WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 15th, 2023 (Ep. 691) 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.719 Welcome in everybody in the Fantasy pros. This is Leading 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.200 Off Live, brought to you by Price Bace. Sign up 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.880 for prize figs today. Use that promo code leading Off. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:16.120 When you do, It's me. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.079 Joey Pa, Joe, Pi's a Bia. That of course is 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.920 the Welsh. It's the Peanuts, the. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.000 Crackerjacks, all of you hanging out with us. Yesterday was 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:22.439 a fun show. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.760 If you missed it, you should go back and watch. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.400 I'm not gonna tell you why, but it's educational. It 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.920 was brought to you by the letter E and the 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.200 number seven. That's what it was brought to you by. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:33.800 And Welsh. 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.560 Speaking of educational, we want to educate the people today 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.400 we have some baseball talk about more specifically. We've got 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.199 some guys too that are really performing outstandingly at the 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.680 very top of the board here in a lot of categories. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.440 But I have this terrible feeling that it's just not 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.320 gonna last very long, and I want to start with 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.920 one of them, because it's hoeesel Aair another. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:54.600 Home run yesterday. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.560 I know he's got twenty. I know we're all very 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.400 excited about jorgeeseil Air and you've. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.000 Been calling this one. You were on this one done 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.280 in dead a little bit ago, you still sat it down. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:06.959 I'm saying, trade him, and I'll tell you why. I'm 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.640 looking at the numbers, continuing to look at, you know, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.480 the deeper stats on him, and look, I do I 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.399 think he's going to continue on to this pace. No, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.360 I mean I'm looking at all of his career numbers 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.640 before the show, just kind of digging into stuff, and 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.720 I keep saying, this is a player. I mean, like, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.920 like the ISO's at three h five, Okay, like he's 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.480 got a lot of power. Last year, you know what 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.800 the ISO was, well for him, it was one ninety three. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.039 I just thin that's a tough sell for me. The 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.280 BABIT right now is at two seventy five. That's a 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.759 pretty high number for him last year, you know, two 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.880 fifty to sixty, you know, like that's kind of the 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.039 range for him, you two fifty six, two fifty Really 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.000 that's kind of more where he's been. But I don't know, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.680 I've just seen a lot of horeso Laier in my 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.200 life in thirty one. I just don't know if I'm 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.880 buying a full season breakout. I think you get the 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.240 best of both worlds because if you trade him now, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.360 his value is at its peak, and if it sustained, okay, 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.360 you missed out on it. But if you can get 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.400 something really good back in this deal, why not try 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.400 to do that because you're mitigating your risk of him 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.919 reverting back to just that ordinary swing and miss guy 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.639 that he's been for the majority of his career. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.760 Yeah. I mean, I get the logic of what you're 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.600 saying here. I don't one hundred percent know like what 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.160 you get, and I don't I hate to always like 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.000 get into this and call it like that. What is 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.680 the trade dead zone thing? I just don't know if 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.480 anyone's giving up what's worth getting rid of him? Right now? 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.720 His big split is lefties. He's destroying lefties this year, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.320 hitting three thirty three and only fifty four at bats. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.040 He has nine of his twenty homers off of lefties. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.800 He's hitting only two thirty six against righty so that 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.440 obviously has been the big weird split. The things I 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.200 love are the high He's made huge big changes on 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.720 his barrel percentage. It's the second highest of his career, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.519 to go along with a hard hit percentage, which is 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.320 higher than last year. His k's are down from last year, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.280 and then obviously expected stats are through the roof as 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.600 far as you know the ex blh blah blah blah 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.880 blah blah blah. But again I would point to, like, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.880 what does the trade look like. I think Jorge Silaire 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.640 is going to push forty homers this year. I also 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.040 think it's going to be up and down. I think 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.720 he's going to have some really aggressively frustrating swings throughout 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.960 the year. But what can you get for him? If 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.760 you can, I'm always interested. I would listen, but I 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.079 just don't know what anyone's gonna pay is going to 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.160 be worthwhile to get rid of so lair And maybe 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.320 he's just going to do this the rest of the year, because, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.360 like I said, if that barrel percentage was really low 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.280 with the hard hit and the strikeouts were up, I'd 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.120 be a little bit more dicey, But it ain't. And 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.440 he's destroying lefties and he's gonna keep destroying lefties throughout 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.040 the I think he's one of the top home run 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.200 slug guys against lefties and all of baseball. