WEBVTT - Leading Off August 26th, 2024 (Ep. 892) 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.799 What's up friends, Happy Mondays everybody. It is leading off 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.280 right here on Fantasy Pros. I'm Chris Welsh. That is 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:16.600 the Joe Alrico, and it is presumably playoff time, Fantasy 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.439 Baseball playoff time for many people. Again, and sometimes I 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.680 think a semi negative to the Fantasy baseball structure is 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.319 it's like last week, this week, next week. There's a 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.000 little too many different weeks of playoffs. But either way, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.880 it's a home stretch time. So we're going to talk 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.040 to you about all the latest and greatest. We will 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.800 and can answer some of your questions. So for all 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.880 of our peanuts and Crackerjacks that are out there, you 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.159 can drop some questions in the chat, whether it's like 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.159 a streamer or a pickup or anything like that. We 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.720 will try to answer that. We got some best bets 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.040 and we got a whole lot more. Mister Joe Rico, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.640 how are you, my friend? Welcome back into an almost September. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.800 Good Lord, We're getting there, man, We're getting there. I'm good. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.720 Like I said before we started going, had a relaxing weekend. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.760 I was playing some golf, almost saw a blue jay, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.800 no hitter, So pretty good weekend for me pretty relaxing stuff. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:03.680 You as well, I. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.759 Think, yeah, one hundred percent. So, like I said, put 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.480 some questions in the chat if you got him, and 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.640 we'll rock with it. So funny story, let's talk about that, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.399 that potential no hitter. I'm kind of going about my 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.640 business and I get a text from CBS, and CBS 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.000 is like, hey, cause, and I was doing stuff during 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.200 the day and I wasn't even tuned into any of 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.080 the games at that moment, and I get a text, Hey, 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.039 if Boden Francis gets this no hitter, are you available? 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:36.560 And I'm like what, So I get up, I get 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.480 up on my app and I'm like, holy crap, we 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.280 got a no hitter going on. We got all these strikeouts, Joe, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.959 no kidding, they're they're you know, in the bottom of 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.480 the inning. Blah blah blah. Get to the next inning, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.960 first at batter Taylor Ward and he hits the homer 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.480 my first batter seeing Boden Francis in the no hitter 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.440 because they were going to have me come on TV 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.880 and foly, that's part of it. So it's my fault. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.559 I'm just trying to tell you all. It is my fault. 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.080 But Boden France has struck out a career high twelve 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.000 as he dominated these dudes. He had that going into 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.400 the ninth inning, and then it was Taylor Ward just 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.359 crushing that homer. He ended up walking three. He hit 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.400 a batter, which was Taylor Ward career high pitches. I 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.840 was monitoring those pitches as it was going one hundred 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:25.799 and seventeen eighty four for strikes. Ridiculous unless you're Taylor Ward, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.720 who threw a bunch of shade and was just like, yeah, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.560 I don't know. Maybe other people were getting tough stuff, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.000 but he looked pretty hittable to me, and to be fair, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.960 he did crush him. What are your thoughts, I was, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.600 I've been kind of like indifferent on Boden Francis, but 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.440 he's one of those guys that he is ending immensely 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.280 strong talk to me about this performance. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.440 I had been mostly indifferent myself being a Blue Jay 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.280 fan in Toronto. In case anybody in the chat doesn't realize, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.079 I am Toronto born and raised. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.760 I've been a Blue Jay fan a long time. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.480 Didn't think there was much with about in France's really 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.040 over the first three year four months of the season, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.280 but these last four starts have just been incredible, and 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.120 the season long stats are actually looking pretty solid. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:07.280 Now. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.160 It's not just even if you look at the last 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.280 four starts, like he has a three seventy eight expected ERA, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.920 nearly an eighteen percent strikeout minus walker like three seventy 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.640 four Sierra. These are good numbers for the whole season. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.040 The barrel rate's a little bit too high still, it's 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.360 still in the double digits, and that's somewhat of a concern. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.160 But he has been really impressive. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.240 I think that he's somebody that's worth adding pretty much 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.720 everywhere now. I think it's Philadelphia and Boston this week 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.840 for him. So that's a little bit iffy for sure. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.960 I think I'd probably lean towards sitting him in the 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.520 more shallow leagues, but he's definitely worth picking up all 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.520 over the place right now. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.160 There's something that I'm a little bit worried about, especially 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.920 young pitchers like this coming off of a no hitter 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.200 or theoretical no hitter like that one hundred and seventeen career. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.200 I mean, you know, I'm not sure if there's like 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.120 any actual analysis of like guys regress forty percent to 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.440 their means after you know, having career highd pitches or 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.800 anything like that, there might be some data would be 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.880 worthwhile for somebody, But not only do I not like that. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.160 I hate that matchup. By the way, for Francis one 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.360 hundred and seventeen pitches, he had ten whiffs off the fastball. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.599 Always very interesting too, because like I think that is 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.400 speaking to the splitter. It was something I said in 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:26.040 the off season which has been completely counter to Logan Gilbert. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:27.479 I think I said. I think I said it with 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.920 Eno where we were talking about, you know, guys that 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.880 you know have these really good splitters are implementing high 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.599 usage of splitters, and it's like we got to have 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.880 like a really good fastball like that. That's something that 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.239 plays up and if they work, they coincide together so well. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.000 And I at that time kind of thought Logan maybe didn't. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.120 And that is something that at least Francis is putting up. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.760 Though it's not a dominant fastball, it's sitting around ninety two. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.839 But he had ten whiffs and forty one swings on 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.039 the fastball. That fastball set sixty eight percent in the zone. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.640 That's like a wild in zone percentage, and he only 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.640 had five other whiffs off of the splitter and the 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.520 slider combined. It's okay. So I mean he had a 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.440 twelve strike I just want to point this out, a 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.599 twelve strikeout performance with one hundred and seventeen pitches and 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.680 he only had a twenty three percent whiff rate, Like 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.400 that's not necessarily ideal. That was like he dominated this situation. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.960 But from an overall perspective, I still don't know if 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.440 he has like absolutely ridiculously dominant you know, stuff like 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.599 swing and miss stuff. So maybe I'm just gonna like 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.680 keep kind of fading until the end of the season. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.560 But I absolutely hate those matchups. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.000 So the matchups are brutal. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.360 I think it depends on your league size, It depends 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.680 on your situation if your pitchers are stacked or whatever, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.480 versus if you're in a fifteen team league and you 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.440 just lost Hunter Green and you need to pick up 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.120 a replacement you're just kind of desperate. There are gonna 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.920 be different situational aspects to it, but I think by 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.640 and large, you gotta you kind of have to pick 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.600 him up unless you are just in such a perfect 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.600 position pitching, because you might not start him this week 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.680 but next week. I haven't really looked forward to the 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.360 matchup so much, but I feel like he's somebody where 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.120 you may get a few more quality starts out of 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.680 him going forward. It's a bit dicey, it's a bit dicey, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.200 but I think you got to give it a chance. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.039 Yeah, I mean again, like the thing that works really 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.480 well for him is you if you consistently show these 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.600 guys that you're throwing a fastball in the zone, which 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.040 he did almost seventy percent of the time, and then 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.600 you can just kill that splitter off, which was forty 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.040 five percent zone percentage, and it just you know, boom 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.360 goes up that you would actually think the splitter would 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.240 have a lot more of a whiff rate on it. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.840 But I think it's guys trying to like keep up 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.120 and chase and stuff like that, so you know, it's 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.679 solid and they keep working, and yeah, it's probably something 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.840 to look at. By the way, this is so interesting. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.080 So Angelo says we start playoffs next week. All seven 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.960 of his teams made it pretty easy. That's in there. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.040 Somebody in the chat said they don't start for oh yeah, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.239 yeah right here. Michael says, I have two more weeks 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.159 of regular season before playoffs, and then we have other 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.279 people that are like I'm in the playoffs right now. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.200 I just still think that's like we got to fix that. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.359 We got to fix that. In fantasy baseball where we 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.000 have I mean, it's just so large and big, like 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.920 maybe you really can't. But it's like in fantasy football, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.560 it's like, oh, maybe you go to week eighteen, you're 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.280 probably in week seventeen, and that's pretty standard. There's just 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.200 not a standard here. There's like a month deviation between it. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.240 But well, you know, we'll never actually get there. Let's 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.840 talk about Aaron Judge two for four, walk, two homers. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.440 He is now up to fifty one homers, one hundred 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.080 and twenty two RBI, he's hitting three thirty three. But 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.680 here was the thing I wanted to mention. He is 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.680 on pace to break his single season al home run 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.160 record sixty three paced homers. And I had asked that, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.200 Did I ask you this earlier? What was going to happen? 