WEBVTT - Leading Off April 17th, 2025 (Ep. 979) 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.920 What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy Pros m LB. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.200 This is leading off with the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.400 the Welsh. That's me, Joe Rico, that's him. We're coming 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.599 off of a marathon of shows that we did yesterday, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.080 but a lot of good stuff to talk about. Spencer Stryder, breakdowns, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.520 a certain somebody is back in the outfield. We've got bets, 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.160 we got a ton of it. Joe Rico, what's up, buddy? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.560 You're ready to do the fifth show in twenty four 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:31.640 hours that we've done together. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.320 Yeah, man, absolutely, I mean that's kind of regular for 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.479 you on Wednesday, right, I guess just every Wednesday is 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.280 kind of a bit of a marathon for you at 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.080 this point. Although we are going to be moving cleaning 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.040 up to Mondays, I think, but right now Wednesdays every Wednesday. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.479 Save in the surprise, saving the surprise for everybody. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.479 Joe, there you go, idn't I don't know, Yeah, no, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:50.920 I think. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.239 They're still working on it, but yeah, that might be 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.320 uh moving here in the near future. To take a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.480 look out. We got lots of breakdown. No Joey p 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.200 today we weren't able to get him into the studio. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.400 I know people might I've been looking for that, but 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.280 I do have official word. I'm going to be meeting 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.000 up with Joey tomorrow. We might be hitting some dingers, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.800 or theoretical, we might be hoping that we can hit 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.720 some dingers. So get your bets ready. We'll set the 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.840 lines of what Joey and I could possibly do out there. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.280 But let's get into all the stuff and things because 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.840 we got our live people here Twitch dot tv, slash 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.520 Fantasy Pros. If you're listening on the podcast front, make 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.320 sure you guys are coming to check us out live, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.560 hanging out with the Peanuts and cracker Jacks. People are following, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.560 people are subbing, we're giving shout outs, and we're going 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.200 to be talking to a bunch of you guys throughout 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.639 the show. So putting your questions in. We'll be starring 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.000 those getting to them because there's a bunch to talk about. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.520 But make sure if you haven't had the opportunity you 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.640 want to come over on the live with the rest 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.080 of our people watching this bad boy quite a few 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.520 things right at the top. I actually want to throw 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.360 this out here. This isn't like the biggest piece of 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.960 news relating to yesterday. But Brent Rooker is back in 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:03.680 the outfield. This is like the the maul Rats bit 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.960 that kid is back on the escalator. Brent Rooker is 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.359 back in left field. That makes twice this week, three 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.760 times in the last week. And to all the people 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.639 on the very first time he was in the outfield, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.400 I tweeted about it, all the little negative nancies like 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.679 this is the day off, suck it. We have three. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:31.680 We are clearly clearly making room for Nick Kurtz without question. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.560 Two points in the outfield and left field is huge. Joe, 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.959 I'm pretty excited about it. I also like to be 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.840 right occasionally, so Nick Kurtz probably in the very near future, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.280 I said yesterday at one of the shows we did. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.440 I feel like I'm gonna just wake up one morning 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.359 and he will be there and we're gonna have everything set. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:49.880 I don't know what your take is on this, but 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.040 you have to probably agree here that Britt Brooker in 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.560 the outfield is just a foregone conclusion that Nick Kurts 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.160 should be probably within days. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.799 Yeah, I'm not sure what they're waiting on exactly. It's 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.040 like they're doing this every other game thing. On Saturday, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.000 he was in right Sunday DH, Tuesday game, he was 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.360 in left Wednesday DH, and then today he's in left again. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:11.880 So I'm kind of just hoping that they get this 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.440 out of the way. And I don't know why teams 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.079 do this. I don't know if it's a service time thing. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.800 I'm not as locked into that side of it, But 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.880 just getting Nick Kurtz up to the big leagues, I 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.880 think that would mean for the lineup that was that 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.519 g or Schell is probably going to come out of 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.200 it and they're going to do some shuffling that way. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 Well, well if Geo, if he came out of it, though, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.400 then someone would have to go to third base. They 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.240 would probably have. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.240 To, isn't it the thought of Sodashrom going to third base? 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:35.360 Didn't you? Didn't you mention that? 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.920 Yeah, but they haven't even done it. They haven't even 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.160 like he hasn't played a single game at third base. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.560 So well, what's happening right now is Brent Rooker is 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.400 playing in left. That's tangible, So he would go to left, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.520 Kurtz would go to DH, and Sodashrim would play first. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.800 That would be the current outlook. An you are would 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.360 probably and they could shorten strong side platoon. I suppose 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.080 if they want Kurtz and and you are. Now if 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.800 we start seeing sodashrom Go play third, then I think 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.800 that's what it is. I think then I think that 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:04.480 would make sense. But I don't know if they're comfortable. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.840 That's a big change going from you know, catching in 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.680 first for a long time to then trying to like 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.960 full time move to third. That's why I think this 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.600 one's a lot more tangible. And then you're just gonna 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.479 probably have an are making and you are making the 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.880 bench or whatever it is. But Nick Kurts should be 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.279 out soon. This is a good one. Here Whip saying 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.599 homestand that's my birthday. What a great birthday treat wou'd 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.159 be on April twenty second for the home stand for 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.159 the A's Nick Kurtz comes up, we all have a 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.479 wonderful celebration. It would be awesome. So I kind of 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.920 feel like it's gonna be like Saturday. We're gonna wake 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.120 up Saturday and we're gonna get Nick Kurtz out there. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.200 But the most important thing outside of it is just 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.440 that we are getting even more confirmation. First one, everyone 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.880 was like may man, anyone else. Second one he did it, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.480 We're like, okay, he's in the outfield. Third, third, time's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.320 the time. Shame on you. That's what we would do, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:57.200 Brenton Rooker making room for Nick Kurtz. And is this true? 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.240 Let's see. Here's what manager Mark kartz Kotze had to say. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.960 The beauty of the process will be that we're adding 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.720 a bat that can have impact in the lineup. Oh 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.840 did they say it today? I mean, clearly, we all 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.640 know what they're doing. But Nick Kurtz, get your Knick 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.479 Kurt shares in, pick him up. I imagine we'll have 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.440 lots of Nick Kurtz questions on the show. It was 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.520 Spencer Strider Day yesterday. He was welcome back. His first 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.680 at bat was great, struck out Bobaschett, high end side fastball, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:30.000 low outside slider. It was classic stuff. But then everything 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.320 kind of tapered back just a tiny bit. He ended 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.119 up five innings, five hits, five strikeouts, twour and runs 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:40.480 a walk. His fastball had an absolutely absurd thirty swings 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.440 on it. It's going to happen because he's a fastball 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.880 slider guy, that ninety percent of his pitches are going 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.360 to be fastball or slider, but unlike the Spencer Strider, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.120 were used to it, and I had only five whiffs. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.479 So thirty swings, only five whiffs, that's a seventeen percent. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.039 It ended up a seventeen percent whiff rate on the fastball. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.239 The fastball touched ninety eight, but then the velo dipped 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.600 all the way down to ninety three, and we had 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.520 talked about on I think the Discord Show and then 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.080 a little bit on the live stream. It came back up, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.040 but then it came back down around ninety four ish 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.040 in the fifth. So my question would be, what's your takeaway. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.200 Is there anything of you know, tangible worry or excitement 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.320 or by I think you can have a few people 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.400 that are a little like, ooh, Vello is down, and 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.320 maybe there's some type of buy there, But I would 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.840 say all in all, probably had solidly checked the game 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.520 for Spencer Strider. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.720 Yeah, we talked about this a lot yesterday. I didn't 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.240 love the fact that the velocity did kind of dip. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.040 If you go on Baseball Savon and you can search 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.840 in the game feed that if you know your way 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.680 around Baseball Savon, it's pretty easy. You go to the 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.799 pitch velocity section in the game feed. You can search 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.440 by strider and if you look by inning. In the 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.080 first there was ninety six, ninety seven, in the second 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.320 ninety five, and the third you started seeing some pitches 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.320 at ninety four. We even got a fastball at ninety three. So, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.279 like I said yesterday, I'm not really overly concerned his 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.159 first start back. It's going to take him a little 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.120 bit of time to get back in the swing of things. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.159 If we see him the next time out in the 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.240 time after that, sitting ninety four, then I'm going to 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.800 start to be a little bit worried. But for now 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.920 there's there's no real massive concern. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.520 I mean, that's good. Then it's good that you're not there. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.880 I'm not there. I think there was a solid outing. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.720 You kind of would expect with that type of missed 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.960 time that there might maybe be, like, you know, some 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.560 Vilo adjustments. It was nice that he came back with it. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.040 You're pitching in TRIPLEA. He was probably just destroying guys 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.800 with the slider. Every strikeout pitch looked like this or 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.920 the slider. The strider he was throwing, but the slider 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.440 was getting just a bunch of strikeouts. But he already 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.920 after that start moved into like I think it was 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.840 like the fifth or sixth, and the betting odds for 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:49.200 cy Young already, which is absolutely crazy. So I'm in 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.560 on Spencer Strider. Everybody should have like a pretty you know, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.640 a pretty good return as far as like wherever you 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.760 return you drafted him an interesting thing out of this 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.720 as well. Just as one more pick up from what 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.200 we talk about yesterday, Chris Bassett was amazing. He went five, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.160 struck out ten. Are you buying in on Chris Bassett 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.440 now that you've had a little bit of time to 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.400 sit on it. He threw seven different pitches which as 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.080 a total equated to a thirty five percent with rate. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.320 He was getting lefty. I mean, pretty interesting stuff out 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.160 of Bassett. He's at an insane, insane early start. Are 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.560 you selling out a little bit of a boost? Are 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.680 you holding because you think this is going to stick? 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.520 I think if you can sell him and get like 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.600 a real increased return as opposed to what you would 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.680 have got a couple of weeks ago, then I'd be 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.080 exploring it for sure. I don't think that the numbers 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.960 were seeing so far are really that legit. The strikeouts 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.679 for his career have been in the twenty two percent range, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.080 like clockwork, pretty much every year. He's thirty three percent 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.120 so far. Command was all over the place. Last season 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.240 highest walk rate we've seen from him in like seven years, 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.520 and then this season we're seeing it back in the 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.960 five percent range. In terms of his walks, the whip 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.640 is at one oh seven, which I think is just 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.240 too low. I don't think really much of this is sustainable. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.400 You know, he's stranding ninety two percent of batters. I 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.319 just when you look at his age, when you look 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.960 at the trajectory of his career, it's it's easier to 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.200 chalk this up to just a couple of hot starts 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.600 as opposed to something that he's going to be able 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.520 to carry over throughout the whole season. That being said, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.040 I don't know what you're trading Chris Bassett for. So 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.960 if you're getting a top twenty five or thirty pitcher 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.959 for him, if you can trade him for like, I 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.280 don't know, Shane Boss or something, or I don't know. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.920 I'm trying to think of another kind of like breakout 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.760 e pitcher, not. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.120 I feel like it's more hitting like Chris Bassett's big 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.800 start to me, reeks more of like you're not going 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.199 to go get like another cool picture. You're going to 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.320 trade him for, you know, maybe an underperforming hitter. Maybe 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.320 it is like Simon has kind of been a poster 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.240 child of like solid underperformed hitters that you can maybe buy. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.000 It's maybe probably something like that, And I think I 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.240 might consider doing that because you might have gotten the 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.480 best out of him already. You are not going to 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.680 get the best, probably any point out of Bobby Miller. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.199 I don't know what the hap the hell happened to 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.200 Bobby Miller six ere and runs over three innings and 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.560 a no decision against the Rockies. Also in that matchup 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.439 showy Otani hit a homer that looked like it almost 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.319 left the state. It was insane. He had two RBIs. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.600 It was a classic home run day yesterday with Otani. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.000 But Bobby Miller, is there any hope long term? 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:18.160 Week? 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.959 I saw people in the chat yesterday we didn't get 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.080 to it that were like, Hey, is Bobby Miller a streamed? 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.120 Do we trust it? I'm completely out after being like 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.520 a big Bobby Miller stuff plus guy, he had like 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.679 monster stuff plus numbers across the board. Guy was touching 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.000 ninety nine. There is zero feel for command. He got 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:40.720 obliterated here. I'm one thousand percent out. The question is 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.640 no on any question of Bobby Miller. But you feel 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:44.200 any different. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.360 I hate to say it, but I don't like. And 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.520 the funny thing is the stuff is still great. It's 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.560 one o eight, you know, the velocity is still like 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.920 ninety seven and change on his fastball. It's he gives 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.040 up so much hard contact. He has, like you said, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.320 no real feeling for where the ball's going. You couldn't 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.000 hit the broadside of a bar in half the time. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.040 It seems like I was so into him heading into 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.600 last season. I had him as like a top fifteen 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.360 or twenty pitcher, and I agree with you all. So 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.480 at this point there's not much hope. I just I 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.560 don't want to fully give up because he's still so 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.000 young and there is still a chance that he's able 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:21.679 to figure things out. Like he's only twenty six. He 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.520 just turned twenty six this month. There's still a chance 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.719 that he figures things out. But in redraft, I am 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.040 fully out. I guess the question is in Dynasty League, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.360 so are you also dropping him? 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.160 I'm out there is a chance, but it's as a reliever. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.960 You know, he's holding back velos so he can try to, 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.120 you know, go five or six innings and he's still 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.400 hitting ninety seven. Just get rid of that. Be a 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.520 one inning guy. Throw ninety nine, throw one hundred. I'm 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.839 done with it. He's young enough that things could change, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.520 Like I'm totally open to that, but like, I have 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.600 no interest in it. He's massively inconsistent. And I think 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.720 you guys should probably get out from under if if 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.480 you were, especially all you guys that were asking like 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.760 should I do Bobby, No, shouldn't And a little bit 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.040 of selfish news just want to point out, how about 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.400 Michael Tolio yesterday Michael tolia jack and a Grand Slam. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.080 Everything looks absolutely horrible. But one thing, let's just put 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.720 the pen in that I've said is watch if things 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.160 start to turn, then you want to jump back at 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.679 least if you if you care what I have to 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.079 say about it, because you know, again the XBA was 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.839 two forty last year. I think he's a thirty five 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.360 home run hitter. Everything looks absolutely atrocious. I'm telling you 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.120 this right now. He's got a forty seven percent hard 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:31.720 hit rate, forty seven percent strikeout rate. He's a fifty 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.600 percent hard hit rate that if you if you see 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.679 him collect a few games, I would run to go 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.960 pick him up because that tide could start turning. But 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.680 everything has been really bad, so don't go do it 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.040 like right now. But he did hit a homer yesterday, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.040 which was really really nice. Max Meyer allowed five hits, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.600 three hundred runs, two walks, eight strikeouts on the Diamondbacks. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.240 He went six. Brandon Fought also five hits, one run, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.640 a couple walks and two strikeouts, and a nice little 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.040 pitching duel of a couple guys that you definitely are 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.960 going to want to be getting out, probably at any 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.360 opportunity of who they're facing. Jackson Holiday, who we actually 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.520 just had this big conversation about. Someone was asking us 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.160 about dropping Holiday, I think versus like Cruise, and I'd 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.880 kind of leaned in to say, I think there's still 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.560 some things that are working well in Jackson Holiday's favor. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.560 Hit a grand slam yesterday, a big one four URBI 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.680 obviously run scored. He was only one for four, but 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.959 hit a homer that was nice. This question has popped 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.559 up nothing really to talk about. So I'm kind of 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.760 burning through it. I've saw someone ask this question, and 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.600 this is fantastic. I've got two players for you, Joe, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.720 that we're going to play a little Are you ready 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.680 to give up on these guys? Number one is a picture. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.640 Number two is a hitter, and someone in the chats 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.960 already brought up the hitter, but let's start with the 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.320 picture number one. Gavin Williams allowed four hits, five earned runs, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.439 walked four over six and two thirds against the Orioles yesterday. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.839 And it's not to say that he's just like a 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.080 drop or anything like that, but we've been very questionable 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.560 about how that spring training has moved over to here. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.640 That's another really bad on the walks. We're not seeing 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.760 the strikeouts, we're not seeing good stuff, and it has 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.520 been inconsistent the whole year. Are you ready to give 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.040 up on Gavin Williams? To these people that are like, hey, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.920 would you drop Gavin Williams for Jose Soriano or for 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.400 this streamer or are you going to hold on to 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:19.520 Gavin after that start? 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.720 No, I'm fine to move on from him if you're 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.200 playing in deep leagues. Al only fifteen teamers. I would 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.240 still hold on for now, but most of you guys 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.400 are in ten or twelve teams, YAHOO, Standard Leagues, ESPN, CBS. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.080 There are so many good players on those waiver wires 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.560 for the most part. Gavin Williams is somebody that I 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.920 didn't come into the season that interested in. Mostly it 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.960 was due to injury concerns. I figured that at some 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.440 point he is going to have to go under the knife, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.360 just based on the way that last season went and 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.520 the way that it tends to go with pitchers when 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.320 they push the injury down the road and they don't 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.160 have surgery. We've seen it with a lot of guys 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.920 that either they're just not good ale at Tristan McKenzie, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.200 or eventually they do need to have surgery, like a 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.720 Garrett Cole. And I think that one of the other 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.480 out come is coming for Gavin Williams. But I was 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.640 thinking that he would probably look okay on the mound, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.560 the performances would be pretty good, and then eventually he 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.880 would get hurt. But the performances have not been good 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.440 at all. He's giving up a ton of home runs, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.080 a ton of hard contact. I'm just I'm just not interested. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.760 I think I would drop him in most cases. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.360 Same thing chat are you done? Are you out on 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.040 Gavin Williams? Or if you're watching after in the comment 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.400 section on YouTube drop it? Are you in? Or are 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.160 you back out on Gavin Williams. Here's the hitter and 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.120 this is the one that someone brought up, are you 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.600 done with Christian Walker? Christian Walker's hitting one fifty four 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.680 a two sixty seven OVP. He's got two total extra 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.280 base hits. He is striking out really as bad as 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.280 he's done since twenty eighteen. Nothing close to that as 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.880 a diamondback in recent history. There are a lot of 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.920 other things in the profile that do look similar. He's 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.320 hitting the ball about the same. Barrels are slightly down, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.600 He's walking babbit biz down. But everything has been bad. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.720 So are you ready to give up on Christian Walker? 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.000 Because dang, do I see that a whole bunch? 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:08.000 I'm not there personally. I understand the want to. If 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.040 you look at the one fifty four batting average, he's 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.080 done not a hell of a lot for you this season. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.640 But if you look below the surface, he's always been 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.760 a massive barrel rate, massive hard hit guy, and those 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.880 numbers are still intact. They're not quite what they were 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.720 last season, but he's still nine and a half percent 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.960 barrel rate forty five percent on the hard hit. The 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.360 strikeouts are a little bit concerning, but considering the talent 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.360 that Christian Walker has, I would think it's still too 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.400 soon to give up now. With all the hot first 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.800 basemen that are out there on the market, it'd be 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.720 kind of a tough one. If you're seeing Ben Rice 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.120 out there, maybe even Jonathan Randa, Spencer Torkelsen, it would 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.240 be tempting to want to move on from Christian Walker. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.200 But I think Christian Walker is essentially like Matt Olson 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.360 Pete Alonzo Light. I know that that's probably not a 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.360 popular take, but his hard hit at his bat at 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.240 ball metrics are very similar to those two guys. Yes, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.400 he's dealt with a couple injuries, he's older than they are, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.560 but I think you're still probably looking at twenty five 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.960 plus home runs. The Crawford boxes are going to be 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.800 something that he takes advantage of throughout the season. It's 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.280 still a good lineup. I think if you cut Christian 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.880 Walker now, you're gonna be kicking yourself for it within 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:06.840 the next few weeks. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.959 I agree. I completely agree with that. I'm a lot 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.320 more comfortable moving Gavin for streamers. I cannot let go 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.600 of Christian Walker. I understand ten teamers are in a 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.639 little bit of a different situation, but I think the 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.720 hitting profile just still looks like Christian Walker. He's really 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.960 underperforming as well. Fastballs and breaking pitches are closer to 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.360 like a two fifty average on the expected side, while 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.520 he's hitting under two hundred. So I think Walker is 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.320 going to get back hopefully. You know, there's only four 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.400 billion first basemen you could choose from that. You could 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.440 put someone else in there and get him going. Shout 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.159 out by the way to Peven Smith, my boy, Peven Smith, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.240 who I couldn't shut up about. Luckily, this is my 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.800 Joe Piezopia that I told you so situation. But Gavin 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.639 or Peven Smith just jacked the two run shot on 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.200 Edward Cabrero, scoring Corbin Carrol maybe the best player in baseball, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.440 and Peven Smith just making it look good. Strong side 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.560 platoon so and shout out. Someone had him as a 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.160 home run call today, so that was that was super nice. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:04.920 I think it was game. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.640 I added him in a ton of fab leagues because 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.120 it's six right handed pitchers this week and so far 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.560 so good Man a couple of home runs yesterday and today. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.840 Yeah, so I did say solo shot because I know Corbyn. Yeah, 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.359 solo shot. Corbyn looked like he ended up scoring. So 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.040 we're not watching, we're doing the show here. But two 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.399