WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 1st, 2024 (EP. 780) 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.920 Welcome in everybody to Benasi Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.559 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.239 It's your two favorite April Fools, Me and the Welsh. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.880 We're here talking baseball with you. Live here. It's a Monday, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:25.079 our first full regular week of baseball. Certainly baseball gave 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.160 us a lot this weekend to talk about. We're gonna 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.760 recap all of that. We've got some major league debuts 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.160 happening today on the Hill. We're gonna break those down 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.080 for you, as well as our favorite bets and our 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.760 home run call. I got a doozy for you. 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Already start out 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.280 oho for two like in kind of a bad spot 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.360 in his first twelve at bats and a lot of strikeouts. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.840 Then at a home run the other night, and then 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.359 Sunday obviously we know what happened there. So a couple 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 home runs for him over the weekend. Dodgers come from 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.680 behind victor of the Cardinals, the Yankees sweeping the Astros, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.440 to start the season. This is huge because the Astros 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.200 have kind of been the daddy of the Yankees, I 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.560 feel like last three or four years, so mentally for 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.160 the Yankees without Garrett Cole right now, how important was 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.919 this series for them to get off on this right foot. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.080 In Hu This is huge because of two reasons. They 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.960 did it without really great pitching, and they did it 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.919 pretty much without Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge has not done 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.040 much to start the year. Juan Soto's been in some 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.680 of the action, and they've done it with whatever this 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.639 rotation is, and they can just kind of battle through it. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.960 I'm actually going to side a little bit with the 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.320 Yankees are here. I was hoping to go, but we're 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.120 in Flugate right now or Coldgate right now, so I 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.120 can't get out. But the Yankees are here in Phoenix 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.400 playing the Dinabacks today. I think they might be in 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.040 a good spot. And I think it's just ready for 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.080 that offense to start picking up being caring. But you've 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.480 seen little pieces. Anthony Volpi has picked it up a 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.640 little bit. Wan Soto's going. We just haven't seen Aaron 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:40.480 Judge go care. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.800 How about a swallow Cabrera too. Yeah, I end up 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.280 picking up in the league because, look, I don't think 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.080 he's gonna stay this hot. Of course he's not, but 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.120 the position flexibility, especially with these injuries continuing to pop 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.000 up here and there, I mean, he's gonna be finding 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.280 his way in the lineup. I think he's a decent 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.080 little bat. I'm not like overspending on him. But this 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.480 will be the week two where he's starting to get 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.360 all the trade videos from us in the waiver war video. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.480 So if you haven't already subscribed to Fancy Pros MLB, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.680 that will you get all those The Reds got theirs 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.400 back to back homers from Benton and from ces our 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.200 boy to walk off there. Very exciting that that National 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.520 League Central feels very wide open to Melsh. I love it. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:16.920 I feel like the NL Central is gonna be the 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.760 most entertaining division of baseball this year from that perspective, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.200 because nobody's great, but they're all good enough where I 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.600 feel like these games and these these moments, especially when 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.200 they start playing each other, are gonna be really fun 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:27.480 to well. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.400 It's like the AL East, It's like they're all just 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.919 like really good. In l West, they're all good except 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.479 the Rockies trash, you know, all those teams. This is 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.880 like anybody's go. But the Redsvels have been kind of 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.120 just weird in general too, with the leading off of 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.640 Jonathan India, which I think has boosted up his value. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.640 And we've consistently seen Ellie hitting like six, so something 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.800 to keep an eye on. We're you know, I have 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.600 that futures bet for him to lead the league in 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.039 stolen bases. It's not gonna happen unless we start to 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.000 probably move up the order a little bit more. But yeah, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.920 division completely open now with. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.039 The holiday, I didn't see much of this start, but 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.760 I saw the line and I saw some of the highlights. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.640 Michael King walked seven batters and four in on Sunday, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.960 so not the best outing for him. I don't know 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.520 if he was getting squeezed at the plate. I don't 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:11.800 know what was going on there, or if he was 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.880 just wild. Now the velocity was down a little bit, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.280 about one to two miles per hour down from where 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.240 it was last year, so I don't know if this 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:19.640 is a dead arm thing. I don't know if he's 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.320 getting squeezed thing. I don't know if it's just because 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.080 he hasn't pitched in a while, if he just didn't 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.840 feel like a really good rhythm, because you know when 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.160 they all started out there in that Korean series a 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.680 few weeks ago, Like, you're not in a pattern. So 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.359 there's a lot of questions here, and I don't know 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.599 if any of us really have the answers. I'm choosing. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.279 I'm not choosing violence. I'm choosing not to patter out here. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.680 I'm choosing to just be calm about this. Welsh Am 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:41.719 I making the right choice? 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.040 Yeah, I think so. So I've got a trade video 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.480 coming out probably tomorrow because I'm going to record it today. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.280 I'm feeling good over the weekend, and this is kind 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.360 of the discussion. I actually think it's it's even crazy 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.560 that we're doing trade videos at this point because this 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.000 is like over reaction time. But to that point, these 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.599 are the opportunities where we can take advantage of stuff. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.560 But there's always those few guys that I think toe 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.120 the line. I'm gonna tell you one of the guys 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.719 that's in the video and you can check it out. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.960 It's like Zach Gallen. Zach Gallen kind of stunk in 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.080 his first start. We saw the v low pretty big down. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.440 He wasn't commanding or anything like that. So it's kind 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.000 of a question is he a buyer is he a 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.040 sell because the track record Michael King's a little bit 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.520 different because he was awful. When I saw that he 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.280 walked seven, I was baffled. But from a stuff perspective, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.000 all his stuff was down. The fastball wasn't doing as 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.880 much as it was last year, especially when he got 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.160 pushed as a starter, and he wasn't hitting the zone. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.479 That's been like a big thing for a lot of 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.200 these guys when you're seeing these big struggles is early 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.599 commanding of the zone. That was Gallon's issue, and that 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.200 was Michael King's issue. His fastball fifty percent in the zone. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.720 It had no whists. None of these pitches had any 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.880 whiffs because he wasn't commanding anything and he wasn't fulling 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.720 anybody on the outside twenty three percent outside the zone 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.000 on the fastball, twenty seven on the sweeper and on 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.599 the end. You've got to command, like solid command to 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.120 be able to get any of the stuff to be 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.400 crazy because it's sweeper, sinker, change up. There's two big 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.960 strikeout pitches in there. I say all of this to say. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.440 I just think it's too early. I think one start 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.760 horrifically bad command stuffed down just a tiny bit. There 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.200 aren't any big, big, huge warning signs. Yes, I've got 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.440 all the shares of him, and that might be and 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.080 the one out I do, and yeah, we all know this, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.040 but I would go by. I would go by right 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.320 now if someone is absolutely terrified of Michael King. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.920 Yeah, I think that's good. Brandon fought Welsh has all 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.160 the shares of two six strikeouts for him, one earned 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.480 over five innings, so good start for him. It was 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.320 over the Rockies. But again, you can only beat who 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.120 was in front of you. Jordan Hicks. I've been talking 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.640 about the show, been mentioning him a lot. I picked 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.360 him up in my home league this weekend too. I 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.760 knew what the holiday people would be like, a little 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.160 slow on the uptake sometimes the waivers and things like that, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.040 especially because we play the extended week from the combination 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.760 of the first week into this week and Jordan Hicks 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.560 six strikeouts this weekend, five innings, zero earned runs the 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:03.040 Fastball Live. There's a question for you, though, realistically, how 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.880 many innings do we get out of Hicks this year? 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.200 I think that is the big lingering question. One twenty five. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.680 Does that seem like a number that's feasible for him? 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:12.120 One thirty I. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.080 Was gonna say one thirty. Yeah, when he asked me 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.960 the question, one thirty was a thing that came to mind. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.280 But I also think like he's a little bit different. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.440 It's actually kind of like Michael King. Like Michael King 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.440 got stretched out last year and we've seen innings. I 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.680 think he can go far. I think he could go 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.000 one fifty, one sixty. I wouldn't be surprised if the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.320 team pushed Wicks like that. I really wouldn't be surprised 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:34.760 if they pushed him like that. I just don't know 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.880 what's gonna happen. So I think one thirty is the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.079 way to go. But this is the ind A Wicks. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.560 It's I did say, wis I said, Hicks just new Church. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.440 I saw New Church. Did that? They screwed me up. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.559 I was gonna say, again, like my beetle juice, Jordan Hicks, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:53.000 Jordan Hicks, Jordan Hicks, Ah, that's what hit it. I 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.719 wouldn't be surprised though, if this goes the opposite way, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.040 because Hicks is the type of guy that walks a bunch. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.000 He has massive command issues, and his stuff was live 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.280 and he was hitting the zone. Michael King wasn't. Their 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.440 stuff is a little bit different. Michael King isn't a 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.880 walk guy. So I think this could endverse. So I 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.120 don't truyt. I'm getting to this to say, I don't 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.400 I know you're a big Jordan Hicks guy. I don't 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.280 trust Hicks to be consistent throughout the year. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.760 I am a I'm not a big Jordan Hickson. I'm 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.079 a guy who's noticing that Hicks looks like he is 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.800 ready to convert into a starter. But if you're in 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.520 redraft leagues and you've picked him up, or he's still 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.360 on the waiver wire, which he is and still a 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.800 lot of leagues, I would be adding him, want him 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.079 to have a great April, and then be looking to 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.600 package him with something else because I know it's just 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.480 not he can't be long for the second half of 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.680 the season, like it's just not happening. And look, I 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.679 see all your comments. Believe we're gonna talk about Camnaara, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.320 We're gonna talk about injury, We're gonna talk about all 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.960 these things. So just hang with us here because I 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.240 know there's a lot to get to. There's also, of course, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.120 getting to give it away free stuff. 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Again, Trophy Smack always 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.360 giving us amazing things to give away here on the show. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.200 Let's have a little fun, shall we Welsh, Oh yeah, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.040 we like that a little fun. So on on Friday 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.760 in the afternoon, Rehyese Hoskins had a slide and got 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.160 into it with Jeff McNeil. And I can tell you 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.679 from the perspective of somebody who you know, I played 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.640 the game at a pretty decently high level. I gotta 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.200 say like I was pretty decent as a baseball player. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.800 We're gonna do lip reading? Is that what we're gonna do. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.400 We're not gonna do lip reading, but we're gonna do this. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.880 Even as a Met fan, I watched that and my 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.040 immediate instinct was, suck it up, McNeil, What are you doing? 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.320 That is a hard slide. It wasn't a dirty slide. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.640 It was an aggressive slide. Did he overslide? Yeah? Should 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.240 McNeil have been taking that throw behind the base the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.480 way he did? No, You should be trying your best 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.000 to make sure that you're jumping over the guy or 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.800 anticipating it. Everybody is so lackadaisical because they are not 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.760 used to hard nos baseball. Then when somebody plays hard 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.280 nos baseball and I don't care if he's a jerk. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.440 Maybe Ree Hoskins is a jerk. I don't know. We 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.720 don't hang out, we don't text. All I know is 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.800 we're in a sport now where people wear mittens to 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.480 run the bases. And if somebody wants to slide in hard, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.840 guess what let him slide in hard? He has no 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.760 idea if he's trying to turn two or not. His 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.040 idea is to slide hard be an aggressive baseball player. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.040 I don't care if it's Day one or Day one 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.720 sixty two, I don't care. Wells your thoughts about this controversy. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.560 And then Reez Hoskins giving him the cry thing was hilarious, like, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.520 I actually I'm team Hoskins here on this one. Sorry. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.240 I don't like old school baseball stuff, so that anytime, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.320 like if you know the whole like oh this guy 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.560 does this, or be bad flips and we've got to 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.719 hit him, or I watch this video this week and 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.240 it was talking about how in a big scoring game 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.439 a long time with Yasiel Puig with the Dodgers was 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.800 like in a steal a base And then maddingly was 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.320 apologizing and chase up he said, you know that video, Yeah, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.240 you said me that that's why, yes, why that video 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.120 you sent me that video where it was like, uh, 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.080 Tray Sutley was like, hit me because that's the only 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.440 way he's going to learn. I hate that stuff. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.240 Then I didn't hit him, and he got back. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.040 Yeah, he called him some words. I think those are 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.880 the things that are so far beyond baseball right now. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:20.920 So this is a little bit. All I'm saying is 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.240 that that's the policing. I hate the policing of baseball. If 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.920 McNeil wants to get mad, he can kind of get mad. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.320 But I also think, like, let Hoskins do the cry 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.199 baby stuff. Let there be yea, let there be emotion, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.000 emotions on opening the. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.440 Next day, throwing at him and the manager gets, you know, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.800 uh uh suspended for a day. I wasn't fired. That 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.680 will happen eventually too. But it's just like it's just 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.480 crazy to me, Like there was nothing about that. To me, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.280 it was controversial. He came in hard. McNeil was in 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:51.080 the wrong spot. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.520 He went outside the lane a little bit. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.920 I wouldn't go watch somebody go watch how McCray slide 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.240 in the eighties for the Kansas City roy. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:00.640 How a craze. 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.319 That's why you go back to you what you found 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.839 a YouTube video of hel mccrage sliding. These guys used 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.400 to forget sliding near the base, like they used to 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.680 just go like full like role into people. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.560 You're just making up old Waxy McGee. Waxy McGee usually. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:20.880 Played for the Royals, and he was a manager of 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.000 the Royals. Just because I'm old doesn't mean that baseball 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:31.120 didn't exist. Before anyway. Where wo Jeff McNeil Wow. Also 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.520 in the news, speaking of suspensions, Genesis Cabrera shoved one 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.880 of the favorites of the show here, Genesis. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:44.200 Fellas coming to the stage. Genesis Cabrera besome Sugar, O, man, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.480 when you need him a love there you go. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.240 There you got everybody. I love Beef curtains nose, Beef knows, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.679 I remember how McCrae, Thank you, thank you. Somebody's out there. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.280 I mean, look, I'm not saying dirty. I'm not saying 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.960 people have to hurt each other. But a good agree 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.720 use of baseball is good. It's good for everybody. Suck 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.720 it up. Let's talk about the rookie. Lookie, a lot 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.480 of rookie stuff going on. Paul Skeans, Oh baby, he 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.080 looks good. Jared Jones, by the way, also looked incredibly 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.400 sharp to you. I know that's one of the darlings here. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.800 Early on, so Jones tremendous art. If he's still available 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.520 in your league, please go run to the waiver wire 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.400 pick him up immediately. Skemes. I don't know, man, If 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.080 he keeps throwing darts like this, I don't think it's 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.440 gonna take very long for him to be up with 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.360 the Pirates, escially if they continue to win games. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.320 I mean, that's actually a really interesting point to that, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.280 Like I have not known what to do with Paul Skins. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.280 Here's what I do know. You should just roster him, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.840 and you should bite it through April if you can, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.160 because if he comes up, he's gonna dominate. But I 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.120 haven't known. I don't really know what the pirates to do. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.280 But who would you rather have right now? Take out 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.080 your need Paul Skins or Jackson Holliday. Who do you 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:46.920 think is up first? 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.160 Oh Man Holiday? Because I think they're going to just 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.040 be a little bit kid gloves with skeens. I do 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.880 I just because he's a pitcher and pictures get baby. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.160 But you know what's amazing? 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.760 Do you agree or disagree with that? No? 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.560 The holiday stuff is embarrassingly funny where they're like your 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.160 newsical book and learn second base and hit lefties and 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.520 his first hit was a home run off of a 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.000 lefty in the miners And all he has done is 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.720 continued what just smacking balls around. He needs to be up. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:16.600 I mean. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.360 The only problem is is, like this team does look 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.360 pretty locked in, except when I saw the like opening 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.720 day lineup and his Joorgemateao and ramon Arius in the 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.120 starting lineup. I think it's stupid. Yeah, Holiday, I think 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.760 is up in the next week or two. That's why 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.720 he's at the tippy top of my prospects. To stash 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.840 the Prospect Report article that I got out there and Paul's. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.400 Check that's on facebros dot com. Yah took that out 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.240 by the way, probably. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.680 Not far behind. But I don't know. The Pirates could 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:42.960 like they could literally do anything. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.120 Look, I would say this, I think the Pirates wait 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.280 and see if they end up let's say five games 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.280 over five hundred or six games over five hundred or 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.200 more after April. I think e'l sie schemes in May, like, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.240 I think they're looking at it. But I'm telling you 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.040 the Central is wide open for business and the I 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.840 got off to a good start last year. We'll get 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.600 Richie Silva. Richie said, just watch how McCray and he 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.720 should have been a linebacker. That was absolutely ridiculous. He 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.240 knows what I'm talking about. He went to found the 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.640 YouTube video. He knows where it is. Angelo says, I 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.240 grabbed Jared Jones everywhere. Angelo, I don't think you should 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.520 do that. I think you're gonna go to HR. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.000 He do that, so I have was a little annoying because, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.840 as Bogman was telling me before we did our Shares episode, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.000 He's like, you have Jared Jones everywhere, and that's gonna 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.520 make you look really smart. I'm like, yeah, I do. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.040 He was amazing in that first start. But I'm gonna 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.000 tell you he might show up in the trade video 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.760 twenty two Swinging wis two pitch Pitcher twenty I know 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.840 he throws whatever a little bit else, but like, I 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.080 don't know, this might be a huge capitalization. This is 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.120 coming from someone that was a big Jared Jones guy 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.720 and loves Jared Jones. I would keep him. I'm hoping 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.440 the best, but I am seeing some discourse around Jared 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.320 Jones after one start that he's top, that he's top 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.280 twenty five sp After that, maybe he's an ex spencer strider. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.840 I love the guy, it's amazing, but two pitch with 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.240 hits ra rookie, I don't. I don't know that's why 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.160 you might be able to get a haul if he's 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.160 sitting out there, but if he is available, you should 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.320 pick him up and kind of ride that. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.000 Here's what I always tell everybody, look at the schedule. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.320 If the schedule is favorable for the next few starts 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.960 coming up for them, do not trade them now. Let 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.000 them build value. If it's if it's an unfavorable schedule, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.080 then maybe you change your tune about these things. Always 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.800 look ahead. Max Meyer debut today. We're very excited about this. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.600 Louis eel Uh start today for the Yankees too. So 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.479