WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 2nd, 2023 (Ep. 682) 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.239 Welcome into Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading Off Live, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.400 brought to you by Prize Pig. Sign up for Prize 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.800 Pig today. Use that promo code leading Off. When you do, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.880 it's me Joey p joe Pie's apia back, of course 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.000 is the well shit, It's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:25.759 everybody is here. I apologize, I set the timer. I 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.560 forgot to hit the go live button with the timer, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.680 so people are gonna start filtering in now for the show, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:33.560 so we'll be a little patient with all you Peanuts 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.320 and cracker Jacks. In the meantime, Welsh, you survived the 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.159 water park. I'm very excited to have you here. The 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.880 question is how do you feel? Have you taken the temperature? 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.120 Have you done some wellness checks? What's going on? 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:45.520 Yeah, I mean so far. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.920 I don't have the whatever I'm gonna get, it'll probably 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:53.040 happen this weekend, just in time for Monday. But yes, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.200 if you're wondering, we had fun, all the money's gone 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.360 and come back to the chaos of the world. I'm 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.400 glad to Bogman was able to fill in. Did you 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.440 guys have fun? Did you in the week did fun. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.600 I mean not as much as having, you know, fifteen 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:06.720 dollars nachos fun. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.120 But we had seventeen dollars nachos. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.120 Oh stop, shut up. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.000 Seventeen dollars. They were in a pizza box. And I 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:15.880 was like, oh, these are gonna be amazing. And then 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.480 I looked and it was like, take all the cheap 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.560 nacho and greet you know, the circle little chip, the 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.480 cheap cheese like Walmart, like dollar olives, and they just 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.760 dumped it all in a pizza box and they called it, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.959 you know, super nachos or whatever. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.080 Like the idea of the pizza box though, that's kind 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.400 of clever. Do you get like other stuff on it? 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.280 Like oh no, I'm not meat, of course, not for you, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.440 but I mean if you like loaded up the nachos, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.080 you know, like the pizza box idea. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.800 It was fine. It was all fine. I'm fine. We 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:46.520 drank a lot. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.240 That was really fun. I'm good. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:49.640 I'm good. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.920 Everything is good. We're back here. I could stop spending 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.520 money and I can start making it. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.600 One more question about the water park. Did anybody have 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.440 an unfortunate funny slip and fall, either you or someone 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.560 else you saw, because that's usually also one of the 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:02.559 joys of the water park. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.120 That's a great question. That is actually the question. There 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.200 was nothing crazy. There was no major injuries, though. I 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.320 will tell you I got infuriated mad the last day 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.000 because we did all this stuff the first day. Second 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.680 we're you know, spending half of the day there and 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.840 we bought said nachos again. My son wanted the nachos, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.000 but this time we bought, not we split it. We 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.320 bought the nachos, We got Bavarian pretzel, I got some fries. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.280 We're all sitting there and we've got a seat right 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:29.840 in front. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.600 Of the say that the wave pool. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.320 There's big a wave thing, and they got all the 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.240 chairs and this kid comes over and there's those like 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.960 water spouts that are coming up, and all these kids 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.919 kept coming over and standing under it and just having 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.080 a go right into their crotches and everything, and you 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.120 just have to be like, this is normal. And then 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.520 one kid comes over and steps on it and it 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:57.760 just sprayed all over us, everything drenched our food, and 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.440 I I started parenting someone that wasn't my kid. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.160 I was like, what the all the so he splashed 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:11.359 or he was he was working it on the Yeah, yeah. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.880 In there and it just annihilated us and all of 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.920 our food and it was like fifty dollars of food 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:16.600 down the windows. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.240 Very it was very upsetting, very upset. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.239 This is a good question from Fred Welsh. Did you 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.239 collect five hundred arcade points for one hundred dollars and 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.600 cash him in for a penny candy or maybe an eraser? 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.760 Eraser is always. We did avoid. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:31.280 We did avoid the the arcade and that is tremendous. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.679 Just you know, a disaster it was. But the whole 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.240 time we did the slides, we did the craziness. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.440 Got my phone wet. I have some videos of me 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.280 going down slides. It's a great time. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.760 But I missed all of you. I missed all the 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.000 I We missed you too. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.880 And good news for those who keep asking me too. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.160 The Black Book is completed. It will be uploaded today. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.240 It'll be available this weekend for football for those of 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.160 you who are asking. But we got more important things. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.880 Hell or high water is right, let's talk about it. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.600 Jordan Walker is back. He started to turn things around. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.800 We talked about on yesterday's show and we were talking 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:01.480 about out how the rumblings were there. So if you 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.200 were listening to the show. Then you know, of course 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.920 that Jordan Walker, who you know, he struggled. It's okay, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.160 It's okay for a rookie to come up and struggle, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.920 I would say over the last twelve games, though not 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.920 so much a struggle at TRIPA for him. He had 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.440 over two ninety fourteen for forty eight with three homers 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.320 over the last twelve games since May eighteen. So whatever 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.080 it is that needed to be fixed, it's been fixed 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.520 with Jordan Walker. So I think it's very safe to 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.400 go back in the pool. Again. The question is too 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.200 you know, how available is he either on waiver wires 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.880 or on trades I imagine shallow leagues. He's probably available. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.359 I would add him, especially because he probably qualifies at 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.919 third pace, and to me, while that's a big value 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.000 with Walker, if he could just get right, that qualification 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.839 at third base is a huge win in fantasy. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.720 Yeah, we actually Bugan and I had taken a look 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.440 at this. He's around forty one percent in Yahoo owned 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.920 yesterday because we were doing a show I TL show 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.320 as the news broke, and at that moment he was 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.720 forty one percent, which kind of still tells you he 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.080 might be out there. You know Walker was good on 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.960 this back half, but the totality of triple A wasn't. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.479 He ended up only hitting two thirty nine this year 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.599 when he got sent down. Strikeouts were okay, but it 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.600 was his defense was the big thing. I'm encouraged about this. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.400 I'm overall encouraged about this, just because, like there's a 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.640 disaster happening in Saint Louis, and you know, God knows 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.680 if Tyler O'Neal is ever gonna play with this team again, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:22.360 and what's going on. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.080 Burlson and. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.839 Donovan have both kind of cooled off. There's a spot 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.839 now for them to just make the commitment. And the 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.280 commitment is here, you. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.000 Know, like this is it? 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.159 Like you don't bring him back up after this and 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.760 then bring him back down. So I think whatever it 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.159 is they do, he's sticking around. I'm gonna buy back 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.279 in on Jordan Walker, especially for all the people that 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.960 got like super disappointed and you know, they made their 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.159 investments and they're just kind of like arnery about the 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:48.880 whole situation. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.520 I've got a fantastic when we haven't even. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.279 Released our il pod yet, I was gonna bring this 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.360 question up, and I'm gonna ask you because this guy's 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.520 name is popping up in the chat. Would you rather 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.880 have rest of season Walker or Chris Morel. Chris mores 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:04.920 won for eighteen right now? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.679 Yeah, And that's why, because you know me, I don't 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.040 like the Javier Bias profile. I don't like the you know, 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.800 the true outcomes profile. Guy. I don't care for that. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.320 That's not my bag. I understand those players can be fun, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.240 but the problem is I just don't like the ups 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:20.640 and downs that you have to go through. I think 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.080 Walker is a very polish hitter. I think Walker just 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.920 had a little bit of a you know, a tough 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.919 first run. They didn't have much patience with him. I 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.960 think that was wrong. I think you got to play 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.359 a gated every day. You got to let him go 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.240 through some stuff. Volpi's going through some stuff and the 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.960 Yankees will be better off in the long term. For 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.600 this first season of Volpi struggling. People forget Derek Jeter 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.320 struggled mightily. You know, people are talking about sending his 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:42.680 ass down back in the day. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.120 Like Mike trut famously. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.760 I mean, you know, it goes so many so often. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.760 You know you're just better off of you just let 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.599 the kids play if you really do truly believe in 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.760 the prospect profile, and I think the Cardinals do. I 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.760 think we do. I think everybody around baseball believes in 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.719 Jordan Walker's hitting profile, So just give him some time. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:01.880 But with no hesitation. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.160 For me, it's Walker, Yeah, and I think I think, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.320 you know, the thirty games or whatever he was sent down. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.479 This fixes that, whatever the defensive liability was, whatever they're 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.240 going to commit to, look like they wanted him to 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.640 be right field. Stick him back over there. Hopefully that's done. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.880 I would just be curious if Mayor is here. I 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.200 would love it if you could post one of your 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.960 famous polls that you can put and send us the results. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.520 I'd love to know if you could put a poll 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.560 out there of Chris Morrell or Jordan Walker rest of 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.320 the year, so we could come back to that and 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:30.800 see what people have to say. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.120 You know, Tough Talk with the Teachers podcast is in 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.440 the chats, as they always are. I think it's time 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.440 to have a tough talk with Tough Talk because they 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.480 said that they traded ped Alonzo two weeks ago and 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.760 then got red hot, and obviously are not too happy 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.640 about that. Why do you trade assets, guys? Like Pete Alonzo. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.960 Like when you have first round, second round talent guys, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.120 you're kind of that's your commitment to those players. Now 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.520 I understand. Like Trade Turner, for instance, the top five guy, frustrating, 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.520 We've been talking about trading for him. I just wrote 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.679 that up on fanacybros. Dot Com in the trade article 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.960 this week, like I am all over trading for Trade 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.560 Turner and Welsh knows Trade Turner is never my favorite guy, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.880 but it's the classic big contract struggle nonsense. By the 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.800 second half of the year, when he settles in, it'll 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.040 be a distant memory. The Phillies have been awful. They 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.240 just got swept by the Mets. The Phillies will eventually 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.000 figure things out. Oh Kyle Schwarber ever will But I mean, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.200 the guy signed an enormous contract that he's not worth 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.920 there I said it, sorry, So there's a lot of 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.000 pressure on a guy. But at the same time, when 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.800 you and make investments guys like Pete A. Lonzo, as 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.040 long as the home run total still there and it 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.079 was forget what the batting average is. Eventually that a 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.320 lot come back. I feel like, yall, he's a big 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.120 mistake people make. Is trading their franchise players too soon 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.720 in the season, because oftentimes it does come back to 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:46.160 bite you. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.680 Well, we are right at the moment right now of like, okay, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.439 sample size makes enough sense. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:53.320 Sure me. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.240 I'm not making dramatic moves in the first six seven weeks. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.679 So I mean, if you said, you know you did 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.960 this too weeks ago or whatever it was, it's like six. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.240 Weeks ish into the season. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.520 I'm not making a move off of a player that 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.560 I invested in that high. I don't mean to do 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.280 this again, but slight little plug to the end this 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.200 league pod which is dropping today. What we did was 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.920 we did a redraft of the first two rounds. Joe 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.640 and I thought you'd be interested in that we redrafted 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.720 those and you know, thinking about that in the sheet 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:22.400 for Monday. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.120 Let's let's do that one day or too over the results. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:26.440 I want to see the results. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.439 Trade Turner and Pee Alonzo both still in it. It 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.280 was me, Frank Stanfele and Bogman drafting this and in 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.440 the top thirty picks we kept Pete Alonzo and Trey 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.800 Turner in there, with a few new names that weren't 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.360 in there before. But this is what happens, you know, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.160 And this is the marker right now, this is why, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.800 like after memorially this is the most important. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.480 But like I'm not, I'm not worried about Trey Turner. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.199 Someone is and they're going to trade him, and that's 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.280 a bad move. Two weeks ago people were getting worried 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.679 because pe Alonzo got stone cold. It doesn't matter. Peter 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.520 Anzo will figure it out. Like there's a certain guys 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.880 you just think they're the best players in baseball for reason. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.840 It's very you get one of those first second round 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.200 guys that really just has an awful season as long 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.640 as they're healthy. Health is usually the biggest Also, you 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.640 asked if Mayor's in the chat, by the way, he 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.560 is here he is. Derek Jeter struggled, But then mat 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.120 should complete the most overrated career of all time. Oh, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.719 Mike Maher spoken like a true Red Sox fan. If 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.360 ever there was one, I mean really three thousand hits. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.439 I think Also just last thing on that thing, probably 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.560 important to know the context because like you can trade 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.559 Peter Alonzo, you can trade these guys. Corvin Burns, I 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.480 think is a perfect example of like a guy that 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:33.880 started pictures are different. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.520 See, the pitchers are a different animal because year over 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.960 year there's so many you know, are they healthy are 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.400 they not? Especially this year with the shift change and 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.680 all the things, there were so many new variables. The 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.520 hit or profile, that's the one where the back of 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.720 the baseball card thing that to me is always true 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.319 for the most part. Yeah, Like you go back and 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.000 the guys, you know, especially the guys in their prime. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.880 It's one thing of a players a little older, getting 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.400 into their mid thirties. Then we could start to have 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.040 that conversation or the ind decline. You know, Josea Bray, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.640 you might be the definitive version of that. Uh. And 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.400 sometimes guys just have enormous drop offs. Not that he 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.760 was a first or second round talent. Pictures different position players, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.760 early investment guys. To me, I'm hanging on to them. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:09.120 I guess. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.120 All I'm saying is is like, you can make the trade, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.720 but the context of what you traded is important here 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.800 because if you trade Pee Alonzo and then you're pissed 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.000 that he started getting hot, that's the wrong approach. But 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.960 if you traded Pee Alonzo knowing like he might pick 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.200 it back up, there's forty homers but I went out 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.040 and got whatever I got, Mitch Keller and some other 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:31.480 cool thing. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.079 Mitch Keller last two starts as a pretty big era. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:35.239 Just say. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.720 I'm saying is that the context is like you trade 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.360 the guy and then you're annoyed by it. That's where 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.280 I think you did the trade wrong, because then you 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.840 came from it like, oh, I'm definitely trying to get 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.880 the hell out of pe de Alonzo, and that's probably 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:49.760 not what I'm looking at. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:55.000 The chat is going crazy now because the overrated Derek 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.000 Jeter conversation. I'm not taking a side. I mean, look, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.360 I lived in New York area, watch a lot of 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.520 Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter did a lot of amazing things 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.640 every day. Is he overrated because of the championship in 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.480 fact play in the Yankees? Maybe? Maybe, But I mean 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:14.880 who doesn't vote? I mean, how do you not vote 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.200 for him for the whole of fame or any that's 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.320 like that? To me is just like it's a no brainer. Easy. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.040 By the way, we also have a poll poll result 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.280 in the first couple of minutes, and Mayer said landslide 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.560 eighty one percent Jordan Walker over Chris Morrell. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:32.840 H okay, that's and hence my no hesitation, all right, Wesse, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.679 some hesitation Chris Sale. You know, just when we thought 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.120 it was safe to go back in the pool again, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.319 Chris Sale was removed Thursday, left shoulder sword in this 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.520 so hold your collective breath. Something was wrong, Glossy was down, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.400 and it seemed like he had really rediscovered himself. And 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.480 it's and you know, Welsh, I gotta say, you know, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:49.840 this was one of those dudes that he had the 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.839 big red X for me this year. Going into the season, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.880 I had zero shares of Chris Sale. Didn't want anything 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.960 to do with him. He was thirty four years old. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.080 To me, it's like, okay, enough already, this is gonna 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.760 be the downside of Chris. I don't know where we're 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.440 gonna be, but we don't have information on it yet. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.480 I would plan for an absence, folks, I would be 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.079 planning right now. I would not wait, because the longer 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.760 you wait, the less leverage you have. Max Scherzer shruck 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.040 out a season high nine batters. He's been excelled in 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.520 his last two starts, one earned run, seven innings in 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.240 a win over the Fields, and Kyle Tucker went three 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.520 for four with two runs scored over to the rookie. Lookie, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.120 let's talk about Royce Lewis because he went one for 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.440 four with a two run bomb. Joey Gallo can't hit 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.760 water if we fell out of Bodia seventeen strikeouts, seventeen 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.000 in is last seven days, you want to know, you 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.880 want to talk about that? Well, can we talk about 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.240 Joey Gallo or some other twins that can't hit at all? 