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.320 Sixty homers by Judge or eighty stolen bases by Ellie? 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:51.880 Did I ask you that question? Or was that Bubba 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.280 or Bogman or in my head. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.320 Might be might have been me A couple of weeks ago, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.760 it might have been me. I can't remember what I said, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.200 but at this point it might be Judge. I think 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.080 Judge is more likely, like the guy's every day hitting 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.480 a home run or two. I don't think I've ever 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.160 seen anything like this. Like I was a little bit 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.040 young to really appreciate Barry Bonds in his prime. This 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:11.880 is the best power hitter I've ever seen. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.960 Yeah, I'm I'm not I'm not too young for that. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.320 And Barry Bonds is the best hitter I have watched. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.200 I mean, you know, Griffy obviously had his moments, but 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.720 like you know, I don't span and see, like now, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.160 if Joe were on here, old man Joe, piece of Pia, 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.920 you know, he would have the perspective of like, you know, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.040 seventy eighties guys, I really don't Barry Bonds was the 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.280 single greatest hitter that you ever watch. I mean every singe. Now, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.600 Judge does have that thing where when you know he's 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.760 up to it bat you're like, oh, something's gonna happen. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.840 You know, Like there's not a lot of hitters that 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.880 have that. Otani has that, and Judge has that where 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.280 every time up you're like, oh, some wreckage is gonna happen, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.120 Like you don't expect a negative outcome, and that that's 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.000 what Bonds was. Every time he was up, it was like, oh, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.880 you know, they're either going to just try to walk 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.520 him because they're terrified of him, or he's gonna to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.920 have absolute damage. So and Walkee said, Bonds is the 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.400 best hitter. And I don't understand why anyone argues it 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.880 aside from killing time. Well we you know why they 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.680 argue it, Yeah, because of steroids. But like at the 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.160 end of the day, the problem that you kind of 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.959 have is like the steroids didn't like change the eye 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.360 and the type of hittory he was. It just maybe 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.080 changed the impact of it. But Barry Bonds was the 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:33.040 greatest hitter I've ever seen, and Judge exemplifies some of 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.200 that stuff. It's not the same, it's not the same, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.360 but he's the most dangerous hitter in baseball right now. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.280 Oh I think yeah. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.839 Like, I mean we were talking a couple weeks ago. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.679 I think it was on this show about like could 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.920 it still be Bobby Wood Junior or whatever? But like 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.600 he has just separated himself so much, even from Otani, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.680 Like I still think Otani when he's pitching, is probably 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.080 the best player in baseball. But just on a pure 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.280 hitting standpoint, like Judges WRC plus is two twenty six. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.120 There's been like five seasons of that level in history. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.040 Like I grew up idolizing Albert Pooholes, Miguel Cabrera, but 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.960 I don't think they were ever at this level. Like 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.680 I think that over a prolonged period of time, pooh 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.400 Holes his career, Cabrera's career at this point are still 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.840 more impressed, so was specifically pooh Holes, But on like 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.520 a per at bad basis. I don't think they were 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.319 ever as scary as Judges right now. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.400 No, you know, and a funny thing. I just want 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.439 to point out, not to keep harping this. Where did 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.559 it go? This was one of my favorite videos. I 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.560 don't know if you've seen it online. There's this video. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.840 What is it from? Someone tell me what it's from. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:34.199 It's Bonds and Maddox breaking down and at bat and 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.960 it's like it goes to what Bonds thinks is gonna happen, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.760 and then Maddix says, here's what I'm gonna do, and Bonds, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.760 by the way, perfectly calls He's like, you know, he 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.960 thinks I'm going I'm looking for this, but I'm now 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.400 going to look for this. And it keeps going back 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.200 and back and back on the at bats of what 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.679 they're going to do Maddix versus him, and then it 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.559 ends with Barry Bonds absolutely just murdering the ball into 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.959 right field. It's a really cool video. You could probably 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:04.520 just look it up. It's from the MLB Network Mattic Special. Okay, cool, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.000 thank you, Fred. That definitely go check out that video. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.520 At least it's an awesome one. But judges on another 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.240 historic pace on the home run side. And this is 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.920 another year of me being on this show realizing had 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.640 you just pick Aaron Judge every single day, you would 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.360 be winning the home run contest. That's just how it is. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.160 Right now, we'll do the home run board here in 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.600 a little bit. We got this is like a version 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.480 of rookie. Lookie, we got a bunch of rookie stuff 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.520 going out here. This happened after the show on Friday, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.880 but it was announced that Dylan Cruz, top prospect with 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.480 the Nationals. Dylan Cruz was being called up for today, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.200 so he is going to be in the lineup today. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.120 He was one of my favorites, brother of my favorite 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.520 from that draft class we had a year and a 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.360 half ago, two seventy two average. So far this year, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.360 twenty one doubles, thirteen homers, twenty five stolen bases between 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.680 Double A and Triple A. It's been a pretty good season. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.640 It has not been historic, unfortunately. It's been very similar 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.400 to a lot of these prospects that are out there 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.760 right now. It's actually been this ongoing discussion I've been 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.640 having in the prospect world of when you lose Kim 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.000 and Arrow, you lose Domingez, you lose all these dudes, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.480 you know, Jackson Holiday, that like, what does the top 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.880 look like anymore? And it kind of defaults to all 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.240 these guys that are good but not great. These two 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.800 seventy hitters, the Roman Anthony's of the world, the Walker Jenkins, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.080 who's really far away, the Dylan cruise is. There's nobody 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.800 it feels that special. I have always personally loved Dylan Cruz. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.640 His chase rate has been a little bit of a 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.880 worry as far as what the strikeouts are, but he's 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.960 got all fields power, put up really great all fields 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.920 exit velocities, I think he's a super smart hitter. He's 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.320 stealing more bases than we've seen, and we're gonna get 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.000 a cup of coffee for him to start next year. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.280 So I think this is great for next year. I 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.319 would in a five outfielder league, he's a must pick 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:52.840 up if he is out there right now. I think 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.640 he's gonna get significant playing time, and I don't know 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.240 what the production's going to be like, but I think 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.719 this is a great sign for next year. Is there 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.120 any hesitation with the lack of success from the rookies 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:04.400 on picking up Cruise at all? 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.560 Yeah, A little bit like if you're in those really 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.040 shallow like an ESPN league where there's just like no 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.880 breathing room on your roster, I don't think you can 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.400 really take a chance here. Like as solid of a 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.440 prospect as he's been, he has a one oh five 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.199 WRC plus and triple A, you know, batting two sixty five, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.120 he's not light in the world on fire like i'd 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.040 kind of want to see before calling a newly recalled 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.200 prospect like a must roster type of player everywhere. I 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.160 think he's fine in like those deeper twelves like you 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.480 mentioned fifteen team leagues, but yeah, prospects as a whole 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.480 just have kind of sucked, and it's kind of taken 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.560 the fun out of their recalls this season to some extent. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.480 So yeah, deeper leagues, I would take a chance shallow formats. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.840 Not really. We're at the point though now I think, well, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.880 she'd much more prospects inclined than I am. Guys can 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.800 just play every day at this point and not exceed 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.120 the threshold, right are we. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.120 Well that's that's yeah, one hundred percent. That's why they 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.679 did this with Cruise, So you know, they announced it 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.360 like three days before. Not that even if they had 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.320 called him up before, I think it would have had 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.600 an effect. But they're just like, hey, listen, we're not 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.600 gonna go up against any They probably did the math 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.280 on whatever bats could happen, but yeah, at this point, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.560 you're not going to cross the forty five day marker, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.559 which hand up, I was wrong. We said this. I 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.800 don't even know if I like corrected it from a 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.240 couple of weeks back that the Collective Bargaining Agreement added 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.520 that September now does count for service time. So whatever 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.480 I said some weeks back was incorrect about the camon 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.760 Aro thing, which are still I still don't understand. You know, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.600 it's like we're not gonna bring him up all season. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.880 We're gonna bring them up just in time so he 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.400 can lose his eligibility and us really not get anything 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.240 outside of you know, him getting some games in. But 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.720 you know, he'll None of these guys will lose any 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.560 service time. They'll be eligible. And Dylan Cruz is like 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.120 the first of the guys that you should put on 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.800 the list for, like, oh, he's going to break camp 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.560 next year and he will be a Rookie of the 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.240 Year candidate, and that should be the piece that you 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.120 go in, Like I think Jason Dominguez will have that 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.520 next year, and presumably depending what that roster looks like, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.640 but you would think he would and Dylan Cruz would 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.080 be the guy as well. Speaking of just want to 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.840 throw this out because Anthony's in here. Anthony was famous 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.080 for the Camonaro questions. Where is he? Where is he? 