WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 18th, 2022 (Ep. 577) 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.840 Leading off starts right now, Friends, how is everybody doing? 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.720 I am Chris Welsh aka the welsh En, joining me 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.440 today for a double dose of duty. This week, it's 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.360 Casey Bubba in the house. What's going on, my friend 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:26.800 that much? 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.000 Friendo, another wonderful day, joining you and your pretty face 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.360 to talk some fantasy baseball and keep things going. It's 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:34.839 been a wild time on the diamond these days. 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:36.879 Lots of fun it has, by the way, speaking a 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.520 pretty face, I don't know if you notice, we've Bug 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.320 and I were doing the live stream yesterday on the 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.120 il Twitch and he live shaved his face live on 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.680 the thing with a bald He already has a bald head. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.080 He had a big old beard and he lost a 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.920 thing our wheel and he live shaved his face. Speaking 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.040 of pretty faces, so do not go and tweet him 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.480 about him looking like pat, Tell him about how pretty 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.520 he looks. That's what I say. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.320 I am going to be texting him immediately when this 0:00:59.400 --> 0:00:59.960 show is over. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.120 Oh this go Twitch dot tv slash in this league, Bubba. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.440 You can watch it. You can see it, and it's 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.160 a very very pretty face. But there was a lot 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.840 of fun baseball and Yankees win Yankees win. Josh Donaldson 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.640 hits a walk off Grand Slam to bring him back 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.560 with a win over Tampa Bay. It has been a 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.760 little bit rough in the New York streets as of 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.800 recent a lot of weird, stupid criticism from just idiot 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.440 people that don't understand baseball, and really just the Riggers 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.680 of one hundred and sixty two games. But whatever that 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.360 is out there, Josh Donaldson rallies the Yankees back as 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.240 they keep going. But how about this, That's not the 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.240 New York story. I care about. The New York story 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.600 I care about is Brett Batty. Yes, we talked about 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 him yesterday. First thing I could really tell you is 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.480 guy hits ball hard. Last night he hit the ball 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.400 very hard. How about his first swing in the major 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.600 leagues hitting a homer? How beautiful was that, Bubba? 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.320 It was amazing. It was a beautiful left handed swing, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.080 like the kind you dream about. The dude we knew 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.960 was going to be good, and it was cool to 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.680 see it happen in his family going crazy. All the 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.840 videos you've seen, so yeah, I know he's one of 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.440 the you got to be loving this as a prospect guy, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:10.840 and you will probably talk about it later, but I 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.440 was on Tuesday as Langleiers. He's already gone deep, like 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.320 all these prospects are coming up, and it's been a 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:15.919 beautiful thing. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.120 Yeah, and I don't know the call. I feel like 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.959 the calls have been pretty decent, though I totally screwed 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:22.960 myself yesterday. I'm going to shout out to Wonkey for 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.560 giving me some a nice tweet credit about Shane Langeleiers. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.799 But like I literally went on yesterday thinking the Wonky 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.040 Wednesday bonus was going to be a young guy that 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.040 no one else was picking. And guess who I picked, 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.600 Shane Langeliers. But then I realized it was just anyone 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.880 over twenty seven. So then I changed my things, saying, oh, why, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.800 by the way, Shane Legleer is probably still gonna hit 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.880 a homer, but I'm gonna take Cojulio Rodriguez, who now 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.360 will probably go oh for it's exactly what happened, ridiculously 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.760 stupid of me, So I took Coolio didn't get it. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.680 Shanelangliers did hit a bomb. But you know, these big, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.000 big power guys with huge evs question about the contact. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.160 There's always the thing they're just you know, they're doing 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.280 it right right now. They're they're making really really good 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.240 contact and they've got to go on. Brett Batty also 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.400 just makes better contact, I think than a guy like 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.600 Shan Lingleiers overall. And I've just we've seen the maturation 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.280 from you know, when you were you were here last 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.400 year in the AFL. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.760 Right, yes, yes, I saw, I saw Baby he was 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:19.640 he was, Yeah. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.280 Yeah, I remember you came a little bit late and 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.240 I think I missed you on that. But like you know, 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.680 Baby since then had some contact issues. That's changed and bam, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.680 big homer. Everyone got to kind of see what this 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.880 guy's all about. And I said, the worst case of worse, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.720 he's going to hit the ball really hard. And there's 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.520 some homers in there. Go ahead and speculate, you know. