WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 24th, 2023 (Ep. 676) 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.800 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.039 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Fix. Sign up 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.640 for Prize Fixed today and use that promo code leading Off. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.960 When you do, It's me Joey P. That of course 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:17.639 is the welshit it you with the peanuts of the 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.400 Crackerjacks talking baseball here as we do every day. If 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.280 you haven't already subscribed to the YouTube channel Fantasy pros 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.040 MLB and click that little bell to let goes ding 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.120 so you know every time Leading Off is happening so 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.600 you don't forget. And also a trade videos out Waiver 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.680 Wire video is going to be recorded just hours from now. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.160 It'll be up tomorrow morning. So get excited kids. Welsh, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.120 I want to get excited here about the Blue Jays. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.840 Let's start with this because not one, not two, not ten, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.880 not fifteen, not seventeen, not eighteen, but twenty twenty runs. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.360 So if you had the over in the Blue Jays game, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.080 chances are you cashed. I don't know what you could 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.640 have teased it up to, but what at a crazy 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.560 night there A lot of these runs did come later 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.440 on in the game. George Springer hit his seventh home run. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.200 Guerrero hit his eighth home run. Chapman hit his seventh 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.120 home run. Danny Jansen, what an incredible night for the 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.600 Blue Jays just playing home run derby against the Rays. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.360 You got a love when the one team covers the 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.200 over too, and and you got a love when position 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.679 players come in. It's it's like free stat day. You 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.800 know that's the giveaway. It's free stat day because Luke 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.240 Rayley comes in and grand slammed of Vladimir Gerro Junior. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.319 You had, was it two or three position players pitch? 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.720 Because I know Christian Betton Court and then Luke Rayley 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.280 both pitched. Yeah, it was a disaster for the race. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.880 It was an absolute disaster, but an offensive juggernaut. I 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.200 think I was looking and I think every single Jay 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.440 who played scored a run except for Brandon Belt and 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.600 like every single player had a hit in that game. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:45.800 What a loser is awesome? 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.480 What a loser? Belt? A loser twenty runs didn't score 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.720 one of them? Kind of loser? Or you it's tall neck, Well, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.720 nobody can possibly match Mike Glennon in terms of tall Next, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.240 I think we can. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.240 All get you know that one go look at Brandon 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.000 Belt again and question. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.080 Oh, I don't know, Mike Lenning going on, you could 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.280 see over any offensive lineman to the horizon line. I'm 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.560 pretty sure. Uh yeah. So incredible evening last night, And 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.720 of course we got to talk about this because Bizirisigiza 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.760 is on it. Morell again and again. Uh yeah, Christopher 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.720 Morel Homert in a fifth straight game. Oh, he also 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.760 walked Tuesday against the Mets and their victory over excuse me, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.280 and the Cubs victory over the Mets. But it's crazy. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.560 Nine of the last twelve games he's gotten a home run, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.000 he's gotten hit and every single one of them. He's 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.600 got three sixty seven batting average, a four h four OVP, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.639 nine eighty slugging in fifty two played appearances. He also 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.480 has struck out every game, which is the thing we 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.440 keep saying about him. 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.040 Thirty almost thirty seven percent. It's one of the wild. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.000 This is why I said the other day, this is 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.920 like old key Cove or bias, like crazy numbers and 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.600 then like crazy strikeouts, and yet he just does it 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.240 because like those that strikeout, stuff is not sustainable. Obviously, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.720 nine homers in twelve games sort of the hell it 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.480 is is not sustainable, but he looks like a monster. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.840 And by the way, shout out our friend Dennis Sidler 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.960 from Sidsgrass who is providing the helmet. It's actually doing 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.200 a signing with Chris Morrell on Monday, So I think 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:14.679 I don't know if I mentioned this, but we're gonna 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.880 get behind the Christopher slash Chris Morrell thing on Monday. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.680 I'm gonna have our Tuesday. I'm gonna have him ask him. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.360 He should get the so you can get a picture 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.160 of you guys all together. Who'll put it up here? 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.560 So that'll be fun. Does he either sign it correctly 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.720 like on the actual merch or is it just like 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.000 completely on the table or somewhere else. Like I feel 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.520 like it's it's either or with him, right, So like. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.720 Every every third card is like completely. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 Every third card. It's like it's just like one part 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.400 of his signature and the rest of it's on the 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:43.040 table itself. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.080 He should just addicate to his name somewhere. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.520 That would be fun. Look, this is an incredible run. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.160 I'd be shopping this guy everywhere because he's basically given 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.440 you what like a month and a half's worth of 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.400 counting stats. I feel like in two weeks. Yeah, so 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.680 you're already ahead of the game. See if you could 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.560 put him out there, See what's I mean? Somebody might 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.400 just go this is the greatest superstar. But I think 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.560 the Baiez conversation for me yesterday holds true, especially when 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.960 you start to look at some of these k numbers 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.560 that you know are very u I illuminating, to say 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.800 the least. Pin Alonzo hit his eighteenth home run against 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.240 the Cubs and a losing effort Juan Soto homeward in Washington. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.160 But I want to talk about Wan Sodo. I saw 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.120 a fun breakdown of Juan Soda this morning, and I 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.640 want to talk to you about it. So Wan Sodo 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 is taking less walks over his last fifty at bats, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.720 and why didn't you know it? He's hitting more home 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.680 runs and hitting better. Perhaps he's been too patient at 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.920 the plate. He's got a great batter's eye. We all 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.080 know that. But perhaps you know in some of these 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.440 leagues where you have the OBP monster that is Juan Sodo, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.760 you're willing to go from the four hundred OBP to 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.920 maybe the three seventy range if you can get these 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.200 home runs and RBI totals and runs scored up, and 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.000 I think that's a trade off. I think we're all 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.080 willing to take. And maybe it's just a matter of 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.360 Sodo being more aggressive, kind of like he was four. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.760 I guess all of the lineup protection dissipated around him 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.240 in Washington. I feel like he fell into some bad 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.960 habits in his last year of Washington because nobody was 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.560 throwing this guy strikes and he just got a little 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.640 bit too disciplined al most. And since he's gone to 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.840 San Diego, I think he's forgotten that they have to 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.920 pitch to him because there's too many other guys around him. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.040 I think the more aggressive one Soda that you're seeing 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.560 is the reason why you're getting a little bit of 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.600 a Wan Sodo renaissance right now. What are your thoughts 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:27.120 on Sodo? 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.800 Yeah, I mean you can see something when a guy 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.440 is too patient, you might put yourself in bad counts. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.320 And like one of the points here is his strikeout 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.360 rate is like the highest of his career right now, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.520 and that's weird to go with a four hundred OVP 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.200 guy and to also think like he's trying to be 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.800 more offensively put But you know, if you are out 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.720 there and you're not picking early counts to try to attack, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.040 and then you're playing off of your heels. Because his 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.159 walk percentage, it has decreased for three straight years, but 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.240 it's still like about twenty percent. It's like top of 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.000 the league. But if you have like an over twenty 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.839 that almost twenty two strikeout percentage, he's obviously just put 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.640 himself into bad counts, you know, getting getting to two 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.800 strike counts, and he's just not able to uh, he's 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.479 just not able to jump on it. So this is 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.560 what we want. This is the offensive Juan Soto we want. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.600 It's starting to turn around. He's only got a two 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.159 sixty batting average XBA is in the same exact spot 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.799 two fifty nine, but it's an over four hundred OVP. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.599 I think these are great and early signs. This is 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.120 why well he went and bought back in on one 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.440 so sure when he was struggling, because people people are 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.000 freaking out about one sodo in April Rid, please, and I. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.159 Was certainly not one of these people freaking out about 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.360 him one sodo. It was the last forty six at Batch. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.080 Just to back up all the stuff I'm talking about, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.880 this is over Fantasy bros dot Com. You can go 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.240 and you can hit a lot of the stats and 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.320 sort them by, you know, certain timeframes. A four homers, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.960 five RBI, seven run scored in his last forty six 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.240 also for stylen bases. Just want to throw that out there. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.160 He's hitting three seventy with a four to eighty two OBP, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.560 a seven sixty one, slugging at a twelve forty three ops. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.640 That's pretty good. And by the way, ten walks test strikeouts, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.239 so we're even there too. So Wan Soto has emerged 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.560 in a big way, and it's great, like if you 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.200 actually started to, you know, have some patience with some 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.840 of these stars that you drafted. You're being rewarded. But 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.280 it's also good for him to get out there into 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.440 Washington too. Aaron Judge cannot be stopped. Thank goodness, I 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.560 picked him and I paid attention to those Oriole stats 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.960 I saw last time, because not only did he hit 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.200 a home run for me, he ate a home run 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.440 for the Yankees. So that's good. He finally broke that 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.480 cold streak I was on. God, he tied up the 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.600 game as a big homer. He's got eight home runs 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.520 in his last nine games, hitting four twenty nine with 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.240 a seventeen seventeen OPS. Over that run. Here you go 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.760 against Baltimore since twenty twenty two, you're ready for this. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.800 Welsh three sixty seven batting average, twelve home runs in 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.200 twenty two games with a thirteen forty nine OPS. Holy crap. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.680 Every time you see the Orioles against the Yankees, if 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.160 you don't take every single Aaron Judge prop for the over, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.960 I don't know what you're doing. Like, you got to 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.640 invest in this guy against the Orioles because Welsh, it's 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.760 clear they have no idea how to get this guy out. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.600 No, no, they do not. They can move walls in 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.840 out to the side, they can put walls on top 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.720 of walls. It doesn't matter. It's not going to stop 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.520 Aaron Judge. He is the home He's a home run. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:06.880 Hitter to pick. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.800 I don't want to pick him every single day. Again, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.160 I want to, but I don't want. I don't want 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.040 to play Joe from last year. How many of your 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.440 homers do you think were Aaron Judge? 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.160 Last year, I had a good I had a lot 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.760 of him and a lot of Alonso. But that's just 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.320 called good strategy. But again, Aaron Judge runs. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.360 I think Aaron Judge hit more homers than any person 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.280 guest in the contest. So Aaron Judge technically won the 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.600 home run contest last year. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.080 I think that's correct. I don't remember that. I think 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.199 Wonky would probably know that data. Wonky maybe if you 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.080 could throw that up there, what was the grand total 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.160 number of the winner last year in the home run contest? 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.920 Because that, you know, if it's just Aaron Judge, then 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.440 you guess could pick Aaron Judge everything. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.560 I feel like it was so funny there forty nine, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.080 maybe fifty. It was somewhere and there. I mean I 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.360 was there up until the end of the year. I 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.520 just don't remember what the number was, but we were 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.000 sitting there in the forties for a while. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.760 Yeah. Also, Lord is Gariel, who is another player that 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.280 you talked quite a bit about going into this year. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.520 Is like a really nice value player pick up. He's 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.440 been really hot this month. I want to talk about 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.160 him because, besides Morell, I think if Morell wasn't doing 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.000 what he was doing, we probably talked more about Guryel, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.280 but we haven't. Three eighty two batting average right now 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.240 with seven homers fourteen RBI, who was last eighteen games 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.400 since May first, So that's pretty incredible. Now, he did 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.240 sit yesterday, give him a day off, but well, you know, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.160 obviously he's not gonna get three eighty two the rest 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.199 of the season. But what do you think is different 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.120 with Guriel this year as opposed to what we've seen 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.800 in the past from him in Toronto where he was 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.200 a player that kind of teased a lot of this 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.760 batting average always a strong suit, but power was really just, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.920 I think, frustratingly not part of his game. But it 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.000 seems like at least in this running's on right now 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.840 that seems to be going in the right direction. So 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.840 have you seen any adjustments here with Guriel that make you, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.280 i would say, bullish on him for the rest of 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:49.720 the season. 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.760 Yeah, Well, I mean he's more aggressive at the plate. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.800 He's also barreling. If you want to talk about what's 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.280 the biggest difference. Last year he had an under four 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.240 percent barrel rate and this year it's over nine. It's 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.280 closing in on ten. The Diamondbacks pretty much have trusted 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.760 him hitting three or four and that was kind of 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.800 the big thing in the offseason I was talking about 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.760 was watch out because if Lordis is hitting three, you've 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.679 got guys like Rojas and Carol hitting in front. You've 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.320 got Walker behind him, who is you know, really is 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.520 a stud, and that's going to put him in a 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.400 situation to score a lot of run, a lot of RBI. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.120 The power output was something we were all hopeful for, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.839 and it's simply been for him about more barreling. He's 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.920 hitting the ball a little bit harder, he's just making 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:33.200 better contact overall. Who's to say, whatever it was in Toronto, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.440 but a new destination being put in a prime RBI spot, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.360 you know, he's picking up and maybe that's something to 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.000 consider too, maybe a little bit more on the gamer side, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.679 where put lordis in those key situations, you know, put 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.079 him in RBI, put him in running and runners in 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.880 scoring position spots, and he's going to thrive a little 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:51.280 bit more. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.840 Do you think the Diamondbacks can hang in this race? 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.920 Because I know the Padres have scuffled, we know the 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.160 Dodgers injuries and what's going on. Do you think Arizona 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.280 has what it takes to hang in there? And if 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.200 they do, what has to happen besides Marte and Guriel 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.360 continuing this and Corbyn Carrol being good like on the 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.920 pitching side, what has to happen beside Zach Gallon for 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:10.280 them to hang in this division? 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.360 Bullpen they've got. Their bullpen is absolutely atrocious, one of 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.640 the worst in baseball. Scott McGuff ones to give them 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.600 away Miguel Cash. They're leaning on Miguel Castro and Chafin, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.200 So like, can the Dinabacks do it? 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:21.600 Sure? 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.120 I don't know what Tory level is doing. They're running less, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.560 which is super frustrating. I think offensively they're set. They 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.160 could I think they could always use like one more 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.200 big power bat. I think that would play really well. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.400 But their main focus should be pitching. Like Ryan Nelson 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.000 and Tommy Henry are getting away with stuff. Brandon Fott 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.120 is turning some stuff around. We actually talked about that 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.800 on rates and barrels, and Eno actually said that he 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.120 sees some big signs stuff plus in the majors for 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.160 Brandon Fott. He actually has a one to twenty plus 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.120 on his slider and his change up. Brandon Fott does 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.160 his fastball's league average, So like he's turning it around. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.600 You need one more good starter and you need to 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.400 rehaul the whole bullpen because that thing is so With 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.199 that said, I don't know how you do that. I 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.480 don't know how you get three or four new rotation 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.160 slash bullpen pieces. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.200 So I think it's bullpen pieces, you know, bullpen pieces 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.000 I think could be had. You know, I think you 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.240 could always that. I think is the easiest thing to 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.839 find as you get to the trade deadline, because there's 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.280 teams that want to just jet us in these guys. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.880 And there's guys that pop every year out of nowhere 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.679 that are having good years and the next year they 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.200 blow up again. So you know, teams are ready to 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.320 get rid of those guys. You know what's a big question. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:27.960 Isn't that easier to take it? And they don't cost 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.720 you as much in terms of prospects like the like, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.320 if you went out there trying to get a real 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.559 big time bat, it's going to cost you big time prospects. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.440 I don't think Arizona wants to do that, but I 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.920 do think that you want to. You know, if you 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.800 want to fix the bullpen, you could go to and say, hey, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.240 Kansas City, come give me, you know, a world as 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.920 Chapman and see if we can get him into a 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.959 groove for you know, the last two and a half months. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.040 But see you're bringing up something that I know we've 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.960 talked about. It's like, when is the band aid going 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.640 to be pulled? When will the first piece of the 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.120 jenga that's going to make it fall happen in the 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.920 trademark because we keep talking about like teams could do this, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.440 teams can do that. No one's trading, everybody's in it. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.400 Every stupid team is like either twenty eight and twenty 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:06.600 or twenty and twenty eight. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.079 It's just like not enough. I think by mid June 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.840 you'll have that answer. And I think the first shoot 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.880 drop is going to be a Dwardo Rodriguez with the Tigers, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.360 because I just the Tigers have to be realistic with themselves. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:16.480 You know, I don't care where you are in the 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.040 standings or where you know other teams in the Central Struggle. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.640 I don't care. You're not a competitive team. And I 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.079 know they want to prove to the fan base that 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.760 they have something to show for all these trades that 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.400 they've had, but they can't come. They can't win the 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.480 American League. Crazy that can't happen. By the way, you 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.800 have the answer fifty seven was the number of home runs. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.200 Go cards was on it. Thank you go cards. So yes, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.520 if you just picked it was close. Though Aaron Judge 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.600 is sixty two and then his fifty seven, so it 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.079 was pretty close. So you can't rely on it. You 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.880 gotta have more than just Aaron Judge alone. Let's get 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:51.520 to the rookie lookie, Mickey Moniac. Can Moniac be stopped? 