WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 2nd 2022 (Ep. 565) 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:19.400 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in to leading off. Juan Soto 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.000 is a San Diego Padre. Can you believe it? I 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.200 am the Welsh. You can find me on Twitter at 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.160 is it the Welsh? No, Joey P. But I do 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.400 have my boy Casey Bubba beat the entric on Twitter 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.040 in the house the story of the day, Jacob de 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:36.640 grom start. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:37.400 No it is. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:42.840 Juan Soto is officially, as of like five minutes ago 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.080 as we are going live here, has been traded to 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.680 the Washington Nationals in a blockbuster package. Juan Soto and 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.240 Josh Bell are heading over to maybe the most beautiful 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.280 place in the country, San Diego. If you've ever been 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.960 for a haul. Mackenzie Gore, Robert hasle cj Abrams, James 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:07.039 wood Yarln Susana and Eric Hosmer all going to the Nationals. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.039 I don't want to pull a Joey P. But had 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.080 you been listening to this show, you might have heard 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.759 me talk about almost this exact trade and being in 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.600 on the San Diego Padres. Casey Bubba, how about a 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.399 cool show for you to come in on, Bubba. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.880 Yeah, this does not stink at all. This is a 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.800 good one. I didn't even realize it that this was 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.320 the day until about a week ago, and I'm like, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.840 we might have fireworks. I know we talked earlier that 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.039 we did not plan on this trade happening this early 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.119 in the day. But it is great. Is an awesome trade. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.360 It's a blockbuster and most importantly, mister Welsh, he's not 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.840 going to be a Dodger. So life is really good 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:43.679 in that regards. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.839 It's not going to be a Dodger. That is something 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.480 I had brought up that it's like, don't discount them, 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.640 don't you know, don't think that a possibility. I think 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.280 they could always come in towards the end. It did 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.480 not happen. San Diego pulled through. This wasn't like I 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.920 think of what was it last year where it was 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.800 I thought they had streasure and then it got pulled 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.600 from under them right at the end. No, it did 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.760 not happen. Sounds like the Cardinals were right in it 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.639 and the lack of interest for the Cardinals. In adding 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.639 there's two reports. One was the Dylan Carlson, which. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.920 Would be just crazy, crazy festival. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.440 The other was Jordan Walker. And I think the problem 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.880 was that San Diego Saint Louis probably did not want 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.800 to give both of them up in whatever trade was 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.639 going to happen. San Diego sold the farm and they 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.280 gave up. The early reports of this trade, I think 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:32.880 we all felt it was a little bit light. Bubba 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.040 and I were sitting here live ten minutes before the 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.640 show and we saw that it was like Hassel, Abrams, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.600 Wood and Susana and we were like, man, how did 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.080 they get this done without moving Gore? And then the 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:48.400 report McKinsey Gore was involved. Then Bubba goes, what are 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.400 they gonna do with Eric Hostmer? How was Eric Hosmer 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.080 not involved in this? And I'm like, I know, what 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.079 are they gonna do? And then we find out Eric 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.480 Costmer is involved. Bubba, we were talking about this live 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.200 on the back end, So let's talk about one. So 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.560 for a second, as a Andy Goopadra, that lineup is 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.280 going to be a good things. You got many Machado 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.600 in there. He's your new outfielder, and they bring in 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.920 Josh Bell, which he's had a super super underrated season, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.359 so outlook on one sodo rest of the year. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.560 Oh, he's still the goat. He's one of the best 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.560 players in baseball and now people have to pitch to him. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.560 I guess it's gonna be amazing. The guy was walking 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.560 twenty plus percent of the time nearly every week, because 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.720 why would you throw to him? Now you have Machado, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.400 Tatisa's potentially on a rehabits. I'm it this weekend, I 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.120 got Rake Croninworth, Grisham's actually hitting a little better than expecting. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.040 This lineup is getting filthy right now. Not to mention 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.119 the pitching staff, but you asked about one Soto. He's 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.960 going to be great. He's gonna love the NL West. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.840 He's gonna love it down there. I can't be over over. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.840 I'm over the moon for one Soto, and he's got 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.720 to be pretty pumped. I just hope, I hope. And 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.680 you think with all the prospects they sent, they better 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:49.920 pay the man. I don't know where they're to get 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.160 the money from, but they better pay them man. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.800 Well, they'll find it, they'll they'll they'll find a way. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.600 The interesting thing about this is they also said the 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.120 rumor was going around that they were comfortable making this 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.040 trade and getting rid of the Hall that they did, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.400 because if they feel they can't find a way to 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.680 make this move work, they could move one Soto, they 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.000 could be involved, and they could replenish. So at the 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.240 end of the day, let's say they got seventy five 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.320 percent back, you know, essentially trade maybe even if you 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.920 if if seventy five percent equated to let's say Gore 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.440 and Susana and Hassle and blah blah blah, but they 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.919 can't get like the value of even Abrams back. You 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.920 could look at it as they sell out one year 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.680 of Abrams for Juan Soda or one year of Juan 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.200 Soto out for CJ Abrams, which could be you know, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.279 a decent side. He got his house in La Here's 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.560 an interesting fact. I saw our boy John Legaza post that, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.719 and I want to point out these same odds are 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.960 available you will see on betting Pros currently because it's 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.320 not updated. But he had said he had got San 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.960 Diego's Team Future World Series at twenty two hundred plus 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.640 twenty two hundred. If you go over Betting Pros right now, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.719 it still shows San Diego twenty two hundred. On Draft 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.080 Kings bet MGM, they've got it twenty five hundred. The 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.359 best odds I think is unibet at twenty eight hundred 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.640 or no, that's fandle at twenty eight hundred. I went 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.719 over to DraftKings as we started up the show San Diego. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.640 It is more than cut in half at plus eleven 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.240 hundred eleven to one right now, so that has been 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.600 cut in half. Bubba the prospects actually is something I 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.799 can really help out about because I am incredibly familiar 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.080 because I have been around all of these guys for 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.240 a long time. Mackensey Gore since the beginning. Yarland Susana 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.919 is Actually, that's what I'm kind of proud of. I 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.320 brought his name up in the very very beginning of 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.919 this entire thing. One of the live streams I do 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.640 over on our in this League, Twitch in this League 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.920 or twitch dot tv slash in this League, I had 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.159 mentioned Yarland Susan as a guy I think this team 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.560 would go after, any team would go after, because he's 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.200 a big, hulking six foot six, two hundred and forty 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.479 pound strikeout pitcher. He looks like a future you know, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.719 number two, maybe even number one. James Wood is ironically 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.800 maybe one of the bells of the balls of this 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.520 for a long term. He is a big six foot 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.040 seven outfielder who's stolen a crea amount of basis has 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.560 insane power. Robert Hassel is a top five prospect in 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.840 my eyes. CJ. Abrams, McKinsey, Gore help right now. This 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.800 I know it can feel light to Nationals fans. This 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.200 is a big deal. Gore and CJ. Abrams get to 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.919 go in and have value right now. Abrams is going 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.919 to get an everyday gig, which I think is pretty 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.040 big for his fantasy value. Gore is going to have 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.560 a chance to stay in the rotation without question. And 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.159 you've got three players that are probably about at least 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.880 two years away. But this is what this organization need 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.080 to do because their systems sucked. So on the outset 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.000 of it, Bubba, do you think the Nationals got what 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.000 they should have got for one soda? 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.839 Yeah, it's about the best he could do. We talked 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.200 about it before the show. Your good buddy James Anderson 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.080 was tweeted about it as well, like, you guys know 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.680 prospects better than the most out there, and this is 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.640 a great hall. You mentioned the Cardinals off for the 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.880 fact what allel Carlson and there was kind of funny 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.800 to me. So they got everything they could and you 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.960 look at the Nationals. We make fun of them. They're 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.560 selling it's part of the deal. Whatever. But between this 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.240 move getting Josiah Gray and kyber Ruiz last year, like 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.080 they're building something. At least we'll see how far it goes, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.440 but they're building something, so they might be a little 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.280 ways away the way that the Braves are signing all 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.040 their young players for a while and everything, and the 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.240 Mets are the Mets, but the Nats are at least 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.440 they're making an effort to kind of rebuild things and 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.600 make it work without just completely blowing the ship up. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.480 Remember yesterday when they got Josh Hater and that was cool. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.800 I completely even forgot, like in this whole process about 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:25.560 Josh Hater. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.800 And the Padres are going to give the Dodgers a run. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.600 You know, last year when we watched Padres Dodgers was 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.840 like must see TV, especially early in the season. Then 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.720 it kind of dwindled and wasn't that great. This year. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.560 I think the next couple of months is going to 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.800 be electric factory time for that series. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.800 I mean, think of the infusion Josh Hater on the 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.920 back end of the bullpen, and they gave up another 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.640 guy he had mentioned Robert Gasser. I mean, they kind 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.960 of traded all the guys I thought they would. The 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.960 Padres are essentially sitting here with Jackson Merrill left in 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.480 their system a couple other really young guys as well. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.520 If you guys are interested in that, come and check 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.200 me out over on a prospect one. I'll talk more 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.320 about that. But Wonky just brought up the last thing 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.000 I was going to mention on this, because I think 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.560 this would be the most hilarious across the board is 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.200 Hosmer has no trade clause and he still has to 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.160 approve this. This is one hundred percent correct. I just 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.920 saw this report by Morosi saying that Hosmer's approval is 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.400 still needed and that it is believed that he will. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.680 MLB network is already reporting it. The belief, as far 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.240 as I saw a little bit early on, is that 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.520 there aren't going to be any wrinkles. But can you 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:27.440 all match. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.280 If blows this thing up? Of all people? Oh mate, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.360 you know, the Padres fans are already kind of a 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.319 little on the sour side of things when it comes 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.400 down much money they spent on a ground ball hitter, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:39.920 and now you're going to throw this sprinkle into it 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.640 that they can't get one Sodo because of this. I 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.920 think if that doesn't happen for Nats might be going 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.600 up and saying, hey, take care of this real quick. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.960 For me, it's wild this The trade deadline is coming 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.559 up today at six pm Eastern for everybody we've got. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.240 I mean, when we ended the show yesterday with Mike Curlin, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.000 you know, we we walked into the Josh Hater trade 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.960 and we had some other big trades that went down, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.480 so I know we could probably spend another fifteen minutes 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.920 on this. The trade did just go down. There's big 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:15.320 fantasy implications, big pluses for obviously Josh Bell and Soto. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.120 I think it's a great move. There's a lot of 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.160 protection in the lineup as well. When Tatis comes back. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.800 Being around those guys, I would expect Sodo's probably hitting two, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.719 mayly maybe four in Tatus three. I mean, that's ridiculous. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.080 Imagine trying to pull through that lineup. Josh Bell, you 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.560 can put it at five. And then I would also 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.520 say that C. J. Abrams is going to get a slight. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:38.720 It is going to get not a slight, but a 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.560 pretty significant boost is fantasy because he's going to get 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.000 to run the rest of the season. Probably hit high 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.080 in that lineup for the Nationals and he's just going 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.680 to get an opportunity. Those are your fantasy implications across 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.280 the board. Eric Costmer, I don't know, there's really nothing there. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.520 Eric Costmer continues to be Aeric Costmer. But there were 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.120 other moves so burning through some of the other trade 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.600 deadline moves that have happened. Frankie Mantas and Looch go 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.560 to the Yankees in a move that the Yankees didn't 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.439 even move any of their really top guys. Ken Waldachuk 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.640 was a kind of the big one. I thought they 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.440 would give up Oswalt Pirazza outlook for Frankie Montas in 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.240 New York. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.120 Bubba, it's gonna be good. He has had some very 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.200 bad home road splits in his career. Obviously, pitching your 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.319 oco is the way to go. I think it'll be 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.559 fine as long as the shoulder holds up. But we'll 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.000 see what happens. He was worth it. I was surprised 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.480 he didn't have to pay that much. But if you 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.079 couldn't get Luis Castillo, Frankie Montess great second option. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.080 Yeah, it's crazy. Jose Kittana goes to the Cardinals. There 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.640 was a rumor that came out that the Pirates gave 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.160 the White Sox an opportunity to match and they declined, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.520 so that move just went to the Cardinals. That's just 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.280 some depth. The Cardinals absolutely needed it losing out on 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.920 these sweepstakes. What I really do wonder for the rest 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.480 of the day is how aggressive did the Cardinals now 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.520 turn to teams like the Marlins and the Giants if 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.360 Radon is really available, or you've got Pablo Lopez out 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.360 there the Diamondbacks hilariously and stupidly, there's a report out 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.840 have said that MARYL. Kelly is not available, which is 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.320 or Zach gall But yeah, or Zach Gallon. I'm kind 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.720 of fine with Meryl Kelly not being available as asinine 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.560 to me. Bumgarner might be a sneaky one of those guys. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.560 A team like the Cardinals, might, you know, get those 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.880 those lift soft tossers, those old soft tosss and just 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.400 get him in there. Look for maybe something like that. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.400 Reese Maguire Tommy Famm went to the Red Sox. Oddly, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.520 as the Red Sox ended up moving Christian Vasquez to 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.960 the Astros, the Astros also acquired Trey Mancini. They got 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.880 their first basement. The big kind of thing was Josh 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.280 Bell would be going there. Obviously he's going to San Diego. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 Do you do you think this how much does this 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.120 improve Trey Mancini's fantasy value moving in to Houston and 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.760 moving into that lineup coming out. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.800 Of Baltimore tremendously. You give him that short porch and 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.360 left field, now that's gonna be apps with the Crawford boxes. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.880 It's a big, big move for Trey. Boo boo. I 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.720 love him as a as a ballplayer, as a person, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.000 it seems like he's a good guy too. But great 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.079 move for him. Great lineup to go hit in a 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.040 great division hit against compare to the AO East. I 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.559 love trade. We be quite a bit in Houston. You know, 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:06.080 so weird. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.839 This is a full metal here brings up weird. Do 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.400 you think the Dinebacks would trade and build the farm system? 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.360 One thing is Dinebacks are one of the best farm 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.440 systems in baseball, but they don't have great pitching depth lower. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.480 I am baffled by some of these teams that are 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.840 not heavily and aggressively being involved in this, like the 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.720 Royals did a little bit early on. If the Royals 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.400 aren't blowing up phones right now to get Wit Mayfield 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.560 off this team, sadego, if the Dimebacks are not trying 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.120 to move Madison boneguarnd I don't understand what the point 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.240 of any of this is. Like, do the Dinebacks think 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.320 you're going to slide in because there's more spots? No, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.160 Wan Soto just came into your same division with the Dodgers. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.000 Bye see ya. Same thing with the rest of these teams. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.000 I don't understand some of these moves. There are a 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.920 couple other smaller moves. The Dinbacks did trade Luke Weaver 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.679 to the Royals for nothing. You had Jacobdrizzy and Robbie 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.040 Grossman in small moves to the Braves. Jose Siri went 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.320 to the Rays, and Matt Bush and Taylor Rodgers to Milwaukee. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.000 Uh yeah, I forgot to mention in the Josh Hater trade, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.480 Josh Hater moves as the big closer for San Diego, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.480 but they also moved Taylor Rodgers, who they seem to 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.559 have some trust in. Here's a question closer in Milwaukee. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.120 Is it Devin Williams or Taylor Rodgers? Or did they 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.640 split time. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.560 It's probably some sort of committee, but I think Devin 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.440 Williams gets like at least sixty percent of it. He 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.040 should be the guy. He was already an elite reliever 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.440 coming into before the trade. Obviously, I think it's gotta 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.120 be him. They might try to work in some Taylor 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.240 Rodgers hoping he finds his early season success, but Devin 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.839 Williams should be the guy. But he's probably the high 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.000 leverage guy. So I'd say about sixty percent for Devin. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.760 I'm going to need the chat to be like our 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.320 be my pass in just in case I can't help, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.600 but wanting to keep like going search Twitter doing search. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.679 So if you guys get anything, break it in the chat. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.400 Here's another one. Horry Lopez went to the Twins, and 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.920 Horry Lopez looks like he can end up being the 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.320 closer in Minnesota, which I would say, by the way, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.120 if he gets the act gig and they don't do 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.960 some weird rotational thing of like Johan Duran and Pegan, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.520 that Lopez could be in line to really kind of 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.280 boost up boards. This is this would be this is 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.520 a phenomenal place for wins for Minnesota. So I really like, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.240 this is a sneaky, sneaky move, as long as he's 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.280 not buried in some like, you know, rotation of all 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.120 of these guys, which would be relatively stupid. There are 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.840 some rumors going around for the rest of the day. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.640 Here's what to look out for. There are still starting 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.240 pitchers on the market. I mentioned Pablo Lopez, I mentioned 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:35.880 Carlos fordn Noah Cinderguard. Apparently he's starting today. There's no 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.920 way he starts. They gotta scratch him. Or what time 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.560 is the game at? 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.960 Is the game after the dik that's an evening game. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.480 It's on the West Coast, so after. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.440 Yeah, so you know what, they will figure it out. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:47.360 He's not pitching tonight. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.160 Did they already scratch him? 