WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 28th, 2023 (Ep. 719) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.880 Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:10.760 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pigs. Sign up 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.400 for Prize Pigs today and use that promo code leading Off. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.520 When you do. It's me Joey P. That of course 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.440 is the Welsh, and what an amazing day here to 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.400 come here and talk about historic choheo tani stuff. A 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.400 little bittersweet because, as y'all might know, this is the 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.400 last Leading Off of July for me, because it turns 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.040 out that the trade deadline is not just for players, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.360 it's also for hosts. I'm officially being traded to betting 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.040 pros and Fantasy pros for the remainder of the baseball season. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.640 This is a little emotional for me. I want to 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.239 thank the Welsh, and I want to thank everybody here 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.280 at Leading Off, and a shout out to Ethan who 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.120 helped me take out a full page print Dad in 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.240 the paper case you'd be it from Leading Off. Joey 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.680 P bids farewell to Leading Off again. If you're just 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.959 a listener of the show, I beg you to go 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.720 over to the YouTube channel Fantasy Pros MO being watch 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.480 today's show so you can see this amazing graphic. It 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.800 is incredible, and yes it's true, Casey Bubba will be 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.839 returning who everybody loves. Casey Bubba one of the contributors 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.080 to the Black Book. One of our people here fantasy 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.520 pros and we love so much, good personal friend of. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.600 Our Please read the I don'tuary, but it's like this, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:22.479 it's not individual. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.160 I will read it later because I know live, yeah, live, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.559 so we'll read it later. But again, I'm so proud 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.640 of what we've done here. I want you to continue 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.480 to support the show with Welsh at the reins because 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.760 he does a phenomenal job. Welsh'll be doing a lot 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.280 of football stuff for us too. A lot of things 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.320 happening here, but Welsh, let's talk about Shoeltani because a 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.880 lot of stuff happening yesterday. Mike Mahyer didn't start him 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.680 yesterday in his league where data transactions with the double header, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.960 and neither did you, which is great, which makes it 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.160 even better that this happened. So shoe Atani not one 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.120 but two on runs in Game two after throwing a 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.000 complete game shutout. It's the first time in the history 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.680 of baseball that's ever happen. And some way through a 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.480 shutout in a double lader and then hit two home 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.280 runs in Game two. And then, by the way, how 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.120 strange was it, Welsh that you saw him leave the 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.880 game with a cramp when he grabbed his side. Did 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.400 you not think it was an obliqu because I thought 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:15.919 it was an oblique and I thought, oh my god, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.760 oh my god, I made this happens. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.520 All it had everything we had because and by the way, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.239 the Mayor thing was Mayor and I both had single 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.520 move leagues, and we didn't put him in as a pitcher. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.160 We left him in a U. We were both so 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.320 we were both sitting there in the chat like and 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.840 then we got the two homers. So it had everything, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.760 the offense, the pitching, and then the injury. I mean, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.880 because the Massachus in all of us was like, what 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.520 if he gets hurt after they made the move? 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:44.760 What if it happens? 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.240 I asked this question, We'll do it quick I asked 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.400 this question to the CBS guys last night. This feat 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.040 complete game, one hit, eight strikeout, plus two homers. When 0:02:55.080 --> 0:03:00.600 you think about the pantheon of baseball accomplishments, do you 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.240 think this is bigger? Or I will do it quickly 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:03.920 or the cycle. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.240 Oh, this, this is more impressive because the cycle's four 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.840 at bats where everything goes your way. This is incredible. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.280 This or a no hitter this. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.560 This is harder. Again, this is harder. I think this 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.880 or perfect or perfect game that is more unlikely, But 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.919 I think this is harder. It's harder in the sense 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.640 that you're asking somebody to do something so extraordinary and 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.560 then to have the stamina to pitch a game and 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.200 then go out there afterwards and take four at bats 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.720 and hit two them runs. It's absurd. He is the 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.880 greatest baseball player that ever lived, and you're all getting 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.400 to watch him. I'm not saying he's the most prolific yet, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.920 but he's the greatest to ever play this game because 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.840 nobody has been dominant the way he has not. Babe Ruth, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.720 you can talk about six hundred home runs, whatever it is. