WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 15th, 2024 (EP. 790) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.920 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three sixty five, 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.640 the best place to make your wagers. So what do 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.840 you do and go? Sign up today for Bet three 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.400 sixty five Bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifty 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.200 in bonus bets, but only when you use the promo 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.440 code at Leading Off. That's what you want to do. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.360 Welsh is here. I'm here and it looks like our 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.800 new friend, the Wheel is gonna be here. That's right, 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.760 Wheel of Homer's is going to be here because Welsh 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.400 went over over the weekend, which it's it's a tough 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:40.159 it's a tough one, but I gotta say I was 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.040 running for the Wheel and I got what I asked for. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.320 Well, we picked Corbyn Carrol, so we had a really 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.640 good opportunity that we were going to go to the Wheel. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.800 But yep, worst home run call of all time, pretty 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.200 bad betting weekend in general, ladies and gentlemen, Oh that 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.000 was a pretty good ASMR. The knuckles cracking there and 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.279 we're ready to turn the week around because Wolf and 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.280 how else better to do it? Not with tireless analysis 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.520 and breakdowns, No it's by randomly putting names on a wheel, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.280 spinning it and making that your choice. That is what 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.399 we are doing later in the show today with the 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:15.400 wheel of Homers. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.040 Well, we got some rookie lookye stuff today. It's gonna 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.640 be really fun. We've got some good bets today too. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.000 I feel good about some of the things we're talking about. Also, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.240 I'm in a good mood because I've got this bad 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.000 boy k My Montreal Expo shirt came in the mail 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:32.160 this weekend, which I bought uh and I just I 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.600 love the old school Montreal. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.720 Off the Instagram to do the Instagram and. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.399 In gute off the Instagram because they'll hack your account. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.160 I bought off a reputable place. But it came today, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.039 so I'm wearing it on the show today, representing the 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.440 og Montreal. Still the weirdest baseball experience I've ever had 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.919 in my entire life. Getting to see baseball and Olympic 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.760 Stadium was crazy. There's no fans there, so people didn't clap, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.320 you know what they used to do These seats, so 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.600 it's like one plastic kind of thing for your rear 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.480 end and then like another free standing weird plastic thing 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.440 for your back it was like a black rod that 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.360 connected the two of them. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.280 It was the most you're describing like total recall. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.440 It's a very total recall, Stanley Kubrick. Almost sort of 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.440 torture device. But my point is they rip your eyes 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:16.480 open to like watch watch Vladimir Guerrero before he doesn't 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:17.400 play here anymore. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.399 But is that the person the way? 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:19.799 Oh? 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.960 Sorry, you finished, and I'll ask you this question. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.800 Okay, So they didn't clap. They used to bang the seats, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.280 the plastic seats next to them because nobody was sitting 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.800 next to anybody, and that's how they would make noise, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.480 like bang, bang, bang bang. It was the wildest thing, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.760 weird stuff. There was karaoke stuff going on. There were 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.880 tribute bands, the weirdest tasting hot dogs. Upie cough medicine. Yes, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.120 up cough medicine. It was purchased. I did try it, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.320 and I'm sure it explains a lot of why I 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:48.359 am the way I am today. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.480 So are you sure this is a baseball game that 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:50.840 you were at? 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.720 It was a baseball weekend. I went there with my cousin. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.160 They asked us, why are you coming to Canada? And 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.760 I said, We're gonna see the expos and sure enough, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.280 there we go. Next thing, you know, the. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.720 Player you think of when you think of the old expos. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.120 Oh god, you know, that's a great question. Tim rains 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.440 probably first. I still think Gary Carter, even though his Mets, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.400 Tim rains him. Andres Galaraga comes to mind, Dennis Martinez 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.200 Presidente comes to mind. And then the later exposed like 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.680 the Larry Walker into the you know, Delino Deshield's Marquise 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.160 Grissom ninety four expos were really fun. And then later 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.639 of course Bladdie, but that's. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.520 A bladdy is actually mine, like my my brain. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:37.240 Jose Andre Dawson or Andrea and Andrea Dawson, isn't she? 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.080 I think she was the secretary for the the traveling 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.400 secretary for the team. I think at one point. All right, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.520 let's get to the headlines here and let's start or 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.560 traveling executive assistant. Is that what it's called? 