WEBVTT - Leading Off April 11th, 2025 (Ep. 973) 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.040 Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is leading 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.920 off live. It is me Joey P, joe P Zapia, 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.319 and of course that's my friend the Welsh, and it's 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.239 all of you, the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks hanging 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.320 out here talking baseball. We got a fun Friday program. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.000 We're gonna get to some more of your questions today 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.560 because Thursday not a lot of games, but Welsh certainly 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.080 a lot of home runs, especially if you are the Angels. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.400 My goodness, I had a lot of fomo because I 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.800 told you yesterday my second choice was Mike Trout. He 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.960 was your choice to hit home runs. And that guy 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:38.120 hit home runs yesterday. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.080 Sometimes your first and sometimes your last. Joe and you 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.519 were last. I was first. We did get two homers 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.240 with Mike Trout to push up on the board, and 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.960 the only thing that could have made that entire game 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.159 better would have been another two shots from Kyrone Paris. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.320 As the Kyne Paris story continues to move on, it 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.800 was a very very good short slate day. Foreign two 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.320 homers on the board. I'm ready to roll. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.959 A baby, yes, well at two homers for Joe Adell, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.959 for Taylor Ward for Mike Trout. So I think the 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.000 bigger story here Kirian powers in a bunch of home 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.360 runs too. I think the bigger story is this ballpark. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.480 Can we talk about the ballpark a little bit here? 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.360 This little tiny, rinky dink fake Yankee stadium down in 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.600 Florida that they're playing in now, And I'm gonna try 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.040 to take advantage of it this weekend in some bedding. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.160 But I think everybody needs to stand up and notice 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.720 here that when there's a bad picture on the mound 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.240 or maybe even two, the balls jumping out of that place. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.040 And we haven't even gotten to the summer yet, so 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.440 let's just call it what it is. The Angels are 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.360 having a good run, that's great, but that there's a 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:42.880 lot of home runs. And if you watch these home 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.040 runs too, some of them are barely getting over this wall. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.600 This is not exactly major league kind of stuff. It's 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.480 becoming Southern Yankee Stadium, which is exactly what it was 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.000 when the Yankees designed. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.280 You're very much irked by these wall scraping homers. It's 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.600 like three street days where you've brought now you've brought 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.200 up these like. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.360 Because they're all happening in the same place. They're all 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.120 happening in the same place. That's what I'm saying. I'm 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.119 just saying for it's great. I'm very happy for you. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.959 I'm happy for my trout. I'm happy for Kira in Paris. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.720 He seems like a heck of a young man. I 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.160 like him. I'm rooting for him. But this is business. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.160 This is business, okay, and I'm trying to make sure 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.760 that we're going out good advice here as best we can. Now, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.080 we also had history made yesterday. The first official Sinko 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.160 Stinko goes to Nick Castillano. So I feel great about this. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.480 This is going to be a trivia question. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.960 Call your family generations from now there you go. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.360 So, what did you think about it? Would Nick Cassiano 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:39.839 is the guy that you thought might be the first 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.000 sinkos didn't go? I didn't. I didn't think you'd be. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.320 I got be honest with you. I hadn't sat up 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.680 and thought, you know, who will be the first official 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.360 thinker Stinko. I thought I kind of was like, in 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.560 my brain it was Altuve having that or actually it 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.960 was Cheerio having that Oz for five with five strikeouts, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.639 but I am glad because I got a rush of 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.160 tweets when it happened, of like a bunch of different people, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.040 and I was like, oh, okay, everybody is into this. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.760 So Nick Castianos, He's made us proud. He's in the 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.080 record books for the most insane home run call of 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.720 all time. He is now connected to natural disasters and 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.320 connected to the first ever Sinko Stinko. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.440 That is kind of funny. Like Nick Casias, weird things 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.520 do follow him in his baseball career. This ye is 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.920 one of many. Now, I didn't even think about that. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.240 We could do though pretty. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.240 Good in the futures. We could do a Sinco Stinko board. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.480 We could try to track in bed who do we 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.760 think is gonna happen. What would be best is if 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.160 we it was like right at the start of the 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.640 season and we just said from here on out, who 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.360 is the Sinco Stinko leader for the season. Everybody gets 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.000 one name and then you go. