WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 13th, 2023 (Ep. 689) 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.559 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.560 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Picked. Sign up 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.160 today with the promo code leading Off. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:14.600 It's me Joey Pa Joe Pisa, Pia. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.400 That of course is the Wels shit it to you, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.080 the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.680 Here, let's talk a little baseball. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.800 It was kind of a quiet night in MLB last night, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.720 but we've got a lot going on today. We've got 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.440 some earlier games, We've got a full slate of evening games, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.400 to dfs the hell out of, to wager the hell 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.360 out of, and Welsh We're gonna make it a Q 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.360 and a day with the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. So 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.000 if you got a question, we've got answers. I'm gonna 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.000 take a lot more questions today because really nothing really 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.440 moved the needle last night. And I want to start 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.040 off with rich because rich was here early and Richard 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.800 was talking about the Kyle Schwarber having a seventeen home 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.400 runs and a negative. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.959 War oh Richard, and Richard wanted to. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.600 Know he's on basically be the first player in MLB 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.760 history to have a forty home run season and the 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:04.559 negative war. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.200 I saw this style happen. Yeah, no, I don't. I 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.039 don't think it happened, but I did see this stat 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:10.760 last night. I think its gonna be fun. When he 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.920 has forty homers and he has like aero point five 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.720 war or something like that, it's gonna be incredible one 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.560 hundred percent that his value is just that bomb. And 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.560 that's about it. But yeah, it's a fun pacing stat 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.759 and if it happens cool it'll be some trivia day 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.440 down the line where piece of PA will bring up 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:29.720 his hate of Kyle Skorber. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.400 I don't hate Kyle Schwarber. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.520 I just hated his ADP and I think that's fair, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.560 and I think so far I've been right. So it 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.640 was his ADP even high, too high, if I don't 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.360 you go back and look at the consensus it was 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.800 in the I want to say, late twenties, early thirties overall, Like. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.800 That's a little rich for but I feel it for Kyle. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.600 That does seem it feels a little high for what 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.960 it actually was. But maybe maybe right. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.880 Maybe I'm exaggerating, Maybe I'm you know, I'm crazy. I'd 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.280 have to go back and take a look at it. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.760 I'll see can can we pull that up still? That 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.440 is the question, because. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:03.640 That was like preseason ranks. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.200 Are you doing it? 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.840 Let's see, I don't know. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.400 I'm gonna look at rankings Fantasy Pros while we're doing that. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:15.200 Fantasy Pros. Fantasy Pros first one algorithm se O folks 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.040 is right at the top heres of course it is. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.840 But any rate, let's keep going on with some of 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.840 the other headlines. Because things did happen. Bryce Miller got 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.120 back on track. Last couple of stars were rough for 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.480 Bryce Miller. We've righted the ship. Six strikeouts for him 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.040 in six innings, one run given up, So a big 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.320 sigh of relief. I think to everybody like you Welsh, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.480 it was big supporters of Bryce Miller because as great 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.120 as he was, you knew that was going to come 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.840 back to earth. But it kind of crashed and burned 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.160 for a few stars. So this was a very important start. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.080 The question is do you think a lot of people 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.440 had him in the lineup. I'm guessing no, he was 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.639 sat well. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.079 One thing I just want to point out real quick, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:53.920 they just got to it, but I found it. It 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.679 was forty. Swarber was forty. So your point, it's a 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:58.200 little high. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.360 More of the names around him, all right. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:08.080 So three above him was Realmuto class Aaron Rose arena rose. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.680 That But like that was my big hang up, if 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.639 memory serves, was that, how is a Randy Rose arena 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:12.720 not a better pick than college? 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.680 S wwarber woodroof was up there, Matt Olsen below was Jazzism, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.799 which I firmly disagreed with in the preseason. I'm ros, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.560 but I disagreed with Dylan Cees and Ozzy Albi, Shane 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.680 Bieber Urias. This is the most egregious one I looked at. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:27.760 I liked over him too. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.160 Cory Seger was forty five, and Cory Harold, by the way, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.480 ah gorn so funny you bring that up, Joe, Can 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:41.440 you believe this? Sixty six sixty When you said a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.080 Rose arena? 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:43.280 That was my big hang up. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.320 I thought he was in the thirties or some point, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.720 but I guess he was forty. So my whole thing is, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.720 how can you put Randy roserena player who gives you 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.160 batting average, gives you home runs, it gives you stone bases, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.400 He gives you consistency, better splits, better head to head player, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.800 all those things, right, next to Kyleege forber Jes because 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.120 klish Wober hit forty home runs. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.000 To me, lose Raine was too low in ADP. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.160 Number one, and I think Schwarbro was too high. And 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.920 that confluence of events to me was a real looking. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.080 Back on it, I had seeger Way higher, I had 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.840 Jazz and Rose Rain also had higher. I wasn't a Schwarberger. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.320 I've said this in the preseason, like big old, like 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.400 albatrossy batting average guys, not really my thing. In season though, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.640 the reason he's been interesting is because you've got probably 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.880 most of the worst out of the way. It could 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:28.240 get worse. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:29.480 I suppose there's a roadmap. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.520 April May you let him go and then you trade 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.919 for him. Schwarberfest starts when they started first. There's there's shirts, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.760 by the way. I did find them on the internet. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.920 I know I want that, I tweeted, I said, where's 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.640 the fantasy pros funds you. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.400 And me need to wear? 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.360 That's all, So there you go. I don't disagree with 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.040 the pre draft value. He's got some value. Now back 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.480 to Bryce Miller just for a second. What's so funny 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.920 is speaking of road maps, I'm not really sure what 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.440 the roadmap is with Bryce Miller, because this was a 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.280 lot of those first starts, and I thought there might 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.559 need to be something new going on with Bryce Miller. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.920 We might need to see, you know, the sweeper, the curveball, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.120 more or more change up. He was seventy three percent fastball, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.200 twenty two percent slider. That was everything. His fastball was 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.560 absolutely on point, had a thirty four percent whiff rate, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.599 his slider had nothing. He hit both in the zone 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.719 pretty well. Fastball was actually only fifty five percent, but 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.120 guys weren't on top of it. Nine called strikes. You 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.120 had the twelve whiffs, and you had fifteen fowls on it, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.960 and he was pushing it around the zone. So all 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.160 I'm saying is he just lives and dies by the fastball. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.120 So it's a little hard to gauge unless he is 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.560 going to go and become Spencer Strider. I don't think 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.560 that's going to happen. It's just all going to be 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.360 on consistency for him, which makes him a little bit dicey. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.120 This was not the worst matchup in the world. So 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.520 the whole point is like everyone's freaking out far as well, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.880 we go, No, he's just a rookie pitcher who has 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.200 two dominant pitches, which really isn't the best, but his 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.400 fastball might be the best of all the rookie fastball, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.000 so it gives him a little bit more leverage. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.000 So I think everything get your locations off for a couple. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.120 Of you know, a couple of games. That's gonna kill 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:16.040 you when you're a two pitch pitch. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.599 He's beyond having to like stream pitchers. He's a guy 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.000 that you can have in the back of the rotation. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.160 Maybe pay a tiny bit more attention to the matchups 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.160 and sit him once in a while. But overall, Bryce 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.200 Similler is still pretty good. This is a pretty good outing. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.640 Twelve overall whiffs. I'll take it, even though they're all 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:32.360 on the fastball. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.599 Also something to to point out, our friend Maxwell joining 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.480 us for the first time, first time making it up 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.120 this early. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.520 So Maxwell, we're happy to have you. I love it. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.520 Thank you Maxwell, Maxwell Grimes. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.560 And our friend Maxwell Grimes joining us live for the 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:49.000 first time. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.559 I love that. Hopefully you subscribe. I haven't even looked today. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.880 I don't I don't think we're fourteen k yet, but 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:54.919 we're getting very close. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.599 Not quite the mustache. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:58.240 I thinks. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.800 By the way, Carl, Carl, see you say Grimes, I 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.640 think Rick Grimes walking down? I think no, I think 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:10.640 Grymes like Simpsons episode you know. Nope, oh no, not 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:11.400 a Simpsons guy. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.840 I everyone eyes me. I watched the Simpsons a decent amount. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.320 I became like a family guy guy. I haven't watched 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.360 any of those in like fifteen years. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.200 No, but this is classic old Simpsons. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.320 Well I don't remember. Rick Grimes is the only Grimes 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:25.240 that jumps out to me. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:26.240 Grimes from the Simpsons. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.120 That's the guy who's like the greatest employee ever, and 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.640 he keeps getting in trouble and Homer keeps getting promoted 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.520 and stuff, and he's just it's hilarious. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:33.400 Yeah, it's great. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.000 Anyway, let's continue on here. Michael Harris, good night for him. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.240 Three for four, stolen base hit, a home run. So 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.480 Michael Harris starting to pull himself out. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:44.600 That is good. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.040 He is still towards the bottom of that Braves order though, 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.480 So well, let's talk about that, because we know so 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.960 much of productivity at times can be tied to where 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.160 you are in the batting where he's still in the 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.440 lower part. Do you see him starting as he gets 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.440 hotter to move up that batting order. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.880 Yeah, I think so. Actually taking a look here, funny enough, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.800 he has not bat above five this entire season. Think 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.560 about that for where he was last year. He's hit five, six, seven, eight, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.440 and nine so far. The only spot he's actually really 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.400 been effective is hitting five. Not that that necessarily matters 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.120 in the batting order, but it's been just a rough go. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.480 The positive is I think there's a great bi low opportunity. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.880 He hit two hundred and April with only a couple 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.000 of games. May was a one to sixty one batting average. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.040 But he's hitting two ninety seven so far this month, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.640 which is great. There's a stolen base in there, there's 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.240 a couple homers, and we've seen the Braves do this before. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.120 We actually kind of have a roadmap to them. They 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.960 did this with Ozzy Alby's where he would hit like 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.000 two and then he moved down to six or seven. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.640 I think as Michael Harris shows consistency, he will move 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.480 up the batting order, and there's always opportunities for him, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.120 especially you know Lefty, to hit, to hit two in 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.679 that batting line. I absolutely think he's not gonna lead off, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.319 but he could be hitting behind Acuni at some point. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:08:59.920 It's a good two spy love. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.560 This is the by low time for Michael Harris because 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.479 if he gets into that two spot in between Akunya 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.719 and then the Olsen Riley, you know that Triumvirent there, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.439 that's that's a really good group to be hitting in 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:10.880 the middle of. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.400 And it's a good by low opportunity because he's also 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.160 starting to pick it back up. Like a lot of 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.480 people would be like, well, the biopportunity was when he 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.320 was hitty one sixty. It's like, well, now sophomore year, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.560 he hadn't shown anything plus injury stuff, like let's see something, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:26.560 and now we're seeing something. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.199 Well, this is when I would Yeah, today is when 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.600 I throw out the trade exactly. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.880 Values up, he's doing something, he's hitting low in the lineup. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.840 There's a lot of opportunity rest of season. So I 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.960 actually like the prospects of picking up Michael Harris. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:38.440 Bryce Miller too. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.720 I was just looking at his split stats just you know, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.280 I'm a splits kind of guy. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.320 I do like the splits. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.000 I home three five seven e RA and four starts 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.599 on the road four five seventy ray and four starts. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.720 So just something he could be guy. Maybe it is. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.360 Again it's it's a small sample, but you know when 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.760 you're looking like Welsh was saying, for some more information 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.240 on when to start Bryce Miller here, because it's been 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:00.720 a little mix bag lately. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:01.360 That's a good one. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.160 Here's a question from the Peanuts and Cracker Jack. This 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.600 is from Jack, no other name, just Jack. Should I 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.680 trade Tucker and Kirby for Corbyn Carroll and Michael Harris? 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.679 See look at that. We're on the pulse right now. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.400 What do you think of this deal? I want Carl 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:17.880 and Harris to tell you true, the best player in 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:18.800 this deal is Corbyn Carroll and. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.520 I don't want to Yeah, I mean dynasty this is 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.040 I'm gonna go with Caro. I have Carrol over Tucker, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.319 easy redraft. Probably I'm only, like, you know, hesitating a 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.160 little bit because like Tucker is still pretty good and 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.800 George Kirby is probably like the lynchpin of your your rotation. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.600 So I don't know if I'm like dying Harris. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.840 You know, Tucker Tucker for the next couple of weeks. Again, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.000 no Jordan Ovarez in that lineup. He becomes infinitely easier 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.120 to pitch to you, I. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:49.040 Think overall, like I want obviously on Carroll corbyan Carroll, did. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.079 You see Carroll Corbyn? 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.360 Carroll I believe has the highest OPS in the NL, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:58.240 and like, yeah, the highest OPS in the NL, which 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:58.600 is I just. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.439 Want to pull McConaughey there on that when I did 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:01.600 not realize. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.920 That, Wow, all right, all right, all right, all right. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.400 The OPS is that high? 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.600 Some thing I like about ops quote when Carol stays 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.480 high all year round. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.320 All right, let's get to another one. 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:12.520 Here. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.480 The Mets signed Luke Void who's been around the block 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.920 here the last couple of weeks, Luke Voyd looking for 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:19.240 a home. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.880 And this just kind of tells you where they're at. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.640 And that Pi Alonzo injury. He ain't coming back anytime soon. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.440 One quick rookie lookie to the Royals were called. I 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.840 believe it's Darren Blanco? 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.560 Is it? Is it Darren pronounced? 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:36.640 Because I r o n Robin's dyn or Deron or Darren? 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.880 I don't know, mister Lono is Upyron Diyron Blanco the five. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.920 Greatest stolen bases in the world, dialon, But. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.200 It's not because I know I know that name but 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.960 it's got an R in it. But here's what's interesting 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.559 about him. He's got forty seven steals in forty nine 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.640 games this year at Triple A. Now he is not 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.320 like a a prospector. He's a thirty year old guy. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.600 But if you are looking for, you know, Pascorentinos out, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.960 playing time is more available. They're going to be shifting 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.240 guys around if you're somebody's behind in stolen bases? Is 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.800 Blanco the kind of guy you pick up for a 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.640 buck or two and you plug him in there and 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.240 you see, maybe you get a couple of weeks and 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:14.800 get half a dozen steals. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.840 Forty seven that's a big number. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.760 Well now, well, I mean we see that like a story. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.960 Is one of those guys that is just like he 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.880 goes like he gets a hit, he got And my 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.400 problem is, is Blanco getting hits and consistent playing time. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 So I know what you're saying, and we could do that, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.760 I'm gonna say no because we're getting stolen bases everywhere else. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.960 So maybe you could get a couple extra, But I'm 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.679 just worried the playing time versus like him getting hits. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.160 It's just not something. It's just not a play that 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.679 I would do, but sure your logic makes thousand percent sense. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:47.839 Yeah. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.960 By the way, cousin Donnie joining us internationally today. I 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.400 know he's in Mexico with his family, so hopefully he 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.440 doesn't get arrested, you know, like last time. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.680 But you know it's it's an international baby. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.120 That'd be a lot harder to get you out of 0:12:59.160 --> 0:12:59.800 those prisons. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.760 Actually had a cousin who got arrested in Mexico. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.040 True story, and I was the person that took the 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.720 phone call to my grandmother's house. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.600 I'm just hanging out at my grandma's house. I think 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.520 I had to be like, I don't know, like ten 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.040 to eleven at the time. It's like the summer Grandma 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.120 in Mexico. Honestly, that's pretty much what it was like. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.040 He had one phone call, so he called her because 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.319 he knew she would always be home, right, that's the 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.080 you know people that have cell phones back in my. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.520 Last phone call ever, like that is that is a 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.920 top five fear. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.120 This is the true story. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.920 And I remember I was probably having a snack watching TV, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.160 just hanging out there, you know, just some random summer 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.120 afternoon and you know, phone rings and there's my cousin 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:40.679 on the other line. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.240 Yeah, can you put grandma on the phone? Wait where 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:43.560 are you? 