WEBVTT - Leading Off May 16th, 2025 (Ep. 1014) 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.680 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is leading 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.680 off live. It is me, Joey p joe Pisipia back 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.319 in the chair with of course the Welsh and all 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.119 of you, the Peanuts and the Crackerjack. Shout out to 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.239 Joel Rico for covering me yesterday on the program. It's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.200 great to see everybody again. It's Rivalry weekend, and I 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.799 gotta tell you, well, it's just the first time in 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.200 a very long time I am really excited about Mets Yankees. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.000 Mets Yankees. I don't know if you realize this. When 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.760 Air League play started, this was the hottest ticket in town. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.440 The whole world just would stop for Mets Yankees in 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.280 the Tri State area both times. And I mean like 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.000 if you were at an event on a Saturday, it's 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.400 some bar mitzvah, or you know, you were at a 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.400 kid's soccer game, whatever, everything was stopping for Mets Yankees, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.240 doing what's the score? What's going on? It was madness, right, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.960 and then it kind of just dissipated over the years. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.280 But now last year with the Mets kicking there but 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.720 a little bit, and now the one Sodo stuff and 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.680 now he's gonna go back to New York. It's got 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.479 a juice that it hasn't had. I don't know, man, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.600 in fifteen years easily, I'm excited about it. I'm excited 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.000 about Rivalry weekend here in New York City. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.399 It's a very East Coast things I could care less. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.240 I had not thought what one moment about, Man, I 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.679 wonder what's gonna happen in the Subway series. I remember 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.200 a long time ago, Bogman and I were invited to 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.920 do this interview with this New York radio station and 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.920 they had us, you know, they okay, but and they 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.680 had us on, and one of the first things the 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.480 guy out of his mouth, he goes so he's like, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.600 how about that James Dolan stuff and this basketball thing? 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.400 And we were both befuddled and we were like huh. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.600 And it was a complete like I don't know what's 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.640 going on, and it was a complete East Coast by. 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.400 She's like, oh, well, you know, there's like ruined in 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.440 the Knicks and we're like, okay, you New Yorkers, You 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.080 New Yorkers love you some New York and think the 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.920 center of the universe is there. But I will tell 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.080 you it's gonna be a great series. The extra drama 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.600 with Sodo is gonna make it a ton more fun. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.200 But I have not lost one ounce of sleep of excitement. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.200 For right free Week. I'll have all the excitement for you. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.960 You know, It's been the same with Yankees Red Sox. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.200 I was not a Yankee fan, nor a Red Sox fan, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.840 but Yankee Red Sox was much must watch television for years, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.760 especially in the playoffs, and then after they won, after 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.239 the Red Sox finally came back and beat them in 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.120 that magical Year of four, it just never had the 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.880 same juice again. It just did. It never did for me. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.040 So I'd love to see that Baseball is better when 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.280 there's rivalries, right like right now. You know, when I 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:37.959 grew up, I was the Mets and Cardinals. That was 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.760 the rivalry, and then as I got older, it was 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.320 the Mets and Atlanta Braves. I don't know if you 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.079 feel like Diamondbacks Dodgers of rivalry, because rivalries like Giants 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.400 and Dodgers typically that's like the main one in the. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.359 West Nwmondbacks have kind of taken that over a little 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.880 bit over the last ten years, so it's there. But 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:58.240 to your point, I've probably suffered from, especially in baseball, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.760 like coming to Arizona, being here from day one, like 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.959 we're not anybody's really rival. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.120 Yeah, that story maybe to get. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.960 Why New York is the thing. But again, yeah, center 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:08.840 of the universe, like. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.000 Yeah, you guys, you know, but even in the baseball universe. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.480 Sodo going back to Yankee Stadium tonight, that's gonna be fun. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.640 Like it's gonna it's gonna let's go, let's go. 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.760 I'm here for the Boo Birds for Sodo, but he's 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:20.880 gonna give Boo Yeah. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.320 Yeah, And I can't wait for a Nit home run. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.200 I can't wait. It's gonna be great. 