WEBVTT - The Cycle: Ronel Blanco, Statcast Swing Data, Trade Targets & Prospects With Chris Welsh (Ep. 8) 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:03.440 Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.640 I am Ryan Warmley, joined as always by Mike Mayer. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.080 I will try and get through this episode totop coughing 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.040 too much. I am in the I think the early 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:12.840 stages of cold. 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:13.480 I don't know what it is. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.720 My throats father and me father. The best I can 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.520 here to power through and give you guys the Fantasy 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.319 Baseball goodness that you have come to appreciate each and 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.400 every week. 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It's a 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.000 pretty good conversation so definitely check around that in the 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.160 second half of the show. Start off, as we always 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.600 do with rounding the bases. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:03.760 Mayor. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.880 I was playing softball last night and then I saw 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.959 a message from you that said, well, I guess we 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.759 need to talk about Ronelle Blanco on tomorrow's show. And 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.800 I said why in my head, and I went and 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.360 looked it up. I was like, did he get hurt? 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.360 You know, did he get shelled? Turns out he's been cheating. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.959 I mean I say that kind of tongue and cheek. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.600 It's like, not entirely clear. He has been suspended for 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.800 ten days by Major League Baseball. They found substance on 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.479 his arm and it was checked and he was out 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.840 of the game, and, like I said, now suspended. What's 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.760 really interesting in situations like this for me is less 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 looking backwards at you know, trying to figure out how 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.560 much of what he had done this season was related 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.040 to the cheating, intentional or otherwise or whatever, you know, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.040 like looking at spin rates and things like that. I 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.279 saw Welsh tweeting about this. Actually it's more about looking forward. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.640 What do we expect out of him when he returns. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.000 So that's kind of where I'm at. What was your 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.720 initial takeaway when you saw this and what are you 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.080 thinking about now a day later. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.840 Well, my initial takeaway was, oh, no, he's my two 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.600 star pitcher against Ryan for this week, so I have 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.680 to I guess I'm going to automatically lose. And that's 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.840 one of the main reasons I initially messaged you. I 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.640 was like, well, got to talk about this. What a 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.640 disaster for me. I've also I'm also someone who has 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.880 kind of not been high on renal bloca. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.240 But like when he kind. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:29.679 Of broke out and had just no hitter, we talked 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.120 about him, and I think most of the industry just 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.639 kind of agreed. You know, this is this is kind 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.600 of a fluke thing. It's not gonna last. He's going 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.839 to turn back into a pumpkin. And then he's where 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.800 eight starts in and the number. You know, there are 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.440 some obviously concerning underlying numbers, but you know, his actual 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.520 numbers continue to be really good, and there are some 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.720 some signs that, you know, like we talked about the 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.680 change up and you know that stuff. But now I 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.160 feel like I don't know anything. It's hard to know 0:02:58.200 --> 0:02:58.840 what to believe. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:02:59.240 You know. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.000 It's like you said, has he been cheating all along? 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.240 You know, is this a one off thing? And you 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.320 know everyone is you know, I've seen everyone kind of 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.680 talking about the spin Rate's like nothing was noticeably different 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.680 in this start. Does that mean he wasn't really cheating? 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.720 Does it mean he's always been cheating? Like I feel 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.239 like I don't know what to believe now, and it's 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.240 like he already was kind of a cell high, and 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.400 now it's like, can you even you know, the CBS 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.480 guys were talking about this. Can you know he was 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.840 a cell high? But now can you is he now 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.919 a by low? Because maybe you just you know, someone's like, oh, 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.359 you know, they got to get out from underneath the 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.880 Renel Blanco. Maybe you can just get him for nothing, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.119 or because they're concerned about this. You know, it's only 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.400 a short suspension, but it's like, you know, they're obviously 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.160 you know, we already had concerns and now no one 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.280 really can believe anything. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.160 I'll tell you this, I will buy low now emphasis 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.040 on low. It needs to be low, but I'll buy 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.640 low and say, listen to his era is like two 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:55.720 what is it two oh nine? 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.440 This season? 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.400 I know that, like you said, there's some underlying stuff, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.600 but almost a strikeout. And again, in the modern landscape 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.480 of pitching, like taking a chance that this was kind 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.960 of like some fluke like mix of sweat or whatever. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.760 Like I'm not going to pretend to sit here and say, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.040 like I definitively know like what he was attending, what 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.719 was actually happening, et cetera, et cetera, and it might 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.320 you know, not not pan out. Maybe he has been 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.080 cheating all along and now he's going to turn back 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.280 into a pumpkin. Maybe he was always going to turn 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.080 back into a pumpkin because he's thirty years old, having 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.880 this late career breakout, and we just expect those guys 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.520 to regress. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.040 I don't know. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.440 But if I can truly buy low and get him 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.600 for like essentially nothing, which I don't think is possible everywhere, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.920 but I think it's definitely possible in some places, I'm 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.920 happy to do that and take that swing and say, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.120 you know, best case scenario, he comes back and he 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.720 is the guy that he has been the first month 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.400 and a half of the season, and it's kind of 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.880 like a key cog in my fantasy rotation. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.360 Worst case I didn't give up much to get him. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.479 I think you know, if you asked me, you know, buy, seller, hold, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.919 the correct answer is probably hold. I would think I 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.200 would not be selling low. You obviously can't sell high 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.159 right now. I would not be selling low. I would 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.279 be buying low or holding if I already have him. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.000 What do you think? 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.120 Yeah, I would agree with that. I think you have 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.040 to hold and not sell low. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.280 I mean, it's if he comes back and stinks up 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.680 the place, you're gonna sell low or have to drop 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.840 him anyway. But there's not really much to gain by 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.320 selling low now. I do want to mention I saw A. J. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.000 Pruzinski talking about this today and he had some pretty 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.479 strong feelings which I kind of agreed with. And he 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.760 just talked about the whole process of of you know, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.600 flagging these pictures and how an umpire gonna be like, yeah, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.960 that's sticky stuff like throw and not only do you 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.200 throw them out of the game, he's automatically suspended for 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.359 ten games. And he was he was arguing, we have 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.240 the science to figure this out, like we can tell 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.119 if that was rosen or not, Like it's not hard, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.920 you know, like give us a swab and by tomorrow 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.400 morning we'll know if it was you. 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.320 Know, we'll know what the substance is. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.000 And he kind of made the case like you can 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.560 just have an umpire with a grudge against the pitcher, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.080 and knowing what we know about these umpires and some 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.320 of their you know, opinions and attitudes and just general personalities, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.560 that's not necessarily something that you know, is out of 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.680 the realm of possibility that someone could just like have 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.520 a grudge against someone and there's just no checks and balance. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.719 As you just said, Yep, that's sticky stuff. I don't 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:23.320 think it's sweat. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.520 I think I think you're cheating and you're out of 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.520 this game and ten games suspension. I thought that was 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.320 an interesting point, and I think I agree with him. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.760 If you are waiting on public checks and balances for 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.640 Major League Baseball umpires, you're gonna be. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:37.400 Waiting a long time. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:38.679 That's fair. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.200 We'll tell you that. Yeah. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.520 I mean, he's been one of the more interesting stories 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.280 of the start of the season. Like, like, obviously the 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.200 no hitter really like boosts the kind of profile around 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.520 a guy. But like to your point, he has been 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.640 really consistent since then too for a bad Astros team. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.159 He he is four and oh for a team that 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.880 is not winning a lot of games, so it's pretty significant. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.039 And I'm really curious, really curious to see what he 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.680 looks like when he's back on the mound. Like I said, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.480 I'm happy to I won't be starting him that first 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:11.920 start back. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.119 I don't even care who he's facing. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.280 He will not be he will be on my bench, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.600 but I want him on my roster just just in case. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.760 And this is kind of a fluke or again some 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.760 sort of incidental mixing of whatever, and that really really quickly, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.960 what do you think about the hitters who said when 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.920 this offers started happening like that they kind of like 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.680 some of the sticky stuff just to make sure the 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.960 pitcher like had control over the ball and wasn't going 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.840 to be like you know, slipping around and throwing kind 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:39.560 of haphazardly. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:40.560 What do you think about that? 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.280 Well, yeah, I mean it's a real I don't want 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.040 to say pet peeve, but it really annoys me that 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:50.120 baseball changes the ball so much. And you've seen there 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.040 are other leagues, like I think the KBO does it 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.800 where they have like a pre tacked ball, like the 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.800 ball is already sticky, and I think everyone is kind 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.200 of with that you know, obviously hitters have to deal 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.160 with some better breaking pitches, but they're also not just 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.040 going to get you know, pitches in the side of 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.200 their neck because the slider doesn't slide kind of a thing, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.520 and you don't have to worry about all this stuff. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.480 And you know, there's also some argument to be made 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.160 that some of the sticky stuff is a result you know, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.480 or lack they're like how slick the balls are is 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.280 resulting in some injuries. I forget if it was last 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:21.840 year of the year before we saw a ton of 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.400 pitchers start to go down with like blisters and stuff 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.000 that they were having trouble with the new baseballs. And 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.440 I think in the lower one of the lower minor 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.120 league levels where they kind of like start to experiment 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.600 with all these things, I think they're already using a 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.840 pre tacked ball. So I hope, you know, just for 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.680 the sake of the game, I hope they maybe bring 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.080 that to Major League Baseball and we get, you know, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.400 less variance between baseballs and just kind of have a 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.360 pre tact ball that everyone you know is agreement that 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:50.160 you know, these work. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.920 Next topic here, U stat Cast really interestingly released swing 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.360 tracking data. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.839 So this is stuff like the. