WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Sept 25th, 2023 (Ep. 743) 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.160 What's up, Brindoz and welcome into Leading Off, the final 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.159 regular season episodes of Leading Off on Chris Welsh the 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.079 Welsh on Twitter apps is it the Welsh? That is 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.480 Casey Bubba on Twitter at beat Entrick. We are here 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.840 to give you these final episodes for prep talking about 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.360 how the season went, maybe a little bit of twenty 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.479 twenty four this week. That is what we have got 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.920 and it is all brought to you by prize Picks 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.440 price picks promo code. Leading Off is going to get 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.919 you hooked up one hundred percent match up to one 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.360 hundred bucks. Go and do that today. You can steal 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.280 prize picks and guess what you can prize picket when 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.880 baseball's done. You can price picket while there's playoffs. Prize 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.479 picking doesn't stop when the regular season does. It just 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.440 always keeps going. So sign up today, use that promo code, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:55.080 support the podcast, just get some free money. Why not, Bubba, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.720 we are here. We officially made it. Its code razy 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.360 that this is the final week of the regular season. Baseball, 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.080 like fantasy teams kind of done. I'm not into the 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.320 week or the you know, into the season. Guy outside 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.400 of like roto leagues and stuff like that. But this 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.319 is it, brother, this is it. I'm grinding. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.000 Got some teams in contention, hoping the rotal Gods are 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.800 in my favorite. It's been a roller coaster the last 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.600 couple of weeks, going up and down the standings. So yeah, 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.800 the final countdown, we have made it. I'm not much 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.400 of a marathon guy, as you can see if you're 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.840 watching the video, but this is the last leg of 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:26.360 the marathon. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.440 They would say, yeah, we got so what do you 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.880 do in the last leg? Do you you speed up? 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.560 Some people like have the runs. Other ones, you. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.640 Know, go go for little extra electro lights. Maybe I 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.080 have one of those like little like jelly packs. I 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.360 don't know, but yeah, it's all about pacing yourself, as 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.560 they say, pace yourself and then go for the gusto. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.200 I'm always surprised when they see like those races at 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.120 the like everyone's just I know, you're like you're tired, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.919 Like who am I to judge? You've ran like whatever, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.200 like ten miles or fifteen miles or something, But like, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.800 why is everybody just not absolutely booking it. Everyone's still 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.120 kind of pacing themselves like that last like tenth of 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:00.360 a miles you want to. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.000 Do people I know throw out your hammy or something 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.360 on the last stretch because you changed your whole setup. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.000 They've been planning for this their whole life. Wels like 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.840 you can't change things now. But I'm with you. Why 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.079 wouldn't you go for the gusta. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.119 I'm with you. Just do the whole thing. We got 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.040 some of the peanuts and the crackerjacks. You guys have 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.880 been with us all season long, Michael said, Happy Championship 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.440 Week final, three episodes of the week. It's bittersweet, it is. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.640 That's right. You can also have awful things like Manny 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.160 Machado play Manny Machado this weekend. After the news broke 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.880 he's getting surgery and might be shut down. That's a 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.520 big question you got to deal with. Probably not, you're 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.080 gonna be playing him. With him, you will answer some 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.280 questions if you guys want to throw them out here. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.280 We've got a few more questions we can get to 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.040 for all you guys that are battling it out. But 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.400 whatever you got, this is it. Peanuts and cracker jacks. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.360 We got some good surprises for this week. We actually 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.000 also have a time change for one show, which will 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.239 tell you at the end. So let's get into write 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.880 the stuff. And I've got a Welsh and Corb and Carrol. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.200 We're gonna have one today, one tomorrow, and then we're 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.960 not gonna have one Friday because I will most likely 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.120 just pick the winner, pick the winner for who's going 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.880 to get that. And we've got the home run race, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.320 which is tight enough still, but when we get to Wednesday, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.200 if there's not a gap closing, I think we might 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.000 be able to call it. So put your questions in 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.920 the chat. We'll talk about that here in just a 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.160 tiny bit. We've actually got some like real baseball based 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.800 news that are it's sitting out there in that the 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.960 Yankees have missed the playoffs for the first time since 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.720 twenty sixteen. Oh, it's so sad. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.520 Are they gonna be? Okay? 