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He had seven 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.840 strikeouts and eight innings. The two to three era, a 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.000 point nine to nine whip, fifty three strikeouts, eleven walks, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.440 and fifty one innings. I don't think he's ever gonna 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.880 be the the Gram of of what he was, which 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.280 was on another planet. But this start, to me, was 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.160 the re emergence of maybe some hope that Jacob de 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.960 Gram can get back into that I'm one of the 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.200 top ten pitchers in baseball kind of territory. This was 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.000 a great start. We'll get to Brown the second, but 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.359 this was the Jacob de Gram I haven't seen in 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.000 quite some time. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.080 Yeah, and I'm really starting to hold to this theory 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.760 that he was holding something back at the beginning of 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.240 the season, Like that is starting to hold quite a 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.400 bit stronger to me. That Villo was down a tiny bit. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.360 I think you had some higher change of usage games 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.920 and he was just like pairing it back. He wasn't 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.159 being super hyper aggressive in the strikeout department. Then last 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.800 week he kicked back up this start, fastball Vilo almost 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.760 up a mile per hour, slider Villo a little over 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.240 half half a mile per hour, and it was ninety 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.240 four percent usage between slider and fastball, so both of 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.000 those pitches, and that he went slighter heavy as the 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.240 most used pitch thirty percent CSW, thirty eight percent wiff rate. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.320 It made the fastball even more efficient. And I kind 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.240 of think it might have been just this internal game 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.400 plan of like, how can we keep him healthy for 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.159 the season, And they really laid back that first month 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.360 and he is looking dominant, and I'm only kicking myself, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.400 you know, yesterday I had the first five on this. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.400 It just pushed, which is fine, we pushed the big money, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.039 but this was screaming an under game, and you could 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.040 have cashed on the under first five clearly the total 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.120 game all of the and I wanted to and I 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.120 moved away from it to play the first five on 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.839 the Astros. But Jacob deGrom looks looks vintage. But I 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.600 think the biggest test for everybody, especially someone like you, Joe, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.400 is like are you gonna buy in? You know, like 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.880 is he back to being a top five overall pitcher, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.640 because you know, the only one thing is looming, still injury, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.800 the entry thing is still looming. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.640 Can you look past it mid May now with how 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.560 he's looked, No, I can't look past it because I 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.040 have seen that show before too many times in my life, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.479 So no, I can't look past it. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.279 I think he's still an enormous risk to go through 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.200 the entire season. But this was still encouraging, nonetheless, And 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.239 if you paid a big price, like if you're Joe Rico, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.240 your loving life right now and you look like a genius, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.960 and I'm still terrified, but it was good to see. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.440 It was also good to see Hunter Brown and Hunter 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.040 Brown equally, I mean, maybe the most underrated pitcher in 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.040 the last two years of baseball. He's got a one 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.039 four to three Era of point, a three whip, sixty 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.120 seven strikeouts, fourteen walks, and fifty six hittings. He's hold 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.080 it together. The Astros right now are a mess. Al 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.279 two Vey's a mess. Alvarez is on the il Smith, 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.960 you know, not playing every day. It's tough. Taking away 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.280 Bregman and Tucker in the same year is taking its 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.480 toll on the Astros. But Hunter Brown I the FR's 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.120 point second instil young votes this year. Maybe nobody's gonna 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.960 touch Schooble probably at the end of the day. But 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.880 if anybody could, it's Brown. He really has been absolutely 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.480 spectacular after a dismal twenty twenty four April. One of 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.000 the best pitchers in baseball ever since. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.080 He's really efficient, you know, and hat tip to Wonky. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.120 Wonky wants a victory lap, you can have one. You were, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.480 I think one of the highest one. Hunter Brown. I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.680 kind of can't help but sit in a world of like, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.840 oh man, for're second in Cy young on on Hunter Brown, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.200 and we're talking about him as being let's say a 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.920 top eight overall sp kind of interested in selling. I'm 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.160 kind of in that world where you know, it might 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.920 be a really big cell high opportunity. But he has 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.440 just been massively efficient. He wasn't like quite as you know, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.080 whiffy and stuff like Jacob Grohm took that over in 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.680 this start, so he didn't have that. But from you know, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.880 an overall perspective, the one point four to three are 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.680 era is ridiculous. He's giving up low barrel, low hard 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.400 hit thirty two percent k percentage is elite, and he's 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.520 gotten expected e are of two seven four. So it's 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.560 not like you know, the regression is three and a 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.440 half or something like that, so he really does look dominant. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.040 It's crazy. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.360 I don't know if you can hear it. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 Oh no, I see it in here, ladies and gentlemen, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.440 Joe is frozen. Do you know what that means? Oh no, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.000 I went away? Bring me back? Hey, Oh it's chaos. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.880 It's chaos in here. I don't know if you can 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:25.840 bring me back normal Cali. But heyo, everybody, let me 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.800 tell you. Let me tell you something. Jacob deGrom gotta 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.679 sell high buy on Hunter Brown, So I don't know 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.000 if Joe is completely gone. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.560 Joe says he's back, but can you hear me? 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.800 Can we get some puppet? Joe's in the chat and 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:46.200 the hey goes maybe, well, I will move through the show. Well, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.480 you guys figure out what's going on. I like that 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.800 the chat is my co host here. That's actually kind 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.320 of fun. Let's go to the next thing in here, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.280 because I wasn't planning on playing host today. Since we're 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.240 done with Hunter Brown and we are with our boy here. Hey, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:01.880 there's Joe. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.840 Hi. Hey, yeah, massive thunderstorms here like thunderstorm warning. I'm 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.679 surprised you can't hear it on air like it's crazy. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.120 It's probably it's probably just the god so excited about 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.520 the Subway series that they doesn't contain it in on 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.679 the East Tiers of Joy, Yeah. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.520 Tears of joy? Are we talking about Otani yet? 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.600 I mean I was co hosting with the chat. I 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.640 had puppet Joe up. We were figuring out what we 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:26.959 were doing. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.160 But please continue, all right, Joey Otani not one but 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.160 two homers yesterday. He's got fifteen now twenty eight RBI, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.240 ten stolen bases. That's fifteen right now, so he's tied 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.160 with Joje and Schwarber for the most high song. Kim 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.920 also good night for him three for three with a 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.240 double four run score two. Ribby's w do you think 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.360 of Kim so far in the limited time you've seen 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:47.520 him at the major league level. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.839 I'm pretty impressed. Actually. I remember in camp one of 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.360 the days he came out and I was like that 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.440 dude's kind of jacked, you know, and they were working 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.040 at all different positions, really solid contact. Right now, he's 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.680 hitting four twenty not big barrels. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:02.120 You know. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.360 He looks like he's gonna be in that war. He's 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.360 towing the line between the is he gonna be low barrel, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.000 gets the ball out there, has no loft, doesn't strikeout 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.320 type of guy like i'd loosely say like a riser 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.920 Jacob Wilson or is it going to get into that C. J. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.520 Abrams world where it's like very minimal type of barrel rates. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.760 But he gets the ball in the air and optimizes. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.600 He would do really well if he did that. His 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.360 launch aingles around eight degrees, so you need to double 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.559 that into the near future. But overall eighty eight percent 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.600 contact rate mates a bunch of contact. He's stealing some basses, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.080 hitting homers. Look like he's here to stay. He's still 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.959 kind of a fringy ish dynasty opt or not dynasty, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.800 but like a fantasy option right now. But he's working 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.000 and as long as he's getting in the lineup, let's go. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.800 But we'll have to see like balancing guys like Rushing 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.520 and Kim and getting them all in the lineup. How's 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:51.080 that gonna work. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.640 Yeah, it's gonna be tricky. I have an amazing o 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.120 Tani stature ready for it. He's got forty two games 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.000 this season, fifteen homers, ten stolen bases, forty five runs, score, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.679 twenty five walks. No one in Major league history has 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.120 put up those numbers over forty two game span at 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.880 any point in a single season. Ever. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.679 Little Sarah langstat that's crazy. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.320 I got no. I didn't get it from Sarah. Got 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:13.120 it for somebody else. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.440 But it just sounds like something Sarah Lang will put together. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.800 Whatever I said that. By the way, this is the 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.520 best thirty seven game run where the game's in before 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.319 six that we've ever seen in baseball. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.400 And you're just like how she does it, It's amazing. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.839 She's amazing. Ronald Acunya also amazing, two for three with 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.160 a double in a mind league rehab game, and he 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.120 looks good. He didn't make an error in the outfield. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.719 He was hot dogging in a little bit if he 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.600 saw that the ball kind of dropped out. But he's 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.200 hit the ball hard everywhere. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.880 Type of show, guys, it's going to be that type 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.199 of show. I didn't no nogging by Ronald Kunya. But 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.240 what I will say here, Joe comes in here, you 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.160 got to get me back here. I'll just stay happening. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.839 What is what is going on? 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.680 With what's going on? I was fine, I freeze again. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.800 You froze again. Yeah, you're you're a mess, right, you're 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.480 a home off. What I wanted to say before you're 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.080 talking about the hot dogging, is that Ronald Dacunya already 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.280 where he's at in that rehab assignment. Didn't you put 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.040 the like June was it June six? We have on Acunya. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:16.959 He's going to destroy that. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.120 Yeah, he might be up next week. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.679 I mean, I know they're not saying that, but he 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.920 legit might be up next week. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.599 More talking about the Brave Spencer Strider is going to 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.440 come off the Eel's going to start against the Nationals 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.360 next week. Also for the Braves, I want to talk 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.040 about Drake Balden for a second three for four against 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.240 the Nats on Thursday. He's getting some more playing time 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.400 in two catcher leagues. What you're feeling on Baldwin. I know, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.439 you know he's still not the everyday quote unquote guy, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:43.880 but man, that guy's been hidden. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.439 I think he was number one in war maybe amongst rookies. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.280 Right now, like he's at the tippy maybe it's n L. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.559 I don't know it's n L or a L. But 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.679 like he is a high war guy. He's hitting three sixty, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.840 he's got four homers. This is a cool one because 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.400 I've been talking about him for some time because he 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.240 was out in the AFL this past year and really 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.600 really interesting bat. There's a bunch of offensive high upside. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.640 He has a sixty two percent hard hit rate with 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.200 a sixteen percent k percentage. He's hitting the ball hard, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.080 he's not striking out. He's earning himself more playing time. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.959 I think in a two catcher league he's on that 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.120 bottom rang only because he's not starting. If Sean Murphy 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.240 were to go away and he were to play every 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.120 single day, I think Drake Balden has the chance here. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.719 I'll put it like this, he has a chance to 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.880 be like next season's Ivan Herrera. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.200 If Murphy goes away, great, great, and he is the guy. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.920 Think of him like Ivan Herrera as a next season 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.800 like top ten to twelve catcher. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.360 Excellent comm Love that. Also love that Matt McLain's getting hot. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.680 Sh don't tell anyone I told you, uh, double walk. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.160 Things are going much better for him over the last week. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.240 Signs of Life. You look at the last seven days 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.440 they were there for Matt McLain. So that's very good news. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.520 You can still buy him over the weekend, but this 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.079 is your last chance. I sent out a bunch of 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.599 trade offers for Matt mclainon this morning, and I was 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.559 putting the show together after looking at the last week. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.640 So good news. They are some transactions. Brandon Drury gets 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.600 released by the White Sox. My guess is he'll land 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.880 somewhere else. I don't think the career is done. The 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.360 Rangers recalled cole Win. I want to talk about this 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.840 for a second because Luke Jackson is currently the closer. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.280 The closer and I'm using air quotes for that. Twenty 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.560 three innings so far hasn't given up a run. He's 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.960 got a point nine to four whip, twenty strikeouts to 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.560 eleven walks. Any chance that cole Win maybe flirts a 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:29.840 little bit with that closer. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.080 Role, probably I need to see it before anything. Bruce 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.160 Bochie's just doing weird stuff. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.200 With like I was all time now when managerial wins. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.600 Did you see that yesterday? No, he is sixth all time. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.520 He's a huge human being. He has one of the 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.680 biggest heads you've ever seen in your life next to 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.000 a player. And he's also because he's like super old. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.640 He's tall, like because I'm tall, he has the towers 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.840 over me with his big giant bobble head, Like he 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.640 is just a huge human being. He's crazy, but he 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.240 also just like he just does like the weird stuff, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.680 Like why is Luke Jackson continuously the guy? Would love 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.760 to see them bring someone in. I think this is 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.760 a rotation for a while. I think it's just kind 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.760 of disastrous until they go and acquire someone. And I 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.680 one hundred percent think they should go and acquire somebody. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.640 We've talked about Ryan Helsley. If they throw that at 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.440 us at all, then I'm cool with it. But I 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 don't I don't know of anything where cole Winn's going 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.320 to just be called up and just immediately jump. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.560 Back to that role. Send cole Win for Helsley, Go, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.120 send them Evan Carter, send them whatever they want. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.400 Go and get Helen Carter and Hell's that would actually 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:28.800 make sense. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.640 But like the Cardinals really need like more another another 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.560 crappy outfield prospect that's no good. Sure, that's what they 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.200 do best, That's what they do best. Uh, let's get 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.920 to the last and certainly not the least transaction from 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.400 me yesterday This made my heart smile. The Chicago Cubs 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.240 reportedly are signing veteran right hander kent To Mayeta, so 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.200 he's not out of baseball yet, can ye Mayeta? 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.920 The only thing we need for the true trifecta is 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.520 for him to be signed with the Mets, and then 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.360 the Mets jersey that I was sent. I've mentioned this before. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.560 Somebody legit sent me a Mets jersey and it is 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.600 a comboed name of Senga and Mata. But I gotta 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.640 tell you the choice and how they worded it. It's 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.400 not really ideal, it's not I. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.040 Just don't know why you get all this stuff. People 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.080 send you hats, they send you jerseys. I get nothing nothing. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.160 I don't understand. This is ridiculous. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.200 Why don't you don't you put your address, your your 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.840 home address publicly on the show? 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.120 Right now, someone wants to send me something. There's plenty 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:29.720 of ways to get a hold of me. There are 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.680 a few things over the years, but they're all football people. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.120 What's wrong with you? Baseball people? 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.120 Baseball people are great baseball people. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:42.080 Baseball They have sent me nothing, nothing of people. Oh 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.520 that's what it is. You're the real hero. Everyone, Well, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.880 which is the real hero. Everybody, All right, let's get 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.080 to the rookie lookies. Zebbie Matthews is back, baby Sunday. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.640 He's gonna start bring that one. Nine three e R 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.880 thirty eight strikeouts, nine walks over seven starts. So far. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.200 Wasn't the best debut for zeb last time he saw him, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.000 but hopefully a little bit better the second. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.920 On the show yesterday, I'm like, it's clearly got to 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.800 be David Festat like David fine an incredible fourteen strikeouts, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.440 no walks. He was up last, like, it's clearly gonna 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.119 be him, And then like eight hours later they're like 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:16.720 and it's Zebbie. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.040 Matthews And all of a sudden, I got let a 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.399 fire under Paddock too, because he pitched Wall yesterday too. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.520 He was like, oh crap, you can drop the guys 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:22.919 around here. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.000 Somebody put out a stat where it was like the 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.359 first like two or three starts, Patta gave up like 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.520 niner and runs. He's giving up like twelve in runs. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.840 Since then it's like over. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.200 Like, yeah, he's bad to start, but he's got He 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.480 is just grip. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.119 Gripping onto that that job, because you know he is 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.800 one bad blow up start probably hundreds losing that thing, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:41.560 but it's crazy. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.920 Oh look, the Twins might be better off dealing some 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.720 of that starting pitching though, and laying the kids play 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.000 and just help them somewhere else. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.000 You know that division Zebbie up tomorrow. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.040 I would agree. I'd rather see those guys in the 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.040 rotation with Joe Ryan and you know, some of the 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.680 starting pitch. The Cubs could deal with this. The Cubs 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.639 would love to have Chris Paddock right now. You know, 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.600 there's a lot of teams that could use him. I'm 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.800 just saying, let's talk about the Nationals for a second. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.040 Dylan Cruz not in the lineup yesterday. He's down to 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.360 one thirty six, two fifty five, two seventy seven in May, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.359 thirteen strikeouts. On the flip side, I wanted to bring 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.080 up Robert Hassel, who is having the inverse right now 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.080 at Triple A. He's hitting two to eighty nine with 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.359 a three forty OVP. The power hasn't been great, but 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.480 he does have three homers, eight steals in his last 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.680