WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 20th, 2024 (EP. 815) 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.680 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:10.520 Off Live, brought you by Bet three to six five 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.639 Bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifty and bonus 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.680 best when you use the promo code leading Off. It's 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.440 me Joey P. That's the Welsh and all the Penis 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.119 and the Crackerjacks have been in the chat since I 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.439 don't know, since what six this morning. There's so many 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.279 comments in this chat before he even turned to look 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:26.480 to start the live show. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.880 Are we giving away fifty dollars TVs? What is his 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:29.520 back credit? 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.200 I don't know what's going on here. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.280 It's Monday too. You think it wouldn't be like this 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.960 and they're all just like talking amongst themselves. I love it. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.080 I love this, but seriously, there's like forty comments before 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.879 we even got into the show today. People talking about trades, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.200 people talking about NBA playoffs, all kinds of stuff. Welsh, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.360 I hope you had a good weekend. I know Aaron 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.280 Judge had a good weekend. He had a couple of 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.520 home runs, one of which was annoyingly Yankee Stadium, wasn't 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.960 it where he just kind of flicked a fly ball 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.360 out to right field. It Oops, it's a home run. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:00.560 Who knew? 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.560 Who'd have thought Judge would get things right? That's crazy. Yeah, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.720 I know you hate you hate the Yankees ballpark too. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.680 You're super like I do. You're always pissy about that ballpark. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.480 So but I mean, you know, this is what the 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.760 guy like Judge can do in that ballpark, things getting right. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.280 You getting home run, calls me. Not the sky is blue. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.120 That's been the season. No homers for me, all the 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.600 homers for you. This guy is blue. But I'm excited 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:24.720 to talk about a few things. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.839 Yes, I am. I am excited. I mean, look, everybody's 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.200 demanding it, so it is in the headlines. So maybe 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.240 we should just move it up to number one. Let's 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:34.840 just talk about Edwin Diaz. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.200 Talk about producer mad We get the clip from two 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.200 weeks ago? Can we get the Joe clip? I wish 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.240 we had the Joe clip where Joe yelled at you guys, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:52.320 Joe chastised anybody who questioned, shamed you. Did I know? 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.120 I brought I brought forth a good guy. I'm the 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.279 the baby face here literally with the shape. I brought 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.440 forth the read Garrett. And you know what piece of 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.400 PA did to it DDT boom, Right. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.160 I did. I did a hard DDT on the outside 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.600 on the apron, the hardest part of the ring in 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.880 case you never heard that before. Uh but listen, you're 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.519 gonna hate this because I'm gonna bring the sequel. I'm 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.600 still not worried. I'm buying everywhere. This guy didn't pitch 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.120 last year? Can we all? Can we just stop for 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.200 a second and realize the guy didn't pitch last year. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.320 Whatever's going on, it's freaking May. He's a bad patch 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.800 in May. They have too much money invested in this guy. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.560 If you think he's gonna become the setup guy for 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.280 Read Garrett the rest of the year, you're nuts. You're 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.799 you're high, you're smoking something, and I want to join you. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.840 Carried off a couple things for real quick seven to 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.800 forty one percent K percentage, one point six nine expected 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.799 era zero zero barrels on the season, and an under 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.560 thirty percent hard hit rate. Those are Read Garrett numbers. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.280 They'll sell again. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.680 What was he like? A thirty one year old journeyman 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.880 who was pitching in Japan a couple of years ago. Oh, 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.079 I'm sure that's gonna be to turn around the century. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.720 And I'm sure that's the thing I'm gonna believe in 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.079 instead of what my eyes have seen with Edwin Diaz 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.680 for the last five years until he got hurt. Come on, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.560 stop it now. I'm not saying to start Edwin Diaz 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.760 this week. In fact, I will advise you on sitting him. 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.000 It would also advise if you don't have him, to 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.040 go trade for him. This is your loan opportunity to 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.760 get an elite level closer on the cheap. Just like 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.760 Josh Hater a couple of weeks ago we talked about it. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.799 I'm doubling down here with Edwin Diaz. Hater got right. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.360 Diaz will get right eventually. And in the meantime, if 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.600 Garrett's available, sure pick him up. And if you don't 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.920 have Daz and he needs some saves, sure pick him up. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.080 By the time we get to June fifteenth, this whole 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.840 story will be a distant memory. Yeah, I'm doubling down. