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Speaker 1: and I when Joe can talk. Joe is currently in
Speaker 1: timeout and he's trying to figure it out. So I
Speaker 1: am going to start this bad boy up hanging with
Speaker 1: you guys, hanging with a bunch of you guys, glad
Speaker 1: to see you. We have got a Dodgers game on
Speaker 1: where Joe and I are both sweating some Bobby Miller strikeouts,
Speaker 1: so we'll see if Joe comes back and he can
Speaker 1: sweat with Otherwise, it's everybody's opportunity to ask questions, and
Speaker 1: you also can come on and talk if you want, so,
Speaker 1: just raise your hand and I will bring you up
Speaker 1: and hopefully you will be able to continue coming on
Speaker 1: as long as you behave behave. So let's see where
Speaker 1: we had somebody who wanted to pop in earlier, but
Speaker 1: I think they unraised their hand. So what that means is,
Speaker 1: let's get to some of the questions that I am
Speaker 1: going to start answering to you guys. I traded Caleb
Speaker 1: Ferguson and Oswaldo Cabrera for Bednar. Is Bednar a bust
Speaker 1: this year from T baby?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I think I liked I liked what Roddy Tilez was doing,
Speaker 1: and just in support if like, listen, this is an
Speaker 1: all star, he's gonna get it right. I will say this,
Speaker 1: I do think that this could lead to some you know,
Speaker 1: maybe like a couple weeks off opportunities for a world
Speaker 1: as Chapman. But I think they're going to just go
Speaker 1: right back to it, So don't be surprised if they
Speaker 1: end up just going right back to Bednar. They're also
Speaker 1: winning games, so I think they're more likely to want
Speaker 1: to not screw anything up, you know, and there are
Speaker 1: as in obviously they don't want to lose games. But
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to like move away from
Speaker 1: their closer anytime soon. So I think that's a totally
Speaker 1: fine pick. All right, going down here, we had a
Speaker 1: lot of like nobody could hear Joe, So let's go
Speaker 1: through the questions here. Oh yeah, somebody said right here,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if Chapman gets the next save
Speaker 1: opportunity until Yeah, I think you could get like two
Speaker 1: weeks of Chapman while Bednar builds back up his confidence
Speaker 1: and they just go to I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: at all if that's what they went, all right, color
Speaker 1: bear sell High on Holiday in a twelve team head
Speaker 1: to head categories redraft. Maybe I'm open to it.
Speaker 2: It just depends.
Speaker 1: I think the the determination of what sell High is
Speaker 1: is the biggest key. Like where Joe was talking about it,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be hard for like whatever. I
Speaker 1: think most people's expectation of Jackson Holiday right now is
Speaker 1: probably a little bit beyond what maybe it even should be.
Speaker 2: So if if you.
Speaker 1: Have somebody that is like the O'Neill Cruz, if somebody
Speaker 1: is willing to offer oneal cruise, I probably would move
Speaker 1: off of that in redraft. But I also still think
Speaker 1: I had done I did that CBS show where I
Speaker 1: was giving some projections. I thought Jackson Holiday could be
Speaker 1: like a fifteen home run guy, could be a thirty
Speaker 1: plus stolen base guy and hit for good average. I
Speaker 1: still kind of think that maybe the power is going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit less. Maybe the stolen base
Speaker 1: would be less. But if if he was a twelve
Speaker 1: twenty five with like eighty runs, I mean, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But if you can capitalize on that and get an
Speaker 1: ONNEO Cruise, yeah, then that's I'm gonna jump on that.
Speaker 2: So can you hear me now?
Speaker 1: Joey p in the house?
Speaker 2: What's up? Joey yay? Are we recording?
Speaker 1: We are recording. We've already even in the show.
Speaker 2: We've started the show. That's good. I'm glad you started
Speaker 2: the show. I'm very excited about that. Sorry, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It kept saying it saw my microphone, but I guess
Speaker 2: it didn't really see it. So Sy, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? I can only assume we're talking about Jackson Holiday.
