WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 20th, 2023 (Ep. 713) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.440 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Girls. MLB brought to you 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.719 for us my prize pick. Sign up today for prize picks. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.319 Use that promo code leading off when you do, it's 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.560 me Joe, that's the Welsh. You know who we are, 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.479 and it's all of you. Sorry, I started the stream 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.759 mill late. I thought I clicked a little tab. It 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.480 turns out I did not click it hard enough. Sometimes 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.079 you gotta really punch that tab, got to push it 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.440 in On a you Tube, it's like, you want to 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.600 do the show? Yes? No, no, do you really want 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.320 to do the show? Yes, I very much want to 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:34.960 do the show. You have to like really hit it 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:35.760 hard that you take. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.919 This as a sign sometimes sometimes like I hope this 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.360 is a good show. Now now I'm a little bit 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.239 wait because I'm one of. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:45.120 Those already show I'm here, it's already a good time. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:46.960 I want to talk about some of the baseball standings 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.600 this year because it feels like the upside down and 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.760 stranger things right now, some weird stuff, wacky things are 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.520 going on. I also have a really provocative question to 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.240 ask you. I know that's a team gotta wait, Gonna 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.240 wait a little bit longer. In the show. But before 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:00.640 we get. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.720 Provocatcy supervocative question, it could. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.679 Be no, it's a baseball related question. It's actually something 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.880 that Mike Lole was talking about the other day on 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.080 MLB Network and I thought, wow, he's got a point 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.440 there about something. So again, before we get into that, 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.119 I just want to remind everybody, of course, you can 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.319 subscribe to Fantasy Ros MLB YouTube channel. Check us out there, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.120 click that little bell till it goes ding. And let's 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.320 get to the headlines for Major League Baseball, and let's 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.600 start with you know, I know it wasn't good right 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.960 away for Edward Julian, but you know what wasn't good 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.080 the second time around, But you know what, third times 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.000 the charm because Julian's been really good two for two 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.040 of the solo homer, two walks on the day, still 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.760 very lightly rostered across leagues. I know this time of 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.720 year a lot of people start kind of paying less 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.520 attention to the waiver wire, but he is out there 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.760 and way more than half of league's Julian to me 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.280 is that perfect guy that stash him on your bench 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.080 and see if this is finally working. Because as I said, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.120 when I watched him in spring training. I know you've 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.640 talked about him too, So this to me was one 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.320 of these kids, if you just leave him alone, he's 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.840 going to figure it out. He's got a good left 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.680 handed swing. Everything I like about Edward Julie and the hitter. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.520 It was just gonna take a little time for him 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.520 to get his confidence with the major league pitching. It 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.120 seems like that's starting to work out, and it seems 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.840 like recently this guy is starting to get those feet 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.560 very wet at the major league level. What do you 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.440 think about this run that Julie has been on for 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:22.560 the Minnesota Twins. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.880 Yeah, And as you mentioned me seeing him was in 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.600 the aarson A Fall League. I saw him just, I 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.160 mean almost every other day, every other day out here 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.520 absolutely tattooing baseballs and even when he got into some 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.560 plump because the weird thing about him, and this is 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.560 the thing that hasn't completely translated this year, is a 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.600 much higher walk rate type of guy. Like you can 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.840 see a whole lot of pitches, but he also would 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.480 have this follow him here passive aggressiveness where he would 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.160 be passive in nature, but man, when he got into 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.960 a point of account, he wanted to destroy baseballs, and 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.959 we're seeing that where he's got a thirty one percent 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:55.840 k percentage on. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.360 The air, which is not good. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.280 And these are the type of guys who would kind 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.720 of pick out and point that. But sixteen percent barrel 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.440 rate is near the tops of the league. So far 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.720 this year, he's hitting over three hundred. He's a really 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.240 good distribution of how he's hit the ball. Homers have 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.040 kind of gone across all sides of the field. He's 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.360 done really good against fastballs this year, hitting over three hundred, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.120 and he hasn't let at least on paper yet any 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.280 of you know, Slider's curveballs be the death of him. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:23.799 Though. