WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 10th, 2023 (Ep. 666) 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:09.880 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros m LB. This is 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.039 Leading Off Live, brought to you by Prize Picks. Make 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.120 sure you sign up with the promo code leading Off 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.040 when you do if ricepicks dot com or just download 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:18.840 the app. It's me Joey p Joe Pi's a p 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:20.840 of that of course, is the Welsh and it's you, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.160 the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks in the chat for another 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.880 day of glorious baseball talk. We've got some minor league 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.720 notes to get through. We got some guy getting sent 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.560 down that was kind of a surprising move just about 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.519 a half hour ago. We've got more injury news, of course, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.839 but I think we have to start here. Welsh, what 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.200 the fot? What the fot is going on with Brandon Fought? 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:43.720 I got another I got a different word I was 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.879 gonna use, but I guess, well, yeah, maybe focus on 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.000 the p and not the f of what I was thinking. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.000 But yeah, you gotta Okay, you got a choice. You 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.840 can have like reasonable like I'll like break down what 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.240 you know was behind some of the start, or you 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.520 can just have me let loose. So what would you like? 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:06.520 Where do you want? I doesn't I'm not setting you 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:07.560 up to, like have. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.479 Let loose about your frustrations fire Like how I. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.480 Can overreact, I can be I can overreact about the situation, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.680 or I can reasonably talk to you about what was behind. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.279 Essentially non haesus sanche or non orges. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:28.440 So layer at bats, I will say this. I like 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.120 logic and reasons, so give me that part of it. Okay, Like, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.679 because I'm because it's a baseball is a six months 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.880 log marathon, so I am not the hot take sorcerer 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.960 when it comes to that stuff. So let's be reasonable 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.320 at the top of the show for a change. Okay. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.520 So outside of him looking like the worst pitcher in 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.960 baseball consistently, Brandon fought a couple of things. Started the 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.760 game off way too heavy fastball, like seventy percent through 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.640 the first two innings. My theory is that there's a 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.080 major issue with him going deeper into games, and he 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.880 was setting up the fastball to go heavy secondaries later, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:07.240 which is exactly what happened. The fastball did hit highs. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.000 That was part of the problem. When it's like only 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.040 a ninety three mill and a half fastball, he hit 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.160 ninety five and a half on a high and a fastball, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.960 which was really great. That's a good thing to end 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.880 up seeing. He had four whiffs across his three major 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.800 used pitches, each twenty percent withifth percentage, not the best 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.680 in the world, but the fastball induced withs this time, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.520 the sweeper had a thirty one percent with rate, and 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.799 the change up, which he used fifteen percent of the time, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.200 had a sixty seven percent wiff rate. These are all 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.560 really good, and he started using them in the second half, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.960 and if you just take away Hoorg Solaire, it actually 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.240 wasn't a horrific start outside of some of the balls 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:49.320 getting hit deep. So the guy's pitching to. He hasn't 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.280 found his command because he's pitching to too much contact 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.040 right now. So there actually is hope. Because he made 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.679 two massive mistakes with Jorge Soilaire. Outside of that, he 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.480 actually he managed pretty well. He hit the zone and 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.800 the back half of the start pretty well. Sweeper, changeup 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.280 was good, and he started utilizing the curveball. It's not 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.440 as bad as it looked on paper because after he 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.280 hit the give up that first homer, he sat down 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.440 like the next six or seven, and I think he 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.480 struck out three of those seven, So there is hope, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.240 but it's a little fouded right now. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.320 It's a little fun. Well, that was good. I enjoyed 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.200 that very much. If you watch the show yesterday, we 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.280 warned you, with all the Peterson stuff going on getting 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.840 called up from TRIPA, that Max Scherzer was dicey for 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.280 the start. Guess what, Mex Scherzer didn't make his start. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.800 He expects to me back later in the week against 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.360 the Nationals. Great, okay, whatever, he's gonna miss a couple 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.720 of days now it's a neck issue. Yesterday with a 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.720 scapula was bothering. I don't know, man, This met's pitching 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.040 stap started look like a whole lot of millions of 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.200 dollars for a whole lot of nothing so far. So 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.520 we'll see if Orlander can buck that trend today. Yesterday 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.720 we talked about Casey Schmidt making his debut. If you're 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.400 getting called up by the Giants, we say, he's not 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.280 a big power. So what did he do? Well, he 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.920 went out there and hit a home run in his 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.240 first game, So that was a you gotta love when 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.160 that happens. So now everyone go, oh, this guy's gonna 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.840 be a slugger. No, he's not well, the more great 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.720 moment there with his parents there and his family at 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:13.440 the game yesterday. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.560 He also was playing shortstop. I mean that was a 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.160 big thing, like this is a versatile guy who can 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:19.920 play first but can play in the spot, and he 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.000 started right out at shortstop. He was a good contact guy. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.240 And yeah, I mean he had twenty one homers is 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.760 you know the previous year, but like all in hi A, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.480 seventeen of his twenty one were in Higa from twenty 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.680 twenty two. So it's just not a doesn't look like 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.680 a big, massive power guy. But guess what contact guys, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.560 they just walk into power sometimes. It looked it looked 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.280 pretty good. And you know, if he's gonna be able 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.479 to play the middle infield, he's got a legit shot 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:43.920 to stick around for quite some time. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.520 You know, we're starting to hit the ball. Francisco Alvarez 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 two solo home runs yesterday, two for four against the Reds, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.479 three oh eight three point fifty seven five ninety slash 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.120 in his last fifteen games. So don't look now, but 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.680 is Francisco Alvarez starting to get it at the major 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.680 league level, Because it's looking like he's starting to get it. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:02.800 I did see him. I was, I gotta be honest 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.160 with you. I was getting to the point of kind 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.640 of writing off because you know, I worry about like 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.839 his home defensively and what's gonna be able to happen. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.920 Sure, and it was so much. It was so bad 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.920 to start the season, and the negativity around it just 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.800 kind of I don't think any of us have realized 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.880 the last two weeks at Alfarez has been pretty solid. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.039 Yeah, I still think like we got to temper some 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.120 of it. He's got an expected WOLBA of like two 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.400 sixty eight. He's expected batting average is twenty points lower. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.839 He's still striking unexpected I say unexpected, No. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.320 I said unexpected wolba. Oh, just at the expected wolba. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.000 I want, you know, just once in a while, it'll 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.400 be nice if we showed up here and you brought 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.760 some unexpected wholb before me, you know, like flowers or candy, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.320 like this is a mooba. I didn't. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.760 I didn't so unconditional whoe but too, Like, how how 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.720 does it take to get marditional wOBA? 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.919 I don't know. I'm I'm still looking for it. I 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.280 don't know. I've never had unconditioned by the way. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.640 This is a great one. Dan g has our our 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.640 jar idea. We'll just call it fun hot in a jar, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.560 and we'll spell it pfa art and we'll call it 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:06.480 fart in a jar. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.840 There you go, well done. Continuing on joey Otani's first 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.480 loss of the season, three runs and seven innings. He 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.960 still got a two seven and four e RA. More 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.520 on the other side of that start in a second, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.800 but he's still pretty darn good. He's got sixty six 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.479 strikeouts and forty six innings over eight starts, so he 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.719 was bound to get a loss sooner or later. Tough assignment. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.200 Shane Bieber was tough yesterday. He was tough to hit. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.640 He's got a two six one ERA now one point 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.680 one zero whip thirty nine k's thirteen walks. Again, the 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.560 K rate is lower, but this was a big one 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.640 for him in terms of k's. I'm a Bieber guy, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.200 I know you and a lot of other people were 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.720 not so much the Baber guys. Oh yeah, so far 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:44.920 as return right now. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.760 All the people in the woodworks about this, I mean, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.440 you guys are all the beers unbelievable. Yeah, Razor Ramon 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.239 chats doing the whole thing. Like I've worn two things. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.800 This is two things. I said, I'm out on Bieber 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.320 because everything on the outside, of the inside, how you 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.840 want to look at it, is coming down. But I 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.200 also say, the one thing he consistently does is he 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.720 defies the odds. And I give that. I give him 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.840 credit to that he defies the odds. Of he is 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.840 an eighteen percent k rate right now. That's not good, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.880 highest walk rate of his career, not good. Almost two 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.240 runs higher expected batting average, not good. But guess what, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.000 he defies the odds. I give him that credit that 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.280 It's like, you got to make those decisions. I would 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.080 like to capitalize, and yes, I see this as a 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.880 capitalizing situation where if I had not gotten rid of, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.679 I would try to right now. But he defies the odds. