WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 7th, 2022 (Ep. 547) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:16.439 Sale, freak out, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:17.240 Fantasy Pros. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.639 This is Leading Off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.200 the King of sports Books. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.360 It's me, Joey p Joe piece Apia with me. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.920 Today is the Welsh and of course it's you hanging 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.040 out on our Fantasy Pros MLB channel, which is great 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.480 because we have got all the Leading Off shows on here, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.000 We've got all the videos on here. I just did 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.320 the Waiver Wire video that should be out this weekend. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.280 The by Low Cell High is out. So many things 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.480 going on welshon today. We've got a very fun show 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.519 planned for of all peanuts and our cracker Jacks. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:46.520 So how are you living, buddy? How you doing? 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.360 How would you react if I walked behind me, ripped 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.600 all the bats off my wall, started kicking the wall 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.680 and punching the wall. How would you react to that? 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.840 What would you think? I would be amused that you 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.760 would think I'm a crazy person. What if I also 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.360 told you I made millions and millions and millions of 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.080 dollars as a professional, and I went in to a 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.760 place where kids are just trying to learn how to be, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.160 you know, adults and professionals, and I went in and 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:20.160 I destroyed their building because I got a couple of 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.040 calls on the outside of the strike zone. That's all 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.479 I'm saying here, What would you do? What would I'm 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.560 a crazy person? Yes, and his also name is Chris, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.039 but it's a different last name. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.120 Yes, yes, well, you know, you know, totally normal, totally 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:40.520 you know, it's just fine, it's fine, you know, it's. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.480 I think everybody think that's up. That sounds like everybody 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.080 around him his camp being like, it's fine, he's fine, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.840 don't worry, he'll be okay. As he literally tear it 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.880 was like tearing off pieces of wall or something, destroying 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.560 Chris Sale went bonkers. If everybody doesn't know, and I 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:55.200 know we're gonna. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.040 He did, and uh, he's not the first guy. The 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.400 last guy, which I remember who was? 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.320 It took the back to the gatorade bottle like a 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.280 thousand times to the jug. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.560 You know remember that. I forget it was And he 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.560 just went back and forth like he was chopping down 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.000 a tree. I can't remember. I think that's health. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.720 I think that's healthy. Take a bat to a gatorade jug. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.440 There's not a lot of clean up there's not a 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.280 big financial issue, but going back in a dugout and 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:24.640 absolutely tearing off the wall, tearing off boards and what 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.520 looks like like hold like he tore everything off. Chris 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.600 Sales got to take a chill pill. He's got to 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.480 calm down just a tiny bit, like just the Eancy 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.799 bean Sea bit. But you know what I will say, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.119 I'm kind of jacked up for him to get back 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.600 into the major league. I'm kind of excited to get 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.600 that energy back into a rotation. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.120 That's the difference right there, and that's the kind of 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.440 energy we're bringing the Crysale energy today to the show. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.799 Let's start with Chris Sale in his five walks, and 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.959 the rehabs start certainly taking out his frustration, no doubt 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.680 about that. Darren Ruff at a pinch at game, tying homer, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.680 and then you had Josiah Gray twirling a gem of 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.640 the Phillies, kyleege Schwarber going yard not once but twice. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:06.720 Man KYLEI. Swarber. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.280 Every day it feels like we're talking about Kylie s 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.919 Warber hitting bombs. Christian Javier was touched up for five 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.359 runs though against Case, So another bad night at dfs' 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.480 two nights in a row. Not very happy about this Showiotani, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.799 though happy about that ten strikeouts, another sho hel Tani 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.360 jem another Showyotani moment where he continues to show out 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.000 your thoughts on shool Tani and the MVP race after 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.560 get another big out. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.200 Oh have it. I mean, we can't do it every 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.400 single freaking show, but I feel like I want to. Look. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.520 This is I think a four straight scoreless starts. He's 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.640 had a streak. He's got going on three straight, he's 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.400 got double digits on strikeouts. He has been a monster. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.280 And Atani's kind of in that, like, you know, there's 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.119 a couple of guys we have to start clicking into, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.440 like who are your don't even need to do research 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.520 type of guys at this point for betting see McClanahan strikeouts, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.720 you just go over. I think Jordan Alvarez has kind 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.240 of almost dropped into that total base marker where you 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.880 can just take his over and Otani, yeah, he's always 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.920 kind of lived in that. But there's that little streak 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.880 at this point. Whatever number they throw at you today 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.760 on the board, man, who is it? I'm drawing a 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.240 blank who it is? But there's an eight and a 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.280 half on the board. I think it's Dylan c So 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.920 I think that's who it is. There's an eight and 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.279 a half strikeout marker that's on the board to take today. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.320 That's a big number. The guys like McClanahan and Darvish 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.839 are the ones. You can take that with even cease 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.520 at this point and you chalk it up to the 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.520 game if you don't hit it, but they hit more 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.080 often than not. That Tani just one an absolute fricking roll. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.320 The Otani number, by the way, on betting pros is 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.440 two and a half in the consensus Aaron Judge at 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.520 minus one ten. Uh but on Fanuel, it's all the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.159 way show Hey Otani yet two? So well, okay, so 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.320 them is two point two forty right now, what's. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.000 The judge on on FanDuel? 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.000 The judge is even, So that's not that GM minus 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:02.479 one ten. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.000 That's a really interesting point is Otani hasn't really well Fandal, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.359 he's moved if he's to two and he has moved. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.520 He hasn't really moved on DK, but Judge has even 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.680 though Judge it is thirtieth home run, he's moved to 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.840 even like less or even money less predominant on the minus. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.919 So he's the trajectory that's moving, not even Darbish, not 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.599 even Otani at this point, which I think is pretty 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:27.560 fascinating as we go. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:28.440 Well. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.560 And also Paul Goldschman is at even right now on 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.720 the consenses line. So and I remember I think we 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.720 were getting in on him, what twelve to one, ten 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.520 to one. I think we try to warn everybody at 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.960 nine that was probably going in that direction. But I mean, 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.760 it's even money now. And Machado slipped all the way 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.440 to five hundred, where Peter A. Lonzo was a plus 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.360 five fifty. And that's at betting pros dot com. If 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.040 you want to check out all those lines, obviously they 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.960 are there for you. Other headlines from yesterday, Max Freed 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.440 six shutout frames against the cards, Bobashett itt a go ahead, Homer. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.640 How about a lot of Bobashett headlin this year? I 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.680 feel like, what not so much, you know, not so 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.320 much the bobushed headlines this year? 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.360 Also the Orioles Prospect. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:06.680 D L. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.679 Hall struck out fourteen guys at Norfolk. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.480 Now. Dal Hall is a guy that had some command issues, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.320 but certainly has the electric stuff as the kids like 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.040 to say, any profile stuff you want to share with 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.160 him as somebody that people should be adding maybe for 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.760 August and September perhaps is do you think Dale Hall 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.160 gets a shot at some big league starts. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.560 Yeah, I definitely think on the back half of the year. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.680 He's one of those guys. He's just missed a ton 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.839 of time over the last couple of years, and I 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.120 think that's something that holds back a little bit. But 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.280 when you've got you know, their main catcher, when you've 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.679 got Ali Reschmand up in the majors, I think it 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.159 allows them and maybe makes them feel more comfortable bringing 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.560 up some of these younger guys on shorter stints. They 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.680 just need consistency out of DL. Hall actually did a 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.520 draft with Eric Cross, who writes over Fantasy Pros, and 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.240 James Anderson. This is on one of Eric's podcast when 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.440 we were drafting prospects starting pitchers, and I took d L. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.560 Hall in that. I think it was like my fifth 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.800 or sixth starting pitcher in this picture draft for prospects. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.640 Because I think he's a big, big strikeout guy. I 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.560 think there's more relief risk in him than there is 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.840 with Grayson. But Grayson's not an option here and dial 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.560 Hall totally is. So I think probably like a mid August, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.720 I could see them a little cup of coffee preparing 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.160 for next year. That is a definite possibility for people 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.600 want to look out. And you know, the only thing 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.080 I wanted to bring up. I've been talking a lot. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.360 We did this over and in this league. You and 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.960 I've kind of done it about these different values of 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.920 player versus player and stuff like that. And we did 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.960 one yesterday where we were talking redraft of Julio Rodriguez 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.320 versus Juan Soto, which I'd fascinating results, Joe, But it 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.120 got me thinking about the Bobaschett thing. Where would you 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.440 go Bobaschett versus Julio Rodriguez right now, twenty four year 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.880 old Bobaschett, who's done it big time in Dynasty, when 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.440 you go Julio. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.520 I have no hesitation with Julio. I just think Julio 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.400 was that complete package player. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.680 And it's not the Boba Chet's not all star caliber player, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.320 but I think I look at Julio as top five 0:07:58.600 --> 0:07:59.480 major league talent. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:00.440 Stuff like. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.600 That's how I view Julio of what I've seen of 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.640 him this year whereas Bobashett I think is a you know, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.880 arguable first second round tannel depending on how you value him, 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.320 the depth of your leagues and all that stuff, depending 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:12.800 on what you know he does in the next eighty 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.480 one games. That would certainly go a long way to 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.880 make me feel better. But I sput Julio in the 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.440 higher tier. Personally, I disagree, And. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.760 It's not that I disagree. I mean, what Julio is 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.920 doing is incredible. But let me give you a line 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.720 twenty nine homers, twenty five stolen bases, one hundred and 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.440 twenty one runs, one hundred and two RBI with a 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.920 two ninety eight batting average that you would kill to 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.959 have as a Julio Rodriguez line and seems very obtainable. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.360 That was Bobashett last year. That was bobashev twenty twenty 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.280 one line last year. So my only point. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.440 To is some of that came in in those you know, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:47.800 rinky dig ballparks too. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.240 They played one hundred percent. I'm and I'm not advocating 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.400 for it because I have Julio Rodriguez over him, but 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.320 I think it's really interesting where we are and I 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.400 feel like Bobaschet like you said, like we've been talking 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.720 about him right now, and you know, he's really played 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.160 at such a lower perform level that I think his 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.600 dynasty value is maybe at an all time low two 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.200 fifty thirteen homers, five stolen bases, but he's still projecting 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.520 out to be, you know, maybe a twenty fifteen guy 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.520 with two seventy batting average if he doesn't really really 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.600 pick it up. So the Bobachet stuff I find really interesting. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.000 And you know, maybe even in the bye territory, like 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:21.319 is he a bye on the back hound? 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.920 He's definitely a bye. You know, somebody just showed me 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:25.360 a deal. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.440 I know it's Tiosca Hernandez and and somebody else. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.280 For Boba. Sheet was like, no, you can't do that. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:32.840 You got to you gotta keep you know, you gotta 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:33.880 stick with Bobachett here. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.800 And sometimes players do this where they have massive seasons 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.880 very young, and then they're always kind of chasing that 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.560 one year. I think Bischet's better than what he's played 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.319 in the first eighty one games. With the second eighty one, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.080 let's let's see what he does. But Julio, to me, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.080 has this different feel about him, the same way I 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.080 felt about Wan Soda, where I just I just want 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.880 all the shares. I just want to be in on that, especially, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.880 you know, because what he's doing in the stolen base 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.360 side is something. You know, this guy looks like a 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.480 prototypical thirty thirty guy we haven't seen in baseball in 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.560 a while that can be that kind of dude for 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.520 a long time, and most people still play road leagues. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.960 Interesting. The interesting thing too, that I really give credit 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.920 to Julia with is that he overcame the adversity early on, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.080 Like the league really got out of him. He got 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.680 really bad strike calls. He was just being attacked in 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.720 different ways. As you know, a young guy would be 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.040 professionally in the majors, and he overcame them, and he's 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.240 defeated it to a level. This is like a Stranger 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.760 Things type of defeat. He's eleven at this point. You know, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.160 he just can you cannot take him down and continually 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.640 just keeps pushing Vecna back. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:41.520 All right, it's it's good. Look, it's good. It's good. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.360 Jonathan India departs after a hit by pitch on the foot. 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.800 We had Bobby with Junior out of the case lineup 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.560 again today and Kyle Tucker getting the day off as 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.080 well today, so was Joey Vados. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.199 So just if you're playing those daily leagues, just make 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.640 sure you got that. Let's go to the mail bag. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.400 We got a little mail bag on our Discord channel 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.120 Fantasy Bros dot Com slash chat. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:00.880 In case you did realize this. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.319 Is a new channel. I think it's a new channel. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.600 This is a new channel. We open up the bag. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.920 Let's see what's inside the bag. Here you go. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.880 This is from Derek from Texas a AC. What are 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.120 some strategies for rebuilding dynasty teams? Who are some current 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.760 prospects that you would build around? 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:20.280 Welsh Well, I would build around Juli Rodriguez if you 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.800 had a choice. Sure, yeah, that would be an obvious one. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.199 Let me pull up my prospect list here to give 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.880 you a couple guys. The main strategy, by the way, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:35.920 I would say, is acquire the best possible while also 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.840 looking for the best volume. I think a lot of 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.080 people get very hyper focused on I need all these dudes, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.560 but make sure you're getting like, really substantial players. Players 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.760 I would want to build around right now, Corby and 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.160 Carroll Jordan Walker with the Cardinals is a monster's only 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.280 twenty years old and he's already at double A and 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.480 he's been just balling out. Gunner Henderson with Baltimore has 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.480 been phenomenal. You talked about Anthony Volpi as one and 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.040 if you want to go really lower, and you know 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.400 Penning the how much everyone's paying attention. You know some 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.120 of the hottest guys right now, Jackson Surio with the Brewers, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.600 Ellie de la Cruz with the Reds, and Ezekiel Tofar 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.400 with Colorado. These are all some of the biggest highest 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.120 movers that you know, if they were those are guys 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.120 that I would be trying to acquire if I'm trading 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.840 away big like redraft pieces. You know, good players that 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.400 are maybe getting a little bit older, the Goldschmids of 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.440 the world, those type of guys, I would be trying 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.200 to get collections of those guys. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.719 I throw Alvarez in that list from the Mets too. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.840 He's rising very quickly. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.640 That kid can play uh and look hard to find 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.319 offensive catchers, so if you can find one, it's a 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:39.120 huge win for you. 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.360 Rutchman is like that too. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.960 Again, I'm always tough on catchers, and you know I am, 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.079 because the transition becomes very difficult. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.040 But at the same time, that's then other piece. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.160 I would also be looking to buy a lot of 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.319 the Jonathan India types, the guys that are nice players 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.880 that are you know, not having good sophomore year, like 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.120 kurell Off India, like all those dudes. I'd be trying 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:59.400 to get a bunch of those guys on the cheap 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:00.559 two if I was really building. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.640 Such a great point hit on one of them that 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:02.520 I could. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:03.880 They're more cost effective to get. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.559 It's going to cost you a lot to get Julia, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.720 It's gonna cost you a lot to get you know, uh, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.000 a lot of these prospects that Welsh is talking about. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.040 So for me, that's what I would go. 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.360 I would start finding these major league ready guys that 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.720 are still young, that are still kind of finding their way. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.280 I think that's a good path as well. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.760 The only thing I would add too, what's interesting in 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.440 the place I think we are in prospects is we 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.720 don't have the I don't think we have the crazy guys. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.280 I don't think we have the guys that push the 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.520 envelope of I have generational talents that are near the top. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.880 Not to say I love Riley Green and Corbyn, Carrol, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.400 But we don't have the Julios, we don't have the 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.800 Wander Francos. They don't have any of those guys. So 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.080 I think the top is more accessible than it's ever 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.960 been because it's not quite locked in. And then I 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.000 think what people are holding on to is some more 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.440 of the like outside the top fifteen, the really young 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:49.959 guys that people don't want to trade. So I think 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.920 it's actually a really weird time for prospects that you 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.800 just go throw out there, get a couple of guys. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.319 But I love the idea of get the kiroll Offs, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.800 get the India's Hell, Wander Franco is probably cheaper than 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.960 he has been in the last year right now, just 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:03.679 because the. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.440 As another guy with throwing that grouping two Llois missed 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.360 a lot of time. Like that's a that's a great player. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.520 You can probably get a significant discount. See what happens 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.440 is he comes back. All right, let's talk about this. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.360 The Orioles became the first team in Major League Baseball 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.720 history to give up but go ahead or tying home 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.200 run the seventh, eighth, and ninth and still get a win. 