WEBVTT - Leading Off May 20th, 2025 (Ep. 1019) 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.080 Off Live. It is b Joey, p Joe, Pi Zapio 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.280 with me every day is the Welsh and it's all 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.120 of you, the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks here on 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.160 our twitch, twitch dot tv slash Fantasy Pros or if 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:23.640 you're watching on demand, our YouTube channel Fantasy Pros MLB Welsh. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.360 It's another fun day of baseball ahead of us yesterday. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.840 It was an amazing show. If you missed yesterday, go back 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.000 and watch it. A lot of great conversations, a lot 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.800 of big discussions, a lot of prospect stuff. Today we 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.240 got lots of throw at you, some injuries, of course 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.800 because it's Major League Baseball, and welsh Otani hit his 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.880 seventeenth homer, Mookie Bets hit two, but it wasn't enough 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.440 to beat your Diamondbacks. You gotta be feeling pretty good 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:48.480 about yesterday's game. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.680 The Dodgers getting swept by the Angels, love it, and 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:57.600 then the Diamondbacks pulling down wins. Though that bullpen he 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.320 is a disaster, but we did get goods that Justin Martinez, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.639 who threw out here on Saturday, might just be coming 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.040 back up here very shortly and not even hitting any 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.640 more rehab stints or maybe there's one more at TRIPAA, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:12.720 But looks like he's going to be back sometime very 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.399 early this week and be back to closing games, hopefully 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.240 against the Dodgers. Right, And that Otani bet, by the way, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.560 is looking pretty good. I'm betting pros that I gave 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.400 you a couple of weeks ago Otani to lead the 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.200 league in homers eight to one at the time. That 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.000 is obviously that's mixed, but that is playing out very 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:30.520 very well. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.280 Yeah. It's almost as if like maybe the starting pitching 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.880 problems are catching up to the Los Angeles Dodgers a 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.640 little bit, a little bit. Maybe maybe you can't win 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.959 one hundred and ten games with Landon Knack and Tony 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.640 Gonsolin and all those guys as you're starting pitchers with 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.480 the Tyler glassnow and Blake Snell and all those guys healthy, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.920 Maybe just maybe so. Look, if you're the Dodgers, you're 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.040 just trying to get to September and October like that's it. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.000 Just get healthy. You're gonna be in the playoffs most likely, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.920 although that is a tough division. Man. We were just 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.160 talking about that before the show. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.000 What do you think is going to like go down? 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.600 What do you think the narrative is going to be. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.400 So I think it's post All Star break when they 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.880 said they're gonna let if Twani start pitching again. Do 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.040 you think there's gonna be this narrative of like Otani is, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.640 you know, potentially more injury prone. Do you think the 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.760 pitching is going to take away from the hitting or 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.880 do you think it's going to be where you said 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.480 they just got to get to September. Maybe they just 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.480 got to get to the All Star break where maybe 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.200 glass Down's back with Tani's in the rotation and they're 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.120 just full throttle. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.200 I don't I think if they're concerned or they're thinking 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.120 that Otani is the guy who's going to get them 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.960 over the hump in the playoffs as the pitcher, then 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.040 they failed. That's that's what I think. I think he's 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.400 a pitcher. He's a great pitcher, but I think to 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.000 put that on him this year in season in such 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.080 a weird way is too much. I think you're probably 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.520 better off with him. You know. Look, I think that's 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.720 also something where how much can you pitch? How deep 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.880 can you pitch into games. And it's also the stress 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.960 of those innings. Those are playoff innings you're talking about. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:01.520 Right by the time you get there, what are those 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.720 gonna look like? Those are laborious, A little bit different 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.400 than pitching. You know, it's a mid August day and 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.640 you're pitching against the Cincinnati Red It's a little different 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.800 when you're pitching against the Philadelphia Phillies and the playoffs 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.840 and the Padres or the Mets. So it'll be interesting 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.680 to see how they handle all this. It's uncharted waters. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.600 We talked about that quite a bit, and I think 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.480 they just desperately need Glassnell and Snell to join Yamamodo 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.240 in that rotation. And if they don't get at least 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.440 one of those two, I think I think that's a problem. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.280 I think it's problematic. And then you're putting a lot 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.120 on a toy shoulders. But hey, he seems to have 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.680 broad shoulders for all these moments anyway, also broad shouldered 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.080 with a very tiny era. Chris Bubich banked the Giants 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.880 seven innings, five strikeouts. That era is at one four 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.760 to seven. Now, Welsh, I don't think he's gonna pitch 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.240 you a one four to seven Era. But you gotta 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.600 just be astounded with how good the Bubbola has been 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.040 this year. I mean, on a team that has no 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.400 margin for error in terms of their offense has been 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.400 really underperforming this season, Boobach has been a revelation, especially 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:08.800 with Reagan's being out, lu Go's out again, and now 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.480 you know it's it's basically Boobach is carrying this rotation. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.240 Been the unsung here, I mean, and it's funny. They're 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.680 like he can't do dot dot dot and it's like 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.080 almost June and we're like, he can't keep get getting 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:24.360 away with this. But dude, really interesting when you look 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.560 at this last start, when when you're looking at the 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.160 I guess it's five pitch mix, it's like the prototypical 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.080 of what you would want from a pitcher. So you know, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.200 he threw fastball thirty six percent of the time. It 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.000 was a fine pitch. It got a lot of swings, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.440 didn't get a lot of whiffs, but it was in 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.680 the zone. It's but it's set up. He had a 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.599 fifty five percent with rate on his change up, fifty 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.920 seven percent on his sweeper, and fifty percent on his slider, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.960 and that equated to over fifty percent of his usage. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.440 He was able to throw for strikes, he was able 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.159 to get whiffs on he was running really good CSW percentages. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.760 His sweeper has been elite, and he and even though 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.280 that fastball is not a big monster, he's been commanding 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.400 it in a way that sets up these other pitches 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.279 that is getting whiffs like crazy. He's hitting ninety four, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.800 he's you know, sitting around ninety two ninety three. We 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.839 said it pretty much after the very first start. I 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.320 think it was like one of the first starts we 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.320 saw the season. I remember watching him and I was like, boo, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.320 which looks great. He looks locked in. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.440 But we were kind of good right before the season. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.080 I think we liked him as like a sleeper kind 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.480 of guy. I don't think any of us thought he 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:27.880 could do this. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.600 Yeah, I don't think I was. I wasn't into Boobich preseason, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.320 but it was the very first start of the season 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.720 where it was like, Wow, this looks like a different 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.840 version because those secondaries were just moving all through the 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.160 zone getting whiffs and the fastball was setting it up. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.479 And that has not stopped. And that is why we've 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.520 both been pretty staunch about Boobich this entire you know, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:47.479 in season. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.719 Look at this question from a Garza here, Boobich or 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.960 Sandy rest of season. I made that trade earlier and 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.599 deeply regret it. Now I understand why you made that trade. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.479 I mean, I'm hoping Sandy turns it around. But it's 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.919 tough out to say Sandy is the better part of 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:02.800 that deal, don't you think? 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.080 Yeah, I'm I feel like I'm gonna be lame here 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.080 if you if I get all the months into the season, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.440 I just like I'm super stubborn and refuse to believe 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.440 like that Sandy is this bad. I really think it's 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.760 gonna bounce back. And there's this interesting dynamic of that 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:26.000 of like, you have seven weeks of the incredible Chris Boubage, 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.880 and if you believe he's gonna have some regression, you know, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.000 all of that goodness is behind us. You think Sandy's 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.960 going to bounce back, Like, I think it's fair to 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.919 say Sandy's best months and starts are in front of 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:37.760 him for this season. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.320 I just think he's too. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.200 Talented of a picture. I would say Sandy al contra, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.240 but I don't know how you like cut him for 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.400 boobage for Sandy. I don't think you can make that 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.880 move right now. And you can't do one for one trade. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.120 You've got to get value. But I really do think 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.039 like I'm gonna be stubborn stupid and say that like 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.040 Sandy is going to bounce back on the question the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:06:59.680 latter half. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.960 Of the season. It's expected he alrighty for bubitch is 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.560 three h six, So it's not awful. I don't know 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.159 what Sandy's is. I can take a look at that 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:06.760 real quick to. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.040 Saydy, it's seven nine with an expected five three three 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.120 right now, it's it's it's. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.960 Not it's not good. Do you do you give any 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.200 credence to I know, Augustin Ramirez has come up and 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.960 been the catcher. Do you think any of that has 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.000 anything to do with some of these issues that Sandy's 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.640 been going through. I mean, I haven't followed it that closely. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.480 Who's catching him every single day that he's out there? 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.520 But you know, rookie catcher sometimes trying to learn pitch mix. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.360 I can't imagine maybe he's the one calling the games 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.320 or somebody else is calling the games, right, do you 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.720 really let rookie catchers come up and do that nowadays, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.000 major League baseball feels like a no. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.000 Yeah, I don't think so. I think a lot of 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.960 pitchers will do this as well. But also, I mean, like, okay, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.680 what is he Maybe the last three starts, last three 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.520 starts have been bad, But unfortunately for Sandy, the first 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.920 three starts or first two starts of the season were 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.360 where it was really good. And in between that, five 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.080 of his last six have just been kind of eh. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.920 And I'm not sure that it's it's a goostin. That's 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:00.680 part of the problem. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.120 It's Sandy. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.400 I mean, it's Sandy. I mean Sandy's also he's been 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.080 hidden close to one hundred, but the changeup has been 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.240 less effective and that's been one of the biggest problems. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.080 I mean, it's a two sixteen average. It was actually 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.960 a better average again so far this year, but it 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.560 hasn't been quite getting the whiffs, and really the the 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.520 other pitches around it haven't been setting it up as well. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.280 So I don't know. I've seen him good early in games, Sandy, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.960 and then he just falls apart. So hopefully he gets 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.840 back bouncing with it. And I think Sandy's gonna bounce 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:28.680 back into the season. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.200 I'm frozen can you hear me or see. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:33.120 Joe is just back? 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:34.559 Yeah, it was just bad. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.080 There was a frozen Joe and that beautiful Patriots jacket 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.120 there again, and he did say frozen. All right, well, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.280 I think Sandy is going to bounce back. I almost 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.120 would like to do the poll of that. By the way, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.480 we have the Joe's and the chat of a Sandy 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.839 versus Boobach rest of season? Where would people go with it? 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.720 Even if not just a poll on the YouTube side 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.439 or here comment below, let us know Sandy or Boobache 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.400 rest of season from this moment on. You don't get 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.800 any of the prior stats of Boo Bitch or Sandy 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.840 from this moment on. What side are you picking? Heyo, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.760 you know what I'm saying, Joe, Joe's not gone, so 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.480 it's not really puppet show. There is a little bit 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.640 of a puppet show. It says, Joe's back or I 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.880 will move us on three to keep trying to bring 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.240 him on and it's not working. All right, Well, I'm 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.600 gonna move on until Joe gets Oh there you go 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:26.960 there right, moving on Joe. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.400 Yeah, I was again, I don't you know what the 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.600 most annoying thing is we did all this stuff so 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.959 I could moved to Firefox. A stream yard would work 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.600 better for us. And you know what, the messages popped up, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.120 you should try using Google Chrome, and that was the 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.880 one that was giving us all the other problems before. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.760 So you know what, they all suck. Everything sucks. Robbie 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.120 Ray doesn't suck though. Seven innings, no runs for him, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.880 seven strikeouts. Robbie Ray had a little rough patch there, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.280 and I know a lot of us were starting to 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.480 get a little worried about him, but he's really picked 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.600 things up in the last few starts. Two six seventy 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.440 Ray on the year now sixty two strikes, twenty seven walks. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:02.840 Look that walks are always gonna be a little bit 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.240 higher with him. Over fifty seven innings, you want the strikeout. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.760 So that was great. Chandler Simpson hasn't played every single 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.920 day religiously, and I know he's had a hand issue, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.520 but he came off the bench yesterday and sold two 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.680 more bases, showing you that if you are in those 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.440 head to head category leagues, Chandler Simpson is a very 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.360 very useful piece. I want to talk about Jordan Walker though, 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.760 because he has not been useful this year, he is 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.520 down to one forty seven, one ninety three, two twenty five, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.200 two homers, thirteen rubies, one steal over thirty games. He 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.320 was benched yesterday. So Welsh, here we find ourselves. The 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.880 Cardinals are playing well. Alec Burlson's getting hot, so playing 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.480 time's going to him. What do we do with Jordan Walker? 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.640 I assume everyone's just cutting him in re draft leagues 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.560 and you're just kind of moving on for other pieces. 