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.839 I'm in Mexico. Where in a prison? Oh that sounds 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.319 that's like a nor McDonald. But oh geez, that sounds 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:56.040 pretty serious. Simpson, you know, also was in that prison. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.320 Oh Jay Simpson life. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.480 I miss norm all right injuries to get through. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.280 Marcelo Zuna or was removed from Monday's contest with a 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.840 right contusion of his risk. John Gray scratch him his 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.160 start with a blister. So hopefully that's not going to 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 be too bad. But a little fun note here, we 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.920 like some fun. JT Realmuto, we like this. Became the 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.320 seventeenth catcher in Major League history to hit for the 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.960 cycle on Monday. So congratulations of JT, who has not 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.760 had a good season. Let's be honest, he has not 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.680 been a good year for JT. This is not what 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.600 you drafted him for. Here's another question too, And look 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 here we go and and ANGELI say, talk about real Muto. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.280 It might be the only time of the year I did. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.760 If you watch the game two, a Tory Devello went off, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.680 He went at he tried to fight him almost so 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.000 it was pretty great. And then Romado responded by hitting. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.600 A little chippy last night, A little little chippy, I think. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.520 But we haven't done Joe's tough Guys in a while 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.880 because we haven't had one. But I think this qualifies, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.520 so Joe's tough guys. The Angels signed Daniel Murphy to 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.760 a minor league contract. Now, Daniel Murphy retired in twenty 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.920 twenty one for baseball, he hasn't played since twenty twenty. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.960 He's thirty eight years old. He was playing for the 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.320 Long Island Ducks a couple of weeks ago. Eight now 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.760 he's thirty eight. Uh, and so look at three thirty 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.720 one with two homers and thirty seven games for the 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.640 Ducks and the Angels excuse me, not on the should sign, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.720 but the Angel like, that's our guy, that's you know what, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.280 Let's let's go give him a minor league. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.360 That's how we're gonna get a time. That's gonna put 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:25.560 us over Daniel Murphy. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.880 But you know what, good for Daniel Murphy. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.680 Tough got You know, Daniel Murphy signed an enormous contract 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.440 there with the uh the Colorado Rockies a few years back, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.520 and as far as I'm concerned, like I'm sure Daniel 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.080 Murphy does not need baseball anymore. That guy was out 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.520 there playing independent league baseball just because because he didn't 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:45.720 want it to be over yet. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.520 So good good for him. Like that's kind of cool. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.680 What do you think about that? I know it's a 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:50.600 fantasy relevant, but. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.160 You know what, Daniel Murphy's just like whatever. Like you 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.840 know what I hope though, is I I like, they 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.640 want to get him going. They send him out here 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.640 a complex the thirty eight year old to hit against 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.520 some eighteen year olds and just ruin their lives and 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.920 just ruin their days. And I get to see him, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.960 and I'll heckle him if he is I'll get some 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:09.760 video if he does. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.440 You know, we mentioned the Scherberfest stuff at the top 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.000 of the show. We are considering doing a fun leading 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.520 off T shirt drop. It's going to be like an 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.000 exclusive short term thing for the Peanuts of the Cracker Jacks. 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.680 We were bouncing around ideas. May and I were talking 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.480 about it. We don't know if it should the shirts 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.560 and say Welsh isms, if it should say Joe's tough guys, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:30.760 if it should. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.280 Just be Can we do like three shirts and then 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.240 just have a drop like, are you saying because I'm 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.440 not bothering this an exclusive shirt? 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.840 Well, I'm opening I'm That's why I'm talking about. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.920 I'm glad you opened it up to the other end. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.240 The peanuts and cracker jacks, if they're if they're interested 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.960 in the shirt, what would that shirt be that you 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.320 would like? 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.920 Saying? Can't we do a limited time like couple? I know, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.920 I get the logic of one, but like, what if if. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.800 We sell more than one, then maybe we can, you know, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.280 justify next year doing two or three? 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.560 But we're starting h to your point, you got to run, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.439 like what are the ones that you welshism? 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.480 I would action I wish we had a running list, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.200 because then I would put them all on the back, 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.639 like you know, just yeah, in for a dime, in 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:15.320 for a penny. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.720 I don't know what they all are. That's a good, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.399