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.000 That speed on the swing, the that length in terms 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.800 of how short the swing is, you know, how compact 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.599 it is versus how long it is. Stuff about the 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.240 number of blasts you have, which is kind of like 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.880 squaring up a ball but with a certain you know, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.320 you know, exsit velocity slash bat speed. I haven't memorized 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.680 all the numbers yet, but it's that kind of thing 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.280 which is really interesting. You know. Obviously, every year it 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.600 seems like we're kind of learning more and more about 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.679 the game, and specifically getting more and more numbers about 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.440 the game, and you know, seeing like obviously, if you 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.559 and I were to sit down before we ever saw 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.480 a single one of these metrics and guess who do 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.720 you think has the fastest like that swing in baseball, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.240 it would not have been long before we mentioned John 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.040 Carlos Stanton, and he's number one by a lot. He 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 is like a couple miles per hour ahead of the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:55.280 rest of you know, anybody else in baseball. So there's 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.199 not really like one or two guys I want to 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.840 highlight here, if you want to, please go ahead. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.160 I just wanted to kind of ask. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.000 Just your general takeaways. Were their names that stuck out 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.880 to you the application of this. Do you see a 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.160 use for fantasy managers? Do you see a use for 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.160 baseball managers? Is this just kind of a novelty fun 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.160 thing to look at. What was your reaction to a 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.600 seeing this, that this data exists, and be any particular 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:20.880 data points that sit out to you? 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.600 Yeah? So I kind of had a lot of takeaways. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.760 But I don't want to just talk forever and put 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.840 everyone to sleep, because it's probably what would happen if 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:33.440 you listen to me talk about swing tracking data for 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.000 ten minutes. But yeah, like you, I'm not going to 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.840 go through through a ton of the names. It was 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.800 really interesting to see, you know, obviously John carol Stan. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.240 Has the highest average bat speed. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.760 I also thought it was really funny if you looked 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.599 at you know, they have things like average batspeed and 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.480 then also like your fast swing rate, like how often 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.880 your swing rate is above seventy five miles per hour 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.120 And he's at ninety eight percent so pretty much all 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.800 of his swings. And it also really made me laugh 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.800 just looking at like you know, you mentioned like the 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.120 squared up percentages in the blast, which is you know, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.720 an interesting metric. I also thought It was really interesting 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.760 that they went with pitching Ninja, who invented this term swords, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.280 where which is just like these really kind of embarrassing swings, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.360 where like you just kind of get full on a 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.280 pitch and you almost don't like finish your swing. It's 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.400 just an embarrassing kind of mess up, and you know, 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.120 you're just like, yeah, you got me on that one. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.200 Joe Krolstan has zero of those because he just always 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.360 finishes his swings as hard as he can, whether he's 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.600 fulled or not, whether he misses the ball by three feet, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.840 he's swinging as hard as he can and he's not stopping. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:33.600 So I thought it was funny that he just swings 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.880 rate swings fast ninety eight percent of the time and 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.520 has zero swords, despite you know, being someone who strikes 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:40.720 out a lot and that's two hundred. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.559 He just always swings as hard as he can. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.280 He's such a crazy outlier. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.200 His average swing is eighty point six miles per hour, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.640 almost three miles per hour faster than anybody else. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.000 That is a massive gap. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.920 Three miles per hour might not sound like a lot, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:59.400 it is ginormous. Also, about twenty two percent of swings 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.559 across the reached the seventy five mile per hour threshold 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.280 is ninety eight percent of the time. Like you just mentioned, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.959 it's like almost quadruple what the average is across the 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.280 It's more than quadruple in my mag it's more than 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:13.960 quadruple with the. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.640 Average across the league. It's it's a wild outlier. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.000 Yeah, one of the more interesting names. You know, there 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.600 there were some some obvious kind of names you would 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.600 you would expect to see, like Luisa Ariah's had, you know, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.120 a very slow bat speed but a really kind of 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.559 like quick compact swing. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.760 Well, well to that point quickly before you mentioned the 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.280 next name. He leads, He led the league. I was 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.120 reading in the ESPN article, So there's so many of 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.760 these new stats. I'm trying to remember which ones I 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.320 was looking at. But Arias I believe he leads. It 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.120 was it is the slowest swing. But he also leads 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.240 in squaring uprate I believe it is, which is really 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.440 interesting to me because that is such a profile of 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:56.240 a contact here. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:56.920 Yeah, that's what it is. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.120 His squared up rate forty three and a half percent, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.800 a best in base ball while also having the slow spats. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.640 So like he is doing he is basically every at 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.800 bad of his is me growing up. When I two 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.720 strikes on me, it's like the classic, like choke up, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.920 just get the barrel on the ball and tried square 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.160 up the ball somewhere and don't swing too hard. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.679 That's him all the time. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.800 Yeah, yeah, exactly, And yeah there's a There was a 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.280 good write up about it an ESPN, which I encourage 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.400 people to read. The Athletic also did one which is 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.199 pretty good. Yeah, I read the one by Jef Passon. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:30.680 I don't want to like steal all of his his 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.200 names and whatever, but it was it was interesting that 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.640 there were some some names you wouldn't really expect and 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.880 some names you would expect, you know, like Juan Soto 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.959 and choh Tani were up there, like you know, shocking, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.559 and they have really good swings and you know, kind 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.480 of a really good approach at the plate. William Contraras 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.960 was like surprisingly maybe the best hitter in baseball with 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.320 like more blast than anyone else. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.360 That was, you know, kind of a niame that jumped out. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.040 What I'm really interested to see with this data because 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.640 when it first came out, it was it was a 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.600 lot to digest and I wasn't even sure like how 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.720 you know, before I really like dove in and you know, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.320 read the breakdowns and just let look the numbers of myself. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.520 I wasn't sure like how actionable this would be for fantasy. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:06.640 And I do think there. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:07.760 Are gonna be times where we kind of get a 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.640 little carried away with like, oh, look, he only has 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.880 a seventy four mile an hour average bat speed kind 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.680 of thing, because there's going to be outliers that just 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.720 like don't really fit neatly into this data. It for me, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.120 it is going to be interesting as we start to 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.280 get into year over year data for this when you 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.520 see someone like it would be interesting to see because 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.040 because like this is pretty new data, and it's new 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.360 in the sense of like there are more cameras and 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.560 stuff that they're that they're looking at. So we don't 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.680 really have like a lot of year over year data 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.600 right now unless I'm misunderstanding all of this, But it'll 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.200 be interesting to see going forward year over your data 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.360 if if numbers for a certain player drastically change, and 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.320 you know that player is like getting better or is 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:49.920 like struggling, Like it would be interesting to see like 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.960 a you know, like a corporate Carol, you know, is 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:57.000 his bat speed or the length of his swing drastically different? 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.760 And I also the next thing is I want to 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.560 see this kind of stuff which I think we're gonna 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.080 see infugi yeers added to the minor leagues, which is 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.240 gonna be kind of terrifying in the sense that we're 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.560 just gonna treat all these prospects like robots with like 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.040 everyone with like the highest metrics. Whenever we add stat 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.360 cast to minor league ballparks, is just gonna kind of 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.320 just be like whoever has the best the highest bat 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.080 speed and sprint speed, and everything's just gonna automatically like 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.400 be the ones we're talking about with when when we 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.400 start to like fade away from actual production. But uh yeah, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.560 this stuff is gonna be interesting going forward, for sure. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.280 We you gave me a hard time last week about 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.640 kind of posing the rhetorical rhetorical question of is shohe 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.360 tany the best hitter in baseball? Some of the bat 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.040 speed stuff shows it like it actually might be one 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.800 so too, because his is like in if you look 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 at like kind of the quadrant, he like stands really 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.360 far ahead in the right and up quadrant, which is 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.000 like the best one to be in in terms of 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.200 you know, bat speed, and I think it was length 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.040 the swing was the other was on the y axis, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.280 but like square it up ratest, like all of them, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.040 sotos is really high. The one last note that I 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.560 will take from Jeff Passen's article because he put it 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.359 on Twitter and I thought it was a fantastic nugget. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.720 The average bat speed for the best hitter in Major 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.840 League Baseball this season called you know show Eatani seventy 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.280 five point four miles per hour. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.600 The average bat speed for the worst. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.000 Hitter in Major League Baseball this season Javier Baiaz seventy 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.680 five point four miles per hour. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:25.760 Exactly identical. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.800 So that is as good a nugget as any to 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.000 tell you that bat speed is not everything. 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.000 Yeah, and that's where it's really interesting when they compare 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.600 like the bat speed and the fast swing rate and 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.520 the length of the swing, which is another, you know, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.680 something that we're gonna have to pay attention to, because 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.440 there's a difference between a real because you know, even 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.600 when we look at John Carlos Stan he has the 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.680 fastest or the highest however you want to ward at 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.600 bat speed, he also has the longest swing length. It 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.360 takes him the longest for his whole swing to kind 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.080 of get through the zone. So like the bat's moving 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.880 fast but or sorry second slowest behind I your bias 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.760 shockingly enough, but you know, it's more about just like 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.200 the you know, how big your swing is, Like it's 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.760 moving quickly, but you're also like it's just an enormous swing. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.920 So it's kind of you know, I think that's why 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.240 he's such a boomer bust kind of swinger. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.680 Yeah, let's go to our next topic here. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.399 I'm sure we might have more takeaways on some of 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.200 this swing data later on in the season, but I 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.960 think that's, you know enough for now. Next topic here, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.440 there was an article on MLB dot com some of 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.760 the likeliest players to be dealt by the trade deadline. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.359 I have somebody who I know you there have to 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.199 be two sides to every trade, and you need a 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.760 willing partner. But I always hate when teams who are 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.679 obvious buyers wait until like mid July, because I'm like, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.280 you know, what the Orioles need right now is a 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.400 back end of the bullpen arm. Go trade for them 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.600 now and don't give away eight more games between now 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.600 and the end of July, because you haven't overworked and 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.560 incompetent back end of the bullpen, like go make the 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.600 move now. And so it really bothers me when teams 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.959 wait again. I get it that the other teams need 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.399 to be willing to sell, but I just wish that 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.119 we would see moves sooner. We already saw with the 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.680 rias you know, early on this year, but I want 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.320 to see more and more earlier in in you know, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.560 in the summer and in the trade deadline. So going 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.560 through this article, there's a bunch of names. I don't 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.360 think we need to like highlight every one of them specifically, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.040 but you know it's names like from all the kind 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.320 of usual suspect teams you would imagine, the Angels, the A's, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.800 the Cardinals, the Rockies, the White Sox, the Marlins. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:35.359 So you know, some of the names. 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.000 Just to quickly read through that, the article highlighted Joe 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.680 Addell Mason Miller obviously. You know he's a guy I'd 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.520 love to see in Baltimore. You know who wouldn't love 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.560 to see them on their team? You know, Aaron Otto, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:52.879 Charlie Blackman, you know Tanner, Scott Hasslizardo, Luis Robert Kopek, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.760 Alex Bregman is listening to the article, which I think 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.399 that might be a bridge too far, But any of 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.879 these namestep stand out to you, and you know what 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.600 do you kind of think about where we stand, you know, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.320 a couple months out from the trade deadline. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.520 So when I see an article like this, the first 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.240 thing I try to kind of piece together or just 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.240 imagine the hypotheticals in my mind is who on the 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:19.359 list from a fantasy perspective has the most to gain, Like, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:24.080 who could you potentially acquire in fantasy now before a trade? 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.880 Who their value is going to go up, Like they're 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.359 going to go to a better lineup, or they're going 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.280 to go to a you know, just a better like 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:32.719 if they're especially if they're a picture, if they're going 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.200 to go to a better team, have more run support, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.080 have better defense behind them, potentially win more games kind 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.439 of thing, And just you know who could probably just 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:41.479 use a change of scenery. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:43.200 I think you mentioned Alex Bragman. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.880 He's probably you know, his numbers don't look good enough 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.800 despite his big game the other day. Don't know if 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.200 a change of scenery is going to matter that much 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.679 for him, the Astros should be a lot better than 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.119 they are. It's not like he's in a bad lineup. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:56.600 He's in a good lineup. But just I'm not really 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.600 sure what's going on there, Joe Adallas. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.240 I'm not really expecting the Astros to sell like that. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.560 Just maybe I'm just it's just so ingrained in my 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.119 head that they're always in the alcs. But it's just 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.320 it's weird for me to imagine this iteration of the 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.680 roster that they, like you said, they should be better 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.600 than they are. I just I can't imagine that two 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:15.680 months from now they'll be selling. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:16.400 But maybe I'm wrong. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:17.960 Yeah, I think they would. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.760 I think they would need to continue, and like you said, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:20.960 they're not going to be one of those teams that 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.080 sells early. They're going to ride this into the ground 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.040 and only sell that they have to, you know, late July. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.400 Joe Adell is a name that kind of is interesting 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:33.120 just because of his like he's kind of breaking out finally, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:35.720 but he's in He's not in a great lineup. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.000 Trout's gonna be out for a while. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.200 I promise I won't interrupt you on all these guys, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.080 but I do just have to say on Adell, Like, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.919 I would be really wary of trading for him. Uh, absolutely, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.320 because not even about just like the past, but like, 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.760 let's say you even believe that it's that the breakout 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.520 is one hundred percent legit, and you're like. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.120 Wait, I mean trading Wait, I'm gonna interrupt you now, 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.840 and the tables have turned. Yeah, do you mean wary 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.280 of trading him as a fantasy manager or as an 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:04.040 MMV team? 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:04.920 Both? 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.440 And I'm wary of trading for him in both because 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:13.040 even if you I'm worried of trading for him in 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.360 fantasy if you expect him to be traded away from 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.879 the Angels, and I'm wary of trading for him in 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.760 real life. You know, if you're any team not the Angels, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.680 I think I might have said, oo, the Angels. 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.880 Because even if you believe it. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.880 Is one hundred percent legitimate and this is a real 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.399 breakout and he is now this hitter, I worry that 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.120 it took him so long to get to that point 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.600 in Los Angeles that whatever they did to work with him, like, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.639 I think it's probably meaningful given all the struggles he 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.000 had before, And I would be really scared of him 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.000 changing sceneries. You know, it's it's like like the opposite 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:45.800 of Bregmann, Like I would be really worried about a 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.919 change of scenery negatively impacting him, even if you think 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.200 the breakout is real in Los Angeles? 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:51.720 Is that? 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.800 Does that make sense? Am I like kind of maybe 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:57.280 overthinking it? Or would you be happy to trade him 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.760 even if he gets traded in fantasy versus reality? 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.040 I think it's fair. I think there's a lot to 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:02.440 worry about. 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.000 You know, we already kind of talked about Joe Odell, 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.040 and you know, everything looks kind of good, but it's 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:08.919 looked so bad for so long that it's hard to 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:10.680 believe this is just a whole new Joe Odell. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.840 I think you would have to be. 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:16.520 Confident in wherever he's like being traded to, and kind 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:18.520 of you know, it's impossible to like know all this 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.840 stuff off the back, you know, just in the back 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:23.680 of your mind of just you know, which which kind 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.639 of teams have like a really good track record of 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.760 developing these young you know, these young hitters. The Angels 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:31.639 are probably not one of those teams, So maybe he 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.680 could go somewhere where they do have a better track 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:38.520 record of developing young hitters like the Orioles of a 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:42.160 team that has done that it recently, someone who isn't 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.480 the Rockies, who are just like the poster team of 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:50.159 how to not develop prospects, but something like something like 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:51.680 that where you would you would have to be like, Okay, 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:53.520 this is good. He's going to go to a better ballpark, 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.040 a better lineup, and to a team with a track 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.560 record of developing, you know, young hitters. So I think 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.240 that would be kind of but even that, like we're 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.879 talking redraft, like how much of a difference is going 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.040 to make this season as opposed to like a keeper 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.800 of dynasty league where you can kind of see, you know, 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.199 changes going forward. 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:12.800 I would not be going after somebody like Tanner Scott 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:14.880 in fantasy because I think if he gets traded it's 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:16.919 likely as like a seventh or eighth inning guy in 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.320 an already good bullpen. I don't think it's likely that 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.240 he's a closer somewhere else, so I think he would 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.240 lose value, you know, maybe kind of the same thought 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:25.840 for Copek. 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:28.440 I mean some of these other like. 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.400 Hayeses Lozardo, you know, would would certainly have a better 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:36.359 chance at wins and then another uh, you know team, 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:40.840 But it's not like he's you know, it's not like 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.320 he's somebody that I mean, there's talent that I don't 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.560 I don't want to like like downplay the talent there, 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.680 but like it hasn't Quip been there this season, right, 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:53.280 So I'm not sure how much value he's bringing, even 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.480 if there's a better chance for wins. 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:56.359 Yeah. 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.520 Yeah, you'd have to hope for like a bounce back 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:03.720 to kind of the potential we've seen this. You know, 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:05.439 he's like a high ceiling, low flower kind of guy, 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.080 so it's hard to know what you're going to get there, 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.359 Michael Michael Kopak, is anything that would be interesting, but 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:12.480 he would have to be like you said, like the 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:14.639 Tanner Scott situation. I need him to go to a 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.520 place where he's closing. And it's like he's probably more 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.159 likely to be like that multi inning you know, bring 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.000 him in the six and seven then you know, get 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:23.919 six guys out kind of a thing. Even though the 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.000 White Sox are using him as a closer, and I 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:28.199 think that's his future is being a closer. I think 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:31.439 the starter experiment is over. Let's let's just make him 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.200 a closer. He's got the stuff to be a good closer. 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:35.960 Let's just lean into that and just let's go have 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.359 a career. Michael Kopek, Let's not worry about the starter stuff. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.040 Yeah, his name, you know. 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.879 Yeah, maybe he's getting older and would do some you know, 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:48.760 do for some negative stuff. But he's like being He's 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.240 like fine right now in a lineup that is not 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:52.400 fine around him. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.439 The most intriguing name by a mile in this article 0:24:55.480 --> 0:25:00.199 is Mason Miller. Oh yeah, do you think he gets moved? 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.159 I have no idea what the what the a's are, 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:04.600 What wouldn't even take to get him, because like the 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.000 a's are bad and you and you generally want to 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.000 cap I know they like had a hot streak greasely, 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.000 but like you generally, if you're a bad team want 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.520 to capitalize on a strong reliever season. That's like a 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:17.800 really straightforward way to improve your organization is to if 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:21.000 you're a bad team, trade a good reliever for whatever haul. 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:24.040 You can get. Mason Miller is ridiculous. 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:28.600 He is like that one of the nastiest closers stretches 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:31.240 I've ever seen in my life. And I watched twenty 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:37.399 sixteen Zach Brittain. He is ridiculous under control for a while, 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.320 there's bin injury stuff in the past. Obviously, the way 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.720 he throws, it's like, you know, you don't really expect 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:47.120 to like to last forever. But again, like just using 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:51.040 the oils as an example, a guy like Heston Kerstad 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:53.439 is blocked. He's a top twenty five prospect in baseball. 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:57.080 He's ready for the big leagues. Like, I don't even 0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:00.399 know if that would be considered a reasonable for the 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.280 A's or not, because it's just kind of a unique 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:06.600 situation combining all these factors that aren't typically combined. 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.240 And what you said there is kind of the kind 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:13.680 of the issue is because the the rumors all along, 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:16.120 because I think this came up months ago with like, oh, 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:18.480 maybe they could look to move Mason Miller because they're 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.640 ridiculous and the apparently the asking price has been astronomical, 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.320 so it's like they're just kind of like floating him 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.040 out there. Okay, if you want to make us an 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:28.720 off where we can't refuse, like we're the A's, we'll 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:31.360 do anything. We'll get nuts. And I think the other 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:33.679 thing that you mentioned there that could be potentially interesting 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:38.920 is I think if you're well, I guess it would 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:41.240 depend like the team like the Orioles would make not 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:42.959 the like I want to, you know, break my own 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:44.840 rule and talk about the Ools on the show. But 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:46.920 a team like the Orioles could make a lot of sense, 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:50.680 and in the sense that they're set up for a 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:52.080 long competing window. 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:55.000 Here they have some pretty good pitching depth. 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:58.480 They could use more starting pitching depth, but like they have, 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:02.639 you know, like you said, in a fundance of young hitters. 