WEBVTT - Leading Off, June 27th 2024 (Ep. 850) 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.120 Welcome in everybody in the Fantasy Bros. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:07.600 MLB. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.559 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:11.920 three six Pike that five bucks put one hundred and 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.400 fifteen bonus bets when you use the promo code leading Off, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.640 It's me, Joey p that's the Welsh, It's you, the Peanuts, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.720 the Cracker Jacks who make this show run. Hi, everyone, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:28.080 Welcome Welsh. Another day, another Yankee pitching performance to lead 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.400 the show off with, Uh, here we go that guy 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.200 who tweeted us yesterday about you know, I'm not gonna 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.800 listen tomorrow because Joe's gonna talk about Garrett Colin. I'm 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.360 a Yankee fan. Well, I don't think he's listening today. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.920 Either I wish I wasn't listening or here. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.400 I'm on something Like everything I say right now is 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.480 just poop down the drain. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.800 It is like it is crazy. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:59.240 Obviously we're gonna talk about Luise Heal. I was appointment 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.880 watching yesterday. I put on the game and I'm like 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.520 all right, I was pumping myself up. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.680 I'm like this, well you got this? Who got this? 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.440 Like I was pitching for Louis Heel. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.920 I just needed Louis heel to have the good game, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.640 so we couldn't start the show like this, and then 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.000 I had the worst betting day I probably had in forever. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.040 I'm actually thinking of after the show going to get 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.160 some sage and we might do a saging session. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.800 The Demon. That's how That's what I'm trying to do. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.280 I want to talk. I want to know more about Andrew. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.560 Here in the chat, I took joe piece of Pizza's 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.840 advice and I shipp call out before you return. Thanks 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.440 Joey p You're the best. Oh, you're there, the best. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.440 Andrew can't wait for the reaper out and he says, Andrew, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.880 I'm just curious. Please in the chat, tell us what 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.320 you got for Cole. I'm curious what those deals look 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.960 like in reality, not in fantasy or in. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.560 Got Eric Fetti. Aren't you proud of me? 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.640 That's the thing, Like, let's see who he got? Uh? 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.800 And yes, Mike was there on I love when everybody 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.400 discovers pizza pizza haha, Like I never heard that my 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.799 entire likely the first person there's there's Lucas going thinks 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.440 it is like the greatest thing ever, right, did you 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.160 think that? Like when I was seven years old. I 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.560 wasn't hearing this in elementary school. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.520 Come on, come onl And. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.880 Then Little Caesars disappeared for a long time. They kind 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:19.960 of like fell off the map. I don't know if 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.160 they won like chapter eleven. Then they made a big 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.239 comeback in the last like twenty years. And now it's 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.000 back around again. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.919 But yesterday on the or actually it's gonna be today 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.960 on the In this leek Fantasy Baseball podcast, we had 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.919 Justin Mason on and we redrafted the first four rounds 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.000 if it were starting today. The question is, do you 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.359 think Garrett Cole made those four rounds? 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.799 Now, you're damn right he did. You are damn right 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.360 he did. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.360 And guess what, you a Mason doing it? The cock 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.000 eyed optimists of fantasy baseball. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:52.440 Not me. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.680 I'm the hard and realist. Okay, here we go. I'm 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.040 not even gonna look. I'm just gonna bring it right 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:02.360 up here. He got Volpi, I'm sorry Cole, Brian Dela 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.880 Cruz and Anthony Volpi for Duran Yamamoto who ended up 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.480 getting hurt, which isn't great, and C. J. Abrams so theory. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.280 When this deal went down, Yamamoto was still healthy Yamamoto, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.440 Duran and Abrams is a pretty good haul for col 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.520 and Volpee. I think I think it's a pretty. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.560 Good Yeah, yeah, it's good. A lot of this the theory, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.160 the theory was great. Abrams is what the hell was that? 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.480 What? What is that? What's happening? What's happening? I don't know. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.200 Weld On asking about Garrett Cole, Ai, it's coming where 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.040 what Skynett? 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:36.480 You know? 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:37.040 Where did that? 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.280 This has happened before on the show or weird stuff? 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.360 I have no idea where that's coming from. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.320 Say what do you think about Garrett Cole? Siri? 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.400 What? Siri? What do you think about Garrett Cole? I 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.920 don't have an iPhone? Well I do, it's my camera. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.800 But what that was weird? 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.640 Did you say you don't have this? 