WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off May 14th, 2024 (EP. 811) 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.879 Welcome in, everybody to Fantasy Grows MLB. This is Leading 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:10.520 Off Live, brought to you by Bet three six five 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.799 Bet five bucks. You get one hundred and fifty and 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.200 bonus Petsuendia do what but only when you use the 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.400 promo code leading Off. It's me Joey p that's the Welsh, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.560 and it's you the Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. Who 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.479 makes this show? Go Welsh. We've got a lot to 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.880 get to today. We've got some injuries. We've got the 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.639 guy back to back home runs after not having any 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:33.920 home runs. I think someone named Torko Sin's getting red hot. 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.560 Let's go, and of course the good, the bad, the ugly, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.120 a little bit of wagering, a little bit of home 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.000 run calls and Welsh. I kind of want to start 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.000 with the home run calls. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.240 No, yeah, sure, surprise, surprise. Hey, look that Joey called 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.479 multiple homer. I don't even know what to do anymore. Like, 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.120 I'm just just into the wind. You know what, we 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.120 might be getting back to a wheel. We might need 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:58.840 to get back to a wheel to get me started 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.400 here in the near future. We'll see if we get 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.440 how many how many likes do we usually get on 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.759 these videos. If we double the likes, we'll bring back 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.480 the wheel. And I'm gonna start just four likes. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.320 Oh I don't know. I don't know how many likes 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.200 we get. Like like the videos, like the videos. Subscribe 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.240 to Fantasy Pros MLB because remember, if you do, we're 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:18.840 still giving this away. I think we're gonna end this 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.880 this week. I've been talking to the gang. I think 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.080 it's time for something new here. We still got the 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.039 trophy Smack Fantasy Baseball Championship Belt available. Subscribe to the channel. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.880 Comment on any video. I guess we should say like 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.760 it and don't forget to ring the bell of notification, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:33.600 so you know if you are the big winner. But 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.920 well let's start there, because sure, Adlie Rutchman hit not one, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.559 but two homers, so it was a beautiful night there. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.960 H Burrios, Like you know, he has the numbers against 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.600 Burrios for his career. We were talking about Burrios being 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.720 one of these guys where you know winter was coming, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.200 and it's been certainly coming for him lately. But I 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.600 kind of just want to throw the home run board 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.240 up here already. So I'm back up there, baby. Top five. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.360 Let's go. Let's go. Passy still got seventeen, but I 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.800 went from the right side of the board to the 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.240 left side of the board. And I can't wait to 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.760 win that sign flat Junior bat because when I do, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.760 I'm gonna break into a million pieces and light it 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.480 on fire and then I'm gonna come c promo in 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.440 the history of professional. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.360 Oh you know what you should do? Then I know 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.000 I got the best idea. Break it into a million pieces, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.720 get the address of everybody else on the home run board, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.120 and send them little pieces. Yeah, send every single one 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.120 of them a piece. That's what I would do. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.680 And it's just like a V. Somebody got a G 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.000 or someone got like an RN. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.760 And O in one sign every single piece and be like, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.000 here you go, you filthy animal. So yeah, I don't know. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.280 I I'm trying with the home run calls. You know, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.200 yesterday I had Oneil Cruz and he got a double 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.400 and I bet him to get two total bases. You know, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.040 I like to bet my home run calls on two 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.160 total bases. But I just say, I can't get there, Joe, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.640 You've been red red hot. I'm just gonna have to 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.240 sit at the bottom, just looking up at everybody, please. 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.080 Far away from the board though, I mean, you were 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.320 scratching double dish its. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.359 So I think I'm at nine right now, so I 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.320 think I have to have a big day, and I 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.120 haven't had a big day in a while. So that's 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.040 why the wheel might be coming back very soon. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.519 Yeah, I am. I am the heel of this program. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.040 That is the ultimate heel move for sure. Choltoy Minaga 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.799 is talking about the great performances. Eight strikeouts for him, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.040 five shutout innings, no decision unfortunately against the Braves, but 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.440 still another really good dominant I mean, let's just say 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.600 it dominant. That's what it is. He's been dominant that 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.840 where gets thrown around way too much in sports. He's 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.520 been dominant in fantasy baseball this year and in real 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.160 life baseball. So yeah, another great performance. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.120 And I wanted to mention eighteen swing and whiffs in 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.360 that start, which is unreal. He continues, it's so crazy. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.360 I need to like really get into like the heat 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.120 map of the zone and everything, because he was a 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:54.000 ninety six percent fastball or splitter. He just continues to 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.640 do that thing, which is insanely crazy. He just deadens 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.040 that splitter out, so it ends up. You know, you 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.680 can probably manipulate it so it has the maybe sinker 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.640 or maybe has the change up type of feel. That 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.680 thing just absolutely comes out. Thirty three inches of vertical 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.680 break was max in this start. But it is fastball, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.480 it is splitter. He had ten whiffs on the fastball, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.920 six on the splitter, a thirty six percent whiff rate, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.600 twenty seven percent CSW. I just can't help but always 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.839 look at it and go, oh, okay, this is gonna 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.040 keep continuing like this. But you know, you take one 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.840 of the better stuff, plus like fastballs out there, guys 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.560 can't hit it, guys can't pick it up. And then 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.480 you have a secondary pitch that you know you can 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.920 probably move around the zone and that has the feel 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.680 of a fastball coming out. This is guys cannot get 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.480 on top of this. I do think there's gonna be 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.200 a point soon that that is gonna start happening. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.000 But we are getting to like six pitch to one 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.000 ers like that just doesn't happen, you know, is not 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.760 This is not the dead ball era, This is not 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.039 the late sixties. It doesn't happen. By the way, Fred Dinger, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.960 who takes care of our stuff over there early home 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.640 run stuff side says Welsh, you have ten, so you 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:03.480 have double digits. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.400 You're right, You're right, there's great, all right, all. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.960 Right, so don't worry about it. George Kirby held the 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:16.520 Royals three hits, six strikeouts, seven uh Andres Munos struck 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.760 out three guys and bitch one of the third scoreless. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.480 So a good game there for my Seattle Mariners. Brady Singer, 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.479 who was in Welsh's trade video last. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.520 Week, I want to say, yeah, trade away. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.279 Well, I hope you listen. Four runs, five innings, a 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.960 loss for him against that same Mariner team, Mitch Keller, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.400 another good start for him. So Mitch Keller throws a 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.080 complete game now, six more shoutout, innings, seven ks. So 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.400 I'm looking at Mitch Keller, I'm looking at Jared Jones. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.640 I'm looking because they signed Mitch Keller for extension. I 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.680 remember in the off season here, so Keller Jones schemes. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.200 The Pirates of the future. Welsh are looking pretty good 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:52.680 right now. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.520 Where are they standing? Where are they in the standings? 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.640 Right, I'll tell you where they stand? Okay, you talk, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:58.600 I'll stand. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.760 Because yeah, this team yesterday, one thing we probably shouldn't 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.400 have opened up with I don't know if you saw it. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.159 Brian Reynolds was five for five. I tuned in, She 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.680 oh it is okay, Oh yeah, probably the three up, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:10.040 three down. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.480 You know, I work so hard every morning. I get up. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.880 The roosters crow. I get up and I do the 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.680 show sheet and look at it. He didn't even look 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:17.960 at it. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.240 By the way I'm sitting. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.159 The Pirates are nineteen and twenty three. They are two 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.039 games out of the Wildcard, five and a half out 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:24.760 of the Central. 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.080 So that's kind of my point right there, is like 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.960 this is that that Royals feel. Everyone's like, hey, the 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.600 Royals is going to make the playoffs and stuff like that. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.080 The Pirates are in that They've got an all star closer. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.359 They've got now a three man rotation that is not 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.800 the tippy top. It's not going to compete necessarily with 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.960 the Mariners, but it's not not going to compete better 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.200 than what the Diamondbacks are putting out in their front three. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.000 You've got Brian Reynolds to lead the way. The team 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.000 went five for five last night. When I tuned in, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.560 I was looking for a cruise to hit that homer 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.359 at the very end. Brian Reynolds dead center Homer for 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.479 his fifth hit of the day. Oneal Cruz. Whatever people 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.920 get on about him, he's hitting around two sixty. He's 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.039 doing his thing. You have pieces, you have pieces to 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.760 be competitive. I know this team probably doesn't make anything impactful, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.120 doesn't go and make some impactful move or whatever, but 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.960 it would be the type of recipe where go and 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.040 trade a little bit of your minor league, go get 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.280 one good at least one good veteran. I would love 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.560 to see this team go get some vet pitcher to 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.280 put into that rotation, and then one more hitter. I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.880 just don't know if they will be competitive, but they 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.240 are in my mind, like you know, at the tippy 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.920 top of the like more exciting young team. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:34.800 A good veteran bat would be a way to go. Okay, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.000 I gotta ask Top. I say showtime Imanaga every single time? 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.880 Why is he keep saying there's an a at the end? Boys? 