WEBVTT - Leading Off July 12th, 2024 (Ep. 862) 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.000 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.720 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:11.640 Bet five bucks get. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.760 One hundred and fifty and bonus bets when you use 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.520 the promo code leading Off only at Bet three six five. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.200 It is me, Joey p That's Joe Arico, and it's you, 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.160 the Peanuts and the Cracker. Jacks Welsh on vacation for 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.720 the extended weekend. He'll be back on Monday with me. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.799 We've got some fun stuff going on again. We won't 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.800 be live this week because the All Star Game festivities, 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.640 but we are dropping some content so Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:35.880 keep an eye out on the channel. Subscribe to Fantasy 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.840 Bros MLB on the YouTube side so you get all 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.519 of the shows. Joe Rico, we got to start here 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.440 with a guy. It looked pretty pretty good yesterday. I 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.840 had just a couple strikeouts in the game. Oh what's 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.199 his name? Oh yeah, Paul Skeen's somebody we don't talk 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.720 about very often on the show. Paul Sken's got a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.280 w a one nothing win for the Pirates. The twenty 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.000 two year old has a one nine zero era. He 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.120 struck out eleven brewers yesterday, So the over game in 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.240 a big time on that strikeout total eighty nine cutcaves, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.840 twelve walks in eleven starts, and it looks like he 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.200 could be the starter of the All Star Game, which 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.680 we just talked about on the show. The only way 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.240 to do it is to make him the starter with 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.679 his funky routine. He's throwing footballs, he's backhanding balls against walls. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.080 Start him clean inning, get him out of there. I'm 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.240 excited now for first inning of the All Star Game 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.240 of Skeens is indeed. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.280 The dude, absolutely and I love that they're not going 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.560 to mess with the routine. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:29.960 Like you said. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.400 If he's coming out in the fourth of the fifth 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:32.920 inning and he's got to work in the pen and 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.640 just keep everything nice and clean, it looks like it's 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.960 going to be Gunner, Henderson, Judge, and Soto in that 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.880 first inning. Probably, we don't know for sure, but I'm 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.119 very excited. I'm not usually somebody who cares that much 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.080 about the All Star Game. I like the Derby, but 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.680 the game is kind of whatever. But I will be 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.000 planted on the coach watching that for sure. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:51.400 I love it. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.360 It's like Walsh isn't here, but we got Joe in lockstep. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.520 He's not excited about the All Star Game either. I 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.320 used to be excited about the All Star Game. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.280 It's tough. It's last year. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.800 The uniforms were so bad it actually made my head hurt. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.280 I had a hard time physically watching it. That was 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.119 that was weird. I did not like the the uniforms. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:11.000 I was old man, Joe. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.079 I wish they'd wear their own team jerseys like it 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.080 used to be. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.239 I can't you wear the old one chefs like we 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.240 used to hear. You wear your own damn jersey. You 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:19.799 wear the home white if you're the home. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.000 Team, and then you go out there. You wear the 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.240 graze if you're out there. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.320 And I remember when I remember when Carl Hebbw was 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.440 in the Star Game. He struck out those three fellas there, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.040 he struck out. He shuck out Timmy Fox, and he 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:32.680 struck out to. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.040 Babe Ruth, and he struck out lou Gary get a row. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.760 I was there, Carl Hebbw. Alright, people have to look 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.800 up who Carl Hubble is? 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.960 The jake not even joining us live here on the show. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.200 Instead drops a Colm. I can't make the show Live today, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.119 but just want to drop it and say that Paul 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.360 Skans is the f and man and I may or 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.560 may not be developing a slight man crush on him. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.960 Have a great show, go Braves says the jake is 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.040 that okay? Can you have man crushes on Paul Skins. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:57.880 I think it's okay, right. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.240 I think it's perfectly okay for me. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.639 I love dude like I love pitching. I used to 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.160 be a pitcher when I played baseball, and I always 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.680 tend to favorite pitchers more. But when you're seeing this 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.160 kind of thing, it's hard to not just be smitten. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:11.280 It really is. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.399 Well, you do have that picture hair I do, old 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:15.200 de gram hair I do. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.600 I got the old lensicum flowed. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.760 Tonsum to grom. You know, there was that window there 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.160 where all the guys had that same hair. And Joel 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.040 Rico's like, no, this is not a phase for me. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.160 This is going the whole way, all right. Speaking of 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.040 the Derby, by the way, I just put out my 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.600 picks for the Derby on the social media. You can 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.800 go check that out. Should be out later today. But 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.600 it's Alonzo Ozuna, Garcia Henderson, Bobby Wood Junior Hernandez ta 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.400 Oscar that is, Josier and mirrors and Alec Boem Joe. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.360 I know where I'm going for this one. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:46.880 Do you have a favorite that you like so far? 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.680 I know there's some you know. Alonzo plus three hundred 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.800 is the favorite. Ozuna right behind him plus three fifty. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.920 I'm looking at Bobby Witta plus six hundred and Garcia 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.600 plus four. Those are my two favorite bets. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:57.200 Where do you go? 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:58.800 Probably? 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:04.040 Probably Alonzo would be hard to bet against him. I 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.520 think that'd be where I I mean, how can you 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:07.200 bet against the champ? 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.400 Right? How many times does he want it? Two? 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:08.760 Three? 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.040 Is it three? I can't remember? At least two? 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.880 Right, Lonzo's won a twice two. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:15.040 I think it would be hard to got to. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.200 The finals, but he came up short another time. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.120 Yeah, I think it would be hard to bet against him. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.839 I mean, plus three hundred, it's not the greatest, but 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.600 it's still a triple your money for Peter al On, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.000 So I think it's I think it's probably where I 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.600 would go. I'm not going to bet on the Derby, probably, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.719 although we'll see what happens. Once a couple of beers 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.120 are flowing on Monday night. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:31.320 I like this ladist. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.120 Eddie Buzz says, Joe, you were mentioned on another podcast, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.839 like Eddie, what podcast is talking about me? 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:37.719 Oh? So humbled? 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.400 Some dude was railing about you and you're singing, and 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.680 I stood up for you because I'm a cracker. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.120 Jack good, thank you, Eddie what show? Let me know? 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.120 So you see all these tough guys are I'm just 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.000 kind of curious all these fake tough guys like to 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.080 hang around and make comments. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.320 Is it me or you? Is it me or you? 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.120 I guess it's probably you. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.359 Oh, it's definitely me. I don't know how you're singing, Joe. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.320 It's not the greatest. Probably not. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.560 Hey, at least they're talking about you, you know, That's 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:02.080 what I say. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.440 They're talking about you? All right? Some more headlines. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.960 Juli Rodriguez feast or famine continues. He've reached the base 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.760 all four times yesterday after not doing anything the day 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.920 before and then going four to four the day before that. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:17.000 He was three for three with a double and a walk. Crazy, 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.840 So there you go. Juli Rodriguez continues to be in enigma. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.520 Jack Flaherty was back and good two hits, one run, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:27.839 six innings against the Guardians there just an ass kicking. Really, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.480 so Joe Jack Flaherty probably is going to be out there. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.239 Give me a guess of where you think Jack Flaherty 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.839 will land. Is he a Dodger? Is he a Yankee? 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.240 Is he I'm trying to think of some man of 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:39.080 the other teams out there. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.240 Is he a Brave? Like? Where does he possibly go? 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:41.640 Yankee? 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.320 Yankee Stadium would scare me a little bit. I think 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.560 Braves would be interesting. Braves and Dodgers both really need pitching. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.479 I think one of them would make a lot of sense. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.279 But I also got to say, how is Jack Flarity 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.360 not an All Star? I know he's probably wouldn't pitch 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.560 in the game anyway, but he has been one of 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.000 the best pitchers in all of baseball this season and 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.320 he is headed to the All Star Game, So I 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.039 think that's crazy. He's likely to get traded, and I 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.200 think it's probably gonna be one of those elite National 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:07.440 League teams, But why is. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.960 He not Houston wouldn't surprise me either. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.760 Houston's kind of been up up a creek without a paddle, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.240 and Eddi's saying it was my friends at the CBS show, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.800 Frank and Chris, Well, that's okay that those are my friends. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.159 That's not some other show. It's a great show. I 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.200 love the boys over there and Scott and everybody. They 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.560 do great job over there, so that's okay. Frank has 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.599 heard me sing in person at bars, so that's okay. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.840 Frank and I go way back. So you know, Frank 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.440 Stample fun fact, was actually a producer of a show 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.680 of mine when he was an intern years ago over 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.080 at Fantasy Network. So that's how long I know Frankie boy. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.640 So it's been a long time there. So I'm now 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.960 I'm going to ask them to come on the show 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.159 just so I can sing to them. So now that 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.960 I know they're talking trash. Kevin Gossman allowed two runs 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.320 a seven innings yesterday, so Joe Rico happy today. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.760 Lewis Castile also good. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.320 Some good pitching performances yesterday, including Hunter Green striking out 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.039 ten and Justin Steele, who we were betting on yesterday, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:03.160 came through seven shutout innings, got a w against the O's. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.479 Justin Steele was winless forever and it was a good 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.680 bet yesterday. Maybe this is that little bit of a 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.120 you know, the Orioles look a little human here. It's 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.000 funny Joe coming up against the break, the Phillies, the Yankees, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.720 the Orioles, all the big juggernaut teams looking a little 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.480 human here in the middle of the year. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:22.080 Have you noticed that? 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:23.800 Yeah, I think it kind of tends to happen. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.720 Nobody runs so so pure that they're gonna well, I mean, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.720 it does happen every now and again, but usually you're 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.680 gonna see teams go through a bit of a downturn, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.880 even those one hundred plus win teams. So I'm not 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.760 really overly worried, but yeah, it's definitely something that we 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.960 have noticed specifically. I got know, we've talked with the 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.200 Dodgers a lot, but that rotation is just like it's crazy. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.560 Like we mentioned yesterday, James Paxson at the top right now, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.360 they're gonna have to do some stuff because yeah, it's 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.640 it's not what you'd be expecting for sure at this point, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.040 but it does. Like it's baseball, it does happen. Teams 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.880 are gonna run cold and hot for a while, but 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.360 the bet the better teams are gonna figure it out eventually. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.520 Now on the other side of the Paul Skeens headline 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.680 was Aaron Savaldi, who pitched very well. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.760 By the way, so Brewers. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.480 Acquire Savali about a week ago, six and a third innings, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.560 one run, took the l but again pitched very well. 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.120 This is important for the Milwaukee Brewers. It's also important 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.600 for fantasy perspective because, look, Savally, they need more help 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.120 in this rotation. They need some depth. Savali's that guy. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.000 Here's a question for you. I know his underlying metrics 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.320 are better than the actual era and all that stuff. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.600 We've been talking about that for a long time. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.840 I know Mike Maher seems to write about it every 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.239 single week on Fantasy bros dot Com, waiting for Savali 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:29.800 to come around. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.880 Do you think, y'all should. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.000 I say, are you confident that Savally is somebody that's 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.480 going to be an asset in the second half for 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:38.480 fantasy managers? 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:40.000 I wouldn't say him confident. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.360 I think there's a chance, but unless he really does 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.360 start to get closer to those era estimators, and even 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.920 the estimators are somewhere in like the low four type 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.640 of range. If you're talking really shallow leagues, you got 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.840 a guy who's maybe going to be like best case 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.120 scenario high threes, low fours without a lot of strikeout upside. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.839 I think he's okay, but. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.360 I think he does skew to slightly deeper formats if 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.160 you're in like a ten team or twelve teamer. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.679 I think he's more streamable. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.959 He does have upside, but I don't think we see 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.200 it constant enough to have him on those shallow rosters. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.720 Do if that make sense, Oh, definitely makes sense. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.560 Let's do a little for fun. Brandon Fodd got his 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.040 first win of the month. Yay, Brandon Fodd six innings 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.680 for the Diamondbacks. Good w over the Braves. In also 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.839 other news, three for four with a double was Wiler 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.160 or brayew He had a home run to RBI. He 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.280 was just eight for forty two over his last fourteen games, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:33.920 so he needed a good game in the worst way. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.560 That's a positive rookie lokie time. Shane Boz gave up 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.680 three runs in four and a third, got no decision 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:40.760 against the Yankees. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.480 He gave up six hits, walked one, struck out five. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.000 But as everyone likes to say, the stuff look good, 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.760 so are you encouraged by the stuff look good? Even 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.400 though the results weren't necessarily there. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.200 Yeah, the thing that really is kind of odd is 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.800 the pitch count he got up in the nineties in 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.760 his previous start, they pulled him at sixty eight. Now, 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.440 Aaron Judge was coming up to the dish. But I 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.840 think this is his kind of raiser, gonna ray type 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.600 of thing, Like I think Shane Boss is very good, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.880 but Kevin Cash is gonna be kind of infuriating the 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.599 way he uses him. So I was pretty encouraged, Like 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.640 it wasn't a bad outing. I think BoSz is an 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.800 excellent pitcher, but Tampa is just so so annoying four 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.160 and a third when he's at sixty eight pitches, like, 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.120 come on, what are we doing? 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:18.440 Come on? 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.360 So I guess Eddie Buzz works for I mean, with 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.679 a name like Eddie Buzz, you gotta work for TMZ, right, 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.400 I gotta think. So it's more to come here. So 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.680 Eddie's still going on into the chat here. Look at 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.640 him just unloading stuff. Just to be clear, it was 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.840 a fellow subscriber, not Frank or Chris, commenting on my vocals. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.959 So it was one of our Peanuts and Cracker Jacks 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.400 making a comment, how dare you see other shows behind 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.679 my back? How dare you? 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.400 No, those guys are great. Like That's the thing I 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.120 never understood. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.880 It's like, you know, it's if you like baseball and 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.680 you like this show, and that you can like this show, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.320 you can like that show. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:50.200 You could like all those shows. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.240 You could be everywhere. Dude, Like the tribalism and fantasy 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.720 sports makes me laugh. I'm like, I mean, look, I 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.240 know in nerd circles and I'm a nerd myself. Like, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.520 tribalism is kind of a thing. Come on, man, we're 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.800 having different takes, different baseball stuff. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.120 It's a good time. So yeah, I mean nice singing's 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:09.920 actually not so bad. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.880 Sometimes I do it bad as a joke here on 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.640 the show. But who knows, Maybe we'll have to do 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.160 an entire musical version of the show. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:16.920 Joe Rico, yep. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.959 For the musical version of absolutely, I will get off 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.800 the music, I will get the vocals ready, I will 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.400 absolutely take heart for the next intro. For the next 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:25.920 time you guys do an intro, we should get one 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:27.440 of you guys to sing it instead of this AI. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.240 So there you go. I love that Jackson job. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.360 Check out eight and five scoreless innings in double A 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.400 and Finally, Slade Chacconi was sent down. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.280 To triple A Reno. So a lot of guys. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.640 Will get sent down. Some guys will come back up 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.400 this time of year because it's the All Star break. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.840 They want guys to keep working through rotation spots especially, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.000 but some guys will not. I don't know if Slay 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.160 Chaccone is gonna be back. Three up and three down. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.320 Cal Raley, how hot has he been? Three for five 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.160 homer from both sides of the plate. Unbelievable? What should 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.000 have been picking cal Rawley for my home run calls? 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.560 Let's think it would have been way better onan Soto 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.800 two for four, excuse me two for three with two walks, 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.640 a double and a dinger and ten or how six 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:08.480 shoutout innings? 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.520 I fell just shy though of. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.320 My strikeout total in the extras, so got regular one, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.360 got the w all that stuff, but I got the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.160 parlay version, but didn't get the all strikeouts. Whatever life 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.839 goes on. Brandon Drury, another zero for three for him, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.520 he said in a Bucks seventy two forty four forty 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.360 two games. Brandon Drury had a couple good seasons in 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.600 a row, and then he has completely fallen off the 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.199 map this year. What happened to Brandon Drury? I understand Joe. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.800 It was like a weird thing where it was a 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.280 player people didn't expect, and then he became productive, and 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.440 then people didn't buy in, and then this year if 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.280 you bought in, is like, hey, this is a cost 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.320 effective guy in the infield spots where you can get 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.480 some power and he might be a pretty good return. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.719 And he has done less than nothing this year. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.080 Yeah, I think he did deal with an injury, but 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.439 the power is just gone. Like the last couple of 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.120 seasons twenty six, twenty eight homers barrel rate above ten 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.800 percent each of the last two seasons, one home run 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.800 in forty two games and a three point eight percent 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.520 barrel rate. The power being gone for Brandon jury means 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.400 there's just no fantasy value. He's not a batting average asset, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.840 no stolen bases. We know the lineup around him. I 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.120 needed to double check this. He has six RBI in 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.439 forty two game, Like that is just that's a lot. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.560 Like that's a horrendous, horrendous. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.640 Don't even know how that happens, Like how does that 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.280 even happen? Like you figure, you know the Angels have 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:23.720 their problems. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.120 Figure you and I could be in the middle of 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.880 that order, probably drive in more than six runs in 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.640 forty two games. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.840 Maybe I'm kind of joking, kind of, but I'm not. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.040 I can still swing to bad Brandon curveball, not so 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.480 much straight ball. Fine curveball bats are afraid. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.280 Yeah, Brandon jury, I think if you're still holding on, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.920 there's just there's just not a lot of hope here 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:38.160 for me. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.920 All right, let's continue with the downs. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.040 McKenzie gore four runs in four and two thirds against 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.480 the Mets, and Jordan Hicks got lit up five runs 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.360 and four and a third. Not a good day against 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.480 your Blue Jays, but again that made Joe Rigo happy 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.880 injury notes to get to read Garrett mri on his 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.320 elbow was clean, no structural damage, So we'll see what 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.040 happens there. Jg Rerol mute is not going to return 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:01.880 before they all star break. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.559 No surprise there. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.160 We've been thinking that DJ Lemayhew underwent a precautionary cat scan. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.000 It was apparently clean, though after he found a ball 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.400 off his neck. Now I didn't see this, Joe, but 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.000 how do you foule a ball off your neck? That 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.760 seems like almost what's more impossible fouling a ball off 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.080 your neck or Brandon Jury having six RBI in forty 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:19.640 two games. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:20.680 I want to hear you. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.560 In the comments, you tell me what is more unlikely. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.200 But what do you think, Joe? What do you think 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.960 about this one? Did you see this? I miss this. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.960 I didn't see it either, But it feels like you 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.400 would be more likely to hit yourself on the neck 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.840 than only drive into six runs, even for the Angels, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.840 over the course of what a quarter of a season. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.800 That's wild. Have you see the odd foul ball go 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.280 off the you know, near the hands or at the 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.200 end of the other games? 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.720 Yeah, I'm only guessing it hit the ground and came 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.440 back up on him. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.520 Could that have been maybe I didn't see it. Maybe 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:48.320 like it hit the. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.000 Plate and came back. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.000 I mean, I know it's some weird foul ball stuff, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.240 but that seems like a weird, weird one to me. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.360 I don't know, very weird. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.160 I don't know. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.920 Kyle Tucker is playing catch today, So there you go, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 Kyle Tucker and your ten year old nephew both playing 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.000 catch this afternoon. Zach Wheeler will not start on Sunday 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.200 against the A's no shock there with that back issue, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.880 so we're gonna keep him. We'll see if he makes 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.840 appearance in the All Star Game. Joe, I give it 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.240 a fifty to fifty. What do you give it for 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.640 Wheeler in the All Star Game? 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:17.040 I don't think so. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:21.800 I think they're probably not gonna let him pitch, but maybe. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.280 I mean, then NL's until Tuesday, the NL. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.080 Suffered a few losses for pitchers, so that the NL 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.600 All Star pitching staff might need to desperately call upon 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.600 Zach Wheeler. But I don't know if Rob Thompson and 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.440 the Phillies are gonna love that. I think they probably 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:35.120 would prefer. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:35.600 To have a break. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.800 But did they have a say in the matter, Like 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.800 can Levolo just say, like, you know what, he's going out? 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.080