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.480 Be it? Did I? Did I push a button? This 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.520 isn't on this I don't know. I don't know where 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.000 that came from. I don't know how that came from. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.560 It must be the iPhone. It must have heard me 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.280 say something and started to click in And that's never 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.000 happened on a show, and I do five thousand shows 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.120 a day. That is weird. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.120 Well, AI initiative, it's the that's coming in. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.880 Here an initiative and it's taking over the show. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.080 As Goose listen that that trade, that trade was was fine, AI. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:22.800 I think agree. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.680 AI needed to be heard and that happened. But let's 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.280 talk about Louis Heal though for a minute. Are you 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.640 ready to do that? Because that I got goosebumps. I'm 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:30.880 a little scared to keep doing the show. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.719 I don't know the thing. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.839 The things in my ten years by the way of 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.280 like doing podcasting and stuff that have happened inside of 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.680 studios like. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.040 Giant moth like the Mothman attacked. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.479 Me one time, and having like robot series takeover like 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.599 that was super weird. I want to hear what it said. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.000 We'll have to listen back. Don't listen to it backwards 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.599 because it might be like, no, I'm coming. It sounded crazy. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.880 Uh right, So the game Louis Heal, Louis Heal was 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.560 not on his best stuff. First inning, it was no strikes. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.200 One thing I noticed right off the bat. Literally it 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.040 was just nothing but balls. He had an under thirty 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.880 percent under thirty zone percentage on his pitches, twenty percent 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.240 on his secondaries, thirty percent on his fastball. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:20.600 So it was garbage. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.880 Second inning was clean. Third inning he gave up the homer, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.800 and then it just kind of kept tallying from there. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.320 His in total ended up having His fastball was down 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.520 a little bit. He had six total whiffs in the game, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.160 a sixteen percent whiff rate based on thirty seven in 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.000 a row swings he had. He did improve the zone percentage, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.159 But like hand up, this is just I'm was wrong 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.080 right now because I was such a defender of Luis Heel. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.240 He does look gassed. He didn't have. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.920 His stuff, And the only thing I've wanted to know 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.560 was what level will they go? They're going to do 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.920 the stupid throw them into the bullpen, and or they 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.760 just gonna like let him have a blow, like Joe 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.480 would say, and just have a rest and then get 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.400 back into the rotation. That's what I'm hopeful for, and 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:13.600 that can save mine. Louis Heel takes. But listen, it 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.880 wasn't good. He didn't look great. It wasn't his best stuff. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.599 And I bet my ass on the Yankees yesterday that 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.320 they were not gonna have the Mets take another one. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.520 The Mets own the Yankees. What the universe is this? 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.719 But I love it? Fun fact. You like fun fact, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.680 you like numbers. Welsh Louis Heel has given up eighteen 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.159 earned runs his first eighty innings. Over his last five 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.159 and two thirds, he's given up twelve. That's stunning. And look, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.120 we all knew regression was gonna happen anyway. He wasn't 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.719 gonna have a sub to el right the whole season 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.520 like that stuff wasn't gonna happen. But it is. This 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.560 is not rocket science. This is Oh, how are baseball players, 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.479 and specifically pitchers trained, now? Oh, it's it's an incremental 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.680 innings increase over a certain amount of time. And he 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.520 has hit this. The wall was staring us in the 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.919 face for weeks now, and it was very hard to 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.240 move off of it because he was so good and 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.240 he looked so fantastic, and it felt so good to 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.760 be so right for those people who drafted him. And 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.440 I told you that story in my keeper league. I 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.040 said a month ago to the guy, I said, look, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.040 he's gonna hit a wall in a couple of weeks. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.000 I'm offering you three legitimate pitchers here for the guy 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.320 who's a buck, and I want to rebuild in this league. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.080 And he was like, now, I just want to see 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.200 it out here with he and I was like, all 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.640 right now after this second. I didn't offer him after 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.400 last week, but after this one, I might go back 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.000 and try one more time and say, are you sure now? 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.200 Can you hear me? Now? 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.760 I do think that like seeing it out still isn't 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.240 like the worst play, But again, it's like anything else 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.440 we're talking about, the Garrett Cole stuff. If you're like 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.560 Eric Fetti, like no thanks, I'd to hold that out, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.600 no thank you if you're. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.960 Getting at that time, Yo Yamamoto and C. J. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.840 Abrams like okay against C Jabas for heel rest of season, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.720 I'm taking C. J Abrams Well. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.640 Yeah, yeah, I had hit her, but I would I 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.560 would probably still rather probably sit this out and see 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.720 what happens with it. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:07.800 If they can manage. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.640 I mean, yes, his innings are up, and that is 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.000 an obvious thing that's been our face, but I will 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.960 just still point you out when you look, it is 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.960 still an elite batting average against even on this short term. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.640 His expected era is right in line with the three 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.360 era regression happens. I've been calling this for imon Aga 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.800 for you know, weeks and weeks and then Bam just 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 getting blasted and his era is starting to come back out. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.640 It doesn't mean they're going to be done done. But 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.280 you know what, I'm an idiot, so don't listen to 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:34.800 me right now. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.120 I can't. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.080 I cannot properly function with the Yankees. I've tried to 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.880 prop them up, but everything I say is wrong. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:40.559 On the Yankees. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:41.960 Brett Anderson nailed it. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.679 I warned you, oh, oh my god, if we could 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.760 get your phone to just randomly go Joe, I warned that. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.160 Way, that would welch what is happening. 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:52.760 I don't know. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.240 It did not come from my phone. It had to 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.040 have come from the camera phone. But what did it 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.880 pick up that I said for the first. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.160 Sometimes headphone, you know, like headphones like you can do, like. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.679 The crappy old ones that are plug right in my 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.040 computer that I even into the It's very weird. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.079 I don't know that's gonna happen to you. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.600 It was very weird. I'm a little I'm looking like 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.000 you said, the terminator could be here anymoment, shook, I say. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.120 He gets sent down to the Triple A through the 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.120 month of July, and he's a two or three inning pitcher. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.040 That's what I think he's gonna be because I don't 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.959 think you want him in the bullpen. I don't think 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.680 you want him up and down a million times. That's 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.320 asking for injury. I think you want him every fifth day. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.679 I think they're gonna do that weird Max Meyer thing. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.760 And you know the Yankees are on tenuous ground right now. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.080 Aaron Judge, luckily, he's still good to run Homer for 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.640 him number thirty show Hiltan. If you just keep picking 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.840 Otani and Judge every day, you had to be doing 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.079 well on the wole run contest. Otani went yard again. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.520 He's at twenty five. Gavin Stone in that game, a 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.680 complete game, shutout, my god, talking about saving the bacon 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.199 of a rotation seven k's against I know is a 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.520 White Sox. I don't care. He's been great. He's got 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.680 two seven three era A one point one to two whips, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.320 seventy strikeouts, twenty five walks, and eighty nine innings. He 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.720 is not a big time striking out picture, but this 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.480 dude is a real picture on a very good team. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.040 And Gavin Stone deserves a lot more credit than he's 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.559 getting in fantasy circles right now. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:15.280 Well, saving Stone, did it a Stone? What was that song? 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:26.280 I just completely yeah your rotation alone to be Yeah, Gab. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:37.760 Sessions paytionally our way for my dude, Gaving Stone. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.760 Oh wait for you there alone. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.120 This is where AI needs to come in. It'll be 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.520 like now, please stop, Gavin Stone. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.000 No that you actually did. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:57.240 A very good enough I love you people. I love you, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.600 know Peters and Cracker Jacks give me crap. I love 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.800 you guys. I love every single one of you. This 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.120 is the best time we have, the best time. I 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.360 love this. You're the best. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.079 Gavin Stone. This is a wild one. He had his 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.160 fifty six swings on pitches swings. Now, obviously the whiff 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.720 rate was low. It was only eighteen percent on that 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.920 bad Boy singer slider change up as he does. It 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.000 was a pretty even distribution on the secondaries versus the singer. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.240 But here's my question for you. Would you rather have 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.440 rest of season Gavin Stone or Luis Heel Gavin Stone under. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:34.840 The same inning pitched issues. If you're going to play. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.160 That way, what's Gavin Stone's high watermark and triple A? 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.880 Okay, so let's go find I want to combine here. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.839 See the problem with Heel is that the problem with 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.160 Hell was that it was what twenty nineteen where he 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.079 got to that ninety inning mark or whatever it is. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.840 That's a long time ago. I mean, that is a 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.840 very long time ago, and he's had other issues. He's 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.680 had other injuries in the past. Two Stone am looking 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.240 at the innings cumulative total. The high watermark was twenty 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.160 twenty two, one twenty one. I'll take my chances with 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.800 Gavin Stone pushing to one hundred and fifty. I will 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:08.840 take my chances with. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.520 That and victims victory. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.880 We've heard Victor's feelings because we're having fun. Bro, this guy, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.120 these guys joke or this guy's joke more than talking MLB. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.800 Victor check spell check spell check, first of all, Victor, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.559 and second of all, Yeah, we can have fun and 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.280 talk baseball at the same time. Like, what are you doing? 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:26.559 You can't walk into gom like. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.280 It's been known people. What people want us to do 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.240 is come on, just cater to. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.120 Their specific question, ex. Philosophy every five seconds. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.599 Perhaps I will say this, Gavin Stone is phenomenal this 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.440 year two to seven, but he is already at ninety 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.280 innings pitched, So you know you're you're closing it now 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.400 Heel has reached kind of his marker where Stone hasn't 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.640 quite you'd probably push Stone to one fifty. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.320 But I just think it's interesting because. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.960 I think you can easily push them to one fifty 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:53.600 and you. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.720 Also know that they're gonna do a six man rotation, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.680 and that kind of gives you a better feel for 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:06.199 like him not being pushed to a bullpen or being completely. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.520 Gavin Stone, I think is almost greater right now. That's 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:14.640 exactly in Peril. Bobby Miller certainly in Peril. Walker Bueller 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.240 is on the iol. He's terrible, and Yamamoto is hurt. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.560 I mean, Gavin Stone has you know, you're a card guy, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.520 you're a poker guy, Welsh. That's a lot of outs left, Like, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.199 that's a lot of turns in the cars left where 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.200 you're like, Gavin Stone can still get you a straight 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:28.760 flush here. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.000 Yeah, he's just on the flop right now where Luis 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.960 Heel unfortunately is turning on the river. So that's where 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.880 they get like a tiny bit difficult. But the thing 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.080 and I know, like everybody is easily going to just 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.480 sit in here and most of them in the chat 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.480 are just oh, Grevin Stone and Gavin Stone. I'm not 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.240 saying it's not Gavin Stone, but you also got to 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.040 look at the strikeout upside for Luis Heel, which has 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.840 been absolutely elite of elite this season. Yeah, Gavin Stone's 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.640 under twenty percent. He's not an elite strikeout guy. I 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.400 mean he had fifty six wings on pitches last night 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.920 and ten of them induced with so like that's gonna happen. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.480 They both had powerful offenses, but the Dodgers maybe created 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.640 a little bit more wiggle room and there's a little 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.760 bit more floor for innings for Gavin Stone. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.640 Good day for the Orioles. Grace Rodriguez two runs, seven 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.400 innings and Gunnar Henderson three for four with a homer. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.160 Cleaned up on the betting side with Gunner Henderson on 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.360 the total base on the RBI prop boom smashed yesterday. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.920 I think it was four and oh yesterday or three 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.800 and one yesterday smashed it though. So we're gonna get 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.360 back to work today. A fun game between the Mariners 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.600 and the Rays to Pepio eight strikeouts, George Kirby seven strikeouts, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.320 And that's the thing. You know, when you have the 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.600 pitching depth of the Mariners, you know Castillo has a 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.040 bad start. Next day, who is it? George Kirby steps up. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.600 And that's why I think the Mariners are gonna be 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.160 a playoff team no matter what happens. Just get some 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.880 more offense. Here's some fun stuff. Bryan Reynolds extends his 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.480 hitting streak to twenty three consecutive games. Matthew libtour six 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.920 shutout innings, eight strikeouts for him. So while she came 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.080 in here from the bullpen to make little starry start, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.880 do you think with all these old farts in that 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.600 cardinal rotation, maybe they should let him make another one? 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.120 Should they let him make another one? Yeah? 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.400 I mean potentially. Do I think he's going to be 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.280 like super successful this year? 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.360 I used to be a big big. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.840 Back in high school. I actually watch him pitch in 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.200 high school out here in Arizona. He was a local 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.800 kid I forgot against. Yeah, Nolan Gorman. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.280 He just has never had the stuff. What I'm doing here. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.080 I'm also patting for time to see where some of 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.360 the changes have gone. This is interesting and this is 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.880 something we have see. It's a little bit different like 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.080 Hunter Green, you know, was like heavy fastball, needed to 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.040 get secondaries and a big success story we saw was 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.800 when he turned around and started throwing his slider more 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.280 than his fastball. That hasn't ever really been necessarily the 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:46.280 case on Matthew Libertor. But what he is doing like 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.240 is in that he needed to, you know, offset his fastball, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.760 but he is throwing his slider the most now. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 So the pitch mixed change. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.800 I want to make sure I articulated that was he's 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.000 essentially dumping the curveball, which a thirty three percent with 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.000 rate last year and a pretty good batting average against 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.560 to go slider one forty five percent with rate on 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.200 his slider this year he throws at twenty eight percent 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.960 of the time. Fastball is your setup pitch, which is 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.800 throwing for strikes. He's got that sinker in year of 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.320 the same I did. I thought this is the year 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.120 of the splitter. It might be the year of the sinker, 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.480 which he is throwing that about the same. And then 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.840 he's added a cutter in this season, which is just 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.800 another fastball establishment pitch. At the end of the day, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.640 he's kind of a two pitch pitcher. It's a version 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.960 of a fastball and a slider. The slider has been 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.640 so good, you know what as I'm looking at this 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.000 because I had not really broken him down. Maybe you 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.080 know his expected era is sub four. That's not bad 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.040 barrel rate against and hard hit. It's it's manageable. It 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.720 had screams like fifth starter type of stuff. I actually 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.880 might be down. I might be down for Matthew Libatur. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.480 I think he does get some other opportunities. It might 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.880 be down to even stream him against the right team, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.800 you know, like the Marlins or something. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.440 Yeah, Brian by the way, is pushing your buttons because 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.160 he wants me to sing Gavin Stone and me and 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:07.919 like Counting Crows voice, Oh gav me, They're gonna be 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.040 big stars. Yeah, I love it, he says, Yeah, broke 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.160 and change up. I love it. Uh No on Gorman 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.560 by the way, also fun over three two more shrikeouts 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:18.840 for him. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.560 Just best friend with liberator by the way, the best 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.240 friend's best friend? 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:22.919 Is it time to replace Nolan Gorman? If you're the 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.000 Cardinals real quick? 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.240 They can. I don't think they will, but they like, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:27.800 where do they go? 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:28.959 Where do they go? Oh? 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.400 Well, Tommy Edmund just got rehurt. Brendan Donovan can play 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.840 second base. They could move Mason Win there they've got 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.760 Thomas de Gasey and the miners speaking of a prospecting 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:37.280 with the Welsh. 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.320 That would be a guy I could take that. I 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:39.639 don't think. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.639 All right, Let's get to some prospector with the Welsh 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.800 here real quick, rookie, lookye stuff, Spencer Aghtty ten strikeouts? 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.720 What happened there? How that happen? Here? We go get 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.800 try again. John Kenzie Noel got called up. Hit a 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.760 home run. Remember he had an eleven hundred oh ps 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:00.200 at Columbus two fifty nine seventy eight slash eighteen bombs. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.960 Brett Batty speaking of Bomb's sixth home run in fifteen 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.920 games for Triple A. Shane Bos another strong start for 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.240 him at Triple A, working his way back two runs 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.199 and six hits over five innings. Tyler Black was on 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.520 the bench again. Spencer Torkelsen three to four. Black with 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.919 two home runs in Triple A. And that's not the 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.040 only good news your boy. Parker Meadows two eighty five, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.920 three seventy eight five nineteen slashes his demotion. So look 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.600 for those Detroit Tigers to start coming up again soon. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.359 And they're not the only guys who are going to 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.080 make some impact pretty soon. Here when it comes to 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:33.920 some of the youth of Major League Baseball, because it's 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.560 time for a prospect and with the Welsh, he's got 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.160 a pickaxe and he's been down on that farm mine 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.960 in prospects for your pleasure, Welsh, who do you like 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.639 this week that you want to talk about that people 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.160