WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 28th, 2024 (EP. 820) 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.040 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.160 Off Live, brought you by Bet three six five Bet 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.160 five bucks. You get one hundred and fifty in bonus 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.320 mess when you do when you sign up for Bet 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.440 three six five with the promo code leading Off, It's 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.079 me Joey p That of course is the Welsh and 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.960 it's you the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks. Hopefully everybody had 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.720 a lovely holiday weekend. Again, shout out to all of 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.600 our service men and women out there for you know, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.519 giving their all and giving everything to our nation. We 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:38.319 appreciate you so Welsh. Hopefully you are rested, refreshed, had 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.760 a little fun this weekend. I heard you went a 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.520 little Dave and Busters. Did you get like a million 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.839 tickets and turn it in for like a little tiny 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.000 like baseball eraser or something like that. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.040 We kind of did. We found this hack though. They 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.440 had this little virtual like bowl. It's like a kind 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.920 of like a bowling game. You literally just bowl and 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.440 I almost hit a perfect game on it and won 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.920 like two hundred and fifty tickets. We found this hack. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.880 It was like we played it like six times one 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.200 six hundred tickets. My kid won bunch of stuff and 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.679 it was a great time. It was it was better 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:09.600 than being a Braves fan. I had a great one. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.640 Yeah it is. I see everybody in the chattery, rock 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.600 and rolling. Frank already coming in strong. Here. Frank says, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.640 how funny would it be? Uh? After the intro song 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.559 was just the odd couple instead, and then Joey acts 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.920 like old man Joe with the glasses for the entire show, 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.920 debating with puppet Joe. Uh. Indefinitely, basically that would be there. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.760 Else it's just gone. It's just versions of Joe that 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.600 are on the show, just variance of Joe. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.920 It's psychotic, but it's fun. I like it. But yeah, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.360 I mean I'm game for that. It is a little 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 like it's not like a Christopher Nolan film that's gonna 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.600 be made at some point. I feel like it's got 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:52.440 the Joe sception, joeception. Yeah. Actually, we watched Inception yesterday. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.920 We had a rainy movie today and we watched Exception. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.880 It was very the kids actually followed it. I was 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.000 very impressed my kids actually follow because I know most 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.120 adults struggle with that, but they. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.680 Have want next. They'll struggle. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.440 I know, I don't know about that. I let's say, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.799 but as you as you mentioned the scary times here 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.560 for fantasy managers, for Atlanta Breves fan, bad time for 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:19.440 baseball because Roald Acunya uh, non contact, just breaking from 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.280 second to third tears his other ACL. This one is 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.160 in the left knee or do you have the right 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.440 one done a few years ago. So he's going to 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.079 be out now for the entire season. The good news, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.880 I guess if you're looking at it, is when he's 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:40.680 done it here, which is before June. So you have June, July, August, September, October, November. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.600 That is about the nine month recovery for ACL right. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.079 Nowadays you're similar between nine and twelve months, right, So 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.560 even if we go all the way, you know, into 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.639 twenty twenty five, you would hope that by the end 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.399 of April, at the worst case scenario, if everything goes well, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:00.160 then he'll be back. So I don't know what kind 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.040 of solace we take in this, but let's start with 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.080 the Braves in the short term solution for them. The Phillies, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.280 in case you're wondering, already moved ahead of them with 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.400 a rocket shit. Their minus two hundred for that division, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.720 but I've been talking about the Phillies for three months now, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.880 to win that division and to go to the World Series. Welsh. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.840 I've heard Tommy FAM's name, I've heard Brent Rooker's name, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.920 which is really interesting. But at the same time, the 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.320 immediate just seems like Jared Keelnick Adam Duval, like those 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.600 are the big beneficiaries of this terrible, terrible let's call 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.240 it what it is, a fantasy baseball tragedy. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.959 Yeah, well the only pseudo plus you could also throw 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.640 back with it. And I hate to say this, but 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.200 it's not like Akunya had been really that good the 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.040 entirety of the season, like how the Braves have been playing. Now. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.120 The thought was that, you know, everything is you know, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.640 Matt Olsen starting to write the Ship, Acunya was going 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.960 to completely write the ship, and this is that team 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.680 that was just going to go completely bonkers. But man, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.080 I'll tell you too, you know how I do the 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.920 superstitious stuff sometimes I guess we it happened before. We 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.280 didn't do the show yesterday, But I feel like we 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.840 can never not do the show, Like something bad, something 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.760 horrific is gonna happen if we're not here. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.880 Like Mike Trout. When was Mike Trout? Was that not 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.480 on a Friday or Saturday? 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.160 I don't know, but we had said we weren't going 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:14.560 to be here. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.560 We're like Lois the multiple wheel, right, he had the 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:19.919 home run on the wheel. So you have to go 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.080 back and look at see how far after that was. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.040 Maybe Cooney was the guy that the wheels selected, because 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.960 then it's it's like a doomsday cult. Here's an interesting 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.920 one too. I'm gonna throw this out there, Jerry here 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.960 in the chat. Cooney injury is starting to pile up now, Yes, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.799 but he's still very young. I know there's some people 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.640 now that are starting to throw their hands up. I 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.800 think that when the guy had the one a cl 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.040 blown it and this is something that I acquired him 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.159 my home league this offseason, and I did it knowing 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.200 that at some point and feeling in my gut that 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.600 at some point the other one was going to go. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.600 Typically that's what happens when you look at the running 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.800 backs we look at, you know, the NFL, Like when 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.600 you blow the one a cl typically at some point 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.320 the other one goes. That's happened, now it he doesn't 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.040 change my opinion of Acunia long term, it's frustrating, But 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:04.800 does it change yours at all? Like, do you think 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.640 he's not gonna be the same player, because I think 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.880 that's nonsense, because they rebuilt him. He went out there 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.680 and had a forty seventy season last year. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.359 Yeah, I don't know if it really changes mind, but 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.560 I do I don't know. I'm actually kind of surprised 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.599 it doesn't change yours because like I feel like your age, no, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.479 because well, okay, but like jazz Chism has some injuries 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.760 and everyone's like, oh my god, he's I guess you're. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.039 Not the biggest, but like putting forty seventy seasons or 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.320 or your first when Jazzchism puts up a full season, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.280 I will have that conversation. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.560 Okay, but I don't, Well, production doesn't necessarily have any 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.760 thing to do with being injury prone or injury plague 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.080 or anything like that. Like Acunya is an injury guy. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.159 Like I don't think we can actually argue that, like 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.480 is there stuff going to be in the future. I'm 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.760 gonna say that that's more likely than ever before. This 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.360 is two two isn't too torn acls And then there 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.720 was another leg injury that was entwined in this. He's 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.200 his injury prone I think at this point as of 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.799 the higher injury prone guys. But me, I have blinders 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.719 to that. I don't pay attention to this, and I 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:11.599 focus like solely on the high end production. You know, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.919 so from like dynasty perspectives, that's gonna be good. But 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.920 I do think it's something to think about that. Maybe 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.840 it's how he's built, the way you play the game, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.800 whatever it is, there is something to these injuries, you know, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.240 like there's they're stacking. They're stacking at a very young age. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.000 It's stacking as much. I'd love to see a comparison. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.520 Maybe I'm way off, but like I feel like he 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.920 has as many injuries as Jazz, and Jazz gets the 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.760 injury like a little token put behind him. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.200 Now he gets a token put behind He looks he 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:45.839 gets the rap because you're willing to spend on Acunya, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.760 because you've seen the glory of Ronalcunia. Ronald CuNi has 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.919 had a career just Chism has had moments, and that 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.919 you can't compare the same thing. Like it's not like 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.480 he's transcended, Like Justism is talented. I'm not trying to 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.880 knock jazz chism and maybe he would do better with 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.640 a lineup around them like the Atlanta Braves. Like you 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.800 could have that conversation, say, if just justn't played for 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.400 the Atlanta Braves and Ronald Cree played for the Marlins, 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.920 maybe those players are different and we're feeling differently about them. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.320 But I mean that to me is is. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.480 But I mean again, I'm not comparing the two I'm 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.200 comparing the two players from a like there's some talent 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.320 and injury Like, Okay, I'll ask you this. How many 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.640 more injuries until Akunya starts going into the mic trout range? 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.679 Is it just gonna be him not playing one hundred 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.240 and twenty games every single year? Is that what it's 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.400 gonna take? Like, I gotta look here, I don't even know. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.840 But here's the thing with akunyakay So we had the 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.960 ACL tear right, everybody was concerned about what two years 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.760 ago he came back. Oh, the speed, the speed? What 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.280 lag behind? It was not the speed, it was the 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.040 power that gag behind in that first season in return, 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.760 the speed was there. That's why I'm not freaking out 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.720 right now with Ronald Acunia's injury. That's why I'm like, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.920 all right, you knew if the one blew, chances are 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.440 the other ones gonna go at some point. There's a 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:03.160 weakness there, There's a there's a volatility of the amount 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.320 that he's just stressed that the guy puts on himself. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.120 And if he had the weakness there and the one 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.560 tendon went, the other town was gonna go. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:09.960 So let's do this Joe real quick. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.040 Okay. But if they rebuilt it well enough for him 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.960 to go have a forty seventy season last year, and 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.400 now he knows, I think I just want to say this, Well, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.680 now he knows mentally that he can recover and not 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.520 just be good, but be the best player in baseball. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.280 I think so much of this is the mental game 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.960 with these guys, and I think knowing that in his gut, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.080 like it's gonna be frustrating, it's gonna suck, he's gonna 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.440 hate it, but he knows, Okay, I can come back 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.320 and still be Ronda Cooney at a high level because 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.320 I've already done it. So I think that is a 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:37.720 huge hurdle to overcome mentally. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.560 I mean, if you think, yeah, if you think that's 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.040 like he's gonna hold himself back because he's not gonna 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.960 be able to have a full recovery. He's played seven seasons. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.360 Now there's a COVID season in there, so let's not 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.200 add that. How many seasons has he played more than 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.280 one hundred and twenty games? So really it's let's do 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.160 the six of six years, not COVID season. How many 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.520 is he played more than one? Twenty one? He's played 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.560 one season where he's had one hundred and twenty games, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.920 one season and I'm sorry two I lied is two 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.000 seasons where he's no. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.120 Three three wait, no, no, no, no, no, Joe, you 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:10.640 know what it was? 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.280 Four two, twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three are the 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.360 only times he's ever played more than one hundred and 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:17.359 twenty games. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:17.640 In his career. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.640 I don't I'm not going to make this big narrative, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.440 this huge, big, crazy narrative about Acuna. But for everybody 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.400 that is out there, you injury worry awards, I will 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.200 find it very interesting if you don't consider this a 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.480 guy that is on that same like Eloy path of 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.000 not playing one hundred and twenty plus games, the trout path. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.920 There's seven seasons in there, in fair. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.000 He put to play one nineteen one year. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.240 That's why I said one twenty, Okay, that's fine. I 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.920 didn't if I said one nineteen three three, okay, But 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.240 still one twenty that's a that's a decent marker. I 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.840 mean again, how many more of these seasons until this 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.199 is in the Trout range? Trout came back like freaking 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.400 gang Gangbusters. You also talk about the generational talent that 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.760 Akunya was. We also can't ignore the beginning of this year. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.079 He's stunk, He's not the power is depleted. He can 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.240 still steal and maybe the power. By the way, maybe 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:10.400 that knee was giving him trouble. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.040 Like now, I think we can look back on it 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.360 and go, maybe then he's been giving him trouble the 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.400 whole time, and maybe it just finally went on and 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.520 he's been playing through it. By the way, they're the 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.959 same age, and I'm looking at the cumulative stats between 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.880 these two guys who jazz chism. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.120 Oh jazz, you're talking jazz. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.680 Okay, gotcha, the jazz chism and Ronald you're the same age. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:33.400 And look again, I like jazz chism. He's fun to watch. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.520 He is a lot of powers. Bees fun. In a 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.480 better environment, I'm sure things would go better for him. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.280 You're are the ones not lost on me. We should 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.680 we should not brush aside all the injuries, but it's 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.760 the same injury. It's a weakness that he's got in this. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.760 We know that when that knee was right and rebuilt, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.640 he wasn't good. He was the one oh one and 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.680 and jazz chism hasn't sniffed. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.040 But I'm not comparing that. I just using jazz as 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.320 like the like a talented player who's had lots of interest. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.840 They're not. Mike Trout's an interesting one too. Mike Trout's 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.320 another one. But again, I feel like the Mike Trout injuries, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.000 where is my Trout age wise? 