WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 19th, 2022 (Ep. 514) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.880 Why can't we have nice things? Let's play ball. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.200 Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros. This is leading off. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.080 Brought to you by bet MGM, the King of sports books. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.800 It's me, Joey p Joe Pi's appeia with me. Today 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.200 is back the Welsh, clean shaven and ready to go, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.640 and we've got some baseball stuff to talk about today. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.960 We got your betting stuff, we've got your prop bets, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:35.240 we got your dfs. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.199 We've also got your fantasy baseball. We've got some history 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.040 and a whole lot more. But Welsh, we. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.920 Have to start here on a sour note. Unfortunately, because 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.360 people say to me all the time, Joe, why can't 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.040 you enjoy what's going on with the New York Mets? 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.880 Why can't you be happy with how well the Mets 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.000 have done? And I inevitably respond back because I know 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.800 it's always a matter of time before things go sideways. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:00.960 Max Scherzer was. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.760 On the mound, felt a poll in his side, left 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.119 the game, took himself out immediately. I know they're saying, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.280 they're hoping it's not so bad and all these things, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.920 But Welsh, this is why we can't have nice things. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:16.600 So I unfortunately am here sitting and just miserable because 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.839 Max Scherzer, who had been carrying this staff here, looks 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.040 like he's headed for the eye. L So what can 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.520 you say to me to make me feel better? 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.680 I mean, there's always tomorrow, the sun. The sun will 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:36.280 come out tomorrow. It's like Byron Buxton for me. You know, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.600 this is actually very similar to like when Byron Buckson 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.000 goes down, like it's very upsetting, and when he's not 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.000 in the lineup. And this has been baseball though, this 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.880 has been baseball all year. You know, it's like, hey, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.200 this is fun, this is good, and he's gone, He's gone. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.840 The Sure's are one is. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.680 Pretty brutal though for that entire Mets team, that is 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.440 the heart and soul. And I don't I don't know 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.880 what else to tell you, my friend, except the sun 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:00.880 come out. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.280 Wait, beautiful voice. That makes me feel a little. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:04.600 Bit in that thing. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.720 What I will say is. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.160 Is also this that you know, from a from a 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.360 fantasy standpoint, in terms of our approach, I guess the 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.119 one solace we could take is our approach going into 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.600 this year was Faye the top ten. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.679 Pitchers, great point. Yeah, all the other guys. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 In that next column. Look, get two of those guys. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.320 Get get a Pablo Lopez and a Giolito. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:25.840 Get this guy, Joe. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.600 Muskrove, Get a Joe musk Rove, and get a you 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.560 know you Darvish or whatever. Yeah, I don't have any 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.959 Walker Buehlers in those struggles. Don't have any Max Suersers, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.839 don't really have many. I don't think I have any 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.280 Shane Bieber's have kind of avoided all of that, which 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.520 you know, push comes to shove. It'll be interesting to 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.960 look at the end of the year on you know, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.280 the return, if you really if you took like, you. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.040 Know, the top ten sps and then you take the 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.240 next ten sps, which is a little subjective. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.120 You know, how big of an overall production difference if 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.080 we did we did averages, if we average out you know, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.000 strikeouts and e RA and stuff like that. Like, how 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.680 big of a difference did you get drafting high high 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.120 starting pitchers then you did waiting a little bit. I'm 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.800 not sure it would be so much different. Plus, if 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.239 you add in those il stints and miss days, might 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:10.560 not be too big of a difference. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:12.600 You might be correct. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.920 Maybe we'll have to get that mayor Era into check. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.000 This actually makes me feel nice before we even get 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:17.840 into the headlines. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:18.520 Look at this. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.320 We're closing it on seven thousand subscribers to our YouTube channel. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.080 They said it couldn't be done. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.280 So if you have it already, I'm sure you subscribe 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.320 to our YouTube channel, Fantasy Pros MLB. It's a different 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.520 channel again. This is the MLB channel. We do just 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.840 baseball here. I just did a by low Sell high 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.839 video yesterday. Got the Waiver Wire video I think comes 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.520 out tomorrow morning. Some very exciting things here. We've got 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.880 a lot more than just the leading off. We're building out, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.560 We're branching out. It's an empire we're creating here. So 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.240 besides the miserable, horrible, terrible, no good mac schures or news, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.960 let's get to some other things that might make me 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.400 feel better. Nick Pavetta, how about that two hitter against 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.680 the Astros After the astrost five thousand home runs the 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:02.040 night before nine k's one earned run for Paveta. He 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.720 is now at a four to twenty two e ra 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.360 Kenley Jansen blew his first save of the year, with 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.800 Keston hero walking things off for the court to run. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.120 Just like we all Scriptedston just like scripted tested hera 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.760 blowing the Kenley Jansen save like we all thought, what 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:17.680 is this thoud. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.560 We're disappointing prospect Keston Hero or Jared Kelnick. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.760 I mean right now it's Kelnick. Kelick's not in the majors. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.720 Oh oh god, I don't know. I think either handster 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.680 would have hurt my my soul, but. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.080 I mean Kesten here hurts like that guy looked like 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.680 such a good contact hitter. The one thing I would 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.880 have bet on him if it would have been like 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.159 I was gonna tap into his power. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:40.720 Is he gonna run? 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.520 I'd say, well, he's gonna hit, Like the guy is 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.600 gonna hit and he's gonna make that work for him. Nope, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.400 not whatsoever. But you know he's starting to roll a 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:49.680 little bit. He's getting a little groove. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.360 Yeah, boy, oh boy, all right. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.440 Jared Walsholber Twice, I was telling everybody that's the perfect 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.480 guy to swap in the video. If you can make 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.360 a trade for Taylor the Ward and go get Jared 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.840 Walsh in something else, go do that. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.560 Well, he made that trade yesterday. You're doing okay. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.600 David Bedner fans two in a save Pete Alonzo, Homers 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.200 plays four, and Mets win despite losing Max Scherzer, So 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.039 really they lost, and c J Cron becomes the first 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.760 nationally guy to hit the double digit mark in Homers graduation. CJ, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.440 good for you. Back to the injuries here, Welsh. So 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.000 Chris Paddock is going to have a second Tommy John surgery. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.680 We didn't really talk about this yesterday. It's it's a 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.120 huge bummer. I mean, the Padres really made out like 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.120 gangbusters on this trade. This feels like one of those 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.680 trades that happens in fantasy where you're like, yeah, I'll 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.000 give you this picture for a closer or whatever, and 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.680 then the picture goes on the ile a couple weeks 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.680 later and you go, who boy, dodge that bullet. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.040 Doesn't that kind of all have that we've all had that. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.000 I love person I personally love Chris Paddock. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.240 Two. He's just like a he's a good dude. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.279 I think he's a really great He was a great 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.400 pitcher for a time. That third pitch stuff just absolutely 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.520 killed him, and he was starting to find his own again. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.120 He was starting to find his command. That was a 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.760 problem when you're like a basketball change up guy, You're 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.680 probably gonna need a little bit more, and he was 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.360 starting and also, you're gonna need like pinpoint command and 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.000 he started to find that command again. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.359 And I don't know. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.440 Again, we'd have to go back and look at the 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.000 history of it. But how successful you know, have any 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.200 pitcher been coming off a second Tommy John Because I 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.320 know we have a little bit of a history on it. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:26.200 I don't really recall many guys coming back successfully from twodjs. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:32.720 I can't remember who they are. That's a good question, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:33.320 A why I don't know. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.600 I feel like one of the Cubs guys had two 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:36.480 Tommy John's. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:37.840 That sounds right. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.800 There's somebody in my brain and I cannot excuse me. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.080 I cannot unlock them right now. Who had to Tommy John's. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.039 And I believe it was like one in college or 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.400 high school or something like that, and then one right 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.039 early in their career. And I cannot unlock who that 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.039 is right now. But I just don't feel like the 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.159 success rate is super great. So I'm personally bummed for Paddock. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.440 I definitely had shares because he was dirt, dirt cheap, but. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:02.479 Yeah, what can you do? 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.640 And he looked pretty good when he got over in Minnesota, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.960 he's actually pitching well the Stray. 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.360 Yeah, they were working with him better. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.440 I mean, there's been a lot of criticism on the 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.320 Padres pitching coaches as of late, like especially with what 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.720 happened in the minors with Mackenzie Gore. They had multiple 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.600 DJ guys and you know, maybe the twins were doing 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.720 something right, but then. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.520 Sucks too late, too little, too late, unfortunately there and 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.640 it's one of my favorite Beck songs from the nineties 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.280 to Tommy John's and a Microphone, that's one of my favorites. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:31.840 Now you know what, I loved that one too. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.280 Mayor by the way, he pointed out Drew Rasmussen had 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.240 to Tommy Johns, so that's not relatively Yeah, I didn't either. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.559 That's a pretty good success story for him returning though. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.200 You know, guy can't hit ninety pitches. If literally a 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.360 comment was coming to earth and it required him to 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.480 go ninety they would be like, well, it's been a 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:49.880 good run. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.160 Well he's in the right place for that. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.560 So Chris Sawyer here, one of our panists, and Jack 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.040 Cracker Jacks has a question here, just traded Zach Gallon 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.880 and Alec Thomas for Brandon Woodrup and Lejandro Kirk at 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.200 a twelve team daily head to head points league. He 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.400 loves you, he says, he loves the Welsh. He would 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.800 like an input on this trade. What do you think 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.280 about this trade? Gallon and Alec Thomas. I'm assuming it's 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.680 redraft here, and I mean, look, you got Woodroff to 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.119 me in head to head points, especially if the points 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.400 favor of the pitching side. I'd always have Woodroff every 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:24.800 day of the week. I think he did pretty well 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.120 here in this trade. I think it's a good trade 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.360 for both sides, which is what you want at the 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:27.800 end of the day. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.720 Well did he get that? He got the Gallon and 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:31.480 Thomas side. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.480 Correct, he just just traded Gallon and Thomas for Woodroff. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.600 So gotwood got Youah. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.640 You know, it's actually funny. I was just looking at 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.280 the other day. I'm creating a sheet of just easy 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.880 finding stats and stuff. You know, sometimes you go down 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.480 the rabbit hole, you go on fan grafts, and you're 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.240 just like, well, I'm starting to find areas I want 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.240 and I'm saving them. And one of them was I've 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.720 been looking at pitchers that are successful through the first 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.920 three innings. So I'm sorting and splitting the first three 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.400 innings by innings five and six, just to kind of 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.520 take a look and see who pops. One of the 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.680 guys that's relatively alarming, I don't have it in front 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.720 of me is Brandon Woodruff, who had I believe top 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.120 five worst era in baseball innings four, five and six 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.840 right now and a really horrific Xome just kind of 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.880 gets destroyed second time through the lineup, which I agree 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.199 with you. I was surprised because there's names in there 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.720 you would kind of expect. I really should have tried 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.000 to pull this up. I didn't know we were going 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.960 to talk about him, but maybe yeah we can. And 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.880 that has me worried a little bit on Woodroff, on 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.680 the lack of success on the back end. We've seen 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.120 him get a little bit wonky and having that much 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.960 of a blown up ra innings four, five and six, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.720 you're talking about completed games. I wouldn't hate if you 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.280 had the Gallon side, to be honest with you, in 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.240 that trade, Woodroff is the best player in the trade, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.080 but Gallon has proven himself pretty solid this year. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.839 Better team for Woodroff, but. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.000 Alec Thomas is kind of a little bit of a dude. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.199 Kirk doesn't do much for me here, Thomas does a 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.679 little bit. I think it's a very even trade, if 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.040 you will, and that's what you want. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.480 You get the best play, but the other side gets 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.640 the best bulk, and that's a good trade. Everybody wins. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.400 Me personally, I always want the better player. That's the 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.360 RPV and me. By the way, he also when the 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.880 Penis and Cracker Jacks JP is trolling me. Two weeks 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.800 in a row, Joey p suggested a picture of pickup 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:15.520 and then they land on the IL. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:16.800 Yes, that's true. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.880 So it was a couple of weeks ago, and then 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.079 he had Tommy John and Jacob Deerzi last week. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.920 I said, look, pick him up two stars, let's go 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.280 why not car it on? And then the rest? 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:26.040 Who's your next one? 