WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off June 21st, 2022 (Ep. 536) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.440 An Yell's cruising, Let's play ball. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.759 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.439 This is Leading Off, brought to you by bet MGM, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.960 the King of Sportsbooks. It's me, Joey Pa Joe Piezappia 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.520 with me today is Scott Bogman. Of course, it's you, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.200 all the Peanuts, all the Crackerjacks, all of our listeners, 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.400 all of our watchers over on the YouTube channel Fantasy 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.000 Pros MLB. If you haven't already made sure you subscribe 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.959 because we not only do we have all the podcasts 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.599 on there leading off every single. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.199 Day, but of course we've also got all the videos. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.440 We got the fun videos there. Bogman's gonna be shaving 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.880 his beard again, I'm sure in the next couple of 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.680 weeks we'll put that on video. We'll put the waiver wire, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.440 the buys, the sales, all that stuff. And last night, Bogman, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.319 we had a debut of a young Pittsburgh pirate. We're 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.760 gonna talk about that's for sure. And also a lot 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.000 of injury news people going to the IL. People start 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.560 to come off the IL. This is like the biggest 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.039 injury week. I've never had injury notes this long in 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.800 a sheet before. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.080 Yeah, lots of lots of injuries. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.280 We're just getting that point where guys start to break down, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.840 you know, which is unfortunate and annoying, but it's at 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.200 least it makes this part of the season, I guess interesting, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.080 with ads and drops and stuff like that. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.200 And the Pirates are a completely different team. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.280 I think they said twelve players have made their major 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.000 league debut for the squad already this year, which is 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.520 just crazy. And I mean, you can just take the 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.040 miners the miners guys and replace the entire team by 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.760 the end of the year. So you know, they've waited 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.639 until twenty twenty two to call up all these players. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:37.360 It's crazy. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.440 Yeah, Well, if only they would play one hundred game 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.160 regular season, like I've been saying for years, there is 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.520 plenty of regular season baseball and then a giant tournament 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.000 to get to the World Series. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.560 My goodness, that would be free change stuff. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.640 Joe, How dare I make baseball better by having more 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.559 eyes on it and having more meaningful games and less 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.360 non meaningful games that drag on and on and on. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.400 How dare I try to create more rivalries and division stuff? 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.000 I know, I've got some nerve and look, I'm very 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.560 happy to see Luie out here. We've got Josh here 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.680 joining us live. I've missed you too, finally getting to 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.760 catch the show live. We got JP over here. Finally 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.000 he's not bored at work anymore. JP. Don't get fired 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.000 for watching us, please. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:21.520 Uh. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.920 And that's the whole thing. Man, Let's let's go, let's 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.480 let's hang out, let's talk some baseball. Let's start here, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.480 of course, with Anio Cruz stealing the show baby for Riby's. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.400 His season debut looked good for a lot of people, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.040 this first time they're getting to really watch him. I'm sure. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.720 And you know, I kind of have always felt the 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.880 same way, WELLSHD, which is like, you know, good player, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.000 nice player. The size is something whenever you see a 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.120 player of that height, it's something to adjust to. Typically, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.000 if you're a like that creative player, you know, well, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.480 how tall are you gonna make your guy? 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:52.560 I'm gonna make him six to seven. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.120 I think that, Yeah, he's gonna have cool dreadlocks. But 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.800 he's only he's gonna be six to seven and like 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.359 a Bucks seventy five. Like that's you remember fat guy 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.160 Skinny guy hockey on the original Nintendo. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.600 My favorite hockey. Yeah, yeah, it was always. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.080 I mean I would always either do all fast guys 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.720 or all fat guys Like that was just the way 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:12.959 to go. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.200 So all fat guys, I feel like, never score on you. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.200 You just block it. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.360 I think it's funny when you have three skinny guys 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.240 and the one fat guy. I got no time for 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.519 the medium sized guys. I think every team should have 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.120 that one bruiser, you know, but can you stop all 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.760 the little guys from running around? But that's that's definitely 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.280 the Anio cruiz mode. There's no way about that. I 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.440 do believe though. You know, whenever you have a hype prospect, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.720 whenever you have a prospect that maybe you think might 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.000 you know, still have a lot of development yet to go. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.280 And clearly the Pirates did too. Let's not forget that 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.240 that in redraft leagues, if you have this prospect, this 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.120 is your glorious window to get somebody to overpay for it. Now, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.640 I'm not saying you're running out there to make a 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.320 trade just for the sake of making a trade, But 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:55.880 if you could put a guy like this on the 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.000 block that you've been waiting on, and you're a good 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.000 team and you could take something that's already been proved. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.680 To me, that's something I would investigate. What do you 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:03.240 think about that? 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.440 I mean, the best time to trade a guy is 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.600 like right before he gets to the majors, you know, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.920 because you're still getting that hype and you're like, any 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.920 day now, any day now is gonna be up. And 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.360 we've seen plenty of guys come up, fizzle and go 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.320 back down the minors. I mean, Mike Truck did that 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.800 his first year, you know, so plenty of great players 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.720 have come up and done that. But you know, in redrafts, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.040 it might be like right after they come up, when 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.200 they come up and do something like O'Neil Cruz does, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.160 if he can keep this momentum going for four or 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.360 five days absolute peak, to move him for something better 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.800 for the rest of the season, because all rookies have 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.200 their ups and downs the rookie years. So I'm absolutely 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.599 with you, Joe, trade that guy if you can, because 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.159 you can probably get way more than he's worth right now. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.560 Well, that was just what I was wondering, Like, you 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.200 don't think can get Corey Seeger for him? 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.880 Do you? I mean? Is that I don't think it's crazy? 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:57.960 I mean I don't. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.800 I wouldn't do it, and I know most people out 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.039 there probably aren't gonna do it, But I don't think 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.640 it's the most insane thing you've ever proposed here, Joe. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.200 I mean, Marcus Simeon, Corey Seeger, any of those guys 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:09.400 I would take if you can flip them for on 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.920 your cruise. Cory Palanko's had a down start to the year. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.440 He's on the IL. That would be a great target 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.280 in my opinion. That's another dude. Those are the kind 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:17.600 of dudes that I would look to make that kind 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.560 of a move for. And look, I'm not knocking on 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.680 your cruise, but I'm saying he's a rookie. Rookies tend 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.440 to have adjustment periods, even if they come up and 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.599 they're glorious to begin with, it's very rare they just 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.720 like I said, Juan Soto is, you know, the exception 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.159 to the role. He's not the pool by any stretch. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.000 And when you talk about these guys who are six 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.040 seven or six eight, you know, bigger guys. We're talking 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.080 like Richie Sexon, We're talking like you know, Adam Dunne. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.440 We're talking about like the bigger corner slugging kind of 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:43.599 dudes typically d. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.680 Backs legend Richie Sexon Joe, You remember he played eleven 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.560 games for the d Backs, hit his face on the 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.640 scoreboard in like game three, and then threw out his 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.279 shoulder and never played for the d Backs again. We 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:01.279 trade like Junior Spivey and all these players to the and. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:05.520 Red loved Junior. By fifteen, I was a Junior Spivey 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:06.640 dork for sure. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.160 I love that guy. Who's that all the time? 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.960 What a great name. Fun player to watch too. Garrett 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.040 Cole was fun to watch. Took another almost no hitter 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.159 into the eighth inning twelve strikeouts. Sara McClanahan was also 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.760 good in that game, but no decision for him. But look, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.120 Garrett Cole look got back on track after a tough April. Hopefully, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.400 if you if you're throwing out trade offers in April 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.479 for him, maybe you were able to steal them away. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.200 But you know, this was that whole thing with the 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.560 stop and start to the beginning of the season, with 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.480 everything going on with the labor agreements. I think there's 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:37.960 some pictures that just kind of came out of the 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.680 gate weird, you know, And I think Cole might have 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.000 been one of those guys, been Intendi after I've been 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.640 quiet for a while. He homered, stole base against the Angels. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.520 Darvish seven strong innings. We told you yesterday, Darbish was 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.440 an easy lock and load. Just go do it, that's 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.600 what you wanted. Vaughn Andrew Vaughn Homard picked up four 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.000 hits in the win over Toronto. Corbyn Burns blank the 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.640 Cardinals there. So Michaelis was on the wrong end of 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.920 that game unfortunately. So I'll take the l on that one. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.920 And the Mets got their eleventh shutout. This one was 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.720 behind Peterson and this is the most in Major League 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.920 Baseball in terms of shutting out other teams. I want 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.840 to talk to you about this White Sox game real 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.040 quick because I saw after Kevin Bigo hit a home 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.400 run that made it closer. You know, Kevin Bijo came 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.040 back to the dugout. You know in Toronto they want 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.600 to put the jacket on everybody. Yeah, on the jacket whatever. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.360 It's fun, but it feels kind of embarrassing when you 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.560 when you lose or when you're losing. I just thought 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.720 it was awkward. How do you feel about the dugout 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:30.680 celebrations that. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.880 I mean on nowadays, there's no better. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.200 There was one where I think Georgia was beating UAB 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.480 like forty to nothing, and UAB kid got a pick 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.360 and they have a big because of the dragons. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.560 They have a big dragon skull on a necklace and he's. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.680 Wearing it looking in the camera and the scoreboard says 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.960 zero to forty. You know, Georgia is just smoking him. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.920 Those things they're cool and you know that they. I 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.160 like him because it's a lot of you know, you 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:57.800 get a lot of together in this, a lot of 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.960 teammates stuff, or you're getting smoked. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.240 Yeah, it's just embarrassing. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:08.120 Maybe maybe you say the turnover chain and the jacket 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.120 and you know, the wheelbarrow and all that stuff for 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.920 it only if you're up, you. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.360 Know, I think, yeah, but it's funny because then if 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:15.880 you're up by too much, then you're rubbing it in 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.200 and then whatever, who cares? You know what, you don't 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.480 like it, stop it. I don't care about that crap. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.800 You know, if you don't like it, if you're down four, 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:25.000 nothing play better. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:26.720 Yeah, I think if you're down there. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:27.720 Nothing play better. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.680 The only time you put the jacket on or you 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.480 push somebody in the shopping car. Is if you've tied 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.840 the game on a home run. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.440 Tie, the game is fine. Tie. Yeah, yeah, you're still behind. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.200 I mean, you know, Kevin Bigio could use a nice jacket. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.480 But still at the same time, all right, here we go, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:41.560 get ready, buckle in. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.199 It's the injury notes. This is gonna be epic today. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.960 So apparently they're saying there's optimism that many Machado might 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.240 avoid the eyel To me, I think this is nuts. 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.360 You've got the pitching to put them on the eye 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.880 l and just let get one hundred percent healthy because 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.040 there's gonna I'm telling you, and somebody who's had high 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.640 endkles brains more than one in their lifetime, I'm telling you, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.840 there's a week. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:05.280 Did you see the quote yesterday? 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.800 It was Manny Machado walked through the locker room with 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.280 no limp at all. When a reporter tried to ask 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.240 him something, he said, I don't have time to answer questions. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.000 I'm too busy healing. So yeah, that's why he's. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.839 So beloved by the media and teammates alike. I mean, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.440 you know, we sat here last week and we talked 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.240 about him being twenty nine years old, and the pantheon 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:26.920 that he's in right now, with the amount of hits 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.240 and home runs he's got, and every single one of 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.200 those players as a Hall of Famer. It's like Mantle, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:36.280 Aaron Poolles Cabrera, and yet nobody talks about Mandy because 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:36.720 Mandy is. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.640 Just unlikable, absolutely unlike. I don't like him. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.800 Yeah, I mean I like him on my fantasy team, 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.319 but I do not like watching him. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.760 So Anthony desk Gilfani returned on Tuesday. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:47.160 That's good. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.240 Keer Myers going onto the aisle with a hip though 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.319 Mandy Margo going to the aisle with the Nie Brain 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.080 also said. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.960 That's significant. They said, that's significant. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.200 I'm sure it is also significant for the Rays. I 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.200 got three notes alone. Wander Franco is going out of 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.560 this week for triple A rehab, so that's good. So 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.600 wander Franco coming back soon, so they desperately need him back. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.920 Speaking of shortstops, Tim Anderson activated off the il. That's 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.320 good news. Tyler O'Neil goes to the tendail with a 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.800 hamstring strain. Aaron Ashby told you this was coming. They 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.640 were like, oh, maybe we're gonna avoid it. No, we're not. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.880 We're never gonna avoid it. Anytime you have forearm inflammation, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.160 it's bad. It's a very very bad thing. So he's 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.240 going to fifteen day il don't wait. Don't say like, oh, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.320 he's gonna be back in fifteen days. Make moves for 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.040 the rest of the season without him. If you get 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.920 him back, great. If you could trade him off and 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.160 somebody thinks fifteen days was gonna happen, great, go for it. Also, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.920 Chris Sale is gonna make his next start, so that's 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.200 coming around too. In terms of these injury notes, Bob, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.840 where do you want to start, Like what kind of 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:49.679 catches your eye? 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.520 I mean, let's start with the positive. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.400 I'm happy that Chrisale is coming back soon because all 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.600 those early drafts, which I hate doing early drafts, but 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.839 all those early drafts I was taking Chrisale. Uh so 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.199 I I'm just gonna be happy to get him back. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:05.320 You know. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.280 Look, with the Rays, someone was asking the chat before 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.360 about Bruhan staying up. Breuhan's definitely staying up this one. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.320 With all these injuries that that the Rays have. Hopefully 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.720 he starts to hit his own weight, which is what 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.400 one five like, dude. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.040 Is skinny, sounds lighter than on your cruise. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.280 Right exct Yeah, so uh yeah, and he's what five eight, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.120 so uh like almost a foot shorter than on your cruise. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.559 So yeah, I mean let's let's let's get some something there. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.400 I mean, I'm happy that Tim Anderson's coming back. Uh 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.360 sucks about Tyler O'Neill. The Aaron Ashby stuff really really sucks. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.920 And I just think back to a poll that the 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.560 Welsh and I'm sure he's mentioned it here, uh, but 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.280 a poll that to go with Spencer, Streider and Hier 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.040 and Ashby and everyone was given how can you ask 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.280 this question? Ashby's been so is like his two or 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.679 three good starts in a row, and now where are we? 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.559 You know everyone would take Strider now so. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.800 Not always watched healthy guy. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.520 Sure well sure, but I think even before this forearms 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.240 train last couple starts for Strider versus the last couple 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.280 starts for Ashby, you'd go Strider too, So no, I would, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.840 you know? So, uh that is that's just what I 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.840 think of. So luckily, not too much here for my 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.120 teams outside the positives, So don't have I have like 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.719 one or two Machado shares. I have a couple of Marcos. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.839 But other than that, I've got guys coming back. I've 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.079 got Tim Anderson, I've got Chris Sale, I've got uh 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:37.800 Keir Meyer. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.480 So what's annoying if you have Machado is if he 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:41.439 doesn't go on the ie L. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.280 Now you have this this dead spot. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.440 There, so you can't put him on the eye there 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.280 gonna I mean, just do it already like they're gonna 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.479 do it, and then like a retroactor. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.960 And that's just as a fantasy manager, that's a super annoying. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.840 I mean, they should have done it yesterday. I understand 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.600 on a Sunday, you're it's always gonna be a little weird. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.440 The should have done it yesterday. Here's a fun question 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.040 from Milwonkee fears about Braun falling into the you can't 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.880 steal first Billy Hamilton career arc. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.440 I mean it's legit, you know, it's a legit concern. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.040 So hopefully he can get it. He can write the 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.280 ship and you know, the Rays are just letting him 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.280 work through these issues here, so you know, I think 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.360 he's got a better shot than Billy Hamilton. But you know, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.440 if you can't get on first, you can't steal second. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.319 That's the old trope. So this is true, This is true. Absolutely. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.200 You know, I was just looking at some of the 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.400 K leaders too over the last thirty days. It's the 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.120 usual suspects, right, You got al Contra, you got Shane McClanahan, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:41.280 Corbin Burns, Bieber right after that. Maybe not the usual suspects, Severarino, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.320 Tyler Molly, who I keep telling everybody. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.720 Like starting to put it together, Tyler Molly. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.160 Put it together again. It's not the first time he's 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.280 put it together, but yeah, he is gonna get dealt. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.520 Somebody's gonna come after this guy. Nick Povetta, no surprise there. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.600 And then Chris Bassett, and you know it's funny. Chris 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.040 Bassett and Charlie Morton are right up there too with 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.960 forty one and thirty eight, but both of them have 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.680 eras over five over the same thirty days span, which 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.120 is kind of fascinating, which to me means go buy them, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.240 like because the strikeouts are still there and that's fantastic. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:10.679 That's I mean. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.080 Bassett has forty one k's and thirty four innings. Moreton 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.080 has thirty eight and twenty seven innings. Over the last 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.719 thirty days, but both have eras over five still over 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.400 that span. I wonder if those are on their two 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.360 guys that you know, if you had to pick, would 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.320 you rather have Bassett or Morton rest of the season. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.160 Mmmm, that's a good one. I think I'd rather have Batsett. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.040 I think both teams are solid. I just Charlie Morton's 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.720 tentury history has always scared me, so uh, I'll go 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:35.600 with Bassett there. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.800 Yeah, I look at the run scored. This is a 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.600 fun one too, Raphaeld Devers, Tommy Edmund, Goldschmid judge. You know, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.480 there's the guys you would think. Then there's Kyle Schwarber 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:45.480 up there at twenty five. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:46.280 He's third. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.280 All he needed was Girardi to get fired. He's just 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:51.520 to get fired and now he's on fire. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.840 So still hitting two thirty over that period. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.920 Your's on fire for Kyle Schwarber. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.520 So yeah, another guy too, quietly been very good besides 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.920 Cronenworth on the Padres just kind of mentioned him in 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.240 passing his profar profar hitting two seventy seven of last 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.080 thirty days twenty two runs scored. Dansby Swanson's been good 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.280 to Marcus Simeons really pick things up to eighty two 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.760 twenty run scored over his last month to two, so 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.920 you know, there's a a lot of patience to practice. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.640 But that's kind of a quick glance in the last 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.640 thirty days, which is always fun. Let's talk about this. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.240 This meme's been going around the internets where the twenty 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.040 twenty one World Series Game six viewership was at fourteen 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.080 million and the twenty twenty two NBA Finals Game six 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.160 viewership was at thirteen point nine. And the narrative of 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.960 baseball being dead, baseball is dead. So everybody who likes 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.640 that to you know, throw that people's faces. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:41.520 It's not good. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.320 There you go. So are both of them dead? I 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.680 guess that's the question. Or is their demise both greatly exaggerated? 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.760 Bot I mean Joe as as a guy that has 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.360 gone to spring training, you know, every year, but this year, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.360 for the last twenty five years, baseball is never dead. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.760 When you oh and you see the people showing up 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.840 at spring training and you just see the droves of people. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.360 It costs two hundred dollars to get into a Cubs 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.880 game and sit in the grass, you know, to watch giants. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.880 They'll play three innings before it right comes from Iowa. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.560 Dude to one hundred percent. Yeah, the Giants won the 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.040 win the World Series. Uh, you know, three of six 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.560 years and you have to sell a kidney to get 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.560 into that stadium to watch, you know, Darren rough play 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:28.480 nine innings. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:29.000 You know what I mean? 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.280 Like, uh, that. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.440 Baseball is not dead, It's not even close to dead. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.560 It's losing. It's just losing a little bit of viewership 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.400 on TV, but every live sport is losing a little bit. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.800 So well, I think I think that's the whole point. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.960 It's like, if you're going to point to this, what 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.400 you point to is that there's just so many more 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.080 options and the on demand lifestyle of everybody that can 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.080 do whatever. You know, we you don't have as much 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.040 communal we have these x number of channels or this 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.560 number of sports channels. You know, there's just twelve ESPNS 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.680 and thirteen Fox Sports is and there's just you know, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.520 you're trying to plus all the streaming stuff you can get, right, So, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.560 I mean, you know, the hardcore audience is the hardcore audience, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.760 and you know, I think it's I think it's a 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.119 good reminder to people that baseball is not dead. Uh 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.879 And if you ask me what I'd rather watch the 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.000 World Series or the finals of NBA, I'd rather watch 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.480 the World Series. It's not even close. I'm curious for. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:19.919 You because you do like the NBA. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.680 Yeah you had. Again, none of our teams are in it. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.760 We're just talking about two Randos two Randos series. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.359 I mean, I like baseball better than basketball slightly, so 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.080 I would say it's it's still the World Series for me. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.159 They're both fun though, like thirteen point nine verse fourteen, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.399 they're both doing all right, you know. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:39.560 Uh so uh I do. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.400 I do like the whole idea of baseball being dead 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.280 and this being able, you know, you being able to 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.560