Speaker 1: Right, we were talking about the sell high potential, and
Speaker 1: I hate to like retread what we were doing on
Speaker 1: leading off about it. We can go into more expansive,
Speaker 1: but like again, my thing with that is sure, I'm
Speaker 1: down to sell high, pending what the cost is. ONEO
Speaker 1: Cruz was awesome. There's probably other variations that make sense,
Speaker 1: but I think someone truly has to buy high for
Speaker 1: me to want to jump off of that, because I
Speaker 1: just I really think he can produce like a solid
Speaker 1: fantasy season. Actually, someone just an interesting name, you know
Speaker 1: who I might trade Jackson Holiday for. If I was
Speaker 1: down a little pitching show to iman Aga, I think
Speaker 1: that would be one. If somebody offers, or not that
Speaker 1: that was an offer, but I would do that.
Speaker 2: No, I would agree with that sentiment. And look, everybody,
Speaker 2: if you want to speak to us, just raise your hand.
Speaker 2: We'll call you up here because it's good to you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes when you get the questions, it's better to have context.
Speaker 2: It's nice to ask roster questions. It's nice to get
Speaker 2: a little bit better of a feel of what's going
Speaker 2: on with your teams.
Speaker 1: And people, by the way, left Joe as soon as
Speaker 1: you weren't here. They're just like, I hate the Welsh garbage,
Speaker 1: can't do the show. So we had some people leave
Speaker 1: who wanted to ask questions, and Joe comes back. Guess
Speaker 1: what numbers are?
Speaker 2: Back up?
Speaker 1: I get where I stand, So feel free to talk
Speaker 1: to your favorite Joe piece of Pia. I'll just sit
Speaker 1: and watch. I'll just sit and watch you guys talk
Speaker 1: to each other, So please come on.
Speaker 2: No, I definitely don't want that look Tilde Baggins just
Speaker 2: followed you on X so I mean, what more do
Speaker 2: you need than that?
Speaker 1: I thought I've always wanted in Tildo Baggins, All right,
Speaker 1: do you have anything else? We're at Jimbo Jimbo slices
Speaker 1: up next. I don't know if you can see that
Speaker 1: in the chat. Is there anything else you want to
Speaker 1: add on the holiday stuff?
Speaker 2: No, I think we covered a lot of it on
Speaker 2: leading off. I want to get just enough. K's up
Speaker 2: here because they've got a question, So just enough, K's
Speaker 2: welcome to cleaning up. What do you have?
Speaker 3: Joe Welch, how are we doing? Thanks for having me
Speaker 3: on real quick, just a quick question because I waited
Speaker 3: too long on second base? No blaze Alexander a viable
Speaker 3: starter yet with Perdomo's injury or are we going to
Speaker 3: have to find another option since he's going to be
Speaker 3: coming back probably Midsummer in twelve teams.
Speaker 1: By the way, categories, okay, all answer it really quick
Speaker 1: to start.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be a long term
Speaker 1: long long term. Also, he is stinky defense. He's one
Speaker 1: of the worst defense. He's proven to be one of
Speaker 1: the worst defenders in baseball so far, and they're already
Speaker 1: going to like Jace Peterson to some so his playing
Speaker 1: time I think will be like mostly the guy. I
Speaker 1: think he's a good stopgap guy for a month because
Speaker 1: I like his offensive side, but defensively he's not great.
Speaker 1: And that is one thousand percent why when Perdoma is healthy,
Speaker 1: he will be back.
Speaker 2: He will be the.
Speaker 1: Guy, and he'll move it. So the answer is viably
Speaker 1: long term. No, you could do it short term, so
Speaker 1: you might want to start, I don't know, look at
Speaker 1: trade options out there, or I don't know who else
Speaker 1: is available in your league, but you're just not going
Speaker 1: to have him for the season in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: don't Joe, you feel any different.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I don't have too much to add there,
Speaker 2: So I think that's again. Early ads are always interesting too,
Speaker 2: because it just made me laugh the other day just
Speaker 2: because I saw ur and Mercedes signed with some like
Speaker 2: independent league thing, and I was like, remember that, Remember
Speaker 2: that April. That was a fun April, Like you know,
Speaker 2: these these crazy things happen in April sometimes, and I
Speaker 2: just think, you know, sometimes you've got to be careful
Speaker 2: with how we spend our fab It is a long season,
Speaker 2: depending on how competitive your league is.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well, when I was, I was sighing, and
Speaker 1: if anybody else was, Bobby Miller just gave up a
Speaker 1: leadoff homer.