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:39.800 I ever want to talk about Joey gallow. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.000 I love talking about Royce Lewis though, like I did 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.240 in the trade video this week. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.120 Ah, here's a question for you, Royce Lewis or Jordan 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.320 Walker rest of season because somebody asked me that this 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.520 morning on Twitter, and I said Royce Lewis because I'm 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.360 pretty sure that he doesn't come out of the lineup. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.480 Is Correa is hurt and Joey Gallo can't hit, and 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.880 all these other guys, I mean Byron Buxton's Byron, but 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 they need him. And if if Royce Lewis hits, Royce 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.959 Lowis is staying in the lineup. The whole cardinal thing 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.600 is always weird with the moving pieces they have. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.559 That is a great question because you know, Royce Lewis 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.400 is gonna take the stolen bases, and I think it 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.199 can be significant. I think Royce is the type of 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.200 guy that can get twenty through the rest of this year. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.000 He will hit a handful of homers he's got He's 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.120 got five tool in him and they've already been hitting 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.920 him five. What is Jordan Walker's max at this point 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.640 this year? Probably hitting six, five, five or six that's 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.640 the maxim. Yeah, probably with a lot of guys there. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.120 Yeah, well, and they got you know, they like to 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:36.280 Nolan Gorman's been hitting. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.560 That's not a bad thing Welsh because when you have 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.760 better players around you, for younger players, sometimes that takes 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.320 a lot of pressure off and you got guys ahead 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.120 of you get on bass. The Twins getting on bass 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.240 is a big problem. I mean there towards the bottom 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.440 and run score, if memory serves yet. You know, the 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.480 pitchings really held them together, although lately that pitching's comming 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.080 a part of the seams. Pablo Lopez again another rough 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:56.400 outing for him. We'll talk about that. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.000 Very torn on this one, I think too. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.040 I said Lewis, But again I think it's talent. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.640 I don't like to overreact, and I think the I 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.600 think the right answer is probably Jordan Walker. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.560 I'm gonna say Royce Lewis, I'm. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.040 Gonna do that because he does have the I think 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.640 it's the third base gig locked. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.920 And then if you know, anything happens to Korea, they 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:16.440 can do that. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:17.320 Yeah. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:18.080 I think I'm gonna go. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.360 The five tools, five categories. Obviously Walker has a little 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.600 bit of advantage. I think I'm gonna go with Royce Lewis, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.240 even though that might be wrong, and I'll site back 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:27.040 to this when I'm wrong. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.400 So maybe we need another pole up on the show. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.240 Maybe we need a poll about is Derek Jeter overrated 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.840 or great? Keep it simple? Great or overrated? 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.520 And then Royce Lewis or Jordan Walker, George. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.000 Bryce Lewis, Jordana. I want all the polls say it's 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:42.080 some more. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.080 Yeah, exactly, let's. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.160 Get some more. By the way, Royce Lewis three oh eight, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.960 batting average eight forty six. Uh, plugging in first thirteen 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:50.720 A bat's not bad. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.240 And then water park food or gas station food. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.800 Water park food still unless although gas station by me, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.880 there's wah wah gas stations by me, so clearly wah wah. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.000 If that's the case, that's. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.280 That Wawa's probably like, do you guys have QT in 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:07.840 the East Coast? 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.120 No, but we have something called Royal Farms, and Royal 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.440 Farms makes fried chicken that is unbelievably good. That's like 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.760 part of their whole brand. They're like a gas station 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.680 sax stop, but they have a whole like it's like 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.800 a KFC ish kind of thing. They make their own 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.480 like chicken strips and things like that and biscuit. It's 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.080 really good. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.800 I think QT is like your wah wah out here. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.240 It's the one where they like they always have to 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.280 talk to you, and they're like and they got like, oh, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:33.120 nobody has to talk to me. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.120 I order on a screen. I don't. I don't have 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.440 to do anything. Okay. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.400 So it looks like there's qt's in the lant like QT. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.520 I think you can trust a QT, not like a 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.960 seven eleven. Like you're not gonna get food at THEO. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.720 You're gonna be sick for quality. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.520 Is that what it's for? 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:47.880 I don't know. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.360 I don't know. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.320