WEBVTT - Leading Off August 1st, 2024 (Ep. 878) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.920 What's up, friends that welcome into Leading Off. It's the 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.479 Welsh and the Joe Alrico. We're in the house today. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.079 We're living in a post trade world. We've got the 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.120 guys that are out there. We're actually seeing all these 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.960 weird Dylan Carlson in a raised uniform looks super weird. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.360 Jack Flare guys are weird in their new uniforms. But 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.400 we're going to talk about them. We got a whole 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.200 bunch of it. 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Joe, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:00.600 what's that buddy? 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:01.920 Always great to be on with you. Man. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.920 This is our little Thursday routine which is gonna get 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.040 broken up again soon. But it's been nice talking to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.520 you over these last couple of weeks. It's always great 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:08.600 when we get to do a show together. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.440 Yeah, well, we're gonna get to be doing more, everybody. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.280 It's August. You know what that means. It's August time. Well, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.559 we're gonna get We're gonna be trading in a Joe 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.400 for a Joe. We've got a little bit above action. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.800 But let's kick it right in and one of Joe's 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.520 favorite things. If he was here, you know exactly what 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.160 he would be hitting. Yes, right there, talking about Jackson Holiday, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.720 Jackson Holiday yesterday, a Rico, we're talking about it, we're 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.520 breaking Hey gets called up. Piece of pa is asking 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.399 you know, what do you think? Do you think he's 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.600 gonna be a dude? And I do feel good. I'm 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.360 gonna hold to my laurels. I'm gonna, as I said, like, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.720 I think he's a contact hitter. I think he's gonna 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.760 kind of find his rhythm back up there, and sure 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.360 enough hits a grand slam, hits his first career homer, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.080 Grand slam style almost hits another homer by the way 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.080 over on the pull side having a ridiculous debut. So 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.800 this is attached to another very important situation. Jordan Westburg 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.200 fractured his hand, huge blow, having a really great season 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.320 two seventy eighteen homers fifty eight RBIs this does one 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.200 of two things solidifies Jackson Holiday for the rest of 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.080 the year, like mah and or brings up Kobe Mayo. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.120 It could be Kobe Mayo time. If they're gonna lose 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.520 Jordan Westburg, they got some stuff that they're gonna kind 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.519 of finagle with. But let's start with the Jackson Holiday side. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.160 Jackson Holiday comes out big off of that horrific, horrific 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:39.040 pro debut. Are you trusting Jackson Holiday rest of season 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.360 after seeing it's only one game? But are you gonna 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.679 trust Jackson Holiday as like a must own and must 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:44.440 start player. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.000 It's amazing how one game can really change everything. I 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.600 got like thirty Jackson Holiday questions yesterday. If you went 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.880 over four, nobody would have cared. And we shouldn't really 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.880 get too swayed one way or the other. But I've 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.079 become a pretty strong believer that guys need to struggle 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.280 a bit when they first come up. Maybe not initially, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.679 but they will have to go through some bumps and bruises. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.480 He did that with that fifty percent strikeout. Right now, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.440 I think, you know, the wheels are up and he's 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.960 going to be a really solid asset rest of season. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.040 Kind of in the same way that Wyatt Langford struggled, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.040 and he's picked things up over the last couple of months. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.840 I know he hasn't been like setting the world on 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.079 fire recently, but he's picked things up. Holiday's kind of 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.600 the same way I would trust him. If you're seeing 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.720 him out there on any waiver wires, I'd be picking 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.280 him up. He's sixty four percent rostered on Yahoo. There's 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.040 still room for you guys to still get him on 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.560 your roster's dual eligibility. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:28.679 There's a lot to like here. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.800 I uh, when I'm looking at the depth chart here, 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.560 like they still have west Bergen. They're gonna have to 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.040 make the move for it. And what may end up 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.320 happening is you've got ramon Urius. You know, they've got 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.640 a couple pieces that are floating out there that they 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.880 may throw in there. Jackson Holiday currently slated as their 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.520 second baseman. They could move him over to third, but 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.640 it really does feel like this is a Kobe Mayo situation, 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.720 and Kobe Mayo comes up, he is an absolute must 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.800 pick up. So let me ask you this. Let's just 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.200 say he does come up, and let's say Jackson Holiday 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.520 does hold down this second base job. They're both out there, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.080 who do you prioritize Jackson Holiday or Kobe Mayo. 