WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 11st, 2022 (Ep. 572) 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.560 Leading off starts right now. What's up, friends, We're on 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.480 Fantasy Pros and it's me the Welsh, joined today by 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.599 the Mendy David Mendelssohn from Triple Play Fantasy. We are 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.000 gonna talk about, oh, I don't know, a pretty incredible 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.600 rookie debut yesterday, actually so much so. It was a 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.159 record breaking one, something had never been done at least 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:37.840 at his age. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.640 Mister David mendlssoon. What's up, buddy? 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.760 Hey man, what's going on? 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.440 Man? I get to podcast with you three times in 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.760 like a week. This is freaking awesome, My buddy the 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.640 Welsh get to talk some baseball. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:48.920 Let's go, Let's go. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.240 Mendy is out of the same mold as myself, hustler, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.480 doing lots of stuff big into just like good new 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.440 technology and with podcasting. And one of the things you've 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.000 always been really great about, which almost a disappointment we 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.160 should have had you do here is the ridiculous guests 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.479 that you get across the board. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.240 You've had insane guests. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.319 I mean even recently Austin Eckler on the football side. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.160 We should have had you bring somebody that should be 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:13.840 like your token. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.960 Now, did you have any big baby did. What was 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.759 the last baseball guy that you interviewed? 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.520 I interviewed Dinard's Span, like two three months ago. That 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.960 was the last one man that was my guy as 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.000 my favorite baseball player of all time. So I was 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.920 one of the few times I was actually nervous to 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.720 interview him. So I told him that before we started, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.399 so he knew it. But it was really cool that I. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:35.440 Love Dinard Span. 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.200 You know, now I have to do the quick look here, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:44.320 Denard Span, Let's see seventy one career homers, one hundred 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.920 and eighty five career stolen bases. God, I would have 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:48.600 thought that would have been just a ton more. That's 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.160 one of those guys that just imprinted in your brain 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.920 that they were putting up just big old numbies back 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:54.360 in the day. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.560 Best season probably. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.880 His second year actually, now that I'm looking at it. 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.440 He hit three eleven with eight homers, twenty three stolen bases. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.840 He did have a thirty one stolen base season, hit 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.040 three h two, So maybe that's another one. With Washington 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:14.359 in two thousand and what was that two thousand and fourteen, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.640 spent time with Minnesota, Washington, the Giants, and then back 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.000 with the Blue Jays are actually just ending with the 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.800 Blue Oh, ending with the Seattle. Actually so good career. Uh, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.760 Denard Span just like to go back to it. You 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.760 always do a really good job about that. So go 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.720 and follow him over at d Mindy on Twitter. I'm 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.600 make sure you check out all those awesome shows and 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.639 get some awesome baseball interviews. Maybe you in the very 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.480 near future can get von Grisham, who became the youngest 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.080 player in the history of baseball to homer and steal 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.600 a base in his major league debut. Now you know, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.600 Joe's game is to come on here and be like 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.800 I told you so, I told you what did we 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:52.200 tell you? 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.919 I don't always do that. I try to think. I'm 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:55.840 a little bit less agree. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.680 But shout out to the Wonkey of the Penguins who've 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.240 always given some Denard Spam love. Wonky was on with 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.919 us yesterday and gave me some love on Twitter because, uh, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.680 it played out Span play not didnar Span von Grisham 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.600 That Denard's fans incepted my brain. Now von Grisham played 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.360 out just like we were hoping and talking about. Was 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.040 he the perfect type of fantasy player? 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.360 Yes? Is it gonna get extended time, We don't really know. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:21.639 Should you have picked him. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.000 Up, yes, because he was at even if you only 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.040 get two weeks absolute turn on that ball, crushing it 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.359 on the monster with the stolen base, von Grisham looked 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.720 mighty mighty good. Mindy, how aggressive on the pickup? He's 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.040 still out there. He was only eight percent own at 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.240 like midnight last night. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:39.440 I know that had to change. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.360 Yahoo picked up seventeen hundred pickups just yesterday. How aggressive 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.400 would you be on von Grisham if you assume he 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.160 is not going to stay up when our returns from injury. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.680 I've still be pretty aggressive with him on this point 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.960 in the season. We just got about, you know, under 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.880 two months left of the year. I got that stole 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.560 twenty seven bases in ninety six games in the minor league. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.080 If he can give you, you know, five to ten 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.600 steals before he you know, if he gets demoted, then 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.880 that those could be very valuable. Now there's also the scenario, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.800 you know we talk about with our cia Ozzi Albi's 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.680 is potentially going to return. They see you in the 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.240 next couple of weeks here, but if he's hitting, I 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.720 find it really difficult that they're not going to keep 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.039 him up based off I mean, if you're hitting well. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.359 I mean, keep in mind, this is a guy yesterday 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.040 two for four, home run in a stolen base, one 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.960 hundred and four point seven exit velocity off his bat 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.160 yesterday on his home run, one of the two hard 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.200 hit balls in that game, four hundred and twelve feet 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.840 on that home run. I know this man is swaggy. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.280 I'm gonna call him swaggy V. I feel like he's 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.440 just destined to stick. I mean, we saw Michael Harris 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.160 do the same type of deal where we didn't think 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.840 he was gonna stick around, and sure enough, he's been 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.039 there ever since because he's continued to produce. So just 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.320 the speck that he could be around for a little bit, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.719 give you a few steals which you might need, and 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.640 then if he continues to hit, he could be a 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.840 good stolen base source for you for the rest of 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.320 the season. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.640 Yeah, and it's gonna be interesting to see where he's at. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.320 Like go guards mentioned all leagues he's owned, same as mine, 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:03.919 But we play in a lot of dynasties as he 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.520 does and I do. But there's gonna be some shorter 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:07.960 leagues where he's out there. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:08.960 And that bomb. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.479 If you haven't seen it, go back and watch it 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.080 on Twitter. It's just one of those just beautiful, beautiful swings. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.200 It's actually one oh one at least according to Baseball 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.160 Savant right under it. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.599 Michael Harris had a single. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.400 By the way that he hit one oh four yesterday, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.080 but at least the stat cat or Baseball Savant marker 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.159 was one oh one point seven on the homer with 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.039 a thirty thirty two degree launch angle, which is just 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.120 an absolute freaking bomb. He turned on it and go 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.280 and pick up and speculate and hopefully it works out. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.160 This is one of those really top top. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.159 Guys that I really think, a they're kind of defunct 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:40.599 and how much are we going to get them the 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:41.360 rest of this year? 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.839 But if all of this is. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.640 Going to play out, like I was thinking, like, hey, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.440 it's a little bit of manipulation and these guys are 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.400 gonna get a little bit of run, then you know, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.200 Gunner and Corbyn would come up. Grissom was just never 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.480 one that we really assumed and he looked great and 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.320 it'll be fun to monitor how he does over the 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.600 next week or so, and I hope we actually get 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.120 to have the conversation should they send him down the Dodgers. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:02.839 They didn't care. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.240 They just sent Miguel Vargus as good as he was. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.440 They just heart immediately. Don Yeah, I hurt my heart 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:07.760 a lot. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.320 Literally made this big old case of the podcast. I'm like, hey, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.520 Michael Vargus, but with the von Grishams, I hope we're 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.080 having that conversation at least that it goes really well, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.839 because this would be a fantastic fantasy value the rest 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.320 of the season going into the playoffs. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.919 But you know it wouldn't have been. I don't know 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:26.880 how well it would have worked. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.680 Also, Gokards that thing mentioned this yesterday we had the 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.000 Wonky Wednesday home run extra. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:35.760 If everyone remembers. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.000 Where Kelly had said, if you get a homer that 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.919 no one else calls, you got double and go cards 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.040 literally said hey, what about von Grisham, And I was like, oh, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.000 that would be kind of fun. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:45.560 I knew I couldn't do anything. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.919 I want to know in Monkey or anybody if you 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.360 did anybody call von Grisham yesterday and did they get 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.520 the extra points? Because what a great fun call that 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.080 would have been, especially on rookies, and you know, making 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.920 that nice big young young history at twenty one years old. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.080 Jose Offerman was the last to do a homer in 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.760 a stolen base. By the way, if he didn't see 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.960 about eighty days sixty to eighty days older back in 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.160 the nineties, was the last one to homer and get 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.760 a stolen base at that age. Some other stuff here, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.960 Dodgers win their tenth straight Joey gallow with a pinch 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.600 hit home run. I am not a Joey Gallo guy. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.960 I know there's a few in here that were into it. Mindy, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.440 Can Joey Gallo be someone on a return from the 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.800 Dodgers With the Dodgers now, I mean he's kind of 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.240 relegated a little bit, But are you a Joey Gallo 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.480 guy at all? And especially seeing him hit just a tiny, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.640 tiny bit, I. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.440 Mean, a pinch hit, a three run home run. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.160 It's encouraging getting him away from Yankee Stadium and everything 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.040 he was dealing with in New York, which if you 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.520 haven't seen it, it just him talking about just not 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.600 wanting to even show his face on the streets. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.200 I do believe there's something to be. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.080 Said in the change of scenery, and sometimes that just 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.920 maybe mentally him being able to not realize he's under 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:55.840 that same type of pressure. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:56.800 He could be good. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:58.920 I just think if you're going to rely on him 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.960 for consistent fantas see production, you're going to be disappointed. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.080 He could be somebody in a deeper league if you 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.440 need some power you're lacking in home runs, that you 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.320 could maybe take a spec on. I just wouldn't expect 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.280 peak Joey Gallo towards the end of the season. Again, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.040 maybe he's better than he is in New York, which 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.360 isn't hard to do, But I don't think you're getting 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:18.600 the old Joey Gallo. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:19.920 Since joining the Dodgers. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.360 Joey Galla is actually hitting two sixty seven small sample 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.920 size six games, but he is hitting two sixty seven 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.960 with an over five hundred slug and he has more 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.960 singles actually has the same amount or no, yeah, he 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.880 has more singles than homers. It feels like the first 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.040 time in forever that that's actually happened. He has four 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.160 hits at least, so two sixty seven since returning to 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.680 the Dodgers. Maybe something to monitor with all of those. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.800 And Wonky was the one that was kind of into 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.880 uh Gallows so maybe it's going to be working out. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.480 Brandon Drury, I have a question for you. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.600 Brand Drey hit a homer last night four RBIs, but 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.120 since coming over to the Padres in that trade, Drury 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.839 is only hitting one point eighty five. He's got a 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.320 two fifty eight OBP. He has a bunch of RBI 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.280 which has been really nice. He's struck out a bit, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.280 but he's got five hits in that time. Batting average 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.640 is really struggled. And what as nice is he has 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.200 gotten plenty of game time. I was taking a look 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.840 at his game log. Here looks like he has started 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.520 every single game. Yeah, I'm going through the days. He's 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.400 started every single game since he has been acquired. But 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.920 he only has hits in four of those games, and 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.520 last night was a big multi hit game. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:27.360 So here's my question. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.400 Is there anything to worry about with Brandon Drury for 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.600 the rest of the year. Even though he has been solid, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.880 he struggled a bit in the transition. Tatusa is looming. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.600 Looks like next weekend Tatisa is going to be coming back. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.600 We know that they've got the flexibility. Kim, your big 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.440 defensive guy in the middle. We talked to I think 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.080 with me and Kelly about defensive replacements. You've got Crony 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.880 in there, You've you know, they've got some other pieces. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.480 That are kind of flying around. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.319 Do you think there's anything that could bring Brandon jury 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.880 down with his struggles and Tatis coming back and maybe 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.520 more platoony, Like, I don't think his value is gone, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.800 you don't. There's no scenario unless he just absolutely tanks completely. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.440 But is there a scenario you foresee that he is 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.840 going to start losing some time and becoming more of 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.480 a lefty split type of guy, and that's gonna hurt 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:17.400 him moving forward. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.640 Yeah, I mean you kind of touched on it. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.520 The Padres have arguably the most talent on their roster, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.000 them and the Dodgers, and just like you said, they 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.440 don't have to play him every day. If he's struggling, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.839 they can platoon him. I mean, cronin Worth has shown 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.920 that he should get consistent playing time. Manna Machado and 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.600 Trenched at third base. You know, we don't know where 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.800 Fernando Tatis is gonna play. Are they gonna stick him 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.600 in left field? Are they gonna dh him a lot? 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.200 Or are they going to put him at shortstop? We 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.200 don't know yet, you know, maybe they move him around 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.720 a little bit. But at the same time, like Drury's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.080 a luxury for them. It's like the car that you 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.040 have in the garage. It's like I've got four other 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:51.840 nice cars. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.520 I have this one. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.920 I'll drive it every once in a while, but it's 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.520 like my fifth option. And that's kind of how I 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.880 feel like when everybody's back in the fold for the pot, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.319 he's going to kind of get the short end of 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.960 the stick, especially with how he's been playing. Now again, 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.200 if he starts heating up and he plays better, he could, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.280 you know, start putting in some more playing time. But 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.400 I mean, he struggled versus lefties against small sample size 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.560 fourteen at bats so far with the Padres, a one 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:20.680 forty three average so far against lefties. With the Cincinnati 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.040 Reds against lefties he was hitting three h nine, So 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.000 maybe that corrects itself over time. But the I mean, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.800 the Padres could be looking at that this type of 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.520 platoon splits in just putting their best foot forward with 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.040 the match they want to play. If I have Drury, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.680 I'm definitely concerned that he's somebody that goes from playing 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.960 you know, six or seven games a week like he 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.559 was with the Reds to maybe he's someone that's playing 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.640 like three or four days a week when everybody's healthy. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.560 With the Padres, you can't have this question, but I 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.760 can just speculate and throw it out there, Like, you know, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.679 if von Grisham were to stay with the Braves the 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.120 rest of the season, who would be more valuable. It's 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.720 easy to say Drury on the year, but I've never 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.640 been Maybe it's the dynasty minded me. I've never been 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.839 the big Brandon Drury guy as far as like how 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.440 it clicked that it was going to keep going what 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.400 he was doing against you know, there could be some 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.920 ballpark factors in there. Actually, you know, I didn't even 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.960 think to look at his home splits, which is gonna 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.480 be a little bit nutty because there's a couple of 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.040 games in there. But let's see, he was hitting da 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.760 da da da dah yeah, two ninety yeah. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.280 So there you go. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.120 This is what I was speculating on, is talk about 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.160 the ballpark. He was hitting two ninety one at home, 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.360 only two thirty four on the road. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:28.240 This season. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.120 Fourteen homers came at home, So now you're putting him 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.240 into a little bit of a worse ballpark, a little 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.000 bit more crowded. Yes, he's playing DH right now. As 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.400 I'm looking at the depth chart, you could argue that 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:39.960 there's maybe not a ton of guys that are going 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.120 to come in. If they wanted to just drop Kim 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.760 and put him into the on the bench, you could 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.560 just make that case and then guess what, Dury's your 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.760 DH and you just go. But if they want that 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:53.800 more defensive side, Tatisa is gonna play short and outfield, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.240 and if they go and put him in, let's say 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.600 over bro Profar, Profar, but they might want a DH 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.640 that I don't know at the answer. I don't know 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.920 if less at bats are going to be good and 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.680 try to make it more efficient, But it does look 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.240 like he's struggling just a tiny bit, and maybe just 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.680 maybe monitor it before you get into your playoffs, because 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.959 if these struggles continue as fun as it is when 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.240 he come and drops a bomb and has four RBI, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.319 it might be a little bit more short lived in 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.559 this new destination and that team doesn't they don't owe 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.800 him anything as far as what there's traded that they need. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.959 They need to play him every single day and if 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.120 those splits fix Maybe that's just what they do. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.880 So I was interested on the struggle. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.520 Yeah, we've talked, I mean before. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.920 It's just like you see other hitters when they leave 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.840 Cincinnati and you see people like who Henneo Suarez whose 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.640 home runs have gone down dramatically. You see guys like 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.240 Jesse Winker who's struggled over in Seattle, and even Nick 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.920 Castianos is obviously not hitting as much power as he 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.520 was with the Reds too. There is a lot to 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.760 be said about hitting in that ballpark, which has been 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.559 now proven to be like along with Corsfield, the best 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.120 ballparks hidden for hitters. Yeah, and then going to a 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.960 whole new environment and kind of seeing, hey, like, what 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.360 is this player outside of this ballpark? And the short 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.560 sample size so far has not been great for Dury. 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.160 No, it's really I'm outside of like the big, impactful 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.920 at bats and just it'll be fun. Even though Jury's 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.040 got a lot of flexibility, It'll be interesting to monitor 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.959 and Wonky. It made me laugh when you said Jury 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.319 the guy that a bunch of people thought was a 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.080 rookie friend of Jury because he was a part of 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.280 a diamondback one of the big diamondback trades. I think 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.800 it was the Justin Upton one. And I see him, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.520 you know, doing good stuff otherwise, and I'm like rebel. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.600 The other big headline, Aaron Judge hit his forty fifth 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.320 homer in New York's one hundred and twelfth game. He 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.080 needs just eighteen to beat Roger Merris's American League home 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.920 run record. Check this out too, WONK you put this together. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:40.400 I like this. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.880 Here's a couple of fun facts about Aaron judges homers. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:48.160 Yankee Stadium is not the most home run friendly ballpark 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.360 to right handed hitters. It's fourth, behind American Family Field, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.960 Roger Century, and Angel Stadium. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:55.800 That's interesting. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.640 Also, according to stat cast, Judge this is probably the 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.800 best one. Actually, Mindy brought this up before we got 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:02.440 we went live. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:03.680 Judge would have. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.800 Fifty three homers right now if he played all games 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.080 in Cincinnati, which would put him exactly on pace with 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.120 Barry Bonds in two thousand and one. That's a wild 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.720 and we're just talking about Brandon Drury and the numbers 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.040 that are going on in Cincinnati. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:20.640 Take him out. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.880 If Judge was there, he would be on pace with 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.400 the single season record of Barry Bonds. Presumably not you know, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.560 not cheating, not doing any of the bad stuff. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.800 Yeah, it's incredible. I got a question for you. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.200 Well, so Aaron Judge has been putting together a contract 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.760 year unlike many we've ever seen. If he had sixty 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.040 home runs, he's thirty years old. Are you gonna give 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.600 him the half a billion dollar contract that he's seeking 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.520 if you're the Yankees and he's your franchise icon, or 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:49.440 you're gonna let him walk. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.760 I think they're going to especially losing out on like 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.480 a Soda. I mean that's a tough one because like 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.320 Soto is so much easier listen to us, Soda so 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.440 much easier to give a half a billion dollars too. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.160 Judge is older thirty I think right now, thirty thirty one. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.920 So giving him one of those like big old crazy ones, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:08.520 I think that's good. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:09.920 This is where the problem is going to happen. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.320 The big numbered contracts are sometimes what these guys want, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.040 and I'm talking like totality. They want to be the 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.360 guy that got five hundred million dollars. The Yankees I 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.600 don't think can do that. I don't think they can 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.480 give him a ten year. You got to give him 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.200 like six seven, and that's going to make the annual 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:23.640 go up. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.480 So I think he gets paid. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.240 Because the Yankees also, they're gonna spend their money somewhere. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.400 What is free agency going to be for them? 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.840 Especially if the Padres lockup Soto? 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.040 And yeah, I think he gets paid. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.080 I just don't know if it's gonna be half a 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.320 million dollars or half a billion, but I do think 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.200 the average annual is going to be pretty up there. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:42.840 That's a good question. That's a good question. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.960 A couple injuries. Max Munsey diagnosed with a right hand contusion. 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:46.720 He was unable to. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:51.160 Grip a bat after so Joey Gallo or Miguel Vargas. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.800 I would be going to speculate on a little Migul 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.800 Vargus right now, just to see if he comes back up, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.920 because Max Munsey, that could could not be great. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.960 And we'll see what happens. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.640 And Shane Boz is going to be limited to pliometric 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.320