WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 28th, 2022 (Ep. 605) 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.119 Welcome in friends, do Fantasy Pros. It is Leading Off. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.640 I am your host, Chris Welsh on the final week 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.560 of Leading Off and the final Wonky Wednesday. It is 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.880 Kelly Kirby in the house with a Kelly Kirby Wonky bonus, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.720 which is fun, which made me do a whole lot 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.120 of work. Kelly before, I might have done more work 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.120 on that than anything else. But I'm glad to be here, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.240 but a little sad that this will be our final 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:40.120 Wonky Wednesday. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:41.919 Kelly, Yeah, so am. 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.000 I I was getting ready for it and I thought, oh, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.320 next week maybe we can do you know whatever, and 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.000 I thought there is no next week, so I guess 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.640 we got to do it today. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.640 Or do you like Dan today? Everyone? I sent a 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.120 message to Fantasy Pros asking for the show your year round. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.840 There you go. That'll get more Me and Kelly on 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.640 the show hopefully. But like I said, we are gonna 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.559 be giving you what the Wonky bonus was, which took 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.640 me a little bit. We got lots of news and notes, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.880 we've got fantasy stuff in here. But I will say, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.720 by the way, I love the bonuses when you have 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.440 this type of homework, because you always have these moments 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.920 where you're just like, oh yeah, like I didn't realize that, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.559 and I actually had that with a couple of moments. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.679 We'll tell you what it is here and just a 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.480 tiny bit, and that race is getting hot, It is 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.640 getting very very hot. And your boy. Also, I believe 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.760 I was the only one with a dual homer hit yesterday. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.480 So I cracked forty at least I'm not in the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.000 fifties with everybody else. But I did crack forty. But 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.360 let's get into the news and notes and what it was. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.560 So today we have the home run bonus. Yesterday it 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.920 was the blow save bonus in Major League Baseball as 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.000 Craig Kimberl walked home the winning run in the bottom 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.800 of the tenth inning. And Tuesday a four to three 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.320 loss to the Padres, and you also had Josh Hater 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.880 blows saved for the Padres in the top of the ninth, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.600 which I believe was his fourth blown as a Padre. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.360 What is with these closers. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.840 Kelly Well, and especially on the playoff teams. You know, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.919 as a as a Cubs fan, I'm used to blown saves. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.640 Like I'd love to play in a fantasy league where 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.320 that's a positive category because I just draft the Cubs bull. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:17.000 Pen and call it good. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.200 But what are these teams going to do start in October? Like, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.440 how do you feel confident in either of those guys 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:24.880 coming in at all? 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.079 They made these moves for exactly what you're saying. They 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.760 made these moves for the dependency they this is what 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.640 they did with them, and these guys just completely blown across. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.600 You know. It's interesting too because this early, early early 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.320 mock draft that we're doing, I really didn't feel and 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.520 this is what's I mean. I'd say there's a lot 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.399 of things that are kind of broken with early mock 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.080 draft drafts in general, but one of those is like 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.840 I don't even know what to do with closers, and 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.960 I didn't really know how to attack closers. We did 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.200 have a couple of people that, you know, just like 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.919 you would see in you know, March next year, guys 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.160 taking closures kind of early. But at the same time, 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.080 I think there were guys that were falling because people 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.880 don't really understand and the dependency of who's going to 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.520 be who. I just the early mocks closers are a 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.440 really weird spot. I didn't quite know what to do 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.520 with them, though I did end up getting Ryan Hellesley 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.079 later than he should go, much later than he will 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.800 probably actually go outside the top one hundred. I mentioned 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.720 that's not going to be the case, but this just 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.040 kind of breeds to that and might might because it's 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.239 always just one of two things as well, is when 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.520 you have a couple guys at the top, then we 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.400 hoard the problem is a couple of the elite guys 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.360 at the top have changed and been a problem and 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.560 hater in that. Do you think we can have our 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.000 reverse course next season where we don't do the really 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.560 early closer thing like we did that like was very 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:41.600 very prominent this year. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.840 Yeah, I mean I would love to see that because 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.840 I did not understand the like the NFBC was just 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.880 I mean, closers were going like third round, second round, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.120 and it made no sense to me. And in one 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.320 of the league, I'm in my championships two week long series, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.600 I have kept we only get two keepers, and I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.160 kept Leam Hendricks and I was like, Okay, great now 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:06.560 that's taken care of and I don't have to worry 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.200 about it anymore. And I'm currently losing the championship matchup 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.960 for in saves Ford or nothing. So I'm like, well, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.200 I don't think I'm gonna do that again. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.080 So yeah, I hated it. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.920 I thought that was I didn't that was going. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.000 But seeah. Also, I think this year was reactionary to 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:27.400 the previous years of not of having inconsistent closer throughout 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.000 the whole thing and only having a couple guys at 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.880 the top on top of us not really having I mean, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.560 I don't even know if we had half of the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.440 closer roles coming into this year really settled, like really 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.800 really settled. There's so much uncertainty that led to it. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.159 But I think we'll have another round of this of 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.240 like reactionary. Look what Josh Hater's done with us people 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.120 that drafted right right. I saw Glacias was going in 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.719 the top like seven, he gets traded, loses that. Kenley's 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:57.000 been inconsistent, Kimberll's been inconsistent, Liam Hendrix, you know, I'm 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.440 all of these have been inconsistent that I think you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.320 are gonna have a turn on this. And where if 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.560 I was just throwing out like a guess, let's say 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.719 I would guess there was probably like ten closers that 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.960 went inside the top one hundred. I'm not sure that 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.480 would be the case. And if they did, I'll bet 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.720 you it's gonna start two or three rounds later and 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.080 the hoarding will come in that seventy to one hundred range, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.000 where then they'll all go not like starting into the 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.279 thirties or something like that. So we're always we're always 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.240 kind of reactionary to it. But God, has it been 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.160 god awful? And Hater too. Hater's probably the most disappointing one. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.480 Well, yeah, because it was that was the fight, right, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.160 everybody was like Hendricks or Hater, Hendricks or Hater, And 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.000 I mean, Hater's just been a mess, both in Milwaukee 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.960 and after he got traded. Even when he's good, he's 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.200 not remotely that dominant that thing you drafted person you 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.520 drafted in the fourth round. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.400 Well in Milwaukee as well, like Hater leaving, we immediately 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.719 be like, oh, Devin Williams. But they are Rogers there too, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.160 and I don't I can't personally recall off Rogers a 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.000 free age and or anything like that. But that's just 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.760 gonna be more muddied waters and close situations is the 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.000 word time to see it too. In your final weeks 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.520 and your final stretches and Kelly, can are you gonna 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.359 be able to pull out that matchup? Even though we 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:07.120 got save. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.960 Issues, It's it's so close. It's close week I could 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.000 win or lose every category. And I know he listens 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.320 to the show, so I want to give the worst 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.280 advice possible, but but he again, he's out of fab 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:18.960 so there's nothing he can really do at this point. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.600 It's just on me to not screw it up. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:21.640 Yeah, and I. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.400 Also wanted to give right. I also wanted to give 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.080 the shout out to GEMS with Edwin Diaz. Yes, he 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.880 has been phenomenal, so like I could see him being 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.560 the one that everybody I'll take. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.680 Has been if I recall been really good. That was 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.080 actually my like that was my big guy that that's 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.520 gonna help me in whatever preseason rank con There's lots 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.400 of things that won't help me, like Spencer Torkelsen, but 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.160 that'll be one because class A I was very aggressive on. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.800 That was like my pick hater and Liam Hendrix were 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.120 pretty much non existent to me because I didn't like 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.520 to be the first. But I specifically wanted class A 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.080 in every spot that I could, So that's going to 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:58.719 help me out. That's gonna be a big one on 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.000 the end of the year. The News and Notes, Glaber 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.120 Torres went three for five three RBI. Tuesdays, Yankees beat 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.760 the Blue Jays and clinched the American League East. It 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.480 is Donezo, no more worries for them, Kelly. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.320 Yeah, we were worried about it for about what five 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.960 minutes most of August, but they had such a lead, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.640 and with the other teams that are so good beating 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.000 up on each other, it was kind of like, once 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.800 you had that lead, I didn't think they could blow it, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.800 but it was fun to. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:26.360 Watch them try. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.200 Yeah, they tried. They really really did try. Josh Young, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.600 in our pursuit of the rookies that are going to 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.480 give us some extra added boost, has continued to do 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.920 so three for four, two homers, five RBIs and Tuesday 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.520 five nothing win over the Mariners. Josh Young definitely been 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.560 a nice little bright spot, and we actually had another 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.240 rookie that's called up. It's amazing these guys keep happening. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.320 Josh Young is gonna definitely be somebody on a lot 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.960 of radars next year, early ish in drafts, not crazy, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.160 but early ish. A couple other notes here. Bailey over 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.280 dominated on Tuesday night in the White Sox had ten 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.680 strikeouts and seven and one third inning shut out baseball. 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.320 Bailey over performing the way that everybody was drafting him 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.640 as a sleeper in the season. Marcus Stroman really good performance. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.040 Had six strikeouts over seven innings as well, both Over 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.640 and Stroman. This is the type of pitching performances we 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.800 need from guys just like this at this point because 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.880 that all became streamers too. That's interesting thing. I think 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.640 Stroman and Over were kind of mainstays to rotations and 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.080 all at most streamers hopefully helping maybe not helping a 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:31.559 lot of people. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.560 This week, Yeah, you got you have to be so 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.679 careful because I remember I looked at Kyle British and 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.760 he just got destroyed yesterday, So it was like, you 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.679 have to just watch what you're doing. But yeah, Over 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.280 has been when he's healthy, when he's out there, he's 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.600 so solid on whips and your ratios, and occasionally he 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.200 does this with strikeouts. So I like him again going 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.320 in the next year, but it's just tough to trust him. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.439 Hunter Green struck out ten, allowed just one earn run 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.320 in a no decision against the Pirates. That is another 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.040 one of those guys being highly drafted, though Lodolo is 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.839 clearly passing him. It happened in our early mock draft. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.920 I took Lodolo Hunter green Head sat there for a 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.640 little bit. I didn't really think about it. Tristan Cassis 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.840 on those rookies to run Homer and three runs scored. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.079 On Tuesday Night, the Red Sox beat the Orioles thirteen 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.680 to nine, and two pieces I mentioned with the one 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.160 prospect was Logan o'hop is going to be called up 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.000 by the Angels today, which I'm pretty excited about, and 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.839 the raysor activating Tyler Glass now. So first on o Hop. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.400 I watched him in the AFL last year when he 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.120 was with Philly, and he is impressive. He's also one 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.600 of the just the coolest guys. I think I've told 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.400 this story on here and if I had, if you've 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.600 heard it, apologies. You know, on a lot of podcasts 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.440 going to say things, but there's this moment with Logan 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.760 last year. I really loved it was in the AFL. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.439 I'm sitting up front these two guys. But there's yapp 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.959 in about guys and the ones like the Bryson Stott 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.079 is up to bat and he's like, you know this 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.600 Bryson stop top one hundred and Logan's standing right there 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.160 and these just two gentlemen are just talking about Bryson 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.880 Stott and Logan in the batter's box turns over and 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.120 goes it's too low and they're like what And he like, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.839 he's ranked too low on Baseball America and he just 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.040 just talking to fans about Bryson Stott, who's up at 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.560 the play. Super fan friendly, super positive energy guy, huge power, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.360 makes great contact, killed it with the Angels so far. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.760 He's a catcher of the future. He's a catcher I 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.720 want to bank on next year. So I love that 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.280 he's getting a little run here. I don't know what 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.720 it would mean. I mean, seven games for a rookie 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.360 catcher doesn't like do a lot for me. But if 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.640 you have catcher woes, you might be able to run 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.880 into a little bit of power for o hop right now. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.600 Yeah, if you need any sort of streamer in that position, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.160 I would give him a shot before most of what 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:46.400 else is out there on the waivers. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.119 Yeah, oh Jims, this is a good question. Shay Lngeliers 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:54.360 or logan o hoop ooh. That is they are razor thin. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.760 Long term, I think I want the bat of o 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.160 hop if I have to say it personally, but the 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:05.080 Leers might have more run next season as like a 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.760 full time player. So that's like really really close. And 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.160 then on Tyler Glass. Now, Tyler Glass now have been 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.560 really good in multiple performances. He's coming up. I'm actually 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.760 really surprised he's going to get this start, but he's 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.800 going to be on a pitch count. He never hit 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.840 over fifty pitches in any of his rehab starts, so 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.040 my assumption would be something similar between fifty and sixty 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.880 pitches probably going to be his cap, which is probably 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.120 going to take him out of a win territory. So 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.880 my question is, Kelly, would you trust Do you trust 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.079 Tyler Glass now in a situation where it is all 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.400 but likely you are not going to be able to 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.040 register any type of a win coming off of this injury. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.000 I don't want him today. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.800 I wouldn't trust him for just today because of that 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.640 the pitch count, and also he's just kind of he's 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.760 going to have to ease back in in some fashion. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.400 That was a major surgery, so even warming up. You 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.760 know again, pitching the minor leagues is like they struck 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.400 up fourteen better, Like yeah, of course they did, but 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.160 now welcome back and the whole different it's a whole 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.640 different setup. So I would leave him on the bench 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:08.080 for today. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.040 I'm also I agree with you because if anything, what 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.680 you're doing is you're chasing some strikeouts and ratios, but 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.679 in that small stent the odds, and this would be 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.000 like a poker thing, like sixty five percent chance here 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.960 that you're going to screw yourself as far as the 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.040 little things that you're chasing, and you are really you're chasing, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.360 and uh, you're chasing it? What is the compe? I'm 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.760 like a poker. I completely forgot. You're chasing like a 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.840 one card flush, an inside flush or an inside streak 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.160 is what you're looking for here. It's not worth it's 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.079 not worth paying, I guess for this start with Tyler 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.920 Glass now coming off of this injury, next year is 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.720 gonna be great. I kept him in a keeper league 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.960 a big term, Scott White's actually keep Points Keeper League 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.160 twenty fourteen, and he costs me a little bit, but 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.040 I kept him because he's such a great talent. But 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.240 it's nothing that we're wanting to play for right now. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.439 And I would add that, I guess if you're ratios 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.880 are kind of like already said, like you can't really 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.840 lose or win them at this point and you're just 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.319 kind of chasing strikeouts, then fine, But no, I can't 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.040 unless he has some sort of weird like four pitch anything, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:12.559 I don't see how he'll get through five. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.400 Doctor Glenn. He is in my lineup. You've got to believe, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.200 you can believe, you can believe it, but you're probably 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.559 playing for four innings. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:21.199 You know. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.120 Best case scenario is probably four innings, five strikeouts, and 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.040 hopefully no earned runs. That's the best case scenario. So 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:32.360 I'm not really sure. So I'll watch him go eight yeah, exactly, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.520 go ninety five pitches and everything like that. So on 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.440 the injury front, Corey Seeger does not have any fractures 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.520 in his left forearm. Per Rangers interim manager Tony Beasley, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.200 he was hit by Matt Boyd on a fastball in 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.040 the eighth inning on Tuesday's game. So, you know, avoiding 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.080 that type of injury for a guy that's had some 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.160 stuff follow him, this is this is great, great news, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.320 fantasy owners alike in just real baseball. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.600 It is, yeah, and I mean he's probably gonna miss today, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.200 but they expecting him to play the weekend, so that's good. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.320 The chat's killing me, so Doctor Clinton, you guys obviously 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.760 go and score my performance me forgetting what the inside 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.920 straight was. They're like, what was the scoring on that play? 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.280 And then we're talking a while pitch and apparently mister Buster, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.120 not a fan, says that was a grand slam of 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:21.960 an error that I had on my poker reference, So 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.000 I apologized everybody on the other injury front, X rays 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.560 came back clean on Jeordnalvauz's left ankle. He rolled it 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.000 in the single in the bottom of the first inning. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.800 And fun fact, my my cohort, Scott Bagman, was at 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.120 this game and this is the He's gone to two 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:39.640 Astros games since he's been there, and the most prominent 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.960 player in that game has been hurt both times he 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:47.480 got there. Julio Rodriguez got hurt this one boom, Jordan 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.240 Alvarez getting hurt. Nope, why no, Bogman no longer allowed 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.440 at any game with important players he can go. I mean, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.400 I suppose with the Astros we could all just whatever, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.200 but of all the players, the astros are going to 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.880 get hurt. We don't want it to be Jordan now 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.360 as in Boggman was bad luck. Also, ronnerd Arias is 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.160 being evaluated for some right knee discomfort, and Adrian Hauser 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.760 was placed on the fifteen day il Per Brewers manager 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.640 Craig Council. This is a fun fact you put on 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.320 here from Ben Verlander, Who's had lots of fun facts 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.200 this year. He's full of everything. Aaron Judge was intentionally 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.520 walked tonight and this was two days ago for the 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.760 eighteenth time, so that number might be a tiny bit 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.480 up in two thousand and four. And I find this 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.720 very very funny because everyone's been making a big deal about, like, oh, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.480 Judge getting intentionally walked. In two thousand and four, Barry 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:40.240 Bonds was intentionally walked one hundred and twenty times, which 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.720 is still in mind boggling number when you think about Kelly. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.080 What do you think the home run total would have 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.120 been if they hadn't or you know, like if he 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.240 I guess I don't know how many times he got walked. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.000 Was that the year he broke it? Or was it 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.600 the year before I don't know, you know, I don't remember. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.960 See I'm blanking too, But at least that's on baseball 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.000 on that poker. Yeah yeah, I mean, at least have 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.120 screwing up on our topic. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.120 This reference that I don't have installed in my head. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.960 Let me make a really weird reference that also I 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.840 can't get to. You know, that's a great question because 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.240 also I tend to think and maybe this is like 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.120 a wildly thought after thing that like sure Bonds was 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.960 always like intentionally walked because of what a great hitter 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.720 he is. But I also felt that like there was 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.520 a comfortability for baseball players doing it to this level 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.240 because they knew he was a cheater, Like they don't 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.320 care like I have to imagine, and obviously baseball just 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.160 changes over time. But I think there's a form of guilt, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.240 like in you doing that all the time, like baseball 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.360 players want to go at each other and it's you're 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.240 gonna see intentional walks, but one hundred and twenty times 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.760 is astronomical that I really think a lot of that 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:52.760 was also shrouding, you know, just his cheating is alleged 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.960 steroid and cheating and whatever thing that was going on 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.840 that that played a role in it, But I don't know. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.560 I mean, you could play the you could play the 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.520 what if a gajillion times over one hundred more homers. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.520 Maybe if he had gotten all those intentional intentional walks 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.640 down to judge level, I don't. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.800 Know, right, maybe it's yeah, I mean I can see 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.600 that part, but like everybody's saying, I mean, he was 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.879 walked with the bases loaded, like multiple times, and then 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.360 if there's a steroid component to that, I just still 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.880 don't think that they I mean, you're just giving You're 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.200 literally saying, we respect you so much that. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.479 We're going to just let you have this RBI on that. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.960 Yeah, like me, so is loaded situation for sure what 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.120 you're saying, Yeah, there's definitely uh something into that one. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.720 But I think the overall intentional walks also just kind 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.720 of become about, you know, just become about obviously the 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.720 impact he'sn't have on the game, but that there's something 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.280 of this like, well what do we care? You know, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.359 I mean, this guy, this guy's cheating. We're not going 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.480 to let him put numbers up on us. There's not 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.239 that like game, I mean, baseball is so you know, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.120 like hidden rules and all this stuff behind it that 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:58.720 you know, intent where teams don't want you to stack 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.439 on runs. I think they're there's also kind of an 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.639 intentional walk, never letting someone have a chance rule that 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.880 sits out there in baseball between players, except if you're 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.480 a big fat cheater. But that's me, that's mean. Yeah, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:13.120 that's just my guest. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:13.320 Here. 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.680 Some stat heroes, my boy Jose al two A three 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.200 for four, two homers, two rbi, four runs. Yesterday, Anthony 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.720 Santandeer another two home run game. I feel like that's 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:24.560 his second in the last like five days or so. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.600 Josh Young was three for four with two homers five rbi. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.960 As we mentioned, round Orias perfect three for three with 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.040 a homer and RBI. Tristan Cossa has had that homer. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.560 Ronald d'acunya two homers, two rbi, two runs, two for 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.399 five and fun fact, he was the player I was 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.480 going to pick in today's Wonky Wednesday Bonus, but I 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.320 found out something I learned. He doesn't qualify. He did 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.280 not qualify. We'll tell you what that is here. Jock 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.760 Peterson two for four with a homer. David Hinsley had 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.320 a home run. Ja d Davis with A Homer and 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.639 JJ Blede. Speaking of Ronald d'acunya, what has Ronald d'acunya's 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.400