WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 26th, 2022 (Ep. 603) 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.480 Welcome in Brendos to Leading Off. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.200 The final week of Leading Off. That's right, I am 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.119 your host, Chris Welsh. Joining me today is Andrew Seifer. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.600 You can find him on Twitter at Andrew Underscore Seifer. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.920 Me at is it the Welsh and Andrew? Not only 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.360 is this the final week, this is your final show 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.280 on Leading Off as you've been joining me for the 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.520 last couple of months. How have the championship runs been 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.800 going and is this going to be a tight race 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.920 in the final week for that Rodo ship. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.519 Well, I'm feeling pretty good about that. I'm feeling very 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.760 sad about it being my final appearance on Leading Off 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:46.280 for the season. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.720 It's been a great ride. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.280 I guess I'm metaphorically getting moved down to the batting order 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.960 no longer leading Off. But yeah, the teams are going great. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.200 I'm I'm sort of in cruise control, honestly. In that 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.840 home league I've talked about so much. I'm up twenty 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.200 points now heading into the final week, so I've kind 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.200 of just blown the competition out of the water. My 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.039 friend was messaging me during our fantasy football draft and 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.760 he's like, I still can't get over that run you 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.560 made in August, so it's a nice time to be alive. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:16.920 But I will miss being on the show. 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.720 Yeah, one hundred percent, Danas asked aw Man. No offseason 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.679 as of this moment, not planned, but you guys can ask. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.119 You guys feel free to flood them with We want 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 the Welsh, and we want the crew, the Peanuts and 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:30.640 the cracker Jacks. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.080 We want more. You just got to flood them and 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:32.520 let him know. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.119 But as far as I know, this is the final 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.800 week and and coming up on Friday, but the final show, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.200 I have confirmed it. We have a celebrity joining us 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.920 on Friday, mister Joe Pisa Pia is weak and he 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.160 will be back for the final show. And another piece 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:56.880 of news, it's his birthday today, so birthday, no, it'll 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.400 be you know what. And I was thinking about this too. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.080 We should we should have had I should have talked 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.080 to Wonky about this. What a great day this would 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.280 have been to have a home run bonus. We really 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.440 it's not my contest, then the home run bonus. I 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.519 thought it would have been really great if every day 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.600 this week there was a bonus in this final run 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.360 and today's bonus would have been double homers for any 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.919 bald player that you pick that hits a home run 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.480 today in honor of Joe Piezapia, who I think turned. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.880 Sixty eight this year, so you know, hat tip to Joe. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.680 He's closing in on retirement and his birthday is today, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.720 so make sure you shout him out and he will 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.960 be back again with us on Friday, the old crew 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.440 of me and Joe back in the saddle. So people 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.680 asking I don't know who to hit up, So I 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.360 mean I kind of do. But you can hit up 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.360 all of the people over in the discord, all the 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.160 main important people you want off season. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.080 Feel free to ask. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.760 But as of this moment, that Joe and I show 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.000 on Friday should be the last one. But we don't 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:54.760 need to focus on that. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.280 Well, I knew I liked that Joe guy, and now 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.200 I know why because my birthday's tomorrow. So sleebra's to 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.080 stick together. Us hairless guys got to stick together. So 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.200 happy birthday, Joe. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:06.079 Happy birthday. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:06.240 Man. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.400 You could probably be his son. I think, what are 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.119 you going to turn like thirty thirty. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.480 One something right here in the ballpark, as they. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.240 Said, yeah, and Joe's like, you know, it's like in 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.400 the sixties, or something. Joe's not really, but you know 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.959 we like to play like that. Yeah, Wonky, I could 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.760 have decided that, but I should have thought of it earlier. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.200 I thought of it literally as I was talking with 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.680 Joe yesterday. I was talking with him yesterday and we 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.600 didn't talk about birthdays. I didn't know it was but 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.480 it would have been. Uh, it would have been fun 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.960 to do that. Oh, and Wonkey says, you can email 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.680 info address on Fantasy Pros if you'd like. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.000 If you guys want some more off season. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.160 I would love to do some more off season with Wonky, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:44.480 with Andrew and with. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.839 The whole crew. But you know, we'll have to see. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.400 I think there's a lot of applicable stuff there. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.800 But let's talk about the things that have got us 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.000 here to our championships, or just the likes of baseball. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.800 Albert Albert pooholes. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:01.000 As Will Fare would have said, as as Harry Carey. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.360 Albert pool holes hom twice on Friday to become the 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.840 fourth player to reach seven hundred homers in his career. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.480 And if I remember correctly, I believe. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.160 He did it on Apple TV. Isn't that right? So 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:13.880 nobody saw it? Nobody? 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:14.040 Why? 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.240 Only reason I did, by the way, is because I 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:18.760 got a brand new phone like a month and a 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.000 half ago and they threw Apple TV in as part 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:22.919 of my new service. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.800 So I have Apple TV. But I'm probably one of 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.640 the like ninety. 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.159 Four people who care about baseball that had Apple TV 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.760 and got to actually witness it. Not on a highlight reel, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.160 but he did it. He officially did it. Andrew and 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:36.640 pool Holes is at seven hundred. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:38.000 Yeah, so awesome. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.920 And if you had said at the start of his 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.320 career that he was going to reach seven hundred home 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.159 runs on Apple TV, people would have been very confused 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.000 what you were talking about. But it's a wonderful world 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.480 we live in with modern technology. I will say, you know, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.480 I feel like Albert pool Holes he's the true heir 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.880 to the Hank Aaron legacy because a fun fact is 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.920 that he never hit fifty home runs in a season, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.440 and neither did Hank Aaron, So you know, they were 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.760 just the models of consistency. Forty home runs every single year, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.120 over and over and over again to get to that milestone. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.760 It's a great milestone and it's a lesson for Aaron. Judge, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.520 don't cut it too close to the end, because the 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.600 closer you get to the end, the more pressure there 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.599 is to do it. So Poohols was wisely getting to 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:22.640 his milestone early. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.440 My favorite thing about all of this, too, is the 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.160 internal stories of like the home runs of like you know, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.400 the one guy I think who caught seven hundred like 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.520 immediately left the stadium and is being offered five hundred 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.800 thousand to a million. I believe there was an auction 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.960 price out there of a of a million. This is 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.360 great story if everybody didn't see it about Mark McGuire's 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.840 home run ball where the guy that caught it, they 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.520 offered him all this stuff. Here's what I love about 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.080 this time of year because of getting these stories. And 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.240 they were saying this story about how you know, they 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.960 offered him like autograph, fat a ball, this, that and 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.680 the other thing, and he agreed to all of it 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.640 except his one other thing was he wanted to meet 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.040 Mark McGuire and McGuire said no, of course, of course, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.800 and the guy ends up saying, okay, I'm not doing 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.000 it and sells the ball for three million dollars, you know, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.840 like a couple months later and made millions. And there's 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.920 a lot of hostage negotiation stuff going on with these 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.440 home runs with between Judge and Albert Poolhols, and I 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.400 know we're currently in that with the with the pool 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.440 holes seven hundred seven. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.760 I got a pretty cool story about this too. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.320 So my dad was actually at the game where Roger 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.760 Marris hit his fifty fifth home run the year he 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.800 hit sixty one, and his bat broke after he hit 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.200 the home run and he handed it hit the bat 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.159 boy handed the bat to my dad. So my dad 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.839 has the bat that Roger Marris hit his fifty fifth 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 home run with, and he has the box he kept 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.560 scoring that game. So we actually went back and looked 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.479 to make sure it was the right game because he 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.479 was like because he hit the fifty sixth and the 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.880 fifty fifth both against Cleveland, so we're trying to make 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.720 sure it was the fifty fifth. So we went back 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.279 and watched the video and there's a there's a clip 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.880 of Roger Merris running into the dugout, and we froze 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.680 the YouTube and zoomed in and you can actually see 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.839 my dad in the second row behind the dugout at 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:03.200 the game. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.719 So it's pretty got to authenticate that. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.200 And that's your retirement plan, Yeah, right, which I had 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.280 a retirement plan like that. That's definitely pretty nice. And 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.360 then also it's all it's all enshrined in like this 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.520 hilarious conversation about chord cutting and how this game could 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.400 possibly you know, they could possibly do this on Apple TV. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.160 You've got also the complaining going on in the NFL 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.360 about the NFL being on Amazon Prime in general and 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.000 maybe moving there. I don't think I think this is 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.560 the tip of the iceberg into this, and I know 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.080 over the last two years we've had it, it's a 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.400 much bigger, different conversation. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.520 But you know a lot of people. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.800 Got pissed off about like the YouTube games and the 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.360 Facebook games. We don't think we've seen anything yet. I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.680 don't think we're this is the smallest little thing we're 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.920 in for. Because the chord cutting of streaming services purchasing 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.920 more games and more games, it's going to get louder 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.680 and bigger and it's going to be more intense. And 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.000 I think this is this is that little tip just 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.040 to remind us, like, look at you've got a really big, 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.320 big time you know, record breaking a baseball piece of 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.080 history that is stuck behind a paywall that most people 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.200 do not have. I think it's going to get worse. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.840 I think it's gonna get a lot worse for people. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.880 But again, that's a conversation for a whole nother day. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.480 But congratulations to Albert Poolhols for doing it. We now 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.360 don't have to have the stupid conversation of like, would 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.200 he come back for a couple of games even though 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.480 he said he would and blah blah blah. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.440 We don't have to worry about it. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.120 He did it. He doesn't really even care. Someone's going 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.240 to be rich. I'm excited to see what the final 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.160 bit of the numbers are and maybe he can attack 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.280 on another too. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.040 If he's even getting to play at this point. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.840 If he hit the record, they might not, but you 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.840 know what are they playing for this last week? Some 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.720 other headline here pieces Ronald Acunya hit to go ahead 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.559 RBI single also walked on Sunday as the Braves beat 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.120 the Phillies eight to seven. I believe he had been 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.080 out of the lineup for quite some time and it's 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.800 going to be fascinating just to see where Acuna goes 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:54.360 next season. But getting Acunya, hopefully for this back end 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.120 of the week, is going to be a helpful piece 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.520 for everybody. Also, Mike Trout Homeward doubled twice walk and 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.079 also score three times for the Angels, say crush the 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.800 Twins ten to three on Sunday. And Mike Trout coming 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.240 through in this back half of like five months or 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.720 so with a little bit of production for any Roto Championships. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.560 Andrew, Yeah, I mean he's a different player than he 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.720 was in his peak. You know, he doesn't steal bases anymore, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.200 he doesn't hit three twenty anymore, but the power is 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.200 absolutely still there as much as ever, maybe more than ever. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.319 So I wouldn't be surprised to see him continue that 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.120 for a few more years where he's putting up forty 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.080 home run seasons. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.600 I wonder if this is gonna look reminiscent at all 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.360 of like this is his version of this where you've 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.280 got the pitchers. Verlander's gone through this Kershaw Bumgarner where 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.600 you are a certain type of player and then you 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.840 can no longer do that thing anymore, and you really 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.920 struggle with yourself in figuring out, well, I can't do this, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.360 You're still trying to be the old player, and then 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.360 you find a way to work with where around it, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.920 and I know I'm dancing around it, but like Kershaw 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.200 did that when he lost Villa, so he had to 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.800 learn and he was having back issues, he had to 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.320 learn to be a different pitcher. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:05.480 Verlander had that. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.800 But then Verlander found his velocity again, which is really 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.600 incredible at an older age. And the same thing I 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.840 kind of wonder with Trout where in twenty nineteen, you know, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.280 he still stole double digit bases. He'd been coming off 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.760 of three straight years of twenty or more stolen bases, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.960 and then you have the pandemic year that's mixed in 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.240 with a broken year of injuries in twenty twenty one 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.000 that I don't know if either one of those you 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.240 could really be like, oh, he is trying to find 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.760 himself in a different way. He is trying to reinvent 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.920 his game until this year because this is like the 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.600 first full season he's had since the pandemic really took 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.840 place that he's had to figure out how to be 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:41.520 a different player. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.680 And we've kind of taken him and broken him. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.440 Apart because the guy's only still four bases from two 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.079 thousand on four stolen bases from Mike Trout since two 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.720 thousand he's had and I think just overall, yeah, twosand 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.439 I'm sory, Yeah, two thousand would be that would be amazing. 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.680 He played in twenty eleven, twenty twenty, you've seen the 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.240 strikeout rate go up because I think you're seeing him 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.240 find you know, getting back onto being an impactful power 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.800 hitter is the way he's got to do it, instead 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.439 of being this five tool player that's also stealing basis. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:10.840 That's just not part of his game anymore. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.400 And we're going to have to come to terms that 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.719 maybe if he can find health and he can get 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.640 that going, he is going to be a plus plus 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:18.760 four category player. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.720 He just will not be five. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:20.600 Yeah. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.480 I mean, honestly, this is a pretty standard age curve 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.040 that you see with hitters. I feel like the power 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.079 is the thing that they can keep the longest. I 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.160 mean we even saw that with Albert Poohols, right, the 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.840 power maintained in those down years with the Angels. It 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.319 was the other things that went away, you know. I mean, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.600 Trout is never going to be a batting average liability. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:44.040 He's just too talented a hitter for that. But yeah, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.200 the strikeout rate of twenty eight percent, I mean, you're 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.760 looking at a two eighty batting average like he's got 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.040 this year, that's kind of the baseline expectation. I just 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.640 find it interesting that pitchers actually seem to despite how 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.440 much stress there is on the arm and how many 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.480 injuries pitchers tend to have earlier in their careers. I 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.520 do think we see more dominance from older pitchers than 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.360 we do from older hitters. It's just hitters have a 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.320 more sort of graceful, gradual decline, whereas pitchers can fall 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.520 off a cliff, then they can re emerge and be 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.680 dominant again. It's sort of like capturing lightning in a 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.640 bottle with pictures, whereas with hitters it's kind of more 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.040 of a longer term trajectory. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.520 Over on the In This League Fantasy Baseball podcast with 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.679 Bagman and I, we are conducting a slow draft, early 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.400 twenty twenty three draft, of course, and we're going to 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.040 be breaking it down this week. Where do you think 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.319 Trout should go and where do you think he went 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:34.800 in ours? 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.679 I would say Trout it is probably like a third 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.720 round player, maybe second if you want, but yeah, I 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:49.280 mean he's probably a top fifty overall player in Rodo 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.000 and he's got a very high floor. He's not risky 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.520 in any way other than of course he did have 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.400 some injuries, but generally speaking, I feel like he's kind 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.720 of like the rich man's George Springer at this point. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.600 I feel like, so maybe surprise you. It's a fifteen 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.600 team roto mock draft ten. He went ten overall, so 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.160 still maintaining that value. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.200 It's all rich for me. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.120 Yeah, I mean it is a little rich for me 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:14.600 as well. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.840 And actually he went two picks before my pick, and 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.400 I still wouldn't have I don't think I would have 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:20.800 taken him. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.559 I ended up going with a Bobby wit junior. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.880 But I think there's a lot of stolen base guys 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.080 that are in there, but just interesting breakdown of like 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.080 where his value is still perceived to where he's going 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.520 to be drafted. He's literally almost being drafted in the 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.040 same spot he was preseason. So this is this is 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.319 why it's fascinating. And I think you can have Yeah, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:39.960 doctor Glenn says, you can have him in the first 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.559 round he did go. I think he'll move further out 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:44.560 as time goes on. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:46.200 Another guy that went in. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.200 The first round of that many Machado hit his thirty 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.600 first homer of the year, also walked as the Padres 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.160 lost to the Rockies. Few other notes as were burning through. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.280 Nester Cortes had six scoreless innings. Very impressive outing against 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.960 the Red Sox on Sunday night in New York at 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.240 four five with the two run homer. On Sunday as 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.959 the Mets beat the A's thirteen to four match, Schuzer 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.160 struck out seven walk nun allowed a loan run over 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.280 six innings against the A's and Dray Jamison Diamondbacks with 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.040 these young pitchers, dra Jamison didn't surrender a run over 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.360 five hits in five and one thirds of an inning 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.560 in a no decision against the Giants, Like incredibly impressive 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.080 between what Ryan Nelson has maintained to do and what 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.560 Dray Jamison is looking like right now. Probably back in 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.040 rotation guys that don't really mean much to you. You get 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.120 one start out of Dre Jamison if you want this week. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.920 What I wanted to ask you real quick is next season, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.080 Pete Alonso or Paul Goldschmid, who's the top first baseman 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:40.720 in your eyes? 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 Honestly, in a redraft format, I think you have to 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.440 give the edge to gold Schmith. Just based on what 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.880 he's done this season. I mean, it's just like Alonso. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.800 The thing about Alonso is he's he's kind of like 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.080 Trout honestly at this you know, at this stage of 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.360 Trout's career, he's a lot like Alonzo. He's decent batting average, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.520 but not going to excel there tons of power. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.600 I would say Alonzo. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.560 Has a little more power even than Trout, but not 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.080 really much in the stolen bases category. So you're you're 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.200 talking like a three category, three and a half category 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.760 kind of a player, whereas, uh, with gold Schmidt, I mean, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.080 he's just done it all this year. So you know, certainly, 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.320 like I could see the argument for Alonso just because like, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.520 if anything, he could even get a little bit better perhaps, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.200 and this has got to be the best we could 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.400 see from gold Shmate at this year. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.240 It'd be this whole Like, I don't want to buy 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.640 last year's stats with Goldman, he didn't make it into 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.080 the first runt of our mock, but he did go 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.720 before pet Alan. So I think it's an interesting conversation 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.200 to have with those guys that first base has gotten 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.120 a little bit more stocked up and we actually have 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.280 elite players where I feel like, I don't know, kind 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.360 of like lack the eliteness. Maybe we would throw Freddy 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.640 Freeman into that, and Freeman's not even going in the 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.120 top two. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.880 But it's a lot of Yeah, I think, I just 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.120 truly I think, I like I had a point earlier 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.880 in this season where I thought gold Schmidt was going 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.960 to fall off and then he did so based on that, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.000 I'm not ready to just assume he's suddenly going to 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.160 fall off next April. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:06.200 Yeah. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.160 Over on the injury front, Jeremy Paania cleared concussion protocol 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.400 after having sustaining a head injury on Sunday. He's expected 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.600 to be available on Tuesday. Short slight to games here 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.400 on Monday. Dustin May was placed on the fifteen day IL. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.280 Dave Roberts stated that he could possibly be available out 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.640 of the bullpen for the postseason if he's healthy enough. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.960 But for re Drafters, we know you have nothing to 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.520 worry about. Edward Cabrera left Sunday start with a right 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.480 ankle sprain. No bueno if you're counting on him. Jesse 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.680 Winker is removed from Sunday's game with a bruce left wrist, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.320 but fantasy owners wouldn't have known it outside of not 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.680 getting an zero for four with two strikeout performance on 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.600 their card for him. Cal Raley left Sunday's game after 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.400 aggravating an existing thumb injury, and Wander Franco was removed 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.800 from Sunday's game with a hand injury. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.240 So no bueno. The injuries have stacked up for wander Franco. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:52.520 This is an interesting question. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.840 You just put together your final Waiver wire pickup article 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 which is over on Fantasy Pros, and I figure maybe 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.000 if there's a few of these wee can answer these 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.520 throughout the show. I would love to get your thoughts 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.240 on a couple of the hitters. Well, let's do that first, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.359 a couple of hitters that you targeted as far as 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.840 pickups for this final week. If you're going for most 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.560 likely head to head is not playing. If you are, 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.120 you're crazy. But Roto championships are on the line right now. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.640 Who are a couple of the hitter pickups? 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.320 If someone is making some last desperation moves this week. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.680 Yeah, so, as we talked about last week, Ezekiel Tovar 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.679 has to be at the top of that list just 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.800 with the potential that he has. But I will just 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.080