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.120 And I think for a lot of teams you would 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:08.640 almost have to like wonder if you're acquiring Mason Miller, 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:10.560 like do you view him as a high end starter 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.520 going forward or just as a reliever. And the Oriels 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:16.000 are a team that could be like, we're happy with 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:17.639 him as like a lockdown reliever. We don't need to 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:20.119 worry about him making a starter, whereas I think other 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:22.320 teams they might want to kind of look at him 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:25.280 as like a twenty twenty four closer, but then also 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:27.920 a high end starting pitching prospect that we can stretch 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:30.680 out and turn into an ace, and that I think 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:33.160 in order to match what the A's want, it might 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:35.320 be what you have to view him as. 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:38.240 Yeah, it's an interesting wrinkle. I mean again, like a 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:39.040 team like the Orioles. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.880 You know, next year theoretically Felix Bautista back, so maybe 0:27:41.960 --> 0:27:44.080 then you maybe even for them, it's like a one 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:48.600 year closer. But I mean, like a reliever, this dominant 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.600 is like actually not that easy to find. Like, good 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:55.119 relievers are out there and sometimes they're hard to predict, 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:58.120 but they're not hard to find. Relievers at this level 0:27:58.160 --> 0:28:02.400 are hard to find. So I'd be perfectly content whether 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.560 it's the Orioles or anybody, to just see him, just 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.880 let them say, like, listen, you on a good team 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:12.879 could get five hundred saves and also strike out like 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:15.520 two batteries an inning for your whole career, Like like 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:17.680 just say, look how dominant you are. Why mess with 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:20.040 a good thing? I wouldn't be opposed to that, you know, 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:24.040 wherever he goes. So he's the really interesting one. Let's 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:27.080 move on to our bylow cell high for the week. 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:30.840 I'll go first in the by Low. My favorite by 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:33.040 Low actually in the article and everybody should go check 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:37.440 it out. Fantasypros dot Com is Matt Olson. However, we 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:40.400 just talked about him last week when discussing grading your trade. 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:42.840 So rather than talk about him again, I will say 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:45.080 my second favorite from the article, which is Boba Schett, 0:28:45.720 --> 0:28:48.000 And it's less about, you know, with Matt Olsen, there's 0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:52.000 you know, reasons for optimism from some of the bad 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:55.200 etball data. There's not really that with Boba Schett. It's 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:57.440 more just like it's not like he's old. There's a 0:28:57.480 --> 0:29:00.480 real track record here. He's actually even hard to heat 0:29:00.600 --> 0:29:03.280 up a bit in the last you know, several days. 0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:07.880 So I just think he's somebody that again we always 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:11.400 say I'm not buying I'm buying low and you're gonna 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:13.239 give me a bilo opportunity and a guy who has 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:15.600 legitimately struggled this year, but who has the kind of 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:17.320 ceiling that we know Bobachett has. 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:19.480 And again it's it's early. 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.360 Enough that you can kind of look past a slow start, 0:29:21.880 --> 0:29:25.520 even if it's not bad luck, it's actually a bad start, 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:29.480 and say this guy could easily bounce back. So, like 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:31.760 I said, Matt Olson is my favorite from this week's article, 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:33.840 but Bobachhet is my second favorite. 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:39.160 Yeah, I like Bobachhet. The thing I like about him 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:40.560 and one of the reasons I like him as a 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:45.200 by low Is. The concerning thing last year was you know, 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:47.000 he was a little banged up and he wasn't running, 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:48.720 and it was like, oh no, here we go. This 0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:51.120 is like the Mike drought syndrome. We have a superstar 0:29:51.640 --> 0:29:54.960 who broke into the league as like a thirty thirty 0:29:55.000 --> 0:29:57.600 potential kind of guy, and you know, in his breakout 0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:00.280 year he went twenty nine to twenty five and everyone 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.080 was salvating over the potential there. It was like a 0:30:02.160 --> 0:30:05.760 high average power speed, like this guy's little package, and 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:09.400 he kind of just gradually got worse, like not terribly worse, 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:10.960 but like the numbers just kind of went down. 0:30:11.040 --> 0:30:12.000 He's been banged up a little. 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:13.320 You know, he's banged up a little bit last year, 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:15.760 Like I said, after two really you know, solid years. 0:30:16.040 --> 0:30:18.680 Batting average has been there up until this year. But 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:22.360 he wasn't running in twenty twenty one, twenty five stolen basis, 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:26.640 twenty twenty two, thirteen last year five. So the good 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:28.840 The one thing I like to see this year is 0:30:28.880 --> 0:30:30.560 that he already has four and not that four is 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:33.000 a lot, but he only stole five all last year 0:30:33.000 --> 0:30:35.280 and he already has four, and so that is an 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:38.360 encouraging sign that you know he could be getting. 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:38.880 You know, he's not. 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:40.400 It doesn't seem like he's gonna ever go back to 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:43.080 that thirty thirty potential. But he could be like a 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.880 twenty five to fifteen guy with a really good average, 0:30:47.280 --> 0:30:48.719 and you know, there's just a lot to like there. 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:50.800 I'm I'm a big Bobachette fan, so I'd definitely be 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:51.400 buying well. 0:30:51.320 --> 0:30:53.000 Two, who's your pick here? 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:56.600 So my pick here is actually someone I stole from Welsh. 0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:00.760 The person I wrote up in the article is Aaron Savale, 0:31:00.840 --> 0:31:02.280 and I wrote how I'd be going down with the 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:06.400 Aaron sa Valet ship and just babbling about needing a 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:08.560 larger sample size as we loaded the women and children 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:13.040 under the rescue boats. But we've already talked about Arnsavalley 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:14.960 on the show a little bit, so we don't need to. 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:16.120 Go back down that road. 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:20.840 So I stole jazz chism from Welsh, and it was 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:22.320 because I read his write up and I thought there 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:25.920 was an interesting reason. It wasn't necessarily about what we 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:27.760 always talk about, which is, you know, like his underlying 0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:29.720 numbers are much better. This is a clear buy low 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:31.000 kind of a thing, which you know, there was a 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:33.520 little bit of that, but he he was also speculating 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:36.400 that he could be traded, which you know, is a 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:38.520 perfect kind of segue to what we just talked about. 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:41.520 You know what, who who could see their value drastically 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:44.640 increase if they land in a new environment, and he's 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:45.520 a perfect candidate for that. 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:47.800 I don't know if he will be moved, but you 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:48.640 similar to. 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:49.920 What we were talking about with the A's, you can't 0:31:50.000 --> 0:31:53.080 rule out anything the Marlins, do, you know, Like you 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:56.560 said before, you hate waiting to see teams wait till July. 0:31:56.880 --> 0:31:59.080 They made it trade two weeks ago. They're already ready 0:31:59.120 --> 0:31:59.440 to roll. 0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:03.440 And so I was kind of looking at his contract too, 0:32:03.440 --> 0:32:04.760 because I was like, well, I feel like he's under 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:05.160 control for. 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:05.680 A little while. 0:32:05.840 --> 0:32:08.520 Maybe they won't trade him. He is kind of already 0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:10.920 in his arbitration or not kind of. He is already 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.520 in his arbitration seasons, which, as we know, your your 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:17.000 contract gradually goes up, you know, into the millions. 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:18.560 Every year you're in that. 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:23.880 And the Marlins are notoriously really cheap, and they don't 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:28.040 view arbitration years the way that the big market teams view, 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:31.200 as you know, affordable years. They view them as these 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:33.320 are getting more expensive, like maybe we should start to 0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.000 sell why while we can. It's it's clear from their 0:32:37.040 --> 0:32:39.880 moves they don't think they're anywhere close to a contention window. 0:32:40.240 --> 0:32:42.520 So maybe he could be moved in some kind of 0:32:42.560 --> 0:32:45.600 blockbuster deal. Or he goes to a really good lineup, 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:49.280 bats pretty highly in that lineup, and you know, now 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:51.880 we're talking about someone who, just as I already mentioned, 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.960 he's in a much better situation, probably in a better ballpark, 0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.240 with you know, better run support or you know, better 0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:00.200 like lineup support around him. I think that's a really 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:04.360 intriguing name. So I commend Welsh for that idea, and 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:06.160 I gladly steal it from him for the show. 0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:09.160 Let's go to the cell highs Now. 0:33:09.320 --> 0:33:12.600 I didn't like the cell high options in this week's article, 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:15.680 so I picked my Rather than picking my favorite cell high, 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:19.880 I picked my least favorite cell high from the article. 0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:21.760 And that's Aaron Judge. 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:25.280 We talk a lot about the color of your stat 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.760 cast page. It's remarkably red. I mean there's a couple 0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:31.520 you know, obviously, like strikeout rate and with rate are 0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:33.560 kind of usually high with him, but it is it 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:35.800 is pretty dark red across the world. He actually while 0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:37.960 we were recording this hit a home run four hundred 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:40.920 and sixty seven feet tonight. So we were recording this Wednesday, 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:42.200 by the way, everyone, not. 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:45.000 Thursday like usual. I mean, he has ten home runs. 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:48.720 You know. The batting average is down at two thirty six, 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.200 but he's only thirty two. It's not like he's some 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:54.120 old man you can't hack it anymore. His bat speed 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:57.040 is ninety seven percentile, so clearly he can still swing hard. 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:01.160 I'm maybe not ying high on Judge. 0:34:01.200 --> 0:34:04.600 I think that's reasonable, but I'm really not actively looking 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:07.680 to sell on Aaron Judge really really at all. 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:09.000 What do you think about Judge? 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.120 Yeah, so we kind of talked about him recently and 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:15.600 I kind of said that I am not always kind 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:18.759 of selling high, but I rarely have shares of Aaron 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:20.840 Judge because he goes so high in drafts or so 0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:23.000 for so much money and auctions, and I'm always kind 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.840 of the older he gets, the more concerned I am 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:30.080 about injury. So I feel like baking an injury concerns 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:34.200 would have to be your reason for selling high. And 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:36.880 because but if like if you drafted him, you already 0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:38.480 knew that, So why are you bothering to. 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:40.840 Sell high at this point, I don't have him in 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:42.640 a lot of places, to be clear, because I'm similar 0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:45.200 to you in that he just typically goes higher than 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:49.040 I'm comfortable taking on that risk on actual draft day, 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:51.400 So I don't really have the opportunity to sell him 0:34:51.400 --> 0:34:54.200 even if I wanted to. But if I did, again, 0:34:54.239 --> 0:34:56.359 he's somebody that like, you know what you're getting when 0:34:56.440 --> 0:35:01.279 you draft him, and I'm not uncomfortable enough with what 0:35:01.320 --> 0:35:04.360 we've gotten that I'm looking to get out just because 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:05.320 he's having a hot streak. 0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:08.239 Here to start, May, who's your cell high? 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:13.720 My cell high is Reese Elsen, and I'm I'm saddened 0:35:13.719 --> 0:35:15.640 to hear that you didn't like my choice of a 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:17.759 cell high. I thought we were supporting each other on 0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:20.520 this show, so why don't I return it to you? 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:24.120 Why do you not like Reese Elson as a cell high? 0:35:24.640 --> 0:35:28.759 So is to pull the cur I wasn't gonna like 0:35:29.160 --> 0:35:32.640 point this out once I realized this has happened. I'm 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:36.840 actually pulling from our by low sell high article options, 0:35:37.080 --> 0:35:41.800 not from our featured pros multiple people options. So I 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:44.600 was trying to highlight our writer who does bilo sell 0:35:44.680 --> 0:35:48.239 high every week, Brett USTERI and pick from his where 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:50.560 I did not like his sell high options, which were 0:35:51.040 --> 0:35:53.160 Aaron Judge, Mitch Keller, and Jameson tie On. 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:55.399 So I don't like any of those. 0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:59.840 I didn't actually compare to your article or choice. So 0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:02.000 I'm not saying you made a bad choice. Go ahead 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:04.400 and sell me this pen On resource. 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.920 He's just I mean, his numbers right now are incredible. 0:36:10.040 --> 0:36:11.719 He has a two point zero nine ERA. 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:16.480 And an incredible zero to four one lost record. 0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:20.960 Yeah, and that's that's kind of the reason for the 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:25.239 cell high because you can kind of, you know, sell 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:26.759 someone on the on the fact that, look, you know, 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:28.960 he's got these incredible numbers, the wins will come. But 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:31.800 he is on the Tigers, and he also has you know, 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:34.880 he has zero wins. He also has zero home runs allowed, 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:38.880 which is both impressive but also incredibly lucky, very scary. 