WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 13th, 2024 (EP. 837) 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.880 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.920 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.200 three six five Bet five bucks get one hundred and 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.120 fifteen bonus bets when you do only when you use 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.120 that promo code leading off at Bet three sixty five. 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.560 It is me Joey p That of course is the Welsh, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.800 and it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks hanging out 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.200 in the chat. It's a Thursday, which means we're gonna 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:25.800 have some prospecting with the Welsh. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.000 Yesterday was Waiver Wire. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:28.720 In case your missing can go back and look at 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.720 it over on the YouTube channel Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.960 Subscribe today. It's good for you and Welsh. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.680 Let's start with putting the crown on the King because 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.280 twelve strikeouts for Michael King against the A's ooh we 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.360 pretty good. Unfortunately gets the Phillies next time out, so 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.920 I don't think it's gonna be quite as easy. But 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.479 a great performance for Michael King and certainly one that's 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.960 going to look better across the board. The era goes 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.440 to three five eight, the whip to one point two two, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.200 the strikeouts up to ninety five over eighty three innings. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.640 It was a really big start for Michael King night. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.280 Let me tell you something, here's a cheat code. Anybody 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.039 versus the A's is going to stack strikeouts. He had 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.520 ten through four, So you better's out there whoever the 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.240 A's are going against, if they are a above average 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.559 strikeout player, even just like little tiny babies, lightly bet 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.440 it because it's like a twenty eight percent k percentage 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.240 right now. But also, you know, the A's have their moments. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.120 You know, Brent Rooker has been really good this year. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:36.240 Lengliers is like the stats, yeah, but they're like a 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.520 streamer's paradise of counting stats that you want to play again. 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.160 Sometimes you're just not going to be able to avoid 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.200 like that weird Brent Rooker day where he's gonna have 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.440 two homers. But A's are a cheat code for everybody 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.920 and make things right. And it's actually really funny because 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.280 you and I were talking about a Michael King fantasy 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.720 trade that you were ready to make last night, and 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.200 if you hadn't made it, that would have upped, you know, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.160 the amount a little bit. Because I still think like 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.120 I'm I'm i'm ellish on my Michael King takes because 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.200 he's just inconsistent though You're seeing the flashes of the 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.079 player that I wouldn't shut the hell up about in 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.400 the preseason. He just does me to do it on 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:11.320 a regular basis. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:12.800 Yeah, that's the problem. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.960 And I already made the trade anyway because I'm playing 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:15.519 for next year. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.080 So everybody maybe got a little more. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.640 Yeah, I got Euri Perez and I got it's a 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.560 you know, long term keeper situation there with escalators and 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.440 King was in the thirties and Euri Perez is a 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.240 buck and Nick and Zalas is like two Like those 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.360 are players that I can really, you know, build around. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.959 But yeah, like look yesterday, Michael King was one of 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.080 the bets of the day, you know over on the strikeouts. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.920 Nailed that. I mean, you could have ladder bet this 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.119 one night. I didn't think about that because we're only 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:41.959 seven and a half and I thought, okay, maybe eight 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.120 or nine is the max there, I mean twelve if 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.160 you ladder bet it, you did a good job. Speak 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.520 of going up the ladder. He's at the top of 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.000 the roof right now. Royce Lewis, wait three for five 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.200 another homer. Pablo Lopez looked good too, So anything's possible 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.919 yesterday Major League Baseball. But I mean, Royce Lewis cannot 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:02.320 be he stopped right now. It's funny Eric Cross, I 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.160 don't know if he saw his tweet about this. He goes, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.080 Royce Lewis is the two true outcomes home run or 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:08.800 injury list. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:10.600 I thought that was very funny. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.680 But Royce Lewis is the well, he might kind of 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.639 be the Jacob de Gram of hitters at this point 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.639 where it's like, when he's out there, he's the greatest, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.440 but he's gonna get hurt. It's becoming comical, like what 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.800 he's doing, the level of home runs, the level of contact. Overall, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.440 it's weird to even look at any underlying stats because 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.799 it's like such a small sample size. But just for perspective, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.600 here for a second fifty percent hard hit rate, he 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:40.880 has a fifteen percent k percentage, a twenty three percent 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.760 barrel rate, which I didn't look but qualified that'd be 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.200 probably one of the best in the league. Expected batting 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.680 average is good. He's on fire rest of season because 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.520 you know me blinders to injuries. He's a borderline first 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.080 round player right now. That's how you should consider him. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.480 Like Lewis over Austin Riley right now this year and 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.119 in Dynasty, I've made a pretty really big aggressive move. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.160 The key to Royce Lewis being like a top ten 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.560 Dynasty guy is going to be about him staying on 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.760 the field for like eleven games, twelve games, maybe twenty 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.720 if we want to get kind of crazy and wild here. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.840 He's got to stay on the field. But he is 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.039 as hot as can freaking be the best player on 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.640 that team. I'm here all for Royce Lewis. I have 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:31.160 a history with Royce Lewis. He is the player I get. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.840 Do you know about this? 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.839 No? Remember that history? Like, what did you guys do? 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:36.120 No? 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.920 Well, he's in the AFL and I interviewed him a 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.920 couple of times. I asked him. The worst question I've 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.120 ever asked a probably now my worst interview of all 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.200 time is Curtis Mead, where I was just a bumbling 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.160 moron and I didn't even post it. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.360 So you like like playing baseball, dude, me too. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.000 I was Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. When I interviewed 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.600 Curtis Mead, you remember when you were in the Beatles. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.440 I literally asked him a question like that, I'm not 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.400 gonna even say it, but Royce. I interviewed him before 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.360 the AFL and I kind of like was like, you know, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.520 how about that really bad season you had? And he 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:19.240 was like, what do you mean? Like he didn't see bad? Yeah, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.640 So like I asked this and he kind of like 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.360 pulled back and I got out of it. And then 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.680 later in the AFL I actually apologized to him and 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.919 we had this funny conversation about him like I'm like, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.159 that was my bad. I really didn't set you up 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.080 well in the interview because I was like, how about 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.200 that garbage, piece of crap season you had? You ever 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.120 gonna get that? Like I kind of did it like that. Yeah, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.120 you can hear it on Prospect one. It's still out there. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.600 Royce is the nicest guy, easiest guy to root for. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.919 He is that body has turned into this pro He 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.080 was a skinny dude who got drafted, who no one 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.520 thought was going to be first overall, he is looking 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.200 like an elite fantasy player, plays like an elite fantasy player. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:54.719 Just stay on the damn field. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.960 Please, just stay on the damn field. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:57.960 Don't have the interview. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.400 Hey, Steve Gardner, that was his MVP pick in the 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.040 beginning of the year. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.360 Remember, I mean, it's not gonna happen, but it's not. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.719 But again next year. It's really interesting because he is 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.560 the guy there. You know, he is one of those 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.680 it's on my back kind of guys. And if he 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.320 goes thirty five, one ten, he's gonna be in that conversation. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.279 Nick Lidolo should be in every conversation. Right now, the 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.360 era is now under three. Well, she is seven to 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.760 two right now, one oh six whip six to two 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.159 strikeouts in fifty eight innings with fifteen walks. Yesterday against 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.039 the Guardians, gave up just two runs and seven hits 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.200 and six innings. Is Nick Lodolo kind of finally emerging 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.000 into the guy we've been waiting for. Like, I feel 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.600 like this is the most quiet ascension we've had all 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.680 year of anybody, because all of a sudden I looked 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.960 up and I was like, wow, Nick Lodolo's numbers are 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.320 pretty damn good right now. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.760 Well, I think the ascension is because like he's also 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.159 always hurt like this. I went shut up about Lodola 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.920 last year. Again, this is l on me year too soon, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:07:01.039 because Lodola was wildly, wildly underperforming what expected numbers were 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.840 telling us, like this dude had the biggest ratio between 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.919 what his batting average given up and what it should 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.960 be blah blah blah, and then he just hurt, hurt, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.240 and then gone for the season. He's kind of done 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.960 that again this year, so I think that's why he's 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.440 quietly sat under the radar. But like to your point, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.760 good k numbers e Ray has been phenomenal. Expected side 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.320 is really playing that and he's just missing a lot 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.760 of bats, not even in the strikeout sense, but no 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.720 one is playing really good contact. Of all pitches that 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.120 he throws double digits, so essentially ninety four percent of 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.920 the pitches he throws have a two twelve or under 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.160 batting average against. So it's not like they're destroying fastballs 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.600 and they can't hit the other stuff. They can't hit 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.480 anything against Nickolodolo right now, ninety four percent of pitches 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.080 he throws two twelve or under batting average. Lodolo's got 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.760 one of the nastiest sweepy per. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.320 Two years ago, he was like the guy two years 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.560 ago we were fawning over ourselves to try to get 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:00.120 Nick little. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 For Hunter Green gave me Nicolodolo over Hunter Green. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.320 Oh we were both in that camp. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.920 I'm saying this is this is. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.760 A fun one from Angelo. There's a lot of rage 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.920 in the chat this morning. I live close to Truest Ballpark. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.120 I might just buy a bravesticket to yell at Austin Riley. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.400 Hey you f and bam, you're killing my fantasy team. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:15.960 Angelo. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.480 I want you to do this and I want you 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.080 to get it on video and submit it to the show. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.800 But you gotta say fing. You can't say the other word, otherwise. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.000 You can't do that. I thought you were about to 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.960 say that. I was like, no, come on, did you 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.120 say A lot of braves are a lot of rage? Rage? 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:32.920 Like rage? 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:41.320 Like to Thursday, like birds on Parade. Somebody had a 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.719 great line they sent me to everybody, not. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.160 Well, I sent you one the people. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:49.839 People were d ming me the ones all day after 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.400 that episode, and I just I just thought it was 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.280 like the funniest idea. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.760 I just we I love it. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.520 We did some AI art and it just a I 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.000 cannot quite capture the essence of a rage against the 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.800 machine X birds on Parade type of feel. I have 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.800 some interesting art that we had show, but. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.840 Yeah, I don't know if I'm ready for that. It 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.000 might be like the Lasagna. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.000 Fran Bervaldez got rocked five runs four innings yesterday and 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.480 lost to the Giants, but it was good to start before, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.320 so I guess we'd just shake it off. Corey Seeger 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.760 was back one for three with a dinger and a walk, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.600 so that's a good sign there in that game against 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.600 the Dodgers. And speaking of the Dodgers, well, choey Otani 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.720 hit a home run, that's nothing new, and Walker Bueler 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.079 gave up three runs to earn two k's and five innings. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.520 So Walker Bueller's era said at. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.400 Four six four, one four eight whip is strikeouts per 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.559 nine or down. You know, this is a tough one 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.360 because I think a couple of years ago Walker Buehler 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.760 was one of those guys I think in the Dynasty 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.439 League you are very happy to have. Now, if you're 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.679 looking ahead, even just in Redraft, how confident are you 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.680 that Walker Buehler in the second half of the season 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.000 can look anything like the Walker Buehler of old. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.400 I wouldn't discount the possibility that he's going to look 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.520 like the pitcher of old, but I did not bet 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.439 on it. I was a month ago or whatever. I've 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.280 been pretty anti, like I'm not interested in Walker Buehler 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.600 like freeze free and that's great and everything like that, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.080 but they're just not super super interested in it. I 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.320 think he's still trying to readjust his stuff kind of 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.360 looks like it always has. Fastball hasn't lost any ticks. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.280 Cutter is still going off. He's going more sinker. It 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.199 looks like then knuckle curve. Knuckle curve's gone down a 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.360 little bit and he's added this sinker. Sinkers traditionally can 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.760 kind of kill strikeouts if you don't have a big 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.800 punch pitch, which he doesn't have a big punch out pitch. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.200 Cutter fastball or under twenty percent with rate. The knuckle 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.400 curve he's using less and that was the big pitch, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.280 so he doesn't have a big strikeout, offering inducing some 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.479 more ground balls, which is just kind of more contact. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.200 He's fine, Like, I'm not buying on him rest of year. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.000 I'm probably a cell if he rattles off a couple 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.040 starts because of this rotation and it just really just 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.840 him readjusting to this year. I think we could use 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.160 an off season for him. But I'm a little hands 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:02.400 off of Walker Bueller. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.000 You know, every day in the chat Pistols in here, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.160 and every day he always writes thank you Joe and 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.880 Chris and says a lot of every. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.120 I have actually seen that too. He's the only one 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.760 he literal. First thing is just he comes in and thinks, thanks. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.360 Joe and Chris. You know this is our job, Pistols. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.439 Thanks, We're we're contractually obligated to be here. Now, We're 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.760 very happy to be here. But at the same time, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.280 you're welcome. It's nice to be appreciated and just a 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.040 simple thank you sometimes. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:28.640 Is it really nice? 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.959 Look at us changing the culture of society here in 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.240 our little tiny baseball show. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.679 The word that can come sometimes and flow out of 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:35.080 this ship. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.959 We're just coming right now. Well that being said, there 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.400 you go. He's got Catholic school guilt. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:41.559 There you go. Pistol says, all. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.480 Right, yep, I hear you. But you get ready because 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.360 the rage is coming. So yesterday I predicted this was 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:48.199 gonna happen, and it did. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:49.720 So. I was looking at the. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.600 Orioles Braves game well, and I was looking at the 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.600 total and I like the over you know and Maury 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:03.200 Povich and Schwillenball's going And unfortunately, of course my greatest 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.719 fear came true. And I said it on the show 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.120 and I said, look, it's gonna be like when he's 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.439 two to one kind of games whatever. Covid shut him 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.720 out for six innings. Boy Schwelly balls six innings all 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.439 as well, gave up two runs. I mean, what a 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.520 disaster this was for me. For everybody else, that was 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:18.160 great for me. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.280 I actually they had there was a nice little extra 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.839 thing where some books where you could cash if you 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.080 got to to run lead and I bet that on Baltimore. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.760 So I cash that. But also I don't want to 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.640 I've told you so or anything like that. But kid 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.320 Povich looked mighty mighty good. Everyone's a kid pilvitget the 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.920 first start? Are we talking about week contact? He made? 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.640 How about results? Well, how about results on this start 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.440 where Kaid Povich shut that team down? He did that 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.120 sweeper looked great. This is that was a kid Povich. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.120 I had been trying to sell you guys on for 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.040 two months leading into this, and he looked great. And 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.520 I know Atlanta's really struggled offensively that wasn't the gays 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.680 Like that is something he's going to be able to 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.079 continuously build off of. And for anyone that doesn't want 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.920 to hear the underlying story of what could be and 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.040 you only care about your results, which I totally understand. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.760 There you go, presented on a platter kde Povich, platter 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.040 of shutout innings. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.040 Yes, shutout innings from Schwelly balls. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.000 Yeah, ball has got a couple like I. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.200 I just love that NPR sketch for mess and now 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.400 so much like it's just I've seen it a million times. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.320 However many times it's like it was it from the 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.240 late nineties. I think that's it was Alec Baldwin and 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.920 Anna Guest Tire and was its Wig. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.800 No, no, it's before Christen Wig. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.400 It was Molly Shannon And it's just hilarious and it 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.160 and every Christmas it's on, and every Christmas I watch 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.280 it and I know the jokes still makes me laugh 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.680 every time. Reim the Red says Joe's domes looking especially 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.200 crisp today. Yes, you could tell see once. Once the 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.080 sun comes out in New Jersey, I get very tanned 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:00.080 very quickly. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.000 As there's a lot less reflection. That's going on. It is. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.880 Actually your lighting is really on cam. I'm trying to 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.880 get my lighting a little bit more like yours. You're 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.720 lighting to dome reflection ratio. It's very good. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.880 Well, I mean that's the thing. It's like, you know, 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.320 everybody looks better tanned. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:18.520 You want to know something else? 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.880 Everybody? Do you tan? Are you a tanner? Welsh? Oh? 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:22.720 I don't know. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.680 Can I live in Arizona though I am so I 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.360 live in Jersey? 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.680 Go to this? Yeah, you don't look like a guy 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:29.960 that tan. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.880 I don't go tan, but I I will physically get 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.720 you know, like like body. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.360 This is why wherever I travel, I'm always wherever I go. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:39.320 It doesn't matter where I go. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.760 If I go to Italy, if I go to Mexico, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.280 if I go anywhere I travel, people automatically will speak 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.720 whatever the language is to my face. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:46.640 France doesn't matter. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.760 They just assume, because I am conveniently ethnic looking, that 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.320 I am from whatever area it is. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.520 Now you can laugh about. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.840 That, but it is true, and it's been happening to 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.200 me my entire life, and it's my favorite thing. And 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.200 then I feel like such a disappointment because'm letting the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:01.000 locals down. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.680 I had that one time, and it's very sad. When 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.640 I was in my twenties, I worked in a recording 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.120 studio in La and I was like in the kitchen 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.600 doing something and there was this it's like. 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.520 This British flea and Anthony Ketas. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.120 I did hang out with Slash. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:14.560 I've told you. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.560 Slash came up and talked to me for like five minutes, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.120 but there was this, hey, what. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.840 Was wrong with that crappy album? You just didn't well? 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.320 They were doing, uh, the money song for the Italian 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.440 job they were doing at the studio. But this this 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.680 this British producer comes up because he asked me a 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.560 question and sometimes how I speak, I must have said 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:38.400 something like I was not American and he got so excited. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.760 He was like, oh, what's that accident? Where are you from? 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.320 And I'm like, oh no, sorry, I'm just a stupid, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.520 bumbling idiot who doesn't sound correct. And then he got 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.320 super disappointed in me and didn't ever again. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.920 Slash. I know, to just pretend I'm Michael Caine in 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:52.800 front of him minute I. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.920 Wanted to point out on your bald head. We'll move on. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.200 But when you're friends with Joe on Facebook it was great. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.360 For some reason, something popped up where you had old 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.000 pictures and I forget, oh yeah, oh my pictures, shoe, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.120 you know what. I know what it was. It was 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.240 the school closing down there. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:10.640 It was my school clothing. And we posted all these 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:11.480 old pictures. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.640 And shoe with a full head of Oh yeah, I. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:14.360 Kid and play. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.000 Yeah, it is like kidd and play. That's exactly. It's flattop. Yeah, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:18.880 it's like a flat's. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.960 Eve can get a picture of me on the sculus. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:22.360 It really is immaculate. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.760 Speaking of rookie lookies, Jackson Merrill two solo home runs, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.960 your boy, Well, here you go, five four walk off 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.720 yesterday against the A's Jason Devengis was activating from the IL. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.120 But he's not coming up so okay, sure, uh, but 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.280 he's not the only prospect to talk about. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.000 Because it's Thursday. You know what that means. It's time 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.720 for another amazing edition of prospecting with the Welsh. That's right. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.360 This one's a little creepy welshell into a cave full 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.640 of baseballs, and he came out with some prospects and 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.840 Welsh is gonna take us through right now. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:52.640 Some of the prospects. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.360 You need to know in redraft, in dynasty, what's going 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:56.360 on down on the farm. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.160 Well, here's an update. Here's your prospect update. Like all 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.680 of those babys that we were mining, I've got a 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.320 little bit of some prospect mining news here. Just the 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:06.959 guys that are top of mind that you guys are 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.879 going to know about. James Wood still on the IL. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.920 We cannot quite free him when he is locked down 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.840 on the injured list, but he should be coming back 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.120 like any day, as well as Kobe Mayo. I said 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.760 this last week. Both of those guys are very very close. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.600 But if you're wondering, those are the two guys we 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.320 care most about. They are still I led Jackson Holiday, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.320 who we've been talking about. I've said I don't think 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.320 you're gonna see him in June. It would at least 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.280 be July. Want to point out he started hitting again. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.080 Let's strikeouts are a big issue, and I think that's 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.120 the thing that is ultimately going to hold him down. 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.440 Kerstott is destroying the baseball. If Mayo gets a couple 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.720 of games under his belt, he's gonna move the line 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.640 and then Connor Norby sent back down. But he is hitting. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:47.440 That's very good. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:52.080 How do you rank Holiday, kurs Edad and Mayo for 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.080