WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 4th, 2023 (Ep. 662) 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.160 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.160 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pick. Sign up 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.240 for Prize Picks today with the promo code leading off, 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.119 It's be Joey pai jo Piezifia. That of course is 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.040 the man Chris Welsh happy made the fourth to those 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.600 who celebrate. I'm wearing my Mandalorian shirt and I'm sure 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.440 there'll be plenty of Star Wars puns in the show today. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.560 I think it was last year I wore the Darth 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.400 Vader mask. It was one of the years I did that. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.599 But the audio gets a little garbily when I do that, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.080 so we're not. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:35.800 I thought that would be fun. I thought that would 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.960 be fun if we had like some Mandalorian masks. You know, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:40.479 this is the way, you know, you know what? 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:42.360 You wanna do a different stick every year? You know why? 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.400 I do the same stuff? Then you know, then it 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.320 gets old and haggard. Are you a Star Wars guy? 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.559 Welsh just yeah, I was asked this yesterday. I like 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.960 Star Wars. I watched the stuff. I watched them. Our 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.840 mutual friend Scott Bogman is a crazy person about Star Wars, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.200 likes to write fan fiction, dress up as them, go 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.680 to comic cons, all that type of stuff. He thinks 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.080 he is a Jedi, all those type of things. Not me. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.920 But I have to ask you something because I have 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.200 a gut feeling about this. I feel like you do 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.320 a mean Yoda. I just look at you, at someone 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.160 that that has practiced the Yoda and can do it. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.959 So please honor us with your Yoda because I know that. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.960 To some point in the show, well we'll see, I 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.520 want to do it at the top. Then you know, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:25.360 if it's bad, then. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:26.080 We lose on anybody. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.600 And you know, it's funny with me. The Star Wars 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.600 was something that I was a fanatic as a kid. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.520 Grace Christmas present I ever got was the Ewok village 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.240 by far had all the figures, all this thing. I 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.800 still have the the Darth Vader case to hold the figures. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.120 I still got that bad boy that's still in the 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.040 in the old closet there. But you know it's funny. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.840 I was so excited for the reboots, you know, and 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.480 I was disappointed in them. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.960 Oh you can have a hot take. You didn't like 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.040 the new movies? Hot take? 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.680 Care? Well, look, I was a midnight show for the prequels, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.080 and I left going it was good, right, right, It 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.840 was good, right because we've been waiting all this time 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.880 for Star Wars and they got all this technology now 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.240 to make it even better. And it was good, right, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.760 And it was It was not it was not good, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.920 and the prequels were terrible. The second prequel is, oh 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.400 my god, one of the worst movies ever, hilariously bad 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.839 in my opinion. Again just my opinion. But I did 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.440 love Rogue one. That was like the savior of the 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.920 Star Wars movies for me. So I have I have 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.760 soured over the years on Star Wars. I've become much 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.960 more of a Marvel guy in my old age. But 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:30.959 you know, I did watch the first, I think two 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.760 seasons of Mandelorn. I have not watched the new one. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.000 I don't know how I feel about it yet. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.880 Yeah, I love well, this one's gotten a little bad. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.320 My hot take was probably that I feel that the 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.400 Mandalorian And this is because I'm not like a Star 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.320 Wars like crazy person. Probably the best stuff out of 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.760 Star Wars, it's like my favorite. It is built off 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.360 in nostalgia. This last season has got kind of bad. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.680 You also have to be into like the cartoons what 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.680 is it like Rebels and the Clone War like, those 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.880 are excellent and those are heavily rooted in what's going on. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.600 But I feel like the Mandalorian stuff is the best 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.880 of the Star Wars stuff, which also I think ties 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.240 into Rogue one. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.600 So I lost you or if it was me, I 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:10.720 don't know one of us got. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.799 It was you? Yeah, I think it was you, but yeah, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.400 one of us got dropped. 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.760 But we're back now. But here I will say this, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:19.920 the best thing about Rogue one is that you know 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.160 it's going to end poorly and you still care about it, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:24.760 Like that's that's great, Like you kind of know where 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.960 it's going going and it and it really delivers and 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.160 and I kind of like the down ending stuff sometimes, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.120 like I just I don't know, I'm not all the 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.040 Hollywood swoopy ending IM down for you. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.760 In baseball, got a downating for you from yesterday. Here's 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.120 a this is the Rogue one of leading off was 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.840 yesterday watching talk about it. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.720 Let's talk about Brandon fought so, uh, I guess the 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.200 Marlins next time out, so maybe that's better. But against 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.720 the Rangers, it was not a good day for him, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.720 you know, that any mistake he made got clobbered. Homer 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.720 two doubles knocked him out there. So it wasn't the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.840 best debut. But you know, I mean, look, these guys 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.960 are young pitchers, they're kids. The catchers don't always know 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.920 their pitch mix necessarily of what they want to throw 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.440 a win. And sometimes, you know, guys get a little 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.080 you know, first start, they get a little jittery. All 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.720 these things. I wouldn't take too much out of it. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.880 But it was not a great debut by any stretch 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.920 of the means. For everybody. He was so excited yesterday. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.000 It was a bit of a letdown. So how did 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.800 the stream go? Howd the fought stream go? 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.440 Not good as probably as good as you could think 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.480 towards the end where Brandon Fott got lit up. Yeah, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.600 if you watched him perform, his fastball was pretty mediocre. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.120 His slider, it's this huge, big sweeping slider. It's phenomenal. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.640 It's a phenomenal pitch. The problem is he had no 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.240 change up in this game. So what happened was his 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.480 change up was getting smacked. It had like a one 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.880 oh six average ev again, so he stopped throwing it 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.680 when he didn't throw a slider early on, and he 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.479 became a two pitch pitcher because he won't throw his 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.440 curveball that slider. He just didn't trust enough and they weren't. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.760 This is the stat I've been kind of mentioning this everywhere. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.159 Twenty three swings on his fastball, only one whiff. But 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.440 check this out. That was like a four percent swing 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.800 and misrate. Fourteen called strikes. I believe it was on 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.039 his fastball, which gave his fastball a twenty eight percent 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.320 csw But why am I saying all this? Those guys 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.120 didn't even care when the fastball was coming in the 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.320 zone because they weren't looking for it. Fourteen called strikes 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.920 on the fastball is just him pumping in because they're 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.800 looking for the slider. They're looking for the changeup, which 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.200 he was leaving in the zone. So his command was bad. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.720 He gave up ten batted balls over one hundred miles 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.279 per hour in that game, which is horrific. It was 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.640 as bad as bad can be. Plenty of people let 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.240 me know about it on Twitter. He has a fantastic 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.960 matchup next week, which I'm actually pretty encouraged about that 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.520 that's going to that we're going to get to see 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.880 like the real version of it, the second best offense 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.760 in baseball, and the third time through the order he 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.760 got lit it was he gave up a bunch of 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.960 Homer's too hard hit. I'm going to be excited to 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.120 see how he bounces back. But I think it's fair 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.440 to say, like, after that performance, if you want to 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.320 be on the side of these other guys, the Bryce 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.360 Miller is the Mason Millers. I think it's fine because 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.719 I do have general worries about like what he's going 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.520 to look like moving forward, because a fastball just wasn't 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.520 elite and that's something that like Bryce Miller was and 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.760 that's what Mason Miller was. So that's it is a 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 worry point why I had to change the sign. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:18.880 Yeah. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.400 Uh. By the way, General Fought does sound like a 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.479 Star Wars character, does it? 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.880 Not General Fought when that dies early in the movie? 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.880 Though, Oh, he definitely. He's definitely one of the guys 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.159 in an empire that absolutely Darth Vader murdered at some point. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.880 He want to wright three generals. It's hard. It's hard 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.600 to find good help. Showy Otani match a career high 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.040 thirteen strikeouts five innings. Not too bad. It's hard to 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.960 strike out thirteen guys in five innings. That's not something 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.680 you see every day. Max Munsey continues to rub my 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.320 face in the poop again. Game winning Grand Slam of 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.240 the night that England Wednesday. I'd say Max Money the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.479 great Max Mounsey, the greatest hitter that ever lived. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.560 You know, one thing on though, Tani thing real quick. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.359 So you just mentioned I did like a live stream 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.320 for the Brandon Fott start stupid idea, our friend. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:06.479 I don't think it was. I think it was a 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:07.360 great idea. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.360 And it probably was enjoyable. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.320 And don't don't confuse entertainment value with you know, good 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.320 or bad results of things. You know, it's about the 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.160 entertainment value. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.640 Very true, very true. Liked or disliked as long as 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.920 your vin thought of uh our guy tone. You know 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.440 Delgada who's in the chat. He comes in and he 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.200 gets in the chat and he goes, hey, what's the 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.040 ladder bet for today? And you know famously now the 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.640 Jacob de Grom was a disaster, and I go, man, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.360 I don't have any ladder bet going on. I suck 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.920 at that. Why would you listen to me? But if 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.920 I was ladder betting someone today, it would be show 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:43.960 hey o Tani, because look at this matchup and it's 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.360 only at six and a half. And had you bet 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.600 he struck out so many that the books wouldn't have 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.320 had the total that he finished, They wouldn't have gone 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.400 up to thirteen. It would have probably gone up to 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.200 probably eleven. So I hope he took it. And what 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.560 a phenomenal ladder bet that would have been had you 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.560 had taken chohil Tony yesterday. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.520 Sure would have been absolutely continuing on here, Bryce Harper 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.560 apparently just needs one game to get ready for the season, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.240 because yesterday was a much different result, three for three 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.640 with a pair of walks, uh doubles in this game, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.480 and Bryce Harper is back. I guess so just one 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.120 day is all he needed, shake the dust off and 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.240 now he's fine. Cardinals manager Oliver R. Mar Maul said 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.000 Wednesday that they're considering skipping Stephen Mats's turning the rotation 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.360 or even moving him to the bullpen. Is it libertoire time? 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.080 Please say yes? Please say yes. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.760 I think it could be a libertire time. I think 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.679 you could take your liberatory and be aware there are 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.920 side effects like home runs and and blown up. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:43.200 E R jogging and doing something like you know, like 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.559 you know, I don't know, Like while you're talking about 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.840 like the side effects of what it could be like, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.760 tend to play the harmonica. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.600 And like, if you take libertire, your side effects could 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.720 be heartburn, inflated e RA strikeouts that don't match up, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.480 an angry twitter people all around beware, but take your 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:03.720 liberatre today. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.400 And there's me in the other box just living my 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.480 next best life that I possibly can and doing all 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.400 these things while you don't know what's going on when 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.760 you add him. So that's my favorite part of those commercials, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.199 whenever they're doing something completely off base and just they 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:19.280 were like, you're like, what are you doing? 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.240 What is liked you could die and someone's like fishing 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:23.240 and yeah, they're. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.360 Like fishing out there with their grandson and then he 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.200 dies right there on the boat and then the grandson's 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.320 in the middle of the water. He has no idea 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.160 how to get back. That that's a commercial. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.079 It'd be great, we should there should actually be one 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.400 of those. And it's just like Star Wars characters fighting 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.800 in the background like side effects and they're just like 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.120 fun where dark Lighter is walking down just destroying people 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.400 in the hallway, and it's like your side effects might be. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.480 That's very good. But yes, let's hope that it's Matthew 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.360 Libertorre season. Please, with the love of God, do we 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.000 get this guy in the rotation. Yesterday people got mad 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.200 at us because we did not mention Gavin Stone, and 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.720 there was a reason because Welsh doesn't think he is 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.280 worthy of mentioning. And I'm sorry we missed the questions 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.800 in the chat yesterday. They were a couple Gavenstone questions. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.440 But he gave up four and runs five total in 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.480 his major League debut against the Phillies. But you're not 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.800 a Gavinstone guy. But let's talk about for those people 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.840 who we missed yesterday, apologies, we do our best, but 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.000 we missed the Gavin Stone chatter. So let's talk. Yeah, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.480 I definitely whatever you gotta say. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.960 I don't think he's not worthy. I just to your 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.160 to your your point, like I didn't think about him 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.600 because we were so focused on Brandon Fot. Had he 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.920 been alone, we would have talked about him. Also to 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.600 your point, I'm not like as big of a Gavenstone 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.719 guy as Gavinstone. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.079 Guys, yeah said something yesterday I can't repeat on air 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.840 about Gavinstone. So I'm just putting that out there. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.800 I'm just not that's not my thing. He was a 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.160 primary change up from majority of the game. Then he 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.880 had to go to fastball like Brandon Fott. He just 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.640 wasn't great. His fastball stunk. He had sixteen swings on 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.120 it one with he had seven called strikes twenty three 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.320 percent csw no swinging strike great. His change up is 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.480 where he lives though he's not a two pitch pitcher, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.920 but eighty eight percent was a fastball or change up. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.800 He threw the change up forty three percent of the time. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.360 He had a twelve percent strike rate on the change up, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.319 so that's not gonna work. He got it in the zone, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.320 unlike Brandan Fott could do, but he was just getting smacked. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.959 And this this is one of those things where it's 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.480 like if they don't fear that big, plus plus pitch, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.520 which he does have a change up, it's a plus pitch. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.120 If they don't fear that, they're just gonna sit and 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.640 wait on the fastball. And that's kind of what happened 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.000 in this situation. So I don't know. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 And the young pitchers, most young pitchers don't have great 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.160 fastball location skills. And to the to the point is, 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.840 you know that Tom Sever always talked about, you know, 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.319 one of those things. It's you know, it's velocity, it's location, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.560 it's movement. Those are the three things that matter most 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.720 in pitching. And if you can master those three, you know, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.199 it's it's it's funny because like you know, and he 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.800 didn't mean velocity ele like trying to throw it through 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.480 a barn door. He meant in changing velocity. And I 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.640 remember as a kid watching a thing I'll never forget 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.920 of watching Tom Sever break down pitching. It was so 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.079 fascinating to listen to him talk about it. And he's 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.679 talking about moving the hitters, I you know, getting him, 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.400 you know, you throw him up and then you throw 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.559 it down. And they're like, it's very difficult to pick 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.240 up pictures when you can move around the zone with 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.000 good location skills. And it's something that that's a lost 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.360 arc for him nowadays. And it's when you see it 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.760 in young pictures and when you see that ability, that's 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.040 what gets me excited about young pictures and something Xannyel 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:19.719 Contrast Show in the last two years, which is why 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:20.680 he's been so dominant. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.920 You're right, and that is actually something that that Brandon 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.960 Fought attempts to do. He likes to live high in 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.520 the zone. He likes to change your eye level up 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.160 on the fastball and he throws this slider all over 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.559 that screws with everybody and changes. But that's also why 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.480 he's like flyball prone and gives up homers. But you've 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.840 got to change the batter's eye. The other thing with 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.200 Gavin Stone after this, it's they had said Dave Riyverts 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.800 said before that they're going to take it like case 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.960 by case. But there's other guys that are pushing. They've 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.240 got Bobby Miller, who just got his first start back, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.959 was really good in his first start, and they've got 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.440 a completely underrated picture in their system. Emmett Sheehan, who 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.720 I believe might be the K percentage leader in the 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.360 minor league right now. He played in the AFL, he's 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.360 in Double A, and that's a guy that I could 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.360 see them pushing. So with Gavin Stone, I just don't 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.240 know that they're going to wait around and let this work. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.840 Especially with how that performance went. They might you don't 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.320 want to just give up on young guys. But unlike 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.760 what look what the Diamondbacks you're dealing with that the 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.600 Dodgers have two guys that are right close there that 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.520 I think Bobby Miller and Emmit Sheehan could get some 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:24.800 opportunities here pretty soon. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.560 One of the show's talking about Emmick Sheehan today. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:28.000 None. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.240 None, I can tell you that. One other quick note 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.240 to the A's who continue to just throw things at 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.560 a wall and see what sticks. JJ Bleday is going 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.400 to get promoted. Twenty five year old former fourth overall 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.640 selection from the twenty nineteen draft. Three to sixteen batting 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.800 average four twenty nine. Oh yeah, obp six forty three, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:50.040 slugging seven homers in the steel already for JJ Bleday. Look, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.480 I know I was kind of in the I was 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.199 in the minority when he got drafted. I liked JJ Blada. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:56.600 I didn't think it was going to be a superstar 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.959 major leaguer, but I thought he could be a pretty 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.959 good Major leaguer, and I thought it was a decent pick. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.640 At the time. A lot of people didn't like it, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.680 but so far it's been a really good start for him. Again. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.680 Twenty five years old. This is the theme of twenty 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.920 twenty three, the Prospect Redemption theme. It was my theme 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.800 of the waiver Wire pickup video that just dropped today too. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.920 But Welsh, what are your thoughts on blede Im? If 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.719 you need some malefield help, would you stream this guy? 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.360 I'm pretty indifferent about him. This isn't somewhere I would 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.000 like to. I mean, I love to see the changes. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.480 I like to see the walk rate. I like the contact. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.440 He can really strike it hard, except he's just really inconsistent. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.560 But you see Brent Rooker out there doing it in 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.080 deep leagues. He's a speculative one. Let me throw this 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:36.880 name out. He's not an outfielder. We don't have him 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.280 on the list because it hasn't broke or anything. But 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.080 I was talking about him yesterday Christian and carnaci O 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.120 and Strand. If you heard me talk preseason, I thought 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.400 he could break camp. He has been on the verge 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.520 and he posted on his Instagram a picture of him 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.720 in a Red's uniform, kind of being like coy about everything. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.200 He might be on his way up. If not, I 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.720 really believe he's within the next week. That is a 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.720 guy I would go pick up right now. Hitting over 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.360 four four hundred, hit four homers in nine games at 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.480 Triple A. He's absurd and I think he belongs on 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.160 that lineup, but I think he'll crush when he does, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.560 so I would go pick him up. Doesn't help you 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.000 in the outfield, but he might be getting a call up, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.280 you know, very very shortly, especially based off. 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.840 Of his last post. There you go to get back 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.480 to the Panis and the Cracker Jacks. JP wanted to know, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.520 since I like down Endings, do I like Infinity War? 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:21.760 Yes? 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.640 I do. I love Infinity War. It's one of my 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.520 favorites of all the marvels. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.400 Well, you're gonna go see Guardians immediately. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.680 We have our tickets already. Saturday morning is the only 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.400 time we can go see it because you know, it's 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:32.400 like all Friday night. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.120 Like I can go see it today. I can't see 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:34.440 it today. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.360 I can't go see it today either because it's Thursday, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.640 it's school night, it's hard, and Friday we have football, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.520 and Sunday we have football in the afternoon. So basically, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.560 just rex any chance we have, so we're gonna do 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.680 the rare morning movie. So I hop and well, you know, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.360 look I'll be able to do that between work and 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.880 football coaching and all this stuff I do. So Saturday 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.800 morning it's I hop get pancakes and guardians. I think 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.040 that's a good way to start the day. What do 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:56.320 you think? 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:56.680 I like it? 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:57.160 I like it. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.240 I'm here flowed up on there you. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.280 Go, and Casey's telling me. A lot of people are 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.320 saying to watch and Or which I've heard other people 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:04.480 say it's a great show as well. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.800 Yeah, I've never heard one bad word about and starts 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.800 a little slow, but it is a really, really great series. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.720 Okay, all right, so I'm finishing Breaking Bad. I've only 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.560 got like six episodes left of Breaking Bad. I Mike 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.600 just die. Spoiler for anybody. But again, it's like ten 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.160 years old, so you should have seen it, not like 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.520 me who missed it. But I did start watching Succession, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.520 which I've heard about, which is great. It is the 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.000 first four episodes of that show. I hate everyone in it. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.680 I can and you know what, the last four episodes 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.920 you watch, you'll hate everyone in it. And that's what's 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:36.520 so great about it. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.400 That's what I love. I love them everybody in it 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.720 all equally. And I know of a rich family that 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.640 I'm semi related to that. I've spent a lot of 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.920 time with in my life that is very similar to 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.920 this family in many ways. So it's so cringey and 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.080 difficult for me to watch, but I love it anyway. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.760 So it's it's fantastic, all right. Let's get to the injuries, 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.200 which are not always fantastic. Julio Rodriguez returned to the 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.320 Mariner's line of Wednesday. That's great. Carls Don, however, another 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.520 test on the back Welsh. It is now the fourth 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.840 of May. He is thirty years old, He's had two 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.119 cat scans and a partridge in a pear tree. Everything. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.520