WEBVTT - Leading Off August 12th, 2024 (Ep. 884) 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.920 What's up friends, Then Happy Monday to you all. It 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.520 is leading Off right here on Fantasy Pros. I'm the Welsh, 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 that is the Joe Arico, Joe Rico ninety nine on 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.040 the Twitter, and it's all of you. Hopefully you guys 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.640 had a fantastic weekend. Lots of baseball to break down, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.000 lots of stuff and things. As we would say in 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.280 the ITL world, we're happy to do it and we're 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.120 happy that you guys are here with us. Whether you're 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.000 hanging in the live stream Fantasy Pro YouTube, I keep 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.800 doing the Fantasy Pros thing in front. I need a 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.080 Fantasy Pro short length so I stop screwing this up 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.760 YouTube dot com, slash Fantasy Pros MLB. 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It's very fun time always that is trippy. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.480 Yeah, I feel like I'm I'm slowly putting myself into 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.080 like I've done shows like Bubba, I've probably done hundreds 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.120 of shows with and you know, I'm collecting. I'm like 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.240 the like Thanos. I'm just collecting my infinity gauntlets of 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.639 five to six people that I've done a massive amount 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.360 of shows with all Right, we got a lot to 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.080 talk about. Like I said, we have that little betting 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.760 side to it. We're also going to be talking about 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.240 zeb I know people are already in the chat talking 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.920 about ZEBI. We're absolutely going to talk about him. But 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.440 let's jump into it because we have two big returns. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:14.239 One happened yesterday, one is happening today. Julio Rodriguez is back. Unfortunately, 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.920 the Julio Rodriguez that left us is the one that 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.600 also came back. We did not get a new version. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.359 We need a multiverse variant. He came back zero for 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.000 five with five strikeouts. So let's talk about Julio for 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.640 one second. I don't think there's an application to the 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.400 rest of this season unless he completely fell off. But 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.240 where how far do you think Julio's going to fall 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.200 off into next year? I mean, and is there any 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.120 concern for the rest of this season. It's one game back, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.320 but it had just been a really poorish season for Julio. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.120 But now he's got new weapons. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.480 It feels like it's probably going to be more of 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.799 the same of what we've seen going forward. Like I'm 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.160 not writing him off for future seasons at all, I 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.440 think he's still probably going to be a top twenty 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.600 to twenty five pick, because even in down year, it's 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.040 gonna be like seventeen or eighteen home runs, twenty five steals, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.960 the average is still pretty good. But he's definitely not 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.720 gonna be in that first overall pick conversation like he 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.880 was this year. I mean, Akunya was going first, but 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.200 Julio was second pretty regularly. I don't think he's on 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.000 that same exact level. The team around him, the ballpark 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.200 makes it really hard to get by now. At the 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.240 same time, he went thirty two and thirty seven last year. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:25.800 I think this is probably just a down year, but 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.960 it's hard to not, you know, be a little bit 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.840 more down on Julio than you would have been. But 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.600 rest of season, I don't have high expectations. I really don't. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.440 I think he's gonna be fine. He'll be pretty good. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.800 He won't be droppable or anything, but he's not gonna 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.200 be that first round player we were hoping for. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:39.800 I don't think. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.680 Yeah, he had one really good month he had the 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.880 where to go was that July before being out he 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.800 hit three seventy five, but he had had a couple 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.880 months right around two hundred, right under two sixty. There 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.640 wasn't a whole lot of like reverse split luck or 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.640 anything like that. He actually had a higher babbage this 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.200 year than he had last year. I think any point 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.920 in his career is like a three forty five babbob. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.200 So that takes away maybe some of that luck factor 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.840 in that's attached to a lower hard hit rate, a 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.440 higher strikeout rate, a lower barrel. I mean, so it 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.880 was all just kind of down. I'm not sure if 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.600 it's anything equitable that, like he is going to be 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.680 nothing or anything like that. But I do think he's 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.320 gonna fall to the second round next year. I think 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.960 that's a very high probability unless he comes out really 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.960 really tough. Lee actually brought up see this is where 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.880 I think things get tricky. Week nineteen Julio or Nemo. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.200 I'm probably throwing Julio back in, even though we have 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.200 this one game which is like old golden sombrero of things. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.839 But like all his new weapons are there. You know, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.000 you do have Randy hitting near the top of the lineup, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.360 You've got Roblest. It's you know, really been amazing. And 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.840 now he's with those pieces, and you've got Justin Turner, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.440 who I think got banged up. But like, I'm still 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.719 gonna roll with Julio, but I'm open to the opportunity 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.720 of the possibility that we might be in a space 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.720 where you have to, like, Julio might not be a 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.680 must start every single week if you're doing weeklies and 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.400 stuff like that. And I don't think he'll be a 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.839 first round or even off of like projecting fun you know, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.320 like we were talking off air, we're not going to 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.039 go crazy into it, But dynasty Julio or Jackson Merrill 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.719 right now, I mean, like you're probably still going Julio, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.360 But I wouldn't blame anybody that was, like, hey, I'm 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.480 getting Jackson Merrill in a little plus if they traded 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.680 away Hulio, I think you're trading upside. But you know, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.000 I think that's a legitimate question you can ask. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.000 It definitely is I think, like you said, in terms 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.880 of upside, Julio has shown that he can be a 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.640 number one type of player, a top five player. Merril's 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.600 probably going to be a top fifty player this season, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.800 but it feels like he's kind of maxing out what 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.359 he can do with his profile, where Julio is obviously 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.120 a down season, so it would be like a classic 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.040 by low cell High. If I had Julio in a 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.280 Dynasty league and I was offered Merrill, I don't think 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:44.880 I'd be able to do that straight up. But if 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.200 I had Marril and I was offered Julio, I think 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.000 I'm taking Julio. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.520 Yeah, to your point, like Merrill is like at the 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.440 tippy top, and his stats almost look like this version 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.880 of Julio. Julio's like eleven homers, eighteen stolen bases. Jackson 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.240 seventeen homers, thirteen stolen bases. And you know, Julio's having 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.960 like an a blatantly down year that we think can improve. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.320 Because also the things that are down, they're not down 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.600 to a point where we're like, holy crap, this is bad. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.000 It's like a three percent barrel drop. That is, all 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.000 of these are big enough for us to be concerned, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.160 but it's not like, oh, he can never you know, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.640 he can never return to form or anything like that. Again, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.120 also on the other side of it, we don't need 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.359 we don't have like a big breakdown to this, but 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.440 Mookie Bets is returning today being activated. Thank you to 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.560 multiple of my leagues. We did hear though, this is 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.719 so stupid. They were like, hey, yo, he's coming back 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.559 as a shortstop. And then they're like, no, Dave Roberts 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.560 actually is coming back as a right fielder, so apparently 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.120 he's not going to play in the infield, and they're 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.239 gonna use this cavalcade of just like you know, whenever 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.280 Taylor's back and Edmund gets back and you've got Rosario 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.120 and just whatever pieces they're putting together, they're gonna throw 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.599 in the middle infield and he's going to go and 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.240 take over right field again, no application except throw your 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.200 Mookie Bets back out there and feel great about it. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.480 Right, Yeah, absolutely. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.440 And the thing with the outfield, like he hadn't played 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.039 in the outfield this year, he was going to lose 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.080 that eligibility. So now we're gonna still have Mookie Bets 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.680 with outfield, with short stop and with second base heading 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.640 in the next season. So I'll take it wherever he's 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.200 playing on the field. You know, there's a bunch of 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.240 leagues where I have Mookie. They can put him behind 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.600 the plate for all I care, as long as he's 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:19.280 back out there. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.600 That's all that matters to me. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.320 Oh, back, back back. Let's talk about mister Corbin Carroll, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.920 who homered for the second consecutive game on Sunday as 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.280 the Diamondbacks beat up on the Phillies twelve to five. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.040 A little bit. I guess more on that later. But 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.800 Corbin Carrol, oh, Joe, you talk to me about it, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.520 because I don't know what to do. His batting average 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.680 still stinks. It stinks to high heaven. He has not 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.520 been able to pair any of these like really great 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.600 months together either. He doesn't have a month he has 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.679 I'm looking here, roughly a thirty to fifty point batting 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.600 average swing each month, and he has never hit over 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.440 two sixty on a given month this season. He is 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.800 up to two fifty seven right now in August, and 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:04.000 and this is his second consecutive the multi home run month. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.880 He actually has nine homers since July. First thoughts on 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.560 Corman Carroll, How about this Corbyn Carroll or who the 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:11.400 arrest of season? 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.880 Based on the trajectories and the lineups and everything, I'd 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.920 probably go with Corbyn Carroll. He's looked really solid. Like like 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.520 you said, the batting average is still bad, but six 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.640 home runs six to dolen bases in July is really 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.880 good as a whole. Eleven homers, twenty one steals, Like 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.960 it's obviously not what you were wanting, but it's almost 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.840 like a trade turner type of thing from last season. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.360 You know, he's picked it up and he's been not 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.040 hot to that same degree, but he's fully turned his 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.800 season around to the point where Corbin actually might get 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.600 back into the first round next season. That'll be an 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.400 interesting one. He might sneak into the back end. Like 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.160 let's say he keeps this pace up, finishes with twenty homers, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.400 thirty steals, gets the average up to like two forty 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.440 or something. If he stays really hot, I think it's 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.240 a conversation at the turn at the one two turn. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.200 Ah eh, even me Corby Garol guy, I don't think so. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.360 I don't think he's I think people will there might 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.839 be the temptation for the second round. I think he's 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.600 the third round guy. I actually think that like back 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.280 in second to third round could be just littered with 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.160 players that were speculating on that for bounce backs, like 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.600 the Julios could be in there. I think Corman Carroll, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.000 like if he's gonna it's gonna be really tough for 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.000 him to hit over two thirty the rest of the way. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.200 He's gonna have to hit like I don't know what 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.800 the math would be, but whatever three hundred, let's say 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.960 for the rest of this month, the next month, and 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.360 that could probably get him over two thirty. And you're 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.360 still gonna be looking at a guy that hit two 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.560 thirty with twenty thirty. I don't know, Like the stolen 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.719 bases might be tempting. Maybe it is a back half 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.400 of the second round, but I think it's gonna be 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.720 more likely third round. But Gorman, Corman, Carroll continuing the 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.720 heat up process, and you know, I was super anti this, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.839 but it ended up working out. Merril Kelly was in 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.000 that win. He only allowed two runs three hits over 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.760 five innings and he ended up getting four swing and 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.240 missus eighty five pitches. That was a twenty eight percent 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.520 CSW percentage. And he looked good against Philly. And he's 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.160 got Tampa Bay coming up, so they Meryl Kelly is 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.680 probably right back in the good graces of being able 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:04.320 to start Joe. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.000 Oh yeah, especially with the Tampa coming up. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.960 If you're still seeing him available I'm not sure how 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.760 available he would be, but I'd happily pick him up there. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.720 He's really been one of the more underrated pitchers throughout 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.560 the last couple of seasons three thirty seven, three twenty 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.360 ninety ras in each of the past two years. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.640 I personally wasn't. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.840 Really believing in it, but it's been long enough at 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.160 this point where you kind of have to buy into 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.240 to Meryl Kelly, especially with that matchup, pick him up 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:25.600 if you can. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.079 Also, like Homer is in the side with my hat 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.040 and everything like that. With the Diamondbacks, like all they're 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.120 doing is just winning. Like they're scoring runs, they're winning games, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.040 they're coming back, They've got depth in the bullpen, which 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.559 is still a little bit dicey. And you had a 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.840 Wardo and you had Marl both come back and be solid. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.480 So at this point, every Diamondbacks starter he is at 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.640 worst streamable, at worse even Ryan Nelson, who's about to 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.360 get kicked out. What do we say? On Friday, me 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.000 and Bubba were talking. I said, hey, I mean Kittel 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.599 didn't even play in the game. He pinch hit, so 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.880 I'd screwed the bet. But I said, hey, Ryan Nelson 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.240 had struck out seven in three of his last nine, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.480 and he had a couple of nine strikeout games. Bam 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.920 goes and strikes out nine more. In that every Diamondback 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 is streamable because of how hot this offense is and 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.120 how well the defense is playing behind it. You get 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.120 guys like Adrian del Castillo, who I think you guys 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.120 in two catcher leagues. I think I mentioned this last week, 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.040 but you should be looking to pick him up. Probably 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.680 gonna be a lot tougher now because that bat is 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.800 hot and the Diamondbacks are rolling, and that's a big positive. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.559 Also on the rolling side, we talked about him off 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.560 of that first start Jeffrey Springs. He allowed one run, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.160 struck out eight Oriols across five innings in a two 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.160 to one win. Look at that for Jeffrey Springs on 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.720 the underlying numbers A sixty seven. This is the Jeffrey 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.960 Springs that I remember. Sixty seven percent whiff rate on 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.840 his change up again, I mean oriols, all right, Orioles, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.800 you know, maybe off speed stuff. He had six whiffs 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.439 on twenty three swings on the fastball, ten of fifteen 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.240 swings induced whiffs. That's an absurd with rate sixty seven 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.560 percent and a sixty seven percent on the sweeper. He 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.440 ended the game forty two percent with rate, so dudes 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.240 are just whip right through it. He also did a 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.200 really good job at throwing his fastball in the zone 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:16.040 and the keeping his secondaries out he actually induced. This 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.400 is wild. There were eight foul tips, only four of 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.800 them were on off speed. Everybody else has just whiffing 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.960 on it. So Jeffrey Springs looked really, really good and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.439 is now back in the circle of trust. Correct. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.319 Oh yeah, yeah, very absolutely, Like I was really bought 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.240 in even after he kind of stunk up the joint 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.240 in those first couple of starts. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.800 I was locked into some weekly leagues. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.440 So that Baltimore start and I was thinking, oh my god, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.240 this is going to be ugly. But he turned it 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.679 around like we were hoping he would before he went 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.680 down last year. This is a guy who was showing 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.400 signs of being one of the better pitchers in all 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:48.960 of baseball. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:49.760 It was going to take some. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.480 Time to get back into the swing of things, but 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.840 over the final six weeks or whatever we have left here, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.520 I trust him immensely, and going into next season, I 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.920 am going to be all over Springs, hoping that price 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.520 doesn't get too too high. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.560 But I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:04.480 what he brings to the table. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.120 I don't know if it'll get too high, but if 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.320 he rattles off a couple more of these five and 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.559 strikes out eight, it's gonna get to the point where 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.240 we're like, oh, it's not gonna be free. Like I 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.000 think the ceiling for Springs is gonna be something around 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.040 like SP thirty five next year. I really think it'll 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.920 be tough for him to break the top thirty just 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.920 with all that misstime. But I don't think it's out 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.760 of pocket. Like this is an interesting one. Like Finway said, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.320 drop crochet right now for Springs. I don't know if 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.160 I could do that, But that's the territory that you're 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.280 getting in with. Like when Springs is on, like he rolls, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.480 he rolls. He just doesn't have a great fastball, and 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.440 he sets it up with secondary so teams that eat 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.240 up secondary pitches are going to go. I think Springs, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.280 like I said, is capped right outside the top thirty 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.120 at best for next season, and hopefully it's even cheaper. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.560 Right in terms of the price, absolutely, I could see 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.800 him finishing top fifteen or twenty if things break right 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.679 for him. Though the Crochet one is interesting. With what 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.320 we've seen as of late, you wouldn't do that. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:04.720 I feel like I might. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.800 It's just like, I don't know. It was one start, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.160 like one start that really imploded right now, I'm like 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.160 in a ten team league maybe, but like you just 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.280 have to remember like Crochet also was like the leader 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.040 pitching war leader in the first half, leader in strikeouts, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.840 like he was the most dominant. Yes, back half, he 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.760 might be wearing down. Yes, there could be some rifty 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.440 type of things that are happening with the White Sox. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.800 There's no run support. That's why I said ultimate SLF. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.240 I'd moved him down. I was as soon as he 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.240 wasn't getting traded, or as soon as he put out 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.720 the like I'm not gonna play for a playoff team 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.480 without an extension. Down. We were down, down, down, But 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.040 to the point where we're just dropping him, I don't know. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.280 I will say this, if you were to drop him, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.400 Jeffrey Springs is the type of player that you would want. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.280 This is who you would do it. I don't think 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.000 I would advocate for dropping Crochet. At this point. But 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.440 maybe he's just going to rattle off a bunch of 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:58.960 poop starts the rest of the way. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.200 I just the way they're using him. He hasn't gone 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.400 more than five innings in like a month. I really 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.400 worry he's not gonna get wins. He wasn't gonna get 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.960 wins regardless in Chicago, But I do worry about what, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.600 like we might keep you getting to the point of 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.720 a total shutdown. I don't know if they're gonna just 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.520 keep throwing him out there for three innings. Does it 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.800 make sense with the team that's got what twenty seven 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.520 wins this year? Does it make sense to keep throwing 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.360 him out there in September when they're playing for nothing. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.920 They're probably gonna trade him in the off season. I 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.640 worry about his value. I was a huge fan of Crochet, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.880 but you know, to your point, you gotta move him 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.920 way on down if you still I mean, if I'm 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.160 still seeing springs out there in a ten team league, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:33.840 I feel like I do it. If it's like a deep, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.840 twelve fifteen team league, I don't think I would cut 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.040 Crochet yet, but shallow league players, it's a it's a 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.320 tough conversation for sure. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.440 Well, it's actually interesting about what you said, Like if 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.840 you're in like a deeper twelve team league and Springs 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.240 is out there and there's not a lot else out there, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.600 like that actually kind of makes it tough because I 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.240 was gonna argue that with Crochet. If you're in a 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.240 ten team league with you know, the Merril's and the 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.560 Jeffrey Springs and I don't know Ben Lively so whatever, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.440 Like there's like cool stuff sitting out the wire that 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.840 you could stream. You might be better streaming with all 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.120 those options than going down this road with Crochet where 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.200 you could dump him and then you're just kind of 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.240 in a tough spot if it's a deeper league, Like 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.480 if you let out, someone's going to pick him up. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.960 I don't know. I tend to not want to be 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.120 like he's completely done, But Springs is a type of 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.720 guy that I would pick up. Another guy you might 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.960 want to look at DL Hall. This was one of 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.280 Joe's favorites. Joe Pisapia was finally activated and he fanned 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.200 nine well, allowing three runs and four and two thirds 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.520 against the Reds. They even pushed him up to ninety 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.080 two pitches. So pretty solid for DL Hall. He's going 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.400 to be a strikeout option against the reds Now. Let's 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.600 talk about some rookie Lookie, here, two rookie pieces I 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.080 have for you. One's good, ones bad. Zebbie Matthews, one 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.240 of the highest risers this year, is definitely a player 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.080 you're going to want to look to stream the Twins. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.360 They are calling him up. He's a twenty four year 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.040 old who was in High A dominated, then went to 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.080 Double A dominated and one of the biggest things to 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.479 take away not is just his stuff where he can 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.160 push it up to ninety eight fastball, got a really 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.320 good slider and cutter. He has some of the best 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.640 strikeout to walk numbers. It's George Kirby esque in the minors. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.400 He has struck out one hundred and fourteen batters while 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:26.080 walking only seven. He has walked seven this entire year. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.560 I could be wrong, but I want to say it's 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.720 like one start. Maybe it's no starts or one start 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.040 of multi walks. He just doesn't He is a great 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.399 command pitcher. The big fastball has been deuced. It's a 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.400 five pitch mix inducing a bunch of strikeouts, and we've 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.600 i'n't found on following him all year long. It's kind 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.280 of one of those pop up guys. There were a 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.960 couple of those older where you looked at them and 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.399