Speaker 3: And that's my other second basement Edward.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, say okay, so Edward, you're doing all right
Speaker 1: if you got Edward.
Speaker 4: So Edward, he's just he's so lackadaisical at the plays.
Speaker 4: He can wait too many balls for strikes. It's like
Speaker 4: it's almost like he's trying to get a walk instead
Speaker 4: of a hit the most time. So it's starting to
Speaker 4: get a little worried on him.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy. I cannot comprehend the I will not
Speaker 1: swing at anything through the first like four pitches, and
Speaker 1: then when I get to two strikes, I become Joey Gallow.
Speaker 1: I'm the most I just don't understand it. It's super frustrating.
Speaker 1: But he was aggressive there, and he absolutely just launched
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller, so.
Speaker 2: That you become Joey Vado. I think it's more like
Speaker 2: Joey Vodo than Joey Gallo. How many pitches that Joey
Speaker 2: Vodo always look at. I mean it's just I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just something I mean, it's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: but he's way.
Speaker 2: Better hitter than Joey Gallo will ever be. But if
Speaker 2: you got Edward, I wouldn't be worried. I think you're
Speaker 2: fine there at second base. All right, let's go to
Speaker 2: all savages here. And he's called himself Joey's dishwasher, which
Speaker 2: is for inside baseball for some of us. What's up
Speaker 2: Joey's dishwasher?
Speaker 5: Oh man, I just wanted to uh to come spend
Speaker 5: my lunch with you. Seen Joey p would have been
Speaker 5: a live stage. Didn't even care that it was baseball.
Speaker 2: Tell you that we don't even care the base of football.
Speaker 2: People want to just talk and hang out anyway. This
Speaker 2: is a baseball one though, Savage.
Speaker 5: So I just wanted to come say hi to my friend.
Speaker 2: We miss you. Well. I'll be doing the NFL Draft
Speaker 2: live for two nights Thursday and Friday, so you'll get
Speaker 2: eight hours of me in two days. That's plenty. That's
Speaker 2: enough for anybody.
Speaker 5: Let's go, man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Now, Savage, do you have a baseball rooting interest or
Speaker 2: you a UH fan? You're Red Sox fan? Okay, so
Speaker 2: how do you feel about the Red Sox roster this
Speaker 2: year and losing Trevor's story again.
Speaker 5: I haven't followed, honestly, man, that's been it's been been
Speaker 5: an odd year for me. I haven't even haven't even
Speaker 5: watched a baseball game or paid any attention yet.
Speaker 2: Well, Savage, this be the day that you turn that corner.
Speaker 2: This is the day where things go different. You get
Speaker 2: you got excited about baseball because you're hanging out with
Speaker 2: me in the Welsh and I want you to go
Speaker 2: watch some baseball and I'll be talking NFL with you
Speaker 2: very soon. But it's good to see you or sort
Speaker 2: of or hear you or talk to you. Savage. You're
Speaker 2: a good dude. I wish the dishwasher situation had worked
Speaker 2: out better, but Savage did literally everything he could for
Speaker 2: that song.
Speaker 1: Oh savages, Oh I know savages.
Speaker 2: Now with the dish you and a Welsh knows the
Speaker 2: inside baseball of the Dishwashington that took a month from
Speaker 2: Low's to get delivered. And he was trying to help
Speaker 2: me because it turns Oh, what are the chances I
Speaker 2: call customer service and I get somebody that I know,
Speaker 2: and that somebody is Savage from our discord. I mean
Speaker 2: how hilarious is that? And even he couldn't get it
Speaker 2: to get done properly. But luckily it's all done now.
Speaker 2: The dishes are clean, bro, The dishes are done. Man.
Speaker 2: What movie is that? From Welsh? The dishes are done? Man?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: If he says man, I'm gonna think The Big Lebowski.
Speaker 2: No, it's don't tell mom. The Babysitters Dead a classic guy.
Speaker 2: You should show your kids that movie. They're like, actually
Speaker 2: a really good one.
