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This is leading 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.200 off live and is me Joey pe Jo Pi's appeal 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.519 with me, of course is the Welsh and it's you, 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.560 the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks live here on twitch, Twitch 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.279 dot tv Slash Fantasy Pros. I see you all filing in. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.559 Welcome to the show, everybody, and of course, if you're 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.960 watching us on demand on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.440 Trying to get to thirty k Welsh. It was a 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.360 fun day of baseball. Some more injury setbacks for we 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.480 got to talk about. But your boy Corbyn Carroll is 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.120 tearing up the league right now quite good. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.160 Quite good would be a good way to put it. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:12.479 Two home runs MVP candidate right now. Don't know if 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.600 that can hold with guys like Shohyo Tani. Pretty tough 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.600 space to be in over in the NL. But Corbin 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.080 Carroll looks like one of the best players in baseball. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.800 He reworked his swing a bit that up inside zone 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.319 where whatever it was shoulder that everybody kept picking on. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.840 You're not seeing hitters be able to attack that much anymore. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.640 He's not stealing as many bases, but I believe he's 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.679 tied or near the league lead of homers, or at 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:40.240 least in the n L. He is phenomenal, Joey, and 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.080 you love to see it, and it makes you want 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.160 to think to go back to where in the world, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.320 or well should Corbyn Carroll? But Corbin's gone and he's 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.960 left me behind, and rightfully so at this point. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.120 He's way more famous than you, at least for now. Yeah, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.880 Joey Otani still top of the board or NLMVP plus 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.080 three twenty, Corbyn Carrol plus four hundred, Tatas plus four hundred, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.000 Kyle Tucker plus four hundred and then two Metsis alonzo 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.160 A plus seven and Lindor at twenty to one. Why 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.160 Lindor is at twenty I don't know, but he's been 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.440 on a hot streak too all of a sudden. The 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.440 Nationalink MVP race kind of interesting, at least in a 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.440 month of April. We'll see how it drags. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.160 Off off though, I mean, Talker's the fourth on that list. Like, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.720 I don't know, there's no early favorite. Nothing I would 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.320 know about that at all, but it looks fun. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.600 It does also fun. Signs of life from the guys 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.440 we thought you should be trading for Christian Walker two 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.239 four solo Homer Wednesday to Ching's hopefully you watch the 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.239 video on YouTube. We talked about Christian Walker turning things around, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.280 being an asset to buy Tristan Cassis another Homer three 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.240 run dinger, so things are going better for him and 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.080 Michael Harris three hits all singles, but we'll take it Welsh. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.400 That's signs of life from three guys we were talking 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.600 about acquiring in the trade video. It's almost as if 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.399 we give the illusion that we know what we're doing here. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.400 Almost don't don't get you know, don't let the YouTube 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.040 commenters think that we might know what we're doing because 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.280 of course we do not, but yeah, these have been guys. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.920 More than anything, it's just been like try to stay 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.720 the course and stay patient, especially you know the Christian 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.480 Walker want interest to constants actually have both been really 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.880 tough for people. Michael Harris has just been a little 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.320 like up and down, but things are bouncing back. We 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.040 did talk about him, but Christian Walker profile was there, 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.760 seems to be turning back around. This is why, like 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.720 you had the ability you just hold on for a 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.960 little bit. You ten teamers are a little bit different. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:28.680 You guys are like over here kind of the wild 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.040 West of fantasy sometimes because you know, why would you 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.720 sit on Christian Walker when Tyler Soderstrom's out there, But 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.360 you know, an twelve team above trying to hold out 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.720 when you have high investment on players, there's a reason 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.000 for the payoff, and it is if they can bounce back. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.320 And this is a situation where we've kind of been 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.800 pounding the table at all of these guys bouncing back, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.000 not not just in the trade video but multiple weeks. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.360 So I'm very encouraged about the Christian Walker one. That 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.200 one's kind of got my cockles in a furl here 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.680 because that's the one. I've been wanting two multi hit games, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.440 five hits in the last two Christian Walker, I want 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.680 big time to bounce back and looks like you still. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.680 Today is a draft day in the NFL, SO fantasy 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.080 pros tonight on the main channel will be there seven 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.640 thirty Eastern. And it's funny. Look at this, Look at 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.200 this guy. Can Welsh name five players in the forty 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.000 nine ers like that's his forever? 