WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Aug 21st, 2023 (Ep. 729) 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.680 Brings the Fantasy Bros. It's Leading Off. I am Welsh. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.600 That is Bubbia and bub Bubbia folks. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:13.240 What's up? 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.960 It's a total Monday. We're brought to you by Price 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.680 Picks promo code Leading Off. Use the promo code and 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.800 get a one hundred percent matchup to one hundred bucks. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.320 Do it today Prize picks. We'll talk about them later 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.360 as we are picking some prizes. What's up, Bubbyabby, what's up? 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.520 How is your weekend of baseball? With all the chaos? 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.680 It was good and it's fun. It was just, you know, 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.040 another week to the grind, trying to get through it. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.360 Have my fantasy football draft on Saturday. It's a whole 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.800 nother story. But yeah, baseball is good. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.600 You know, you don't understand. I don't understand. There's there's 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:50.480 quite a few people that have this like football's garbage. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.600 Like I know baseball people, but like it's like specifically 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.080 from baseball people. Like it's very funny. You know those 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.320 rivalries that are in sports where it's like there's the 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.920 big team. It usually actually low here. It would have 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.160 been like the Phoenix Suns are rivals with the Lakers, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.440 and like ten years ago, It's like the Sun's rivals 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.479 with the Lakers, but Lakers don't care about the Suns. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.960 I think that kind of happens with fantasy sports, where 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.000 the fantasy football people don't care about the baseball the 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.199 baseball people are. You know what, Fantasy football is lame, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.240 it's stupid. Baseball is the only one, which you know, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.240 Fantasy baseball, I think is the the headiest, has the 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.440 most intricacies across. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.720 The board, where the nerds are the jobs. I get it. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.080 Oh okay, yeah, so it's like a school yard thing. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.000 So then what is what are basketball? 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.720 They're the athlete. I don't want you put me in 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:39.440 a bad spot here. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.360 What are the hockey? 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:40.600 Yeah? 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:41.560 Yeah, what are hockey? 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.400 Hockey? Those guys are the troublemakers, they're the hoop I think. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.320 So, I think that's right. Well, well, Bubby, we got 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.800 a lot of stuff to talk about. We're gonna be 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.160 talking about a bunch of prospects stuff. We've got your question. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.240 So I'm gonna say, just like I did, I just said, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.400 screw it. The last episode. We're gonna set a section 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.160 every episode to just go through bam bam bam. We're 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.600 gonna burn through some of your questions. So if you 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.120 guys are watching us live on YouTube, drop it in 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.000 the chat. We will get to that section and we 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.960 will burn through all of them. So if you got them, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.240 you know, start and sit whatever it is you want 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.280 to break down a player. Hit it up there, Bubba, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.639 maybe try to pick some out as well, and we 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.919 will and I'll try to you know, pinpoint them and 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.360 everything like that. But let's get into the stuff in 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.280 the things. It is kind of a Monday. I feel 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.080 very monday ish. So if I'm a little cranky, just 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.320 everybody understand I'm feeling I don't usually feel Monday. I'm 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.160 feeling Monday. But a dude that is feeling it is 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.399 Julio Rodriguez. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:39.680 My god. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.639 Four straight games of four or more hits, eight game 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.120 a hit streak he's currently got going. And this weekend, Bubba, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.760 he went nine for sixteen with a homer and three 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.600 stolen bases. Last Monday when we did this show, two 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.919 fifty seven batting average. Today Olio's got a two seventy 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.800 eight batting average, and just coming back to it, we 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.000 are this is another thing. Like I was talking with 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.000 Bubb off air, and it's kind of difficult because we're 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.639 in this place where I do feel like we're missing 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.120 some of the long term season baseball stuff where it's like, hey, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.000 we could talk about the trades, we could talk about 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.400 do you like this guy? Rest of the season. We're 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:14.679 just kind of in it. Like we're in it. We 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.560 have to make reactionary moves. But with Julia Rodriguez you 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.840 had just thrown out, like a week ago, we were 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.680 talking about the could he be, you know, the guy 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.200 that pushes Bobby Witt as I was claiming Bobby wit 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.720 to be number three and Julio, if he's going to 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.600 finish on this insane terror, we're gonna be right back 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.720 to where we were before. It won't be against Acuna, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.880 won't be against Otani and Daily, but Julio is firmly 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.280 back into that top four or five. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.840 Yeah, definitely, he's showing everybody, like we talked about last week, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.440 just remember Rhoto categories end of the season, like slumps 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.920 will happen. He's letting everybody know that he's still an elite, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.680 He's still a five category guy. He still maybe one 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.400 day has the makings of a forty to forty player, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.840 which we've all talked about he's still twenty one, twenty 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.560 two years old or something like that. Like the dude 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.400 is going to be just fine. So he's quite depressive 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.280 what he's putting together. And this is one of the 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.320 more legendary runs I think we'll see in a long 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:04.760 long time. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.200 Also, I think it like cements any of the early 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.240 value any of you guys got when he was kind 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.800 of struggling there, because there was someone in this chat. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.840 I remember it was like God, I was like right 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.160 when Joe left or right after Joe left, and they 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.920 were just like they you know, it's accountability, buddy. There's 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.480 there's these accountability people out there, like oh Joe, Joe, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.320 Julio Rodriguez, because I think Joe had Julio at number one, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.800 which you know, for all intensive purposes, regardless of how 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.479 Julio finishes this year, that wasn't the correct take because 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.279 Julio or top guy. Yeah. And also, like something that 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.440 really bothers me, always bothers me about Fantasy is that revision, 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.160 this type of thing where it's like, well, this guy 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.240 was the number one player for the last six week 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.360 and then you know, let's say two months, and then 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.120 they finished as the top five and it's like, we'll 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.800 see everything worked out, and it's like, but it didn't. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.760 In the respect of that player having three months that 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.560 was less than ideal. Julio's a different situation because this 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.240 is arguing about a guy that's like top five, the 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.320 top fifty that works more for actually honestly works more 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.080 for fantasy football with like someone tying a rookie running 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.640 back and their garbage for seven weeks and then they're 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.560 really good. But you know, that was that was a 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.440 conversation that was happening here where people like, oh my gosh, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.600 Julio is overrated and it's a sophomore slump and it's 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:17.400 nothing close to that. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.840 Yeah, one hundred percent. And that's that's a great way 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.680 to put to put it, the rookie running back situation. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.800 It's people overreact to guys like Julio, who he's not 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.920 the same situation. Like if you drafted someone like you said, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.120 outside of maybe the top one hundred, yeah that guy, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.880 that guy burns you in a big way. But guy 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.080 like Julio, you weren't sitting them. You're gonna enjoy is 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.600 You're gonna reap the benefits one way or the other 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:37.359 end you reap it them now. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.040 Yeah, like Lie said, Julio had a very small sophomore slump. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.560 That's the other thing that you know, Hey, if we 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.040 want to get back to talking about football versus baseball, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.400 the thing is fantasy baseball players we have to understand 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.320 and work through more are extended slumps. Football does not 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.080 have that football patients exactly. Baseball people lack that patience 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.159 a lot that I noticed when we do these shows. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.960 But at the same time, it's what you need the most. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.360 You need to be able to weather the storms in there. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.080 Saba also saying Joe took Julio because he had to 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.680 move on from Sodo, which, yeah, those were that's valid 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.760 kind of guys. Yeah, but you know, looking at oh, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.760 that's so funny. I typed in Julio Rodriguez and I 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:18.560 got Julian Merriweather for some reason that it really is. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.400 But just peeking over at Savant here for a second. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.159 You know, the EV's hard hit through the roof barrel 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.360 percentage eleven percent is a little bit down then last year. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.760 Hard hit is up this year, but the max and 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.200 the average EV is something impressive. I know. Some people 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.080 just don't care because they call it like you know 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.040 on sticky or whatever. But like average ev to be 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.919 ninety three point two, that's a that's a huge number. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.520 That's a big number on all average hits. And I 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.000 know it quantifies like hits, it don't matter. But you know, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.120 everything is there for Julio and it was a great 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.560 by period if you guys were able to jump in 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.640 on that, So kudos to you. It is prospect time, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.520 Bubba said before the show. He's like, man, this is 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.719 your time. When I was complaining about like, ah, man, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.120 where's the actionable stuff. We can't do trade, we can't 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.040 do this, we could do prospect time because more than 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.520 ever before, Bubba, we are getting prospects every day and 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.960 we're going to continue to do it most likely for 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.920 I'm looking at the date here down here. The next 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.440 ten days I think is like the big period because 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.480 there's a couple things these teams have to decide. These 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.520 teams have to decide, you know, where do they want 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.360 these these extra at bats to be got? And by 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.320 that I mean some teams can decide to push it 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.480 up to the major leagues because the Triple A season 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.120 ends mid September. Some of the other I think Double 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.920 low eight ins a little bit earlier in September, or 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.920 they can push these guys to the Arizona Fall League, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.640 and usually what it ends up being is the decision 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.120 between Arizona Fall League and Majors. And these teams are 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.320 manipulating some of that service time ever more than ever before. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.880 And we've got two new ones that are coming up here. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.040 Kyle Harrison, where the San Francisco Giants, is going to 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.800 make his Major League debut on Tuesday against Philly. He's 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.239 had sixty seven innings so far this year, one hundred 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.400 and nine strikeouts, but he's walking and everybody forty eight walks. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.720 Here's the problem I have. June fifteenth, Kyle Harrison went five. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.240 Since then, he's only gone four innings once. He's got 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.280 big fastball stuff plus numbers, secondary has been questioned, control 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.720 has been garbage. I don't think there's any fantasy value 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.440 I'm looking to do because I think the Giants most 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.200 likely use him in that kind of opener e ish 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.240 type of role where it's like three or four innings. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.240 I don't see him going five, So I don't see 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.120 any value in Kyle Harrison and Redraft. What say you? 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.880 Yeah? I don't either. I'm with you there. I've been 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.520 watching them closely. Everyone's been telling me how like crappy 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.760 is command is he's walking, guys, he's not walking a 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.880 ton lately, but he's not going deep into games and 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.920 that that's the big conundrum for fantasy purposes. So I'm 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.839 with you there. He's got seventeen k's to four walks 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.800 in his last four outings. Bake, you mentioned that's eleven 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.880 or third innings over those four audiings. And so the 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.320 Giants want to get a look at him. If we 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.280 talked about first looks is what this is all about 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.920 right now. So they're gonna see what they need, and 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.760 they also need pictures. They've been doing like three bullpen 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.200 games out of every five. It's it's crazy right now. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.040 So he's gonna fill in perfectly there to get him 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.320 three to four innings like after an opener, see what 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.839 he's got go on. So, yeah, that's where I'm met 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.800 with Harris. I'm not for this this season at least. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.080 Yeah. I mean there's probably like deeper leagues where if 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.160 you're just trying to stretch some innings. The only problem 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:16.960 is he's got the name value attached to him. So 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.720 this isn't like picking up like some sneaky spark or 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.800 something like that, like everyone's going to be looking at him. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.200 I would rather someone else go and have the four 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.240 walks he's going to have over three innings. I again, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.440 it's big fastball stuff, so you know that may end 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.959 up working out, but I'm not a big believer. But 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:32.720 by the way, if. 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.240 You're looking for a spark, I'd rather this pains made 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.520 have Manaia than Harrison. If you want a giant spark 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:38.040 something like that. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.400 You know. Another one is the guy I talked about 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.559 some time back. Was like Bryce Jarvis, Bryce Jervis or 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.640 there's and the Diamondbacks's pitch well in kind of long relief. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.360 The Diamondbacks actually did a bullpen game where I think 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.200 they started Joe Mantiply and then they went to Bryce 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.840 Jervis or they just started started. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.480 They started him with a guff on game two, That's 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.280 what it was. Yeah, that was wow. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.079 Yeah, And they did it with man to Ply a 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.080 couple times back, and then Bryce Harvis came in for three. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.160 I would rather have Bryce Jarvis and his stuff than 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.840 I would call Harrison right now, like right now, bigger 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.040 question is going to be like dynasty value where you 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.920 sit with Cal Harrison. I'm kind of not like insanely interested. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.880 He was a big, big, you know, obviously pitching prospect, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.839 but he's probably the most volatile of anyone I've had 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.080 in the top one hundred, So stuff plus be damned 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.040 or not, I'm not super interested. By the way, there's 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.600 questionable sounds coming from your area, and some people were 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.200 were suggesting what happened. I think it's your dog, though 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:31.959 I want to point. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.720 Out that he's Yeah, he's panicking because there's the neighbors 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.000 dogs started barking. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.120 So okay, Well, I just wanted to make sure people 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.640 didn't think you were I did not. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:42.960 Professional. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.200 It's very professional to talk about that too. These are 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:48.800 the type of questions we're going to be answering here 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.800 very shortly. In our listener question. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:53.319 Uh. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.720 The other one is, uh, Noelvie Marte was up. We 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.520 got a rookie lookie for a few others, but Noelvi 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.240 Marte got called up this week, in which I thought 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.120 was a pretty big surprise. Playing third base, the Reds 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.200 have the most like screw it attitude. I love it. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.439 Screw it in the best way bring up all the prospects. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.160 He got a stolen base in a pinch run situation 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.800 I think it was or pinch hit situation on Saturday. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.320 He got the start on Sunday, but he hit seventh 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.120 and hitting third base. This is what that future lineup 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.520 looks like. Elliott short, McClain at second. I think Strand 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.360 might have played first in that one, and then Noelvie 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.360 at third. That's the future lineup. There were already some 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.640 weird things with India. I think India's getting traded there. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.920 If there's one person I bet on getting traded in 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.080 the off season, it is Jonathan India. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.400 Right deadline already. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.440 So yeah, yeah, exactly. Hetty not got hurt, he probably 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.800 gets moved. So here's what I ask you. Then, you 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.840 know we had all the waivers and stuff go over 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.440 on Sunday. Did you have any pickup interest in Noelvie? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.160 And do you have any interest rest of season, especially 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.280 if he gets some time but knowing he's going to 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.880 probably be hitting lower in the order. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.480 Yes, I actually picked him up in a couple leagues. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.960 I was a leagues I needed offense with potential power, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.600 speed guy. Obviously I picked him up when they said 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.000 he's going to be our primary third baseman the rest 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.800 of the way. Like just the idea of regular playing 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.960 time got me excited with Welvy Marte, So I did 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.319 make a few moves. Most lineups at the bottom of 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.160 the order, you'd be worried if I can play half 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.640 my games in great American small park, not as concerned. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.240 So yeah, I went that route. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.960 Who would you rather have rest of season? GELV Marte 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.720 or Nolan Chanel H Marte. Okay, See that's interesting because 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.559 I am infatuated with Chanel getting play great out the 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.040 gate and he it gets to lead off. But I 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.719 think what everybody is seeing now in something I've been 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.319 describing about him. It's awesome hit tool, but the way 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.839 his approaches it doesn't have a good power approach. I 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.040 saw a couple one of those Cole Body or a 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.560 couple of people online talking about some underlying metrics which 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.880 are just pretty obvious that you when you look and 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.560 you see his cross body swing, you can say, oh, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.520 he's probably not being into a lot of big hard 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.200 hit numbers. He's not barely The doesn't look like there's 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.200 some insane launch angle going on with him. He is 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.319 a contact all fields hitter that moves across his body, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.680 and what does that usually tell us? Well, not in 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.400 it's not a one for one, but in many cases 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.960 those can be guys that can lack power numbers. He 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.640 also doesn't steal a lot of bases, so this is 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.480 a first basement that doesn't have a lot of power potential. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.839 But if he's leading off for the Angels, that's kind 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.640 of a whole nother conversation, So Chanal versus I actually 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.599 would man, I would probably go Chanol because I just 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.200 don't know what Nowelvie's playing time look like. But if 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:40.480 you gave me Noelvie essentially every day or five out of. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.959 Seven days, third basement, Okay. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.640 Then I mean you know what that, Yeah, then maybe 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.679 I will go with him then over Chanal, even though 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.760 he's getting that playing time. Yeah. A couple of people 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.679 in here Chanol has a well he doesn't have a 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.120 mettals In type stance necessarily. I mean, I guess they 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.480 like Olsens gets a little bit high. Schnoles is so 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.880 so much higher with the hands in and across the 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.200 body council. Yeah, I mean it is very slap hitter, Askue, 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.320 It really is, and that's where I would go with 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:12.240 that if we're looking. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.280 At it and Angelo does not need to poke the bear. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.800 By the way with his Giloff comment, Oh yeah, what 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.480 he knows where we stand. He's probably comparing, would you 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.160 rather have those guys over at Gilloff Smike, Yes, it's 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.200 gilof Yeah, don't poke the bear? 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.280 Ye, no, No, he's a Gella. Who is next? Just 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.320 for you, guys have been saying it. Pete cra Armstrong 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.480 is my number one with the Chicago Cubs. Lookout in 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.760 the next ten days ever since Perira with the New 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.360 York Yankees. Also might see Austin wellsper I think had 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.760 like a two homery day yesterday. Those would be two 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.240 offensive pieces I'd be looking for. You want to really 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.880 dig deep. This is going to be crunch time. Jackson Holiday, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.480 does he come up or does he go to the 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.040 Fall League? It's one of the two things. I think 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.080 he comes up and gets Major league. As I know, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.000 I'm also saying fall league. But it's just be on 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.480 the lookout on the short stance. There's a possibility I 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.360 got one for you. What about your boyd Jordan Lawler, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.240 who with the triple A is crushing it right now. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.840 I think there's a possibility for sure, Diamondbacks are in it. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.520 They can always use that bat. I think middle infield 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.480 makes a lot of sense for them. They could move 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.160 some pieces around. You could just have Perdomo. I mean 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.560 the problem is is like could tell at second what 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.680 do you do with Perdomo and Lawler? You need to 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.880 move Perdomo to third and you know, so they got 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.840 some things to do that might be why they don't. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.560 But he played in the Fall League last year, so 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.240 I don't think he's a possibility. I really do think 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:28.960 he's won. Oh and you know what a really good 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.440 call is Colt Keith. That's another one that I think 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.400 should be coming up soon. Another Faly guy that was 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.920 already up. So those would be guys I would be 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.680 speculating on. But my order would be Pete Crow. If 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.960 Colt Keith came up, he'd be number two. But I 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.480 think Perier is gonna I think I feel confident about Perira. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.520 I go Perira, Colt Keith, Lawler, and I think Jackson 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.400 Holiday is kind of the lowest of the totem pole. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.720 If I'm gonna be speculating on some rookies, A couple 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.880 other pieces as we keep going here. Hunter Green lit 0:15:56.000 --> 0:16:00.000 up for nine runs, eight earned in three innings against 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.200 the Blue Jays. As he returned, he gave up eleven 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.520 hard hit balls according to Rohtal World, and I believe 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.200 it was five homers. So I was very like, let's 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.960 not do it coming off of the break, and that 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.120 was reality. How confident do you feel moving forward in 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.280 Hunter Green's next start after this blow up? 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.240 Well, my golden role with Hunter Green and some mostly 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.880 Nicolodola all season. Don't start them in Great American small park. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.120 Very simple to me. I just don't because home road 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.080 splits can be you know, wonky at times. I'm not 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.360 I'm not going to deny that. But Hunter Green, the 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:33.920 way he just throws his fastball so much. If he's 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.920 off at all, I just it's batting practice. In Great American. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.000 Where he on the road, he's showing he could be 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.280 a much different picture. So once he hits the road, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.400 I'm in at home bench. That's just how I look 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:42.720 at him. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.640 Yeah, and I think, you know, that's probably a pretty 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.040 good approach. I'm gonna a little bit. I don't know 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.800 what the next start is. I should have looked but 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.040 I can check for you. Yeah, I'd just be curious 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.600 what it is like. Unless it's like very favorable, I'm 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.400 probably gonna avoid. But I understand if anyone's like really 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.720 needy for it, I'm probably gonna avoid unless it is very, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.480 very favorable. Do you have it? 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:08.320 It's pulling up as we speak, ter smoking the versus 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.520 Toronto and Great Americans. So I'll be sitting in him there. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.960 But then next week he has a two step that 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.280 you will start him for at Arizona and at San Francisco. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:17.960 Uh yeah, those are pretty good ones. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.480 Okayit him this week, start him next week and enjoy life. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.040 And one of the weirdest things of the week. And Twins. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.720 I don't know if you all have paid attention, but 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.120 Dallas Kykel is with the Twins. He had a perfect 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.080 game through the seventh inning and ended up getting broken up. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.359 He went six and one third, one hit, no walks, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.600 three strikeouts. Actually he has had three starts with the team. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.159 He got blown out by the Phillies, but two of 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.760 those starts he's gone five. So I ask you this, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.000 is there a scenario where you can spot start Dallas 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:44.920 Kaykel in your mind? 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.600