WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 26th, 2022 (Ep. 519) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:17.280 Javier everywhere. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.000 This is leading off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.960 the King of sports books. It's me, it's the Welsh, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.960 it's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, all of the above, 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.800 and today we're talking all things MLB. We're talking baseball. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.000 We got fantasy, we got betting. We've got a new 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:33.640 fun toy that we found. Welsh. I don't know if 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.640 you know about the toy. You've got a toy. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.959 I like toys, and. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.360 It's not the kind that you stayed up late and 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.720 then all of a sudden you wake up and the 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.560 TV is still on. It's not that kind of toy. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.440 It's not that it's fun and it's on bettingpros dot com. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.640 But before we get to any of that, Welsh, I 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.440 hope you're doing well. This this lovely afternoon, My time, morning, 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:58.280 your time, and always always my friend. Did you watch 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.760 any baseball last night? I guess that's what I watch. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.080 Some of the baseball. I watch some of the baseball, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.960 some of the things. In the midday, I actually went 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.920 on a nice little rant about you know what Surelove, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.720 Surelove does YouTube games. Really excited for the next Apple 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.080 Plus game. Maybe something over on Discovery Plus will be next. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.960 Maybe we'll have some who knows, maybe E Entertainment. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:20.360 I don't know. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.360 I really I'm loving that. I'm really loving when I'm 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.480 on my MLB dot TV package and I can not 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.200 watch a game, but I gotta go subscribe to Paramount 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.040 Paramount Plus to watch you know, Royals and Tigers or whatever. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.200 If you have a Paramount Plus membership, I'd like to 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.199 borrow it because I want to watch that series about 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.920 the Godfather, and I want to watch the South specials 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:41.679 Bogman does. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.920 The key is everybody should know this in the whole 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.040 world is all of Bogman's close circle. No one actually 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.880 owns anything as far as streaming services. He does, and 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.520 we just use his. So I'll give you his I 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.000 probably won't do it on air, but I'll give it 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:55.720 to you after. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.440 I give it on air. It's fine, I'm sure. All right, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.600 let's give some headlines on I. Let's start with Cole Calhoun. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.920 I mean, the dude's been red hot two run, home run, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.600 scored three runs yesterday. Lucas Giolito, seven strikeouts and a 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.520 victory over the red Sox. That was our boy last 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.520 night in DFS. Our other boy was Christian Xavier fanning 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.480 nine in a win over the Guardians. I want to 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.000 talk and pause for a second about Christian Javier. You know, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.760 this is one of my biggest names that I wanted 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.880 in pre draft stuff that we talked about in draft season, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.520 we talked about and even so there was time to 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.120 be discouraged at a certain point, but I knew eventually 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.639 a spot would open up and eventually Christian Xavier would 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.480 shine and Welsh it feels so good to watch this 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.320 guy pitch so. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.840 Well, almost twelve k per nine. He's got a very 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.519 lo lo sub to era with also is encouraging like 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.800 an x fIF that's just a little over three, so 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.440 you're not like crazy overbearing on it, and a lot 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.120 of the other metrics are just in line. He's not 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.840 given up homers, which he's seen even more success on. 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.520 It's one of the better arms in the rotation right now. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.520 You're that rotation that's been all long, all across the board. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.679 I'm kind of a Christian Javier guy, and Christian Javier 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.280 might continuously be someone we have to put more of 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.440 a dot on when we're looking obviously at dfs like 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.040 you called yesterday, but you know, even in like a 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.440 player prop type of stuff, because that's a guy. That's 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.560 a guy right now. Nine strikeouts on the Guardians. The 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.400 Guardians don't strike out, at least in theory. They have 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.560 not been striking out, though that number seems to be 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.560 increasing a little bit. And maybe even we'll attack it 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:27.239 later today. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.359 All right, let's see if we want to attack on 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.080 these other things here. Eva Longoria hit his first two 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.600 home runs of twenty twenty two as the San Francisco 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.400 Giants continue to just pound away at New York Mets 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:45.320 pitching over the last few days. Also, Thario Estrada something 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.800 also to talk about. You know, a lot of people 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.160 thought when Las Della came back that he would lose 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.120 playing time. He's hitting four hundred over his last eight games. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.280 I just did a way Wire video. He was part 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.120 of the guys that I broke down, and it just 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.520 feels like this is a guy that can help you. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.600 He's got six dolen bases already. I don't know why 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.440 he is only rostered still in sixty percent of formats. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.440 That doesn't make any sense to me. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.920 Well, I think I think a lot of it was 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.080 maybe about like him not being able, like you said, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.960 to be able to keep that spot on the endfield, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.040 like with Longoria coming back, with Lostella coming back, it 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.040 seemed logical that he would go away. But that's former 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.800 Yankees prospect Airostrata saw him in the Arizona Fall League 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.120 back in the day. Always made good contact, could run 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.640 a little bit, and he's doing it like a really 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.200 high level. I've been a little dismissive of him early on, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.760 but if the Giants are going to play him and 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.840 he's going to continue getting run even as a super 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.880 utility player, that'll play, and that's going to work. And 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.240 he's a very good way for wire pickup right now especially, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.760 I would say it's like a bench bat that you 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.800 can kind of throw at multiple different spots in your lineup. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.400 He's one of those really good bench bats to get 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.800 in and probably better than guys that you're sitting on 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.080 right now, or you know, some cold starters that you're 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.240 waiting to get hot. 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.159 Harold Castro his first multi homer game for the Detroit 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.040 Tigers yesterday. Also some good news. We love the Shane 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.640 Boz updates two and a third scoreless innings in his 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.039 latest rehab. So here you go, bos floating around on 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.000 your waiver wire. Go go grab them. Now, let's talk 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.440 a lot a little of the injuries Yankees. But young 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.840 Carlos Stanton on the il Stanton apparently doesn't have a 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.719 calf strain. It's an ankle inflammation. I assume that's better. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.560 But again, this is just par for the Stanton. I 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.880 think it is because the calf strain is one of 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.200 those things that we've seen take a long time, and 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.320 when the guys rush back all of a sudden, they 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.000 have a bigger issue at the ankle. If it's an 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.760 ankle sprain or high ankle sprain, it's gonna be a 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.360 couple of weeks. I mean, he's not a running back, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:31.960 for God's sake. It's a little bit different in terms 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.280 of recovery. Ronald of Kunya with a quad scratch from 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.280 the Braves lineup. So Couna seems to be having a 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.320 lot of secondary leg issues. Do you think this is 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.640 just maybe pushing things too soon? This is repercussions for 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.159 coming back earlier than anticipated, or is just a fluke. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.080 I don't know if that's necessarily the case. I think 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.960 you probably have a lot of just early missed time. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.720 You know, remember as much as these guys have spent time, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.480 how many times you hear these dudes, they's just like 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.120 a springing, these guys complain. But look at like even 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.359 this year, the guys that just weren't, you know, in 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.960 early throwing programs and early training programs in like January 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.320 and February, that were rusty and missed time, and how 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.520 much it actually is needed because it's it's part of 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.800 like that body rhythm, you know how it's like your 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.719 body just gets used to your body's used to if 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.880 you run every day or whatever type of exercise you do. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.920 As much as they complain, that's the process, and Acuna 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.640 was taken away from that process for a bit of time. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.720 I don't know if I'm that surprised that he's dealing 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.680 with just some little aches. You're also having like a 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.039 transitional weather period, you know, where you're getting into a 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.760 lot hotter months and the overall weather can screw with you. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.120 It's weird stuff I'm talking about. In the day, I 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.800 could just be like, yeah, it's just fluky, but I 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.400 think that's kind of what it is. It's a lot 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.080 of weird miss time that he hasn't had the rigors 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.560 of the everyday baseball for months and months. Like a 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.960 lot of these guys. You also got weather stuff. I'm 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.400 not worried about it. I'm not worried about acuna whatsoever 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.200 with these But you know, I'm also the injury guy 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.400 where I'm like, man, these guys really do get hurt. Huh, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:06:59.080 this is crazy. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.240 We could standing, well, look, you're willing to deal with 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.240 it for a premium player like Akunya. But at the 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.159 same time, it's a little concerning. That seems to be 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.520 different issues with the legs, and I think that's that's 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.600 always the thing you're concerned when a guy comes back 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.280 and he pushes a knee surgery too soon, that they 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.400 tend to have the ripple effect of other things not 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.720 working in conjunction properly or favoring or whatever it might be. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.560 But again, more just fluky. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.440 The interesting thing to monitor with him would be then 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.200 if that running cools down, because that was the thing 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.080 we're all shocked about, like, oh my god, look at him, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.440 he's just running. The guy's just running. As he came back. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.080 We thought that could cool down. Maybe this is going 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.520 to be something where the team pulls off that green 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.560 light a little bit. He's already still in eight bases 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.120 in seventeen games so far this year, so something to consider. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.200 I know a lot of you, you happy trigger finger 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.480 trade guys, might want to be on the lookout. I 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.600 don't want to trade Ronald Lacoutney or anything like that, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.480 but I think it's a possibility that the stolen base 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.680 numbers come down, So just something to consider. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.680 Jeff McNeil ran right into a wall yesterday. He left 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.080 the game and Ramon Loriano for a cat scan on Thursday, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.600 so hopefully everything works out with him. Now, I'm heading 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.480 for a weekend filled with grilling, and I know if 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.920 you all out there are like me, you like to grill. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.800 And I'm telling you right now, if you want to 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.520 avoid the hustle and bustle of the weekend going into 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.760 Memorial Day grocery stores, you just want all the meats 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.920 delivered to your house the Omaha Steaks as you cover. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.560 So please, for the love of God, use the promo 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.920 code leading off and get yourself some meat with the 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.640 Dad's Want Steaks package because that comes with the bacon 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.040 wrap filet Mignon's, the Jumbo Franks, the air chilled boneless 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.800 chicken breasts, and of course my favorite, the caramel apple tartlet. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.760 And no, there's not a more fun word to say 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.960 in the English and language than tartlets? 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.319 Can I also add Joe that it is an insane 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.240 deal when you look at it. When we got the 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.520 giant Phoam cooler and opened it up, my wife looked 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.080 at me and like, how much is this? How much 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.280 is in here? And I was like, so much. The 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.040 deal that you guys get for the amount of stuff 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.840 is unmatchable, trust me. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.920 Yeah. And for the ninety nine bucks, you also get 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.800 with this package eight free Omahas take burgers, So you 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.640 get the burgers, you get the dogs. If the people 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.800 don't want the red meat, you got the chicken. Mine 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.200 came with a pork tenderloin as well. I mean delicious stuff, man. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.560 And again, use that promo code leading off, and you 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.559 can buy this, you know, for yourself. You could buy 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.640 it for the dads out there. Heck, you can buy 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.480 for the moms out there. I don't care. It's got 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.040 a lot of different versatile people that you could buy 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.839 it for. But I'm telling you right now. It's a 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.600 high quality. And I like the fact too that you 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.440 can have it in the freezer it's ready to go, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.480 and then you put it in the little pack and 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.960 then you can, you know, thought out overnight. You can 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.440 thaw it out in a half hour in the water 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.640 either way and you're good to go. Especially if you're 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.440 running around you got all these activities and the kid 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.280 stuff and everything like that. It's nice to go to 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.560 come home and have some quality meat. So Oma Steaks 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.520 promo code leading off again. Get that package that they're selling. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:52.960 It's fantastic. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.880 They could buy for us too if they wanted. They 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.840 could like, yeah, oh I wanted to. That's not off 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.520 the table. Just want everybody to know that. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.559 I will make more room in the freezer. I will 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.440 figure it out. I don't know how the Jim Biden 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.440 I forget is my freezer. I will figure that. I'll 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.800 buy a new one. Can we talk about this? Can 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.880 we talk about this article on mlb dot com? The 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.960 book is out on how to Bitch vladd Junior Guerrero 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.920 slugging down one hundred and fifty four points from last year. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.840 So this is a fascinating piece on MLB dot com 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.640 right now that I saw by Mike Petriello, and basically 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.040 he is dug deep. He's done a very good job 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.160 of the research here and in terms of what's going 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.920 on location wise. So now that somebody is basically a 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.160 writer can go and find this. Clearly, if a writer's 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.719 figured this out, other teams have figured this out. So 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.920 if Laddie has to make an adjustment, I think Laddie's 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.240 up to the task. Do you. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.600 Of all players, Absolutely, he's one of the He's got 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.640 one of the best batter's eyes that I've ever seen 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.880 in person, you know, in the twenty on what games 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.280 I saw in the Arizona Fall League. I mean, this 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.360 guy isn't up there swinging. This isn't Kalnick, this isn't Adele. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:02.880 I mean, you guys, I don't even need to sell this. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.440 You guys know that you can see this guy has 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.199 a very specific part of the zone he's looking at. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.240 But I think he's gotten a little bit more aggressive. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.400 I saw and I've just clicked open this piece, so 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.559 I can't let go and read everything that it is 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.720 about it. But as a team, these guys are getting 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.160 destroyed by sliders right now, These these pitches. These breaking 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.320 pitches off with some velocity are killing them. It was 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.320 primed when I watched the Hunter Green start just the 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.800 other day, because you know, he's been primary sliders. He 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.040 got the he struck out Boba Schett in the first start. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.880 They're chasing at such a crazy degree. I don't know 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.800 what that's about. But Vladimir Guerrero is probably one of 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.040 the top five players in baseball that can make these adjustments. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.080 And I that's that's why I don't have a big 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.360 worry about vlad I mean, you know, he just makes 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.520 it happen. Even when he wasn't lofting the ball in 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.280 his rookie year, he was still hitting the ball. So 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.240 this is why I'm gonna check this out. I'm interested 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.920 to read this all right. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.920 On top of that, I know everybody loves a good 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.800 extrapolation nation that we love to drop here on the program, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.760 But I will say we were I think both of us. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.760 I know IWA was very very high on Francisco Lindor's 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.719 value this year. I thought he was being grossly undervalued, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.720 grossly underappreciated. And if you're looking right now in terms 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.480 of what he's giving you, he's on pace for twenty 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.000 five homers, one hundred and fifteen rebees, twenty five doubles, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.000 and one hundred and eight runs scored. Now that's pretty 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.160 good return investment. And this is what I was trying 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.120 to say to people. I know last year was a disappointment, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.000 but remember this for next year when the guys were 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.200 struggling the first year of the big contract and all 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.760 of a sudden they drop around or two in drafts, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.960 to be aggressive on them. If they have an extensive 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.120 track record of being a certain player, there's usually a 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.200 good chance they returned to being that certain player. Again, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.400 this is more for the premium kind of guys than 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.640 those bid level free agents. But what do you think 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.000 of Lindor's pace and what he's doing so far compared 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.880 to last year obviously, which was such a disappointing first half. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.120 Yeah, I translate this type of stuff also to it's 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.000 the same kind of thing with prospects. Like the more 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.760 track record you have of players, and that's probably why 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.880 not everybody, but a lot of people you come back 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.320 down this path When guys have a track record of 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.840 success and then they fall off, it doesn't We shouldn't 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.800 just throw them away and discount them. Francisco Lindor was 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.400 I think a prime example of that transitional trading stuff 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.360 going on learning who he was as a player. This 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.720 is someone that I bought back into because this is 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.360 a first round talent. That's also a unique thing when 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.480 you see guys that have in the past represented first 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.080 round talent. It's something that can be easier to buy 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.480 in on later rounds when you know you can start 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.040 finding first round talent in the fifth or sixth round. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.480 This the guy that was just struggling on making quality contact. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.599 That is a changeable thing. I think everything, at the 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.640 end of the day is something that can be changed. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.920 It could be fixed. In baseball, I mean, we're seeing 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.840 guys like Brandon Drury succeed at a level that isn't 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.760 He literally didn't do any of this all of his 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.160 major league gears combined. So it's all possible. But I 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.040 think that talent level and that previous track record are 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.880 things that make the probability even higher. So I buy 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.520 into Lindor. I buy into him being a twenty twenty guy. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.720 This is what I was trying to pay for in 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.800 those later fifth rounds and whatnot. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.440 Now I know the peanuts and the Cracker Jacks are 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.360 going crazy right now because one of our unofficial mascots 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.360 of the show, Ray Liota, apparently has passed away and 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.400 this news has broken. Now. I was waiting to get 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.920 some verification on this because I don't trust Twitter whenever 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.200 they say anybody I do. While you were talking about 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.640 I was waiting for some more news outlets because I'm 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.400 a responsible journalist. I'm a responsible member of the media, 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.440 and I just don't go on air with anything like 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.720 Ron Burgundy would. So Yeah, apparently at the age of 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.000 sixty seven, this is confirmed by TMZ and a few 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.680 other outlets that actually, you know, tend to verify these things, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.640 and I see like Deadline, Hollywood and a few other 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.080 verified places have it. Uh so very sad news. This 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.720 is if you're a baseball fan, this is your Field 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.960 of Dreams guy. This is your Joe Jackson. This is 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.880 if you're a Good Fellas fan, this is your Henry Hill, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.080 a guy that's you. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.360 Were just talking about. Now, you really need that paramount. Plus. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.120 Yeah, as far back as I can remember, I always 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:29.160 wanted to be a gangster. But Tommy, I mean, look 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.760 you look at some of the films He's done too. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.000 I mean Copland another great one. Uh, certainly he was 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.400 good in Blow and of course everybody loves Operation Dumbo Drop. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.240 I think one of the great classics of our time. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.640 He was in I don't remember him being in b movie. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.320 I'm a bee. What's the problem. I don't understand. I 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.200 got all these bees. They're buzzing everywhere. It's crazy, Karen, 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:51.360 what is your problem? 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.080 Play this the rest of the show. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.600 I think, Actually, but I mean it's that I'll tell 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.840 you what. That steaming pile that was the Many Saints 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.000 of Newark movie. He was definitely the highlight of that film, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.560 without doubt. I mean that movie was absolutely track. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.640 It was a movie. This is this is like totally 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.160 off the beaten path of all of these movies. Was 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.560 Identity wasn't because it wasn't the John Cusack movie that. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.800 Gat Yeah, fantastic. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.640 I completely forgot he was as I'm looking at discography. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.680 If you build it, he will come. But yeah, that's 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.800 to do a baseball show and having Raleiota or Kevin 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.680 Costner die in the middle of it is definitely kind 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.640 of a shocking thing. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.280 Again, the chat was the chat was exploding. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.800 It chat was exploding and but look, you know again, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.440 we have to kind of be careful with these things sometimes, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.560 so very sad news. We'll try to pivot off of 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.200 that and we'll continue to celebrate the life of Raleiota, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.680 who just last week we were doing chantings commercials here. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.360 Three days ago. No, we're doing it this week. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.200 We were doing it like the gun and the chantics. Okay, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.240 that's what you do. Let's let's go to fun facts 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.000 because that'll pull us out of the adult drums. Welsh 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.800 loves things that never happen, right. Spencer Stryder's five strikeouts 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.879 in two and two thirds hitless, scoreless innings tonight give 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.240 him thirty seven k's in twenty four and a third 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.920 innings this season, second most strikeouts among the Major League 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:23.120 Baseball relievers. So Spencer Streider certainly dominating right now. Any 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:27.000 thoughts on, you know, if you're looking for just some 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.480 extra strikeouts, is this a guy that people should be 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:30.720 adding to their roster if they have. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.040 One thousand percent. I'm not the biggest, like you know, 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.720 stack up on all the relievers and play ratios and 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.520 stuff like that. There's a few Spencer Strider's number one. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.119 I'll tell you this right now. Spencer Striter next year 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.880 will be the cheat code. If you remember, I think 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.719 I said it on here with you in the preseason 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.800 when you're in points. If you want to cheat code this, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.280 get Michael Kopek who qualified at reliever because he was 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.680 a reliever all last year and you could put him 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.320 in that spot. Look at you now, Spencer Strider will 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.280 be the ultimate cheat code next year. He might be 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.639 in a rotation sometime soon. He is bonkers at his 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.680 strikeout rate right now. This is I think you're gonna 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.800 find a hard time getting him off of this roll. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.479 But this is what he does. I don't think in 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.920 any format you need to justify picking up Spencer Strider. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.760 Put him out there. You're gonna get five strikeouts in 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.160 two innings. You're gonna get it once or twice a week. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.439 Get Spencer Strider. He is phenomenal. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.040 Another thing that will put a smile on your face. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.880 This day in baseball history, in nineteen ninety three, this 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.399 is the day that the ball went off Jose Canseeco's 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.200 head and over the fence. So that is all time 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.840 great I'll give you. Do you remember who hit the ball? 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.040 That is the question. For the peanuts of the Cracker Jacks. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.480 Here's your trivia for the day. Who hit the ball 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.560