Cruz was kind of a late bloomer, had a couple 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.080 of good years in his late twenties into his early thirties, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.040 we're like, Okay, this is gonna end, and then play 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.040 until he was forty, and he was still incredibly productive. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.320 Maybe it's that DH pot. I don't know. Whatever it is, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.599 it's working for Rozuna. He'll be interesting to watch there too. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.479 Larry's got a question. I think Larry actually messaged me 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.120 this morning and I gave him an answer, but he must 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:26.760 not have liked that answer, so he wants a different 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.040 Joe to answer it. Larry wants to know Xander or 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.080 Jimenez rest of season. I won't tell you my answer, Rico. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.360 I want to see what you say. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.960 I have to say without digging in a lot, I 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.800 have to go with Jimenez, the guy who's healthy and 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.680 has been pretty solid to this point. I'm not sure 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.760 with boguards once he comes back, what's the level of 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.919 production gonna look like. I think Jimenez is the safer 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.640 play in an elite offense. They're both in great lineups, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.800 but I think Jimenez is also double eligible, second and 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.640 short in a lot of cases, so I think that 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.839 he is overall, I think a safer play. But what 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:57.800 are your thoughts, Joe. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.280 I went with Xander Brogart just the better player last 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.040 year in the second half, at a great second half 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.680 after struggling. He did have a slow start, but really 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.080 was putting things together right before he got hurt. I'm 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.640 gonna go with the track record of of Xander Bogart's. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.320 But I don't think Amenez is like the wrong answer. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.640 I do agree depending on your roster, the safer one probably, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.560 so that's the way I would go. So there you go. There, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.680 you got two joes now giving you different opinions. Go 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.800 make your decision. Larry framber Valdez, remember when Welsh wanted 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:25.960 to get rid of him and I said, no, it's 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.800 a bad idea. Well, guess what Welsh isn't here. I 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.320 warned you, Welsh, I warned you, and I could say 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.080 that now and he's not around ten strikeouts for Frambury. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.480 Yesterday it was against the Marlins, but still Tobias Myers 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.920 eight scoreless, hitting six strikeouts. This twenty five year old 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.480 is now at a three to one three era a 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.280 one point one to three whip sixty two strikeouts to 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.680 twenty walks in seventy two winnings. So the strikeout rate 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.520 isn't quite elite, But Myers is a guy I don't 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.600 think we've talked about on this show all year long, Joe, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.760 this rotation seems a little iffy for me. For the 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.000 Milwaukee Brewers, the rest of season, teams held together with 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.680 kind of you know, magic and strings and illusions. I 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.680 don't know what it's held together with right now, barely 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.040 Freddy Parlton and some other things. What do you make 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.480 of Myerson? Do you think this is a guy that 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.080 you can count on the rest of the season, because 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.640 so far it's been pretty good for him. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.120 It has been pretty good. I think that he has 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.680 been a bit lucky two sixty two Babbitt. He's stranding 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.000 nearly eighty five percent of base runners. Not a ton 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.480 of strikeouts there. I think if you're in a shallow league, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.200 he's a little risky. Yeah, Eddie's comment here is kind 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.480 of where I'm going as well. I think he's good, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.280 and I think if you're playing in those deep fifteen 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.400 team leagues NL only, then he's definitely viable. Once you're 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.679 talking like standard size ten and twelve teamers, I think 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.199 he's more of a streamer than somebody that's like I 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.080 got to get him on my roster type of player. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.240 Yeah, and also go back to that Xander conversation. I 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.679 just double checked too, because I thought Xander qualified it 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:58.120 both also, so eligibility shouldn't be your tiebreaker safety with him, Nez, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.599 that's fair. Upside with Xander Bogarts, that's fair too. I 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.600 don't think you'n go wrong. Honestly, trade one of them, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.480 like trade whoever's gonna bring you back the most, because 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.160 if you don't have a room for both, that's what 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.920 you want to do. Uh. Julia Rodriguez big day yesterday 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.520 we talked about right, yay, we were all excited or 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.560 two days ago, I should say now, because we talked 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.559 about it yesterday. Four for four with the Homer Weile. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.480 He struck out four times on Wednesday. So there you go. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.320 The ups and downs of Julie Rodriguez continue. Let's have 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.040 a little fun. Paul Seawald actually saved the game yesterday. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.120 That's a good time. Ezekiel Tovar actually got some hits, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.240 two of them, and Max Meyer gave up one run 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.520 in six innings for Triple A yesterday. So Joe, it 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.160 looks like six innings were stretching Max Meyer back out. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:38.880 Are we gonna see him when we come back from 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.880 the All Star break? I say, yes, what say you? 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.400 We should have seen him a while ago, so I 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.480 think that yes, he probably will be up after the 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.400 All Star break. The guys that they're trotting out there. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.600 You know, we do this all the time, Joe. We 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.280 look at baseball names all the time, and sometimes I 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.720 look at a Marlin starting pitcher It's like, who is 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.719 this guy? Again? Max Meyer was really really great when 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.560 he was up earlier in the season, and he's got 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.760 a great pedigree, great minor league pedigree, high strikeout upside. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.679 I don't know what they're doing, I really don't. I 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.080 think the team is just a huge mess this season. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.800 The general manager came out at the end of April 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.520 and said they were throwing in the towel for the year. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.160 So I don't know exactly what to expect her how 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.640 much we can trust them. But he should be up 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.040 if you have room to stash him, if you've a 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.480 minor league spot or something. I think the talent is 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.600 definitely there that it's worthwhile. But if they waited another 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.320 month after the All Star break, I wouldn't be shocked 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.280 by that either just based on how things have gone. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.320 Kim Ing left and everything just reverted back. It felt 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:37.320 like she came in there, cleaned up the mess, made 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:41.280 them respectable, made them a playoff team. I mean, hello, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.000 made the Marlins a playoff team. I wish the Mets 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.280 were a playoff team once in a while. And Lee, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.800 I did see her comment about Brandon Nimols. Well maybe 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.680 we'll get to talk with him a second. But seriously, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.120 like then they she wanted more power, They told her no, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.040 she left, and guess what, We're right back to being 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.679 the Marlins again. I don't understand this at all, and 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.480 it is laughable. I agree with you that Max Meyer 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.040 is where he is, like as if somehow the games 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.880 were gonna matter more for them in September than they 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.959 would in April in May, like let this kid pitch. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.240 I don't know what they were doing. It's crazy. I 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.800 think of all the time wasted it would rather just 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.640 give him one hundred and fifteen innings or whatever it 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.360 is at the major league level and just shut him 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.880 down at the end of the year when those games 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.360 really don't matter for you. At least you might have 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.000 been able to sell to your fan base. Hey, look, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.199 we're being competitive. We're doing some stuff here just ridiculous. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.680 Let's get to the rookie. Lookie, good things there, Joey 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.320 low Perfido went Yard, Ben Rice, Alex Vverdugo in Wednesday's lineup. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.880 A little bit of a switch there. Rice went from 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.280 leadoff to cleanup. I like Rice more as a leadoff 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.439 guy for the Yankees. I think they need that OBP 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.000 as that engine. He's got a very high career OBP 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.120 in the minor leagues. I don't like this move. What 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:45.960 do you think about this? 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.480 It's not my favorite. I don't know why Alex like 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.280 what is Alex Vdugo? 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:50.480 Dad? 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.640 It's almost insulting to Soto and Judge to have to 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.800 do go in front of him. Ben Rice has been great. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.200 You know he's getting on. For fantasy point of view, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.839 you got a catcher eligible guy who's not catching, who's 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.160 hitting in front of those two guys. It's like he's 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.120 probably a top ten catcher at that point. Now if 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.880 he's behind them, that's still really beautiful for fantasy purposes. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.360 Maybe you exchange a few runs for Ribby's. But I 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.520 don't really understand it. I don't know what they're doing 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.320 there with Dugo. He's not been good for a while. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:18.920 I know that there was a good stretch earlier in 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.280 the season, but I'm just really confused by it. I'm 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.200 really confused by it. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.480 I don't get it at all. I know Rice has 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.360 been swinging a hot power bat, but the whole point 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.120 with Rice is you want him at the top of 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.960 the order, protected by the big boys, where he's gonna 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.640 see fastballs, and you want the OBP so he's there. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.440 So these guys aren't hitting solo home runs and Ary 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.040 Judges is hitting two and three run home runs. That's 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.400 what you want. So this is stupid, stupid by the Yankees. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.560 Mason Miller another rookie. Lookie here, fifteenth save of the year. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.560 It's no small feet considering get pitches for the A's cold. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.960 Keith stays hot. We talked about him all day yesterday. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.800 If you missed it, go back and watch or just 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.320 watch the Waiver Wire video which is on Fantasy pros MLB. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.599 Another good day for him. He had a triple and 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.160 an RBI yesterday. Brooks Lee another homer, another one of 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.600 our guys too. We talked about yesterday and we've been 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.760 talking about for weeks before he got called up, so 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.920 hopefully you were head of the curve there. So another 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.520 good day for the rookies, which is nice considering April 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.880 and may not great. June a little better, July starting 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.880 to come together for the rookies, a little bit. Three 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.680 up and three down. Michael King was really good. He 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.400 struck out nine guys, but he still lost and I 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.679 made money. Yay, let's go Mariners. Somehow that happened. I 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.600 got lucky on that one. Nick Pavetta ten strikeouts of 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.960 his own in six and two thirds against the A's. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.120 More on the a's to come here as we get 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.920 to the bets and showed to Imanaga six strikeouts, six 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.600 shoutout innings against the Orioles Inmanaga. That was a tough 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.880 contest for him on paper, a real test. What'd you 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.280 think of how he came out after you know, some 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.640 spotty performances over the last five or six starts for him. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.640 Yeah, it's been a little bit up and down, which 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.320 I think we had to kind of expect. You know, 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.480 the term aggression gets thrown around, but you're just not 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.560 gonna carry like a sub one and a half sub 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.720 to era for the whole season. So I think those 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.880 starts where he did get knocked around a little bit 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.679 were thosequote unquote regression games fewer than three earned runs 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.439 and fifteen out of seventeen starts this season. It's just 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.120 those two blow ups were just so ugly. It was 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.440 like ten and seven earned runs. But I think he's 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.320 a solid twenty percent strike up minus walk guy. I 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.240 think he's roughly a three era that the things that 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.840 you got to think about. He's been a lot better 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.360 away from home, and he is giving up quite a 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.040 few barrels, and there will probably be a few more 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.880 home runs allowed than average, but it's kind of a 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.720 minor concern. I think Showeda is really really excellent. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.880 It's funny Whips was bringing up a thing about Meyer 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.440 in the chat about service time manipulation. I don't think 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.440 it's that because he was already up before he got hurt. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.640 So I think they that ship has sailed with him. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.080 Is that I believe Max Meyer? Is that Max Meer? 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.360 Yeah, I think that's what they were talking about there. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:43.600 It could be wrong, but I think that's what they 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.520 were talking about. And Waukee Penguin definitely the core of 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.400 the day shocking that a woman came in and took 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.680 care of all the problems. Walk. That's why y're around, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.160 That's why I pushed for you to be here with 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.000 us at Fantasy Pros full time so hard. So can 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.440 you see all the mess you had to clean up? 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.280 I mean, we needed Wonky Penguin around these parts. I 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.240 hope you're feeling well too, Wonky. I haven't talked couple 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.960 of days. Hope you're doing okay. Three down Logan Web 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.840 was not okay. Seven runs, five innings, eight hits and 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.480 a walk only four strikeouts. A weird year for Logan Web. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.040 I feel like every time you think it's safe, then 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.280 something happens and it's bad. Frankie Montas one of the 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:14.960 guys I wanted to trade two weeks ago because he 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.600 had a couple of good starts in a row. Well, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.640 five earned runs, eight hits yesterday against the Rockies Boom 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.120 and Charlie more than four runs, five strikeouts, and six 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.080 and a third not great. Let's get to the injury news. Arico. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:32.040 We had Jordan Alvarez removed yesterday with a right hip tightness. Now, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.760 I didn't see any updates yet on this one. This 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.920 doesn't sound good to me. Do we think this is 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.520 just precautionary it seems like it was, Or should we 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.000 be a little bit panicked here as we're getting closer 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:42.480 to the break. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.960 I don't love it. The thing that drives me insane. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.720 It happened stealing a base? What are we doing? What 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.200 are we doing? Yordat? You can hit forty five plus 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.360 home runs. I don't care about a couple of steals. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.920 If this is what the cost is going to be. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.640 You know, hindsight's twenty twenty, obviously, but if he stole 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.920 zero basis, I think we'd all be pretty okay with it. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.120 Just mash the ball, hit three hundred drive in one 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.880 hundred and twenty runs. This is brutal. I hope it's 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.440 not too serious. But it's good. We got a little 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.160 bit of a break here for him to maybe recoup 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:10.840 rate a little bit. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.040 Let's hope. I mean, I want to see him in 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.840 the All Star Game. But we'll see, we'll see. This 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.960 is what happens every year everybody, right before the All 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.000 Star brank gap. You know, I have like a little 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.280 oh here by finger, I have a tight hamstring, and 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:23.680 next thing, you know, they just take a week off 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.640 and they don't play Zach Wheeler. Good news. MRI was 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.040 clean on the back, that's good. Joey Ortiz began a 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.040 minor league rehab assignment. Actually he's gonna get it today. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.040 What am I saying? On the neck that was bothering him? 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.800 Read Garrett goes to the aio with right elbow inflammation. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.040 So all those people that told me that Edwin Diaz 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.960 wasn't gonna be the closer and read Garrett was the guy, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.120 Hey where are you? I don't see you, I don't 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.400 hear you. Now come on, follow the money, follow them. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.360 Read Garrett not taking Edwin Diaz's job. And I don't 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.000 want anybody to get hurt, but come on, come on, 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.359 it's gonna get and hurt. Jordan Lawler re injured his hamstring. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.040