Speaker 1: By the way, Joe, I'm not feeling good about our
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller Live Sweat reaction. As I mentioned at the top,
Speaker 1: he gave up a leadoff, Homer, he gave up a
Speaker 1: hit and he might. I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 1: get a K here. We got Byron Buckson up here,
Speaker 1: but Bobby, oh, we're gonna get a k.
Speaker 2: Buckson's good for a K. Here's one from thinner thoughts
Speaker 2: on trading Shota for Max Freed had to head categories.
Speaker 1: So trading away Shota to get Max Freed, that's.
Speaker 2: I believe what he's alluding to. So the question is
Speaker 2: who would you rather have rest of season?
Speaker 1: I personally think I want Shota and that might be overreactionary,
Speaker 1: and oh there's a k oja to this that might
Speaker 1: be like Max Freed overreaction. He's definitely going to be
Speaker 1: the due that you know with the Braves, you're just
Speaker 1: gonna like walk into wins. But if we're talking about
Speaker 1: like the better picture, I think Shota is the better
Speaker 1: picture right now. So it's it's a little too close
Speaker 1: though It's not one of those where it's like I
Speaker 1: think there's a deal being had, but I would rather
Speaker 1: have Shota right now.
Speaker 2: All right, This one's from Miktunda. Would you take holiday
Speaker 2: and Freed for Lindor? So, if you have Lindor, would
Speaker 2: you take holiday in Freed.
Speaker 1: I kind of think you maybe could do that, especially
Speaker 1: if you're down pitching depth.
Speaker 2: It's a dicey situation to say.
Speaker 1: That Jackson holiday is going to be able to fill
Speaker 1: the perceived Francisco Lindoor value. But I think, in a nutshell, okay,
Speaker 1: here's what I might do. I might try to push
Speaker 1: a little bit, like maybe I could get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a better pitcher or something like that. But
Speaker 1: I think you could do it. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I'm like highly suggesting you.
Speaker 2: Do it, you know what I mean, I understand. Uh,
Speaker 2: here's another question here. Well, I guess we got a
Speaker 2: lot of these on leading off, we didn't really talk
Speaker 2: about him. Where are you at with Max Freed? See?
Speaker 2: Going into the season, I was very like in the
Speaker 2: Black Book when I wrote him up, I say, I
Speaker 2: believe I even put him in the red flags because
Speaker 2: Freed was a guy that like, look, you gotta kind
Speaker 2: of prove its me. He's healthy now, he was okay
Speaker 2: in the spring, but so far and you know, mixed
Speaker 2: bag results here. And if Atlanta loses Freed and Strider,
Speaker 2: like I think Atlanta's toast. I know that sounds crazy,
Speaker 2: but like they're toast. I don't think they can overcome that.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge Freed guy.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I feel bad about picking on like early production to
Speaker 1: be the reasons why I can tell you guys that
Speaker 1: I'm not like a big, big Max Freed guy. I
Speaker 1: would say this, His stuff looks about the same. It's
Speaker 1: just not as effective as k percentage.
Speaker 2: His way down.
Speaker 1: He's walking more batters right now, he's getting hit harder.
Speaker 1: He's already given up a one fourteen point four Max
Speaker 1: ev which is the second hardest hit ball of his career,
Speaker 1: just getting banged around a lot more. But you have
Speaker 1: a you have more wiggle room when you're with the Braves.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a big Max Freed guy. So I
Speaker 1: think Max Freed is in the fringy ish area. You know,
Speaker 1: you had said earlier on the show when we were
Speaker 1: talking about like Meryl Kelly, Meryl is one of the
Speaker 1: type of those are the type of pictures I want
Speaker 1: to get right now. You know why, because I don't
Speaker 1: think they cost a whole lot. They don't cost show
Speaker 1: toa Imanaga. Like I think Merril Kelly is just like
Speaker 1: a middle line starter who's gonna get me in.
Speaker 2: I bet you can get Meryl Kelly plus for Max Freed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you could give If I could get like
Speaker 1: a decent plus, sure in a Max Freed trade. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like Kelly is a type of pictures
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to acquire right now. It's less risk
Speaker 1: in the acquisition. If these guys are all getting hurt
Speaker 1: and it's just less acquisition and it's like solid return.