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:41.480 What do you think of that? 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.760 Well, sh I mean, listen, I do I think that 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.839 Edwin Diaz is not going to save any games rest 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.520 of this year? No, I'm not dumb, but is there 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.760 is there some bad juju going on? 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:52.000 Yeah? 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.320 He was a crying in the dugout about this situation. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.960 Well, at least he cares. It's better than Anthony Rendone 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.720 who doesn't care at all, where he's like. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.160 Whatever, here's that's what I think. You can also look 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.240 at the situation as it could end up being kind 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.200 of a fireman situation where they start putting guys in 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.200 different leverage situations. Edwin kind of gets himself right, but 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.920 it doesn't mean they would want to press days you 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.560 Maybe with this inconsistency, you don't want to have, you know, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.360 day after day after day. So read Garrett starts getting saves. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.560 I think there's a possibility that Edwin Diaz it's a 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.320 lot harder for him to even come close to the 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.400 preseason value, which in turn is a top five closer. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.120 I think there is a real possibility he can regain 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.360 this and still not be a top ten closer because 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.600 of how good read Garrett is. But but if like 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.720 a trade from on the cheap, absolutely it's kind of 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.040 a good These are classic close. This is the closer 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.880 situation that you buy on an established guy who's been 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.960 knocked off the roll for a little bit, go and 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.479 buy on the dirt dirt cheap if you can, but 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.720 read Garrett's no slouch. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.880 I want to remind you. I want to remind the Peanuts. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.800 I want to remind the cracker Jacks. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.600 This is gonna be good. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.560 Edwin Diaz last year signed the larges reliever contract in 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.320 the history of baseball, one hundred and two million dollars 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.320 to throw one inning a few times a week. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.360 He's gonna get this job back, folks. He's gonna get 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:13.120 this job back. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.560 Just saying. I'm just saying, so, let's get this some 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.359 more headlines besides Harry Judge and Edwin Diaz. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.920 I'm on all these clips. Somebody all these give me 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.719 all these clips in like June fifteenth, Let's come back. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.560 The Joe just absolutely working the mic and just killing everybody. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:29.440 He's gonna get back. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.400 Let's do it. Stay the course, Stay the course. Look 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.840 the ree garretting is fun. I love his beard, I 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.600 love the intensity. It's a good it's a feel good story. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.560 Edwin dis Okay, are. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.520 You jolted when I shaved by the way Like. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.200 It takes me a second, but it's so weird. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.000 Someone in the chat they always say this, I don't 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.680 see it, but they're like, hey, years off. My wife 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.440 says it, that's why she hates the beard. That I 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.119 look exponentially younger when I shave, and I'm like, younger 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:54.680 is not the worst. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.039 So she's looking for a younger man, is what she's saying. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.360 Oh, I got a lot of gray going on here. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.279 So you sometimes the littleman like they find the older 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:03.520 men more handsome. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.560 Well, see, then I can be like two different people. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.880 I'm shaved version. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.880 But she never likes your beard. You always say she 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:10.760 never likes your beard. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.880 Now she's had some scruff, a little bit of scruff. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.839 Jerry's on my side. Thank you, Jerry, Thank you, Jerry. 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:18.839 Go out there, go get yourself. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.440 Some not on your side. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.479 By the way, it's I think he's I'm gonna be 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:29.400 crying in my locker when start saving games all over, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.360 crying tears of joy. Let's get to some aces. Over 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.479 the weekend, Welsh Choutteo im and Auga seven shutout innings, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.080 seven strikeouts, no decision, but still pretty amazing. By the 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.080 way Paul Skins also turned out. It was quite a performance. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.480 Seven straight strikeouts there for him eleven, So I guess 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.159 the over was okay. That's good. It's good to see, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.360 it's good to know. Now we have a little bit 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.040 more to go on. I'm glad I stayed away from 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.760 it because you and I both had a weird feeling 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.839 about it. Now we saw something new. That's something we 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.000 take into account. Speaking of eleven strikeouts about Corbyn, Burr 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.080 one run six things, eleven case for him, you Darvish 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:08.000 dominating against the Braves too, nine strikeouts of his own 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.320 and then he had ten or by the eight strikeouts 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.880 over seven innings. So which of these big standouts starts 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.520 from these starters stood out to you? 