WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 1st, 2024 (EP. 802) 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.559 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.440 Off Live, brought to you by Bett three six five 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.479 bet five bucks get one hundred and fifteen bonus bets 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.640 when you do when you use the promo code leading Off. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.560 It's me Joey p That of course is Scott Bogman, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.119 and it's you, the Peanuts and the Cracker Jackson. Welcome 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.600 to Major League Baseball. Everybody where, everybody is hurt. And 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.520 another guy just went on the IL eight seconds ago, 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.639 Bogs Grayson Rodriguez to the IL fifty. Melanie Newman just 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.160 reported it. So we'll get to that in a second. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.559 I literally just saw that when I refreshed X, and 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.520 I'll go, oh, look at that. Isn't that a nice cherry? 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.720 On top of the Mike Trout injury, which is where 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.800 we're going to start here today. Scott Bogman, take a 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.440 deep breath. Everybody, let's get after it. Here we go. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.200 Mike Trout needs surgery on his knee, sources told Jeff 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.040 Passen obviously yesterday this news broke. He is going to 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.720 miss a fair amount of time here with his injury. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.960 We're looking at months, not weeks, probably most likely would 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.200 be my guest. Again, s some things floating around there, 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.679 but he's had a really good year. I mean, eight 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.400 sixty seven ops, ten homers, six steals in twenty nine games. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.040 He's been fantastic. He's gonna need the surgery to repair 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.200 a torn meniscus in the left knee. Now again, it 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.560 depends on how the tear is bogs, you know, I know, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.160 again playing baseball doing other things. Very different in terms 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.200 of this injury. We've seen running backs have this sometimes 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.880 it's a few weeks here, but I mean it feels 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.920 like everything with Trout is more like in the months. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.880 So again, let's take this one step at a time. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.360 I think the first thing is the Mike Trout analysis. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.840 Was the ADP again baked in for him worth it 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.440 at this point already he was about fifty overall, obviously 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.440 not I'm really a point where he's gonna be won 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:45.559 one hundred game. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.520 Player at best this year at best, right, I mean, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.440 it's at least two months, it seems like. So yeah, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.760 it it stinks, man, it really does. I thought this 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.800 was the year too, and I know Welsh did. I 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.880 thought this was the year we're getting great Trout. I know, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.120 during the Fantasy Fest. He talked about it as well. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.000 I believe with don Nell don but. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.959 No, Pianowski was the guy who was like, I'm out, Pianowski, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.239 that's who it was. You're right is And I told 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.120 this to Welsh. Welsh was like, yeah, who got out? 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.720 And I was like, Pianowski more often than not, is 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.800 right about that, like Scott is one of the best theories. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.360 I know this because I played at leagues with the 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.040 guy for a decade. And well, you can't predict injuries though, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.280 but predicting injuries his point was saying he's thirty two 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.520 years old. Again. The thing that he was wrong about 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.560 was the stolen bases coming back, which they did. But again, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.680 is that the cost now, like was him running more 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.519 now the cost of this meniscus injury? 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.000 No, I doubt it. The guy is injury prone, you 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.720 know so uh And this isn't you know. We weren't 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.360 worried about the knee. If you're boiling everything down, we 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.360 were not worried about the knee. And I highly doubt 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.400 that the stolen bases were the cause of this is 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.880 probably you know, running into the wall hard, I mean 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.440 Trout plays hard. There's he only knows one way to play, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.560 and it has led to him getting hurt, and we're 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.240 just gonna have to bake that in more into next 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.040 season and just expect this guy maybe at this point 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.400 to play one hundred games. You know, he's going to 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.080 have at least one long extended il trip each season, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.120 and he has the Finals to nosis on top of 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.120 all of that. So yeah, it just it really sucks. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.680 And it kind of brings the end to the Trout 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.359 era in baseball, right, And I mean it really kind 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.399 of does. So he'll play for album many years he's 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.720 got left, and he'll play as many games as he can, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.639 but he's never going to be the MVP level guy 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.400 that we saw in terms of putting it together for 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.280 an entire season. He may still be a great player, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.480 look at what he was doing before he got hurt, right, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.960 So there's still that in there obviously, which is amazing, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.800 But you just have to bake in the fact that 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.720 he is going to miss games every season from now 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.680 on if he doesn't retire. I mean, guy's got more money, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.080 you know, he's got so much money as I don't 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.520 see I don't think so either. The guy the game, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.440 so he's probably gonna stick around for another four to 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.320 five years and play one hundred games. It just it 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.200 hurts to talk about. Man, he's one of the best 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.600 ever and it really stinks to see him like this. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:11.640 It really sucks. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.960 Yeah, it does. I want to give a shout out though, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.919 to one of our listeners who messages on Twitter, Honkas, 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.200 who show us a screenshot He says, thanks guys to 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.359 me and the Welsh hashtag leading off where he did 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.360 indeed trade Mike Trout last week for Julio Rodriguez. The 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.440 trade that whilst I were talking about is like, look, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.599 you can make this trade right now. Chances are because 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.839 somebody's impatient, somebody's not looking at the long term, somebody's 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.640 not looking at the dangers of Trout. So Honk is 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.200 good on you. He made that exact trade and showed 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.400 us the screenshot of it, which is fantastic. And I 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.240 guess the bigger point too now is the Angels are 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.839 in again up the creek without a paddle. And I 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.320 was bringing this up earlier here it was like, hey, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.080 if Mike Trout gets off to a good couple of months, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.400 the angel should absolutely try to remake this organization and 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.240 trade Mike Trout and learn from the mistake that they 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.839 had last year with Otani. Now they can't do that, Like, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.560 I don't think they'll be able to pull that off 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.520 because or if they do, it'll be a fraction of 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.440 what they could get had he had a full, healthy 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.880 three months. If Mike Trout had an all star first half, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.120 I think you could get a package around Hestig Kurstad 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.120 and Kobe Mayo and maybe some pieces like that, maybe 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.840 just two guys, and rebuild this organization and bring that 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.919 payroll down. But boxs where does this leave the Angels 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.880 now too? And then we'll get to the fantasy implications too, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.600 because again, replacing my Trout is not an easy thing 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.920 to do. But I do have some ideas and I 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.240 want to hear talk about the Angels ramifications. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.840 First, Well, what do you think I mean, they're up 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.160 that old creek that we don't like and they have 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.600 no paddle, right, that is where it leaves him. I 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.880 mean one of my favorite shows, by the way, I 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.480 could say that. Look, I could say that, yeah, sure, sure, yeah, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.039 it's bellow two teas in a scene, but but yeah, man, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.320 it sucks. You take the biggest bat out of that lineup. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.920 I mean you're replacing him with the resurgence of Joe 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.320 Adell MIGUELSONO until. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.479 Well, the resurgence of Joe Adele. From a power speed standpoint, yes, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:04.680 from a batting everge standpoint. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.920 By the way, it is a good band name. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.960 The resurgence of Joe adells a guy that I would 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.800 love to get via trade right now because I think 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.400 he's got another five months ahead of him. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:14.840 Uh. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.159 A guy who's been hitting, who's been hot right now, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.720 who is maybe this week band aid Mark Conna of Detroit, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.320 who again that's a long term solution, but he does 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.880 have five homers on the season. So far in twenty 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.000 nine games played, he is hitting two seventy eight on 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.960 the year. In the last two weeks he's hitting three 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.800 forty nine. So again that's a player maybe is a 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.040 stopgap guy when we start to look, they're. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.600 Not trading for stop gaps. They're not putting more. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.640 I'm talking about fantasy now, I'm talking about casios for fantasy. Oh, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.640 for fantasy. I'm talking because when you said, what are 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.160 the stop gaps? And I actually said, Joe. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.720 Brain, Joe, you gotta tell me when you switch, when 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:54.680 you said Joe Adell. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:56.839 That made sense to me. Is like a stop gap 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.360 in real life for fantasy. So maybe it is. He's 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.080 still rostered in only what like sixty percent of leagues 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:03.440 right now. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.840 I think, yeah, it's pretty low. And you know he's 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.920 been great. Yeah, in turn, there is no Look, here's 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.360 the nice part is that you don't have to care 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.320 about this roster spot for the rest of the year, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.600 right so you can churn it. Just take a guy 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.720 that's hot. You know, you mentioned Markanna right now has 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.440 been great. Great when us hitting one. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.120 Of leagues for a Dell, by the way, that's shocking. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.400 Still when he quits hitting, dump his ass, pick up 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.520 somebody else. You know what I mean. You churn this. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.360 That's how you solve this problem. Is you pick up 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.240 a hot guy, you ride the wave, you dump them, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.560 you ride another wave. That is what you do. You 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.680 burn and churn for the rest of the year. That's 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.760 the only way to make up a stat like trouts, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.920 a stat line like trouts. And that's if you're lucky 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.440 enough to have Trout in a league that's shallow enough 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.920 for those type of pickups. Not every league is that shallow. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.960 So you know, the big of the league that you 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.000 took him in just to replace him on. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.400 Jacob Young from the Nationals. He has been white h 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.560 He has been white hot a lot of stolen bases. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.160 Obviously the power is not something, but twelve steals on 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.440 the year so far in twenty two games, and because 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.400 of Laye Thomas's injury, he's a guy that's getting more 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.840 at bats. Again, there's no solution here, as Bogin was saying, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.200 it's just kind of riding the wave of hot outfielders 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.000 that are out there on the waiver wire. So Joe 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.760 Odell would be my first one because he is guaranteed 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.240 locked playing time now the Trout's out, he would be 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.200 the I don't want to empty the tank for fab, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.960 but I would be aggressive if I had trout. Would 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.480 you agree with that, yes, Okay. Casileanos would be a 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.079 trade target. Kanna would be another guy we mentioned Young 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.400 from the sense of the stolen bases. Look, I know 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.280 Ben and Tende's had a good run here recently. I 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.600 don't know if I want to buy into that, but 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.440 that's another guy to the last two weeks who's been 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:50.319 pretty hot. Pajez from the Dodgers another guy too. Against 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.000 strikes out a ton, but still you know some more 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.120 you can. JJ Blede is another guy that's been hot. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.920 I know there's no answer, but it is just these 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.319 guys right now. Unless you have an excess or else 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.040 and can make a trade. That's pretty much it. So 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:03.760 let's move on to. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.120 What is Andrew Ben and Tendi rostered. I'm one. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.560 You take a guess. This is a fun game we 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.120 like to play. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.480 Oh dude, I'm are you looking at because I'm looking 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:13.240 at Yahoo. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:14.800 I'm looking at CBS. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.360 Uh So it's fifteen percent over there, three percent on 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.640 Yahoo for Ben and Tendee. So you know guys are 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.400 super low. Yeah, Carter has been good. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.800 Yeah, and you also just get called up Doyle out 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.400 there too. Maybe make a here's here's an interesting one too. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:38.360 Maybe perhaps a long shot trade or by low trade 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.640 on Nolan Jones if he comes back in a couple 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.520 of weeks from that injury and he is healthy, Nolan Jones, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.439 there's power their speed there. That's an opportunity. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.560 Yeah, I'll say this. I it's it sucks because if 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.880 you trade for if you trade for these low guys, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.440 for Casty and Nolan Jones, you know how long are 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.440 you sitting on these guys until they pick it back up, right, 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.520 So I'm for me for most cases, I'm just picking 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.680 up the hot guy and we're playing burning suring the 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.240 rest of the year. It stinks. It's not what you 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.640 want to do. It's a lot more work, but it 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.160 was better than for Nolan Jones. No, not if I 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.840 have il spots, I wouldn't do it. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.960 Okay, all right, I'm just trying to gauge, like how 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.680 much we want the two months guy Jones is too? 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.000 Right, So is that going to lead to a surgery? 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.600 So I don't want to like trade my one guy 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.000 for another guy that's already hurt. So I think you're 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.319 exacerbating the issue. Yeah, for Dougo has been hot. Yeah, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:37.680 Tyler Black just got called up. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.680 We're going to talk about him today in the show too. Again. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.200 Tommy fam was just called back up, right, Yeah, So 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.640 there's there's ways to help yourself through this. It's not 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.520 all dead in the water, but it is way more difficult. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.720 It is. It certainly is. And look, the good news 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.480 is Mike Trout was a fourth round pick this year, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.560 fifth round pick depending on what was going on in 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:58.920 your league and the death of your league. So it's 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.360 not going to kill you like you to when it 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.959 was a first round pick. It's not gonna kill you 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.080 quite the same way. But it does hurt, and especially 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.440 because now again you've missed that window of capitalizing on 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.440 the great month of April. You know, you miss that window. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.280 Now that he's hurt. Now that's going to be anywhere 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.800 from like I mean, six weeks, eight weeks could be 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.920 in that range. We'll see. But it's also sad for baseball. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.640 And you know, I think about King Graphy Junior's career bogs, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.000 and I think of, you know, how the end of 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.760 his career was marred by injuries. But I also remember 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.319 the great playoff, you know, against the Yankees and him 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.760 having that moment Like Trout's never had that moment on 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:33.520 the big stage. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.920 It plays left in baseball, So does I mean I 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.480 think at this point, I think, at this point, maybe 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.720 he's going to look down the barrel out of his 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.360 career and know, I better get out of here. If 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.920 I want to go playing significant games, I have to 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.920 get out of this organization. He just needs to. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.080 Yeah, certainly, would i'd love to see Trout get more 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.760 or was he have three games in the playoffs. I 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.679 think memories hurt that it was one time get three, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.280 not enough on time I went to the playoffs. It 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.400 was super Funy we've. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.320 Been to more Eagles playoff games in his career sitting 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.840 front row than he has actually with him. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.880 One thousand percent. So Grayson Rodriguez goes to the fifteen 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.360 day I shoulder inflammation that was just reported recently. Melody 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.880 Nubeen like eight seconds before the show tweeted that. So 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.200 all right, that's the big conversation. Now another one bites 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.280 the dust on the pitching front. What are your thoughts? 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.800 I mean, what do you think my thoughts are? They're 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.600 not great? Joe, uh yeah, to. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.280 A quote on another classic film, wrong response. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:43.000 Honestly, I don't know this guy. This guy is so 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.160 good three seven one e r A pitching to his 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.160 Sierra three seven five. The strikeout rate was great. You 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.440 just put up a great start the other night, and 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.800 it's just another one bites the dust. You know, it stinks. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.640 There's no there's no replacing that. This is the issue. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.600 There's no replacing these guys. There's plenty of dudes that 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.120 have gotten hurt where it is just pick up the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.840 hot guy, and in some instances that's all you can do, right, 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:15.080 But for these guys, I don't know, maybe you're gonna 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.160 especially for the I mean there's a name. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.320 I don't know. Look, look, look you can I understand 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.040 as the Diamondbacks fan you're taking offense to this, but 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.800 he is going to pitch. He's got two starts so 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.920 far this year, twelve innings, eleven strikeouts, one walk. The 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.559 whip is a point five. I mean, can it get 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.800 you through two weeks? Hopefully? But the bigger problem is 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.480 what if this shoulder? Is it just this shoulder inflammation? 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.720 Is there any damage? What happens when he goes for MRIs? 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.320 That's the big concern at this point. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.199 Right, Yeah, I mean it's hard to have. It's hard 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.400 to have a good game plan for Grayson, you know, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.400 because it could be like Ramberg, Right, it comes back 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.079 in a week, Zach Gallon. Everyone was panicking about last week, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.520 especially me. I was right after this Steelers had a 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.760 great draft night, and then I see sorry about Gallon Bogman. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.240 I was like, oh no, what's gonna happen now? But 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.080 it was a hamstring, So you hold your breath. You 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.160 see how long it is and you adjust, you know, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.360 when we find out. So hopefully this is a quick 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.120 eyel stint for some inflammation. Probably not, though, and then 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.880 you go on from there. But yeah, there's no replacing 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.360 Grayson Rodriguez. What are you gonna do? I mean, you 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.800 trade one of your top hitters for a lower grade 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.440 hitter in a pitcher, and that's a strategy. It really 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.520 you have to thread the needle with that though. You know, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.480 you have to have the right person willing to deal people. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.920 So in most cases it's just burn and churn, which 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.480 is not a fun answer. But yeah, TODs Bradley coming 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:44.920 back up. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.160 That's a good name. That's one of the better names 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.040 I think anyone's thrown out there. Tos Bradley has upside 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.960 their their strikeout ability. Again, you had good spring was 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.640 going in the right direction for him, and then obviously 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.480 the injury happened. It was a big bummer. But another 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.400 big bummer to Osea Brew actually took the minor league assignment, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.840 which kind of shocks me. Bogs like, maybe they're working 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.400 on finding a trade for him. Perhaps that's the only 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:09.960 thing I could think of, because Jerry was like, hey, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.800 good call on a Brew. In the chat, and I'm like, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.360 I'm just kind of shocked that he didn't just take 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.560 the DFA and move on. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.800 Is what is he making though? 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.720 You know, I guess that's the question here. Look, I mean, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.880 I guess you'd take it, but you know, I'm surprised 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.280 that that's that he accepted it. I guess you know, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.480 they wanted to go down to work. They haven't given 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.360 up on him at a pairs. Like the notion was go down, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.280 work on your swing, whatever it is, we'll figure it out. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.080 That's great. It makes me a little bit nervous though 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.680 for low Perfito. That's the other thing. Jack Flaherty. Let's 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.120 talk about something positive. How about fourteen strikeouts for Jack flarerty. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.040 He's been steadily. I keep looking at the Jack Clarity 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.120 game log last couple of weeks and going, wow, look 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.160 at Jack Flaherty kind of putting things together. And when 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.680 they brought him in, I thought, you know, this is 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.240 one of these guys that when he was healthy a 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.880 few years ago, we thought Jack Flaherty was going to 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.680 be like a stud supposed to be a big time 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.280 front of the rotation guy for the Cardinals and for Fantasy. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.920 And then injuries completely derailed him. But take a look 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.120 at this twenty four swinging strikes a forty six percent 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.400 CSW so far in the year. Now he's got a 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.960 four er, but a one point zero three whip the 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.400 XCRA is lower than the era fifty to five strikeout 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:20.840 to walk. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.240 In through Arrah is two two four. 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.640 What do you make of this renaissance of Jack Flaherty. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.280 Dude, we kind of thought a lot of people in 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.520 the industry thought maybe Flerity is going to be the 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.920 guy getting saves here in Detroit right before, right, yeah, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:40.120 so yeah, I mean Flarity has been outstanding. Uh revenge 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.640 game narrative, right, of course, we always love those fourteen 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.080 strikeouts against his old team, the Cardinals, so that was nice. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.280 But uh yeah, Flarity, if someone has dumbed him at 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.040 this point, he is a great pickup. So I would 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.520 I would love to have Flarity. I think I have 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.240 one share of him right now. But I mean he's 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.400 turning it around. Sometimes it just takes these guys a 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.560 little bit to figure it out and maybe, you know, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.399 you get with a new pitching coach, whatever it is, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.600 and you see the transformation happen. I mean, look at 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.159 Merrill Kelly played years right in the Korean League and 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.880 he comes back over it, gets with brett Strom and 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.840 has now, you know, a premier innings eater pitcher. I 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.480 wouldn't say he's upper echellon pitcher, but pitching in the 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.680 World Series the only d back to winning the World 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:27.399 Series last year. So yeah, I mean, you know, I 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.000 buy more resurgence from pitchers late in their career. I 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.240 feel like than I do a lot of hitters. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.320 So fair enough, fair enough, and Flowery's not that old 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.400 yet either you. Darvish made his return yesterday. Strikeout total 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.719 was low, but he looked pretty good. So that's all 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.639 we could take out of that five innings, will take it. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.400 Jordan Montgomery was cratching yesterday because of the two hour 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.879 b colony delay. Boggs, that was a good time. And 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.040 then they let the guy who treated the bees throughout 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.120 the first pitch, which I thought was a nice touch there. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:57.200 Fred was the. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.879 Second first pitch too. Man, they were like they're ready 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:03.719 to play. They were let the beat people go out there. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.560 It's hilarious. I loved it. Freddy Peralta got ejected yesterday. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.040 I mean he was certainly after a rocky start last 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.560 time out, he was great, seven strikeouts to run like, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:15.639 he was terrific. We got the over somebody. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.920 They ejected, no warnings, no nothing. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.600 It was crazy. It was crazy. I don't get this. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.560 And Riley Green, who was another crazy. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.239 There's one more guy too, Riley Green. Maybe you can 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.919 still buy low on him. But three to five with 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.200 a homer yesterday, I don't know if that window is closed. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.719 There so uh it is, it's rapidly closing. 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.680 But maybe, just maybe somebody's got an excess. That's another 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.200 guy to pluck away. Another thing to do is drop 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.399 a comment below and subscribe to Fantasy Pros MLB to 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.480 win the Trophy Smack Fantasy Baseball Championship Belt. 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