WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 23rd, 2023 (Ep. 675) 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.280 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.360 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pick. Sign up 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.880 for Prize Picks today and use that probo code leading 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.280 off when you do. It's me Joey p joe pis Apia, 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.439 that of course is the Welsh, and it's you, and 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.040 we're talking all things baseball here and the peanuts and 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.360 the cracker Jacks in the chat. And I want to 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.120 tell everybody if you have never joined us live, do it. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.320 It's an experience. Boys and girls. Go subscribe to Fantasy 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.440 Pros MWA YouTube channel today. I know Welsh's trade video 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:35.599 I should be out. I would think any minute now 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.400 it could be during this show, any minute it's out. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.680 Didn't come out now, Oh my god, it came out already. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.960 I didn't even know I was doing errands this morning. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.120 But the Waiver Wire video will be out at some 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.920 point this week as well. So stay on top of 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.839 all your fantasy baseball stuff, all your wagering stuff, all 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:53.960 your baseball, all your fun. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:54.680 Welsh. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.320 We got a lot of stuff to get to today. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.120 I want to talk about the show. Today's got some 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.080 bigger questions about some players. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.520 Oh I think this philosophical, Joe. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.080 It's like, this is philosophical, Joe. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.240 It might be a little philosophical. I'm a philosophical person 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.200 in any many ways. I want to talk about Corbyn 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.920 Burns because I think it's time to have a sit down. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.600 I mean, maybe this we should call this the sit down. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:18.840 Maybe this is a good thing, you know, like and 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.280 the mob wants to have a sit down and talk 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.640 about what's going on with things that aren't going right, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.800 you know, with the different families, you have a sit down, 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:26.920 you try to figure out what's going on and see 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.280 if you go to war or if instead, you know, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.360 you work things out and everybody wets their beak. So 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.640 let's talk about Corbyn Burns. Five runs in five innings yesterday. Now, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.560 Corbyn Burns a couple of years ago looked like the 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.680 most dominant picture in baseball pretty much, I said Jacob 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.480 mcgraham was Corbyn Burns. I went to think he went 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.240 like two months without walking somebody a couple of years ago. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.040 It was crazy. He has not looked like the regular 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.040 Corbyn Burns. Our friend Frank Stanfel, a friend of yours, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.480 friend of ours, friends of the family. Last twenty starts 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.560 for Corbyn Burns. He tweeted this this morning. I saw 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.920 this at four to fourteen era, a one point whip, 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.400 one hundred and thirteen strikeouts and one hundred and fifteen innings. Now, 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.560 the strikeouts are right where they need to be, the 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.760 whip is right where it wants to be. It's that 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.880 er that's over four that I just can't figure out 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.600 what's wrong. So I guess here's the big question here. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.040 You've made big investments in Corbin Burns. He has pitched well, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.120 but he has not pitched like an ace, like the 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.320 guy that you spent early draft capital on. So what 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.639 do you do with Corbyn Burns? And what's the answer here? 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.120 I mean those big philosophical questions. You're like, okay, so 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.200 here's this big thing, So what do we do? What's 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.000 the answer? It's a great question. Corbyn Burns is a problem. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.480 Vlow's down kind of across the board. The effectiveness of. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.640 That was a very mob answer. By the way, Burns 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:43.359 is a problem. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.640 He has a little bit of a problem. We got 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.519 a problem on our hands, Joey, we got a problem 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.800 on our hands. Like I said, Vlow is down on 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.799 the fastball, slider the effectiveness the whiff rate down completely. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.120 Also looks like maybe the. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.799 Spotting of some of the pitches is a little bit concerning. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.480 Can't hit the top of the zone. The corners are 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.239 kind of a mess, you know, the command has been everywhere. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.240 He just doesn't have that same swing and miss in 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.040 his game. Now, does that mean it's gonna all go awry? 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.720 Not necessarily, But this is one of those cases, at 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.760 least I believe where this is just a pitcher that 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.520 was on the top end, you know, one, two, three, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.240 that's gonna come back down and probably be like a 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.520 lower ten to fifteen, you know, probably in the back 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.480 end of a SP one to an SB two if 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.880 these things can get right. And that's the question is like, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.679 will these things get right? I'm very concerned with the 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.360 k percentages going down as much as they are, But 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.240 the things you can look to, it's not like he's 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.880 getting hit insanely hard. And it's also not like there's dramatic, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.839 dramatic vlow drop. So he went from around ninety five 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:49.720 to ninety four, you know, so it is a mile 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.560 per hour, but that's in the fastball. We can still 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.400 work with that slider. Slider went from eighty nine down 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:54.920 to eighty eight. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:56.040 That's a little bit of a problem. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.040 So there this. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.920 It's an hour on both of those the reason for 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.720 a four era or do you think this is a 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.000 case of a guy who was just getting less weed, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.880 was getting less wisps? But I'm I'm wondering. You know, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.800 in this offseason, there was so much drama with him 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.600 and the Brewers, right the whole arbitration thing and the 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.520 contract stuff coming up, and it just seems like a 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.120 lot of bad blood. Do you think this is just 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.280 chirely an emotional thing where this guy just doesn't want 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:20.080 to be there anymore. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.880 Well, I mean this also kind of has to do 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.039 with what we talked about yesterday, what you said with 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.160 the contracts. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.160 You know, yeah you want I mean, you know, it's 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:29.279 one thing to want to be paid, and ither thing 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.719 when another team kind of bashes you publicly that you 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.479 basically carried on your back for the last three seasons. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.560 I mean, I worked pretty well off of anger, so 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.600 I imagine he kind of seems like the same thing. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.039 I feel like anger can fuel him here. But this 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.440 is what I was going to say real quick with 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.720 Burns is and I've said this word a whole lot, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.400 and I apologize, but there's different ways for it. This 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.400 is kind of like a dead zone type of thing again, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.280 where it's like, is he really this guy which has 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.320 changed the tears of value in him? So what can 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.960 you really get? I think the only type of trades 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.320 you can do with a guy like Corbyn burn is 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.560 like a two for one where you're buying in on 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.240 lower names and you're letting someone feel like they might 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.960 be buying the rebreak back in of Corbyn Burns. I'm 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.160 just not sure it's gonna go. I think he can 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.880 stabilize and he can be like a really high end 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.400 SB two between like you know, SP ten and fifteen. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.400 But I just don't think we're gonna get the top 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.440 end guy I said it's like a month ago. I 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.520 think a guy like Zach Allen is gonna end up 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:24.920 being more valuable than Oh. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.719 I think that's one hundred percent. I think we could 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.039 all say that. I'll tell you what if somebody gave 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.560 you Manoa and Woodroff for Corbyn Burns. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.240 Would you say, no, it's not the guy, that's not 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:35.680 the guy. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:35.839 No. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.400 I think I think it's got to be something like well, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:38.800 That's why I. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.200 Said, woof Woodroff is that lightning in a bottle if 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:42.640 he's healthy, ooh man, that could. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.680 Be yeah, but it's not gonna be SP's like you're 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.760 gonna have to get like one sp and a hitter. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.640 That's how I think this trade works. It's almost like this, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.200 this is name the pop up in my head and 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.040 it's not the best one, but like Bryce miller'd be 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.240 like Bryce Miller and then a bigger hitter and that 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.280 would be the type of trade. Or you know, maybe 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.679 it's a Uri, Maybe it's one of those young arms. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.919 The problem with Jury Perez is how many innings do 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.280 you have in that tank? See that? I think that's 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.600 the problem with guys like Miller and Perez when you're 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.840 looking to get with these younger pictures, you know, the 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.720 sexy young pictures who are doing so well. What does 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.640 that look like in August and September, especially for in 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.600 leagues you have playoffs. I think that's a really big 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.840 philosophical question here. It comes to Corbyn Burns, but I 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.560 think Welsh is right. You know, if you're going to 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.520 sell them off, you've got to get two really quality pieces, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.200 and one of them has to be a picture there, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.320 and if it could make your team better overall, then 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.640 I think you do it. But otherwise you might just 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.480 kind of be stuck in hoping that things go in 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.920 a different trajectory. But it's a really interesting question here 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.120 for him. Also is a fun one from John V. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.560 Welsh made me believe in Taylor Ward and then a 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.240 couple comments later, I should have listened. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.280 To Joe, that was, or maybe not listen at all. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.560 You do that too, Oh, you do feed on anger. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.960 You're right, you're an angry, angry man. I love that. 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.120 No, you know what, Actually, you should listen to Joe. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.280 You should only listen to Joe. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.719 I agree. No, you just definitely not only listen to Joe. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:06:59.760 Only listen to Joe. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.560 But tail, let me talk to Joe too. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:02.880 Let's in there. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.599 Let's do a Taylor Ward uh temperature check twenty seven 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.840 temperature check is three to zero three, a three twenty 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.840 slugging and a six twenty two ops. Look. Listen to 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.880 Welsh when it comes to pitching, for sure, But when 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.080 it comes to hitters with holes in their swings and issues, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.960 I'm tell here right now, you can see it a 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.840 mile away on certain guys. They're just not that good. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.720 Taylor Ward is not that good. I'm telling you all right, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.000 it's not that good. All right, let's talk about Bobby Witt, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.800 who hasn't been good either. So this is our big 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.680 sit down, these two big time guys who were, you know, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.000 second third round picks in most drafts. Now, Bobby Whitt 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.080 was dropped down to the sixth spot yesterday. He is 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.280 slashing right now twenty six, two sixty seven with a 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.080 four to ten slugging. So the power's been there a 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.760 little bit. Stone bases have been sporadic, and he's up 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.840 to two hundred and six plate appearances. Now, he has 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.040 the thirteen steals, he's got some pops, so you know, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.280 in those season long rolal leagues you're still just kind 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.680 of whatever. It's the head to head formats where you're 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.440 looking at the head to head road, the head to 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.600 head points where Bobby Wit has been a bit of 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.040 a struggle bus. So in that sense, now again as 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.080 the younger player, certainly you can say that he doesn't 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.240 have the greatest pieces around him in terms of line 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.440 of protection. So what do you make of this dropping 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.520 in the batting word? Do you think this is just 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.200 a blip on the radar, or should we be worried 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.640 at all about Bobby Witt rest of season two where 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.920 this is a you know, people starting to adjust to 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.520 him and him not adjusting quick enough. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.960 Back listen, like you could should always be worried about 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.560 these things, but it's it's how what type of reaction 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.200 do you make? Do you go out and sell a 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.600 guy like Julia Rodriguez for pennies on the dollar because 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.040 he gets moved down to six or where he's hitting. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.560 Do you go off and sell a guy like Bobby 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.240 Wit because there are some early struggles for pennies on 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.280 the dollar. No, the counting stats I think have still 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.400 looked solid. Seven homers, thirteen stolen bases. Guess what it's like, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.880 the exact same counting stat numbers as Corbyn Carroll, just 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.360 without the batting average right now. The strikeout percentage is 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.559 the same, the walk percentage essentially the same. He has 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.160 a pretty low babbit I guess he's run a low 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.960 babbop in the major so far, but that's still around 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.760 thirty points lower than where he's usually at. His hard 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.880 hit is up, his barrel is up, I mean, his 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.120 average EV is up. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.360 I think there's a lot of bad luck that's involved 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:16.560 in it. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.720 I would say that maybe he's even a kind. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:19.440 Of by candidate. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.719 I believe in the tools of these guys. That's the 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.400 That's the tough thing about fantasy. That's a tough thing 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.560 about this is like, you've got these guys with these 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:32.240 massive tools that they when they catch fire, they're going 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.199 to make you regret making any move off of one 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.280 of these guys. And the best thing you can probably 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.000 try to do is say, is the floor still with 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.800 this guy? And I think a guy like Bobby Witt 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.520 has shown the floor is still there even in struggles. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.000 He's getting you homers, he's getting a batting average, he's 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.360 getting you runs. He's not getting you RBI, which kind 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.840 of stink. But what happens if he takes all these 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.679 positive things, these barrels, the hard hit going up, and 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.959 then he starts finding some rhythm into a sophomore year, Well, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.680 then you're going to get the Bobby Wit that we 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.280 remembered last year. So I don't worry about like moving 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.200 around in the lineup. I just worry about consistency. And 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.000 both Julio and Bobby have kind of struggled with that, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.400 but they're still putting up big stats and they won't 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.520 be given up on. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.520 Well, here's the thing. If you go back and look, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.800 you know, OBP was not his strong suit last year too. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.080 He's at you know, two ninety four last year. He's 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.520 not an OBP guy. That's something he's got to fix. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.200 He's got to start to make a little bit more contact. Yes, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.720 there's eleven walks in the year, forty six strikeouts already 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.720 last year at one hundred and thirty five strikeouts one 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.840 hundred and fifty games, so he's on pace to eclipse 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.720 that number by a good margin already. But you know, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.160 I'm not gonna sybou Bobby would either. I think Bobby 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.840 Wood is still one of those players though. For me, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.199 if you play in those points leagues where the strikeouts 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.560 hurt you, Bobby Wick can undo a lot of the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.600 good that he does. And in those head to head 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.240 roto leagues you grin and Barrett you take the bad 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.920 average because of the stolen bases. But now that stolen 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.640 bases have kind of evolved with the new rules changes, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.600 I don't know about twenty twenty four. If you have 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.120 to do that anymore to yourself. I think that's that's. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.520 What chase stolen bases. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.120 No deal with guys who kill you in batting average 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:06.760 just to get the stolen bases. Now, I know he's 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.640 got power too, But philosopha bas gonna be very interesting 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.000 when we step back and we look at one hundred 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.439 and sixty two games, sample size of the guys and 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.160 the stolen bases, and what's going on here, what's going 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.360 to happen, you know, in twenty twenty four, and how 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:20.719 are we going to value certain guys. I think this 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.800 would be a very interesting conversation to have. All right, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.000 let's do a little rookie lookie, which is funny because 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.839 it kind of ties into Taylor Ward a little bit. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:34.120 Mickey Moniac moniac. He's a Moonia moniac on the floor 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.439 two for four and slugg to go ahead Homer yesterday, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.640 So he is going to play So rest of season? 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.000 Who would you rather have? Taylor Ward or Mickey Moniac? 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.280 Oh man, that's a tough one. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.599 Mickey. I've been kind of dismissive of Mickey Moniac and 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 he does. Look at former number one on Nicky. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.800 Has the fines to fine. You blow my mind. Hey, Mickey, Hey, Mickey, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.960 you know Mickey Moniacs. The answer is probably get help killer. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.240 Well, no, that's fine, you know, it's probably not Taylor Ward. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.560 I think it might still be like but here's the deal, though, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.600 I think these guys are gonna like flip around and stuff. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.320 I'm fine, you could dump Taylor Award right now. But 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.920 what I'm telling you is I think Taylor Ward will 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.079 balance back at some point. But who would I rather 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.360 own today? I'd rather own Mickey moniac absolutely rather own. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.439 I'm also not the type of person you guys. You 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.880 guys are so weird with this sometimes, Like if a 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.640 guy stinks and there's someone good on the wire, I 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.520 will make those moves. But that doesn't also mean that 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.880 I don't think a guy that is stinking right now 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.760 can't get better. And I think I think Taylor Ward 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.720 is a better player than I don't even even like 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:38.600 Taylor Ward that much. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.800 I don't show you love Taylor Ward. You want to 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.680 have like a Taylor you did love new Bar. Yeah, 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.200 Lars new Bar is definitely you're your dude. But it 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.840 was an interesting conversation to have because you know, we've 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.880 seen many of these rookies come up all the success 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.760 that some of them have had here in you know, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.880 the first eight weeks of the season or so. Seven 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.559 hitters by the way, who have improved big time in 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.760 twenty twenty three. I want to take your temperature on 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.480 these guys too and get your thoughts on it, because 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.559 this was a fun piece on MLB dot com. But 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:13.440 I saw so Yonaheim a huge difference maker. I just 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.000 want to say, let's play a game. Do you believe 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.080 in the change or do you think it's an illusion? 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.360 Change or illusion? 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.480 I believe go with change. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.080 No believe here. I believe Jahim is doing okay. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:33.840 Joey Gallo who has raised his EXWOBA seventy three points, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:40.360 So do you believe when he changes? Joey gallow No, 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.480 I don't ever, I don't need Joey. I agree. So 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.200 we're both two for two here. Patrick Wisdom, another guy 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.920 who has you know, certainly came out like Gangbusters. He 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.480 had incredible run there. Do you think that Patrick Wisdom? 