WEBVTT - Leading Off May 9th, 2025 (Ep. 1005) 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.639 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.879 off live. It is the Joey P joe P Zappia 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.000 with me of course is the Welsh. It's all the 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.440 peanuts and the Crackerjacks here on Twitch, Twitch dot tv 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.959 slash Fantasy Pros. That's where you can watch us live 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.320 every Monday through Friday at New Eastern and of course 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.720 if you can't get there live, you can always watch 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.440 us on demand on the YouTube channel Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.600 Drop your comments below and you might win yourself a 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.160 Jose Ramirez jersey. That's right from Pristine Auction. So subscribe 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.120 to the channel, drop your comments. 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What do you got going on this weekend? 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.959 Anything big and fun happening for you? 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.360 Just finding new best friends as I always do. Beautiful 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.880 sunny weather in Arizona where baseball is gorgeous. You're the 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.479 only one complaining. Everyone else's got gorgeous weather. I'm gonna 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:26.520 watch some baseball, celebrate the mothers, and that's about it. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.920 And like I said, make new best friends as I 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.119 do in the backfields, which we will talk about here 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:31.640 in a little bit. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.840 Happy Mother's Day weekend to everybody out there and any 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.160 of the mom's Washington today also, and of course you 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.720 know it's a weekend, which means it's full of more 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.959 football for me to coach on Saturday and on Sunday. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.759 So we're gonna sneak in Mother's Day somewhere around Sunday evening, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.760 that's my guess. And what we're gonna do. The Rockies, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.760 it'd be nice if they snuck in some wins once 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.280 in a while, because they are struggle buss the Tigers 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.040 outscored the Rockies twenty one to three and a doubleheader yesterday. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.320 It's funny to be because yesterday the Pirates moved on from 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.800 their manager, Derek Shelton. He had been there for a 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.560 few years. Some mixed bag results. Obviously not the best 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.040 teams to work with. But I guess my big question 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.680 is how the hell is Bud Black still managing the Rockies? 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.000 And I know they haven't given him a lot to 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.320 work with either, but this is all time embarrassing bad. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.560 The body language on the players is bad. You look 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.799 at the dugout. It's just a mess right now. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.960 So how Freedlom was crying during a press conference like, yeah, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.440 give up on us, And it's like. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.200 I mean, so, how does Bud Black still have a job? 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.480 What they just don't care? Is that what's going on here? 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.480 They just don't care anymore. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.240 No, I think they do. But I think it's one 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.440 of those things that the expectations where you were not 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.240 going to really be a winner. What are you served 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.080 by firing mid season a manager for a team that 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.280 is awful when you knew you were going to be awful, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.800 and what you're building for end of the year should 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.040 be gone, should one hundred percent be gone, but they 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.200 I guess I can't speak to the culture, but the 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.480 construction of the team has been pretty piss poor overall. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.280 The I don't know the maturation of the young players. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.720 It's not consistent, you know. I mean, Totally is coming back, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.079 but Tolia kind of fell off. So yeah, I think 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.280 this is simply just like, oh, just lovable losers. There's 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.400 no reason to create a big fire mid season when 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.280 we were always going to be bad. Let them finish 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.120 it out. I think they move like Clint Hurtle into 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.760 like another spot into the team, and then they'll just 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.800 I think they'll just revamp that Already in the all season. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.440 Clinton Hurdle already a manager of fire. Like That's what 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.360 I mean. The organization is just so screwed. Yeah, the 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.200 environment is impossible to win in. You can't get free 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.880 agents to go there, especially for pitchers. I know they 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.480 do pretty well in terms of attendance, Like I get it, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.120 you know, the Rockies are still a place where people 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.560 like to go watch baseball. But until they move that 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.280 team indoors in a controlled temperature environment, I just don't 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.080 think they're going to be able to and it's an 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.680 old stadium too. I mean, was it ninety three right 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.520 when the expansion happened with the Rockies right coursefield, So 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.560 it's not the youngest of stadiums. Right. It was very nice, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.120 especially for its time. I'm sure it's one of the 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.600 few I haven't been to. I don't know if you've 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.840 been there, but I gotta say, like, at a certain point, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.760 you have to look at this organization and say, Okay, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.040 we had one magical run, we had a couple good 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.200 teams in the late nineties when everybody was roight it up. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.400 What are we doing here? What are we doing here 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.320 as an organization? We're just gonna keep losing, or we're 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.320 gonna get some good baseball people here, get a good 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.000 plan together and figure it out, because top to bottom, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.960 it's just not working fantasy otherwise. I mean, when you 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.840 can't score runs for Fantasy in Colorado, that's a problem. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.720 That's a giant red flag. Whodat has a question for us? 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.800 Who do I drop Francisco out? Oh? Sorry? Do I 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.000 drop Francisco Alvarez to activate Ivan Herrera? Is that a 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.680 movie you want to make? 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.279 I don't know if I want to do that. I 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.520 gotta look at Francisco Alvarez. I gotta look at his 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.120 stats because I'm not sure where he's been. My gut 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.760 is to say that I do not want to do that, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.840 even though I really like Herrera. Alvarez is already over 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.120 a nice three hundred batting average. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.040 I think he's going to a higher power ceiling for sure, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.040 probably a lower batting average floor. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.680 Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a higher 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.440 ceiling there also offensively, like the guys are around him, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.159 like Juan Soto's heating up. There's just a lot of 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:06.080 RBI opportunities. I'm definitely gonna I'm gonna stick to after 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.720 looking at this, I'm gonna stick to my no here 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.880 on Herrera. There's only a handful of guys that I 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.279 think are justified, like you're not going to drop for 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.840 whether it's Agustin or a guy like Ivan Herrera. I 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.960 think Herrera comes back in and he's like catcher eleven 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.480 or twelve. Francisco Alvarez is probably catcher eight or nine 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.800 or something like that and has a better upside. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.160 Let's talk about the bullpen for a second. Chad Green 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.400 picked up his first save of twenty twenty five, with 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.320 a scoreless ninth inning against the Angels. Now, Hoffman had 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.440 worked back to back games, so they're giving him a break. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.760 But he wasn't great in those games. So should we 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.640 be on alert here with the Chad Green stuff a 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.560 little bit here for on the closer watch, potentially, I'd. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.800 See, No, I don't. I think it's always fun to 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.559 pay attention to these if you're in the speculative market, sure, 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.720 but I think they're pretty locked in with Jeff Hoffman. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.800 He's the guy, so I'm not cutting anything of significance. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.320 And I think we've talked about a lot of other guys, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.880 you know, Like I know Shelby is still on some 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.080 even Ginkle. But Shelby and Ginkle are on like weird 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.240 ground for a lot of people. I'd rather have them 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:09.640 than speculate on Chad Green. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.359 Yeah, it's funny. I see a lot of folks, you know, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.680 but Tunda is in there talking about you know. I 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.000 was in you know, Colorado during October. It was amazing 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.360 people talking about you know, it's a great place. It 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.000 is a great. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.719 Colorado is great. That baseball team is the worst on 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:25.600 the planet, I know. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.520 But like, no matter how great the ballpark is no 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.160 matter how good the attendant, Like if you have good 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.200 attendance and you have people who are still excited about 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.920 being Rockies fans and all of that stuff, I understand, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.640 But how often do we see a team now go 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.200 thirty plus years with the same ballpark, right, Because that's 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.640 basically what we're doing here. We're thirty plus years into 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.039 the same ballpark. And I think it's time to evaluate 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:53.040 with the mile high issue of the elevation and what 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.560 it does to pitchers and what it does to the 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.840 baseball for hitters. Instead of hating this massive outfield, kind 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.960 a controlled environment make that difference. And I want to 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.440 say that it probably can if you scientifically look into it, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.800 and we have all the data now and we have, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.200 you know, really good signs behind a lot of these 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.600 ballparks now in the engineering space to make a better 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.800 environment for baseball. But like it's a little bit more 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.440 even that you could. Know. What I'm saying is you 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.000 can't get Corbyn Burns to go sign there in the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.640 off season, no matter how much money you give him, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.320 he ain't going there. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.480 Yeah, but I guess my argument, I know what you're saying. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.200 I think it makes sense but like, what do you 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.080 want them to do? It's a billion billion dollar endeavor 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.960 that would take probably five to ten years to even 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.880 consider and get public fund. Like it's and this team 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.320 sucks and they can't get anybody to get there. Look 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.400 at what just happened with the A's. They couldn't get 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.920 anything and then their their their movement on if I 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.080 don't know how they get. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.280 Billions of dollars. Area has not been a good area 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.360 for a very long time. It's not been a destination spot. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.280 You know, Denver is great. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.840 Everybody in the area in northernt that part. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.120 Of the Bay Area, the Oakland is not exactly same. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.320 Yeah, I guess Alameda is not. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.080 And I got to tell you San Francisco is not 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.280 exactly you know, the the hot spot it used to 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.000 be either. You know, they've got a lot of issues 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.960 there in that city. So I'm just saying, like, you know, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.680 the Bay Area, I think that was one where that 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.880 was a long time coming. The Denver area is still destination, 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.360 you know, anything around Colorado in that spot is still destination. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.240 Still a lot of money going around there. I just 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.560 think it's time I want to ask you about Dean Kremer, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.760 who was at a seven e ray but over his 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.360 last two starts he's gotten it down to five. The 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.160 last two starts have been really solid. Seven innings yesterday 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.240 to against the Twins, pretty good opponent, eight strikeouts. I 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.080 know the era is disastrous, and I know he's not 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.120 exactly you know, a flamethrowing kind of guy that you're like, oh, yeah, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:43.599 Dean Kremer is going to be the next ace of 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.320 my fantasy rotation. But should people be paying attention to 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.280 these last two starts because the last two have been 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.600 solid for Kremer? Is he turning a corner? 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.199 I mean, I'm gonna respectfully saying yes, he's turning in 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.040 a corner. But no, do I have like any outwurs 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.560 in him? Okay, maybe as a spot starter in really 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.920 good situations, I think that's where you can pay attention to. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.920 But it's a fifteen percent k percentage. It's still an 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.320 expected era that's near four and he's giving up barrels 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.800 over ten percent right now. So he's running into some 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.200 good starts. Maybe he's going to level out. I think 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.880 he's a solid streamer against lower teams like the Rockies. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.480 Otherwise I'm probably not trying to keep him and hold 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:23.320 him into my rotation. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.439 Game over once to know, do I drop Sean Murphy 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.000 four Ivan Herrera that one, I'm more apt to you. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.720 That one's a lot closer, and I'm pulling up Sean Murphy. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.760 But Sean Murphy, I believe, at least in the early 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.559 onset was doing good. Yeah, his batting average is absolutely 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.160 tanked again. He's back down to two twenty five. Get 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.760 a big homer run K percentage stinks. Yeah, you can 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.040 drop Sean Murphy for him. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.520 Yeah, all right, So we're gonna put a Rockies poll 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.520 up there, and look, I get it. It's fun, it's 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.720 a nice place. I get it. But the baseball has 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.480 been bad for a very long time. And the decision 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.480 making has been bad too. When you give Daniel Murphy 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.280 a big contract with a no knee issue, when you 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.680 give Chris Bryance a contract of that magnitude, I know 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.320 that was a big investment. They tried to, you know, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.160 go all in there, and he had a lot of 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.640 health issues and that hasn't worked out. So some of 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.760 the bigger investments that they've made have been disastrous, right, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.800 not just bad, but just disastrous. So I understand, but 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.960 the problem is you're not really doing a great job 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.960 of prospecting with the Welsh, you know what I mean, 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.360 Like you're you're not bringing up a lot of guys 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.840 that people are getting excited about developmental you know, even 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.880 to the age where they had you know, Carlos Gonzalez 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.080 and those guys. But like again, injuries once again continue 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:34.640 to they used to take them. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.760 A really interesting thing too, is like instructional leagues are 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.520 kind of optional and rookie there was like three or 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.840 four years ago the Rockies didn't take part in like 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.920 they weren't having a rookie ball team a complex, and 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.080 they didn't do instructs, like they just didn't take part 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.800 in a lot of stuff that was really solidly developmentally 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.000 and then they changed and did it. So them and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.600 the Angels have always been a big question out here 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:56.160 in Arizona. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.600 Yeah, all right, let's get to the Royal something positive. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.880 You're wit four for five, two steals, a great day 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.959 for him and blah blah blah. Chris Bubach agains the 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.160 White Sox seven innings, picked up another W ten nothing 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.440 victory of the Worlds just powdered the White Sox a 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.079 great day for Boobach, who I think is one of 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.120 these early guys. If you picked him up early on, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.319 if it went undrafted in some leagues he did. You 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.440 gotta be loving life right now. He's been terrific. And 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.520 Bobby Witt, I'm trying to get himself. I think back 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.880 into that MVP conversation. You know, Aaron Judge is just 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:31.520 so far and away, just cyborg more than human right now. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.960 I think that's the best way to describe it. Eventually 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.800 that comes down to earth. But Bobby Witt not missing 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.319 a beat here. What'd you think of the Boobach start 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:39.559 yesterday against the White Sox. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.200 Yeah, Boobich is just holding true and this is what 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.520 we've wanted. This is why we were pretty aggressive at 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.440 the beginning of the season to pick him up. I 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.280 watched that first start of the year and you just 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.360 saw how aggressive he was, how that fastball just kind 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.440 of hides. The secondaries were good, and we are now 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.200 six weeks and five six weeks into the season and 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.840 it has been relatively consistent. He is a stronghold and 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.040 I think he's a hold to the level that you 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.599 can take on a couple bad starts, you know, you 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.679 could even if he has like here's a not great one, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.679 here's a not great one. It's not a quick trigger 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:12.480 finger like some of these. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.040 I agree. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 Yeah, Like take okay, let me ask you this real quick. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.040 Boombach or Gavin Williams, who's going today and who's kind 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:19.719 of had the up and down? 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.040 Who would you rather boom bitch? Yeah? Booh, he's terrible 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:23.840 for the most part. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.480 What about Shane bo Shane Boss has kind of come 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.800 back down too. I think it's Boombach too. Eighteen runs 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.480 over the last four games for Boss. The Boss had 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.920 the big strikeout stuff. I think Boobach over him too. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.439 Here's another all the Herrera questions today, It's Herrera Day. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.200 Everybody get ready for Ara. I agree August Augustin or Herrera. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.160 I would go Herrera to better line up around a 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.720 better protection. Let's get to a question from Miktunda. Question 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.400 for you guys Saturday with Toash Bradley, Joe Ryan and 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.920 Rangers swore is who do you choose uh. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.559 Or Sunday Al contract. He's saying, choose your choose your 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:03.360 day Saturday, Taj Ryan, Ranger or Sandy Slash Sunday Al 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.319 contra Polanco and Efflyn coming back, which with my league settings, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.760 I can only start one of those days worth of pitchers, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.080 so that's weird. So Saturday we get Ryan, Bradley and Suarez, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.439 or Sunday we get out Contra. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.800 It's so easy, so easy, Saturday, it's not even close. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.520 But I do like the name Sunday al Contra. So 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.880 although I would be nice to see you know that 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.880 start as important, I want to see Sandy do well 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.240 against a White Sox team that just got destroyed by Bubla. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.040 Like Bubola is great, but like Sandy, this is your 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.199 opportunity to take advantage of a subpar line up. I 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.160 got one guy Sunday. Excuse me, Sunday al Contra. I 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.319 want to see a case. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.480 Of the He's at a case of the Mondays, though, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.280 so we need to get back to Sunday Sundays over Mondays. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.360 You know also is at a case of the Mondays lately, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.400 Jack Lighter Jack Lader gave up four runs, walked four guys, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.800 five and third innings in a loss to the Red 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.160 Sox yesterday. His last three games here we go. These 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:05.560 are just numbers with no feelings, just numbers. Last three 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.079 games eight point three one E thirteen innings, twelve and runs, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:14.040 ten walks a k's can you say Nepo, baby Welsh? 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:14.880 Can you say it? 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.160 I still don't know what you're getting out of this. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.760 I don't think your life is overrated. I'm saying he 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.760 has gotten way tiny chances. I'm saying he is not 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.560 that great and if his name was not lighter, he 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.800 would not be in the major leagues right now. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.360 Yeah, I just still do not agree with I know 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.360 you want to be so right on this. I said 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.400 he didn't give up foreign runs, gave up four and runs. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 He's not great, Like I'm also gonna say that, like, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:40.640 I don't think he's incredible. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:41.240 He's not good. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.920 He gave up some hard He's not good. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.080 Can we get to He's not good? 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.960 He's in between at best in fantasy. He's like maybe 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.920 a streamer at this point, Like he is showing inconsistencies. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.960 He was walking again. He gave up four walks of 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.840 feign runs, but he went five the hard hits. Actually 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.000 he didn't give up like an incredible amount of hard hits. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.880 You want to see more swing and miss stuff, which 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.400 we didn't really get out of this. His slider curveball 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.480 didn't do anything. It was really all fastball. Only a 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.120 seventeen percent whiff rate, which is definitely stinks. Called strike 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.280 rate twenty six percent kind of sucks, but mainly the 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.080 the slider's got to get the workoff of fastball and slider. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.920 We're both under fifty percent. So like he is a 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.200 below average pitcher. Is he like the worst? No? Can 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.080 he bounce back? I think so with that slider? So 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.680 I don't know, this is a this is a weird one. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.880 We always do that. It was like, yeah, if he 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.440 would have gotten seven runs, I'd been like, boy, it's 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.520 going in the way of where Joe with it. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.120 Well, the biggest statistical comp over the last fifteen days 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.440 over three games is Quinn Priester. Do you think he's 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.120 any good? No? 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.360 I think I don't. I don't think he's that great. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.080 But he is a major league starter. So again that's like, now, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:53.640 are these. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.040 Major league starter for the entire year for that team? No? Way, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:56.720 no way? 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:57.000 No. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.880 Well they got Logan Henderson rumor coming up again. I 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.640 guess we also have to define what are we talking about? Uh, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.440 is he not good fantasy or is he not good real? 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.600 I think He's like, he's below average in real life 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.800 and he but he's got a great slider and a 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.960 power fastball, but his command issues are coming back. He's 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.920 worse as a fantasy options. So I don't disagree with you. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.200 They're like, I'm not. There's a gajillion other starts I 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.880 could have than Jacklider, and instead of like holding onto 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.320 a Jack Lder, you get streaming spots in here. Jack 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.480 is simply a pick on a bad team streamer until 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:32.920 he starts throwing strikes again. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.600 Okay, I understand Lighter was a good college prospect, but 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.720 I also understand that he hasn't necessarily lit the minor 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.240 leagues on fire for a very long period of time 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.040 where you would say, yes, this is our future in 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.560 the rotation. And that's where I'm struggling with it. Sandy 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.400 al Contra or Lighter rest of season. Oh Sandy, thank you. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.720 Even though financially Statilicia. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.880 Was asking here. So I'm not discounting the fact that 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:02.120 he was once upon a time a prospect that, again 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.680 from a draft standpoint, made sense. 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He is getting far too many, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.760 and he has been bad far more than he's been 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.639