WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 22nd, 2023 (Ep. 674) 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.799 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Boroughs MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.039 Off Live, brought you by Prize Picks. Sign up for 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.640 Prize Picks today and use the promo codes leading Off 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:16.680 when you do to get one hundred percent deposit match 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.880 up to one hundred dollars. It's me Joey p That 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.200 of course is the Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.759 the Cracker Jacks, the folks in the chat. What a 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.680 fun weekend we had. The weather was much better here 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.720 in New Jersey. That was good. Got to get all 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.120 of our football games in this weekend. Had a glorious 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.800 flag football game on Sunday. So I'm still on a 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.199 high from that one. And Welsh certainly a lot of 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.479 baseball to get to as well. So how was your weekend, buddy? 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:45.600 That was everything good? 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.160 Sure, let's do that, but let me let me ask 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:50.800 you what you would do in this situation. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.040 I don't have That is a no. I'm just gonna 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.600 take that will just. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.040 All the days, let's just put it in there. So 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.360 I went to my kid they had a birthday party 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.400 and I was there. Make this quick, and I'm sitting 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.920 in one of those like low beach chair type of things, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.959 just sitting back and the host of the house is 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.160 talking to my wife and goes, oh, wow, that's a 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:15.399 massive spider, and and she looks down at me. Something 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.240 you need to know about me. I'm massively arachnophobic. The 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.760 one thing I am terrified of is spiders. And I 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.679 had a moment where I had to think to myself, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:33.640 do I go into my you know, but that's what 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.200 I do. I go into the how I feel where 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:41.440 I want to jump up scream going like that like 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.360 that would be the scream. Or do I slowly get up, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.520 you know, very manly like, oh either spider there. And 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.880 I decided to do the more manly thing. And it 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:58.520 was the biggest, nastiest It's like a wolf spider and uh, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.960 it ruined my weekend. I still I'm dreaming about it. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.200 I'm dreaming about it right now. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.000 Wow. That's a good story there. Yeah, Arizona, you got 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.160 some weird got the scorpions out there, You got a 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:08.600 lot of things. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.760 You know what. Scorpions don't affect me. I've stepped on 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.800 a scorpion. We've I've seen hundreds. We had a house. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.640 I remember we bought a house. First night we stayed there. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:21.400 We found twenty scorpions around. Scorpions don't affect me, but man, 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.800 despite it was a go look up a wolf spider. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.359 It was at my feet and she's casually like, hey, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.320 look there's a little spider, and I'm like, well look 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.560 at me. Gonna go drown myself in the pool. Sorry, guys, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:31.480 bye bye. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.480 There you go. All right, Well, let's talk some baseball. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.320 On that note, Justin Verlander, you know, he went eight innings, 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.640 not eight legs, so he was very good. Finally for 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.600 the New York Mets, they got good outings on the 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.560 same day from Surezer and from Justin Verlander, who knows 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.400 what to say. So it looks like, you know that 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.480 that that one big night, that comeback win really kind 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.679 of spurned the steam on. We'll see if it continues 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.000 to go. Obviously the Guardians having some issues of their own. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.680 Good sels air mirrors back. He at a home run 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.799 yesterd so that's positive. He's had a quiet beginning to 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.200 the season. Still good, which is not quite Jose Ramirez, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.160 Oh my god, he's so great. He's MVP kind of season. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.280 It's it'll be interesting to see if he's available on 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.720 some trade potential talks here. Ashoy Otani was delivered another 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.079 great performance. No decision though for him against the Twins 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.079 on Sunday. One run, two hits, six innings for him. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.480 We got a return for a Yankee, so Damingo hermon 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.280 out with the suspension. Louis Severino scattered four hits, struck 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.799 out five guys, one earned run his season debut on Sunday. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.720 So Severino rest of season, Welsh, This is a picture 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.040 who's pitching for a contract. This is a picture of 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.800 the Yankees desperately need to perform. Well, what's your rest 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.040 of season outlook for Severino? Now that he's back. He 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.680 looks sharp in this first outing. Are you somebody that's 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.720 back in let's go Louis Severino or do you have 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.480 any concerns because we have seen some inconsistencies from him 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.440 over the last few years, although last season a strong finish, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:54.400 no doubt. Yeah. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.720 I think a lot of the inconsistency is just about also, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.040 like health and being out there. And now that he's back, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:00.840 I do think they're going to baby him. I think 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.920 he's going to be babied over the next couple starts. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.560 I don't expect to see any seven inning outings or 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.480 anything like that. But you know, as far as in 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.600 line with who he is, K percentage was there in 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 that first start, he looked good. They really babied the 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.800 entire rehab process. So actually, I think this is a 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.400 really solid time. I don't think the price has caught 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.080 up to Louis Severino, you know what I mean, Like, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.560 I don't think Louis Severino can be over this season 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.760 is collectively there on who he is coming off of 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.120 this injury. So to your point, this might be one 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.040 of those guys you said before we were talking about trades. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.040 This might be a guy that you can go acquire 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.960 and it's like ninety cents on the dollar type of 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.360 thing where you know you're paying for Louis Severino. But 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.279 that's not really the guy he's going to be. Because 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.960 he can be one of the front line aces for 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.560 this team, well. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.480 He absolutely can be, and I think with a contract 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.320 on the line for him this year, I would expect that. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.479 I'm expecting Louis Severino to be. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.360 A guy that are you a big contract your guy? 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.080 Well? Yeah, because because I used to have his argument 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.400 with Sealy where you know, we both approach this argument 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.720 in a different way, whereas I took the data and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.520 over I think it was like over a ten year 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:10.120 period of basically you know, all star level, like well 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.960 above replacement level players, and when you look at most 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.120 of the time they perform at their level or above 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.760 almost thirty percent of the time, more a higher rather 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.280 than their normal level of productivity. The problem is a 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.080 lot of these the data when you get to the 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.560 contract year guys. So many players are on one year 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.960 deals who aren't very good, who are under replacement players. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.640 They taint the data. So you look, I said, oh, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.000 players don't play better in contract years. No, bad players 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.839 don't play good in contract years, and that's why they're 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.320 on a contract year every year. There's a difference. You 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:43.920 can't take it from that data. You have to take 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.160 it from the top third of the league and look 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.480 at when they are free agents, and typically more often 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.120 than not, they play. I think it's about I think 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:52.960 when I did the research for Black Book. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.320 I remember you going through this. I remember you had 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:56.680 like a study you had done with this. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.400 I did. I did because I was I knew I 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.440 was right. I needed to find the data that backed 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.640 me up. And the then the X plug in the data, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.400 so to speak, was the fact that if you look 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.640 too much about every free agent, well, yeah, every free 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.280 agent is not good because most of the league is 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.280 a free agent over a year and it's baseball, and 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.880 that you can look at the NFL the same kind 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.200 of concept. But baseball, especially the players that are above 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.240 replacement value typically play at their level or above again 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.640 above it was more almost twenty eight or I think 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.160 twenty nine percent of the time above of twenty eight 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:33.239 percent above their normal. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.279 So you're saying millions of dollars is going to incent 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.080 players to play better. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.840 That's crazy, I know, even great crazy time. It's crazy. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.600 And you know what's even grazier. There might be a 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.400 correlation to the more dollars that they get that they 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.680 play even better. Like the higher dollar guys even play better. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.760 Isn't that great? And then the Wan Soto didn't get 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.600 the memo, but everybody else. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.280 Well, I mean he's still got time to get it. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:58.880 I just think that might be a batters I think 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.160 with him in that ballpark, something about I don't know, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.080 maybe I don't know what it is, maybe just not 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.440 a West Coast guy, I don't know. I mean, it's Heaven. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.560 It's a big place. I'd love to go to San 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.800 Diego and just stay there forever. Christopher Morrell, can he 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.280 stay forever? Another home run for him? He has eight 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.760 runs in eleven games. It's getting called up. He's a 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.920 fersatile player. But the slash right now three seventy three, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.360 ninety six, nine to fifty seven with fifteen runs, fourteen 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.960 ribis and a steal for good measure, what do you 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.520 make of this guy? I mean, this has just been 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.120 an incredible talk about getting called up and being a 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.880 waiver wire return. Christopher Morell has been unbelievable. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.960 Well, I mean, they love Morel was one of the 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.200 best minor league players after they had sent him down, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.880 so that wasn't even a question. Morell has got big 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.680 bat speed that puts up big, big home run numbers, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.160 and he put up I think he was, like God, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.680 I'm trying to remember it, but he had like eight 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.800 homers in his first eleven games, and he's one of 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.480 the very few players who have ever done that. A 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.440 sixty percent hard hit percentage. Right now, he's already put 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.920 up almost a fourteen EV max EV. His average is 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.240 around ninety three and a half. His problem is, and 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.120 we've got I think we've talked about this. It's a 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.680 big swing and miss is thirty seven percent strikeout rate 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.000 right thirty seven and a half percent strikeout rate right now, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:14.760 So how is he going to live off of it? 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.920 He doesn't have any hits off of off speed pitches. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.040 He's dominating fastballs right now, so he's gonna start to 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.840 get pitched differently. But that huge bat speed is keeping 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.640 him in the game. It's kind of a hot old 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.120 school hobbier bias esque, if you will, you know what 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.040 I'm saying, Like there's a lot I did not like 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.000 that equivalent, No, no, but like the it's the good 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.160 hobbyer buys because thirty seven percent striker, Like we're lotting 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.160 a player. We're like, oh my god, he's got thirty 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.880 seven percent strikeout rate. That's really bad. But you know, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.400 he's been such an offensive force. You're just gonna have 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.760 to watch and see how he adjusts to win the league. 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.680 Adjust But like, it doesn't matter. He's he's awesome. He's 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.079 a huge pickup. You hold on and you hope that 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.120 it holds the entire season. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.600 Here's a question from Dan g one of the Peanuts 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.040 and Cracker Jacks of the chat. A league mate offered 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.640 Jordan Walker for morell in a keeper league. Who would 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.079 rather have a keeper situation? 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.360 Jordan Walker, I would very much rather have it. So 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.240 he gets Jordan Wahite. That's a great ascept. That's like, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.880 that's like the I want I want to play in 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.000 that league, and it's a sexy I of Dynasty as 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.760 so fun. Someone's like, ooh, look at this young guy 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.800 who's hitting a well. I'll give you the top prospect 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.439 in baseball for him because he's started for eleven games 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.240 in the miners and you're like, yes, give me, give me. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.760 Those are the best. Those are absolutely the best. Chris Sale, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.800 he's starting to pitch pretty well. Uh this is another 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.240 good performance for Chris Sale. He's starting to look like himself. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.839 Eight strikeout, six oh. Third. James Paxson was good again 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.120 over the weekend. Uh. I said this on Sunday on 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.559 the television show. I said, if Sale can be Sale 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.360 and Paxton continues to pitch the way he is looked 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.920 so far in these first two outings, the Red Sox 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.040 can start to get back into this race because it's 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.920 the balance schedule again, so they don't have to beat 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.520 up on each other as much in that division where 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.959 I think most of the good teams in the America 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.480 League are in the East. I think we can all 0:09:59.480 --> 0:09:59.920 agree on it. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.839 About to say, you don't want to that's it. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.640 I don't want to be playing. Advantage could get back 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:05.160 in this thing. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.280 For that team, It might be the biggest advantage in 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.640 baseball that they don't have to every other day go 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.199 up against Toronto and then go over to Tampa Bay 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.319 and then have to battle it out with the Yankees 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:15.720 every year. I completely agree. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.760 Man, Yeah, as long as they will make Chrisale wear 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.320 a jersey he doesn't like v NEX for christ. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.480 Don't bring any kids into the I guess that was 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:23.160 Chris Sale, right. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.800 Adam has had a lot of funny, weird. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.040 Story He's like cut up the jersey and told the 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.559 kids again I don't remember. He does a lot of 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:30.120 weird stuff. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.160 Got Mitch Keller. He's been doing a lot of weird stuff. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.720 We just I can't stop talking about mich Keller. Another 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.840 eight strikeouts, two runs on Saturday and then no decision 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.760 against the d Backs. But oh my god, man, Mitch 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.600 Keller is just unstoppable. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.959 Well, you know. And he's a sneaky bet right now. So, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.800 like I was a little detached yesterday from a lot 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.520 of stuff. I didn't go. I didn't like wake up 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.240 and do my uh you know, my kind of gambling preps. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.559 For whatever reason, Sundays is such a great day to bet. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.079 I've kind of taken my Sundays off. I did like 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.120 a quick glance in the morning and I was like, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.080 and the only thing that stood out to me quickly, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.719 I look and it was Mitch Keller strikeouts at five 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.320 and a half and it was it was essentially even money. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.040 It was minus one oh five. And I was like, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.920 you know what, I don't even need to back up anything. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.680 And I slapped two units on it. It's the only 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.640 bet I made. And he crushed it. And he would 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.559 have been the latter bet of the week because he 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.079 hit up to eight. You see anything five and a 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.080 half in under and it's a bottom fifteen or even 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.480 bottom you know, I guess, like the top twenty teams 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.280 that strike out in the league, it's just something you're 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.160 gonna smash with Mitch Keller because he's becoming chalk, as 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.360 we'd say in fantasy football. He's becoming like a chalk 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:35.880 play right now, and it. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.760 Is well because the market hasn't caught up to him. Well, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.760 here's a good one from Matthew Hickey. Paxton er Biby 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.599 rest of season Ooh, you're gonna hate my answer. I 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:46.200 think it's packed. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.680 No, I know, I'm gonna say byby because I still 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.680 am like a little bit of a hater on backpacks. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.280 And even though it's a couple of good starts, I 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.240 still like don't want to fully believe old school passions back. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.079 So I'm gonna go with Biby. But it's a lot 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.760 closer because Paxton's looking good. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.720 Paxson's like the new hill, which is the old Rich Hill, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.360 which is also the old Paxton. Redebtmer struck out twelve guys, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.079 gave up three runs and five and two thirds against 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.240 the Twins. So unbelievable performance from Redebtmers. Also, since I 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.199 dropped lance Lynn, he has had two good starts in 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.959 a row. So who do you believe is back more 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.320 Redebt Meurs or lance Lynn. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.559 I mean, I'm a little bit more of a Redebtmers 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.760 guy overall. But you know I've been saying like the 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.560 thing for me with Lance Lynn. He just had crazy 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.640 good strikeout numbers that are going to follow in some 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.520 of the inconsistencies if he can get it back together. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.840 But I'll go with Redebt Meers. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.679 Okay, let's get to the rookie lookie Jared Schuster recording 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.679 seven strikeouts over six eight things in one run ball 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.240 against the Mariners. So good on shooter. The Braves continue 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.079 to just pull rabbits out of their hat with these guys, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.120 It's unbelievable. It seems like forever the Braves do this. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.760 Dodgers calling up Bobby Miller for a start on Tuesday, 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.439 is that somebody you consider streaming? You like the Bobby Miller? 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.880 I do like the Bobby Miller. I don't know if 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.440 I love the matchup I don't know if I love 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.120 the matchup today for Gavin Stone going up against the Braves. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.400 I don't know if I super love it for Bobby 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.640 Miller either. But Bobby Miller, he's got an arsenal I 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.280 talked about, you know, his stuff plus numbers. We're pretty 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.160 high for the five pitches in his first start. I 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.240 don't I haven't looked recently what they are, but I'm 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.319 gonna imagine at least three of the five have stayed 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.400 one hundred plus on the stuff. Plus he's a big 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.600 strikeout option. I worry about like command around the zone, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.520 but you know what, braves can get kind of free 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.000 swing in. So if you were desperate, I would attempt 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.079 to not be putting these guys in against the braves. 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.760 But like Bobby Miller is someone that you could if 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.760 you know, you know, you can take a shot. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.200 I mean looking, AT's got to break right for him 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:43.560 to get. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.000 You know what the best thing is you want to know, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:45.760 you want to positive. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:46.120 Let's be. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.800 's think about positive. So we're gonna be a positive show, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.920 not negative. Me is, if you get a picture that 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.000 blows you up in the beginning of the week, guess 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.240 what you get to do. You get to have fun 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.000 the rest of the week. You get to stream, You 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.680 get to not worry about you get to not worry 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.720 about anything. You just got to throw guys out there 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.560 to do something for you, so you're not worry about 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.080 screwing up your ratios. You have less anxiety when someone 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.280 screws it up in the beginning. That's the positive. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.559 Yeah. Positive also for me at least because I like 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.520 Edward Julian. He got called up because Horiy Polanco went 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.280 on the IL, so he's gonna get another crack at this. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.280 Also keep an eye on this one. Barn Buckston left 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.280 the game because of a knee issue yesterday. They say, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.280 you could have stayed in the game. He's gonna have evaluation. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.960 But someone's asking me about Royce Lewis, and you know, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.440 I said, well, I don't think there's a path for 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.360 him right now right away, and an injury to Byron 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.600 Buckston would change my opinion of that substantially. Yes. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.080 The only caveat is Royce Lewis has to complete the 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.880 sixty days because he was placed on the sixty day IL, 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.160 and I believe that takes him to the end of 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.600 the month, So you have at least a week before 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.760 Royce Lewis is even available to be called up. But 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.560 he has been crushing in the minors. Yeah, and he's 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.240 one of those guys that that's why I've liked him 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.480 because he can play so many different positions. I haven't 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.120 paid attention to where positionally he's been playing in the minors. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.640 But again, you know when he was starting in the 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.760 outfield the other day, Yeah, when he was out here 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.560 in the AFL because he was one of those guys 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.120 I talked to. You know, they said, you're not playing 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:13.800 shortstop here. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.200 He literally played like a well and they sent down Miranda. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.400 So maybe third bases and opening things. Oh, he's a 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.920 great athlete. So the opportunity is there for him if 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.200 you know you have I know Gallo was the question 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.360 mark two, but you know they went to Julian here 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.080 with the second base situation with Polanco, but I mean 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:30.920 just one of those situations. Keep an eye on. Do 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.600 you want to be ahead of the game. Pick up 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.400 Lewis for a buck now, and don't wait in case 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.680 bucks and go ons on the il. You never know. Box, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.160 Oh it's nothing. The next thing you know, he's out 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.640 for two months injuries. Speaking of Byron Box positive by 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.880 the way, let's go positive. Tyler Glass now look good 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.800 on Sunday. That's a good thing. He is going to 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.160 like six k's and six innings. That's what we want 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.880 to see from Tyler Glass. Now. So I imagine the 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.280 pitching on the weekend. You're probably going to see him 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.160 on Friday, maybe this week, maybe. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.560 Thursday Friday, Yeah, yeah, Thursday Friday. One of them Friday 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.200 one starts all that matters. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.440 Julio uri has went on the fifteen d il with 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.360 a hamstring train, so the Dodgers again continue to be 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.800 pressed in this rotation. So now Cinderguard, ginger Guard, and 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.080 Julio Urias, all of which are useless at this point. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.040 The Angels activated Jared Walsh from the ten day IL. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.080 Lance mccolors is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Sunday, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.760 but don't get your hopes up anytime soon. They say 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.160 he's going to be out until at least the All 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.760 Star break probably, so there you go. So JP France 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.520 smooth sailing for the next month and a half at least. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.600 So I tried to pick him up in NFPC last 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.160 night on Waivers. I ended up getting Gavin Stone, and 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.880 I think I overbid a tiny bit to get him, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.080 and I was also trying to get France, but it 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.240 ended up being only Stone. I do think France is 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.080 still kind of sneaky. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.280 Eloya Meenez a head of schedule in his recovery from 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.640 the appendectomy, so that's good, so we'll keep an eye 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.640 on that. Jacob de Gram is going to miss another 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.600 couple of weeks. Oh, what a surprise. It's a good 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.960 thing Dane Dunning was in my video. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.080 I thought we were being positive, Joe, I am, I'm. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.640 Being positive about Dane Dunning. I liked it. Who pitches today? 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.240 More on Dane Dunning. In a moment, Padres putting many 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.640 Machado on the IL with the fracture in the left hand. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.800 We told you that was gonna happen a Nico Horner's back. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.000 But Cody Bellinger goes to the IL after that little 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.280 knee issue there with that contusion, so it's retroactive to 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.200 the sixteenth, so he should be back sooner than later. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.680 Three up and three down from the weekend. Framber Valdez 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.680 a shutout on Sunday to nothing as they beat the A's. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.280 I know it's only the A's, but still, Framber's been awesome. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.479 Two four five ERA, seventy two k's and sixty six innings. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.880 What a horse man. Framber is just so good. Josh 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.639