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:42.400 Yeah, that just that kind of luck just isn't going 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:43.680 to continue the rest of the season. 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:45.880 Although as I mentioned in the article, he does have 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:47.520 a really you know, there are some reasons like he's 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:50.440 kind of doing that. He's he's allowing some decent hard contact, 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:53.120 but he's he's got a ridiculous fifty five percent ground 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:55.160 ball rate, So he is keeping the ball on the ground. 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:58.120 But at the same time, he's not missing a lot 0:36:58.160 --> 0:36:58.479 of bats. 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:00.000 And so while he's not walking in ton a guy, 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:03.800 he's letting up some hard contact no home runs, and 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:06.960 kind of keeping them all on the ground. It's it's 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:09.240 just not sustainable, you know, when when you're not missing 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:10.719 a ton of bats and you're giving up a decent 0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:12.759 amount of hard contact, it doesn't really matter. Like he's 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:16.200 gonna have some blow up starts here. His expected era 0:37:16.400 --> 0:37:18.759 numbers are like, aren't terrible. Like his actual RA is 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:21.400 two point zero nine. All of his other numbers are 0:37:21.480 --> 0:37:23.640 between two point five four and three point seven seven, 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.000 which even if you fully regrets. 0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:27.960 To those like, that's still not bad. And so it's 0:37:28.000 --> 0:37:30.040 not like a you know, it's not like a regular 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:31.120 sell or a cell low. 0:37:31.920 --> 0:37:35.480 It's a cell high. I want to sell what we 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:38.600 what we've seen in the you know, in production, for 0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:42.640 something better, you know something. And this is sometimes we 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:44.279 talk about these trades and we kind of get caught 0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:45.920 up in like what picture would you want? I like 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:47.279 to do the opposite trades. I like to do a 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:50.040 picture for a hitter, and I would rather. You know, 0:37:50.680 --> 0:37:52.879 I think I mentioned I wrote it today, so I'm 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:55.080 trying to remember what I wrote. I think I mentioned 0:37:55.080 --> 0:37:56.719 I would rather like I would, I would like to 0:37:56.840 --> 0:38:00.560 swap him for almost like a buy high hitter like 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:03.239 a Joe Adele, or a by low hitter like a 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:03.920 George Springer. 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:06.279 I think that's fair. 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:09.200 You made a great case, and I'm not gonna say 0:38:09.239 --> 0:38:11.719 you're wrong about that. Like I said, just drawing from 0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:14.160 a different article. That's that's how organized we are here. 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:17.640 Let's kick it to my conversation with Welsh. Like I said, 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:19.640 we dive into a whole bunch of prospects and other 0:38:19.719 --> 0:38:21.719 young players, and then you and I will come back 0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:22.359 on the other side. 0:38:24.480 --> 0:38:27.080 Back in with Chris Welsh, our guest of the week. 0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:28.720 We are here for Prospect Corner. 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:31.560 Only one of us who's going to talk to Welsh today, 0:38:31.600 --> 0:38:33.600 And of course I drew the short straw, so mayor 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:37.279 lucked out chat with the Well. No, it is a 0:38:37.320 --> 0:38:40.360 delight to talk to our friend and coworker, Chris Welsh. 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:43.319 We're talking to prospects now Welsh. Last week we were 0:38:43.360 --> 0:38:45.880 in the middle of recording with Kelly Kirby, who was 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:48.680 our guest last week when news dropped that Paul Skens 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.839 was officially finally getting the call, we had a sense 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.880 that this was probably, you know, around the horizon. Sometime 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:57.320 soon it finally did happen. So here we are a 0:38:57.360 --> 0:38:59.719 week later. We have a start to actually look at 0:38:59.840 --> 0:39:02.080 and react to, and I want to ask you about 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:03.600 that and also kind of looking ahead for the rest 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:05.200 of the season, just get the chance for the folks 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:07.799 to hear your reaction and kind of expectations. 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:09.680 But just off the bat, what did you think of 0:39:09.760 --> 0:39:10.240 the debut? 0:39:10.560 --> 0:39:13.640 You know, four innings, seven strikeouts, give a three earned runs, 0:39:13.640 --> 0:39:16.920 a home run, a couple of walks. You know, you're 0:39:16.960 --> 0:39:18.719 not gonna put too much dock in you just one start, right, 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:20.400 and it was the kid's major league debut. 0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.000 But the stuff is unreal. Everybody already knows it. 0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:24.920 I mean, I guess let me actually backtrack again and 0:39:24.960 --> 0:39:27.960 ask you initially, was this the most excited you were 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:30.640 for a pitching prospect since Strasburg? That was kind of 0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:32.719 the comparison point a lot of people were giving. Is 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:33.839 that kind of how you felt too. 0:39:34.080 --> 0:39:37.320 Yeah, for a pitching prospect? Sure, I mean it's sometimes 0:39:37.320 --> 0:39:40.840 shooing far between. I will tell you it probably would 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:44.359 have been like McKenzie go I loved McKenzie, a huge 0:39:44.440 --> 0:39:48.560 mackenzie Gore guy. But Gore then kind of fell apart 0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:50.600 before he made that major league debut. And that's a 0:39:50.640 --> 0:39:53.200 tough thing. That's that's actually kind of the uniqueness about 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:58.680 Paul Skeins is everyone is always picked on top pitching prospects. 0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:00.319 Because if you go back and you li ok at 0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:03.480 just any list, you know, go to pipeline, you go 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:05.120 to mine, but you go to like pipeline or something 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.520 for MLB, and you go back and look top twenty 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:11.680 overall prospects for the last like five or six, maybe 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:13.319 eight years, and you go and look at like who 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:18.359 are the top pitching prospects, Force Whitley, Alex Reyes, McKinsey, Gore. 0:40:18.400 --> 0:40:22.160 There's failure, but the failure happens before they even hit 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:25.720 the majors. The failure happens in the midst of the process. 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.839 Paul Skeins wasn't a round for there to be time 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:32.080 for failure. But it's such a quick successful run that 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:35.160 he made to the major So yeah, from an excitement standpoint, 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:37.160 this is the top dog. 0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:41.000 Would you say, like maybe even more exciting than Strasburg. 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:43.279 I saw that debate going on. For me, Strasburg kind 0:40:43.280 --> 0:40:46.120 of stands alone. I was also in DC when that 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:46.920 debut happened. 0:40:46.960 --> 0:40:47.880 Yeah, a little different for you. 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.360 I don't really remember. 0:40:50.640 --> 0:40:53.479 It's not in my brain like how I felt. 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:53.920 Obviously. 0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:59.600 I think his performance was like excitement versus met expectations, 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:03.839 like if I'm doing a selfish one, Max sureser, Max sure, 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:06.520 I'm a diamondback guy. When Max Scherzer made his debut 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:09.400 and he struck out like eight in four innings, like, 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.719 it was really exciting, So it was kind of near there. 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:15.560 But you know, you also brought up expectations. This is 0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:18.120 I mean, you know you doing the social here like 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:20.880 I did the social video for you, not not to 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:22.600 pull a piece of pa here, but I was pretty 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:24.560 damn close to right if you look at it, like 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:26.920 and then it'll pat myself on the back. But like 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:28.799 I said, I thought he was going to go four. 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:29.640 I thought he was in. 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:33.239 I said eight strikeouts, I said, two earned runs and 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:36.680 two walks. We're pretty close. Seven strikeouts, three earned runs, 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:41.680 two walks. And the reason I thought and the reason 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:45.600 why like this didn't surpass or underwhelm my expectations is 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:47.360 obviously because like this is what I thought he was 0:41:47.400 --> 0:41:50.279 going to do. I thought he was gonna have a 0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:53.200 little bit, especially in this specific matchup, which I had 0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:55.480 talked about in some of the social videos, was the 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.520 Cubs are a team that can drive pitch counts a 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.640 little bit more like they were little bit in the 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:03.799 higher range. I think close to ten percent overall walk 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:07.160 rate they put up. And Skeens is a guy that 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:10.719 obviously is going to pump a fastball, but like he 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:13.600 also drives counts. I think he went over five once 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:16.440 in the minor leagues. He had gotten to seventy five 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:21.120 pitches at the tippy top. Like it's not Blake Snell. 0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:24.080 But I don't know if Skeens is going to be 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:25.880 a guy that's going to have a whole lot of 0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:30.120 like low pitch count innings because he you got guys 0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:33.040 that can't can't even get contact on one hundred and 0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:35.080 two mile an hour fastball. He topped at one to 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:39.400 one point nine in that start. So inherently you're probably 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:43.360 gonna have more often than not, you know, fifteen to 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:47.400 eighteen pitch innings. So that is gonna get you to 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:50.040 struggle a little bit from the uh, you know, getting 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.040 to like five and six innings. So I'm saying all 0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:54.239 of this without jumping too far ahead and whatever you're 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.960 gonna want to talk about. This was expectationally where I 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:01.880 thought Paul Skeins was going to be. I loved the fastball. 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:03.719 The only thing I thought was weird was I think 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:08.680 it was Yasmini Grindal who was altering the pitch mix, 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:11.080 because early on, if you watch the start schemes, was 0:43:11.200 --> 0:43:14.120 electric with the fastball. It was early fastballs in the 0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:16.680 first inning, struck out two second and then all of 0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:20.320 a sudden it started turning to like sliders and you 0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:23.240 were seeing that splinker or whatever they call the splitter 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:25.560 that he was on the splitter, change up type of thing. 0:43:26.000 --> 0:43:28.360 And it felt like in two strike counts they were 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:32.120 going to those instead of just barreling down one hundred 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:34.200 and two. And I thought that was a catcher decision 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:37.279 which maybe drove counts where you want to see more fastballs. 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:40.800 But I think like, regardless of the result, you should 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:45.080 be happy. This is him meeting the expectation of Paul 0:43:45.160 --> 0:43:48.080 Skins is a big win. It just doesn't add up 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:52.920 to the Bonker's pre expectations people had those trades on 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.040 leading off that we were seeing Someone's like, I can 0:43:55.080 --> 0:43:58.120 get Matt Olsen for Paul Skins. Yeah, Someone's like, would 0:43:58.120 --> 0:43:59.680 you trade Paul Skins for Corbyn Burns? 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:00.439 Yeah. 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:04.480 I think the performance took away some of the oh 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:07.480 my god, Paul Skeins is a little bit human, So 0:44:07.600 --> 0:44:09.719 now you can't quite make those trades. So now it's like, 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:11.239 who would you rather have rest of the season, like 0:44:11.280 --> 0:44:13.800 Paul Skins or Chris Sale. I think that makes a 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:15.359 little bit more sense in people's minds. 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:17.640 What range are you ranking him rest of season? 0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:22.000 So in the initial rank on my rest of season, 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:24.600 I had put him before the start at thirty three. 0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:28.040 That's where I had set him. I'm still working on 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:30.800 the finalizing the rest of season. We're trying to do 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:33.719 it weekly, but we've had a lot of stuff going on, 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:36.840 so I'm kind of resetting it. I think he's gonna 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:40.879 sit between twenty eight and thirty. And some of that's 0:44:40.920 --> 0:44:43.839 by proxy, because it's like guys are falling off the list, 0:44:43.960 --> 0:44:46.280 like Chris Bassett's kind of falling apart, Like I'm finally 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:49.120 kind of getting done with Kevin Gossman. I'm kind of 0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:52.359 getting done with Chris Bassett. So I think it's fair 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:56.440 to value. It's fair to say, like Paul Skans could 0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:58.200 be a top twenty five s p rest of season. 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:01.680 I think the disconnect is people are like, you hear 0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:05.080 top twenty five, and then you're like, oh, top twenty five, 0:45:05.800 --> 0:45:09.439 could that mean he's top fifteen overall? I think he's 0:45:09.520 --> 0:45:12.960 gonna sit in that twenty five range because it's like 0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:15.120 it's gonna be tough for him to get wins and 0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:18.000 go five every single inning, But like he's an exceptional talent, 0:45:18.120 --> 0:45:20.759 so you should if you're trading him, I think you 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:23.040 should view him as a top twenty five. So that's 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:25.839 the value return at least I would want. 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:29.080 Yeah, I was gonna ask how much you know, weighing 0:45:29.120 --> 0:45:31.000 into that is sort of what you mentioned about the 0:45:31.040 --> 0:45:34.000 pitch count going up. The Pirates aren't very good, so 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:36.160 like they're not gonna be motivated to really push him 0:45:36.160 --> 0:45:38.680 beyond whatever their kind of innings limit that they've set 0:45:38.719 --> 0:45:41.040 for him is. So you know, that is somebody to 0:45:41.080 --> 0:45:44.000 keep in mind for really any top pitching prospect. But 0:45:44.120 --> 0:45:46.800 you know in this case as well, is that innings 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:49.279 like you may get them but they are a question 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:50.200 mark at the very least. 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:52.400 And that's the positive could be though, is if the 0:45:52.440 --> 0:45:55.920 Pirates keep winning. That's the thing, like the formidable rotation, 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:58.799 Jerry Jones, Paul Skains, Mitch Keller, that's your top three. 