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.040 Where is he? I don't know, I don't know. Now 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.680 he's finally here. Camonaro is having a really good run 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.360 so far. Two homers, two stolen bases, hitting over three hundred, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.680 the hard hit rates over fifty percent. He's barreling great. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.840 He does have a negative launch angle, and I don't 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.400 know if you know this, he had a negative laun 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.040 angle last year as well, classic like rookie thing from readjusting. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.840 But Camonaro has been doing really well and I think 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.680 in a short sample size that's why I would be 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.720 comfortable picking up Cruise. And you know, at the end 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.960 of the day for next season, I actually think the 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.240 lack of success from a lot of rookies is not 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.560 the worst thing in the world. It's going to depreciate 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.880 a lot of the value as far as like or 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:52.880 the equity of what you have to pay for them 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.920 next year, and that's good. A guy like Dylan Cruz, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.200 I think, I'll just say it right now. I think 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.520 it's a sneaky guy to invest in next year, especially 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.520 if we see some of that strikeout rate come down 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.360 a little bit or is manageable in this early part 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.040 of the season. But now they won't cost you know, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.680 top fifty, top forty or anything like that. Except Cavin Arrow. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.560 He's really hot. He'll be an interesting one to talk 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.480 about through the back half of the year. I don't 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.040 know where that'll go. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.440 He could for sure like look at Wood and Jackson Cheerio. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.280 I know, like you and Bubba talked about it last week. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.760 I think there was that early draft for twenty twenty five. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.960 And though Cheerio and Wood were both third round picks. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.760 If if Cavi and Narrow hits another five or seven 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.520 home run, steals another five or six bases, like he's 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.920 going in the top seventy picks probably at least. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.000 Yeah, and it's not. And like the guys from this 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.760 year to last year, they're the ones that are going 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.440 to be the expense. So that's like, that's going to 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.760 be the irony as it was like before it was 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.000 the you know, the the Corbyn Carrols and even in 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.240 the Bobby Witch to those degrees, those players were really 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.240 pushed up his rookies. Now it's going to be the 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.160 you know, the rookie performers are going to probably come 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.360 in a historically high cost. As you mentioned, Cherry is 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.600 going to be massively expensive, Jackson Merrill massively expensive. Kevin 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.840 Arrow in a short sample size with success, will be expensive. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:12.280 The rookies. Everyone will be very timid about, understandably so 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:17.120 because we're really understanding, like how dramatic the changes in 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.560 the adjustment from Triple A TOUBA unless you're a pitcher. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.159 Unless you're Paul Skens, who went in the first round 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.560 above his draft, which we talked about last year our 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.399 last episode. So while a couple other rookies that are 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.040 coming up here, Craig Mish reported that the Marlins are 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.920 bringing up Griffin Conine from Triple A, Jeff Conine's kid, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.280 twenty seven years old. Not really a rookie, but he'll 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.080 be coming up. I don't have high expectations. A little 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:45.200 bit of power and the Royals Tyler Gentry is starting 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.160 in right field and batting ninth for Game one today, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.600 which I think is coming up here in just a 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.280 couple of minutes. Gentry's kind of I've seen him a 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.040 ton between AFL and the backfields. He's been with the 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.920 Royals for some time. Pretty you know, solid power guy. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.119 I don't know if the contact then the hitability is 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.199 going to be there, but like he seems like he 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:09.439 could be above average, like fourth outfielder in baseball. Maybe 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.120 someone to look out for. And ty Madden with the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.920 Tigers is going to be starting really rough, go over 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.679 six plus ERA in the minors. I'm not it's a 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.200 really bad matchup, so he might stack up some strikeouts 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.159 because he had some big minor league strike up performances. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.760 But no, thanks, no thank you, That's what I say. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.760 Let's keep going here. Jackson Merrill. Speaking of Jackson Merrill, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:37.480 had a walk off homer against Edwin Diaz. He keeps 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.639 holding down this Rookie of the Year. He is the 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.560 unanimous Rookie of the Year favorite right now, even after 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.879 Paul Skein's dominant performance. We're only tracking that because I 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.120 have my debt and I'm very selfish about that. Joe, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.400 and you said it like before we even started off air. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.160 You're like, hey, do you see Jackson Merrill. I still 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.800 think it's one of the wildest things. But I don't 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.199 recall and this is why I think Jackson Merrill is 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.520