WEBVTT - Leading Off July 23rd, 2024 (Ep. 870) 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.880 What's up, friendos and welcome in too. Fantasy Prose the 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:13.680 Fantasy Baseball Podcast aka Leading Off. Hello friends, it's Chris 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.159 Welsh with no Joe Piezapia Casey. Bubba is in the 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.159 house on the twitters at b d intric We have 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.360 got a whole bunch for you today. But as a reminder, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.800 as always, Leading Off is brought to you by Bet 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.200 three six five years of promo code leading Off. First 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.360 bets one thousand dollars in bonus bets and get or 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.840 you can get a bet five dollars, get one hundred 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.600 and fifty in bonus bets. So bet five get one 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.120 hundred and fifty in bonus bets. You can choose the 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.760 offer over at Bet three six five using the promo 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.400 code leading Off. Un Tel, I haven't done that reading 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.280 a little bit, Bubba. What's up brother? No, no Joey today, 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:51.960 but we did bring back another bald head. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.720 Yes you know, I got to keep the baldness going. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.240 We're back back in the saddle, going to be like 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.680 you said, coming at you in July, and more so 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.120 as a goes on. So it's going to be back 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.960 my friend always chatting it up baseball and whatnot with 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.920 you is a pleasure as usual, and. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.760 It's very good. Joe has not completely disappeared yet, but 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.960 we know these are the early early warning signs of 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.520 losing your Joe Piezapia. Well, it'll be Casey Bubba, other 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.520 bald heads coming in, other people named Joe coming in. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.520 That's how you know your Joe piez Apia is failing. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.520 There really is no cure except for a brand new season, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.520 but you know, talk to your doctors and there are 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.520 some side effects, like there'll be no old man impressions, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.600 no other wrestling impressions, and less singing. Those are your 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.959 side effects for less Joe pis Apia. We got a 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.480 whole bunch of talk about today on the show, one 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.360 of which we usually don't do stuff like this, but 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.560 I am controlling the master seat today, so we are 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.960 going to We're actually going to take a look at 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.280 the slate of what's about to happen. And for me, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.440 it's important because it's a big fish day. We're a 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.560 big old fish day of pictures. Yes we've got Chris Sale, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.760 Yes we've got Zach Wheeler. But the two pictures that 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.800 I want to talk about, Paul Skeins and Luis Heel 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.560 and Babba I can. You can probably guess why I 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.920 want to talk about them because they both equate to 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.320 the biggest questions that I get from anybody. Will these 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.080 guys finish out? I literally got one this morning. Hey, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.760 do you think that Paul Skeens is going to be 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.400 able to finish out the year? Or should I be 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.440 trading him? Joe and I have talked about this a 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.680 decent amount, but as the starter for the second half, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.760 let's start with Paul Skeins. Do you think there's going 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.760 to be zero restrictions for Paul Skins moving forward this year? 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.880 Pirates are in the chase. He's absolutely been ridiculously dominant. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.360 There's really not even like a you know, do we 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.440 worry about making him having him in a start or 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.840 two or something like that. It's really will he be 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.639 able to finish out for my head to head league? 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.160 So thoughts on being able to trust Paul Skean's rest 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:50.680 of season? 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.079 I would like to say, yes, it's the Pirates that 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.320 are actually over five hundred in the wild Guard hunt 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.360 right now, so that'll help get Skeens going, as you know, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.240 as the king of the prospects around here. He pitched 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.600 plenty of innings in college last year and it should 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.679 not be an issue with Paul Skins. But it's a 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.440 different animal coming to the bigs. I'd imagine we might 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.639 see like a misstart or a couple extra days here 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.160 and there. I think Skins gets to the finish line though, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.320 Like I wouldn't expect many two start weeks from Paul Skins, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.079 but you should get at least one solid start every week, 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:22.799 like we should get on Tuesday Night. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.400 So I mean, is that kind of the play because 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.960 I feel like people get worked up about guys not 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.280 having the two starts, Like what is the valuation? I 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.600 don't know if you even do like rest of season 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.160 rankings on guys, Like what do you think the rest 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.280 of season ranking is on Paul Skins? 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.400 I've seen I've seen many smart people at starting pitcher 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.160 have him in the top five, like the Some have 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.200 him near the top if they're really aggressive on him. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.600 And that just goes to the point because to start 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.080 pitching's big quote unquote if you're playing like in a 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.480 roto or even a head to head, because he could 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.720 get more counting stats, Like it's huge in that regard, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.920 But a guy like Skiings. If he's giving you six 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.760 plus every time out with probably nine k's or so, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.200 as I know you're gonna like later tonight and much 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.760 more that. I think he'll be just fine with the 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.760 one stars, and if he continues to do what he 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.960 did in the first half into the second half, he 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.480 is a top five Fantasy pitcher going forward. It's just 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.720 a matter of do the Pirates keep the train rolling, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.240 which they should, but that's always a million dollar question 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.880 and you don't know these guys. But I will say 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.440 something about the Pirates, which is funny. They're more analytical 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.640 than I thought because they sat some lefties versa righty 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.839 yesterday because Polante had reverse splits. So they're gonna do 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.360 something with skins and they know they want to win. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.440 So it's not the Pirates of olds what I'm trying 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:31.960 to say. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.080 Louis Heel So the other one, this one is dear 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.280 near and dear to my heart, especially versus Joe. Yeah, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.320 there definitely were big struggles leading up to the All 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.159 Star break. I think it was the last one was 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.200 pretty solid. Still an absolute travesty that Louis Heill didn't 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.680 make the All Star Games. Really stupid, but he got 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.080 a little bit of rest. It didn't start him right out. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:54.040 That was good. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.919 What do you think the outlook for Louise Heel is 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.760 going to be like SAMs production take away the production 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.880 for second. Do you think it's a similar trajectory, because 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.919 I would mind you that the Yankees are guaranteed in 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.080 the playoff er. It's just the pirates are in it now. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.479 The Yankees will be there this entire way through, and 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.039 I don't think there's any coasting that's gonna go on 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.080 where it's like, hey guys, we're gonna rest everybody and 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.000 we're gonna be cool. What do you think the trajectory 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.120 of Luise Heel on the heel of us seeing him 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.599 pitched today for the second half. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.040 Yeah, his last two starts been really good. Been the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.640 Luise Eel of early in the season. So that's a plus. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.200 We've documented it in many places. People have said the 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.960 innings in previous seasons to this year gigantic difference, huge difference. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.640 So I think there's gonna be some babying at times. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.640 But like you said, they're in the playoff race. The 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.560 Oriols probably are gonna win the division, so that means 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.839 the Yankees are fighting form the wildcard spots, and we 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.279 know how dicey that can be. They're any Luise Eel 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.680 to get them to the finish line with all the 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.360 injuries of the pitching staff. So it might be baby, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.880 it might be a short start here, a long start, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.960 normal start here. But I think see Louise Eel to 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.440 the end. They can't afford to shut him down, basically, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.240 is what I'm trying to say. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.760 Wild In the second half draft that Bogmin and I 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.280 do for our home league, Paul Skeens was the number 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.880 two pitcher overall, number two. We're only playing the second half. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.799 Louise Heil I drafted in the twelfth round. That big 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:24.640 of a gap. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.040 Do you really worried about the Indians? People are really 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:27.640 worried about it? 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.040 Well because also they've openly talked about Louise Heal maybe 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.320 going to like in a bullpen spot. Do you think 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.240 both are going to ball out today? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.880 Yes? I will say Eel's got a tough matchup the 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.960 Mets offense. It's no joke. That's a tough one. Skeens 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.240 is going to crush knock On Wood should crush. I 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.040 think El does great though it's got six plus in 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.320 the last two starts, limited the damage, got the strikeouts. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:48.039 He looks good again. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.359 Skeen Skeen skeins all right. Other news and notes that 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.240 are out there, Mike Trout is beginning a rehab assignment 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.960 tonight in Salt Lake, and the thought is it's going 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.880 to be two games and he could be back on Thursday. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.479 Thoughts on getting Mike Trout back. Obviously you have him 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.960 you you know, you take that trust and you put 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.400 him out there do and this would be a very 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.080 Joe take. Do you think the opportunity to get out 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.440 from Mike Trout from the rest of the season is 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.119 imperative for fantasy owners or should they openly embrace great, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.720 he's coming back. I'm good to go. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.840 It's awesome. If he's coming back, If you've saved him 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.040 this long, you're embracing the heck out of it. If 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.040 he hits two home runs to d this week, I 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.080 would trade him as soon as you positively can, because 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.240 like I love Mike Trout, I think any baseball fan 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.080 loves Mike Trout. But we also have to be real 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.760 about this, Like we joke about Royce Lewis let's just 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.920 stop Mike Trout from doing the same thing. So it's 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.640 awesome he's coming back. I was shocked he only needs 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.000 two rehab games after not being able to run for 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.240 so long. But it'd be great to have him. I'd 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.800 just be enjoy the little moments you have. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.600 Mm let's say you need pitching. Would you trade Mike 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.960 Trout to get Luis Heal. Yes, yes, Luis Hill doesn't 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:01.960 scare you enough. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.200 To He's not injured. He just has an Indians restriction, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.360 so at least he should make it to the finish line. Again, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.640 everything is a should in this world of injuries, but 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.520 I would take Louis Heel in that situation, I try 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.920 to shoot higher, but I would be okay with Louisia. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.080 Well, Mike Charck coming back gonna be huge. Ellie de 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:21.280 la Cruz, the biggest two for four totally destroyed the 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.720 Nurfy yesterday by the I have a really great day betting. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.760 That was the one scoff on the record, and it 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.560 was because he flies. He absolutely flies. When two for 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.079 four forty ninth stolen base of the year, it was 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.920 actually on a double steal with Will Benson as the 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.880 Reds won four to one over the Braves. That full 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.240 game run line or money line paid off with the Reds, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.679 Thank you very much. Ellie de la Cruz steals eighty bases, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:54.840 yay or nay, nay, it's gonna be I was gonna 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.640 play chicken. I was gonna play chicken up. Never mind, we're. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.760 Note it's gonna say. I'd say it's gonna probably be 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.840 close sort of seventy, just because of you know, we 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.880 only have like nine and a half weeks left, so 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.720 I get still a lot. Don't get me wrong, but 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.680 we've seen Ellie go through his slumps, like I'm gonna 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.120 say closer to seventy, not aby. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:18.760 Let's say somebody in February or early March went on 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.600 a show and was like, hey, Elie de la Cruz 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.960 is gonna lead the league in stolen bases. Here's a 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.560 bet plus six hundred at that time. Put yourself in 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.800 that time. How smart would that person be? 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.600 Well, if he lives in Arizona and he just got 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.240 no reason to who it is, I'm just guessing he's 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.880 probably a pretty smart individual that take advantage of that one. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.680 But is this person someone that likes to count their chickens? 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.719 Before you know their eggs before they hatch type thing 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:43.439 or how's that go? 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.200 Oh, I have no farm. I'm not We're not hatchet. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.920 I'm just curious the level. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.520 That's very smart. It's intelligent, like Einstein would like to 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.160 have a cup of coffee with you type thing. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.040 Great, just checking everybody, No, no, no specific reason behind it. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.040 Another great shorts off Francisco indoor uh para solo homers 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.360 also a stolen base on Monday. You know, I'm gonna 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.880 bring this up for one second. What is your take 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:12.559 on this battle between combo meal and Frank sock in 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:17.440 a shoe. I've never actually publicly had this conversation. Frank. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.120 Frank is like, I'm determined. Oh yeah, Frank Stample from CBS, 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.640 he is, I don't I'm not sure what the thing is. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.600 He is determined that it is socking a shoe and 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.640 he doesn't call it anything else, but everybody before that 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.120 called it a combo meal. By the way, I'm talking 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.560 about a homer and a stolen base. Do you have 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.320 a side to sock in a shoe or a combo meal? 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.080 It's combo meal all day for me because you look 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:43.319 at me. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.760 Oh no, Bubba freeze or did I freeze the. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.000 Combo meal for me? All day long? It's been that 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.120 way forever. I've never even heard of SoC and shoe. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.200 Sorry Frank, but yeah, we're going combo meal. It's much 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.440 more appetizing to me. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.960 Okay, I have to ask him. I've got to ask 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.960 him what the impetus to that is. He will not 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.120 say combo meal. They I mean, I kind of get like, well, no, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.120 I actually don't get the sock and the shoe with 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.760 the stolen base in the home run. Maybe the sock 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.000 is the stolen base. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.880 Well, you need both of them to go for a walk. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.200 I guess. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, but 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.920 I like though there are underwear and pants or. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.920 By the way, the chat is dying because I don't 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.800 know if you probably don't know this, but apparently if 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.240 you have a bald ahead, internet is shaky. Joe froze 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.080 earlier this year, and I brought out puppet Joe. So 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.120 that's why you're seeing puppet Bubba popping up in the 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.680 chat left and right. Because if you freeze, then I 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.160 might have to bring you in as a puppet. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.000 Just it's almost worth freezing then. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.840 Yeah, I'm not. I don't know what my go tos 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.679 for you would be yet, be like high noons, like 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.440 I don't know what else? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.360 I know a few things. I don't know fully where 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.640 it is, all right, So that would be a poll. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.000 I put, I'm not gonna do it. Let's see Finway says, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.760 isn't sock a term for a hit? So a sock 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:07.800 is a home run and a shoe? 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:07.959 Oka? 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's maybe more intelligent. That would make 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.120 yea one hundred percent So a sock home run, a 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:14.360 shoe is running. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.480 That bias, Okay, got it? Yeah? 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.320 I wonder if it is like an East Coast like 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.600 it's a Hella type of thing, you know, it's it 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.840 like on the West Coast? Are we only combo meals? 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.400 And that's a sock and a shoe, So I get 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:30.240 socking the home run. Yeah, I think both references are fine. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.480 I just I've always wondered, like like Frank has never deviated, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.920 like he's he owns that term. I've never heard anyone 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.760 else use it. Everybody else uses the combo meal. And 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.440 it finally popped up that I wanted to ask that question. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.559 That's a very interesting one. I'm curious to hear Frank's response, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:50.160 that's for sure. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.800 Yeah, that text, I should text it. Well, I gotta 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.120 text him right now, host show. That would be a 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.199 good response. Actually, you know what, No, we're gonna do it. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.480 We're one hundred percent gonna text Frank. I'm get I'm 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.160 gonna text them while I ask you this next one. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.319 Tier Tyler Anderson limited the Mariners to one run five 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.680 and two Thursday, and he struck out eight. Let me 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.280 ask you something. Every Mariner's game, do you have to 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.199 target the other picture for strikeouts? Do you play every 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.920 single picture against. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.600 Yeah, and it looks like the books got caught onto that. Xuse. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.600 I looked at Tosey Soriano's props for Tuesday Night. They're 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.400 juiced to the gills. You just take the Mariners at 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.560 plus almost thirty one percent carry for as rieties over 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.000 the last month, it's around twenty eight twenty nine percent 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.439 for lefties. They strike out so much it is ridiculous. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.640 I know ty Franz isn't there, which you'll help, but 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.120 you know they call it Jake Vossler. That's probably not 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.160 the answer in the strikeout world. So yeah, I would 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.040 target in the strikeout props like in DFS. If I 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.840 see a cheap picture going against the Mariners, I'm excited. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:47.880 That's what I have to say on that. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.839 Yeah, I think it's like every single time I'm using it. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.199 Some other ones Jeff said, never heard of combo meal 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.640 grow up in Arizona. It's not an Arizona thing. It's actually 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.720 other like fantasy people. It actually was like just a 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.880 fanny term that everybody kind of accepted a couple of 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.400 years back. And then this is an interesting word to 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.400 just go. Somebody said it was Oh yeah, Jack said 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.320 he wanted to get away from combo meal because that 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.199 was ESPN used the term exclusively and they had a 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.080 sounder for it. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.800 I didn't even know ESB had had stuff for fantasy sports. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:22.560 So that's cool. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.440 That's yeah, that's so cool that they were in. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.360 Existed. Sorry, should we make up our. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.440 Own We should make up I'd like we'll have a 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:30.960 Welsh and. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.600 Abobba smoking a pancake. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:34.840 I feel like a Welsh and Abobba would be like 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.160 a two Homers because. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.680 If we did well, yeah, that could be h yeah, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.120 that could be something else, that's for sure. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.520 A Welsh and Joe. Joe's running away from the Baseball 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.760 podcast of Football, I'm still hitting it out of the park. 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.720 So well, let's do homer stolen base on leading off 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.280 as a Welsh and Joe and then a double homer 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:54.320 is a Welsh and Bubba. 