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.680 Breaking pitches have one of the bigger discrepancies of like 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.320 actual results versus expected results to seventy six batting average 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.200 two thirteen against some breaking pitches, but he's hitting over 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.760 two hundred against all types of pitches. He's distributing the 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.640 ball all around the field. He's just a really good 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.360 hitter who's got raw power, and he's on that good 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.920 streak right now. So these rookies can be a little 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.640 bit finicky, but I think we mentioned this yesterday. Him 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.160 and Kirolof right now, they're just getting going even though 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.640 you're a loss. Striking out a bit well yesterday, so. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.120 I said, look is starting to look good. You know. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.760 It's funny. We didn't think at this point in the 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.760 season if the Twins were in first place, then it 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.400 would be kier Law and Edward Juliet and who are 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.320 the guys you got to fear in that offense necessarily, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.760 But that's been the case, and they defined themselves in 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.360 first place. Also because of a guy named ken Tamaida. Well, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:09.920 she you're familiar with ken to Maiaida. I think that 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.000 run you know this guy pictures for the Twins. Nine 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.200 strikeouts across six of the third yesterday, So no decision 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.279 against the Marrows, but still a good performance from him. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.640 Good performance from Luis Gestillo, one of our DFS pitchers yesterday. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.520 Eleven strikeouts for him. Oh that's good. Also Edward Rodriguez 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.320 seven strikeouts. Put it on the board, Yes, got the 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.760 over on that strikeout total. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:36.000 Let's also put on the board that might have been 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.000 his last start. There was a rumor going around that 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.920 there were a whole lot of extra scouty scouts that 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.599 were at that game that might have been his last start, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.160 and it was a really, really good one. Joe and 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.240 I have been talking at nauseum this year about how 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.320 Edward is going to Edward EDWARDO is going to get traded, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.000 and he would be one of the high viable pitchers 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:55.839 the team should. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.640 Be looking at. I think the Tigers would want to. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.920 Be aggressive after that great of an outing. He just 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.800 had to move because he's been out with injury. I 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.560 think he'd have been traded like a month ago had 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.160 he been around this whole time. But I think that 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.120 might have been his last start because I don't know 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.880 what the Tigers would gain by putting him out for 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.720 another start right near the end of the deadline, maybe 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:16.520 getting blown up. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:17.600 So we might be. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.120 Seeing him in a new uniform soon. And this is 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.679 why I would have gone and traded for him, because 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.520 I do think if he goes to a place like 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.320 the Astros, who I really think should pick him up, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.039 or the Diamondbacks, who have three starters on their roster 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.279 right now, both of those are huge upgrades, and really 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:35.920 every team that's going to trade for him is going 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:36.600 to be an upgrade. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.440 So this is a guy I still want to go get. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.800 Yeah, understandably, So all right, let's continue on with some 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.920 of the news and notes. So Edward O very good. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.719 Chase Silseth, which is always hard for me to say, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.920 so I'm not gonna say it again. He did it. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.440 That's why I always feel like that Jay felt. I 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.000 mean that is that's a look, mister and missus Silseth. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.680 That's a terrible name. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.960 Parent like Chase, Well, it could have been like Richard 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.480 Richard Silseth. That's a little bit better, except when you get. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.760 Anything that could Chase silk Seth. I mean, it's just hard. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.480 Ten strikeouts anyway, uh, and swept the Yankees. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.520 Just made you list, but just made your list after 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:16.200 you did it too. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.920 I sound like mad Dog Ruth. I'll high he and everybody. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.800 What happened in everybody? And I got a high heat. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.839 I'll talk about I gotta talk about him all day. 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.200 That's what I'm gonna talk about. The Yankees. What the 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.360 hell is going on now? Welsh? Going on with the Yankees? 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.640 But yeah, what is going on with the Yankees? You know, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.040 they are still above five hundred, but they're in last place. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.760 I don't want to say it feels sad for the Yankees, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.560 but it is a frustrating spot. If you're and this 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.320 is where you can start talking about the standings here 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.680 for a moment. If you're the Yankees, you're looking at 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.640 you got the same records the Twins were in first place, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.880 but you're in last place in the East and you 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.200 might not make the playoffs at this stretch. Do you 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.560 think that major League Baseball, because of the balance schedule 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.479 being back, should go back to either a larger structure 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.000 of American League East and West and get rid of 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.440 these three divisions because back in the day that's what 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.719 it used to be when the balance schedule did exist. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.840 Because these three divisions, again, you're not getting necessarily the 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.400 best teams in the playoffs. And if you're Major League Baseball, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.880 you want the best teams in the playoffs because that's 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.000 usually good theater, that's usually good ratings. And this is 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.440 what Mike Glow was talking about, and I thought it 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.960 was actually kind of provocative. I would rather have the 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.840 best teams. What do divisions mean at this point? I 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.720 don't want to get rid of divisions altogether the way 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.239 he did, but I think maybe there's a middle ground 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.760 where you chop it up to East and West as 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.520 opposed to the East, West, Central and maybe just maybe 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.360 you might get a better playoff product with these expanded playoffs. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.880 Your thoughts, Welsh, I like that was very good. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:43.080 I like that idea. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.600 I'm not beholden to divisions. I do think there would 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.040 kind of be like, oh, why why do the Euston 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.720 West get it? And why not the Central? And you know, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.880 why don't we do that and add another one? You 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.680 know'll do like football, I think it's fine. I want 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.320 the best teams to be in. I kind of hate 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.360 when you look at a division and it's just like, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.040 you know, and L West has got you know, four 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.240 teams above five hundred, and then you look over here 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.040 and then there's just like one team that's barely over 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.080 five hundred and the next you know, four game. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.440 The original sin of AI was here for a second. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:19.080 The original sin of these divisions was back in nineteen 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.880 ninety four. So the first time, right before the strike. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.960 People forget this and at the time I remember this, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.120 the I think it was the Texas Rangers were leading 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.520 that division. They were ten games under five hundred. So 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.920 basically with you know, they shut down the season what 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.880 July into July, I think it was right around there. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.120 Basically you know, there was a good chance that a 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.880 team that was under five hundred was going to make 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.160 the playoffs. And who knows if this system of the 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.520 three divisions would have survived that, Like, I think a 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:46.800 lot of people would have made a stick say this 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.240 is a terrible idea, let's go back to the way 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.960 it was. But the strike happened, and everybody forgot because 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.520 they never happened. It never came to fruition, and then 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.400 it got better after that. And you know, the limited playoffs, well, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.840 with the expanded playoffs, it's very interesting, and I get it. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.800 I understand why to the money around and all that nonsense, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.600 But the way you spread money around is to make 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.360 money in the playoffs. You make money the playoffs by 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.199 having the better teams and the bigger stars in those playoffs. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.760 I'm indifferent. I'm indifferent, like whatever makes the best product 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.520 out there, and the best teams are out there, and 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.880 we're not, you know, pushing up garbage teams because of 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.880 a divisional thing. But the real, really only thing is 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.000 like winning a division. That's the only like major advantage 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.960 on either side of these. So if they want to 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.760 do it, that's great. I don't know how that turned 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.240 in from the Yankees being little bottom feeders here, but 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.400 they're not going to play in it regardless. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.280 Hey, here's the cool thing. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.599 No matter what you do, no matter how you restructure 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.160 all of this. Right now, Joe, if you were to 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.880 do it today, Yanks aren't making the playoffs, they're not 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:38.360 getting in. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.079 Yeah, all right, let's get to Francisco Alvarez because I 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.440 can still hot two more hits. Let's go. And Met's 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.760 are beating up on the White Sox and I'm not 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.640 really excited about that. It's just the thing they're doing 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.640 right now. But man, oh man, as Francisco Alvarez been good. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.880 I got to ask you this, Well, you got the 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.120 whole board in front of you. A catcher next year, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.880 what's that board look like? Give me your one, two, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:02.920 three ranking? Oh? Whereas adlely, where's Francisco Alvarez? Like, I mean, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.400 real Muto he in that conversation? No mo like he's gone. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.520 The tough part about that is, I'm not a catcher guy. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.480 If anybody's followed me knows, like, I don't really get 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.839 into draft. Like the Ramutto stuff is fun, but I 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.680 don't draft Romuto. I never do, ever, ever, ever, do 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.200 I invest that high of a pick into catchers. So 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.200 I want to say, look, I get what you're getting 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:25.600 at here. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.200 I want to say Adley's probably at the top. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.200 I mean, Ramuta, by the way, is still valuable, and 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.640 if he comes at a discount, I like it. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.839 I'm looking at the stats. If everybody's wondering what I'm 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.959 doing here, I guess I would probably go Adle. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.160 I might still go Ramuto there, and then I think 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.760 there's a tier combo here of Will Smith, Sean Murphy, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.520 and probably Francisco Alvarez, and someone might be screaming why 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.920 not Jonaheim. I think Jonahan is gonna kind of backtrack. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.880 Maybe he's at the bottom of that tier, and maybe 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.080 he's not in it. I don't know if I'm forgetting 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.840 anybody statistically that's not really doing anything, but I think. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.040 That's like cases. I think he sits in the second here. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.000 I think boy to Alvarez and say, okay, I kind 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.640 of know what Murphy is at this point in his career. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.600 He's in his quote unquote prime yep. Alvarez keeps doing 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.440 what he's doing. There is like another gear potentially in 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.840 Francisco Alvarez that here's what I'll give you really terrifying 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:17.600 for the rest of the league. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.000 In Dynasty, I think you can make the argument that 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.600 this is the number three catcher in Dynasty. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.920 I'd make the argument he's the number two catcher. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.559 And you could maybe do too, maybe Will Smith above. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:29.640 Will Smith is very. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.160 Young based on age, still he's just a kid. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.079 No, no, no, I'm saying, like Will Smith is still young 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.800 and he's not like an older catcher, and he provides 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.200 I think Smith, No, he can't. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.920 I think he's twenty seven. Let's take a look here. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.600 That's a big difference. No, that's crazy. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.559 What I'm getting at is I think I think in 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.559 these like three year windows, three four year windows. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.600 That I think he's safer. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.600 Francisco Alvarez is doing fantastic, by the way, but it's 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.400 been a long road to get here to still a 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.760 batting under two fifty, which is a little bit of 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:00.280 a problem. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.120 And that's what the highest aid It was early on too, 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.720 I mean it was dreadful early on. What are the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.240 numbers here on Alvarez looking at him just from let's 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.120 say the last two months or the last sixty days 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.640 or something like that. And again I don't want to 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.600 judge somebody off that either because I understand that that 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.720 is not indicative of the whole picture. But at the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.560 same time, I think we have to ask ourselves a question. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.240 You know, it's the beginning of his path if he 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.720 stays on the current path. This is a very exciting 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.720 time here for Francis l Alfres and Dynasty. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.120 In July he's hitting three eighty one with seven homers. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.920 Last month in June he hit one fifty one with 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.120 four homers. In May he hit two ninety two, and 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.760 in March through April he hit one ninety four. So 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.000 that's what I'm talking about, the inconsistency. So you can 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.400 make the argument you want to go all the way 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.200 up to him being number two. You could do that 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.680 in Dynasty. I think he can be three four, and 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.560 Redraft I think he sits in that five spot. But 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.200 it's more about the second tier, because I think there 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.840 might be an elite tier, which really is like Adle 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.800 and you can make arguments why he spoke wouldn't be there, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.680 and maybe Sean Murphy, and then you're gonna throw down 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.400 all of these other guys that are in there. The 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.560 rest of the year is going to be the separator. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.839 If he ends up hitting two thirty, If he hits 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.600 two fifty and he's got twenty homers, you know what 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.880 might be the first catcher that goes overall. I'm not 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.000 so sure that happens. If he's down closer to two 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.880 thirty that has twenty four homers, We're going to see 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.360 the batting average downside, and we'll be and we'll have 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.800 remembered like Gary Sanchez and maybe worry a little bit. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.440 But there are some safer batting average guy Sanchez too, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.880 Like Jason here made a comment that he's Gary Sanchez. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.720 He's already a better defensive catcher than Gary Sanchez is, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.360 and a lot of the pitchers have said they like 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.520 throwing to him, and that's important. Also, it's part of 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.440 this mix. The Orioles making moves. They are first place. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.400 That's right. I said it, the first place Orioles. It's 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.960 a fun thing to say they made a move for 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.440 Shintaro Fujinama Fujinami. Look, here's here's my point. They're they're 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.400 making moves. They are looking to say, okay, let's address 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.800 some of our needs. Let's start to pretend like we're 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.679 actually in this because guess what, we are. They've got 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.880 a deep farm system. I'm looking at the Orioles to 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.160 make a move here. Sooner than later. They have gone 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.800 past the Rays, which nobody thought any like. Ah, the 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.120 Rays couldn't possibly give up this division right Well, guess what. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.920 The Orioles are in front right now. So I don't 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.480 know how long it's going to last. Welsh. But to 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.440 the point about moves, here's another one that I think 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:23.240 is an interesting precursor. Speaking of precursors, pre Lander Barroa. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.280 See what I did there? See that segue robot couldn't 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.360 do that? Welsh double A Arkansas twenty three year old 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.520 kid just been brilliant recently, A two ninety three e 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.840 a one point three zero whip a sixty nine strikeouts 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.960 and forty six innings. So you bring this kid up, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.760 you have I'm working out of the bullpen. To me again, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.840 if I'm Seattle, I'm kind of with house money right now. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.040 I'm hovering that five hundred range. I'm like, look, you 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.960 know what, let me move Seawald now to somebody else. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.560 I got a kid who can close. I've got some 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.360 other young bullpen arms here. We might be able to 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.360 get something out of I still think Sea Wall's that 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.000 got to go because I think there's a couple of 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.440 teams that would value him right now in that market, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.000 you can kind of do that thing where you're playing 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.600 for this year, but you're really playing for next year. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.360 I think that's exactly what Seatle should be doing. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.440 Your thoughts, Yeah, I think that could be the case. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.680 I love prelandon Broa coming into this year, really good 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.280 spin rates, guy pounds his own strikeouts. But then I 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.600 think it was maybe April they moved him into a 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.080 relief role. They just transitioned him from being a starter 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.800 into pitching in relief in the minors, and he's had 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.520 really great success in short stends. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.320 Velo can come back up. Prelander Barroa is a great 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:30.480 real life option. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.400 He's not a good fantasy option. But to your point, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.120 this could be the start because they're ten games out 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.960 right now in fourth in that division, that maybe they 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.840 do do the one foot in one fin out where 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.800 it's like, oh, we're making smaller moves. We trade Seawald, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.080 we've got Munnos, we've got some other bullpen pieces. If 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.400 they don't see the future into that and they want 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:49.760 to see what some of these guys are starting to 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.680 look like and that's why they were aggressive with Bryce Miller. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.240 You're now seeing Prelander Baroa. I don't think pre Lander 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.240 Burrow has any fantasy value whatsoever this year, but he 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.880 is someone to watch if the success gets there. And 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.680 to your point, they move on from a guy like 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.640 Sea Wald, which would be phenomenal for Andres Munios. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.520 Yeah, absolutely phenomenal for him, without a doubt. All right, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.160 let's continue on here now again. You know, different slate today, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.720 so there's not gonna be a lot of DFS talks 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.440 because everything is going on here and I don't want 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.200 to waste right now. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.000 I hated that woman woke up today. It wasn't like that. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.840 Yeah, he didn't realize that either. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.440 There's like half the game with the Diamondbacks are playing 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.120 right now. Half the games are already going on. It 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.600 was a struggle trying to get like the right bets 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.600 and the prize picks and all that stuff because half 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.280 the games are gonna be done when we're posted. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.640 Well, i'll tell you what I already did too. So 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.440 I mean, you know, because it's in the show sheets, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.040 so if you looked at it, maybe you know it's 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.400 probably in there. Jason, by the way, wants to point 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.960 out that what he means is the boom er bust 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.040 of Gary Sanchez. Yes, Sanchez did get a lot of 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.120 reps a catcher. He was a terrible defensive catcher with 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.320 the Yankees. He had all kinds of problems with the 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.360 pitching staff, all kinds of problems just catching the ball. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.920 They were so tough on him in the New York 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.840 and he deservedly so. And they used to run these 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.199 clips of it, missing balls and all these problems and 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.120 these pass balls all over the places. But'll look it up, man, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.600 that was a real thing. Three up, the three down, the. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:10.680 Last, the last. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.959