0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:01.680 There are a couple games out of the wild card. 0:46:01.719 --> 0:46:03.839 I think right now we're divisionally like they're not over 0:46:03.920 --> 0:46:06.360 five hundred. But it's like, oh, if this team just 0:46:06.400 --> 0:46:08.480 said we're just not going to keep doing pirate things 0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:10.200 and we're going to try to win win, maybe they 0:46:10.280 --> 0:46:12.560 start pulling some more pieces and that's where you get 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:16.320 into maybe they'll cut the court a little bit on 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:20.040 being hyper sensitive about innings pitched or you know that 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.000 Jared Jones situation where he was on four days rest, 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:25.239 so they're like he's only going five and he pitched 0:46:25.239 --> 0:46:29.879 fifty nine total pitches. That if this team is being competitive, 0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:33.240 it's the best possible scenario for a guy like Paul Skins. 0:46:33.239 --> 0:46:38.200 When they stop being competitive, then it's a cheap kind 0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:40.080 of comp and it's the sore spot for you and 0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:43.120 our old conversations about Uri Perez. But like Uri Perez 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:46.800 last year where you know, like they sent Eury Perez 0:46:46.880 --> 0:46:48.880 down for a little bit, and then they were maintaining 0:46:48.960 --> 0:46:51.080 innings and stuff like that, like if the Pirates aren't winning, 0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:55.280 that's the worry that can happen for Paul Skins. 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:57.560 You know, for the rest of the year, we're gonna 0:46:57.560 --> 0:46:59.200 talk about more than this Paul Skians. But I just 0:46:59.280 --> 0:47:02.000 want to mention before get off the topic, to share 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:07.360 a sad story. I had tickets to Strasburg's debut and 0:47:08.120 --> 0:47:11.440 I didn't end up going because it was a buddy 0:47:11.480 --> 0:47:15.880 of mine in school and he was like, I have 0:47:16.040 --> 0:47:19.200 these tickets, like I got, I got too, and you're 0:47:19.200 --> 0:47:21.279 a big baseball fan. We weren't even that close to friends. 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:22.480 He some day that I knew, but he's like, I 0:47:22.520 --> 0:47:23.480 know you're a big baseball fan. 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.040 Do you want to come? I was like, holy cow, 0:47:26.239 --> 0:47:31.000 yes I do. He texted me that afternoon. 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:35.160 After we got out of school and said, hey, my 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:38.239 parents said I can't go because it's a school night. 0:47:38.680 --> 0:47:40.880 And they made me sell the tickets. 0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:43.120 And I was like, why did you give them to me? 0:47:43.480 --> 0:47:44.360 What are you doing? 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:45.640 Let me buy them. 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:47.600 I would have happily bought them. 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:49.960 So he sold them and I didn't get to go, 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:53.000 and then he struck out fourteen Pirates and looked amazing. 0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:56.000 I will never forget the fact that I wasn't at 0:47:56.600 --> 0:47:59.400 the debut of really the most tight pitching prospect that 0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:00.359 I can fad. 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:02.879 That is a sad story. So that's the other. 0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:05.399 The other fun story quickly, high school teammate of mine 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:07.520 who also went by a worm. The name is Keith Worm, 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:08.320 and he went to uv A. 0:48:08.440 --> 0:48:11.080 I played with him at actually worm like it's just 0:48:11.480 --> 0:48:13.919 not like yours abbreviated worm. Was it worm worm? 0:48:14.440 --> 0:48:14.560 Uh? 0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:15.560 No, it was. 0:48:15.800 --> 0:48:19.560 It was also like a nickname abbreviat. But he he 0:48:19.760 --> 0:48:21.880 played at UVA and he got a hit off Strasbourg 0:48:22.040 --> 0:48:23.280 in the College World Series. 0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:26.239 So that see, that would that's one of those things 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:28.880 like I would love to have, Like you'd love to 0:48:29.000 --> 0:48:30.680 have that, Like, oh yeah I got a hit off 0:48:30.719 --> 0:48:33.400 of like this immensely talented talk about. 0:48:33.160 --> 0:48:35.480 It, like back the closest thing of that for me. 0:48:37.560 --> 0:48:37.799 Yeah. 0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:38.239 Yeah. 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:41.120 There was a kid in you know when I played 0:48:41.120 --> 0:48:43.960 in high school who was go He was like signed 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:45.839 to pitch at uv A and he ended up hurting 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:47.279 his arm so he didn't. But he was really really 0:48:47.320 --> 0:48:51.160 good and he threw a one hitter against us, and 0:48:51.239 --> 0:48:53.640 I didn't get the one hit, but I did work 0:48:53.680 --> 0:48:56.400 the count to full before I struck out against him. 0:48:56.440 --> 0:48:58.120 Oh that's right, that was That was my. 0:48:58.239 --> 0:49:02.640 Best, but my best to as I caught a theoretical 0:49:02.800 --> 0:49:06.200 touchdown from Casey Weldon, who used to be a quarterback 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:08.759 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think he played it 0:49:08.840 --> 0:49:09.800 like Florida State. 0:49:12.000 --> 0:49:12.520 Deep pass. 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:14.520 I was able to catch it over a cornerback, which 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:16.759 was really cool. And then I got to do a 0:49:16.920 --> 0:49:20.960 media BP session at the Diamondbacks one time and I 0:49:21.120 --> 0:49:24.880 had toughy ghost switches bat and they started launch and 0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.480 we had the machine and I stepped in the box 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:31.560 and I was the only person to almost hit a homer. 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:34.320 I hit it. I hit the So this is on 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:36.719 Salt River Fields, the backfield, the one that the major 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:41.040 leaguers use, And I turned on one and I hit 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:45.680 three feet under the wall. Like so, I hit the wall, 0:49:46.080 --> 0:49:48.480 but it was three feet from going over with toughy 0:49:48.520 --> 0:49:51.680 ghost witch's bat. And it's like, had I just gotten 0:49:51.760 --> 0:49:53.680 a little bit more and hit a homer with a 0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:56.359 pro baseball player's bat on the field that they used, 0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:56.880 that would. 0:49:56.640 --> 0:49:58.640 Have been You could live on that the rest of 0:49:58.719 --> 0:49:59.120 your life. 0:49:59.200 --> 0:50:02.000 Oh, Yeah, yeah, the losers like us, so that that 0:50:02.080 --> 0:50:05.560 would have filled my my loser a bucket for a 0:50:05.640 --> 0:50:08.239 long time. Yeah, tell everybody, no big deal, but I hit. 0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:09.680 A hole round the Diamondbacks facility. 0:50:09.960 --> 0:50:12.359 Well, well we are losers, so we'll move on from 0:50:12.440 --> 0:50:15.640 reliving our glory. He can talk about actual good baseball players. 0:50:16.400 --> 0:50:19.160 I wanted to ask you about another picture. When we 0:50:19.280 --> 0:50:21.520 had a friend of show, Brendan Tuma, on a couple 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:23.200 of weeks ago to talk with me and Mayor, he 0:50:23.320 --> 0:50:25.080 talked a lot about Christian Scott and how about he 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:27.279 was a stash that he thought everybody should be hanging 0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:27.480 on to. 0:50:27.960 --> 0:50:29.520 And now he's come up. He looks good. 0:50:29.920 --> 0:50:31.279 What do you make of the first couple of starts 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:32.960 of his career? And you know, I don't want to 0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:35.040 call him like a like, Like he is breaking out 0:50:35.120 --> 0:50:37.000 to a degree this year. He's moved up a lot 0:50:37.080 --> 0:50:38.800 on a lot of the prospect rankings. He wasn't like 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:41.600 he was unheard of before, but like he looks really 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:43.800 really good in a way that he maybe didn't before. 0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:45.560 So what do you make of Scott? 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:47.840 Both in terms of just evaluating him as a young pitcher, 0:50:47.920 --> 0:50:49.759 but also what we've seen so far at the big 0:50:49.840 --> 0:50:50.319 league level. 0:50:50.680 --> 0:50:52.560 Yeah, I was never like I was never big on 0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:54.799 Christian Scott last year and even into this year because 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:57.919 I just hadn't seen enough statistically like things look good. 0:50:58.360 --> 0:51:00.560 But it's one of those cases, and it's it's it's 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:02.960 truly in like evaluating prospects, like when you get to 0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:05.160 see them live and you really or you know, you 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:07.719 really lock into multiple games if you're watching even on 0:51:07.880 --> 0:51:10.680 like you know, MiLB dot TV or something, and you 0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:12.360 can lock into a player, you just pick up so 0:51:12.480 --> 0:51:14.960 much more. And I was even like a little bit like, oh, 0:51:15.040 --> 0:51:17.200 let's wait and see. And then I got to catch 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:18.520 some of it early on and this year, and I 0:51:18.600 --> 0:51:20.480 jumped on it. And he had been on that Prospects 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:24.200 to Stash article for some time. His first start. I 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:27.160 was so impressed, and I've said this multiple times, just 0:51:27.239 --> 0:51:31.200 with his poise. I thought, cool cucumber. He was able 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:34.640 to not get phased. I loved his ability to command. 0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:36.439 And I know I've said this a couple of times, 0:51:36.480 --> 0:51:39.360 but like there there are a lot of things that 0:51:39.400 --> 0:51:42.160 reminded me of Brandon Fought, Like what I wanted from 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:44.640 Brandon Fought when he came up because thought had to 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:49.400 adjust his pitch type to be like a sweeper, fastball 0:51:49.520 --> 0:51:52.360 sinker type of guy, and I and the command was 0:51:52.360 --> 0:51:55.759 a little bit spotty. Christian Scott had that right away, 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:57.600 and that was the thing that stood out to me 0:51:57.920 --> 0:52:02.440 so much. He was the designation slider sweeper. You know 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:05.480 he'll use those, but the split finger can kind of 0:52:05.520 --> 0:52:07.800 work as a sinker. And he was throwing split fingers. 0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:10.920 He was throwing fastballs up on corners, he was throwing 0:52:10.960 --> 0:52:15.480 the sweeper across the zone. I thought his stuff with 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:19.439 command looked tippy top. And then in the next start 0:52:19.560 --> 0:52:21.600 got to hit up a little bit more. But you're 0:52:21.640 --> 0:52:23.879 seeing more of it. I mean, over two starts he's 0:52:23.920 --> 0:52:27.600 gone six. He's struck out at least six in both starts. 0:52:27.920 --> 0:52:30.560 Walks haven't been a big issue. Twenty eight percent k 0:52:30.719 --> 0:52:34.360 percentage to only six percent walk rate. That already is 0:52:34.480 --> 0:52:37.040 better than where Skeins is at. And I think Christian 0:52:37.080 --> 0:52:39.520 Scott isn't going to have the upside of the strikeouts, 0:52:39.560 --> 0:52:42.160 but if he continues to have a low walk rate, 0:52:42.560 --> 0:52:44.279 this is gonna work really well for him. Guys are 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:47.840 not barreling him up because of the command with those pitches. 0:52:48.400 --> 0:52:52.120 I am very, very interested in Scott and he's been 0:52:52.200 --> 0:52:54.319 a pick up for weeks weeks weeks before he got 0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:56.920 called up. But what's so enticing now is I think 0:52:56.960 --> 0:53:00.480 he's locked to a S. I think it would take like, oh, 0:53:01.120 --> 0:53:03.359 we want to maintain this guy's innings and not ruin him, 0:53:03.360 --> 0:53:04.960 blah blah blah for them to send him down like 0:53:05.000 --> 0:53:08.200 they just sent Budo down. They've got spots in the rotation, 0:53:08.360 --> 0:53:10.640 and I think he's going to kind of continue rolling it. 0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:14.080 I think he's going to be one of those unherlded 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:15.560 bets at the end of the year. Like I wouldn't 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:18.719 be surprised in NL voting if like Christian Scott had 0:53:18.840 --> 0:53:21.040 like you know, top five Rookie of the Year votes 0:53:21.120 --> 0:53:22.960 or something like that when it's all said and done. 0:53:23.000 --> 0:53:24.760 But yeah, I'm very much into Christian Scott. 0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:28.120 I want to ask you about Jackson Holliday because the 0:53:28.160 --> 0:53:30.880 last time you were on, we spent like half an 0:53:30.920 --> 0:53:33.880 hour just like praising him, and you know, obviously I 0:53:34.280 --> 0:53:35.560 leave that up getting. 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:36.799 Giddy and over the moon. 0:53:36.920 --> 0:53:39.560 Yeah, it did not age entirely well, although I mean 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:41.239 it's not like we said he was going to come 0:53:41.280 --> 0:53:43.600 out and be an MVP. From day one, Like he's 0:53:43.680 --> 0:53:46.600 the twenty year old kid who moved really faster than minors, 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:49.320 and there's always an adjustment, you know. I've seen a 0:53:49.320 --> 0:53:51.560 lot of people mention that, you know, the gap between 0:53:51.600 --> 0:53:53.880 Triple A and the majors has basically never been bigger 0:53:53.920 --> 0:53:55.560 than it is now in terms of the talent gap. 0:53:55.680 --> 0:53:57.200 Like it's a hard transition to make. 0:53:57.280 --> 0:53:59.640 So I want to ask you essentially what I just 0:54:00.320 --> 0:54:04.000 which is how much are we panicking both for this 0:54:04.160 --> 0:54:06.239 year and long term? I'm assuming the answer long term 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:08.239 is not at all. I mean that's literally only how 0:54:08.280 --> 0:54:11.720 I feel yet, like literally zero. As a reminder for everybody, 0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:15.279 the stat line two for thirty four in thirty six 0:54:15.360 --> 0:54:19.000 played appearances, he scored five runs. He struck out in 0:54:19.120 --> 0:54:21.200 like half of his app his played appearances, I believe 0:54:21.200 --> 0:54:24.239 it was literally half eighteen of his thirty six played appearances. 0:54:24.880 --> 0:54:25.920 Just so it's really overmatched. 0:54:26.000 --> 0:54:29.600 Looked fine in the field, good bass runner, And I 0:54:29.640 --> 0:54:31.360 actually kind of think he was starting to come around 0:54:31.480 --> 0:54:34.400 a little in his last couple of games. Not like 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:37.360 getting hot, but I thought he looked a little more comfortable, 0:54:37.440 --> 0:54:39.759 just anecdotally, like watching every Orioles game, I thought he 0:54:39.840 --> 0:54:41.600 was looking a little more settled in at the plate, 0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:44.319 even if it wasn't leading to results yet. But they 0:54:44.360 --> 0:54:47.280 sent him back down. So long term, you and iron 0:54:47.560 --> 0:54:50.760 lockstep he's still, you know, arguably the best prospect of baseball. 0:54:50.960 --> 0:54:54.080 Not worried at all for this season if he gets 0:54:54.120 --> 0:54:56.719 called back up. When he gets called back up, how 0:54:56.800 --> 0:54:59.040 will you be reacting to that in any kind of 0:54:59.160 --> 0:54:59.920 non keeper form. 0:55:00.760 --> 0:55:03.440 Yeah, so I guess you could look at it like 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:06.000 I will be a glutton for punishment in that respect, 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:08.680 because here's one thing I do believe is when he 0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:12.279 is back up, he will have answered. There's a lot 0:55:12.360 --> 0:55:15.160 of public pressure early on when he didn't make the 0:55:15.200 --> 0:55:17.680 opening day roster and they're like he needs to work 0:55:17.719 --> 0:55:20.040 on hitting lefties, and first at bat in the minors 0:55:20.120 --> 0:55:22.480 he hits off a left like it felt like a 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:25.040 whole bunch of nonsense that they sold us. Now it 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.759 definitely is. It's more of that like, oh yeah, we're 0:55:27.800 --> 0:55:29.360 not in management of baseball, and they knew what they 0:55:29.400 --> 0:55:32.200 were talking about. So I'm leading this to say the 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:35.560 public pressure is gone. He failed at the major league level, 0:55:35.640 --> 0:55:37.560 they sent him back down, and they're going to have 0:55:37.680 --> 0:55:39.839 clear cut things. Part of it might just be get 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.200 your head straight and then it's going to be you know, 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:44.440 this is what didn't work at the major league level. 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:45.920 Here's what we need to work on. So what I'm 0:55:45.960 --> 0:55:49.560 saying is when he comes up, when that happens, I 0:55:49.640 --> 0:55:52.839 feel confident that they will feel confident and they're going 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:55.400 to have him up to get it bats. He won't 0:55:55.440 --> 0:55:58.080 be there to sit. So when he comes back up, 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:00.799 I'm going to feel more calm, confident, and I will 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:05.520 pick him up in every spot because long term, everything 0:56:05.600 --> 0:56:09.360 I said before still stands. I think he's a high contact, 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:13.000 low strikeout guy, even though that's been his bugaboo. The 0:56:13.120 --> 0:56:15.200 guy gets on base, has always had an over four 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:17.960 hundred OVP. I thought he was going to run. He 0:56:18.040 --> 0:56:20.680 just didn't get on base to even run, so that, 0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:23.520 you know, it's really tough to say. I just don't 0:56:23.520 --> 0:56:26.760 think there's anything to pull from the debut. Sometimes that happens, 0:56:26.800 --> 0:56:30.080 sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes there's gleaning ideas of the player. 