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:54.600 I don't want to talk about seven to fourteen. I 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.680 don't want to talk about all these things. I'm just saying, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.760 if you had a draft right now and you had 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.600 to take one person in the history of baseball for 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.080 your for your baseball team to start it with, why 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.840 wouldn't you take the guy who's a dominant picture in 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:06.400 a dominant here. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.680 Sure, put up, put up Pedro's comment, Hey, I'm gonna 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.240 do it in my Alice Jones voy government's in here 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.800 letting us know that aliens are we watch shown. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.520 Alien good stuff. I like, I like that those And yes, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.240 everyone's going to continue to support the Welsh obviously when 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.960 I'm gone. And by the way, we're moving to a 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.400 Monday Wednesday Friday schedule, so set yourself accordingly. Tuesday Thursdays. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.040 The boys are taking some days off leading off. Will 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.880 be here Monday, Wednesday Friday, same bad time, same bad channel. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.600 We're not going away. We're just restructuring a little bit 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.560 because it's that time of year where we have to. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.000 But we're not abandoning you. So many places, you know, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.320 they just abandoned baseball coverage, We're not going to do 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.479 that to you here. Fantasy pros, We're never gonna do 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.839 that to you here. And it's an amazing opportunity that 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.880 we've got to do all this, But I mean, really 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.159 on hold so much at one. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.920 Time, and this is on our amazing list because if 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.320 they if they show out even harder, then you know, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.200 there's nothing bigger for next year, or there's no reason. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.000 We're not going to be bigger, better for next year. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.400 And you know, the more that you're here, the more 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.000 that I can stay here, it would be great. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.760 I've also been Sy's way, crushing it. Joe as de 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.120 Lee before the Angels prove him wrong one hundred percent right, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:21.120 Whips has got it. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.840 I'm also going to try to find a way. I 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.720 have a few things in mind of how to keep 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.400 Joe like fresh with us, so we can keep him 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.119 with us a little bit, not just talking about bald heads, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.080 looking at Bubba's bald head. But we can keep going. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.440 But yet, well that's a good way. And Bubba's so great, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.560 and Bubba's so passionate, and I've done shows with Bubba. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.120 We used to do a daily DFS show together for 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.560 a year and like Bubba's here, he's been part of 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.440 the Fancy Bros. Family writing for stuff. Welsh has been 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.000 working with him, so again, great stuff here. We've also 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.240 got a trade. My Mets traded to the Marlins, so 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.600 here we go in division. Trades don't matter, So the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.520 Mets deal closer David Robertson to the Miami Marlins, of 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.400 all teams for infielder Marco Vargas and catching prospect Ronald Hernandez. Now, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.200 Vargas is interesting. He is again posting an eight ninety 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.760 nine ohps over thirty three games. He's only eighteen years old. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.160 So he's just the boy. He's just the lad. He's 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.279 at rookie level. He's a baby. Brooks Raley was the 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.040 guy that actually took over for the save opportunity yesterday. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.160 So Welsh is Brooks the guy going forward? 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.719 He might be, He might be, He might be the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.200 guy that you want to put a little bit of 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.320 fab on. I think you have to at this moment, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.000 if you're doing it like right now, you got to 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.040 speculate an out of Vino as well. But I think 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.640 out of Vino I think you might have even said this, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.560 I don't even might get traded too, so you think so, yeah, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.640 I think you should probably put you know, your eggs 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.760 in both those baskets because really might be the guy, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.400 because I think they could because out of Vino is 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.280 just a free agent writer for this year, so it's 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.720 a rental for anybody, and I think they will move him. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.599 So I would actually personally, if I'm doing it, I'm 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.160 prioritizing really right now, I would go in on that 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.280 if I'm looking for some saves. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.440 Yeah, understandably so, so get in now make these moves. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.440 Godai Senga in that same game, by the way, gave 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.160 up one run over six innings, no decision. Josiah Gray 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.080 was really good in that game too. Josiah Gray, I 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.200 think has had a very underappreciated season twenty five years old. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.000 Now excuse me, three twenty seventy ra The whip is 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.560 still a little high at one point four to one, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.720 but one hundred and two strikeouts and one hundred and 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.960 eighteen innings fifty four walks, Like this is a guy. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.520 I feel like that's a good long term investment. Like 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.520 I could see next year him taking another step, and 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.240 as this team eventually brings up some of these prospects 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.640 that are going to hit here, you could see Gray 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.400 being a really interesting Dynasty by low Right now, I 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.960 think that's a kid that I take on the cheap, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.280 and I think in dynasty leagues, Josiah Gray is a 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.400 target of mine because I think it is a kid 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.160 that you could see he's got that pitchability, he's got 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.960 that factor of what made him a big time prospect, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.679 and I could see in two years from als going man, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.280 Josiah Gray turned out to be a pretty solid fantasy pitcher. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.760 What are your pitcher, What are your thoughts on acquiring 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.680 him in dynasty leagues right now? 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.240 I think Gray could get it. Greg's a really smart pitcher. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.680 I think Gray could end up being like a Mitch Keller, 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.720 Like you know how we see Mitch Keller who's with 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.240 the Pirates, and it comes up and down a little bit. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.400 Like He's a little bit up and down. Streaky, but 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.440 very smart pitcher, good spin stuff. I wish he was 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.600 on another team. I think it would be more exciting 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.840 if he were almost anywhere else. But he's still a 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.600 great person to buy in. I think there's a lot 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.320 of these worst team good pitchers to buy in on 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.400 right now, just to see what happens and see how 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.920 the team redevelops. Gray would be in that group like 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.840 treeque Schools like my number one by for next guy, good. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.520 Interesting pitchers, young enough to make strides, but already pitching 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.000 at the big leagues on bad teams. Yeah, because those 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.200 teams won't be bad forever theoretically, although I've said that 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.200 about the Tigers for a certain five But we'll get 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.160 to that in a second. Another trade, This one was 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.160 predicted last week on the show. Well, actually, I think 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.600 it was pretty good this week by me. When Carlos 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.840 Santana had that with that Towo home game, whatever he had, 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.800 I said, that guy's going. He's definitely going. And where 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:08.160 did he go in division? That's right, the Pirates send 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.079 him to the Brewers. It's a good addition for him. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.600 I think the Brewers did well here. Santana, a veteran 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.040 batt gets on base. That's been a problem with times 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.280 for that offense, So a good move there. Ten Or 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.880 Bobby three runs over six and two third for win 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.000 over the White Sox. Some injury news, well, ssh to 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.480 get to Brandon Woodruff allowed one run in four innings 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.360 yesterday in his minor leg rehab start. Starling Marte still 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.280 not close to returning. I think a second opinion with 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.400 the Migraines. This stinks for the Mets though, because this 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:36.840 was a piece that I think a lot of teams 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.040 will be interested in. Marte is a guy with power, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 with speed, with the ability to get hot and go 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.520 on a real dominant run. So I don't know if 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.120 a team's still willing to trade for a guy with 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.520 a migraine issue, but I think I. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.440 Don't think so, They're just gonna have to move. They're 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:56.040 gonna move Kana and and then that leads to Ronnie 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.000 Maricio coming back up. So again, what is the speculates 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 I'm Runnie Mauricio for time, but yeah, they're there's you know, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.240 the the buy sell market is so weird right now, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.400 Like I didn't expect the Marlins to be buyers. You know. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.920 We we did an IL show yesterday talking about and 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.240 speculating all the teams and I wasn't really even thinking 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:16.840 about it, and we talked about the Red Sox and 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.439 someone was kind of like I would the Red Sox 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.440 blah blah blah. They're better record than Diamondbacks, and it 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.480 was like, but also their fourth in the division and 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.040 they just sold off. Like It's very strange what the 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.000 movement of teams are and how many teams are really sellers, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.000 and just how much more aggressive I think teams need 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.640 to be if they want to get into this buying 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.800 market right now, because the Marlins are out punching people 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:37.959 right now, which is weird. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.880 Mauricio, by the way, roster In just twenty six percent 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.320 of leagues right now. Yeah, I mean he's a great 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.120 twenty percent of them right now are dynasty only. Like 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.440 that's that's the whole point. Zach Eflin could make his 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.280 next start off. The MRI on his knee didn't reveal anything, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.880 made sure, that's good. Did I tell you this? So 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.800 the last thing I can I can tell you didn't 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.600 tell me because you're exited about it, and. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.640 I would I told somebody, but I must have told 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.920 a bogg couldn't have been me. So the trade video, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.280 I did my final trade video doing those all year. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.160 I hope you guys enjoyed those. We did waivers and 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.079 Joe and I did wade. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.920 Because the trade deadlines come to an end. Here this 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.280 is the end game of baseball season here exactly. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.360 We're still here for you. But this was like guys 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.840 to target for the end of the year. And I'll 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.360 tell you guys this because he's not the video. I 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.240 put Zach Efflin in the video and then as I 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.920 got finished, I was like, Aha, look at me, I'm 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.959 all done, done for the year. Here he goes, here 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.360 go editors. Zach Eflin gets hurt, he got shelled and 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.360 then got hurt, and I went, we gotta take him out. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.440 We gotta take him out. But to the point prior 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.240 to the injury here, yeah, well, I'm committed to it. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.560 Prior to the injury, he got a point three to 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.240 one walk per nine over the last thirty days and 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.199 had the number one war among all pictures. His CA 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.120 percentage was going up. The win loss I think was 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.959 keeping him maybe down a tiny bit more. But he 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.800 had just been so good and just one of those 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.240 guys that is not viewed in the upper range of pictures. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.040 I'm saying all this to say that injury brought him 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.720 back down a little bit because he got banged up 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.400 a little bit. He was on a tear. I know, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.760 I gotta get him for dirt cheap at my fantasy deadline. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.400 I would take the risk right now because he was 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.480 in the video, But I took him out because he 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:13.960 got hurt, and that would just be silly. 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.800 But we're going back, yes, and so everybody knows. I 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.079 will probably resign again with leading off in January, probably, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.000 I think so. I mean, I think it's a pretty 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.680 good chance. Could you know where else would I want 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.520 to be? You know? So I'm gonna go be the 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.880 hired gun for football season. But don't worry everybody, I'll 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:33.319 be back. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.000 Let's go want me you gotta stay if you want 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.480 me back too. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.480 By the way, Barron Buckston's back speaking of people being 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.040 back too, so now he gives them back and strike 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.719 out five times today. I can't wait. Can we talk 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.360 about Tray Cabbage? I could come. I want to talk 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.840 about Tray Cabbage because Tray Cabage twenty six years old, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.640 Triple A this year two eighty seven, batting average, three 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.720 fifty eight OVP five to seventy six, slugging, twenty three 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.160 bombs and twenty four steals. Where did Tray Cabbage come from? 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.600 This ball? He's got nine Major league games under his belt. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.880 Are you picking up the cabbage? 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.959 Yeah? The cabbage is actually. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.800 Trying to harvest the cabbage. I've been waiting my whole 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:08.400 life to say that. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:09.520 I don't like that. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.640 I want to harvest the cabbage. 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:11.640 I don't like that one a lot. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:12.520 Oh yeah, love it. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.240 Trey Cabbage to me is very similar to like Christian 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.760 Walker some years back. If you remember, Christia Walker was 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.800 like twenty seven, twenty six, twenty seven going into Triple A. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.360 This is obviously a much older play who's drafted in 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.080 twenty fifteen. He had been in the miners for eight years. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.120 That would put probably seven full season years. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.040 Huge hard hit, wasn't that Wit mirrorfield too. He was 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.160 in the miners forever. Some of those guys all the hit, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.720 nobody thought he would do ever sustained, and then he 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.200 was an All Star for a couple of years. I mean, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.600 this does happen. It's not. I'm telling you. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.760 This is Christian Walker to me though, because it like 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.680 but Walker I had better played discipline. But this year, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.640 every single night, if you do the Baseball Savant like 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.680 game feed for minor leaguers, which you can do every 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.400 single night in the miners, it's one hundred and sixteen, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.840 one hundred and fifteen by a cabin. He is absolutely 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.600 smacking the ball. The problem is he's got a forty 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.480 K rate in the majors right now. He's a k liability. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.760 He's not the best contact hitter. He's just a huge 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.679 power guy. It's kind of like the Jared Walsh stuff, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.679 like maybe Jared Walsh had a little bit more contact 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.800 less power. He gets zipped out DFA. They're going to 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.080 just give cabbage a run for the rest of the year. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.120 He's just a great speculative power by in this lineup. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.360 I'm totally cool with it for maybe deeper leagues. I 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.920 don't know about twelve because I think the k's are 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.400 going to be a problem. But he is a total 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.520 pop up name that's probably just sitting out there for you. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:34.920 Agreed. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.160 I And in the long line of food based players, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.280 I'm very interested in food based players. Bog and I 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.960 have been having these discussions about players with food names, and. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.880 He is who comes to mind. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.720 Man, it's it just completely went out my brain because 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.760 there's David Frye. So there's David Frye. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.720 Who's up with Jeff Frye also too with another fry. 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.920 Yep, we have fries and they all escaped me right now. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.440 Mia Ham, Okay, well, I'm taking baseball players. If we 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.680 want to have a very open Thanksgiving here, we can 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.760 have lots and lots of Julius peppers. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.040 We need, you know, there's a lot of them. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.960 Chat come in the chat with the baseball ones. Buckman 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.160 and I did this. We had like almost a whole meal. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:20.280 Oh. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.560 Jake Berger. Jake Berger was one of the biggest reasons 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.800 behind it. So you've got Jake Berger, we had fry 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:32.520 and there's others. So put your food based players in and. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.360 There you go. All right, let's continue on here. Three 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.360 up and three down. Speaking of Jake Berger too, homers yesterday. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.040 He's up to twenty four Welsh. I didn't have twenty 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.880 four BOMs for Jake Berger on my Bengo guard, but 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:41.600 I'm here for it. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.000 It's exciting playing second base. He played second base yesterday. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.120 He is the White Sox Max months yees. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.320 After the trade deadline, he's gonna have to go go 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.560 throw three or four innings because these guys are gonna 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.480 be gone. Taylor Ward homer twice too, just for my 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.600 last day. Thanks Taylor Ward, you could suck on it. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.720 Hunter Renfell, by the way, with Celco six for nine 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.960 with a homer and the doubleheader. Good day for all 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.880 the Angels. And I mean, well, I still can't get 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.360 over when he was grabbing his side there, I literally 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.960 I felt so physically. Ut I just felt like, oh 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:14.680 my god, I. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.600 Was doing a show with Bagman and he goes Otani 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.280 just grabbed his whatever, and I'm like, oh my god, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.120 this is this is the nightmare. Of nine, it would 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.760 have been bunny, but it's hilarious, the most chaotic twenty 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.600 four hours of Like, the team doesn't get rid of him, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.480 sells to minor league guys to get more players. He 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.840 has a historic day and then gets hurt. You couldn't 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:41.520 have scripted it would be a black mirror episode for I. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.360 Mean, from for ten seconds, let's live in the moment 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.040 that that happened. Bill Plashki wrote a great article if 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.920 you haven't go see it, it's on the La Times, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.000 Bill Plaski's great sports writers, about what a disastrous idea 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.640 this is. Basically, he basically was obviously he's a fan 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.640 of the show. When he's hurt me basically wrote a 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.480 giant article of the La Times about why this is 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.480 such terrible idea, what they're doing, and why this short term, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.959 you know, catering to the moment is going to long 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.560 term set this organization back further. And he's one hundred 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.800 percent right, But oh my god, that that horrible, terrible 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.919 ten seconds of him grabbing his side at the edd. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:18.879 I just can't get over it. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.080 But you know, the only thing I meant to ask 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.960 you yesterday, the only thing we've never discussed in this 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.639 what if it works, Like this is a hail Mary 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.440 shot to bring him back. What if it worked they 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.000 got to the playoffs and they won under O Tawny 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.720 and they were able to re sign him based off 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.160 of all that, What if you had a two percent 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.760 chance to bring him back as the maybe the greatest 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.440 player we've ever seen in baseball? Isn't it worth more 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.600 to take that two percent chance that you could instead 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:49.720 of a one hundred percent. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.800 Well, this isn't Little Giants, this isn't the sand lot, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:57.119 this isn't Mighty Ducks. This is real life. And yeah, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:02.720 sometimes that stuff happens, but baseball is trickier, the gauntlet 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.080 of the playoffs of baseball. With a rotation, you need 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.479 to be really good the three deep and a bullpen 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.720 that's really reliable and proven. That's been a lot. Look, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.560 I want I told you I want it to be 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.239 because I think it'd be. I want to see Sho 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.959 hail Tani play in the World Series. I think that 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.640 is going down. My ratings for that would be off 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.960 the charts. I'm here for it. I want it to happen. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.440