WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 10th, 2022 (Ep. 571) 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.960 Leading off on Fantasy Pro starts. Right now, I am 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.840 Chris Welsh. That over there, that is Kelly Kirby the 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.720 Wonky Penguin, and we are ready to talk about some 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.400 baseball on the tenth of August. Anything but the Saint 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.639 Louis Cardinals we're gonna talk about. And maybe you just 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.000 didn't hear a tiny bit. Oh, there's lots of stuff. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.320 There's call ups, there's some bets, and there's more. Kelly, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.320 I know you're a Cubs fan, so there was a 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.400 little bit of a a little bit of happiness out 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.479 of Miles michael Is getting absolutely destroyed. Did I even 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.760 I didn't mention him yesterday? Right, I didn't talk about 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.040 him at all. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.080 I don't. I'm sure you didn't know. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:52.120 Why would you have? 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.680 You would have never suggested him would. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.600 Be so silly to be like, hey, Miles Michaelis, I 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.800 really kind of like this. Maybe in DFS, who would 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:00.520 be so silly? 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:00.880 Kelly? 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.560 Not me, I don't know. 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.640 And that Cardinals stack did some phenomenal things for me 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:06.319 last night too. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:07.440 It was it was pretty great. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.920 Well, I mean, you know, it's funny. They were like 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.120 a five run implied. They did get five runs a 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.160 problem when they gave. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.000 Up sixty runs. So they did. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.280 Yeah, we had the right game, We had the right 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.200 game where the stack was. It just didn't end up 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.200 working out. Lots to get to and lots of fun, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.080 but maybe nothing more exciting if you were up late 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.960 and you were watching a walk off homer from the 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.080 San Diego Padres have been a little bit, if you will, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.200 wonkey lately in all of their big moves. Manny Machado 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.840 walked it off in huge fashion. By the way, I 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.120 don't remember who sent it. I wish I could find 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.000 the tweet now we'll retweet if I can. But the 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:47.120 Japanese coverage of that entire thing, it's electric. It's incredible. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.680 The call really just like anytime you can get out 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.720 of like States coverage, like English coverage, it's amazing and electric. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.960 Even you know, the sport itself is amazing Yo to 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.280 Puerto Ico and stuff like that. But the call is incredible. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.720 On the many machad walk off. Also Juan Soto first 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.320 home run as the San Diego Padre if you want 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.239 some stats on it, one oh seven to nine EV 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.320 and Juan Soto getting into action in Padres. Kelly starting 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.200 to find a little bit of rhythm with everybody as 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.920 Fernando Tatis Junior is getting close. And we'll talk about 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:20.680 that in just a second. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:22.640 Yeah, it's true. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.359 I wrote like a Waiver Wire article last week and 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.840 I mentioned like Jorge Alfaro because I was like, he 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.440 might be the only piece left on waivers to grab 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.320 from that lineup, but they are eventually going to hit 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.359 like crazy, and I think, and if he's in the bottom, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.280 he's going to kind of like lead off for that group. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.160 And I'm like, hey, if he takes a walk, they'll 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:42.600 get him in. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.600 So I actually been a savior for me in a 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.760 couple of different leagues. I think it's taut and one 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.200 of I don't remember whatever the league it was. It's 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.959 a two catcher league. Oh it was TGFBI. Alfara was 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.480 just one of those guys I ended up like, well, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.760 let's you know, move around, let's move through catchers, let's 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.720 burn and churn. Then he's been a guy to kind 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.760 of hold the whole way through, maybe a lot more 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.320 contact than he really ever did. Is a people forget. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.680 He was actually a Phillies prospect at one time they 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.960 went to the Marlins. Power was always there, but all 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.680 of a sudden, he's just starting to hit for a 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.480 lot more contact and this is going to just make 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.560 him exponentially more valuable with that insane lineup that's already there, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.560 and even a little bit more injection that's coming. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.519 Yep, absolutely, so he's out there. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.760 Gravin please do. Fernando Tatis Junior had a third rehab 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.960 start and it's going well. He went two for two 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.079 with two walks. In that third one. He's at double a. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.880 San Antonio hit a double into left field and he 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.480 was a leadoff man and then at the time that 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.160 was on the top of the first inning. Then I 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.000 believe he tripled in right. He was set to play 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.360 outfield and this was a part of a Rotal World 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.040 blurb if everyone wants to check it out. He was 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.640 set to play in the outfield, which is very interesting 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.240 to monitor. But then he got moved to shortstop as 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.440 there was rain and they only played six innings, so 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.840 and he played six innings there. So what's going on 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.240 with Tatisa is you got three games in you're moving 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.680 across both positions, which might be an indicator. I think 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.880 of the flexibility, cause there's no reason to put Tatis 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:06.640 out in the outfield. If they were only going to 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.480 play him short stop, you just dhm, you don't even 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.000 worry about it if you're not going to play him there. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.600 So I think it's going to start to show that 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.360 they might move him around with that flexibility, which could 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.880 be good for Kim or look at it as like 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.320 Druy cronin Worth. But three games in starting to find 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.440 his rhythm, he walked twice if I didn't say that 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.520 with a couple of those hits showing off a triple. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.040 Tatus is right around the corner, Kelly, and this is 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.080 going to be a huge, huge boost for Like I 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.360 have a keeper league where I'm holding. I'm like fourth, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.640 I've suffered a lot of injuries, but I'm about to 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.240 get that injection of Tatis back into my lineup, which 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.640 is going to be huge, and a lot of us 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.800 in category based stuff are going to get that for 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:41.599 playoff runs. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.520 Yeah, he's kind I'm kind of looking at him. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.800 He's the positional de gram right like you wanted him 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.200 to be a cornerstone. He's not a cornerstone, but now 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.480 here he comes at like the most perfect time. So yeah, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.000 he's going to be fun to watch. But I do 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.080 expect Kim to stay in defense because of his defensive rating, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.120 so like I would expect, not full time, but I 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.840 think that it'll be more like I see him more 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.080 dhing just so they can kind of keep that especially 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:09.480 depend on which pitcher is pitching. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.000 I think something you could see as well. A lot 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.599 of teams will implement this where you we might see 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.400 Tatis in for the first five or six innings at shortstop, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.600 and then if you're gonna have a defensive replacement, they'll 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.360 then move Tatis maybe out into the outfield. They can 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.440 move him out in the outfield. They've just created so 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.080 much flexibility that Kim is still going to get some run. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.400 But like you said, you know, it might be more 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.560 defensive replacement than it is starting games. Here's a question 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.279 rest the season, who would you rather have? I know 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.520 this is two completely different positions, but Tatis or to Grom, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.200 who would you rather like? You know, these are big 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.360 swing plays if you're going for a fantasy run. I've 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.120 seen we talked about Actually a lot of people want 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.520 to trade off to Grom right now, even in redraft, 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.039 which is fine. You could look at the same way 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.040 with Tatis Junior, which one, would you rather go into 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.240 these last six weeks in a playoff run with Obviously 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.680 need is going to play into it, but you know, in. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.920 A vacuum, in a vacuum like I mean, I pitching 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.960 is my thing. I love pitching. I usually draft way 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.440 too much of it. But I would rather have Tatis 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.479 just give me the every day versus the every five 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.080 or six day. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.800 It is going to be interesting to watch this whole thing. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.640 Baseball to me so much better, by the way, in 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.280 like a week when the Gram and Tatis are just back. No, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.560 I'd be nice if, like you know, Bryce Harper was 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.480 back as well. We did get a little bit of 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.520 news on him that when he returns, whenever the hell 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.360 that is, he will solely DH. He's going to just DH, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.320 not play in the outfield. But there's really no timetable. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.360 It was already set to September, so I'm not really 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.320 sure it's going to help anybody for a real baseball 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:42.920 probably more playoffs. Shoh Otani Feast joins Babe Ruth as 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.839 the only two players to ever hit ten homers and 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.120 have ten wins in the same season. There is some 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.279 statue put up here pass each e row on all 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.480 time lists for homers by Japanese born players and set 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.160 the single season career high in strikeouts at one fifty 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.799 seven and it is August tenth. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.400 Kelly, Yes, yeah, I don't do you how many do 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:05.040 you think he gets to? 