WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 13th, 2022 (Ep. 551) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:16.560 The Sales back on Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.840 to fantasy pros. This is leading off, brought to you 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.120 by bet MGM, the King of Sportsbooks. It's me, Joey 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.040 Pa Joe Pisapia, and with me today, as always, is 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.880 the Welsh, Chris Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts and 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.560 the Cracker Jacks. And today we're getting closer and closer 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.320 to the All Star Break. But there's a rebound, a resurfacing, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.040 if you will, of Chris Sale. We're gonna talk about 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.680 that today. We're gonna talk about the Mets Brave Series 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.920 and how hot that's gonna be. We also got Yankees 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.760 Red Sox closing out. So I feel like the schedulers 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.839 did a very good job this year of creating a 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.240 little heat here in July, right before the All Star break. Welsh, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:52.440 what do you think about the schedule? 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.160 Almost like they knew what they were doing, almost like 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.280 they planned it perfectly. I like it, no, as it 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.400 should be. These are the type of thing I mean, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.279 obviously in parody of these sports. You know, you can't 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.800 predict when the team's going to completely fall apart or 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.119 anything like that, but they do a pretty good job 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.440 of knowing where teams are going to go and creating 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:14.399 a pretty good schedule. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.240 I like it. I like this too. Mister Buster is 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.240 back today. He's finally tuning in this work. He's been 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.880 he's been out, I guess unavailable to watch the show. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.000 He missed all the peanuts and the cracker jacks. But 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.839 a break for me was nice. This is what happens. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.280 He give somebody a hat, you let them win the contact. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.480 You know. Yeah, Joe, you Joe. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.759 They turn on you. They turned on full. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.520 We are by the way coming full. We are with 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.559 the we are yeah, my rid zone. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.920 They got to get the fancy blues behind me all that. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.000 I feel like we're going on. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.320 We're like the background profile pictures of the fantasy footballers. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.520 We're just like a bright color and then our head. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:50.680 It's fun. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.920 All right. Let's talk about Chrissale. He did hit the 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:55.600 k prop over the four and a half. He got 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.559 the five zah Griselle blanks, the rays and the season debut, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.200 so he was very good out of the gate. As 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.520 we were talking about, these guys come back, they're ready 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.880 to go playoff time. Basically, right here, you're making playoff 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.680 pushes in the second half, it's go time. Chrisale is 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.320 the big addition here for the Red Sox. In the 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.040 second half, Logan Web strikes out eight over six scoreless innings. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.280 Cole had eleven strikeout seven shoutout for Rames. So it 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.880 didn't matter because Clay Holmes finally bit the big one, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.600 gave up four runs and the loss. So look, it 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.400 was bound to happen. I mean, you can't be perfect 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.600 every time, but certainly a little bit of a kick 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.000 here for the Yankee bullpen. Do you think the the 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.360 rumblings begin now about the well when Chapman is you know, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.280 one hundred percent, you know, let's go back to Chapman 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.280 one hundred percent at the time. 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.120 Yeah, I'm confused by where they're going to go with 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.959 it outside of just amassing trades and getting more bullpen arms, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.960 probably to get a third guy in there to join 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.480 in the rotation. The other day they brought in a 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.280 roll this in the fifth. I think it was our 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:55.359 sixth inning and Clay decimating. Here is what makes me sad, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.839 because you know, I've been like big team top ten 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.080 closer Clay Holmes rest a year and Chapman struggled at all. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.240 He would take this absolute implosion. I think, an implosion 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.079 enough that it would push the Yankees to not annoint 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.480 to anything. You know, they just go back to what's simple, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.520 a rold As Chapman, and then you could go in 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.000 and make an acquisition. Yeah today is uh. I like 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.160 that doctor Glenn is associated. When I don't have my hat, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.080 I'm gonna laugh, I might lash out on somebody. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.080 Just what GQ picture of Doctor Glenn too, Like he's 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.119 like literally on the cover of GQ. You just got 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.800 like the fscapes. Yeah, that's true. He is kind of 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.320 representing visitors. That is a chiming into the Mets offense 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.880 has me concerned me too. They certainly need they The 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.520 problem is when Alonso's not driving in runs or he's 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.160 in the slump and he is right now, that's what happens. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.600 But look, you know it was a good game there yesterday. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.120 I got to watch Strider pitch a lot, and you know, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.160 it's the first time outside really highlights, I've gotten to 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.320 really sit and watch him pitch, and I do feel 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:53.840 like he is better suited to the bullpen. I think's 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.360 a guy can come in just blow people away. In 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.320 the bullpen. I don't know as a starting pitcher, you know, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.760 if that's gonna be his future. I really don't. And 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.279 I'm just saying this out well. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.960 Because of the inconsistencies of like. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.520 He's but also watching him mechanically. He's a smaller guy too, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.640 you know, He's not like one of these big guys 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.760 throwing one hundred miles an hour. You know. I just 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.560 feel like modern day baseball watching him mechanically, watching what 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.960 he does, watching the size of him, watching the lack 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.239 of you know, he didn't get a long run at Clemson, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.680 you know what I mean, because of the COVID stuff 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.880 and all the things that were going on there, So 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.560 it was like he had, like, you know, his big 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.400 body of work to really build in on. There's something 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.400 about him that I wonder if maybe he is a 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.160 fantastic cell high in dynasty leagues right now. Not to 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.159 say that it can't be a good pitcher, but I 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.920 wonder if the looming great potential makes him worth more 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.640 than he might actually be in reality. Do you think 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:43.400 I'm off base there? 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.200 And I think you're off base. I mean, I think 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.479 some of those concerns were there with him, but I 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.000 think the biggest I mean he is throwing. I mean 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.520 he's throwing strikes and getting strikeouts at an elite clip. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.599 He's striking out. I haven't even looked at it as 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.599 k per nine is. I have to assume it's something. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.280 Around one hundred and twenty eight. I'm pretty sure. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.520 Yeah, it's some ridiculous out. But his biggest concern is 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.279 does he get wild, does he stop throwing strikes, and 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.839 does he start walking? Guys, that's the worry. It's not 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.960 about swinging and missing, it's not about the arsenal. It's 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.880 that and he's answered that to a pretty good degree 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.880 this year. I think he has a chance to be 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.520 a really really elite starting, strikeout starting pitcher. And I 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.320 could see where you would want to sell on him, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.360 and I wouldn't kill anybody for doing it. But I'm 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.200 pretty high on him, especially these because here's the other deal. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.960 A guy that can strike out at that clip, the 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.280 least you're gonna get to be able to stay in 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.240 the rotation and continue going is going to be really high. 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.400 You're striking out eight or nine a game. This isn't 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.320 like some small stint thing. They need to do whatever 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.560 they can to keep him in there, you know. I 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.200 mean the Diamondbacks went through this long time ago with 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.360 Archie Bradley. Archie Bradley coming out of Oklahoma. Hey, he only 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:51.359 had two or three fourteen Capri nine. That's ridiculous. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.240 But that's a reliever can and and I watched him 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.160 yesterday too, you. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.279 Know, as a starter by the way, yeah, Cape nine. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.600 As a starter, right, I mean, I guess I look 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.680 at I don't know. I look at the stuff, Like 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.120 I said, I look at the frame, I look at 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.440 all that stuff, and it just feels like this is 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.320 a guy that is gonna be It's gonna go one 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.800 of two ways. I think that they if they make 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.280 him a starter, and that seems to be what they 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.360 really want to do deep down in Atlanta, I think 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.440 they're going to regret it. I think it's gonna be 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.880 one of those things that if they just made him 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.200 this elite, ridiculous Craig kimberrel as bullpen guy for the 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.720 next six years in Atlanta, then he would be just 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.800 miraculously good and fantastic. I don't know, I'm just a 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.400 little bit worried. And I love the mustache, love the velocity. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:37.000 Let me ask you this. Yesterday's start. Chris Sale obviously 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.719 good under the numbers. He only got four total swing 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.680 and misses in that game, no whiffs at all on 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.560 his change up slider looked pretty good. Vila was up. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.400 Would you rather have Chris Sale or Spencer Strider in Dynasty? 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.479 Oh? Older? Well no? 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.320 But okay, but no, but is older. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.440 But I mean, I'm also worrying that Sales maybe on 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.760 the downside of his career. So I'm gonna say Stryder 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.599 rest of seasonst what you were gonna ask me? Now? 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.320 The rest of the season. That's an interesting conversation. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:06.360 No, that's the next one. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.839 Yeah, that's the rest of season. Sale is who I'd 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.960 rather have because I believe I think the Red Sox 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.080 are in it. I think the Red Sox have shown 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.800 you that they're committed to winning, and I think the 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.960 Red Sox and Chris Sale, I mean, look, Sale has 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.360 earned that respect for me, and Strider is still an unknown. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.600 So I know that's probably an unpoppular opinion. Everybody loves 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.400 the moment right now, and Snyder is very talented. I'm 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:29.920 not trying to take away I'm not saying he's bad, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.640 but like I said, watching him pitch, not the hilosophy, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.160 but watching him pitch, I feel like his stuff translates 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.680 so well to being a dominant ninth inning guy as 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.440 opposed to one of these five inning you know, four 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.680 and two thirds, I'm gonna strike out eight guys kind 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.760 of starting pitchers. I just that's what I see the 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:48.840 difference between this two guys. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.440 Here's one thing I would add with you as well, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.440 which works in your favor of this. And this is 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.200 where you have to see the development is you can't. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.080 I really just don't believe in these two pitch pitchers. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.320 Patrick Corbyn is a perfect example of someone who first Hardock. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.200 Was a two pitch pitcher you always hated for years, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.080 I remember. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.920 But he had to redevelop. You've got to redevelop into 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.720 throwing more. He's throwing essentially ninety five percent of his 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.920 pitches are a fastball or slider. He's got a five 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.960 percent change up right now. That has to change. You know, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.960 the same thing is going on with any of these guys. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.080 Hunter Green has been readjusting he's a sixty eight percent 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.440 fastball guy because a fastball has been absolutely elite. The 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.600 slider elite. But when you got walk problems like he does. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.559 He's a twenty six percentile walk, which is not good. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.720 His obviously whifts and everything or elite you've got to 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.360 be able to mix in. So what I want to 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.040 see him from him from a developmental standpoint is to 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.840 add a real true third pitch or a fourth pitch 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.600 if you need to, whatever you can do. If you 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.120 only want to throw your change up five or six 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.760 percent of the time, get something else in there so 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.440 you've got that mix, so the slider and fastball are 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.160 under maybe eighty five percent of the time, and then 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.400 play around with those. That'll be the maturation, which I 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.920 think makes him an a pitcher. If not, I don't know, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.360 but it just reminds me a lot of Dylan Sees 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:06.640 without the the two elite plus pitches like Cees has 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.880 with the secondary arsenal. It is just two big main 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.280 pitches with Strider, and that's it. SE's had two plus 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.119 pitches and secondaries with some command issues and elite strikeouts, 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.480 and those took a while, and it did, and Strider 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.560 could have some ups and downs, and I wouldn't be surprised. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.920 All right, let's move on here. The Orioles nine in 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.239 a row. How about them? Apple's pretty outstanding. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.640 Forty four now, that's pretty. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.360 The entire American leagueese we'll talk about that in a 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.160 little bit. Is five hundred or above, which is pretty 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.079 miraculous considering how good those teams are. You think somebody 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.240 would be beaten up on someone. Matt Olsen hit the 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.160 go ahead home run for the Braves, go past the 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.240 mess yesterday, Freddy Freeman homeward as well. And Jose Burrios 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.160 there you go, Jekyl and Hyde. Thirteen strikeouts for Jose 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.960 Burrios h So there you got who knows you know? 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.800 You know, Jose Burrios is like that can in the 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.160 grocery store that like the lay bull's fallen off and 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.319 you have no idea what it is. It could be peas, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.240 could be corn, could be baked beans, no idea what 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:06.600 it is. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.400 That if you're like me, you immediately pull the label off. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.480 The label has to go. The amount of labels I 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.760 pull off of, like water bottles and stuff, it's just 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:15.760 a tick. It has to go. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.280 Are you one of those people? Were you just sitting 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.520 there and you scratched the water bottle? 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.360 Not all the time, but like, if I'm kind of 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.719 hanging out with a bottle. I'm probably gonna pull the 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.040 label off at some point. That's very likely. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.200 Fair enough, all right, injuries, Mike Trout was pulled with 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:34.640 back spasms. Gross, this is not good news. Miami. Miami's 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.120 Garrett Cooper has X rays turn up clean on the knee. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.760 So that's a good story. Trevor's story not so much 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.560 good of a story though. He was hit on the hand, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.640 exited yesterday's game. Is Starling Marte out of the lineup 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.599 again today, No surprise there. We'll see what happens. I 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.520 want to talk about the Trevor story one though, because 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.640 hit on the hand. I haven't seen anything yet. Have 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.040 you seen any updates yet on Trevor's story in that 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:55.960 hand issue? 