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.000 So there you have it. That's certainly a good time. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.720 I want to take a look at this also because 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:29.240 I want to take a look at some of the 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.040 leader boards here. Halfway through the season, we have Tony 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:37.520 Gonsoon the era of one five to four. This is unsustainable. Okay, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.400 it's at the very top. I'm telling you right now, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.120 Martin Perez a two point three four. He's the eighth guy. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:43.680 Overall. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.320 The rest of the guys in the top ten are five, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.800 but it's Gonsol at the top at one five to four. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.160 We have to be aware of this. You have to 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.640 start shopping him. He's been in the video like three times. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.520 I feel like this year, and he keeps pitching well, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.520 and I know he's ten and zero and I get 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.240 all that, But at the same time, it's like, you know, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.360 look ahead, You've got to start looking ahead. And then 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.400 I want to ask you about this too. Yeah, because 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.360 at the top here of the board for home runs, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.240 we've got Judge at thirty Schwarber at twenty seven, both 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.880 eighty games into the season. Now for those guys, so 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.960 here's my question. Do either of these guys make it 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.160 to fifty in your opinion? 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.720 I think Judge does. Yeah, I think that's a I 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.480 almost think that's like a four. I think that's like 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:24.440 a lock. It's four. One. 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.320 Conclude about Alvarez twenty five? 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.360 Yeah, you know, I actually think Alvarez is a better 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.240 shot than Kyle Schwarber does, even though I know Schwarber's 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.000 just been bonkers. It's just a two twenty six batting average. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:39.360 That's that's tough to maintain the entire season consistently through 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.080 to keep hitting those homers with a bad batting average. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.600 He could get there. I wouldn't like be shocked if 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.880 you told me he got there. But I think Jordan 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.400 Alvarez can get there. He's already halfway home with over 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.160 three hundred bating average. I missed a little time, judge, 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.200 you know, far beyond that. I think those two are 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.640 fifty homer shots for sure. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.320 Byron Buckston stats on the air twenty two homer co 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.160 hold on, I'm not choosing violence. I want to take 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.120 the temperature. Twenty two homers. That's very good, forty RBI, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.360 forty six runs scored. He's played sixty four games. He 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.280 has just two stone bases hit in two eighteen. What 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.480 grade would you give Byron bucks In with the two 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.880 eighteen batting average, the eight forty five ops and the 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.080 stats that I threw out there for you, how would 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.200 you gree the season so far? 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:29.160 Yeah, I would say it's like a bus Yeah, that's 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.200 what I think too. Yeah, he's good. He's doing what 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.040 he was doing last year, except there's no contact being 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.240 made and whatever is going on with his approach there. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.680 That's the main problem with him. And by the way, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.800 that point is something right there that I put in 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.080 the cell column over and Fantasy pros as Gonsolin has 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.920 not only a over two run differential between his Sierra 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.840 and x FIP to his era, but he also the 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:57.200 lowest qualified pitcher babbitt to any hitter is Gonsolin. And 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.760 what it's under two hundred. The only pitcher that's pitching 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.840 two two hundred babit is Tony Gonslin. That's going to change. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.439 The run differential is going to change. That's why I 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.640 kind of out. And unfortunately, you know Buckston as well, man, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.320 you can't have an under three hundred obpm be a superstar. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.760 He has all the skill sets, but apparently, you know, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.760 the contact ability has completely changed, and we'd be having 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.920 a completely different discussion if he was hitting two eighty 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.440 even if the stolen bases were gone because oh yeah, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.080 he would be in this same marker as these other guys. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.200 He had to give you the steals or the batting average. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.639 Not giving you both, I think hurts because you can 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.919 find twenty two home runs and you can find that 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.800 in different spots. You drafted Bucksing because you thought you 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.520 get the steals at least, but you're not getting that. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.280 So but look another eighty one games. We'll see what 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.000 happens there. Uh. Fun facts, we got two of them today. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.400 First one from Sarah Langs, who does great work on Mlbuh. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.399 Joey Otani is the first player since RBI became an 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.760 official stat in nineteen twenty with ten plus strikeouts, multiple 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.960 RBI and stolen bases in a single game. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:56.719 There you go. You like that, I know you love 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:57.520