WEBVTT - MLB Leading Off May 3rd, 2024 EP. 804 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.799 Well can ate everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.719 Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.440 five Bet five bucks, get one hundred and fifty and 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.720 bonus bets when you use the promo code leading Off. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.000 It's me Joey p. That is the Welsh, and it's 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.599 you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks hanging out with us. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.840 It's Friday. The baron has the right idea. Friday Beer's Welsh. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.760 Let's go. Let's get into the Friday Beers special announcement. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.640 Though before we get into all that, we're also going 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.440 to be doing the show a little early on Monday, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.400 so instead of twelve thirty start, it's going to be 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.040 a noon Eastern start. Just set your calendars appropriately. Want 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:40.800 to get that out of the way. We got some 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.920 important business stuff to do. Sometimes the business of the 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.400 business's got to take over, so we're doing that. But 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.240 we will be here. Leading Off will be here, Welsh 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.480 will be here, I will be there and Welsh. When 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:56.240 we're here, we are dangerously close to twenty thousand subscribers. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.840 I'm when we're here on Monday, one hundred percent going 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:00.480 to be at twenty. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.240 We have to be there we are hope we. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.920 Are twenty something people away as we record this, which 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.720 means we will then be announcing maybe that made maybe 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.360 Our Monday meeting is about the twenty K that will 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.200 be then announcing our special show, our special twenty K show, 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.280 which you guys, what we have planned will be phenomenal. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.440 So it will be It's gonna be fun, It's gonna 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.640 be a good time as always there and now I 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.880 hate to bring us down here after all the good 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.399 times and the Friday beers. But yesterday there was only 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.399 one home run call from all the peanuts and Crackerjacks 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.000 that actually hit just one. It was a terrible slate. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.360 It was tough limited games is a Thursday, so that 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.280 was kind of bad. What made it worse the only 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.280 person who got the home run call was Mike Mayer. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.520 And even worse than that, worse, worse, sir, the home 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.040 run call was Ryan Mountcastle, his boyfriend. So like I happened, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.760 this is yesterday is a bummer. Like that was a 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.800 big bummer, So I want to wipe the slate clean. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.080 Congratulations to Mayor though forgetting the one long home run call. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.000 So the leaderboard obviously is not going to look too 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.480 different today when we get to the home runs, but it's. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.080 Hard to do. That's hard to do, by the way, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.200 to have one home run call and then for it 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.600 to be a character involved with Mayer, that is pretty crazy. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.680 Well, Tim saying, isn't Joey p Italian his family should 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.600 at least count for twenty thousand alone. You're right, and 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.280 look have you got family here on the show. Even 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.680 my daughter subscribed to the show because they're good kids. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.880 But I don't think they're frequent watchers. They do not care, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.320 but they're subscribers. They support the family supports that's what 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.679 they do. But speaking of support, the Mets rotation is 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.120 going to get some support. Christian Scott, a guy we've 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.679 been talking about for weeks now, is going to get 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.160 the opportunity. Twenty four year old pitching prospect for the 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.720 New York Metropolitans. He is going to get a shot 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.480 here fifth round selection. He's got a three to two ERA, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.760 a point seven to one whip, thirty six strikeouts, six 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.079 walks in twenty five innings. So I don't know how 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.480 long this is going to be Welsh, but I'm going 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.160 to try to live in the moment and be excited 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.720 about tomorrow because tomorrow sorrow is Christian Scott Day. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.560 It is very exciting. We've been speculating about it. Howser 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.040 ended up having another one of those starts, another one 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.480 of those things. It's not in his spot in the rotation, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.880 but this is what we're talking about, Like they weren't 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.760 going to hold him back for this long. Some really 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.799 good positives on Christian Scott. You know his stuff. He's 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.360 been maintaining three four pitch pitcher. He's given up only 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.200 one hit in two straight games each, so two hits 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.280 over two games, which is nuts. But check this out. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.240 He has given up twelve total hits this season. Seven 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.480 of them have been for home runs. So there's a 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.520 little bit of a home run problem, which is kind 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.360 of aproposed to me to brandan solo home runs? 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.280 How many of them? Like I'm asking you, there's some 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:52.400 great pitchers back in the day. We're gangbusters for that 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:53.880 where they would give up a lot of solo home 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.840 runs because they were just pounding the zone. They didn't 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.640 care you're gonna get one, that's fine, You're just not 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.680 gonna do it when someone's on that firm. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.040 Four of the seven are at least solo homers. I 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.080 don't know about the other three. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.560 I was an chilling thing before he went crazy. He 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.040 was notorious for giving up solo home runs because he 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.200 would challenge guys what he didn't have to and sometimes 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.120 it would burn him. But he was like, hey, I'm 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.880 throwing strikes. I'm trying to work through the lineup. This 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:17.599 is what I'm trying to do. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.800 It's very reminiscent, I'm telling you, it's very reminiscent of 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.840 Brandon Fought. Like Brandon Fought was a basketball sweeper, change 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.880 up guy. That's what Christian Scott is. Velo's are maybe 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.800 like a tiny bit lower than what Brandon Fought does, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.320 but you know he like sits around ninety three ninety four. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.800 But if you sit in the zone a little bit 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.840 too much, if that sweep doesn't sweep enough, and then 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.159 you're pounding the fastball in, you're gonna give up some homers. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.720 So it's a little bit more of a flyball guy. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.080 So it's something to watch. Here's a positive. I think 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.400 they're going up against the Rays. The Rays are like 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.320 bottom six in the league in homers per game, so 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.200 they don't hit a bunch of Homer. So it's either 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.599 gonna bend and you know it's gonna be a great 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.720 day to have Richie Pelasios or Yandi Diez or something 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.559 like that over the weekend. Or it's just a better 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.520 matchup for a guy that hasn't been giving up a 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.720 bunch of hits, can rack up some strike ups. To 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.680 thirty six strikeouts over those six starts so far this 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.440 year to only twelve hits doesn't walk a ton. This 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.479 is what we've been building for. I wrote in my 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.919 Prospected Stash article. I pretty much start him in any 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.960 capacity unless it was a team like the Braves. Here's 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.600 a unique thing. I believe it's the Braves next week. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.920 So he's gonna get this start against the Rays, and 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.440 then he would line up I think maybe maybe. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.839 Not because Tyler McGill is still working his way back 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.080 and he could end up going back into the rotation. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.479 Here's a weird question. I can't believe we've been asking 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.400 this several Reno's pitch well, Bhuteau's pitched well, Christian Scott 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.520 has shown a lot of talent the Mets, and Koda 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.520 Senga is working his way back from injury. Is the 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.280 Mets rotation good? Did I wake up this morning? Is 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:52.560 the Mets rotation actually good? 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:58.040 Is it good? That's a tricky question. Mets and good 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.000 rotation forget? 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.480 I said it forgets. Yeah, let's say. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.240 I think it it toes the line of being good. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:05.640 It's very strong. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.800 I mean it's funny. Severino is usually the perfect guy 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.680 that I would be like all over this year in 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.560 fantasy and drafts. I would have been all like, yeah, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.360 like post type whatever guy coming out of the Yankees, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.279 Nu chain. But it was the Mets. I was like, oh, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.560 this can't he did, so I avoided it. But he's 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.039 been terrific. Kyle Bradish four and two thirds, one run, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.799 four hits in his return start against the Yankees. Welsh, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.719 Any thoughts on what you saw it a Bradish yesterday 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.280 limited in terms of you know what the innings were 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.600 going to be yesterday. I think we all knew that 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.560 going in, but tough challenge against the Yankees. Look like 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.479 he passed with flying colors and his arm is still 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:37.360 attached to his body. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.760 I would agree all good things. By the way, thirty 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.120 three percent CSW percentage had a bunch of whiffs. Thirty 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.159 eight percent on the slider couple on the forcing fastball, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.239 so he was setting up. He got the eighty four pitches, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.480 which is pretty great. There was no big crazy VL decreases, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.279 which I think would have been the really big thing 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.720 to look for. Looked like vintage ish Bradish. Big win 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.320 for anybody that had gotten Bradish in drafts, people had 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.480 dropped him and picked him up. He just goes right 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.200 back into it and he kind of lines up you 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.160 just talking about Christian Scott, you know, he kind of 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.480 lines up with Bradish being good that We'll see how 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.400 far this goes as far as the other picture that 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.000 was on the prospect list, Kid Povich that I had 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:21.800 talked about, and see if he gets to start soon. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.560 But like Bradish being good is one of those reasons 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.800 that pushes back them experimenting or anything like what John means. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.680 But yeah, I'm all in. I'm great that Bradish is back. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.280 He is a definite buy if anybody is just kind 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.360 of like waffling about it, because coming off of that injury, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.680 going eighty four, I don't care about any big crazy limits. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.120 That's positive. That's a bit that's better than I think 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.040 what we're probably going to see. How a walker Bueller 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.320 on Monday. I'd be shocked to see him go eighty 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.600 five pitches or something like that. So this is the 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.880 injury that I can kind of look past a little bit. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.000 And Kad Povich has no relation to Maury Povich. Right, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:56.680 you should know. And the reason I ask is it's 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.160 not a joke because a lot of people will know this. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.800 His dad. Surely Povich was renowned baseball writer. His dad 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.320 is named Shirley's name is Shirley. Shirley Povich, I want 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.720 to is also on the Ken Burns documentary Baseball. If 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.880 memory serves to Kate, you are not your father? Is 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.600 Joe completely making this up? You just don't know. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.880 I would imagine a guy like Kate Povich has been 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.520 asked that three to four hundred times per week. So 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.720 I'm gonna guess no, or we would have heard about it. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.160 So surely Povich was an American. He was a sports commist. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.440 I want to say, not Washington Post and that was dad. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.120 That was Maury's dad. I will bet journalist before the 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.560 you're not the father stuff, just say. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.400 I will bet you we will get a nice, quippy 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.040 little article from the Athletic or something very soon. If 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.599 Kate Win Kate Povich gets called up if he is 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.520 related to Maury. I promise, there you go. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.680 I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. That's the 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.280 perfect thing for the Baron's on fire today, Barrett's crushing 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.079 in the check. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.840 Lots of don't call me Shirley's. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.280 Yeah, it's good, it's it's a class. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.520 That was Leslie Nielsen, right, oh, says he is. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:04.920 Not the father. I didn't think it was the father. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.239 I just didn't know if he was a relative, just saying. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.360 But he also might just be doing he is not 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.160 the father. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:11.520 You might know that. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.960 Don't call me surely is Leslie Nielsen? Right? 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.439 That is Lesli Nielson from Area. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.040 Did you know that I worked with somebody who I 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.920 don't I don't have much detail I want to give. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.240 But they were directly no no, no, I'll tell you offline. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.840 But they were done with Chris Welsh. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.960 How they were directly related with Leslie Nielsen. And I 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.160 got all like to the estate and everything like that, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.880 like they were a direct relative of Leslie Nielsen. So 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.920 I always got the stories about Leslie Nielson before he passed. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:43.480 There's stories about Leslie Nielsen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fun or 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.000 after the show stories, after the show stories. All right, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.000 let's tell a story about for instance, Golden Door drove 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.600 in four runs off the bench yesterday. I kept saying 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.200 he was one of my bilows. In fact, on TV, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.599 I did a whole segment on him last week on 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.600 the Last Sunday Show, just by it like he is 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.520 a good player. He has got off to a slope, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.040 a bad april, slow start, whatever you want to call it, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.840 doesn't matter. By Okay, this is a little annoying, but 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.800 not you know, something we didn't kind of think was 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.160 in the range of outcomes. John Singleton two for three 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.920 to two run Homer. He was starting at first base yesterday, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.600 Low Brafiito on the bench. Any concerns here or worries 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.000 here that liw Brafiito's going to get behind Singleton and 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.800 a brat is going to come back up and little 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.520 Brafriito's gonna get kind of, you know, downsized out here. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.760 No, because Luperfido has been playing in the outfield and 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.960 he hasn't been playing first base. So I think that's 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.480 the positive. He made a bunker's play the other day 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.120 that bounced off of the wall. He bare handed it 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.040 and threw the guy out at second So no, I've 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.560 actually said I think that that might be the good 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.160 thing to look for Luperfito, is that they're not throwing 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.440 him at first base and making his only spot. He'll 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.800 start to move over there. What is interesting is I 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.640 think they sat him just the other day. God was 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.760 it versus a lefty and then Singleton was it. I 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.760 don't understand the Singleton thing though, he just had a 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.200 couple RBI and he's doing that. I just don't think 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.480 at this point positive that Luperfido is going to be 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.440 affected by whatever would happen in the future with a braw. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.280 To me, this is a Singleton of bray you situation 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.559 now because they made a commitment that luper Fido is 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:10.640 gonna stick up there. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.160 But it's worth a pickup then because, like Jerry's asking 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.560 here in the chat, I guess in the deeper leagues 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.240 bats yeah. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.680 Yeah, in a deeper league, I would consider it. I 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.760 don't know if i'd be cutting him for anything like 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.360 really positive. I think he's going to continuously struggle, but yeah, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:27.440 deeper deeper league. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.240 Uh. By the way, I was right, Shirley Povic was 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.679 in uh the Ken Burn's Baseball documentary. He's the very 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.000 old guy with the very big horn rim glasses that 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.040 tells a lot of these great stories, like about like 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.040 you know, like the nineteen nineteen White Sox kind of stuff. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.480 Like great stuff, man, amazing guy. We need it. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.520 We need a comeback of like those really good like 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:46.920 half inch thick glasses. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.480 Like people agree, well, maybe twenty thousand, maybe twenty five 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:55.120 thousand should wear enormous glass. Enormous glasses on the show. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.959 Oh yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, we have the ring 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:57.800 lights that are just. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.800 I think we should let the Panza cracker Jacks pick 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.040 the glasses at twenty five. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.920 K oh okay. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.640 Tunny, we've already decided upon I like twenty the twenty. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.840 We're sticking with the twenty. All right. One more thing 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.679 to get to here. Walker Buller schedule to make a 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:17.280 season debut on Monday. Celebrate Everybody, May is Walker Buller Month. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.920 There you go, everybody, your expectations for Walker Buller rest 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.720 of season? Do you think there's any way he gets 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.360 back to form because a few years ago, Walker Buller, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.880 I think we forget, was a dominant fantasy pitcher, but 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.760 unfortunately injuries have kind of derailed that the last two years. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.840 So what is your hope like is if he is 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.280 a mid to back and starting pitcher here, is that 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.040 enough on the Dodgers to make you excited and fantasy? 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.080 Yeah, if he was that on the Dodgers, I'm not 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.280 super optimistic. You could tell that by the open earlier. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.800 I don't know how Dv's gonna go. H The Velo 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.640 has been kind of a struggle. They just brought him 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.199 back last year, you know, like he was gonna come 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.680 up and he was gonna get some time, and then 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.520 they just shut it down and they were completely done 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.280 with it. The babying has me worried to the point 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.640 that I don't know if we're going to get the 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.360 old school Walker Bualer. But it's all speculation, so like 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.199 at this moment without seeing him in the majors or 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.839 anything like that. No, I don't have insanely crazy high 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.800 expectations because the rehab stuff has not been great. We'll 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.360 see it when he gets out there. But if he 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.240 is eighty five percent of what we've seen in Walker 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.720 Bualer before, that's going to do very well. On the Dodgers, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.080 that's going to do very well. But I'm worried this 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.360 is a eighty pitch pitcher that's lower V lows getting 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.680 hit up a bit more and is chasing what we 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.800 had before. But that doesn't really matter. Like if you 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.920 own him, you put him out there, maybe on a 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.920 good start, you sell him or something like that. But 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.320 he's not like available in spots. But I would pick 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.240 him up. I would see what we have out of him, 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:42.680 but my expectations are low. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.000 You know. Walkee Penguin said that she had a massage 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.480 appointment earlier this week, right, but she seems still pretty 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.720 angry and like, I don't know if that really worked 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.920 to ease the tension. She's throwing stones here in the chat. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.800 Why at Langford is this year? Is Jordan Walker absolutely 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.800 towards springing then poof. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.760 Ouch burn well well but kind of similar in that 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.160 you know Walker thing, but still after if I got 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:06.520 a massage, I don't know if I'd be that angry 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.040 at White Langford this. I'm not a big massage person, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.520 by the way, to be honest with you, Okay, like 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:12.760 chiropract like, nah. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.160 Out of me. I don't want anybody crack in my back. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.040 I was like I remember I went one time at 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.600 this ankle thing, and I was like, yeah, please don't 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.520 do anything crazy, and they're like okay, you know, and 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.400 I was like like, so I don't like any of 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.720 those things, so it actually makes me more angry. But 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.040 the interesting thing is like Langford, you know, is hitting 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.360 for average ish and not putting up a bunch of 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.360 accounting stats like Jordan Walker was last year. I think 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.000 it's going to go in a different path, you know what. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.840 Let everybody go and go drop your Walker White Langford, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.120 your Walker, Langford Walk. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.840 I'll drop your Walker Texas Ranger. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:46.880 That's right, I will go pick them up. I think 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.360 it's silly to be losing your mind, but I understand 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.680 when you like paid really high early prices. There's actually 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.320 a lot of similarities with Langford and Walker right now, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.360 but I think it'll go in a different direction with Wyatt. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.800 All right, I want to talk about little rookie, lookie, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.040 I want to talk about Kobe Mayo here for a second, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.560 if I may, we need to two for six another 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.800 homer five RBI yesterday. Norfolk is amazing. I want to 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.440 go see a baseball game in Norfolk. I remember like 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.960 other teams have been through there, but over the years. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.520 But uh, what do you what do you make close 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:23.280 to Norfolk, Virginia? No, not not, I don't know. I don't. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:23.800 I mean. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.480 I don't have this. Okay, but see that that's insane 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.040 to me. You're like, no, it's not close at all. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:30.720 But I could drive that. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.800 You could drive like you have like six hours, like 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.320 I don't want to drive like. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.800 Seven states that are like within reach of each other. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.880 Like here in Arizona, everything is five hours away from. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.760 Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. Yes, like even Maryland is 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.480 not that far away. Virginia is a bit of a hike. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.160 I will look, I'll tell you. You talk about Kobe Mayo, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.360 and I'll tell you how far I am from Norfolk. Yeah. 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.840 Well, one thing not mentioned is Kobe Mayo, his homewer. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.240 Now in four straight games he has a I believe 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.040 he's number two in baseball and homers louper Fido, who's 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.360 gone thirty one RBI in thirty games so far this year. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.560 He's hitting three thirty three and almost four hundred. He's 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:13.240 essentially got a three four almost seven batting slash right now. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.880 His strikeout rates a little bit high, which is maybe 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.720 one of the things they would have is like an 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.800 excusey type of thing, but he's absolutely destroy He's the 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.840 destroyer of Baseball's that. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.320 Is there a place for him? Though? 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:33.880 Yes, If Okay Ramonaius bye, jorgem Mateo bye, you guys 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.760 can go, and then they can have Westburg be the 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.800 everyday second baseman and Kobe Mayo can be the every day. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.480 So then Jackson Holliday gets buried at Norfolk? Is that 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:42.000 what happens? 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.960 Yeah, welcome, that's what he's doing right now, one hundred 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.600 percent that that is how it's going to have to go. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.880 The only other caveat to this, he's like, you could 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.760 have Kobe Mayo be the guy that goes in place 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.120 first base, but they don't want to give up on 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.400 rank Mountcastle, so there's only so much. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.920 Maybe they huge Mike Mayer would not be happy about that. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.040 We would have like a whole thirty minute like you know, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.600 Memoriam to Ryan mount Pats. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.480 Which is ironic because if Melcastle lost his job to 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.359 a guy named Mayo, which is our nickname for Mayor 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.360 behind the scenes. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.800 That's cross fingers fabulous. If the Orioles want to do it, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.760 they can do it. But you do have this balance 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.439 of like how many young how how much of this 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.960 Norfolk roster do we want to have on our majors. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.800 You want to have like, you know, veteran leadership guys 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.200 that have been through the ringer, and you've also seen 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.360 like what happened with Jackson Holiday. So I think they're 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.040 going to kind of slow roll some of these. But 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.600 we are getting to like we can all scream about 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.280 prospects and stuff like that. I could do ooh commins 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.040 Junior Kim, and I don't know what we're doing with 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.400 Kobe Mayo. I don't know what we're doing right now. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.280 He has nothing to prove there except maybe stop striking 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.359 out so much. It is twenty seven at the time 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.920 that screams thirty percent at the majors. Outside of that, though, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:58.119 he's just destroying everything. He really has nothing to prove 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.000 to be there. And I really do think they should 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.639 give him a shot and see what it's about. But 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.000 you know, maybe Heston Kirshtek can go away and then 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.199 Mayo can go between first and third and d H 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:08.680