WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off Sept 20th, 2023 (Ep. 741) 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:10.120 Hey, yo, what's up everybody? And welcome into Leading Off. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.119 Hello Peanuts, Hello, cracker Jack's doing my best show piece 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.400 of p as I possibly can. I'm the Welsh, that 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.880 is Casey Bubba Beaty Interrick is at the Welsh on 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.080 the twitters and welcome in to the final few episodes 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.079 of Leading Off for the twenty twenty three season. Thank 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:25.639 you for hanging out with us, and thank you to 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.280 Prize Picks. This is brought to you by Prize Picks. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.600 Check them out today. Promo code Leading Off. We're gonna 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.000 be price picking. Excuse me a little bit later. You 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.319 guys can get a one hundred percent matchup to one 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.720 hundred bucks when you use that promo code. Go and 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.519 do it today. Bubba, what is up my friend? How 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.559 about twelve hundred nine am games at least on the 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.520 West coast for us? Like literally half of the league 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.080 is starting up as we're going live. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.320 Yeah, it's it's good. Thanks for having me as usual. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.840 Middle of the week, five shows to go, who's counting? 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.720 But really cool stuff there, like you said, yeah, we 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.000 talked about it before the show. I even text you 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.200 last night. I'm like, all these games are starting early. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.880 This is bonkers. If it was Thursday against Thursday Night Football, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.880 it makes sense. Wednesday, you have the whole night to yourselves, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.440 showcase the playoff races. Nah, let's just play a bunch 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.880 of day games. Why why build the game? Why build 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:15.199 the game? 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.480 Yeah, we don't worry about that. It's one day that 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.240 you could really dominate. You can dominate the sports all 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.360 throughout that I mean, I guess technically they kind of are. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.560 Remember we live in a East Coast world because on 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.720 the East Coast this is around lunchtime and everybody can 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.800 you know, get there, get the rocks off on the 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.720 games and stuff like that. Where we're sitting up here 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.200 and we're like, well, we can't do a main DFS 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.800 slate today, so we will not be doing a Sorry. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.560 Also sad news, no Welsh and Corbyn Carrol today. Where 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.080 we were traveling, I told I told Bubba my idea 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.960 for this one, and the shows might have ended early 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:50.440 if I. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.240 Got my way, this might have been the final of 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.120 the final countdowns. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.400 If that was the case, let's just say it was Bele, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.960 just Beatle, just Beetle, just like we would have probably 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.960 had a problem. So we don't have any of those today, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:00.920 but we do it funny. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:01.840 It was very fun. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.640 Yeah, you guys can use your imagination, but we got 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.560 a whole lot. You guys do have questions, you can 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.480 drop them in the chat. We will try to answer 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.200 them here in just a little bit, getting your prep 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.160 for these last couple of games. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:13.240 And in it. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.320 I think we did this once or twice. The NLSI young, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.799 I think is all but locked up. But Bubba, I'm 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.680 curious to get your take. Blake Snell last night went seven, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.840 struck out ten no hits, no hits. He now has 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.640 a two three three ERA fourteen wins, two hundred and 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:34.640 twenty seven strikeouts. In it, sixty two of one hundred 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.799 and four pitches were strikes as according to a retal World, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.360 he had twenty three swinging wis twelve on his curve 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.760 ball and had a forty percent csw But if you 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.200 hear what I'm saying, he had a no hitter going 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.760 and he was taken out. And this is Blake Snell. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.160 After the game, We're going to go to some audio. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.120 Here he goes, Oh, man, I understand, no hit is 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.160 an amazing accomplishments, so hard to do. I understand that. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.119 I also understand how much I value Hell, it's an 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.840 individual accolade. It's cool for the team we got no hitter, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.919 but it's cool when the bullpen comes in. We trust them, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.600 you know what I'm saying? Those were actually almost like 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:16.480 ninety five percent? 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.600 Did he say I do declare in there somewhere? 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.680 I did get a little like we're gone. I was 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:27.720 thinking surfer vibe when I think Blake's around him in person, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.200 he's definitely one of those. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.000 There's his video was he an extra Dango unchained? 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.880 There's a video going around of Paul Wall, and Paul 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.520 Wall looks like it looks like a Morgan Stanley banker like, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.160 but he's got the grills, and there's definitely like you 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.400 hear him talking, it doesn't match up. That's Blake's now. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.040 Like in person, he's just like, man, you know this 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.000 is crazy, Like I don't care about your fantasy team. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.120 He goes, I understand it's a no hitter. Like that guy, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.080 he is built differently because he's like I literally was 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:00.840 reading his quote. By the way, He's like, I understand 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.000 it's an amazing accomplishment, but he's like, I don't think 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.720 I could have gone there. I value health. I think 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.000 what he's also saying under the surface, he values out many. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.520 He gotta get he I got, Hey, he's gonna get 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 paid because he's a free agent after this year, and 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.840 he's going to lock up this Cy Young Award. The 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.120 only the two guys that were there were the Justin 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.800 Steele stuff. I don't want to I mean, that's fine, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.200 just as you'll said, an amazing season. No, he's got 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.680 like sixty less strikeouts, two more wins. Plake Snell is 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.440 a better era and then obviously a Strider. Strider's got 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.120 all the strikeouts in the world, but I think he's 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.280 got close to a four era. We're going to talk 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.920 about him. So are you with me? This is clearly 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:41.480 Blake Snell. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.480 Oh, I've been saying that for a while, but it was. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.200 It was an amazing theater in the world where where you know, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.640 there's the third wild Card, team races and all these 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.120 other things. Streider goes out there, he's been struggling a 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.520 ton lately, goes out on the East Coast earlier starter 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.760 Philadelphia deals, strikes are like twelve or something, looks amazing, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.240 gets back on track, starting to get some visor. Okay, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.680 maybe we're back on the Strider Cy Young situation. Then 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.200 Snell takes the stage and just it's filthy. I know, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.760 JP and the chat said four walks. Snell has been 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.160 doing that the whole season and he's still been the 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.680 best pitcher in the National League. The eer he doesn't 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.600 letting me hit the baseball, that's the beauty. He's been 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.560 selectively walking people is what it feels like. He's painting. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.279 He's dealing when he has to attack the own the 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.840 strikeouts to know hit stuff was great. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.039 Then I thought it was awesome. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.160 So you see that on on Tuesday, and then a 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.840 little Wednesday, Matt a little Wednesday afternoon Justin Steele gets 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.640 to make his talk and that's fun. Like, I agree, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.520 it's the Snell Show, but I think it's Snell Steel Strider, 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.760 which people get very annoyed with me on. I think 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.400 still that Strider's like in thirdder has been amazing. The 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.400 strikeouts are great, but the volatility is not Cy young 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:47.320 es right now. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.960 Yeah, I mean, like the I guess for some reason 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.520 I thought Strider's walk per nine was higher. It is 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.200 pretty alarming. Yeah, I mean, Snell's walk per nine is 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.240 double what Strider has, But there also might be an 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.320 element of like how ridiculously crazy that is. Snell has 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.280 a five walk per nine but an almost twelve k 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.200 per nine. Strider has a thirteen point eight one per 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.240 nine K and then a two point seventy six walk 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.640 per nine, but he's got an ERA that's one and 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.400 a half runs higher. And then Steal's kind of the 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.720 in the middle guy. The problem is is like you know, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.640 two seven three ERA. It's great, he has sixteen wins, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.480 he's in the middle of the wins between them, he's 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.159 got the lowest walk rate, but he's also got an 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.920 under nine k per nine. Like you can make the case. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.600 I don't mean to be dismissive of Steel, like he's 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.400 not deserved of being one of the best pitchers, and 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.159 I one hundred percent traded him away at the beginning 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.039 of the year, and I'm salty about it, But like, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.680 I don't know, I think it's sometimes the bigger, flashyar 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.440 numbers kind of jump out to you and the you know, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.239 funny enough, I think the thing that works in favor 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.560 of Strider so much is how dominant the Braves are 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.000 and them being in the playoffs. It's something that could 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.159 help steal a little bit. I mean, Snell will be 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.599 everybody hates it. Everybody gets so mad when there's a 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.800 guy who's so dominant for a team that are a 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.720 bunch of losers and don't make the playoffs. And that's 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:01.560 what the Padres are. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:01.840 Going to be. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.560 But I don't know. I mean, you know, Snell drops 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.400 off another one of the when you pretty much probably 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.520 throw at home, you're what second to last start of 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.600 the year, a theoretical no hitter, and you just don't 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.480 finish it out like that's a pretty good ending to 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.920 the year with an almost almost sub to eer. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.840 I think he's got it locked up. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.000 Next week Snell gets at the Giants and at the 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.880 White Sox if he wants to put the cherries on. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.400 Top, Yeah, your home, your your last home start. Bam, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.960 you throw a seven inning no hitter and then you've 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.040 got two really great starts to end out the year. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.080 Anything could happen. I mean, listen, I guess if Steel 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.760 got to nineteen wins and keeps the era and then 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.040 and then the other two get blown up, maybe there's 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.160 a little bit of a change. But I kind of 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.000 think it's done. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.680 It still gets the Pirates at home today and the 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.720 next week at Atlanta at Milwaukee. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.160 It's a little bit tougher. It's a little bit tougher 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:52.120 to start. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.280 Could be the really taelltale sign on that one. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.760 And I think it's the fun thing about this is like, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.120 this is the spot where things are not locked up. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.000 You know, it's hasn't been locked up. There's been some Parodo. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.760 MVP races that are pretty much done though for the 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.560 most part, Rookie of the Year is pretty much in 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.200 the bags. But yeah, you got this race. It's is 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.360 pretty interesting. It should be snow Well, which is crazy. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.360 Think about you talking about Blake snow This is a 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.280 guy that basically is gonna win his second Cy Young, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.400 two Cy youngs for Blake Snell. And he's a guy 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.240 that we've had horrific seasons in fantasy where people like 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.600 I don't trust him, never gonna take him again. Then 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.760 he gets some analysts that go, well, we know the 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.600 ceilings are Cy Young and he's getting drafted here. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.840 Is it worth the gamble? Some so yes, some say no. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.840 This year it was. It'll be fun to see how 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:34.240 it goes next. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.360 We've been out of the trade videos for some time, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.160 but you know, my small little victory lap was Blake 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.960 Snell made it into at least two of them to 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.280 buy at the very very beginning of the season. There 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.439 was a rough patch in there though, so it may 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.280 not and I kind of even was like, oh, well, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.559 this might not work, but he definitely was one of 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.520 those identifiers. So hopefully you locked it in. Speaking of awards, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.120 Ronald Acunya two homers now has thirty nine homers, sixty 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.920 seven stolen bases. Ryder was wearing a shirt that was like, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.360 I think it said like forty sixty and then he 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.440 said right after, he's like, well, this shirt is going 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.840 to be completely relevant in a day or two because 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.880 he's about to draw. Or maybe it was thirty sixty 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:11.880 or something like that. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.400 It was thirty sixties a thirty eight homer. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.760 Yeah, that's what it was because he's about to and 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.520 you know he knows exactly what this number. Oh yeah, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.160 he's hitting forty seventy, which insane? 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:22.960 Am I wrong? 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.840 Is this the most dominant season since like Eric Davis 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:26.240 had that. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.080 Eric Davis, Ricky Anderson, those kind of seasons. This is 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.920 break the world is for a fantasy football term. This 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.600 is when you got to take Ladanian Tomlinson first overall, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.559 and it's just it's it's just insanity. What Acuna is 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.040 doing to top it off, just the best part about it. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.600 Acunya did all that last night on Tuesday Night, on 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.080 Acunya Batfoot Bobblehead Night. And by the way, one of 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.560 the coolest babbleheads I see. So I'm gonna shamelessly say this, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.800 there's any listeners to have an extra one, I want 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.079 to sell one slide. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.360 To the DMS. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.520 I will buy it from you. I'll pay for shipping. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.920 This thing was awesome and I'm so jealous. I could 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.640 not have been there to do one shameless plug on 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:00.960 that one. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:01.440 That's cool. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:02.040 Yeah, you know what. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.520 All my bobbleheads I only have in two ways. They've 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.000 eve either been sent to me or I happen to 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:08.600 get them at a game. I don't have a ton 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.920 trying to see like who I have here, but I've 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.800 got like a couple. The only one I want the 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.240 Corbin Carrol one that he just had. They're running. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.520 There's so many good ones. I I used to collect 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.959 him like people would send me some. But for the 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.600 most part, they're all giants. They're all San Jose giants 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.640 because that's what I go and get. But there's so 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.160 many every one dream I could have if I retire, 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.840 but by that time I I don't have a collection. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.120 Just drive and do bobblehead tours just because there's so 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:31.720 many cool ones. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:31.920 Now. 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.120 Yeah, actually, right here over my right shoulder, you can 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.400 see this is the Luchador Coutell Marte. It's a little 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.440 broken up. He lost his cape, but it's the luchador, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.520 could tell Marte. So those are yeah, that'll be a 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.560 great one. That'll be fun. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:44.839 And of course. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.400 Uh and of course the Kuna just continues to dominate 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.880 and is beautiful also in that do want to point 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.200 out we're talking about that sag Strider did go seven 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.280 and struck out eleven yesterday, So you know those three 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.920 are battling it out and I think steals today. Correct, Yes, okay, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.760 so you know Steele's got to make his case, as 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.520 you said, for the three of these guys, but I 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.559 think it's kind of locked up. We also found out 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.240 that show Heotana, we knew he packed up his bags, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.320 he left. Well, he officially had surgery yesterday. So the 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.120 surgery happened, and it was quoted that he is fully 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.840 expected at the beginning of the year to be hitting 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.000 and pitching in twenty twenty five. They made it out 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.480 that this was like a team player decision, you know, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.360 because he wanted to go have it over in Japan, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.760 that they all decided on this, though it still seemed 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.200 pretty weird that they did the whole thing. Maybe there's 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.080 this slim little thing of hope of what I brought 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.400 up before, of you know, maybe teams hesitant and maybe 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.480 him wanting to hit the market when he's a pitcher. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.600 Maybe he does just resign with the Angels. I can't 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.400 imagine that's the case at this point. But he had 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.480 the surgery. We probably won't really hear his name or 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.960 anything until probably after the winter meetings. You know, he's 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.760 probably gonna take a little bit of time in that 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.199 full recovery and see what teams are offering. But surgery 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.600 has officially happened, but they expect him to be hitting 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.800 full throttle for spring training. Are you going to be out, Like, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.960 how are you going to draft Atani next year? 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.320 I've never drafted Otani, so that's a start, because I 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.400 just didn't want the headache of picking sides. Now it's 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.120 easy because it's hitting only as long as it's to 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.119 start the season. That's what I'm still skeptical about. I'd 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.760 be late first, early second, just because as a peer 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.480 hitter playing every day, he still has you know, forty 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.600 thirty upside if he really gets going. So I think 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.520 he's he might even be a mid first rounder if 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.440 that's the case. But I want to make sure he's 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.120 I need a better timeline of when he's actually coming back. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.760 Yeah, I mean that's going to be the thing. In 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.680 best balls, he might be lower in best balls. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.840 He can get a deal earlier draft. This is where 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.240 the early draft season people make fun of people. These 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.040 are the values you get that you don't get later 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.959 in the year. You also take the risks, of course, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.400 but you can get some insane values. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.040 Wonki's literally in my brain right now, y'ah, who's sitting there, like, Hey, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.480 pretty sweet. We've got Atani divided into two players, and 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.160 obviously in the exact same thing about Yahoo just sitting there. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.040 But yeah, I think if he plays and he's good 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.960 to go, he'll be a first rounder regardless of the 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.640 util and the pitching is not going to take away 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.319 from the injury. I guess you're just gonna have like 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.199 a general injury, since that's going to be in the 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.800 back of your head. But I think best balls, he's 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.760 probably going to go in the second round, maybe even 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.679 third early on like the you know, the November first 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.520 pitch drafts and stuff like that. If he's all good 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.520 to go and it does look good then and also 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.760 where he signs, you know, people are just gonna lose 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.160 their mind when he signs, and he'll probably be a 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.960 back in first rounder. But Atani officially had that surgery. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.680 Speaking of injuries, probably the most crushing for fantasy goers 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.240 right now, Royce Lewis left Tuesday's game with a hamstring injury, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.600 currently day to day, not in the Wednesday lineup. Wanted 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.000 to point that out. That was one of the first 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.760 things that came up in the comments because Royce, you know, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.320 we've talked a lot about Royce and the dynasty value 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.640 and where he's at and the way he's ending this 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.920 season and the way he has become the best Twins 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:06.240 player is insane, and he's pushing that value to next 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.920 year to an exponential amount. Except I just wonder if 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.760 this injury will be like a little bit of a 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.600 wake up call of like, oh, yeah, this just never 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.600 goes away, like these injuries are just always floating out there. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.400 But I don't know if there's any if anything has 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.040 changed in your mind on where you're at for Royce 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:21.680 for next year. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.000 No, I still love him a lot. He's gonna be 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.080 one of those big time gambles. Has like a jazz 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.280 Chisholm vibe to it, like, you know, the ceiling's ridiculous, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.560 but man, can you just stay on the stink and field. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.720 So it'll be one of those kind of discussions. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.120 Yeah, warm, warm, Sorry, guys, I know everybody's everyone's very upset, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.120 very very upset. Yeah, this is what you don't want. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.920 I actually saw a note that Walkee said, please don't 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.040 turn into Buckston. I saw that Buxton. They said Buxton 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.640 might be able to get into a game before the 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.440 Triple A season ends, and I was just like why, Like. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:53.960 I was wondering why they were even trying to play 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.920 him on the outfit where he reaggravated his injuries. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.360 Put him at DH. Stop this nonsense, we know it. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.320 I don't. Yeah, that's a long st It was. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:01.800 A hymn thing though. I think that was him, like 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.920 he was like, I don't want to be excited until 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:04.440 I'm in. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.320 Last time I checked, they pay him, so. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.360 Yeah, don't work like that anymore. But yeah, so that's 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.640 been a whole that's a whole thing. And I don't 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.440 know why he would push because the Triple A season 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.640 goes until like the like the end of next week, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.880 so it's essentially the end of the season. So I'm 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.200 not really sure what that matters for busting coming back. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.440 Not that anyone would want to lock him in the 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.280 other one. We've talked a ton about him, but Ryan 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.560 Peppio was just phenomenal. No decision. He allowed one run, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.480 five hits, he walked one, struck out four. He had 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.200 twelve swinging whiffs on ninety seven pitches. Eight of those 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.720 whiffs came on the fastball thirty one percent CSW. He 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.720 has a one point nine to one ERA in thirty 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.120 three innings, which has been six appearances, three starts with 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.080 the Dodgers, and is setting himself up to probably be 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.960 a monster value next year and whatever that's going to 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.720 be if he's going to get a full go. So 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.120 Pepio is kind of a sit it and forget it 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.960 type of starter or the rest of the way and 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.560 he's gonna be a good value next year. Do you 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.880 agree though, that there's no matchup you're really worried about 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:07.360 with him? 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:08.880 No, And that's where I was gonna go with this. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.280 I love Pepio. We've pounded the drum on this show. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.160 I've said it on anywhere that'll listen to me to 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.280 add him a while ago. It's supposed to be for 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.760 two starts this week against Detroit and the Giants. Well, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.600 the Dodgers. Is what the beauty of the final two 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.120 weeks of the season does. They inserted Emmett she And and 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.800 Gavin Stone in the rotation this week, So Pepio' is 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.840 now scheduled quote unquote scheduled for a two step next 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.400 week at Colorado at SF. And I still started him 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.000 because Colorado is not the same Rockies, and I just 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.600 love Pepio. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:34.480 I think he's amazing. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.080 This is kind of how it goes with some of 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.320 these someome streaming pictures. And then we'll answer a few 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.000 of your questions for a Thursday. I know we've talked 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.920 about these, but I just want to bring it back up. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.920 We're looking at the Fantasy Pro's probable picture list here 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.560 and not the Nick Pollock but the other picture list 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.840 here And if you're looking at two pictures to stream, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.680 it looks like it is a smaller slate. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.560 Yeah, thursdays a lot of off days. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.480 It's Sarah Gibson Long versus Oakland and Rangers swarre versus 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.080 the Mets. I think we've all agreed that Gibson Long 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:08.439 is an absolute no brainer. There is a little baby 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.760 bit about like hugging your ratios and being maybe a 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.560 little bit scared, but I think I don't know, We've 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.080