Speaker 1: So don't I don't Max Red is that type of guy.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go and blow the doors off of
Speaker 1: buying low. If that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Here's a great question from Jimbo Slice, Good afternoon, gents,
Speaker 2: trade Trout and Logan Allen for Julio twelve man head
Speaker 2: to head points. Look, Julio is hitting under two hundred
Speaker 2: right now. He always struggles in April. Trout is red hot.
Speaker 2: I mean, to be honest with you, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: forget the Logan Allen piece. He doesn't even matter. I
Speaker 2: want Julio rest of season more than Trout. I know
Speaker 2: Trout's been terrific to start the year, but I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't shake that difference. And it's the same that
Speaker 2: every year with Julio. It's the cold April every single year.
Speaker 2: I'd be just buying low in the Mariners. When I
Speaker 2: was watching that last night, I was looking at Polonco
Speaker 2: under two hundred, Julio under two hundred. Kirby stinks, Castillo
Speaker 2: stink like it's just been just buy on the because
Speaker 2: this is not gonna last, Like April's gonna be a
Speaker 2: distant memory. And for me, it's a hard yes for me,
Speaker 2: And I know that's a tough one, but you know,
Speaker 2: and you seem to agree with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm that's just the class. Like if I can't
Speaker 1: look at Julio Rodriguez, it literally stutters me talking about
Speaker 1: this type of thing because it's like, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy in Julio rod Riga is now. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna bounce back. I also think there's something
Speaker 1: wildly weird going on with the Mariners. Everybody is struggling off.
Speaker 1: It's a struggling pitching and struggling. It's almost too much
Speaker 1: of an anomaly to me. But we know Trout's trade
Speaker 1: hitch history. This is this is the quintessential trade of trades.
Speaker 1: This encompasses everything you want to do in the trade market.
Speaker 1: You have an awesome, cool Mike Trout who has a
Speaker 1: storied injury history, and you can get like the number
Speaker 1: two overall Fantasy Baseball player because of the hot start
Speaker 1: of Trout and his struggles.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, this is what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Baby. Yeah, I'm with you. So if you've got questions
Speaker 2: dropped in the chat or just raise your hand and
Speaker 2: will pull you up here to speak live.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you guys here. Everybody South
Speaker 1: African G said, at what point does your quote worry
Speaker 1: meter move to panic mode with starting pictures regarding like Kirby, Castillo,
Speaker 1: Musgrove has been a little roughed up. These are pictures
Speaker 1: may track records, so just keep patient with the question.
Speaker 2: May. That's my answer is May. Like it's still two
Speaker 2: starts into the season. You know, Spring is different for
Speaker 2: a lot of guys too. There's a lot of pictures
Speaker 2: that have dead arm, you know, after spring. Some guys
Speaker 2: have it during spring, as long as the guy is healthy.
Speaker 2: You know, some guys sometimes are tip and pitches and
Speaker 2: they don't realize, like there's so many variables in there.
Speaker 2: I'm worried for sure, but panic is not until I
Speaker 2: get into May and look that might be too far
Speaker 2: along where you don't get to you know, sell high
Speaker 2: on a guy or get out from underneath the guy.
Speaker 2: But the way pictures are dropping like flies Welsh like
Speaker 2: I I'm I'm happy to have Castillo or Kirby on
Speaker 2: my roster right now because I don't have Strider, I
Speaker 2: don't have brandber Valdez, I don't have you know, all
Speaker 2: these guys like it's tough. It is really tough in
Speaker 2: the picture streetch right. Now, here's one from Cole's balls.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, friends, Thanks for all the advice. I've leveled
Speaker 2: up my game. If as we want to do a
Speaker 2: level you up, can maybe we get some feelings about
Speaker 2: newt Bar. You're the new Bar guy, what you expect
Speaker 2: when he returns, and maybe an honest timeline. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna get him by the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's I think he was a triple a rehab
Speaker 1: assignment like yesterday, so I think, yeah, the weekend is
Speaker 1: like foreseeable, maybe Monday, So I think by next week,
Speaker 1: especially for like weekly leagues, you'll have him back. You
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I don't know like he I'm
Speaker 1: always like really optimistic simply because you know, he's a
Speaker 1: dude who is always working on his craft, the drive
Speaker 1: line stuff. And it went from you know, hitting the
Speaker 1: ball harder to now optimizing how you get fly balls
Speaker 1: hitting harder. So like, I think he can have power.
