WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off April 26th, 2024 (EP. 799) 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:09.800 This is Leading Off Live, brought to you by Bet 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:11.680 three six five Bet five bucks, get one hundred and 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.080 fifty and bonus bets when you do with the promo 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.439 code leading off, it's me Joey p that's the Welsh 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.239 and it's not the NFL Draft right now. We're taking 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.560 a break from that gold. I try to keep my 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.479 voice nice and calm today. No angry Joe today because 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.080 I got another five hours later tonight of NFL Draft 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.680 coverage on our main channel on Fantasy Pros from six 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.560 to midnight, which is pretty much how thor Nystrom was 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.040 yesterday when JJ McCarthy got drafted by the Vikings. But 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.000 Welsh again, the betting gods giveth and the betting gods 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.760 taketh away. After a nine to oh day one in 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.000 five Boo terrible of got rained out in another one. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.080 But there's a lot of rookie stuff going on. You 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.520 did the rookie stuff yesterday with the prospecting, but we've 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.440 got even more rookie news, so I'm excited to get 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:57.680 to that. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.120 But let's start with the Dodgers. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.680 Shell we because MOOKI bets two for three, his six 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.720 stolen base already of the month, Freddie Freeman two for 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.360 three with an RBI double, and of course Yamamoto, who 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.200 has certainly turned things around. So the I think the 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.959 concerns and the first few outings for Yamamoto I think 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.600 are definitely subsided. Now seven strikeouts, six shutout innings. What 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.920 do you think of the Dodgers performance against the Nats? 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.559 Oh, the Dodgers are good. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.920 Breaking news is the Dodgers are a pretty good team 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.960 with Mooki, bets and Otani and everything like that. Yeah, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.560 I think the bigger focal point I come back to 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.440 is Yamamoto, who, by the way, almost had his head 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.600 taken off. We had a one to oh five off 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.440 of Vetti. Rosario goes straight at him and he caught it, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.600 and then they brought the trainers out after it to 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.920 be like are you good, because everyone was like, holy crap. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.240 Yamamoto's reflexes, all that yoga and whatever he does out 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.520 there is pretty solid. But to your point, getting back to, like, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.400 you know, that first first series, with some of those 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.000 blow ups, there were some major concerns from a lot 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.680 of people. Though he is stabilized now almost thirty two 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.200 percent K percentage, which is top ten percentile in the league, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.320 with a five percent walk percentage that Friends with the 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.720 Map is right around a twenty six percent K minus 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.240 walk percentage, which is phenomenal. ERA and expected ERA are 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.240 like just about in the same general vicinity. I kind 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.040 of think he's just still getting going. You know, he 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.840 is still getting rocking. He's got every single pitch he 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.720 throws over twenty percent with rate, and his other two 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.240 besides his four seam have a thirty six percent with rate. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.320 Those are great numbers with a great offense behind. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:33.600 He's stabilizing. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.360 Maybe he's not going to be like, oh, the top 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.040 you know, seven overall starting pitcher, and you know, he 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.040 was really getting inflated in drafts. But I actually think 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.880 there's a decent opportunity he might return relative value to 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.960 where he was drafted. You know, as they all keep 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.480 falling off. You know, you got him at SP fifteen, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.320 he's going to inversely be SP ten, and that'll be 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.560 okay because there's no pictures left well survivor for pictures 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:55.959 right now. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.600 You start chopping off the top, you know, you know 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.400 that when Strider's out and Cole's out, and the head 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.160 of the beast is out, it's easy to move up 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.760 the chain. Here's an interesting one from Jerry. Somebody offered 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.520 me Trout for Yamamoto. Should I accept? 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:08.799 Oh? 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:09.840 This is a doozy. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.000 A lot of this has to do with format, has 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.240 to do with roster construction. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.320 Two And do you have any other pitchers? 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.880 Well, that's the thing, Jerry, if you have, I mean 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.360 this is for Jerry or for anybody. If you have 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.320 a great stable of pitchers and you need the offense, sure, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.639 I think this is a very good trade. If it's 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.520 the inverse, I think you sit there and you go, look, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.720 you know, I don't have a lot of good starting 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.480 pitching is as great as Mike Trout is. There's some 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.320 risk on the back end, just like there's risk in 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.200 the back end of the season with Yamamoto. I think 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.440 we can agree on that. So I think this is 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.960 a fair trade at the very least, just in a vacuum. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:42.480 What do you think? 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.360 Yeah, I lean Trout. I lean Trout like in a vacuum. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.920 But if you want to weigh this to like your 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.800 own personal team needs, yeah, absolutely, Like if you because 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.840 he got offered Trout for his Yamamoto. Right, So yes, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:57.800 you know, if you maybe you hit on you got 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.400 like you know, some cutter Crawfords or bing out the 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.480 back of rotation Tanner Hawcks, and you just had like 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.160 you've hit on a bunch of those Jared Jones, and 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.160 you have the flexibility, and you have the kahonas to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.480 move a starting pitcher and and actually say the words 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.800 I have sp depth, which is a crazy. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:14.960 Thing to say. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.560 Right now, I want Trout in a nutshell because, like 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.960 I think, even though I've been out here being like, hey, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.480 you know, if you are a worry wart about Trout 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.680 and the injuries and stuff, you can move him. But 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.440 I want to tell him for tippy tippy top, I 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.800 think Trout. I mean, he's easily pacing over forty homers. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.800 I think he can put up one. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.520 Hundred fifty four and seventy one r The. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.159 Rbs are embarrassing, but like like I think the fear 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.640 people are like, he's not going to play one hundred games. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.640 Me if I get one hundred and thirty out of 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.560 him and I miss even some of those, I still 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.520 think that's okay. And I still think those are probably 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.440 top two less. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.719 So I am still it's less okay when there's playoffs, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.200 it's it's okay. And maybe yes, But that's why I 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.200 meant in the beginning when I said format has a 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:58.240 lot to do with this deal. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:04:58.880 And that's the thing. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.760 Like deals like that especial, you just don't happen in vacuums. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.960 It's just not the way you can evaluate the way. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.680 Didn't get a shout out on your draft last night. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.400 You guys did the Spaceball's reference speaking of vacuums, and 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.560 Mega made a plus a plus on the Mega maid. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:21.919 Wait Thoor brought that up, and like, I saw this 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 smile on your face, and I was like, Joe is 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.919 waiting to make a suck to blow comment and I 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.560 wasn't going to And then he brought you I could 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.520 tell you, and I was like, well, now I have 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.320 no choice. Also, I think of all the things I called, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.800 a lot of people had different opinions of their favorite 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.160 thing that I called Eric Brown last night. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.039 I called him mister peanut. I called him, you know, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:41.480 children's physician. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.320 But I have thought that the best of all the 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.279 jabs that I threw at him was clearly uh the 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.400 groom at a Florida swamp wedding. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.600 That was my favorite one that was had top hat 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.360 and he had the shirt. The dress up shirt thing 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.920 that's going on in class. It's a classic leading off, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.480 a bit to be honest, dress. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.440 Well if you don't see nothing yet, because Thor and 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.480 Derek Tonight have matching outfits. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.520 So for Night to make another Spaceball's reference, please we'll try. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.280 Justin Verlander didn't give up a run in four and 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.080 a third inning, seven strikeouts and no decision against the Cubbies. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.839 Luis Castillo strikeout six, six innings, two run ball, So 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.400 Castillo Verlander very much on track. A little closing time 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.240 some fellow named Mason Miller, who I just looked. He's 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.159 still not even eighty percent rostered on CBS. I don't 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.480 understand what's going on here. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:38.000 A point leagues points leagues don't like super value closers. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.479 It'd be a but some overvalue them. It doesn't matter. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.000 All I know is four out save. His era is 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.640 point is one five nine, the whip is point nine 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.559 to seven. You have twenty three strikeouts and four walks. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.160 That's better than some starters right now, except Lugo would 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.279 kill for that strikeout to walk. Ratio over eleven innings, Okay, 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.880 I don't care. Hector nerris another for him. We talked 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.840 about him, you know, and said, okay, it seems to 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.320 be going. He was in my Waiver Wire video. If 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.719 he missed, you can go watch it on the channel 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.000 or you have our weekly Waiver Wire video. And Andres 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.400 Muno's good outing from him, which he kind of needed. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.360 I feel like, scoreless ninth innings, so that's good for him. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.880 Anything else in terms of the closers that was worth 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.400 noting yesterday from what you saw. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:18.880 No, I mean, I think you nailed them. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.200 One thing it was funny was I saw Mason Miller 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.280 talking and they're asking if he felt the difference between 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.480 throwing like a hundred or one hundred and two or 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:28.800 one oh one and one oh. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.920 Two, and he was just like, no, it feels about 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:31.320 the same. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.840 And I'm like, yeah, it probably feels just like a cannon, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.360 like an absolute cannon shot out, but I love the idea. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.760 And then he said, the only time I really notice 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.600 is the batter's reaction. And then I might be like, oh, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.680 I might have threw that one a little bit harder, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.560 like you know, one oh three, But yeah, I think 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.640 the closing time. We've kind of hit full throttle here. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.720 Just going back to the Diamondbacks as well. Just if 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.960 people happen to have gotten rid of Paul sea Waald, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 you know him rehabbing back, he should be back and 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.920 instituted instantly. So Kevin Ginkle, I think has a very 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.480 very short timeline. Now the clock is ticking for no 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.120 more saves. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.280 Very if you went full Ginkle, you're hurting a little 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.760 right now. Aron has a question. Aaron wants to know 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.240 low Perfido gonna get called up soon? 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.200 Worth holding? I say, yes, he is worth holding. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.680 I think that when the guy in front of you 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.400 is hitting zero point zero six y five, there's a 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.000 good chance you're going to get the call sooner then later. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.560 Welsh, you can check out my article, but I mean 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.680 I'll just say yeah, I think it's I think it's 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.480 coming soon. It's funny because in my top ten Prospects 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.760 to Stash article and we have a video. I don't 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.680 think we talked about Looper Fido yesterday, but when I 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.000 was doing the article, I was kind of like, tell me, I. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.960 Say low Perfido, you say lou Perfido, and I feel 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.640 like that's a guy named lou last name Perfido. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:48.960 When you say it every it's like. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.320 An Italian thing. You get excited about this Italian guy. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.800 That's hey, it's Loop Perffito. You the way it was 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:54.280 going on. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.560 But I was ready to kind of like be a 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.280 little bit dismissive. I will say he had from like 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.320 I think April sixteenth down to April twenty fourth, he 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.240 had dropped his average from three thirty three down to 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.720 two fifty six. His strikeout rate was over thirty two percent, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.920 And then that day I actually had to go and 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.320 update my article because then he hit two homers. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:13.640 He smashed two homers. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.719 The negatives are the strikeout rate and I think some 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.080 bad swings that are going to come in the positive 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.040 huge barrel numbers in triple A and massive homers. And 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.680 he's been working at first base, so he is like 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.920 I think, I think I have him at four or 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.920 five in the Stash article, like I think the talent 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.800 talent players are above him, but he actually might have 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.080 one of the closest timelines. I don't think he's a 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.400 must add in every single capacity because like I said, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.160 I think there could be some batting average issues. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:41.960 But he does say he's a pretty. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.520 Incredible talent and working at first base is telling because 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.600 you know, we said a Bray News he's done. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.800 I think they'll keep him around to just you know, morale. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.640 I think I think he's DF eight. I think they're 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:53.880 going to just let him go period. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:54.280 Thanks. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.040 Oh yeah, oh, and. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.920 He'll catch on somewhere else. Somebody will sign him somewhere 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.600 else this year. I don't know who likes going to 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.880 bring him back, you know what, maybe, but somebody will 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.640 because there will be another injury and somebody will try 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.719 to give him a shot. But he is not long 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.240 for the Astros. It's not happening, all right. Here's some 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.319 fun stuff. Alex Korra said that Synathine Rafaela is now 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.800 the everyday shortstop, so Welsh was way ahead of the 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:23.360 curve on that. Also, the Astros plan to demote JP France, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.400 No surprise there. We talked about that earlier this week 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.000 and they did just indeed do that now. Rookie lookie 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.559 is some busy stuff here. Jack Lighter eight ks six 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.840 shoutout innings. So he is the king of Triple A 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.079 right now. We'll see if he gets another shot at 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.320 some point. But with Max Scherzer's imminent return, it might 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.520 take some doing. Pete crow Armstrong got called up yesterday. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.640 We gave him the big salute. He had a two 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.760 run homer, big moment for him. Now he's not a 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.480 big power guy, peekrow Armstrong. Would you make of this 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:52.240 debut for him? 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.240 Yeah, I mean that's never been what he's been built with. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.360 Its contact, its average r like, that's going to be 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:57.680 his play. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.240 He can run some. The only problem with it because 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.120 I used to be a. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.760 Pretty big defender of Pete crow Armstrong because everybody hated 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.840 the bat, and it's like, listen, you know what he does. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.199 Even if he's a hitting across his body, he's getting 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:08.880 a lot of doubles. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.840 He's going to have some homers he can steal. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.520 He might not be, you know, this incredible, awesome, high 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.080 high counting stats guy, but he could walk himself into 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.160 like a fifteen to fifteen year But then the bat 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.440 regress and it continued to regress, and I kept hearing 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.240 just bad things about the bat and how far behind 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.199 it is and that no. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.200 Power was really developing. So I would temper some of it. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.880 The only plus is he's not going to be losing 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.800 a job anytime soon, because Bellinger with that fractured rib, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.600 is going to be out, you know, quite a while, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.520 and he's a great defender Pete crow is. So I'm 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.480 open to it, but I don't think it's a powerplay. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.199 Even though he hit that first homer. I'd love for 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.679 him to hit higher in the lineup, but I think 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.959 hitting lower in the lineup with little power projection, I 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.120 think it's it's got to be like a pretty barren 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.600 format that I'm going to be picking up Pete Krower. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.440 I don't mean to be like super dismissive about him, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.600 but it had to be kind of barren for me. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.800 Well, speaking of dismissive, you were dismissive of Simeon Woods Richardson. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.320 He gave up two runs on seven hits and five innings. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.920 Now it was against the White Sox, but it was 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.800 six strikeouts, one walk. So is this a trap where 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.760 everybody's going to put some fab on Simeon was retridsent 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.079 and be disappointed in two weeks. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.800 Yeah, this is the Jack Meme trap. Absolutely. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.320 The let's not discount how bad the White Sox are. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.280 They are the worst, you know how We're like, look 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.320 at the eight. No White Sox the worst right now, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.680 so I think there has to be It's like going 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.800 It's like the metric thing, you know, going from uh 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.559 and what is the thing I'm trying to say, the 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:42.160 the equation the help me, Joe, help me the metric 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:47.400 to to pay we have to do an analysis of 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.520 white Sox runs versus what real team runs are. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.079 I'm breaking here on a Friday, Joe. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.360 I know, I was. I was hoping there was a 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.839 Welshism coming. So that's what I was. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.560 Trying to avoid it. I was trying to say all 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.040 the things brain. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.320 I'm trying to exasperate the Welshis and I wanted it 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.120 to happen. I was, I was manifesting it and it 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.640 didn't quite happen. So even for equivalency, is that what 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:07.880 you're looking for is that it does. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.360 It doesn't mean white Sox stink. It doesn't matter. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.040 What you do against a White Sox is not what 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.600 you're gonna do against other teams. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:14.480 That's the big thing. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.640 Curve is what you're talking about. Sure, it's a sliding skin. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.319 Trouble tub with trouble with the words trouble. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:21.520 With the curve. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.560 That's that Pironi's disease, the trouble with the curve. Poni 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 Paroni say, yeah, see those commercials for the Pironi's disease. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.760 They're on all the time on all the TV channels 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:30.160 for all. 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.480 I'm hungry, Paroni. Sounds like a good sandwich. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.480 Uh, it's not quite a sandwich. Those are you in 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.480 the chat? You know what I'm talking about there? All right, 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:42.319 let's get to uh Padres prospect Leo Dallas Devrees? 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.480 Uh to Leo Dibries? 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.000 Is it just Devrees? Okay? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:47.720 Leo Dibris, Yeah, all right, Leo. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.000 No, I want to say Leo Dallas because that's. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.000 You can say whatever you want. I can't talk, so 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.760 you make yeah. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.560 Well it's all right. So he's seventeen years old and 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.040 he is playing in. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.520 A ball right now, and he went to Vie with 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.760 a triple and four ribis in single A. That is impressive. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.480 Seventeen year old. Where is he right now in your 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:08.600 Dynasty rankings? 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:08.760 Like? 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.680 How aware are people of this player and how aggressive 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.679 should they be on him going forward? 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.960 Okay, so you do have to remember seventeen is young, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.040 but still yeah it is. But I rank Dynasty prospects 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.480 in a grand scope not you know, it's usually a 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:26.600 three or four year window. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:27.640 It's not just this year. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.560 So there are some people that rank predominantly for proximity. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.480 I don't, so beware when I tell you this. I 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.880 have Leo de Vrais as a Leeud Devrees as a 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.160 top sixty prospect, might even the top fifty prospect overall. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.080 He was in this last international class and I've had 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.480 him inside my top one hundred the entire time, so 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.400 he's always been a top one hundred prospect for me 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.480 after you know, making his official signing on January fourth 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.600 or twelfth, or whatever the hell it was in January. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.200 And this took the Ethan Solace path because I saw 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.280 him out in camp. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:14:59.920 With the Padres. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.840 He skipped all of the Dominican Winter League stuff played 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.880 and extended. He's skipping complex ball and going straight to 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.480 a ball. It's the exact path of Ethan Solace. But 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.600 the offensive upside for Devers is bigger. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:12.480 It is bigger. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.400 There were comps frankly to like what the lot had 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.040 seen on the positive side of like wander Franco early on. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.280 He's got an incredible eye, he's a big kid, He's 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.080 running some and you're seeing what he can do on 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.240 those lower levels if you're not going to throw him, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.400 you know, crazy big pitch, mixed stuff. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.240 He is demolishing fastballs. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.200 He's demolishing you know, the easy I right now and 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.600 four RBIs early on. This is a guy that's going 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.200 to move to High A this year and could jump 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.640 up even to like Double A, where he could get 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.440 not going to get called up, but you know, he 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.440 could perceivably be called up like Ethan Solace. So think 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.760 of what Ethan Solace is doing. But now think of 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.200 this as a more mature bat and. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.440 That's why he's so exciting. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.800 He legit could be a top but it's more like 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.440 twenty five prospect by the end of the season, right, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.080 what's up? 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.560 He's got to be like a three year window, right, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.800 like more of a twenty twenty seven kind of guy. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.840 I mean, I mean pushing into twenty twenty six. But 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.520 that seems unlikely, although he is an A ball already. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.120 Ideally, But like the thing we just don't fully understand 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.040 is like what level are these teams going to push 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.280 these guys? Ethan Sollas got up to double A last year. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.480 He's in High A, right now, he's going to go 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.520 to double A. He might make the Majors at the 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.960 end of the year, or at least go to Triple A. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.120 So I assume Devrees is going to go to High 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.160 this year, start back at High next year and could 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.680 push up the double A. So you know, to your point, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.600 two twenty six might be the window for a guy 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.200 like him. These special talents, they kind of break through, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.160 and it's it's the bat that makes it. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:44.160 It's a for fantasy. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.080 It's really tough because Ethan Solace there's so much we 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.480 like about him, but he's a catcher, and he's a 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.720 great defensive catcher, and his bat is still lagging a 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:53.240 tiny bit. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.040 That's not the that's not the Leo thing. Is fout file. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.120 It's more of that great baseball player profile. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.960 It is a fantasy profile, but it's overrated because of 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.280 how exciting he is and how he's advancing, where Leo's 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.920 not the same exact situation like this is a really 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.199 high advanced back and watch out when the power starts developing. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.640 Because he's like a big He's a big, big dude. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.360