WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 6th, 2022 (Ep. 525) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.360 The angels are wrestling with demons. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:15.760 Let's play ball. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.520 Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros. 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.360 This is Leading Off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.160 the King of sports Books. It's me, Joey p Joe 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.959 Piezafia with me is the Welsh, and of course it's you. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.280 Happy Monday, everybody. I hope you had a lovely weekend. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.360 I'm sure it was filled with softball games for your kids, 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.200 in baseball games and flag football games and all sorts 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.040 of other games. Probably some soccer in there as well, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.360 some dance vercitals. Who knows, as a parent what you 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.159 had going on, or maybe just it is yours. I 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.320 know Welsh had a very important dance vercitle coming up 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.720 for himself. He's been working very hard on all of 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.319 his plea's. But we're back here talking baseball. I'll look 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.680 at it. Look at the moves, baby, it's pretty good. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.120 Exciting baseball show that there is. It's Leading Off and 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.080 we're here every single Monday through Friday at noon. And 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.800 look at this Welsh. Look at that. Up to seven 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.600 point two three YouTube subscribers. Oh baby, we blowing up. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:10.280 We big time. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.440 We going do you think we get to eight before 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:13.080 the end of the year. 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.559 I think it's I don't think it's impossible. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.920 Maybe if I start giving away free stuff, maybe yeah, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.000 maybe we get free stuff flows. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.600 Maybe maybe this we get a little bit more into 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.959 the summer, we see where the numbers are at. If 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.800 they're looking to kind of juicy and possible, we make 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.280 a call. We dip into that pristine auction and maybe 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.440 we could find a little something something if we hit 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:35.000 to eight K. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.800 Maybe that's kind of like the banana stand of fantasy pros. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.559 It's the pristine auction. There's always money in the banana stand, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.040 and there's always some cool stuff. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.240 If the prize closet like radio, you'd be like, let's 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.360 get dip into the prize closet. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.800 Let's get the prize closet, except this will. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.800 Be something really good. This would be something really good, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.320 not like, hey, look it's. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.880 Two tickets to toe the wet sprocket. Let's go, I like, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.960 ow the what? But anyway, let's. 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.920 Talk talk about what's going on in Major League Baseball, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.720 and let's start with the Angels Welsh They have now 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.560 dropped eleven straight. The Phillies, on the other hand, of 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.960 one four in a row. We told you when they 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.200 fired Girardi. Keep an eye out in the wagery market, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.080 in the DFS market, in the fantasy market for a 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.880 little bit of a surge with the Phillies. When the 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.760 fire a manager, sometimes it happens. Well, you got it. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.160 But let's talk about the Angels because that's more fun. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.560 Taylor Ward's the il Joe Adell recalled. Anthony Rendon could 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.400 begin baseball activity soon, could be doing a keto diet. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.000 Who knows what he's doing. Mike Trout has been dreadful 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.480 over the last week. We'll get more onto that later. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.000 But the Angels look eleven game losing streaks. Welsh, that's 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.360 a tough thing to come back from. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.920 Yep, it is quite the thing to see. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.400 Remember this team, the Taany and Trout and how the 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.720 excitement Jared Walsh popping off. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:52.959 It is boo rutal. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:53.320 You know. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.359 The problem is, though, I'm falling into this space, not 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.359 just from the fantasy, but you get into like betting 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.760 and gambling and stuff like they gotta win, like it's 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.919 gotta change. Like so I feel like I'm gonna start 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.840 falling in that space where it's like I want to 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.600 bet the Mike trout total bases because it can't keep 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.280 going like this. I want to bet the Angels. I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.480 want to bet you know they're fall You're gonna get 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.720 some probably incredible lines. I haven't looked today what the 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.960 line is gonna be. I want to make some of 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.760 those bets with the Angels right now, because it's so bad. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.400 They can't be this can they be this bad? 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.839 Well, look, here's the sentiment, and there's Mark. I guess 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.959 the Otani MVP chances are slipping. It's Aaron Judge's award 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.040 to lose. It's June, it's June relaxed. In fact, this 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.840 is the great time to start buying those shares of 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.760 Otani as they start to click up and up and up, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.120 because he's still the only guy pitching. This is a 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.920 bad streak that will be forgotten in August. I'm telling 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.320 you right now, it's gonna be completely forgotten. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.720 I actually agree with both sides of this, like with 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.119 what Mark says, like right now, like Judge is kind 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.320 of like the pack leader because it is early, but 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.360 it is a great time to buy Otani. He cannot 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.680 win this award with this current production. Like if this 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.760 continues you're done. He will not win it. He has 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.440 to be better. If he's a little bit better, he's 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.280 gonna run away with it because of pitching side, like 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.680 what you're alluding to. So this is a great time 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.200 if you're a gambling gambler and you want to throw 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.800 a couple more bucks because you're not gonna get better odds. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.280 This probably in June might be the Maybe June six 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.800 might be the best odds you could get on a 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.400 tiny MVP the entire season after eleven game losing streak. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:28.560 Best time. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.520 Yeah, And I want to echo your sentiments about Trout 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.200 because I think he's even money tonight over. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:39.000 In the tots A basis. It's it's even or plus 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.320 plus fifteen somewhere. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.680 Yeah, it's it's it's an even or plus money in 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.920 some places, depending on where your look over at bettingpros 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.599 dot com to find out where you can get the 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:47.080 best line. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.720 But let me tell you something I would. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.640 I saw it this morning staring me at the face, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.840 So wa ooh, baby, I think it might be time 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.479 to start looking at that one. Let's get this mother 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.160 headlined the weekend boy, Bryce and Stott three run walk 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.839 off Homer stunning the Angels in that game. We also 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.719 had Harrison Bader lee the Cardinals past the Cubs on Sunday. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.839 Good game for him. David Bedner whiffs two, gets his 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.960 tenth save. Congratulations to you. Cole Tucker was claimed off 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.480 waivers from the Pirates by the Diamondbacks. Josh Donaldson lifted 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.360 the Yankees to their sixth straight win. The Yankees are 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.800 cruising right now. Montgomery had no decision, but he pitched well. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.080 That that Yankee rotation. You know what, Cole and Nester 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.680 Cortez at the top. You've gotten good starts from Montgomery, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.080 good starts from Tyon. Save Reno looks good. This is 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.000 a really look. This was the thing that really bit 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.200 the Yankees last year was the rotation after Cole. They 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.000 had nothing in the rotation. The Kluber experiment didn't work. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.719 Tyon was still kind of working his way back, sever 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.400 Reina was on the shelf. This Yankee rotation is a 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.120 totally different animal, and right now the Yankees certainly look 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.839 like they are a big time contender for the World Series. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.640 We'll see if everybody can stay healthy. But to me, Welsh, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.360 the difference has been now everybody in that rotation pitching 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.840 in Montgomery was good last year. I want to give 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.960 him some credit, but still the one two punch at 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.840 the top takes a lot of pressure off the guys three, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.400 four to five. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.679 Well, you know, I had proposed last week of Luis 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.600 Severino for the rest of the season being more valuable 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.400 than Walker Buehler. We had this discussion over on ITL 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.480 and it's more and more looking like that place you. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.880 I know, it's also pretty gross about this team. They've 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.760 also got replacements in the wings. They've got prospects, not 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.200 just far away prospects. They've got two pictures that could 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.400 come up today in Triple A twenty four year olds 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.880 ken Walda Chuck and Hayden Wsanowski, both really really good 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.919 pictures that could jump into a rotation. But what it 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.920 also says to me is they have got They even 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:35.680 have to look at this as like we are so 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.880 overperforming what we possibly could have imagined that in instances 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.640 like these, you don't take your foot off the gas. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.839 You be aggressive. They have got stuff to move throughout 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:47.479 their system. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.679 Prospect hitters, I mean their top six or essentially prospect hitters. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.760 They've got guys from the lower levels to the high. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.960 They've got so much Will Warren another low player. I 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.920 would look for them to be aggressive and make a move, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:04.239 whether it's for you know, a sixth lockdown pitcher, seventh 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.200 I suppose you could even throw into there for them 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.719 or not. They've just got It's just not fair. It's 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.280 not fair with the offense, it's not fair with the pitching, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.280 and that they might have more assets than really anybody 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.120 right now to go make aggressive moves. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.240 Oh, you know, it's funny, good comment here again, Mark 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.520 crushing it today with the comments. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:23.600 They've got a lot of people in the comments. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:24.800 If you want to be in the comments and you're 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.440 watching live, you have to be subscriber of our Fantasy 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.160 Pros YouTube channel, Fantasy Pros MLB. But you know, Mark 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.400 kind of made an offhanded comment, but it's kind of true. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.880 Gary Sanchez is not catching anymore for the Yankees, make 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.520 no mistake about that. His lack of defense, bad play 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.160 calling at times. Let me tell you that is a 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.880 huge difference for this Yankees rotation. And I think sometimes 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.800 when we're playing fantasy, we don't pay enough attention to 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.600 who the catcher is. You know, you've looked historically, you 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.520 know the Cardinals have always had some good starters there. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.720 Yadi Emarlin has been there for twenty years. You know, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.640 those guys do make a difference. Speaking of the Cardinals, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.680 Nolan Gorman excuse me sitting out on Sunday against the Cubs. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:02.800 He's been doing with that back issue. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.360 Clayton Kershaw was strong in the rehab starting He'll be 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.200 back with the big club this week, so activate them 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.080 in all your lineups. Wander Franco has not resumed baseball 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.480 activities yet, but again the thought process. Hopefully later in 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.600 the week he will. Myke yess is a return the 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.560 following week. You're probably not gonna have him this week. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.120 Big news though, in the money market, Welsh Jordan Alvarez 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.960 and the Houston Astros agreed to a six year, one 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.680 hundred and fifteen million dollar contract. This broke about like 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.840 twenty minutes after the show on Friday. Yeah, and this 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.200 is brilliant move by the Astros, a team that doesn't 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.360 have a lot of draft picks there in that window. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.240 Because of the scandal. But here's the thing. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.280 You need Jordan Alvarez to be the guy. You need 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.040 Kyle Tucker, you need Bregman. If you're going to miss 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.839 out on that next group. You need to not only 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.800 have this group hit literally and figuratively, but also you 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.600 need to lock them in for long term. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:50.840 And that's what the Astros are doing. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.960 So love him or hate them, the Astros are doing 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.200 good business right now, just. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:56.520 Able to do it with they fail to do it 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.440 with Korea. I know they wanted to, They arguably needed to. Well, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:01.760 I mean, Jeremy Polt. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.160 Makes it that they did. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.040 They tried to do it with Korea, but I think 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.520 they were smart and saying, you know what, look at 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.920 what Korea hadn't given us in terms of playing time 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.200 over the years, and look at the bright future of 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:12.840 Alvarez is a middle of the order player. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.440 I think they made the right call there. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:14.840 Well. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.200 I think hindsight though, I think you have a budding 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.040 star in Jeremy Pane, Like Jeremy Payane, a fascinating conversation 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.280 next year is going to be his fantasy value. And 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.760 maybe have even mentioned this before, when you start comparing 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.079 against like a Corey Seeger, like those are legitimate conversations, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.680 like he's in that range, he's the top twelve starting 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.560 short stuff. But I think it's perspective had him he 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.160 had he not worked out, and this team was just 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.319 churning out left and right, just loser shortstops. I think 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.000 everyone would go back and be like, how could this 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.640 team not have opened up their pocketbook to bring in 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.400 because you have stars like Jordan Alvarez. But Jordan Alvarez 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.840 will be the lynchpin to that for fantasy owners and 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.960 dynasty owners and redraft owners and actual Astro fans if 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:56.440 they exist. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.440 I know one. I know one Astro fan, by the way, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:09:59.280 just one. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.880 Think of I had any Astro fans. It's funny. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.559 Jake Seely I remember was threatening to become if if 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.439 the Mets didn't sell the team. He was threatened to 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.800 become an Astros fan. He kind of adopted them, and 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:11.640 then of course. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.560 What a great choice, what a great what a great choice. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.360 He's just like, I'm gonna not be the Nets. I'm 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.439 gonna go to this awesome stand up team. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:20.800 Well that was before you know, there was one of 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.560 They were the lovable underdogs, you know, little Josel Tuvey 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.440 and stuff. But again, everybody steals signs. Enough of that, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.520 all right, can we talk about this. Bobin Nightingale had 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.079 a tweet yesterday. Uh the Angels lost their eleventh consecutive game, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.840 and Mike Trout's hitless streak extends to a career wars 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.120 twenty six abs. It's not very often, Welsh, that you 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.040 get a window to buy Mike Trout. This is clearly it, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.839 and I would I would practice everybody else patience if 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.120 you have Mike Trout. But this is clearly the window. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.720 You don't get this very often. I mean, this is 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.920 an epically bad stretch for Trout. So I guess here's 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.200 the question, what does it take to get Trout? You 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.840 could look at the you know, the trade chart. We 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.680 have fantasypros dot Com in the MLB section and you can. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.760 Kind of line that up. But in the baseball. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.280 Sense for you, what what do you have to really 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.400 if you've gotta come correct with a trade offer, right, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.120 And I'm using the phrase come correct because I just 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.959 watched New Jack City over the weekend. But if you 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.040 gotta do that right, it's like you gotta like you 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.080 got to really start with some high profile piece as 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:21.880 the centerpiece. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.679 Well, now you're talking dynasty or redraft. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.319 Let's do both. Let's do both. Why why should we 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.679 limit ourselves? Yeah? 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.560 I mean I think Here's the problem though, is like 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.280 Trout up to this streak was finn. I mean you 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.400 have built in your mind April he was incredible. So 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.360 it's not like it's been a season long, you know, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.640 destroy It's not like it's been Marcus Simeon, you know 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.880 what I'm saying. Like he has been really good this year. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.839 So I don't think you could do it for cheap, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.320 all right, So starting in Redraft, I just don't know 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.200 if I feel like it's a picture, but I don't 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.480 feel like it's an underperforming picture you can sell like. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.520 I feel like it's got to be somebody. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.480 That is played at a really high level. I think 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.440 someone might be, which I. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.760 Mean Zach Wheeler. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.360 Okay, Wow, Okay, I was gonna say, you want to 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.720 say Zach Wheeler. Plus does Zach Wheeler and Springer do it? 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:13.720 Is that even enough? 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.000 Yeah? I think that. See. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.560 I mean you're still talking about it. You're talking about 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.800 a top ten fantasy option. I think you've got to 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:26.000 go something like a Gossman or al al Kintara or 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.800 even Alec Manoa, and then you get a smaller hitting piece. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.440 I don't think I mean, you know, hey, I could 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:32.880 be wrong. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.400 Mark if Mark brought up Walker Bueller, he's just I 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.320 just don't think he's been good enough that you could 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.280 do that in there. But it could be someone buying 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.800 low and I'm a Walker Buehler, and then maybe buying 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.160 low on a hitter. It looks like something like that 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.120 in Dynasty. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:46.439 It's all over the board. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:51.120 This is a great opportunity that I think a not 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.160 an out of it team could probably be open to getting, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.720 you know, two high level prospects and some picks or 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.480 something like that. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.080 I think that what the exquisition is. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.120 My problem is is I think Trout was like even 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.440 on his value coming into this year, Everyone's like, well, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:08.560 let's get a little bit older. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.600 He's not a Kunya. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.880 Then he popped off and he was at the tippy top. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.920 So now what I think has happened is this bad 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.560 streak has just brought him down to people listening. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.720 I don't think the value has really really dropped. You know, 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.240 that's an interesting one. At Jordan Alvarez. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.240 I mean format, yeah, I would, I just want the 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.160 younger player. That's where I'm at with a lot of redraft, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.959 though in Redraft or Dynasty, I still want Alvarez. So 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.040 That's that's where I'm at, because you know, I have 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.080 a very high threshold for Alvarez. I think he's just 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.000 I think he's like that next big poppy kind of. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.840 Guy, like I'm not. I'm just not dealing with him. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:48.840 So I don't think there's a I don't think he's 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.160 an RPV difference there. Here's another one. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.480 This is when Michael Baron the Mets have a six 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.920 sixty one winning percentage is the best of the National League, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.679 and this date the Mets and the Yankees are the 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:58.920 two best teams in baseball. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.840 How much does the rest of baseball hate New York 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:01.160 right now? 