WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 28th, 2023 (Ep. 732) 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.400 Happy Monday and welcome him and everybody to Leading Off. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:12.320 I am the Welsh Chris Welf. That is Casey Bubba, 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.800 and this is Leading Opera to you buy Prize picks, 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.360 Price Picks by the way, brand new logo. Keep go 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:19.760 and check out Theater Off. I know that I couldn't 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.280 even find me out for a little bit, but you 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.400 can easily find it. Type in Price Pick, download, use 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.320 a promo code at Leading Off. Get a one hundred 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.880 percent matchup to one hundred bucks. Do it today, Get 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.840 prize picking because we are going to get some prize 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.760 picking a little bit later, as well as everything else 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.720 under the Baseball sun. Where have Cormyn Carroll and I been? 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.159 There's a hint coming, who's gotten injured? The best bets 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.720 and more? Bubba, you were hanging out with the Fantasy 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.239 Baseball Elite last week, so I just wanted to get 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.320 a little quick recap. Any good stories. Who was the drunkest? 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:55.080 Tell me some good stories. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.560 We're not going to do that on the show. Wells 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:58.840 co and we. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.040 Know who is, we know who was most drinking. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.600 Drink you know, you know, you know had a great time, 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.480 you know had a great time, and everyone knew it 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.080 and we love it for that. That's what makes it, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.160 you know, you know, but it was an awesome time. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.360 It felt like f pats like I don't even remember. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.119 I was watching Strider a lot, obviously, but when Stryder 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.000 wasn't on the mound, I could probably not care a 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:15.960 whole lot about the game. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:16.679 It was. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.600 It was just ridiculous hanging out there and having a 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.800 good time and watching some a great team dominate a 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:23.240 bad team. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.720 Okay, that's good. I mean, that's a very good way 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.160 to say it. Nick Pollock, yourself, eno seris, I'm trying 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:29.600 to adjustin. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.640 Mason, Sammy Reed, Jake Crumpler from pittro List was there, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.120 Steve Leandress was there. There's there, Danielle was there, the 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.640 important Mason was there. So the Salinger I should say, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.080 but yeah, there's a ton of good people. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.720 Yeah, it was a good good people, and I was 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.640 just jealous that I wasn't there. So come on out 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.880 to Arizona. That's right, Yeah, come out and hang out 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.320 with us where baseball is going to be thriving, and 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.440 we'll be talking about a lot of offseason stuff. Whips 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.880 right here was saying Arizona was hot this weekend apparently, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.600 which you come out to Arizona for our fantasy football draft. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.120 How does Welsh live there? It is hot. I have 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.320 a pool though, so that's how we live here. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.320 I've told so many people because I always want to retire, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.000 like in the Arizona Scottsdale area, somewhere out there. People go, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.000 it's so hot. I'm like, you have air conditioning and 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.280 swimming pools. That's what you do people. It's very simple. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.519 My air conditioning never goes off. I have swimming pools. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.320 The only thing is Arizona used to be the place 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:21.800 where you go when it's like, hey, you don't want 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.080 to live in California because Arizona is cheaper. It's not 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.720 so much cheaper anyways, so that has changed a little bit. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.680 But thank you guys for hanging out with us. As always, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.959 if you guys got some fantasy questions, you can pop 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.679 them in the chat. If you guys are watching us live, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.000 we will try to get to those if we can. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.160 And let's get right into it. For this Monday edition 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.040 of Leading Off, Felix Fatista the Mountain hits the Iel 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.760 with what was being described as some form of a 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.520 UCL injury. That all but hits too home for all 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.480 of us. With the UCL injury world yeniar Cano protected 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.360 a one run lead in a perfect ninth, getting a 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.680 save on Saturday against Rockies. I didn't look on Sunday actually, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.400 now that I'm thinking about it, but Cano ends up 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.400 being what, in my mind was not just like the 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:11.160 top option, but like instantly like a top twelve to 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.080 fifteen closer. I played in an Attino league, which is 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.919 on Fangraphs, and I'm really pissed off about it because 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.040 I need closers bad and I put an auction out 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.920 on Cano for ten bucks, and I thought that was aggressive. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.640 He locked in last night for eleven dollars and I 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.480 wanted to kick myself for it, but like, that's a 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.760 lot of money for a free agent wave away our guys. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.720 So Batista this injury, and Canoe is a replacement Bubba 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:37.440 what he got. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.000 One hundred percent. It's Canoe all the way. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.680 He was the top guy to target this week and 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.800 on you know, one of the best teams in baseball. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.200 Batista's been getting saved after save. Canoe is gonna get 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.080 his fair share. You know, Tanner Scott would have been 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.680 your alternative option if if you couldn't get him. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.280 But big difference in the team quality with this. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.880 So I'm with you on Cano great like elite stuff 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.200 to start the season, scuffle the mid season, he's been 0:03:58.240 --> 0:03:59.720 back to pretty close to elite form. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:01.680 I wouldn't be shocked if. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.720 In just a month's time he gets you eight to 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.200 ten saves, Like he's that good. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.400 So it's a big move. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.280 Yeah, No, this is a bit like the Tanner Scott situation. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.480 Is David Robertson, after making the trades they did, he's 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.800 been taken off of the closer role, and it looks 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.920 like Tanner Scott, according to Craig Mish, is going to 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.280 be the guy that was a. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.640 Nice that what's that Scott got the save on Sunday? 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.400 Yeah, So like that's like a nice alternative if I 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.600 were ranking it, you know, that's probably like a low 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.680 teen's early twenties type of closer. Canoe really legitimately could 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.160 being like a top ten. Yeah, this is like the 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.520 in football turm, not we're in a baseball podcast. In 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.360 football terms, it'd be like Naja Harris going down in 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.000 Jalen Warren coming in. It's like this is the type 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.920 of replacement on any other on the Diamondbacks, Canoe would 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.440 probably be a top ten closer for save opportunities. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.440 This is like when Josh Hater got treated and Devin 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.160 Williams walked in. It's that kind of transition, like you're 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.159 getting an elite closer. Davin Williams was still like pretty 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.880 close to your Leasee. Similar situation there. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.800 I mean elite low walk rates only four point one percent, 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.400 that's fourth for top three percent or four percent of 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.000 the league as best twenty three almost twenty four percent 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.040 K percentage expected. Dra is still in a good spot. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.560 I mean, just a power closer that you guys got 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.479 to pick up. And if you had Felix Patista, I 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.960 think you're screwed. You know you Wonkey said it. I 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.640 think the best where was that comment where it was 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.360 like my UCL is starting to hurt and I can 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.040 find it, but oh yeah, like even my like this 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.520 is that like I'll give I'll take take my UCL, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.920 Like stop with the UCL injuries. This is a stank ass, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.320 stank situation. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.400 Like non fantasy related. I feel so bad for Orioles 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.520 fans because their team's so darn good right now and 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.000 they're going to make the playoffs and Cano is still good, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.560 but wouldn't it be a lot nice to have Canoe 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.240 in the eighth of Moatista in the night. Like that's 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.159 just a huge blow come post season times. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:48.919 But it's also why you want like the depth you 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:49.640 possibly can't. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.680 That's why teams make those trades. Like you're like, what 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:52.679 are you doing? Yeah? 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.520 Another thing is going to be interesting, is you know, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.720 following those guys that are like the must ads, because 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.479 what's in interesting is like Cano is probably one of 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.360 three or four closers or I guess eight min eighth 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.080 inning setup guys that were like you probably should just 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.240 own him in case this guy goes down. But Batista 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.440 had been such a lockdown guy it literally only could 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.240 be injury where Cano was going. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:16.479 To do this. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.600 But he's been awesome. He's a must pick up if 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.640 he's available in your league and didn't get already picked up, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.479 go do it. Shoheyo Tani tripled, doubled, and walked twice 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.760 on Saturday as Angels won. He did not play or 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.440 he did play on some im sorry he went oh 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.400 for four, But just any thoughts on like he just 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.440 went like we were we expressed all of our concerns. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.520 We haven't had any updates and he just played this 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.760 weekend and he's just doing his thing, bubba, So you know, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.480 I mean not not that anyone was making any reactionary moves, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.719 but I guess this is just tell everybody that you know, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.680 he's gonna go. I still feel like until the proverbial 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.839 wheels fall off, is them being eliminated from the playoffs, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.919 he'll stop. But we also got the report this is 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.040 not a good one. But yeah where twist here, Angels 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.560 management said they offered to do testing on Otani and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.720 his crew denied it. And that's a bad look for 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.239 putting Otani's group in bad light. That that's those things 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.680 in free agency. I'm all out here preaching like, oh, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.200 they're gonna resign. He's gonna resign with the Angels, not 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.400 only like seeing those things. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:21.760 Yeah, so a couple of things. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.600 So Tany keeps pacing out with attorney UCL which is 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.160 just insanity, giving the unicorn theory even more. Like he's 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.240 hitting next for basically has hitting home or stealing two 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.640 bags in one game, Like he's just doing things. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:33.320 You shouldn't be doing. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.960 Probably the Mets had a great tweet I believe it 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.480 was Sunday morning because in batting practice he broke a 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.280 light bulb and the the the scoreboard and he said, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.560 Otani stopped breaking things, please AKA because the UCL then 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.360 the light. That's pretty funny. But yes, I'm glad you 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.520 brought that that tweet up. I like that I saw 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.880 that you saw about management because Atony's been getting hurt 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.200 a lot lately leaving games. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.000 He had like a dead arm period and other things. 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.480 And when they offered to do that UCL I even 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.160 said them all, if an employer asks an employee, which 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.400 is that situation to go do something, usually you do 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.440 it unless there's some other conflicts taking place there. So 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.280 the facto Tani's group said no tells me a lot 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.200 about the idea of him coming back to the Angels 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:14.560 right now. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.200 Yeah, I do think it has something to do with that. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.840 I think it's also a bad look on the Angels 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.680 in general of like what control do you have over 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.960 your players? Like that's one of those things like as 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.640 a parent, like you'd be like, well, this is not 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.760 a choice, like we're gonna do you keep coming out 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.040 of games with whatever type of arm, fatigue, whatever, Let's 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.719 check this out. So this is good, So I think 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.400 it's another also bad look on the Angels for just 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.360 not pushing it. But he continues to go. He continues 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.800 to roll, and he continues to play. Mister Corbin Kerro, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.199 who would talk about here in a little bit, went 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.959 two for three with a triple and a pair of 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.160 runs scored. He now has hits in five of his 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.719 last seven games, and all five of those games are 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.720 multi hit games BA BA and in a clash of 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.400 stats that really do not help us at all in 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.079 fantasy outside of just being fun and they obviously it 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.800 can lead to something bigger. Corbyn Carroll's I believe home 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.280 to home or first to home or however it was. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.120 I think it was Home to Home was like the 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.160 fastest in all baseball. It beat Bobby Witt Juniors. But 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.760 it wasn't fast enough because it was met by a 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.560 ninety nine point seven mile per hour throw from Ellie 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.280 day La Cruz. As Corbyn Carroll was coming in to 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.160 attempt a inside the park, Homer probably one of only 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.920 two players that could have thrown him out. Him and 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.040 Mason win with a perfect throw in there. So the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.199 you know, the home to home and the and the 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.480 speed of the throw, both things that are not Fantasy 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.199 qualifiers here, but they ended up being a big piece 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.400 for Ellie versus Corbyn Carroll, which I was a series 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:40.960 I actually thought about going to this week and I 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:41.840 just didn't get out there. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.559 Yeah, that'd have been you know, with your athletic connections 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.719 now you think you might get a little pass to 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:47.920 go talk to some of these boys. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.400 That would have been a fun one nashally, but yeah, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:54.080 but I yeah, it's it's great that, you know, visiting 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.280 Pandora has really helped Carol swing. That is a I 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.559 told you some low altitude stuff was exactly Rogers ayahuasca. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.840 Maybe he's gotta let your mind free, go go have 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.040 a little fun out there. But yeah, it's good to 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.439 see Carol heating up. Ellie's a freak. Those are the 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.400 kind of things that remind us that baseball's fun, and 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.679 even when we're hating Fantasy all these days because you know, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.200 Pitcher stinks or something, that kind of stuff's fun. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.040 Pandora. I completely forgot about that from this weekend. If 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.880 any and no one got that one either, I think, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.800 or maybe it was like right at the very very end, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:24.800 I don't think I marked anybody. I'll have to go 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.080 back and look if anybody got it. We'll do that 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.360 here in just a second. Royce Lewis hit a grand 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.280 Slam on Sunday as the Twins beat the Rangers. Hits 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.040 in five of his last six games and has three 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.320 homers over his last five games. Has Royce Lewis moved 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.400 an inch further into must start outside of one of 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.920 those kind of jumbalie players of I mean, he was 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.600 like a must pick up, but I guess at this 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.520 point is he like must be in your lineup at 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.080 every point without he's playing. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.920 Yeah, he's pretty much must start for me as long 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.480 as he's healthy, which he is right now. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.960 He's a five category contributor. So I'm a big fan 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:57.959 with royce Lewis all day. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.640 Yeah, And I wonder too, like what this is going 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.240 to end doing to his stock long term, because like 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.400 this is phenomenal. I don't wanted to push him too 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.079 high up because next year you're gonna have those little 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.640 grouping of rookies, But I think Royce Lewis could sneakily 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.280 be one of those guys that should be more valuable 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.280 than any rookie that comes up next year. So, like 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.559 as much as I love like Pete k Armstrong, Like 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.520 you can see those guys being seventies, eighties, nineties or whatever. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.520 But a guy like Royce Lewis, if you can keep 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.520 him outside the top one fifty, he's got the ability 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.760 to be a top three round player. He's going to 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.600 be a major target if we can just possibly suppress 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.880 his value. But if he keeps hitting like this, there 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.920 is no chance in hell we're going to be able 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.880 to get a post one hundred. Royce Lewis at his 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:41.680 clip right now. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.760 Yeah, it's just always health with Royce because even throughout 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.800 the season he's produced pretty well and then he gets 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.920 hurt again and this run has been great. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:49.760 So yeah, I'm with you. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.800 If he kind of keeps playing well for a month, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.360 we're gonna kind of get hosed on that deal. But 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.679 I would like to see I could see some of 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.600 these rookies taking advantage the situation, Like you're saying, I'm 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.800 trying to look at his positional he'd be third base 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.160 only this year that so I was wondering if he 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.800 got But it's still pretty great. It's awesome, Yeah, but 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:10.600 it's one of the double check. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.160 What is his stat line right now, Royce's I didn't pull. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.120 That up as I scrolled the top. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.560 It is he said in three twelve on the season 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.920 seven homers eighteen round twenty four RBIs two stone bases 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.080 in thirty seven games. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:22.960 That's pretty impressive. 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.280 Yeah, I mean stats. Yeah, and the way he's making 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.920 contact and stuff too, like projections are, they're just gonna 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.880 love him. They're gonna absolutely love him. And that's what 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.840 one of the annual things that happens is when all 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.200 the guys come around for first pitch out here in Arizona, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.679 is the projections have just come out. We had I 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.680 remember one year where it was like the projection It 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.640 was actually the Vladimir Guerrero junior rookie year. I think 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.520 it was where he was projections basically, yeah, where we 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.640 I remember I was sitting there with Ladd Seedler and 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.040 Rob Silver and they were like and Jason Klett and 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.200 They're like the steamer projections just dropped and and then 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.400 bam we look and it was like vlad hitting three 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.880 oh six. So right around that time is usually when 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.280 like the first crop of projections start to start to go. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.600 And I think Roy Lewis is gonna be pretty pretty 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:14.680 big in those feed off season off season just overall 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.959 rankings and stuff. Yeah, by a pretty wide margin. Maybe 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.600 one of the even though he might be kind of garbage, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.439 one of the biggest pickups. And I don't want to 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.640 call them league winners, but like it is dominant performance 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.880 after dominant performance. Mike Clevenger did it again. It was 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.920 against the A's and I had said this was like 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.520 the must pick up if he's sitting out there, ten 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:38.240 strikeouts over seven innings, one run ball. I mean, as 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.520 weird as it is Clevey has been, it was like 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.640 Clevenger and then Silseth, who will talk about here in 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.560 a little bit, Like those were two of just the 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.960 biggest pickup guys. And if he's still sitting out there, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.440 you got you got to roll him out for big 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.240 strikeout numbers. I don't I didn't look at what the 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 matchup was over the next two that he could be 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.840 potentially facing. But Clevenger is like a no brainer right now, Bubs, Yeah. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:58.439 One hundred percent. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.880 He was one of the top pickups last week with 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.960 he had the two starts coming up. He was effective 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.800 coming into that basically since he's come back from injury. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.719 He's looked like the dude people thought he would be. Like, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.839 I've never been the biggest Clevenger guy because he gets 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:11.800 lit up from time to time. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.840 But yeah, he does very effective. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:18.040 Right now getting strikeouts, which is definitely an improvement on him. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.800 And as I'm looking up his coming up starts here 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.320 for you, he gets to phase the Tigers this week, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.040 and then next week he gets the Tigers again. So yes, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.320 keep starting Mike Clevenger and enjoy life. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.560 Yeah, I gotta go look here because I think it's 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.880 Lee as Lee. It wants us to really know about 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.520 how Tuesday was bad. So that must have been something 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.560 Lee was affected by. I just don't remember that start. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.040 I want to say. Let's see, I don't remember his 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:43.880 last two starts. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:44.160 I don't. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.520 Yeah, I guess he gave up. I mean, it wasn't 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.800 that bad he gave it. He did give up four 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.920 and runs. It wasn't good. He had five innings, four 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.920 earned runs. He did only strike out four, but before 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.400 that he went seven, struck out seven. He went six, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.960 struck out six, gave up one earned run, he went 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.800 five three earned runs. I mean, he is giving up 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.560 only four earned runs twice since May sixth, in his 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:07.640 starts get. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.520 Like one rough start every like five to six starts. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.120 I'll take that with every picture right about. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.000 Yeah, No, I completely agree with that. Yeah, Like I 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.760 wouldn't quantify like that. We need to say it twelve 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.840 times that he was bad on Tuesday. It's like he 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.480 wasn't good, he wasn't horrible, And I will take that 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.440 is the blow up over with a lot of these 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.280 although over what Luis Severino has been giving you or 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.440 a lot of these other guys. I'll do that. But 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.480 you know, he kind of sucks, but he you know, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.280 sucks outside of baseball. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.800 But he's been not a great human. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.960 But on the mound, Yeah, Joe Ryan, he looked sharp 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.360 in his return coming back from the Isle on Saturday. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.440 He allowed just one run over five and five hits 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.920 over five innings in a no decision against the Rangers. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.000 He's one of those like he's the he might be 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.040 the remember the Wandy line, he might be the Wandy 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.240 line of pitchers where it's like do I start him 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.720 coming off of injury? He was like just the guy 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.920 where I probably do Joe Ryan where the other guy? 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.920 Someone had asked me last week, Brian Wu coming off. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.920 Even though Brian Wu was actually good, I wouldn't have 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.280 done it, Like, that's not a guy I would trust starting, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:10.480 but Joe Ryan I would. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:11.640 Yep, I'm with you there. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.400 The only reason I didn't start Ryan is that team 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.240 he was facing called the Rangers. I was like, I 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.920 think I'll wait on this one. I'll just see how 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:17.240 he does. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:18.240 All right. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.240 I have been battling. The one thing I've been battling 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.760 is the hint that I'm going to give you Where 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.800 in the world have Welsh and Corman Carroll gone today? 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.920 And I'm still battling it to this second because I 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.120 am afraid anything I say is going to give give 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.560 it away. But this is what I'm going with, and 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:43.160 it's probably gonna give it away. The hint is one dollar. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.680 The hint is one dollar. So said on that, we'll 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.480 come back to it. I think a lot of people 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.360 might get it. You can put your guesses in here, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.400 but that is the hint for a little bit later, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.960 and Bubba, we will ask where you are and we're 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.920 going to answer a couple of listener questions right after 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.600 the rookie lookie, because the rookie lookie is very interesting. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:05.320 One Jordan Wicks with the Cubs was awesome. Nine strikeouts 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.040 over five innings, one run baseball against the Pirates, pretty 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.840 good matchup. Had thirteen swinging strikes on eighty pitches. Nine 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.399 came from his change up, because this is a change up, dude. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.600 Also a thirty six percent csw percentage, which is really solid. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.320