Speaker 1: I think he can have good stolen bases. I do
Speaker 1: think some of the training he's done is press some
Speaker 1: of his batting average away. But I would like if
Speaker 1: he's sitting on the wire, like I'm picking him up.
Speaker 1: If he's on my il and I have a five outfield.
Speaker 1: I'm putting him back in. So that's how I take it.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want to point out you're looking
Speaker 1: for pictures. Chris Paddock is looking good, and he has
Speaker 1: looked good since spring training, and he's looking good against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers right now, striking out, dude. So Paddock is
Speaker 1: out there, go and pick him up right now.
Speaker 2: Here's another question from Finner. You guys write these pitching
Speaker 2: replacements Tyler Anderson, show Manaia, Spencer, Turnbull Los Valdez in
Speaker 2: multiple leagues. I would say Turnbull way ahead of the
Speaker 2: other two, Like Manaia would be two for me, Anderson
Speaker 2: would be three, but it would be Turnbull far and away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Turnble's just been so good it's hard
Speaker 1: to not Like, do I trust Turnbull rest this season?
Speaker 2: No? No, but you gotta add him over those guys.
Speaker 2: I think he's the clear ad. I would do it.
Speaker 2: I'm inverse talking about it the waiver wire too. This week.
Speaker 1: Turnbull, Manaya Anderson is my order of like pickups.
Speaker 2: So we have the same. But to me, Turnbull is
Speaker 2: like the guy that like I put ten bucks on
Speaker 2: him and like a buck on the others like that,
Speaker 2: Just to get a gauge if it's a fab league
Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, something like that. All right, Welsh.
Speaker 2: In terms of Paddock again, now that's a guy in
Speaker 2: the past that you haven't necessarily been on two pitch, pitcher,
Speaker 2: all this stuff. So what is it about Paddock that
Speaker 2: you're seeing now that has you so excited?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, his fastball looks great. I actually like Paddock.
Speaker 1: I've always liked pet because he was I saw Paddock
Speaker 1: a bunch when he was Padre and then you know,
Speaker 1: he had the Tommy John he was out. We've seen
Speaker 1: some good advances that the Minnesota Twins' major league development
Speaker 1: has been pretty good. He's already got five swing and
Speaker 1: whiffs through two innings in this game against the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: where he did give up a run, so it's something
Speaker 1: to monitor. But check this out. His slider is up eight.
Speaker 1: It's a four miles per hour on the season start
Speaker 1: right now, it's averaging eighty seven early on here. His
Speaker 1: fastball is up at fifty four. He's already got five
Speaker 1: swinging whiffs early on. Dodgers have been a little bit
Speaker 1: swinging whiffy, but he's getting and he's using three pitches
Speaker 1: to twenty plus percent usage. So I like the slider,
Speaker 1: I like the change up. I think he's gonna keep
Speaker 1: inducing some strikeouts and you know, if he doesn't lose command.
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of sneaky and finner. Asked Paddock,
Speaker 1: compared to all those guys, you probably like Turnbull's probably
Speaker 1: got to just be the guy because he's been so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But I would go Paddock after Turnbull.
Speaker 2: Here's an interesting one. I'm thinking a lot of questions
Speaker 2: in the last couple of days about Jung Hu Lee.
Speaker 2: He is not in the lineup today against the Nats.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little day off there. The slashes at two
Speaker 2: fifty five, three fifteen, three forty not great. Would he
Speaker 2: be a bye for you because he would be a
Speaker 2: bye for me.
Speaker 1: Well, Joe, you didn't listen to my trade video because
Speaker 1: in my trade video, fine, I I'm actually into Jung
Speaker 1: Huli and I wasn't out.
Speaker 2: I was drunk off WrestleMania for for you were too busy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, watching one of the greatest wrestling moments of all time,
Speaker 1: do you actually consider by the way the Row, the
Speaker 1: Sina to Rock to Undertaker and then Cody winning one
Speaker 1: of the greatest wrestling moments like everybody talks about.