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.640 Now to that, I think it's like thirty three by 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.880 the way, Jazz has twenty. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.160 He's gonna be Roncoone's gonna be back from this injury. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.520 He's gonna be twenty seven, twenty years old. Yeah, and 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.439 then are twenty eight to thirty one in the. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.640 And maybe he's gonna be like Trout, though maybe it 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.199 is gonna be where you know, Trout is thirty, is 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.480 gonna be thirty three? And uh, let me see how 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.680 by the way, Jazz had played one hundred and twenty 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.439 games only once. Mike Trout has not played one hundred 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.200 and twenty games since twenty nineteen. But hey, since two thousand. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.200 I was I was hoping actually that was two but yeah, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.120 one hundred and thirty four, one hundred and forty. I 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.400 mean he played a bunch up until you know, he 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.720 hit like twenty eight twenty nine. Again, it's kind of 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.240 it's just a conversation for the injury. People like I 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.000 don't know how to project it. It's unfortunate the jazz 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.720 is injury also coincided with the production not being kind 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.600 of that tippy top and all of those things kind 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.000 of hit. But there is something maybe to that. But 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.760 I do think it's something interest. You guys are talking 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.120 about Brent Rooker's replacement. I think that's gonna be pretty 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:11.960 hard to have. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.160 Tommy Fam a game. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.640 Tommy Fam I'm super easy. But Jazz, that could be 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.400 a possibility. The Marlins are going to trade Jazz Chisholm. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.760 They will. That doesn't happen very often. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.959 I'm not saying that might be an interesting one. It 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.960 The Braves have pieces, They've got some lower level minor 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.040 league hitters some higher level pitchers. I don't know what 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.400 it would really even take to get a guy like Jazz. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.880 I'm not saying that they would do that, but you 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.760 want a guy who can run a little bit, who's 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.720 got some big power. Maybe that's I think they'd be 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:45.600 better with Famas. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.880 Tommy Fam three fifteen batting average, three homers, three steals 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.440 so far in the year twelve BARBII seventeen run scored 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.680 in twenty eight games. He's rostered in thirty two percent 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.280 of leagues. He was actually in my Wavewar video a 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:57.760 couple weeks ago where I was like, look, this guy's 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.880 like rostered in eight or eighteen percent of lease I 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.400 that was nuts, Like add this guy because at some 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.800 point Tommy FAM's gonna get traded because the White Socks 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.319 aren't gonna keep him. I guess what he's gonna get traded, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.040 and it's could be to the braves. All right. I 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.640 want to lift everybody's spirits because that was very depressing. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.280 Angel Hernandez is retiring. There you go, I see see 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:21.320 how instantly look Welsh's smiling, smile the peanuts and crack. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.160 Now here's the thing. In a way, I feel like 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.960 we're losing a great baseball meme. Like, I don't think 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.040 it's gonna go away, but we will miss complaining about 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.920 Angel Hernandez and laughing about the absurdity of his calls. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.040 Plus it also puts us in danger because we've always 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.000 said on this show, Angel Hernandez is the proof that 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.840 you can be terrible at your job and it doesn't matter. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.600 You can keep doing it forever and ever. That standards 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.880 going away now, So that's a problem for us. That's 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.200 how I see it Angel Hernandez moment because I have mine. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.839 Oh I don't know, Oh I don't. I mean, I 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.440 saw like the videos that people were sharing. There's some 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.760 horrific ones. There's a White Langford one this year. There's 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.200 that one third base where Angel calls Harper out and 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.720 he just freaks out. My my favorite moment is his 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.240 lack of accountability that you can see every single time 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.440 he makes a call, it throws someone out, specifically just 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.600 throws him out because he knows that he did a 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.959 bad job with it, so that it's it's kind of 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.840 this cumulative every time he throws a guy out, it's like, oh, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.160 you got caught. That's where we know you got caught. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:24.920 What's your favorite? 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.040 It's the Schwarber one. The Schwarber that's a great one. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.680 At the end, it's so good and it's such a 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.000 terrible call, and Schwarmer's like, it's gonna hear it comes 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.080 here guy, And then it happens and there you go 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.000 South Africa. Jeez of the chat. I wish I could 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.960 see Kyle Schwarper's face. I mean, somebody should do a compilation. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.120 If I was an MLB journalist, I would be trying 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.000 to contact every player good thoughts on Angel hernandez retirement 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.240 and then do that. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.760 I will tell you this. Two things funny. I was 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.040 thinking about this. You're like, oh, we're gonna miss him. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.600 That's kind of like you know, the Daily Show wishing 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.200 there was a different president, you know, or media being like, oh, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.520 we don't have the right guy. Like that's the same 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.000 level of like, oh, we're gonna kind of miss the storylines. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.440 No one's gonna miss the storyline of Angel Hernandez. But also, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:21.119 does anybody on the planet believe that he's retiring? On May? 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:25.760 He's being retired. He's it's time for you to go. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.680 You being retired, That's what it is. We reached a 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.480 settlement on your time. I want to settlement. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.280 No one has ever been Is there ever anyone that's 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.880 ever been worse at their job that couldn't get pushed out? 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.000 You can do it for thirty years thirty I saw that. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.120 I couldn't believe that. I mean, I was in high 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.960 school and this guy was an umpire. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.880 Yeah, I feel bad. I actually kind of feel bad too, because, like, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.880 is you unanimously hated for how bad of a job 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.040 he's had and he's just kind of kept going, like 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.160 you know, you're not gonna lie. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.680 I knew Angel Lenandez. We met in grade school together. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.560 We did Macaroni argin. We made turkeys of our hands 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.600 together and his turkey only had four fingers on. I 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.360 told him it was wrong, and you know what he did. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.120 He threw me out of the kindergarten class. He is 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.920 to get out of here, and he threw me out 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.800 and I said, the turkeys are spposed to have the 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:19.480 five fingers and he said, you don't know what you're 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:20.400 talking about. Get out. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.840 It's funny you're wearing glasses and talking about Angel Hernandez retiring. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.160 It funny. All right, let's get to some Baseball stuft 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.800 from the weekend. Nicolodolo returned yesterday. We said he was 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.600 going to and he did one run, five and a 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.040 third for him, So good. Juli Rodriguez, boys and girls, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.120 don't look now. I think Julio is getting hot. I 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.440 think it's starting to happen. I know it's I know 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.160 it's been tough everybody I know, just stay the course. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:51.640 Julio is a very talented player, and he's still so young. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.720 I think people forget that three for five with a 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.560 homer on Sunday. Get a couple of straight games with homers. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:01.160 White Langford is back today, Welsh today, So I guess 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.840 in shallow leagues, here's a question for you. Do you 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.200 think that Wyatt Langford's maybe hanging out in more shallow 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.439 leagues than people realize and could be a solution to 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.919 the Ronald Acunia problem. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.720 Oh you mean for their fantasy team. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.560 Yeah, I'm just saying, like I mean for for leagues 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.159 they like if you're in a ten person league and 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.119 you only have a couple of IL spots, right like 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.960 our crazy Fantasy pros league that we're in only two 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.359 IL spots, like I'm in, I I don't know if 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.960 they said if you want to play here the thing 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.480 and you didn't say anything. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.359 Remember the snarky thing. Mayor's like, oh, well everybody doesn't 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.960 get like personal invites, and I was like the snarky yeah, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.360 I mean personal invites people just been and I was like, well, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.760 I was just hired, so maybe maybe ant and the 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:49.640 first one. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.679 Might but why Look, I'm not Look, I don't know 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.720 what his Yahoo. I know on CBS he's still like 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.159 ninety percent rostered. Like well, it's hard because you're getting 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.680 a lot of the Dynasty League roster percent cooked into 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.520 a lot of percentages right on places like Yahoo and 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.760 places like CBS. I wonder on ESPN, what is roster 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.200 percentages right like Mark. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.920 That's probably probably sixty percent. I mean, if he's out there, 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.440 yeah he would. I've been made it pretty clear the 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.399 last two weeks, especially as of today, I would drop 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 my Evan Carter to pick up my Langford. If Langford's 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.280 out there, I'd be throwing him in the lineup. And 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:26.760 also yeah, and also like I'm on the borderline if 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.280 I might even be willing to trade for Langford. He 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.480 hasn't done anything to prove that, but I think he's 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.199 gonna get thrust right back into the fold, you know, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.359 hitting in that middle of that order. And I don't know, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.160 I think this might this might be the run because 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.080 there was just still a lot of good metrics that 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.959 are there. It just needed we needed the consistency, you know, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.919 we needed some of that time to pass through the season. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.760 And I don't know, I think he could start like 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.080 going like counting stat numbers, like good hard hit, great swing. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.879