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.000 Sounds great, let's do it. We had a couple of 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.600 double home over on Sunday. You know, we got fun 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:58.880 with that. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.760 So lind Or had a Welsh and above and a 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.880 Welsh and a Joe. So there you go. Here's a 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.520 welshon above a one Soto three for five, two homers, 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.000 four RBIs Yankees beat up the Rays. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.280 The Rays, there's that. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.400 And Tarik Skubel struck out six and allowed one run 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.680 over seven innings on Monday as he beat the Guardians. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.200 It was awesome. Okay, so hold on. I got a 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.000 text back from Frank Are you ready? 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:23.440 Yep? 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.880 So he said we didn't uh yeah, okay, So Jack 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.200 was right. We didn't want to use it because that 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.760 was the ESPN podcast. We tried a bunch of other terms, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.600 so let me pull up the full tweet. We tried 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.040 a bunch of other new terms, and Scott threw out 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.920 socking a shoe. I thought it was clever and just 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.760 ran with it. Some like it, some hate it, the 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.400 usual can't please everybody, all right, love it, love it. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:46.240 That was perfect. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.640 So look at that we got within minutes we got 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.760 a response from Frank that's probably been told in other spots. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.080 I just forgot about it. People probably don't you care 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.760 about those things, but those are the things that are 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.080 stuck in this weird burn and right here friends, just 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:08.120 for funzies. Cubs player player of Operations, Jed Hoyer, Jed Hoyer, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.440 we'll just call Jed Hoyer indicated Monday that by any 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.760 change in the future over the next week, the Cubs 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.200 are officially going to move into cell mode. That's weird 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.120 because the cell pieces have been kind of black that 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.240 have been out there. They've talked about a lot of 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.440 like relief. No one wants like Mark Lighter Junior or 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.880 anything like that. But if they open it up to 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.160 Nico Horner, open it up to maybe a Cody Bellinger 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.360 even though he's injured, that's where things I think can 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.360 start to change in the market. One quick one for you, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.840 who do you think the first big trade catalyst is 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.880 going to be coming up? All the names that are 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.360 out there now, I'll give you there could be like 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.800 another name like a small you know whoever, little relief pitcher, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:55.520 but like the first impactful name from an Esak parades 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.800 to a Luis Robert or induce who is the first 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.200 where we're like, oh, here's the trade deadline. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.120 Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because there are a lot 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.680 of big names. I kind of think it's Tarik's Scooble. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.240 Honestly, either do you think is gonna get traded? 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.480 It's you, Well, it's gonna be either him or Flairty 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.120 Goes for sure. But I think I think there's enough, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.760 Like the Orioles really could put the package together, like 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.159 they're they're that close. How would you don't want to 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.119 waste this opportunity. We've seen teams almost blow, like the 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.240 Cubs for instance, they finally cashed in late, but they 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.600 almost raced that young core. You could trade for Scouoble 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.280 now and have him ride with these young guys for 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.119 a handful of years. And I think that is because 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.199 the Orioles have missed that ace like arm to be 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.840 the anchor. They've kind of rotated around guys. They missed 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.360 that ace Scoble can give them that, and I think 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.720 that's hard to just pass by. So I'm gonna go 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:48.280 on a limit say school, I'm probably wrong. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.520 So you think that's first off, you think that's the 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.000 one that will start the mark. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.760 Because he started yesterday, so they want to get this 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.040 trade done to start him this week and in orange 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:57.480 and black. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.360 That's pretty clever. That's not too bad, especially coming off 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.560 of that. I do not think Terrek scouble will be traded. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.760 I think, I hope not. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.440 If the Orioles really want to go out and say 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.840 you can have Jackson Holiday, Kobe Mayo and then somebody, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.360 you know, like it starts with those two. Here's Kid 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.840 Povich or here's Connor Norby or whatever that's going to be. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.480 If they will really do that, then I do think 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.280 it's possible. I do not think that they're going to 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.000 do that. I think they will play a little bit 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.520 of hardball, and I just think it's impossible. I would 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.160 never trade Terrek Scougle if I'm the Tigers. I mean, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.200