WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 5th, 2022 (Ep. 545) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:17.640 Hope Springs Eternal, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.360 Fantasy Pros. This is leading Off, brought to you by 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.880 bet MGM, the King of sports Books. It's me, Joey Pa, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.800 Joe Pi's Apia with me. Today is Scott Bogman, and 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.560 of course it's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. After 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.360 a wonderful July fourth, hopefully everybody had a good time 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.239 with their friends and family, or if you don't like 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.040 your family, hopefully get you avoided them at all costs 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.320 and instead just went out and did something fun. But again, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.879 we always come to you via the YouTube channel here, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.440 Fantasy Pros. Fantasy Pros MLB, make sure you subscribe. We 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.240 got our videos back to I know it was sad, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.519 it was on vacation for a week. You know, we 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.800 missed a couple of things. Don't worry. We're back on 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.640 track now. The videos will be back. Don't worry. We 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.960 got the waiver wire pickups, we got all the guys 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.760 to add and drop, and of course all the trades 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.920 to make. And Scott Bagman, I wouldn't trade you for anyone. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.559 That's right. Yeah, we didn't miss you here. We were fine. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.200 We had a great Greek without you don't worry about us, Joe. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.960 We were perfectly fine here with that. You just leave 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.120 if you want to leave, it's fine. We were fine. Okay, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.479 not passive aggressive at all. I mean that definitely doesn't see. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.280 I will say this though. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.520 You know what I like yesterday on the MLB games, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.039 I like the uh the stars and stripes hats that 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.600 everybody was wearing. So those were weird hot design man. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.600 Okay, So do you know what they reminded me of? 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:37.200 The sharks hound tooth hat? Of are the shark's tooth 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.480 hat from the early nineties, the one that had like 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.560 the logo and then you did as well. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.360 You just put house tooth and shark's tooth and made 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.640 them one thing you pulled away. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.920 I mean, at least it was a cliche, but it was. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.720 It is two designs. I understand I messed up. But 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.080 there was a shark's tooth hat in the early nineties 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.840 that reminded me of that. So, okay, I'll have to 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.160 try and find a picture and send it to you. 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.040 I'm gonna I heard they were all up in arms 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.960 though in Toronto about it. They didn't like these hats. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.400 They're like, well, why are you making us wear of 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:05.880 these hats? 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.520 So I get it. You know, they should have had 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.839 a Canadian one. I mean that's pretty cool. I want 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.240 maple leaves falling everywhere. I mean, come on, we can 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.600 we can do some nice things. Yes, And there's Mike 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.079 Mayer right on it with the Blue Jays before I 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.720 can even say it, there he is, Yes, the curmudgeon himself. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.480 It must be hard to be a curmudgeon in your thirties, mayre, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.760 It must be hard. Let's get to some of the 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.800 action from yesterday, shall we, And let's start with the headlines. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.320 The Cardinals and back to back to back to back 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.320 to back, No, just just back to back to back 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.280 to back home runs, the eleventh time in Major League 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.919 history that's happened. The last team to do it was 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.359 the White Sox against the Cardinals in twenty twenty. From 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.240 five runs down, Jordan Alvarez, who you know, couldn't buy 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.200 a home run for the week that I picked him 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.840 on vacation, then gets a concussion and then comes back 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.960 and decides he's going to hit a bunch of home runs. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.720 So last couple of days, so great, but good for him, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.640 I'm glad he's healthy, but a four hundred and forty 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.720 four foot walk off not bad. Saya Suzuki made his 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.040 return and had an in the park home run. That's 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.320 always fun, isn't it bogs the inside the parking? 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.399 Of course, Two league homers are fun. Man that they're 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.959 fun to watch. It's fun to see somebody screw it 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.600 up in the outfield, which is typically what happens on 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.400 an inside the parker, and then just the panic in 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.040 their face. That's a lot of fun to see. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.600 I feel like it's deflating for everybody at once. It's 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.160 deflating for the entire defense, Like everyone's out there at 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.880 one time. The pitcher's deflated because you know, he gave 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.080 up a big hit to the outfield. The outfield, somebody 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.600 made a bad throw somewhere, like something went to rye there. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.960 I went to the World Baseball Classic. I don't even 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.280 remember what year, but it was USA versus Canada, and 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.080 speaking of Canada, winning stubby clap sitting inside the park 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.840 Grand Slam from the nine hole in Chase Field. It 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:44.880 was embarrassing. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.560 Yes, nice, I love a good stubby clap from the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.520 nine holes. One of my favorite things Oh the Dansby 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.080 Swanson drives in three runs that win over the cards. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.480 We also had Byron bucks And homering and being part 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.960 of a very fun triple play where the White Sox 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.480 just kind of lost their mind on the bass pass 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.040 had no idea what was going on, Like as if 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.200 they thought that Byron Buckson couldn't get to that ball, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.600 Like do you not watch Barron bucks In play center field? 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.400 Like you gotta kind of respect the dude a little 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.440 bit more. But the best was I don't know if 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.840 did you kill base I guess, but did you catch 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.560 the loose on the look on Larus's face when Buckston 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.120 caught the ball and then the whole thing happened. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:21.359 He thought he was sleeping. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.880 No, he was awake. He was somebody just they might 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.360 have just woken him up. That That was the same 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.599 look on his face that's just right afterwards. So that 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.000 was pretty spectacular. Chris Taylor left with the swollen ankle Monday. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.159 He's being re evaluated today, so keep an eye on that. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.440 He should have been your lineups anyway, he's been dealing 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.120 with that foot issue. Brian Bellow was going to make 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.880 his uh major league debut Wednesday, for the bow Socks. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.720 We also had Mookie Betts starting at second base Monday, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.520 so that's always fun. Yahoo loves that. Now he'll start 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.719 at second base for the next ten years. In terms of. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.880 LA he already qualified at second base. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.120 I mean, no big deal there. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:00.800 Let's go. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.839 Chris Bassett and the COVID nineteen is gonna be a 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.480 long shot to pitch for this Thursday, So again, manage 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.040 your rotations accordingly. And Jesse Winker starts a six game 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.159 suspension for what was a fight that happened when I 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.280 was on vacation. But that was one of the better fights. 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:18.880 You know, me, that was a good fight. Tough guys. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.880 I hate the fake tough guys. If you're gonna go 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.640 out there, you want to throw hands, throw hands, don't 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:24.040 be a whish. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.440 Hey man, Anthony Rendel was ready to throw hands with 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.240 one out there. I know, we like that, you know. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.160 But yeah, that was That was a crazy, fun, intense 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.680 fight and lots of suspensions and they're you know, Winkers 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.800 serving it now it makes sense, So yeah, I saw that. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.479 Yeah, this is a good one. And it's so nice 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.400 to see all the peanuts and crackajacks, I say, j 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.560 full medal. K is back. I'm glad he's feeling better 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.880 and hanging out with us today. And yeah, we encourage 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.080 you guys to watch the show, be part of it live. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.680 We're here every day at noon. We're gonna be here 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.200 all season long, you know, and everybody else just stops 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.320 MLB coverage, Fantasy pros not gonna leave you hanging here. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.640 We're going all way through to September like last year, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.600 because you know, we recognize that this is important to 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.279 you guys, what you want. You're here for it, So 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.520 why are we gonna stop doing it now? I might 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.640 stop doing it because you know, they they tell me 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.400 that there's only so many hours that I can be 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.880 seen or heard, which is probably a good thing for the. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.280 One of the few people that does more podcasts than 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:21.800 I do, one of the very few. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.960 Yeah, and very few. You and I are up there. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.440 There's there there are weeks where I would do like, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.280 how many shows you do twenty four? How mad you 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:30.000 do twenty seven? 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:31.320 Yep? 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.160 All right, let's get to the injuries. There's a lot 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.680 of them. Tyler O'Neil hamstring is coming back from his injury. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.599 Two hits in triple A Kelly Jansen is expected to 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.599 be back on the twelve, so at least we have 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.880 a target date, so that's important. Wilson Contreras left the 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.840 game with a tight hammy. This is not good though. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.960 You don't want any injury issues here if you're indeed 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.800 fielding any offers in the next month. Here. For Contreras, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.520 this is an important one, so monitor that one. I 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.359 don't think it's gonna change anything. Scott Servis, though, was 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.520 optimistic that ty Frantz will be back this week, so 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.280 that's a plus. Kevin Gossman still a little iffy with 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.960 that ankle for his next start. Kimberrel expect to be 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.200 back in a day or two, and the White Sox 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.640 activated Liam Hendrix yesterday too, so that is also good 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.000 news for the White Sox. Speaking of the White Sox bots, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.160 let me ask you this question. Do you think, now 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.520 that we have passed the halfway point in the season officially, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.400 that the White Sox have a run in them? Because 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.520 nothing's really quite gone right for an extended period for them. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.560 Is this the team that's laying in the weeds, not 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.720 just from a wagering standpoint, but also from a fantasy standpoint. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.160 If they get healthy and finally get hot. Are the 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.360 White Sox a team to start investing in here in 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.040 the second half? 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.400 One hundred percent? I mean, you know, I believe the 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.920 White Sox had the best odds to make it to 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.720 the World Series in the Al going into the season. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.360 I think they were just like a little bit better 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.560 than the Blue Jays, is what it was. And they're 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.840 five and a half games back. They're two games below 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.120 five five hundred right now, and the teams in front 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.640 of them are the Guardians and the Twins. This is 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.280 very doable. This isn't like, you know, being behind the 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.160 Astros in the West, where they're thirteen and a half 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.960 games up. That is doable, but it's nearly impossible. But 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.080 that's doable too. But five and a half games, I 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.400 mean that's you know, a good week that could that 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.600 could absolutely happen very quickly. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.600 Yeah, I kind of agree with you. I mean, it 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.720 was encouraging to see gie Alito have a good week 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.600 because he's been dreadful for the last month, and so 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.120 much so that I started to some guys I don't 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.560 lose faith in, Like, I don't care. I'm just gonna 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.600 leave him in my lineup with Gilito in the last 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.880 couple of starts, like, oh man, maybe it's time to 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.079 just benj him and wait a little bit. But I didn't, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.720 and I'm glad I didn't last week because it turned 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.000 out better, So that's a positive. But still they need 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.040 I feel like this is a team that's got all 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.520 the right pieces, they just haven't all triggered at the 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.400 same time. And as important as a good first half is, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.800 and the Yankees and the Mets and the Astros, a 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.920 lot of teams, the Dodgers have had really good first halfs, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.640 that second half is almost more important because that's kind 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.040 of the momentum into the playoffs. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:06.480 Yeah, I still say the. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.360 White Sox, I agree with you that division is not 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.559 like a world beater, tough division to get ahead, and 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.000 I think maybe a little bit of a paper tiger 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.880 syndrome at the top of it. Let's talk about this. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.480 This is from one of our writers, Austin Lowell, who 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.199 has been on this picture for a while. I want 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.720 to talk about this, and I'm talking about a Baltimore 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.600 Orioles pitcher. I know, I know the ratings are going 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.320 to go through the roof, but check this out. Tyler 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.400 Wells Elray is down to three ZHO nine after six innings, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.199 one run, seven k's over the twins this week. Right 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.800 era of five point five to four in April, followed 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.800 by two ninety three in May, two forty two in June, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.640 and then the one start in July at one fifty. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.079 No one's talking about this guy, and I love it 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.160 because we have such great writers here at Fantasy Pros 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.080 who are tracking things and doing the news updates and 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.800 writing the articles. Tyler Wells is kind of an interesting 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.960 dude right now. That is only roster to believe this 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.560 well in thirty percent of leagu'es box thirty percent of leagues. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.600 Are you somebody that would pick up Austin Lowell? I 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.280 mean even just make him also like Tyler well I 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.360 would pick up Aston Look at Boston Lowell for sure, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.959 that guy immediately. He's available in every league. I'm sorry, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.640 would you add Tyler Wells even though he's an oriole 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.960 based on the e R numbers and what he could 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.440 possibly help you in peripherals? 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.600 Look, but see, here's the deal. Anytime you add a 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.200 guy like this, if he starts to you know, if 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.560 he starts giving up a bunch of runs against you 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.280 just dump him. You know, this is uh, this is 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.360 a practice guy. It's fine. This is the guy at 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.520 the end of your bench. That's all that matters. So yeah, 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.439 pick him up, ride the wave. You know, you look 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.360 at his savant page. He's not really good at anything. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.960 He's kind of middling at everything. Is a low walk rate, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.440 that's nice. His k percentage is ugly, which is why 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:54.559 he is not rostered in more places. So you know, uh, yeah, 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.640 you pick up a guy like this right the waves and. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.360 Smelts right, smelters another one of these guys too from 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.160 the Twins where you say, well, you know, the cave 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.320 braid is what six per nine was like. That is 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.600 not very thrilling. That's not usually the kind of picture 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.840 I like. But you know, whenever you're trying to stream pictures, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.040 if it was Paul Blackburn for the first couple of months, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.240 I guess the question is as well as like been 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.559 this guy that maybe nobody's realized that could be the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.000 next version of that, And then there'll be another one, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.480 probably in August September that you can stream or pick 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.559 those matchups. Smeltzer wells, those kind of guys. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.640 I mean, your best case scenario is whatever it he 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.240 figured out in the second month, that clicks and it 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.600 stays through to the end of the season. Worst case 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.920 scenario is you pick him up, it's your faulty sucks, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.400 and you dump him after two starts because he's terrible 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.600 again because you added him, right that is, And that's 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.520 kind of where I get to that point with those guys, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.920 is that you know, and this is what replacement level 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.960 is is. You know, when a guy gets hurt and 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.440 you're starting to churn that spot, that's why you churn it. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.959 You know, maybe it's a month, maybe it's two. Much 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.199 this guy is great and then he starts to fall back. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.520 But however long it is, grab him, ride the wave 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.480 and then find somebody else doing the same stuff. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.560 So again this is right from our writer here. Austin Lowell, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.400 who has his change up and slider have been nearly unhittable, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.760 rendering a one to ninety one batting average with a 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.240 two to eighties slugging. Also, he's giving up just five 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.600 runs over twenty six innings against the Yankees, Boston and Toronto. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.520 See that's always the thing, Like you look at those 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.000 pitchers in you know, in that division, and you go, oh, man, 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.240 do I want one of these low level pitchers on 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.959 a low level team and a big time division. But 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.439 that's that to me is most important. If you can 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.400 hold your own at least give me a quality start 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.320 in those matchups. I think Wells is going to be 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.800 in the in the video and again at Austin Lowell 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.040 wherever you can't too, because clearly he's doing good job 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.600 for us. All right, let's get to next here, which 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.800 is Julio Rodriguez is good at baseball. Julio Rodriguez fastest 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.880 player in Major League Baseball history BOGS to get to 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.280 fifteen plus OH runs and twenty steals in his first season. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.199 That's pretty astounding, don't you think, especially nowadays where nobody steals. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.839 Base it's pretty awesome. The Welsh listed off a tweet 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.000 the other day that was comparing through eighty games him 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.880 and Griffy and his numbers were better, which is just insanity, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:13.520 you know. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.520 Better in which way from the stolen bases or from 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:17.079 just I. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.000 Think just like it was stolen bases. I think he 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.040 had maybe one or two more homers. I think the 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.280 batting average was close, but the slugging went to uh 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.720 went to Julio for sure here and I got a 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.320 buddy coming in at the end of the month here 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.000 to visit on vacation. We're going to go see the 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.920 Astros and Mariners play, so nice. Hopefully, just be healthy, Julio, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.320 that's all I asked, healthy, Be healthy for that, for 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.440 that so I can watch you play. But yeah, man, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.920 he is he is something else right now. No one 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.120 expected the stolen bases, like the fifteen homers not surprising. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.439 Decent batting average not surprising. The stolen bases kind of 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.240 came out of nowhere. But this is you know, this 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.559 is what I always say people. I don't think people 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.720 think about this. The best instruction in baseball is still 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.000 in the bigs, even though there's really good instruction at 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.640 the lower levels. You want the players that you're investing 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.280 hundreds of millions of dollars into to have the best instruction. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.960 So the best instructors are up in the big two, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 so you know, you learn something new. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.800 Is the only difference is there's pressure. That's why pressure 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.360 to more pressure. Right, the instruction level is the best. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.000 Those those guys have those elite jobs is hitting coaches 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.000 and pitching coaches for a reason. I've made a an 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.280 It was an sat analogy basically, So Julia Rodriguez is 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.800 to iPod as Jared Kalnick is to the Zoom. Is 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:37.520 that accurate? 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:39.720 Say that accurate? Right now? 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.080 Like that? That's my sat analogy for the day. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.280 I missed walmarting those kmart right there. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.000 Well, Kmart was very strong for many many years. Where's 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.760 Kmar Now it's not around. It's not around now neither, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.040 but it had to run. At least it had a run. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.080 Just neither's Jared Kalnick. Well, kel Nick never had a run. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.120 You're right, that's what I mean. Okay, was glorious for 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.320 many years. I remember was the Mars one. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.520 Do you remember Mars one? There going make a reality 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.480 program and uh send eight people to Mars to colonize 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.240 it and live there. Never happened, so I don't remember that. 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.200 But but then there wasn't another show where they went 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.800 to Jupiter and then it all took off and it 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:20.600 was great, right. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.960 That's true. Yeah, no one's ever done it before, so. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.560 It's got to be like a pro Like we were 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:28.080 promised two things, and both of them were supposed to 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.040 be amazing, and one of them did change our culture, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.400 and the other one became a punchline in Guardians of 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.480 the Galaxy. I think that's the difference between those two things. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.840 The other question I have for you, Ken Julia Rodriguez, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.040 get to thirty thirty this year, because we're at the 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.800 halfway mark. If you want to extrapolate, the stone bases 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.160 are gonna be easy. It's the home run total. Can 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.440 it be a rookie thirty thirty guy? 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.080 Yeah, well, yeah, he absolutely can be. I mean I 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.000 don't know if he will, but it's one hundred percent 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.080 in there. Look at his numbers right now. Yeah, I 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.920 go on to you know, this is hitting homers that 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.920 kind of a normal pace. You know, he's higher in 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.120 the league, but he's not closed to judge or and 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.880 after a. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.320 Terrible Jap he did nothing in April. You could just 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.000 crumple up April. So this has all been May June pretty. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.600 Much right exactly. So for sure, Yeah, he can definitely 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.520 get to thirty thirty that it would not be surprising. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.440 This excites me. I am excited here. I know Mike 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.360 Marris very excited too, and he mayor is right. We 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.480 do have some kmarts still in Jersey. By the way, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.720 we had one in my town here where I live 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.920 up until about like six seven years ago, and it 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.040 was very helpful to have something like that very close. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.160 You know, you don't have to go to Walmart. But 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.120 eventually the Walmart, of course, did eat everything. Just like 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.000 in south Park. It just consumes and consumes. Let's get 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.400 to this day. In baseball, we had a lot of 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.320 fun things. In nineteen ninety three, Ricky Henderson of the 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.520 Athletics opened up both games of a doubleheader with a homer, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.600 first player to accomplish that feet in sixty years. In 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.120 nineteen ninety eight, one Gonzalez became the second player the 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.320 top one hundred RBI before the All Star Break, And 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.000 I remember. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.600 And I remember that, remember that so clearly. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.840 Yes, Wan Gonzales is one of the great power hitting, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.240 slugging guys that we never talk about because we all 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.879 just assumed there were special vitamins and we just we 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.760 just brush him off. Holy crap, man, there was a 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.960 window where wangan Zalas was unbelievably entertaining. Man, unbelieva. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.520 I remember, yeah, the one hundred RBI. I just remember 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.920 looking and saying, he has eighty seven RBI right now, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.360 he's gonna have one hundred before the break. And then 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.920 he did, and I if I'm remembering correctly, I feel 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.119 like he got it in Camden. Maybe I'm mistaken, but 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.320 I just I remember. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.720 Finished with like one was that one forty something? He 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.960 finished like he didn't lit Yeah, might finished like sixty 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.040 half or hammi or yeah, it's still Hank Greenberg. I 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.560 believe that still has the record for RBI in a season, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.760 which is some ridiculous number which I don't even know. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.320 I don't even know how he could do that. Another 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.360 fun one, nineteen ninety eight, Roger Clemens became the eleventh 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.680 pitcher in baseball history to hit three thousand strikeout mark, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.359 and that was in ninety eight, So he did it 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.200 on July five. However, that brings us to our trivia 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.000 question of the day, which was on July fourth, two 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.160 not one, but two Hall of Fame pitchers in different 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.920 years recorded their three thousand strikeout. Now, both these guys 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.960 are in the Hall of Fame. That's your clue. They 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.680 did it on July fourth. What two pictures on July 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.560 fourth got to that three thousandth mark in strikeouts? If 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.680 you know, drop the answer in the chat. There you go, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.040