WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 9th, 2022 (Ep. 570) 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.520 Leading off starts now right here on Fantasy Pros, brought 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.240 to you by bet MGM. I am Chris Welsh, who 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:23.840 you could find on Twitter at is it the Welsh 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.759 in joining me today is the illustrious I got a 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.520 beautiful smile right there he is, Kate see Bubba on Twitter. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.240 I beat the intrick, my great buddy, yours as well, Bubba? 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:34.800 What's up man? 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:36.920 Not much, my friend. I've been called a lot of 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.800 things in life. I'm not sure illustrious has ever hit 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.560 the top of our list. But I appreciate the kind 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:41.280 words always. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.880 Great chat you now, now next time you hear that word, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.879 you're gonna think of yourself. That's all that. That's what 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.599 I was going for. Appreciate it now you got it. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.919 On the show today, we've got a whole bunch of cover. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.600 Actually gonna play a little game with Bubba. You guys 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.320 in the chat can play along as well. We're gonna 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.400 be going through all the stat heroes. The zero is 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:04.280 the home run, which maah in another homer that is four. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.680 By the way, since last Monday, got no idea where 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.640 that puts me up on the leaderboard, because I have 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.560 not been on the leaderboard this entire season, making and 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.040 chugging away just a little bit as we keep moving. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.720 Stupid Joe just keeps getting homers as well, because he's 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.000 got Aaron Judge, and like I said, Judge literally alone 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.840 is beating everybody in the contest. And now you know, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.559 Joe's just able to carry him over. So we must 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.399 end that we've got some bets, and we've got a 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.720 whole bunch more. But there is no gift that keeps 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.760 on giving in baseball like Chris Sale. Chris Sale, he 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.360 giveth the tiny bit and he taketh away all. Chris 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.760 Sale underwent season ending surgery on Monday after fracturing his 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.640 right wrist last Saturday in a bicycle accident. Yes, you 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.120 heard me correct, a bicycle accident. No, not the rib thing, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.880 not the punching of the things in the minor league. No, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.640 he was riding a bike. Would love it if it 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.680 was like like a hardcore motorcycle or maybe. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:04.680 Like a Madison bum grunner. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.240 Yeah, yeah, like something like that. But you know it 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.120 was probably like a twenty six inch mountain bike that 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.680 he was cruising around just like angrily, just like reel, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.880 and he fell over something fractures riskies out for the season. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.079 I mean to laugh, but like you know, everyoneted to 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.160 get me crap about some of the injury guys. There's 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.519 a lot of weird injury stuff that's happening. Chris Saale, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.840 Bubba is a disaster. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.600 Yes, it's a. It's a colossal disaster. It's an illustrious disaster, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.440 if we must say it's a it's quite impressive. When 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.119 I saw that headline this morning, I was like, you've 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.000 got to be kidding me, Like when it rains, it pours. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.800 I think the Red Sox paid him thirty million this year. 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.760 So if things weren't going bad enough in Boston, that's 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.840 a ship has sailed, as it was said in the chat. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.840 Yeah, yeah, that's a good line, browing the ship has sailed. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.560 That would be actually a great article headline. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.040 If you want to guarantee it'll be in the Boston 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.480 Globe or something very quickly. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.919 Yeah exactly. That would be like a yeah, they'd be 0:02:59.960 --> 0:03:01.440 like what was it? Like the New York Posts, like 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.200 the Post has always got the like crazy ones. You know, 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:05.640 that would be a really good article if you wanted 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.960 to break down all the injuries, and you know this 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.079 used to be Stanton, but now it looks like it's 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.200 turning into Sale in this flukiness. Age has been an 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.120 issue major games. I mean, where did he go. He 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.880 go ten years where everyone's like, oh, the way he throws, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.240 he's gonna break his arm or his arm's gonna blow out. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.919 Never did, and now he just is breaking every other 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.120 step of the way. It's an easy redraft thing. You 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.560 move on, see you bye, nothing to be worried about. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.799 But as far as Dynasty goes with a week left 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.160 or anything, is there any real fantasy? I mean, we 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.520 could easily just watch the season off, come back in 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.760 next year, start this all thing over and feel good. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.839 But you feel good into the future with Chris Saale 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.520 because there's no hope for the rest of this year. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.200 There's no hope for this year. I would be willing 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.360 to buy low on him in Dynasty if you could, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.800 because he still has you know, some some darts in 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.520 that gun. Maybe you'm ount with him. We've play avoid 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.440 guns with that Chris Sale. But I am intrigued with 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:58.960 what he can still do because then a little bit 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.760 we did see this year he used to very effective. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.320 Is getting healthy. There's some value there. It's like a 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.560 great question to be would you rather trust Chris Sale 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.560 next year or Jacob de Gram next year? In Dynasty? 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.000 I mean mean to Graham, Yeah, but man. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:13.840 No, I know I get it. Like I saw our 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.480 buddy Eric Cross you put out a tweet today and 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.400 he was like, right now is a great time to 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.440 sell him in all fourmats. I don't really agree. I 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.480 just don't know. Like in Dynasty, Sure, Dynasty is actually 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.560 probably the best place to sell Chris Sell Jacob de Groom. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.040 I'm not gonna have my no hitter today for not 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.400 screwing something up verbally, So Chat, we just gave up 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.280 our first hit. Let's see if I give up any 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.520 runs at the end of here when we scorecard the show. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.200 But like Jacob de Grom, when he's out there, he 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.640 is the best pitcher in baseball from a Dynasty perspective, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.400 based on age, based on the injury risk, based on 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.159 what he could do for a team buying for a 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.120 fantasy title. Right now, this is the best time to 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.279 trade him. You could get some great youth, You could 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.320 probably get four or five pieces redraft. Though. I just 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.960 don't agree because I think there's too much stigma around 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.160 him that this is me. I would rather hold on 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.560 because no one's gonna give you eighty I don't think 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.280 eighty to eighty five cents on the dollar on it, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.640 And I would rather go in with the opportunity and 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.240 chance that I have the best pitcher in baseball going 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.719 into the playoffs. Could he break down? Yes? Is he 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.640 gonna do it off of a bike? No, that's good, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.240 but I would I don't agree with the redraft. I 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.640 agree in any other which really is only dynasty. I 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.159 agree on that front. This is a fantastic time. I 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.599 mean they I think it was Codify that just put 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.640 this out. They had the top ten I think it 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.279 was or top eight fastest thrown sliders this season that 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.880 had whiffs on him. Every single one was Jacob d Grom. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.000 Like the top eight were all Jacob de Grom in 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.720 his first two starts, or maybe it was just his 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.239 last one he had on the seventh, they're all to Grom. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.880 So yes, totally agree on dynasty. I don't agree on 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.919 redraft this season, and if you look at it on 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.200 a scope of just next year, I'm a massacre. I 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.200 would still go Jacob de Grom. I would still I 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.760 hope you can finish out this year. Chris sailed to 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.320 maybe be fair, it's a lot of fluky stuff, but 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.600 when's the fluky stuff gonna fall apart? And also bub 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.000 like he's a little unstable that whole minor league. Yeah, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.840 he's like, oh, you know, you guys shouldn't be filming 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.239 this stuff, Like the guy doesn't. He's in I don't 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.919 care level of stuff and he's I mean, you probably 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.680 probably shouldn't be righting a bike when he fractured or 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.040 ribs and done a bunch of stuff. Probably shouldn't be 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.320 out doing that. Maybe I'm being too traumatic. Maybe he 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.480 was just you know, cruising around the street or something 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.560 like that. But I don't know if the flukiness makes 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.520 you feel any bit better about the injury proneness that 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.160 de Grom is holding. Maybe a better one would be 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.960 Clayton Kershaw or chrisail. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.200 Good one too. Yeah, Clayton Kersher with the back. But yeah, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.000 that's kind of why I was going to Grom versus Sail. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.120 The flukiness of sales to Grom. I want him to 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.120 be healthy. He's amazing to watch, he's great, but I'm 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.240 just waiting for that whole thing to just snap and 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.240 He's literally hanging on by a thread right now, and 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.599 that's what's scary. So I'm with you on the regular season, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.640 keep him Dynasty. I think it's great time to move 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.839 to Groam. I think it's an interesting conversation because Kershaw 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.600 might be a better example with the back issue, and 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.760 you know what, he might even retire after this year, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.080 Like Kershaw might not even be here for next year, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.760 So there's a lot going on there too. 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.720 I hope not. Bogman and I were reliving my shaky 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.160 cam picture of Kershaw from the Whole Foods. When I 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.280 caught it was on a Whole Foods. People don't know, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.280 and this is years and years ago, and nobody there 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.920 knew who Jacob de grom are. I keep saying Jack Groam, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.640 Clayton Kershaw and one of those things where it's like 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.640 you also feel horrifically bad about it. But I was like, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.480 I gotta go up to him, like no one he's 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.280 just having a great day, no one's bothering him. I 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.840 did it really quiet, and now he's just like, I 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.000 don't want to cause any attention, But da da da, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.960 and I have a shaky cam picture and I wish 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.080 it was clear. I wish I had I got a 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.200 new iPhone. I wish I had the iPhone. I probably 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.560 wouldn't have been as a shaky and garbage as it was. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.720 So Chris sail out for the year by bye see 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.240 yuh also but by Aaron Judge for Baseball's forty fourth 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.360 of the year. That's why Joe keeps going. I think 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.920 our homer on Board the Leaders thirty nine just continuously 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.880 pointing out forty four homers for Aaron Judge. But I 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.480 had mentioned in the there it was a Monday episode 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.560 that Judge had moved. We had a move in the 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.080 MVP stuff again on the al side where Otani moved 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.160 down to around three and a half to one. Judge 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.600 is minus money. Didn't look this morning. It's probably about 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.119 the same fools, bet, foolsy fools. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.840 Bet. I'm not taking any negative money on any kind 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.280 of award like this, like Judge deserves it, don't get 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.680 me wrong, but show hey, my goodness unless they give 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.679 a show Hey the sy young which he deserves as well. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.880 It's hard not to give the MVP, it really is. Yeah. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.800 Actually, just a really easy quick way to think about it. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.920 Just not taking minus money on this Award. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.959 That's a just go there. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.400 Whatever the minus money is, play the other side or 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.000 don't play it. I just don't go down there Baltimore. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.360 Baltimore beat Toronto, and I believe they are now five 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.200 games over five hundred after that, and they've moved one 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.760 game behind Seattle for the third wild card spot. They're 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.439 a game and a half behind Tampa Bay for the 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.199 second wild card spot and three games behind Toronto for 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:07.319 that first. Pretty amazing what Baltimore is doing and putting 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.880 together offensively. Santandeer's kind of picked back up. Jorge Mateo 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.120 is trying to actually hit for contact. They're doing it 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.920 all still as they got rid of Trey Mancini, who's 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.199 rocking it out in Houston. So interesting stuff on Baltimore. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.800 And then finally on the big headlines, Cubs announced that 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.760 Jason Hayward is not returning for twenty twenty three or 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.720 this season, and he had about twenty two million dollars 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.360 on that contract, so they're eating that money to say 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:37.079 peace out. Probably in the pantheon of worst contracts in 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.720 the I mean, you go all time. It's tough because 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.600 money is weird, But I don't know, would you say 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:47.200 Jason Hayward maybe top ten worst contract signings in baseball. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:48.920 I mean I put like Chris Davis up there is 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:49.840 maybe the number one. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.320 Chris Davis is bad. Josh Hamilton didn't turn out to 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.080 be so strong by the end of that one. That 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.400 was a rough one, but I guess it was good 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.680 at the beginning. Hayward's are a bad one like that 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.439 one may no sense out the gate. It was more 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.520 like the Cubs or just spending money to spend money. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.440 So yeah, tough one there. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.000 I know Cubs would mark that one like Cubs fans 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.079 like we brought this up before and talked about it. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.240 Maybe not here, but we had talked about, like I 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.240 always go to the Chris Davis contract, like what a 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.280 wasat so what a disaster Baltimore. Chris Davis and Cubs 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.240 fans would jump in and go, well about Jason Hayward 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.720 and it's like, yeah, he's on there, He's just not 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.679 the big, big one of it, but they are washing 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.079 their hands of him. Over On the injury front, Matt 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:31.360 Carpenter broke his foot, no timetable for return, could possibly 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.040 return for the playoffs. The fantasy season is over and 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.600 I had done it actually a news update on it, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.160 and I believe the number was like fifteen homers and 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.200 one hundred and twenty seven at bats. He had raised 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.880 the Yankees absolute recovery of his career and as put 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.760 in many articles, Bubba potentially the front runner for the 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.160 comeback Player of the year that ends and that's a 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.520 is that a brutal blow to the Yankees like as 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.000 a whole, But I mean he was a spark plug. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.640 He was a big spark plug and be a huge 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.880 injection into fantasy rosters that were easily just wiping him 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:04.960 up on the wire. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.840 Yeah, definitely, he was huge this year. Fifteen homers, as 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.720 he mentioned, it's crazy to think about, and they need 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.719 them because Labor Toris is kind of slowing down a 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.520 little bit right now. So Jack Cartmenter was playing a 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:16.920 lot and that's a big, big load of them. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.720 Yeah, you know, it's funny. I had this this question 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.800 like very beginning of the season. It was right as 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.680 Josh Rojas came back, and it was like Labor or Rojas, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.760 and I was like, listen, I'm still team Rojas. I 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.520 think Labor kind of went on that tear for a 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.079 bit and Rojas was just kind of like middle line, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.000 and then it's all kind of even doubt. You know, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.720 I wouldn't even say Josh Rojas is fantastic, but you know, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.480 it's what those kind of fringy guys like toys do, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.120 like up and down, up and down, and he's kind of, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.400 you know, the inconsistency. It's been much better. You can 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.800 count on him a little bit more, but they're still inconsistencies. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.959 There a few other injuries. Jesse Winker left with a 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.200 back injury that seems to be pretty consistent this year. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.760 Monitor that too, because tomorrow Julio Rodriguez is scheduled to 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.679 come back off the IL and they're still holding on 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.480 to Jared Keelnick. They optioned Abraham Toro as Mitch Hanneger 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.920 came back, So you know how that whole outfield is 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.920 going to look. They've got Julio Hanneger is probably going 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.120 to play more. DH Winkers consistently getting hurt. They got 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.240 Kyle Lewis, Jared Keelnick. Will he stick around. I don't 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.280 know if it matters at this point, but Kelnick maybe 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.520 sent down regardless unless this is a bigger thing for Winker. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.360 Jonathan India left with a hamstring string possibly going to 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:29.440 be returning today and Anthony Rizzo could be coming back today. Maybe, 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.599 so Yankees need that offensive push. But I got a 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.400 game for you, Okay. I was going through scouring like 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.480 to do two weeks, seven days, thirty markers on different places, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.280 and one of the toughest things I think is overall 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.880 value of players, Like what site do you go to 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.160 to value because they use these algorithms. We have this 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.600 hilarious thing earlier in the year where god, what was it. 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.800 The checker reminded me it was like if his ESPN 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.280 or something Mayer had posted about the rankings in a 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.360 points lead and how Johannio Swarz was more valuable than 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.360 Hosier Ramirez and we were like, oh my god, are 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.800 you kidding me? And it's all sometimes about the stupid, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.720 ridiculous algorithms. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:09.840 And. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.920 Oh sorry, I just saw Chuck. This dis distracted me 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.360 that Julio isn't coming back tomorrow. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.240 This is what they were going to reevaluate them today 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.079 to either come back Wednesday or Friday. That's the latest 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:21.880 I saw this morning. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.800 So algorithms are always uniquely weird and different, and sometimes 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.000 statistically they might not make sense, but it is all 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.280 about how they weigh them. Fan tracks has one. I 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.199 don't really care for it. It's their score system. If 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.839 you go into a lot of the others you'll see 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.160 it blah blah blah. So Yahoo, I think is always interesting. Yeah, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.400 So I think this was Yahoo that it was done in, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.760 and they'll have different score systems across or so. Yahoo 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.080 had said that was the top five value in points. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.680 So I pulled up Yahoo. They're thirty days and this 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.920 is based on the algorithm. What I've noticed is they 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:01.079 definitely weigh batting average a bit more. So higher batting 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.079 averages are gonna be a little bit of help. Stolen 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.200 bases don't necessarily push them. So I've got four players 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.440 for you, and I want you to order them for 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:13.119 me over thirty days. How they've ranked on Yahoo's algorithm. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.760 All right, then we can even go through stats after 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.240 I'll give you I'll let you give your order, I'll 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.720 give you the stats, and then i'll let you make 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:25.600 changes if you want. So the four players in alphabetical order, Bobashett, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:34.120 Jose Miranda, Matt Olsen, Oneal Cruz. Those are four players again, Bashett, Miranda, Olsen, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.040 Cruz thirty days last thirty days on Yahoo. Give me 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.440 the order that you think they sit. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:47.680 In, Miranda Olsen, Bashette, Cruise. That one was tough, Miranda 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:48.560 for sures number one. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.720 Dang, you got the Miranda thing. I wanted to try 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:52.480 to sneak in. Miranda. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.320 What happens when I write an article for some website every. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.400 Single day, said Miranda. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.920 Olsen, Cruz, Cruise, and Baschetter are almost interchangeable to me. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.400 But that's a cool You nailed it, You absolutely nailed it. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.200 There was no fooling there whatsoever. ONEOK. And this is 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.280 not definitely not a distractor of ONEO Cruz. ONEO Cruz 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.360 has been just no average. Yeah, top one hundred player, 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.720 just outside the top seventy five as far as Yahoo's 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.680 algorithm goes six homers, three stolen bases, but a two 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.920 to ten batting average, twelve runs, fifteen RBI decent. That's 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:34.040 a arguably a four category player. You know, maybe maybe 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.560 you could say like three and a half right there. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.360 But a huge albatross, and the biggest albatross is of 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.280 any of the players is the batting average. So that's 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.520 Onneo Cruz, bashet is only two spots higher. He is 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.800 the seventy fifth on Yahoo's algorithm over the last thirty 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.160 days and a standard five x five pointing out. This 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:55.400 is not points league. Two homers, two stolen bases, fourteen runs, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.440 fifteen RBI two ninety two batting average, So oneo Cruz 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.720 beats him in homers, beats it in stolen bases. They're 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.280 tied in our RBI. But Bashett has the runs and 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.480 significant batting average, but it only bumped them up a 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.560 couple spots. You nailed the others. And my big thing 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.640 here was about Jose Miranda at kind of an albatrosse 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.440 batting average. He's actually a two category bat albat TRUSS 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.040 two twenty six and zero stolen bases, but eight homers, 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:28.800 sixteen runs and twenty one RBIs. Those three numbers are 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.760 more than any other player on this list. And Jose Miranda, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.600 though the number one player top twenty on the algorithm, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.000 fourteen runs, four homers, twenty RBI, one stolen base, a 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.920 three sixty six batting average, so does the stolen bases 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.960 aren't big markers, but is a little bit of everything 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.960 that is very impressive. That is very very impressive that 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.120 you got the Miranda side, but you know, you obviously 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.760 pay attention to those things, and I say. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.120 Why I'm on Fantasy pros. This is what happens. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.200 Yep, thirty days. You know. It was even more interesting 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.840 was over the last two weeks Jose Miranda on Yahoo 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.480 a top ten player. So this was actually a little 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:04.960 bit of a shocker to me as well. But this 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.760 is probably due to dead league, so I don't want 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.480 to think too much about it. Is ownership only seventy 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.440 one percent on Miranda and Yahoo. But something we uncovered 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.920 yesterday we were doing the Fancy Baseball ITL podcasts and 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:22.879 like ESPN's biggest rank changers or acquisition changes, they were big, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.680 except the ownership numbers were embarrassing. Why is that because 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.040 of dead leagues? So you would have the number one 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.439 picked up player, Number two is Devin Williams, Like, what 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:32.960 do you think Devin Williams ownership should be? What do 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.320 you think it is on CBS? 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.520 Oh, it should be like close to one hundred percent 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.359 by now, But I know for a fact it was 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.160 probably like thirty five percent or something. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.760 Well, CBS it's eighty five percent, ESPN fifty eight percent. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.879 It was the second biggest changer, so dead league. So 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.199 Yahoo can suffer from that as well. So when I 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:55.560 say when I go and say, what is it seventy 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.879 when I'm saying like, oh, yeah, yeah, seventy one percent 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.280 on Jose Miranda, that doesn't necessarily I mean, he's available everywhere. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.679 It could be dead leagues, but you lose guys like 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.359 Matt Carpenter. There's some other dudes that, you know, leagues 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.440 might be kind of tapering down a little bit. Ten teams, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.160 twelve teams, Miranda's possibility to sit out there because he's 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.919 not as sexy and a season totals are still a 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.600 tiny bit lower. Get Miranda. Randa is such a such 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.960 a good dude. I've got him picked up in a 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.159 couple of leagues, and he was actually at they'll tell 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.679 you off everybody. He was at the controversy of a 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.280 tout issue I had from like two months ago with 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.200 Miranda because his yeah you love the drama because it's yeah, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.200 because of you know, position eligibility and how I picked 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.760 him up and all this nonsense. You would think when 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.040 you pick up a player who has a position on 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.399 a site, you'd be good to go, but apparently not 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.280 even though he qualifies at a position I pick him 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.119 up there. Apparently that was a misnomer. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.520 It doesn't doesn't help that that site's a tough sight. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.320 To the end of a tough one. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.840 Here's a trivia question. Aaron Judge has forty four homers 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.040 with eleven stolen bases and has not been caught stealing 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.720 this season. Who is the only other player in major 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.840 league history? This is not to Bubba because he can 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.600 see the answer. So the only other player major league 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.520 history to hit forty homers and have ten plus stolen 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.400 bases without being caught. That should be an interesting one. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.600