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.120 This is what he is, and he can still have games. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.880 And when you talk about selling players, it does not 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.600 mean that they are garbage. They're garbage, They're not garbage. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.880 He's still a good player. But there's some stuff that 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.720 doesn't make you feel good, like you know, giving up 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.080 one sixteen maxivs and stuff. But he was pretty awesome yesterday. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.240 That's an egg on the face type of moment for. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.200 Oh, look, you know Biber. I think Bimber's a good picture. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.960 I don't think Bieber is as dominant as he was 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.080 a few years ago, and I think that is something 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.320 that everybody has come out and said, like, don't expec that, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.640 and I think that's good. And every now and then 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.640 when he has a start like this, it's a reminder 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.760 he has that upside and he's still a one A 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.800 starting pitcher. I still don't put him in that class, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.840 like he's not in the Gallon class or a strider class. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.160 He's on that class, but he's a step down from there. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.400 And if you went early hitting, there's nothing wrong with 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.200 Shane Bieber and another guy like a Gossman type being 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.240 at the top of your rotation. By the way, I 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.320 have the the the was in Halloween costume for you 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.160 that you should be in the fall. You should be 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.040 Boba fat a wOBA fot oloba fot wOBA fot wOBA 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.880 fot Yes, you are good, Joe. You wear a Brandon 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.840 fat hat with a Boba fet mask and you go 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.439 around giving it and when the children come to your house, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.880 instead of giving out candy, you give out you know, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.320 expected wOBA or other things, or other statistics like little 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.760 bits of papers. Yeah, like somebody had an article the 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.160 CoV RC plus of one to eighty seven. You just 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:53.160 drop it in there, little. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.840 Abooba con like that's like your nerd voice. Excuse me. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.000 To make sure that the I said Wilva was high 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.080 enough before I decided to put the videt. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.920 Just talk about unbeased, talking about the unbeased percentage. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.959 Like I can bene to twenty five, about weighted on 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.440 base percentage. Uh, Boba Shett two for five of the Homer. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.280 Good day for him. Uh. We also had some interesting news, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.360 which is you know, I'll take the l on this one. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.240 I was very concerned Mason Miller's elbow yesterday. The MRI 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 came back clean structurally so that is a huge hurdle. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.800 Structurally clean is huge. However, still pain there, obviously because 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.960 the guy is hurt and he's complaining about it. So 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.280 structurally clean, that's good. That gives us a good feeling. 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.600 He's still gonna miss some time. They're not gonna push him. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.080 The a's are dreadful. I still say he could miss 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.599 a month, Like I'm still saying. This is one of 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.120 the things that we can shut him down for a month. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.360 So I'm still holding on to possibly being right on this, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.520 but at least it looks like it's not a season 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.040 ending kind of thing, at least not yet. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.600 So the right would be like an NFBC league where 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.640 you can't d L a guy or I L a 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.440 guy and you have to just carry him on your 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.240 major roster, Like that would be a little bit more 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.400 of the problem. If he's out for a month, you 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.120 can just I L him. He'll get back, and he'll 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.439 get back to striking out batters and he'll be exponentially 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:13.640 better than Brandon Fought. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.000 You know, it's funny. This show is such a cult already, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.559 Like could you imagine somebody just jumping into this chat 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.160 and be people talking about slutters and and Fought this 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.080 and all these like it's just hilarious. I look at 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.480 the chat, it's like one giant inside joke. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.920 I found the show, and a good, really good one. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.680 I'm I can't find who did it, But oh no, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:37.040 mister Buster, how about whoa Bashett? It can be a 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.480 new k it could be a mascot, but I'm putting 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:42.959 woaba shed whoat. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.840 Yeah, that's also a good one. Not good for Jose Miranda. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.079 He got sent down, So Kyle Farmer is going to 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.040 come up and play. I think my hope is this 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.000 is that Miranda had a bad six weeks. He goes 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.200 down to Triple A, he gets his head right, comes back. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.199 This is the perfect time. I'm sure people want to 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.880 drop him. I'd be get him up. People were ready 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.240 to just jettison him. I would say, here, give me 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.120 because the guy was pretty solid last year. So for 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.640 whatever reason, you know, slump's happened. Bad situations happened to me. 