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.280 Okay, well, Bryce Harper's been underwhelming this year. Would rather 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.640 Jorge Solai or Bryce Harper rest of season? 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.720 Well, Bryce Harper, okay, but. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.760 I mean if you have Bryce Harper, you're kind of 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.640 frustrated right now. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:00.440 You haven't quite. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.160 Gotten what you expected, even though you got him back 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:03.200 way sooner than you inspect. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.600 Someone will give me Bryce Harper for so Laire, I'll 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.280 send them an edibles. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.360 Okay, all right, here's another one. What about Giancarlos Stanton 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.680 rest of season or Jorge Hilaire more similar in terms 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:15.800 of what kind of player they are. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.039 Let me look at Stanton's stuff. I don't. I haven't 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.120 paid attention to say, let me. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.200 Check out Stanton's stuff. Well, well, she looks at Stanton's stuff. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.360 We'll talk about Uri Perez, who threw six shutout innings yesterday, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.000 six strikeouts, boughta being in the win over the Mariners. Check, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.640 we got that one yesterday on the betting side of things. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.200 Another guy I want to get to is Michael Walker. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.880 I want to talk about him too. Is another guy 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.520 to thirty one year old breakouts? That's what today's shows 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.040 all about. So so Laire or gian Carlos Stanton? Who 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:43.760 would you rather have? 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.920 Yeah? I mean, well, there's probably more injury risk. With Stanton. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.960 I mean, underlying stuff works pretty in favor of Stanton. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.880 He's actually striking out the lowest of his career right now, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.680 which is nice, but the sample size of what he's 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.800 actually played is down. I don't know. I guess I'm 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:06.040 gonna say Stanton XBA is also like forty points higher. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.640 But I think it's pretty close to those guys. And 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.080 if you wanted to say, I saw someone in the 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.920 chat was like, I'll take Solaire, I actually don't didn't 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.800 necessarily disagree, like that's a bad take because he is 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.040 at the middle of that order. He's not coming out 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.000 I think I'm I'm like one A, one B on that. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.159 Okay, this is a good conversation. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.360 Let's have a conversation about Michael Waka six and two 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.760 thirds innings yesterday, five k's on the year, Welsh two 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.080 eight nine era A one point zero six whip, sixty 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.200 nine k's and seventy four innings. It's been magical for 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.200 Michael Waka this year. But it's got to run out, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.920 doesn't it. I mean, can we really buy into Michael Waka? 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.520 Who has It's been years. It seems like someone gotten 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.000 a full healthy Michael Waka season. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.640 That was good. He's had some good one off. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.520 Starts here and there, but the last couple of years, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.800 I mean this is this might be one of the 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.760 most surprising things of Major League Baseball to me this 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.160 year is Michael Waka sitting here as a guy that 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.039 you've been starting every single week for the last few 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.880 weeks because he's been really solid. But I can't imagine 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.359 when we're seventy four, seventy five innings in now to 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.720 Michael Waka. This has got to be the time to 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.760 get out of the Michael Michael Waka business, isn't it. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:19.080 Yeah, Waka Waka, we're getting into the Waka. I said this, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.760 We talked about him on CBS last night. I want it. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.520 I'm a little bit red Baron. Look at red Baron. Waka. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.000 Is this year's Martin Perez. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.719 That's well, oh no, that's a really good one there, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.560 except with strikeouts. Walka like Walk had a bad. 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.560 Perform under Ker nine. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.120 But I hear you yesterday was a bad perform, a 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.320 bad underlying performance for Waka over a mile per hour 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.320 down on like every single pitch that's worrisome, except Waka's 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.920 change up has been absolutely elite. If you watch that thing, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.880 it just it floats. It's like, oooh, these guys can't 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.760 hit it. It has a thirty six percent wiff rate 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.080 this season, which I think is great. He's not giving 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.880 up a whole lot of hard hits, he's getting more 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.880 chases because of that change up, and he's kind of 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.400 dominating the zone. So is he gonna have a two 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.279 eight ninety RA this year? Hell no. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.279 But do you want to guess what his X ERA 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:07.160 is right now? 