WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 16th, 2024 (EP. 791) 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.280 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.600 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.760 Make sure if you make your wagers, you make them 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:15.920 over at our sponsor Bet three six five Bet five bucks, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.079 get one hundred and fifty and bonus bets with that 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.040 promo code. Leading Off, It's me Joey p and of 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.480 course the Welsh fresh off a home run from Mike 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.400 Trout from the Wheel Welsh. The wheel was the gift 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.000 that gave last night. I couldn't believe it, yet at 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:34.520 the same time, it felt like there was a little 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.159 magic in that spin yesterday and here we are. You 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.720 are back up trending in the home run board. How 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.000 does it feel to give up everything to fate? I 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.479 have done this before. I hate to say, I've done 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.839 this before with wheels. I've done it with We did 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.560 a thing called the Coin one year with betting where 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.920 we flipped coins for football picks and it literally was 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.400 really good for like two weeks. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:55.880 Listen. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.520 I said it on the show. We spun the wheel. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.680 Everybody had fun with it. But I said, you guys 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.760 don't understand the power of the wheel. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.520 I promised you didn't understand it. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.520 I clipped it and tweeted it last night, and sure enough, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.240 I didn't even see the home run happen. I was 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.520 doing something. I looked down at my phone and it 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.199 was the wheel. The wheel, Mike Trout. You guys got 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.040 to experience the power of the wheel. So the wheel 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.600 is back for another round today. Even though I questioned, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.320 what do we do if the wheel works? Do we 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.240 move off and do I make the pick? Or do 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.760 we continue with the wheel. But Joey kind of thought 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.080 we continue with the wheel. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.319 I think it continue with the wheel. If it ain't broke, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.480 don't fix it. I think if the wheel gives you 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.760 a home run, you take it and you pay respect 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.480 and homage to the wheel. Let's pay respect and homage 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.399 to our Penis and Cracker. Jacks Lee Gie, a good 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.160 friend of the show, can't be their lot to get 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.800 this question, though, wants some us to answer. It sounded 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.960 ridiculous a few weeks ago. But should I bench Bregman 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.760 for Michael Bush at third base? It doesn't sound crazy 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.800 to me. Michael Bush is red hot and another home 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.160 run yesterday. I would do it. And I'm the biggest 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.360 and well show this Alex Bregman guy there is I'm 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.720 not worried at all. Whatever gets a day off, not 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.280 a big deal. But look, Welsh, as far as I'm concerned, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.240 if Bush is hitting, you play Bush, what do you think? 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.200 Yeah, you gotta roll with it right now. I mean, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:10.480 he is hot as hot can be. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.640 And I said, he's gonna come down, and that's where 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.720 you know you're really gonna be tested. But at the 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.040 end of the year, I think when we look categorically, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.760 you're gonna be in a good spot. Bogin and I 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.240 actually yesterday we're talking a lot about this, and you know, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.800 I was really hitting home. We were talking about this 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.200 on itl like he's I think he's gonna be a 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.280 top one hundred guy, and I think that's gonna manifest 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.079 from what the total stats look. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.000 Like at the end of the year. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.560 In comparare, he asked me a really great one, Joe, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.160 who would you rather rest of season Michael Bush or 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.960 Nolan Jones. And now one's tough because Nolan Jones has 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.280 the speed department in but he has been pretty atrocious lately, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.320 Like from a now perspective, a. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.679 Good weekend though, he went, You'll like he's starting to 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.400 come out of it. He had a good weekend in Toronto. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.359 So from a perspective, you could go with the Bush. Yeah, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.000 you could go with Bush now. But rest of the 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.120 season it's a bigger question. Rest of the season nights 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.120 still go Nolan Jones. But it's not crazy Cooda. Dakota 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.240 Harrison new subscriber loves the channel. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.919 Of course you do, Dakota. I have received an offer 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.359 listen to this for Tanner Howck for Kirby or Max Freed. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.280 I mean, if you can get Kirby right now, Dakota, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.079 make that deal right Welsh, I mean, why are we 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:16.799 even talking here? 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.600 Wait, they get one of those two for how or 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.400 Freed for how or they want your your. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.400 They received an offer for Tanner How that they roster it, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.359 says I roster how because again it's almost too good 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.000 to be true. You take it, you take it, you 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.320 run like get you. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.400 Go, get Kirby. I watched Kirby start last night. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.960 You know he got got a little bit, little bit 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.600 on the runs, but six strikeouts, he was still pumping 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.720 ninety six, laid into the game that pin point command. God, 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.920 I'm forgetting the batter who it was, But he threw 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.800 this back door slider on the outside corner, and that, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.720 to me, I wanted to clip. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:54.760 It if I could. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.080 Baseball makes it really super easy by the way, to 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.400 like get their you know, clips and share it online. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.800 Good job. But I wanted to clip. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.600 That because that's like the exact exact thing I'm talking 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.800 about with Kirby in that command. That's elite level stuff 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.040 as he is getting into his own. So if you 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.560 could trade ten or how to get George Kirby, by god. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.040 You go do it. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.960 Yeah, this is like the easiest move of the year. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.080 All right, let's get to some of the other headlines here. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.960 We did Mike Trout two for five of the homer 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.240 Mike Bush, our boy, Mikey Bush, five straight games with 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.880 a homer. I mean, that's incredible. I think it's Merle 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.760 Kelly too, our boy Merle. Aaron Nola was terrific. You know, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.960 the strikeout prop was high yesterday and Nola hadn't really 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.440 delivered on a high one yet. And I faded it, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.440 yes or I didn't touch it. I didn't bet the under, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.080 but I didn't touch it. And of course he goes 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.640 out there strikes out nine and seven third of. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.920 Course, because I put him in my trade video. I'm 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.960 out on him. I will say it was the Rockies. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.760 I just want to point out, like this, my was 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.120 for me. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.599 That's why I was opportunity, That's why the number was 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.320 really high. And I thought after Reese's starts, like, okay, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.080 well maybe it'll be like a seven or something. It 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.680 was eight and a half or sorts of eight. I 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.600 was like, you know what, and he went over it anyway, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.920 but still too close to call bounce back starts. Yesterday 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.520 talked about Kirby, you mentioned it. I know the era 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.000 is still at six and a half. I don't care. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.240 Joe musk Grove three runs and six in things much 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.400 better start for him against the Brewers. By the way, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.000 the Brewers look like, you know, they're dealing with a 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.480 yellowish back injury now then who knows what that's gonna 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.640 lead to. That's bad news for them. And Zach Efflow 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:19.919 has been a little up and down so far to 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.680 start the year. A good start, no runs and six 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.160 and a third for him. Who's against the Angels, but 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.680 he didn't qualify for the decision. But good to see Kirby, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.919 musk Grove an Efflin all look good? What did not 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.280 look good? Yesterday? Welsh? We ended the show, we had 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.880 our meetings there. It is all of a sudden, get 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.800 a message I think it was. Was it from Kelly? 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.800 I think it was the Wonky Penguin dropped it in 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.440 our little slack chat about the Marlins optioning Max Meyer 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.440 to triple A. So Edward Cabrera coming up, and I thought, Okay, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.279 maybe it's just like kind of a roster move situation 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.840 or whatever it is. But still, this is literally the 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.520 best picture on your roster right now. He's got a 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.400 two to one two era over seventeen things in three starts. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.760 He's already come back from Tommy John this babying of 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.599 pictures did and work with Perez. So like, I don't 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.400 I don't understand here what's going on? So explain this 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.359 to me, like I'm a five year old Welsh. This 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.320 is very frustrating, and I have my heared a lot 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.760 of places and I was, you know, looking forward to 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.359 actually playing him in fantasy baseball. Why are we worrying 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.240 about innings on the sixteenth of oh, I should say 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.120 even yesterday on the fifteenth of April. Why are we 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.080 worried about innings for a team that's not going to 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.360 compute anyway where you could shut this guy down in 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.920 August for all week here Welsh, make it makes sense 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.400 because I have lost my mind. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.440 Oh yeah, that's an interesting thing on the back end. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.280 I hadn't thought about it. It's like you're not going 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.000 to be in it, and you could just shut him down. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.280 And there's theer cushions. I hadn't thought about that. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.080 I was like, God, Ramsey shut him down. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:42.960 Well, if you didn't hear shut him down, if you 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.800 didn't hear skip there, he's got to learn to throw 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:46.360 a two seamer. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.479 So that's why he's got to go. He's been super awesome. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.640 But they he literally said like, yeah, we want to 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.200 go down to the minors and you know, get a 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:53.280 two seamer to kind of. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.640 Help that stuff. Uh, we could probably do that at 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.640 the majors. It's it's lame stuff. It's back. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.440 I wish I had a great answer for you. I 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.320 wish I could explain it to you. I'm gonna probably 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.159 talk like a six year old trying to figure it out. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:10.440 But logically, this team doesn't know how to maintain pictures 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.200 in their arms. This is like a proven track record now, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.520 So my only assumption is the babying of babies. They 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.040 pushed Uri Perez a little bit last year, if you remember, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.800 they actually like you know, they sent him. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.120 Down and they kind of pushed them toward. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.880 But maybe that's what's in the back of their head. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.040 Also knowing this, by the way, maybe in the grand 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.520 scheme of and I'm not trying to make excuses, but 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.000 in the grand scheme of like maintaining the arm, it's 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.400 better for them instead of having him go six all 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.040 the way through August and shut him down, is to 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.880 pare him down and have him doing these three inning 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.520 stints throughout the season and then shut him down towards 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.520 the back half of the year for his maintenance. You 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.080 never know, but all I know is they do everything 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.640 wrong with pitcher. Hell, so they're going extra crazy. But 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.680 when they said that he needed to go down and 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.560 do it two seemer, that was like, don't talk to 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.440 us like we're complete morons. Don't treat us like, oh, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.960 you sent him down because he had to work on 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.600 some stuff when he's absolutely been dominating. That was the 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.360 most offensive, stupid claim. And it sucks because he had 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.680 looked awesome. This guy coming off with Tommy John. I 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.360 I almost put him in the cell video because he's 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.280 not going to get a whole, big old set of innings. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.120 But now it's worthless because he got sent down to 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.240 the miners, so actually opportunity to April. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.080 He's made three starts like this isn't July, and I 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.160 get it, like I understand. Yes he's not long for 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.440 the season. Yes he's gonna have limitations within games and 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.240 overall in the workload, but it just I just I 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.400 can't wrap my mind around this at all. And look, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:42.840 he will be back up. I think we all know 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.280 that to be sure, but holy crap, this one's just annoying. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.480 Jerry Nelson, our good friend Jerry in the chat, Joey 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.360 p I'm eating a chicken parm sandwich and listening to 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.480 you guys. I'm jealous. I wish I was a chicken parmsan. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.719 I'm starving and join. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.080 In the morning for me, Joe, It's. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.439 Never too early for a chicken palm riddle time, all right, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.160 speaking of early little Sterry Rowiz news a little early 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.280 in the show today, pinch it Homer for them. He 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:10.840 gets called up and they let him pinch it and 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.559 he goes yard, So that's fun. Jordan Montgomery, after getting 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.000 obliterated this past weekend, will make his season debut for 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.880 the Dbacks on Friday against the Giants. Well, she excited. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.400 I am very very excited. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.079 I don't care at all about those triple am I 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.800 especially don't care about like PCL numbers. I don't care 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.880 about what he did in the miners. I am very 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.400 excited about that. This is a really great defense that's 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.520 going to be there supporting him. Hopefully the offense keeps 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.880 picking up. But Jordan Montgomery definitely going to be a 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.360 value from where he was drafted. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.800 Falling, falling, falling because he hadn't signed. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.040 A little bit dicey in his very first start, you know, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.280 because the innings and what he did in spring. This 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.600 is one of those guys kind of similar to Blake Snell. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.720 Everyone was freaking out about Blake Snell. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:51.600 Oh give up. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.680 Seven runs and oh my gosh. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.400 Well this is still. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.920 Ramp up period for him. This is like his spring training. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.679 I'm good. I'm I'll buy opportunities on Blake Snow right 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.240 now on dirt cheap, because he doesn't look good early on. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.000 He's ramping up. But put that over to Jordan Montgomery 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.000 as well. I don't expect him to go bonkers right 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.800 out the gates or anything like that, but yeah, he's 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.360 gonna be a value with the Diamondbacks. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.200 Kevin has a question, should I pick up a story 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.560 of Ruiz and drop Whitten Mirfield? 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.760 I think so absolutely estary. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.760 They send him down and they did the like you 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.800 need to learn to hit, and he did all of that. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.360 He got on base, hit a home run, so he's cured. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.600 I'm sure he'll be a thirty homer guy. Now, God, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.600 I am salty today about this Max Meyer thing. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.160 I'm pissed. I'm happy about the wheel, happy about your 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.640 home run, but I am salty about the Max Meyer thing. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.480 All right, let's get to the rookie. Lookie Welsh. Jack 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.319 Lder gets the call he's gonna start on Thursday. Here's 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.600 then the thing, this is a very controversial prospect. He's 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.760 an EPO baby. He was a great college pitcher that 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.880 hasn't translated to the minor leagues until recently. So the 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.760 question is are we buying the switch being flipped here 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.920 that he has now gotten it. All of a sudden, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.560 the lights have gone on and Jack Lder is going 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:58.960 to fulfill the prophecy. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.760 I am buying it. And it's funny you mentioned the 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.360 NEPO baby. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.480 I was just on the Eyes Have It podcast on 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.880 Baseball HQ with Chris Blessing and we were telling this 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.640 story about how excuse me, how Chris, myself and Eno 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.199 were on the backfields here and Blessing comes over and 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.880 taps me on the shoulder and he goes, yo, look 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.640 and we were watching these Royals prospects and Jack Lighter 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.400 is on this side field throwing, and his dad is there. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.400 Al Lighter is there, and he has taken a pretty obvious, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.280 like personal touch into his development and the Rangers they 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.720 wanted to go in a different direction north south, east 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.920 west pitching, and it's kind of been a poll for 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.760 the last couple of years with Lighter. He had a great, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.920 great collegiate career and power, fastball, good breaking ball, but 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.760 it's been all over the board. The command hasn't been there. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.320 In fact, Jack Lighter, when COVID ended and they did 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.800 this Royals Rangers, was the first baseball game that was 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.760 finally going to be played, or maybe it wasn't even 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.000 maybe it was on the Baseball Agreement when there was, 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.839 you know, maybe be a shutout whatever, and it was 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.000 Lighter versus Bobby Witt, and you saw some command. I'm 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.079 saying all this to say, like the stuff has always 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.720 been there, but he hasn't been able to put the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.040 tools together, and that fastball has been inconsistent, which doesn't 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.800 set anything else up. But they have been very very 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.360 direct with him, and we've seen the results. We've seen 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.800 the results this year where you've seen big the induced 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.439 vertical break, the way his pitch is coming out looks bigger. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:25.160 The fastball has commanded better sitting ninety six, his secondaries 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.679 are working better. My deal with Jack Lighter, I have 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.840 been stubborn about him because I think he has the 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.480 workings of being like a front ish line type of starter, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.840 and it just hasn't come together. And sometimes it takes 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.560 an entire minor league career into the majors for it 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.920 to work, and it has worked over the last couple 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.319 if his command can hold. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.760 Think he has the type of stuff to. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.240 Be a pretty dang good starter in the major So 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.160 I'm kind of a by on Lighter, but I'm not 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.560 the biggest buy on any rookie pitcher. Very very early 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.200 on I don't know how this is gonna go with lighter, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.400 but I'm encouraged by all the work and i think 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.360 that's a positive sign more than it is like a mirage. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.560 And I put him in my prospect article from whatever 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.160 two weeks ago. Is a guy that you should pay 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.360 attention to because he's going to get an opportunity soon. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.040 What is the matchup on Thursday. I'm completely forgetting the 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:12.440 wrong I'll. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.000 Look at the matchup. You talk about the Dodgers because 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.560 they're bringing up somebody to pitch as well, so you 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.000 talk about that. I'll look at the matchup here for later. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.120 Yeah, the hit actually Andy PayPass, that's the other big 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.280 call up which is really exciting. Andy Peyhas is a 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.679 fascinating dude who was just like he was this big 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.920 I'm gonna say it was kind of an overweight prospect 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.800 from a long time ago with big power. Completely retransformed 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.240 his body and he has looked awesome. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.760 In fact, I kind of told this online. You know, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:39.760 you know that picture. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.000 We don't like to talk about your Verbauer, who had 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.000 that little showing in the minor leagues. Andy Peyhas when 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.680 he went up against the Dodgers was the dude that 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:50.560 absolutely dominated him. I mean, his ability to make contact 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.840 and fight in at bats has been fantastic astic, and 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.800 so far this minor league season, he's had five homers, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.680 two stolen bases, sub twenty percent strikeout rate and hitting 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.880 over three seventy. He still has the raw power once 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.280 his body came back to being more fit, he still 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.160 has the bat speed, if not more, that was always there. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.280 And I'm really encouraged that he's gonna be up. He's 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.400 a pay attention to type of guy because he's gonna 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.679 hit like way low in the lineup. But I don't 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.640 know if he'll come up soon. But I do love 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.880 me some Andy Payas, and I do love me some Jackliders. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.160 So these are both two that I'm I've watched these 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.000 guys for a long time, so I'm pretty excited about 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:26.880 all Right, Well, it's the Thursday matchup. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.640 Oh you're gonna love this. It's your best friend Ken 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.920 to Maida against the Tigers. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.920 I love it. You know what I'm down. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.960 I'm down if you want to take some risks and 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.600 maybe blow up your ratios. I'm down to play the 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:40.560 jack liber again to. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.360 Maida, I mean, that's like the perfect. Welsh guy Mitchell 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.120 Parker beat the Dodgers in his MLB debut yesterday, five 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.080 innings to run, Ball struck out four, Spencer Aarraghetti was 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.320 charged for two runs of five. K's a better outing 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.040 for him, although I mean anything was an improvement on 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.720 that first one was a lost today more on the 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.840 Atlanta Braves though they lost to the Braves yesterday. But 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.240 again more of the Braves today because Hunter Brown HOI 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.760 model and twenty three hits and seven innings so far 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.320 in three starts, like this could be this could be 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.120 the end of Hunter Brown. Today. We're gonna talk more 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.400 about that when we get to the beding today because 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.640 I want to take advantage of that one. I am 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.760 just honed in, zeroed in on that when Jackson Curio 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.520 went two for four with a two run homer and 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.520 Louis Barland not a good start for Louie eleven hits, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.800 two homers for Earn. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.120 Lost like you talk about him, like you know him, 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.320 like loe ooee, that. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.760 Wasn't the best start because of Louis. You know, it's 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.320 all right, don't worry about you. Come over. You have 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.440 some Canoli's, you have a little little espresso you relax 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.560 a little bit, maybe next time. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.680 What's a canole I think I've had? Isn't it like 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.840 just like frosting? No, No, like I've had before. I mean, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:45.920 I've been here. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.240 Why am I even doing the show? 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.400 Isn't it like us good thing rolled with the frosting 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:51.920 or something? 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.240 What's the thing? Joey, Joey Cannoli? 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.440 What's but I'm just saying, explain to Canoli to me, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:15:59.920 like I'm. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.920 Saying, you don't know what a conan? No? 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.760 No, Like I know what it is, but like I could, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.000 I obviously clearly could not describe a. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.400 It's a dessert, the Italian dessert. It's the fried dough 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.720 that's rolled, right, you ll okay? Well, you first you 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:18.840 roll the dough over, you fry it and it becomes 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.680 like a little shell, and then you pipe in various 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.400 sort of Italian cream. Usually you've got chocolate chips on 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.600 the ends, or at least inside. I think it's always 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.640 better when people do it all the way through. You 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.680 put the chocolate chips in the cream, and then you 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.400 pipe the whole Thing's supposed just the chocolate chips on 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.960 the end, because you want the chocolate chips everywhere. Sometimes 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.720 they do some like of the zest of like orange 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.120 or lemon. I'm not crazy about that necessarily. I like 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.600 it old school style. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:49.440 The lotion on the skin or else. It come on, man, no. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.880 Not like I just I've had a conoli once or 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:53.800 twice in my life. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.080 But I know you're in Arizona, and I know it's hard. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.120 I know Olive Garden is like the most Italian thing 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:03.000 album sticks. Oh my god, it's delicious. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:03.640 Can I do this? 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.280