WEBVTT - Leading Off, June 20th 2024 (EP. 844) 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.959 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This of course 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.200 is leading off brought to you. I bet three six, five, 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.080 bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifty bonus bets 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.320 when you do It's be Joey p that's the Welsh. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.800 What an incredible intro. It makes me smile every single 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.200 time Fantasy Baseball through the night and every afternoon right 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.560 here on the channel Welsh. I've seen it, I don't 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.120 know about fifty times now and in the words of 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:31.120 Michael Keaton, it keeps getting better every time I see it. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.280 It's it is the catchiest song. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.880 AI is evil for it and it is a great cut. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.280 But we do have to figure out to figure out 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:41.920 like maybe a day that we played it, we do 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:42.600 it too much. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.400 I think I think it's gonna get hated. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.040 No, no, be sure why nobody know what we do 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.239 is we run it this season and think next year 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.040 we do a refresh. You know. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.920 I feel like we're gonna have to do multi now 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.160 here's the deal, or maybe a new song, like maybe every. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:59.360 Year the tone the show changes. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.640 We're gonna be like a Game of Thrones one where 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.760 it's like off and then you a crown on and yeah, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.119 we'll do something like we'll have to have versions TV show. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.679 I think that's fantastic. All right, let's get to the news. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.320 Let's start with Garrett Cole. Four innings, four innings, yay. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.600 He returned to the Yankees on Wednesday. I don't know 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.520 if you would say he's like the best Garret Cole performance. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.039 The Orioles, you know, are certainly a team that is 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.800 as a real, real good lineup in Baltimore, that's for sure. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.840 Sixty two pitches in this one, So Welsh, what'd you 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.880 take out of your boys? First? Start back with the 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.920 New York Yankees. Garrett Cole on the mound, how you 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:40.400 do it? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.160 It was okay he started. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.000 I thought you started off pretty timid, you know, leaving 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.680 the ball in the zone a little bit. It didn't 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.360 look like swinging miss stuff. The mix didn't feel great. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.400 He got hit a little bit. Then he obviously picked 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.120 it up. I believe it was a third inning. He 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:56.880 struck out the side and then he you know, he 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.520 ended pretty strong, healing and went around sixtiest pitches year 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.200 over year. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.480 Stuff. Here is the info. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.600 Bastball was down around a mile and a half over 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.160 last year. He was averaging ninety six. He was around 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.119 ninety seven. In this one. He did I'm sorry ninety five. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.160 In this one he hit ninety seven and a half. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.240 The cutter was down about a mile per hour, the 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.200 slider was down a mile per hour. Those are significant enough. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.639 Maybe it's rust, it's still working into it. They also 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.920 tapered back the innings, which I don't think a lot. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:27.640 Of us expected. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.480 So I would if I were grading this, I would 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.440 probably give this like a. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.840 C plus B minus. This is a B minus type. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.280 Started this AC plus. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:38.880 Well, I was gonna maybe give it a C plus. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.839 But like you know, he had that really strong ending 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.280 on the strikeouts. He didn't get blown up or anything 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.320 like that. He just didn't go deep. Stuff was down 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.280 a little bit. Definitely something to monitor as me the 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.600 resident Garrett Cole supporter here and ranking him as high 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.360 as I do and just kind of jumping back in. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.440 You want to see him stack and build back on this. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.680 So next start's going to be very important to pay 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.679 attention to. You know, where's the v loo at? 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.560 How many innings does he go? But I don't know. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.880 I think Garrett Cole fan should feel pretty solid. It 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.680 just doesn't feel like the time if you're gonna take 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.960 Joe's side in trade, it wasn't out. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.959 Oh no, that time has passed. That was in the 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.280 big striking performance in the minor league thing where it's 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.320 all again, it's sunshine and roses and the minor league 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.360 rehab starts because he's inferior competition, limitation of the innings, 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.919 just working his way back. I'm not worried about Garret 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.640 Cole in two weeks. I'm worried about Garret Cole in 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.560 six weeks. That's where my worry comes out. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:32.920 And that's why. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.760 And my worry is Kyle Bradish. It's the exact same 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.240 pattern basically we have with Bradish. Similar kind of issues 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.600 comes back for a little while. Everything's fine. No it's 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.160 not Jacob de Gram everything's fine. No, it's not. And 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.920 I don't want it to be the Vlo being down 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:50.200 not great. That's not what you want to see. How 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.280 the first start. It's funny because I would have thought 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.640 with the adrenaline pumping it would have been higher yesterday, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.440 like you know, first came back, maybe you know, trying 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.240 a little bit too much like the body, you know, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.920 kind of going through that to me was odd. That's 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.520 the only thing I'm going to say about it. And 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.640 then I am a Gary Cole fan. I like Geric Cole. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.320 I am rooting for Garrick Cole. I do not want 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.760 him to get hurt. I'm just saying I'm here for fantasy. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.360 That's what I'm here for. Just like his peak values 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:16.960 past already. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.760 Now, I don't I completely disagree with that. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:24.200 I think of his time, the peak period that we 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.520 live in currently in this timeline was after that ten 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.599 strikeout performance in the minor leagues. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.760 But the biggest moment of. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.680 Trade value has not happened yet, and it will happen 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:37.880 once he gets to five or six innings. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.920 If that, you know, here would be the thing. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.120 If he starts to get five or six innings, strikeouts 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.240 are there, but that velo kind of keeps going down, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.320 that's going to be a warning sign a little bit more. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.520 But I'm telling you right now, his peak trade value 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.239 has not happened yet. It's just in our current time 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:52.760 that has passed. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.719 So our listeners messaged me on the on the Twitter 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.839 machine and he was like, what about Tanaka? And I 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.320 was like, yeah, Tanaka was a guy that not to 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.120 go with the surgery and stuff like that. But also 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.040 Tanako is never the same picture he was from Japan 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.599 or that first spurt with the Yankees where he was 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.240 dominated after never again beat fouts. Holy moly, how much 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.040 of your budget did you have to allocate to get 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.400 that bit of artistic magistry? None? None. Welsh put it 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.440 in the AI machine, and then our good friend Michael 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.880 Kelly here, our amazing producer, put it together like that 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.839 was his weekend fun project. So I think the hardest 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.000 thing was finding the full house font. And again, if 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.000 I'm wondering what are we talking about, go to the 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.080 YouTube channel. If you just listen and watch the video. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.279 I got that song made in thirty seconds, that entire 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.039 song with all its lyrics. I used three prompts and 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.640 I got that song. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.160 And we got the peanuts and cracker jacks in there too, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.520 which I was very happy. That made my heart smile, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.640 because this is your show, everybody. Bobby Miller. Five runs, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.919 two strikeouts, six and the third innings. Now, look, it 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.120 was against Colorado, WA and Colorado, so I think that's 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.600 the only thing. So we can't get too ben out 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.480 of shape about this. It was good that he was there. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.919 Good that he was back six and the third innings. Okay, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.200 you don't love the run total, okay, Welsh. Any thoughts 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.640 on Bobby Miller's return yesterday. Lots of turning pictures. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.960 Here, like it was just good, you know, love and 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.240 lost and it was just nice and he showed up 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:14.320 and well, but. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.159 I mean, look, the positive is you got Bobby Miller back. Yeah. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.120 The negative I know there's somebody a manager in my 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.039 home league who's got Bobby Miller and Garrett Cole. So 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.920 she was very happy, like, yeah, I get all my 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.279 pictures back on the same day. But boo, because neither 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:29.840 of the outings really were exciting. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.800 Yeah, we kind of said, like in Colorado wasn't great, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.720 so Velo down just to tick about half a mile. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.840 Prower in this one. Slider was down as well. Sometimes 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.280 we had Colorado based things on like spin and just effectiveness, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.640 so that you know, that could have definitely played a 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.120 role in but over a Milt Prower down on the slider. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.919 As far as his stuff goes, though, he got he 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.520 did have eight wisths in this game, but every single 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.640 one was only off at the change up, so he 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.360 was not doing anything. The fastball really wasn't in the zone, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.960 was around fifty percent zone rate. The curveball did nothing. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.799 He didn't really throw a whole lot of sliders either. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.359 It was literally everything off of the change up. So 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.360 I think it's something good to work off of. He 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.320 did hit ninety nine in this but sat ninety seven 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.720 and a half. Give me out of Colorado to see 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.200 where it is. Yeah, again, I would say this is 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.080 probably like a B. This is like a B performance. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.600 Ninety seven. Yeah, that's good. We're happy with that. No else, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.000 I'm happy about hitting Royce lewis eighth home run. Why 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.840 am I just not picking Royce Lewis every day? What's 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.320 wrong with me? I just go right to the. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.560 See He said that because he had like an zero 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.360 for four day and then he told his manager. He 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.880 was like, I don't believe in those slumps. He's like, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.400 I don't believe in falling into some slumps, so don't worry, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.880 and like, so the guy just doesn't stack hitless days 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.480 on top of itself. But yeah, Royce Lewis, right, Risslewis 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.440 might have forty homers and have missed you know, the 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:53.880 first two months practically. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.240 Yeah. Also, Bryce Harper launching two solo shots yesterday. I'm 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.360 mad because I picked Harper two days ago. I was 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.280 gonna yesterday. Yesterday, Yeah, yesterday, get too. So I'm a 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.320 little annoyed. He almost said, Justin Bieber because I was 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.800 talking about him with my daughters two seconds ago. Really, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.920 Tanner Byby, I saw the b Biber to me, Uh 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.040 Tanner Bieber. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.000 Bay Bee Bay baby bay baby. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:21.760 Uh So Tanner Tanner Bieber shrink out twelve batters in 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.280 six innings. Tremendous star from him. Josh Naylor in that 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.960 same game three for four with two dingers. Some other 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.240 big strikeout performances too, Garret Crochet another eight k's and 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:35.520 six and Hunter Green nine strikeouts, nine in six and 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.720 the third shutout inning. So all of a sudden, the 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.000 Reds have this Hunter Green Nicolodolo top of the rotation 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.600 that we've been waiting for, which seems like I don't 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.640 know forever, but it's probably only been two years, but 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.800 it seems like forever. And man, I just keep looking 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.720 at that Red's team. They get Marte back soon. I 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.360 think I get McClean back at any point in the 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.960 next two months. Like that's the other question too. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.480 I feels said very vague. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.199 He's gonna start I don't know if they said he's 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.640 gonna start running or start getting into games in August. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.520 Nah. Now he's just I don't think he's going to be. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.240 Very much of anything fantasy relevant this year. But to 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.360 your point, maybe into the plants. Also like a Frankie Monta, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.480 so they've got actually a pretty decent three. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:14.160 You would just love that. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.720 Monta is bad. He's a little bit. He's like ball 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:17.199 or nothing. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.720 Give me, give me like a innings eating ground, like 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:21.280 really solid. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.960 Like Kyle Hendrick, who also a big strikeout game. I 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.520 didn't put in the show sheet because well it's Kyle Hendrix. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.520 But Razor get very excited about the about the Reds. Uh, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.720 just for fun. Zach Geloff again continuing home run streak. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.920 Another home run against the Royals yesterday. Sean Murphy four 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.920 for four with two dingers. That was fun. Randy Rose Arena, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.120 what a weird fun day for him. Had a single, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.680 a double, a walk, hit by a pitch, scored a run, 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.200 stole a base. That's a full day, Like, that's a 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.880 full day of baseball activities. That's baseball activities everybody and 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.679 Brandon fought logged another quality start yesterday too, So that's 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:57.640 that didn't get the win. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.560 It's kind of lost, but still at Homer to Jessica, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.640 that's okay because Jackson Merrill hit another home run. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.400 Rookie, lookie time, another dinger for Jackson Merrill. What is 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.240 happening here? Welsh? Unbelievable for this guy. Like he is 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:13.319 red hot right now. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.440 I told you just don't be too dismissive yet of 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.920 the rookie of the year floating away from him. I'm 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.600 listening super low ks. He is hitting two seventy nine. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.160 He has a better expected batting average than he is 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.439 currently putting out there. His barrel rates climbing, his hard 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.040 hit rate is climbing, double digit percentage launching, all degree launching, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.400 all three of those. These are solid numbers for really 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.040 good contact rate for a guy that does not strike out. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.840 He's tough to beat man. You're not getting fastballs by him. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.720 He's hitting three thirty one against fastballs. Jackson Merrill, like 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.400 I said, he might drop a twenty twenty season on 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.920 us when it's all said and done, and it's gonna 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.640 be tough if imon agil Like continues. You know, pitching 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.400 how he is or Schemes keeps skiming, But Jackson Merril 0:10:58.440 --> 0:10:59.000 will be in that. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.000 He'll be in that race. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.720 Also called up Tyler Black is back back in Black 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.480 for the Brewers. So there you go. We'll call up there. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.360 But that's not the only rookies we're talking about, because 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.000 it's Thursday, and you know what that means. It's time 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.040 for prospect and with the Welsh, with Chris Welsh, who 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.760 knows a thing or two about prospects. So Welsh, who 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.240 are the prospects down on the farm that y'all won't 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:23.200 talk about today. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.199 Well, we won't be talking about a Rovas Martinez because 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.679 he was called up right. He's up in the mat 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.079 and not playing by the way I think this, So 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:31.240 they're gonna play him this weekend. 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.400 They didn't like the matchup, so that's a great start. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.560 That's really exciting. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.600 No, we're not. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.920 Gonna target James Wood yet, but Dylan Cruz has been 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.080 called up to Triple A to join him, so that 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.920 outfield is incredible. We'll see when we get the hashtag 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.240 free James Wood in the near future, but it is 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:49.800 not today. 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.040 So here are some thoughts. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.840 One of the most prolific young hitters so far in 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.559 the minor leagues has not been somebody that anyone has 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.320 you would expect if I'm like, hey, who were the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.120 top guys, You're probably gonna rattle off everybody, but this 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.120 guy's name because he was once a diamondback, then a 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.480 guardian back to a diamondback, and he's now in Triple A. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.200 Davis and Dela Santos, who we've talked about a few 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:11.880 different times. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.040 Here's truly interesting. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.360 Dela Santo's, originally a third baseman, has done some first 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.280 was playing some outfield, destroying the minor leagues. Well, things 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.600 might be changing. He had not been playing third base 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.760 at all this year, but in Triple A. He now 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.760 has six games logged at third base in Triple A, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.200 and that is important because the Diamondbacks are kind of 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:37.000 out on Johannio Suarez. They are looking at me. Yeah, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.400 Local is kind of getting ready with him. And then 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.199 what else happened? Jordan Lawla got hurt again. He was 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.559 working at third base. So this might be the opening, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.840 especially with Dela Santo's, because of his bat over the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.040 last thirty days, he's hitting three h nine six homers. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.719 He's got nine doubles, he's cut down the strikeout rate 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.240 a men's crazy power. I really think they're setting themselves 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.800 up that maybe Dela Santo's can be there. Swore as 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.719 he doesn't have the defensive prowess, but they probably want 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:04.680 to get that bat. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:05.079 In the lineup. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.280 So with him at Triple A, with the Diamondbacks playing 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.200 him in Triple A at third base, and Johnio Suarez 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.640 probably a couple of weeks away from probably getting it 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.840 designated for assignment, I think we can see de la 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.440 Santos soon and he could play in a couple different spots. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.920 So you're looking for big, big power in at Diamondbacks 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.439 lineup in a big offensive lineup where there's going to 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:25.839 be you know, runners in front. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.440 That might be the guy and they could use that. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:28.960 They could use that thump of the milliy order. Look, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.960 if they signed Suarez, they brought him in there to 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.160 be that. You know, they knew where they were getting 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.160 guy who's gonna go a low batting average, gives him pop. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.000 But like it just hasn't worked out. And I picked 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.480 up del Santo's weeks ago. In fact, I think when 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.760 you made the first piece here about him on prospesting 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.960 with the Welsh and I went and I watched some 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.640 more tape on him and I was very impressed. And 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.800 then he got bumped up I think not too long 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.679 after that to the triple A level. So I'm all 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:55.880 for it. I think they should bring him up. And 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.840 you're at the Lawler injury really did open things up. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.160 Who else is opening eyes for you down? 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.439 Yeah, And the biggest change is the third base. He's 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:03.640 playing base again. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.400 And I think was like, okay, well maybe we can 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:06.960 move Lawla over there and get him up there. But 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.640 Lala's going to be on for what was a couple 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:10.120 of weeks with the. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.160 Ham sign and then I'll read back to it. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.280 So like him playing third base is kind of the 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.600 big changer. All right, here's a couple of pitchers we 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.080 can take a look at. You guys know of Shane 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.200 Boz So I wanted to bring up Shane. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.760 Bos in this world. Over his last two starts, he's 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:24.640 gone eleven innings. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.760 He went five and then six, struck out eighteen and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.600 only walked three. And here's the big deal, because walks, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.160 they had been kind of a thing for him, but 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.360 he had just won in his last outing. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.920 He was stacking walks across the board. In his last start. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.800 When he took a look behind the scenes, he was 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.720 sitting around ninety six, which you love to see, and 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:49.160 he had fourteen whiffs in that last start. So Shane 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.520 Buzz has been a little bit dicey. I think we're 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.000 on the press of piss. I think he was even 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.600 lined up to be a guy that could pitch like 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.880 today he's not. But I think maybe early next week. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.960 So if you want to stash Shane Boss because he's 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.760 out there, because people are like, what the hell's going on? 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:02.360 You could do that. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.480 Another one who has never reached the majors, and this 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.360 would be hilarious if they do it. Pirates Brandon Ashcraft, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.280 but Welsh, we have Jared Jones, we have Paul Skins. 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.880 You know what, Let's just get the whole set of 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.520 rookies out there, because Ashcraft is in Triple A on 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.760 the year. He's got a three point zero six ERA great, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.880 one point zero six whip awesome, and. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.400 He just got pushed up to Triple A. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.520 He's got two starts under his belt where he's given 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.080 up only six hits one and run struck out eight 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.040 over ten innings. He's got a mid nineties fastball, a 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.680 high eighty slider, which in his last start he had 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.160 a sixty percent whiff rate on that slider, and that 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.560 rotation's kind of jacked up. They don't even have a 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.040 full set of five starters. No one coming out here 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.000 in the near future. I think Ashcraft is a guy 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.120 that could get in that lineup, maybe even at the 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.760 expense of, like, you know, send Jara Jones down for 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.680 two weeks or tapering down, but they've got to get 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.680 some more arms in there, and I think Ashcraft would 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.680 be a great pickup. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:00.440 And then Joe. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.200 The last thing is we're actually seeing Jake bloss double 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.840 a pitcher for the Ashles, get called up today. That 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.800 has been something I brought up multiple times. Who or 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.520 whom are players that could jump from double A. So 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.080 here are two guys that I have written about before, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.920 but we're getting closer. Who could jump from double A 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.560 to the majors here very soon? Someone said it just 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.440 in the chat a second ago. Tampa Bay Rays Carson Williams. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.960 He has the highest WRC plus of any player in 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.080 double A right now. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.240 He's still being held down because it's the Rays. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.520 He's got ten homers fifteen stolen bases while hitting two 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:37.240 eighty nine. 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.720 Was that Caveero has kind of come down a little bit. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.680 Batting average is still there still some bases, but this 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.800 might be a defensive upgrade putting Carson Williams in there, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.440 plus the offense. I think he's a guy they could 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.360 just make that jump to get in the lineup and 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:56.920 then Angels Caden Dana as far as a pitcher, young twenty. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.560 Years another guy you mentioned before. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.240 Yeah, And part of the reason is I think they've 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.239 had him here because they don't want to put him 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.280 in the PCL. PCL can ruin confidence just overall, it's 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.640 a bad thing for pitchers, and in some spaces they 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.760 still haven't moved him up. But guess what he's going Berserko. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.320 He has a two point three to one er twenty 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.760 year old pitcher, two point three one ERA, and he's 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.919 coming off of a seven inning, nine strikeout performance in 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.080 his last start. He's got a point nine to three 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.480 whip and the Angels are putting out Zach Plisk right now. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.760 So I think they've been holding him back on this 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.159 performance because they don't want to put him into the 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.520 environment of triple A. So I really do think looking 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.000 at that rotation what they're putting out there, you might 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.600 just see Dana make the jump here in the near future, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.240 because they do need to make a move. You can't, like, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.520