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:48.760 Now? 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.040 Okay, all right, Bobby Miller goes in the eel. Nobody 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.120 nobody saw this coming. That was kind of a wacky 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.080 thing that happened. MRI was clean, so that's good news. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.560 Five to seven days of rest and then we'll see 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.839 what happens Welsh concerns about Bobby Miller real quick before 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.040 we go to the next picture, working the way back 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:05.720 from injury. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.680 Yeah, I mean yeah, I put them on the trade 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.400 for video. So in the trade video we're talking about 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.120 Bobby Miller and then wham, he gets hurt. Sure, any 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.000 of these guys getting hurt is a concern. Any of 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.120 these guys that are pumping really really high velocity and 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.560 have got discrepancies with their secondaries. People have been making 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.479 lists on Twitter and stuff of who are the next 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.040 guys to fall Bobby Miller's he's one of those players 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.000 that we're staring at that's like, oh, this might not 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.840 get not not might not be great. But also it's 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.440 a six man rotation team that is going to minimize 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.159 some of the pictures. So yeah, it's it's a little 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.599 bit more than concerning. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.080 I like all the old expos names or something there. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:41.400 But you know what, you get them cheaper now. If 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.679 you made the you're making a trade off for Bobby Miller, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:44.960 maybe get him really cheap now. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.919 So yeah, it's something to get any picture on the IL, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.880 but like like it's risky, like how it is any 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.719 guy that's on the aisle, even if you think they're 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.640 like okay, like what are you really willing to unload? 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.159 While they're on the il. We look at uh, Edward 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.760 of Rodriguez, you know, ed Ward of Rodriguez. Diamondbacks kept 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.080 being like, Oh, everything's gonna be cool, and he's ninety 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.679 five percent blah blah blah, and then all of a sudden, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.960 another set back because of tightness, and he's sitting back 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.719 down like it's just one little tiny thing. With a 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.320 lot of these guys, I think it's a really tough 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.760 effort to go and trade for any picture at this point. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.640 As a matter of fact, my trade video's coming out 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.799 today or tomorrow. The short's already out there. I've got, 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.479 I believe one picture on it and it's a sell, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.880 and I think it's gonna be hard pressed to be 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.520 buying a lot of pictures right now. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.839 All right. Justin Verlander's shoulder had a rough rehab start 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 this weekend. I don't know how much I care about that, 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.239 except the fact he's forty one and he's coming off 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.599 a shoulder issue. So those are the two things that 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.600 have me a little worried about this. Outside of Christian Javier, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.560 the pitching has not been good. The Astros have not 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.120 been good again. I'm trying not to get too crazy 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.479 about this, but it is something where I'm a little concerned. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.360 I'm not gonna lie normally, I'll be like, whatever, it 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.560 doesn't matter. Verlander's just working on stuff. It doesn't matter. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.800 He doesn't need to do it, but you know it 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.680 does at the stage in his career at forty one. 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.440 Bring me a little bit good news for the Padres. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.120 They got a w over the Dodgers. Jerks and Profar 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.680 and Manny Bacchiado hitting homers in this one. Profar, what 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.960 a hot start and still available in a lot of 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.240 leagues in three, twenty one, four, five, thirty six slash, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.479 two homers, thirteen rebies in eighteen games. What do you 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.200 make of this Profar start? I feel like we've been 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.800 here before, Welsh and I don't want to waste any 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:20.680 fab on it. But what do you think? 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.080 I think it's a good streamable bat also ridiculous by 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.240 the way, if you saw it this weekend, Gavin Stone 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.120 had a perfect game and threw like inside and jerks 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.200 and Profar was ready to get the benches to clear 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:32.800 like he threw at him like Buddy he's got a 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.080 perfect game going. It was an accident, and it's also 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.120 a young pitcher. But you know, Jerks and Profar is 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.400 the reason that the whole Tommy Fam situation didn't happen. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.839 If people saw the reports that John Hayman reported that 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.279 Tommy Fam is like really close to signing with the 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.680 White Sox. Well, that he's gonna go play there, that's 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.919 just extending your career to whatever it is that is. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.000 But you know, the rumor was he was gonna lock 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.640 in with the Padres. But not only has Jackson Merrill 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.800 been so incredible hitting over three hundred, got to a 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.040 leadoff spot this weekend, and the Profar has been really 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.440 good as well, and it's been more than serviceable. So 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.479 you know, Profar was a reason they moved away from 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.800 Tommy Fam and any external options. But I think Profar 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.960 is probably not more than like, hey, I'm down some outfielders, replaceable, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.760 burn and churn type of bat. I'm not trying to 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:20.960 pick him up for a long term. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.920 Makes sense. I guess Fam too. They'll probably sign him 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.280 and then they'll flip him in a couple of months. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.680 You know, that seems to be the Tommy Fam. You 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.960 know story at least he'll probably go hit three. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.200 He'll probably go hit three for the White Sox early on, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.160 which is actually, you should go pick up Tommy Fam 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.360 right now, just for that opportunity. And then you're right, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.120 he goes, and he goes and gets traded to you know, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.640 whoever the hell that's in the playoff contention of Cubs 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.360 or something like that, and then becomes even more fantasy relevant. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:46.840 So it's a really good time to go pick him up. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.800 You know. The funny part about that is too, it's 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.840 like you now understand why the Cole loss twenty four 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.840 hour thing happened too. It's like, oh, we're just gonna 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.200 go aside Tommy Fam Like, okay, that's a great move, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.440 White Sox. That makes a lot of sense. Michael Bush 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.360 two for four with a homer. When a Welsh's favorite 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.640 guy's going into the season, Welsh, I listened to you. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.320 I'm so happy I did. I got him cheap in 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.000 my salary cap league. I think I got him for 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.520 six bucks. I think in that three twenty seven, three 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.600 ninety three, six ninety four slash and again still available 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.120 in like thirty forty percent of leagues heading into this freakingsaction. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.760 I didn't see what the roster ship is after this weekend. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.760 It's probably more like eighty. But yesterday I did the 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.480 TV and he was at I want to say, sixty 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.360 four percent rostered, and I was just crazy, especially when 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:31.160 you consider Josh Young out, Royce Lewis out, Michael Bush 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.560 is just sitting there. I mean, I don't understand, but 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.079 great call by. You want to give Welsh some love 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.839 because he's not feeling happy because later we're going have 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.319 to spin a wheel for Homer, so I want to 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:40.199 pump you up a little bit. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.320 Well, I appreciate that. I actually I will tell you this. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.960 He is one of the headlines of the video of 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.199 the trade video that's coming out, and he's been awesome. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.800 So you say, what are you talking about? But the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.480 whole crux of it is like, I don't know, Well, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.600 I do know, based on the ownership still being what 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.840 it is, based on someone in the Lucas just said, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.040 can I drop camon Aro for Bush? Bush is still 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.040 available out there. So for Bush to still be available 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.240 out there, that tells me a some leagues have not 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.200 caught up. But also I don't think owners are caught 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.120 up to what potentially could be the top one hundred 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.400 value of Michael Bush this year. So I'm actually advocating 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.960 for trading for a player that is already good because 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.440 I think he can be a top one hundred guy 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.839 this year. The hard hit numbers look good. He's getting 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.960 the ball in the air, he's barreling. I think it 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.800 was like seventeen percent last I look, everything is chalking up. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.040 It's a good environment for him to hit. I just 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.480 don't think we've caught up to where the value is 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.439 going to be. Sitting mixed nex to the rest of 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.360 the season. I don't think he's going to stay at 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.040 the tippy top of some of the stuff he's doing. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.640 But when he levels out and we look at the 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.360 end of the year, it's gonna be like twenty five 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.360 plus homers. He's gonna have good RBI and run numbers. Yes, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.600 you should pick him up. The canon Aro ones really 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.640 interesting because Camanaro just came back from the IL last 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.280 night and hit a homer in his first game. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.080 Yeah, I was gonna get to that. I mean that 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.040 was fast from the quad injury, which is Yeah, it 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.280 is surprising. I was actually talking to somebody yesterday about 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.600 Camonaro in the morning and I was like, ah, you know, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:05.920 I don't know, we'll probably have to wait on him, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.120 and all of a sudden, boom he's back and I 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.120 was like, what was do a double take there? 