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.760 This is an opportunity to buy for pennies on the 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.640 dollar on a player because I still like the player. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:15.679 I'm not giving up completely. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.800 I'm a little bit indifferent about it. I mean this 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.439 is more of an l for me because Jose Miranda 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.199 was my guy. It's a pretty gross looking savant page. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.440 In general, he definitely was a better hitter. I mean, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.480 expect a batting average tells a different story. If we 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.360 want to go back to that is almost a two fifty. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.400 There hard hit numbers were in line. He just wasn't 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.400 barely in the ball as much. Here's my only problem 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:37.880 with this, and I would throw this out to. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:38.120 You, guys. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.960 Royce Lewis has started to rehab assignment and they send 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.600 him down, they send Miranda down. Royce Lewis is a 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.160 guy that you know. He was in the majors. He's 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.280 versatile in a lot of different spots. He's missed so 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.880 much time though, that this might be extended, just saying that. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.640 The possibility is that Miranda might not be able to 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.600 come back too soon and it might be more of 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.160 an extended state unless he just dumb and. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:02.880 I don't know. I don't know, man. I think he's 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.520 gonna go there and jump back in. I I do. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.640 Maybe I'll be wrong. We shall see how it plays out. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.200 But again, you look at this chat between the snooky 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.440 references and would you imagine like something going? What is 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.880 this program? You know what? Come join us, join the cult. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.640 Things are amazing. We make you smile. We talked. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.080 Look at the chat for a couple of minutes. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.240 I don't think it's looking out. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:28.880 I'm looking away. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.920 I love what we've created here. I just gotta say, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.240 I love you guys. It's awesome. It's a beautiful half 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.240 hour every day. Christopher Morell Homeward single, It's sole a 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.400 basso a lot of things going on. But but here's 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.040 a problem, Eco Horner. His injury might not be as 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.960 bad as we had thought it would, so it could 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.840 be something where Nico might be back in days and 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.240 not weeks. So if that's the case, how aggressive are 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.440 we on Sunday on Morel here in order to add him? 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.079 I think be decently and Morell still complain in the outfield. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.360 I think that's more of where his home is gonna 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:05.760 end up being. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.280 Do you think he would still get enough at bats 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.679 to warrant adding him this week? 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.720 I would speculate, because he's one of those guys who 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.960 was really difficult to keep down. I was actually just 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.360 going through this just updated over on my Patriot I 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:18.920 people want to check it out in this league dot com, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.200 the top five hundred list in the Dynasty list, and 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.040 I was going through some minor league numbers, and he 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.040 was the only minor leaguer of all of them to 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.400 have nine homers. Of all those guys to have nine 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.160 homers with thirty run and thirty yrs, well, actually he 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.760 was one of two to have nine homers, thirty runs, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.559 thirty rbi in all of MiLB. The only other guy 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.760 someone I've talked about briefly, but Dominic canzone people should 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.200 pay attention to him with the Diamondbacks nine homers, thirty 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.720 plus runs, thirty plus RBI, hitting two to eighty morel 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.560 hitting over three hundred. So it's like you can't keep 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.880 him down there much longer. It doesn't serve anybody. He'd 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.640 be better set on the team now. He could be 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.960 a super util type of guy. But I think they're 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.120 going to find spots for him. But they are a 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.559 little crowded, a little crowded. You got the man seening 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.120 using the nervouses and you can't get Suzuki and Belling Gerff, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.520 so they're getting a little bit crowded they are. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.360 And I know everyone's in the chat talking about morel 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.800 to difference of opinions here, and look, it does seem 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.840 crowded right now, there's no doubt about that. But at 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.160 the end of the day, you speculate on talent. I'm 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.320 good with that, just don't almost pay for it right now, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.040 Like I wouldn't be throwing a huge fab bit out there, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.360 like you throw, you know, a couple of bucks out 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:26.520 there and see if you can get him. I think 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.320 that's probably a better situation. All right, let's get to 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.800 the injuries. That's never a good situation. Kyle Schwarber day 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.880 to day with left foot confusion. Noah Cinderguard removed Tuesday 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.160 with a cut on his index finger. He tried to 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.920 pitch through it, but that doesn't matter. Sinderguard's trash anyway. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.560 Ricky tinam In, Your boy is week to week with 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.400 left bicep inflammation. Great for the team. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.920 It's better than like he when he walked off, He's 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.080 like immediately pointing to his form and stuff. It could 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.800 have been a lot worse. But this is his second 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.680 injury already, so don't love that. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.280 Don't love that. Nicko Lodolo dealing with calf soreness, so 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.680 his start's gonna be pushed back to Saturday. Bruce Bochi 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.120 told reporters that Jacob de Gram could return in another 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.280 two to three weeks. Great, awesome. I'm sure everything's gonna 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.440 go great with that. I'm sure there's gonna be no 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.280 problems the rest of the year with Jacob deGrom. The 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.160 power of positivity Welsh Lance mccullors, who want to talk 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.640 about positivity through twenty five Bitch Bullpen session. They need 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.560 him desperately looking at some time, Lol, sometime next month. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.960 You're hoping in the meantime, France is there. I did 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.440 a breakdown on France in the Waiver Wire video that 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.480 I just recorded that should come out tomorrow, So make 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.640 sure you subscribe to the channel and click the bell 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.520 so you know when that drops. But you know, mccullors, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.160 if he's out there, ad him. I mean, at this 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.720 point there's there's two spots open that rotation Welsh and 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.760 I just look at it. This is just math and 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.760 mccullors is a is always frustrating. But I think you 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:56.640 gotta add him anyway, don't you think? And you gotta 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:57.040 add him. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.160 But like it's not going to be up for like 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.000 three weeks, let's say, but what does that look like? 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.200 I just don't know what that looks like? 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:03.280 Like? 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.400 Sure is anything? If you have the room and you what. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.440 Does it looks like? It looks like five innings, four 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.080 earned runs and six strikeouts. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.920 And then you want to make fun of Jacobs ground 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.400 getting hurt. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.520 And then mc coolers is, yes, but one of them 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:16.960 was a top five pitcher in ADP. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:19.920 No, it was fair, totally fair. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.520 You know, I'm not making I'm like, yes, you're not 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.360 You're not wrong. But this is about adding a player 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.160 off the waiver wire. This is not about drafting a 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:29.320 player with the second route pick. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.520 But also, like, the stuff just isn't there. I mean, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.080 he's hitting like ninety one. It's fine, give it all, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.600 take him up when he's healthy. I'm way more interested 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.000 than I am right now. That's all right. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.920 Andre's munios is not close to healthy. He was shut down. Oh, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.800 this is so frustrating. I hate everything MRI shoulder inflammation 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.000 for him, that's not good. Carlos Carrasco though, one run 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.320 over three innings on Tuesday, so he's working his way back. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.560 They desperately need more pitching help. I'm off Carrasco is 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.080 a guy. James Paxton, he's coming back on Friday, but 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.120 he's got a six era so far in the rehab, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.680 so don't how I feel about that. And Carlos Rodon 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.040 got another cortizone injection. It's like, you know, like, can 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.199 you get up in the morning, you know, you just 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.600 have your coffee, you know, and just read the paper 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.400 or something. Carls ron gets up shot shot yeah, coon shots. Yeah, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.040 here here's a here's a question over under ten and 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:25.840 a half starts for Carlos Roddan this year U shout, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.000 I want to know and a half Penis and cracker Jacks. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.880 Let me know what you think over under carls Don 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.520 ten and a half starts. Okay, Welsh, what do you got? 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.199 I'm gonna go with the under the under I. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.359 Think so too. I'm gonna go the under also, uh 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.040 and yes, Wonky Munos makes me sad too, all those things. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:53.080 So another under from Renegade envy under from evil Zilla. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.040 Everybody's under here. Maybe I set the bar to h 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.680 I thought ten and a half was actually pretty good number. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.000 No, it's a great number. Actually, think it's a real 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.480 good number. But yeah, still under. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.359 Yeah, I have to push that. The book closed and 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.800 we're going to reopen it. Eight and a half, they would. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.520 Here's a fun one. We were just talking about this 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.880 guy the other day. Elie de la Cruz went three 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.840 for four yesterday with three extra base hits with exit 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.040 velocities over one hundred and sixty. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:23.280 Miles, three homers, three hiders, all one six one. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.360 Sixteen over Sarah Langst. Sarah Langs, who does an incredible 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.479 job at MLB dot com ship with the best baseball 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.399