Speaker 2: I just dropped the In This League, In This Ring
Speaker 2: podcast for my wrestling podcast, and I'll say this, it
Speaker 2: was overbooked. It was amazing. It was fun. I think
Speaker 2: if you're gonna do WrestleMania forty, you want to have
Speaker 2: something that kind of encompasses kind of the then, now
Speaker 2: together forever kind of feeling of what they're doing where
Speaker 2: you took the past and the present, but it all
Speaker 2: related to romans, so it was all great. It was
Speaker 2: top three. I think it's still WrestleMania three, WrestleMania seventeen,
Speaker 2: and WrestleMania forty in terms of like giving you the
Speaker 2: best moments ever? Was it was that good? I don't
Speaker 2: know the number. Well, three is Hogan, Hogan and Andre
Speaker 2: that's that's a very special one. Iconic. It is iconic.
Speaker 2: And then of course seventeen is like the peak of
Speaker 2: the Attitude era, and then you know kind of the
Speaker 2: transition out of that question.
Speaker 1: Also answer real quick, hold on Lee, Yes, by hard
Speaker 1: hit numbers have been through the roof. He's barreling a
Speaker 1: whole bunch. My take, go watch the video, but my
Speaker 1: take is that like the way he's hitting the ball.
Speaker 1: It's going to equate two numbers that I didn't think
Speaker 1: he could have in the preseason. So I'm a buye
Speaker 1: or a pickup or whatever on Jung Houley right now.
Speaker 2: So sorry, Luis Monto's by the way, has two homers
Speaker 2: sins being sent down, just putting that out there too.
Speaker 2: So if their struggle to be had, that might be
Speaker 2: a guy to you know, maybe pick back up. It's
Speaker 2: it's possible, not saying impossible. By the way. Also, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you so this breaking new. So Donni
Speaker 2: rafaela eight year contract extension just came down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that was yesterday. That happened yesterday, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he signed the big eight year.
Speaker 2: And I guess he signed it today because it just
Speaker 2: said one hour ago since we started eating off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they like announced it yesterday. But what's interesting, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I still don't know these things, like I'm always getting
Speaker 1: new news. So, like, first off, if if everybody doesn't know,
Speaker 1: Jackson Holliday is still eligible for the PPI, the Prospect
Speaker 1: Incentive Program because he was up April tenth, so that
Speaker 1: was a part of the program, and Jackson Turio was
Speaker 1: not eligible because he signed an extension in the off
Speaker 1: season before the season started. But Rafaela is eligible for
Speaker 1: this because he signed the extension after the season started. So,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the extra pit compensation if they
Speaker 1: were to win Rookie of the Year. So Raphaela is,
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday is, but like Churio isn't because he signed
Speaker 1: a contract extension before. So just interesting stuff added to
Speaker 1: raphael and just the whole pit compensation.
Speaker 2: Is there another guy right now you'd be stashing from?
Speaker 2: I know we talked about Jordan Beck, I know some
Speaker 2: guys that you know we've talked about already, the stash
Speaker 2: guys I mentioned either plas Meyer has looked really good
Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh. Is there anybody else stash worthy for you
Speaker 2: right now that you say, well, there might be an
Speaker 2: opportunity in this rotation or in this lineup sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Well, it's actually I'm gonna be putting in my article
Speaker 1: together if people want to check that out. Bobby Miller
Speaker 1: does not look good right now. That's not good.
Speaker 2: Great now, I'll go oh in five, after two days.
Speaker 1: Of this one hurts because I really like this one.
Speaker 1: He's got one on. He just walked Austin Martin. It's
Speaker 1: just and their pitching coat.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not the like the Twins have some k's
Speaker 2: in there, like I don't know, man, very frustrating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're one of the highest strikeout teams. But
Speaker 1: I have to dig back in. You can go and
Speaker 1: check out my article. I'll have it posted tomorrow and
Speaker 1: on the Thursday edition of Leading Off, we do the
Speaker 1: prospect segment. But like Heston, Kerstatt is still up there.
Speaker 1: Paul Skeen, Paul Skeene's is still the one I'm really
Speaker 1: focused on. I kind of thought that they would have
Speaker 1: been good if the would brought him up today, simply
Speaker 1: because they have. He's only had like forty pitches through
Speaker 1: two starts. He's not going over three innings, not over forty,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if that's to save the Bullets for
Speaker 1: the season. So Skeans is still at the top. Kurstatt
Speaker 1: is the hottest hitter in the minor leagues right now,
Speaker 1: and they'll probably give up on doing the Austin Hayes stuff.
