WEBVTT - Leading Off September 11th, 2024 (Ep. 900) 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:06.280 What's going on? 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.400 Everybody? Welcome into Leading Off the Fantasy Pros Baseball Podcast. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.119 We are presented by Bet three six five. Bet five 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.360 bucks get one hundred and fifty in bonus bets when 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.680 you use that promo code. Leading Off only with our 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.680 friends over at Bet three six five. It's the Joe 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.239 and Bubba Show once again. Here ladies and gentlemen. Really 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.400 happy to be joining you guys here over the final 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.000 month of the fantasy baseball season. I think we're on 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:30.760 I think it's eight shows left in the year now, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.280 so really down to the nitty gritty of the season. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.120 Gonna try and answer a couple of your questions, but 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.520 we do have a really packed show sheet to get 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.800 through today. I of course am Joel Rico, joined as 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.240 always here. Bye my good friend Casey Bubba, who you 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.000 can check out over on Twitter at bead entric Bubba. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.199 How are we doing on this Wednesday? 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:48.479 We're doing well. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.720 Midway through the week. Baseball has just been full tilt. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.360 If you're still playing fantasy with guys doing great against 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.040 tough options, bad against good streaming options. It's a wonderful 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.800 time to be alive playing fantasy baseball. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.560 It's the beautiful thing about baseball, right, because when you 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.480 think about I guess there are other sports where you 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.360 can have kind of like niche heroes, but like if 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.560 you're looking at basketball, like you're never gonna have the 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.120 tenth guy off the bench be the star. And in 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.639 football it's not usually gonna be the scrubs, and hockey 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.440 it's not usually the fourth liners. But in baseball you 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.440 can get just amazing performances out of nowhere, and that 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.399 kind of comes where the top of the outline is 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.000 today with cater Montero throwing a maddox of all people, 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.000 cater Montero, who's had a really tough season as a rookie. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.040 There have been some ups and downs, but overall pretty 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.440 tough season yesterday nine innings, of course, five strikeouts, three hits, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.600 and did not allow a walk. Overall, I think it's 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.600 encouraging any interest over the final couple starts here that 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.960 he can build off of this, or anything at all 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.680 to make out of Montero's start yesterday. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.600 It's more I'm kind of curious for next season. Like 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.520 I looked at him last night, seven of fourteen stars 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.080 three ar in runs or less. The other seven got 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.000 a little Wonky. You know, it's like, you know, twenty 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.080 fewer k's in a He's pitch. He's not a massive 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.200 strikeout guy, but we've seen glimpses of really good things 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.000 and I think that's something we can build off of 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:08.720 going forward. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.919 Could be a late, late pick. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.680 Like in a draft champions format or something, but for 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.760 the rest of this season, it has to be a 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.760 perfect matchup to get too excited about Cater Montero. And 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.360 when you're looking at the upcoming schedule for Montero, he 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.080 has the Orioles this weekend, I'm gonna pass on that one. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.160 Baltimore next week, gonna pass on that one. White Sox. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.000 The last week could be a fun final week of 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.760 the season the stream if you need it, but I'll 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:34.400 kind of sit out. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.280 The next couple could. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.840 Be another one of those you know, random win, you're 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.000 your season. You'll be telling the story in the offseason. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.760 Montero won me my championship because he threw seven shutout 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.280 against the White Sox. Just one of those random things. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.200 I forget who it was with Justin Mason. It was 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.919 like last year, the year before, I was like Sean 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.519 Bouchard or some random Rockies player, hit a home run 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.400 for him in the last day of the season, and 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.400 then he bought a couple of jerseys, and that kind 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.560 of thing is fun. Like we were talking about those 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.720 niche players kind of winning you championships and just doing 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.520 crazy things. Seth Lugo not such a niche player anymore. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.679 He might have been considered as such a couple of 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.480 years ago, but at this point we're talking about him 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.960 as an ace, and we probably should be. Yesterday he 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.040 dominated the Yankees seven shutout innings with ten strikeouts, allowed 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.320 just three hits. I do worry about trusting him so 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.280 so much heading into next season. I mean, I think 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.280 that there are certain players that have just really good 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.720 years and within that season you can kind of trust them. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.799 But I don't know if I want to invest in 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.520 a guy who's going to be thirty five years old, 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.639 who has some kind of shoddy supporting metrics. The strikeouts 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.000 aren't amazing generally speaking. What are your thoughts on Seth Lugo. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.920 Should I be more interested than I am? Or am 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.400 I right to be a little bit nervous to trust 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:42.000 him next year? 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.240 The lazy answer, if the price is right, I am interested. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.800 We had the same discussion this previous season with Lugo. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.840 He had the big innings jump and it was, you know, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.200 he's getting old, could he do it? And he's dominated 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.600 it again this season. It's eventually father time's going to 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.360 catch up. So I'm going to be like kind of 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.720 a few steps back. Uh oh, I'm gonna be a 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.560 few steps back when it comes to uh seth Lugo. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.720 But I believe his talent is good. Can you do 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.240 it for the rest of you know, next season and 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.160 going forward, we'll see. But I wouldn't pay a premium 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.440 for it. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.240 Yeah, I wonder where that price is generally gonna fall. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.039 Is he a top one hundred pick probably, I think, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.600 or somewhere in that range one hundred and twenty ish, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.960 something like that. It feels it's somewhere in that range. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.320 I think it's gonna be a little bit pricey. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:30.599 Though he'll be pricey. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.520 He'll be like a seventh or eighth round pick, probably 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.120 going as an SP two SP three to certain team, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.640 and that takes a certain type of team bill to 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:38.279 make that work. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.360 We did have a brief frozen Bubba moment there out 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.480 of nowhere. I thought we were gonna do a little 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.120 bit of a puppet, Bubba, but we are We're not 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.560 there yet. Maybe we'll get some puppets going on at 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.479 some point over the rest of the season, but let's 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.120 pray for some good connectivity. Lugo is an interesting one. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.040 I don't think I want to pay premiums, but if 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.960 he's sitting there as like an SP three to four, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.480 I could potentially be talked into it. Yoshinoba Yamamoto made 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.200 his return yesterday against the Cobs. Looked really good. Four innings, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.400 allowed four his and struck out eight, a big number, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.600 though seventy one percent of his pitches were thrown for strikes. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.160 We firing him up in all formats against the Braves 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.840 later this week, Bubba. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.880 I think you have to unless you're like really really 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.839 cautious in pitching right now, like you're dominating your formats. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.280 But he got up to I think fifty nine pitches, 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.480 so you have probably cruised to close to seventy ish 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.159 against the Braves. Braves offense has been better, but not 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.080 consistently great right now. So I love what we saw 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.080 from Yamamoto. That was outstanding stuff, just throwing the strikes 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.800 like you mentioned, getting the whifts, the CSW was great, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.240 so I would throw them and just hope, like we 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.680 saw Darbish make a nice jump in his second start, 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.600 Yamamoto should do something similar. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:46.880 I hope. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.880 So thinking about you know we're talking, we're starting to 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.039 transition into prices for next year a little bit. Yamamoto 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.840 over seventy eight innings, ninety two strikeouts, two eighty eight 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.960 ERA one oh six whip. Would you trust him as 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.880 an SP one in drafts next year? Would you want 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.839 to have a little bit of security ahead of him. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.160 I'm always a very cautious drafter, so i'd want some security. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.320 But you know, we're gonna see that draft price if 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.000 he continues what we saw on Tuesday through like maybe 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.120 two or three more starts this season and then then 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.800 a couple in the postseason potentially. Yeah, if he continues 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.720 just you know, building up the pitch count, doing all 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.880 these things, he's gonna go at a premium where he 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.520 might have to be your SP one in a draft. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.960 I'd prefer him as an SP two, like if you're 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.360 an early SP draft or like a pocket ass guy. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.520 He makes for a great SP two like that, But 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.000 that's the price you're probably gonna have to pay. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.320 For him. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.680 I'm guessing probably in the third round, and a lot 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.960 of drafts will go third, maybe in the fourth. And 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.159 that's like in a fifteen team context. So in terms 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.800 of actual pick, I would imagine somewhere in the thirties 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.040 or maybe early forties, something like that. I feel like 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.520 I'm probably gonna want to pay it considering the Dodgers 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.400 team contact, et cetera, et cetera. But I'm probably on 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:55.800 board with you that I'd want to back it up 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.120 with somebody else who can be like a massive inning 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.680 z to we talked about the other day. You know, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.760 the bes, the logan webs, the guys who are pretty 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.480 secure going out there throwing close to two hundred innings. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.360 Transitioning to some position players, Parker Meadows hit a leadoff 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.400 home run yesterday. It's all the offense that Kider Montero needed. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.960 He really only needed one batter for his home side 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.520 to take off for him, and it was Parker Meadows. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.600 Over the last thirty days, he's been a borderline top 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.960 fifty Fantasy player. He's hitting two eighty seven. He has 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.040 seventeen runs and sixteen RBI over just a month, with 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.160 three homers and four stolen bases, regular reps out of 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.760 the leadoff spot. I was shocked checking Yahoo waiver wires 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.240 that he's only on twelve percent of rosters. I think 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.960 that that's a number that definitely needs to go up. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.880 What about you, Bubba, You adding Parker Meadows if you're 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:40.600 seeing him out there? 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:41.960 Yep, one hundred percent. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.960 I had some people in my substack asking me like, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.040 should I add Meadows over you know, some standard guy 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.200 CASTI on us or something. I said, Yep, make it happen, like, 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.960 go get Meadows. The at bats will be there every day. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.920 We've seen the power, he's seen some speed, hitting close 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.560 to three hundred over the last couple of weeks. He's 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.800 just been awesome and health is there. So yes, I 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.120 would one hundred percent be adding Parker Meadows. And that 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.480 top one hundred draft price is going to be interesting 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:05.840 if he gets there, Like I think, I wouldn't be 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.480 shocked if he gets close to top one hundred and 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.160 one to fifty somewhere in that range come draft season. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.120 Yeah, when you factor in, I mean when you're looking 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.360 at what he does and then you're thinking about the 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.120 lineup probably taking another step forward. There's a lot of 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.760 really interesting young pieces in Detroit. I think he could 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.160 potentially get into that top one hundred ish type of range, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.960 and I honestly really think about paying it. It's tricky though. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.360 It is tricky because there's not like a big track 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.600 record that you can look back on, and I'm usually 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.240 a sucker for a long track record. But I think 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.000 I'm going to start to transition a little bit more 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.080 into trusting some of those younger players and taking some chances, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.160 like I might take a third round Jackson Curio or 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.960 things like that nature meadows, as long as the price 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.800 doesn't get too crazy. I believe in the skills, and 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.480 I do believe in the Tigers, So he's going to 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.319 be somebody that I'm going to be pretty interested in. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.960 Tommy Edmund a couple of home runs yesterday against the Cubs. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.400 He's kind of been excellent as a Dodger. If you 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:57.960 look at the last couple of weeks, he's a top 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.040 forty player, hitting three twenty seven with a couple homers, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.079 nine rebbies. He's stole on four bases. Another guy who's 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.040 below the fifty percent roster rate number on Yahoo is Edmund. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.600 A MUSS roster player is he somebody that you're adding 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.800 and starting everywhere. I know the term kind of gets 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.640 thrown around a little bit, but he's playing every day 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.680 in the great lineup, doing great things, multi eligible. I 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.480 feel like Edmonds should be on more than just forty 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:21.439 three percent of rosters. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.160 Dude was hitting clean up last night against Imonica and 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.680 took him deep twice, So yeah, he probably should be. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.520 I've always been very anti Edmund just in general. It's 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.960 just for my biases, so it's tough to give a 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.520 really great answer here. But dude's playing every day. If 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.400 he's hit in the middle of that order. Probably changes 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.080 if t Oscar or when ti Oscar comes back. But 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.480 as long as Edmond's playing every day and hitting in 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.439 a strong spot, you need to play him right now 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.800 for the stretch run. Right now, it's all about matchups. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.400 It's all about playing time and righting the hot hand. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.800 It's not about looking long term right now. So if 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.800 Edmund's out there, he does fit them well. Plus all 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.760 that eligibility, Like you said, that's tremendous to try to 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.280 piecings together with all these guys getting these random He's 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:00.920 off right now. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.520 Yeah, between the days off and we got a packed 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.959 injury report later. It's kind of tricky to set your lineups. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.599 But Edmund second base, shortstop, outfield in a lot of formats, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.200 like you said, he was cleaning up. And even if 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:12.680 he's not going to clean up every day, you know, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.719 five to six spot in that order, that's something that's 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.800 pretty appealing if he's just out there on your waiver wire, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.320 the triple eligibility being a huge factor. Lane Thomas is 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.800 somebody I also wanted to mention he was a drop 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.000 in a lot of cases when he was you know, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.599 the first couple weeks of August, people were seeing the 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.280 playing time wasn't really there, He wasn't doing much when 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.000 he was out on the field. I actually picked him 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.840 up in a couple of fifteen teamers. Was it this 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.680 fab cycle or maybe it was last weekend because people 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.319 had really just given up on him. But if you 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.360 look at what Lane Thomas has done recently, it's been really, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.600 really good. He's kind of got his everyday roll back 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.600 there in the Cleveland order. He's down at sixty three 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.880 percent on Yahoo. I feel like even in some deeper leagues, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.840 like I mentioned, he was available on some fifteen team 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.480 waiver wires. I'm adding Lane Thomas wherever I can at 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.040 this point, do you agree, Bubba, that he should be 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:58.920 rostered everywhere? 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.360 I'd say deep leagues only for me, still real, just 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.240 because I'm not like he has gotten better of late 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:05.880 one hundred percent. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:06.679 Not going to deny that. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:07.880 So if you want to ride the hot hand like 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.640 I just said about you know, our previous players, that's fine. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.720 I get it, but I'm still not sold on. Like 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.560 what we saw on the fall from Grace when we 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.840 went to Cleveland was not good, but Tuning couldn't hit period. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:21.280 Now he's heating up again. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.480 So if you want to think he figured it out, awesome, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.760 But I'm going to pass on Lane Thomas except for 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.280 deeper formats where he should be rusted. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.680 That's probably a fair analysis. Like the lineup isn't so 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.520 so great. They're a lot better than last year, but 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.440 there's still not a juggernaut exactly. You know, if he 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.600 goes through a cold few days, Let's say you put 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.240 him into a weekly lineup, he goes through a cold 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.839 couple of days, he might miss a day. They have 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.560 shown that they are willing to set him, so maybe 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.320 I'm a little bit too bullish on Lane Thomas. But 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.920 he has looked really, really good over the last couple 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.640 of weeks and did hit a home run yesterday. It 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.840 was the White Sox. So take that with you will. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.199 Let's transition into something that Bubba holds near and deer, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.000 and that's catchers, and we'll talk about Sean Murphy a 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.360 little bit. He had a home run last night. But 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.160 my god, has it ever been a terrible season. He 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.559 has missed quite a bit of time. Sean Murphy. We're 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.679 only talking about just over two hundred at bats, but 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.240 he's hitting two ZHO nine, yes, sixteen runs this year, Bubba, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:12.960 sixteen runs scored bad. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:13.880 It's tough to do. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.160 I know, it is really tough to do. And another guy, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.720 as the add takes over, Brandon Drury is somebody that 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.680 had been really surprising. It's gotten a bit better, but 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.720 he has fifteen RBI this season. There's just some crazy 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.559 numbers that pop out like that. But in terms of 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.360 Sean Murphy, is he somebody where you'll be buying that 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.000 dip heading into next year? Because I can't imagine after 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.840 what he did down the stretch in twenty twenty three, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.400 after stinking up the joint this year, missing time that 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.480 he'll be that expensive. We might get him and catture 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.920 two type of draft range next season in some leagues. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.439 Are you buying that dip or do you think that's 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:45.559 maybe overestimating the. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.920 Diph No, he should be a catcher too. I'm not 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.200 excited about him that guess. It'll depend on how everything 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.800 completely unfolds in a draft. But as long as Travis 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.319 dayrenouds there, that was my biggest concern this year. I 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.840 want nothing to do with Sean Murphy. They will put 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.640 two these guys, and Darrenod's actually had the higher level 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.040 of playing time in this situation here. Plus Murphy the 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.800 last couple of years has had some goofy injuries, so 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.560 that maybe there's something going on there with Sean Murphy. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.600 So I've just been out on him. I've been trying 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.319 to preach to everybody even going into the draft season, 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.760 like stay away from Sean Murphy. It's the price wasn't 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.719 worth it now. It could be cheaper next year, like 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.560 you're saying, But if he's in a platoon, and then 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.360 it it turns into like your Jay's like when it 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.640 was Jansen and Kirk and all these guys like, what. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:26.400 Are you going to do with that? 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.760 And that's just something I tried to avoid. It's not 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.800 always easy to avoid, but I would try to avoid. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.000 I think that's fair. I mean, Darnaul is getting older. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.400 I wonder how many years left he has behind the dish, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.600 but he's outperformed Murphy and it hasn't even really been close. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.679 Like I've been rolling with Darnault as a catcher two 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.560 in some leagues, fourteen homers, he's hitting two forty five. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.160 It's not amazing, but it's a hell of a lot 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.800 better than what we've gotten out of Murphy. So that's 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.880 it's definitely a factor. Like they have shown that they 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.440 will platoon these guys. Maybe there's one more year left 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.240 in Darnaux and that will lead to another eighty game 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.880 eighty ninety game season for Murphy where he's not all 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.800 that valuable. I do think are going to be better 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.080 as a whole next year with some returning pieces. But 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.240 I think to your point, the price would have to 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 be pretty low if he's going inside the top even 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.240 two hundred and fifty picks. I don't know that I'd 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.080 really want to take a shot at Murphy as a 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.199 late catcher two. I could probably see myself hitting the 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.800 draft button a couple of times. One more player in 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.720 the headline section is Riley Green. Two for three yesterday 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.000 with a couple runs and three ribbys. It's kind of 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.720 been a great season for him that's come under the radar. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.200 I don't know if it's because he's missed a little 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.000 bit of time, but seventy two runs, twenty homers, sixty 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.040 four ribbies, four stolen bases, he's hitting two sixty three. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.480 He's one of those guys that's just not hurting you anywhere. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.600 And like we've talked about, the Tigers lineup getting more 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.200 and more interesting as the days go by. I wonder 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.360 how high he's going to be drafted next season, but 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.840 I think Riley Green is going to be one of 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.440 my bigger targets on the offensive side as of right now. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.680 You interested in Riley Green for next season, Bubba. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:49.440 Yeah, definitely. Like Riley Green. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.520 I agree, kind of got somewhat forgotten about it times 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.520 because he had that big gap of missed playing time 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.760 in the middle of the season, but been a very 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.920 very effective player when healthy and hopefully his healthy next years. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.040 Compare him and like you said that lineup with Meadows 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.400 in Green and they got young and these other young 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.000 bal Victorkals going to me figures it. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.320 Out, and so many other guys there. It could be 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.000 a productive situation. So I do like Riley Green a lot. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.400 I actually like them, probably more than Parker Meadows, So 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.200 a big fan of that as well. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:15.960 Well. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.800 If you look at what he's done just from this 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.000 year compared to last year, he's raised the walk rate, slightly, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.880 cut the strikeouts. The WRC plus has gone from one 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.600 twenty to one thirty seven, the barrel rates thirteen percent 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.240 forty six percent hard hit rate. It's a lot to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.560 like under the surface with Riley Green, and I really 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.560 do believe in those Tigers heading into next season. I 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.200 do think they are going to do a Royals as 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.760 type of turnaround and potentially compete for a postseason spot. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.040 Let's go to the just for fun section. Manny Machado, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.440 this one really surprised me. He became the Padres all 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.080 time leader in home runs yesterday with his one hundred 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.000 and sixty fourth as a Padre. He passed Nate Colbert, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.200 who was a player in the late sixties early seventies. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.360 Where you was I mean, this is I don't know, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.000 it's not like the biggest of deals. But it just 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.040 so surprising that in this long but for seventy however 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.000 long they've been a team sixty seven years, that Manny 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.960 Machado is the all time home run leader. Did that 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.920 surprise you, Babba, I. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:09.600 Guess a little bit. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.000 At the same time, if you really really sit back 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.880 and think about the Padres, Tony Gwynn was their best hitter, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:16.880 not a home run guy. You know, they had like 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 Dave Parkers and wind Fields of the world, but they 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.800 were never there for long periods of time. They've never 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.480 really had a guy to sit there for a while 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.400 to it to hit bombs. So it is surprising because 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:27.720 it's been in such a short amount of time that 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.280 it started like a twenty nineteen, so five years it's 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.640 all it took for Manny Machado to get there. But 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.160 at the same time, the Padres history is a little 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.320