WEBVTT - Leading Off August 30th, 2024 (Ep. 894) 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.840 What's up. Friends, are welcome into leading off all right 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.080 here in Fantasy Pros. I am Chris Wels. That is 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.280 Joe Rico. We got you for the last show of August. Joe, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.800 I'm my head is all over the place. I just 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:18.200 did a tweet and I was like, all right, hey, 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.759 let's get it. Last show of September. No no, no, no 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.360 edit tweet, last show of October. No, no, no, it's August. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.400 The last show of August is what we're doing here. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.840 Twelve hundred revised tweets. I can't get my head straight 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.599 because there's so much going on. There's a lot going 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.360 on in baseball. We're gonna be talking about all the 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.640 latest as we usually do. We're gonna do some prep 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.480 for next week. We're going to talk about some two 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.480 star pitchers. We got our best bets of the day, 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.000 and we're gonna be looking to answer some of your questions. So, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.440 as always I would tell the chat you guys got 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.360 some final questions in here, do it. I'm gonna be 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.520 marking them. We're gonna hit it here shortly. We're gonna 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.080 be answering those for your playoff runs or your run 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.320 into the playoff mister Joe Rico, what's up, buddy. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.120 It's pretty crazy that August has already done. Man, we 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.560 kind of do this every year. It's like, I can't 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.160 believe's already June. I can't believe's already July. But the 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.680 season is really winding down, like there might be some 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.319 people this is their championship week. It's just always crazy 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.040 how quickly the season goes by in any sport. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.960 Well, and you know, as we say a lot of 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.920 the time too, I think there's another step at another 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.600 level that is really interesting for this time of a year, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.280 even if you're not like heavily involved in playoffs. I mean, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.520 let's be honest, probably not consuming fantasy baseball if you're 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.640 eliminated from playoffs. But there is this opportunity that's going 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.440 on right now where you get to kind of lock 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.920 into players that a lot of people are just not 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.800 going to know. Like we kind of jokingly do it 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.360 with piece of Pa because he's off into football land 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.759 and no baseball. But in reality, there are players over 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.720 this last month or six weeks that are going to 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.960 start to pop and their value is not going to 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.400 be realized. Sometimes it does happen, but it'll happen like 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.720 in March or February when everyone really locks in. So 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.400 there's this opportunity in dynasties to get in or if 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.520 you're gonna do you know some really early season n FBC, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.040 whatever it is, you have a chance to lock into 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.400 some players that people aren't going to quite get into. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.280 Perfect example, Lawrence Butler. Let's talk about Lawrence Butler. Now, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.519 Lawrence Butler did have a nice run middle ish through 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.640 the year, kind of tapered back down. But yesterday Lawrence 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.680 Butler went off. He went three for four with three 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.760 homers and four RBI, which has now put him up 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.520 to in three hundred and ten at bats, almost is 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.440 at a twenty fifteen season. He has a legit shot 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.200 to be a twenty fifteen guy. He's got nineteen homers, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.760 twelve stolen bases, with a two point fifty three batting 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.160 average and absolutely gorgeous. We had more time, I probably 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:46.680 would have pulled this up for the art just so 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.840 you can see this beautiful savant page of theoretical like 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.320 top twentieth percentile for the most part, expected batting average, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.560 expected slug barrel rate, hard hit rate, and if you 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.920 guys have listened to me. You know a combination that 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.080 I love to chase and monitor is double digit barrel 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.000 percentage with really good hard hit numbers forty eight point 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.200 three percent hard hit rate, eleven percent barrel rate. You 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.880 love that paired with a double digit launch angle. Yes, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.480 and he's gotten expected batting average that's higher than his 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.600 So this is one of those players that the value 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.959 will be realized of, like, oh, look what he did 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.080 on the paper and stuff like that. But there's something 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.080 for us getting to watch us right now, Joe, that 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.560 Lawrence Butler is an absolute no brainer rest of season. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.360 By the way, his consensus rank between like Yahoo and 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.080 ESPN was low. I talked about it on ITL yesterday. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.400 Still pick up a bowl the not word. He is 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.600 still pick up a bowl. But talk to me about 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.080 obviously rest of season. I think you agree he is 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.240 a absolute must own in a pickup, but that he 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.760 might be one of those undervalued players next year, that 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.520 it might not be realized until March that like, oh, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.000 this is going to be a dude as like a 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.680 fourth or fifth out fielder and fantasy drafts that is 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:02.720 going to have huge return. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.440 Yeah, this is like you like you've alluded to several 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.360 times one of those guys where if you're really paying 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 attention right now, I don't think it's really gonna fall 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.360 through the crack so much for the sharper players. You 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.920 might be playing like a casual guy. Maybe you're not 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.520 even listening to the show right now. You're picking it 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.799 up later on and in February March and you're starting 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.839 to draft. Maybe he's not going to be somebody that 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.880 gets that much interest, But Lawrence Butler, like I've really 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.200 changed my tune on him. I wasn't that interested earlier 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.240 on in the season. Guy gets off to this like 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.000 incredible kind of run. They're not usually sustainable for guys 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:34.680 that kind of just pop out of the blue like this. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.920 But like you've mentioned, the hard hit data is legit. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.320 Oakland's offense has been a lot better than we could 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.160 have expected. I think that's also been a part of it. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.200 One hundred games and he has one hundred runs and 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.240 RBIs combined, which is really really good. Another thing to 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:48.880 factor in for next year is that they're not gonna 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.000 be playing in this awful ballpark anymore. They're gonna be 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.960 playing in Sacramento, which is a very hit or friendly ballpark. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.600 So that's going to change a lot of the way 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.719 I view Oakland's lineup. I think because they've been in 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.440 one of the bottom three hitters parks in baseball and 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:02.880 now they're going to go, you're much better with the 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.600 minor league park stuff than I would be one of 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.120 the better parks to head into the minors from what 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:07.799 I understand. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.360 Yeah, I'm not actually I know ballpark factors and especially 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.200 in minor league isn't like outside of like the PCL, 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.120 and I think that's where this is. The PCL is 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.000 just a better hitter friendly environment. But to your point, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.039 Lawrence Butler at home this year hitting two forty five 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.440 with six homers in one hundred and sixty three at 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.120 bats in one hundred and forty seven at bats on 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.000 the road, so essentially the same thing. Two sixty five 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.040 a twenty a twenty point average boost and thirteen of 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.200 his homers, so double the homers, twenty point boost on 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.480 the batting average. Away that's getting out of this stupid ballpark. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.800 Just something to sit on there. So you know, if 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.480 I imagine after last night, he's not sitting out there, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.400 but if there's any type of wavery thing or he 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.800 was I understand getting out from Lawrence Butler when he 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.440 was cold, But to me, he's represented. When you see 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.320 those type of like hard hit and barrel numbers, those 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.039 are guys that I'm gonna hold on to a little 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.120 bit longer. I'm probably gonna be a little bit more 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.080 finnicky about letting go of those guys, because once they 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.360 start getting going, especially a young guy like this, once 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.000 we really start getting going, they've got the elements of like, oh, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.159 this is a guy that can do exactly what he's doing. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.720 Twenty fifteen, twenty five to fifteen, next year, twenty five 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:27.159 to fifteen, twenty twenty, definite realm of possibility for Lawrence Butler. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.080 Reminder again, you guys got fantasy questions for your playoffs, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.600 drop him in the chat. We'll start however many and 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.440 we'll answer as many as we can, or just a couple, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.720 whatever it is. But any fantasy questions, your fantasy question 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.000 might be one that another has as well, so we'll 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.159 do it here in just a tiny bit. Also want 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.120 to remind you, guys, of course, that this episode is 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.599 brought to you by Bet three six five promo code. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.800 Leading off, you can bet five bucks get one to 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.120 fifty in bonus bets when you go to bet three six' 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.880 five go and download the app. Today use that promo 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.040 code leading. Off start betting your first, fives your player 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.719 props and. More bet five, dollars get one fifteen bonus 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.880 bets only at bet three sixty. Five gambling problem call 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.520 one eight hundred bets off or one eight hundred. Gambler 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.120 let's get rolling. With how about Your toronto Blue? Jay 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.720 Bowden francis has been on a heater seven shutout. Innings 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.520 he got the win Blue jay's one two to. Nothing 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:29.080 he walked, on struck out five last five, starts four 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.520 to zero with a one point zero SIX, era thirty 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.120 six strikeouts and thirty four innings plus we had the 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.800 almost no. HITTER i saw staff that said over the 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.880 last twenty this was, oh this is codify Cad IF 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.520 i put this, OUT i. FORGOT i pasted it right. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.560 THERE i was about to try to cite it for my. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.800 Brain Cadify, baseball Said. Bowden francis has pitched twenty nine 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.200 innings in his last four starts and allowed only ten base. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.960 Runners NO mlb pitcher has ever ever done that, Before 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.280 and they said are they? Ended it's completely ridiculous. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.600 Joke there is a couple of things That codify was 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.600 posting yesterday WHERE i was, like what there was one 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.960 Stat so there's a thing that's called game. SCORE i 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.920 Think Tom tango Or Bill james or one of those 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.840 older baseball pioneers came up with this thing called game 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.400 score essentially to quantify how good a start. Was in 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.160 the last thirty five, years has been four or five excuse, 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.080 me five pitchers who had four consecutive starts of a 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.200 game score of seventy eight or. Higher those pictures Are Randy, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.679 Johnson Pedro, Martinez Johann, Santana Clayton, kershaw And pout And 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.920 francis an unbelievable list to be. On if you look 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.800 at what he's done as a starter this, SEASON i Love. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.600 Sierra sierra is my favorite era. Estimator if you look 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.280 at his work as a, starter he is eleventh among 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.240 starting pitchers In. Sierra as a starting, pitcher there is 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.160 some time in relief there that wouldn't be the number 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.840 if you just look At, fangrafts but he has been 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.000 in that department better THAN. C, Slogan Gilbert, Ranger, Suarez blake's, now, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.320 WELL i am going to be very interested to Draft 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.880 francis next. Year and to your, point he might be 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.560 one of those guys where people who just kind of 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.720 tuned out baseball for the year just don't have any. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.040 Interest but, Man i'm going to be hammering him every 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.040 time in. Drafts and one last, thing The jay's are 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.559 going to have two of the six pitchers of The 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.960 month this season In Major League baseball despite being an awful. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.320 Team brios won it In, April francis is gonna win 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.400 it In, august but the team just hasn't been able 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:21.880 to live up to. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.680 That, Yeah AND i, mean this is just one of 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.800 those GUYS i really want to, see like how much 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.520 he continues to roll with, it AND i probably need 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.320 to pay a little bit more attention to some of 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.760 the stuff plus numbers and everything like. That But i'll 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.840 tell you five point eight two eras Pre All Star, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.720 game one point five to eight Post all, start and 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.840 that includes six or six games, started seven, Pitched so 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.040 it's not just this like little. Run he still had 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.760 a one point FIVE vrra and he's pitched better on the. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.320 Road that's another thing to take a look. At three 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.679 point two four road Era Fountain francis has been a. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.200 Dude he's getting some, strikeouts he's deep into. Innings his 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.920 surface level, STATS i don't think necessarily like jump jump, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.439 out like THE k percentage twenty four, percent the expected 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.560 estimators at three point five seven EXPECTED, era so that's 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.160 about where he's. At but he's been just like really. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.960 Efficient he hasn't been dominant in any one standpoint of his, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.320 stuff but he has been dominant on the field for 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.440 the last Couple so, yeah this is one of those. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.959 THINGS i think we're being. Honest a perfect, scenario you 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.040 want him to taper just like a tad, bit so 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.520 his cost isn't ridiculous next, year but he he. Is 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.480 he was borderlining, like, oh back into the rotation. Stuff 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.360 if he continues, this he's going to be a dude 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.360 that goes around one fifty two hundred and maybe even 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.840 a little bit. Higher LIKE i know we're making this 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.160 case like, oh, hey these you know people aren't going 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.520 to pay, attention but the hardcore baseball people are going 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.400 to pay, attention and they're going to look at that 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.720 second half and, go, okay well, yeah maybe it's a 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.800 short sample, size but you, know he was one of 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.840 those dominant pitchers in the second half and that will 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.360 carry over to next year's. Value so you, know, SELFISHLY 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.600 i don't want that to go. Nuts but at the same, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.520 time you, know if you're running in a playoff run right, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.079 now you want you Want Bowden francis to not. Stop 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.000 you want him to continue. This ten base runners in 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.800 like thirty. Innings that's, absurd that's. Crazy. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.040 John, yeah when you said that nobody had done that, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.120 Before i've, like that's just it seems like maybe like 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.079 something primed To graham would have, done Or Pedro, martinez 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.520 BUT i. Didn't nobody's done that to that. Extent who 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.679 would have thought it For Bowden. FRANCIS i, personally as 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.360 A Blue jay, fan would never have expected it if 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.000 you asked me even a month. Ago but here we. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.080 Are, yeah, yeah, WELL i MEAN i was very dismissive of. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.520 HIM i was, like, NOPE i don't think so let's 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.800 move on. Here big. Injury he usually we do injuries 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.640 in that. Section But vinnie Pass quantino gonna miss the 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.240 rest of the. Season diagnosed with a broken right. Thumb 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.360 the expectation is he is going to miss six to eight, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.319 weeks which that is going to take him out of 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.640 the rest of the. Year that is. CRITICAL i actually 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.400 did hit ON Cbs SPORTS. HQ i think it was 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.760 earlier this, week and we talked about The Cleveland royals 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.360 situation and one of the biggest. Differences but because these 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.640 teams have a lot of similarities The royals in The 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.880 guardians like rotation has looked, similar bullpen has actually looked 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.840 kind of. Similar road, Record cleveland was a little bit 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.040 better against like plus five hundred, teams but And Kansas 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.839 city was one of the hottest teams as of Recent 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.240 but what was the big differential between these Guys run? 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.760 Differential The Kansas City royals in the division had the 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.079 highest run differential but also one of the highest run 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:37.920 differentials in. Baseball they're also. SCORING i think they were top. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.640 THREE i think they were third in baseball and run 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.560 scored per, Game AND i did this stat run scored 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.600 per game year over. Year the top ten in runs 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.840 scored this. Year the two teams with the biggest rise 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.520 in run, well actually three teams who scored you, know 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.200 more runs than last. Year, Yankees, diamondbacks And. Royals those 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.480 are the ones that have had almost a full run 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.840 differential from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty. Four so 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.680 what AM i getting at the offense has been absolutely 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.880 critical for The. Royals and, Yes Bobby Wait junior looks 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.120 like AN, mvp but Having vinnie Pas quentino kind of 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.520 push it. Back this bad news for The royals from 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.480 like a real baseball, Perspective horrible news for fantasy owners 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.920 that have been kind of running out Pas quentino BECAUSE 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.800 i don't know if there's any great first base alternatives 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:29.640 that are sitting out. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.080 There, Joe, yeah just like looking at the waiver, Wire 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.640 ramoniaius has been really really hot for a little. While 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.160 workleson is out there in a lot of. Leagues Josh 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.120 bell is still doing. Things he's still got and clean 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.840 up every day In. Arizona there are some, options but Losing, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:48.040 vinnie he'd been so so good. Man my best team 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.280 this year of all my teams IS. Tgfbi i'm like 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.360 top fifteen, overall AND i just Lost. VINIE i Lost 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.000 vinnie And Austin, Riley so it's gonna be not. Nice 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.360 it's gonna be kind of tough to keep that going 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.839 down the. Stretch but HOPING i can finish in the 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.199 time if things break right for. Me but things are 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:02.880 not breaking right. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.480 So, far, no and if anything is a pretty brutal. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.280 Blow we've had a little waiver. Mania it's a shade 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.960 back to old, school you, know a couple of years, 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.920 ago Where august would happen and every team would just 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.800 place players on. Waivers the reason behind that a couple 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.040 of years ago was you have a guy go through, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.720 waivers if they, cleared you could then actually trade, them 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.000 or if they were picked, up you could work out a. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.960 Trade doesn't apply. Anymore waivers now are exactly what they're 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.120 really meant and should. Be they put a guy on 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.400 waivers and they hope another team goes and picks them 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.800 up so they can kind of dump the. Contract so 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.440 The giants placed multiple, players highlighted By, thyrostrada and then 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.520 The cardinals just Placed tommy fam after reacquiring, him they 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.560 put him on. Waivers so again these teams thrown him, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.760 out maybe trying to get out from under some of the. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.800 Money but we haven't seen any. Claims we haven't seen any. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.000 Movement but The tommy fam one was kind of a 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.880 kind of a bigger. Deal another big. Deal The reds 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.720 are bringing Up Ret louder today to start the second. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 GAME i think that maybe even be the, first but 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.280 it's one of the games of the double header that 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.120 they've gone on against The, brewers and that was a 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.240 big shock we talked about earlier In i'm excited about 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.640 it BECAUSE i love we're At. Louder he's a high 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.440 end command pitcher with a really devastating. SLIDER i think 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.480 he's going to be a successful pitcher in the. Majors 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.880 i'm not sure this is the start THAT i, like 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.880 or any of these starts this, year SO i would 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 be very timid about. It but what are your? Thoughts 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:30.360 are you Avoiding? Louder are you picking them up to stream. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.760 First career start At Great American? Ballpark it's not SOMETHING 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.520 i really want to get, into especially this time of. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.360 Year the strikeouts are kind of What i'm aiming for 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:38.800 with a lot of my, pickups AND i don't think 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.720 the strikeout, upside at least as of, today is that. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.280 HIGH i THINK i would have to be on your 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.400 page here And i'd be. Passing unless we see like 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.160 three or four dominance starts in a, row then you'd 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.560 maybe think about it for the last week of the. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.960 Year BUT i don't want to take chances this time 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.880 of year with rookies who might do well and they 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.760 might give up seven or eighter and runs and just 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.320 end your season for. YOU i try and play a 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:58.920 little more conservative this time of year with the. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.560 Pickups, yeah AND i would be conservative in this in this, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.320 regard but you, know maybe he'll be solid with. It 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.720 but again as a high end command, pitcher but rookie 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.280 in his first, start So i'm not really. Sure we've 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.720 had a little rookie. Madness just want to point out 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.440 the two current favorites For rookie of The year both 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.120 eclipse the twenty home run. Marker Yesterday Colton cal's aer 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.120 twentieth home run against The, dodgers and he has kind 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.320 of taken. Its al's just like a really weird. Spot 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.240 and in THE Nl Jackson merrill solo homer and stolen. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.720 Base so that's a little combo meal. There so he 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.280 is at twenty homers and sixteen stolen. Bases he is 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.960 almost at that twenty twenty. Marker and, Finally jacob De 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.280 gram is going to make another rehab assignment start On 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.840 sunday At TRIPLE A Round, rock and that potentially might 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.520 be the final. One he had pitched two perfect innings 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.520 earlier in the, week and what was interesting is they 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.680 then had him throw a side session after to kind 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.000 of pick up some of those, innings like another twenty. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.920 Four SO i would expect this next outing to be around. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.520 Four and THEN i think he is gonna come back 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.119 for next week and they'll probably put him at like 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.439 an eighty five ish pitch. Cap so if that, Happens 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.920 Jacob dagram will be, back AND i think you can 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.920 you could just kind of free flow him back into. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.159 Lineups oh, yeah oh. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.960 Yeah De gram is one of those guys where all 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.440 it's gonna take is like two or three great. STARTS 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.560 i heard. IT i think it was some PODCAST i 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.520 was listening to. IT i want to, say it was 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.600 Like Roda wire or, something and somebody, suggested like The 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.440 gram has three or four great, starts he's a first 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.359 rounder next. Year he very well could be fucking fifteen. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.320 TEAMERS i don't THINK i would do it, personally but 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.640 all it takes is one person in a, room and 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.520 if he has like if he looks like vintage of The, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.840 groam it's gonna be interesting to see if he maybe 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.640 gets pushed Abup skimes Or schooble in a given. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:46.840 ROOM i agree with the. SENTIMENT i wholeheartedly disagree with the. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.440 Take there is zero point zero percent Chance Jacob deGrom 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.480 is a first. Rounder you're hearing her from me. First 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.240 there's no. Chance, no there's no. Chance in fifteen, TEAM 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.960 i guess we open it. Up but guess, what there's 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.600 still no chance he's going to be a first rounder 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.600 because is everyone in that conversation cannot help but say 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.320 what you just, did, WELL i wouldn't do, it but 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.399 there is. Somebody no one's gonna do. It you Have 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.720 Paul skeins And Terry skubele who are slam dunk one and. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.760 Twos no one's Taking jacob to gram in the First 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.399 SO i think that take is. Wrong BUT i think 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.400 the sentiment of where he's gonna go and how high 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.960 he's going to push, UP i. AGREE i do think 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.720 he can. Go he went in the third round of 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.040 THAT nfbc thing That bubba was. DOING i think that's the. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.240 Range but you're gonna have dude two years ago doing 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.440 shows With Ariol cohen And ario's Super Smart guy talking 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:40.960 about how good he can be And oriol's, like oh, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.280 yeah by the, way he's on my no draft. List 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.720 like all the analytics, guys there's no. Chance all the 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.280 old school, guys there's no. Chance so they're gonna just 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.240 avoid him no matter what he. Does but there will 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.920 be people that will fall back. In but he will 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:58.640 not be A he's not going to be a first 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.320 rounder because this is like talking yourself Into Mike trout 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.520 being a first. Rounder, again there is actual literal correlation 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.800 between those dominant, awesome, crazy cool. Player but he's always. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.360 Hurt you cannot get more than one hundred, innings so 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.920 no one's gonna take that. Risk so that's why it's 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.600