WEBVTT - Leading Off May 13th, 2025 (Ep. 1010) 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.440 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is leading 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.960 off live. It is me, Joey p Joep's Apia with me. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:12.639 Of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.000 the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. Here. We got a 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.000 lot of baseball to talk about, and an ace is 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.720 named to the WBC. Paul Skeens twenty twenty six WBC. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.160 I like the WBC. I know some people don't Welsh. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:27.560 I don't know what you stand on, and I like 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.319 more baseball. That's good for me. I know sometimes it 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.960 throws a little bit of a wrench into draft plans, 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.000 and some other injuries can happen here and there, But overall, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.080 I think it's fun. I think it's good for baseball, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.920 and I like that it's not something you see every 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.680 single year, makes it a little bit more special. What 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.000 do you think about the schemes as the ace of 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.360 the WBC announcement It just came through the wire. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.880 Yeah, I love it. I love the WBC, like also 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.040 selfishly because they'll do games out here in Arizona. I 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.800 love the you know, the country versus country. I love 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.080 the guys that are jumping in the Super teams, it 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.680 is a little odd. I will say though that like 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.360 you had like what was it a couple of years 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.600 ago with like Otani and Trout and like they wanted 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.240 that more than they wanted anything like It's it's maybe 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.360 not the best look ever where WBC is like felt 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.160 bigger than making it to the majors or winning in 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.000 the regular season or in some degree even some playoffs 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.120 games like the World Series owns its own thing. But 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.840 like if you had I'll bet you if you pulled 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.720 a bunch of players and you were like, would you 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.400 rather win the wild card round with your team or 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.440 would you rather win the WBC, I don't think it 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.760 would be unanimously moving through to the next round in 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.759 the playoffs like, but at the end of the day, 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.120 the WBC is like incredible to watch in fun and 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:50.520 looks like USA USA USA is building another powerhouse which 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.520 we love to see, which will probably lose in the championship. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.720 Probably will or even ahead of time to the Dominican 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.360 Republic or do you Japan or somewhere It was either. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.320 Would you play for Team Italy? You would play for 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.080 You're a definitely play for Team Italy guy instead. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would. I would because I feel 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.760 like because then I get to go to Italy for 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.280 all the press conference stuff and doing that fun stuff 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.440 where they probably tore you around Italy. So just for 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.519 the trip alone, hanging out. Yeah, medium pizza, bala. The 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.079 good time, isn't it. It's funny Chicago has produced a 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.160 pupe before it produced a four thousand yard passer. I 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.200 thought that was kind of an interesting, fun little stat 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:26.960 nugget for you. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.800 Oh you like that ugget. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.600 There's all that on the football pod this week, except 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.000 all right, let's get after the baseball stuff. Finally, the 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:41.640 Yakunia has come back to rehab assignment. That's like Tuesday, 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.320 That's right. Today begins minor league rehab assignment for Rondacunia. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:47.800 Thank god. I was starting to wonder if we're ever 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.360 going to get him. I was, I was getting a 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:54.480 little crazy here. So it's the thirteenth of May. I'm 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.200 gonna set the date June sixth over under we see 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.359 Ronald Acunya. So weird. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:01.359 It's a random day. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.880 No, it's not. It's a Friday. It's a Friday. It's 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:10.720 it's three full weeks basically of rehab Simon, which is 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.440 typically what you get spring training right three weeks. The 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.720 guys really don't take it seriously in the first couple 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.840 of days, and certainly the last week they don't take seriously. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.680 But there's a good three weeks where they're taking at 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:19.960 bats and fielding seriously. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.680 I am gonna go I'm gonna go with the under 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.160 I'm gonna I'm gonna say a guy like Ronald Dacuna 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.400 is not going to do a full two week rehab 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.960 stint because he's starting it today. I'm gonna say that 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.080 it's two weeks and then he's up in the majors. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.440 It is surprising. I feel like it's a little bit 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.280 weirder nowadays, where you would have guys just pressed longer 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.600 and longer and longer. But look at like Jackson Merrily 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.040 and know it's a little bit different. But like Jackson 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.960 Merril came out and was like a couple of days. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.440 Sometimes you darvish they're talking about him potentially not even 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.000 having a rehab stint and coming back. So I just 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.160 don't know if they're gonna want to waste those bullets, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.040 uh for three to four weeks if he starting now, 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.440 if they were like, you know, you run around maybe 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.520 next week. I like, that's a different story. He've be's starting 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.960 it today. I think it's probably at most a two 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.320 week stent, even though he has missed the time. And 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.320 I think you get him ready at the major league 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.600 level because that team can use him. So I'm gonna 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.599 go with an under, probably right around the end of May, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.880 maybe right at the beginning of June, and let's lock 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.560 it up to maybe like a home series somewhere around there. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.720 I'm not looking at the schedule, but I'll take your under. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.560 All right. Ah wow, look at this early in the morning. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.960 Welsh On the positive side, this is great. I love this. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.280 Let's get mad on the mounds question more enjoy p 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.360 and Welsh. I got Lawler in my na spot. But 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.920 who should I drop? I got Tyler, O'Neil Friedel Stott, Volpi, Colic. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.960 I don't want to drop Stott. I know that Colic 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.240 start last week was fun. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.320 Bye bye Colick. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.039 Yeah, I think that's gotta be Colex. He see and 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.640 Huck Finn is appreciating my tombstone shirt. Today. I got 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.160 my I'm your Huckleberry shirt. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:56.960 Oh that is a nice I'm doing. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.720 Johnny Cash and I saw the Johnny cash one when 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.520 you I noticed it right away. Tombstone probably top three 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.760 all time favorite movies for me, just and Val Kilmer's 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.039 performance just probably all time top five performances. Ever, no 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.400 awards for it, nothing, some awards is gonna go to 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.680 the Bronx Bombers. Last night, Aaron Judge four times he 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.880 reached base. Trent Grisham hit two home runs. Trent Grisham, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.480 is it just I don't know what to say anymore 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.880 about Trent Grisham. Alston Wells is the three run homers, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.960 so that's been good because he was struggling at the 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.800 end of April, but May seems to be putting him 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.400 back on track. But well, Trent Grisham has got to 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.560 be one of the oddest stories that you've ever seen in. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.640 It's funny that you brought it up. It's not funny 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.920 because like, uh, he had like a big game yesterday 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.640 in his season. But my friend and friend of the show, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.880 Dennis Sidler, who owned Sid's Grafts, who we've done some 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.400 cool stuff with, he had actually done a signing with 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.240 Trent Grisham a couple of years ago. And then you know, 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.280 Grisham just stunk, just fell off the earth and I 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.640 hit him up last night when I saw the two homers, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.320 and I was like, is Grisham? Like, is stuff moving? 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.080 And he's like, people are back in on Trent Grisham, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.760 and it's so weird. The profile looks absolutely elite. He 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.599 used to be a guy that would you know, he'd 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.440 barrel up the ball and get it in the air, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.920 and you know, we thought the maybe the contact skills 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.800 are better than they were, but now it looks ridiculous. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.960 Seventeen percent barrel forty eight almost forty nine percent hard 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.000 hit rate. Those two combos, those are the underlying of 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.960 what like Michael Tolio was doing last year as far 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.479 as power goes. Yet he's striking out only eighteen percent 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.520 of the time, lowest of his career, double digit walks, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.520 He's getting the ball at a launch angle of over 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:37.520 twenty degrees. It looks so absurd, it doesn't seem like 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.320 it can continue. But at the same time, this has 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.080 been going for the entire season. Trent Grisham is going 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.360 to leave this year with like a twenty five home 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:45.840 run season. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.839 Would you think it's for him? Somebody wants to know 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.800 in redraft, would you make that swap. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.559 Probably yeah, like a twelve team. Even to be honest 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.840 with you, he is too good. It's weird. He doesn't 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.960 steal anymore either. Zero steals he had fifteen two years ago. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.240 But the profile just works here. He's figured something out. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.599 He'll come back down to earth. But guess what what 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:08.479 is he hitting right now? 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:09.159 To eighty eight? 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.680 Is x ya to eighty seven? The what's up? 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.559 How many homers? Is trenkursham up two twelve? 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.360 He's twelve homers twelve O twelve. If he finishes the 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:22.240 year two sixty with twenty five homers, what can we 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.720 complain about at this point? Like this profile looks real. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.480 Uh. Speaking of the Brave schedule, because you mentioned it 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.800 with Akunya, I did look at it. The twenty seven, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.120 twenty twenty ninth on the road against Philadelphia at the 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.480 end of May, and then on the thirtieth that weekend 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.800 going in you have the Boston Red Sox at home, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.360 so maybe against the Phillies. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.640 That's what's the first game against the Red Sox the. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.240 Thirtieth, But the Phillies are start on Tuesday, the twenty seventh, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.880 and May off day on the Monday. But I'm just 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.960 saying that Philly series would be more important to that 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.800 that division is tight, very. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.880 Very very true. But I'm gonna say May thirtieth is 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.800 now my official guest for Acunya. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.160 Also tied my pockets because they're they're they're empty because 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.480 yesterday all the bets went wrong. Paul Skeens pitched well, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.800 should have won, didn't win. Mets way to go. I'm 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.880 happy they got the win, but you know, come on, 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.160 could you get thrown me a bone here? Jackson job? 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.240 I was going against him and he had his best 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.400 start of the year, probably career I second strikeouts, one run, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.960 five and two thirds. So everything sucks, including the Cubs bullpen, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.800 which just sucked too. I want to talk about that 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.360 for a second. Drew Pomeranz has a squirrel sitting. He 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.520 hasn't allowed to run in seven appearances so far. They 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.000 want Ryan Presley nowhere near this thing. I know Porter 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.640 Hodge was unavailable because he had a high pitch count. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.360 Do you see Pomerans maybe getting some one off saves here? 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.040 Because they did go out there and acquire him. It 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.760 seemed like like somebody they targeted. Remember when in the 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.440 beginning of the season here I think it was in 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.040 mid April this transaction happened. I want, so let's talk 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.800 about that for a second. Is there any deeper league speculation? 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.480 All Pomerans were just the no. Porter Hodge just wasn't 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:57.920 available and this was just the pivot. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.840 I think porter Hodge is the guy, but you ask, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.720 can he get one off saves like he did? And 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.520 you know he probably will continue it. This is like 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.559 a very Shelby Miller esque of like what Shelby was 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.240 doing with the Diamondbacks early on, Palmerans is doing that. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.240 He's literally giving up nothing right now, seven innings completely clean, 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.280 eight strikeouts, He's got a point five to two whips. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.920 He looks ridiculous. He's a great reliever right now. So 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.280 I do think he can get some like one off saves. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.640 But do I think he's going to overtake porter Hodge. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:27.719 No. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.600 Do I think they might try to, you know, push 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.319 Ryan Presley back down our throat for saves. Yeah, maybe 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.120 there's a possibility for that too. But I think palm 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.040 Oran's is like a nice deeper league speculative guy. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.360 I don't know what the constitution is for that, I 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.520 really don't. This is also getting a little frustrating here. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.079 So Brenda Woodruff is not coming back this week. He's 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.720 going to make another rehab start before season debut. So 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.839 I'm calling Shenanigans on this, Welsh, okay, because apparently he's 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.080 got an ankle issue. Right, he's saying, oh, you know 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.720 ten tonight is in the ankle is what he's got, right, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.760 But when the Miles Perrower came back on the fastball 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.600 during the last rehab start, it was only ninety to 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.080 ninety one. So Welsh, I'm calling shenanigans. I'm saying that 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.880 there's something else off here. I don't know if it's 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.200 a dead arm period kind of thing. Maybe is an 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.320 ankle issue. Maybe that was bothering him and he couldn't 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.440 get the push or the land or whatever ankle it 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:20.800 was that was bothering him. I don't think we got 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.000 word on which ankle it was, but he's gonna get 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.040 treatment on it or so they say, you think everything 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.880 is all right here with Woodruff or am I just 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.880 overreacting here to Shenanigans. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.240 I think you're calling shenanigans a little bit, a little 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.920 bit early ankle. It could be hard whatever one it is. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.120 If it's exact effective low right like that. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.880 That's like if you can't plant properly, or if it's 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.240 the push off. I mean either for one, you could 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.720 definitely see having some type of effect if he's kind 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.000 of babying that. But yeah, I mean that's to worry 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.280 about these injured guys in having too heavy enough investment 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.080 where anything could go wrong. I would actually say, like, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.640 I'm just happy because it's not some big arm thing. 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.480 I know, like we wanted to feel Shenanigan's about Spencer 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.800 Strider because it was like, hey, my hamstring hurts and 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.720 then it's like, yeah, but I'm not throwing, and everyone's 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.760 like why, But he's back. He's going to pitch on Friday. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.560 So I'm going to say, without with no like arm 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.920 things being thrown out there, I'm okay with Brandon Woodruff. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.360 This is just kind of an unfortunate little setback, but 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:20.720 maybe good for Jacob Mesowski. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:25.160 Maybe could be we'll see. Let's talk about Jordan Walker. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.920 Oh for four, two more strikeouts for him. I don't 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.439 know if he makes it through the week. I gotta 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.360 be honest with you, Welsh, I think he gets sent down. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.840 And I want to talk about this because that creates 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.600 a void right right now, he is the starting right fielder, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.040 so you know, Ivan Herrera's back, they had him d 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.680 h the other day. He's you know, still a catcher too, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.440 So I'm not sure who moves where in these pieces, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.520 Like does Nolan Gorman go take over second base and 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.719 Donovan moves to the outfield? Like what do you think 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.520 the the the chips look like here in terms of movement, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.160 because I don't think Jordan Walker is going to be 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.240 with this club by the weekend. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.840 Kind of well, I don't know if I'm not that dramatic, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.040 but like I do think Jordan Walker might need a 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.680 change of scenery that I don't. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.000 Even year in a row too. You just want to 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.200 point out that he's been sent down. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.720 I know, from a developmental standpoint, I think it looks 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.720 really bad to continuously keep knocking him down to this 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.559 level when you were making a commitment. I don't even 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.240 know how many more options he has. He probably has 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.480 like one or two more, but this to me is 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.959 looking like the point where they just need to they 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.360 need to cut it. They need to probably trade do 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.560 the the poop for poop trade, you know, find a 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.080 team that's got an underlying guy that maybe hasn't quite 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.160 worked out, or frankly, I know Jordan Walker starts to 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.520 seem starting to feel like maybe he is destined to 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.600 be a Chicago White Sox or something like that. But 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.200 it looks really bad. I had some high hopes for 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:43.960 the changes he made, or at least he was trying 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.440 to make in the offseason. Guess what. Things got worse. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:48.840 And here's the crazy thing. He might have to go 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.079 back to the old tendencies. And if you don't remember, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.840 I talked about it a lot. He was bringing his 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.439 hands inside more so he could get to the path quicker. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.680 Everything is worse this year, so you might need to 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.360 get back to some of those old tricks. Either way, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.000 none of it's work. I think you got to probably 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.880 ship him out, give him an opportunity somewhere else, or 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.240 I guess you could keep just doing this send down thing. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.800 But I agree, I don't think they can do this 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.000 much longer. And Donovan can play in the outfield. You've 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.760 obviously got Victor Scott and and I'm completely blanking on 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.240 the large woodbar. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.880 I'm gonna say you've got new bar. Alt Burlson's got 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.360 flexibility to like, that's the thing about the Cardinals is 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.440 they don't really skip a beat here. They just shift 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.560 guys around. They've always been that kind of team. So, uh, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.800 it's very frustrating, and I think you're one hundred percent right, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.960 maybe just to change of scenery, different coaches just get 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.400 out of Saint Louis. And we've seen a lot of 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.239 these prospects over the years, right, we go to the 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.120 the Gritchucks and Piscatti's to the let's see the Randy 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.720 rose Arenas, who you know, couldn't make it in that organization. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.920 Just they just seem to have a rough time with 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.040 their prospects. There's some other ones. Carson Kelly, right, he 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.320 was a Cardinal prospect once upon a time that a 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.880 lot of I'm missing somebody I know I'm missing, like 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.880 another alf Tyler O'Neal, Right, wasn't he another Cardinal prospect 0:13:58.920 --> 0:13:59.520 once upon a time? 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.400 It was a man, he was a Mariner prospect, but 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:02.280 he went to the Cardinals. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.240 That's right, he came over now. But I mean they've 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.120 kind of a rough go there. When you think about it, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.199 it's not exactly been since Pools have they produced a 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.640 really solid all star from within. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.160 No, I mean because Eronata's not homegrown. Goldie is not 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.000 home grows. I mean, you've had some decent guys all start. No, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.000 but yeah, see it's funny because people are throwing this out. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.680 That's one of them. Adulies and Randia Rose Arena where 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.200 dull Cardinal prospects. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.920 I did mention him a Doulus is another one too. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.720 They just either it's the evaluations bad or the or 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.200 the pipeline of getting there's bad, which was never the case, right. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.840 The Cardinals were always a good organization when it came 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.920 to prospects back in the eighties and nineties, like that 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:41.920 was always their remo. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.680 It is interesting to think of, like what this could 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.320 look like. And you know what's another team that's either 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.840 willing to trade a piece that helps now or kind 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.320 of a young struggling guy that doesn't have like spacing 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.320 in the organization. But it just feels like Walker probably 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.440 needs to be moved. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.080 Yeah, I want more of that poop for poop trade video. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.160 Next up on Fantasy Pros Poop or poop coming as. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.960 Like an Adam Sandler bit, here's the poop, Where's it coming? 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.640 Trevor's story, Oh for three two more strikeouts. He's now 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.680 in a buck forty five nine for his last sixty two, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.800 one homer twenty one strikeouts in his last fifteen games. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.040 No buoyno Welsh, no boy. No. It's funny. It's almost 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.240 as if too handsome middle aged men talked about him 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.840 on a video a couple weeks ago to trade him. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.760 If if all people had listened, it's almost as if, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.560 so does this exasperate any sort of Marcelo Meyer movement 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.280 here where maybe Story does grab that first basement and 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.600 takes one for the team here and that's the way 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:41.800 they get some more offense going. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.880 That's definitely impossible. I mean that was one I kind 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.720 of threw out there of like Story going to first. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.400 What I don't think happens is there's not gonna be 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.800 something where they're like Trevor Story, You're gone in favor 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.560 of bringing in like a mirror Anthony more in that 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.480 you know, Yeah, they could move him around. I don't 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.320 think he is like you know, he's touchable at shortstop 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.280 or something like that that they could easily move in 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.280 a mayor there. But yeah, I think it's going to 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.280 open up some eyes. This organization in general has got 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.520 to take a long look at their roster, you know, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.000 I mean, I know the Devers stuff is whatever it is. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.040 He met with management. But if you saw Ken Rosenthal yesterday, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.680 I also mentioned that it is not quote far fetched 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.600 to believe that Raphael Devers could even be traded and 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.040 that would open up as well. I still I leaned 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.320 to like, that's not going to happen, but there is 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.320 always the possibility of, you know, a Dever's trade. With 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.000 the chaos Trevor story moving around, we just we want 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.600 to see Mayor and Anthony soon and we just we 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.200 really just don't have any idea when. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.720 Nope, nope, we don't. Let's get us some transactions. Jake 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.080 Berger is back now. He was dropped at a ton 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.960 of leagues, so if he's still available, I would be 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.600 looking to add him. This is the time Brian Rochio 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.440 was sent down by the Guardians, and Evan Longoria is 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.320 going to sign a one day contract with the Rays 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.920 to retire. So Evan Longoria. Any favorite Evan Longoria moments? 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.360 Mine was definitely that home run in that last day 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.600 of the season. Remember back in the day when the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.280 Rays got into the playoffs. That was fun and any 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.640 other Longo moments that stick out for you. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.639 Well, first, I loved Evan Longorey, like when he was 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.800 coming up as a Ray. There's something about the Rays 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.359 prospects that were so exciting. You had like Longoria, and 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.960 you had bj Upton. You know, they had Tim Beckham. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.119 You know, they had all these guys and these exciting guys. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.240 I Evan Longoria was one of the first guys I 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.800 really really loved. But the most memorable thing is he 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.680 was a part of that. Remember when they were doing 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.400 all those ridiculous videos where he did the one where 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.680 he was being interviewed and they act like a foul 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.000 ball comes and he catches it, and you know, like 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.920 they did like the Mike Vick throwing the ball out 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.040 of the stadium. I don't remember if they were Nike 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.879 or whatever. But Longoria, he's being interviewed and someone's taking 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.920 taking VP. The ball comes flying to hit the girl. Yeah, 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.399 he catches it the ball And that's that's something that 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.160 I remember about. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.520 Longo has jump from double A too, which is pretty impressive. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.320 Also, Evan Longoria the reason that Corbyn Carroll became a 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.080 avid card collector. So everyone knows this now, but I 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.040 remember when I was when I was hanging out with 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.040 my dear friend Corbyn Carrol a couple of years ago, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:10.480 he was talking about how Longoria got him into into cards, 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.320 and I believe Carol had like purchased a case of 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.680 his rookie year to try to pull an Evan Longoria 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.840