WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 8th, 2024 (EP. 785) 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.840 What's up, Brindos and welcome back to leading off the 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.000 brand new week And no Joe, that's right, it's Welsh 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:17.160 and the Scott Bogman in the house as Joe is recovering. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:19.320 From Wressel Madia. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.320 That's right. It's pretty good. Like yeah, man, yeah, you're. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.920 Yeah. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.800 I just realized as I said that maybe that's not 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.040 the best voice to be able to do. But what's 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.159 up everybody. Thank you guys for hanging out and welcome in. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.280 We got a lot to cover. We're gonna be covering 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.360 all the weekend stuff. I got brand new trade video 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.519 which we're going to be talking about. We've got our 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:47.199 best bets, bagman. I was on an absolute tear. I 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.720 don't know. I'll tell you it was good enough my 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.480 bet streak to have multiple internal Fantasy Pros people hit 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.320 me up about like hey do you have a quick 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.880 link and hey, what's your username because we're gonna. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.000 Promote you all this, all these new followers. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.840 I went from like one hundred followers on the Betting 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.959 Pros app over three hundred in like twelve excellent Saturday. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:14.160 They all came great day, screeching halt on Sunday, absolute 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:19.480 screeching holt. My eight day technically nine day streak went 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:24.759 with lots of units and just absolutely waxed yesterday box. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.720 This reminds me of the Advent Calendar and bad Sanna 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.039 when he like opens it up and it's at he's 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.480 like aspirin. He's like, well, it can't all be winners, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:34.880 can they? 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:35.720 Okay? 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:36.320 All right? 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.600 You know some days you know, Sundays are for the boys. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.160 They say Sundays are for fab instead of winning bets. Maybe, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.040 but you are on a heater. Well, so I would 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.640 absolutely be following the Welsh and following along on his bets. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.720 Well, we'll see, we'll see. We can pick it back 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.840 up looking forward to it. 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So bugs, by the way, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.160 little bit of an eclipse today. Are you are you 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.240 of the like that like chaos is going to ensue 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:36.959 or do you just want to like stand out with 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.520 the minions and just watch the sun get blocked for 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:40.720 like twelve seconds? 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.200 No, I want, I want to watch it. It's it's 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:43.880 a cool event. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.280 I'm you know, I'm in Texas now, so I'm like 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.200 right in the path of it. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.200 So what do they call that? Don't they have a name? 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.760 They're like it's like the path. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.400 Of yes, and it's where the rapture is somewhere. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.400 There's some think they have like a specific name for 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.400 I'll get nothing to the eclipse path. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.160 Yeah, okay, I'll get nothing in Arizona. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.080 Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.440 But rain, lots of rain on the horizon today, so 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.000 there is a possibility to get. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.440 Rid event horizon. I think that's what's what it's called, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:13.320 like event horizon. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.320 The event horizon is a Sam Jackson hole. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.160 So uh but uh, but yeah, it's it's not an 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.480 eclipse event. Horizon is for the black Hole. But uh yeah, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:26.400 the it won't. I'm just saying, you know, but it 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.680 is going to be interesting. I'm excited about it. Hopefully 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.800 it means that uh maybe will be reverse day and 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.320 my bets will finally hit today. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:33.960 So that's what we're hoping for. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:35.040 That would be sweet. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.480 All right, we're gonna get into all this stuff. Totality 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.440 that is it. Go cards, got it? It is the 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.200 path of totality. That is the name that it has 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.920 been given. I'll have none of it today, but and 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.040 I'll be in a meeting, so I won't be. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:46.680 Able to check it out. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.280 But I hope you guys all enjoy your path of 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.560 Totality today and hopefully Joey is doing the same. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.280 Coming on movie, they move the Yankee game back because 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.240 of it. I saw, yeah, you know, four hours, so 0:03:58.680 --> 0:03:59.560 it was gonna be weird. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:00.280 You know. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.280 Here comes Aaron Judge up to bat and the whole 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.320 stadium is dark. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:05.160 Look at that. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.240 I actually wish they would have done it, because then 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.800 we could have had, like we could have just had 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.600 like a whole season of weird anomalies, like I love 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.120 that one where it was glabor Torres just batting through 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.200 the earthquake. If you see that video where when the 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:18.920 earthquake was going on, he was taking VP and he 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.640 just never stopped. I just want, like disastrous events for 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.800 players to just keep playing for We have the snow 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:25.760 game the other day. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.960 Oh yeah, well remember it looked like the apocalypse when 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.320 they had the wildfires near Oakland and everything was red 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.039 in the background. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:33.760 That was crazy. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.839 Yeah, I do actually remember. But like I said, we 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:37.800 get into the stuff. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.880 Shout out to Cody Rhodes and Joe who are best 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.359 friends or whatever, and I know he's excited that the 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.400 story is finished in WrestleMania and all the chaos that 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.480 went on. We'll probably hear all about it tomorrow, as 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.920 Joe went to both days. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.919 But let's talk about some baseball. They got some fantasy baseball. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.240 All your favorite pitchers are gone, all your favorite players 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.840 are gone. Over the weekend since we last talk to you. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.359 I don't think we had all of these. We have 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:08.720 some finality. We lost Spencer Strider, which is brutal. It's 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.400 absolutely brutal. We lost Shane Bieber confirmed Shane Bieber, Tommy 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.760 John not confirmed Tommy John for spencerider ucl injury. The 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.680 other big injury and I'm throwing these all in here, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.880 is Luis Robert, because we now have about a three 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:28.599 month timeline even potentially for with a severe hip flexer. So, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.680 I mean, how are you managing like is? I don't 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.320 know if there's anything to take away. There's yea course 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.000 about the pitching side and all these guys getting hurt. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.839 We lost Garrett Cole, Strider's going to be out. Strider's 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.320 a cut at this point, he's probably it's probably inevitable 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.520 to Tommy John. It's not worth hanging on to unless 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.960 you've got I. L's Bieber is done. God knows what's 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.560 going to go on with Cole, and then you throw 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.600 on top of it lou Bob, which is going to 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.240 be two to three months. And really there's even some 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.320 discourse around like how much could or if for will 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.760 he played all this season? 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.000 With where the White Sox are. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.040 Heading, Yeah, I mean it doesn't look good for the 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.479 White Sox. Crochet has been great, but other than that, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.600 you know, and they lost lou Bob and Eloy you know, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.120 not as severe obviously, but he just went on the 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.480 IL as well. So you pull like the two best 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.360 power bats out of that lineup and it was already 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.560 bad and now it's really bad. So uh, it's a 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.480 tough break in Strider too. I mean, I don't know. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.600 Something has to be done. Maybe they do need to 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.880 scrap the pitch clock. I don't know, but you can't 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.359 keep having star pitchers not playing full seasons or in 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.800 crunch time when it matters the most or whatever. It 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.960 is insane. You do you think it's Do you think 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.359 it's about the pitch clock? Do you really truly? 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.360 I have no idea. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.040 I don't think that that's the cause, and know the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.880 MLBPA seem to think that that's the cause, and you 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.400 know there is correlation. I have no idea if it 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.000 is causation, but something needs to be fixed. We can't 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.200 keep losing all these pitchers. But I mean they're not 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.200 going to change it. You know, numbers are up and 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.000 all that stuff. So I guess we just have to 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.080 We're gonna have to switch back to six man rotations 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.000 or seven man rotations or something like. They just then 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.440 needs to be an adjustment so that we quit losing 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.200 these pitchers. And no adjustment's going to you know, baseball 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.040 is always the last to adjust, so none of that 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.800 stuff is going to happen. It's going to take a 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.520 while for teams to get creative or you know, pitchers 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.640 coming up through the minor leagues will start to get 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.840 used to it because this is the process. It's just 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.800 not the process for the guys that have pitched already. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:30.680 Maybe that's part of it. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.160 I don't know. I think it's a solution. I think 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.920 it's a perfect storm. I don't think it is one thing. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.960 I think everybody like I see like I think it's 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.120 no go cards in here is like No, it's the 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.720 pitch effort. It's the max pitch effort. And then there's 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.760 some people it's the pitch clock. I think it's all 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.440 other things. I don't think it is one specific thing. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.400 I think it is the combination of these ingredients that 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.360 are creating an explosive injury. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:52.640 Bug. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.640 I think it is max effort with the way these 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.720 guys are approaching even training, not just like from a 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.880 max effort on the mound and the training, and then 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.400 you take on pitch clock with you know, no ability 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:10.800 to have any rest in between, or just I mean 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.280 you take on top of it also pitch selection in 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.760 the type of pitches I'm watching a lot of guys 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:21.080 talking about, you know, how they're throwing and the certain 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.800 type of pitches they're throwing and what it does to 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.840 their arm. Tyler there's a great video of Tyler Glass 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.040 now talking about how even pitch grip. There's the other 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.800 one was like spidertack in the way that they're having 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.559 to hold the ball causing I think so. I think 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.160 it's a combination of all of these things. But as 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.440 I'm gonna discuss in a trade video I've got coming up, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.440 which should be posted in the next like twenty four hours, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.199 is you I think you're gonna have two things that 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.800 are gonna happen in your league. I think you're gonna 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.440 have people that are going to grip as tight as 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.280 they possibly can, like they don't have spidertack onto their 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.840 starting pitchers in their league, and they will be so 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.240 difficult to trade for. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:56.440 Or you're gonna have the inverse. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.560 You're gonna have teams and fantasy owners that are just 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.760 going to be like whatever, I got to get off 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.240 of these guys. I got to get off the top guys, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.439 and I got them be able to capitalize on two 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.319 for ones and three for ones and stuff like that, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.960 And I don't really know exactly how to give the 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.680 best advice because I think it literally leagues are going 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.280 to be split like that. I don't think there's gonna 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:16.480 be a lot of middle I think it's gonna be 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.840 grip hold tight to your starting pictures or be more 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:20.800 willing to move. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 Them, which means not a lot changes, right Like, because 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.960 you have half the crowd overreacting one way, half the 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.920 crowd overreacting the other way, it's probably going to be 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.560 about the same, which is why nothing changes. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.680 We got something has to change here. So you know, say, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.000 what what side are you on that? Are you going 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.240 to hold tighter or do you want to move off 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:39.640 of your start? 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:40.520 I'm absolutely not. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.079 I don't know that I want to move off my starters, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.880 but I'm much more willing to trade them at this 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.640 point because there's just all getting hurt. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.760 So yeah, I'm more willing to trade my pictures right now. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.760 Man, I think you might be right. I might be 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.720 a little bit more like myself. Like you were saying, like, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.839 not a lot of changes, I think like the tippy top, guys, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.160 I'm not willing to trade as much. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.040 But you know, here's the funny thing. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.160 The guys that I love the most are the guys 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:07.839 that I think are maybe a least susceptible to a 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.320 lot of these injuries. Are these like command based pitchers. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.800 I love George Kirby, I love Logan web Like. I 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.200 think those are the safety guys. Those are the guys 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.160 that I want to go quiet, And luckily some of 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.240 them are struggling right now, so they're a quie rable. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.280 So those would probably be the guys that I move. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.000 But I think, like middle line pitching, I'm willing to 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.280 capitalize on Garrett Crochet, Jared Jones, guys that are popping. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.120 Maybe they're free and you should kind of hold tight 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.120 to them filling out your roster. But if someone's willing 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.160 to pay a king's ransom, it's something I would think about. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.800 Another one of those guys maybe that's starting to pop up, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.680 is Ronel Blanco, who was great again. He had another 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.680 like five innings of no hit. He allowed one hit, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.400 four walks over six shutout innings. I think he went 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.200 another five. He had just five swing and misses though 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:54.280 ninety pitches CSW of twenty seven percent. It's okay, but 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.040 he hasn't given up a run. He's got a point 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.520 four to seven whip an eleven eleven to six k 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.400 to walk Graasio up their fifteen innings. Do you think 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.560 Ronel Blanco is the real deal? 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.280 I mean, I don't know that a guy with two 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.240 really good starts at thirty in his first ten starts 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.640 here at thirty, by the way, is the real deal. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.400 Holy Field, But he's on a nice hot streak. There 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.880 are way worse things than rostering Ronel Blanco and having 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.720 it blow up in your face. It's it's you know, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:27.840 everyone has been, you know, a victim of this. So yeah, Adam, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.560 pay up for him, keep him on your roster, and 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.280 when he eventually tanks, like I'm sure you also think Welsh, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:37.200 then drop him. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.800 But ride the wave. He's on a heater right now, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:40.720 so I'll take it. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.520 Rank Garrett Crochet, Jared Jones and Ronel Blanco the way 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.200 you said them, Jared Jones over Garret Crow Well, okay, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.239 are there tier differences? 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.880 I would say Jones and Crochet and then a lot 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.760 and then Blanco. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.959 Okay, I agree with that. I mean, are you heavy? 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.840 You're heavy? Jared Jones over Garrett Crochet. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.280 Though I don't know that I'm heavy. I mean, I'm 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.480 always heavy, but I don't know that I'm heavy. You know, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.280 Jones over Crochet, but I would say team contexts specifically 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.960 with Roberts and Eloy going down. I like the Pirates 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.760 way more than I like the White Sox right now, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.319 which is surprising to say but very true. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.000 Yeah, and Crochet's kind of tough because I think he's 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.880 like insanely deceptive and I really love that combo that 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.800 you know, slider fastball combo and how it's deceptive to 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.319 the plate. But then he was just sitting around the 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.240 plate and I was literally talking with someone. I'm like, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.000 my god, your Crochet is amazing. And then he ends 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.880 up just being around the plate and gets beat up 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.760 in an inning and that kind of ruined it a 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.760 little bit. They Actually I was hoping they'd let him 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.760 come back out because I had the k prop at 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.439 five and a half over it finished at five because 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.559 he was just a little bit, a little bit walky, 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.200 a little bit all over the zone. But I think 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.000 at this point Jared Jones has separated himself a little bit, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.839 and hey, listen, maybe I'll eat my words on that trade. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.840 The very first trade video where I put him in there. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.160 I did point out I think like maybe over time, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:00.840 you know, you give it a couple starts and you 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.800 sell high, but maybe it'll never be a sell high. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.240 Maybe he's just gonna be awesome. Who is awesome? 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.200 By the way, Choto Amanica tossed four scoreless innings against 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.959 the Dodgers before the rain delay, which was stupid forty 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.240 three pitches. He got those twelve outs. He was striking 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.320 out guys again. Looks great, I am. He's one of 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.040 my biggest movers in my Dynasty update that's coming up. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.040 He looks phenomenal. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:24.400 Box. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.280 He has looked great. And you know this this start 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.319 shortened because of the rain. They had a rain delay 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.679 in between, so they pulled him after four. But he 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.000 he has looked amazing right this year. I also love 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.160 how sloppy he looks out there. He looks like, you know, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.440 Skinny Bartolo a little bit. He's got the real loose jersey. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.319 It's unbuttoned too much. But he's just going out there 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.800 firing bullets. So I love watching him Monica right now. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.160 I do think, as with a lot of guys that 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.760 come over from overseas, you get this really red hot start, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.800 and then you get the league adjusting back on him. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.760 Is there any fee for you that that's gonna happen 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.199 to Amnica like it has the guys in the past. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:04.600 Yeah. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.080 Sure, I mean it's definitely a thing to think about. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.599 That's kind of my thing with all these guys, and 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.040 that's why I would pinpoint anybody that just absolutely explodes. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.240 It's like, the league's. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.160 Gonna catch up, and what is that guy gonna do 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.000 when the league does catch up. That's my same argument 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.880 to Jered Jones. It's my same argument to like Eric Crochet. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.600 The league is going to find those little tiny things 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.640 and they're gonna start picking up. And how quick those 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.480 changes happen and how that guy adjusts. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:30.880 Is going to be the key. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.880 Manica throws strikes, pounds of fastball, splitter, looks good. I 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:40.880 don't know, like if you Okay Amanica or Bobby Miller 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.880 rest of season. Bobby Miller just got absolutely lit in 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.040 the second inning, but looks phenomenal. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.720 First, which one would you pick? 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:50.440 Miller? 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.840 And how big is the gap? 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.480 Not enormous but decent? 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.560 I mean, you know, team context to Bobby Miller on 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.000 the Dodgers. So yeah, I mean it's still Bobby Miller 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.360 for me. I like, uh, is it gonna screw it 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:06.680 up again? It's Imanaga? 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:07.920 Right yeah? 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.320 Oh, man mean we're I can see the pronunciation. We're 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.000 going through it again. I thought it was pronounced iman Yeah, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.040 it might be Imanaga. It is my biggest struggle bus. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:16.800 Thing, Managa. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.000 So yeah, I mean, look, I think he's going to 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.800 be good, but I do think, you know, there will 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.920 be a readjustment, there will be a period where he's 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.160 not so good. So yeah, give me, give me Bobby Miller. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.280 I'll I'll take him over Emanaga. But but it's that, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.200 I mean, it's much closer than it would have been 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:36.800 obviously two weeks ago. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.400 So uh, it's right there. But yeah, still Bobby for me. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.760 A couple other pitching updates. Ryan Pepio six shutout innings 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.400 and a win over the Rockies. Eleven strikeouts, give up 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.560 just three hits, had a forty one rate, thirty nine 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.040 percent CSW and he was pretty awesome. His fastball a 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:54.280 fifty percent with rate. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.400 He was killer. We talked about Gara Crochet. He had 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.320 a no decision in that one. He had fifteen swing 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:00.760 and misses. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.440 That's really been kind of One of the biggest things 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.440 about his game is the swing and missus and I 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.720 like it. I liken that to like the deception. He 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.520 had seven swing whiffs on the slider. He's a thirty 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.840 six percent CSW He's point six whip on the year. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.280 He has been awesome. Couple. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.840 Uh, we're hopefully returning from injury soon, notes Bogs. Justin 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.360 Verlander alound six earned runs, struck out six in a 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.880 triple A startover in Sugarland. He had that rehab He's 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.320 gonna have Oh do I did I have to. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.120 I'm just saying that's how the Texans say. It's like Prescott, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.040 you know, sugar Prescott. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.320 I like Sugarland though. That makes me feel happier. I 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:38.560 live in sugar Land a little bit more. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.120 He's got one more rehabs start and then he's popping 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.920 back comfort level with Verlander when he comes back. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.880 Uh yeah, I mean, I'm very comfortable. Verlanter is such 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.520 a vet. He's been through injuries and come back before. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.840 Uh you know, Uh, am I comfortable He's gonna throw 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.600 a ton of innings. No, he's closer to our age 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.119 than he is to a rookies age right, so yer 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:00.600 than us? 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.080 Is he older than us? 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:03.560 I'll be my birthday. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.640 Yeah, my birthdays in like two weeks, and I think 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:07.679 he'll still be older than me. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.800 It's hilarious, like after Tom Brady retired, because I always 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.199 do the date of birth for the football players. That 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.240 was the last football player that was older than us. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.119 Now every single football player is younger. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.520 I think Verlander might be it. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.439 I think, man, that's gonna that might be my midlife 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.000 crisis is accepting that I'm now older than all the 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.360 baseball players. I didn't think that they was coming anytime soon. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:33.240 But yeah, he's he's outstanding, so uh and he's been 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:34.080 through this before. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.119