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.760 I mean clearly the Paul Skins one. I was watching 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.520 that live because I, you know, as I whatever you 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.240 call his analysts whatever, you know, like I'm sitting there 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.520 and I'm trying to pick apart, like where can some 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.000 of the negatives be? Because the excitement about Paul Skeins 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.680 is this guy has like elite level crazy good stuff 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.800 and you want him to be amazing, but he's got 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.080 some pitch count potential that's behind him and blah blah blah. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.640 So like you try to you try to find those 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.560 you know, pick those knits as it will be. He 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.880 looked incredible, you know, he got to one hundred pitches 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.200 no hit. I felt like they got back a little 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.200 bit to some of those two strike fastballs that went 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.000 really heavy splinker in this one, like they're gonna keep going. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.480 And he had this really funny interview where I don't 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.680 remember who it was, she was interviewing him and saying, hey, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.320 the league's gonna adjust, and he was just like, good luck, 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.480 He's a good luck adjusting. There's this level of confidence 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.160 with him that the one hundred pitches I was very 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.200 specific to throwing a no hitter, but them going in 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.920 that direction it does open up kind of a broader 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.000 spectrum of overall value. And I saw it like all 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.160 over the internet, people asking, you know, should we go 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.640 from top twenty five to top ten and blah blah blah. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.480 I do think the sky is the limit for him. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.960 The limitation continuously sits there. But like let me ask you, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.400 Paul Skeens, are shotto Emanaga because I go on about 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.040 Imanaga with the two pitch thing. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.520 I talked to them, but for me still too, it's definitely. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.960 So like hands down, without question, you don't even worry 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.400 about just two pitch. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.320 He's's got such a long track record in Japan. He 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.640 was very durable there too. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.679 I just love Imanaga so much. Man, I've told you 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.360 like love watching him pitch. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.439 I love the attitude. Look, schemes is fun and Skins 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.320 is that lightning and a bottle guy. But I'm talking 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.959 about the rest of this sea. It was great that 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.360 they got to one hundred pitches. That was probably the 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.280 most important thing for Skins was that pitch count, so 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:06.920 that that was definitely a positive. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.480 There, No, Christine Aguilera love there. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.640 Oh I'm sorry, bring it again. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.240 I said, got me the right way, babee. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:15.559 Oh you're a genie in a bottle. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.280 Now said genie in a bottle? No, nothing, Hello, I. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:21.839 Just want to. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.800 We're going to be done. We're gonna We're gonna totally 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.120 be done. But even versus Paul Skins, I think it's 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.360 as you know, I'm going to put that in the chat. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.880 So if you guys are hanging in the chat, look 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:32.520 at me all the time. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.559 Oh my god, Welsh's putting a pole up and he's 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.520 not going to dance on it. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.360 That's for Genesis Cabrera to do. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.040 And let's get to uh Walker Bueler, how about seven 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.800 strikeout six shout out innings from Walker Bueller that was 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.679 really good and Alec Manoa, can we talk about this 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.319 strike out seven rays, seven scoreless innings? Here we go. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.840 I want to hear you in the chat Welsh. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.280 Sorry, Mike Manoa back maybe possibly, I don't want to 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.320 see that any I don't want I don't want. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:01.680 To go into this. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.199 Let me pull up everything for Alec Minoa. This is 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.320 kind of this is one of those same things as 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.400 like Jack Flaherty, because like Flarity has been awesome and 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.199 his underlying stats are telling like a really incredible story 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.520 overall on the year with Manoa, but like I don't 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.880 want to buy into it. That's kind of the big 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.440 point with Minoa. You definitely are seeing improvements. His fastball 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.920 is back up. It was ninety two last year. It's 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.160 up over ninety four. It has a massively unsustainable whiff 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.120 rate though, thirty eight percent whiff rate fastballs. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.679 Well, it's justly unsustainable. Because I'm looking at his twenty 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.600 twenty two season, it was thirty seven and a half. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.560 In twenty twenty one it was thirty eight point eight. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.960 All Right, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong Oh, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.040 I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong percentage here, Mike. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.120 Okay, because I was about to say, like to me, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.720 when I when I see high when I see high 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.520 whiff rates on fastballs, I think a reliever and be 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.160 not sustainable, Like that's not going to keep going and 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.120 that's something that's going to fall apart. Plus, he's a 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.880 primary sinker guy, which is not again that has like 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.280 an overtly high wiff rate on it. I'm open to 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.760 the possibility that he could have righted himself. You look 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.160 at the pitch chart and you can see he is 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.560 covering quadrants of the zone overall, which is good. Hard 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.200 hit numbers are down. Barreling is a little bit up though. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.520 But my gut, like my gut tells me that I'm 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.160 not gonna buy into Alec Manoa as backpack. My gut 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.880 tells me that Flaherty is not going to be a 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.800 top twenty five pitcher all season long. But all of 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.720 that said, the changes, they might be here to stay. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.200 They might be completely here to stay. You know, somebody 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.520 put it in the chat like the slider. An interesting 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.880 thing was last year he was primary slider when the 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.479 fastball is falling apart. Now that you've put that backwards, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.880 it's making it, I think a little bit more efficient. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.760 It's gonna make it more of an efficient pitch while 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.560 you're actually being able to throw your fastballs and sinkers 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.920 for strike. So again, like is Manoa back, I don't 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.880 buy that old Banoa. So if someone's buying that, see yah. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.559 But he might be more than string. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.360 In his rookie year eight point twenty four, k Pro 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.440 nine eight point one and then nine point five over 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.400 the first eighteen innings. Now, over these first eighten ings 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.960 against a small sample, the ERA is at three, the 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.199 x ERA is four seven five, the fifth is four 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.760 seven one, the XOP is four oh two. So it's 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.800 definitely a small sample size where I'm not ready to 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.160 say I think I'm where you are. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.679 I think I'm more in the maybe category. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.880 Uh and Carl is upset because we didn't mention Louis Heel. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:33.559 Carl uh And Heel has been tremendous so well. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.080 One of my biggest spies, one of my biggest spies. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.640 The biggest sell. If Garrett Cole is coming back in 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.480 the next six weeks. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.640 I don't think you can. I mean, I know, I 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.880 know what you're implying. There's nothing you could get for. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.000 The longer you wait, the harder it is to make 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:46.440 that move. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.640 If you're implying Louis Sial is not going anywhere, eh yeah, 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.640 not going anywhere. Yeah, that's what I'm hundred percent that dude. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.640 I put him on like three weeks ago because it 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.720 was like he had this remnants of what you saw 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.640 to Blake Snell. Blake Snell was like controlled chaos in 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.319 how he would walk guys. Heel is not quite the same. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.880 He would kind of squeeze himself and the walks would 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.520 go up, his strikeout potential through the roof, and then 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.760 here you go. You saw it. You saw him be 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.400 able as soon as you start throwing more strikes. The 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.360 efficiency was there as a big time strikeout guy. And 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:25.960 it all kind of came to a head this week 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.439 and Luis heels so unfortunately the buying opportunity was like 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.520 two or three weeks ago whenever we did that on 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.280 the What about your test? 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:35.520 Could you be a guy on his way out of 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.679 that rotation spitched in the bullpen before? 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:38.880 That's a good question. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.760 I don't. I think it's a possibility to the guides 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.760 of actually Garret Cole, But. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.439 Remember you think Garret Cole is going to get hurt again, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.760 so it does none of this actually matters because Garrett 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.640 Cole we have to trade off because he's going to. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.679 Get hurt well again, not everybody has Garret Cole and Clark. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.960 I'm just saying, like we're trying to look at this 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.400 realistically here. I think what I'm getting at is heels 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.800 going no place like no, he's going to be sticking 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.600 around that rotation. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.840 You're dropping incredible starts. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:10.040 Like that, digging his heels and uh delicious. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.840 But I think it's my bad New Jersey, New York 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.680 accent where I'm saying a shota managa and I'm saying 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.920 it so fast with all the vowels that people think 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.960 I'm saying shoto. And I think that's what's happening here, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.760 and I think, so why, but people then say show too. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.600 I don't understand why people are giving a crap still 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.360 about the monagas. I think it's just a bit now 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.760 that the Peanuts and Crackerjacks like to do. And I 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:32.760 accept all the bits. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.360 I mean, we both I have I have that same 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.760 tendency where sometimes I'll say things kind of quick, and 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.040 I mean also my brain can be stupid about it, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.520 but I hear Shota when you say it. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.200 Yeah, oh well that's good. H Do you hear Spencer 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 Toorko Sin's third home run? Did you hear that Sunday afternoon? 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:47.600 Ooh wee, let's go. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.760 He's right hot. Welsh, also speaking of the disappointing first baseman, says, 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.000 first segue, Joseah Bray, you could return to the Astros 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.840 as soon as Friday? So what does that do to 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.280 Joey Lowe? What was it? Dude? To Singleton, they're. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:09.280 Coming back as a coach, carry bags? What's he gonna do? 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.320 That doesn't mean anything? You know, the worst players in 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.840 in baseball? Jose bring you he's awful. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.400 You know. How do I look at his minor league numbers? 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.600 Did he did he actually take the assignment? No? 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.840 I think he showed up like two weeks later to Complex, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.800 and I think he worked in Complex. I don't know 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:29.960 if he played any actual Complex ball. Whatever adjustment, they're gonna. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.120 Be nine at bats, nine have bats. Would you like 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:32.840 to hear how it went? 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.080 I would bet two hits and five strikeouts. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.640 Two hits. I don't see the strikeouts here because I 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.920 can I can pull back the other way. Uh no, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.040 it was in rookie ball. I guess it was, right, Yeah, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.600 so yeah, so yeah, so no strikeouts, one walk, one RRBI, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.080 a double, two hits, two runs in nine bats, and 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:01.840 like Scooby, there's coming back. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:02.880 Yeah no, I don't I. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.760 With the chat today. You win the chat, Brandon when 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:07.600 Jose showed up. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.480 Man, God bless you all for never forgetting anything. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.680 Ever, whoa spitcher. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.880 Torkleson, that's the one to maybe come back and sit 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.360 on here for a second. Strikeout numbers have been low, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.440 barrel percentage is still not really moving, his expected batting 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.120 average still kind of stinks, and the hard hit rate 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.480 really hasn't adjusted. But I think the sample sizes are 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.160 just just too low at this point. But over his 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.440 last four games, he's got hits in his last four games, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.360 and actually it clicks in for this month. He's only 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.840 got one to three games this entire month where he 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.560 doesn't have a hit. So it'll be interesting to kind 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.600 of piece and look at what May's hard hit things are. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.240 But again, if you take May and you say only 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.120 three games he didn't have a hit, oh my gosh, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.400 he must really be trending in the right direction. He's 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.600 still hitting two twenty seven. You haven't seen any real 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.680 move as far as big hard hit numbers barreling any better. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.200 But the positives are is he is not a big strikeoutup, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.720 so he's actually got I think it's the lowest strikeout, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.600 lowest strikeout of his career at this point. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.480 So percent last year. Right now, I'm looking at it 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.400 right now, I'm cool to buy the per Oh, I'm 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.560 buying him. I think that window a shut. But I'd 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.240 love to get him as a piece in the trade. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.680 I think he's a piece in the trade kind of guy. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.439 You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. Right, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.320 Let's do three up and three up and three down. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.200 Joey o'tani two for four, Good night for him. Brady 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.720 Singer six innings on Sunday. They beat the A's struck 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.960 out nine. Also Lugo this week and had a big 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.680 ten K performance. I don't know if you saw that. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.600 Where did that come from? What's going on with second twelve? 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.320 The other twelve? The other you throw? It was funny 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.320 because the first couple of starts it was it was 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.119 really bad, like strikeouts are really lagging behind and all 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.280 of a sudden, it was like twenties of the strikeouts. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.000 His last two starts, telling you, man, why this team 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.320 isn't being the aggressor in the trade market. They should 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.600 be calling the Marlins to go get Lozardo tomorrow with 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.000 Reagan's been dicey, but Lugo has been playing up. Waka 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.320 is a little questionable, and Singer coming back. If you 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.760 want to keep pace, they've got to come and bring 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.399 in a really more offense. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:17.680 You think they need more pitchings? sEH. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.200 I think the offense is what they need to get. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.760