WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 28th, 2022 (Ep. 499) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.800 The baseball gods giveth and the baseball gods taketh away. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:19.040 Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.160 is leading off. It is me, Joey b Joe Piezapia. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.720 That of course, is the Welsh who is under the 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.880 weather today, Office Officer, Officer Welsh. If you're watching on 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.240 the YouTube channel, We're brought to you by bet MGM Sports, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.080 the king of sports books. And I'm not sure if 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.280 you're Officer Welsh today or if you are Buddy Ray Welsh, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.440 famous blue singer. We'll find out by the end of 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.200 the show. But Welsh is the original Joe, tough guy 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.840 trying to tough it out. He uh, he sounds like crap, 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.919 He looks like crap. But you know what, He's here 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.000 anyway because he's a soldier. That's what you are. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.800 Well, I'm a soldier, I don't, Joe. I don't know 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.560 if you know. I'm a big guy. I could put 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.840 some in the hospital if I needed to, but except myself. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.600 I can put anybody in the hospital except myself. When 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.360 I feel like this. I'm the officer of the law 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.880 here for Fantasy Pros, and in no way is it 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.800 because my eyes are swollen. I know my voice sounds great. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:14.400 Let's do this. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.400 I can only say this that if there is already 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.240 an emoji of my face, there must be an emoji. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.479 But this has gotta be it, This has gotta be. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.720 Please somebody whoever's in charge of that and make this happen, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.680 because I want to use that emoji for everything. Yeah, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.399 pretty much. So, bad boys, Bad boys, what you're gonna do? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.640 Maybe when they come for you to talk about baseball, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.160 Let's start with the headlines. We'll start with the Braves 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.200 activating Ronald Acunya. And it's still April, so for those 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.400 of you who got a discount, congratulations, the risk paid off. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.200 April twenty eighth. He is now officially back with the team, 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.800 so that's very exciting news. Taylor War continues to crush 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.400 baseball as a Grand Slam yesterday, scored four runs in 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.559 a win that will Trivia question that Mike mayor drop 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.040 for us in a little bit about ward. We'll get 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 back to that in the second. Jose Ramirez, it's a 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.960 pair of two run bombs yesterday. Paul Blackburn, much to 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.600 the dismay of Mike Maher through another good start this 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.519 one against the Giants, blanks the Giants over five innings. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.359 Pablo Lopez extends his scoreless streak to eighteen to two thirds. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.640 He's having a great start to the year. John Carlton 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.400 Gian Carlstanton hits a home run the day after I 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.560 call him jerk. You're jerk, young Garla. I mean, come on, man, 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.520 where were you two days ago? I don't know. But 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.600 Mackenzie Gore strikes out ten and a victor over the 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.920 Red So he continues to dominate, which I can't wait 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.359 to hear Welsh's thoughts if he has any about that. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.800 Joe Ryan, my dude, whiffs nine and a fantastic outing 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.839 against the Tigers, and Drew Rasmisen also fans nine over 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.760 six shutout frames. Let's start with Mackenzie Gore. Your guy 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.880 was a little you know, I would say Mackenzie Gore 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.400 for you, Welsh was a guy that I feel like 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.160 you were just putting to the side a little bit. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.119 You don't want people to get too excited, but it's 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.239 hard not to get excited about the start he's had 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.280 so far. So talk to me about what you've seen 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.800 out of Gore. So why is he kind of exceeded 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.120 your early expectations. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.360 Speaking of good frames, I should just shut up about 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:14.360 McKenzie Gore. I can't do that right. He looked finished 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:19.000 last year, I mean done in the Complex League. The 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.200 guy has it going. His fastball's commanding at ninety six, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.960 he's spinning the ball. He's getting strikeouts at an elite clip. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.560 I'm gonna give myself a ticket. I'm gonna give myself 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.480 a Welsh Fantasy ticket for going in the wrong direction, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.160 speeding in the wrong direction on McKenzie Gore because he's 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:37.120 heading in the right direction. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.000 Yeah. Look, if you picked up Gory, you're doing very well. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.920 There's no doubt about that. Joe Ryan continues to be masterful. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.400 I've got one rotation that's so good. He's always on 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.240 my bench every week. I can't get Joe Ryan in. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.800 I might have started him over guys like Freddy Perolta. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.760 At this point, I don't know what to do. I 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.040 have to get Joe Ryan in these lineups because he's 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.320 been so fantastic. Yesterday there was slander on the show 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.160 against Paul Blackbird. And understand why I was talking about 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.200 with Mary yesterday. I get that the caper and I 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.320 in the minor leagues was a lot lower than it 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.680 has been recently. Probably not gonna make thirty starts and 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.920 sustain this kind of pace. But right now, if you're 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.920 hurting for pitching, Blackburn has been excellent, not good, he's 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.560 been excellent. I understand there's certain, you know, expectations where 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.520 we know that eventually it's going to Cinderella turn into 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.400 a pumpkin or whatever, like the coach does. I don't 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.839 think she turned into a pumpkin anyway. All I know 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.440 is it's not going to last. But while it does, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.680 Blackburn is somebody I feel like, if he's got a 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.520 good matchup or he's got two starts, you throw him 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.280 in there. What are your thoughts on Blackburn? Welsh? 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.480 Yeah, I mean it's one of those guys though that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.960 like when it goes, it's gonna go quick, and it's 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.719 going to go in one start and you're not gonna 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.920 want to be holding the bag. So I'm a little indifferent. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.240 Where like with Joe Ryan Wonkey in the jokingly in 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.520 the chat says Joe Ryan over Brenda Woodruff, I think 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.080 Joe Ryan is a must start every single week. I mean, 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.520 if you're really choosing between Freddy Prauft and him. Okay, 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.840 I suppose that's one thing, but he is an absolute 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.400 must start for me. Where you know, Blackburn is a 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.880 great piece to go and you know, run your streams 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.840 and everything, but you know, Joe Ryan get in every 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.480 single start. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.800 Yeah. Absolutely. In terms of the DFS market too, I 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.920 mean he was a little cheaper in these first couple 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.560 of weeks. That's not going to be the case after 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.440 this last start. There's no doubt about that. Now, going 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.919 back to Gore for a second, here's a trivia question. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.599 This is the simple one. Who holds the Padres record 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.599 for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher? And 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.960 I'll say this, it happened in twenty nineteen, so it's 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.520 pretty recently. If you want to take on that one. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.280 It is not Chris Paddock, It's and Ryan Wellers. Yes, no, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.120 it is not Ryan Weathers, but peanuts and cracker Jacks. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.520 If you know the answer to this question, drop it 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.960 in the chat over here. Fantasy Bros MLB again, who 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.159 has the rookie record for strikeouts in a single game 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.760 for the Padres. Robert Chavez has it. Look at him. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.520 He was super quick with this one Danielson. Lamet there, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.680 rookie in nineteen. That's what it says. That's from MLB 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.479 dot com. They know these things. This is what they do. Now. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.880 Now, I don't call the station and find this out. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.039 This doesn't sound right to me. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.960 Well, I'm just telling it was from MLB dot com. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.239 So there you go. Now, our boy, Mike Mayer says, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.520 Taylor Ward hit a double a triple home run last 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.800 night against the Guardians. It was the ninth game in 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.760 Angel's history where a player fell a single short of 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.280 the cycle. Who was the last player to do it? 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.160 And the hint is it was in twenty eleven and 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.920 twenty twelve and it was a big boy. That's our hint. Now, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.840 my guess is, I'm trying to think around that time. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 Would it be Kendries Morales? He was kind of updated again. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.200 By the way I looked it up, Lamet made his 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.000 major debut in seventeen. So just putting that out there, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:47.320 I'm not. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.599 Really Maybe I got the year wrong. Maybe that's me. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.080 I will look and be sure, but it was Lamette. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.080 It was from MLB dot com. Perhaps I remember the 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.240 year incorrectly. I don't know, Okay, I will. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.080 What was What was the hint on the last question? 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.039 The last one was I'm sorry, you know it, says 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.279 Dean Nelson lam At fourteen ks versus Brewers nine, eighteen 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.040 nineteen from MLB dot com, who was the Padres record 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.280 for strikeouts in a game by a rookie pitcher. Perhaps 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.440 he made his debut, but you have enough innings to. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.880 Yeah, plenty of guys do that like turnover thing where 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.720 it's like a couple of innings here, a couple innings there, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:22.760 and you can still qualify. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.720 So all right, So the mayor trivia question again, This 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.880 is an Angels guy in twenty eleven and twenty twelve, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.679 a big boy who fell a single short of the cycle, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.400 who was the last player to do it. So Mayor 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.280 I assume has the answer and is in the chat. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:41.040 Eventually he will drop that, Oh my goodness, there was 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.800 a player that I tried every year to make happen, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.720 Like I look at Brandon Wood and be like, I'm 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.640 gonna add this guy the back of my draft every year. