WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 11th, 2023 (Ep. 725) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.879 Welcome in Frindos to Leading Off. I am Chris Welch. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.520 That is Casey Bubba and Leading Off is brought to 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:13.800 you by Prize Picks. Go and check out the promo 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.599 code leading Off. When you go check out Prize Picks, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.960 get a one hundred percent match up to one hundred bucks. 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.239 Do it today, make some money, have so much fun. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.320 Welcome in to a wonderful Friday. We're going into the weekend. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.760 We get the hell out of this week, Bubba. Sometimes 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.599 we can say Sionora today we've got some stuff. It's 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.639 kind of a boring day yesterday, for being honest, no 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.680 no hitters going on today. We had that on Wednesday. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.120 We have got prize Picks, we have got bets, and 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.080 we've got a brand new segment coming up into the show, Bubba, 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.080 that is going to be following us through the rest 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.360 of the season. It's called road Trip with Welsh and 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.880 Corbyn Carroll. I'm very excited about it. On the last episode, 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:58.880 but Bubba, how are we doing? Brother? 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:00.920 I am doing. It's Friday. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.200 I am ready for the week and like no one's business, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:04.959 and I hope you get some better baseball because yeah, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.039 yesterday it's eight games, but it wasn't really anything going on. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.959 So we got some players coming back, got some fun stuff, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.760 so it should be a fun week in ahead. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:13.280 That we did have. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.080 I mean again, we did have like a no hitter. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.320 Like we get very hyper focused on what happened Thursday. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.520 Going to three days a week makes a little bit tougher, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.600 but we did have the perfect game from Michael Lorenzen. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.000 No, no, no hitter. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.120 Oh I'm sorry, sorry about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah that 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.119 It was almost an Edwin Jackson no hitter. Yeah, seven 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.119 walks or whatever, but no hitter from Michael Lorenzen, who 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.319 was efficient and has been doing it. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:36.440 Really. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.039 I don't want to call it like one of those 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.360 like Edwin Jackson type of no hitters, but he's kind 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.319 of been playing at that level all year of like 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.440 the underlying stats have not justified, but it's just kind 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.680 of a fantastic moment to take advantage of having him 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.400 on your roster. I'm really not sure if there's any 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:52.760 sellibility from Lorenzen. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.360 No, there's not, and he's been outstanding that the two 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.760 starts of Philadelphia and then the four starts part of 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.400 that with Detroit. It's like forty something ain'ts pitched thirty one, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.040 K's five and runs biggest thing five wins in a 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.240 world where we're trying to find wins in fantasy, he's 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.880 picking up the dub. So he's been very effective. Ratio 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.639 has been great. It's you can't sell them. No one's 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.400 gonna give you what you want for Lorenzen. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:15.240 Now, we're also live streaming as always. People listening on 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.639 the podcast, you want to check us out on the 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.200 YouTube channel. You can drop questions. We interact with the audience, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.320 the Peanuts, the cracker Jack, so feel free to do that. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:27.840 Like Lee who said, guess who faced Lorenzen in two leagues? Oh? Oh, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.480 guess who had Lorenzen in two leagues? This guy kind 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.760 of a Lorenzen guy. No big deal. So we got 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.399 news and notes, We got all the stuff and things. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.720 Actually also going to talk about Pipeline released their big 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.840 mid to whatever in season update. They only do like 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.200 one in season update for prospects. We'll look at that 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.480 in a little Rookie lookie as well as a very 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:52.720 interesting award based bet you can make on one of 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.560 the sites that I want to present to you. But 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.440 we did get the return of Clayton Kershaw Return of 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.200 the Mac Clayton Kershaw one run over five innings, didn't 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.800 get a decision, gave up a homer to Elhurs Montero, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.960 but he had four strikeouts, no walks, sixty seven pitches. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.480 They didn't really push him a whole bunch of strikes. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.440 I guess they said to complete five frames. I think 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.239 I don't know if I said four, but five frames 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.600 in here and also apparently unveiled a new splitty change 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.560 that was going on there. So talk to me about 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.520 that return of Clayton Kershaw on how good you're feeling. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:25.800 That's great to see him. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.959 I always feel good, Like I tell people, as a 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.840 Giants spanishipposed to hate the Dodgers, it's hard to hate 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.960 Clayton Kershaw. It's just like one of the best pitchers 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.600 we'll ever see pitch, and it's great to have him back. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.400 I do they'd limit him, so that was kind of 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.680 part of the game. But to see a new split 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.240 change from the veteran on his return from the IL, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.440 when you should probably just be worried about normal pitches 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.640 at that point in time, that's just Clayton Kershaw on 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.080 a nutshell for you. So if he can actually utilize 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.640 that efficiently with that big nasty twelve to six or 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.400 he's got going on. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.200 It just makes him even crazier coming in the postseason. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:55.800 You know, it's. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.920 Interesting like being around you know, like the backfields and 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.160 stuff like that all year long. Obviously the sweeper kind 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.080 of took over. That was like the big new thing, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.880 But the amount of guys I heard that were working 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.400 on new change ups. I heard it from Joe Musgrove. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.480 There were two other players. I'm completely forgetting the names. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.280 There are two other players early and in camp, and then 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.240 you know, I think there was another guy like two 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.840 months ago in season you got Kershaw. It's interesting that 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.160 the change up, whether it's like a new version or 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.239 just a new grip, has been the pitch that guys 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.720 have tried to tinker with in season. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.719 Makes sense in a roundabout way because you can go 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.120 back to the old tunneling conversations and whatnot. Your fastball 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.360 change up can look so identical because your splitters and 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.760 your sliders, the grips and the angles are all different. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.479 You can get a good fastball change up combination going 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.200 that actually could be quite effective. So it makes sense 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.000 in a world where velocity. Everyone was all about get velocity, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.040 get velostit to get velocity. Will most have got to 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.920 tho highs are going to get That's just the reality 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.919 of the world. So now it's how Now it's the 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.120 difference in velocities and the change ups your answer to that. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.400 So it's very interesting. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:04:59.880 And I know, like I remember talking with the n 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.400 we're in the earlier in the year when we were 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.880 talking about Gavin Stone and he he kind of called 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.440 Gavin Stone's change up a splitter because it's got a 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.400 lot of split action. So those two can kind of 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.360 share similar similarities even though it is a change up 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:12.600 a Clayton Kershaw. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.120 Back different changeup grift. Sorry, like there's a circle change. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.680 There's like almost like a pomd ball, and they'll basically 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.440 the way it leaves the fingers will change, like I know, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.839 you know Sarrus, but I did pitch at one point, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.919 so it'll oh, were you a pitcher well back in 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.160 like you know, middle school and high school and then 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.320 I stopped, But I was I was a lefty. I 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.960 was a kind of Kirk reader, but you know, play 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.159 one hundred pounds heavier, So that that was me. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.480 I've been thinking about with the first pitch aer zone 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.640 and everybody coming here, like we got to have a softball. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:45.680 Game across the hotels, that big, big, big park there 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.320 in me. So I've been saying it's like the big 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.920 best way to play a wiketball game. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.120 Well, I want to get one of the teams to 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.479 let us play on one of the the backfields played 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.480 like a like I want to play real softball, but 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.359 withhotball would. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.160 Be Oh, I'd be down for real softball, like bring it, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.120 like I man, if you can pull pull your stringser, well, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.960 I know you're kind of a big I on the backfield. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.080 I did back pages back you went back pages to backfield, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:04.600 So I did. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.560 I did. I did do a media batting practice years 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.719 and years ago. I shared. It was actually that it 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.599 was the impetus of like, oh, I'm gonna lose weight. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.080 I lost a lot of weight after that, after I 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.640 saw professional pictures of myself. But I almost hit a 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.760 homer out of that backfield park. I hit it right 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.000 at the wall. That was fun. So Nos, maybe we'll 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.120 get something going. We can put that out there. Uh, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.440 these two pictures Noah Cinderguard and Alec Manoa battled it 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.719 out whoa world, World's collide here? Cindy five and two 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.400 thirds struck out five, had two walks, won and run 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.920 actually a good game. Alec Manoa really never went four, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.680 struck out six, but he gave up three walk four. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.560 So my question to you with this rest of season, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.919 who would you rather have? Noah Cinderguard or Alec Manoa. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.880 I'll still go with Manoa. I want zero to do 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.240 it either one of these guys. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.599 I'll just go with Manoa because we know the ceiling 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.000 with Manoa, like he's found it once or two, maybe 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.920 it's there he's still young. Or Cinderguard is just a 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.240 shell of himself, like he's struggling to get to ninety 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.200 miles an hour at times. I'll go Manoa. But I 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.440 want zero to do with either one of these guys. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.720 I want zero to do with either one of these 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.400 I get you know though, like you know what, No, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:18.520 I'm gonna. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.480 Even trying to convince yourself like you could be in 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.560 a twenty fourteen league. It's probably still a bad idea. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.680 I gave you the option. I'm not taking the option. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:26.880 It's what a good hostess. We got it? 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.360 Yeah, I mean, but honestly, maybe it is cyinder Guard 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.239 like cynder Guard. With that defense, there's no offensive support. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.200 He might be a safer play, but it's. 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.640 Just like Manoah's going to give up four or five 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.040 every single every time. Like maybe Cindergard can have a 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.240 performance like this. Somebody, as Faby, asked what position do 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.960 I play? So I can? I can play outfield, but 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.000 I played third base in my my competitive softball years, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.520 which Bagman and I played on like three years. I 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.000 have a third baseman. I'm tall for a first baseman. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.000 I got a good glove. My arm is just not great, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.920 that's my problem. But I got a good glove, decent bat, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.400 so I can play all around the field, super util. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:03.840 Where was the Patreon when you and Boglin were on 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:04.960 a softball team that. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.760 Well, we were podcasting, we were softballing, so then we got. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.240 Back into it. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.200 So yeah, who knows. Maybe maybe we will Bubba with 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.160 the master slutter. That's right, Oh do we still have 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.040 the this will be uh, this will be Bubba after 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.800 the second inning, Just slutter, slaughter, slutter, foreseen boom boom, 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.960 that's Bubba's ours. I gotta say that was your maybe 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.040 more your college arsenal than your high school arsenal. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.520 Yeah, much more of my college. Yes, yes, Thursday nights, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.000 Thursday night on the backfields. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.560 Yeah, not the back pages. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.239 Nope, no, not the back pages. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:32.920 I got something for you. And this is going to 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.720 be kind of a quiz. So Max Munsey hit his 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.040 twenty eighth home We're kind of come back to the 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.040 Dodgers here on Thursday. But he's pairing that with a 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.280 one ninety five batting average. So I had to do 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.800 some research, and god knows if this ended up being correct. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.920 I was using stat muse, and that's the whole thing. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.720 But I liken this because I thought of Kyle Schwarber, 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.800 who just the other day hit his thirtieth home run, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.520 and I could only find four total players in a 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.840 season that have hit thirty or more homers with a 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.240 sub two hundred batting average. Only four. Again, if I'm wrong, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.480 I apologize, but I did all I did. Bubba Buba ba, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.599 spending all morning, way too much this morning trying to 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.600 figure this out. And the reason that this got even 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.200 more prevalent is because we are just about to have 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.000 two players with the sub two hundred batting average hit 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:24.560 thirty homers. Kyle Schwarber a one eighty two batting average. Obviously, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.520 Munsey has to keep it down. Four players, but Bubba, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.360 there are two of those four did it in the 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.400 same season, So Munsey and Schwarber about to do it 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.560 if Munsey keeps his batting average down. These two players 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.400 did it in the same season, and one is not 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.280 Kyle Schwarber. Kyle Schwarber, by the way, has the lowest 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.120 batting average of any player to ever hit thirty homers. Currently, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.360 can you name or the audience named the two players 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.400 in the same season that did this. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:54.679 I don't know if it's the two players in the 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.680 same season, but it feels like Adam Dunny on this 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:57.480 list somewhere. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.080 He's not on this list. Actually, Fabar got one of them. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.680 Of the y s bt fouts has a good guess 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:05.200 right there. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.160 Not in the same season, you guys did get one. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.120 Gallo is one. 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.000 Galla makes a lot of sense. So it is Gallo 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.480 the one of the two in the same season you're 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.079 talking about. He is He is the American International League. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.439 It was in the National League. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.240 That's way before Rob Dear. It was another piece of work. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.120 Was Bellinger. It was not because he had that. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.240 Year that it was not It was not Bellinger. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.559 I'll just keep throwing things at the wall and will 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:34.920 be recorded for two and a half hours. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.319 Okay, well we'll come back to it in just a 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.920 tiny bit. But you have one of the players. There 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.120 are two more players still and the other player that 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.360 did it with Joey Gallop. I'm gonna tell you the 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.160 year twenty twenty one is. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.480 The year a couple of years ago. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.440 But Kyle Schwarber currently with the lowest batting average. Mun's 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.080 he about to join him and it'll be only the 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:00.760 second time to have if he keeps Hojorgeeselier is incorrect. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.160 It's a great guess. It's a great guess, but incorrect. 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:04.880 We'll come back to it. You got to get the 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.760 guy that paired with Joey Gallo, and then the other one. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.160 The other one. None of y'alliganton. None of y'alligitton. I 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:13.680 don't think I would get it, but then when I 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.400 saw it, I was like, oh, I know what it is. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.559 This is a good one. I actually had an autograph 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.280 of this guy. I met this guy. So we'll come 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.280 back to that. So sit on that for a little bit. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.400 Award season, But I was going through and obviously we 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.199 like to take a look at the awards when we can. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.880 What's going on. You know who's up for Cy Young, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.920 who's up for Rookie of the Year. It's actually going 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.320 through one of the sites DK and they've actually taken 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.959 off a couple. You can't even bet currently the Rookie 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.679 of the Year in the NL, at least as of 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.080 when I look this morning, it was off. The same 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.720 thing happened with one of the war I think it 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.160 was the Al Award winner. They took that off because 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.559 of Otani, and they took the Corbyn Karl one off. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.920 But what popped to me was the NL Award. Not 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.720 only is Ronald d'acuniya the favorite, I think we know 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.720 that it's gotten to a ridiculous thing, but six point 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:09.520 fifty versus you can play the field a plus five 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.720 hundred bet to get any other player in baseball to 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.640 win it, that counts Freddy Freeman. Freddy Freeman is currently 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.960 four to one. So my question to you is, could 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.240 you get down with this bet where you get the 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:26.240 entire field versus Ronald dacunya. Though we know it's essentially 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.560 Freddy Freeman, but check this out. You get plus one 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.880 hundred more odds if you bet the field than just 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.599 betting Freddy Freeman, which is wild. So what could you 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:34.960 do this? 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.640 I see what you're going with, But no no. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.199 I talked with Bloomfield about it on our show Thursday 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.600 night that what Ronald Leacunya is doing is not getting 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.440 the appropriate love because Otani's amazing. Like what Acunya is doing, 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.560 he could legit finish like forty seventy if he runs 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.040 hot for another month and a half. That is just insanity, like, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.839 and he's sitting three forty. On top of it, he's 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.640 striking out like he has a higher barrel rate than 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.839 strike out rate right now, that is barrel rate, he's 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.360 almost fifteen percent at the time with a twelve point 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.520 six percent strikeout rate. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.600 How many players you're doing that? Nobody? 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.040 Basically is there any There's God, I'm just under speculatd. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.920 But it's very hard to do because the average barrel 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.760 rates eight percent, the average strikeout rates like what seventeen 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.920 eighteen percent. So the fact he's flipped it on its head, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.360 it's just so I like, we I know, we all 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.120 love Acunya, we all talk about Acuna, but if show 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.880 Hey's not doing show Hey things right now, Okunya is 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.760 the guy getting all that attention and then they might 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.600 have that off the board like he's that good. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.280 You can call him ocunya, ocunya. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.960 Oh man, it's amazing. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.439 All right, So check this out because I'm looking here 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.520 because the barrel percentage, that's the tough one to get. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.680 There are of qualified hitters. Let's get here because the 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.160 thing I was gonna say while I'm looking at this, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.200 all right, so I have fifty four qualified hitters currently 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.760 with a ten percent or higher barrel rate. The problem 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.240 is so many of those like low K guys are 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.959 crazy low barrel guys like you know the Luisa r 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.920 B two barrel raiders. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.440 Why it's so unique, man. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.960 So I can't see. I need to probably do a 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.559 custom board to do it. So I'm not gonna be 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.000 able to do it today. But there are fifty four 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.000 players with a barrel rate of ten percent or higher, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.040 and I'm looking here. Freddy Freeman is on this list, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.400 and his K percentage could be lower. I'm going through 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.600 the rest. I don't think anybody else is going to 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.840 get this. I mean, you see Gunner Henderson, you know 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.720 Hanne out. Can you look real quick, what is Freddy 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.840 Freeman's strikeout percentage? Because he might be the only other one. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.560 As I look there, I see show Hey is number 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.960 one in barrel in the league right now. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.760 That's insane because he is any good. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.680 Yeah one. Soto's the other at thirteen point three. Those 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:43.720 are the only two. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.280 He would make sense. Freeman striking out sixteen? 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.040 Okay, what is Sodo real quick? Because I think those 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.360 are going to be I don't even need to look 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.160 at the rest of them because I don't think anybody else. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.400 Yeah, Soto makes sense because he checks that box all 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.720 the time. Now he's twenty point four this year. It's 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.080 the highest of his career. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.000 Wow wow. Okay, so that that's a strikeout percentage. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.440 Yeah, twenty point four. He has Walkerate's nineteen point six. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:06.760 Is a strikeout is twenty point four? 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.960 That's crazy? So there you go. I mean, that is 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.080 a wild stats. But if you wanted to play it, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:11.800 it's plus five. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:12.920 H I get it. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.920 I get the odds, and it makes sense if you're 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.480 willing to gamble. It's just I don't see how Kunya 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.400 loses unless he like I don't even want to say 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:20.720 it like, yeah. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.880 Well, if he did the rest of the year, if 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.800 that did happen, if that thing that you're talking about 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.480 did happen, Freddie Freeman is on his heels. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.760 Though Freeman would deserve it in a harpy like he's 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.200 well deserving. It's similar to like me saying Akuny is 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.320 not getting loved because of a Tawny, Freeman's not getting 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.320 to love because of a Cunya. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:36.800 Like that's kind of where it's all. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.080 But that's kind of the bet you're you're betting on you. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.520 So I thought that was an interesting one in the. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.080 Question for reason quick question, not diverting from what we're 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.680 talking about, but with a Cunya. This was brought up 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.800 as well on the show last night because he's such 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.040 a cheat code right now in fantasy that next year, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.520 do you think you should have a third round reversal 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.680 like the old Ladanian Tomlinson days in football because if 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.280 you draft the Cuna, you're so far ahead of the 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:00.760 pack nose. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.320 It's a good question, but no, because the same thing 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.840 is said about daily transaction leagues with Otani, like Otani 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.640 is like not fair unless you're playing Yahoo and these 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.880 two different human beings, which is still stupid in my mind, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.600 but like, no, I just don't think so. I don't 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.720 like the To me, that's like being like we gotta 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.080 have premium tight ends. Like I think premium tight ends 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.520 are stupid, but it's like we're gonna get them one 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.920 point five and stuff like that. I get the logic 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.560 behind that, but I'm not playing into that. One laser 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.560 got the one player that is with Joey Gallo Johannio 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.520 Swarez in that that was the one, And I think 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.680 I went away front and I close it. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:40.640 Why would I do that? 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.760 I did? I think I did close it, But I 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.840 do know the other guy. So four players sub two 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.080 hundred bating average of thirty plus homers. We know Kyle 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.120 schwar Wher. He's the worst of all of them. Joey 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.760 Gallo and Swarez did it as a team in twenty 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.440 twenty one, and they're gonna be paired with Muncy if 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.760 he keeps it down. There's one other player. He played 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:06.000 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bogman and I both met him, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:11.240 Mark Reynolds. Marks, that's the great pullback. That's a very 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.080 very good one. Yeah. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.040 So Mark, Yeah, that checks out. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.880 Yeah, and then there are a whole bunch of were 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.600 like at the bottom of the two hundreds. But those 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.520 are your prolific power hitters with absolutely no batting average. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.720 If you think it helps you, so oh yeah, yeah. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.640 Michael even said he looked it up so he won't 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.040 spoil it, but give a hint Welsh's d backs. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.800