WEBVTT - Leading Off July 3rd, 2024 (Ep. 855) 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.320 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.119 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.720 Bet five bucks. Get one hundred and FIFTYM bonus bets 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.160 when you do only when you use the promo code 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:17.480 at Leading Off. It is me Joey p that's the Welsh, 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.759 and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. We got 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.760 a trade. At the top of the show. We got 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.040 another Yankee starter performance to talk about Welsh, just saying 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.440 and of course we're moving up prospecting at the Welsh 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.000 because tomorrow, well, tomorrow's Independence Day and we're gonna be 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.000 independent of everything. We're taking a day off. We're gonna 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.280 sit by our respective pools or whatever the hell. Welsh 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.479 you got like a swimming hole out there by you? 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:42.880 What do you got nothing? 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:43.519 No, we have. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.160 We have a hose and we can pour some water 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.560 that stays around for about twenty seconds before it evaporates 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.320 into the sun. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:51.640 That's what we've got. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.000 That's what Arizona is. Go to Donnie's house. He's got 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.280 a pool. He's five minutes. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.960 I was gonna say tomorrow's gonna be resting with the Welsh, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.240 but it won't be because as it is a birthday 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.320 with the family, so I will be trucking everybody around 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:05.600 at all. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.520 The birthdays to celebrate, including the birthday of our great 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.920 nation America. There you go, but Wels, let's dive into 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.480 it here. Let's go at the top of things. Brewers 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.240 acquired Aaron Savali, which is a great move. I feel 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.399 like we just talked about this yesterday, did we not 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.800 that the Brewers needed to make a move in this rotation. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.120 I still think Dill Hall is a possibility at some 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.360 point sooner than later. However, it would kind of make 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.119 sense to me to let him build up arm strength, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.280 more get him after the All Star break, let him 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.399 keep pitching through these next two weeks. But Savally, somebody 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.840 much needed. The Brewers are at the top of this 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.720 central division. It makes a ton of sense. How does 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.880 this impact his fantasy value? In your opinion, I. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.560 Think this is well, that's an interesting question. If he 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.560 starts living up to some of the underlying things. It's 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.480 a little bit, but everything kind of fell apart. I 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.400 mean one thing, it's like an overarching statement. If you 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.080 can't work with the rays, then maybe you've got a 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.200 bigger problem. And maybe we're giving too much clout to 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.960 like their overall development. But the idea was like, oh, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.560 they're gonna get Savalli in and you know he's they're 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.600 gonna start making these changes and it's you know, hey, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.920 they're gonna add this here and this is gonna work there. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.360 And he ended up going a little bit more sinker 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.840 this year over curveball. They didn't really make any of 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.079 those big adjustments like you know, up ticked splitter or 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:23.600 cutter or. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:24.440 Anything like that. 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.360 All of it, to say, is kind of mediocre. He's 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.240 got a five RA, didn't get a lot of wins. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.960 He does have almost a full run lower expected ERA 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.120 than actual ERA. But strikeouts were down, walks were up, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.560 expected batting average against was up. So what this is is, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.240 this is like a guy that has underperformed a tiny 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.040 bit and maybe an environment that I don't think is 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:53.240 like offensively or defensively that much better for him. But 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.840 this is going to be a team that is going 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.600 to be putting up, hopefully a lot of runs. He's 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.200 going to get into some win opportunities. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:59.799 I think this is immediate. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.919 This this is good for real baseball. This is good 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.079 for real brewers. A guy that can eat innings. That's 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.959 what Savally can do. But is this gonna be great 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.800 for his fantasy value? Probably not. He's going to be 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.880 a borderline streaming streaming type of picture. But this needed 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.920 to happen. They didn't trade any there was like really 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.639 nothing involved Gregory Burrios, but it was a money situation. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.760 The Races unloaded all that money and the Brewers took 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.640 it on. We'll talk about it a little bit later, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.679 like how this impacts the Rays rotation. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.560 But Savale is. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.000 Going to be in the hunt at least the rest 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.760 of the year. Maybe a few more wins, maybe some 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.760 run support, and maybe a downtick tiny bit on his era. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.880 But I don't expect this is going to be Brewers 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.880 aren't like this big changing organization for pitchers and whatnot. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.440 So it's a lateral move and you're probably streaming him. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.400 Yeah, I think that works for me. Let's talk about 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.720 the unfortunate injury news. Royce Lewis. Here we go again. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.080 Royce Lewis came out yesterday. We removed from Tuesday's game 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.520 with left groin tightness. He's gonna have an MRI today. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.280 Postgame press conference was pretty clear he feels like this 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.200 is gonna be another eye el stint for him. This 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.080 is this is brutal. I mean, what is in the 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.320 water in Minnesota? Him, Buxton, all these guys, I mean 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.960 A Kilov was another guy who seemed like he was 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:15.640 always hurt. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.839 Isn't it fracking? Isn't that a big I don't know, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:19.520 but it's fracking. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:20.919 Annoying is what it is. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.840 If it didn't I know, you. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.599 Know what the Battlestar Galactica, what I know we are. 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.960 We're in a fracking situation here for sure. I will 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:30.360 say this. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:31.760 He was. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.760 He was toying around a little bit, and in his 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.680 statement at the end where he was like, you know, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.520 I don't feel good about this was kind of more 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.320 because it always ends bad for him. I don't think 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.520 it was necessarily relative to how he felt. More that 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.280 like last time out of massive caution, they put him 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.479 on the eye L. So that's where he didn't feel optimistic. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.719 But yeah, one hundred percent Royce, because he's made of glass. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.960 He's Samuel L. Jackson in Uh, I guess split? 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:00.320 It was? 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.520 The second movie was. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.560 I'm Forgetting The Name is m Night Shamalan with Bruce. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.599 Willis it's a great movie. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:06.680 Well it was. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:07.919 Then he returned. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.600 Now the return wasn't as good when they did the 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.920 three guys in the Villain movie. But now I'm forgetting. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.120 It's like shattered or whatever it was. I can't remember that. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.120 That is Roy slew is modern day Derek Rose. He's 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:25.600 become incredible talent. I do expect the twins should absolutely 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.480 baby this situation. Unbreakable, Unbreakable, thank you everybody. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.320 That's a great movie. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.120 Unbreakable was like phenomenal, and then they did not I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.040 love it phenomenal. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.560 I love unbreaking No. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.159 I was for something that happened, and nothing happened. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.960 Well, no water scary, that's what happened. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.720 And then later they threw the surprise on us of 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.880 the other movie, and then they had the like trio 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:49.520 villain movie. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:50.200 I thought it was fun. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.240 Was the biggest surprise? You Shyamalan hasn't done a great 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.760 movie since sixth sense. I think that's the big that's 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:56.520 the plot twist. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.320 Here's no one coming out though that looks they all. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.080 Look interesting, and then you then you all do the 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:03.440 same thing. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.719 It's like, oh, you know, I want to watch that 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.320 Watchers one that's out okay, but all that aside will 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.600 lead into where I think the replacement is. I do 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.400 expect the Twins this guy what they did before is it. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.960 We're gonna talk about that, and we're gonna talk about 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.320 brooks Ley here in just a tiny bit. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:18.719 And I said it last night. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.880 Yeah at brooks Lee and the Savali trade, opening a 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.760 spot for Shane Boss prospecting of the Welsh boys and girls. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.440 It's gonna be very hot today. It's gonna be a 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.600 lot to talk about me, the Royce Lewis thing, understanding 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.120 my two cents in here. Depressing, That's that's the only 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.800 word to have because when you see these guys that 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.400 can be one of he is one of the best 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.920 players in the American League. Like he is. He's not 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.360 just the best player in the Twins. He's one of 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.920 the best players in the American League. He's MVP quality 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:50.000 contender kind of talent. But is this the ultimate by 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.680 low time in dynasty leagues on him? After this, like, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.440 is this another one we're roll their rise and go 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.360 and throw their hands up and just complete frustration. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.919 I don't think it's the ultimate time, No, because I 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.880 think like that run that he had completely changed the 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.440 perception of his value. So like a team that's out 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.440 of it, you should be buying him as a top 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.640 twenty five, and a team that's selling can still do that. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.720 But to your point, it's only a matter of time 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.240 before Royce is I mean, we're all like, oh, yeah, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.960 it gets hurt, this kind of stinks, blah blah blah. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.160 But he's two years away from everybody just pissoy talking 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.080 about him like he's Mike Trout, you know, like where 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.720 it's like he'll never live up to it and blah 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.160 blah blah blah, Like he's got to have a healthy season. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.280 He has not had that. So we know the talent's there, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.080 but he's too young that we're not going to like 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.800 cross cancel all that stuff, but be on the lookout 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.520 for the news. We still haven't gotten it. He might 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.760 who knows, maybe they'll just throw him back out there. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.240 I would think out of caution they would do it. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.080 And then, like I said, with Brooksley, we'll also talk 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.400 about some of the blocks that could be out there. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.440 But one of the most frustrating players this year because 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.280 of the massive This is like the Nick Cage movie, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.800 the massive talent God. I can't remember anything now. I 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.440 just watched that stupid movie I bother. Nick Cage is 0:07:58.480 --> 0:07:59.320 in everything. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.320 There's a that's the one with uh? Is that the 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.560 one with Pedro Pascal? 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.280 Yeah, but it's got like some long name and I 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.480 just watched it and it was phenomenal in Nick Cage. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.280 But Nick Cage is that he's in every movie. He's 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.200 got a new movie coming out like next weekend, long Legs, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.080 some horror movie. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.320 So he's able weight of massive talent. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.760 That's Roy s Lewis the unbearable weight of massive talent 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.880 that then ends up getting his legs hurt. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.120 You need a day off, my friend, that's what you need. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.320 I just can't again. This is a constant issue. I 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:28.840 have off. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.559 I have a great movie Connor Face Off. They're both 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.040 on TNT and TBS at the same time, which will 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:37.320 be easy. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.760 This is the easiest answer, by the way, Connor, it 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.360 is Conne every single time. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.719 I like both of them a lot, but I think 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.280 it's Conna for me too. But it was a summer 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.240 where they came out at the same time. People forget 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:50.600 about that. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.559 There's too much info going in and it's it's convoluting. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.079 Some of the little tiny things on it. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.960 Well, let's let's let's extract some info about Louis Heel. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.160 Four runs, two hits for inning now plus one seventy 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.559 two on the money line for the Reds. Let's go. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.360 I talked about it yesterday on the show. It was 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.240 a good I have THIRTYI just because of that bad 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.079 hitting yesterday. Like that's it, Like it was just awesome. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.520 But here we go. This is now three in a row, 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.160 sixteen earned runs at his last nine to two thirds innings. Welsh. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.040 What more is there to say about Heel at this 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.520 point except something's gonna change here, and it's going to 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:26.000 change soon. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.120 Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm ready to relent the Heel stuff. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.800 I can't do it much more. I've made my case 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.080 to where I think he will be for the future. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.560 But it is he's stacking starts. I watched the start, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:40.480 of course I did. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.920 Didn't bet on it, but I felt tempted to. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.800 But I watched this start and he was very efficient 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.280 early on, you know, first time through the order. He 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.000 was throwing strikes, he got some strikeouts, he got. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.440 Out of some mess. I mean, he made. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.160 Ellie look silly. He did his stuff and then he 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.520 just faltered again. He had a bad walk and then 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.960 he puts something right down the middle. I mean, good 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.240 Lord didn't give up like two homers in this one. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.400 One of the home it was just dead red middle fastball. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.559 He's losing his command later and starts and that's a big, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.720 big worry. This start fastball, change up slider in it. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.360 There was no Vlo dips if you were concerned. But 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.800 the whiffs were low, no whiffs on the fastball, and 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.200 he had a sixty two percent zone rate. That's a 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.760 little too much. He did have his slider going with 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.839 a fifty percent whiff rate, but he only threw a 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.400 twenty two percent of the time, So you know, like 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.160 I think there's still elite stuff in there. He pumped 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.440 the fastball. He can make these guys look silly, but 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.720 he can't stay consistent into the next innings. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.800 And that might truly truly be the ware that he's. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.920 Feeling right now. So I don't know what you do. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.720 Do you give him the blow, do you give him 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.640 two and a half three weeks off with the All 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:51.280 Star Game? 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.640 Do you put him to the bullpen? 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.480 When I watch him through the first three innings, I 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.720 still look at a picture that I'm like, you just 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.079 can't shut this completely down. But he fell apart on 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.679 the back event. I will say, though, and shout out 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.360 to Scott White for saying this too, that like you 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.199 would think he gave up fourteen runs and walked thirty six. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.000 By how the discourse online was about him. He gave 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.000 up three earned runs and he went four innings. He 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.040 just he didn't have a lot of strikeouts. He ended 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.760 up only having three and he got hit far as. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.600 I mean, the league adjustice to you after a while too, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:26.760 I mean, let's be honest. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.800 Yeah, no, I think there's league adjustment. I actually think 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.000 this is still more about him the. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.720 Hitch location that I do agree with, but the league 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.679 adjustment is also in there too, where it's like, hey, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.400 if you you know, if he likes to approach this way, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.200 let him do that and then work the counts this 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:41.760 like look. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:42.960 No, that's totally true. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.920 Like you're not going to eat that slider anymore, and 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:45.960 they're gonna sit on it now. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.400 I know what you are and look great pictures adjust 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.800 back and some never do. And same thing with hitters too. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.559 I mean, I remember Jason Hayward, I remember he came 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.160 up like Gangbusters. Eric Cosmer. Guy came up with Gangbusters. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.960 The league adjustice to them. They ever adjusted back. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:02.160 You know what he's gonna do. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.880 Just gonna call it right now. The next year, just watch, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.400 it's gonna throw a splinker. This is a guy they're 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.000 gonna add a splinker. He's gonna be a splinker, dude. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.040 He's changed up slider fastball. Even if he throws at 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.360 ten percent of the time, that type of with a 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.959 big you know, splinker is just like a big power sinker. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.199 You know it's split. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.160 I mean, I'll have an arm surgery for year. It's 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.520 gonna be great. I can't wait for that. Your not Alvarez, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.559 another home run two days in a row. I apologize again. Well, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.360 you know I dragged you into my home run call. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.120 If you just stuck with Alvaz the last two days, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.360 you might be on the board. I'm the worst friend, am. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.880 I Just if some butts, candies and nuts, we'd all 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:39.520 have them. Marry Chris. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.599 Julio Rodriguez hit seventh. Look, I've made a lot of 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.040 excuses for Julio two forty seven, ninety seven, three twenty seven. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.599 The excuses are done. Hitting zero sixty nine over his 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.640 last seven games. I still love the player, and this 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.320 brought me back. We're gonna story time with Uncle Joe here. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.720 Do you remember when JD. Martinez came up with the Astros, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.199 and that was when the Astros were completely defunct and 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.400 had nobody around him. Remember that it was like JD. Martinez, 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.640 Jadie Martinez was a big prospect that people were very 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.599 excited about it. People forget a little bit about like 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.800 Jadie Martinez. Hype was real, and Jadie Martinez floundered for 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.760 two years with the Astros because he had zero lineup 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.719 protection around him. He gets dropped into Detroit. If you 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.679 recall with Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez and Jadie Martinez 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.680 blossoms into this thirty five home run guy. And it's 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.520 not rocket science. I don't care how good a young 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:34.560 player is, if you put. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.480 Him in a situation, it's science if you put. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.240 Him in a situation with no line of protection unless 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.040 you are Mike Trout. Even Trout, you know at times, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.800 you know he Mike Trout had pooholes, like he didn't 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.880 have anybody. You know, it was tail end pools. But 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.360 it's still somebody there's nobody for Julio here, and I 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.800 don't know who has to be shaken upside down in 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.839 the Mariners organization to realize that they got to get 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.120 this guy some help. Well, I mean it is frustrating. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.280 Man, I do and do enjoy your story time. To 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.800 add to what you're talking about, there's a heavy room. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.360 I don't remember if we talked about it on this show. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:09.800 I know he did it TL, but there's a heavy 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.240 rumor that the Mariners and the Cubs have been intox 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.120 with Nico Horner because the Cubs are they're floundering, they're 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.040 bottom of the division there, almost bottom of the attire. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.920 You need no I agree, but. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.040 No, no, no, no. But here's one thing though with Nico. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.360 Nico is a that's the start. If it was only Nico, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.360 it's not what it's gonna do. But Nico's the guy 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.240 that top of the order. He gets on base, which 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.440 none of these other guys are doing, doesn't strike out, 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.600 which all those other guys are doing. He can steal 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.160 bases at a high clip, and he can score runs. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.200 He is the perfect guy to put at the top 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:43.800 of the lineup. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.000 But back to what you said, if you only go 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.640 get Nico Horner and then you were getting like Adam Davoll, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.200 which I know they're not. That's not gonna work. They 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.160 they've got to make those two trade. You got to 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.840 go and get Nico, which is going to cost a 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.680 little bit, and then you would need to go get 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.440 a Luise Robert, which, by the way, did you see 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.080 the Luis Robert no throw? I mean, have you ever 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.880 seen a guy that doesn't want to be where he's 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:05.960 at or just doesn't care? 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.479 Like I don't blame you, guys all saw it. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.760 It was I I want to be somewhere else, by 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.720 the way, the chat, but I talking about Nicholas Cage movies. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.280 They're talking about The Weatherman, The family Man, The Rock 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.840 is overrated, by the way, Michael. 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.440 But it's a great nineties movie. Though, no, no, it's a. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.280 Great nineties soft and con a great nineties movies, but 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.280 nothing will the ultimate Nick Cage performance, which is Raising 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.440 Arizona one of the all time weird movies. That's just 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.640 freaking awesome. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.720 Like, but he he's had some really really good ones. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.040 The Mandy is a great watch that. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.720 Series on Netflix. When he was just talking about curse words, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.760 that was that was pretty entertaining. There is the whole 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.440 thing where it's like the origin of the word frack 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.120 or other words. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.160 It was this like the Aristocrats. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.160 No, it was literally like a half hour sit down 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.920 with Nick Cage in a big wing back chair in 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.520 front of a fireplace, talking about the origin of curse words, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.360 and it was kind of entertain highly. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.880 I'm in the One thing I want to say that 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.200 this great viral campaign the new movie called Long Legs. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.800 It's this horror movie that Nick Cage is a part of, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.680 and there's been all this viral like, oh, it's the 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.040 scariest movie ever, and the trailer dropped yesterday and if 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.920 you listen to it, it's all scary, scary. And then 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.480 halfway through it's like a voiceover of Nick Cage is 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.680 a scary guy, and he's. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.720 Like you bra miss. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.640 I laughed out loud, not being able to take it 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.520 serious because it's not Nick Cage in a performance. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.480 It's Nick Cage is a scary guy. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.920 Go listen to the trailer. You're gonna laugh the jail. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.320 Nick Cage is just playing Nick Cage. And that's fine. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.840 Like some guys just do that. Not everybody is a 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.960 transformational actor. Not everybody's Tom Hardy, you know, like not 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.040 everybody is you know, uh, just Nick and everything that 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.400 people were just not transformational actors. Let's have some fun. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.880 Bobby Miller was okay, okay, two runs for It's my 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.880 It's better fun against the Diamondbacks. Breton Doyle three straight 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.000 days with home runs, Austin Riley another ding or two. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.680 He's been hot, and the Marlins look like they're gonna 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.760 be designated Tim Anderson for assignment. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:12.400 But now it already happened. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.800 I don't think actually happened yet. They were talking about 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.480 it happening. Did officially happened already? Ye, the world will 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.240 never know. I was mad that Craig Misch didn't break 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.359 that news. I mean, I think he did well. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.600 He actually he made on you know, I think it 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.720 was like foul territory in other places. He made all 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.119 the screenshots because he did reference that Tim Anderson was 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.680 no issue in the locker room, which I think a 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.280