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.839 I mean, I guess it's a tough one because I 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.480 think Patrick Wisdom is just showing you the same guy 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.559 who was last year basically, and there will be ups 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.200 and down. So I think this is a push. Do 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:00.720 you agree? 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.560 I mean I would lean probably like long term down 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.160 because also you got Chris Morell that like that might 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.120 end up coming to ahead of like morel versus Wisdom. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.280 So yeah, if we can push, sure, let's. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.080 Push all right. Next one here, Austin Hayes is on 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.560 that list too. This one, I believe. Hayes is a 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.400 player I've always liked. He has some injuries, with some 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.560 different you know situations where you struggle at times too, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.400 but Hayes was always one of these players that every 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.120 year I would take in drafts because I and I 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.760 always had a lot of shares in dfs because he 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.160 makes good contact. There was minor league career too. He's 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.560 always like a really solid hitter. This one, I do believe. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.120 I like this player a lot. What are your thoughts 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.520 on Austin Hayes and his improvement this year? Yeah? 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.080 Also agree? I mean I like that outfield kind of injury. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.040 It actually kind of stinks. I kind of wish they 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.120 would stink more because then we can get Colton Kowser 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.520 up for the Orioles. But no, Austin Hayes hard hit 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.160 percentage the highest of his career barrel percentage. He's almost 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.880 tripled it this year. Not huge, big counting stats, but no, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.400 I'm a believer. I'm actually rostering him in a couple spots. 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.240 Now, Elias Diaz interesting enough verse right handed pitching, hitting 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.440 three sixty and only two nine off left hand of pitching, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.640 which is basically the opposite of what he did last year. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.680 So you're buying mister Diaz on the Rockies or is 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.360 this just a weird start to the season for him. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:14.840 To me, it's weird. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.080 It's fine again, Like I don't I'm not gonna sit 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.600 and just like hold some crappy catcher like I would 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.680 have DS, I'd run him out and then when he 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.400 starts to come back down, I would push him off. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.440 So I think this is more mirage. But you know, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.080 it's great what he's doing right now. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.680 From one Das to another. Yondi Diaz, who Yondi Diaz 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.240 is another player that I always felt like, this guy 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:36.800 should always hit for more power than he does. And 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.680 you've seen the ground ball rate go from fifty to 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.800 forty six. So he's starting to, you know, get that 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.720 trajectory upward trying to hit balls in the air, and 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.960 obviously it's it's working, you know, in terms of fantasy, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.920 it's definitely working right now. So this is a player physically. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.440 You look at him and you go, this is a big, 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.400 strong guy. Why is he not hit more home runs? 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.800 And now it feels like you're starting to fix that. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.600 This is another dude that I think is for real. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.800 So if somebody's trying to sell him high, I would 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.360 buy high on because I do. You've seen you're seeing 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.280 an adjustment that he's finally made. It took him a 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.840 long time, but it's a really solid adjustment. And I 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.200 think he's got all the other prototypical things you want 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.160 in a power hitter. He's just never been that guy yet. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.000 This is my favorite of the list. Yeah, No, one 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.000 hundred thousand percent agree on this one. The Yandi has 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.080 pushed himself into like a completely different trajectory and he's 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.640 gonna like stabilize a tiny bit more. But I mean, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.320 three four five almost a three four to six slash 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.080 this year, insanely good hard hit numbers in the ball 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.440 a barrel percentage again, it's like two and a half 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.920 times over, so very very much on YONDI. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.280 All right, let's go to the injury list here Logan 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.360 Webb clear to make his next start on Thursday. We're 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.520 a little iffy because of the back issue, but that's okay. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.200 Byron Bucks had also okay, so he was in the lineup. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.320 Look at that crazy Listen to this. Tyler Glass now 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.440 is okay? All these weird things coming out of my 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.720 mouth here, I can't even believe this. He is going 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.120 to make his debut on Saturday, So it's against the Dodgers. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.000 I'm gonna throw Tyler Glass now out there against the Dodgers. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.120 I'm gonna do it. I don't know how you feel 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.280 about it, Welsh, but if you yes, if you got him, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.639 smoke him. This is kind of the same thing. If 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.360 you got him, start them. That's how I feel about. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.919 One hundred percent. Agree Glass. Now we get him out there, 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.560