WEBVTT - Leading Off July 18th, 2024 (Ep. 866) 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.720 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:10.879 Off Live, brought to you. I bet three six five 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.880 Bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifty in bonus 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:16.440 bets when you use the promo code leading Off only 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.960 at bet three six five. It is me Joey p. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.960 That of course is the Welsh that it's you, the Peanuts, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.959 the Cracker Jacks. Welcome back everybody from the All Star 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:26.880 breaks sort of kind of we still have a day 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.319 off from baseball before we come in here and chat 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.400 lively a little bit today, a little abbreviated version. Nothing 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.040 to really bet on today, nothing really going on there. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.800 Maybe we'll talk a little futures, we'll talk about All 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.559 Star Game. But speaking of the future, if you missed it, 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.760 run to the YouTube channel, watch it on demand. Well 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.839 should an amazing, incredible, unbelievable job of breaking down the 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.320 MLB draft. So if you're playing dynasty or keeper leagues, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.640 or just your redraft leagues where you got to get 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.520 familiar with some of these guys in college baseball who 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.560 are coming in even in the high school ranks too, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.000 Well Should an incredible job. We just did a whole 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.800 show about that. We did some futures as well on 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.880 there too, from that game from the past weekend Welsh. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.720 We're out of practice. I didn't know how to start 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.160 the show right today. We had a couple of days 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.479 off there. You know, you didn't put up the right 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.040 thing in this before you called Thursday Friday. We're a mess, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.840 like we're out of routine and we're just a complete 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.400 and utter disaster. Oh same. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:42.679 What sorry, sorry everybody? Sorryybody improvement, I would say, oh, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.280 st hey man, Yeah, that's about. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.120 How trying to hit every note, you end up hitting 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.080 every single note the right ones. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.480 Or none of them. So sometimes when you try to 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.160 hit them all, you hit none of them. That's about 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.840 how the start of this was. Yeah, we're completely out 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.680 of practice. Apologies for your ears everybody. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.200 We're not checking ourselves though in anywhere tomorrow. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:03.480 This is no, no, no, We'll be good. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.000 We're okay. Just don't get worried about us. We're okay, everybody. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:07.600 It's fine. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:09.360 We were a little out of practice, but I'm very 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.280 glad to be back with everybody. It was very I 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.000 don't know, it was disjointed. I was very disjointed this 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.919 entire week, not having all of you beautiful people talking 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.040 to live. But glad to be back. Glad you guys 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:21.960 enjoyed those videos. We had a couple of fun ones 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.720 and we are back in the saddle. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.480 We are and look we were going to the whole 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.000 thing about the anthem and then you know there were 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.799 reasons for it. So now I don't want to make 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.519 you know any reasons about anything anymore, which is it's like, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.600 why can't we have something fun for a second and 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.080 like just enjoy something being bad like I want to, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.400 But now I feel guilty about I don't know. I 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.400 was at the Foo Fighters concert last night a city 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:45.160 field by the way. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.320 How was that singing? 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.720 Incredible? I mean, much better singing great second time I've 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.640 seen them. Unfortunately the concert got cut in half. The 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.080 irony is they tried to squeeze ever long in because 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.560 of the lightning and the horrible thunderstorms that were coming, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.560 and literally they started singing every long had to stop. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.160 They were trying to squeeze it in because the knew 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.000 they might not be able to come back. And I 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.320 was like, I thought, I you promised not to stop 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.359 when I say when? And I did. That was very ironic, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.200 And then they stopped so whatever, Well, let's talk about 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.400 the All Star Game. Welch the American League. I mean, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.919 if he's like, the easiest thing to bet on every 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.600 year is the All Star Game where it's just the 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.640 American League, American League, American League. Our boy, Jared Duran 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:21.880 coming with MVP. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.040 Oh, show interesting home run. I'm glad we're talking about 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.720 that because the one big debate if you guys, and 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.120 this is another fun thing, this will be like you know, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.240 like piecing. It's like a show. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:35.960 It's like a series. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.240 If you want the origin story, go back and listen 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.600 to the Fantasy All Star video. Because the one big 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.320 like argument debate we ended up having was about Jared Durant. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.240 You would put Kyle Tucker in and we went back 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.920 and forth about Jared Durant, and Jared Duran goes out 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.080 and wins freaking MVP in that game and looked phenomenal. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.240 And yes, Otani did of course as well. But wow, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.000 you talked to me about some Jared Durant. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.400 Oh. Jared Duran one of my favorite guys going into 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.120 the season. He's been a category filler all year, and 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.120 I mean filling up the categories. I love him in 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.200 Points League. I love him in rot. I mean I 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.320 felt like every show he did, whenever there's some sort 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.080 of value conversation or rankings about outfielders, no matter what 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.200 it was, Jaron Duran always came up. But yeah, I 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.359 mean you and I were, I think sky high on 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.000 Jared Duran, which is hilarious because the ECR was not 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.360 going into this year nearly where it needed to be, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.919 nor was the ADP catching up there. And that just 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.880 goes to show you as a reminder everybody, ADP is 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.040 a guideline. It's not an absolute. I mean, don't get 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.760 all crazy about ADP. Sometimes, if you like a player 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.720 and you want to get a player, go get a player. 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.520 And I don't be crazy because you can wait to 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.280 at least that vicinity of round. But Jared Duran has 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.960 been terrific and another I think lesson in patience, right Welsh, 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.560 because when he came up, there were some you know, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.520 ups and downs, but now you see him kind of 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.760 taking off and becoming this, you know, fantastic All Star 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.279 caliber player. And it was so it was the Otani 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.680 home run that was also fantastic. U Ti Oscar beat 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.200 my boy Bobby Wit. I picked Bobby Wit if you 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.400 watch the videos here, I got him at plus six 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.200 hundred before he went to plus I think it was 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.640 four by the time it went up there, but ta 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.200 Oscar edged him out there. What'd you think of the 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.920 new rules and the whole derby action there? What do 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:19.359 you think of it? 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.960 That was fine? Actually it was very confusing how they 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.320 were explaining it. But then it was like, I gotta 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.240 tell you, I think the whole like you have this 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.160 many baseballs was actually really stupid because it was like 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.200 they lined up the forty to the time. Just get 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.680 rid of one of them, then give us the baseballs 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.920 or get rid of the time. You're making that more confusing. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.000 I thought the structure was good. It was a little 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.800 bit long, but I liked the top four guys going in. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.040 I got waxed in it because I was like, oh, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.719 Peter Longs are road handed, and then Gunnar Henderson. They 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.640 all stunk, and then I was really really rooting for 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.280 Bobby Witt. But you knows, so, yeah, it was h 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.720 you would have done that for the money. I was 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.680 out of the money at that point, but that was 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:58.240 pretty great. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.000 Well, mine was Garcia and I should have listened to 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.120 Miss Misch was like the hometown guy never wins, and 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.440 he's right home that guy never wins his thing. But 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.800 I thought I wasn't even that. My whole thing with 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.360 Garscia was guys who generate their own power, and Wit 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.880 was guys who had the stamina to get through this 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.560 weird athletic trial, because that's what it is, It's an 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.520 athletic trial. And Wit to me was that guy. Let's 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.000 se if we can help Barry out, He's got a 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.000 question here for his Barry for end of the show, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.480 Trade away, Reagan's Volpi Lane, Thomas, Ian happ and get 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:31.200 Grayson Rodriguez, Ronaldo Lopez, Jose, Miranda Neto and Profar. What 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.839 do you make of this one here? Grayson Rodriguez, Reagan's, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.159 let's take that first, because that seems like those two 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.760 entities are pretty even. Your thoughts on that and then 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.680 the rest of this deal, because I think where you 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.840 stand on that kind of determines the rest of this deal. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.159 Yeah, it's kind of tough because I guess you could 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.320 be like Raynaldo and Grayson for Reagans and if you 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.280 I like to do that in trade sometimes, like figure 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:52.599 if you can do the cross off, So if you 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:57.120 cross those guys off, then it's like Volpy for Miranda, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.000 Neto for Ian Hap, and Profar for Lane Thomas. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:02.839 I don't think so. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.960 I think I Reagan's I like the most. Lane Thomas 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.159 has stolen so many bases in the first half, Bagman 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.960 and I actually I've talked about this format, Joe, where 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.920 our home league it is first half rodo and there's 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.080 a champion crown. The season's over at the all Star break. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.680 Then we redraft in the second half and we play 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.800 head to head, and as what we did last night, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.520 we just redrugged. I didn't win the first half, but 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.400 some felt I may some felt I may have won 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.720 the draft last night for the head to head, and 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.400 I took to Lane Thomas was a massive target of mine, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.240 just because you know, some of the injury, under performance 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.640 as far as batting average goes, but tons of stolen bases, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.160 home run potential. So it's just like, I don't know, man, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.800 I think Reagan's is the best single player, and I 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.440 think Lane Thomas and Volpi are both kind of underrated 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.000 in that I dig Profar and whatnot, but I would 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.080 I would hold pat unless you have the only caveat 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.240 is like you are desperate for that extra pitching need 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.360 of Rinaldo. But Rinaldo is one of my big like 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.480 regression second half players. I think he's not going to 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.560 maintain us up to ere. So give me Reagan's give 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:11.000 me the Reagans. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.520 Still listen to Q and A. If you got questions, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.440 We've got answers. Drop him in the chat. Here's one 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.600 from Shane trade Zach Gallen for Garrett Crochet. Who do 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.080 you like more rest of season? This is a tricky one. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.120 I ever thought we'd be here at a tricky one. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.080 I have my feelings, but I can't wait to hear 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:24.920 yours on this one. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.160 I would go Crochet because I would too. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:30.200 I don't think. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.079 I just don't think Crochet is going to be limited 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.440 at all at this point. I feel very confident. So 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:41.240 I did some CBS hits this past week, and I 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.480 did one yesterday, and we were talking about the second half, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.240 and they're asking who is the player at the trade deadline, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:49.960 the biggest player to be traded, And I think there's 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.720 a lot of guys on the table. There's actually trade 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.840 rumor right now that's out that the Mariners and the 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.559 Rays are talking. They've been talking about Eastack Pradies for 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.160 a long time. Radio Rosearina might be on there. I 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.440 think there's a lot of in theory guys. The one 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.319 I feel confident about is Garrett Crochet. Like I said, 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.920 Garrett Crochet because I think he will be traded. He's 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.480 the number one war pitcher in baseball, number one in 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.120 strikeout so far, and like, if he's going to be traded, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.959 he's not going to be in any type of innings 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.480 limit here. So Zach Gallen has underperformed like he had 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.360 those first two starts when he came off of injury. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.040 Then the fastball kind of tapered back down. He's getting 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.319 just really funky with his pitch, mixed stuff. Right now 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.520 he's getting a hit. I think Garrett Crochet is kind 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.160 of an elite territory, so yes, I would take him 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:35.880 over Gallon. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.800 All right, let's play a little game here, Welsh, I 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.280 got a game for you. I was looking at some 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.560 eras and ops's. I want to get your take on 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.680 if they can get better here in the stretch runt 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.600 of the season all start of Dansby Swanson eighty seven 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.640 games ops of six thirty two Bloch. He's also hitting 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.920 two twelve. Is there any improvement coming for Dansby Swanson 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.280 or is this a guy that is just uh, you know, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.280 I said to the time this was a weird signing 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.000 for the cub I did not think it was the 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.320 best use of their money. He's been okay for the 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.959 most part, but I don't think he is a great player. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.880 Swanson nine homers thirty one rb odd. You think he 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.680 picks things up in the second half, yes, or now. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.000 I think he improves, but I don't think he's awesome. So, like, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.679 here's the deal. He's hitting two twelve and that's not good. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.920 So it was calling Carol for the record, by the way, 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.160 with a six thirty five ops, they're like right neck 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.680 and neck. So I assume you would say Carol over 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.720 Swanson has the better chance to pick things up. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.839 Yeahah, yeah, absolutely yeah, Like I uh, for Swanson, the 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.400 improvement is just that he will be better, but I 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.280 don't I don't know if it'll still be relevant. He's 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.400 got a two just about a two to fifty expected 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.880 batting average. He does have a career high in his 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.760 hard hit rate, and his barreling is just about the same. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.840 Those are a couple of metrics i'd put together to 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.360 look and just go, okay, Well, he's also performing pretty 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.720 well against fastballs and breaking pitches. He will probably find 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.600 some type of a stride, but I don't think it's 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.720 going to be anything that I that's probably not replaceable, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.280 even maybe on the wire, like if you know Luis 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.800 Roumandfo when he's back healthy, like I'd rather have him 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.000 than Danzby Swanson. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.440 Here's another one, Androsamenez eighty nine games played so far 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.559 this year, five homers, forty five RBI, hitting just two 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.000 fifty two ops six forty three. Again, he's either some 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.840 of the worst ops's of goll qualifiers in Major League 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.920 Baseball six forty three. That's pretty paltry. He doesn't have 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.320 fifteen steals. Is a men as a bylow for you? 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.040 I am going to go on the BI low, Yes, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.520 simply because I think this team is really really hot. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.240 He ended July two hitting two ninety five. June took 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.000 him way down, but he had three Actually every single 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.120 month besides June he had hit over two sixty, which 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.760 is a definite positive. And he has had three or 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.800 more stolen bases every month except July. But also, just 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.280 like you know that ballpark that I was doing this 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.720 in my defense, by the way, just a funny little 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.280 anecdotal thing. I was on the road a wire yesterday 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.079 with James Anderson and we were doing first year player 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.840 stuff and this whole like, hey, guys, it's probably Travis 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.800 Bazana and Charlie Condon. It seems like it's only Charlie 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.760 Condon for every single person that I see. Condon is 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.120 the number one guy in Colorado for first year player 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.240 and Bazan is the other guy. But I'm bringing this 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.680 up because in some of the defense I talked about 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.520 how that right field has become better for hitters. It 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.640 is actually the number one home run ballpark factor for 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.640 left handed hitters in baseball. In the number one the 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.400 most homers have been hit by left handed hitters in Cleveland. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.120 So I'm just saying overall, from a ballpark factor of perspective, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.600 that destination has become a better place to hit. So 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.120 I think you can run yourself into a few more homers. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.920 I think he's going to continue to keep stealing bases. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.480 I think there's some upside on the bat still. So yeah, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.920 I think Hamena that really any most of the guardians 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.640 are really good byes right now. Like, I'm still into 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.760 Josh Naylor and everything, so yes, I think Kamenez is 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.120 a buye. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:58.360 I have a few more to throw at you on 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.600 the hitting side, but first let's talk your Carlos off 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.240 the ledge. Would you keep Helio Ramos or grab Rhys Hines? 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.720 I think I know the answer, but help Carlos here. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.280 I would keep Ramos. I still think Ramos as Reese 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.520 is like going crazy? 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:12.440 Is going crazy? 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.800 I just like I will be shocked if it holds 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.160 in the second half. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.199 Yeah, I agree, Cody's talking about Condon, which a guy 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.040 we broke down the show. I am not nearly the 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.440 Condon guy everybody else is. We'll see if I'm riding 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.679 wrong over the long term, I'd get the Colorado thing, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.600 but whatever, Colorado doesn't feel like what she used to be. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.720 A couple more here, I want to throw out Glabor Torres. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.400 Eightalm runs, thirty five ARBA hitting two thirty one, A 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.360 six fifty four ops. Clearly has been a huge disappointment 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.040 for the New York Yankees this year. Do you believe 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.400 that Glaber Torres had a hot streak in him? Because 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.839 this was a player just last year that everybody was 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.440 super excited about and very anxious to draft this year. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.880 And it's weird. This is a contract year for him too, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.960 if memory serves and things a kind of fallen apart here, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.800 So can he save his free agency and save his 0:13:58.840 --> 0:13:59.480 second half? 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.959 You maybe want to do that, like do you believe it? A? 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.760 Thank God love? 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.839 By the way, I would get craft for singing on 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.079 the show, I just want to point out, well, she's 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:09.640 now sung twice on the show, so don't give me 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.800 a lot anymore for me singing on the showing a. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.360 Lot people give you crap for it. We sing all that, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.520 but you, I will say, one disaster of putting you 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.560 and I together. We're both like singers, and we're probably 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.600 like the top end of people that want to sing 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:28.680 on podcasts one of one of one of a plural way. No, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.440 I'm not. I'm not super optimistic. Could it happen, sure, absolutely, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.280 But everything has just been bad and this is like 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.600 a total me wrong type of guy too. Like the 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.920 profile changed last year came in the strikeouts lowering and 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.120 him not getting ate up by sliders, and that's completely 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.920 regressed this year. His strikeout rate is actually the second 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.640 worst of his career right now, there's no real expected 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.160 stats in his favor. He has a career, a second 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.720 career worst in his barreling. He's hitting balls way less 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.960 hard and all all he's doing is just off of anything, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.640 is off of fastballs. Right now, he cannot hit breaking pitches, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.800 so he just needs to change of scenery. But I'm 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.480 not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna buy into labor 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:10.240 in the second half. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.520 Switch around to the pitching side. Kevin Gosmin sitting at 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.160 a four or five zero era. Last year, he was 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.400 sitting at a three one six over thirty one starts. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.040 This year, the whip is at one point three to 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.360 one the year before one point eight one. Goslin's been 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.080 one of the steadiest guys in MLB. He's made three 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.400 straight years of thirty one or more starts. I was 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.440 gonna say thirty. That's like giving him enough credit. Thirty 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.800 one or more starts. This year he has been spotty. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.680 I think, to say the least, Kevin Gossman find some 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.320 sort of stability here in the stretch run. Or is 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.000 Kevin Gospin a guy too that maybe some contender kind 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.520 of knocks on the doors the blue Jays, you know, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.920 feel like they're kind of out of it. It's interesting 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.840 because Gossman Gosman of twenty twenty two, twenty three, any 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.720 of these last couple of years would be an absolute changer. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.360 But the gospel we've seen this year doesn't look like 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.920 anything except a guy who's just grossly inconsistent. What do 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.520 you make a Gosmin's first half, you know, slash a 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.560 little bit more, and what do you think he could 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.440 do for everybody in the second half of the season. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.560 Yeah, I'm not a big buyer on him. Looking here, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.880 that fastball has just been bad, just dead red middle 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.680 this year. It's got an almost three hundred batting average 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.640 against an expected batting average that's quite a bit higher. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.200 The same thing has happened with the splitter. It's a 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.520 two oh seven but a two forty two expected. Those 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.320 are both worse than last year. Split fingers a little 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.520 bit more on the zone. Four seam has been higher 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.080 in the zone. And guess what, he's a two pitch pitcher. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.120 That equates to eighty eight percent of his pitches. Otherwise 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.920 he throws a slider. I don't know. Expected spat stats 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.840 don't say a whole lot he has not been a fishing. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.200 His strikeouts are down, and his four and a half 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:53.160 ERA hasn't expected era worse over five right now? So 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.680 can he be better? Sure, there's a track record he 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.120 just had. His two starts in July were really good. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.560 Am I gonna buy him? No? I don't think so. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.400 I think he's just going to be inconsistent. 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:05.840 It's so weird. I mean, he's always been a two 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.399 pitch pitch. Everybody's been dominating, So I don't understand why 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:09.560 overnight those. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.560 Pictures have become but those pictures become more inefficient. That's 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.760 the same thing happened with like Christian Javier, where Christian 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.680 Javier dominated that one year, then all of a sudden 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.879 it was like, oh, well, if one of them doesn't work, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:19.720 you're screwed. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.679 Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. In terms of 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.199 looking at closer spots too, is there anybody that you 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.160 think has been sort of, I don't know, a struggle 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.000 bust this year in terms of the closer job that 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.760 people should be worried about in the second half, if 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.560 anyone getting replaced in your opinion, when you're starting to 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.720 look ahead, or as we also say too, this is 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.080 a great opportunity to start adding some guys in some 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.960 bullpens speculatively before trade deadlines. Are you adding a set 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.080 up guy in Oakland? Are you adding set up guys 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.080 in other spots to potentially take over for saves and 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.480 maybe August September get some cheap saves in those rotal leagues. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.280 Yeah, I mean one guy had been at well they 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.080 were uh well, yeah, one guy had been adding was 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.280 justin Martinez. It But that's kind of contingent on the 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.720 Diamondbacks moving Paul Seawald. I think he would move into 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.919 the closer spot a really cheap one. Tanner Scott's going 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.600 to get traded by the Marlins and that might leave 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.919 aj Puck back in because they moved him back to 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.159 that bullpen roll. So maybe he gets some saves. So 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.239 that might be one of those. Yeah, And I do 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.199 think there's gonna be some guys that also lose it, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.919 maybe the Phillies spot. I know Phillies have been like 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.040