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.720 I think I already saw it. It's like four point 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:10.640 zero three ninety. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.840 You want to guess what his x FIP is? Four 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.560 four point four two? You want to guess what his 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.200 X plug is? 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.040 Yeah, suck it, That's what I think it is. But again, 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.920 like he's gonna regress a little bit back more to 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.480 the means, But I think he's gonna get away with 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:29.880 a lot of stuff. He's gonna pick up wins with 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.200 that great offense. If you can live with him as 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.240 like a three to five guy, I think here's the difference. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.800 I think you could roster him the rest of the 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.600 way through and feel good if someone wants to pay 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.920 up for a two eight ninety RA walka sure, listen 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.600 to that, But what does a trade look like? So 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.440 I think the smart plays, Hey, yeah, get out of 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.520 the walka business because the rest of the season might 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.880 be rougher than what you've already had. But I don't 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.160 think Waka is going to turn into a pumpkin and 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.360 we're gonna be cutting him for the next whoever the 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.840 hell is coming up. I think he'll be actually above 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.280 streamable or at worst, he's going to be a streamable 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.160 pitcher the back end of the year. So you decide 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.640 what that means for your own roster. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.920 I would be looking to move Michael Waka right now 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.640 for what do it? Whatever I can get, because I 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:14.960 know he's going to be there. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.360 Yeah, not anything, But I mean, I really put it 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:19.880 to you this way. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.559 If I've got a surplus of pitching and Michael Waka 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.760 is one of them, right, Let's say I really like 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.880 my starting five, and I've got some other pitchers that 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.640 I really like on my roster, and I've got Michael 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.280 Waka because I picked them up off the waiver wire 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.600 this year. And if I can help myself in the offense, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.120 I'm gonna do that. If I can help myself with 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.679 a closer situation. Absolutely with a guy that I think 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.160 is going to be closing games. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.160 Right Kyle Finnigan. Like someone offers you Kyle Finnegan. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.040 To get or somebody like that, like I'm. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.800 Gonna trade you Bednar for him? No way, I don't know. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.120 I mean, I don't know. I'm just saying starting pitching 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.600 has been rough this last month. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.800 You know you're right between the between the Verlander and 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.840 Surrezer implosions. Manoah, Jacob de gram Ser Strider, who were 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.400 going to talk about a little bit later on the show. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.400 He hasn't been great. Here's Sandy al Contra, Pablo Lopez. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.880 Shall I go on? Starting pitching is a problem right now? 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.600 Here's an interesting one. Tim actually inadvertently did this. What 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.959 if someone was like, ooh, jose Bray you is starting 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.439 to get going, I need to get out, and they 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.520 offer jose A Bray you for Walker right now? 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.680 I don't think I do that one I would do that. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:21.560 I would do that. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.880 I think I think a Bray who's turning around in 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:24.960 a great way, that that's what. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.480 Seems like he is. He seems like he is turning 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:28.280 around a great way. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.600 But I think that there's I mean, I'm not saying 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.560 you're trading him up for another starting pitcher straight up, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.600 because I know that's a difficult sell, like that cell 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.360 that I understand. But if you look at what's going 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.600 on right now in the league, it's been rough out there. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.640 Look at question the chats turning on you, Joe Walkee's question, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.720 why are people going to trade decent pictures when it 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:49.679 has been rough? 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.120 They're going to trade recent pitchers that are pitching well 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.040 above their head because that's how you win leagues, because 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:56.960 what you do is you make sure that you the 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.360 assets you have. You have some hard conversation with yourself 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.280 and you say to yourself self, so it's really overperforming, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.160 that should not be this good. And then you look 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.880 at the deeper metrics on Michael Waka. When does that 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.400 four four nine x fIF catch up to that two 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.200 eight nine era soon? So do you want to be 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.800 on that crap handle of it? No, you don't want 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.079 to be on that handle of it. You want to 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.840 be on the right handle of it. And I'm just 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.000 telling you I think, like, for instance, if you if 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.319 you can get Mike Hunter Green, I would take Hunter 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.120 Green rest of season. Hunter Green quietly been really good lately, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.520 except the era is still above four and you're looking 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:33.840 at it, and I think that's a deal that you 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.720 can make. So I'm just throwing that out there. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.560 I actually think the Jose of bray You one is 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:38.199 the interesting one. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.160 That's been a bad one too. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.600 Three twenty seven in June already three homers, which is 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.360 three times what he's had the rest of the way 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.720 through one slug. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.760 Who Yeah, everyone, everyone seems to agree with you about 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:51.640 the Abrayo. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.360 Thing in the that's that's like a fun tricky one, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.840 like you're selling a little bit of a better player 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.760 that you think is going to regress for someone you 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.000 think is going to come back. It's all about confident. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.480 Brandon Nimmo had some confidence, delivered a game winning RBI, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.840 screwed up my Hi parla yesterday with the Yankees, but whatever, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.719 go ahead, Brandon Imo, go get yourself some. Garrett Cole 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.280 did record eight strikeouts though in six things, so I'm 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.319 cash nailed that one. But Garrett Widlock is another one too. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:18.920 Let's talk about Garrett Wodlock for a second. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:19.079 Now. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.280 This is a picture that I've invested in the last 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:26.440 couple of years, and it's been frustrating injuries inconsistencies. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.000 But he's always teased. He's been a tease here. He's 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.360 got a twenty two to. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.360 Four k walk ratio in twenty three innings so far 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.880 this year, two runs over seven innings yesterday. Is Garrett 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.679 Witlock a player that you should be looking to acquire 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.120 or in a shallow league, if still floating out there, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:42.480 possibly add because I think you do. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.920 Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think he lives 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.880 in that world of like your roster to maybe get 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.559 him out of like really bad matchups. You know, like 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.560 stream it's essentially like a streamable guy. But you know, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.520 walk rate's been really low. You like that strikeouts are 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.200 not a whole big thing. I will point out it's 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.360 almost got a four and a half expected era. So 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.280 that's why you know, I'm probably looking a little bit 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.079 more at like a streamable option. I do like how 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.679 he uses the zone, looking at like the zone chart 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.480 is a little bit too much in the zone sweeper 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.320 just you know, not even looking at the k rates 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.120 or with rates I could tell is probably the biggest pitch, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.520 which it is. It's got a fifty percent rate, the 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.720 rest relatively mediocre. So yeah, I think he's like I said, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.160 he's in that maybe a hold on, maybe a just stream. Oh, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.280 Michael Walker, Garrett Whitlock, rest of year. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:33.800 Whitlock. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.199 I've seen enough bad Michael Waka in my life for 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.679 the last five years. I just I just don't trust 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.640 the health. I don't trust the I just don't trust 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.800 it again. And I could be wrong, and I will 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.599 eat that if I am. But Garrett Woodlock is a 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.320 young enough pitcher with upside. He's got a high strikeout rate, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.319 and that's one thing. Even peak Michael Walker back in 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.439 the Cardinals days, back in the day, what it was 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.600 him and Wainwright at the top of that rotation, even then, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.079 he wasn't necessarily lighting the world on fire with the 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.800 k raid. So that's never been his game. So I 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.240 like the pictures with the big strike. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.000 Back in the day when I was young. I'm not 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.200 a kid anymore. It's a sit and wish I was 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:09.920 a kid again. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.600 I love that song. It's a good song. I know, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:12.679 let's go to Matt. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.520 Sorry, I feel like you were waiting for me to 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:16.160 drop them. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.199 If you did the first line in that song, we 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.080 might get canceled. So Matt McLain Homard and drove in 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.760 three runs. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.040 On Wednesday night. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.280 He is now up to a three twenty eight, three 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.040 seventy nine, five sixteen slash, three bombs, two steals, thirteen 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.720 stone bases. Twenty eight games, he'd have more than two steals. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.880 Though, I am very much about Matt McClain right now. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.920 You would think the steals would be up, but it 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.560 is bonkered. We were talking about him last night, the 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.920 three hit game. He's got like forty hits since he's 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.200 been called up. The three twenty batting averages bonkers, an 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.920 over ten percent barrel percentage. His XBA, even though it's 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.400 forty points lower, it's still close to two ninety. He 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.760 has been doing some crazy things and hitting two. It 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.520 just makes him valuable the rest of the way through. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.560 And you know, I think he is in a twelve 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.720 team league. He is a startable shortstop probably rest of season, 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.040 even when he kind of comes back down a little bit. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.640 More so, I'm I'm very much all about Matt McClain 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.199 right now, and he is again a piece of these words. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.560 What's offense, it's Ellie, and where's where's Christian? And kar 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.120 I'm about to do the thing. I'm about to start 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.200 doing the Maybe he's gonna get called up because I 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.240 feel I feel it coming up inside of me of 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.640 why is Christian? And did you know the Christian and 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:25.600 Karnoshian strand? 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:26.440 He is? 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.000 At least when I looked yesterday, he was tied for 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.400 the most homer right in the minor leagues with around 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.760 thirty less at bats and like the next guy, he's 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.560 hitting over three hundred, one of the only ones. I believe. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.080 He's one of only two or three with fifteen homers 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.000 in the miners to have an over three hundred batting average. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.920 He doesn't belong there anymore. He's cut his strikeout percentage. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.640 He don't belong there anymore. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.000 Nothing left for him to prove. He's in the Waiver 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.720 Wire video which just dropped on the channel. If you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.000 haven't go check that out today. Look the vapors nos 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.560 a mod. I remember having that single cassette of that 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.320 song by the way back in the day. I think 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.440 it dropped like right around the springtime. That was like 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.240 that was a summer jam. If ever there was one, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:07.920 I don't remember. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.560 No, it's Nick on d I know I like bread 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.960 there He's like, was I about to do the Batman appreacial. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.680 No rookie lookies today, although Welsh just basically did one 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.840 for Christian and Carnossio's trand So let's talk about Nick 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:31.520 Lodolo unlikely to return until early August. Apparently the MRI 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.480 says he's got to stay in the walking boot. So 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.160 that's not good. It's looking like kind of a lost season. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.520 So if you are looking for Nick Lodolo to help 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.720 you out, I wouldn't. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:42.000 Hold your breath. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.760 I mean, if you that's mine, you can hold on 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.640 in August and September, maybe you can, but I'm not really. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:47.360 Holding right now. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.320 No, I'm done with that. That's my Probably my biggest 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.200 l of the trade videos was, I mean, the injury. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.960 I just didn't see the injury coming. I would find 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.920 back on him being able to fix it. But yeah, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.000 it's a huge disaster. Though I would say maybe an 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.680 nice little slick room to a little dude to take 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.520 a look at for buying into the near future here 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.040 for Dynasty leagues. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.280 Are you getting more Vini pas Quentino questions than anything 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.080 else in your timeline? 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.480 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the number one. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.880 So I keep telling everybody, Christian Walker, I keep telling everybody, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.840 you know, look at Ryan Nada and some of these 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.440 guys right now in the waiver wire. But it really 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.600 depends on what's out there waiver wire. Jose Abreu, now 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.880 that you say it, that's that's where you go. I mean, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.880 you kick the tires on the Jose Abra see if 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.560 you can pry him away, because he's definitely hurt somebody 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.200 at this point. I mean, he's probably available. The trouble 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.520 is what you know, what are you offering? Maybe Michael Walka, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.000 but Vinnie pas Quentino, Like I get it, I understand. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.800 You know, everyone's looking to try to fill those holes 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.080 and stuff like that. But maybe Christian and Carnaccio strand 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.880 to another bat. Add that guy now and hope in 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.680 the next two weeks you get somebody like that coming 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.000 up because he can then should come up and just 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.800 Rake Clevenger is removed yesterday right by step soreness. That 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.680 can't be good. Salvador Perez he had a hand contusion. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:02.640 He's day to day. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.240 Max Munsey grade two hamstring strains, so he's going on 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.840 the eel and somehow Eloya Menez found. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.119 His way back to the field yesterday. Welsh this was great. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.320 This was you know, after a few days of waiting around, 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.639 there you go, Elloja men is back on the field. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.879 I know we all just super excited about it. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.520