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.320 You know what I like? I like as a fan 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.880 of a team that doesn't win championships. There's kind of that, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.600 like especially the the like really really good teams, like 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.520 Bogman's dealing with this with the Steelers. You have this 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.960 moment when you get older where you're just like, will 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.280 I ever live, Well, I live the rest of my 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.560 life to see my team win one more championship and 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.120 it's like, I'm for bad for the Yankee guys. Yankees 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.200 will be okay. The Diamondbacks actually were the eliminate tours, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.880 and it was also noted that there's a lot of 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.760 change that's going to have to be made, at least 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.280 at management was talking about, and as it should. You know, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.440 they didn't get aggressive in the during the trade deadline, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.920 and they kind of have that youth movement going on. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.400 I think they can continue that youth movement. And really 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.000 the like core piece I think of being able to 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.200 spend big dollars in certain areas and still be able 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.920 to like go is that you've got to have two 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:37.440 to four young, good players that are financially controllable and 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.440 then you can build a few other pieces around. You 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.120 just can't have, you know, like four Really like what 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.920 the Padres have done, you know hasn't worked, even though 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.960 they have had some stuff that has worked in their favor, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.080 It just the meshing hasn't worked. So the Yankees, maybe 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:51.800 they go make one big move. Do you think they're 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.400 gonna make a big splash in the offseason, some type 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.960 of trade, maybe consolidate some of the young guys. I 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.000 think you keep you got, like you know, Jason from 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.039 He Recovers Perreira Bolpi. I mean that's kind of some 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.279 of that good youth core. Do you think they're gonna 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.760 make a big splash or it's gonna be more you know, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:14.000 financially controllable assets, but maybe just altering the bigger startable names. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.000 I think it's altering the bigger startable names for now 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.239 because of some of the contracts still on the books 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.880 and the big splash they wanted to make with Shohio Tawny, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.120 and that's a little difficult to make at this point 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.760 in time, so maybe they still go that route. I 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.840 think they still kind of clean things up a little more. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.320 Realize the Stanton deal ain't what it is. I can't 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.400 run like I think I might have a chance to 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.520 beat him in a sprint right now. Like that's how 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.120 bad things are. And that's saying a lot. So it's 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.760 a little rough there in New York. Think they got 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.039 pieces there, like you mentioned, it's just about how do 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.800 they build around said pieces. And I think it's you know, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.239 you get Judge and maybe maybe played Glaber. He's actually 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.440 worth it. People like Shocker, the guy's actually pretty good 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.560 and a couple of those type of pieces, you know, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.360 let osmer Gomer, lets Rizzo go same bad. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:58.080 Yeah. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.440 Once I said it's about the same Freudian. Let Rizzo 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.880 go eventually find a way to grit of Stanton and 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.320 go from there. That'd be my two cents. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.159 Yeah, I think that's kind of where we're lining up. Also, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.960 in the kind of playoff run news, the Atlanta Braves 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.240 reach one hundred wins for the second straight season, and 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.360 I believe that was I'd read that was some type 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.320 of record. It's an absurd team. I think it was 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.440 what only team to have four players of like thirty 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.720 five plus homers or just thirty homer Just some absurdity 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.920 across the board. That also led me to want to 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.120 take a look at the divisional stuff because someone posted 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.120 just a second ago about how the Reds are what 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.320 was it Red's only five games this week, but the 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.160 Reds being in that contention spot. So going over in 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.240 the standings you've currently got when we pull up wild 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.080 card as Yankees are out, Braves are locked in, the 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.039 al Tampa Bay is locked in, and they are actually 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.920 literally locked in. They've got the top the top spot 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:05.040 in the wild card Toronto Houston Seattle are within about 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.799 a game and a half of each other. It looks 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.800 like with this is it's two, maybe it's two one 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.360 now maybe the actually Toronto has two on Seattle. But 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:17.040 either way, these guys are all close right now. Toronto 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.960 in their last ten is seven and three, the Mariners 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.600 are four and six, and the Astros are three and seven. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.360 Those are all their last ten record, But it is 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.720 Blue Jays Astros with I believe the Mariners on the outside. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.160 So how do you think this is gonna play out 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:32.559 this week? 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.440 It's gonna be tough because, like the Astros just got swept. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.080 Now they go into Seattle to kind of Seattle has 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.080 their own fate in their hands because the Rangers did 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:45.320 their damage last weekend. Rangers faced Seattle to finish the weekend. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.560 You want to not count the Astros out just because 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.240 of who they are, but at the same time they're 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.200 funn with their their pitching staff is letting them down 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.400 a big, big way. So I think Toronto finds their 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.040 way into this. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.000 Surprisingly, Toronto's in a really good spot being two games 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.600 up and also throwing out to you the Astros and 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.080 Mariners are playing each. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.400 Other this Day three today and then the Mariners play 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:06.920 the Rangers to finish it off to the Mariners or 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:08.720 they hold their own destinies. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:09.360 But it that way. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.760 Astro's coming off a sweep over the weekend, Manners got 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.160 swept by the Rangers. I'm going to go to Toronto, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.680 Texas and take Seattle. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:23.520 It's the third wild Garden. Why do I not have the. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.000 Don't Tampa Bay's a wildcard? Don't mind be Tampa Bay. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:30.120 Yeah, I was about to say Toronto, Tampa Bay, Toronto, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.520 and I'll take Texas. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.679 They should still be in it. Well, Texas is they 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.280 have the West, I think, so that's all a mess too. Yeah, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.720 Tampa's locked and Houston, could I guess come back and 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.880 push because I think they're two back from Let me 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.400 take a look from Texas because in the West, the 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.600 West hasn't done two and a half. Yeah, so Texas 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.719 is up two and a half, so something could happen there. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.640 I don't want to say that it can't, but right 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.880 now it's Tampa Bay locked. And then you have two 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:05.200 spots between the Blue Jays, Astros and Mariners Blue disen Riners. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.040 But how crazy would that be? 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.199 No Red Sox no Yankees, no Astros in the same postseason. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.120 Well, we're looking at right now. I mean they are 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.480 officially eliminated. There are no Yankees, there are no Red Sox. Yeah, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.920 this is pretty good. This is definitely pretty good. I'm 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.160 gonna go with the Astros in the Blue Jays, I 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.360 think the Astros are hard to It's hard. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.440 To count the Astros out just by experience alone. With 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:27.640 that pitching staff's been brutal. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.000 Okay, So over in the NL, you've got Philly, who 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.800 is They haven't officially locked it, but I think tomorrow, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.199 like they could lock it tomorrow because I don't think 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.760 they played today, No, they don't, So I think they 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.720 could lock it tomorrow with a win because they're up 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.280 five and they yeah, and that's a great matchup. The 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.480 Diamondbacks play today as a makeup with the Yankees, and 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.720 they are in second in the Wild Card and they 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.600 are half a game ahead of the Cup, so when 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.040 they could be a full game above. And then you 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.560 have got the Marlins and the Reds that are I mean, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.600 between the Diamondbacks and the Reds, there are four teams 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.640 two wins differential, that are vying for two spots. So 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.599 right now it's Diamondbacks, Cubs, Marlins and Reds are on 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.120 the outside. Padres and Giants haven't officially been eliminated. So 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.640 what are you gonna go with for the wild Card? 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.679 I like the Cubs for sure, just something about them 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.679 right now. Then it comes down Then it comes down 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:27.760 the Diamondbacks and Marlins. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.120 What was the fourth team? The Reds? The Reds are 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.360 the furthest back though the Reds are like, the Reds 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:34.920 are in trouble. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.240 Give me the Cubs and the Diamondbacks. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.719 Yeah, I mean what Diamondbacks are the second in the 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.520 wild card? Right? And you're like, maybe the. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.280 Diamonds because the Diamondbacks will find they have seven games, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.160 you know, I don't know that outside of Kelly and Gallon. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.720 He's a Gallon on Sunday, Kelly goes today on Monday. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.800 It's been shaky in that rotation as well. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.480 Well. If you guys all realize if the Diamondbacks hold 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.439 the top spot, I mean, Phillies have like the top spot, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.040 but for what the wild card matchup would be If 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.040 the Diamondbacks have that home game, Bogman's coming out here 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.240 and as long as the tickets aren't some absurd amount 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.840 I'm going Bogman and I will be going to that matchup. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.200 So like if the Diamondbacks and the Cubs make it 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.160 and the Diamondbacks are on top, Diamondbacks host the Cubs 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.080 will go to that that play in game, you know, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.400 should wich should be which should be frenzies because it 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.120 is a play in game, isn't it? Or is it 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.680 the best out of three? I guess it is a 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.840 best out of three? Yeah, you're right, yea. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:30.440 That's why the top two seeds you like a five 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.360 day by before the NLDS starts. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.480 It's crazy. The whole the whole process is weird. But 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.960 that that's what that's that's yeah, I know that's what 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.400 that ends up looking like. But that's not the only thing. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.360 We're gonna be talking about a couple just performance based things, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.520 and then we are going to talk about some hitters 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.560 and some pitchers for you guys to look at this week. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.680 I know that's something that obviously is dominating the chat 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.800 because you guys are making your last little pushes here. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.239 Just try to point out I thought this was fascinating. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:59.920 Mooky Bets set a record one hundred and five rbi 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.800 out of the leadoff spot this year, Mookie Bets also 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:09.040 playing second base, qualifying at second base next year. I 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.320 guess we only need to keep going on about like 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.440 where does he get drafted and stuff, But you think 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.520 about how he bucks the trend of the deficiencies that 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.640 leadoff hitters can have by having over one hundred RBI 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.520 and he's qualifying at what is I don't know. I 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.839 think it's actually a better position. As I'm doing. I'm 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.880 currently in a early mock draft we're doing for in 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.320 this league. And then you know you've now added like 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:37.640 Nico Horner qualifies Hassan Kim, They make the position a 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.880 whole lot better. Second base has gotten better. He's just 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.040 like so much better. Mookie Bets is definitely like top 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.320 five at worst if you're just looking at what he's 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.440 done this year. And I wanted to get your take 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.520 on this, so I know you've been very anti Vlad. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.959 Vlad hit two homers in a win over the Rays, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.280 and I believe I didn't. I don't know, I must 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.520 have deleaded my thing, but believe it. Six homers in 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.120 the month of September, which is the most he's had 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.360 in any given months so far this season, is Vlad 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:14.280 coming back, Bubba. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:13.480 Not for me. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.199 Now died. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.280 That was Flad stabbing me in the back right now. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.160 Oh my god, he almost died because of the Vlad question. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.480 He is back officially, Vlad is a good player. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.560 My thing with Lad is he's not worth the ADP 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.080 people want to draft him at. That's my issue. If 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.080 Vlad was a round three player, I'd be interested. You 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.280 have to pay a late round one, early round two 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.760 price to get Vladi or Junior, and I'm not into that. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.240 So that is my concern with Lad. And he doesn't 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.920 even have thirty home runs. He's not doing what's necessary 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:45.760 for a top end pick. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.079 Okay, so okay, all choked up here now, they got 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:50.840 all choked up on it. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.240 I stand my ground. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.000 That's gonna be one of the best debatable things in 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.080 the offseason. It's going to be talking about, you know 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.760 what these values are going to look like, because you 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.160 know the argument on Vlad with the cost and production 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.200 to this year. I think it's gonna come to a 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 head in the offseason. I don't think we're gonna see 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.920 those same costs. I'm trying to I'm trying to remember 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.760 where he went in my early mock, but I don't 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.720 think it was in the top two rounds. It could 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.000 have been at the end of the second, but I 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.120 think we'd get into like third round. It's okay. The 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.400 only problem is is we were in the fifth round 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.440 of a fifteen team roto and Christian Walker is still there. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.520 And it's like, if you lay out Vlad in the 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.360 third and I don't know where Vlad went. I think 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.160 he went in the third. We'll break it down. But 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.120 if you have Vlad in the third or Christian Walker 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.840 and like the fifth, I don't think you. I don't 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.920 think you could make that case that vladd. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.200 Christian Walker is pretty darn closed. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.720 That's why that's my anti Vlad stance, because it's not 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.760 like he he's no Freddie Freeman, he's no Matt Olsen, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:51.040 like he's no Pete A. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:51.440 Lonzo. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.600 There's a drop off and then he kind of gets, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.040 you know, the Christian Walkers. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:55.440 Of the world. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.880 There'll be other guys we'll be able to break down 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.680 that'll be more similar to thing people think it comes Blad. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.480 Yeah, Jason said, if I can get Vlad early second, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.800 I'm all over it. He was nearly a top five 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.560 guy two years ago years it was great. Yeah, I 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.720 mean that's the problem is it was two years ago. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.760 We're not saying like he was a top five guy 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.720 like two months ago. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.720 You have one great season two years ago. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.760 I mean I'm still like, I'm still a supportive long 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.080 and he helps big guys around the world keep their 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.040 hopes alive. So I'm a fan. Paby said he traded 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.400 matt Olsen for Fatimir. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.800 I want to I want to jersey with the twenty 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.120 seven Jay's but says Fatimir. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.600 On the Fatom, I want that jersey right now. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.360 I think we could come up with some pretty good 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.320 names on that, So you know, keep those in your 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.520 brains because that's what we're going to be doing. Also 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.320 planning to do off season content here on Fantasy Pros 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.000 with some dynasty stuff. So those are the type of 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.360 things we got to be looking at because that one 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.960 hurts when you look at matt Olsen versus Vladimir. But 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.080 you know, you talk about age, I don't know that 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:00.160 there's a production that depletes age, you know, ex for 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.680 years of production, like the production that they can have 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.840 over three years regardless of age versus the extra years 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.120 you get. There's a math equation that breaks those apart, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.200 and you know that's what that's what goes down, that's 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.480 what goes down, and all of it all right, Let's 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.960 take a look at some streaming, hitting and pitching options 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.680 for the week, because I think that might be the 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.440 best approach for any of you guys that are just 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.400 I'm obviou seen some of the questions that are just 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.760 desperately grasping at it and actually know what we can do. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.640 Let's answer some questions because I think there might be 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.040 a couple of those in there. Let's see bu bu 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.120 bu bub by going here. Lee asked, does Hunter Green 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.720 get two starts? He's he's scheduled for two right now. Yeah, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.440 he's as sending he's scheduled for two, but they've only 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.600 got five games. I would say no. I would say 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.160 if if they get eliminated, if they're like out midweek, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.720 I don't know why he would they would push and 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.400 I don't think he can get two with only five. 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.600 Well, what they're doing is that off day, they're skipping 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.280 someone of their rotation because they've been doing so many 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:58.280 bullpen games lately. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.600 They've been a mess. So it'll him to be on 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.440 regular rest and. 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.560 If you wanted the extra innings. I mean, there's an 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.640 argument he missed. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.719 That time on the IL, so I think they might 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.920 want the Indians is what it comes down. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.080 Okay, so there's a higher probability. It's just I don't 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.359 think I could count. So what would you say? Would 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:13.959 you say like sixty percent? 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.080 Yes, I'm gonna I'm leaning coin toss fifty to fifty. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.400 It works sixty percent of the time. It works. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.800 I'm I'm starting him in my weekly league, just even 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.440 for the first game where he's at Cleveland. I'll take 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:25.840 my chances there. And if you somehow get to at 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.080 Saint Louis, that's gravy, so I'll take it. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.840 Okay. I don't see any other like this week question. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.520 Uh oh. This was one that Lee followed up pitching 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.880 choices start to Mata versus Oakland, Clevenger versus San Diego, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.560 or Hunter Greens starts to and then School versus Kansas City. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.520 So he can start to boy, what are the Hunter 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.359 Green matchups? Because I want School. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.560 City Cleveland at Saint Louis for Green, those. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.720 Aren't the worst. Just the strikeouts in Cleveland don't happen. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.640 I want School in Mata if those are your options. Yeah, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.359 and look at our boy, Joe Rico. Look at Joe 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.040 Rico on Joe. You must love that blue Jay is 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.560 a conversation maida coming out of the bullpen. Yeah, I 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:09.240 think I'm gonna go with I gotta start Schooble, and 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.720 I'd be cool with just keeping Hunter Green in there 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.760 just in case it happens. I don't hate the Cleveland start, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.320 but I just don't think the strikeouts. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.560 Are going to play yeah right now. Actually, my dad 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.440 isn't even verse Oakland like Joseid. He's coming out of 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.520 the bullpen. It's ober Pablo Lopez, Sunny Gray in Oakland May. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.600