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:57.760 I haven't seen anything this morning. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.000 Okay. I did see though yesterday after the show that 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.319 we did that Freddy Peralta is moving and progressing forward. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.920 He feels one hundred percent and that's very very important 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.200 for the Milwaukee Brewers and very important for all the 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.240 fantasy folks out there too. Julia Rodriguez, by the way, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.400 also serving his suspension also, so just throwing that out there. Also, 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.160 there's Yelich remains out of the lineup for the Brewers 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.560 with his back issues continuing, and the Brewers also sent 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.880 Keston Hira down to triple A. One of the fun 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.680 things I don't know if he saw this was Miguel Cabrera. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.560 I they had to give a day off today because 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.480 yesterday he stole second and then an attempted to steal third. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.800 He ended up scoring and that was fantastic. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.080 Did you see his quote? Did you see his quote? Man, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.360 I wish I had it here right now, but he 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.319 essentially me, I don't know if I'll be able to 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.800 find it quick enough. But they asked him about that. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.640 There are a couple of quotes. Actually, one we can't 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.760 say from aj Hinch what he thought about it, but 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.120 he said, in the back of his mind, he was 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.120 just thinking about how Ricky said that like when you go, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.000 when you go, you got to go and you don't 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.800 think about it, and that's what he said. He's like, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.440 I've been thinking about that and I just had to 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.280 go and not think about it. I love that what 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.520 Miguel Cabrera was thinking about Ricky Henderson while he was 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.240 on second phase give me a break. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.520 Well, I mean, you gotta think about something I mean 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.000 he had time to think about a lot of players. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.880 By the time it gets from first to second from 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.760 Miguel Carbre, he can think about the entire encyclopedia. This 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.960 is a fun one from Paul. In our chat, Trevor 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.560 story had one good week this year, and the rest 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.920 of it has sucked. About this at all. I think 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.679 that's a little hyperbolic, but the feeling and intention is right. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:31.959 It's pretty close. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.200 I mean, it's a little hyperbolic, but that's okay. But 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.840 that's all right. We're gonna talk about other things today. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.360 It's time to talk about right and wrong. I did 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.400 mine yesterday. The players that I was very much in 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.160 on going into this year, the two that I was 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.840 most right, the two that I was most wrong. So 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.160 Welsh today, let's get Let's start off with the players 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.559 who are most wrong about Yeah, and who are those? 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:54.640 Oh guys, I. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.280 Will tell you, well, I'll tell you I don't know 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.640 about anybody else, and I'd be curious with you. Joe, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.560 I get so hype. So I went back and looked 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.680 at my overall list ranks. I've been adjusting my position 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.720 player ranks, and that kind of helped me a little bit. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.360 When you go and look at them, I get so 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.079 focused on the wrong I can't even focus on the right. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.000 I just don't even process that. I'm just like, yeah, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.520 that guy should be there, he should be there. And 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.079 then you see the ones that are wrong, and they 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.520 just are in your face and you can't stop looking 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.280 at them. The two that jump out to me when 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.600 I took a look, because there's just lots of names 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.959 that think you can choose from one, probably the biggest 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.240 is Cody Bellinger. I made the cases that he had 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.080 made some swing changes in the off season, maybe he 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.040 had stopped a few things that were going on in 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:39.480 the past. If you know what I'm saying, you know, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.320 changing the approach, changing you know how he was going 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.000 to be. Nothing has changed whatsoever. I was a rebuy 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.160 back in those counting stats are actually pretty good, I 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.320 think if I remember correctly last so it's eleven homers, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.760 eleven stolen bases, but hitting like you know, two ten 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.800 or something, it's it's garbage. I was wrong about him, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.000 regardless of the counting sets. He didn't change. The other 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.800 one was my kind of ending of the year or 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.720 ending of the draft season. Jump on Wander Franco even 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.880 take away the injury, it still doesn't look good. He 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.080 had one good month kind of like Trevor Story did, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.040 where you know, Story had this big explosive week. Wander 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.160 had the March April push where he had a majority 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.840 of his homers he hit over three hundred, and then 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.320 with his injuries, he also just was a nothing burger. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:28.760 I mean, even if you were to play the rest 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.520 of the season, he looks like he's at best a 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.440 fifteen to fifteen guy. That progression didn't happen yet. So 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.520 I think those were my two two big wrongos. Though 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:45.160 I do think there is a gray area player Byron 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:51.040 Buxton because I said two bombs. He's a gray area 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:57.680 because his average is the worst. Yeah, but his counting amaze. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.880 He has half the stolen bases of Kyle Schwerber ha 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:06.520 and uh so I love. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.560 I don't know, maybe i'm how many how many Miguel 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:14.080 Cabrera have now. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.600 Buckston has only one more than Miguel Cabrera. That's a 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.960 better way to put that, So take that for what 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.800 it is. On the right, I picked two pictures that 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.600 I was really really aggressive on and I also think 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.360 you can put in here the right end closers on 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.040 paying on the high end like class. That was one 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.000 that I had. I had probably higher than anybody, and 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.360 I think that paid. But the two pictures I was 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.200 really high on Zach Gallon coming at an incredibly cheap 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:42.000 cost and has been, you know, relatively positively efficient. And 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:47.400 Joe Musgrove. Joe Musgrove, you know that was a weed. Yeah, 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.800 it was. It was got to have Musgrove, Gotta have Muskrove. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.960 And now you're looking at him as an easy, you know, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.640 top fifty. Overall, he was the altar. 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:55.880 He was the guy that we said, look, why are 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.440 we going for big time early pitching When there's al Contra, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.840 when there's musk Grove, when there's mcla hand. There was 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.720 a whole grouping and they were call on that same ADP. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.760 If you recall, you could get like two of those 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.440 guys for you know, a really good cost as opposed 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.960 to trying to go with it the grom Ra, Sures 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.080 or any of these top guys that were out there. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.600 Big news breaking, by the way, the Blue Jays have 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:21.080 fired Charlie Montoya manager. So there you go. That's according 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.960 to the Athletic and Ken Rosenthal's bow Tie apparently confirmed 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.760 the story. So Tony LaRussa not the next manager to 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.760 be fired, shocking. Nobody's more surprise than Tony LaRussa, but 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.680 Charlie Montoya is out. The Blue Jays have underperformed, there's 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.360 no doubt about that. And your thoughts, you seem surprised 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:40.720 by this. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.240 No, I'm not surprised. I think I said this a 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.800 little while back, like fire their hitting coach, you know, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.120 I mean, what is going on with Baschet's fall, in 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.120 Vlad's fall, and the struggles they had with like a 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.320 team White struggle with sliders, and like, the hitting just 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.280 seems completely off. There's some I don't know, I would 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.880 blame any inconsistencies, inconsistencies on pitching or anything like that, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.120 but the hitting has been wildly weird, and I guess 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.760 I see it. You just sometimes you look at these 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.600 and it's like, I don't know, I feel like with Montoya, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.800 maybe they would have just kind of, I don't know, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.639 taken out a couple of coaches and see if they 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.200 could change that. But that's a little that's a little surprising. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.679 How are we in a world where Tony L. Russa 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.400 is still just walking around just mumbling around with this 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.879 gig and all of these other How many managers have 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.120 we now had fired? Is that the third manager that's 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.639 not named Tony the rust of this year. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.840 Joe Girardi Joe Madden is also the first non Joe 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.200 fired this year. No matter what mister Buster might want, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.680 I am still here. I'm going no place. But yeah, 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.480 I mean that's that's uh. Look, man, expectations. This is 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.280 the difference. You know. It's it's easy to be the 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.159 young team chasing. You're the upstar Blue Jays, and all 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.440 of a sudden this year you are the team that 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.560 has expectations and Yankees have really just pulled away from 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.679 the field. And you look, and this is something we 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.280 were going to talk about, So let's talk about the 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.800 fun fact. The Ale East is fire five hundred or better. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.040 The Orioles are forty four and forty four, the Blue 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.359 Jays are forty six and forty two. Then you have 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.320 the Red Sox with forty seven wins the Rays of 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.040 forty seven wins. So I mean they're right there keeping pace. 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.400 But the problem is it doesn't feel like it, which 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.679 is I guess the problem. And you know, the Orioles, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.040 you know right now you're closer to the Orioles than 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:20.840