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.480 It's never happened. There are two different trivia questions, Mayor 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.760 saying the most recent player did it last year. The 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.320 one before that was the big Boy in twenty eleven, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.480 twenty twelve. Mayor, you're confusing everybody. Keep it simple. Drop 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.720 the names in my slack chat, Mayor, so I can 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.200 know what's going on here for the for the names 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.920 on that trivia. But before we do, let's get to 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.160 the next segment here. Let's talk about Joe's tough guys 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.920 not named the Welsh, and let's talk about what happened yesterday. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.200 So Mets and the Cardinals got into a little bit 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.200 of a scuffle. Buck show Walter after the game said, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.240 I know our player got hit in the head and 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.120 just went to first base. Peter A. Lonzo, as you 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.760 alluded to at the top of the show, said I'm 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.600 a big guy, gonna put somebody in the hospital. I 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.640 could do a lot of damage if I wanted to. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.560 You know how I feel. If you want to go 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.760 hit somebody, hit Someboddy. If you don't, just you'll be 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.800 quiet about it. So this goes for Aeronauto. You know 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.400 done posture. If you want to get in a fight, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.600 go get in a fight. Don't pretend this is a 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.520 big thing I always do here on the show. But 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.400 I will say this, a lot of guys aren't getting hit. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.120 So we talk about the baseball. As Chris Bassetts mentioned them, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.640 guys are having trouble control in the baseball a little bit. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.079 There's a lot of guys getting plunked right now. What 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.760 do you make of it all because it seems like 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.600 a regular basis. Do you think it's just people going 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.280 after guys or do you think it's a little more 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.680 of the baseball and guys not having the same grip 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.640 because of the lack of the spider tack and other things. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.600 I think it has to do with the baseball. That's 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.440 what Bassett insinuated. The baseball seem to be a mess. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.520 There's humidor situations. I actually somehow I talked about it 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.640 on the ind This League Baseball Pod where Scott white 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.160 Heads brought up the point that all of the Major 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.360 league parks have the humidor in and that's gonna have 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.200 adverse effects in some of the parks as well, like 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.480 right now, and I think that's that's helping the deadening 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.080 the ball. So I think it has a lot to 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.160 do with that. I think there's a lot of control issues, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.200 a lot of command issues. I don't think there's as 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.760 much purposeful hitting as we might allude to here, but 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.400 you know, like why would Bassett bring it up in 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.280 the way he did. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.920 Or everywhere? That's the thing I don't understand, like why 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.120 would you have it? I mean, I understand in certain 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.079 locations why you have the humid are that we all 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.040 get that, we're not stupid, But this whole like we're 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.319 gonna have all the baseball is the same in a 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.160 humid or situation. That seems ridiculous to me because you're 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.000 talking about different weather climates all over the country at 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:01.840 any given moment. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.439 Well, one of the interesting things, and again I want 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.959 to give credit to it, because I believe it was 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.040 Scott White that was alluding to it, is, you know, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.280 as we're getting deadening ball right now, think of the 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.640 opposite effect that's going to happen in the summer with 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.959 all the parks using a humid ore. You're gonna have, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.160 you know, parks that are already in a moisture like 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.920 a you know, decent human climate. In the summer, you 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.920 might have balls flying. So my theory, my conspiracy theory, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.360 is baseball is completely silent right now on the deadening 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.640 the ball because they're just trying to get to summer. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.840 Because in the summer. Their expectation with the new humid 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.720 or setup is the ball starts flying, offense picks up 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.400 by twenty five percent, and no one cares about this 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.360 deadening of the ball this first, you know, quarter of 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.400 the season, and then they can just sweep it under 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.440 the rug. That's my conspiracy. Or they're just really inept 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.920 and dumb and they don't know what they're doing, all right. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.000 The answer to the question of the guy who fell 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.320 short in twenty eleven twenty twelve, Mark Trumbo. There was 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:02.480 a black Oh Mark. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.560 I loved Mark Trumbull. That's a good one. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.800 Who doesn't love Mark Trumbo. Wonder what Mark Trumbo is 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:08.280 doing right now. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.000 I wonder what he is doing. I bet he's like 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.000 selling insurance or NFTs. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.120 I probably, I bet Mark Trumbo did. Okay, I just 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.200 got a Facebook thing that you might know on your 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.200 friend's list, Matt Stairs, And I was like, I know 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.440 who Matt Stairs, but I don't think Matt Stairs knows me. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.920 So I wonder what those kind of DH guys are 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.200 doing with their time nowadays. Probably sitting on a pile 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.360 of money by the pool, That's what I would imagine. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.400 All right, let's get to the stat heroes of the day. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.320 We mentioned Joe Ryan nine k's and the win over 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.520 the Tigers, Zach Gallon five k's, no decision against the Dodgers. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.440 He pitched very well. Welsh six innings, no earn, Pablo 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.960 Lopez continues to just dominate, Julio Urius four strikeout, six 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.960 innings won earned run, and Dylan Ceese continues on no 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.280 decision against the Royals. But nine k's man, Wow, Dylan 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.440 Ceese has been tremendous. We're talking about mackenzie or being great. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.439 Ten k's and five innings, but Dylan Cease right now? 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.880 Is he the best picture in the league? Welsh Ooh, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.480 it's a provocative. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.000 Question, but I don't know. I don't think I had 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.280 thought about it in that context. Is like, is Cease 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.920 the best? I mean, you still have Garrett Cole there. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.079 I still obviously, you know, the better question would it 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.720 be is he the best pitcher on his team? Because 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.520 you know how I feel about Giulito. Still, I don't know. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.320 I think he's in the discussion. I think he's in 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.240 that top three to four pitcher discussion. I don't I 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.480 just don't know if like after four starts, I would 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.240 qualify him as the best Ale pitcher. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.880 I think you could probably. I mean, Gosmin's pitched very 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.800 well this year. I mean, look, you could say that obviously, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.920 guys like yeah, no, Walks. I mean he's been tremendous. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.559 I mean, there's no and I gotta say there's a 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.640 lot of people that were hesitant about Gosmin too, and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.120 I don't think there's any hesitation right now when it 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.760 comes to Kevin Gosman. There's no doubt about that. He's 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.599 been tremendous so far. But in the National League is 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.120 where you've gotten a lot of these guys, right You've 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.920 gotten Kyle Wright pop up and he's been great, has 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.280 been great, Shirts has been gay where have Don's been brilliant. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.480 The American League is kind of that, that's young. Race 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.079 is a little bit more wide open, which is why 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.040 the Otani thing I think is fascinating. He bounced back 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.360 yes or two had a much better startup for imploding. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:10.880 Uh. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.040 The stat hero hitters Taylor Ward three for four with 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.960 the Granny. We had Josier Ramirez with his two bombs, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.800 Max Kepler two home runs. Uh, we had Kyle Farmer 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.840 four for five, with two rbi. Eric Cosmer cannot be stopped, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.880 Welsh two for two with a dinger, another dinger. Eric 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.640 Osmer's on fire, Andrew disappears. I know, I know, but man, 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.319 what a month it is. Uh No and Ernando three 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.800 for three with three ribbies, and Xander Bogart's had a 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.760 four for four night two. He's been tremendous. But let's 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.760 talk about Xander Bogarts, if we may. I know, you know, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.640 Devers and Bogards, those contracts are you know, kind of 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.840 looming for the Red Sox here. Do you think that 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.160 either of these guys are gonna move on? You think 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.920 the Red Sox are going to retain this core these 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.840 two guys because it feels like they absolutely need to. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.719 I mean they need to, but I don't know how 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.280 they both stay. You know, in story might have been 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.680 the insurance policy to make sure that you know they do, 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.720 or that that they can dump one if they need to. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.800 Plus their miners are built around to middle endfield guy, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.800 at least in Marcella Mayer and Nick York, So I 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.199 don't know. There's a part of me that feels like 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.840 Xander does not stay. I think Devers can stay with 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.000 this team and be a lifer. I just just just 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.160 deep down in my gut, I feel like Xander's the 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.000 guy to go, especially with how they've built their minor 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.120 league system. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:30.000 Yeah, I look, I'm a Devers guy, but it's it's 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.400 a really tough decision. I still think Devers is the 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.800 it's that like a franchise player, MVP caliber guy. And 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.400 I think Bogarts is like write that notch below. So 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.200 that's that's where I would have them all. So let's 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.320 move on to some of the stats Zeros. From the pitchers, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.760 we had Carlos Carrasco seven earned runs, like it was 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.960 abound to happen. You know, he had pitched really well. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.040 He had a bad start. Okay, let's not overreact. If 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.120 he's available, go get him. Somebody dropped him or something 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.680 stupid like that of Vlad Guerdieros gave up six earn 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.760 zac Plisk gave up six earned in a loss to 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.080 the Angels. Pinedo was not great four innings excuse me, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.600 five innings, four earned runs, and Stephen Mattz gave up 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.640 four earned, but he did have six strikeouts against the Mets. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.600 Of the noticition. The hitters here we go again, oh 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.160 for five three k's rehe Hoskins the for animal, Oh 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.120 for four three k s Salparez over four three ks 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.080 Barcelos oh now over five two k's. Glabor Torus over 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.120 four two k's. Glabor Torus is batting two twelve with 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.280 one home run through seventeen games. Are you dropping glaber 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:26.160 Tourus right now? 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.400 I would, I would gladly drop him. If you have 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.400 any other viable option out there, you do it. There's 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.560 no reason to hold on to him. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.040 Yeah. Actually, we had a fun thing here. Our friend 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.160 Eric Cross had a fun little hold and fold kind 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.840 of thing. Glaber Torres is one of his folds. Here 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:43.960 were the other ones. I want to see if you 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.840 agree with this. Dylan Carlson, Adam Duval, Trent Grisham, along 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.640 with Laber tours Those are the guys who was getting 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.800 rid of. Do you agree with those guys or somebody 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.440 you'd rather hold on to here in this group. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.880 I might be a little stubborn with Trent Grisham, but 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.520 I think you could cut them all need be. In ten, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.040 ten and twelve man leagues, you could probably cut all 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.080 of them. But Grisham might be a little. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.240 Weird about Do you think that this is the time 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.240 to pick up Gorman with the way Carlson struggled. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.200 Yes, didn't I say this as I did last Yeah, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.880 I've been saying I've been saying this like someone asked, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.400 you know, hey, is Brendan Donovan gonna keep Gorman down? 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:20.560 No, he's not. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.320 I had pulled a stat God, let me see what 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.360 the glasses see if I can even read it. But 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.920 I had pulled a stat on Rodo Wires batted Baldad 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.560 and the miners, and I sorted it by twenty two 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.480 year olds with a hard hit over thirty and they 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.120 were like eight guys, nine guys that showed up. Only 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.280 one player at twenty two years or younger was in 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.400 Triple A with a three hundred batting average and over 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.600 forty hard hit forty hard hit and had like a 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.040 seven hundred slugging It was Gorman. Gorman's the only one. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.440 He's at the youngest level, at the higher the youngest age, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.480 the highest level with hard hit, hitting over three hundred. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.000 Little bit of wrikout issue. Pick up Nolan Gorman. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.239 All right, before we get to some of the other 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.399 guys that Cross was holding. I saw the pants and 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.719 Crackerjacks talking about this, but I wanted to verify it, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.800 not that you know, I'm gonna. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.520 Be writing a ticket here, Joe for speeding and tearing 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.480 your ACL that's to Mondacy. And then I'm writing a 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:27.040 ticket to you for drafting aliberto mondsee at all in 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.800 your fantasy drafts. That's a ticket to me, that's a ticket, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:31.800 and that's. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.359 As appearance is. I will fight those court appearances. And 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.360 this is Welsh's commitment to a bit because if you're 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.880 watching on the YouTube channel, you know post it notes 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.320 are expensive like those He just wasted three on a. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.119 Bit twenty five cents that I just killed. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:53.000 But Alec Lewis it looks like confirms here Royals President 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.800 of Baseball Operations Dayton Morse at Alberto mound As an 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.040 acl tair and his left knee. So he is now 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.399 gone for the rest of the sea. And so for 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.760 those of you who went back into this, well, uh, 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.160 it was a dangerous one. You had to know that 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.600 you knew the risk you were getting into. So now 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.840 you've got to make adjustments. So when it comes to 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:14.280 those adjustments, Welsh, when you're looking for guys out there 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.760 right now let's let's look at the waiver wire for 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.160 reefielders because we have to. I mean, let's just skip 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.720 right to that. I'm gonna bring it up on Fantasy pros. Hey, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.280 I saw replace. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.400 Nicky Lopez would be available out there. I just want 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.280 to say, Nicki Lopez, you know, not a great viable option, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.080 but they're going to need to be more aggressive on 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:33.879 the base paths. That might be a guy if you're 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.000 trying to make up those stolen bases, if you're looking. 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.639 At well, look, you're not going to make up modesty 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.960 stolen bases like that. That's just not going to happen. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.960 But looking around here at some names again, you know 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:45.840 the roster percentage, I can look somewhere else for that. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.560