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.640 I mean, here you go, four hundred and eighteen foot 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.439 home run on the second pitch of the game, an 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.440 exit velo of one oh four point eight on that 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.520 home run. So far, he's slashing four nineteen, four thirty eight, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.840 nine thirty five with four homer, seven rubbies and thirty 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.240 two played appearances. A guess what Taylor Ward was sitting 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.679 in his rear end on the bench again for Mickey Moniac. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.400 He's gonna be in the waiver wire. Spoiler alert. I 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.120 wish i'd picked him up for a buck last week. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.800 I didn't. It was floating around there and I was like, Eh, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.040 you know, it's probably just you know, a good week whatever. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.160 And I'm mad because now it's gonna cost me more 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.760 than a buck. I'm sure if it's so, is this 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.240 it is this the Tailor Award year. Now a bench player, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.680 Mickey Moniac is the guy for the foreseeable future, because 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.480 it's starting to feel like it, well, starting to feel 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:32.760 like it. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.120 I wouldn't say that like he just has the job 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.880 the rest of the year, but he's going to get 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.400 all the opportunity unless he proves otherwise. Listen, Moniac has 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.360 got a little bit of Chris Morell in him as well. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.040 Don't forget about that. His strikeout rates around almost thirty 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.760 five percent. He also doesn't like the buck three percent 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.880 walk rate he has, which is one of the lowest 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.600 of his career. He's doing that a almost thirty five 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.240 percent strikeout rate, a three percent walk rate with a 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.440 five I have sixty babbit, a five to sixty babbit 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.760 that is not going to maintain. So here's here's my problem, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.480 and here's ultimately my problem. He doesn't walk to get 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.560 on base. When he regresses down to the means of 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.520 whoever he's going to be, it might still be a 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.520 great player, it might be a three hundred hitter that'll 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.360 come back down. But if it's not and it's coming 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.360 down and down, he doesn't help himself by not striking out. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.880 He doesn't help himself by walking. So guess what, he's 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.000 gonna get all the opportunity because you should because he's 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:29.880 a monster right now. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:30.440 He's a freak. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.360 But I think he has a lot less wiggle room 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.240 than you guys are giving him credit for because they 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.160 have Taylor Ward who they're not willing to give up on. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.080 Jared Walsh just came back, and they got stupid Joe 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.240 Dell who's in the miners hitting one hundred and nineteen 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.480 mile an hour. So just to anoint Mickey Moniac as 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.400 the guy, I think you guys, I think it's silly. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.120 But at the same point, like I don't even think 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.080 we need to talk about other players right now because 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.440 Mickey Moniac is doing this stuff. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.160 Feel good. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:56.880 If he's out there, you should have picked him up. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.680 You should have picked him up. If he's there, go 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.240 pick him up right wave. But just be aware, thirty 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.360 five percent strikeout rate, three percent walk rate not super 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.960 super sustainable unless he keeps it up at every every 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.080 step of the season, which she's doing right now. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.120 He's doing right now. But like I said, if you 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.080 need to stream, somebody's stream but I'm like, why not? 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.280 But yeah, he will turn into a pumpkin eventually. I 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.840 do agree with that, and I've never been a moniac guy. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.240 I mean, when he was drafted by the Phillies, you remember, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.760 I was like, I can't believe this is everyone's consensus 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.480 of the best player. It was a weird one. I'm 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.280 trying to think, very weird draft. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.320 That I'd have to go. Look, he went over somebody 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.440 like he was one of those weird guys that went 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.520 a least maybe even seven years. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.480 It might have been like twenty twenty fifteen or sixteen 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.680 when he was drafted. I can't can't quite remember, but 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.400 I'd like to see you find that out. I want 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.320 to see what that is. Meanwhile, let's talk about another rookie. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.600 Lokie Bobby Miller held the Braves do one run in 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 five innings to get a win his major league debut. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.240 So remember yesterday when he faden strided her a little bit. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.960 I thought it was a good idea. Well, it worked out. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.480 The average fastball, by the way, the four seamer ninety 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.320 nine point four for Bobby Miller, he was throwing to 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.320 smoke yesterday. So I don't know how long he's gonna 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.120 stake in that rotation. But Gavin Stone hast exactly let 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.080 the world on fire. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.000