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.400 But I want to take this a step further for 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.480 those people who are in dynasty leagues right now, because 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.840 Jordan Walker is a piece that you are you've been 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.760 sitting on and being patient with. Are you at a 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.800 point where you just sell him for pennies on the 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.440 dollar and move on completely if somebody sees him as 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.920 a potential buy low because I feel like we've done 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.800 three years of buy low on Jordan Walker and I 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.080 don't know if we have a fourth in me. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.160 Yeah, I mean from a yeah that My immede it 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.000 reaction when you said this was like, why are we 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.520 doing this again? We did this with redraft, but dynasty isn't. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.000 Yeah, But now I want to know about the dynasty 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.240 because I feel like, yeah, that's now where people start 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.600 to look at it and go redraft is easy, you 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.839 move on. But in Dynasty this is tough because he's 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.840 still not very old, and you know, they did kind 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.720 of jerk him around a little bit between the majors, 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.920 between the minors, they made a move positions. But at 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.120 a certain point, I think you have to just call 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.280 it like you see it, which is he has not performed. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.680 He doesn't. He looks worse than ever almost. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.840 But the only thing with Diynasty when you say, like 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.040 why why would you sell him for pennies on the dollar? 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.040 Would you cut him? Like in a if you have 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.360 like an eight keeper league, he's easily cuttable. There are 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.920 other guys that would rather take shots on and risks with, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.960 for sure, if you're in a full on dynasty where 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.400 you keep everybody. I just don't know what the advantage 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.360 is to like, who is trying to buy. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.760 Sell him for rookie draft picks next year? Yeah? 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:06.760 Probably, I mean if you could get a second round pick, yeah, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.439 but I don't even think you could at this point. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.240 So the answer is like, yes, the general sense, I'm done. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.560 I'm done with Jordan Walker. I don't think there it 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.040 makes a ton of sense to do it for nothing. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.640 Jordan Walker feels like he's three years away from playing 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.040 with the White Sox, you know what I'm saying, Like 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.520 he's gonna be one of those guys worth you know, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.200 the White Sox. Every year they just wring out these 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.959 random dudes. It's like, here's Miguel Vargus, and here's Bobby 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.120 doll Back, and here's Travis John Kalski, and it'll just 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.800 be to three, two or three years from now, here's 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.280 Jordan Walker. He's a White Sox. I don't know if 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.920 it's ever going to bounce back completely wrong about him. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.000 The strikeouts got worse, the batting changes didn't matter. So 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.840 the answer is a general sense is yes, I don't 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.400 know if I can be like I would sell him 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.640 for pennies on the dollars, sell him for nothing. He 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.719 is still young, like I would like if I'm competing, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.040 I could see dumping him for some older asset that's 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:56.719 sitting out there. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.440 But that's the other question I was gonna ask you, like, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.640 if you can get somebody that's just and like Javier 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.000 Bay's done nothing for two years, right, somebody's gonna give 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.079 you bayas for him, and you're a competing team, I 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.040 think you take it. I think you take it, and 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.160 you don't worry about what Jordan Walker is a year 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.160 or two from now, because. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.360 I definitely want a keeper in a keeper format unless 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.280 keeping fifteen players like Jordan Walker is not in the discussion, 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.000 regardless of his age, for like even ten keepers in 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.000 a twelve team league. He's not a top one twenty 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:22.800 keeper in Dynas and. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.599 Mat on the mound, Good morning, Welsh and Joey P. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.040 Who would you want rest of season freedom or Jordan Beck. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.680 I think I'm gonna lean Beck. I want to just 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.160 take a look here real quick. I'd love sixty four 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.080 eight homers, five stilen bases. Yeah, he's been kind of 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.320 popping off. He's barely great. Yeah, the hitting profiles looks 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.280 so good. He's also got Colorado as a you know, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.240 is like a lock in and there's no worry about 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.840 like Zach Bean and stuff. I'm gonna go with Beck, 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:47.760 all right. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.360 This is from the what the hell are we doing here? 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.240 Pirates category, which I feel like is becoming a daily segment. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.040 Oil Cruse not in the lineup Monday. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:54.720 Uh. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.240 He took a seat after going oh for eight with 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.120 seven strikeouts over the weekend. Now he had a five 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.720 game absence due to the lower back. You think this 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.480 is just the lower back continuing to bother him, or 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.160 do you think he's just from missing a couple of 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.000 days out of timing? What's going on here with the 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.480 Ohio Cruz and is that a situation we should be 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.920 buying into. Is there a by window here for Cruise 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.880 because of the back end the performance in the last 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:17.480 week and a half. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.240 That, yeah, that's interesting. I hadn't noticed his average it 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.560 dipped so far that it did down to two twenty three. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.520 Because the counting stats are allowed eight homers, sixteen stolen bases. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.600 You know, he's still near the tippy top of the 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:33.160 stolen base market. Uh three forty nine OBP. Like, that's fantastic. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.280 He's got some career highs and he's got some like 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.120 top end of the league. I mean he is six 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.920 still even though he's e in two twenty three, sixty 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.120 point five percent hard hit percentage with a twenty two 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.520 percent barrel rate. That's music to my ears. That's love 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.880 barreling like crazy. His strikeouts are really bad, but he's walking. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.920 But this is that thing right here to forty six 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.080 expected batting average, So you've got a twenty to twenty 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.480 five point jump in his expected batting average. That gets 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.600 me relatively excited. I do think there's some worriome signs 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.800 he's not pulling the ball as much. His own contact 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.960 is down, But I mean, you look here hitting two 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.040 thirty three against forcing fastballs, but an expected three thirty five. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.400 He's still a monster of forcing fastball hitting. So I 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.120 think he's going to bounce back a bit. I'm a 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.680 buy on onell cruise if people are selling out thinking 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.720 they're worried with the back, but that would be the 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.320 only issue Joey, Like that lingering back is out there. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.000 They're having him sit games. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.840 Right the end up going to il and you make it. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.800 Just put him on the DMIL right now and let 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.480 me go trade for him so we know he can 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.640 get right after. But yeah, I actually I really like 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.360 oneal cruise as a bye right now. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.000 Fifty to fifty on the pole for the Boobach Sandy 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.320 al contra. So that is a tough one. Man. Uh 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.320 smoked your hog as a question. I did answer this, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.680 so so I already I already. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.800 H thank you for reading out his full name. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:53.960 Well, you know, I just this is what we do 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.120 here on the show. They want to see what you think. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.920 Though I already gave my answer. I think it was 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.920 on Twitter. I answer this book Ian Reynolds got dropped. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.640 Do I drop Nimo, a bray You, Robert Dominguez or 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.800 Riley Greenwold Riley Green that's ridiculous, But anyway, that was 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.600 not I don't think the original question I was asked, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 but who would you drop, if any for Brian Reynolds 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.640 from this group. I know my answer obviously if it's 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.040 the same. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:18.200 As yours, think well, I mean the answer is probably Domingaz, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.160 But I don't I got an I'm not sure I 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.720 would drop anybody at this moment. Like if you said, 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.440 I bet you said a bray you, I'm not. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:28.440 No, I said Nimmo. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.200 Actually, let me look at where Nimo is. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.880 I thought Nimo was the guy where It's like, look, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.640 Brian Reynolds' best normal plateau season is above what Brandon 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.640 Nimmo gives you. Dominga curs see what he could be? 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.560 A bra who has been pretty decent. Robert again, I'm 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.240 looking for you know, upside there. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.360 Yeah, you know what, now that I'm looking at it, 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.440 I actually do agree with you. The two twenty averages down. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.200 Like weakened you. I dragged you down to my level 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:53.720 to give you this. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.920 Well, he's also not stealing any bases too, and like that, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.360 I think Reynolds will. I think he can outperform him 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.400 rest of season. And so yeah, no NEMO for Reynolds 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:02.920 would be the. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.200 Move yourd nol Vara says his hand is getting better, 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.400 but it's still sore when he swings. That's not good. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.320 But Hunter Green's groin is getting right and he's going 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.640 to be activated on Friday. That's good news. The Phillies 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.760 made a transaction make Abele get sent down a triple 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.680 A again. Wall, we knew that was going to happen. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.080 Let's get to rookie Lookie, because yesterday Matt Shaw came 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.679 back for the Cubbies two for four with a Ribia 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.560 double and that's good news for the Cubs lineup. Welsh, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.080 I love this. Any takeaways from Matt Shaw's performance yesterday. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.040 It's huge and I mean we all kind of knew 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.560