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.760 No, I'm just telling you guys right now, he's not 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:51.400 pitching tonight. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.600 Yeah, he's gotta be moved. I mean again, this is 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.400 another one of those gotta be moves. Philly is a 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.480 target and the Blue Jays have been talking Tyler Mallley 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.160 is available. Twins and Phillies both have interest in Malley. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.240 And then obviously, like I said, Redon and Lopez are 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.160 sitting out there. I think there's some smaller pictures, Madison Bumgarner, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:11.960 a few of the should be Mary Kelly, few of 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.440 those guys for teams that lost out, because that's a 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.240 sneaky thing here is now that you look at, like 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.880 all of the crazy chaos, What are the Cardinals sitting 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.320 here with Jose Kintana. You can't go into a trade 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.400 deadline willing to get Juan Soto, miss out on the 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.200 big pictures and not do something. I wonder if the 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.600 Cardinals still have an ace up their sleeve and they're 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.240 gonna pull something crazy coming up here, or at least 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.360 get really hyper aggressive and maybe have to offer up 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.320 a kid like Mason Wynn to the Giants for Carlos Verdon. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.520 That was something I actually did a prediction of that 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.840 they would get hyper aggressive with the Giants and maybe 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.080 throw that out a couple others. The Blue Jays have 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.320 interest in Ian happ I know someone in the chat 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.520 had brought up maybe even the Dodgers out there. This 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.360 is actually a really good one too. Viz Rizikiza mentioned 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.160 that franmil got option. You gotta think there's a team 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.960 out there wanting to just take an opportunity and buy on. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.360 Fran mill reyis who has just been the biggest disappointment, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.360 and we will pretend I never said anything about him 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.080 in the preseason, Bubba. You gotta imagine someone would try 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.680 to take an opportunity with fran Mill. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.680 Got it, the f animal like, unleash him somewhere else. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.640 It's it's a lot of it's gotta be between his 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.080 ears right now. That strikeout rate is ridiculous, and we 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.080 know he's better than this. He still hits the ball 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.280 hard even when he's striking out right now. So give 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.240 him in a new environment, get him happy. I think 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:28.960 that's a good one. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.160 Also, the last of the big ones, we assume Joey Gallo, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.080 Joey Gallo is definitely. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.160 Going to be on the movie interview. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.240 No, No, is it bad. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.280 It's depressing. It's sad, like they talk about he's like 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.160 he won't leave his house, won't go on the streets 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.320 in New York. Right now, it's bad for Joey. He 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.040 needs to get out. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.560 He needs out of there. He needs out of there 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.840 for sure. I think, God, who is it? I just 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.200 saw someone. There's a couple of teams that were looking 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.200 at him. I was just reading about. Maybe it was 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.240 the Twins or something. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:56.600 Like that. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.240 Twins are totally used to big power hitting guy that 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.480 hits two ten miguelsono, so Galla would fit in perfect. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:02.760 There. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.960 There are some other things going on and we'll try 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.719 to burn through them. On the injury front, Trig Scouble 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.480 left his start against the Twins and the fifth inning 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.919 with left arm fatigue. He was one of my favorite 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.800 plays yesterday on strikeouts. He was dominating and it looked 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.359 like we were doing good. But no, Chris Bryant is 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.720 back on the il with Planner Fascia. Is I'm done. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:26.840 I've said it. I said yesterday. I'm like, I'm over it. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.600 Get whatever you can Now you can't because he's back 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.280 on It is the biggest disaster waste season for Chris Bryant, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.440 and maybe he will be the ultimate ultimate BI low 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.200 opportunity next year because there's no way he can be 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.280 valued inside the top one fifty going into next year. Right. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.280 No, he has zero home runs in coors Field. He 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:46.760 had like all of his home runs at the same 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.440 time Arizona. I believe it was. It's been bad, really bad. Yeah, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.000 he's got to go. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.920 There was one time that Bryce Harper wanted to come 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.840 in play for the Diamondbacks because it was close to Vegas, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.840 and then Bryant would have would have played with him. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.320 And then the Diamondbacks just traded Paul gold Smith because 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.280 they had signed Zach Grank And now they're in the 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.439 position they are where they suck, and I live in 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.160 a world of misery. John Gray left his start early 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.160 with left side discomfort. Not great, and then we mentioned 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.680 fram Orays is expected to be optioned to Triple A. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.840