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.560 My problem with him has been like the Rays sending 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.719 him down, not making the commitment. I just don't know 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.000 how quick. Like remember that. It was like a week 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.559 ago someone got mad at me for being like, you 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.960 could probably drop Camonaro. They're like, that's bad advice, and 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.240 it's like with duh, I love camon Aro, but if 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.839 you don't have Camonaro until May, and there's really good 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.920 options out there, like a Michael Bush, I think you 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.120 can make that move because we just don't know how 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.840 long we're going have to wait. But Camonaro will be 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.240 a fab buster as far as as fab and number 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.480 one waiver picks go. But Michael Bush is one of 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.360 those players as well. So I am all for going 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.719 to pick him up and uh and write it out 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.400 and make maybe even go make some trades, but go 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.080 listen to the video. I'll make an even bigger case 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:47.760 for Michael Bush. 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.120 That guy telling you, by the way, was me. The 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.319 guy telling you you're stupid. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.000 We told you what. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.040 I disagreed with you at the time, and I disagree 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:57.200 with you. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.120 I mean I still disagreed, like cutting Junior Cameronaro. But 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.640 there's a lot of you guys have played like three 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.440 bench leagues and stuff like that, and it's like, how 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:04.920 long do you want to eat? Do you want to 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.880 eat a month of of no production? That's kind of 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.280 my argument. I'm not dropping him for like some someone. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.440 Asked me James Wood or Junior Caminaro? Who gets the 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:14.160 major leagues first? 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:15.240 Uh? 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.040 I think it's like both are June guys. End of June. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:20.800 I think. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.240 I'm gonna say cam and Arrow. But I would not 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.280 be shocked if like next week, I. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.160 Mean, he's been off the chart. Me ops, that's fourteen hundred. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.000 By the way, another Expo. I don't see anybody dropping 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.280 yet in the chats of favorite expos, and there's been 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.839 some good ones. Hubi Brooks, come on, Huby Brooks owned 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.280 this logo back in the day. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.439 But Randy, by the way, my boy Randy, that's for 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.160 his rookie car Randy with the expos. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.440 Can you imagine that organization had Randy Johnson and Pagro 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:48.160 martinezn't it. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.280 I mean, dude, I think about that all the time. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.360 Also, like the I get what at one time, like 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.520 you could look and be like what would have been 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.360 had certain circumstances just kind of and look, Randy Johnson 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.320 was a hot mess back then. You know, he couldn't 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.679 throw strikes. They traded him and in Seattle it was 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.640 a chance meeting with Nolan Ryan that turned everything around. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.280 That's a great story. It's there's a reel on it somewhere. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.199 I saw that. That's what you gotta say. Now you 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.560 can't say, oh, was on TV. I saw a reel. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.719 Good luck trying to find it. But if you put 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.480 Randy Johnson Nolan Ryan or something like that and they 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:19.880 would go probably find it. But he talks about the 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.640 chance meeting with Nolan Ryan and it changed his whole 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.880 perspective about pitching and that was it, and that, I 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.040 want to say, the next game or whatever it was 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.160 they were facing, they were in a series, and that's 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.319 how he got to talk to him. And he was 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.920 with the Texas Rangers at the time, so the end 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.000 of Nolan Ryan's career and that game he went out there, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.599 he had like ten strike coouts or something that was 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.240 like the literal pivot point for the rest of his career. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.760 Wild stuff, man, could you imagine? 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:43.320 That's cool? 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.400 Good job by the schedule makers. All right, a couple 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.640 of things here by low batch boy Corbin Carroll didn't 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.760 hit any home runs really, but look he's hitting two 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.400 thirty three, three thirty three obp a three seventeen slash 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.520 one homer on the year. It's been rough for him, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.320 Christian and Carnassion Strand also been pretty rough. He's hitting 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.600 a buck eighty five twenty strikeouts right now, just one walk. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.160 That's not good. He's still hitting in the three spot. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.040 So CS Corbyn Carroll, who are you buying on harder? 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.760 I assume, Carol, But it's gonna cost you more. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.160 Yeah, I mean, Strand still has some of the elements, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.480 you know, some of the hard hit numbers and stuff 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.800 are getting there. But the swing and miss I don't know, man. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.959 The Corbyn Carroll stuff is this is gonna be the 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.839 toughest one for me because it looks like garbage. But 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.520 it is still so early. It is still very very early. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.440 It is April fifteenth. But he has been the most 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.439 aggressive and I know last year you have that whole 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.040 thing where he's like, I don't walk and he was 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.480 hyper aggressive. There's a part of me which is like, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.040 we could get some reporter to ask like, is this 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.400 a part of your game too early in the season, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.600 be hyper aggressive and back it down because I don't 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 know what is he I'd have to see the numbers. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.920 Might swing it more for strikes than any player in 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.199 baseball right now, but I think it's hard to gauge. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.839 I actually think his game is like so anomaly like 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.839 that I don't know what we can pull from it, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.760 which is why he's just to buy. You gotta go 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.760 on like talent in general, because his hard hit number 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.240 is like twenty percent because he doesn't hit the ball 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.240 and he doesn't hit it consistently. Is average EV's eighty two, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.880 but he's walking a ton, his barrel percentage is on target. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.760 His XBA is starting to kind of get together here. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.440 I think some people can argue that the shoulder might 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.920 be something lingering. I think there's something that's going on 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.200 with his process. But in the trade video, I have 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.440 a huge name that you should go buy, and it's 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.200 not corbyck Carroll. Corby Carrol would be another one of 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.320 those if somebody is really really super frustrated, so yeah, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.040 you go and buy in him. But I will not 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.800 lie that I'm not a little bit concerned with what 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.720 he's putting out there, because there's a lot of bad 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.880 in his game right now. I'm just hoping this is 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.240 part of the process. I am just making excuses. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.720 A couple other fun expo names I haven't seen in 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.800 the chat yet Ken Hill, John Wetland. There's some fun 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.360 names too, guy ken Hill, that guy might. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.360 Good like mid nineties up. Like that's like where a 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.000 lot of things registered to me. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.640 Right, well, but that's the difference. That's fine, right, some 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.080 pitchers that big of an age, that big. But no, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.480 but but there's that game that gap too. Of like 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:15.560 when I go to college and you know the begins 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.960 you're in middle school. I think, yeah, because how it's 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.520 very different. I am now the Big four to five. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.120 Oh it, you know, one week from today, I'm good. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.400 You do look great. One week from today, I'm going 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.240 to be the Big four to one. So that's why 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.440 we're not that old. But I don't know if I 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.720 said on this show, but Verlander is the last bastion 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.760 by the way of players that are older than me 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.600 in baseball, so it's going to be very very. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.520 Oh that's why I did it so hard for Tom 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.480 Bray to keep coming back to still playing football. I 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.440 still felt very young. Luis Castillo goes to H to four. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.280 You have a three earned three runs, becuse me, two 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.160 of them were earned this way. Just struck out nine 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.120 guys twenty three swings and misses. Again, you know, it's 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.120 a bad situation. Was an error, and then Michael Bush 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.400 took advantage of it. Anybody who was sitting there with 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.960 Luis Cassio, oh four, just hold tight, and anybody in 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.040 your league that's panicking, go make a trade off or 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.960 for them, please go go get Louis Castillo. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:06.680 It's gonna be fine. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:08.840 In fact, now was the time I would double down 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.760 on Cy Young stuff, because if he goes and continues 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.400 to just rattle off and be awesome rest of the season, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.880 you know, nobody's gonna care about April. Nobod's gonna remember. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.920 And the number is bigger right now than it was 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:17.840 when the season started. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.160 I'm actually not I don't hate that. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:19.480 You know. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.360 My big future bet in the al Cy Young was 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.040 Cordin burns Now. I did it right after his first start. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.320 I don't look that great right now. He has done 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.280 nothing to take hold of that award. It's open, and 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.160 I don't think any of these four three four starts 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.000 for the year have taken anybody out of that race, 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.400 not even my George Kirby one, not Luis Castillo. So yeah, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.680 I mean I thought Castillo was getting back to his 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.880 old self in this last start, so I don't hate 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.240 that at all. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.760 By the way, right, let's get to some of the 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.440 late boys. Blake Snell seven runs on six hits and 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.480 four innings, Jordan Montgomery seven runs on three and two 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.760 thurs innings in triple A and the rehab start or whatever, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.680 just ramp up start, what the hell we wanted to 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.679