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.760 I think he's gonna get to. You know what, I've 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.440 always thought two hundred was in reach, and that's part 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.080 of the Are you talking about strikeouts right? 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:13.160 Not? 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:14.320 Yes? Sorry? 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.720 Yeah, yeah, I've always kind of thought that two hundred 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.400 marker was going to be in there, and boy, if 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.640 he hits two hundred, how do you keep him off 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.360 of that MVP. We don't need to like do it 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:26.680 every single show. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:27.040 Like we do. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.440 I'm looking here as we're talking the projections he's at once, 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.400 so check us out. One fifty seven is where he's at. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.080 If we go and look at whatever projection you want, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.600 I'll go in the middle. The bat has the second 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.200 lowest projection between Zip steamers, and it's at sixty three. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.840 So that is one hundred and twenty strike or two 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.360 hundred and twenty strikeouts he would finish the year on. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.320 And he's also gonna probably easily eclip eclipse the thirty 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.760 home run marker he's he's bonkers. He's doing bonkers stuff 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.200 Kelly Well. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.080 And like Gokards just in the chat. I mean he 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.880 also has ten steals, which. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:04.720 Did bapers ever steal bases? 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.440 But yeah, so he's just he's just the all around. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.800 I would still not to talk about the MVP race, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.240 but I don't. I just don't know how you keep him. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:14.400 Out of it. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.280 But yeah, I like it. It's the this is that whole, like, hey, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.160 not to talk about it, but we're gonna talk about it. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.480 We'll consistently talk about it and keep going it. Just 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.560 what's he's so intriguing because when he's not like pitching 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.960 or not doing insane things, everyone's just kind of like 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.320 Aaron Judge, Aaron Judge. But as soon as Otani does something, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.960 everyone's like, oh, yeah, there we go. I forgot Otani 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.440 is incredible. And talk about baby Ruth too. We got 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.400 a trivia question that is going to be tied to 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.240 bab Ruth here in just a tiny bit, so we'll 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.640 talk about that. Josh Hater melt down. This is something 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.160 I forgot to put in. I should have kept that 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.800 with the Padres melt down in the ninth inning walk 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.400 three batters hit another, allowing three runs to score the 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.760 tyg the tie in the game, and then Machado ended 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.320 up doing his business, so a little bit dicey and 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.920 Seattle they win one oho and thirteen innings over New 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.200 York with just an insane pitching performance from Garrett Cole 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.120 Luis Castillo. This is part two of those Luis Castillo 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.960 made his debut doing that and we did hit the 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.240 k prop on Garrett Cole. Luis Castillo is absolutely this 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:16.920 is living up to everything that Joe and I had 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.600 spent a lot of time talking about. You know, this 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.320 was like my every time Joe would be like, you know, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.520 who do you think? And I would be like, Mariners, Mariners, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.640 mar and his Mariners got to get Louis Castillo, and 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.559 it's working out swimmingly, and he looks like one of 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.680 the biggest beneficiaries of anybody into this new destination. Luis 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.959 Castillo looks phenomenal going head to head with Garrett Cole. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.240 Kelly, Yes he does, and he's kind of like you 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.080 know how it's always I wonder what the Graham's numbers 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.360 would be if he picked up wins. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.439 I was always wondering what. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.520 Castillo could do if he's got out of that ballpark 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.760 in Cincinnati, and so now he's in a place where 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.720 he's kind of got more freedom or to do what 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.880 he does, throw his pitches and not have to worry about, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.319 you know, a pop up leaving the arts so well in. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.840 That first performance too, I mean the thoughts of like 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.199 you know, they designated as like a sinker, you know, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.680 hitting ninety eight. You know that coming up ninety eight 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.040 in the zone that was always this thing. If you 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.520 can get that change up and you can get that 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.600 sinker going, I mean, he can do incredible things and 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.520 he's efficiently finding it. Like I think his dynasty value 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.960 because we had Tydler, Maley, Luis Castillo, and Frankie Montels 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.120 all traded and Mally's value is going to move a 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.240 little bit up, but like Luis Castillo's might be one 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.000 of the most impactful. I feel like we're going to 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.080 get back to like what is it three years ago 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.360 Luis Castillo value talk when we're in drafts where everyone's 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.000 gonna be like, Okay, I want the elite guy. I 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.600 want to get one of my elite guys. I want 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.000 McClanahan or Burns. If I can get that, but then 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.600 everyone's going to be targeting Luis Castillo because of the destination, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.880 the run support, I mean, everything is working his favor. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.920 I really think he's going to be one of those 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.839 big dynasty movers. Do you do a lot of I 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.760 don't remember. Do you do a lot of dynasty baseball 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:50.720 or mainly redraft? 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:51.920 Not too much. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.960 I mean I do a lot of keepers, but not 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.280 like you know, forty person roster four or five keepers. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.400 Yeah we're this year it's ten for one of them. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.160 But yeah, we. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.640 Need to we need to get maybe a Fantasy pros 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.800 dynasty league going with some of the some of the 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.319 cast and crew that come on here. It'll be great 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.480 when August hits if we get Joe in it, because 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.840 then Joe will just be focused on football and we'll 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.160 just laugh as his team just falls down the rankings. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.120 We'll have a merry time. We'll just be laughing and 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.400 just pointing at Joe and it'll be it'll be great. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.760 So let's let's do that anytime we can laugh and 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.920 put it Joe we're in. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.360 Yeah, I did a podcast. I hadn't seen Joe by 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.959 the way in like, you know, like two weeks or 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.120 three weeks. Then you know, we had essentially been seeing 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.400 each other every single day for six months, and I 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.960 saw him yesterday for the first time, and you guys 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.640 got to see it. If you're not watching the football 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.360 pot he did a football podcast with us on in 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.959 this league. Purple Lights now looks like a YouTube streamer. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.880 I'm waiting for him to jump into a bathtub or 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.440 something and just start to like, he's doing weird stuff 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.559 over there, and it'll be exciting when we get him back. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.440 We actually have him back, I think the very last 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.680 episode of the season. But let's stop talking about joe. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.120 On the injury front, Joey Bart having an MRI in 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.640 his right ankle today, so look out for that. Nelson 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.640 Cruz left the game due to right shoulder soreness or 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.439 probably just playing with a bad team. Orlando Arcia is 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.280 heading to the io with a left hamstring strain, and 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.760 Taylor Rogers got a quartzone injection into his knee. Speaking 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.080 of Orlando Arcia, that is enabling us to have call 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.680 up time, so calling up the prospects. Just before the show, 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.440 the Braves selected the contract of Von Grisham, who is 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.720 having a phenomenal year and they are not afraid to 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.480 be aggressive. Now here's the thing you gotta be careful about. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.040 You're gonna immediately have the Michael Harris comp because Michael 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.160 Harris jumped from Double A up to the majors and 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.600 has been, you know, maybe the biggest single riser from 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.439 a dynasty or redraft perspective. Von Grisham is also making 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.040 a double A jump and he's put up really great 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.720 numbers and it's a similar ish profile, So just bear 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.560 with yourself. Fourteen homers, twenty seven stolen bases on the 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.480 season so far, a three to twenty four average, a 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.600 four to ZHO five OBP, which you absolutely love to see. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.800 Its power, its speed. Guy's always made really good contact. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:09.120 He's not a crazy strikeout option. And he's also young 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:14.120 twenty one years old. Now, Miguel Vargas killed me with 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.520 all the I'm like mcgal Vargus is like an elite prize. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.120 He really is. And then the Dodger's like, that's cool, siya, 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.800 We're gonna send him down for Max Munsey and Cody 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.040 Bellinger and Joey Gallo. We don't need this. Even though 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.880 he can do everything. Grishiam is kind of in this 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.080 same space where this is a great spot. He is 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.400 the exact type of fantasy that you want, you want 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.880 to be aggressive on. The problem is, as soon as 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.360 OURCIA comes back, I think they're sending him down Kelly, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:45.439 because I really see this continued manipulation of next year's 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.040 roster stuff going on, where teams don't want to exacerbate 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.120 the prospect eligibility. They don't want to lose that, they 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.400 want to keep that going. So this would be a 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.760 even though this is one of the top type of 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.560 guys that you want to go and spend non fab 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.480 because of what he can do from a fantasy game, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.040 I assume and let me know what you think that 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.160 he's going to be limited to probably a two week 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.800 stent regardless of what he does with this Braves team. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.079 Yeah, I don't think that they have I don't think 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.800 they necessarily have room for him with the idea that 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.440 if they keep him up, how much is he going 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.600 to play how you know, how much is he gonna 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.080 like start get it bets and then the manipulation of 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.760 the service time, you know, because when they come up, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.200 unless he just absolutely tears it up, in which case 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.360 then maybe because I don't see RCA necessarily doing that 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:35.080 when he gets back. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.400 But yeah, I think they'll keep him down. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.480 Yeah, And it's tough because like someone could be like, well, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.760 what if he's awesome. Miguelt Vargas was awesome, He's hitting 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.080 over three hundred, stealing bases, making hits. He could do 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.920 all this stuff and they still said siya. So Von 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.200 Grisham is the same way here. Maybe you can get 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.880 an injection for the next two weeks. There's nothing wrong 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.520 with going and getting some stolen bases, maybe a little 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.760 homer power if you've got some you know, empty roster space. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.360 Same thing I would have said with bubbatime. And even 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.520 though he's striking out like crazy, now he's a stolen 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.320 base guy. Grisham is much better option. I've been asked 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.280 a lot lately, like who are the prospects you'd want? 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.280 No one really, There's no one really i'd want. If 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.320 i'm speculating, I'm speculating on Corbyn Carrol, but I'm doing 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.360 it for the back end of the year so the 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.880 Diamondbacks can play him in September if they want not 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.840 lose the eligibility. Grisham I didn't even put on the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.960 table because a guy's in Double A. But this is 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.480 an opportunity for two weeks. But just be prepared that 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.720 I think it's going to be relatively short lived. This 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.640 day in baseball nineteen ninety five Ball Night at Dodger 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.000 Stadium turned into the first forfeit in the majors in 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.160 sixteen years. Los Angeles forfeited a game two the Saint 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.600 Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.840 three times. The game was called with one out in 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.480 the bottom of the ninth. I wish I remembered this. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.800 I wish I remembered this. I don't at all. That's 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:54.680 an incredible stet. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.920 You put that together, Kelly, Yeah, Well, what I wanted 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.440 to write on there is and this is why we 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.760 can't have the tops of our water bottles anymore, like 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.360 because they figured out, well, projectiles, you know, probably aren't 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:07.400 a great idea. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.760 So that people throw caps and stuff. What is this, Philly. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.080 Yeah, At some at some point one year, and I 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.000 really think it was around this time, they started like 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.400 they take the tops off the water bottles and then 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.720 keep them so that you can't throw them onto the field. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:19.920 And at one point they did that. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:20.960 I think the first time they did that to me, 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.840 I was in like the three hundred section of the 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:23.840 like the Metrodome. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.040 It's like, I can't get it to the field. I 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.320 promised that I. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.240 Could throw it across the stadium. What are you talking about? 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.680 But I think the ball thing just blew it up. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.240 So probably not probably safe to say they've never done 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.480 a souvenir ball night since. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.480 No, absolutely, I don't think so. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:40.640 Well. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.760 Yeah, I mean, you know, hey, one thing ruins it 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.200 for all. You know one time, you know it's gonna 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.320 be like Philly, They're gonna throw all the bobble heads 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.560 on and then bobble heads are going to be very 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.680 dicey for the future, So look out for that. All right. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.720 Here's a trivia question. And I didn't put it on 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.480 here because I want Kelly to guess and everybody else 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.480 is going to be kind of a two parter depending 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.120 where you go. Here's a question. We talked about Babe Ruth. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.680 We talked about sho Hey Otani and all of the changes. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:12.400 Which total is higher Babe Ruth's career. Homers or innings pitched? 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:18.480 Don't google Nobody google homers or innings pitch famously. You 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.399 know the pitching. I always thought the pitching was a 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.800 little bit overblown with Babe Ruth, but he was a 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.439 two way player. Let's not get it wrong, Kelly. Do 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.520 you know this stat? Do you know this number which 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.680 was higher the home runs? Because we know the homer 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.800 total is over seven hundred, that's the one that everyone 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.200 should have, So homers or innings pitched. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.080 It's funny because I would have said homer's right off 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:41.800 the bat, but the fact that you're asking the question 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:43.040 makes me want to go with innings. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.240