WEBVTT - Leading Off July 8th, 2024 (Ep.858) 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.960 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:09.920 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:12.120 three six five Bet fipcuks get one hundred and fifty 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.520 and bonus bets when you use the promo code leading 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:15.600 Off at Bet three sixty five. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.919 It is me Joey p That of course is the Welsh, 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:19.960 and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.840 On a Monday morning, it's hazy, hot and humid here 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.400 in New Jersey, and as always it's just plain old 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:27.680 hot where the Welsh is. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:28.360 Uh. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.840 But we're gonna have some rain this week, so I 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.879 gotta get the pool in today, Welsh. Today, I told 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.320 the kids, I'm going swimming whither or what out you 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.279 get in that pool because it was like rain the 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.519 rest of the days to come this week. But this 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.400 weekend was fun for baseball action. Garrett Cole laboring through 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.000 ninety seven degree weather here in the New York area. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.199 Don't hunt me because it wasn't great start. He was 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:54.400 with Garrett Cole. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:55.400 How did Louis heal? 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.680 Do Louis yesterday? He did better? 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.640 You still trust him for the next one hundred and 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.400 fifty from I don't or fifty innings and. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.880 I trust no one. I trust absolutely no. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:06.959 Oh yeah, so this is great. You basically got a 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.160 gift from Louise Heel. So let's start there with the headlines. Welsh, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.440 he was good, Raphael Devers two home runs in that 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.920 same game, nine strikeouts for Heel, six and two thirds, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.400 no walks, which is interesting because again he is second 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.080 only to Tristan mackenzie and walks this year forty eight 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.360 to Mackenzie's forty nine. So in terms of active pitchers, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.280 he is the leader. So I think he'll gave everybody 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:31.720 a gift, which is he gave him a really good 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.520 start before the All Star break to get out from 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.280 under Louis Heel. Do you see things differently. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.560 Yeah, that might be the case. I'm willing to acknowledge that, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 like I took my l already of being like, you know, 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:45.959 screw it, Louise Heel is going to be this and that, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:51.400 like the innings are, they're clearly putting something onto him, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.360 like he is clearly wearing down in some type of capacity. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.760 The Yankees haven't given us a full clear path of 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.800 what they are going to do, which I think that's 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.920 what leaves it the most muddy and those muddy kind 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.080 of ideas are also going to be something we're going 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.280 to focus on here in a little bit with another guy. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.560 But would I would say, from Luis Hill's standpoint, if 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.280 you get past the like is it going to go 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.200 to bullpen and blah blah blah, this is what we 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.640 wanted to get back. I think we I had mentioned 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.960 the last couple starts it has been just his zone control. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.960 It's it's really like a lot of these guys, and 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.760 I talked about this actually on CBS last week with 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:32.520 Christopher Sanchez. Christopher Sanchez had been incredible, but he gets 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.840 all of his strikeouts on like one primary off speed 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.400 pitch and then it's like, you know, a sinker in 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.920 a fastball that doesn't do much. If you don't throw 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.160 the fastballs in the zone, you're not setting anything else 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.200 up and you won't get the case. And he was 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.320 just and heel had just been. When he's in the zone, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.840 it's dead red middle people are slamming it. This was 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.080 a start. He was almost sixty percent zone fastball, forty 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.240 seven percent slider. And that also really shows you, Okay, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.160 that slider it's going to give people fits of the 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.160 thirty four that he ended up throwing, fifteen of them 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.000 were either foul offs or called strikes, which I think 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.560 is pretty impressive. So he ended up having twelve cald 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.679 strikes and whiffs on the slider thirty three percent with 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.400 rate and everything was up in that start fastball a 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.720 full mile per hour, slider a full mile per hour. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.920 Maybe he's getting set to take that next stage and 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.839 gear up a little bit. Yankees are gonna need him 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.640 unless they're gonna go make a big move, and I 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.519 don't think they do. So I am still a tiny 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.440 bit optimistic that the heel is done. Thing might be over. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.320 But you might need to look. This might be a 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.920 good opportunity to get out if you are. If you're worried, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.760 and you kind of should be a little bit, you should. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.960 Be a lot of bit. I will say this way. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.240 We disagree on one thing here, which is the Yankees 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.880 won't go get somebody else. The Yankees will The Yankees 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.920 didn't move make this move for Sodo here with no 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.280 guarantees to not push the Chips into the middle. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.080 I meant big. I don't think they're gonna go make. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.480 A O I do. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.560 I don't know who it's going to be yet those 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.880 pieces of yet to follow, those dominoes. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.080 Is it a bat or is it a bat or 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.880 a picture? To you, I think it's a pitcher first 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.400 and foremost. I think that is really what they have 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:10.640 to do. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.280 They need insurance here for multiple things, and they needed 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.640 you know, I was on air live on Saturday during 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.800 the Garrett Cole start. Joe Vernier and I were doing 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.760 that game live for Sports Grewed, and you know we 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.320 were talking about you know, he was up to fifty 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.400 pitches in the second inning. Basically it was just like geez, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.080 you know, just inefficient. But I give a lot of credit. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.960 He labored through. He did not throw in the towel. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.680 The Yankees Ben Rice carried him in that game. Two 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.880 home runs for him in that game. That was a 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.520 must win. You need to win those games where Garrett Cole, right, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.440 Garrett Cole needs to. You need to win those starts 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.400 when Cole's on the mound right now, because that's how 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.680 you stop the bleeding of this losing streak that the 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.080 Yankees have been on. Frankly, another streak. Speaking of streaks, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:53.160 all time great Jose Miranda all time record twelve consecutive 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.040 at bats, twelve consecutive hits. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.000 Unbelievable. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.599 Royce Lewis goes down Byron Bucks didn't picks them up, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.560 and Jose Miranda picking them up. Brooks Lee our guy 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.280 also picking them up too. He's been very good, so 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.119 Lee another guy in this mix. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.040 Oh that's okay. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.159 It was just for a minute. It's just a blip 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.200 on the radar. It's hot here. I told you the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.679 internet it's being weird today. But don't worry. No puppets here, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.760 No puppets. But what I was saying was, Jose Miranda is, uh, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.640 you know, buyer bucks to those guys. Brooks Lee carrying 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.440 the torch here with Royce Lewis being out, but how 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:27.839 long can this last? 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:28.760 For this Twins lineup? 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.800 By the way, I was completely caught off guard by that. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.039 I couldn't even puppet Joe it because I was like, oh, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.080 I think that's me, but it was you. So I 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.360 apologize to everybody that was ready for puppet Joe there, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.160 and I wasn't ready for it. I was looking to 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.560 drop the ball, dropped the ball, he did not. I 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.520 was a year early on Jose Miranda two last year 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.480 the talk up of just what a great hitter this 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.640 guy was, and nothing came together last year he ended 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.960 up hitting two to eleven. There was no power to 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.000 speak up. This is the version of the minor league guy. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 I don't know if people remember, like Jose Miranda was 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.000 a menas I believe it was in twenty and twenty two, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.400 an absolute menace in the minor leagues. And he's coming 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.920 back and showing those skills so far this year. Obviously 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.560 over three years, career high expect A batting averages up 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.400 to two ninety one. He has a forty one percent 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.600 hard hit rate, which is four percent higher than last year. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.600 His k percentage is down to thirteen percent, and he 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.680 is barreling the ball again. I tell you all those 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.560 things because those are great metrics to just hone in 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.240 of the baseline of who this player is. The other 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.839 really incredible thing he is hitting over three hundred against 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.200 every single pitch type. So that's a big thing you 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.160 want to focus on. How pitchers are going to end 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.320 up adjusting to a guy and he's kind of smashing 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.279 everything right now. He just makes really really solid contact. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.279 He's getting the ball up in the air more as well. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.200 Ten degree lunch angle last year, fifteen degree this year. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.440 We talked about him month or so ago and said, hey, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.719 this is a guy that he's going to get more opportunity. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.200 He is hitting well, we should pick him up, and 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.200 he's found his I cannot get over though, and I 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.320 don't know how I'm gonna do this in the offseason. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.200 I'll figure something out. But like you know, how we have, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:09.800 like you know, the rookies that get hot and then 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.000 you have like the sophomore slumps. There's this new version 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.400 of like it's of how it's laking three years. It's 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.680 I guess it's late bloomers, but it's this three year 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.360 thing that's starting to happen where guys into their third 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.120 season who have not clicked start to click. And I'm 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.800 not really sure how we measure that outside of getting 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.440 back to previous prospect pedigree to guys that surprised us, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.920 that struggled. Not all of them are doing it, but 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.440 we have seen a handful of players after a couple 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.120 of years. I mean, the league is also adjusting like 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.720 differently every single year. But either way, Miranda, it's a 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.480 great buy. Everyone's getting hurt. He sticks in, hits the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.920 absolute crap out of the ball, awesome points league guy 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.760 and a really good categories player Jose Miranda, probably top 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.840 one hundred player rest this season at this point. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.760 Yeah. Lee had a home run in that Saturday Game 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:54.760 two against Hunter Brown. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.880 Yeah Hunter Brown, by the way, that kind of came 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.480 back to roost after he'd been so good. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.080 It was finally the first bat start has had a 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:01.720 long time to reach. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:02.400 Can It'll be great. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:03.320 It can, I'll be great, you know. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.160 And his home road splits are not the best too, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.760 so maybe we'll give him a pass on that. To 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.960 Rescooball incredible thirteen strikeouts, seven innings for him, Jose Burrios 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:17.600 ten strikeouts, six innings against Seattle, Seattle, obviously without Julio Reguez. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.560 More on that later in the show. Grayson Rodriguez eight 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.200 strikeouts of his own, three innings, excuse me, three runs 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.640 and six innings for the Orioles against the lowly A's, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.200 And it looks like the Cubs might be selling off. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.800 Apparently it's not just Nico Horner, but Cody Bellinger, as 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.720 I mentioned, that would be a big piece. Jameson Tyon 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.200 could be out there too. Bellinger would be a big 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.679 piece for somebody to add. If on the Mariners, I'm 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.880 knocking on that door right now. You're the Mariners. You 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.439 got to be first to market here, because you can't 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.400 wait and then compete with the Orioles prospects or the 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.000 Yankees prospects potentially they can put together, or even the 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.959 maybe even the Dodgers too, So you don't want to 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.040 compete with the big boys. Now is the time to strike. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.040 If you are indeed thinking that the Cubs are putting 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:57.600 those names. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.240 Out there, I'm so likely I'm probad, probably annoying about this. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.839 So over the weekend the fourth, definitely over the holiday weekend, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.120 I did a couple hits over on CBS, and I 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:09.760 did this on both of those shows, and I've been 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.839 kind of doing this in general. I'm hyper focused on 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.080 the team that's going to rip the band aid off 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.320 the trade market because there is because you're like, oh, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.920 Yankees are gonna make a big trade. There's only so 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.080 much on the market, and there's only so many teams 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.720 that are willing to consider selling, and there are so 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.280 many teams that have the assets to buy. And you know, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.040 I brought up the Yankees too, on what side you 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.240 thought they were going to buy because like, not only 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.560 they've been like top ten in ERA on the year, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.120 top ten and hitting, like both sides have been great. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.880 They have the highest i think our third highest run 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.280 differential scoring on the season. Blah blah blah. But like 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.760 they could use a rotation piece, and they could use 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.040 a hitter. They've outside of Judge and Sota, they've got 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.840 so many guys that are lacking and they are set debt, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.920 second to last in MLB and stolen bases. That's why 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.679 I'm bringing this all back guy like Nico Horner to me, 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.120 would actually make a ton of sense for a team 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.640 like the Yankees. Obviously it's gonna make sense for a 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.720 team like the Mariners as well. But that's the problem 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.440 is all of these teams could use these pieces. I 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.200 think the Cubs would do very well to put some 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.320 of these pieces out of the market. Tie On would 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.000 be a Savale like pitcher that you could put out there. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:22.360 But Bellinger and Horner they could corner the market. While 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.160 these other teams, like the White Sox, there's rumors the 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.000 White Sox might hold Robert till the off season, or 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.560 the Vlad and Bishett stuff. The Cubs could be the 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.679 ones that could set the price, and I agree teams 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.839 should be calling Bellinger's not having as good of a year, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.400 but matter he would be great in either one of 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.400 those lineups. And Horner specifically, I think would be really great. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.839 Mariners and Yankees stand out to me for his. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:43.880 Yankees would too. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.480 That'd be funny they they trade glabor tourists for him 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.240 and they could swap back after all those years. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.199 That would be funny. Obviously, I was thinking the same thing. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:52.000 Back to the Cubs. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:57.559 All right, the All Star rosters are complete, basically American League. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.680 You've got the starters, Rutchman, Guerrero out to Ve, Josier, Mirrors, Gunner, Henderson, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.800 Judge Kwan thinks. See Kwan in there made me really excited. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.760 Juan Soto and Alvarez. By the way, our special is 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.600 going to be airing next week to our fantasy All 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.280 Stars for twenty twenty four. A lot of the same 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.559 names here, maybe a few different. And then on the 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.280 Nation League side, William Contreras, Bryce Harper, hopefully you'll be 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.800 able to play. We'll see fingers crossed, can tell Marte, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.520 Alec Bohm, Trey Turner, Trey Turner, I mean ridiculously even 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.640 play the first half is so dumb Jackson, Profar Tattis 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.600 Yelich and Ol Tommy. When you roll down to some 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.680 of the pitchers here, Tyler Anderson his second All Star game, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.640 Tyler Anderson's expected ERA is like seven thousand, his FIP 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:40.480 is eight thousand. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:41.520 It's unbelievable. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:42.880 But what else could they have done? 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.920 Nothing like I spoken of Tyler Anderson. But if there 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.400 isn't a bigger cell high at the break, candidate, I 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.920 don't know who who is here? 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.760 You know what, here's a tease the trade video. We're 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.400 gonna do the trade stuff we're gonna do. Here is 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.000 an All Star edition. I started this with Tyler Anderson. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.640 If this was built around. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:05.520 Tyler Barns, Class Crochet, Gilbert your boy All Star, Clay Holmes, Tanner, Hawick, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.280 Seth Luga who totally deserves it, leading the league by 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.040 the way tide and wins lean league and lead league 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.599 and era unbelievable, Mason Miller, Cole Reagan's, Treik schoobl and 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.319 Kirby Yates. And I see a couple Kansas City Royals 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.200 pitchers on it. How about that on the National League side? 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:26.520 Glass now Helsy Hoffman, Imanaga, Lopez Sale, Scott Skeens, which 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.199 is going to be super fun. Hopefully he gets to 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.080 pitch in that game. Strum Suarez, Ranger and Robert and 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.319 then Logan Webb and Zach Wheeler so Welsh. I think 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.800 for me, the fun thing here is Skeens. Can you 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.600 get Skeens an inning in the All Star Game? I 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.760 hope we do. I don't know how the rotations line 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.920 up or anything. I haven't looked ahead yet, but that's 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.120 good for baseball. I want Paul Skeens on that mound 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.600 at some point. That's gonna be electricity in that building. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.120 Any thoughts here maybe on Trey Turner being ridiculous as 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:55.800 the starting shorts. 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:57.840 I can give you two. I can give you two 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.680 snubs Francisco Lindo or someone said in the chat huge 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.920 snub and I think the biggest one and call me 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.000 a home or not. But Christian Walker Pete Alonzo made 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.840 it in over Christian Walker. Christian Walker is literally beating 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.719 him in every single category out there that the Diamondbacks 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.600 Twitter world is losing their mind. Pee Alnzo not deserved 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.319 to take that over Walker. With Harper coming out, that's 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.080 probably either going to open up a spot for Christian 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.840 Walker or Lindor. But I thought those two were like 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.839 the really the biggest snubs of not making it. And 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.560 I will just reiterate one last time. I will talk 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.880 a lot about how much I hate fan voting in 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.680 All Star Games. I think it's embarrassingly stupid. I think 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.400 more than ever, or just because it's right now, the 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.000 getting one representative of each team is so stupid, Like 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:47.920 Tyler Anderson is an All Star? 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.360 Is Tyler Anderson do? 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.320 However, I will say this Welsh, I think that is 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.400 another one of these pieces from a bygone era where 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.000 you didn't get to see the American League. If you're 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.199 a Nation League fan and you didn't have the Internet, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.480 you didn't have all these things. It was cool to 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.600 see guys from other teams like it was a big deal. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.439 As a kid growing up in the early mid eighties, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.720 it was really cool to see those guys. I gotta 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.280 watch the Yankee Games too. I was lucky I lived 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.880 in New York, so you would see those American League 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.760 guys more. But you ever saw him in your ballpark. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.560 You didn't really watch a whole lot of them. So 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.520 if you're a Mets fan and vice versa of your 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:22.960 Yankees pants. It was cool to see, you know, a 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.480 guy from the Angels, a guy from this team. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.200 You know, that was neat. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.400 I agree with you. You're an All Star or you're not. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.000 This one representative is kind of dumb at the end 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.480 of the day. But it's it's all right. I can 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.080 live with that. That's one of the old guard things 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.080 I can still live with at the end of the day. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.560 But I'm not gonna live with all of it because 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.320 I don't care about the All Star Game, like everyone 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.800 gets and they're like. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.200 I love how angry You're like, you don't care about 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.360 Hall of Fame, you don't care about All Star Game. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:47.840 You're funny. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.480 You're a funny baseball fight in the sense it's like 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.960 big ticket items that Welsh's like, I. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.520 Hate the things that get people work there that they 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.920 want to fight about. I don't care. I don't care 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:00.040 about Like there's gar. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.600 When it comes to this stuff. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.080 But no, maybe a little less confrontational, more confrontational when 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.920 it comes to trades. Let's talk trades with Welsh for 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.960 Week sixteen. Welsh, who are the guys you want to 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:11.360 get rid of? 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:11.640 Right? 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.240 Now, who are the guys you want to get on 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:14.400 your roster as soon as you can? 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.800 All right, this is an All Star edition of the 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.960 Trade Talk. Here, I've got three names. These are all 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.960 players that made the All Star Game. But I am 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.360 going to present I'm gonna do a little bit of 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.960 a phishing and farming for your interactions here with this 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.800 first one. This is similar to what we talked about 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.960 with Garrett Crochet. So let me present this for a 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.160 tiny talk, and then I will just give you the 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.120 three names that I think you can trade four or 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.040 away at the All Star Game. Here is my presentation 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.600 to you for the All Star Game. Should we and 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:50.080 can we trade Paul Schemes, trade four or trade away? 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.240 I know it's been a big question all season long. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.200 Now I have a couple scenarios I'm gonna throw at you. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:56.880 But let me give you some good and some bad 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.000 of things. You guys already know. The good on Paul Skiing, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.400 who by the way, absolutely deserves the All Star bid. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.120 The good and ten starts this year two really just 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.720 like a barely over to era, which has been phenomenal. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.240 He's gone six innings in more in eight of his 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.120 ten starts, He's gone six or more innings apologies, in 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.080 eight of his ten starts, which is crazy, crazy for 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.760 any starter at this point, but a rookie. Nonetheless, he 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.280 struck out seven or more in all but one start. Fifth, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.160 best K percentage in baseball since June first, and a 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.440 million other nice things that you know. Here's the bat 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.680 on Paul Skins. The Pirates are now ten games back 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.320 in the Division, four and a half games back in 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.680 the wild Card, which isn't horrible, but they're fourth right now. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.360 If they fall out, the second big worry is going 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.120 to be the innings cap starting to stare at us 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.080 in the face. This guy had one, I mean really, 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.480 one of the biggest storylines when he got drafted was 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.200 his usage in college. We now see a big usage 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.200 happening here. If they're out of it, he's in the 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.240 All Star Game values up. I think it's something to consider. Also, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.440 a little stat I thought was interesting. Since June first, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.520 he has the highest left on base percentage in all 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.560 of baseball ninety seven percent. A lot of that is 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.520 to like his skills and his talent, but that's a 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.720 regressional standpoint. There are two players in that period of 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.639 time who had over ninety and number two is ninety 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.680 one percent, So you know he's been incredible. But the 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.200 idea here is, like you've mentioned with Heel, if they're 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.879 out of it, are we going to lose some of 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.680 how aggressive they've been. He's going deep into games. His 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.040 pitch count is that also. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.520 Is not going to be around for weeks again or days. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:36.280 It's going to be weeks. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.200 I guess they're saying we're waiting to get him back. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.040 Another thing I'll throw on with Skeins too. First time 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.440 through the batting order forty one percent k rate, second 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.000 time thirty percent k rate, third time twenty six point 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.960 nine percent k rate. So stamina already within games is 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:50.480 a bit of an. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:51.119 Issue for Skiings. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.600