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:32.880 I don't think there's anything to pull from it. It 0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:36.080 may not be right, you know, because maybe he's gonna 0:56:36.120 --> 0:56:38.960 come back, and you know, I assume when he comes back, 0:56:39.440 --> 0:56:42.160 he's going to get the same treatment as far as 0:56:42.239 --> 0:56:44.520 how pitchers were attacking him, and that is going to 0:56:44.560 --> 0:56:46.280 be the thing he'll be working on in the minor, 0:56:46.320 --> 0:56:50.120 so that will be very telling. But I don't have 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:53.000 any stash. I'm not trying to stash right now. Stashing 0:56:53.080 --> 0:56:57.560 prospects is an overall net failure for this year, and 0:56:58.320 --> 0:57:00.319 even though I think we're going to talk about guy 0:57:00.360 --> 0:57:02.600 that's going to be coming up very soon, stashing in 0:57:02.680 --> 0:57:05.320 general has been a net failure. That you can do 0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:09.640 things in better spots. Anyways, I'm fine with with not 0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:11.560 doing that, and I'm not stashing a lot of these 0:57:11.600 --> 0:57:13.880 players because I think it's a super unknown. And I 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:16.439 also don't think the next big oriole to be called 0:57:16.480 --> 0:57:19.160 up is Jackson Holliday. I think I think it has 0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:22.480 to be Kobe Mayo. Kobe Mayo's destroyed, so that makes 0:57:22.520 --> 0:57:25.920 it even tougher for him unless there's a major injury 0:57:26.440 --> 0:57:28.640 or two to the middle infield and it's like, well, 0:57:28.680 --> 0:57:30.520 we clearly have to move him. But the problem is 0:57:30.560 --> 0:57:32.600 is Jordan Westburg can go over to second, Mayo can 0:57:32.680 --> 0:57:35.400 play third. So that's I think Holiday is going to 0:57:35.440 --> 0:57:37.160 have a longer road to get back. But I do 0:57:37.320 --> 0:57:39.800 believe when he is back up, that's going to be 0:57:39.840 --> 0:57:42.160 the time to trust because he'll have answered those questions 0:57:42.200 --> 0:57:43.280 that the Orioles were looking for. 0:57:44.120 --> 0:57:46.040 You read my mind on the on the stash question. 0:57:46.200 --> 0:57:46.720 That's interesting. 0:57:46.920 --> 0:57:49.720 So the thing with Mayo that I've been I think 0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:52.280 he's like ready, Like, I think he's a I love 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:54.320 him as a prospect obviously, like both as an Orioles 0:57:54.360 --> 0:57:56.240 fan and for fantasy, like I would love to see 0:57:56.320 --> 0:57:58.680 him the big leagues. I've been kind of thinking, given 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:00.960 his youth, give that there was some like swing and 0:58:01.000 --> 0:58:02.440 miss with the strikeouts. 0:58:02.000 --> 0:58:05.880 And there's still at Crimes. May turned over and he 0:58:06.040 --> 0:58:07.240 was having some strikeout issues. 0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:08.280 Yeah, still is. 0:58:09.080 --> 0:58:11.560 I've been wondering if Dave were kind of of the 0:58:11.640 --> 0:58:14.520 mindset of maybe waiting for him to be like a 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:17.800 September call up and keeping that eligibility to compete for 0:58:17.920 --> 0:58:19.840 Rookie of the Year next year and try and get 0:58:19.840 --> 0:58:21.640 them a pick in the future, because he seems like 0:58:21.680 --> 0:58:23.600 the most obvious candidate. You know, a guy like Heston 0:58:23.640 --> 0:58:27.840 Kerstad is like twenty five years old already, and I 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:30.480 know he just got sent back down Curestad, but like, 0:58:30.880 --> 0:58:33.320 you're not saving a twenty five year old for another 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:35.000 year just to try and get Rookie of the Year, right. 0:58:35.200 --> 0:58:38.560 Connor Norby is I think a really good prospect, but 0:58:38.720 --> 0:58:40.600 probably blocked enough that he's not gonna win rooky of 0:58:40.600 --> 0:58:42.280 the Year next year, like Mayo's kind of the and 0:58:42.640 --> 0:58:44.600 Holiday being as good as he is, expecting him to 0:58:45.120 --> 0:58:46.960 lose that eligibility this year. So Mayo is kind of 0:58:46.960 --> 0:58:48.400 the one where I thought maybe if they were trying 0:58:48.440 --> 0:58:50.720 to play that system. Also the fact that they don't 0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:53.240 really need the infielder. I mean they do now that 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:56.240 Holiday's down and they're starting Mateo or Arius every day. 0:58:57.160 --> 0:58:59.040 But for all those reasons, I thought that Mayo might 0:58:59.120 --> 0:59:03.000 be one that they did didn't aggressively promote. But I 0:59:03.040 --> 0:59:06.240 mean he's he's leading the organization in home runs, then 0:59:06.240 --> 0:59:09.280 the ones he hits are bombs, and I just I 0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:11.840 follow all the Orioles, you know, minor league accounts, and 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:15.000 I'm watching these videos every day while the Orioles score 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:16.920 one run, not that that happens often, they're a good 0:59:16.920 --> 0:59:18.959 team at the big league level, but the oorial score 0:59:19.040 --> 0:59:21.000 run run. Oh look, Mayo went three for five with 0:59:21.080 --> 0:59:23.600 a double and a home run and eight RBI, and 0:59:23.680 --> 0:59:25.560 it just seems like every day that's happening. I do 0:59:25.720 --> 0:59:28.200 really like Mayo, but like I'm worried that they won't 0:59:28.240 --> 0:59:31.280 call him up, you know, that soon. But that's interesting 0:59:31.320 --> 0:59:33.400 that you kind of highlight him as the next big 0:59:33.520 --> 0:59:36.240 call up. I do want to ask about h you know, 0:59:36.760 --> 0:59:40.240 kind of the other stashes you alluded to, if not holiday, 0:59:40.360 --> 0:59:42.800 because it's you know what we've already seen and he's 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:44.160 a guy will pick up but don't really want to 0:59:44.200 --> 0:59:46.560 hold on to. Who are the guys the one or 0:59:46.600 --> 0:59:48.680 two names at the top of the stash rankings right now? 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:51.680 Yeah, so you know, we'll do a segment on leading 0:59:51.760 --> 0:59:54.320 off and I'll have my article, my prospects to stash article. 0:59:54.400 --> 0:59:57.160 Last week, what I did was I lowered the number 0:59:57.360 --> 0:59:59.800 of guys that I was writing up that are of 1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:03.080 quote the idea of stashing, by the way, uses air 1:00:03.160 --> 1:00:05.120 quotes right now, because I know there's some people like, oh, 1:00:05.160 --> 1:00:07.160 you don't stash any and it's like, well, this year's 1:00:07.200 --> 1:00:10.440 kind of been right, But the idea of stashing is like, 1:00:10.480 --> 1:00:11.720 these are the guys that are going to be close 1:00:11.760 --> 1:00:13.960 to get some production and then i'd have a watch list. 1:00:14.200 --> 1:00:16.560 So this past week I lowered the number of guys 1:00:16.600 --> 1:00:19.920 that you're actually worth quote unquote stashing. And I raised 1:00:20.200 --> 1:00:22.760 the watch list players because it's like, I don't know, 1:00:23.000 --> 1:00:24.680 I don't know when these guys could come up, but 1:00:24.720 --> 1:00:26.800 you should. You should have these guys in mind. The 1:00:26.840 --> 1:00:28.480 reason I'm telling you this is like there's been a 1:00:28.560 --> 1:00:31.600 mount rushmore of players that have sat at the tippy 1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:35.080 top of like worth stashing, and at this point it's 1:00:35.120 --> 1:00:37.640 really only two players. And unfortunately the article is probably 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:40.560 going to be the same in that respect, though other 1:00:40.680 --> 1:00:43.240 names will start coming up, and number one is Junior Caminaro. 1:00:43.640 --> 1:00:48.400 But the Junior Camenaro side got more interesting today. I 1:00:48.440 --> 1:00:50.640 think it was today or yesterday as we're doing this, 1:00:51.800 --> 1:00:53.720 is he played second base for the first time. He 1:00:53.800 --> 1:00:55.680 finally got off because he's played entire he was a 1:00:55.840 --> 1:00:57.919 shortstop at some point and then he's played third base 1:00:58.120 --> 1:01:03.080 all year. He started second base, and last week just 1:01:03.120 --> 1:01:06.440 for fun, because I absolutely nailed the Paul Skins call up, 1:01:06.680 --> 1:01:10.880 I decided I'm gonna do another prediction, and my prediction 1:01:11.000 --> 1:01:13.400 for cam and Aro because there's this negative article that 1:01:13.480 --> 1:01:16.320 came out about the Rays and holding him down and 1:01:16.360 --> 1:01:19.000 they're not looking to bring him up anytime soon. I 1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:22.240 said May twenty fourth, and I did that because I 1:01:22.320 --> 1:01:24.920 think that gives enough time for him to have consistent 1:01:24.920 --> 1:01:27.760 at bats if they did want to do a positional thing. 1:01:28.000 --> 1:01:31.200 That gives enough time. And really, there was a day 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:34.280 off in between this time period. There's a day off 1:01:34.320 --> 1:01:36.400 on the twenty third, So I'm just gonna stick there. 1:01:36.440 --> 1:01:38.680 There's my update, and I feel better about it because 1:01:38.680 --> 1:01:41.640 he played second base and start at Brandon lau Is. 1:01:41.760 --> 1:01:44.439 I think he's hurt right now. Maybe this timeline gets 1:01:44.480 --> 1:01:47.560 pushed up and it's even sooner, but his bat has 1:01:47.880 --> 1:01:50.560 just been live, and I know unfortunately all the guys 1:01:50.600 --> 1:01:52.600 that get called up, they've been hitting over three hundred. 1:01:52.680 --> 1:01:55.840 That's where he is the positives. It's been a low 1:01:55.880 --> 1:01:59.440 strikeout rate, first time since Dominican Summer League. He has 1:01:59.440 --> 1:02:01.960 a double digi walk rate at tripa A. He's hitting 1:02:02.000 --> 1:02:04.360 over three hundred. He's got a three almost four or 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:07.560 five slash. He's at seven homers in twenty four games. 1:02:07.880 --> 1:02:10.880 He has opposite field power for days. He's got an 1:02:11.000 --> 1:02:14.600 incredible sense of the plate, which I've always loved, and 1:02:14.800 --> 1:02:16.640 I don't think he's going to strike out a bunch. 1:02:16.840 --> 1:02:19.160 I do think that pure raw power is going to 1:02:19.200 --> 1:02:22.560 play well for him, good hard hit numbers, you know, 1:02:22.640 --> 1:02:24.720 good hard hit and barreling. That's the type of guy 1:02:24.760 --> 1:02:27.040 that he is. And now that he's playing second base, 1:02:27.080 --> 1:02:30.360 they're finding some spots for him because Isak Prates has 1:02:30.400 --> 1:02:33.000 been great. He really has been a really good player. 1:02:33.200 --> 1:02:35.560 So the only option at this point had been with 1:02:35.720 --> 1:02:38.560 then you d h Camonaro or parades. But maybe they're 1:02:38.600 --> 1:02:40.960 now looking at it and saying, screw it, we can 1:02:41.000 --> 1:02:43.760 get Cameron Aro in that lineup because Caballero has played 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:46.800 well at shortstop. You've got a med Rosario who's playing around, 1:02:47.160 --> 1:02:50.000 and they're gonna look. My idea would be for Caminaro 1:02:50.040 --> 1:02:52.000 to be the everyday second basement and then he also 1:02:52.040 --> 1:02:53.439 has flexibility. 1:02:52.840 --> 1:02:53.320 To play third. 1:02:53.400 --> 1:02:56.320 That's what they value. They value players that can play 1:02:56.560 --> 1:03:00.320 around the field. Cow Manzardo told me year and a 1:03:00.360 --> 1:03:02.440 half ago they wanted him to pick up a third 1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:04.360 base glove in spring training because they wanted to have 1:03:04.440 --> 1:03:06.720 that flexibility, and then they traded him. But cam and 1:03:06.760 --> 1:03:09.280 Aro doing this, I think that is the most telling 1:03:09.440 --> 1:03:11.720 sign of this raised team. So I'm gonna kind of 1:03:11.720 --> 1:03:13.760 stick to it. I think we're in a ten to 1:03:13.880 --> 1:03:16.480 two week window where Cameron Aro could come up and 1:03:16.600 --> 1:03:19.240 the new position helps, and he is, you know, one 1:03:19.280 --> 1:03:21.920 of the more prolific bats out there. So that is like, 1:03:22.080 --> 1:03:23.280 that's the number one guy. 1:03:24.240 --> 1:03:25.640 And I know the other guy that we talked about 1:03:25.640 --> 1:03:27.800 in the pre show who I am really excited to 1:03:27.840 --> 1:03:30.240 see in the big leagues is James Wood. You have 1:03:30.400 --> 1:03:34.120 Cameron now ahead of Wood in terms of your STASH rankings. 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:38.760 Yeah, and Stash in Dynasty, they're both next to each other. 1:03:38.920 --> 1:03:42.800 James Wood is immensely interesting, especially from this list because 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:47.320 he's the power speed guy. I didn't even realize this 1:03:47.440 --> 1:03:49.000 until I just look now. He has a lower K 1:03:49.120 --> 1:03:52.200 percentage than Cameron Aro in the minors so far, and 1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:54.760 he has like double the games, which is very impressive 1:03:54.800 --> 1:03:57.360 because last year in Double A James Wood had a 1:03:57.400 --> 1:04:00.520 thirty three percent K percentage. I watched a bunch when 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:02.360 he was a padre and he has some bad swing 1:04:02.440 --> 1:04:04.760 and miss. He has really worked and changed on that. 1:04:04.880 --> 1:04:08.040 He has a almost career high walk percentage at fifteen percent, 1:04:08.160 --> 1:04:11.760 an under twenty percent K percentage, seven homers, nine stolen bases, 1:04:11.960 --> 1:04:14.320 a three four five slash. He's hitting three point fifty 1:04:14.520 --> 1:04:18.040 seven in Triple A right now. This is literally, I mean, 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:22.240 the Nationals are putting out Nixon, Zell and Jacob Young, 1:04:22.400 --> 1:04:24.320 and I don't want to be dismissive of this entire 1:04:24.400 --> 1:04:27.000 lineup or anything like that. You know, Victor Roebliss is 1:04:27.040 --> 1:04:29.640 out there in right field right now. Any other team 1:04:30.160 --> 1:04:32.680 they're gonna go and they're gonna put out James Wood. 1:04:32.920 --> 1:04:36.040 But this team is I would not be shocked. I 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:39.040 suppose if they held him back to September to try 1:04:39.080 --> 1:04:41.640 to get extra pit compensation, but at the same time 1:04:43.040 --> 1:04:46.320 going back to Kobe Mayo or James Wood, Like, I 1:04:46.400 --> 1:04:50.880 don't know what you what is the growth of keeping 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:54.960 a guy like James Wood who obviously has this Like 1:04:55.320 --> 1:04:57.160 you tell me what are the things that need to 1:04:57.200 --> 1:04:59.200 be fixed? And this is kind of rhetorical. I'm asking 1:04:59.600 --> 1:05:01.840 is like, Okay, what do you guys want him to 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:03.919 work on? Because he's hitting three fifty seven, he's running, 1:05:03.920 --> 1:05:06.160 he's stealing, he's not striking out, he's walking more than 1:05:06.200 --> 1:05:08.480 he's ever done. He's doing everything you could do. Is 1:05:08.560 --> 1:05:11.600 it advantageous to keep him down here? Is it advantageous 1:05:11.800 --> 1:05:13.920 for Mayo to stay down with the team, maybe to 1:05:13.960 --> 1:05:15.640 work on strikeouts? But what do you get if you 1:05:15.760 --> 1:05:17.560 keep them there for four months? What do you get 1:05:17.600 --> 1:05:19.880 with James? Would you keep them there for four months? 1:05:20.000 --> 1:05:23.920 Outside of it, I've been a huge proponent of in 1:05:24.040 --> 1:05:25.840 talking to my friends about all this, like kind of 1:05:25.920 --> 1:05:30.520 log in with the Orioles about like just like trade 1:05:30.600 --> 1:05:33.080 somebody to make it happen, because even if you take 1:05:33.080 --> 1:05:36.800 a short term hit, like while they're adjusting, because at 1:05:36.840 --> 1:05:38.760 a certain point, I'm a big believer in if you 1:05:39.040 --> 1:05:41.880 have solved a level and are stuck there, it's going 1:05:41.960 --> 1:05:44.680 to hinder your development, Like it's gonna actually be by 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:46.920 not continuing to be like, oh I need to grow 1:05:46.960 --> 1:05:47.640 into the next step. 1:05:47.680 --> 1:05:49.919 Now I've already solved this. I just think it's bad 1:05:49.960 --> 1:05:50.160 for you. 1:05:50.600 --> 1:05:52.160 A team like the Orioles, I get it a little 1:05:52.200 --> 1:05:53.960 more because they're like, we don't want to trade Ryan 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:55.600 or Herd because he's getting the crap out of the ball, 1:05:55.640 --> 1:05:56.720 and like we want to win the games. 1:05:57.080 --> 1:05:59.080 The Nationals the only. 1:05:58.920 --> 1:06:01.120 Thought process with them, and I know they've got off 1:06:01.120 --> 1:06:03.600 to a better start than you know, kind of expected 1:06:03.680 --> 1:06:06.360 or whatever, but like the only thought for them should 1:06:06.360 --> 1:06:08.440 be what is best for James. Would So if you 1:06:08.480 --> 1:06:11.680 think James Wood has solved the minors, he needs to 1:06:11.720 --> 1:06:14.160 be on the next plane to DC. Like there's just 1:06:14.480 --> 1:06:17.440 like to me, that's the only the only calculus is 1:06:17.760 --> 1:06:18.920 has he solved this level? 1:06:19.120 --> 1:06:20.680 Yes, time to call him up. 1:06:21.160 --> 1:06:23.600 And like I'd love to hear that, Like, so you 1:06:23.760 --> 1:06:26.040 tell me not again, this is rhetorical to their management, 1:06:26.400 --> 1:06:28.800 tell me what the thing that he hasn't solved? So 1:06:28.880 --> 1:06:31.040 if he has solved it and he has got this 1:06:31.360 --> 1:06:36.080 level down, do you like, is it important that you 1:06:36.280 --> 1:06:40.320 see sixty games of consistent production or do you think 1:06:40.840 --> 1:06:44.000 maybe at the point where a guy is hitting three 1:06:44.000 --> 1:06:47.640 point fifty seven, there are around two hundred plate appearances, 1:06:47.840 --> 1:06:49.640 is that maybe enough to give them more of a 1:06:49.760 --> 1:06:51.840 challenge and to be fair, like, you know, maybe we're 1:06:51.840 --> 1:06:53.920 being hyper aggressive about it, but when they're putting out 1:06:54.000 --> 1:06:57.280 like the Merrill Vargas and Victor Robliss and Jacob Young, 1:06:57.360 --> 1:06:59.280 and it's like, yeah, James Wood would instantly be the 1:06:59.320 --> 1:07:01.360 best the medical player on this team. And then guess 1:07:01.400 --> 1:07:05.440 what I think from a developmental standpoint, it is beneficial 1:07:05.640 --> 1:07:07.800 for that guy to get the major league time and 1:07:07.920 --> 1:07:10.680 then if the warts are there, you go and fix them. 1:07:10.720 --> 1:07:13.160 It doesn't not everybody has to be Joe Adell where 1:07:13.200 --> 1:07:15.520 it's three years of disastrous you threw them into the 1:07:15.640 --> 1:07:17.240 fire and it didn't work, and it's like, well, no, 1:07:17.640 --> 1:07:20.520 be very hands on, but why do not the amount 1:07:21.120 --> 1:07:23.560 Creig Council. I didn't get to say this earlier, Cret 1:07:23.640 --> 1:07:26.720 Council years ago when talking about Hestin and Kira or 1:07:26.800 --> 1:07:32.360 Kesten Heira, I said Heston kers yeah, yeah, he was 1:07:32.440 --> 1:07:35.600 having a rough time. And Crek Council was like, listen 1:07:36.120 --> 1:07:38.240 the jump because you said this earlier. The jump from 1:07:38.240 --> 1:07:40.200 Triple A to the majors is as big of a 1:07:40.240 --> 1:07:44.680 gap as it's ever been in baseball. And the more 1:07:44.760 --> 1:07:47.280 that we have, I mean, we have new pitch introductions, 1:07:47.320 --> 1:07:49.440 the sweepers are taking over this year. It's the year 1:07:49.480 --> 1:07:53.360 of the splitter, high fastballs. There are that the hands 1:07:53.480 --> 1:07:57.040 on nists that happens in the lower levels I think 1:07:57.080 --> 1:07:58.880 would kind of astonish people because I think we have 1:07:58.920 --> 1:08:01.760 an idea of like what base and every team is. 1:08:02.000 --> 1:08:04.480 There's a group of guys with tablets that are like, Okay, 1:08:04.600 --> 1:08:06.560 you did this and this, and it's not the case 1:08:06.800 --> 1:08:09.680 the amount of in person work and attention that happens 1:08:09.680 --> 1:08:11.560 at the major league level that doesn't happen at minor 1:08:11.640 --> 1:08:15.600 league levels would throw people off. So why not take 1:08:15.640 --> 1:08:18.400 a guy who's doing everything right, get them to the majors. 