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.920 That would be well, congratulations Nick Cassianas good on you, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.880 my friend. Let's get to more things that Welsh is 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.880 very happy about. Spencer Schwellenbach another great star for him. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.240 His era is now point four to five. His whip 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.880 is point sixty five. He has nineteen strikeouts and three 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.720 walks in twenty innings. Welsh, I mean, I feel like 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.120 this is just your data globe tier. I feel like 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:02.520 this is all Welsh all the time. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.200 Well, how that usually works is I will be put 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.280 back in my place today. It is always yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.720 don't I don't hold on too long. Like it was 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.240 a good day. Betting was good, homers were good, Schwellenbach 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.640 was great. I mean that the last bet we threw 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.320 in was the under three and a half runs in 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.000 that game, and that one smacked. But yeah, we'll be 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.080 putting our place pretty quick, so trying to be careful. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.040 But it was a great pitching matchup. If you ended 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.360 up watching a Lozardo was like a little a little 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.600 bit wilder, where Schwellenbach was just it's just as almost unhittable. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.799 His slider was absolutely ridiculous, and that one had eighteen 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.320 swings on it. It got a couple called strike, it 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.279 had some whiffs. There wasn't big whiffs in this. But 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.040 I had mentioned I didn't love the strikeout props in 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.000 this because Philly had actually done pretty well against Righty's 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.919 and Atlanta had actually done pretty well against lefties, so 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.200 it wasn't like this big strikeout matchup, but forcing fastball 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.440 forty one percent CSW, he was hitting his points. They 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.719 both gave up a lot of hits in general, but man, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.839 just watch Spencer Schwellenbach and you just know he has control. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.560 And that's something that's some elite pitchers if you've watched 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.680 throughout the season, like the elite elite guys, when you 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.479 just know at any moment they have got control of 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.159 the bat, even if they gave up a hit, or 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.880 give up two hits, or they walk somebody, and you 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.240 know they can get back. That's that sign of the 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.080 elite elite pitchers. And there's not a lot of guys 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.120 that are holding that right now. You feel like Skeens 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.640 has it, Scooble has it, to Graham has it. But 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.800 even some of the really good ones Garrett Crochet does 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.800 not have that this year. Schwellenbach does. He is in 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.599 control at all times and he is going to vastly, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.200 vastly have a big fantasy return on your drafting. I 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.120 don't think there's anything else to do about it, but yeah, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.760 it's another it's a third straight great outing from schwelly Well. 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.760 His stock for Cy Young has moved up considerably after yesterday. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:48.960 I don't know if you saw it. You want to 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.800 take a guess of what the Spencer Schwellenbach say Young 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:52.520 number one right now? 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.040 I think it was last time you told me it 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.000 was like eleven to one or no, it's nine to one. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.960 I said it. Actually we were talking about somebody else. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.680 I'm going to say it's probably like. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.480 Six to one right now, seven seven hundred. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.760 Yeah, because Steine's got hit a little bit interesting, I 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.280 could see that. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.080 Yeah, Hazus Zarda, as you mentioned in that same game, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.960 one run, six hit, six innings, Hiss at one point 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.440 five zeros, WHI was at one twenty five strikeouts, five 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.360 k's and eighteen innings. He's been great, also has been good. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.080 Walker Bueller looks sharp despite the fact that the Red 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.839 Sox can't catch anything. They moved Devers off third base 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.920 and the defense continues to fall apart for this team. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.680 But fourteen error they're up to now it's absurd. But anyway, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.680 Walker Buehller, no decision, strikeouts, seven and six and a 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.480 third innings. Boy, if only he was a free agent, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.640 and maybe I don't know. Maybe the Orioles could have 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.599 maybe taken a shot on a guy like Walker Bueller, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.200 Maybe just maybe Gavin Williams. We talked about him in 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.000 the buy video earlier this week, and go back and 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.919 watch that if you're still looking to make some deals. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.880 This weekend, we said, hey, this start against the White 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.920 Sox is crucial. He has a good start, that window's 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.160 going to close. Try to acquire him beforehand. And we 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.840 were right. Seven strikeouts in five innings, one run ball 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.520 over the White Sox. So Gavin Williams hopefully getting back 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.480 on track. Speaking of getting on track, Ronald Acunya is 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.320 set to meet with a team of doctors early next 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.360 week and the expectation is that he is gonna be 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.360 cleared for lateral movement, moving like this back and forth, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.200 so that means the outfield. That means pretty soon we're 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.920 gonna get Ronald Acunya. Now, let's play the game. If 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.800 he starts getting cleared next week and by next weekend 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.480 is playing in the outfield, how many days give me 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.560 the date in May that we get Ronald Acunya. I'll 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.520 say I'll set the over under May eighth, Friday, May eighth, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.840 it's a Friday, it's spring, it's warm, Friday, May eighth. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.840 Overall, Sorry, you just ended so abruptly. Oh Joey froze. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.520 Though I think it was a Joey freeze. We almost 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.880 got the puppet that ended so abruptly. I did I would. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.720 I'm gonna say, was that you said Friday, I'm gonna 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.600 go to Friday the eighth, nine ten, I'm gonna say eleventh. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.800 But on a Monday. I'm gonna say we start fresh 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.840 with the Monday. I could give you a better one 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.400 if I was looking at the schedule. So I kind 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.160 of think it might be like a home series that 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.760 they do. But let's go with you sitting nine uh nine, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:06.800 I mean I'm gonna go eleventh. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.600 Okay, the eleventh it is for Welsh. I'm gonna take 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.920 the I'm gonna take the eighth. There. Well, I was 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.400 letna say over under on the eighth, So I'm gonna say, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.240 m I guess I'll go over there too, because I 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.000 do think it'll be on that weekend, so right around there. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.120 Maybe it's a push. Maybe the eighth is exactly the date. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.800 Now we have to get ourselves prepared for disappointments. And 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.960 we were trying to get everybody prepared for that because 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.400 all those Zibbie Matthews was the guy that we were 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.360 hoping we were gonna get. We did say on the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.319 show yesterday, and I think the day before too, that 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.199 it might be David Festa because he's had more experience 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.080 in the major leagues, and it will be David Festa 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.240 at least for now. So Pablo Lopez goes to the 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.920 IL with the hamstring, so Festa gets the call up. Now, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.280 Festa was pretty good after those first couple of Rocky 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.400 starts last year, he did not have a good spring. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.079 So is Festa a streamer for you potentially while he 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.600 fills in for mister Lopez. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.079 Okay, so the first answer because a couple things. Her 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.600 first answer is maybe long term. I'm not starting him today. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.880 Somebody had tweeted like me and like Frank Stamfle and 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.000 stuff you could. I don't particularly want to start him. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.400 Five Vra and his two starts in the minors so 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.400 far this year year really high whip. I'm actually kind 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.760 of going against him as more of a longer term 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.720 at I might be interested, but I did the same 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.000 thing because our fantasy pros account tweeted out like hey, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.320 David Festa, and I'm like, that's not how you spell 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.319 Zebbie Matthews, and then people had fun with it. But 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.040 here's the real piece to it. Though Paba Lopez his 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.240 start was for Monday. This does not line up with Monday, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.520 so Zebby is likely to be called up, and it's 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.920 been talked about four Monday, so we might see Zebbi 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.240 for a two start next week, or they're talking about 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.920 a six man rotation with days off, and I don't know. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.719 I would assume Zebi lined up with Pablo doesn't fit 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.280 the six man role, or maybe David Festa does more, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.439 So we're gonna have to see the results. I'm not 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.600 starting Festa. I might start Zebe on Monday and he's 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.160 better lying to potentially have like a two start, but 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.920 that's the current landscape for them. Is Festa and Zebi 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.600 theoretically are both gonna be up. I line with Zebe 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.480 a tiny bit, but both should be a little a 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.080 little weary with both of those guys. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.480 Before we get to more disappointments, let's talk about your questions. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.560 Matt on the mound, I have two util spots. Who 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.640 should I start today? Ben Rice Kira in Paris and Volpi. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.800 I think it's Rice in Paris, don't you thank you? 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.000 You got to play the hot hands here? 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.880 Uh yeah, I think so. I mean because you did 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.679 say today, you didn't say, like, no, should I cut? 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.559 Well? Volpy's back home, so this is where Volpi. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.760 Is, you know, yeah, exactly. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.160 That's also viable. But ben Rice is more viable. And 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.079 I'll think it gets at Paris right now. With the 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.480 way he's played. You gotta keep riding the wave. That's 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.760 what you gotta do. Here's one from Cookie Berger was 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.760 dropped in my head. Head category league is he must 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:52.200 grab and stash or bench right? If so, how much fab? Well, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.160 I'll see one hundred dollars fab right now? I would 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.640 drop what twelve on him? Thirteen? I think you gotta 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.640 bid that to get him because somebody's gonna be aggressive. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:00.559 What do you think? 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.480 Yeah? I fifteen was like where I would go Max. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.840 It's a little bit volatile. But you guys know, I'm 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.199 in on Jake Berger right now, crazy low babbitt. I 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.400 think he's going to bounce back, So yes, i'd pick 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.959 him up. I would try not to like make him 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.880 a fab bust or anything like that. But yeah, somewhere 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.160 from ten to fifteen percent. Just see or like regroup 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.439 with how your league usually is with guys like that. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.800 Maybe no one's going to be hyper aggressive, but that's 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:24.320 a good number. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.959 I haven't seen the data, but I do want to 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.959 see this Tampa ballpark worse than Sacramento. I don't know. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.000 We got to find out the data of how many 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.319 home runs have been hitting both of those ballparks, and 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.679 you know Zach lytell certainly, he'll tell you, right. I 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.679 think it's no doubt about that. Let's see one you 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.319 can find that data. I'm going to get to more 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.040 disappointments because the White Sox selected the contract of Omar 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.040 Nevaias from Triple A because Cory Lee, the catcher, went 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.319 on the IL. We were hoping we'd get Kyle Teel, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.839 but we didn't get him either. So there you go. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.960 So Faiss is still the everyday catcher. Just hold your 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.720 horses for now on All of. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.400 That is okay, So I've got some data for you. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:03.400 Okay. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.679 So is the A's stadium called Sutter Health Park? Is 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.920 that what their new minor league? So? 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.559 Sutter Health Park? Yes, Sacramento, Yes, cool. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 So what do you want. You want overall ballpark factor. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:18.400 You want home run facts. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.400 Home runs hitten in that ballpark and home runs hitten 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.240 in the any bitty Tampa ballpark. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:29.080 So based on the home run factor, A's is quite 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.720 a bit more of a home run ballpark. They currently 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:36.199 ranked the ninth in home run ballpark factor just this 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.679 year against both righty's and lefties and the A's The 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:45.280 Rays is actually George M. Steinbrenner Field is actually bottom 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.559 ten in the league in homer so it's not a 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.640 big yesterday. Yeah, And okay, so then overall ballpark factor 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.760 for this year, the A's stadium is the eighth most 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.480 hitter friendly. So remember that's all I was saying. It 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:04.400 was A's more homer friendly, raises not raise bottom. Yeah, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.959 like bottom nine or ten in overall homer factor. And 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.280 then here's the only other thing we'll do. Let's do 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.520 righty's and lefties and we'll just do home run and 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.000 let's see if that changes anything. A's is the sixth 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.920 most hitter friendly ballpark for left handed hitters right now, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.720 Rays is fifteen, so it's just at average and then 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.320 right handed hitters for the home run ballpark factor our 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.800 last one we have got a's is the fifth so gee, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.559 I mean every element that a's is. Just check this out. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.600 Rays is the bottom. It is the least hitter friendly. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.400 But you also do have to remember that's going to 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:42.960 factor in home teams. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.800 And there's gonna say I think that I would love 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.760 to see what the numbers are for the road teams 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:52.480 there in that ballpark for Tampa, because the Rays don't 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.880 have a great offense. Cameron Narrow is a good offensive player. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.160 After then after that we can, you know, talk about it. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.440 But they don't have a lot of home run. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.640 Pop in that lot that I don't have. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.120 You can tell you right that I think is that 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.400 is where the data I think becomes a little misleading 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.800 potentially if you start to look at how the opposing 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.480 hitters are. Just just take Tampa as a home team 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.640 out of there and see how this ballpark is played. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.520 I can't wait to see when the Yankees come to 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.439 town and in their spring training facility to play a 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.960 major league game. Let's talk about some people joining us today, Welsh, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.280 any new followers, subscribers and people here on our Twitch, Twitch, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:25.560 dot tv slash Fantas. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:31.120 Approach is one dude, old itl listener jumping ship Cornell 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.720 subscribed with Prime in here, and then a bunch of 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.880 new follows intensify rut brand skill, bunch of people doing 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.840 that thing. We are like twelve away from seven hundred 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.960 on the followers, nineteen away from one hundred on the subs. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.200 That's like an easy little monthly goal. But I want 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.440 to get to one thousand followers this month. On the twitch. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.560 You start pressing that. It costs you absolutely nothing. The 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.080 Prime Twitch or any type of sub does. But you 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.120 can use your Prime account hook it up absolutely free 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.120 to you. If you've got an Amazon Prime account, you 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.400 get rid of to add you can do the home 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.440 run contest, or you can just pick up a sub yourself. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.840 And if you want to be a real gangster, you 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.320 could gift subs out to the community. And there's a 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.200 little leader board I think that's shown on here that 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.120 we can give shout outs for. So that's all the 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:16.240 business business. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.240 Michael says, Joe hates Angel so much he refuses to 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.440 watch Angels in the outfield. That's right, because Tony Danz 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.320 has a liability. That's right. I got nothing on my 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.720 faceball right now, I get what am I gonna do? 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.360 You love a lot? You know there was a discussion 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.600 in our Fantasy pros company. You know, I'm just lightly 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.480 gonna do it. But there's this discussion of like sports 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.600 movies and stuff. I can be honest with you, I 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.040 don't think they've never seen it all the way through. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.240 There's not a ton of great like I don't. I'm 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.000 not in love with the baseball movies, I guess is 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.360 what I'm saying. Like Major League is great, Moneyball was 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.680 really good. I mean, sand Law is like a classic, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.440 but like is it's not really rewatchable unless it's all 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:54.960 Even Men. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.920 Out is a class. I've never seen it. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:57.560 The scouts. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.760 You've never seen eight men out? You really honestly, this 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.400 weekend you get a couple hours to yourself, or if 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.800 you're waiting for whatever dance competition your kids are in, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:09.280 watch eight Men Out. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.440 It is a I guess like I'm getting killed in this. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.200 Everyone's like the natural field of dream. There are classes. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.920 Natural is boring AF. Sorry, folks, it's always been boring AF. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.080 It's still boring. AF. It's ridiculous. I'm just wel Durham. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.560 I know what's controversial. Some people love it. Some people 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.200 hate it. I love It's it's you know whatever. Are 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.960 you selling high on Hunter Green? This is from JK here, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.520 worried about his injury potential. No, I'm not selling on 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.400 him at all. I think this is finally the realization 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.960 of all the talent of Hunter Green. He looks fantastic. Welsh, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.920 Are you trying to get rid of any Hunter Green 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.040 chairs because I'm not. No. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.480 I mean the reworked like he added the splitter last year, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.680 that's been really solid. He's got it going again this year. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.920 Fastball split slider combination is just still sick. His slider 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.760 and splitter are both getting more wits than they did 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.640 last year. Here's what I'd also say, I'm not a 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.960 big draft to guy and then be like, oh he's good. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.800 See you get him out of here and move on. No, Like, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.000 I think Connor Green is still this. That's the guy 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.280 we were talking about in the cy Young Award potential. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.280 When we're looking at odds, I think, like a week 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.919 ago or whatever, But like, no, don't. I don't think 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.360 I'm looking to unless somebody is like willing to give 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.560 you one of those Godfather offers. They feel that he's 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.760 going to be a cy young winner, and you're gonna 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.119 get like two big pieces. I don't build in a 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.639 whole lot of like, well, this guy's injury, so end season, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.480 I need to move off of him. I think Connor 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.720 Green is going to be pretty solid this year with 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.159 that three pitch mix. Ballpark's a little bit of a factor. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.520 He's not going to be a one three e r 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.560 A guy, but you know, I think if he had 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.080 a high twos I wouldn't be shocked. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.000 Yeah, a league of their own. Also classic. I'm glad 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.800 somebody threw that out there. And of course Field of 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.720 Dreams and some people don't like it because it's sappy 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.359 or whatever. I love it too. It's fine Eight Men 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.119 Out for because I saw some people who don't know, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.760 you know, and they'll twitch, you know, some younger people. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.399 So eight Men out. Great cast John CSX in that movie, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.920 Charlie Sheen's it all some really good people. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.200 All the actors at the npeople really know well John Cusack. 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.399 Well, Charge Cusack is a pretty famous movies. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.040 Nobody knows John Cusack. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.760 Well. I didn't say David Stray there, and I didn't 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.760 want to like really date myself there, but Anyway, it's 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.920 about the nineteen nineteen White Sox scandal and it is spectacular. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.879 She was Joe Jackson, the whole deal about what happened there. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.840