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.040 So somebody better put him in bubble wrap? Please love 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.760 a god. Can we put that guy in bubble wrap 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.520 and protect him? Let's go to uh some more about 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.240 can we talk about this? Albert Pools last night goes 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.920 in the top ten four hits in the history of 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.560 Major League Baseball at number thirty three thirteen thirty three fourteen, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.000 so he is now officially up there ahead of him. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:55.360 Still we have let's see, do you Carl Yastremsky, Paul Molliterter, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.959 Hannis Wagner. So it's a lot of famous names. Derek 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.040 is at number six, and I was scrolling through to 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.960 see where each hero was and this guy was like, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.120 I couldn't remember exactly how many eachi ro hits there 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:08.959 were in the major leagues. In the major leagues, he 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.240 had three thousand and eighty nine. 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.040 Hits in his major league career. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.200 Dude, it's an insurd and it started at the age 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.199 of twenty seven. I just want to play it out 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:18.319 for it. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.480 That was the thing that got me. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.960 Actually, it's funny because they were I was watching a 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.600 broadcast the other day and they were doing this bit 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.839 where they were like, they were talking about pool holes 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.680 and three thousand and they were saying, who are the 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.400 next guys that are going to be able to get there? 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.440 And they had shown you know, Awtuve is kind of 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.679 like thirty two years old, kind of close, and they 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.160 were talking about Machado and Machado's got like seventeen hundred 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.480 He's only twenty nine years old, and they're showing these 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.600 five guys who are on this list, like who could 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.640 be the next three thousand hitter, and they're kind of 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.080 arguing about it, and I had the same thing in 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.640 my head. I'm looking and I go, my god, each 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.360 Row at twenty seven reached three thousand hits, and we're 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.720 looking at these guys who have, at twenty nine years old, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.760 seventeen hundred and maybe they'll get there. I was two 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.040 years younger, and he did what Icha did was it's 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.000 one of those like hindsight type of things. We look 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.839 back and we're like, wow, he was incredible. He really 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:09.880 was well. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.439 And Mike Marriages threw up here that Eachiro had another 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.160 twelve hundred and seventy eight hits in Japan, which is 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.040 what I was alluding to. Next, the point is combined, 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.920 he's at forty three sixty seven, and a lot. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.480 Of people say, oh, it doesn't count. It was Japan. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.160 You came up at eighteen years old, this guy. Okay, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.120 so let's say take away the first eighty games. Let's 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.679 take away eighty hits or whatever he's got. Right after that, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.800 you got to realize the Japanese seasons. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.200 Are short by thirty games practically, so you know, he's 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.920 playing one hundred and thirty games, one hundred and thirty 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.560 five games, whatever he's doing here. So even with that, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.160 if he had been playing in Major League baseball since 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.760 the age of let's say twenty or twenty one, I 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.120 have almost zero doubt in my mind, barring a catastrophic injury, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.000 a fluke injury, that Eachiro wouldn't have the most hits 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:57.280 in the. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.240 History of baseball, and we'd look at him differently. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.520 When people say who's hit King, I know they say, well, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.559 Pete Rose, but I always say Echiro, And I think 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.120 it does matter professional baseball. You have a four thousand 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.720 hits in your career, and the people then make the 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.079 argument about, well, you know he's not facing, he's good 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.160 of pitching, all this stuff. That that argument doesn't hold 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.440 water because when the dude came over here, he broke 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.000 the single season hit record. So don't tell me about 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.160 how he couldn't hit major league pitching back now, of 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:21.840 course he could have. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.240 Yeah, I agree with you. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.319 I mean, I'm not going to count the the stuff 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.880 he got in Japan like as a totality and be 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.280 like he is the true I think he would have 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.760 been though, Like I'm what he did, They're awesome. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.400 When he thirty games in Japan every. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.360 Year, he would have done it for sure. I'm not 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.040 gonna look at him and go, oh, well, he is 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.959 the number one hit leader, because if I add those 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.720 two together, it is a bit of a different game. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.680 But I don't think it's as dramatic as people think. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.040 And regardless of the point, back to your point was 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.320 that had he been here from the jump, he would 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.640 probably have two or three hundred hits on Pete Rose 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.120 right now. And it is fascinating to look at, going 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.720 back to Poolholes for a second, that pool Holes is 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.240 definitely gonna get to ten. But the question is is 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.000 can he get past Honus Wagner. Is he gonna get 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.080 another one hundred hits? You know, because he's gonna get 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.480 to ten easy. He Gristremsky and Honus Wagner are within 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.719 one hit of each other. So if he can get there, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.600 it's either he gets to ten or he's eight. And 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.480 then there's a little bit of a shot at maybe 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.360 seven or something like that. That's as high as pool 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:26.160 Holes is gonna get. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.800 Trent here with some great stats here each wrote some 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.480 of the most off the wall stats of all time 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.080 baseball history. Two thousand hits in less than ten seasons, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.200 average two hundred and twenty hits in his first ten 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.520 major league baseball seasons. Just absolutely stunning there. Speaking of 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.960 stunning a crazy baseball stories, I saw this on the 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.960 internets yesterday. The Yankees cut third round pick Jake Sandford 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.520 for allegedly stealing bats and gloves from his teammates and 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.920 then trying to sell them online. He also allegedly scam 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.600 fan selling autographed equipment and never delivering it. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.080 I mean, is this the strictest story you've ever heard 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:57.360 of it? 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.280 I told you I'm actually gonna talk a little bit 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.440 about it on another show, Prospect One. But likes many 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.480 people know, I really like like autograph stuff. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.280 I got all this stuff here. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.800 I'm into memorabilia and I follow some groups. I had 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:14.280 actually seen this claim four ish months ago of people 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.880 being like, first it was, hey, Jake Samford is on 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.360 these groups saying he's gonna do his own signing because 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.200 people do private signs. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.600 I have a couple of friends promoter. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.200 Of those, like Julio's done one like if they do yeah, yeah, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:26.160 people they come in. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.600 Yeah, like the yeah agents they cut deals and these 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.360 guys they put these signs where you can send in 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.240 and get st the autograph. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.520 So he was doing like his own and people like, hey, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:34.040 check this out. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.840 Da da da, And then all of a sudden, people 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.160 started being like, hey, Samford is scamming people. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.600 He's not doing it. And I kind of watched it 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.200 from afar and I was like, this is really interesting. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.000 And then it came out that he was not only 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:47.200 scamming fans, he was like stealing teammates stuff. This is 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.240 a third round pick who had a really good year 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.680 last year, who got a signing bonus, and people really 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.320 like he was stealing these guys stuff, and he was 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.440 like going out and putting it on eBay or whatever 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.920 the hell he was doing. This is wild. This is wild. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.560 He got a big signing bonus too. I don't understand it. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.800 It's a crazy story. I would love to like read 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.440 twelve more articles about what. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:07.920 The hell is going on. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.040 And by the way, he just signed with the Ottawa 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.200 Frontiers Baseball League, Like he deleted all his social media 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.120 and stuff and then he went and signed and is 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.800 playing you know, out of the States. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:19.880 Now, what a weird thing. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:20.240 To do. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.240 I mean, she's I don't know, so strange. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.400 All right, let's get to some of the stat heroes 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.440 of the day. Obviously Nick Pivetta at the top of 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.800 the list of pitchers. Who would have thought that against 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.320 the Astros eight k's no walks stunning, a complete game 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.840 for him. Zach Wheeler was very good yesterday. Nine k's 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.480 no walks for him, no earned seven innings. So Zach 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.400 Wheeler clearly has found himself again. Do you think it 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.040 was the shoulder at the beginning of the season and 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:45.960 having that delay? 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:47.400 Was that the problem? 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.440 Or I mean, do you think maybe it was just 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.400 a fluky start to the season. What do you make 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.280 of the early struggles of Wheeler and now Wheeler looking 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.280 very reminiscent of the guy who was dominating last year. 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:58.480 I think it was Inurie stuff. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.000 If you remember, I have a vivid memory of the 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.639 injuries in the preseason because in taut he had he 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.679 had just gotten hurt, and there was this kind of 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.239 like interim period of was he going to really be 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:10.840