WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off September 2nd, 2022 (Ep. 588) 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.320 Leading Off starts right now on Fantasy Pros. Hello friends, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.840 It's Chris Welsh and Chris Clegg, the Chris and Chris 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.520 Show on a Friday edition of Leading Off. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:25.720 As we are going to end out. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.000 The week coming off of an insane performance, We're going 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.480 to break down home run calls, some prospect talking more. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.599 Mister Chris Clegg, what is up, my friend? 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:35.800 It's going on, Welsh. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.239 It's good to be back Chris Show on Friday. It's 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.360 always a good time. And man, a lot of good 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.720 baseball yesterday. So excited to break all that down and 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.040 look ahead to the weekend as well. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.519 Not quite Mike and Mike, but Christ and Chris will do, 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.920 especially when we can talk prospects and we can talk 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.760 Spencer Strider who went eight innings, struck out sixteen, gave 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.040 up two hits, by the way, didn't walk about her, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.040 didn't walk about her sixteen strikeouts in this game, Clegg, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.520 Strider had twenty two swing and misses. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.280 He accounted for all five. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.880 If you go and look at Baseball Savant on the 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.240 top pitch velocities, all five of the top velocities in 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.520 this game, three of which technically on the radar probably 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.520 all five would have registered over one hundred, because they 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.399 usually don't, you know, give you the points. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.720 It'll just be one hundred. They'll round up. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.840 But he did have three that technically went over one hundred, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.280 and Spencer Strider's twenty two swing and Misses one of 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.880 the best single season pitching performances. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:33.119 So far this year. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.360 Yet mister Chris Clegg Stryder's still just surrounded in all 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.319 of the muck online. Even though he's incredible and does 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.440 what he does, people online still found ways to kind 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.640 of bring it down in that Spencer Strider isn't looking 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:48.480 elite right now. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.760 It's crazy. I just don't get it. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:56.040 I mean, how do you argue with what he's done 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.240 all year and it's just in dominant performance and he's 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.840 just gotten better each start, like that's the thing. And 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.400 we can't discount it because it's just the Rockies. We 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.440 can't discount because you go back and I mean, he 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.919 had thirteen strikeouts in the start, twelve strikeouts in the start, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.920 eleven strikeouts eleven like across the board, like just Ben Stellar. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.880 I mean, sure he had his blow up against the 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.480 Mets early in August, but other than that, man he's 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.240 been really freaking good and I love what I've seen, 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.919 like the progression. And you can argue a two pitch 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.720 guy can't sustain, but I think he can. Like you, look, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.320 you've seen him using the slider more and more and 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.200 love to see that. Last last night, I mean used 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.639 it forty percent of the time, which was at least 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.840 from a month to month standpoint, the most that he's 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.079 used it, and I feel like he's looking at the chart, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.440 he's progressively used it more and more. The fastball, as 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.760 you mentioned, is elite. I think it's one of the 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.280 best pitches in baseball. Throws the change up to lefties well, 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.160 like he can be a two pitch guy. He uses 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.799 the change up against left handed hitters and and makes 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:54.200 it work. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.839 I just I don't know. I think Strider's a buddy Nace. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.800 I think one of the biggest things, like you alluded to, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.680 that people keep going back to because I have a 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.320 thing all season long and I've poked at it whenever 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.519 I've got a chance. About the Spencer Strider stuff, where 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.920 I was on sprit as Strida very early and we 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.280 had people online that just weren't having it, and I mean, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.000 we're talking three four months ago, I brought up Strider 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.440 Ashby and super obnoxious people were like. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.880 Oh, even know's his question. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.880 This is even a fantasy question, blah blah blah, and 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.880 they look stupid now because Spencer Strider looks incredible, but 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.000 it keeps coming up. So I poked at it last 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.560 night where I was like, hey, Strider Ashby, and you 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.600 still had people you saw we were talking about it before, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.080 and the comments are like, well, this is take Ashby 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.240 long term, but Streider looks pretty good right now. And 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.800 it's like, just like Wonkey said, you got to define 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.240 what elite is looking like right now. Is there a 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.240 worry that this is a two pitch pitcher. Yeah, I 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.280 want my pitchers to have a little bit more of 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:54.720 an arsenal. That is something that smelled reliefy before high strikeouts, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.040 two big pitches. But you said it's one of the 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.560 best fastballs in baseball. The slider looks domina He got 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.480 fifteen whiffs on the slider, fifteen of twenty four swing 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.920 throughs and a forty percent rate of throwing the slider. 