WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 16th, 2022 (Ep. 575) 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.800 Leading Off starts right now, brought to you by bet 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.000 MGM right here on Fantasy Pros. I am the Welsh 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.640 Chris Welsh. Thank you guys for hanging out and checking 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.400 out Leading Off today and joining me on the show. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.560 The live stream of the podcast is the one the Only. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.880 Casey Bubba Beaty Interrich on Twitter. My man, Casey Bubba, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:33.520 what's up brother? 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:34.880 Not much, my friend. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.239 Always a pleasure to sit down and chat with you, 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.160 talking some baseball actions. So looking forward to another fun 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:41.320 one here top. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:42.960 Of the morning. To you look at us, we're like 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.560 the inverse shave I had like a beard. I usually 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.239 quotes I'm all shaved down here and Bubba shaved on 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.840 the top. We would make one big What is the 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.880 cleaning guy? What was the cleaning guy? White? Mister cleanya exactly? 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.279 We would be mister clean if you put us both together. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.600 There are things to talk about. There's prospect stuff, there's 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.640 call ops, there's bets, and we're gonna do it all here. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.679 But why not start What would a Leading Off in 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.679 twenty twenty two be if we didn't talk about show? 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.200 Hey Otani, we did talk about him yesterday, but I 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.360 don't know if you know this, but the huge, huge 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.200 change in the MVP Awards have gone at least on 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.280 the odd side, and Otani is now like plus four 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.880 to fifty. But that's not necessarily the thing to talk 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:32.440 about here, though. Whenever Otani does something it's massively, massively interesting. Actually, 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:33.840 you know what I didn't even think to do this 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.240 is to look up what the betting is, because yesterday 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.600 it was like six point fifty for Judge and plus 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.920 four fifty for Otani. Well, Otani does a little business. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.200 He struck out eight batters, getting up to one sixty five, 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.080 putting him in second place in Angel's history for most 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.200 strikeouts through twenty starts. Only Nolan Ryan had two hundred 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.600 and eleven strikeouts through twenty starts. That was in nineteen 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.160 seventy seven, which is absurd. Yeah, and Bubba, I'm gonna 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.760 take a look. I don't know if you had looked 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.560 to have it up here. I wanted to see if 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.640 the odds moved at all on Otani from yesterday, and 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.440 let's do it here Player Awards, And I'm gonna guess 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.280 it's maybe a no, not an ounce, not an ounce. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.040 Do you think it's done? Do you think it's done. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.560 Otani has been such a whirlwind for fantasy guys this year, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.520 even though the offense hasn't quite been what it was 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.160 last year. Off it's a credible pitching I think has 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.880 even been more stellar. But the odds are not moving whatsoever. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.000 Plus four fifty for Otani MVP. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.920 I think the odds are outstanding. I've been saying it 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.680 since day one. Everyone's been like, Oh, Judge, Judge, I'm like, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.440 Toani is the guy, that's the one you want right there, so. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.160 You still want it though I do. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.200 I think he's It's either they give him the cy 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.480 Young or they give him the MVP, or they give 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:48.880 him both. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.360 Like you can't ignore what he's doing. It's it's ridiculous. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.040 No one else in baseball can pitch an amazing game 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.520 and hit a home run in the same game. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:56.359 Just doesn't happen. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.120 Yeah, I mean, I want to make the bet, but 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.440 I get to I don't know if it's a bet 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.200 I would make right now because I think I think 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.200 there's a conspire against I don't. I just don't think 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.280 it's going to happen with where Judge is going. But 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.680 it just sparks the conversation after striking out another eight batters. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.200 Player props have been really great for him with Tani. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.760 When we're tall, said and done, we're going to look 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.960 at some ridiculously stupid numbers. The Yankees lost four to 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.880 nothing to the Rays and are now eight and fourteen 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.080 since the All Star break, Bubba, Are the Yankees in 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.000 trouble at all? Are they going to be reeling a 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.280 little bit now? 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:31.400 Their offense is struggling. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.720 I love the idea that it's Joey Gallow's fault because 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.480 he can't get on base anymore for the Yankees. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.440 But I think they'll be fine. They play home things. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.120 The biggest, like they got worse when he was gone. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.000 That's that's what I'm saying. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.360 That's the joke you see everywhere. So I think I 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.840 think they'll be fine. To get Chapman back in the ninth, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.320 give home some breathers. That's what's cost him. Homes is 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.520 blown like four straight saved now or something like that. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.640 So that's a that's a big difference maker. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.480 Yeah, And I you know, there's nothing really is else 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.600 to like pick apart from them. You know, they dealt 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.520 with they're injuries. I think they've dealt with most of 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.920 their guys there are. I could see the potential if 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.320 they wanted to mess around with some stuff. If you know, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.600 the streak gets ridiculous, you know business talking about Aaron 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.960 Hicks being atrocious. They do have a couple pieces in 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.440 the minor leagues that maybe they could bring up those 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.000 what Paraza is kind of the they continuously bring up 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.599 Bestevon Florial, who's really shown that he's absolutely nothing. But 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.880 they do got a guy or two that are floating 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.400 out there. If those we Paraza got picked up, I'd 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.760 be really interesting if they wanted to have that little influx. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.680 But there's just not a lot of spots for him. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.839 They're gonna keep going with Lemayhew and ikf That's just 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.200 what they do. Haaveer bay Is yesterday hit one of 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.360 the craziest and one of my favorite pitches of all time. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.200 I am a sucker. I am a I become a 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.840 completely stupid person. I smile with my teeth out like 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.760 an idiot when I see and it always came from 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.920 my favorite player when I grew up, Vladimir Guerrero. When 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.000 I see a guy hit an absolutely the insane ball, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.640 when a guy shows no real plate presence, but then 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.320 has the ability to barrow like Vlad would do, where 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.200 you'd have a ball in the dirt and he would 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.359 hit a home run off his shoe tops. Yesterday, a 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.160 ball a slider came in. It looked like a slider 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.480 bounced hit off the ground and Javier Baias, I mean, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.440 he essentially golf teed it into center field and it 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.080 was an out. But Bubba I was kind of thinking 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.600 about this, like is it still a flyout if the 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.280 ball hit the ground and then he hit it? I 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.719 was I don't know. There was a part of me 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.279 that was thinking like, shouldn't the trajectory of what the 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.800 out was be changed if the ball hit the ground? 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.200 Or I guess, is it still just a normal flyout? 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.200 It didn't feel like a flyout to me. No. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.120 And I was literally sitting where I am right now, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.240 editing the Fantasy Pros article with the game on the background, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.640 and I just like, aw another pop up from Baias. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.080 He's just horrible right now. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.719 And then the announcers got into it showed the replay 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.880 my jad has hit the floor, like, oh my goodness, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.280 here we are again with haave Baya's So I say 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.360 fly out because you know, we're in the staf cast 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.440 revolution and the launch angle is way too high for a 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.120 ground ball, so I'm going fly out. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.120 But I get your logic. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.880 Yeah, and I'm looking right here. I mean it is that. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.279 I guess my point is like it it didn't have 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.039 a straight trajectory where it didn't it hit something. It 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.039 hit something before the ball came in. So there's a 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.719 part of me that was like, does this count? And 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.080 it was a manual Class A by the way, and 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.960 I think it's the designation they are pitching. Ninja said 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.760 that it was a slider, but you know, that might 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.440 be the designated cutter or something like that. But I 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.479 wish I could share this on here. The set up 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.919 in the overlays and stuff don't really allow me. I 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.440 do do this on streams, but I'm watching it. It 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.240 is an incredible feat, probably only something Javier Bias could do. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.520 I wo Hoavier Bias could literally be like a modern 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.880 day era of Vladimir Guerrero if he had, like, you know, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.720 just even seventy percent, sixty percent of Vladimir Guerrero's talent. Unfortunately, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.640 Javier Bias is missing a couple of those key ingredients 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.520 that make Vladimir Gurero so great in what he is 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.159 her hometown one of your hometown teams. I always forget 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.760 if you're a Are you a Giant, your Giants. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.200 Fan or a diehard Giants fan? 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.080 Okay, yes, I grew up in the Bay Area and 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:13.120 my family was kind of split. They were mostly A's fans. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.960 I was the San Francisco fan, but that was for 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.640 the forty nine Ers, and I kind of grew up 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.720 on the A's a little bit more than the Giants. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.440 But you're so then your crosstown rival. The A's are 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.040 calling up Shane Langaliers, one of their top prospects catcher 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.440 who has been phenomenal this year in the Miners. He's 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.080 had nineteen homers, five stolen bases, a two eighty three 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.080 batting average at three sixty six OVP. He played in 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.240 the Futures Game, and if people don't remember, he won 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.680 the Futures Game MVP by crushing at homer. Though maybe 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.120 the most impressive piece was Corbyn Carroll, number one prospect 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.560 in baseball for the Diamondbacks, was on second, went to 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:54.000 steel third and Lengo Leers had a wrist flick throw 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.640 him out at third. It was actually one of the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.360 most impressive throwauts I've seen this entire season. Shane Langaliers, 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.200 I think is a dude, especially if they're gonna It's 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.240 the type of guy that could immediately throw him into 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.480 like a middle ish of the lineup for the A's 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.800 because the A's are so bad. This is a guy 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.200 I would be going to look and pick up. And 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.120 I believe the news came down less than a half 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.920 an hour ago that he's getting the call up. So 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.240 what do you think about Shane Langoliers. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.560 It's very enticing. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.240 I did see that note earlier when they put Ramon 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.400 Loreno on the IL, which, of course, if you're in 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.200 weekly leagues, that's always the great Tuesday drop. But I 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.080 I did see the Langoliers thing, and I'm curious as 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.520 a guy that you know he's a catcher. Is he 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.960 coming to the DH because Sean Murphy hasn't been great, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.800 has been horrible, Like, where does Langoliers fit in to 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.959 get regular playing time? Because I do agree that bat's 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.800 very enticing for the stretch run, but where does he 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:39.200 fit in? 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.040 Yeah, so I'm a couple of pieces torn here. I'm 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.600 torn that, like we talked about with another prospect we're 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.520 gonna talk about here in a minute. Could this be 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.640 a short stint you talked about langle You know, when 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.520 Lengliers comes back, he could jump up. This could only 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.439 be a couple of weeks. They could then send him 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.360 to the AFL if they want, and he could have 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.040 full time next year. Again, this is that whole manipulation process. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.200 Can he work himself in the rest of the year. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.480 I don't know. I mean maybe if the team really 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.640 wants to put him behind the plate, I think he 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.760 would dh a decent amount. I think this is gonna 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.520 be a great source of homers. But this is a 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.319 great question. Riley asked, I've been holding Francisco Alvarez in 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.240 a keeper league. Oh well, it's a keeper league. Keeper league, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:19.920 you hold. I didn't see the keeper league part. I 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.120 thought you were. I think redraft is an interesting question. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.560 If you have the ability to hold some prospects in redraft, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.320 who would you rather have Shane Langleier's up now or 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.760 the potential of Alvarez getting a run maybe in a 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.440 couple of weeks. I mean, I do think the Mets 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.120 are gonna bring him up. They've talked and talked and 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.439 talked about it. I think they're manipulating this. This is 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.520 the prime example of a guy that he's in the 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.199 top one hundred of most of the lists. He breaks 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.280 camp next year, golden, they get extra picks, you know, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.439 cheers all around. But Alvarez or Langolier's rest of year 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.960 is kind of interesting, and I think I would think 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.560 I would still hold Alvarez, as weird as that sounds, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.400 because I think he could be coming up any day 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.560 and I would rather they're him than Langaliers. But I 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.000 would try, and I think a lot of the prospects 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.520 have shown us like make room to just at least 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.000 try to pick them up. But the RBI opportunities are 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.840 going to be kind of few and far between. But 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.320 what do you think Alvarez or she Langliers rest of season? 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.960 For rest of season, I'd say Shane Langaliers. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.679 But like you said, if you're going to the keeper 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.960 league for the long term, Alvarez seems like the guy 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.959 he could be the future, like just absolute be. He's 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.280 not saying Langoliers can't, but Alvarez looks very very special 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.880 for the Mets. So rest of year, the Lego Langlirs 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.280 He's got the chance right now. You got to take 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:32.040 that and run with it. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.920 And this is big power. This is big power. But 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.360 it's going to be a catcher DH situation. And also 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.480 I would just point out I cannot think of his 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.840 name without thinking of the Langoliers if everyone remembers the book. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.400 But also they did a mid nineties I think it 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.439 was on like ABC. It was like a three part series. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.480 People don't remember. It was like these people stuck in 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.600 this time portal into an airport and no one's alive 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.520 in the airport, but then they hear outside there's these 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.320 things called the langal Ears, and it's it's one of 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.680 it's one of the worst animations you've ever seen on 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.280 anything ever. Like at the time, I was like, ooh, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.200 this is scary, blah blah blah. But then you go 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.720 back and look at it, cause I try to rewatch 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.440 it because for some reason, it's one of those things 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.200 that's stuck in my head. It's rough to watch. But 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.240 I always think about the Langoliers and Shane Langalier, But 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.440 no one would probably get that reference. If I photoshop 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.439 the Langoleire on top of his head, Bubba, do you 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:27.800 remember that? 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.480 No, I have no idea what you're talking about. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.160 You don't remember the langoalars. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.280 Maybe if I saw it. It's not ringing a bell 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.839 right now. I'm we're the same age, so it's not 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.080 like you can't pull the whole egg. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.319 Thank you, doctor. I think it was called the Langoliers. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.160 Maybe it was like, uh, I don't know, maybe it 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.240 had a different name or something. But those things were gone. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.160 There were these big balls with razor teeth and they 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.960 would just like eat everything up. And they were eating 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.160 the whole world up, and these people stuck in the airport. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.280 It was a great, great premise. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.080 I bet, I bet if I saw it, I'd make 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:53.640 more sense. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.000 Yeah, oh, doctor Glenny. It had the guy who played 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.840 the blue power range in it that rings a bell. Yeah, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.240 that helped everything. That A couple of injury notes. Edward'sario 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.840 was moved from Monday's game against the Mets with left 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.880 hamstring tightness. I believe he hit a home or two. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.600 David Fletcher was diagnosed with a left foot contusion. So 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.160 you always funny. Yeah, it was a Stephen King thing. Yeah. Yeah, 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.959 it was called the Lenglers. Thank you, Stephen King. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:15.520 Uh. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.559 You know, in the long line of like really bad 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.600 movie or show makes of Stephen King's stuff. But yeah, 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.760 it was like a three part series. And yeah, look 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:26.760 at this. Everybody's with me. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:27.160 Everybody. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.600 You gotta Bubba, you gotta go do something. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.679 Well know what I'm doing this afternoon? Gotch. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.800 I mean, it's not gonna it's not gonna replay. Well, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.880 I promise you that it's not going to do super great. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.720 But you know it's interesting. These people are just in this. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.200 I'm sure not reading the books. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.479 So no, no, no, no, no no no, maybe the audiobook. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.040 I'm not reading anything. That's Bogman saying. Bogman always tells me. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.800 He's like, I just read this book. I'm like, oh, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.120 did you read a book with your head, hands and 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.160 without your eyes and words? And he's like, well, it's 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:50.679 still reading. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.760 I'm like, all right, all right yeah, and so you 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.000 never mind, I'm not going to go any further. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.280 Yeah, all right, So I want to talk about this. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.000 Bubba and I were talking about the Soft Air and 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.080 I was almost looking or players to go who would 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.960 you rather on this? But there's really not I don't 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.320 really know what the great play is. Maybe Javier Bias 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.199 and maybe that's the one we were talking about before. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.680 We talked about this last week and I think it 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.439 was on the Wonky Wednesday show where von Grisham came 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.960 up and they kind of poopooted a little bit to 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.920 be like, hey, listen, this could be short lived. But 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.319 what did we say on the show? We said, regardless, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.240 go pick him up, do it, get him, find a way. 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.440 It would take a lot for him to be able 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.320 to stick around, and he's doing a lot of that 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.400 right now. In six games von Grisham has played so 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.160 far this year, he's got a four to twenty nine 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.880 batting average. This is the crazy part. Four of six games, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.320 he already has multi hit games in them. He's got 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.840 two homers, a stolen base. He didn't strike out in 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.160 his last two where he struck out in the first 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.280 four straight, so he had one game without a hit. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.600 But check this out, every game he's played he scored 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.560 a run on. Von Grisham has been more than we 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.360 could have thought of. And I think it's at the 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.080 point where he has done enough, just like Michael Harris, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.760 where I think it's going to press them a little 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.880 bit when Orlando Arcia comes back. Maybe the worst case 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.480 is it's going to be are the best cases. It's 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.720 going to be those two platooning. The worst case is, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.160 regardless of what he does, he gets sent down, which 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.480 we talked about. So but I present to you the idea. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.240 Von Grisham has been phenomenal. Four of six multi hit games, 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.400 couple homers, looks the part of everything that could stick 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.000 around A do you think he sticks? And b rest 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.720 of season hobby boy is von Grisham. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.320 I'm gonna go with von Grisham on this one. I'll 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.080 take the ceiling with von Grissam. I think he sticks. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.000 If he produces like this, it's pretty simple. They can't 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.080 afford to go away from him. I invested heavily in 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.920 fab this last weekend in Von Grisham wherever I could, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.200 because I believe in the talent. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.880 He's better than Orlando Arcia. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.640 And if he's hitting the way he's hitting, you can 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.400 platoon Ozuna and something else and fill in a spot 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.600 for Grissham somewhere like there's a way to get him 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.360 on the field. So I think the Braves they're still 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:04.920 fighting what four to four and a half back in 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.120 the East, they want to get there, and he's a 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.000 big piece too it. He's two homers and one steel 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.000 in his first six games, walking twelve and a half 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.560 percent of the time, which is great for young ball 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.320 player making his MLB debut. We saw the power to 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.240 speeding the minor miners. I think Grissom is phenomenal and 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.360 I'm buying in. It could blow up on their face. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.840 They could literally say, sorry, kid, it's been great. I 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.360 just don't feel they would have called him up for 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.320 a two week deal. I feel like they called him 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.520 up and if he can flourish like Harris, he's staying. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.360 It feels very much like Harris to me, Like, I 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.000 think it would be pretty hard lived for them to 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.560 be like, well, Orlando RCI is back, so now we 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.640 have to send him down like that. That's kind of crazy. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.360 But again, we don't know the extent of these teams 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.840 wanting to manipulate a lot of this stuff. Though. Here's 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.080 the problem with theirs. Von Grisham wasn't like a firm, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.280 firm top one hundred. So if they wanted to play 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.920 that game, they could play it next year and he 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.600 will be He'll be very firm, and they would be 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.480 able to get a pick if they break camp. They're 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.920 a dangerous team. I mean, think of Michael Harris, someone 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.840 who was it busisic as a Harris could have had 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.160 j RUD numbers if he played as many games. It's possible, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.880 you know. I mean the walk numbers are still a 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.920 little bit of a concern for Harris. But I'm all in. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.040 But it's not fair that this team of Grisham and 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:14.160 Albie's and Akunya and Austin Riley and. 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.200 They're all and they're all locked up for a long time, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.280 like this team's gonna have an offensive jugger Na not 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:18.880 and they can spend all their money on pitching, and 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.080 they still have Max Freed and you know Kyle Wright 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:21.640 and he's like. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.200 They're they're loaded and Danceby, I mean forget about Dansby. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.160 I mean Dansby has just had a I Love Danceby 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.840 nominal year. So I wish I could have thought of more. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.840 I was gonna present like a Grisham versus C. J. Abrams, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.680 because Abrams maybe has a possibility to play longer into 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.640 the year. But it's just not close. I mean, I 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.920 like Abrams. He came back up, he's up right now, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.840 but he went O for four. It's just not close with. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.400 Grisham, I got I got them for you. I just 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.920 thought of it, and it looks like he might have 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.160 consistent playing time. It's been a little weird last couple 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.840 of days. But Nick Gordon versus Grissom, oh. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.720 I still have to go the upside. But that's a 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.960 really good one because Nick Gordon has been sneaky sneaky. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.480 So his power and speed, like you got like his 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.760 barrel rates and stuff. When he plays, he's playing and 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:04.520 it's impressive. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:06.800 It's a tough thing. It's like, you've got this guy 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.240 that's playing at this completely elite level, but it's only 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.600 been for a week. It's like, how hard do you 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.000 want to go on this? Like luckily you're not yours, 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.000 though you might be dealing with a literal like I 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.479 have to choose between Nick Gordon and von Grisham, and 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.359 that might be a rest of seasons. So I could 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.560 see if someone just said, okay, blah blah blah. But 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.879 I think at this point you've got to just you 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.960