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.640 I'd go Holiday because, like I said, he's already had 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.280 that initial struggle, and I also don't really trust the 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.160 way the Oriols are going to use their prospects the 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.320 way that they've showed us over the last year plus. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.520 Holiday is I think a little bit of a different story, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.359 being like the number one overall prospect. But Kowser Westburg, here'stad. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.320 They come up, they sit on the bench half the time, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.880 So I kind of need to see how they're going 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.240 to use him before I'd really want to take that stab. Specifically, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.440 in shallow leagues, like in fifteen teamers, you kind of 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.320 need to just take the chance on them and hope 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.920 for the best. But in shallow leagues, they just haven't 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.760 really given us a lot of reason to trust these 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.840 young guys coming up playing twice a week. They haven't 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.159 really been that valuable, so I'm a little more pessimistic 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.440 for the initial call up. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.760 Yeah, and I've said a lot like the path is 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.240 not linear, you know, with a lot of these prospects, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.919 like there is time. I'm not sure. I'm like, I 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.360 welcome big struggles, but I also don't think struggles are 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.960 the be all end all with with prospects, because it's 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.720 like you want to see how they bounce back and 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.039 learn from it, especially guys like really really good contact 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.920 based players. That's why I have a really good trust 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.120 in Jackson Holiday. Yes, the same thing may happen with Mayo. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.280 There's some strikeout stuff out there. Big power probably wouldn't 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:12.919 hit at the top of the lineup no matter what. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.680 I kind of do think this might be a Jackson 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.520 Holiday play for the rest of the season. But if 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.080 Mayo comes up, you should pick him up. I want 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.279 to point something out to Eddie. Eddie, are you new here? 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.640 Eddie's picking on my hair because it's flowing high. Of 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.719 course it's flowing high. If I get to flow it high, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:28.840 she's banging. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:29.240 Now. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.560 I will tell you I have been attempting a little 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.119 bit more to bring it down and swoop it over. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.800 But today was a big old poof day. So Eddie, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.560 you're new here with your lols laughing at it. You're 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.240 not going to affect me there, buddy, because this hair 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.280 with all the bald heads. No, we're going to take 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.400 the big flow. Don't you shame me, Eddie. So Jordan 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.200 Westburg out, Jackson Holiday going Logan more news stuff. Logan 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.240 Web was dominant, complete game, shutout, six strikeouts and a 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.599 one zero victory over the Age. Yesterday he allowed just 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:06.040 one walk. On the inverse of it, Framber Valdez was okay. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.279 I thought, I really thought this was going to be 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.360 like one of the starts of the day. Surrendered six hits, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.000 four and runs in six innings. And Wednesday as the 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.920 Pirates as the Astros beat the Pirates, but barely, just 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.559 barely in the right at the end of the game. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.800 I had Astros on a money line bet that I 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.240 thought was just done. But Framber gave up a couple, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.279 just bad meat balls. He's just been so inconsistent rest 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.560 of season. Framber Valdez, your Logan Web easily Logan Web 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:31.839 for me. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.880 Valdez, like, like you said, the inconsistency is the lack 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.240 of strikeouts. Like, I know he's not been a massive, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.400 massive strikeo guy, but he's down at just league average 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.279 twenty two percent this year. I think it's pretty easily 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.039 Logan Web for me. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.640 Yeah, I think it is Logan Web as well. I'm 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.360 pretty down on Framberveldez, like I just haven't just the inconsistencies. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.760 It just I'm not about that. I mean, Logan Web's 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.280 has his stuff as well. Clayton Kershaw, speaking of inconsistencies, 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.520 gave up six hits, seven runs, three earned over three 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.760 and two thirds on Wednesday, losing to the Padres. Padres 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.479 are going to be a problem. Any lack of trust 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.120 in Clayton Kershaw moving forward after that start. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:10.600 I do want to give him a little bit of 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.400 time coming off his shoulder surgery. At the same time, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.960 two whiffs is not really what I want to see 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.360 at all. But I saw people yesterday like Dodgers fan 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.520 saying up, it's over. He's nothing, but you know, just 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.720 a relic of the past and he's here to sell 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.520 tickets or something. I think he's still quite a bit 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.080 better than that. He was very good in his first 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.360 start back. It's Clayton Kershaw, and I think we have 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.720 to use different measuring points for these generational type of players. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.960 Even though the velocity's down, he's not the same guy. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.960 He hasn't really been that same guy for the last 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.760 couple of seasons, and he's still been great. So I 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.280 think he's earned the benefit of the doubt here. If 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.760 people are cutting him today, I'd pretty happily go pick 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:44.200 him up. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.640 Yeah, I mean, like in like a ten team league, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.360 I don't know. I think he's he's a best a streamer. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.920 In a twelve team league, you're probably holding on. I'm 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.960 probably giving him a little bit more leeway than some 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.840 other guys. So like maybe I'm paying attention to who 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.920 he's starting, and I might put him on the bench 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.640 if it's you know, a team like the Padres or 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.640 something like that. But the team context is important. I 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.400 don't think. I don't think this is the must drop 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.640 kind of like you're alluding to what some people are saying, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.800 like it just it's dependent. It's dependent what's available out there. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.960 You know, if you're dealing with just kind of garbage streamers, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.280 I'm not super interested in it. You're gonna have these 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.680 kind of ebbs and flows but you know what we 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.400 do have to pay attention to as well, is as 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.160 these Dodger pitchers get healthy quote air quotes here. If 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.360 they actually get healthy and then that rotation becomes something 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.640 where there's actually depth, then there could be stuff that 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.760 end up happening with Kershaw. But it's a it's a 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.960 bad blip. We'll pay attention to it. Matt Shaw, I 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.439 want to ur Matt Olsen saw Matt Shaw, prospect person Cubs. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.640 I'm thinking about Matt Olsen pair of solo homers yesterday 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.240 on Wednesday as the Braves beat the Brewers. I want 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.040 to talk about Olsen here for a second. He's up 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.839 to seventeen homers to twenty six average. It's been relatively 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.000 abysmal season, as everybody knows, especially anybody that made those 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.960 like early on bets. I'm curious where you are on shot. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.320 Everything is down kind of across the board. His expected 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.480 batting average is a little bit better than it currently is, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.560 but it's not that much better. Hard hit numbers are down, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.199 strikeouts or way up. But he seems to be kind 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.479 of getting back into that groove from a home run perspective. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.640 I think that's four homers in the last like five 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.400 or six games. Are you a buye that Matt Olsen 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.680 is going to have a complete comeback on the back 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:34.720 half of these two months? 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.120 He's bad in a buck seventy two in July. I 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.000 don't think I'm really a strong buyer unless you're really 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.880 getting a huge discount, and there's a chance that you are. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.199 At this point seventeen homers, two twenty six batting average, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.520 I think people were expecting probably double the amount of 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.240 home runs with like a two to seventy average at 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.559 this point. So maybe you can get him for essentially nothing, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.480 But if somebody wants eighty ninety cents on the dollar, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.160 I don't think he's earned it, especially because the team 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.920 is just not good around him either. It's not like 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.400 Olsen has just been the guy struggling. There's obviously Noah Kunya, 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.440 there's been no Albis now. You know, it's kind of 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.880 just been the Marcelo Zuna show offensively there and it's 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.480 not enough to sustain everybody in that lineup, and Olsen 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.640 has struggled, like last year, one hundred and twenty seven runs, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.719 one hundred and thirty nine Ribbies. He's not going to 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.360 crack a hundred of either probably looking at fewer than 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.800 thirty home runs. I don't see a lot here to 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.720 really buy in. I think we kind of maybe we're 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.559 a little bit mistaken in buying in off of the 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.480 career year last year. I think I think it was 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.600 a mistake obviously hindsight's twenty twenty. But I'm pretty down 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:34.679 on Olsen at this point. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.720 Yeah, I think he might actually be a decent buy 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.400 if no one is really bought in, But I'm not 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.760 buying him at like, hey, Olsen is going to return 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.280 to last year's run and the homers are completely changing. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.520 I think there's still like some weird lineup protection stuff. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.800 He's still just struggling in Jenner twenty percent, strikeout rates 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.920 really bad, his barrels are really really bad so far 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.280 this year, and he's not hitting fastballs. He hit three 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.560 sixteen against fastballs last year thirty right now, So I 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.360 think this is like a this is like a eighty 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.520 cents on the dollar type of thing. And I'm talking 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.439 probably about like not original cost of Olsen and eighty 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.200 percent down, but like take it a couple notches down 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.160 and then by eighty cents on that. If someone's trying 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.760 to get stolen bases. If they're chasing some stolen bases 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.480 or whatnot, I would look in that territory. We had 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.200 some new debuts Jack Flaherty. He's gonna make his first 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:32.680 start with the team on Saturday and wearing zero, number zero. Grown. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.920 I'm older, things don't bother me as much, while some 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.480 things bother me still more than ever, Joe, There's always 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.240 been something about numbers with me. I've gotten over I 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.600 actually back in the day when Taywan Walker got traded 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.160 to the Diamondbacks and he wore number ninety nine, I 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.199 was tweeting at him, and he was tweeting back with 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.880 me about like, why are you wearing ninety nine? I 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.720 kind of got over that. I'm not over zero. I 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.840 don't like zero. And the word was, flerty is going 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.400 to wear number zero, which that also is not a number? 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.800 Is that an Is that? I mean, it doesn't. I 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.360 don't know. It's just not a baseball number. And on 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.240 top of anything, but also number zero is kind of 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.079 redundant a little bit in my brain. But does anything 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.079 like that bother you? Or is that just me? Does 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.400 the number thing bother you? See guy wear like sixty 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.480 four a baseball player, and you're like, don't do that. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.520 I saw the zero thing and I thought it was 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.760 a little bit strange. I just don't feel like there's 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.839 a great connotation with the number zero. Like I think 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.560 of Russell Westbrook in his later years. I think of like, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.920 I mean, Gilbert Arenas, all right, good, good early career, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.199 But like, I don't have great memories with the numbers zero, 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.559 And I just think it's like, why are you why 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.320 do you want to be zero? 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:42.800 I don't know. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.320 Whatever they want to do. Sure it doesn't bother me 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.920 so so much. I'm not gonna be buying the jersey. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.200 I'll tell you that for free. But I don't think it's. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.320 A big deal. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.800 What I really don't like is that my Alcy Young 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.240 future on Flarty is now dead. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.200 That's what I really don't like. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.520 Oh yeah, bye bye bye bye. Definitely that yeah, and 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.760 no all, I mean, are you kidding me? Okay? You 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.120 know what? This is so funny if con case, if 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.240 you think I think that, I was on Sleeper on 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.959 the bus yesterday with Paul Sport and Justin Mason and 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.880 I went off on the same thing. I went off 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.800 on that exact subject. Also really stupid. So like maybe 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.240 I have some like boomery type of like ooh whatever, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.080 the number thing, but like the facial hair thing is 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.240 the dumbest thing of all time. I mean, I think 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.400 it's hilarious seeing Jazz succeed like he is right now too, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.720 And like Yankees fans are lark should he be wearing 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.160 a color belt or whatever? Like, no, it's a stupid Yankees. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.120 The Yanks are so stupid with that thing. And I 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.600 just get worked up about number zero. So I'm back. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.400 I'm actually gonna go back to disliking Jack Flaherty and 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.840 not believing anything now that he's number zero. So that's 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:48.640 how I treat fantasy sometimes. Also, Martine Perez is making 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.200 his padre's debut on Saturday against the Rockies. You say 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.880 Kokuchi is gonna make his first start with the Astros 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.360 on Friday against the Rays, So are you gonna buy in? 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.880 There's there's a lot of negative stuff about Kokuchi. Are 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:02.440 you a Kakuchi and Houston guy or nay? 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.120 I have been really a big fan of Kakuchi. I 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.360 know that the numbers on the surface are really bad. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.679 I think he's been a little bit unlucky from a 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.160 few different perspectives, Like he's still got a twenty percent 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.679 strikeout minus walk right, there's like fifteen guys in all 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.640 of baseball who meet that threshold. He's got like a 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.360 low three Sierra exit. Those numbers are really good. I 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.360 do worry about the home run problem with that short 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.760 Crawford box and left field, that could be something that 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.080 is a bit of a problem. But he's got a 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.560 much better offense behind him now. I think that it's 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.400 generally a positive move for Kakuchi. Still, the Blue Jays 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.200 were awful. Kacuchi had like four wins or something this season. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.400 That should be something you can project to get better, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.440 and I think overall we're going to see him start 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.000 to regress a little bit more. One other thing is 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.120 the turf in Toronto, the high babbabs for a lot 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.080 of Toronto pitchers. You're not going to see that same 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.800 exact numbers like three forty three fifty in Toronto. You've 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.800 seen it with Gosman the last couple of years. That 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.000 turf leads to some kind of unpredictable things. I don't 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.160 think we'll see it to the same degree in Houston. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.760 Yeah, I mean, he's he's it in general is like 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.000 a positive. That was actually the kind of crazy thing 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.520 about the trades too. The you just want to check 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.680 that out. It was Bogman myself. It'spor and Justin Mason 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.960 breaking down all the trades and trying not to be 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.840 like a prisoner of the moment, but like it felt 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.040 like every trade, every other trade, or like eight out 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.640 of ten trades, like there were net positives in this 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.680 trade deadline of players moving on, and it's like, oh, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:28.080 this destination is good, like even where you know, like 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.320 like maybe Elane Thomas like a lane, the right handed 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.040 ballpark factors in Cleveland they're not like the left. It's 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.640 almost opposite. It's like it's like really bad for right handers, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.640 really good for left handers. Right now the ballpark factor's gone. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.720 So you could maybe even like theory look and like 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.920 oh that's maybe a negative, and maybe Cleveland has him 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.920 run a little bit less. But then he's hitting two. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.760 You know, he's gonna hit two on that team, and 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.440 it's like Fetti goes to the Cardinals, Kokuchi goes to 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.280 the Astros. Every single player there were just net positives 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.080 almost across the board. There was a couple players that 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.600 weren't really great, but they're just really good positives on 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.880 them moving and what that's going to do with the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.680 negative with really some of the like main negatives being 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:11.600 like like estock parades with his games specifically being with 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.160 the Cubs and the poll side that wasn't good, or 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:20.240 theoretical platoons like Tommy Tommy fam might just nix all 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.360 of that and it might not matter at all, but 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.320 he's probably going in there to be probably more of 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.360 that right side platoon, but he might get some more 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.440 at bats. A lot of those, like veterany outfielders that 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.480 get traded, end up getting put kind of in a 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.080 platoon situation. But just so many net positives, Joe, there 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.600 are so many good ones. Did you have a favorite? 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.040 Did you have a favorite positive trade like that you 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:43.760 thought impacted the value the most. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:48.320 Flairty's definitely up there, Jazz is definitely up there as well. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.240 Like going to such a better hitting environment. The Marlins 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.480 offense has just been disgustingly bad. Now he gets to 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.160 hit probably I think they've had him batting fifth but 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.400 right around Judge and Soto, much better RBI opportun tunity. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.040 He's also going to get third base. Eligibility, and on 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.520 some platforms he might have Jazz next year second third 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.040 outfield potentially, Like maybe second will be a little bit tricky. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.359 I think it depends on where you're playing. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.520 But that is just a huge boost for his current 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.639 day and future value. But Jack Flaherty is another guy 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.600 who's been so brilliant this year. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.560 Like I've been a huge fan of his. Wins have 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.000 been hard. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.399 To come by in Detroit, you know, in Los Angeles 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:24.679 they've been a little bit hard to come by as well. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.440 If you look at Tyler Glass now, just the other night, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.480 seven strong innings, the bullpen blew the. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.439 Leaf for him in the back end of the Dodgers pen. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.879 Might make that a little bit trickier now to secure wins, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.800 But big positive for Flarity, big positive for Jazz. Those 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.600 are probably the two biggest ones for me. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.119 So interesting too that the two teams in that division 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.080 that weren't the Dodgers prioritize themselves off of getting relief pitching, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.040 while the Dodgers that wasn't really their game plan. Obviously 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:53.800 getting the guy like Flarity and utility offensive and defensive players, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.280 but nothing on the bullpen side where the Diamondbacks go 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.040 and get Puck and Floro and then obviously the Padres 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.840 Trade an entire organization to get two relief pitchers, so 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.200 pretty crazy. Hey, we'll do something a little bit different. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.080 We haven't done a little bit. Let's answer some questions 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.360 from the Peanuts and Crackerjacks. Sometimes we try to get 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.439 to you guys, but I've been marking down some of 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.200 your questions. So we'll do a little bit of rapid 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.679 fire seeing what you guys have got for us today. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:21.320 Are m I'm guess Garcia drop Glaber Torres for Jackson Holliday. Yeah, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:21.800