1:08:18.840 --> 1:08:22.840 Let the organization, the top people in the organization analytically 1:08:22.960 --> 1:08:25.400 break down everything, especially if they're struggling, and then you 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:27.280 take that down. Same thing I would have said about 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:30.040 Jackson Holiday. Some teams just think let a guy go, 1:08:30.200 --> 1:08:32.320 and maybe the Nationals would do that. But yeah, this 1:08:32.520 --> 1:08:34.559 is all the like, this is just the criminal stuff. 1:08:34.560 --> 1:08:36.320 We look at Camanaro and James Wood and we see 1:08:36.360 --> 1:08:38.599 how successful they are and we want to see them up. 1:08:39.680 --> 1:08:42.080 Executives have a pretty good argument right now, and they 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:44.200 can go, Okay, that's cool. Well look at Jackson Holiday, 1:08:44.320 --> 1:08:46.519 look at com Manzardo, look at Jordan Beck. You know, 1:08:46.920 --> 1:08:48.639 list goes on and on. They can kind of keep 1:08:48.720 --> 1:08:51.720 doing that. But if you're going to get into the 1:08:51.800 --> 1:08:54.639 stash game, those of the two that I think James 1:08:54.680 --> 1:08:58.040 Wood and Camnaro are within two or three weeks. There's 1:08:58.080 --> 1:09:00.439 a host of other players that are worth the common conversation, 1:09:01.120 --> 1:09:03.760 but I do think it's circumstantial. It's like if if 1:09:03.840 --> 1:09:07.120 there was an injury in the Orioles rotation. Kde Povich 1:09:07.240 --> 1:09:08.960 is one of the first players I would think that 1:09:09.040 --> 1:09:12.800 would come up to the majors. Adam Maser just got 1:09:12.840 --> 1:09:15.080 called up the Triple A with the Padres. He's had 1:09:15.080 --> 1:09:18.240 a phenomenal year. If there was a big injury in 1:09:18.320 --> 1:09:20.519 the rotation for the Padres, that would be a guy. 1:09:20.600 --> 1:09:25.080 So I think there's a lot of situational prospect issues. 1:09:25.160 --> 1:09:28.640 There's only so many that force their way on, and 1:09:28.720 --> 1:09:30.760 I think Camonaro and James Wood are the players that 1:09:30.800 --> 1:09:31.960 are forcing their way on. 1:09:32.960 --> 1:09:36.160 I'm not saying he's the same stylistically or that he 1:09:36.360 --> 1:09:38.840 is as good as what I'm about to say the 1:09:39.040 --> 1:09:41.080 name I'm about to throw out, But when I think 1:09:41.120 --> 1:09:43.599 of James would I think of Ellie da la Cruz 1:09:43.680 --> 1:09:45.800 in the sense that they're just way too big for 1:09:45.840 --> 1:09:48.479 the positions they play, and yet they're still. 1:09:48.280 --> 1:09:50.360 Like some of the best prospects. Somebody asked me, like 1:09:50.680 --> 1:09:51.680 our speed. 1:09:51.479 --> 1:09:53.960 And like a year ago when I was on CBS, 1:09:54.560 --> 1:09:57.840 someone asked, They're like, who is the next Ellie de 1:09:57.960 --> 1:10:01.400 la Cruz And I said, all right, I'll give you 1:10:01.520 --> 1:10:04.040 the name. And it's not just because of a one 1:10:04.120 --> 1:10:06.679 hundred percent of the physical presence, but you're talking about 1:10:06.680 --> 1:10:10.679 a player that puts up crazy big evs. James Wood 1:10:10.720 --> 1:10:12.720 is a guy that can hit when one eighteen that 1:10:13.000 --> 1:10:15.880 runs way bigger than their physical style. It is James Wood, 1:10:15.920 --> 1:10:21.439 and James Wood does have a physical similarity to Ellie 1:10:21.520 --> 1:10:23.840 day La Cruz, though he's bigger. But James Wood is 1:10:23.880 --> 1:10:26.360 the type of guy that, like I said, one eighteen 1:10:26.640 --> 1:10:30.040 Evs could hit thirty homers, could steal thirty bases like that, 1:10:30.240 --> 1:10:31.880 is a guy that could come onto the scene and 1:10:31.960 --> 1:10:36.120 go nuts. The difference between, ironically, between those two guys 1:10:36.280 --> 1:10:38.800 was at one point I really would have said, like, oh, yeah, 1:10:38.880 --> 1:10:41.600 James is actually just like Ellie. But James has so 1:10:41.880 --> 1:10:46.439 vastly improved his back to ball skills and his strikeout 1:10:46.479 --> 1:10:50.360 percentage and making good outs and putting you know, barrels 1:10:50.400 --> 1:10:52.880 on the ball that it's like James Wood might have 1:10:52.960 --> 1:10:54.640 a higher ceiling at that point. I don't think he's 1:10:54.680 --> 1:10:57.280 gonna steal like Ellie. Like Ellie has proven. You know, 1:10:58.040 --> 1:11:00.200 the best thing I've done this year was that lay 1:11:00.240 --> 1:11:02.599 day La Cruz to lead the league in stolen bases. 1:11:02.680 --> 1:11:03.600 And he's doing that. 1:11:03.880 --> 1:11:07.000 Yeah, he's doing that in the droves right now. But 1:11:07.120 --> 1:11:10.880 like James Wood is the type of guy the in 1:11:10.960 --> 1:11:13.479 the future, the comp might be maybe more similar to 1:11:13.520 --> 1:11:15.200 like an Aaron Judge. You know, that might be where 1:11:15.240 --> 1:11:18.040 it goes at some point. But yeah, yeah, the main 1:11:18.120 --> 1:11:20.160 crux here is, like you want to talk about dynamic 1:11:20.280 --> 1:11:23.080 skill sets, James Wood has that feel of a guy 1:11:23.160 --> 1:11:26.519 that could lead the league in homers and stolen bases 1:11:26.560 --> 1:11:27.160 in like a month. 1:11:27.320 --> 1:11:27.840 He's crazy. 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:30.719 Yeah, absolutely quickly. 1:11:31.360 --> 1:11:33.080 You know, I've been watching a lot of clips lately 1:11:33.240 --> 1:11:35.360 from one of my favorite movies the last decade, which 1:11:35.439 --> 1:11:39.720 is The Martian. And speaking of The Martian, Jason Dominguez 1:11:40.000 --> 1:11:43.439 is rehabbing, so we're kind of up on it on time, 1:11:43.479 --> 1:11:45.760 But just some quick thoughts from you on you know 1:11:45.840 --> 1:11:47.640 what it means, what we'll see from him when he 1:11:47.640 --> 1:11:49.960 gets back to the big league level and is healthy again. 1:11:50.600 --> 1:11:52.519 Yeah, if he's sitting out there, I'm picking him up. 1:11:53.000 --> 1:11:55.400 He's still one of my favorite from a dynasty perspective. 1:11:56.120 --> 1:11:58.600 This is probably the last opportunities for buys if they 1:11:58.640 --> 1:12:02.080 even exist, because he just started his rehab assignment and 1:12:02.200 --> 1:12:04.320 that's a huge thing. He's going to get back into 1:12:04.400 --> 1:12:08.400 playing time. He got a hit in his first game. 1:12:09.200 --> 1:12:11.439 He's an insane talent that I think people have kind 1:12:11.439 --> 1:12:13.840 of forgot about. So you know, in Dynasty, I think 1:12:13.880 --> 1:12:15.600 he's a great buy that it still might be a 1:12:15.640 --> 1:12:18.080 little bit cheaper in redraft to be sitting out there. 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:21.040 I guess I don't assume him is like the prospects 1:12:21.080 --> 1:12:23.120 to stash because he's made his major league debut. But 1:12:23.160 --> 1:12:25.120 if he is out there, i'd stash him because I 1:12:25.120 --> 1:12:27.920 think you're probably two weeks ish away, just however long 1:12:28.000 --> 1:12:30.519 they feel the rehab assignment has to go. And I 1:12:31.040 --> 1:12:33.840 don't think it's you're gonna throw him back into Triple A. 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:35.479 I think you're gonna throw him right back into the 1:12:35.520 --> 1:12:37.840 major So there's a little bit of a glut there 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:39.280 with some of the guys that are up. But maybe 1:12:39.280 --> 1:12:42.080 they you know, maybe they cut bait with a with 1:12:42.280 --> 1:12:46.240 a Trent Grisham, and you know, Dimingez can get back 1:12:46.280 --> 1:12:48.720 in the outfield. Maybe he's dhing a little bit. You 1:12:48.840 --> 1:12:51.160 keep stanting at the DH like Jason, Dimingez is going 1:12:51.200 --> 1:12:53.160 to get back in that lineup. So if he is 1:12:53.200 --> 1:12:55.960 out there, you should get him. And I have pretty 1:12:56.000 --> 1:12:59.240 high expectations because I was very impressed with the major 1:12:59.320 --> 1:13:01.760 league debut that he had hit two fifty eight four 1:13:01.840 --> 1:13:03.680 homers in eight games. I think he's gonna kind of 1:13:03.680 --> 1:13:04.439 pick right back up. 1:13:05.960 --> 1:13:06.280 Welsh. 1:13:06.360 --> 1:13:08.439 It's always a pleasure to talk to you. Thanks so 1:13:08.560 --> 1:13:11.439 much for coming on. You know, I appreciate you making 1:13:11.479 --> 1:13:15.519 the time and giving us all this knowledge. Everybody stick around. 1:13:15.560 --> 1:13:17.479 I'll be right back with Mayor on the other side. 1:13:17.960 --> 1:13:21.720 All right, Mayor, let's wrap up here with our weekend excitement. 1:13:22.240 --> 1:13:23.120 I will go first. 1:13:23.439 --> 1:13:25.920 Wasn't a super long list, so I just highlighted kind 1:13:25.920 --> 1:13:27.280 of the thing that stood out to me most, and 1:13:27.400 --> 1:13:31.519 that is Paul skeins against the Cubs again, you know, 1:13:32.200 --> 1:13:32.880 before innings. 1:13:32.920 --> 1:13:34.599 Seven strikeouts in that first start. 1:13:35.280 --> 1:13:38.280 Obviously, like we talked about this, everybody listening just heard 1:13:38.320 --> 1:13:41.160 me talk about this with Welsh, you know, most typed 1:13:41.240 --> 1:13:47.400 pitching debut since Steven Strasburg. I'm still salty about having 1:13:48.000 --> 1:13:51.080 to give away the tickets for Strasburg's debut, which is 1:13:51.120 --> 1:13:53.479 a story everybody heard during. 1:13:53.320 --> 1:13:55.160 The interview with Welsh. 1:13:55.640 --> 1:13:59.200 But again, just really really exciting, you know, pitching prospect 1:13:59.240 --> 1:14:01.840 here finally got the call up, and he's going up 1:14:01.840 --> 1:14:04.080 against the same team he faced in the first game out. 1:14:04.720 --> 1:14:06.160 I want to see if he does better. I want 1:14:06.160 --> 1:14:08.320 to see if he goes into the into the you know, 1:14:08.400 --> 1:14:10.519 deeper into the game. Not that he was awful in 1:14:10.600 --> 1:14:12.000 that first start, but you know it was your first 1:14:12.040 --> 1:14:14.240 start ever. You know, it's you never know how a 1:14:14.280 --> 1:14:15.880 guy's going to react to that. But I'm just really 1:14:15.880 --> 1:14:17.920 excited to see what he does over the weekend. 1:14:19.640 --> 1:14:21.640 Yeah, for sure, Paul Skins is the obvious one. We 1:14:21.720 --> 1:14:23.200 kind of talked before the show and I was like, 1:14:23.280 --> 1:14:25.800 I don't really know what I wanted to see. Paul 1:14:25.840 --> 1:14:27.680 Skins is a really good one. That's the obvious one. 1:14:28.400 --> 1:14:31.160 Matt Perrault the host of our Daily Juice podcast over 1:14:31.240 --> 1:14:33.120 on the Betting Pro Feed, which I encourage everyone to 1:14:33.600 --> 1:14:37.000 check out. He does a daily really quick hitting you know, 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:38.720 here's what I'm betting for the day. It's a it's 1:14:38.760 --> 1:14:40.800 a really enjoyable fifteen minute, you know, ten to fifteen 1:14:40.800 --> 1:14:41.840 minute podcasts every morning. 1:14:42.360 --> 1:14:43.960 Matt Parol is actually going to be at that game. 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:47.720 He's he's flying from Vegas to Chicago to go see 1:14:47.760 --> 1:14:51.200 Paul Skins. So excited to hear how he how he 1:14:51.280 --> 1:14:55.360 thinks he does. We kind of default to pitching matchups 1:14:55.680 --> 1:14:57.400 or kind of team matchups. I'm like, what we're excited 1:14:57.439 --> 1:14:59.679 for this weekend and we're kind of talking. Before the show, 1:14:59.720 --> 1:15:01.400 I was kind of just you know, you were you 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:03.479 were talking about whatever you were talking about. It wasn't listening, 1:15:03.760 --> 1:15:08.000 but I was looking at the weekend slate and I 1:15:08.160 --> 1:15:10.960 was just kind of like, ah, I don't really know 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:12.880 what I'm looking forward to. Like, I'm definitely looking forward 1:15:12.880 --> 1:15:16.479 to watching baseball, but I mean I want to see 1:15:16.520 --> 1:15:19.160 Jack Flaherty's at Gallen, both because I think that's a 1:15:19.200 --> 1:15:20.800 good pitching matchup and because I have a lot of 1:15:20.840 --> 1:15:23.559 those guys in my leagues, so that's a matchup. I'm 1:15:23.560 --> 1:15:26.840 looking forward to Freddie Perlta justin Berlander. I don't have 1:15:26.880 --> 1:15:28.519 any Verlander, but I have a bunch of Peralta and 1:15:28.600 --> 1:15:30.840 that's a good pitching matchup. And I'm I just keep 1:15:30.880 --> 1:15:32.719 waiting for the Astros to turn back into the Astros 1:15:32.720 --> 1:15:35.240 and like we said, are they going to sell if 1:15:35.240 --> 1:15:37.760 they keep plummeting? You know, not that I thought I 1:15:37.800 --> 1:15:39.800 want them to do better. I'm ready to not see 1:15:39.960 --> 1:15:43.240 the Houston and the Alcs this year. Enough is enough 1:15:43.920 --> 1:15:46.400 on that front. But other than that, I feel like 1:15:46.439 --> 1:15:49.600 there's a lot of like okay pitching matches, but not 1:15:49.760 --> 1:15:53.920 a lot of kind of premier ones, So Paul Skenes 1:15:53.960 --> 1:15:56.120 is kind of the obvious one. And then there's just 1:15:56.200 --> 1:15:59.360 a lot of like, oh, that's interesting, you know, that's 1:15:59.560 --> 1:16:02.120 that's okay, Like I don't I don't feel like unless 1:16:02.160 --> 1:16:02.960 I'm missing. 1:16:04.400 --> 1:16:07.439 You don't need to fake it or sell us soldness. 1:16:07.479 --> 1:16:09.479 It's not the most exciting from what the type of 1:16:09.479 --> 1:16:12.320 stuff you and I usually highlight this segment. I think 1:16:12.360 --> 1:16:13.479 we've named enough of them. 1:16:14.320 --> 1:16:14.599 We don't. 1:16:14.640 --> 1:16:17.920 We don't need to to, you know, lose the trust 1:16:18.040 --> 1:16:21.080 of our audience by just pretending we care about. 1:16:21.240 --> 1:16:23.040 You know, some of the lower I'm not pretending. I'm 1:16:23.080 --> 1:16:25.840 saying I'm trying to. I'm trying to look is. 1:16:25.880 --> 1:16:28.000 Not the same as like we can excitement, what are 1:16:28.040 --> 1:16:30.600 we really looking forward? I was also looking like are 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:33.160 there any good like team matchups this weekend? Yeah, I 1:16:33.200 --> 1:16:35.840 was kind of and I haven't really stood out to 1:16:35.960 --> 1:16:38.120 me white sox Yankees doesn't really do it. 1:16:38.120 --> 1:16:42.360 For me, shockingly. All right, let's go to our two 1:16:42.360 --> 1:16:48.519 start picture competition. Last week, my picture Emerson Hancock got 1:16:48.600 --> 1:16:50.320 sent down after his first start. 1:16:50.640 --> 1:16:52.080 I knew I was kind of going out on a limb. 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:53.640 Anyway, it was like not a week I love that 1:16:53.720 --> 1:16:57.240 was let me just take a shot here on Hancock. 1:16:57.320 --> 1:17:00.360 For whatever reason crossed my mind last week, Uh did 1:17:00.439 --> 1:17:02.040 not pan out because well, part of it was I 1:17:02.120 --> 1:17:05.320 was excited about to start against the A's and didn't 1:17:05.320 --> 1:17:11.000 even get it. Your pitcher this week is even worse 1:17:11.080 --> 1:17:13.320 as you mentioned Renel Blaco, or is it worse? Is 1:17:13.360 --> 1:17:16.639 getting sent down better or worse than your guy getting 1:17:16.680 --> 1:17:19.000 suspended during the week you picked him as a two 1:17:19.000 --> 1:17:21.240 star pitcher. I genuinely don't know the answer to that, 1:17:22.240 --> 1:17:24.840 but as you are already highlighting the outline because of 1:17:24.920 --> 1:17:28.280 that fact, A, you know you got an auto win 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:30.200 last week, I would say, and B I'm gonna get 1:17:30.200 --> 1:17:32.640 an auto win this week. So I believe we are 1:17:32.720 --> 1:17:35.280 actually tied through six weeks including this week, that we're 1:17:35.280 --> 1:17:37.320 currently in at three wins a piece. 1:17:37.520 --> 1:17:41.400 So it's an exciting race so far. Who you got 1:17:41.520 --> 1:17:42.040 for this week? 1:17:43.000 --> 1:17:46.080 Yeah, I think the time breaker there was not just 1:17:46.320 --> 1:17:48.960 that your guy got sent down and then my guy 1:17:49.000 --> 1:17:52.000 got suspended, which it's kind of on one hand, it's 1:17:52.040 --> 1:17:53.760 kind of fun because normally we have to kind of 1:17:53.840 --> 1:17:56.599 wait an extra week to talk about who won. Now 1:17:56.640 --> 1:17:58.840 we're two weeks ahead, we already know into the future, 1:17:58.880 --> 1:18:02.040 who's won not only this week but next week or 1:18:02.160 --> 1:18:04.080 not like last week but this week kind of a situation. 1:18:04.400 --> 1:18:06.479 I think the tiebreaker there is that my guy wasn't 1:18:06.600 --> 1:18:09.640 just suspended. He was suspended for cheating. He didn't like 1:18:09.680 --> 1:18:11.519 get into you didn't like throw at someone and get 1:18:11.680 --> 1:18:13.720 like thrown out of the game and get a five 1:18:13.760 --> 1:18:18.440 game suspension. He got caught cheating, allegedly cheating and was suspended. 1:18:19.280 --> 1:18:21.880 So I feel like that tiebreaker makes it worse than 1:18:21.920 --> 1:18:24.120 getting sent down, although they are both pretty bad. My 1:18:24.280 --> 1:18:26.080 pitcher for this week is Kyle Bradish. 1:18:27.200 --> 1:18:27.840 Did you say, is it. 1:18:27.880 --> 1:18:29.599 Bratish or British bradish? 1:18:30.080 --> 1:18:30.439 Bradish? 1:18:30.479 --> 1:18:30.519 Like? 1:18:30.640 --> 1:18:34.320 I don't know why I doubted myself there, but I 1:18:34.479 --> 1:18:36.280 made sure for one of the first times ever, I 1:18:36.280 --> 1:18:39.080 got to the sheet before you. And similar to the 1:18:39.160 --> 1:18:41.720 pitching matchups and the team matchups for this weekend, I 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:43.760 didn't love what we were seeing in terms of two 1:18:43.840 --> 1:18:46.720 start pitchers next week, and so I was like, you know, 1:18:47.479 --> 1:18:50.040 not only does he have two good matchups in the 1:18:51.040 --> 1:18:52.280 one of the worst teams we've ever seen in the 1:18:52.280 --> 1:18:56.559 White Sox and the struggling Mighty League Cardinals, but also 1:18:57.360 --> 1:18:59.320 I got to grab an Oils pitcher before you did, 1:18:59.439 --> 1:19:01.960 and so I was happy to take Kyle Bradish. 1:19:03.160 --> 1:19:07.479 Uh. Yeah, you know what, that's okay. I'm not beating 1:19:07.520 --> 1:19:09.840 myself up over it. He didn't do that well today 1:19:11.000 --> 1:19:13.360 eighty five pitches and four innings. The O's did get 1:19:13.400 --> 1:19:14.320 the window extend there. 1:19:14.800 --> 1:19:16.439 He's warming up for me next week, that's why. 1:19:16.800 --> 1:19:19.800 Yeah, yeah, Suell for me, I'm going with Chris sale 1:19:21.720 --> 1:19:24.200 Has By the way, do you know Chris Sales thirty five? 1:19:24.320 --> 1:19:26.160 Like I know, he's been around a while, but I 1:19:26.240 --> 1:19:28.840 didn't realize he he'd hit the mid thirties yet or 1:19:29.000 --> 1:19:30.920 like that level of it. I would have guessed like 1:19:31.000 --> 1:19:34.960 thirty two or thirty three. But he's He's pitched really 1:19:35.000 --> 1:19:37.759 well in his last three starts. His last three starts, 1:19:38.520 --> 1:19:43.479 he's gone a combined eighteen innings one earned run. What 1:19:43.680 --> 1:19:46.200 is this twenty eight strikeouts? I didn't actually I had 1:19:46.200 --> 1:19:49.000 to do math on the fly, just one walk. So 1:19:49.080 --> 1:19:51.840 he's been really good since since the calendar flip to May, 1:19:52.640 --> 1:19:54.280 and he was good even prior to that too. 1:19:54.360 --> 1:19:58.120 He's obviously had a really stellar season so far, so 1:19:58.160 --> 1:19:58.880 I'm gonna take him. 1:19:59.200 --> 1:20:03.360 His matchups a are against the Padres and at the Pirates. 1:20:04.479 --> 1:20:06.800 So we'll see who breaks the tie here seven weeks 1:20:06.840 --> 1:20:09.920 into the season and takes a lead in our contest. 1:20:10.040 --> 1:20:14.040 Any other thoughts here before we wrap up? Nope, all right, 1:20:14.040 --> 1:20:16.000 we'll get out of there on that. Thank you everybody 1:20:16.000 --> 1:20:17.840 for tuning in. Thank you again to Welsh for joining 1:20:17.920 --> 1:20:20.519 me earlier. I hope everybody enjoyed that segment, and I 1:20:20.560 --> 1:20:23.040 hope everybody enjoyed the show. 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