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.840 Bugs and I were actually talking about this Bubba in 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.720 that like the Dodgers announced that Cody Bellinger they're giving 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.120 him like a little rest They're gonna like give him 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.160 like a little rests, which is like a super nice 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.400 way to be like get out, get out, get off 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:52.960 a bit, you know, get on the bench. You're not 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.240 going shout out tol Wonky again for the great call 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.720 on Gallo which I could never and still don't believe 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.320 it this day that you know he's been six well, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.440 but you've got Chris Taylor and Gallo playing really well. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.480 And I've said a couple weeks ago, but I've just 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.480 reiterated it, Like listen, the biggest payoff you can have 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.760 right now is your lack of patience. In fantasy. You 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.960 don't need to be patient anymore. It's almost fantasy playoff time. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.320 Some are starting next week. I am in a scott 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.080 White League, so your lack of patience is going to 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.920 be your biggest payoff. If you were still holding on 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.920 to Cody Bellinger, Bute bye and I would speculate on 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.919 Brett Batty, I would speculate on Shane Langliers. Why not. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.440 These guys are really really having a good little run 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.760 early on, and Batty is a guy that just obviously 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.480 makes sense to pick up. I mean, if you had 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.560 to choose, though, Bubba Langaliers are Baty, where are you going? 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.400 I lean langal Leers just for the fact that the 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.600 Mets like, if things get healthy, Baty maybe goes away 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.200 long term. I'd want Baby long term for sure, but 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:49.960 like the rest of this season, I want langoliers and 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.400 to your patients, sorry to your cutting guys. Thing I 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.000 did that this past week a Cuvado Evaldi and a 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.880 couple other guys in twelve team leagues and knock on 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.640 what it worked out because they all are hurt now, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.280 but it was just time to the fat as they say. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.440 Yeah exactly, and like Angela is saying something that is 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.479 interesting in this thing. Too early to jump on the 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.760 baby train? Well, sure, Like I don't think any prospect 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.000 you should go and drop anything immense for. But I 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.240 would hope everybody you do one of two things at 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.359 this time of the year is I would have unless 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.200 your team is like awesome. By the way, you should 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.240 have one pitching spot that can be a speculative burn 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.760 and churn. And you should also, especially if your offense 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.680 has any type of little struggles, have a churn and 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.800 burn offensive spot that you can go through. I think 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.240 you should try to find a way to pick up 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.080 these guys if they're out there, so we don't need 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:37.400 to be like, hey, it's too early to jump on 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.880 the train. No, go and do it, because guess what, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.400 when they struggle, you pick up the next guy. Because 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.920 there are a couple more guys. We talked about Josh 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.160 Young yesterday. That's someone I think that's going to be 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:47.960 coming up soon. I think it is fifth homer. Yes, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.400 you had another homer yesterday. He's destroying triple A. No 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.440 reason for him to be there, regardless of the lack 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.920 of pitches. But have a burn insurn because it's not 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.279 uncommon for us to see these young guys be able 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.159 to pull off, you know, three or four weeks that 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.600 are really good without pitchers readjusting to them, and that's 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:06.840 about all we have left in the season. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.840 Bubba. Yeah, one hundred percent agree, and especially in those 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.120 shallow or twelve team in lower leagues, like literally you 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.440 can you know for every outfielder that you have on 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.160 your rosters, probly five or six that you can run 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.240 for the next week. Like there's so many guys out there. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.040 Maximize that bats, maximize the whole thing. So one hundred 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.080 percent with you on that one. Like, don't be in 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.600 love with anybody right now. If there's any sign of weakness, 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.960 move on, run the hot toy, get a new one, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:28.680 just keep going. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.040 So yeah, it treat this time. You're in fantasy baseball 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.920 like college, you're just experimenting you're not taking anything serious. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.520 You're not your life left and swipe right, slipe left 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:37.120 and swipe fight. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.920 Yeah, you're not looking for a long term ad. You're 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.000 just looking for like a couple of short terms a week. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.160 That's what you're doing, you know what I. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.200 Mean, Long balls and call it good. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.000 Hey, maybe that's what you gotta do. Kraig Kimberle picked 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.120 up a save to preserve Tony Gonsolin's fifteenth win of 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.320 the year. So I wanted to talk about this. I 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.960 was a leader of kind of the Tony Gonsoon regression 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.840 and he had a bump because that, by the way, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.440 still to this day he has one of the wildest 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.000 swings between ERA and x FIP. It's like a two 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.840 ERA and a three seven x FIP, which still makes 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.360 him good. And my point has always been Gonsolin is 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.760 a good pitcher. It's just this realm of where he's 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.760 at really doesn't feel and the underlining stats don't really 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.880 seem to don't seem to back up that there's going 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.680 to be sustainable. Well, in July it started to bump 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.040 a little bit. He had five starts in July. Three 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.200 of those had three or more earned runs in there, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.880 there were a couple blow ups that were back to 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.560 back and everyone was like, oh, here we go, here 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.880 we go. In August, it's just turned right back around, Bubba. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.560 I mean, this guy outside of that bump. I'm looking here. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.600 How many starts this year do you think he's given 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.360 up more than three earned runs? 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.120 I'm assuming it's just that bump, like two or three. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.400 Maybe it's those two. The entire season, he's only given 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.440 up one earned run in the month of August. Strikeouts 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.960 are going, he's gone over six in a couple of 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.280 last ones. He's got fifteen wins. It's still all crazy. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.080 He is holding I didn't look at the leaderboard. It's 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.960 still got to be the league's biggest differential. He's holding 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.040 batter still like a two hundred babbob right now. I mean, 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.200 he's doing stuff that feels like it's got to adjust. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.760 And like I said, when you look at the xtip, 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.000 it still seems like it would blow up. But it's 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.080 not happening. And this is what happens, and this is 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.200 why baseball is so awesome and fun. You can look 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.360 at all the underlining things that say this will happen, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.960 and then it just doesn't. And Tony Gonsolin continues to 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.520 be one of the most valuable pitchers out there. And 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.240 I guess at this point, really the only question is 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.960 is you can't even there's no selling or anything like that. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.360 But you know, are you comfortable the rest of the 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.320 way through with these big You know he's had that 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.080 little bump. You see the underlying stats that feel like 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.800 it should break apart, but it ain't. It ain't how 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.559 comfortable you as far as a status with Tony Gonsolin, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.959 Now it's real too, he's. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.560 Locked in well real, No, there should be some regression 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.319 like the bab it's insane. You mentioned the ex fips 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.760 and all the underlying metrics that will point to er regression. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.079 But he's still very good, Like three seven We take 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.800 that all the all the time, so especially on a 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.960 Dodger seament scores runs, it's still going to get wins. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.400 So he's for real. Like I liked him coming into 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:15.960 the year, I was wondering how many innings he looks 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.120 like he's good to go. But there will be a 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.640 regression at some point in time, but I don't know 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.720 if it'll be this year because he's feeling it again 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.319 and I'm just gonna keep rolling out there time like 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.640 he did against the Padres with Soto and company a 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.120 few weeks ago, and he just dealt So I'm not 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.160 too worried about it right now. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.240 Yeah, and just look into my only biggest change and 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.760 sometimes how they how they designate these pitches makes you 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.200 think something different. But one of the biggest changes you 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.199 see with him is the uptick in his curveball usage. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.680 And sometimes you can see like cutters and sliders get 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.800 mixed in by different sites, sometimes even curves and sliders, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.320 but it shows like a four percent downtick on his 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:57.160 slider usage, a five percent on his fastball, and it 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.760 goes to the split finger and curveball like those have 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.080 ten and the uptick almost four percent on the curve 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.400 ball split finger around six percent, and then you're seeing 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.160 just wild results with big wins, great offensive support behind him, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.440 and sometimes luck be the pitcher tonight. And that's what's 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.440 happening with Tony Gonsolin. Fifteen wins and it has just 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.240 not cooled down. The other headline show you to Tany 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.199 went four to five with a homer triple and four RBIs, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.080 but the Angels lost because of course Boba that's what 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.240 they do. It's the best thing that they're at. Actually, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.000 their best stat this year is just continuously losing when 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.840 they put up weird, awesome numbers by great players. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.040 Let's let's real quick. I'm gonna divert something. I know 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.600 we have a schedule, but let's just be realistic here, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.920 because we are always mad that Trout never gets to 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.120 be in the postseason show. Hay's gonna be a free 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.160 agent pretty soon. He seems like a super nice guy. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.600 Please tell me he doesn't sign with the Angels like 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.280 he needs to be on the postseason. He needs to 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.520 be in October under the lights. We need show. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.040 Hey, Oh I don't, I don't. I can't imagine the 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.280 scenario where he returns. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.079 I hopefully, but it just feels like there's something there though. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.640 It just feels like I don't know. I just hope 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.000 all powers to be it does not happen. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.960 I mean, if the Angels could do something, it's just 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.199 they put themselves in a hole. They you know, they 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.079 had the Cynegard stuff, They've got the Anthony Rendone contract. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.680 You would hope not if they could make a big 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.719 swing and change, but none of their prospects work their 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.480 development is silly. I just don't know how a player, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.720 you know, with the limited time they have in his 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.520 skill set, could go and look and be like, I 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.280 have to return here. I mean, you'd rather go you 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:26.560 can say, in your same town and go play with 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.240 the Dodgers. That makes way more sense. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.320 Well, Wonky, says Dodgers or Yankees. I've already heard rumors 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.080 they like San Francisco because of the Asian culture. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.880 There, which would make me over the moon, can you. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:43.080 I mean, baba, it'd be amazing, Baba, It's not gonna. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.320 Be the Angels and Mike Trout to go play with 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.520 that powerhouse of Brandon Belton, Brandon Crawford. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.520 A prospect guy. We know what it's gonna be. For 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.880 the long term deal, It's not gonna be Brandon Brandon Crawford. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.920 Let's be real. Look at Joey Bart. The dude's hitting 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.000 all of a sudden. Amazing. Let a kid get used 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.880 to the bigs. What happens? What happens. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.720 Lusiano has been hurt, He's all right, I don't know. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.480 I don't know. I've lived in both. I've lived in 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.319 l A and I've lived in San Francisco. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.880 Maybe he goes to he's just gonna stay in the 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:11.280 West Coast. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.280 I think it's the Dodgers. I agree with, won't Yeah, no, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.600 please please no, please no, I do on it, but 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.680 I think it's one hundred percent of the Dodgers. They'll 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.640 drop some money and they'll bring him in and he 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.520 can stay in his house and he can be on 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.280 a team that wins and that knows how to manage 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.880 prospects players, wins everything. Not the Angels, That's not them, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.320 Mike Trout though, it should be back pretty soon. On 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.520 the injury front, Max Freed after that horrible bonk the 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.400 other day, the concussion type hit when he was throwing, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.880 is going to be activated and start tonight against Jacob 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.520 de Grom. So welcome back to that's gonna be That's 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.640 gonna be a fun matchup. Hey, here's Jacob da Grom. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.960 By the way, here's the tease. Wait until one of 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.800 the bets were's. I have a bet for you that 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.640 we have not seen all season, and it has to 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.320 do with Jacob d Grom. You can probably imagine what 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.880 it's going to look like here in just a little bit. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.800 Tony Russas stated that Luis Robert received a quarterzon and 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.199 Jay and his wrist after feeling pain falling a swing 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.280 on Wednesday, perpetually injured. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.319 But they won't put him on the il. They said, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.520 they gave him a shot, they won't put him on 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.400 the al. What are we doing? What are we doing 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:12.320 to us? 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.240 That one of those amazing moments all season. You see 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.240 the fan telling LaRussa to pinch hit at him angle 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.680 and then he woke up and went over and did it. Dude, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.360 I've been I was telling you guys, not that anyone 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.800 needed it, but anyone listening. You remember in the March 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.839 episodes when I was joining Joe and I was out 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.960 here in spring training, and I was telling you guys, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.920 I'm like, guys, I don't know what's going on, Tony. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.320 The russ is not doing anything here. He's he literally 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.439 while practices were going on, you kind of have access here. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.120 There's two fields. You had Jim Tom over here working 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.080 with the hitters. You got I remember the other coaches 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.319 over here, they're doing drills. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:43.800 Tony. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.200 That Russa was never actually standing there watching or coaching 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.840 or managing or doing anything. He drove around his cart 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.839 a whole bunch and he was just talking to people. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.920 He was just talking to people. He's like a manager 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:57.240 mascot than anything else. He's so unbelievably Yeah, he's amazing. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.480 Ty Miley left his start early and undergoing, and Mry 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.520 on his right shoulder fastball was averaging eighty nine versus 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:07.760 his regular ninety three, so something might not be good 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.360 in the waters. And then Drake's scubl underwent successful surgery 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.480 to repair the flexor tendon in his left elbow. That 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.679 have you worried about him next year at all? 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.800 Yeah? Anytime you talk about the main joints in parts 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.080 of your body that require you to throw a baseball, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.280 I have to see things. I'm a hesitant for sure. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.400 Who are you more worried about Drake's scuble and the 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.240 flexor issue or the elbow surgery for Walker Buehler? 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.200 Well, I was out on Bueller into the season to 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.160 begin with, But I'd probably say Bueller right now because 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.440 it's so vague. It sounds like Tommy John surgery, but 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.560 it's not Tommy John surgery. So I don't know what's 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:43.040 going on. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.120 And I don't like elbow stuff. I don't like those 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.800 elbow ones. Here's a fun one from Sarah Langs slangs 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.600 on Sports Guardians in the eighth This was last night, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.840 struck out three times, then proceeded to score six times. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.920 It was the first in at least the Expansion era 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.360 since nineteen sixty one that a team scored six plus 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.000 runs in an inning after striking out three times. This 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:12.720 is the alias. So what happened was Andrew Chaffin. I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.440 was just about to say his nickname, but probably I 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.920 won't say the nickname I use for him on the show. 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.320 Andrew Chaffin struck out three batters in the inning. However, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.080 the third strikeout bounced off the backstop and then the 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.920 Guardians proceeded to just annihilate. And that's one of those 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:32.600 you look back on and you go, woof, woof Guardians. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.520 They do their business. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.560 Happens, it happens a good thing. They're not gonna make 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:37.920 the playoffs, so we don't want worry about it. 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.960 Apparely not. I have a trivia question for you, and 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.320 it has to do with our friend Brett Batty. Brett 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.840 Batty became the fifth Mets player to homer in his 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.000 first career at bat But ladies and gentlemen, who is 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.640 the last to do it. Who's the last to do it? 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.360 And I'm going to give you a hint. It is 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.120 in the two thousands. In the two thousands, so one 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.200 more time, Brett Baty became the first Mets player to 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.120 homer in his first career at bat Who was the 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.000 last to do it? It was in two thousands. I 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.440 always think about these I've told the story gajillion times. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.760 But I worked in sports radio in the early two thousands, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.200 and at one time I was like just this engineer 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.080 and I would do remote broadcasts and it was like 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.560 the big sports show here in Phoenix's show Gamebo and 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.200 Ash and I loved prospects back then. And I remember 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.680 on the broadcast Carlos Quinton was getting his call up 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.280 and I had told the guy his name was Mark Asher. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 I was like, Carlos Quinton is hitting a homer tonight 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.040 in his first game. And he looked at me and 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.600 he was like, come on, I'm like, dude, bet me, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.280 bet me, And he did and he hit the homer 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.440 and I just walked in with the biggest like oh 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.040 like when I walked in, and he had to give 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.080 me credit on air for it. And I always think 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.440 about those moments when you call him in first at bats. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.320 That's very selfish of mine. David Wright was a guest. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:17:00.320 That is incorrect because remember this is in two thousand, Yeah, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.920 which I guess David I probably would have been there 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.360 but for the last rookie to do it, because there's 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.639 only five in Mets history and it's a little bit 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.439 of his obscure name. We'll do some stats and then 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.520 we'll come back to it. See if anybody has any guesses. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.520 Stat hero Shoho Tani four for five with a bomb, 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.719 four RBI's offensively does it? Pitching? Does it? 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:18.320 Yet? 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.399 He's you know, four or five to one for MVP. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.160 Sean Murphy had two homers, continues to hit for the A's. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.679 A's have great catchers. They don't got anything else. They 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.720 got Sean Murphy and Shay Lengeliers. Jolie Marte had two homers. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.119 Cal Rally two homers, I believe. But is this correct? 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.040 Doesn't Kyle Rally lead or is tied for the most 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:38.840 homers by catchers this year? 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.199 I would like that. I would like to see your 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.760 say you're correct, he's got like seventeen or something. He's 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.120 been amazing this season. While you're talking, I can look 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.240 it up. But he's been absolutely a godsend when it 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.439 comes to the catcher's position. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.720