WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 12th, 2022 (Ep. 509) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:17.600 Yelich cycles through. Let's play ball, Welcome in, and everybody's too. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.599 Leading off right here on Fantasy Pros, brought to you 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.520 by Bett MGM, the King of sports books. It is me, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.200 Joey p joe Piezopia with me. Today is the Welsh, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.040 and of course it's you and we're talking all things 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.640 baseball for you today. We got a recap of the 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.400 games yesterday, look ahead to the games today, and a 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.440 little fun in between. Welsh. It's good to see you again, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.640 my friend. And how's your baseball and going? 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.720 It's going pretty good, my friend. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.000 I watched the multiple no hitters the other night, or 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.040 the attempted no hitters that I feel like I've been 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:49.960 ruining by the way. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:51.120 We had one. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.519 Trying to remember who it was now I'm completely forgetting, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.800 but it was some days ago and I tuned in 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.840 immediately lost it. Verlander had it, immediately lost it as 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.000 I tuned in. I think he got one out and 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.440 then boom and then actually getting a no hitter. Go 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.000 through with Redebt. Me's was fun, a little bit of 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.240 cycle action. It always brings up actually one of my 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.240 favorite questions, even though I know this is a couple 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.000 of days old, but I haven't been here. One of 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.080 my favorite questions of what is you know, more unique 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.320 no hitters or cycles? As Christian Yelich hit for the cycle. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.520 It's one of my favorite debates because Bagman has always 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.400 completely dismissed cycles, and I actually think cycles are really 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.520 important and really exciting and about as unique as a 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:33.040 no hitter. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.080 So it's been good. It's been a good. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.960 Week of batump calls, cycles, no hitters, all the fun 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.039 stuff I want in baseball. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.640 Well, it's nice to see Christian Yelich being Christian Yelich again. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.440 First and foremost, I mean votes very well. For any 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.600 shares that you have of the Milwaukee Brewers going forward 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.000 into the playoffs, maybe winning the National League, maybe even 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.320 winning the World Series, they're gonna need him to be 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.440 Christian Yelich. I firmly believe that. But what's so hard 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.000 about the cycle is the triple. That's the one. The 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.960 home run is easy, the single and double. It's the 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.560 triple that really everything has to kind of break right, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.120 because it's got to be an actual triple, not a 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.480 double in an error or some other kind of weird 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.280 thing that happens where you end up getting a third base. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:12.240 That's the trick. You know. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.480 What's interesting what you're saying too, is when the triple's. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.440 The last hit for you to get, it almost makes 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.840 the cycle like ten times more unique and more special 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.919 because sometimes you get a guy they'll get the triple 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.600 out of the way in the beginning, and then you 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.720 get a homer, and then you get a double. How 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.920 many times have you seen you know, a single be 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.600 the thing that you need for the cycle, but you know, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.240 to lock it down with a triple, I think actually 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.400 might be. I don't know, it might even be more 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.200 special than a homer. Like you said, like a homer 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.680 is a homer, but a triple is a very unique 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.480 placement of the ball and a speed around the base 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.120 path that I think make it so fun. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.600 It's a placement of the ball, it's a hitting it 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.280 to the spot where you know you don't have a 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.519 guy in the outfield has got a great arm exactly 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.880 where the ball caroms off the wall. There's so many 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.680 things that can go into it. Triple actually becoming one, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.320 and good on Christianellich. Congratulations to him forgetting that. Let's 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.160 get to the other headlines. Miles Michelis throws one run 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.520 in the blowout against the Orioles. Wilson Contrera stays hot 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.040 with homer three runs scored for Wilson Contreras. Contreras has 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.920 been terrific for the Cubs. He's been one of the 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.880 lone bright spots. I imagine he would be a very 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.600 tantalizing player. The Cubs have not locked him up. I 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.920 have to imagine somebody out there is going to want 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:27.960 to bring in a Wilson Contreras. Do you think, yeah, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.040 any takers there. I know the Yankees have been mentioned 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.959 for him, but he would be a huge addition for 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.320 a club in the in the thick of it, I 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:33.960 think later on. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.640 Oh, I think he'd be a huge addition. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.240 I just don't think the Cubs want to move off 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.560 any more pieces. I'm not sure that they want to 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.000 put him out there. I think that's going to be 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.240 part of the problem. I mean, the Cubs kind of 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.920 completely failed at what we assumed was going to be 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.760 an offseason where they were going to go and spend 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.040 all that money that they traded off, and they just 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.360 kind of went to Suzuki. You know, they didn't weren't 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.560 able to bring in any other stars, and they are 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.360 piece and some piece of some wins together. But Suzuki 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.800 struggling the pitching staff is pretty gross. It's a relatively 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.280 non existent bullpen. So by those standards, Wilson Cortreros would 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.440 make sense to move off, but I just don't think 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:07.840 they would. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.000 Plus, he's interesting. He's got some. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.400 Really, really really good underlining, hard hit numbers that seemed to, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.200 you know, seem to allow him to continue to be 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.320 a really impactful bat that I think it would take 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:19.720 a haul that no one wants to pay for. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.679 No one's gonna yeah, well shall see, we shall see, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.520 that's for sure. Luke Void Hoomer twice yesterday for the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.200 padres Reeze Hoskins home and for three straight games in 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.480 a row. I wish I'd been picking Reeze Hoskins. That 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.400 would have been nice. The other night I picked Bryce 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.320 Harper instead, did not go well. Alec Thomas his first 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.480 major league home run for the year. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.400 See that bomb too, You see that bomb? 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:41.160 Did? 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.159 Like this, dude, I can't get over It's somebody that 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.960 I have watched this kid, you know, pretty much since 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.279 he came up. Is a skinny, kind of small kid 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.880 who showed all the stuff and then this year and camp. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.960 I have that picture I tweeted out in camp where 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.920 I was like, dude, he got jacked like he got 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.679 his dad's a former strength coach with the White Sox, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.720 and he hit this hom or if nobody really paid 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.560 attention to it yesterday where it was it was a 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.640 bomb opposite field and he just put his body right 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.520 across the ball, doesn't even look it actually is very 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.599 reminiscent of Corbyn Carrol if you watch him in the 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.039 minors and how he hits, just kind of a smaller, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.920 skinnier guy that you see the contact and you're like, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.960 all right, that might be a flyout, it's not. And 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.560 Carol hit it opposite field really really beautiful swing. He's 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.120 really hitting well to start and making a really good 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.040 case to stay with the Diamondbacks. So they don't throw 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.279 him back down when you know, stupid Carson Kelly gets active. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.000 They got so many guys that they could just let go. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.800 I really hope they let him continue to go because 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.680 he's hitting the ball, he's making great decisions, he is fast, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.760 probably the fastest player on this team, and he's a 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.520 great defender and he's a really really solid Deeper League 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.720 fantasy option right now, because he's doing a little bit 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.880 of everything. If just a diambation is still more basis 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:51.360 would be great. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.200 What's the Prospect one breakdown on Alec Thomas for those 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.360 people in redraft and dynasty leagues. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.080 In what respect of like how you want him. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.680 Both in, like how you value him, what kind of 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.480 profile you think he's going to be. Yeah, you mentioned 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.520 he was a smaller kid. He's bulked up. He's you know, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.279 showing a little bit of power. Now. He's been in 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.039 this organization for a few years now. He is not 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.200 new necessarily. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.000 Yeah, I mean, and like I said, you know, his 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.200 dad has been been in baseball as a strength coach. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.600 He's a really, really smart kid. He's worked with a. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.760 Bunch of Well I didn't I had this interview with that, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.000 this really funny interview with him on Prospect one, and 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.560 he was late to it. And I've had a couple 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.720 of instances of I've had I've been stood up by 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.800 a couple guys and he was like really late to it. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.919 And when we finally got going, he's in this like 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.400 big hotel and it got like green behind him and 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.840 I have it on video and he apologized, and he was. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.200 And then but then he proceeds to tell me stuff 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.840 I can't talk about on air because he's like, Oh, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.880 I've been training with this player, and this is a 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.239 guy that not only from the strength side, he's also 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.520 worked with a lot of major leaguers like one on one, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:53.880 which I always thought was pretty special. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.280 But he's five tool player. He can hit for power, he. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.840 Can run diambacks, don't run a whole bunch, makes really 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.839 smart decisions, and was kind of contact approach first guy. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.279 But he has continuously grown in as he's seen you know, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.360 seen more pitches. Uh, he's building into. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.800 That power and that contact is translating into power. So 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:13.600 I really like him. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.200 I think he's the kind of top of the order 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.800 lineup type of guy where when Cormyn Carroll comes up, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.640 these two are gonna, you know, these two are gonna 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.520 do stuff. But I don't know if Alex is gonna 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:23.960 be a yeah. I don't know if he's gonna be 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.840 like a twenty five Homers type of guy. If this 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.960 is a cheap comp but it could be like Ben 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.400 and Tendy, like think of a guy like Yeah, I. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:33.720 Was gonna say, it's gonna be more like a benin 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.080 Tende Michael Brandtley kind of guy like you know where 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.160 he's got, not Michael brand batting average. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.360 Michael Brantley. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.120 Well, well, he's just so unique because when I think 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.600 of him, I think of like he is just batting average. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.080 He doesn't run like Alec can really run if they 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.960 if they absolutely Bradley. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.480 Used to run when he was in Cleveland back in 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.400 the day. Brandley would steal some paces for you, Like. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.360 Yeah, I guess I'm thinking of like right now, you're 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.720 thinking of older Michael Brandley, but like younger Michael Brantley. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.400 Was a guy who's good for fifteen swipes, would say, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.760 I kind of profile by Peterson. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.440 And Thomas has stolen double digits bases in every minor 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.120 league season he's played, and he's moved multiple levels. He 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.240 stole thirteen last year, fifteen in twenty nineteen, and he's 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.160 hit double digit homers in the past two years, with 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.120 eighteen coming last year and another. He had twelve triples 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.240 last year, with twenty nine doubles through two levels of 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.600 the miners. He's just he's one of those guys you profile. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:26.840 When you see him, you're like, oh, he's a little 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.200 bit smaller the list HM at five eleven, one seventy five. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.240 Dude's probably five to eleven, maybe five to ten, but 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.960 he's probably like a buck ninety now and he just 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.719 makes it happen. So I think he could be a 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.840 twenty twenty Guy's what I'm getting at. I don't know 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.040 if the window is too much higher than that, but 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.880 it's on a Diamondbacks team that you know, they get 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.120 some offense going. They don't have a lot of other 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.480 incredible options, but they do have the ability to be stupid. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:48.960 And send him down. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.240 I just think he's a unique, a unique prospect to 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.040 look at that is not as sexy as Rush Lewis 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.360 or you know, obviously Torkal Sin or any of those 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.160 type of guys. I think at the end of the day, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.440 he could really sneak in and have a solid season 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.719 if the Diamondbacks let him stay. So sorry, that was 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.120 a big homer Ish conversation on That's okay, that's all right. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:13.360 Also, yesterday Labor Torres hitting a home run driving in five. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.600 I got hobby or Baia is getting the day off today, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.800 and I've been talking about this yesterday. Uh, And I 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.440 think this is the perfect time. And I'm not a 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.480 hobby bias guy. Everybody knows that. But I know value 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.440 when I smell it, and this is value. Right now, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.960 he's getting the day off. He's gonna get better eventually, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.280 because it can't get much worse. It's just the law 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.040 of baseball averages. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.960 Saying that right now. By the way, I like, there's 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:36.800 so many guys. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.360 There's a bunch of guys. I mean, Marcus Simeon with Maryfield. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.280 Remember we talked about with Maryfield for weeks, buying with 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:42.480 Maryfield at the home run yesterday. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.800 It's going to get better, only if you could only 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.520 buy one Hobby Bias or Marcus Simeon. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.120 Simeon because I like his overall profile better. To tell 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.600 you the truth, Hobby bias has always been a too 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.880 much strikeout for me. And it's not like Simeon's being 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.480 good is new. I mean, you go back to twenty 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.280 nineteen with the Oakland A's you saw in the second 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.440 half how he was just thrushing the ball, and I 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.600 mean it's him on this trajectory is not a surprise 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.400 at all. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.480 Of what's interesting about you saying Simeon, And here's the problem. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.800 I'm not sure there's anybody that's been worse. I mean, 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.000 you look at his Baseball Savant page. You throw up 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.479 in your mouth. He's not doing anything. There's no redeeming 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.640 factor to Marcus Simeon right now. But to that point, though, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.160 this is a guy that' said forty Homer still twenty bases, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.480 how can you don't even have a logical explanation to 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.040 be like, all right, guys, here's the thing that's gonna 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:34.520 make him better. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.720 It's just like here, No, he's so bad. 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.040 How can you be You can't be this bad. You 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.400 can't get this money and be this bad for this long. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.319 It's got to turn around. But I am actually surprised 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.400 you said Simeon over him. But Simeon does when he's on, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.520 he is a better player than when Bias is on. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.840 I agree, and I think Simeon there's also that that 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.280 underlying factor that people still don't believe in him, no 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.600 matter how many good seasons he's had to believe in 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.559 Hovey Bias. Well, he's proving it. But but I mean, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.760 let's go back a couple of years ago. Oakland, who's fantastic, right, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.920 goes to Toronto fantastic to me. This is the classic 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.440 guy who's now thrust into the you're the guy role 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.600 with a lot of money in a new place, with 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.200 not a lot of line of protection, And of course 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.319 this is what's gonna happen. He's going to go south 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.920 for a little while. And we've seen it happen to 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.840 better players than him. We've seen it happen to Carlos Beltram, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.600 We've seen it happen to Bryce Harper. We've seen it 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.960 happen to much better players than Simeon. So why is 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.520 he above it? He's not, So it's just a matter 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.439 of the stock is rock bottom. I think the underlying 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.439 metrics will tell you that people are more scared of 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.360 him than they are of Hovey or Bias. I would 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:42.720 take both of them if I could right now. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.200 Yeah, it's interesting. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.480 In the preseason Simeon and Bias weren't on the same 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.800 plane as far as value. I think they might be 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.400 on a similar like trade value plane right now, where 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.880 I don't think you can get one cheaper, but I 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.000 think they're just about the same. Well, what's interesting about 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.640 what you're saying though? Just throwing this out, and I 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.280 see some guys randomly brought up. Yellich in here doing 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.760 a game on the We actually haven't released it yet, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.480 the end of this league pod where it's going through 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.600 and looking at, you know, some of the Baseball Savant stuff, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.000 and I had actually picked out Christian Yelich's before we 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.200 were supposed to do the recording before the game yesterday, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.440 before the cycle, and Yelich is just one of those 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.960 guys where he's got a couple big warning signs and 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.040 then he's got just an incredibly positive Baseball Savant page 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.559 of hard hit stuff and exuloba everything being there, and 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.640 the numbers just weren't there because he's hitting like two 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.959 forty five. It's just simmy doesn't have that. Like what 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.320 we have to rely on with Marcus Simeon is previous 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.319 track record and the idea that it literally can't get worse, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.719 and with how baseball is now and how baseball analysis 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.559 is now, that is uncomfortable because we're all like, okay, listen, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.240 this guy is this, but let me tell you he's 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.960 got the fifteenth best whoa ba He's got, you know, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.000 barreling the ball at this straight out. You know, you 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.520 can go to line a few things that can back 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.079 up your story. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.200 You don't have that with Simeon. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.280 You literally just got to be like, guys, he just 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.439 can't be this bad and that that's. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:10.400 A hard that's a hard cell. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.000 Sometimes it's it's not a hard sell when a guy's 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.400 had multiple good seasons. For me, it's it's an easy 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.960 cell to it's an easy sell to buy low in 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.000 a trade. That exactly mean because right now the person 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.640 I think goes and says, oh my god, there's no 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.880 redeeming underlying stats on this guy, I better get out. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.360 But I think it's mental and just the way I 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.520 think Jared Kelnick's meantal. I watched a breakdown of his 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.640 at bats last night. I'm major MLB network, and it 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.040 was stunning to me to watch the lack of confidence 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.040 he's got, and it was stunning to me. I mean, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.760 this was the guy I remember we were joking last 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.960 season about Remember Jared Kellnick had a whole website with 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.199 his own merch and stuff like that. It was like 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.360 the Jared Kellen. I don't know if you you remember 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.960 this or you saw this. It was a joke. Here 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.560 google it right now because I don't know how that 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.000 merch is moving. But I think we should give away 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.600 some of that merch here on leading off. That's what 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.680 I think I want to I want to give I 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.200 want to buy somebody Jared Kellennick t shirt. I don't know. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.760 I don't know. It comes in size of dot zero 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.360 zero one, which is like his batting average, but I 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.040 don't know. But I mean, he came up with all 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.000 this confidence, but to watch him now, the lack of 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.680 confidence is just absolutely stunning, I think, Simon right. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.480 Now, Yeah, I have to say, like I'm actually a 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.560 pretty big not that it like completely holds, you know, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.400 because I said this exact same thing about Cody Bellinger 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.200 and then Cody kind of went on a little bit 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.200 of a tear and then it went away again. But 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.720 I do, but I do truly believe in confidence for 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.840 baseball on specific players plays a role. But again it's 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.000 not I think you can get a lot of snarky, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.440 kind of dismissive attitudes about that in this age of 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.440 baseball analysis, because all anybody cites anymore, the only conversation 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:53.760 is what is on baseball Savanna. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.080 Yeah, but they're not they're humans. They're not just numbers 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.080 and all that stuff is important, but. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.040 They are projected. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.680 You and I are having this conversation, but nine out 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.760 of ten shows are not going to have this conversation 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:05.920 or people in the chat. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.160 Why nine out of ten shows suck? And this is 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.920 the best show right here. It's leading off and that's 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.360 why you subscribe to Fantasy pros mL Beach. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.560 I drove one red factor for Simeon. I do have 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.680 one redeeming factor. He does technically have the second lowest 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.160 strikeout percentage of his career. And I will say always 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.600 something I think we talked about this. You'd love to 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.320 see an inverse increase in walk percentage. It's not necessarily 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.760 the case with him, it's it's a little bit under uh. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.880 I think it's also helping the strike seekers start to 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.120 hit the baseball too, when Corey Seger's starting to hit. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.080 The problem is both of them were Yeah, but I 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.280 also think that you need a little bit more lineup protection. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:44.960 To me, he was a guy that you hit him 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:46.800 in front of Matt Olsen, good things happen. You hit 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.120 him in front of Vlad Guerrero, good things happen to me, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.840 Corey Seger, somebody else on that team. Carcia, I don't 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.280 know who's got to get hot and I think that 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.720 helps Sime and see better pitches to drive. And that's it. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.320 I mean, sometimes baseball is is not that deep. Also 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.360 a couple other notes here, Jordan Hicks scratch from today's start. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.160 He's gonna start on Friday. Steven Matts is gonna start today. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.120 For these people in the daily lineup movement things c 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.320 J Abrams at two one runs in triple A contest. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.320 Joe Adell also ripping up the Triple A. Your thoughts 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.120 on those two prospect guys who have been doing pretty 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.160 well since being sent down. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.240 Abrams was the first one. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.280 Yeah, I mean, Joe Deell is obviously built for Triple 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:32.720 A DA I say quad Hey, no, no, no, I 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.280 mean I still like him. I mean, this is the 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.640 most classic thing that ever happens. As a guy spends 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.160 time in the majors comes back down to the minors, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.640 and Abrams just absolutely dominated. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.520 I'm not worried about Abrams. I'm really not. Rookies in general. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.880 Every person on the planet has put out the standards 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.119 of like, look at all the rookies. They're all struggling, 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.440 they're all trying to adjust, uh maybe something. And I 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.160 also tell you, guess what ball is a lot different 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.760 In Triple A. It's gonna probably be the there's no 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.840 debt ball there and the balls are starting to get crushed. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.920 Would sure love to have that, but not worried about c. J. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.000 Abrams like literally one bit from a fantasy value perspective, Adele, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.680 I don't know, man, I don't know how much longer 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.560 we can keep going down the circle. Like I believe 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.920 in the talent, and I've said I believe there will 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.479 be a season similar to Jared Kelnick. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.600 I believe there will be a season. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.960 Where these guys click, they fixed it, and they tap 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.119 into that potential. I just don't know when that's gonna happen, 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:27.800 and it does not feel like it's going to be 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.880 this year. So that's why redraft wash my hands. There 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.359 will be a season where those two click in tap 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.000 into that talent. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.240