WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 22nd, 2023 (Ep. 696) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.800 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Boroughs MLB. This is leading 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:11.920 Off Live. It is the Joey p Jophi's if he 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.360 of that, of course, is the Welsh. You were brought 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.800 to you by Prize Picks. Sign up for Prize Picks 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.040 today and use that promo code leading Off when you do. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.360 We got a lot of Major League Baseball to talk about, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.840 but Welsh, you seem to have your attention elsewhere. It 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.200 looks like you're going back to college because some of 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.680 the college baseball that's happening today you're very excited about 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.000 because these are some of the big prospects that were 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.760 going to be seen getting drafted, I would say in 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:36.760 the weeks ahead. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.320 Yeah, I'm actually very fresh coming off of the MLB 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.440 Draft Combine which was yesterday, and one of the guys 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.000 that's going to be pitching today, Paul Skeins, some of 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.240 you as the number one overall pick, a generational talent 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:50.520 since Stephen Strasburg. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:51.960 He was supposed to be at the. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.720 Combine, he was not because he's going to be pitching 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.680 in kind of a big game. Today might be the 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.440 most exciting college baseball game, and god knows how long 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.320 this is an elimination time for the College World Series, 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.480 and it's LSU versus wake Forest. Wake Forest has a 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.000 pitcher named Rehtt Lauder who's going to probably be a 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.520 top ten pick. You've got Paul Skins, who's going to 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.399 be one or two. You've got Dylan Cruz who's going 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.679 to be one or two. They've also got Trey Morgan. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.920 There's a lot of draft prospects in here. Two of 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.880 the best pitching. This is the best pitching matchup I 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.920 could possibly think of. And I am just scratching incline 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.759 trying to figure out what is the betting edge here. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.000 I want to take LSU money line. I actually did 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.039 it just the other day when they went up against Tennessee. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.319 But that money line is juiced. But they want you 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.680 to take the two runs man plus money on two 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.039 runs for LSU. But either way, whether you're betting or not, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.200 or you're not even a big draft guy, just heads up, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.480 go pay attention. This is a huge each college game 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.400 four pm my time, so seven pm Eastern. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.240 I believe it is there. You go, think of the 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:03.400 bat for that college baseball game. Ye shtink, Yeah, you 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.320 know it's funny. I grew up with wooden bats, Like 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.560 my first memory of little league in the eighties was 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.640 wooden bats. And then some point you got the you 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.000 know you got your Easton, you know you got your 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.520 TPX back in high school. You know you've got you're 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.880 a cool stuff there. But I just I still like 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.560 the wood bat. I don't know, want something about the 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:22.000 wood bat. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.360 I remember the very very first time I ever swung 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.960 the wood wood bat. My best friend at that time, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.320 his brother had just gotten a wood bat and they 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:30.840 were super. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.520 Excited about it. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.959 So me and him we went out to the little field. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.960 He threw a pitch I swung immediately broke the bat. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.400 I just shattered it in half with how he threw 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.480 it and I hit it. Yeah, it's because the muscles 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.240 and shattered it. And we were devastated, and his brother 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.200 probably beat us both up or something. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.160 But that was the first. That was the first. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.240 All right, let's get back to Major League Baseball and 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.359 talk about the headline. Showy Otani. He's good at baseball. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.640 Twelve strikeouts over seven innings, but they lost to the Dodgers, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.560 So there you have it. Gavin Williams took no decision yesterday. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.359 He gave up four runs and five and two thirds 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.680 in his major league debut for the Guardians. Again, we 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.840 thought it was a good start potentially for him against 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.720 the A's. I warned everybody, don't go there in the 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.040 DFS world or the betting world, just kind of step 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.880 back watching what the kid did. What did you think 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.440 of the Gavin Williams start last night? 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.520 Yeah, I was like, I wasn't as like as a 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.399 lot of people were because they weren't big swing and misses. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.680 And he had a bad inning, you know, like it 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.440 was a third inning. It was the bad bad inning. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.519 Gave up like a three run homer, gave up the runs, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:33.720 but he was composed. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:35.040 There were just. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.960 Command issues and I'm kind of okay with it. He 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.360 didn't have the curveball. The curveball looks like at least 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.440 off of his last couple of minor league starts has 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.000 been the number two US pitched or at least the 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.800 usage overall is close to the slider. He only threw 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.680 at thirteen percent of the time last night because he 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.320 didn't have it, and that I think led to a 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.800 bigger issue with some of the overall command issues. The 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.480 slider was breaking a little too early, so he wasn't 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.240 getting big swings, and in the fastball it was just 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:02.680 moving around. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.600 So here's what I'm saying. I actually thought. 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.200 He was relatively composed while giving up those runs and 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.240 coming out and then like setting down eight straight. I'm 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.360 okay with the command being a little bit wonky because 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.719 I think the stuff is great. Had a twenty six 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.000 mile an hour difference between the lowest pitch thrown and 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.760 the highest pitch thrown hit ninety eight and through in 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.480 seventy two mile an hour curveball. The command will get 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.839 back there. It's his first start. I still think he's 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.719 the best of the crew. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.960 Yeah, then, you know, the nerves, the adrenaline, all that stuff. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.240 Let the kid settle down. Let the kid settle in. CJ. Abrams, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.120 he's a kid. He settled in yesterday three for three 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.280 with a solo homer. You know, he's still twenty two 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:41.760 years old. I think a lot of us forget that 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.960 about CJ. Abrams. We kind of take that for granted 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.480 when it comes to him. Not a good season for him. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.080 He's sitting two thirty three ninety five, slugging two seventy 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.480 seven OBP, so it's not been a positive year. For him, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.080 he was one of these guys that we speculated, Hey 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.120 late in drafts, you take a shot, you see, maybe 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.280 you get fifteen to fifteen. Now, ironically, he's got seven 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.599 homers and he's got seven steals, So we weren't wrong 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.160 about that because he's on pace for exactly a fifteen 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.040 to fifteen season right now. So in some ways we 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.200 were right. But basically, so far it's been wrong for CJ. Abrams. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.760 The question is, you know, do we need to remind 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.919 ourselves he's only twenty two until we need to remind 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.680 ourselves that there's still room for him to grow despite 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.120 the fact this is a bad Washington Nationals team. Is 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.719 he a player that we have hope for figuring things 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:27.719 out in the second half? 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:28.800 Oh? 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.040 Okay, so I was gonna take at a different angle like 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.520 in Dynasty. Yeah, I think we can kind of consider 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:34.880 that second half. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:35.400 I don't know. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.040 I think he's still kind of far off. I saw 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.640 him more as like a ten to fifteen homer but 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.320 more aggressive stolen bases. Surprisingly enough, I mean, this used 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:45.960 to be the fastest guy I had ever seen in 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.080 the miners. He's just around the top twenty percent in 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.320 the league as far as sprint speed, I just don't 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.839 think the aggressiveness has been there. He doesn't barrel, he 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.279 doesn't hit the ball hard, he doesn't walk. All of 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.600 those things are bad. Those three are like a bad recipe. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.760 You don't barrel, you don't hit the ball hard, so 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.560 you've got to do a whole lot of other stuff. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.400 To make it happen. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.920 And he doesn't, and or what he does is at 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.159 a very low clip. So, yes, he's twenty two. Yes, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.080 this process is still going. Can this work out? Yes, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.040 just I don't think it's this year. I think this 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:19.719 is a more of a dynasty thing of like if 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.159 you had the ability to hold. I think he becomes 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.200 really more interesting as he hits like twenty three, twenty four. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.400 Does he hit for more power? Does he become more 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.560 aggressive on the base paths. But he's got to change 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.120 a few things because you know, those low barrel, low 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.040 hard hit guys don't really do too well when the 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:40.280 average also stinks and they're not running, they're not aggressively 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.040 running and just pointing out to his xba's around two thirty, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.320 so it's right around right in line with your batting 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.320 average if you were a two ninety hitter too, eighty 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.880 hitter doing this, this would probably be a different discussion. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.479 It would be I'd like to see him just put 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.320 the ball and play more, take better at bats. I 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.039 think this you're looking for. But it is interesting to 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.440 say that, you know that fifteen to fifteen projection that 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.159 we put on him, it's actually on the pace, which 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.080 all things considered, is crazy. When you look at how 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.920 you know, Ice Blue, I think somebody said, is the that's. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.120 Yeah, I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it here. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.360 It's not pretty like he's got like he's got a good, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.160 nice max ev hit. That's the only thing that stands 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.280 out because he hit one one twelve. But he's got 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.960 a wretchedly low bottom seven percent of the league average 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.640 exit velocity, which a lot of people don't focus on 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.840 because it's like, okay, that's not sticky or whatever. But 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.440 you put it together with like all the other stuff, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.240 and it just tells this really like not great story 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.080 about a player that isn't showing any signs of like 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.080 big growth, why we would want to go buy in. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.640 Speaking of Ice Blue, everyone says that my blue steel 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.120 look is back today, and I just keep telling everyone 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:49.000 that's I have resting blue steel face. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.520 That's it's just not the blue one. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.040 Yeah, mine is resting blue steel. That's what I do. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.600 Pete Alonzo to run homer, but the Bets lose, So 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.480 there you go. That's that's that their general note. 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Sometimes he's a little blind, so. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:11.200 It sounds like it sounds like, you know in Billy Madison, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.760 you know when he's like when he sees his friend 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.440 who accidentally wet his pants and he goes goo. Uh, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.200 I just I think that's what I'm gonna do. So 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.800 is he the new closer quote unquote for the Diamondbacks? 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:24.880 No, No, they do that. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.880 This has been the entire season. We actually we did 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.080 this on CBS last night and Frank had kind of 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.079 asked the same thing of. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:30.640 Like, is this it? 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.679 But he's asked that question to all of the guys 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.600 because there is no guy. They're inconsistent. Lavello loves to 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.200 ride the hot hand until it implodes, and McGuff was 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.079 a disaster early on. They've gone Chafin, they've gone Castro. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.280 I could be wrong here. Maybe things have settled in, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.679 you know, McGuff is obviously coming from coming over from 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.400 Japan and just kind of readjusting. I think he's doing 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.600 the classic, he's throwing the splitter thing, and it's been 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.440 good as of recent but I've seen him be pretty inconsistent, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.760 and I just don't I'm not sold that the Diamondbacks 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:03.520 guy is on that. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.199 Roster or and also through not this. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.160 This is what I'm waiting for, is they've already confirmed 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.360 that it's too late for Dre Jamison to go back 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.640 to being a starter. I wonder if there's a point 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.040 if these guys struggle that Dre starts getting an opportunity, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.040 and I think he's a guy that holds onto it, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.160 but McGuff is getting saves, hold on to him. It'll 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.960 be good until they go to Andrew Chaffin and then 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.200 they keep going to him, and McGuff is just part. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.520 Of where they make a big nasty thing. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.080 I mean, if you know, if they were smart, they 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.559 go out there and make a move for a closer, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.000 they work. Gallon Welsh was right, I was wrong. Zach 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.720 Gallen one run over seven innings. Will the Oteyron was 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:40.559 five scoreless. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.040 Though I got my money line play someone pointed out 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.640 in the chat. They're like, hey, they're like Welsh has 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.600 got two units on Diamondbacks money line. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.280 I'm like, I do, and they want one. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.439 And you did it and I was on the other 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.199 I continue to be ice cold this week. I need 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.120 I need a week off. I need to just kind 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.000 of clear my head on the weekend and just figure 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.480 things out from there. The rookie Lookie Gunner head by 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.840 the way two for five it is eleventh Homer. All 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.600 of a sudden, those early Gunner Henderson shares that I 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.199 had Rookie of the Year and I had that duo wager, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.440 that big one where it was Corbyn Carroll and Gunner Henderson. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:13.760 That's such a cool one that you did. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.360 It's starting to come back to life. There's still life 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.560 in that bet now, all of a sudden, which tells 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.720 you something. And I think if you go back and 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.160 look at last couple of years, you go back to 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.400 pandemic year when it was Gavin Lux who was the 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.760 odds on favorite for Rookie of the Year and he 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.719 was just bottomed out completely in the pandemic season. If 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.719 you go back and look at this year's board when 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.320 Anthony Volpi made the team and skyrocketed to the top 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.839 of the American League board. Rookie of the Year is 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.160 one typically to wait on. This is about the time 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.720 where you can start to make your move on Rookie 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.120 of the Year. Corbyn Carroll was the exception to the rule. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.679 And I just want to remind everybody that is the 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.160 trickiest of all of the awards in my opinion, to 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:51.920 bet On and I am Joey. Maybe you should call 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.439 me Joey Futures. I like that. I am Joey Futures 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.920 after all, and I'm gonna give myself that nickname. But 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.320 that's the one to me that's always the trickiest. Carol 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.800 was locked in money in the bank. Let's go, no hedge, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.000 none of that. But it's funny Gunner Henderson starting to 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.440 you know, if you want to put like a little 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.319 speculative ten bucks a year or whatever it is, that's fine. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.280 But it feels like Gunner Henderson's getting back in this race, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.439 which makes me happy. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.280 You know what. I like, I feel like the last 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:15.760 couple of years. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.280 Maybe I'm just thinking to last year is it's like 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.520 one of the sides the n l AL locks itself 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.560 up and then there's a race, because last year the 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.959 race actually became around teammates Michael Harris and Spencer Strider, or. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.360 Either of those guys were close to the favorites going in. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.040 Neither neither broke on. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.480 Cruise was out at the top of that list. I'm 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:35.640 trying to remember who else was at the top of 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:36.199 that list at that time. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.480 You probably remember, yeah, there's someone, No, there's someone ridiculous. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.840 Cruise was up there. Cruise was very high in that 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.600 conversation early on. But there was somebody else, was it, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.880 says Azuki. Yeah, it was a good guy early on, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.040 which I told everybody, don't even go near that, don't 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.600 don't invest in that. That's ridiculous. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.200 So yeah, I like it. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.880 But but like like this year, like Corbin's got that 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.000 relatively locked up and well locked up. As long as 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.559 nothing happens, this one just keeps moving. By the way, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.960 on gun Gunner's still absolutely wretched against lefties. He's doing 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.280 all of his damage against Rightyes, he's becoming like a 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.959 Josh Low platoon two fifty two against Righty's all eleven 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.079 homers have come in that spot. He was down to 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.920 one night. He hit one night seven in April two thirteen. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.640 In May, he's up to three fifty eight in the 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.520 month of June and six over half of his homers 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.240 have come from this month, so you can see how 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.360 much he's picked it up, plus the hard hit numbers. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.560 Look, I think the confidence is good too. You start 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.600 to get the ball against righty's maybe that carries over 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.680 a little bit. And if you notice Josh Young's been 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.240 ice cold this week, ice cold, we'll talk about him 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.040 in the three down two days in a row. That 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.600 hasn't happened all year. Cousin Donnie says, I can't give 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.200 myself a nickname. I mean, why not? I feel like 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.480 I can. I think I just did. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.560 You can? I was a yeah, I only had I'm trying. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.040 How many nicknames did you have grown up? 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.280 I really had none, to be honest, Really, that's sad. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.320 That's why he wants a nickname. Guys, you're trying to 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:57.160 give himself one. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.880 No, don't don't encourage what I think we should run it. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.000 Let's see the best Joe. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.880 Piece of nicknames and then we can run a poll. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.000 I only had like one nickname throughout, but we also 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.640 did well Boman Hollywood. No, No, we can't Hollywood. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:12.920 Yeah. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.120 Yeah, he called me that because I I had a 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.400 lot going on all the time. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.040 I like different groups of people calling everything. So that 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.440 was his nickname for me. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.480 But we also did the lasts and take lunch at 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:24.720 Spago and things like that. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:25.200 Yeah. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.520 I mean when I was in high school, I had 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:27.800 like the like tipped hair. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.880 Oh did you have the sugar ray tips? Is that 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:30.640 what you had? Oh? 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.160 Yeah, I went full bleach blonde. I had this guy 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.160 called me David Flair. He thought I was David Flair. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.600 Every morning when Welsh wakes up. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.040 All right, but let's get all right, so we're getting them. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.280 We've got we're getting nicknames. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.920 So I want to see the best. Joey Joey. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:51.720 That's good, Pizencer okay, JP smooth joe cool, all right, cool, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.600 let's try a little bit harder, guys. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.200 Come on, guys, I told you even now, this is 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:56.880 a guy that's. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.200 Never had a nickname. This guy he needs a nickname. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:00.240 You can see it on you. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.080 I can see it on your face. This is important. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.120 I hope it's important. This is anyway, Uh, very little injuries. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.440 This is the least amount of injuries we ever talked about. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.320 Here on the program all season long. So I guess 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.160 that's a good thing, but it worries the hell out 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.160 of me of what tomorrow is gonna look like. Mikes 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.000 Dremsky was removed yesterday with a hamstring tightness. Geo Orchella 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.800 has a pelvis issue that does not sound good. He's 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.000 gonna miss the rest of the season. He has done, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:30.120 and ladies and gentlemen tomorrow night. Kenta Mayda returns to 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.800 the Mound. Welsh Kenta Mayada returns to the Mound. How 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:35.600 do you feel about that? 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.840 I'm very excited. I'm he's a great exciting picture. I'm 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:45.480 gonna watch him, uh Kent Mayda specifically on the Twins, yes, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:46.160 not anywhere else. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.000 Yes, I'll watch him. I'm excited. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.280 You know, here you go, mister clean future is not bad. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.440 That's not bad. Sparky joey futures actually. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.760 Sounds joey futures are not a bad nickname? Okay, Bred, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.640 by the way, happy birthday, Bret, Bret said his birthday. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:02.840 I like Brett's nickname. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.639 Good. All right, let's get to the three up and 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.360 three down. Randy Erosarino, man, has that guy been good? Oh? 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.720 He was so undervalued this year three for three with 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.560 a homer and a double two RBIs he got to 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.800 walk everything. He did everything yesterday except take out the 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.520 trash and John Baylor. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.040 Well for you guy. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.160 I just want to point out one I did put 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.320 him in the trade video because he was only hitting 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.679 two forty over the last like I think it was 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.680