WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 18th, 2022 (Ep. 554) 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:16.720 One hell of an offer. Let's play ball. Welcome in 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.120 everybody to fantasy pros. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.560 This is leading off Rock to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.360 the King of sports Books. It's me Joey p jop 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.880 Zapia with me is the Welsh and of course we've 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.800 got a lot to talk about today. Yesterday was the 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:31.360 MLB First Year Player Draft, very exciting stuff, and we 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.519 got the man, mister Prospect one to break it all 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.159 down for us. Tell us about the top picks, the 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.120 rest of the picks that he liked, the ones he didn't, 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.800 why Jim Kallis's suit was so large, all of those 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.000 things we're gonna talk about today. We're also going to 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.279 talk about another Chris Sale injury. My goodness, poor Chris Sale. 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.680 I think you just put himself in bubble wrap the 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.080 rest of the season. And also Welsh, we gotta start 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.800 with the big news, which is the Nationals offered Juan 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.720 Soto four hundred and forty million dollars and it was 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.600 not enough to stay in Washington, so thumbs down from 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.320 one to one. So, uh, I guess we got to 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.960 start there. I mean, it's open Wan Sodo season now 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.399 for the rest of Major League Baseball. They're taking trade offers. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.520 The question is when will he end up somewhere else? 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.720 Is it is? 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:14.880 It? 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.360 Really didn't we do this bit Like earlier in the year, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.160 We're like, come on, I'm not gonna trade We're not 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.600 gonna I'm not gonna trade one Soto get out of 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:22.600 here with this nonsense. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:23.440 But it is big news. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.440 You drop, you know, a four hundred million dollar deal 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.160 and Soto says, Nope, no thanks. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.600 I still is a part of me that does not think. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.160 This is completely over. One of the main problems with 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.400 it was it was backloaded, which he didn't want, and 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.759 it was front loaded on lower av and. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.280 I just it didn't make sense. I know why they 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:42.640 did it. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.399 They've got a horrifically bad stephn Strousberg contract that's sitting 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.440 out there, so it makes sure sense why they went 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.040 and did that. But regardless of the point, that's not 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.080 the conversation to have. The conversation to have is who 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.360 is gonna go out there and get him? Who could 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.560 possibly get him? And I believe there were four teams that. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.000 Were named Joe. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.560 You had the New York Mets, the New York Yankees, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.120 the Dodgers, and the Cardinals. Were the four teams that 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.639 are already being attached to Juan Soto. As Soto unfortunately 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.799 came out and also said he was pretty disappointed that 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.840 this happened. Somebody noted over, Yes, sure, I think it 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.840 was on Sunday that he was like, you're most appointed. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.799 You don't want that out. You don't want that, especially 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.520 if a deal gets done. You don't want that to 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.120 end up happening. But let me ask you, likelihood now 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.240 that you think Juan Soto is traded, not just at 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.799 the deadline, I think that is premature at this point, 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.840 but what are the odds you think he actually is 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:39.800 going to get moved? 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.839 And by the deadline? I think it's done by the deadline. Well, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.919 because the longer you wait, you know, the longer you wait, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.320 you always there's always catastrophe with injury, right, that could 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.400 always be looming any minute you blow an ACL or 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.400 something like that happens, right. I think that with the 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.120 years remaining on his contract currently and how that structure 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.560 the control you have over Juan Soto for a few years, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.639 and then the possibility of wanting to extend him, the 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.120 biggest buy you can make right now in terms of 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.919 prospect Hall Is to do it now, don't wait. It's 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.520 a lost season. The Nats are not going to get 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.520 any better this year. They're probably not gonna get any 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.680 better next year. At least you can start to sell 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.120 the fan base next year is hey, we moved Wan Soto, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.040 We're rebuilding. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:24.680 We're in full rebuild. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:29.399 Catch the rising stars like Francisco Alvarez and Ventos and 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.560 Ran Precio or anybody else that the Mets want to 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:32.880 give them. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.080 How about that and Brett Baty. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.200 Catch all the rising stars at the Nationals Ballpark next year. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.320 And I think the Mets are the leading contenders because 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.800 I think they have the combination of owner desire to 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.480 spend the money and it doesn't care the desire of 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.840 I think Juan Soto to be in a big market, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.160 the prospects to get it done. I think the yankees 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.800 big handcuff is not the Volpies and Dominguez and the 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.160 guys that they could move, because they could, but it's 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.720 selling to the fan base. Then, okay, you have to 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.680 own choose between Aaron Judge and Juan So do I 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:03.760 feel like you have to choose? Man? 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.080 I don't think the Yankees have never had problems with that. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.000 They the jetered fan favorite, and they brought in Alex 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.000 Rodriguez they've never had. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.880 But they didn't do it despite getting rid of Derek Jeter. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.160 I don't I think it's either or, and I think 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.960 it's gonna be really tough to sell Aaron Judge, their 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.599 hometown guy who's been there the whole time, and say, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.200 you know what, here you go, fan base, we're gonna 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.440 move on with Aaron Judge. We're gonna we're gonna go 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.240 wan So too instead, even though that's probably the better 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:25.880 baseball move. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.560 I just think that's a tough sell. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:28.919 I don't think we wouldn't get it done with the 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.520 Cold contract, the Stanton contract, and what they have on 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.560 the books for a couple of other guys. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:33.039 It really don't. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.240 Wonky in the chat said the thing that I've been 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.320 holding the most, like, can they really move him in 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.080 the NL East. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.720 I can't imagine they got to get him at divisionally. Now, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:41.400 if they did. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.120 That, that's overblown. With the extra wildcard now, I don't 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.720 need the division. I think the division stuff has been 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:52.599 grossly devalued when you've added in more wildcard situations and 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.800 you expanded playoffs because now it's like, well, you know, 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.679 because they'll make the playoffs, Like, who cares about the division? 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.360 Let's get the best haul to me then, as Paul 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:01.160 right now. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.960 Well, okay, I I think the Mets do offer if 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.720 Alvarez is out there. They have Alex Ramirez, They've got all. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.159 They just drafted a kid in the draft who had 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:15.040 been targeted to the Nationals for months, Kevin Prada, who 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:16.520 is one of the best deeals of the draft. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:17.359 The Mets did. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.839 And Georgia they think that no, no, that I no, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.320 he's just gonna stay at catcher and he's got a 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.000 real mudo likeness to him, where Alvarez is going to 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.919 be more of a date or have two. So you 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.360 create an extra extra flexibility if you wanted to make 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.800 that move with a player that they love, trade Turner rule, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.760 you could trade him, but it's got to be the 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.120 player to be named later, and. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.600 It happens in the offseason. I think it is. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.360 But I gotta tell you, I think you said ninety 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:49.840 nine percent by the deadline. I am a sixty fifty 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.680 to sixty percent at this deadline. I don't think they 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.560 need to make any crazy moves. Things can change easy. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.320 If ownership can change over, I think that's creating some 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.719 of the craziness to it. I would say fifty percent 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.360 at best by the deadline, and I think the medsale. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.080 Talk about ownership change, then it's one hundred percent, because 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.760 when you buy the team, you're gonna want to buy 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.359 it at a point where you have the least amount 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.480 of salary, and everything is then just. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:15.920 Just pushed up there. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:16.320 Yeah. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.800 To me, ownership's looking at this is like, if we're 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.760 going to sell the team, we do it now, because 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.200 from the business of baseball, to me, that makes the 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.560 most sense. And I honestly think the Nats might be 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.000 a better team. And it's a year or tater now 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.640 with all those MLB ready prospects. You if you're gonna 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.039 put Alvarez at first base or d HM or whatever 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:36.880 the heck you're gonna do with him, if you're gonna 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.560 have a baby at third and he got Mauricio a 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.240 short stuff like all of a sudden, you know, with 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.600 kyber Ruiz and Josiah Gray and some of these other pieces, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.039 maybe you're starting to get somewhere. If you're the Nats 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.600 and you have a good young team that's at least, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.560 you're not going anywhere with just mon Sodo. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.080 You're just not. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.480 I mean it's the same thing with the Texas Rangers 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.960 Alex Rodriguez back in the day. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:53.520 You're just not. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.919 And I think this last one that it was so 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.000 public that he said no and they get it in season. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.560 I think there was they were kind of like, look, 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.520 we need to or get off the pot here. And 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.680 I think they've gotten off the pot, and obviously it's 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:04.600 time to make that movement. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:05.840 I think it's going to happen. It really did. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.640 I mean, but they just offered him almost half a 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.480 billion dollars. So it's like, I think we're making a 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.720 little too much about like, oh, hey, this that the 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.080 other they would they would have to get rid of 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.360 the money offered half a billion dollars like a week ago. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.720 So I don't think that just changes all of a sudden. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.119 If the team believes they cannot get him, they should 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.800 go out and they should get a haul. They should 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.200 at least especially with a control. And that's this is 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.840 where you're talking about. This is two sides. The twenty 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.600 twenty four control for Soto makes the asset you can 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.520 get at this deadline exponential but I'd also say at 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.160 the beginning of next year, in this offseason. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.440 Both of those are the time periods where. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.240 Teams aren't going to be able to talk you off 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.160 the ledge of like you know, Alvarez and three other big. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.000 Prospects for the Mets. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.240 But at the same time, this is why I think 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.960 it's a less percentage that it's going to be at 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.920 the deadline, is because you still have two more years 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.760 of control. So much can change in that time that 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.320 I just don't know if it's a case, though. It 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.679 is interesting if you look. They went and took Elijah Green, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.280 who was a huge high school talent, is relatively far away, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.560 you know, three or four years. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.280 He would be a great piece. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.320 If you added four or five incredible prospects, that National 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.360 system could go from a joke to being like a 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.320 really solid spot. Elijah Green would be one of those 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.320 future talents you build around. So not that it's telling 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.240 you take the best players, you don't worry about it, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.640 but you know, the Nationals didn't take Parata. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.680 Who is a closer to the major league spot. They 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.840 took a high. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.560 School, huge, high end talent, shoot for the moon type 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.720 of guy that you would want if soda wasn't around, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.079 But I say fifty percent by the deadline, I'd say 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.440 it's more likely in the off season. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.360 And I as much as the Mets makes sense, I'm 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:38.680 going to off season. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.280 You run that off season risk, dude, I'm telling you 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:42.160 run the off season. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:43.960 If the longer you wait. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.480 I mean, the cautionary tale is Frankie Montoss Right now, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.000 if you're you have, if you're the Nationals, you have 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.040 to say, look what could happened in the blink of 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.360 an eye, all of a sudden, what we thought was 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.240 an asset we could cash in and change, you know, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.280 the stars here a little bit of the future literally 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.880 and figuratively. Man Like, how do you do that? How 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.600 do you how do you run that risk? Because you 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.320 can't have that? And and look, Wan Soto to me 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.640 makes sense. On the Dodgers, I think that's the other 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.720 team that makes a lot of sense. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.640 That's that's my team. That's not a lot. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.480 I mean, the Bets and Freeman contracts are huge and 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:16.480 long and difficult. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.480 I mean, so I don't know how they do it though. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.360 That's my problem. I don't see how it's done with 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:22.080 the Dodgers. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.520 With don't that's why I keep coming back to the Mets, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.960 and believe me them who's more negative than me about 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:27.320 the Mets? 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.480 Nobody? And it just makes sense. They want to pay him. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.200 They have the prospects, they have the need, they have 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.880 the owner who is so aggressive out there, why not? 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.920 Why not, you know, go out there and they smell 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.480 blood in the water. They are all in right now. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.599 De Grom could opt out next year and all of 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.760 a sudden, it's a very different math. If you have 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.520 de Grom insures it right now, you go all in. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.080 You try to win right now if you're the Mets, 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:50.840 and I think they're going to and I think and 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.720 I don't think the indivision matters anymore now that the 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.760 expanded playoffs are here. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.160 I just don't think anybody cares. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.480 The advantage that Sodo could have in this as well 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.840 is he's not willing to take any backloaded contract with 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.520 the Nationals. I think, for like rightful reasons, he could 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.360 do that with another team. You know, it seemed like 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.800 the Dodgers or the Mets that have shown a commitment 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.320 to winning, a commitment to money, he could be willing on, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.560 you know, some gajillion dollar deal that he does he 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.959 could be willing to backload, so the first three or 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.600 four years are quite a bit less, which could help 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.800 a team like the Dodgers and trying to figure out 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.360 how the hell did they put all these players together. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.440 By the way, Bets and Freeman are probably backloaded too, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.520 So I mean, it's gonna be real ugly when those guys. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.640 Are they to get out from out of those But 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.199 I just want to point out the Dodgers the first 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.680 round pick because they didn't care about the luxury tax 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.440 in this past draft. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:39.679 They didn't have a first round of them to pick 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.720 till the fourtieth overall, because how many. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.600 Times are going to do that? How many years can 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.240 you do that if you're the Dodgers. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.520 If you're putting out banners as many as it takes, 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.000 I don't know. Then he just bought a mansion too. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.760 You have to put those two games together, Joe. He 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.000 bought a mansion in La So clearly it's the Dodgers. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.160 Well, I mean, you could buy a mansion in LA 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.280 for real estate anyway, Like I said, like who cares, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:10:59.640 you know? 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.040 And you can live out there in La. I don't 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.000 in the winter time. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.400 That's also the place you want to live in the 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.200 off season, you know, no matter where you want to stay. Look, man, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.280 I do think it's one of these big market cubs. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.600 I don't think the Cardinals have the pieces to get 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.080 it done. And they're paying Aeronauto and Goldschmid like I don't. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.040 I think that's a fallacy. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.560 I really do. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.480 I think it's the Mets, the Yankees, the Dodgers to 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.360 piss a lot of people off. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.160 I'm sorry, I just do. And I think the Mets 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.400 have the best opportunity. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.840 And I think the other cautionary tale here is if 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.280 you're the Nats and you let Bryce Harper walk and 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.400 you end up signing with the Phillies anyway, don't you 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.000 regret if you could have gotten a better deal from somebody. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.080 In the East not making that move? Right. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.720 So, if it's gonna happen, if you let Wansoto hit 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.719 free agency and Steve Cohen writes a check for half 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.880 a billion dollars and says, I don't really care, it's 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.040 just paper money. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.839 To me, you might as well get the Hall. You 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.000 might get the Hall. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.000 Divisional reminders, I mean divisions of like al NL is 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.960 a lot less now, but like having in division like yours. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.560 I just I think it's a wild move. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.880 I would be shocked at a superstar of this caliber 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.880 to be just shipped over to the Mets. Unless again, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.640 unless they absolutely were able to fleece them. Unless you're 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.880 going to back and all of them. If they back 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.360 up all the Alvarezes, and they back up all the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.600 process the Alvarezes, any of this is a Richie Sexon 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.640 like deal, but of good prospects. Okay, then maybe that's 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.760 the thing that it takes. I think the Mets are 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.040 going to have to pay an extra cost that any 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.920 other team will to get one Sodo, and they'll take 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.440 the contract back. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.800 With them too, because they need a DH anyway, So 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.400 they'll take that money off their hands too. It'll be 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.800 Cruz and Sodo. They need a DH in the worst way. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.040 Maybe you get a little bump out of Cruise. I'm 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:37.760 telling you right, And you take that contract off their 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.800 hands and any other money any other the guy that 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.400 they don't want its arbitration eligible. You take the Patrick 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.320 Corbin contract off their hands. They're not taking the Strasburg contract, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.200 but they might take Corbin that. It wouldn't shock me 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.200 if they took that whatever it has to get done. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:51.880 Stevie Cohen will get it done. I'm just telling you 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.600 and just for everybody to know too. Yes, eleven am 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.560 all this week here and leading off great conversations about 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.640 Wan Soda. We'll get into other top today. But it's 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.320 such a huge one and it's so much damn fun. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.400 I want to talk about it all day, but yes, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.520 all week. It's my fault. My kids have camp, so 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.480 I have to pick them up at twelve and there's 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.199 two different kids at two different camps, So eleven am 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.080 is the time. This week, the Mariners continued to be amazing. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.280 They are up to a fourteen game win streak, the 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.200 longest streak heading into an All Star Game in quite 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.319 some time. Garrett Cole got twelve k's over seven innings. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.120 Brendan Lao went four for four with a run score, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:27.800 so it's good for that raised offense to get his 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.400 bat back going in the lineup. Austin Noah struck out 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.720 ten guys at eight and the third innings. Ty Frantz 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.240 added to the All Star team, and along with Liam Hendricks, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.400 a few other relievers I think I saw Jordan Romano 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.880 and Devin Williams also added and Max Meyer. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.920 Made his debut. It was not a pretty one. Five runs. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.880 I don't care. It's fine. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.480 And also, as predicted here on the show, last week, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.400 Spencer Torklsen was sent down. So let's talk about Torklesen 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.480 getting sent down to the minor leagues before we get 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:54.880 into the MLB draft stuff. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.800 I mean, this is the right move. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.440 Give I told you, give him the rest of July 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.280 and if it's and if it's going, well, call him 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.200 back up August first. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.839 I mean, this is so easy, well right. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.880 Here, yeah, I mean this Unfortunately, this is a move. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.959 It feels very Kelnick like massive massive. I mean, nobody 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.720 has struggled more under two hundred batting average this entire 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.959 time he's been up. He's shown really no great sense 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.240 of power because he's not making great contact. Strike up 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.400 percentage isn't the worst thing in the world, but he's 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.280 got to re establish something and hopefully they've got the 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.800 hitting coaches to work on this and the miners. I 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.120 don't know, man, I'm cautiously optimistic. I suppose the Kelnick stuff, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.240 you know, has me a little bit jaded on him 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.000 going into the miners and beating everything up. Maybe a 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.320 clean headspace is going to help. But Torkelsen is not 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.480 a priority in redraft this year. He might be an 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:51.040 incredibly interesting super pilow in Dynasty. I would not count 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.720 him out. I mean, there is thirty five forty plus 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.200 power in there, and you know he made it absolutely 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.320 living in career off of this at ASU and college. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.280 I mean, you know him and Andrew vaugh where you know, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.320 two of the most prolific bats, not just in like 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:04.880 the Pac twelve, but just in all of it. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.480 But I would say this would be a. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.720 Really interesting buy by low. But in redraft there's a 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.800 gagillion players I would have moved on from. If you haven't, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.600 I'm assuming everybody has. But there's always that thing where 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.800 you don't want to release these guys. He is not 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.760 in the same camp as Julio and j Rudd. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.400 Unfortunately, Chriselle headed back to the IL for many, many weeks, 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:25.800 probably with a broken pinky finger. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.280 Just a terrible set of circums. His quote, Yeah, I 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.440 heard him after the game too. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.000 I don't think we can I don't think we can 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:32.800 mention it on here. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.240 We can't say it will just be like beep this 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:41.840 stuff beep beep, beep, beep like a muppet. Yeah, well, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.400 actually I have it here because it's part for the course. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.160 Think about it. Think about my timeline. It's just been 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.800 blank after blank after blank, just more blank to deal with. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.400 He's a positive guy, you bet, he's a fun locker around. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.800 Well, it's it's hard not to mean he's frustrated. I 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.400 get it. I mean he wants to be playing baseball. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.840 He can't do. It's very frustrating. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.320 Harold Ramirez removed from Sunday's game due to a broken 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.840 right thumb, so he'll be out for a while. So obviously, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.200 you know, Ramire has actually been pretty decent for that squad. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.520 Now all of a sudden he's going to be out 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.440 for a while, and so Wander Franco is still going 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.880 to be out for a while. A's manager Marcaste said 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.560 Sunday if Frankie Montagh shoulder responded, really. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.480