WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 8th, 2023 (Ep. 664) 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.160 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB. This is Leading 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.360 Off Live, brought to you by price Bix. Sign up 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:14.960 today for prize picks and use that promo code leading 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.240 Off when you do. I'm Joey p That of course 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.520 is the Welsh and it's you, and we're talking all 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:24.720 things fantasy baseball, wagering in baseball, just baseball stuff and 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.040 obviously a lot to get to from the weekend's action 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.280 and a lot of maneuvering. More young players on the 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.080 horizon making their debuts. He had a little bla day. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.839 He had some nervous in between. Urvos is just a 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.800 fun word to say. I just I can't say nervous enough. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.840 It's just a good time, Welsh. You know what else 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.839 was a good time Guardians of the Galaxy three. No 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.480 spoilers out there, We're not gonna spoil. I was so pleased, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.440 Jubjub baby, big time, Jubjub. I was so pleased with it. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.320 It's very rare. I have the high expectations for a 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.520 movie and I go in and I was actually happier 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.320 than I thought I was going to even be. Welsh 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.960 texted me, He's like, how good was this, and I said, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.520 I know. It was really the highlight of the weekend 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:04.760 for me. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.480 Yeah, and one hundred percent the highlight of the weekend 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.039 for me. Everything else can suck it, get done with 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.040 it. It is definitely all about that. It was a great movie. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.880 Lots of tear jerking stuff and just like normal great 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.240 you know, Guardian stuff. So it's the Marvel movies always 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.840 get me. And I loved it and I had a 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.280 great time. I mean, I had to meet it because 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.720 I saw you post something and I was like, no, Joe, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.399 and I was like it was before I went to 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.240 the movie. I'm like, nope, I'm not getting you have 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.720 to say. And then I text you immediately after the 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:36.360 movie because. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.080 I was not going. I was I would never spoyl. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.760 I don't like people who do that stuff. I remember 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.520 years ago somebody ruined The Force Awakens the Han Solo dying, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.080 and I was like, what kind of jerk are you? Like? 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.800 It literally opened yesterday, Like what is your problem? 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.440 He's like one guy who hasn't seen it yet, Like, Joe, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:53.880 what are you doing? 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:56.680 What it was? The day it was? The day it happened. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.120 It was like the day came out right now, I'm 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.720 saying though, but yeah, yeah, I know. I mean, it's 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.520 just like, you know, and I don't even know what 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.480 became of that guy. He'sn't even in the industry anymore. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.600 And that's why an industry guy. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.480 Yeah, I was like, what was. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.520 This like when I remember when Lashawn McCoy it. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.359 Was similar to the endgame? Yeah, but I mean that 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:15.880 was like, I mean, I think we all kind of 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.200 knew that's where things were going. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.560 What's a guy's name rhyme with I honestly, I don't even. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.880 Remember his name. I have to go back and remember 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.799 what it was. But he was a pretty big deal 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.679 at one point. Not as big a deal as also, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.560 of course. So let's get to the baseball. Let's and 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.600 go see Guardian's Volume three. It's great, you'll laugh, you'll cry, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.440 amazing soundtrack, fantastic. You know what else is fantastic? Bryce Miller, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.480 damn it. He's good. Six scoreless sittings on Sunday and 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.240 a win over the Astros. That is not easy. We 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.560 talked about this is going to be a tougher test 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.919 for Bryce Miller, and he passed. He's got fifteen strikeouts 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.760 in one walk over his first twelve innings. Not too shabby. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.360 Batting average against through those two starts point one zero three. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.320 Talk to me, Bryce Miller. This second start was like 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.880 a big key to me, except there's still something that 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.919 just like jumps out to us. So he was phenomenal. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:11.160 But he was all fastball, seventy one percent fastball every 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 single whift. This wasn't a big whiff game. So it's 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.680 something to consider astros, but something to consider. All eight 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.800 whifts came off of his fastball. But check out this 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.440 mind boggling number. Thirty seven swings off of that fastball. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.360 That's a crazy number. Just in general, he had fifty 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:31.240 one swings off of eighty five pitches thrown. That's crazy. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.120 That is to the point my buddy Joe Doyle has 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.160 brought this out that is like Spencer Strider esque in 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.560 how he's doing it. I still hate that it's all fastball, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.920 but this start, baseball spot was able to reclassify the 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.440 cutter back into a slider. He threw that nineteen percent 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:46.920 of the time. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.280 It was pretty good. 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:49.120 It's hard. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:50.240 It like bites hard. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.160 The fastball has a lot of vertical movement. He's throwing 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.280 that sweeper just a tiny bit that was that whole 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.400 gyro and sweeper thing he's trying to do. So I 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.720 guess my big question overall is and end up being 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.560 like how effective can a dominant fastball player be in 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.720 the long term. We saw Eric lower do it last year. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.880 He had one of the best fastball strikeout rates and 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.600 two tapered back, and I don't know how this is 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.560 going to taper back. He's still learning to throw a 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.440 third pitch. I mean, essentially, twenty eight percent of his 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.600 non fastballs were a version of a slider, and he's 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.440 still learning to throw one of those. So I do 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.120 think there's some bumps in the road. But that fastball 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.040 is an elite freaking pitch. Even though it had only 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.960 a twenty two percent swinging strike rate in the twenty 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.039 seven CSW, it's because guys were just swinging at it 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.200 every single time, and whether he was missing bats or 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.320 not giving up hits, he did it again. He's kind 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.440 of crazy, and he went for in some places in 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.080 NFBC this weekend over three hundred and fab I missed 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.240 out on him. I put around what was it like, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.680 two fifteen, and he went for two. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.560 I'm surprised you didn't have him like three weeks ago. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:56.800 Knowing your Brice Miller. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.440 Right, I know I do have him. I did have 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.680 him in my auto keeper leg, but I didn't have 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.480 him in in TGFBI or any of the NFBC stuff. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.560 Here's a question for you, wh would rather have rest 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.040 of season Max Sures or a Bryce. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:13.000 Miller ah Man. I mean, like I'll easily quickly answer 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.839 with Max Scherzer, just because there's a bigger than a 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.000 fastball Arsenal. But I hate the raw. I don't know 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.440 how bad this rosen thing is. I mean, I'm kind 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.680 of intrigued to see where kind of play a role 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.320 in it, but I would go with Suerser. But I 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:27.960 get what you're doing. I get where you're at. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.320 Here's a question here, and I just made a trade 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.880 for this guy, so I don't want to I want 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.520 to get Welsh's take on this one too. Elie de 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.000 la Cruz is from Razor Ramone. He's stashing him right 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.839 now because he doesn't want to miss out. I know 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.839 it hasn't been like Gangbusters for him so far in 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.440 Triple A, but he was absolutely lighting up the last 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.720 two levels of the minor leagues. Elie dela Cruz. Do 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.359 you think we see him in twenty twenty three with 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:48.560 the Reds or you think you get a full year 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:49.440 in the minors from him? 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.280 Yeah, I know. I think you could see him this 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.880 year in the Reds. Will it be impactful to your 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.640 season this year? No, I don't think so. I think 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.599 this is more probably closer to a September cop. You 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.839 still got Matt McClain see And I think Matt McClain 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.960 puts a wrinkle in this because, like you said, Ellie 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.680 hasn't been dominant. Matt McClain has been crazy good. I 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.560 think they want to see what they have Adam McClain. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.240 They're gonna want to see what they have at a 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.039 Christian and Carnel shan Strand those are two hitters. You've 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.720 also got Nowelvie. I don't know if Nowelvie would jump Ellie. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.680 I don't think so. But I just don't think they're 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.839 gonna make that big push because if you bring it, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.239 when you do bring up McClain, where are you gonna 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.159 put Ellie? Immediately? You could put him at third. Ellie 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.240 he's been playing third in the minors. So yes, I 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.440 think so. I just don't think it's gonna be like 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.240 half of a season and vuying for like some Rookie 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:32.720 of the Year odds or anything like that. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.919 All right, let's keep going with the headlines from the weekend. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.000 Right after the show, it seemed like like later in 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.200 the afternoon on Friday, we got this news that Wilson 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.440 Gatreros wasn't gonna play catcher anymore, and he's not gonna 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.839 play outfield either, So I mean that kind of puts 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.520 him in a weird bond. Now he's gonna clog up 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.400 the DH spot. What the hell's going on? Why did 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.200 you sign Wilson Gatres if he didn't want to be 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.799 a catcher. He's thirty years old. What were the Cardinals 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.599 thinking about here? This one? This is so perplexing to me. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:56.920 So what do you make of this? Well? 