WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 13th, 2022 (Ep. 488) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.120 Sprinkles of kwan, Let's play ball. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.480 Welcome in everybody a Leading Off right here on Fantasy Pros. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.480 It is me Joey p Joe Piezapia and we're happy 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.680 to have here again on Leading Off sponsored by Bett MGM. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.080 And my host today is the Mayor, Mike Mayor, who 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.920 really supports this entire show. I'm just a sham, I 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.960 am just a front man. Mike Mayor basically powers this 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.880 entire program, in this entire Fantasy Pros site. It seems 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.120 like this week too, with our boss off, so Mike 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:42.280 Mayor doing double duty. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:43.600 He's hosting, He's doing. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.600 Lots of things, and very successful with that because he 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.320 called get another home run, right, you've got two on 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:49.920 the board. 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.160 I have zero. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.440 Still I started off slow last year, so this kind 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.040 of feels like maybe I'm just the guy who doesn't 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.360 like the month of April. But Mike Mayor, it's great 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.200 to have you back on the program today, my friend, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:00.000 how are you? 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.319 It's great to be back. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.680 And like you're saying, I didn't remember, I didn't realize 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.760 when I agreed to do the show this week that 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.479 my boss would be off this week. And so I'm 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.840 regretting that decision a little bit right now, but. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.120 Happy to be here. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.120 And I may power like the stats behind the show, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:16.560 but I know I can just put whatever I want 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.200 in this sheet and you're just gonna run with it anyway. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.880 You don't even have to look. You're like Ron Burgundy. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.320 You'll just like go yeah, oh, yeah, oh. I will 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.800 totally read whatever's in the show sheet, right or wrong. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.000 I just take it. I just assume it's correct. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.520 By the way, you have one fan here, Riley Hoffin says, hell, yeah, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.840 it's Mayor So obviously your cousin, So. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.720 Kiley is also the power behind the dingerbot in the discord. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.520 Ah well, Riley, you just went up with just one 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.760 small tick. Then, in my book, also small is finally 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.800 we get some good baseball advice for payre oh Man. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.720 This is a tough crowd. By the way, today we're 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.600 gonna go through our home run calls. Well, later we 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.120 got some props for you. We're gonna talk dfs too. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.160 It's a very weird slate on Fan Duel today. The 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.480 way they broke it up. It's we'll get to that later. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.600 But let's art with some of the good things that 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.640 we saw last night. And if you listened to us 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.560 yesterday and you were on draftings and you paid Hazu's 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.000 Lozardo along with Alex Cobb, like mayor, I think we 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.760 did okay last night with that pairing. What do you 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.560 think of those two guys performances last night? 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:15.680 Yeah, they did really well. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.880 I don't have you can't get you can't get analysis 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:19.959 like that anywhere, folks. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.680 Yeah, they did really well. Like I was trying to 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.240 think of, yeah, you know they're they're good, They're good 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.359 at baseball. Lizardo is I don't think I have any 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.600 Lizardo shares. I do have some Cob shares because I 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.880 wanted to get some of that Giants magic. And of 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.920 course his velocity is already up, so he was like 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.000 sitting at ninety five last night, you know, just with 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.560 whatever the Giants do to like make these you know, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.480 these pictures better. And he had some good metrics, which 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.600 which makes sense is why the Giants like went after 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.440 him the off season. And then Lozardo is just a 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.600 wild card, so yeah, he was going for because of 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.720 how he finished last season. He was going richer for 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.400 my you know, too early for my taste in some drafts. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.040 I don't have any Lizardo shares. I do have some 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.120 cop shares, but twelve Trikkuds for Lazar, ten for Cobb. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.639 It's a pretty good night, very nice. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.640 Yeah, I've got Kabba sitting on my bench in my 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.840 home league this week, So there you go. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:08.280 Good stuff. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.800 But that's okay, that's okay because I. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.240 Well, it's hard. I've got Schureser, Verlander, Hunter Green in 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:14.840 that league. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.040 I have. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.320 Good that you can't. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.359 The team is so good. I was like, I can't 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.640 sit Max Scherzer for Alex Cobb. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.560 So we'll see how it goes. We'll see things go. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.840 All right, let's get some of the headlines from last night. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.280 We'll start with you Darvis shortest outing of his career 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.519 versus the Giants last night, and that same guy the 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.360 game with Alex Cobb. So first off with the Diamondbacks 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.920 was great, all right, you know, no hits there for 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.400 six things, and then yesterday one in two thirds, nine 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:41.040 earned runs. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.440 Is this a great opportunity to go buy you, Darvish everywhere? 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:45.240 I think it is? 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.400 What do you think I think it is? 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.560 I'd be a little scared. And you know, after that 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.720 first start against the Diamondbacks. You know, everyone was kind 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.320 of like, you know, is this him locked in or 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.160 is this just the Diamondbacks? And you know, since we're 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.920 gonna stream against the Diamondbacks every game pretty much this 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.760 entire season, and it was probably a little bit of both, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.040 and a little bit of both. Yesterday was about like 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.160 as bad as he has looked ever. I think I 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.160 saw it was like the shortest start of his career. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.800 Yeah, and uh, you know, look for you, Darvish. I 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.320 know he's no that year older, but he's done this 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.479 before and in early bad starts. Don't worry me. That's 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.039 not something. As long as the health is fine, that's 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.560 the only thing. And yeah, it should scare you. But 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.040 scared money don't make money. You gotta go in there. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.799 You gotta try, especially in a pitching marketing. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:29.320 Scared money don't make. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.279 It's a saying. But you could pretend I just made 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:31.520 it up. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.000 That's fine. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.479 Also say as Azuki, I didn't make this up. He 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.760 went deep twice yesterday through four games, getting four to 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.920 seventeen with three home runs, eight Ribby's four walks. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.200 He looks great. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.280 But I always caution everybody whenever you have somebody come over. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.279 In fact, earlier today I had was on Matt Williams show, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.360 Friend of Ours, Friend of the program here, and we're 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.560 talking about Suzuki, and I was talking about, well, you know, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.120 if you remember when Marcus Thames came back over from 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.479 playing in the international leagues, he came back and he 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.320 was a house on fire and then you found, as 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.240 you know, the problems he had. I remember Kasmat Tsui 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.599 getting off to a great start. Look, Suzuki might be 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.200 better than all those guys. But I think the point 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.800 I'm trying to make is this run that he's having 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.640 here is great, but I expect his best run to 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.560 be at the front of the season where people are 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.560 still new and they're just gonna challenge him with fastballs. Yes, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.000 it's a good matchup against the Pirates. Sure, we like 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.120 where things are going with all that, But when he 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.120 faces better pitching and there's more of a book on him, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:24.880 I start to worry. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.680 So I'll put this to you. What do you think 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.159 of Suzuki what you've seen so far? 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.760 Are you buying in or is this another guy too 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.680 perfectly sell high candidate in terms of what he's doing 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.039 so far? Maybe it's not sustainable. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.440 I think you can kind of say yes to all 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.440 of those things I am buying in. I am a 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.760 little concerned I would I don't. I mean, I'm sure 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.200 I would sell high depending on what the offer would be. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.080 But I'm kind of the opposite. I'm happy that he 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.279 started strong because of the worry is that, you know, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.159 he comes up when he struggles immediately and he just 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.800 looks lost. He's at least proving he can handle major 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.400 league pitching, even if they adjust to him. He kind 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:01.919 of showing that he can do this for now, and 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.680 he looks fantastic. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:05.520 He does. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.360 He does, there's no doubt about that. All right, let's 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.440 move on to another one here. Who else looks fantastic? 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.320 How about my boy Louis Robert? So Welsh is gone 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.560 because he doesn't get you know, he's gone the day 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.760 that I take my victory lap on Louis Robert, who's 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.080 got four stolen bases so already on this year. That's 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.680 the thing. My bold prediction was a thirty thirty year 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.840 from Robert. He's got four steals already. I'm loving this, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.400 and who knows, maybe off. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.360 To a good start with the MVP. What are your 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.080 thoughts on Louis Robert Homer and stole two bases yesterday. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:34.719 Not too shabby. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.680 He's got a three seventy five average and oh a 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.880 ten thirty seven ops. What are your thoughts on early 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:40.719 Robert that we've seen so far in a week. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:41.680 I love it. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.200 I'm also in an auction league with our good friend 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.960 Dan Harris, and it's like a semi keeper league where 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.320 you have to like keep people and then you have 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.280 a salary and decide whether you want to extend them 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.800 and stuff. I made one of the worst baseball decisions 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.000 of all time when I extended Kristin Yelich for. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.680 Forty four dollars out of two hundred dollars budget. So 0:06:58.760 --> 0:06:59.280 that was horrible. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.520 But I do have Luise Robert very excited, especially about 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.679 the four stolen bases. He's leading the league in stolen bases. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.400 Like you said about some other players, health is going 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.800 to be the concern, you know, is he going to 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.600 stay healthy for a full season? And what does a 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.040 full season from Louise Robert look like? And also you 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.360 mentioned Welsh's off for today for your Louise Robert Victory lab, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.360 He's also off after an zero for five Byron Bucks 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:22.760 to day. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.400 Yeah, I noticed that. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.440 It's kind of kind of an odd timing with all 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:27.840 of that, but I'll be sure to bring that up 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.200 to him. I'll be sure to sip my tea when 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.640 I do in my little Star Wars mug that I've 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:33.080 got today. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:34.360 Look he's he's a one. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.800 Of those forest stormtroopers with the speeder bikes. That's what 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:38.480 I got today. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.760 But also somebody. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.000 Fun things Where you are. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.120 I do I you know what, you sit here in 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.040 the office all day. You need a little bit of whimsy, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:46.960 That's what I say. So I've got a little I 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.800 got my Star Wars months. I've got one too, where 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.880 you pour it in there and all of a sudden, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.840 like all the lightsabers light up. That's pretty cool. Let's 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.000 take some questions for the peanuts and crackerjacks. Here's a 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.520 good one from mister Freeze. I'm in a twelve man 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.680 category league with two keepers. Just got offered a trade 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.240 where I received Wander Franco and Shane Bieber for trade 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.120 Turner and Luis Severino. Your thoughts, Mike Mayor on this one. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.200 While I set my tea. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.239 I think I would take it. I'm not as high 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:12.320 on Wander Franco. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.160 I always feel like I say his name weird as others, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.800 but Treya Turner, at least. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.200 Because you put a question mark at the end of it, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.640 Wonder Franco Franco Frank I don't know. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.559 Yeah, yeah I would. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.280 I would take this just because like, Franco plus Bieber 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.360 is more value than Turner plus Severino. Even though I 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.640 like Turner more and I'm not as high on Franco 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.079 as others. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.240 I agree, I am high on Wander Franco, and I 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.040 say it with authority, no question marks in my voice. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.600 Wanda Frankel. But yeah, I think that combination is a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.360 better combination. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.000 As much as I like trade Turner, You've got many 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.200 more years ahead, I think of Wander Franco. We got 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.079 like a decade of Wander Franco coming up, at least 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.960 the race things. So that's why they game all that money. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.720 Trey Turner, what you got another three four years? 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.000 Maybe? 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.480 I mean, if you can keep them forever, I mean, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.400 that's a wonder Franco's such a star, all right. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:02.240 He also is a star. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.280 Stephen Kwan when a new segment we like to call 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.880 your Daily Kwan, So Stephen Kuan has yet to have 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.640 a swing and miss through one hundred and fifteen pitches 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.120 that he's seen so far through Tuesday's games. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.400 You know, this is the lost art form of contact. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.840 And I like this. I like what Stephen Kwan brings 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.400 to the table. I know he's got a ceiling. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.400 Maybe he's a ten to ten guy at best, But 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.040 I think if you're in a points league and you 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.760 picked up Stephen Kwan, I think you just ride this 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.120 train as long as it lasts. But what do you 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.640 think about this Stephen Kwan run. It's the best first 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.319 year run I saw on MAB network since Jay Bruce, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.559 who is not necessarily a big contact guy, which was 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.480 kind of ironic, but one of the streakiest guys you'll 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.840 ever see in baseball, Right, Like remember the Jay Bruce 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.760 months where he'd look like at MVP and then months 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.360 where you're like, are they gonna send this guy down? 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.200 But Stephen Kwan, I mean, I keep saying in Points 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:54.320 league to ride this wave and. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.439 Rodo I get maybe he's kind of capped in a 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.240 certain degree, but he's gonna give you a batting average. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.120 So what do you make of the early Kwan We 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.880 talked about with Welsh yesterday, but I want to get 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.040 the Mike Mayer take on it. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.920 Yeah, I mean Welsh made a lot of good points. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.280 I feel like he was a little bit too Debbie 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.839 down there on Kwan. But like you said, like home 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.800 run steals, you're probably not gonna get a ton of 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.600 either one. But I mean batting average and just like 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.200 putting the ball in play right now, I mean, who 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.760 knows how long this is gonna gonna go for and 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.400 if the guardians excuse me, kind of like fall off. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.400 Maybe he does run a little bit more, Maybe he 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.800 does steal fifteen bases, because those bad teams tend to 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.640 let their runners run a little bit more because you 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.400 know who cares. So like I mean, there, we have 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.920 a lot of players, especially like this season, it seems 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.240 like that are going to be kind of like boom 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.200 or bust, like power guys with low average. If you 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.400 can sprinkle in a quan there and kind of like 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.440 build a perfect player with two players with you know, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.640 with his average and you know, maybe run some runs 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:48.440 and stolen bases. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.760 Take it. Let's have some fun and ride the magic. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.160 I like to sprinkle in some quan wherever I can. Oh, 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.199 go Quan sprinkle never. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.319 Never last year, by the way, and show Hey now 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.240 this year we have the Daily kwand we did. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.360 Have today in show Hey. Now it's your Daily Kwan, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:03.120 which I kind of like. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:03.760 I like the Quan. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.240 He always reminds me of Jerry maguire when people getting 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.080 juniors talking about the Kwan. I don't know if it's 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.959 the same spelling or not, but whatever, it's fine. Let's 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.480 go to Joe's Tough Guys. And again this Tough Guys 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.600 is you know, this crosses all genders and all platforms here, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.679 so I don't want to get into a pronoun argument here. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.680 But Alyssa Naked became the first female coach to take 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.760 an on the field appearance in a major league game yesterday, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.400 So congratulations to Alyssa. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:29.160 That's huge. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.160 It's very important the women in baseball. We saw earlier 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.160 a couple weeks actually last week, not a couple weeks. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.880 You know, last week we saw the Yankee manager. It's 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.280 just it's great to see baseball becoming more encompassing, more inclusive, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.280 and it's great to see the women in coaching in 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.440 the NFL and in Major League Baseball. I think it's fantastic. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.160 You're seeing the NBA, You're seeing all over the place, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.600 so it's great. So congratulations to Alyssa Naken. Also Alec 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.280 Boom because I'm gonna go back here because if you're 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.240 watching the Mets game last night, and I was, Alec 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.400 Bohm came up and pinch hit and got a standing 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.160 ovation from the crowd. However, I do want to mark 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.160 I'm pretty sure fifty percent of it was sarcastic. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:08.280 I'm I'm. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.880 I was watching the faces of the people, and I 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.920 saw some people like that's our guy. And then I 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.200 saw a bunch of other people who had probably been 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.520 in South Philadelphia for a few hours before the game 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:19.760 showing up and going. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.080 Oh yeah like that. So you take it for what 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:24.560 it's worth. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.400 But either way, it's I guess better to be sarcastically 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.720 applauded than not applauded at all. God knows I'm sarcastically 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.320 applauded every single day, so good for him. Fun facts 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.760 Albert Poohos hit his six hundred and eightieth home run 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.480 last night. Such a feel good story. Him being back 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.960 in Saint Louis makes me feel more warm and fuzzy, 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.600 and my Tom tum I like it. Wan So to 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.080 his hundredth home run last night, and Max Schrzer makes 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.680 his four hundredth career start today against the Phillies, so 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.960 that should be a good one. Nola and Sures are 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.840 going head to head. Let's talk about the sat heroes. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:58.360 Mayor ty Lowell, Tylor McGill, Taylor McGill, five and a 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.280 third five K's who needs Jacob de Gram That's all 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.280 I say. I mean, we have Tyler McGill. So what 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.320 do you make of him right now? I mean, because 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.959 to me, this is a dude that's gonna make twenty starts, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.520 probably at least the way the Spen's rotation is set up, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.480 I think there's a really good chance that's going to happen. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.360 Hlosi's up high. He's a big, strong kid. Showed you 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.520 last year he belonged in the big league, showed you 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.200 a good demeanor on the mound. Showalter seems to love him, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.880 has nothing but great things to say about him. So 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.520 what do you make of the early success for Tyler 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:28.199 the Terrible? 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.320 I'm very intrigued. I was not in. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.120 Sorry, I was not in on McGill. Like coming into 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.560 the season, I was kind of like, you know, like 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.600 pooh pooing him. And then I watched, like you, I 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.720 watched that start yesterday and it was impressive, despite his 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.959 like really strange wind up where he just stands there 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.000 and like takes like just like turns to the side 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.559 and then and then throws like he's gone out of 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.319 the stretch. He talked a little bit about he kind 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.600 of like he studied other pictures, like other like large people, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.800 large human beings like him, and learned how to gain 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.560 more velocity. And it looked like he's not like one 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.560 of those pitchers who's like really trying to like reach 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.600 back and you know, throw gas. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.600 Got good mechanics, very repeatable, easy mechanics is what I 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.160 look at, like I usually throwing. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.600 Gas, and it looks good he does. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.760 And I think, you know, whenever you're around Shureser and 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.160 de Gram and those guys and those kind of pitching minds, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.160 it's hard not to get better. I feel like, I mean, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.280 I think I kind of felt like watching Chris Bassett 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.160 too is like another notch for Chris Bassett that I 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:28.880 haven't really seen in Oakland. And that first start with 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.040 the Mets, I know it was on the first start. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.560 I know was the Nationals, but still I just got 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:32.680 a little excited about it. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.920 And it was a good juxtaposition to Zack Wheeler, whose 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.280 velocity was down yesterday. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.040 Now, Wheeler's a guy that I've been off, and you 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.560 know that I dropped him significantly in the rankings going 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.040 into the season. Anytime somebody whispers about a shoulder or anything, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.000 I'm out. I don't want to hear it. I don't 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.960 want to hear the whispers. I don't want them in 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.120 my head. I don't want them on my team. No good, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.720 no bueno. So keep an eye on that. Start making plans. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.120 Hey Zu's Lozardo, Hey Zeus. Twelve k's no decision. As 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.440 the Angels, we crushed that one. We crushed Alex Cobb. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.600 Matt Brash, we didn't give enough love to yesterday. He 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.240 may his major league debut against the White Sox. Six 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.680 k's for him. Who would you have rest of season 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.080 Matt Brash or Jesu's Lizardo. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.440 That's a tough one. Indeed. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.480 Yeah, I'd probably roll the dice on Lizardo, but I 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.760 would not do so confidently because he scares me. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.120 Because that badar is still in there. Somewhere there's. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.080 There's good Lozardo this bad Lizardo. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.920 I worry about the limitations on both, but I feel 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.160 like Lozardo has less because I don't know, Marlins have 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.960 less to prove. Like whatever, you want to go pitch today, Okay, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:40.440 go pitch. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.000 I got off in run support too. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.280 That is that is also true. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.400 But you know, also it's it's not gonna be fun 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.320 going up against the Angels for Brash and going up 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.640 against the Astros too. Not that the East is all 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.400 that easy either, but it's certainly close. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:56.760 It's very close. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:02.560 So you uh yeah, if you're in Peanuts and Crackerjacks, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.360 tell me who you want. You want Jesus Lozardo or 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.760 do you want Matt Brash? Give your justifications, put it 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.800 in the comments, and if you're watching the video, make 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.280 sure you smash the like button. Please again. 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