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.040 Welsh on baseball parody is cool. Huh, it's all in 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.800 New York. Were just sitting out here West Coast and 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.480 sitting here with my Diamondbacks and my loser Angels and 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:10.600 all these bad teams. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:11.600 Yeah, it's fine. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.719 This one also from Preston Wilson, who, by the way, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.080 is a huge fan of Fantasy pros follows me on Twitter, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.200 and we've actually DMed and talked before, good old Preston 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.280 Wilson player in his day. Yeah, but Preston Wilson decided 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.400 and and I'm very happy about this. So Tampa Bay, 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.480 some of the players refused to wear the Gay Pride 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.360 logo on their uniforms this weekend, and Preston Wilson decided 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.600 he was going to go, you know, say his piece 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.160 about this, and I thought this was very well orchestrated 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.160 by him. He said, there's a special ignorance in sports 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.520 on this topic. Every person in Major League Baseball has 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.120 at some point played with a homosexual teammate. They have 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.640 all cheered for their success on the field, they have 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.240 all felt their pain when they struggled. They just didn't 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:58.960 know that player necessarily was LB LGBTQ. So here here, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.400 I mean to me, this is literally the least you 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.240 can do. I don't care like if you if if 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.760 that makes you uncomfortable, but literally the least you could 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.160 do is just acknowledge it, like that's all your asking. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.480 They acknowledge that. 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.000 You know, it's not a big teammates that you have 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.680 gay for an office workers like that, it's something that 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.360 that should not be in the shadows, and it's something 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.840 that should not be hidden anymore. It's it's something that 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:25.080 should be again, something that collectively, at the very least 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.360 you can do, you don't have to support anything. This 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.800 is just acknowledgement. And I thought Preston Wilson did a 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:30.800 nice job there, very. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.000 Much what you It was interesting too because I read 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.240 I read the article like right when it dropped, and 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.680 the article an article made it seem like that the 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.840 Rays gave a choice by. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.160 The way in this that they gave it choice and. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.520 Those specific players like Jeffrey Springs and them decided to 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.360 take the patch off. Not that it was like they 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.200 were blah blah blah, But then it turned into a 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.480 messy situation because it's like, it's just a it's just 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.320 an acknowledgment on the uniform to go to go that 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.560 far to you know, whether it was ripped off or 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.200 whether they had a choice and they took it off 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.000 when other players were doing it. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.840 It's kind of a it's kind of an old boy move. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.840 It wild, yeah, and it's not a lifestyle choice. You 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.520 don't wake up and go you know what I'm gonna do. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:13.960 I'm gonna go do that like im Look, this is 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.440 not a political show. I'm just saying like literally, you know, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.120 I am positive that I have worked here in other 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.400 places and I came from the world of the theater 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:28.680 where once again it is certainly more present or openly present. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.960 And I just think this is again it's it's not 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.640 a matter of choice, it's a matter of Hey, you know, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.240 teams do a lot of different things, supporting a lot 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.760 of different causes and a lot of different acknowledgments. This 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.840 is an acknowledgement. So good on Preston Wilson doing that. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.720 And that's that's enough about that. Let's do some trivia here. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.320 We were talking a little before about the closer for 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.880 the Orioles. So who was the last Oriole to be 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.080 named American League Rookie of the Year. You've got an 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.120 answer for that trivia question, go ahead, drop it in 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:53.800 the chat here. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:55.840 Is is it recent? 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.160 It is not recent, but it is in my lifetime, 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.640 I believe in your lifetime as well, So. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.520 A reason a little bit, all right? 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.000 It is a name that. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.760 If you collected baseball cards you certainly should know. I would, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.800 I would tell you this one. He definitely had some 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.760 uh some cards that were memorable. I would say, at 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.640 least for my youth, they were rated. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:19.639 He had to be in there. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:26.240 I'm pretty it was something like this. Maybe no that, okay, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:27.880 not the bat it wasn't. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.560 The bat and it wasn't Eddie Murray either. Good guest there. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.520 All right, let's see her go next. Uh for the 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.560 uh this day in baseball history in nineteen ninety, Cecil 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.000