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.200 I make that this is gonna be a new manager 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:00.000 in the near future. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.839 Marma started to feel like that Marma is to lose 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.000 disaster if. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.720 And what I'm curious about is is it like this 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.760 is like a whole management team of like succession. I 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.000 think behind the scenes, it's running this team, but like 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.920 do they all agree? Do they all agree like what 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.800 they're doing is right? Brendan Donovan. They keep just like 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.880 throwing out there. Jordan Walker is a mess. Their pictures 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.000 are a mess. The Wilson Trere stuff is embarrassing. I 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.520 read it like four times and I was like, I 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.560 don't know what's happened. I don't understand what I understand 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.760 me those are not gonna. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.200 This just pissed me right the hell off, because Jordan 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.000 Walker is the guy that we want to carve out 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.440 more app ats for and now we're base I mean, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.200 this is a problem for me because now you have 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.920 really buried him on the step shot. If if Contreras 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.600 an everyday d H, then you're really kind of limiting 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.520 yourself to what's going on here with the rest of 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.040 the second base situation. In the outfield situation, you're not 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.360 I mean, Arnado is gonna play third base. It's not 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.080 like Walker's gonna third. So it's a weird here. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.160 You know what's trippy about it too. I think I'm 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.640 not a big hole like you know, like ooh, manager 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.600 has to take you know, the not even say baseball manager, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.800 like in real life work and stuff, manager has to 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.040 be responsible for everybody else. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.000 In fact, I take way too much heat for what 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.440 the greed we don't do. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.960 But in this situation, this is the most asinine ever 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.200 because you had an off season, you had spring training, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.040 you had the beginning of the year, and then what 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.960 in May, You're just like, yeah, this catch is not working, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.880 Like you have to make this work. This is what 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.360 he's here to do. This is a catcher who's been 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.040 catching for a long time, and you publicly go out 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.880 and be like, hey, this doesn't work and that he's 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.960 not calling the right stuff, Like how do you let 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.880 this happen? It's total incompetence and it really just like it, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.880 I don't know. It takes away all the trust and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.000 whatever this roster management's going to be. So whatever we 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.600 think we know, we don't know Jack. We don't know 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.679 Jack what this team's going to do because they're wild cards. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.280 Man, not good. Speaking of a fantasy wildcard, how about 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.880 a lay him in? Is well? She like he hit 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.480 a couple of home runs, things looked like they were 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:56.800 going in the right direction, that all of a sudden, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.040 out of the blue on the weekend, he's got a 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.000 side pain goes in and it's an appendect to me, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.920 So he's gonna be out now. Four to six weeks 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.280 to recover. And this is another one. And I started 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.320 to do some research on this, and I did it 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:09.920 over the weekend because I had the Sunday Show and 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.400 I was I can't believe how many MLB players have 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:18.240 had appendicitis. I read something interesting which was talking about, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.400 you know, possibly linking it to people who bite their 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.880 fingernails because of all the bacteria, because basically it's a 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.959 bacterial issue that happens inside your body. I did a 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.280 little homework. I did a little web MD about the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.280 appendicitis and all that's. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.840 More pictures than would maybe have it because of like 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.280 nail grooming and stuff like that. 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.959 Well, but maybe nail rooming going on as opposed to 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.800 sitting out there on the oilfield and biting your nails 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:39.760 or whatever. Are you. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.760 Are you legit saying like nail biting is the cause. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.120 Of I'm not saying it. I'm saying is there's some 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.760 discussion about that. There's some discussion about obviously people who 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.800 dip or eat a lot of you know, seeds or 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.160 other things like that. There there's really no like one 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.040 specific cause, but they have found things for certain people, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.440 like I should say, reoccurring fet in people, but there's 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.760 no definitive yet medical evidence. But I thought it was 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.880 fascinating because the appendix is that's something we need to 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.439 live with. But it's something that if you go back, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.280 you'll get Matt Holliday Ada, I'm done. You go back 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.319 and look at Francisco Lindoor last year. Literally every year, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.120 I feel like we get two or three appendectomies in 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.199 Major League Baseball. And I don't know if I've ever 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.360 known a human being in my life that has had 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.160 appendicitis and has had an appendectamy. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.600 Do you know what, No, I don't think. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.360 So that's a good at least three of these. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.080 Isn't it weird we have multiple organs that like we 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.640 just don't need you know what I mean, Like you 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.800 don't need an appendix, you don't need a gallbladder. Like 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.679 why do we have a I know what they do 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.400 and stuff like that, but you just don't need them. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.640 That's so weird that we have that. And why is 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.400 that one? I don't see gall bladder issues. I guess 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:42.559 that's more probably like a. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.480 I don't know, but I just thought, but here the thing, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.400 at the end of the day, it's another one. Now 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.800 we're going to miss Eliam Henez So four to six weeks. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.720 This team is already buried. I think the White Sox, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.120 I mean they're almost ten games under five hundred. They're buried. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.600 I think they're done. The White Sox were smart, they 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.640 would start unloading everything and they you know, to their credit, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.840 they they had the right plan. Sign the young players 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.560 you have in your system, international signings, do all the 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.400 right things. And at the end of the day, Robert 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.920 can't run to first base, he gets pulled from games. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:14.920 You can't blame it on the manager anymore because he 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.880 changed managers. Laya manace can't say on the field. Lanceline 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.280 looks like you know he is. I mean, yesterday was better, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.360 but it is. If I'm the White Sox, I just 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.640 start moving pieces. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.280 Yeah, I'm not gonna do it. They're not gonna do 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:29.839 it for at least of money. You won't see them 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.800 do anything. Liam Hendrix is coming back. They're gonna celebrate that, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.120 and they're gonna try to keep winning. They've buried all 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.360 their prospects for guys like Hands or Alberto. I mean, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.199 that's not gonna happen. They are going to fight tooth 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.280 and nail until they get appendicitis and they are going 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.040 to try to win these games and they're not gonna 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.880 sell off. And that's what's wild. That's what's so wild 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.720 about this whole situation. They ain't gonna do it. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.640 Yeah, I mean, it's just crazy. There's another one here, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.400 Trevor Williams two years ago apidectomy. I got just if 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.520 you put Jason Hayward appadect to me, like, I'm literally 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.280 just put in an appendec to me. MLB player Clint Frazier, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.520 lawya menute, Like you could just go down on this list. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.560 What's the percentage of Like I would love to know 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.680 the percentage of MLB players that have had an appendect 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.720 to me, Just like just bizarre. I don't know. Another 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.160 sector of the public. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 I don't know. It's a very weird thing. JP France, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.880 I see a lot of people in the chat talking 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.040 about this five shout out things for him against the Mariners. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.040 Are we chasing JP France? Well? 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.240 Yeah, JP France ended up having and registering I believe 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.400 four or five pitches kind of like we've talked about 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.000 with Bobby Miller, all one hundred plus stuff plus across 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.880 the board. So there's this really funny, dumb article that 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.400 was put out of at jp France that was citing 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.599 Zach Rank back in the day where I'm trying to 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.800 remember where the article was, but it was like Granky 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.960 in his classic granky tone, was just like, Yeah, I 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.840 really like what the Astros do because like they'll just 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.840 take these guys that are not prospects in stink and 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.640 then they'll just bring them up and then they're just 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.720 good and then they're just great again, and they know 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.360 what they're doing even though these guys stink and are 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.559 not good pitchers. And that's kind of like how I 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.680 view JP Frant's great stuff. Plus across the board, he's 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.959 definitely suitable, great offensive support. There is a streaming guy. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.120 He's a total streaming guy. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.319 All right, let's talk about this. Well, this is a 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.800 good question here from Uncle Ted talks Bailey Ober who 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.920 had a good start this weekend or Dane Dunning rest 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:18.960 of the season. Who would rather have. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.760 I'm going Ober, I would go with Ober two, but 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:22.960 Dan's been pretty good. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.760 Dunning is a guy that I would want on my roster, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.480 and we kind of touched on that earlier. I said, look, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.320 with all these guys in Nadyavaldi and Raheeny, Jacob de 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.839 grom a Dane Dunning Chaer in a deep league is 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.200 a smart bench play because at some point that dude's 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.680 going to have to make some starts. And here we are. Ezekieo. Tovar, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.400 by the way, went three for four with two run homer. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.800 He's starting to hit a little bit. Miguel Vargas after 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.600 a slow start, starting to hit a little bit too. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.760 We're starting to see some of these prospects heat up, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.280 which is a good thing. The bad things the injuries. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.160 Jose Suarez, Now this could be a blessing of disguise 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.760 for the Angels. I don't know. I don't want anybody 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.440 to get hurt, though, but he departed after giving up 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.280 seven runs and two and two thirds. Obviously been a 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.840 bad season. Perhaps this is what's been going on with him, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.440 but he left with an injury, so more to come 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.760 on that. I'm sure he's going to the IL. JD. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.600 Martinez is gonna get live at bat so he should 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.760 be back theoretically at some point this week. Graham Ashcraft 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.880 was removed after a terrible start. He took a line 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.319 drive off the leg, so it was just kind of like, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:18.760 get this kid out of here. I want to ask 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.360 you about Ashcraft because I get a lot of questions 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.720 about him lately. He's not a guy that jumps off 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.200 the page. To me, he is not in the same 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.280 class as the Green Lodolos in terms of pitching prospect. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.960 But I feel like everybody's been loving him. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.520 He was putting that in the offseason, by the way, Yeah, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.880 and I wholeheartedly disagree with it when you look at 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.600 the minor league numbers, like he is not dominating at 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:38.760 the minor league levels to me. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.120 But what do you think about Ashcraft? Is that somebody 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.080 that you're looking to acquire here or you think this 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.440 is a guy that you just kind of stay away 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:45.560 from in twenty twenty three. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.120 No, I'm pretty indifferent about it. He definitely has one 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.960 of the he has one of the characteristics of a 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.560 guy that when you take him off of his team 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.680 and put him somewhere else, like you could dream big 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.280 about him. And part of the love has to do 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.720 with his insane big fastball stuff plus. He rates very 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.080 high on excuse me, unstuffed plus in general, and I 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.880 think he was like second or third on the year 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.040 and stuff plus and his fastball is huge, and I 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.040 think that's what a lot comes from it. But he's 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.800 in a horrific pitching environment. I mean, I can't I 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.240 can't get Lodolo over right now. He looks like garbage. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.440 Hunter Green has been okay, but Ashcraft has an under 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.960 twenty percent K percentage, a double digit walk percentage right now. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.560 And it's great that his fastball, you know, spin and 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.320 vel is up, but everything else is not great. And 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.320 the low K numbers don't do anything for me. So 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.080 if he were on like another if you were like 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.800 on the Mariners, and you know, that would be something 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.720 that might be exciting, that might be able to tap in. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.640 But he's also just not striking out guys with this 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.400 really great fastball. So I don't consider him in that 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.160 top run. But many did consider the the big three, uh, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.200 being Ashcraft with Lodolo and Hunter Green, and Hunter Green's 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:50.680 been the only really serviceable one. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.200 Yeah, all right, some braves notes a lot of them. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.320 Max Freed might not make a schedule start on Wednesday 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.960 against the Red Sox, so that's not great. Also in 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.440 the I told you so okay, Aedegory, Unfortunately, Von Grissom 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.960 sent down at Triple A as soon as Orlando Arcia 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.080 was ready to come back, and it was not good 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.760 for Von Grissom the minute that extension happened with Arcia, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.680 a player that nobody in their mind thought was going 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.040 to get any sort of extension in April getting into 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.960 the season, that was all you need to know about 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.800 what the Braves thought of Von Grisom. And you have 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.720 to follow the money. I know people to want to 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.520 do this. They always want to think every prospect's going 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.280 to hit or hit immediately or be the thing. But 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.360 follow the money because I feel like Welsh, the more 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.120 often you do that, you're going to be right. And 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.280 they showed you. They basically told you what they thought 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.520 and at least for the short term that Von Grisam 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.640 was not in their plans. Now RC is back, because 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.000 that's somebody you would add if he was floating on 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:40.480 the waiver. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.680 Wire, if you were like desperate, and I think there's 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.000 a lot of like shortstops out there, RCI would be 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.240 semi interested in. Probably not in twelve team leagues, a 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.000