WEBVTT - Leading Off April 15th, 2025 (Ep. 976) 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.600 What is up, Friendles, and welcome in too, Fantasy pros MLB. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.160 This is leading often. I am the Welsh and we've 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.280 got a Joe, but we don't got the Joe that 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.800 you think you know. We got Joe Rico. No Joe 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.080 Pieza Pia. He is an out jet flying out here 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.040 to Phoenix as we speak. Joe Rico pinch hitting for 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.080 a ton this week, and we literally could not have 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.080 a better Joe. Some might even say a Joe upgrade, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.680 mister Joe Rico, what's up, buddy? 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.960 It shouldn't be too different for the crowd, you know. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.840 It's an Italian guy named Joe. I'm not quite bald 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.479 like piece of pa yet, but I'm on my way there. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.200 That's why I always got this cap on my head. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.599 So pretty soon we're gonna start resembling each other more 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.920 and more. But it's great to get to fill in 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.479 with you, my friend. It's always good. And we get 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.280 to do pods together. I mentioned it last year, but 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:48.879 I think you and I I've done more pods with 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.800 you than anybody else I think in the space. So 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.519 we got a bit of a shorthand it should be 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.480 fun the two of us getting to reconnect this week. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.600 Yeah, two best friends back in it. And as you 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.240 get a little bit older, I'm feeling the age right now. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.880 We a week from today, I'm gonna be my Jackie Robinson. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.320 My birthday is a week from today, and I'm feeling 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.040 the age coming in. But like as you get older, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.119 it'll be very interesting if you're you know, around here, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.319 we'll get to see the transformation as you become a 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.920 version of Joe Piezapa. Maybe, but your hair is too lockey. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.240 It looks too good, and we've got too much good 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.200 baseball to cover today. We are gonna be hitting a 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.280 bunch of it. We've got injuries, we've got some big performances, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.040 We've got bets in tow and we are going to tackle. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.800 We are going to tackle a player that even if 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.480 you question at all, if there's something wrong, that everybody 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.280 will hold against you for a long time. Joe, we 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.480 are gonna do an r you worry to know. It 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.440 is not gonna be Garrett Crochet, but we've got a 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.679 version of that here in a little bit. We got 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.520 all the stuff in the thing. So thank you guys 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.760 for hanging out with us, and make sure you are 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.960 locked in on the twitch side. 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How about Fernando 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.840 Tatis junior Homer twice drove in three runs as the 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.600 Padres they beat the Cubs ten to four. We got 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.639 bad Cubs news yesterday. Let's start with Fernando Tatis for 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.360 a minute. We had kind of briefly talked about we 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:40.720 don't need to go nuts on this, but we had 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.160 briefly talked about how that injury scared with the shoulder. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.160 Wondered if that would carry over for some people. He's 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.919 right back in it, He's going ballistic. Everything feel good. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.720 Or do you feel at all there's a selish high 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.000 type of situation because you know that shoulder is looming. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.960 Worries me a little bit, especially with his track rack. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.160 But if you're selling him, it better be for like 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.680 the number one type of player, or you're getting a 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.960 package of like a first and the second round player. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.280 Tatis could do this season if he stays healthy what 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.280 Acuona did a couple of years back. Maybe not quite 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.680 to the same extent, but that massive blow up MVP 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.200 type of season where he hits forty and steals forty 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.000 and hits three twenty. That's very much within the range 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.720 of outcomes for Tattoos this year. So if you are worried, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.400 if you do want to get off of him, make 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.320 sure you're getting back like another first round like if 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.480 you're getting Bobby Wit or something. Okay, but it has 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.520 to be literally like pretty much that high for me. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.000 Yeah, I feel like to me, what that is is 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.240 like nah, like we're good, Like I'm not gonna do it. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.960 That's kind of where I stand with it. When when 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.440 it's like you know, oh, you got to get the 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.320 top end, I'm not sure anybody's trading for that. But 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.600 he is you know, absolutely going ballistic on the Homer 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.080 and the stolen based marker. I think he's been great. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.520 I'm holding into it because I think it's just a 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.320 tier down. It's the only thing you're gonna get. You're 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.880 not gonna get a I mean, Carol would be impossible. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.280 But you know, you could float around in to the 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.160 underperforming market if you want. But Fernando Tatis continues to 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.080 absolutely roll as well. We saw a very clean shaven 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.320 Dylan Cees. He looked very weird. Maybe everybody was doing this, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.359 I'm not one hundred percent sure, but he Everyone was like, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.279 he looks like somebody. He looks like somebody. He looked 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:24.279 like Dylan Ceese is any if you've watched what is it? 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.719 If you've watched Severance? He literally looked like the any 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.880 version of Dylan ces to me, have you seen that 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:30.599 show Severance? 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.880 I haven't seen it. It's on the list. But the 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.360 one that I saw people saying was that he looked 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.360 like pee Alonzo. I saw a lot of people saying 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.760 in the different comment sections like Alonzo, I didn't really 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.880 see it. That's the common one I saw. I was 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.800 just kind of wondering, like, why did he have this 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.360 huge beard like Dylan Cees. He's a fine looking guy. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.080 Why is he trying to cover up all that with 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.560 this huge, massive beard. I don't know, but he looks good. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.760 He's like, he's kind of like a weird Like I 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.039 don't call him weird, he's just a different dude. He's like, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.000 I mean to get yoga and I'm gonna get in there. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.719 And he goes the mustache, he goes full beard, shaved 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.480 it off, but he looked like whatever that guy Adam 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.000 Scott or whatever. But he literally looked like the dude 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.200 from Severance. And it's been tripping me out. But I 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.440 believe Michael King didn't interview during and said he might 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.400 bring the mustache backs. We might get mustache version of 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.760 Dylan Cees back. But he did go five and two thirds. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.279 He allowed three runs, but he had some punch outs 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.640 in there. He gave up seven hits and he gave 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.359 up a home to Michael Bush we talked about in 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.120 the last episode. So Michael Busch still definitely in the 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.200 pickup range. Fourteen swing and missus seven strikeouts for Dylan 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.240 ce Swan Soto. Of course, we got to mention a 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.640 Wan Sodo even though PZP is not here. Hit a 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.760 second homer on Monday as the Mets beat the Twins 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.680 five to one, but Clay Holmes. Clay Holmes got the 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.720 win loud two hits, walked to struck out eight. He 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.600 has been like weirdly he's dealt with efficiency issues because 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.080 he was kind of not efficient early on in the 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.600 last start, and then he just went punchy, punchy, and 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.600 he was heavy on the punch outs in this one. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.240 Early takeaways on Clay Holmes is he moving in to 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.400 poor man's Michael King from last year at all? To 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:03.560 you do you trust him? 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.960 I don't know what the hell to make of him. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.400 Like those first couple of starts for the two against 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.800 the Marlins, in particular, he didn't look very good, Like 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.400 there was a couple of good innings that he had. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.599 In the second Marlin start, I tweeted out like I'm 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.760 done with Clay Holmes, and then right away he struck 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.520 out like seven straight batters. But he'll do this on 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.480 and off thing where he looks like an ace for 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.320 a couple of innings and then he'll look terrible for 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.679 a couple of innings. And I think that the true 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.400 number is probably somewhere in between. You know, the era 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.480 for Clay Holmes right now is looking pretty good. A 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.080 lot of the times I like to look at whip 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.559 to kind of give me idea of what to expect 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.200 going forward. It's at one forty seven right now. Is 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.520 it going to be that bad consistently? Probably not, But 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.440 he's a one thirty one career whip, So I don't 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.400 really know what to make of Clay Holmes. A strikeout 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.719 seem legit, but so do the walks. I think he's 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.000 gonna be kind of an up and down, inconsistent kind 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.760 of maybe not a mess this year, but there'll be 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.920 starts where he goes six innings and strikes out twelve, 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.680 and there'll be starts where he can't get out of 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.360 the third inning and he's walked four batters, and it's 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.760 gonna just kind of be that back and forth. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.320 Yeah, I kind of agree with you on that. I'm 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.720 I think the consistencies could kind of hone in and 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.760 I don't think there's gonna be any like streamer stuff 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.680 in it. There's a little part of me that's like, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.200 would you take like, okay, like right here, this is 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.520 perfect example, perfect timing from The Great Wonky Penguin saying 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.640 I traded Clay Homes for Louise Robert over the weekend. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.400 Last night didn't feel great. But that trade specifically probably 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.280 feels a little weird because Robert's, you know, been underperforming, 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.600 He's only stealing bases, and Clay Holmes went out. But 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.800 do you take a guy like do you take these 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.240 inconsistent guys like a Clay Holmes and you try to 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.160 trade on the high wind he's coming. I mean, what 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.560 is it, eighteen strikeouts our last two starts. So if 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.840 you have the opportunity to do that, I think I 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.880 might because I agree with you. I think there's gonna 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.840 be some inconsistencies where it's going to be. Here's a five, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.120 you know, five earned run gamer. He goes four on 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.120 this one because this is a reliever transitioning over. But 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.560 then he's gonna have these big, big strikeout games. That 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.760 whole you know, that sweep with a sweeper slider combo 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.560 or supercutter combo that he's got has definitely been doing 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.400 some good business. So Clay Holmes for Louise Robert, and 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:00.520 you don't like that. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.200 I kind of like the lou Bob side. I mean, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.240 I'm still kind of defaulting. We mentioned this on Cleaning 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.760 Up last week. I'm still generally defaulting to the draft 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.800 day values. I don't think that enough has changed for 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.440 a lot of these guys that you can make drastic 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.760 differences within Like fourteen fifteen games, Luis Robert was a 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.920 top hundred pick, Clay Holmes was going generally like eighty 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.000 ninety picks later. I think if you can get off 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.320 of homes and get lou Bob back, I think you're 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.760 doing pretty well. Like, yeah, he hasn't been impressive. If 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.440 you look at the batting average at one sixty three, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.880 but you've got a homer six Dolen bases the barrel 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.760 rates at eleven percent. I think lou Bob is gonna 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.560 be okay, especially if he does get dealt so I 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.840 would take that trade. Personally. I think Walkee did well. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.200 There, and I'm a Robert guy too, like in the 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.560 defense of it, like Bee said, need Robert trade rumors 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.439 to get going. There was a rumor the other day. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.920 I don't know if you saw that. It was over 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.839 the weekend the Dodgers and the White Sox had paused 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.480 trade talks for Robert and it's like okay, like you know, 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.080 put him on the Dodgers and its next level style. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.040 I mean those two teams they share a complex. I 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.360 don't know people know this. They share a spring training 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.520 complex that is just to each other. So it's very 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.800 kind of incestuous of like you know, the organizations that 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.880 they can like walk between and talk and they'll have 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.480 these trades in between that. I mean, the Dodgers have 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.719 the prospects to do it, so we'll see if that 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.960 ends up actually happening. But they put some pause talks 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.920 in next month or so. That's got a heat up. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.880 So that's one of those little advantages of going and 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.520 trading for Luis Robert Junior. Camanaro went two for five 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.040 with a solo homer two RBIs as the Rays destroid 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.400 the Red Sox absolutely murder Bauld the Red Sox, which 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.120 we're going to talk about here in just a tiny bit. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.480 What an embarrassing game, almost, Like here's the only cap, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.600 the only thing that worked well for me. As stupid 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.040 as I was yesterday in thinking that the Blue Jays 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.840 could win a game with Easton Lucas him getting blown 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.600 out was only overshadowed by how bad the Red Sox were. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.080 To me, it was a little bit because you know, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.960 we'll talk about Tanner Hawk, but like you know, had 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.839 I bet on Tanner Hawk would have only been a 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.200 a little bit more stupid. But Junior Cameronaro continues to roll, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.920 speaking of the young guys. Christian Campbell two for three 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.840 with a solo homer on Monday for the Rays. I 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.440 saw this yesterday. This is actually moved a little bit. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.640 I want to get your take on it. Christian Campbell 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.960 had been kind of holding Rookie of the Year odds. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.320 He's been the best rookie. Funny enough, NL is like 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.520 a disaster. It's wide open. It's still rookie Sazaki. He 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.760 hasn't been good, Dylan Cec hasn't been good, Matt Shaw 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.240 has not been good. That's your top three in the NL. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.880 So it is open. If you want to go into 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.320 the NL side and bet a Bubba Chandler or something, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.400 or bet anyone low. There's great odds. The AL has 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.400 been a firmly grabbed by Christian Campbell before yesterday's homer, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.440 though there was a new AL Rookie of the Year 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.440 odds on winter. As of today, they're just about even. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.679 We're looking over on FanDuel, which, by the way, you 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.800 guys want to make a bet, you can do that 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.079 with our Fantasy Pros. We got a code there. I 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.800 think it's Fantasypros dot Com slash lee eat off bet 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.520 five bucks, win two hundred on your first bet using 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.520 fandle go and check it out today and you can 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:10.120 check out this offer that Christian Campbell is the odds 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.480 on favorite as of today at plus one nineties to 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.280 just about two to one. But Jacob Wilson has roared 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.720 into this dude two thirty and he was the leader 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.000 yesterday and he had it for a couple of Gays days. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.400 So I get your take on this, Jacob Wilson, Do 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.720 you think he's like a viable Rookie of the Year 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.560 candidate over Christian Campbell? You think Campbell's gonna rock this? 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.720 Like would you bet? Would you want to bet Jacob 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.360 Wilson in this? 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.400 I think I'd want a little bit better than plus 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.040 two thirty if I was gonna be betting Jacob Wilson. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.240 I think that Campbell, considering he plays in the sexier market, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.520 he's gonna put up the bigger stats like he could 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.280 go twenty twenty or something like that, where Wilson he 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.640 might hit three thirty, he might win, potentially could win 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.720 a batting title. But I feel like Campbell is the 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.720 guy the voters would appeal more to, considering the market, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.520 considering what the numbers are probably gonna look like. I 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.959 love both of them for fantasy. I drafted a ton 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.120 of Wilson, but I think Rookie of the Year. If 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:07.679 I was gonna betting him for Rookie the Year, I'd 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.800 want at least five or six to one plus two thirty. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.160 I just don't think it's long enough for me. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.760 Yeah, I'm not really touching any of it. I mentioned 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.520 before I got Campbell preseason seven and a half to one, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.760 and I felt pretty good about it. I think Campbell's 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.600 gonna kind of roll with this, but there's a lot 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.560 of good odds. Funny Nick Kurtz, who we talk about 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.000 on the show every day. Nick Kurtz is already seven. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.600 He's seven and a half to one right now because 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.280 and he hasn't even come up. But Campbell's kind of 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.120 running away with this. But Jacob Wilson, the betting market, 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.120 that's the other thing just to throw out is Obviously 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.079 it's speculation, but you know, pay a touch to the 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.840 betting markets in fantasy that the belief on Jacob Wilson, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.760 on his ability to make contact, his ability to not 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.840 strike out. It's great and the betting market absolutely sees it, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.840 and they are buying Jacob Wilson and he has moved up. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.800 Here is a time to pick up question for you. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.120 I believe the answer is yes. But let's see you. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:01.640 Cameron Meisner. He homered twice on Monday, that blowout, absolute blowout. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.960 Now in the year, hitting four hundred, he's got three 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.319 homers of stolen base going into today. Looking at our 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.200 consensus odds between ESPN and Yahoo, four percent owned on 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.679 Cameron Meisner. Betting are the hitting profile looks really solid. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.320 They're also putting him in some premium spots to hit. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:19.840 I think he was sitting like four or five. I mean, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.760 he's just moving up really high in the lineup. He's 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.480 hitting the ball well. They've got some open space in 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.440 the outfield and both him and Mangham have really held 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.439 that back. But what do you think, Cameron Meisner? I say, yes, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.679 he is not the must must pickup, but you should 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.920 if you can find a way in twelve and fifteen, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.600 You should do it, What say you on Meisner? 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.840 Yeah, I'm I'm game. The thing with those shallow formats 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.080 is like I still see Lars Nubar and Junghu Lee 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.359 on a bunch of waiver wires like a three outfielder, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.120 twelve team league. It's probably a little bit difficult to 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:51.719 squeeze him in there. But I think if you have 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.360 a space on your roster the needs replacing, maybe you've 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.600 still held on to Josh Lowe hoping for the best there, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.520 move on pick up Meisner because if you look at 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.040 the minor league numbers, they're really solid. He's a guy 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.079 that kind of flew under the radar, but he's put 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.760 up some twenty twenty seasons. In twenty twenty three and 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.200 then twenty twenty four, he went for seventeen and thirty 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.480 decent batting average. Nothing crazy, like he's not gonna hit 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.680 in four hundred anything close to it. He's probably gonna 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.040 be like a two twenty two thirty hitter, but he 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.000 might hit seventeen eighteen home runs, and you know, the 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.160 outside chance here is that he goes twenty twenty, especially 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.240 in that ballpark. So I think if you have space, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.080 you can you can definitely take a shot on him. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.200 I just think it's kind of hard in those shallow leagues. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.360 You're in a ten team, three outfielder league, it's kind 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:32.440 of hard to get him in the lineup. But I 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.880 do what you can in twelve teamers. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.120 So here's a couple of questions. Friedel, as you mean 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:39.160 Friedel or Meisner. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.200 I'd probably still go with Freedel. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.240 It's close. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:42.880 I don't know. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.720 I might go Meisner on there, Meisner or Jordan Walker. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.640 I would take Jordan Walker, so I would. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.480 Also take Walker. But I will say this in ten 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.840 team leagues, I think Freedom and Walker are both cuttable. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.560 Excuse me that I would be. And then like this 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.840 one with Holiday, I would also go with Holiday. But 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 inten team leagues, when guys are struggling, I think picking 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.960 up like a hot bat like Meisner would make a 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.480 lot of sense. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.960 Yeah, I think it's it's it's it makes sense in 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.360 the train and burn in those in those formats. Just 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.960 you gotta be careful, right, Like the line with Walker 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.840 and Friedel is probably fine, But if it's anybody, because 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.600 Walker has been pretty good. A couple homers, a couple 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.320 of steels decent batting average, like he hasn't been bad, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.520 so I think I'd need to be a little bit 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.760 careful about who I'm cutting for him. But I think 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.800 that line is probably fine if you're just churning in 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.680 the hottest guy off the wire every week. I don't 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:32.560 have a big problem with that. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:38.320 Yeah, like gam And said Meisner, yeahs I go with situation. Yeah, okay, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.040 so you're you're kind of with it. Funny that game, though, 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.960 by the way, absolutely blowout. And has pointed out the 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.960 universe punishing Mayor in his Red Sox because of the 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:52.200 rant on me yesterday, which is so this is funny. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.040 So and Mayor was saying, I don't think I appreciated it. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.360 The welshvid. My take on this has been the same 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.280 thing for me, for anybody I've talked to you that's 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.200 asked about it. The concept was funny, the execution was 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.360 not because of the player, like Mayor did deserve to 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.360 be punished on that. To pick on me about Garrett 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.640 Crochet was the most ll not l but LOL thing. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.440 I was just stunned by it. So the execution of 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.760 the player, you should have picked on me about Easton 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.600 Lucas for today, do a video you should have picked 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.480 on me about Robert Suarez. I'll take some l's, but 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.280 that one was stupid in nature because it was like 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.400 the player. I wouldn't shut the hell up about the 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.920 whole season. So let's pick on Joe Rico. That's where 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.640 we're That's what the whole thing is leading to. Let's 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.920 say if we can pick on Joe Rico with an 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.160 are we worried? So Joe? How it works here on 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.800 the show, So you might in a week be getting 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.360 a video yelling at you from Mike mayor if you 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.560 express any worries. So just be careful about this. In 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.520 the preseason, I don't know what your U which your 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.280 rank ended up being, as far as like what the 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.320 draft ended, I know you've kind of moved it around. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.600 You're very open about Jacob de Grom and how much 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.439 you love Jacob d Gram, at one point calling him 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.800 the number one sp in the market. So are we 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.840 worried about Jacob de Gram at all? He's got a 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.200 four to three ERA in fourteen innings. I don't remember 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.040 the last time I saw this. He has less strikeouts 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.080 than innings pitched. And we're not talking about one game. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.280 His walk rate is almost ten percent right now, and 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.000 more importantly than anything else, his velo is down. His 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.240 fastball and his slider both down about a mile per hour. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.200 But they said they want to baby some stuff. There's 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.600 definitely the possibility that, you know, he is tapering stuff 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.240 down for health at the end of the year, and 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:43.800 he's throwing a little bit more of a change up. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.680 So my question to you is, are you worried about 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.479 Jacob de Gramm in any way where he is a 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.840 cell or maybe he's a bye. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:57.800 Yeah, I'm worried. I I messed up a little bit, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.719 probably ranking him as high as I did. But at 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.920 the same time, we're talking about three starts. We're talking 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.760 about early April, and we see it every year. There's 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.040