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.520 He had a sixty three percent whiff rate on the slider, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.760 which was dominant, and a twenty one percent with rate 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.480 on the fastball, which he was hitting one hundred and 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.760 defining what that truly is at this point is going 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.960 to be the big thing of how we move forward. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.040 I mean, they're not giving any any restrictions on him. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.600 He's gonna blow up a little bit. I'd liken him 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.040 a lot to Dylan Ceese, like I said, offline, where 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.880 it can be big strikeouts, games can get away, but 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.760 a lot of pitchers games can get away. And if 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.760 you can build in any progression into the off season, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.039 maybe he develops some higher plus third pitch something that 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.240 can be used in there. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:47.640 Great if not. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.400 Two pitch pitchers, they don't always work. Sometimes they go 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.239 the way of Patrick Corbyn. But it's hard to place 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.040 anything against Spencer Schrider right now. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.239 And it's not so much. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.640 That he looks really good and pretty good and thumbs 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.120 up right now. It's like, no, he looks elite right now, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.599 and I'll take his stuff. I think Gokard just said it. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.840 I think is stuff every single day. I'm big time 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.200 team Spencer Strider. When there's still just being dumb questions 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.400 put around him, Clegg. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.200 It's nuts, and you mentioned the command, but like he's 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.359 lowered the walk crate to five point one percent in 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.120 the second half. Like, that's pretty elite here. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.240 Literally, the things you're looking for from pictures to progress, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.440 yet people are still not accepting them. You're looking for 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.280 walk rates to drop, You're looking for elite performances. You're 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.159 looking for them to go deep into games. You're looking 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.320 for them to be able to continue to get out 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:36.360 second and. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.920 Third time through the order. He's doing all of those things. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.359 He's built for this, literally built for this, you know, huge, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.880 stocky lower half, he is built for this. And if 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.200 we can just dream on any type of progression, you know, God, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.240 go work with Go work with the Jacob de Gram 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.039 in the offseason. If you can pick up a pitch 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.359 from somebody, talk to Max Freed, get a third pitch 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.280 that you can occasionally mix in there just to keep 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.200 batters off, it's gonna be great. But I don't know, 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.320 you know, that forty percent rate on the slider. I'll 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.800 take that every single day because no one can catch 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.159 up to that fastball right now. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.680 And when the velo's there and you've noticed I think 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.520 the starts that he's not performed well, the fastball set 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.560 closer to ninety six than to you know, ninety eight 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.239 and above. So you know, most starts, obviously the Villo's 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.159 been there, but I've noticed those starts where he's not 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.320 fully had it. The fastball below is down a bit. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.320 So the good news is that's been there. I mean 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.839 last night, ninety eight and a half on the fastball, Like, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.960 we can live with that all day long, blowing it by. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:35.560 If I was are reported, they'd be one of the 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.279 first things I'd be asking him to be like in 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.080 the offseason, be like, is there any consideration for like, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.320 you know, picking up another pitch or working with anybody 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.240 and see what he has to say, because someone in 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.760 the chat was like, imagine if he had a knuckle 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.640 curve and just imagine all of this stuff, you know, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.120 imagine all of the fun things that could go on. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.280 But you know, we do, we do have to all 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.320 we have to be prepared to, like, you know, see 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.800 a little bit of a bump in the future as 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.599 far as Dynasty goes, because it just I got you know, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.880 a shock of oh yeah, where Brian said, you know, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.720 there's like a Freddy Peralta before the league adjusted, and 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.480 you gotta worry, does you know, you don't want the 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.360 league to ad just like they are on Freddy PEARLTA. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.600 But Freddy PEERLTO has also been harpened by pretty inconsistencies 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.640 in the second time through the lineup I've noticed anytime 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.400 I've watched them, sometimes in the. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.200 Beginning of the lineup. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.360 But either way, Strider with one of the bigger performances 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.800 of the season, sixteen k's. You want to know something 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.520 hilarious the emailb trivia question that popped up today. I'm 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.000 not even doing it because I'll just say it right now. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.360 It was like, what player had the most strikeouts in 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.160 a single game? 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.920 Come on, come on, you know this right clag in 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.040 this season? 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.560 No in baseball history top of my head, probably not. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.720 Oh no, oh, this is what. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.440 This is one of those where I'm like, wait, I 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:53.400 instantly know. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.360 That Carrie would carry yeah my brain. 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.360 I couldn't even yeah, there goes Wonky has carry one. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.040 I couldn't even put it out there because whenever you 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.800 talk about whenever when somebody gets like above fifteen strikeouts, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.480 everyone starts, you know, carry wood carry wood, starts going 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.520 on about that. But I think I'm also a little 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.360 bit older than you Kleig, so that might remember carry Wood. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.000 I remember watching that game. Do you remember watching that game? 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.560 Was that what like three ish? 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.960 I think it was a ninety eight? 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.200 Yeah, yeah, okay, so no, I probably didn't. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.760 Man, Please don't tell me you were like seven. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:27.400 I was four. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:32.560 It's even more even Wars. Oh my god, that's so 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.439 much worse than I shouldn't have asked you. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:35.400 I shouldn't have gone to it. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.120 Let's go through a few others. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.360 Raphael Devers leads Red Sox come back win over the 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.040 Rangers after being down by five runs in the eighth inning. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.079 If only I. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.920 Know Mike Mayer's asking, if only they could have been 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.600 doing this, you know, like all the games, not just 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.520 this one game with Raphael Devers, which, by the way, 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.960 the Red Sox looking like a mighty nice stack tonight 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.520 against Dallas Kichel with the Rangers. Just throwing that out 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.839 for everybody, for really anything that you want to play 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.199 at all, it's looking like take a Red. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.319 Sock, yeah, for sure, and good for Devors. He's been 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.840 pretty atrocious in the second half. I know injuries have 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.200 obviously played a factor, but just a one seventy nine 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.920 average in the second half. With three home runs, so 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.760 hopefully he's getting back on track. So good for Devors 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.480 in big game yesterday with those three RBI two doubles, like, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.760 definitely what you want to see. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:25.760 We got it. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.560 We got the age jumping out of the chat right 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.760 now where everyone's like, oh my god, what Kerrie Wood 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.760 did that? You know I was graduating college, Wonkey said, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.520 I graduated high school. I can say a little bit younger. 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.040 I went into high school. That was my going into 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.679 high school. Year was nineteen ninety eight, so it was 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.320 a prime time and little little baby Clegg was sitting 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.720 out there just rocking, just waiting, waiting for fastballs and sliders. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:48.080 For sure. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.240 On the prospect front, Gunner Henderson obviously had the big 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.800 homer game and then stole a base, so he's doing 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.000 a little bit of everything. Initial thoughts on Gunner Henderson 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.280 and also a little compared Chris Claig is a great 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.079 prospect mind. Good for us to be able to talk 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.360 about that little prospect. Friday here and Clike was starting 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.400 preschool walk he. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:09.280 Said that maybe. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.040 Talk to me about Gunner Henderson in the early impression. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.240 But also comparative to Corbyn Carroll in his start since 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.360 those guys are kind of like intertwined as being one, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.120 one A and one B in the. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.320 Top prospect lists. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.920 Well, there's always uncertainty when a prospect comes up how 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.760 they're going to perform just right off the bat, because 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.400 there's a lot of pressures. But Gunnard just looks so 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.400 confident and Carol too, They both have come up and 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.439 look incredibly confident at the plate. And Gunner's looked really 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.240 good in the field too, which has been excellent to see. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.160 So pretty much all around what you've been seeing all year, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:43.839 and he doesn't like he's going to miss a beat 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.920 moving up to the major leagues, which is a major 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.160 encouragement seeing him already still a base I mean, he's 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.480 still twenty two in the minors between double and triple 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.599 A so far, but you always wonder how that translates 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.280 as well. So he's effective on the base past two, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.840 I mean only three caught stealings this year, so you 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.240 hope that that can stick. You know, Gunner's not going 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.840 to be the fastest runner, but I think the stolen 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.160 base efficiency is going to be really good there, and 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.760 the power obviously a big breakout this year. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.160 All the eggs of velocities really back that up. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.040 And you saw that moonshot that he hit for his 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.120 first career home run. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.960 Like, I'm just impressed. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.160 His demeanor looks really good and he just looks like 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.880 he's somebody that's ready to hit the ground running. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.000 And same with Carol. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.080 I mean, you couldn't really ask for a much better 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.520 start to either of these guys career with how they've played. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.640 I mean they've come out the gate firing. I mean 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.280 Carrol's already driven in five runs, scored four times. Like, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.520 those are things you want to see a lot of 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.560 confidence making, good contact and consistent contact. Is that so 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.079 I'm really encouraged by both Carol and Gunner and this 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.160 is what we've seen all along. But you, like I said, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.720 you have to question sometimes, like how does the jump 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.360 to the major leagues and major league pitching affect them 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.560 off the bat. I'm not seeing a huge vestment period 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:01.400 for either of these guys. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.400 See that's a really key point at the back there 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.000 is like neither one of these guys look overwhelmed. The 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.080 nerves are gone. They found success early on, especially Corbyn Carroll. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.439 I mean I don't want to take away from Gunner. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.120 It's only been a couple of games and he's done it. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.640 Same thing with Corban, they both in different ways. But 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.319 if you look into dynasty for next year or no, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.880 let's go to redraft, Actually for redraft next year, which 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.640 one are you more likely to invest in? 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:28.720 If you're gonna invest in one? 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.080 Obviously Gunner has got a little bit more of the 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:36.280 better position side, but Corbyn Carroll probably going to have 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.440 a little bit more speed on his side, and I 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.360 think has a higher probability to hit. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:42.640 I think if in a. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.360 Perfect world, I think Corbyn is a guy that could 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.480 hit high in the lineup, and I think Gunner is 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.640 a guy that hits around five in that lineup. So 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.240 what would you take redraft next year? Which one would 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:52.720 you bank on? 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.480 Probably leaning Carroll, I feel there's a little more safety there. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.679 But you mentioned the position notligibility is going to be interesting. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.559 You know what kind of eligibility does Gunner end up with? 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.800 Like we've seen him in the minors this year play 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:10.360 every infield position. He's already played third and short. Does 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.840 he even sneak over and get some maybe some first 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.480 and second? I don't know if he plays enough. I'm 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.840 in obviously, like n FBC formats. He's not gonna get 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.079 enough for that. But Yahoo, you can get position eligibility 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.440 for almost anything, so that'll be interesting to see. So 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.240 the position eligibility could be fun to see for Gunner, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.760 but for the safety of the bat, a'll Laine Carroll 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:30.400 for next year. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.760 Yeah, you know, another interesting aspect. I almost wanted to 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.640 ask again, this is kind of like a bigger dynasty thing. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.760 But if we had a dynasty show, here is. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.839 Usually I move away from young guys. I use a 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.960 way I move away from prospects. It more has to 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.440 do with prospects and trying to project when they're gonna 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.160 come up and when we're gonna actually have them and 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.600 paying the high cost. And you know, there was plenty 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.400 of people that were worried about like Bobby Witt, like 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.400 is he really gonna start and they're drafting around the eighties, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.440 and then when there was more confirmation he moved up 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.280 into like the top fifty. Next year is gonna be different, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.320 I think more than ever because we now have a 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:13.640 full scope of how the new manipulation and advantages of players. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.640 I think teams have a better idea now and you're 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.199 getting so much more of a run. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.960 Of like we're seeing the Carrols. Grissom is another one. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.840 An interesting thing actually, I just was watching some video 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.000 on this before I see Wax and the chat bringing 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.800 this up. Grissom not only you know, being successful early 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.880 on and playing in the middle infield, but now is 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.560 working out in the outfield and it's getting some outfield reps, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:36.760 which I was talking about. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.960 Makes the most sense in the world. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.040 So my point is is you got Grissom and Carol, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.400 and you got all these guys that are getting some 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.200 run now in lieu of them starting with their team. 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.520 It's an advantage for all these teams that have them up. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.040 Do you see yourself investing in more of these young 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.080 guys early on next year because the problem, I think 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.640 is going to be how much are they going to 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.520 struggle versus the cost It's gonna come up because we 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.480 have more certainty that they're going to break camp and 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.360 the only answers we are going to have are the 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.520 small little hints are going to be these like one 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.400 hundred of bats that they're going to get or so 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.600 when the season ends to kind of like make us feel. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.040 Okay, Yeah, I think seeing prospects at least get their 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.240 feet wet in the majors in the prior season. Helps 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.800 me don't want to invest more, but like I don't 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.680 heavily invest in prospects that haven't debuty yet in a 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.000 redraft league. Obviously, like a j Rod this year, before 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.800 he was confirmed as being like making the open day roster, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.200 he was a super value, like he was going super 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.320 late in drafts. But I didn't touch Bobby Witt now 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.400 that it ended up being right, because you know, WIT's 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.440 obviously been incredible at nineteen twenty six this year. Home runs, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:47.280 stolen bases, really good so far, and it's just always 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.160 the question mark of you know, what player do we 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.520 see do they struggle out the gate, because for a 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.360 lot of prospects there's an adjustment period and then you 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.200 look and we see the torqual sense of the world 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.640 who have been just had a terrible year. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:01.360 To put it up, I was about to say. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.600 There's kind of three realms, like there's the Julio realm, 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.840 Bobby Witt is kind of it's not quite the Julio Well, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.520 I mean, it's still in the same range. It's almost 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.920 like a best case outcome. So there might be three 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.240 and then the bottom end is the Torkal Sin and 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.520 what range are you gonna get the problem with If 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.200 you're also evaluating guys, It's like if you wanted to 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.720 start getting some comms. It's like a Tristan Cosas is 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.200 probably closer to a Torkal Sin than the other guys, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.680 but a Gunner and Corbyn those are better high contact hitters, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.520 similar to Bobby Witt and Julio Rodriguez. Just an interesting 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.040 it's a whole interesting new world we're in with all 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.000 these prospects, and we're also seeing some of the really 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.560 early success and then they're gonna get a break, and 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.120 then we're gonna see, you know, in the off season 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.560 how that progresses and what their cost is going to be. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.680 You know, I really have no idea because you even guesstimate. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.400 I couldn't even tell you where guys at Corbyn, Caroly 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.280 and Gunner are gonna go next year. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.200 But I got but I gotta take a guess. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.680 I feel like it's inside the top one hundred in redraft, I. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.520 Would go top fifty. I mean, like at least it 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.920 depends on what their septembers look like like. But I 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.160 could certainly see the value just getting out of control 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.520 and Rob Dpahr already put together a twenty twenty three 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.479 draft champions. They're actually going to be playing out if 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.440 I and this was for Carroll even got the call. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.159 I think he went top fifty in that draft, if 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.679 I'm not mistaken. So yeah, So a big September or 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.919 even a solid showing in September from both those, I 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.120 think maybe solidifies him in the top fifty for next year. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.840 There was another prospect call up. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.359 It wasn't the middle infield or Yankees were probably hoping 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:30.280 for an Anthony Volpi. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:31.600 Anthony Volpi was sent up to. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.960 Tripa A, but they called up Oswalt Parrazza, who I'm 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.200 actually a Paraza fan. His batting average similar to Volpi, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.280 just kind of tanked this year, but counting stats are great. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.320 Nineteen homers, thirty three stolen bases, had one hundred hits 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.240 in the miners this year. Didn't even put up four 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.640 hundred bats and he put up those stats, but again 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.800 he only hit two fifty nine. Twenty two years old, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.440 play shortstop, could play second base. I've always been quite 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.320 a fan of him. I absolutely love his swing. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.320 Plague. Any thoughts on Paraza coming up? 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.840 Yeah, I think it's easy for people to look at 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.320 the overall line and just see kind of a dis 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.160 not even a disappointing season from a power speed standpoint, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.960 but you know, two fifty nine average. But it is 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.359