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.719 Okay, yeah, it's not that I'm not on a football, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.920 a football fantasy football show for. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:24.400 The last betting shows with me. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.280 Yeah, or love the forty nine ers more than anybody. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.480 But okay, Bud, all right, yeah, okay, okay, Bud, Why 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:31.960 don't you just name five just for him? 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:37.159 Just Brockberdy, Christian McCaffrey, Isaac Grando, George Kittle, Ricky Pires, Saw, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.839 Brandon Ayuk. All right, we can go to the defense 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.600 if you want, you go, all right, there you go. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.160 No, I don't want to, I know, I just want offense. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:49.200 Also in the save category, news Peter porter Hodge excuse me, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.080 worked a clean inning. So porter Hodge with the save 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.640 yesterday against the Dodgers. With the way that Presley has struggled. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.480 Is Hodge a guy now that we should start speculating 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.800 on a little bit or you think it's still Presley's 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.640 to you know, he's done a long way to go 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:04.279 to lose that job. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.320 Yeah, Well, they had said, like in the preseason or 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.719 in the spring training that Porter Hodge was going to 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.720 get some looks like that Ryan Presley wasn't like anointed 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.960 into being the only closer that you would see some 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.600 opportunities for Porter Hodge. So I think that that's a 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.640 little bit of a plus. Presley hadn't I think pitched 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.279 in Sunday. I think it was, and Porter had should 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.760 get this situation I think definitely tells us a little 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.960 bit of that story that maybe they're going to bounce 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.960 back here and there. But I mean, he did have 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.520 a five VRA expected ras around two and a half. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.080 Strikeouts are nice, He's walking a little bit less. I 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.400 think Porter Hodge is gonna get a few looks. And 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.160 what I would say, I think I said a couple 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.279 days ago, any guy right now, because I don't think 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.520 the market is really robust with save opportunities like it 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.520 was like two weeks ago, where it was like, oh, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.640 you're just nearly up but going and Luke Jackson, all 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.320 these guys are available, Like it's just very little at 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.360 this point. So Porter Hodge is out there. I mean 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.360 last night Justin Martinez came in that kind of nix 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.919 and Shelby Miller kind of stunk again. So like that's 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.400 answering some of those questions. I think Porter Hodge would 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.080 have to move near the top of the list of 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.040 because he might even have that gig. You should buy 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.280 those speculative ones. Let me ask you Porter Hodge or 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.480 cade Smith. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.520 Hodge, because I think the Presley path is easier than 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.320 unseating Class A unless class is hurt. You know, Class 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.080 A was so good last year and it would take 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.720 an injury. But then again, that might be what we're 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.320 looking at there. Sandio contra better, I wouldn't say grape 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.280 of better three run six innings took the loss there 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.479 to the Reds, but an improvement. The era is still 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.760 above six. I'm still buying. Welsh's still buying. I think 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.160 this is kind of still shaking the dust off of 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.680 Tommy John not pitching for a year. I don't know 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.200 there's much more to that, just getting the feelback for 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.960 all of that and I think eventually that continues to 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.120 come back. So you have to be patient with these guys. Welsh, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.440 what did last night's performance for all Contra do for 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.240 you for a patient standpoint? 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.160 I mean, like I'm I'm relatively patient with guys like him. Anyways, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.600 right now, I think the positives that you're gonna take 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.359 away as Villo was up kind of like across the board, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.120 so that looked pretty good. Really heavy change up was 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.520 really good. It was almost a fifty percent with pitch, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.560 so that's his money maker. And I think that sweet 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.040 spot of like forty percent zone percentage was great. And 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.680 then he was just like heavy bearying sinkers. And then 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.560 the forcing fastball did a little bit of work and 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.880 he was throwing it for strike. So I think we're 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.560 setting up to be like they actually might be lulling 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.400 you down a little bit in fantasy, like you might 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.480 be able to buy on a Sandio Contra. Right now, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.880 we know he's gonna get traded, like they're gonna move off. Also, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.040 the Marlins right now, they're kind of living this like 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.920 little high life of like, man, we're so smart, we 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.880 make all these great move We've got the Connor Norby's 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.720 of the World. And you know, look at how Kyle 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.280 Stowers at ConA like they they love it, and I 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.480 Gustaid Ramirez, we traded jazz like they're loving how their 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.400 developmental system is buying and what they're doing in trades. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.800 They're gonna trade off Sandy. You think they're the smartest 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.480 guys in the room, and they're gonna trade him sooner 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.200 rather than later. I'm very much into Sandy getting moved 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.480 at some point, and I think what we're seeing on 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.920 the table is like still a very good version of 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.040 Sandy al Contra, and I think this one showed some 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.120 of the like better stuff we've seen in the pastes. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.360 The results weren't quite there. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.640 We were very close yesterday, not one, but to two 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.480 Sinko stinkos. We just felt short, very upsetting Anthony Volpe 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.800 over five four strikeouts. Come on, Volpe, if you're gonna 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:23.440 do it, do it all the way. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:24.960 Why v sucks so much? 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.880 You know what, Let's talk about that because that is 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.080 the hot topic right now around the New York area. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.880 Twenty four years old, he's been in the majors now 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.120 a couple of years. This happened sometimes to these quote 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.800 unquote can't miss guys. And I watched Volpe play live 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.400 a bunch before he got called up, and I thought 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.840 Volpi was a nice player. I did not get the 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.160 vibe of Volpi that I get when I watch a 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.959 guy like Nick Kurtz or you know, even a Bazana 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.920 or somebody like that. I just didn't get that vibe 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.760 off him. I think Volpi was a nice player. The 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.559 question is what has happened from the minor league ranks 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.800 to the major leagues, because obviously there's a disconnect here. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.960 You know, continuously hitting around two hundred is not going 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.280 to get it done. So at what point do the 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.200 Yankees start questioning him as an everyday player? Because I 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.480 feel like that becomes the next bit of business, which 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.600 is you look at Volpi and you go, maybe Volpi 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.320 is the Plume guy. Maybe you know, maybe he's just 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.320 sharing time altogether. But the investment they've made in Volpi, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.800 they've they've given him time, they've given him support, they 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.440 haven't gotten the productivity. When does patients run out? 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.240 Yeah, I'm gonna that's a great question of like when 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.200 will patients run out for a team like this, Like 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.480 they've got viable minor leaguers. But do they have like 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.920 a future set shortstop? I don't think right now, No, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.320 and nowhere in their future. Also, this kind of took 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.760 my This is why I stuttered on it. Here are 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.120 the pitches currently that Anthony Volpi does not have a 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.520 registered batting average against, so he does not have a hit. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:51.199 Are you ready? 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:51.760 These are the. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.120 Pitch pitch types. There's usually like players face around like 0:09:55.160 --> 0:10:00.680 ten different pitch types. Here they are change up, sweeper, curveball, slurve, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.520 and split finger. He has not had a singular hit. Yes, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.960 you got to it. He's hitting two thirty one against sliders, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.400 but guess what, Three variant y fastballs are the only 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.960 things he's got hit against. Four seams, sinkers and cutters, cutters, fastball, slider, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.800 whatever you want to call it, but that's it. And 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.960 he's underperforming against fastballs. He can't hit off secondary stuff, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.960 and weirdly enough, in his entire career he just doesn't 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.040 hit righties at all. He is in his two of 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.480 three years now where he's hit under two hundred against 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.760 right handed hitters. What are we talking our pitchers? What 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.880 are we talking about? He can't he hit two forty 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.240 I think last year and then two of these three 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.960 years he's hitting under two hundred against writings, and that 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.400 is a guys are killing him with secondary stuff. So 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.880 can he be fixed. There's lots of talent. He could run, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.160 and we've seen him hit homers and now he got 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.120 torpedo bats. But a torpedo bat isn't going to help 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.080 you hit a slider, and that is clearly what he 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.960 needs to do with breaking pitches. So I don't know, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.080 technical term, why do you suck so much? I don't 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.440 know what's going on with it, why they can't redevelop it. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.800 Though it's very telling what you said, which is that 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.360 he's only hitting fastballs, and once the league figures it 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.160 out there, that's it, you know, and you don't adjust back. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.920 So you have to take better at bats to get 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.480 yourself into situations where you're getting fastballs. But from a 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.800 fantasy perspective right now, I mean you absolutely cut eight 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.920 with Anthony Volpe. I'm not in dynasty leagues. I'm not 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.840 holding my breath with this kid at this stage. You've waited. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.120 I know you might be a little more patient than 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.520 I am, but this is the long look now, and 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.640 sometimes these guys just fall short. It happens sometimes. Also, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.400 another guy just missed the Sinko stinko, Tyrone Taylor of 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.560 the Mets. And I'm bringing this up because I mentioned 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.840 it the other day and we got into a discussion 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.840 about it. Jeff mcgehem, I think it's late to come 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.320 back Friday tomorrow. I want to say and Ronalcunya, ronal Cooney, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.080 I got Louis Angele. Acunya has played thirty plus games, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.920 I know, at center field and triple A last year. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.480 It feels like that might be the route to go, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.320 and that's how you keep Acunya in the line up. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.760 And I would not be shocked if you saw Akunya 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.439 take over that center field role sooner than later, because 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.040 hitting the buck eighty eight is not gonna get it 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.920 done for Tyrone Taylor and series not gonna be back 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.240 for ten weeks. So what do you think about Acunia 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.920 potentially getting that eligibility. I think that makes them pretty valuable. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.440 Yeah, that's when we had this conversation. That was the 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.320 first thing I went to was like, I think Luis 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.360 and Helacunya could go into the outfield that opens up, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.480 you know, like Brett Batty is depending like where you're 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.960 trying to get Brey Betty Brett Batty in the lineup 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.240 every single day if they wanted to do that, so 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.480 that would be that would end up being my play 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.600 if I'm this team. I don't think there's anybody out 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.240 on the market right now. There's plenty of players. The 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.360 team seem to be kind of just you know, letting 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.040 go of you know, who knows. Maybe they call the 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.640 Diamondbacks for like a Jake McCarthy, but I'm not sure 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.480 they go in the trade route, especially when you have 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.280 a Kunya. I would just love to see Akunya do 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:49.720 that and get that eligibility. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.160 All right, let's continue on here with a new low 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.160 for the Orioles. They have the worst team the ram Baseball. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.000 Congratulations five point four to five. Way to go, Orioles. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.160 I'm gonna get better anytime soon. That's half a run, 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.400 by the way than Colorado and Miami. So Orioles all 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:07.920 time low. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:08.760 Here. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.080 You got his brutal Maybe not that Corbyn burns right now, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:12.960 it's any like you know, he can be like I 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.720 told you so, he's got like a five vrra, but 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.760 still like maybe it would have helped if they were 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.439 a bit more aggressive. It also stings a tiny bit 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.200 from a real baseball oriole standpoint that they've got like 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.720 Kobe Mayo, and they've got a litany of like double 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.480 A and high A prospects and they're not doing any 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.440 they're not playing them, they're not doing anything with them. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.760 And then they also just have like the worst pitching 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.079 of all time. You unfortunately need to take Kobe Mayo, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.360 and you need to go make a move probably the Sandialco. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.040 Or somebody or Westberg or somebody like you don't it 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.920 doesn't have to be Mayo, give me somebody else. I'd 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.200 rather keep Mayo and deal with these other guys. Who knows. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.840 Maybe it's Jackson Holliday at the end of the day. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.640 Shane McClanahan, good news. We think he's expected to resume 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.559 throwing this week, so we'll keep an eye on that. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 There's no structural damage. This is that tricep injury, that 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.160 inflammation that he had. So again you're holding your breath 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.440 and it doesn't have some relapse. We'll see what happened. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.360 It was a scary moment. If he comes back and 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.199 he pitches, my goodness, that'll be a hell of a story. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.559 So we're rooting for Sha McClanahan, but Blake Snell we 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.080 might have to root a little harder. He was shut 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:16.000 down from throwing. He had a new left shoulder soreness. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.280 Saw man, my shoulder hurts again. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.320 Man, I need to be this is bad. This is yeah. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.800 I'm water man, I'm very I'm very worried about Blake Snell. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.320 He's gonna have to be He's gonna be relegated back 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.200 to streaming because I don't know if he's going to 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.800 be pitching a lot this year. He had a throwing session, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.480 he felt discomfort. It's not the end of the world 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.280 right now. But if you're a Blake Snell owner, this 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.400 might be like last year where it's just like, well, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.720 the first half is just completely written off. This could 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.680 be something that's like a month or two. And by 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.240 the way, what is the deal with the Dodgers and 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.520 the pitching injuries? Do they have the worst medical stuff 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.320 of all time to take care of? I mean it 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.880 is It's almost legendary how these pitchers get hurt. Who's 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.040 a picture that hasn't gotten hurt that is currently on 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.480 that staff or even in Triple A no. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.200 I mean even last year, Yamamoto got hurt. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.280 Yamamoto got hurt. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.640 Glass experiment has been tricky. You know, everybody just giving 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.480 up and throwing their hands up that the Dodgers, you know, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.360 are going to just roll over. Buddy, I keep saying 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.120 the same thing. Injuries, injuries, injuries. If that, I don't 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:20.920 care how good the bullpen is. If the starting pitchers 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.520 can't get you through five, it's gonna be a problem. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.040 Yamamoto has been great. Glass. Now Kershaw's working his way back. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.800 We'll see what he's got left in the tang. Jerry 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.040 makes an interesting observation here in the chat. Have you 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.440 seen so many people batting under two hundred for a month? 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.200 First month into the season. There are a lot of 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.680 guys under two hundred. Contact is just not what he 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.920 used to be in this league, and that's why I 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.640 think you got to value the guys who make consistent contact. Welsh, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.640 But it is kind of funny there there's a lot 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.280 of guys just getting crushed right now in batting average. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.200 Yeah. I think we also saw some like increases in 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.160 fly balls, Like flyball overall, like year over years was 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.760 at a high, at least in the first couple of 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.800 weeks of the season, which you know, that could be 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.280 part of it. It's just not a lot of great 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.320 quality of contact. Maybe guys leaning back on you know, hey, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 torpedo bat, Like, where can I get the barrel? I 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.200 don't know, is it strikeouts? Is it velocity? Is there 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.440 a correlation to velocity? Early on in the season, we're 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.840 seeing guys throw so hard, and you know, there's always 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:23.600 this bounce back between big v Loo helping era and 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.880 then hitter sacrificing contact for power and money. You know, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.960 it's it is a really weird thing. I don't know 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.200 if baseball can do anything about it. And then on 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.880 top of all of that, you've also got the continuous 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.320 not just torpedo bat stuff. You got the baseballs different. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.760 You know, every player of the baseball's switched out here 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.040 and there. And Lance Barstowski actually did a really interesting 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.400 breakdown you should go check it out on his YouTube 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.000 about the minor league baseballs versus the major league baseballs 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.800 and literally it built down to like where they're manufactured. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.320 I think the major league ones are built in China, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.840 are built, you know, constructed, and the minor league ones 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.800 are in like Puerto Rico, and it's like there's like 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.200 literally different like temperature gauges on and you get like 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.520 high percentages of stuff being cut down from pitches, somewhere 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.439 between like eight and fifteen percent of like spin movement 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.800 and vertical up and down can change on pitches from 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.679 the minor league to the major league. It's such a 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.119 baseball thing. I know, it's boring by the way, it's 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.920 the most baseball thing of all time that we're sitting 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.480 here talking about baseballs and bats and this and that 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.879 just not something you see in football or basketball. We 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.560 have to deal with. But it's also why it's like 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.159 it'd be cool if we could figure these things out. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.840 It's not great when four hundred players are batting under 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:32.919 two hundred for anybody. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.000 All Right, Huk wants to get back in your good graces. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.440 He apologized earlier for the forty nine or comment. Been 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.639 feeling low on you, Anosuarrez, so I dropped him and 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.000 claimed Luke Keyshaw feeling good about it, thoughts Welsh. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.959 Yeah, I mean, I ironically, it's always happens like this. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.040 I'm like, I have lukeyshel really high in my prospect ranks, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:52.960 but I was sitting here being like, you know, guys, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.640 I just don't know what the path is. I got 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.760 so many players like I just don't know if he's 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.879 up for long. Right now, he's just a freaking monster. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.400 He's not striking out, he's walking, he's hitting the ball hard, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.800 he's stealing bases. He had five stolen bases in his 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.399 first five games. This is the type of stuff that 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.680 keeps you up in the majors. So I think you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.560 should feel like good about owning him. Johannio was super streaky. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.879 He's going to probably bounce back, but it's just like 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.080 great that you had five hits that are all homers, 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.720