WEBVTT - Leading Off September 4th, 2024 (Ep. 896) 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.680 What's going on? Everybody? Welcome into Leading Off the Fantasy 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.440 Pros Baseball Podcast. We are presented by Bet three six five. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.920 Bet five bucks get one hundred and fifteen bonus bets 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.760 when you use that promo code leading Off only at 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.320 Bet three six five. There's a different dynamic going on today. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.680 You guys can probably notice that Joel Rico here behind 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.400 the mic, joined by my dear friend Casey Bubba. We 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.840 are going to be taking you through about two thirds 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.040 of the remaining shows of the baseball season. We're still 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.159 gonna have wells, shehy on on Mondays. Bubba and I 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.199 are going to be taking you through the Wednesday and 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.120 Friday shows and now we're gonna be switching off on the 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.800 Mondays and also joining Welsh. But this is great. This 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.640 is really fun for me. Get to join Bubba, who 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.320 has been a good friend for the last couple of years, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.840 and we get to kind of talk some baseball. Here, Bubba, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:46.720 how you doing today? Man? 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.400 I am doing great getting to talk some baseball. It 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.199 seems like it's been a while since with you and 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.280 I have got the chat, even though we're in the 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.120 same like message groups and everything. But it's a different 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.760 platform for us too, which is crazy. It's using my show, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.000 your show something else. So it's gonna be fun, and 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.360 I'm looking forward to the final month of the year. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.679 Is you know a lot of people are wrapping up seasons, 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.280 like we said before the show, but you and I 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.319 we just keep on going. This is what we like 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.160 to do, so I hope we can help some people 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.240 that are still grinding till the end. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.080 If you guys are here at this time of the season, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.480 you are the diehards. Absolutely. If you're still watching baseball content, 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.759 listening to podcasts, reading articles this time of year, then 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.880 you automatically have a bit of an edge on the 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.240 rest of your league because as we know, football's coming, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.920 people going back to school, everybody's got busy live. So 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:31.920 if you're still paying attention this time of year, it 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.280 gives you just that little bit of extra edge on 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.640 the competition. We're gonna be breaking down the headlines today 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.039 doing the usual stuff. Just because Joe and Welsh aren't here. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.680 We are not gonna divvy up things from different to 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.080 not defer too much rem usual there as I stumble 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.040 over my words here as we get going, But we 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.880 are gonna go through some headlines. We're gonna take a 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.440 couple of your questions if you guys want to throw 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.200 some things in the chat. We're also gonna be talking 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.360 a couple of fantasy playoff questions if you got anything. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.920 Later on we'll talk injuries, best bets, home runs and 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.520 all that. But let's get started off off with Katee Povich, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.480 who was just brutal for a good chunk of the 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.799 season and honestly not somebody that I was really trying 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.600 to invest in so much, even against the White Sox. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.320 I just didn't really trust him this time of year. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:17.000 But seven and a third shutout innings with ten strikeouts. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.919 But but is this the sign that he's maybe figuring 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.000 things out and turning the corner a little bit? Or 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.000 is this just it was the White Sox. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.520 I'm gonna lean more so it's the White Sox. That's 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.320 why I wanted to discuss as we had Albert Swarz 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.320 going on Wednesday. This will be the real telltale sign 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.480 if it's the White Sox. But at the same time, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.120 Povich looked good and he got called up for a 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.120 spot start a few weeks back. He's showed improvements throughout 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.359 the Miners If anything, it's something to kind of keep 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:41.760 our eye on as the season goes on, as we 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.080 head into twenty twenty five. To start all that draft prep, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.480 he was a highly touttered prospect, so it is great 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.239 to see him take advantage of teams you need to 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.360 take advantage of. That's always like a big first step 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.280 in my mind as a hitter, take advantage of bad pitching, pitching, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.920 take advantage of bad hitting. Povic got that check mark, 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.000 So that's a good sign going forward. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.200 Or for ka Povic, is it something where you'd want 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.400 to continue to stream him rest of the season or 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.679 is it more so we'll take this gym against the 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.280 White Sox and then kind of take our foot off 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:09.600 the gas. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.080 Probably take this gym and take our foot off the gas. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.000 I know there's a privy Like the final two weeks 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.160 of the year pretty favorable for Orioles pitching, But coming 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.359 up here I beieve they have Boston and like Minnesota, 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.160 probably take those off for Kate and look at him 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.240 for the final couple weeks of the Yearnings to Detroit 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.359 and maybe another White Sox start throwing in there. Too. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.720 Could be interesting. Yeah, like we were saying before we 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.880 started getting going this time of year. It's really just 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.840 so much about picking and choosing the right matchups at 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.600 this time. Streaming against the White Sox, against the Marlins, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.640 against the Rockies, away from cours. That type of thing 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.480 really just so so important this time of year. Another 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.680 important thing this time of year for real teams is 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.920 choosing who to pitch too and who to avoid. And 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.080 the Blue Jays yesterday did not choose to avoid Kyle 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.720 schwarb But even after he'd already burned them for a 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.520 couple homers, he went five for six scored four runs. Obviously, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.200 the three homers drove in six. I tweeted it out 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.320 yesterday he probably won some head to head leagus by himself. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:04.640 You know, in the average head to head week you 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.200 might get like ten twelve home runs twenty five thirty ribis. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.360 Maybe this is a huge, huge boost for Kyle schuber 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.560 and this season as a whole. He's actually got that 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.880 batting average back up into the two forty type of 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.560 range that was a huge concern for a lot of 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.040 people coming into the year. He's gonna kill your batting average. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.760 But being in the two forties and stealing a couple 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.920 of bases again, I might add has kind of brought 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.120 his value back. What are your thoughts on Schwarber going forward? 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.560 Is he somebody where he'll be faded again next year? 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.360 Is he going to go too low in drafts because 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.000 he's been a top fifty player each of the last 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.920 couple of seasons, now, is that where he should be going? 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:36.280 You think? 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.560 Yeah, I think he should be. I know it's it's 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.640 not everybody's cup of tea drafting Kyle Schubert because there's 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.400 the batting average concerns, and he can literally just destroy 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.520 the team's batting average because he does lead off, So 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.480 it's a lot of played appearances. It's a large sample 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.920 size when all things are said and done. But yeah, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.400 if you can put a two forty average out there 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.640 with forty plus bombs, he's going to play one hundred 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.800 or he's between runs and RBI's getting close to two 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.840 hundred combined, like you mentioned, throwing some stole bases in there. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.240 That's elite stuff, Like you mentioned top fifty player in fantasy. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.000 So I know I was bullish on him because of 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.760 the batting average. I thought it was really really bad 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.360 and I don't like taking on that risk. But maybe 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.320 that's something I should think about again. Could he revert 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.160 to that? Sure? Could he be a two forty guy 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.560 going forward? Definitely? And if he's two forty then that's 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:18.520 pretty darn good. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.359 In that lineup. Yeah, I think he is generally gonna 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:23.920 be worth it, and he might be pushed down. People 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.000 will have the same conversations next year. I don't want 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.000 to take the two twenty batting average risk, and that's 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.800 fine with me. If people want to want to fade 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.280 him again, I'll happily take him. I didn't draft enough 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.040 of him this year because of that worry in the 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.640 back of my head, and when I did take him, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.839 it was like I backed him up with Corey Seeger 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.400 or somebody who could you know, Yandy Diaz, who we 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.000 thought was gonna hit like three to twenty coming into 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.320 the season. I think next year I wouldn't worry so 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.039 much about that because he's probably like a two twenty 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.360 two thirty hitter, and in this day and age, it's 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.000 not so bad. Really, it's not so bad when the 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.880 league average is about two thirty all around. Wyatt Langford 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.040 hit a walk off grand Slam against the Yankees yesterday. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.040 The season as a whole for whya at Langford kind 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.120 of underwhelming. It's been one hundred and eleven games. He 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.640 has ten home runs, twelve stolen bases, He's hit two 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.840 forty three pretty good play skills though twenty percent strikeout rate. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.320 We're talking about an eight point eight percent walk right, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.960 so he's not getting overmatched. Really, I wonder if Langford 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.360 is gonna be somebody that really does take a step 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.680 forward next season. I know that he was one of 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.119 the best hitting prospects we've seen in a long time. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.640 Is your expectation that we fully see him hit his 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.920 stride next season or is that maybe we need to 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.320 just change our expectations a little bit from that number 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.680 one overall hitting prospect. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.000 I think he definitely takes a step forward. I don't 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.320 know if it's a full stride. I'm horrible with prospects. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.240 That's a welshy thing if we're going to go there. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.440 But I know a lot of people are still very 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.680 optimistic on him. Than that early meatball draft I did, 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.679 he still went relatively decent. He didn't go like Jackson Churio, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.160 Jackson Merrill World, but he still has like a sixth 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.440 or seventh round pick. So I think that moves up 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.360 come further in a draft season. He's hit three homers 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.360 in the last six Maybe he's getting health. He's been 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.320 banged up a lot after the slow start, still down season, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:05.960 like you said, But I think we definitely see a 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.679 move in the right direction next year for White Langford. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.280 I just wonder if we're gonna have to pay. Like 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:12.840 you said, he was a sixth round pick, he's probably 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.920 gonna get more expensive. Is he gonna be worth it. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.400 It's like you have to project that growth, but we 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.400 also know that growth isn't necessarily linear. Maybe he goes 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.880 for seventeen homers and twelve steels next season and it's 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.600 a bit better, but it's not, you know, top fifty, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.280 top seventy five. He's one of those guys I'm gonna 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.440 be pretty worried to actually hit the draft button on. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.800 I think it's at this point in time pretty clearly 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.840 like Churio and Merrill and James Wood ahead of him. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.000 Would you agree there. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.640 Yeah, one hundred percent agree. Again, that's where they all 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.360 want ahead of him in the draft. So I probably 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.760 won't have much Langford. I'm just still I'm a very 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.960 cautious drafter. Good or bad in that sense, and so 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.480 he just won't fit my mold when I'm picking my team. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.120 Yeah, I think I'm probably on the same page with 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.560 you there, although it's just so tempting with that sprint speed, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.880 there's just so much to really like, but I think 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.520 I kind of need to see it before I'm willing 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.800 to pay such a high price, and I do think 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.520 he'll be pretty expensive heading into next season. Let's talk 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.920 about David Peterson, though man six innings of one run 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.440 ball with eleven strikeouts against the Red Sox. This is 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:12.960 the start that I wanted nothing to do with. The 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.160 Red Sox have been a great offense. Peterson has been 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.320 really solid, but I don't really buy it when I 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.200 dig below the surface. He is a two to seventy 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.040 five ERA. He has a nine to one record, and 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.960 yet we're looking at a four to eighty five expected era. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.000 He's a four to forty four SI era, And I 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.320 think the big thing with David Peterson is the strikeouts. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.520 I mean, outside of yesterday, where they were obviously there, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.719 they haven't really been there this season. Nineteen and a 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.760 half percent strikeout rate when he had been in the 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.840 twenty five to twenty seven percent range the last couple 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.280 of years. So are we buying into Peterson going forward? 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.160 For me, I've loved him the last couple of seasons, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.040 but the dipping strikeouts does concern me. It's just strange 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.440 that it's come with a two seventy five era but 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.520 also a one to thirty one whip. It's kind of 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.599 a hard eval for David Peterson Bubba. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.959 One hundred percent. And that's kind of the bummer with 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.840 Peterson because I'm with you, I've been a big fan 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.400 and he shows strikeout stuff. From previous seasons, it was 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.559 more walk issues to go with the strikeouts. It kind 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.200 of kept you a few steps back with David Peterson. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.199 This year. The walks have gotten a little better, honestly, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.000 But you mentioned you look at the Sierra as the 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.200 x fips any underlying EIRA metric shows he's overachieving. The 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.719 fact he strikes out eleven Boston Red Sox is just bonkers. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.880 After you mentioned that the previous six starts he had 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.320 twenty seven strikeouts in thirty eight innings, so obviously not 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.520 a dominating strikeout arm in that sense. But like you 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.600 go deeper into that start against Boston, dude had a 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.600 forty percent CSW and twenty whiffs in that start, Like 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.560 he was just just dominating the Boston Red Sox, which 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.040 is baffling at the same time, very very tough to 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.199 trust as you were mentioning, And it's got to be 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.800 a start by star basis we're at the part of 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.960 the year though, or maybe you just roll the hot 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.679 hand all things considered. But like when you look at 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.160 Peterson's next few starts coming up here for the Mets, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:04.439 he takes on the Toronto Blue Jays next week, So 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:05.640 how you feeling about that one? 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.800 I mean, our offense has been a bit better as 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.120 of late. Yes, yes, yes, not exactly world beaters still, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.880 so i'd probably stream him in a lot of cases. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.640 Maybe not in like a ten team league, but twelves 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.360 and fifteen's I probably would do it. It's risky, but 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.160 I think I would do it. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.160 Well, we'll have we'll expand this out a second here, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.000 So over the next twenty eight days basically the rest 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.520 of the season. So he's Toronto next week, then he 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.040 gets a two step if then this is obviously could 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.319 change in moments. Notice Washington and Philadelphia, so one Washington's 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.640 been sneaky too, and then the last week of the 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.240 year he gets the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee, so none 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.320 of them are cupcake matchups, but maybe the Nets, but 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.200 they just don't strike out, so that's tough tough one 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:48.800 with Peterson. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.760 Toronto doesn't really strike out that much either. As bad 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.320 as they are generally speaking, they're not a team that're 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.120 like one of the ten best teams in terms of 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.880 strikeout rate in baseball. So if you're looking for those 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.679 strikeouts to come back and remain and it's probably not 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.160 gonna happen for David Peterson. But man like, he's one 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:06.720 of those guys. I think it's like an Edward Caperero 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.679 type of thing. With me, I'll always still kind of believe, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.480 but we're getting to the point where it's like I 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.920 need to see more below the surface and everybody's probably 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.800 listening like two seventy five era. He's been great, but 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.000 I don't buy it. I just don't buy that he 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.680 should be doing that well. Randall Gritchick is also somebody 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.319 I think is worth mentioning. He had a couple of 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.880 home runs yesterday filling in for Lordis Guriel Junior, and 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.120 honestly It kind of surprised me. It's snuck up on 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.520 me a little bit how solid Gritchick has been this year. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.839 It hasn't been in a huge sample size two hundred 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.800 and eighteen at bats, but he's hit two eighty four 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.319 eight home runs, thirty four ribies, and just over the 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.040 last two weeks he's hit four home runs in his 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.880 last nineteen at bats. So there's a situation where if 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.080 you need a little bit of outfield help, specifically in 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.120 deeper leagues, would you take a shot at Gritchick. He's 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.200 two percent rostered on Yahoo leagues. People aren't really paying attention, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.440 but should they be. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.600 I think they should be for a couple of reason. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.920 With Guryel going on the IL, this makes things very 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:02.000 very interesting because now you have a team that was 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:06.640 platuning Gritchick, and obviously Guriel was starting every day. But 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.400 Gritchick looks like he's gonna slide in to that everyday role, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.360 which makes him much more enticing for fantasy. You mentioned 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.320 some of the power he showcased of late, like over 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.480 the last seventeen games three forty nine average, five homers, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.480 ten runs, eleven RBIs. I'll play. That'll play for sure. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:23.440 We know he matched his lefties, but if he's gonna 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.640 play every day, why Guriel's out. There's still no timetable 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:30.840 for Gurile's return. That makes Ritchick quite serviceable coming up, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.080 especially a team that gets to face you know, Texas 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.240 Milwaukee and then they go to Colorado in a couple weeks. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.040 That's pretty nice. So Gritchick could have some viability if 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.040 he gets some long term run. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.760 Arizona's offense has been one of the best, the best 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.840 all of baseball too, and I think part of that 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.640 is probably Corbyn Carroll's turnaround recently has really boosted that. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.400 But like, they are the number one team in baseball 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.640 for the season in runs and hits per game, second 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.760 in batting average, first and on base percentage in ops, 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.839 seventh in home runs. Pretty basic stats we're reading off there, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.360 but they are. They are doing pretty damn well for themselves. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.680 And yes, uh cousin Donnie in the chat, I did 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.560 in fact get a fresh cut because the hairhead I 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.319 was looking like Pete tim linsekm Jacob deGrom there. I 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.200 needed to needed to cut it off. I put it 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.400 off for way too long. But yes, the flow is 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:21.920 officially gone. Oh no, oh, No, it's finally gone. Hopefully. Man, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.800 by the time you see me in November in Arizona, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.600 it'll probably be a little bit longer. Again. One more 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.559 news on the one more piece of news on the headlines. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.480 Redebtmers finally finally made his return to the majors. And 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:33.800 I saw this and I was like, oh my god, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.760 it's against the Dodgers. Why do they have to bring 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.200 him up to face the Dodgers. Well, six innings of 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.800 two run ball with ten strikeouts for mister reed Debtmers. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.440 I don't know what to make of him, because he 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.360 started off looking so brilliant this season, really fell apart 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.959 in a hurry, and then spent most of the year 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.120 in the miners. What he did in the miners wasn't 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.559 very good either. Fourteen starts down there have a five 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.080 point fifty four era, a one forty whip. I don't 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.920 really know if I want to trust him going forward. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.200 I think the win potential is probably pretty low with 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.560 the Angels, but it's hard to say that this wasn't encouraging, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.880 especially against the Dodgers. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.839 Yeah, this is a bummer because I've been writing for 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.880 a couple of weeks. Pick Up debtmers. He's gonna be 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.040 they have they just earned the extra year of control. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.200 All these things because his last like two or three 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.120 starts in the miners were very good, lots of strikeouts. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.320 The whole sample sizes agreed. Horrible in the miners, but 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.240 like it looked like he was trying to find his way. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.760 I told everybody for the Dodgers starts to add him, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.520 don't start him, like, stay away from this. Obviously he 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.680 pitched great, and his upcoming schedule is going to be interesting. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.320 The Angels are currently using a six man rotation, so 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.760 two steps are tough. In two weeks, he's for now 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.640 scheduled for a two step. One of them is the 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.680 White Sox. That's a plus, But Deptmers, if you need strikeouts, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.400 could be a dude. Just no blow ups are coming 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.880 when it comes with three Deptmers. But very very encouraging start, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:49.480 that's for sure. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.680 Yeah, I mean I was stashing him in a lot 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.880 of deeper leagues, a lot of NFBC leagues. I've been 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.160 holding onto him for quite a while. Didn't have the 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.440 guts to start him yesterday, but I think I'm probably 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.800 gonna be putting him into the lineups going forward, depending 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.040 on what's going on, but I think generally speaking, he's 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.360 earned another start with what he looked like yesterday. One 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.560 thing in the just for fun section today ben Joyce 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.000 one hundred and five point five mile an hour strikeout. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.000 It was the fastest strikeout in the stat cast era, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.720 and the third fastest pitch apparently that was ever recorded, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.840 behind a couple of our oldest Chapman pitches. This guy 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.200 is just unbelievable. The thing that's kind of surprised me 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.760 a little bit is that the strikeouts haven't been what 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.600 you would probably expect from a guy who throws harder 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:34.120 than probably anybody ever or close to it, like one 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.600 of the top two or three hardest throwers we've ever seen, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.600 and yet the strikeouts aren't really there for him. Do 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.560 you see Joyce going forward as a closer, Because when 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.640 you think about a closer with a twenty three percent 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.040 strikeout rate ten percent walk rate, it doesn't really jive. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.520 But I think he does probably have closer stuff. Still, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:53.000 what do you think. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.760 I think he's got the closer stuff. I think he 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.080 should get the chance to be a closer. I agree, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.960 you'd like to see better than a basically thirteen percent 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.880 k to walk. That is not going to be the ticket. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.040 Like we see a lot of guys with walk issues, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.040 but they also have like a thirty five percent K rate, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.760 So there's a big difference there. If Joyce doesn't have that, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.840 it's troublesome, especially throwing gas like he does, which is 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.240 pretty wild. I think he's going to be the closer. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.720 He should be the closer. Then again, it's the Angels, folks, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.760 So take everything I said was gigantic grain of salt. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.920 Will you draft him next year as the Angels closer? 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.360 He'd have to be a closer three for me on 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.240 my team, kind of like how I drafted Estevez and 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.560 some other guys. I won't be reaching to grab him 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.120 as a as a RP one or two for my team. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.360 Yeah, I think that's that's totally fair. If he's like 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.760 a third guy going and picked two hundred to two 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.560 fifty type of range, just a little bit of insurance, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.560 then I can get behind it. If he saves five 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.200 or six games down the stretch and pushes himself up 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.400 fifty picks or so, that's probably where I have to 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.000 tap out Rookie Lucky today, I just want to talk 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.280 a little bit about the Rookie of the Year race, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.200 because we know Welsh has been on this one, following 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.000 it constantly. Paul Skimes at one point was minus five 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.960 thousand and four of the year. He is now not 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.040 even the favorite. Jackson Merrill is at minus nine hundred. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.480 The books just seem to be going whatever way the 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.640 wind goes recently for NL Rookie of the Year, even 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.119 with Paul Skean's tossing five shutout innings last night. So 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.160 looking at their lines, Paul Skans one hundred and fourteen innings, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.800