WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 30th, 2023 (Ep. 733) 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.159 What's up, Brindos and welcome into Leading Off, brought to 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.879 you by Price Pick check Out prize picks today, doutload 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.800 the app. Use of the promo code Leading Off get 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.040 a one match up to one hundred bucks. Go and 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.680 do it today and prize pick with us. Who are us? 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.680 I'm the Welsh. You can find me on Twitter? Is 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.440 it the Welsh? That is Casey Bubba at bead Intric 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:32.879 aka Tout Daily Champion Bubba. You were crowned last night. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.199 I was a little bit early, but I guess you 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.120 would do that in like the daily stuff, you could 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.160 go early, but you beat some of the big dogs 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.519 in the industry. Week Derek Cardy took down Howard Bender. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:44.720 What's up man? Congratulations? 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.440 Thanks man. It was fun. Yeah, it's a fun. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.760 Yearly tournament they do. There's side pots involved if you 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.760 so choose, but you have to be a member of 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.400 tout Wars in the Tout Daily, So just a fun 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.040 liettle side thing and it's like four quarters of the 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.200 season and if you win, if you finish top two 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.200 or three each week, get a ticket into the final tournament, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.160 which is like a three round tournament and you have 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.880 to kind of obviously advance to I was in the 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.400 final four last night, took it down with authority. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.920 It was it was. It was a good feeling, good 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:10.560 feeling for sure. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.800 Who who kind of like would you ride there? Like? 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.120 Who got you really good? 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:15.640 This season? 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.720 I've been on the Seattle stacks like the last month, 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.880 which has been great. But last night I just kept 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.200 going with Royce Lewis, who keeps going deep, Adam Duvall, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.880 who keeps going deep, those kind of players, and then 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:29.920 pitching was beautiful. So it's it's like Cole Reagan's guilthy 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.959 So yeah, it's it's been a fun go, fun go right. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.880 Now, Well, you know, when we get to that DFS segment, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.839 just remember this is the Tout Daily Champion taking down 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.680 like er Carty and those guys. So maybe listen. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.480 I don't use a formula like they all do. I 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:44.839 just use my brain. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.640 Use your brain. I use my brain when I do 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.800 it smart. I use my big brain to do the DFS. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:53.160 There. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.680 By the way, how hilarious that we are completely competing 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.280 up against Fantasy Fest. Just want to point out, do 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.800 not leave us when we're done. Fantasy Bros. Does have 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.240 Fantasy Fests going on so we are also live as 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.680 they are doing like six hours of football coverage. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.119 Good planning, yeah, not great. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.680 But listen, do the football after you can do all 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.720 the football fun. This is the baseball where we're gonna 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.280 have all the fun. You guys got some questions, drop 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.280 them in the chat. We will try to dedicate a 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.800 little segment to that. We are going to do our bets, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.640 we're gonna do the prize picks, We're going to do 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.520 some dfs, and we will do all the latest news. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.560 Like if I had a beep sound, I would do it. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.960 What are the Angels doing? I know we're like twenty 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.600 four hours after this, but you guys haven't heard from us. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:42.000 What in God's name are the angels doing? This used 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.600 to be a pastime of August in baseball. You know, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.600 if you're kind of newish to baseball or didn't pay 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.480 attention August. There was nothing ridiculous about placing guys on 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.080 waivers because there was a waiver trade deadline. If a 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.320 player was put on waivers, a team could claim. Then 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.959 the team who put on waivers could do one of 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.760 two things three things actually pull them back, let the 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.600 team have that guy for a contract, or they can 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.239 work out a trade. If a guy passes through waivers, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.839 they could also still work out a trade after the fact. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.240 I believe as long as the player was not claimed. 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.440 This was one of the worst and stupidest things that 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.320 baseball did because this came post trade deadline, and then 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.680 there was this other little pseudo deadline thing. Insanely dumb. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.200 But the history of it saw players like if I remember, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.480 I think like Adam Dunn might have been a player 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.360 that was moved, or Levon Hernandez. I just remember it 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.560 with the Diamondbacks was a player that was moved. We 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.160 also saw I think it was Alexi Rios or Alex 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:50.240 Rios who at that time was put on waivers by 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.720 the It was either the Blue Jays of the White Sox, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.400 and then the other team claimed them and just said 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.720 take the money, get rid of the money. I'm giving 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.280 you a little bit of background because there was a 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.440 history too in that it's not the most surprising thing 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.920 except there is no more trade deadline, and the Angels 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:11.040 traded away minor league assets to acquire Lucas Giolito and 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:16.640 Raidel on the Lopez and yesterday they put they put Lopez, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:23.000 Giledo Matt Moore, Hunter Renfro and Randall Gritchick, all on waivers, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.200 all on wait essentially just right here, Richard, this is 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.160 Poverty franchise. But but all these players, I think within 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:32.600 the next twenty four hours, I don't know if it's 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.840 gonna be today, can be claimed by these other teams. Now, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.400 if they're not claimed, I don't think they're released. They 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.719 just go back to the roster. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.280 Richie could home run last night. RICHI in the lineup. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.719 But I believe it's like eight million total dollars. Every 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.120 single one of these players could be claimed for if 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.960 you wanted to claim the whole bunch, They're gonna get claimed. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.599 Like they're gonna get claimed. Gilito will get claimed. It's 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.920 one million dollars the rest of the way for any 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.719 team that is competing for a or is trying to 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.960 get some starting pitching up. The Diamondbacks were in talks 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.600 to trade for gi Alito. They're gonna put a claim in. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.640 Hunter Renfro is gonna get claim, Randall Gritchick's gonna get claimed, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.240 and Ronaldo Lopez gonna get claimed. I don't know about 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.000 the others. Have you ever seen a more poverty guys 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.760 than the Angels. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.560 No, I was beating the drum for trade show. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.120 Hey, I get as many prospects as you can, because 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.960 you're already a messive a franchise. They didn't do that obviously. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.120 Look where we're at now. It's so much fun. It's 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.440 gonna be interesting though, because there's a lot of caveats here. Obviously, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.640 gotta be signed by September first, so they gotta be 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.880 done by tomorrow. That way they can be playoff eligible. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.720 They're gonna really help out some teams because the waiver process, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.159 like you mentioned, it's a worst record to top records. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.240 So these wild card teams all of a sudden, the Reds, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.320 who didn't trade for pitching but need pitching. There's Clevenger, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.200 There's Giulito, the Giants. There's so many teams they're gonna 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.160 get guys basically free without having to trade any assets. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.640 So there's already discussions that the MLBPA and others are 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.520 going to finle agrievance against this. It's like I saw 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.440 a good A good comparison. It's when the last place 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.440 team in a fan league drops all their good players, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.520 yeah and makes it available. It's a very similar situation. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.839 So this is just embarrassing on all fronts. Part of it, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.680 I get it's a business decision. It's like you said, 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.039 like in the old days it made sense because at 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.479 least you can get like some single a kid back 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.680 or something. You can get something in return for it, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.719 and kind of like hopefully justify striking gold somewhere. But 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.160 right now this is rough. But then I don't want 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.480 to go too far ahead on the outline. Minutes later 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:26.800 we see other teams start to. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 Get yeah, and well, but that's the thing that like, 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.440 I'm not surprised that this happens, and we'll. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.120 Talk about it, and just it's just to the volume. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.919 The Angels did it, like like they just traded for 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.119 all these guys and now they're selecting. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.560 But that's the thing. It's not about putting a guy 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.520 or two on waivers and letting someone else claim it 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.320 and you're saving money. It's not about that the Yankees 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.160 put Harrison Bader on waivers and if he gets claimed, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.600 they just kind of don't care that They would rather 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.640 save the money the rest of the way through than 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.919 hold on or maybe you know, he went to the 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.280 team and said he wants them playing time that's that's 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:01.440 one thing. It's another thing when two weeks ago this 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.600 team was going all in, or a month ago, they 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.200 were going all in at the trade deadline, trading away 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.080 rookie assets, trading away everything they could to get anything 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.920 they could to possibly be in here. And now they're 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.640 just being like, we'll save a million dollars on Giolito 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.200 and put them out there. Like, I don't think it's 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.120 the worst thing to acknowledge when you're wrong, you're wrong, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.760 you're wrong, you messed up. But it's a bad look 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.000 in a month and you put all of these favor 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.760 players on waivers and they're essentially looking to save upwards 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.800 of you know, five six million dollars at the end 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.160 of the year. When I saw this move as well, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.760 I was like, this is bad news for Otani moving forward. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.200 Because why is he even suiting up right now? 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.320 But that's where we're going with this. There's no chance 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.840 he's suiting up in like ten days from now. There's 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.800 no chance like this. The Angels finally said, all right, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.480 this was the moment. This is the moment we've been 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.200 waiting for. Women's the moment they were gonna really that 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 was the moment they put all these players they had 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.200 traded assets for, they put them all on waivers. They're 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.880 willing to just let them go for nothing. So that 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.800 was the moment. So how much longer do you have 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.880 pride in Otani wanting to play, wanting to you know, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.600 be there for the team, pad stats, dah da da 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.120 da da, be healthy, all of that that's there. But 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.360 this is the This is the end. This is this 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.000 is the end game of Otani not finishing the year. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.960 Mike Trout had said he would be back at some 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.559 point this season. No he's not. There's no point this team. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.400 It's embarrassing, it's sad, and these guys will get claimed 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.000 and there's going to be some fantasy if I actually 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.440 think Hunter Renfro could be put in a really good 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.680 spot by a team. I believe Gilito will get claimed, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.360 and I know we can be like, oh Giulito blah 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:40.120 blah blah, but you know what, right organization might be 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.319 able to do a little bit with him. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.360 Giants can get Gilido and Clevenger right now. They need 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.280 pitching so bad. They're somehow still in the race. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:47.160 The Reds. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.720 It's great American small park. I did I had been 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.800 tit on bench with Bubba yesterday and we went over 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.240 like all these guys in the dark scenarios like wild 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.599 guard teams. The Giants would be big ones. The d 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.000 Backs could maybe use an other starters still there there 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.960 in the mix back there, there's a lot of the 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.800 National League has like three options before the American League 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.920 wild Card, so I don't see many of them getting 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.719 to the als what I'm trying to say, but it's 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.079 like the d Backs, the Giants, and there's a couple 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.199 others that could make it really interesting right there. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.280 Yeah, it's reverse orders. So you know, like a team 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.959 like the Padres, if they want to put a Potters 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.199 just lost you darbish. They wanted to put a claim 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.079 on g Aldo, they would have priority over the Diamondbacks, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.840 or if they wanted to go for that, you know, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.280 big right handed bat and Hunter Renfro, they would have 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.040 priority one time through. So you know everyone's going to 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.839 be able to do their things. So it's it's it's 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.839 just a wild, wild move. As you mentioned the other 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.040 players that went out there, we saw that the White 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.959 Sox put Clevenger. Clevenger has been phenomenal, another decent shot 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.240 for why why would it outside of like what a 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.520 kind of garbage person he might have represented himself to be. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.800 Why would a team not consider Clevenger at this point? 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.480 Why would they, especially for anybody that is putting these 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.960 waiver claims in. You got him and then you also 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.640 had the Mets put Carlos Carrasco on the waiver, So 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.199 this is a weird you know, they did it two 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.120 days before to your point, just so a guy will 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.600 clear waivers and can be put on the roster before 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.000 September first. So that's why teams are doing this. It's 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.200 actually pretty sneaky, yep, because you're putting the pressure on 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.640 teams to not have time to think about it at all. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.040 They got to do it, they got to claim, and 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.600 these teams that want to save a couple dollars, this 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.560 is a good opportunity to do it. So this is 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.440 what the new waiver claim looks like. By the way, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.080 teams hold the player all the way until two days 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.640 before so they can pop that player out and a 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.439 team makes a quick, rash decision and then all of 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.320 a sudden, you know, they value the Angels might value 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.200 the money they're going to say, they might value like 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.079 four million dollars more than those players and what they 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.040 gave away, which is bad management. Everyone should be fired. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.600 Yeah, it's bad, It's real bad. So yeah, Clevenger should 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.600 definitely be picked up too. He's actually pitching better than 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.800 Gilido of late, which is pretty wild, but both should 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.040 be interesting. I didn't want to comment on Silva's comment 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.280 in the chat he said the Angels are getting of 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.320 eight players but not ce J Cron. That is funny. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.720 I think the thing with Crone is his back issue. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.760 No team's gonna claim them anyways. Like obviously you have 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.000 to clear waivers and a physical, so it's just kind 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.079 of a waste of time situation. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.320 And also i'd just say, like there might be guys 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.320 on waivers that just didn't get reported. That happens all 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.320 the time, that that was part of the old process. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.040 You'd have a gajillion players, Like literally, teams would put 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.920 their best players out on waivers because they could just 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.880 pull it at any time if they wanted. So it's 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.920 a really weird process from a fantasy perspective. There's some 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.840 fantasy value out there. I mean, I think Giolito could 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.840 maybe recoup what the hell was going on there. Hunter Renfro. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.240 Those are two guys. I'm interested in Clevenger as well. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.320 See where the hell he goes. I would be surprised 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.080 if even the Guardians just took a little uh well, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.000 the relationship might be freed too much with them. But 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.760 you know, Kevin Williams getting injured might be something. Why 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.880 a Guardian's team would pick up a guy like Clevenger 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.800 that they know they knew. So it's weird, it's crazy. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:55.840 That's a wayver deadline. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:56.360 You could. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.360 You imagine Renfro or Gritchick going in the great American 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.440 small park to platoon with all their lefty out fielders. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.360 Amazing, Renfro would be. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:05.880 And that's the kind of thing like we saw the 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.920 Brave do it the Iracuni went out. They wouldn't traded 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.640 for all those outfielders. They could play up patoon game 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.720 work beautifully. No reason the Reds can't do it. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.839 Yeah, I who do you think of the big guys? 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.559 Does anyone not get claimed. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.040 Out of the big guys? I see it. I can 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.160 see it being one of the outfielders. I think it'll 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.679 be their group. Chick or Renfro doesn't claim I cannot 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.080 to me, So why wouldn't you take any of them? 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.840 Well, they're not free. You gotta pay whatever the rest 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.760 of the season is in MLB terms, it's pretty well 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.960 like the team like the Diamondback who have screwed up 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.120 really at every level, you'd have to pay. You have 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.240 to cost you a million dollars to make a bet 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.280 on Gielito the rest of the way through. They might 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.400 think twice about that. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:43.000 A lot of things. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.800 Spot, Yeah, they'd have to make roster. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.160 That's some questions teams might not be willing to do type. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.880 That's that's kind of Renfro is the one I'm most 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.160 interested in here. Watch the destination for him. Also in 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.840 roster moves. The Yankees in the rehab process of Josh Donaldson. 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.360 One he was healthy, they said so, and they kicked 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.880 his ass to the curb. A lot of stories too 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.520 before this about how they knew what just a bad 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.880 teammate he was, which I thought was pretty hilarious, and 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.520 just what a cancer in the locker room he was. Overall, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.600 so he comes back as they brought all the young 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:21.480 guys up and they booted him. Any chance Josh Donaldson 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.000 saves face rest of season or is he gonna just 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:24.960 chill it home. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.040 I think he chills it home the rest of the season, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.640 and he would be honestly a fun one to go 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.439 see play in Japan, like Man he did for a 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.280 couple of years. He'd love it there and he'd actually 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:34.560 flourish in that kind of setup. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.640 Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure his stuff would go over 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.520 really well over there. By the way, the first time 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.120 ever with all that type of news, you go like 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.480 fifteen minutes into a show, and we haven't talked about this, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.560 but we almost had a no hitter last night Alex 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.040 Cobb with the Giants. He went bottom of the ninth 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.679 two outs. I was watching this and he gives up 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.160 a single that was I guess maybe it was a double. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.400 It was a double roped roped to center right field. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.719 Kind of looked like Matos might have been able. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.200 To the heck of a play. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.640 I mean, well, no hitters on the line, so maybe 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.280 throw that out there and maybe try to make that happen. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.280 But he just loses it. He ended up giving up 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.880 only one hit. He went the full go nine struck 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:23.680 out nine check this out, eighteen swinging strikes. Every single 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.800 one was off of his splitter. It was off of 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.600 that's right. Splitter nuts, nuts, nuts, nuts. Any thoughts on 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.960 Alex Cobb. I have him in so many leagues, and 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.280 I had him going last night in so many spots. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.680 It was a big help. Alex cobb trustworthiness rest the season. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.400 You know, after this performance seems pretty high. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:44.400 Yeah, he is. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.920 I actually, honestly, I would probably skip the next start. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.000 These are by far the most pitches he's ever thrown, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:49.560 like one. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.640 Hundred and twenty five or six did one and. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.400 Thirty one last I saw his career going into that 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.480 was one thirteen and you could see it in the night. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.640 I was watching it too, and his splitter was a movement. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.480 The control wasn't there as much. You could see it 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.400 was kind of he was laboring. He was throwing it 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.320 harder than he had before. I wouldn't be shocked to 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.720 the Giants pushing him back for his next start. That's 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.080 just the way they roll. But I trust him. I 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.880 looked into his stats after the game last night. As 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.720 era is like a three four five ERA on the 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.800 season or something. It's been the ratio has been a phenomenal, 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.680 you know, not the best strike out guy, of course, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.120 it's like one hundred and twenty five and one hundred 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.680 and forty one innings. But he's just consistently good time 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.120 and time again. He might have a hiked up here 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.720 and there. Overall solid. You roll with Alex Cobb. You 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.920 drafted him for this reason. He's doing it last night, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.360 would have just been icing on the cake. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.520 Yeah, it was funny because at that point it was 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.720 almost like if anyone ever plays MLB the show and 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.160 a guy who just has no more energy, like he 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.920 was laboring to just get that sinker over, just trying 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.560 to get it over the plate, and that's all that 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.080 he was trying to. He was just he got squeezed. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.360 He got squeezed on his and Zella bat Yeah, that's 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:48.840 the next strike. It was a strike all night. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.480 That was the one because he walks in Zell when 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.520 he walks down and gets yep. Yeah, he could have 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.040 had the out there and I don't know if that 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.600 would have really changed anything. But also what you get 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.560 in those instances where a guy's gone one hundred t plus, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.880 they were taking more pitches, you know, I think they 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.200 were more willing to just have called. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.680 Strokes ast he was just watching it go right down 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.560 the middle. Yeah, like three three, to one pitch he 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.800 could have just it was on tea. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.520 There was no chasing. They were just waiting on what 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.080 was going on. So Alex Cobb was a phenomenal did 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.680 wonders for you? Speaking of phenomenal Cole Reagans, who you mentioned. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.880 Nine strikeouts, seven innings, it was a no decision, sixteen 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.880 swinging strikes, finished with a thirty two percent csw He 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.880 had seven whists on his slider to it was a 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.240 forty seven percent swing and miss pitch. Just overall, like 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.400 bog and I are kind of going on about this. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.040 He wasn't wanting to be a believer. I say, you 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.480 kind of go all in at this point with a 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.160 guy like Cole Reagan's and it hasn't disappointed. The fastball 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.440 was touching like ninety eight. I think he'd been touching 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.640 like around one hundred. He was touching ninety eight in 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.640 this one. But the average velo was up. So he's 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.440 consistently doing that. His pitch mix looks great, he's throwing strikes. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.520 He looks like a bulldog right now, and his slider 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.720 is dominating. Cole Reagans is one of those dudes that 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.240 is making the late season push for the people that 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.320 the people that are over there on Fantasy Fest right 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.679 now on Fantasy Pros, they're missing on what Cole Reagans is. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.639 And that is for us listening here on the podcast 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.199 and on the live stream. This is the guy that 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.880 you co get in the off season when trades open 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.240 up for next season. And this is a guy that 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.240 is going to rank really high as this continues. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.000 Yeah, he's a league winner for this year. I'm concerned 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.119 about his ranking for next year. He's already had two 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.040 TJ's and we see this increased veloy. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:29.920 What do you mean you're worried about his ring You 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:31.280 think it's gonna go too high. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.560 Yeah, just because he's had two Tommy John's already and 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.200 he's with the increased velocity. We see where this usually 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:37.360 goes with some pictures. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.359 But like like Pollock is gonna screw this up because 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.399 Pollack won't shut up about Reagans and he's making Reagan 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:48.280 like Reagan's is his uh to Sandy, Yeah, it's it's like, uh, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.000