WEBVTT - Leading Off August 7th, 2024 (Ep. 882) 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.640 What's up, friends, and welcome into Leading Off here right 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.560 here on Fantasy Pros. I'm Chris Welsh. That is the 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.120 Joe Alrico, and today's episode is brought to you by 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.240 bet three six five, where you can bet five dollars 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.040 get one hundred and fifty in bonus bets just by 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.840 using the promo code leading Off Bet three six five, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.720 the title sponsor of Leading Off this entire year gambling problem. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.479 You can call it one a hundred bets off or 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:35.199 one eight hundred gambler. Terms of conditions apply, ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:41.239 They did it. That's my mouth trumpet. I'm very good 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.800 at a Joe Rico. The White Sox have won a game, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.159 almost beating a record. I'm always going for the records. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.879 I'm always going for the biggest losers to lose all 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.000 the games. I wanted the Lions years to go to 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.720 lose every single game. I wanted the White Sox to 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.120 lose every single game through the end of the year. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.720 Because Joe, I have an appreciation for history and greatness, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.720 and you have to appreciate the greatness, that is the 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.000 awfulness that the White Sox have been. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.920 Might be the worst team in history. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.000 I know that's been talked about, like at least in 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:11.800 the modern era for sure, as long as you and 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.600 I have been watching baseball. And the funny thing is, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:15.479 like everybody was last year going on and on about 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.319 how bad the Athletics are, the White Sox are way 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.639 worse this year than the Athletics were last season. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:21.720 I think it's not even close. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.800 It's not remotely well. I mean, did the Athletics lose 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.560 twenty one straight games at any point last year? So 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.160 I think that's pretty good for it. Good for the 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.400 White Sox. By the way, Jonathan Cannon, the pitcher, he'll 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.640 live in infamy of course, six innings, one run ball 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 as they beat the A's five to one. I will 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.800 say it's kind of apropos that they beat the a 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.040 of all the teams, that it was the A's that 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.080 they did it. Only other thing would have been maybe 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.400 like the Braves with just how ridiculously bad the Braves 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.400 offense has been in general. But the White Sox have 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.200 been a huge, big embarrassment. But congratulations to them. They 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.840 can throw like a little mini parade with like you know, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.440 those eight vault little cars and people can just wave 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.280 Luis Robert can, you know, drop balls and stuff like that. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.640 But the White Sox just absolutely horrendous. Fantasy options have 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.480 just been kind of blah from that team. Everything around 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.560 the White Sox has been bleffed. But they did avoid 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.600 the what was it? Was it twenty three? Was it 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.840 gonna be? Twenty three? Was going to be the historical 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.079 awfold tide mark of most lost games? 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.280 I think it was either twenty two or twenty three. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.800 I think, yeah, one or the other. I had something 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:31.440 crazy too. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.239 Sheets. What's his name not Ben Sheets? Yeah? 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.880 I loved I loved the Sheets for the White Sox. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.600 His dad played for the Age Oh Gavin Sheets, Gavin. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.720 Sheets, Thank you, Ben Sheets? What year am I in? Sheets? 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.200 His father played for the Angels team in the eighties 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.880 that also had the previous record of like twenty one losses, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.200 So they got some stuff to bond about on Father's 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.079 Day and Thanksgiving. Now talk about their respect of twenty 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:58.280 one game losing streaks. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.240 Yeah, that's actually fun. Like Princefielder and Cecil, they obviously 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.280 don't probably meet ever, but when they do they can 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.160 talk about ending with the same career homers, and then 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.320 the Sheets family can be like no you're the biggest loser. No, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.080 you're the biggest loser. So that's like a super fun one. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:15.840 By the way, what's up to the peanuts and cracker 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.400 Jacks that are all hanging with us in here? I 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.120 think I saw our boy Jack Boyce is on a 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.840 plane to Disney World. There's no way you're watching from 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.840 the plane. Wi Fi can't be that good. But if 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.880 you are a shout out to it, probably answer some questions. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.880 Pistol right there, what's up, Pistol. If you guys got 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.720 any questions, feel free to drop them in the chat. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.480 We may get to them today on our new schedule. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.920 Hopefully you guys are all accustomed to. I know, Monday, Wednesday, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.240 Friday little bit altered and a little bit disjointed. I 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.119 gotta be honest with you. Me on my own Tuesday 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.800 was like where is everybody? We're all my people. So 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.520 the little adjusted schedule here, but we'll have fun with it. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.480 So if you guys have got questions, we'll kind of 0:03:55.480 --> 0:04:00.000 answer them throughout. Another piece of actually laughable historical stuff 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:06.480 is awesome here. Framber Valdez was one out away from 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.920 a no hitter. Let's say, home run. A home run 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.480 did end it. What was so magical about it was 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.000 God dang it. Now I'm forgetting who it was. But 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.720 there was like an article that got put out right 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.920 before it ended, talking about how and maybe it came 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.719 out right as it happened. It was like Framber No 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.480 hits the Rangers and comes back blah blah blah, and 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.040 then as that happens, Corey Seeger launches a two run 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.559 homer two snap that no hitter after a double play 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.560 eight and two thirds of an inning for Framber Corey Seger. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.240 They didn't win the game. It would have actually been 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.640 way more magical had the Rangers taken that game away 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.360 from Framber. But Corey Seger breaks it. Joe, let's talk 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.560 about Framber Valdez, who is definitely been towing on the 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.200 line of more consistency than he was earlier in the year. Yeah. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.960 I think we might have pupooed him on last week's 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.680 show when I was on Well, I think we were 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.920 comparing him to Logan Web or something. He's getting there, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.039 He's still not somebody that I really trust so so much. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.880 Like it has definitely gotten better and it's like the 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.279 exact same era as last season. I think it's just 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.359 really the strikeout drop, which hasn't been so so drastic, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.120 but he's not. From like twenty five percent to twenty 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.120 two percent, just takes away some of that per inning 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.800 viability a little bit, Like there's no real concern. You're 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.839 still starting him against pretty much everybody. But I don't 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.640 view him in the same tier as I did coming 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.200 into the season. I think he's a bit of a 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.200 notch down, kind of in the same way as like 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.320 Zach Gallon to some extent, but I think that's more 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.240 like an innings concern. But I viewed them a little 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.800 bit in the higher tier coming into the year than 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.480 I did at this point, and they're both kind of 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.279 in the same tier. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.160 But that's kind of where I'm at. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.360 Frambur in that game, by the way, one hundred and 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.880 seven pitches was primary curveball, change up. Stuff was down, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.120 sinker was up a little bit. It's over a mile prowur, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.359 so I mean, again, assume that's the fastball. So his 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.320 fastball was up. The secondaries were going a little bit slower, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.120 a ton of whiffs on the curveball. Rangers were just 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.520 eating up his curveball eight of eight of eighteen swings 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.440 were whiffed through change up as well, so twelve of 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.200 his sixteen whiffs came from his secondary off speed stuff. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.320 But also this game was a lot about limiting soft contact. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.240 The curveball had an average EVY of eighty five against 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.919 and the change up seventy six, So that's the amount 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.360 of hard contact that was against both of those pitches. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.400 And the two high average evs were the slider and 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.240 the sinker, and he was limiting those. He threw those 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.919 a combined looks like thirty five of his one hundred 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.920 and seven pitches where they're a slider or a sinker. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.960 So it was a ton of secondary stuff in this 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.760 which ended up working out for him all the way 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.440 until it didn't. Still worked out still, you know, picked up, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.520 picked up the win and everything like that, but Corey 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.960 Seger absolutely demolished that and got him out of that one. Also, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.599 by the way, very weird day with all the weather 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.799 because we've got just a whole bunch of just rained 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.640 out game. We've got double headers today, we've got Yankees 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.720 and Angels, we've got the Diamondbacks that are going to 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.880 be kicking off right as this game is going to end. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.240 So I know that's thrown in. Someone was complaining in 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.800 the chat about the Louise Heel to start getting kind 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.640 of screwed this week, which it's this time of year 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.800 if it's not whether it's pushbacks of usage and stuff 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.360 like that, Joe and we don't get a lot of 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.520 these guys. I'm actually very excited about the Louis Heel 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.280 start here. It's one of my most highly focused ones 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.240 of all these guys, you know, the Paul Skins, the 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.720 Louis Heels, and how they're going to perform. This one's 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.360 kind of got me, got me a little bit excited 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.320 today if I had a primary. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.160 Focus Luis Heel against the Angels. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.400 Right, Yankees Angels, he's the first game of the second game. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.080 He is the first. I want to say, he's the 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.320 first game, and the Will Warren start is the second game. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.000 I mean, if these even play, by the way, they 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.000 still keep getting rained out. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.000 They're still a concern today. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.000 I haven't checked the forecast today, but there's a chance 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.600 those get those get washed out again. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.160 I thought there was a concern like literally all week 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.240 for any of these Angels games if they weren't going 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.960 to even play at all. So I don't know. There's 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.840 some concerns I wanted. I love me some Lucile. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.480 I wonder when there's gonna be like universal retractable roofs 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.720 across sports football. We saw the Hall of Fame game baseball. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.840 I wonder if it's like ten years out, fifteen twenty, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.160 because I feel like eventually every stadium is going to 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:18.800 have to have a dome or retractable roof. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.280 No, you know it, Yeah maybe, but I feel like 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.280 that's the same conversation of like, when are we going 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.080 to have artificial turf of some version in every single 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.160 stadium and they still don't like there's still something special 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.560 that you know, each of these stadiums or a lot 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.320 of them are gonna want that just have that big, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.400 open feel even though it's you know, it's great, Like 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.679 we have one here in Arizona. When they open it up, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.360 it's nice, but it's not the same feeling probably as 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.000 going to like, you know, Chicago, But I don't think 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.160 Chicago's ever going to change it. But yeah, I don't know. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.840 I mean, we should probably hone in on that. The 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.440 amount of games that get lost due to it is 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.199 pretty obnoxious, and the double headers and stuff like that, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.640 but you know what it is. What it is the Dodgers. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.840 Clayton Kershaw allowed one run over four and two thirds 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.400 had five strikeouts against the against the Phillies. What's your 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.679 level of comfort with Kershawn moving forward? He's not going 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.360 deep into games, but we're I feel like we're seeing 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.640 some shades of old. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:12.840 Yeah. I think he's all right. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.280 I don't think he's necessary, like he's never gonna be 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.640 prime Kershaw again, but he's never ever been bad. Like 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.920 I think the worst era he's ever put up over 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.040 a season is like three five, three six, even if 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.600 he's at a reduced capacity, which at this point following 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.920 shoulder surgery at his age he probably is. But I 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.760 think we're still gonna see consistent, really good performances, even 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.200 if it's just over five innings. Good chance he's gonna 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.040 be able to get a win, even just over five innings. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.360 In Los Angeles, they got Freeman back. I think Mooki's 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.960 gonna be back fairly soon. So I think that he's 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.240 somebody that should be rostered everywhere. I don't even think 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.760 in shallow leagues I'd want to leave Kershaw out there. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.200 I love him. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.720 I've always been biased towards Kershaw, but he's just always 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.480 been so good. I think he deserves the benefit of 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.480 the doubt, even after we're the last start wasn't so great. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.080 He hasn't gone so deep into games, but I'm still 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.600 very confident in him going forward. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.840 All the stuff was up in this last start, which 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.600 is a you know, that's a big positive, not that 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.600 there were anything crazy that was up. Slider was massively effective. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.360 That was his big with pitch in this one. Did 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.000 not get a single swing through on a fastball, but 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.840 he was throwing it, he was commanding it. Had an 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.960 over fifty percent zone rate, which is really really nice. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.320 Just no one was swinging outside of the zone. But 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.800 that's where the curveball and the slider were both getting people. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.720 So again that is like vintage Kershaw. He just doesn't 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.040 really throw anything hard. He was averaging ninety on the fastball. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.080 The secondaries get really low. But you know, him being 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.120 healthy is really just the key at this point. Like 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.680 he saw it. By the way, I am laughing at 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 like we have like weather reports in the chat right now, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.959 Angelo said, Angels Yankees Game one, scattered showers around most 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.120 of the activity looks pretty light and This is from 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.000 Kevin Roth. But they're not going to rule out a 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:56.079 delay already in Game one. The weather stuff, man, it's 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.280 so weird. We were supposed to have last night. Actually 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:02.000 went out to the complex over to the Mariners and 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.400 got to see Jerangelo and talk to him for a second. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.720 The Mariner's first round pick. He's the ambidextrous pitcher who 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.280 throws with both hands. Also Ryan Sloan and a couple 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.160 of the Guardians guys. But we were like worried because 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.400 it was supposed to be the storm of the century 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.880 here eighty mile an hour, sixty eighty mile an hour 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:27.839 wins out here, tornado, thunderstorm warnings, and Arizona nothing. There 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.320 was nothing, Not a single thing happened. But that's also 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.240 a very Arizona centric thing. I don't know how you 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.520 guys deal with Jerry says there's no power there. I 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.679 don't know how you guys deal with all of the 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.679 insanity like this, And you're in Canada. It's got to 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.800 be bad for you too. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.480 The weather's kind of crazy here, Like there was actually 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.360 a few weeks ago, like you know, behind the scenes, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.600 I was going like to produce a couple of shows 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.280 here and I couldn't do them because we just lost 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.720 power for like the entire day. Weather it can be 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.120 a little bit tricky, but we don't have to worry 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.640 about like tornadoes and hurricanes and stuff like that, so 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.320 it's a trade off, but it's not too too bad. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.640 They're a little extreme. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.360 The seasons here, like it'll be boiling hot one day 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.640 and then freezing the next with no warning. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.440 But I've kind of got used to it over the years. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.000 It's one hundred and thirteen yesterday too, by the way, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.680 and all those storms here one hundred and thirteen. The 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.040 weather outside is whether On the Cubs, we got a 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:23.120 couple pieces. Shota Emanaga allowed two runs over seven innings, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:27.640 striking out ten, picking up the win. Some strong outings 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.040 from e Managa. I definitely was kind of calling for 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.640 a big retraction of production in the second half, or 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.760 theoretical production. There's actually a really good thread out yesterday. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.760 One of my biggest worries with I Monaga has been 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.400 him being a two pitch pitcher. I focused so much 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.520 of the first half on it. By the way, me 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.440 and I did a podcast with Enoserris where we were 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.360 kind of breaking down and like two pitch pitchers are 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.680 kind of scary. I think two pitch pitchers with a 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.200 splitter are kind of scary because you're really just kind 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.840 of you. You're an up and down pitcher outside of 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.559 whatever type you know, theoretical movement you might get on 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.800 the corners of a splitter. Iman Aga as of recent 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.800 and there's a really good thread about it, is talking 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.680 about him starting to implement a change up, and maybe 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.720 a different couple versions of a change up. I think 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.680 they were calling like one was like a vulcan grip 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.000 change up, and I don't know if the other I'm 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.080 forgetting now if the other one was like the circle 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.320 change or something like that. But I want to actually 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.319 look at his pitch mix here before I speak too 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.400 soon about it. At least he is starting to do it, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.240 but yeah, I mean they're showing like he's got the 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.439 sinker in there, which is getting a little bit more 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.240 movement on the corners, starting to throw a sweeper a 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.360 little bit, and they're really not registering the change up, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.760 but I think it might be misregistered. Splitter sometimes can 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.680 do that. But still at the end of the day, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.240 it's like of his ninety two pitches eighty four of 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.080 them or either fastball or splitter. So unless you're getting 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.680 a little bit of a misclarification from Savant, which is 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.200 very normal, you know, it's still showing the same thing. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.400 But the idea is that Emanaga is starting to tinker 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.600 with a few other things to get some different looks. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.480 And he's got seventeen strikeouts over his last thirteen and 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.720 two thirds of an inning, and he has been pretty decent. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:17.880 Emanaga Top fifteen sp rest of season. Yeah or nay. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.680 I actually just updated my rankings not too long ago. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.160 I think he was outside of the top fifty. No, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.840 I want to say I had him like twenty something. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.520 I think it's just like the relative lack of strikeouts 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.040 compared to the other top tier starting pitchers might keep 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.040 them outside. I had him at twenty six actually over 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.680 the All Star break, which maybe was selling him a 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.160 little bit short. I think it might just be the 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.600 strikeouts to worry about some of that regression, and we've 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.840 seen a little bit like he hasn't been as pure 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.640 as he was earlier on in the season. I might 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.520 have sold him a little short there, though. I think 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.560 he's probably around around twentieth for me. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.680 Okay, and then I feel like, I mean, the era 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.840 is kind of inflated back up. You know, when I 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.920 was talking about it, it was like the sub two er, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.040 and I think he's just leveling out. This is exactly 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:04.760 what that was going to happen. He was just going 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.160 to kind of be like a level out guy, and 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.320 that's what's happening. Three Eira strikeouts are good, doesn't walk 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.800 a lot, barrels are getting up a little bit more, 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:16.200 and he's starting to add some horizontal movement to his arsenal, 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.080 which I think is like, really really important. Also on 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.520 the Cubs, est sac parades two for three with a homer, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.160 four RBI. His first homer is a Cub. But mister 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.840 Joe Rico parades three for twenty seven he had entered 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:36.480 in as a Cub, and we had one hundred percent 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.160 one hundred percent kind of put the clamps on that 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.440 trade as being probably the worst, probably the one we 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.160 didn't like the most, at least I didn't like the 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.760 most because from a ballpark perspective, that was the biggest 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.440 difference as far as that pole side left field. And 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.120 we have seen the Parades struggles early on. Are you in? 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.680 Are you out? I mean, like I said yesterday, great, awesome, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.000 you got your homer, but he had really been struggle 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.840 playing thoughts on paradeus moving forward the rest of the year. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.840 He's not somebody I would want to drop or anything like. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.840 He's still somebody that you should be rostering. But it's 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.720 a definite down grade. It's like a I think it 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.160 was forty feet farther out in left field, and that's 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.400 really all that he does is hit balls in the 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.400 air to left field if it's a little bit harder there. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.040 He's not giving you a lot of batting average. That 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.040 lineup isn't great enough that you can really count on 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.560 a lot of runs in RBIs there's no speed, Like 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.400 it's a serious downgrade for him. If you're in like 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.080 a ten team league where it's really shallow like ESPN rosters. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.920 I think he's pretty borderline like most leagues where you 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.720 got like those corner middle infield spots. If you're playing 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.800 like NFBC leagues, like you're still holding him, but really 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.080 shallow leagues like this is a serious downgrade, and it 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.320 really hurts the only thing that he really excels in, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.560 which is hitting for power. Unless he start hitting the 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.320 ball the other way, which is not gonna happen. I 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.600 don't really expect much out of parates. I think it 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.080 was a bad trade. I really just think it was 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:53.880 a bad trade. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.120 Yeah, Sabo was saying the win must have been blowing 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.400 down that left field line. I actually think in that game, 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.680 I think the wins were blowing in. I think they're 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.480 actually blowing in to the first base side. I just 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.920 happened to look because of course I was like, oh good, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.080 Actually this was Monday, Monday it was blowing in. So 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.920 you know what, I don't remember. I remember Monday because 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.760 I had taken the over and someone was like, watch 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.919 out for the weather. It's like ten miles an hour in. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.800 I had taken a look at so I don't know. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.400 I do have one for you a versus east Soock Parades, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.920 and let's use your smaller league as like a good 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.960 barometer here, Eastock Parades or Tyler Fitzgerald. Who would you 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:30.080 rather have rest the season? 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.639 I think paradies. Still, I don't buy these runs from 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:35.320 players like this. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.359 Now, there are things that I'd like about Fitzgerald, like 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.280 he has a lot of speed, the power seems to 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.399 be fairly legit, but still striking out a lot, and 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.280 like when you see these excuse me, when you see 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.400 these guys like Kevin Pollar went on a crazy heater 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.800 earlier in the year, Lawrence Butler, it doesn't really sustain 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.200 all that often. Like Fitzgerald's hitting like five home runs 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.320 a week. I just I find it pretty hard to 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.399 think in that ballpark, around that lineup that he's really 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.480 gonna be a shallow league guy. I think that would 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:04.600 be parades for me there. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.080 Think I'm gonna go Tyler Fitzgerald, Like, I don't know 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.560 if there's enough time for a big alteration, like Parides. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.119 Game has been very simple. It has been pull the 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.399 ball in the air. That's what he does. Everything he 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.960 does is pull the ball in the air. It's not 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.240 that that's gone, but it's tapered. It's tapered down. And 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.280 Tyler fitzgild I do worry about the strikeouts, but he's 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.360 making like really solid contact, Like his barrel rate has 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.560 been really good, you know, putting good hard hits. He's 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.680 leading off for the team as well. I know my 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.639 son crazy in smaller leagues. I would go because I 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.440 do think there's a potential that a guy like Tyler 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.280 Fitzgerald could be out there over pradues by the way, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.280 you know, the most ridiculous thing, but shout out to 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.520 my mom. My mom came in here and came in 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.399