Speaker 1: Those two. And I'm still in the fringe territory of Camonaro,
Speaker 1: like I could, I could see you not having Cameronaro.
Speaker 1: But we're getting close to him.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm in the I'm in the having Camonaro for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just don't want to sit for a
Speaker 1: month with my problem. Like somebody had me for suggesting
Speaker 1: to cut him the other day, and it's just like, well,
Speaker 1: I just want to sit for a month on him.
Speaker 2: And if it's for a month for him, if you can,
Speaker 2: and if you're in a ten team league, it's a
Speaker 2: little harder, but you know.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: One more here from Dan Seido Foughts on Logan Web
Speaker 2: getting hit a lot of the first restarts. He's been
Speaker 2: getting hit a lot all twenty twenty four. We talked
Speaker 2: about this. You're getting hit all over the ballpark in
Speaker 2: the spring, So this one, to me is also very troubling.
Speaker 2: Like Logan Webb. Somebody asked me this before the show.
Speaker 2: My buddy Chris asked me, would you trade Logan Web
Speaker 2: for CJ. Abrams? Is that a trade that you would make?
Speaker 1: Oh man, just can you imagine?
Speaker 2: I said no, but I understood it like that's that.
Speaker 2: That was my answer, no, because starting pitching is dropping
Speaker 2: like flies. If you have anything, I keep it still,
Speaker 2: but that's like right on the border where I get it.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if I would do that trade,
Speaker 2: But that's my problem.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine trading like healthy pitching, like top ish
Speaker 1: tier pitching right now? I can't. Abrams looks insane and credible,
Speaker 1: but I just don't think I could.
Speaker 2: Right, here's a Cohler Bear wants to rate his five
Speaker 2: round prospect draft eighteen Dynasty points League, Langford, Cameronio, Jenkins, Job,
Speaker 2: and Mayo A plus. It's pretty eighteen, so it better
Speaker 2: be a plus.
Speaker 1: It better be well Jenkins though. My only problem with
Speaker 1: Jenkins is like in a f if you only have
Speaker 1: five minor leaguers, I do care about proximity, and Jenkins
Speaker 1: is hurt right now by it. He's got a quad strain.
Speaker 1: He might not even play for a month, Like he's
Speaker 1: a ways away. But every one of your guys are
Speaker 1: gonna come off of they're gonna graduate this year, so
Speaker 1: then like you just have maybe one of the top guy.
Speaker 1: I'm down with it. It's but it's it's awesome, It's
Speaker 1: still awesome, all right.
Speaker 2: Cole's got one more question. I said that was the
Speaker 2: last question, but we got to have another question here.
Speaker 2: Do you think the A's are gonna keep Mason Miller?
Speaker 2: As the closer. Yes, I said that all offseason. It's
Speaker 2: the only way to keep him healthy, clean innings, no
Speaker 2: up and down. Take care of him. You can have him.
Speaker 2: How many days are gonna have three? Save Portunia to
Speaker 2: row for the A's none, So yes to me, that's
Speaker 2: absolutely as roll. It always was his role. That's the
Speaker 2: way to go. And Cole says, you guys are both
Speaker 2: the best? Are we the best? Welsh? You agree? Right,
Speaker 2: Mason Miller is the closer, that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mason Miller is the guy. Bobby Miller's not the answer,
Speaker 1: but Mason Miller's the answer for sure.
Speaker 2: Well either way, it's Miller time. So that's gonna do
Speaker 2: it for us. But we'll be back again next Wednesday
Speaker 2: to do this again. Thanks for joining us for the
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Speaker 2: can get in here, ask us questions. We can get
Speaker 2: a little deeper dive into some of your teams, some
Speaker 2: of your players, some of your issues there and you
Speaker 2: can talk to us live here on the channel, which
Speaker 2: is always fun. So join the discord every Wednesday after
Speaker 2: leading off for cleaning up. That'll do it for me
Speaker 2: and the Welsh, but the story of the game goes on.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time kids, Happy holiday,