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.480 What are we saying wrong? Tyler? Every time we talk 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.080 about Imanaga, somebody and I think it's Tyler as there 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.320 was that. You're not saying it right. It's not show Teaga. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:51.680 We say it right every time? 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:52.680 Maybe not? 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.840 I mean I don't listenery Joe's come out early in 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:55.440 the show today. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.280 I'm not one to question the pronunciation unless I'm you're 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.240 the last guy, because I you know what the worst 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.560 part is, I tell people this all the time. I like, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.800 I will have it completely right. I saw that Michael, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.520 get out of here, Michael, and and then I will 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.000 I will, like in my head, start to question it, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.920 and then I'm done. As soon as I start to question, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.880 even if it's right, I am over it and it's done. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.679 Showing as I see everybody talking about him in the chat, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.360 blow and save for him. Look, I'm not worried. He's 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.080 in a rough patch. It's gonna be fine. Closers go 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.160 through this, Pictures go through this, Players go through this. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.199 Edward real quick. The reason people are up is because 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.080 read Garrett up on Diaz. Because of read Garrett is 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.840 you know, he's been doing some big stuff. So I 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.839 think that's why people get all up in arms about 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.240 Edwin Diaz Blown to Save? Could it be time? Like 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.280 that's where people are going? 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:56.480 Are you high? Maybe much money they have invested in crazy? No? 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.320 No, I agree. I'm just telling you what the people 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.880 are thinking. I'm a spokesman for the people, a man 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.640 of the people. The Welsh has always been. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.840 Whoever thinks that I'm telling you is high, Okay, it's 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.040 not even it's Look, I live in the New York, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.760 New Jersey tri state area here. It's not even a 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.000 blip on the radar here about that. So you could 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.280 put those fantasy wet dreams aside because it ain't never 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.720 gonna happen. Okay, would take an injury for him to 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.720 lose this job, and barring that, nothing else. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:30.280 The the the chat with their they're they're poking with 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.319 the stuff. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.199 I'm Managa. You're a Naga. He's a Naga too. Wouldn't 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.959 you want to be an Aga two? I mean, come on, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.880 it's chotteau. I mean, I don't understand what's going on. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.400 Alex Bregman not showed to Monaga with three four with 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.319 the double and two homers. You should have pick Bregman 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.000 last night. That would have been fun. You troll him there, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.160 that would have been a good time. Let's get to more fun, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.440 just for fun. Spencer Torkleson, I love how Angelo took 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.760 this personally too at the chat when I said Torkleson 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.800 is getting hot doesn't make him hot, and he did 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.400 quotes on me Welsh, but come on, we're having fun. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.840 Guy's been terrible. Give him a break. He's got two 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.559 homers in two games. Let's get excited for Spencer Torkles Okay, please? 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:11.920 Can we? 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.360 Yeah? You know what the really tough thing about. I mean, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.240 obviously you have the former track record which you could 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.760 work off of, but in May he's hitting two point fifty, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.240 he's got those first two home runs, the strikeouts haven't 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.840 really kind of fallen down, and there's just not quite 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.800 enough of any data to work with. The thing I 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.800 hated about the Torkalsen thing in general was his hard 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.520 hit rate was so low. His barrel rate was so low. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.760 There's kind of a like it can't maintain at this level. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.000 That's the one positive that I've tried to approach with him. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.400 But you know, he had kind of a higher babbit number. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.240 His k percentage in general's kind of lower, and his 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.360 rolling expected well, but chart is starting to move up 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.520 a little bit, so that's good. But we don't have 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.400 enough of the data to be like, oh, hey did 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.720 the barrel percentage? Are the hard hit numbers starting to 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.000 make that turn? We don't quite have that. Could Torcosen 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.880 turn it back around, Yeah, sure, but he isn't gonna 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:08.320 be worth it. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.920 Holms after the break last year. You know, I brought 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.600 that up yesterday and I'm bringing it back up again 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.920 today because it's not impossible that he gets the thirty 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.920 again like he was. He had one last April. I 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.760 think we're two too last April. So it's not like 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.599 he didn't have an awful start to the season. His 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.960 batting average was lower last year than it was this April. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.680 So let's just he's another one of these guys. You 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.360 just circle him on your draft board, and if you 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.400 have the draft or you do draft him, you just 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.040 realize April's gonna suck, like the year's weeks of the 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:36.920 season is gonna be bad. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.920 Here's what I will tell you. Like he has been 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.960 chasing in a bad way. His chase contact percentage is 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.800 almost ten points lower, fifty four percent last year forty 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.880 five percent this year, but his zone contact percentage is 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.520 the same. So all he's got to start doing making 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.920 a few better decisions. If he starts barreling, then the 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.199 hard hit numbers are gonna come up. Yeah. Well, I'm 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.600 just saying his chase numbers are not bad, so that 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.480 that's like the positive. His actual chase numbers are the 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.240 same as always, but he's not making as much contact 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.400 when he's chasing, but he's making the contact in the zone. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.720 So stop, you know, getting outside the zone. Start making 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.000 a little bit more contact and maybe we'll get that 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.200 original version. So I don't know if though, what's available 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.720 out on the wire is worth Like if Tourkosen were 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.320 you know, somebody had cut him and you could go 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.760 and pick him up. My advocating to go and pick 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.559 him up over what player, That's the thing like I 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.679 think I was at. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.280 Not to drop him unless you're in shallow leagues. That's 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.200 what I was advocating, And you can check that out 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.920 out Fancy bros dot com. As a hold right up 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.840 about that, Walkee Penguin brings up a good question here too. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.160 Have we ever heard Welsh pronounce my last name? 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.320 I said all the time piece of Pia. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.360 Yeah, I mean there you go. I mean I feel like, yeah, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.360 there you go. See Kelly wanted to throw the goatlet down. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.880 Kelly, I know how you I know you see me 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.840 as this big, bumbling, stupid idiot as everybody else does. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.840 I can't pronounce anything, but like as I stumble right there, 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.040 like I can get it. I can have I have 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:10.360 some things. It is the constant internal chatter that ruins, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.440 and that is what creates welshisms. There is a constant 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.319 chatter that is second guessing the things that come out 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.640 of my mouth in pronunciation, and that is what causes 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.640 me to say insanely stupid things. But I can say 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:23.680 piez a pia. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.400 There you go. How about Gabriel Moreno, can you say 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.679 that solo Homer for him three walks. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:34.000 I can't cut wife wire release, no longer need Gabriel. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.400 Marcin See I'm buying I still. I mean, he's always 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.480 been a good contact guy. Maybe again it's low start, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.280 all right, Let's get to the rookie lookie here, because 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.960 this is really what I want to talk about. Another 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.080 prospect comes up, another prospect failure. It feels like so 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.360 far mansarto for two with a walk, he's in a 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.720 buck fifty eight three for nineteen, he's gonna walk a 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.960 double eight. K's how we're feeling about the man child 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.000 here over the first week. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.360 I mean, clearly not good to the point there's just 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.360 not enough great data to tell us any story. I mean, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.480 the data we have is not good. The hard hit 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.600 rate is trash, the expected batting average is trash, and 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.760 he's struck out. So the things you have to go 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.880 back on is like what he's done in the minors. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.400 He has a really good hitting profile. It's interesting. I 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.640 wish we had this stuff for the minor leagues because 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:17.760 I don't think we're going to talk about it today. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.280 But Baseball Savant just released their bat tracking data, which 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.880 is really fascinating because it gets it. I don't I 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.400 don't know the full applications yet as I've been playing 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.920 around with it, but you know it's dealing with bat 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.840 speed versus bat length. And then you know they've got 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.000 a couple of terms us it Yeah, will blast and 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.920 and all this type of stuff there is, there's a 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.960 there's a blast stat and. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.080 So it talks about the length of it talks about 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.240 I'm just I'm just trying to motion. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.040 Yeah, it's the motion of the ocean. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.320 But you said, no, you said things. You said it 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.440 talked about the length. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.720 Yep, the length of the swing and the speed of 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.400 the swing. Uh huh. And then there are I know 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.440 you're going. There's just a couple other terms in there. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.800 They use called a blast It's like a blast rate 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.240 and they turn for it and squared up. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.520 Joe, they call blast were caught. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.240 We're talking about data. Listen, how fast you swing it is, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.600 how much you passed it? Joe. I don't know what 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.640 to tell you. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.880 We were already supposed to talk about this today. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.760 The only thing I was getting at is if we 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.640 had all of this data in the minor leagues, the 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.280 thing that works well for a guy like Torkosen is 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.360 Torkalsen doesn't have a big long swing and he shortens out. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.200 And one thing we learned from some of this data 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.920 is the shorter swing with a faster approach that's gonna 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.440 have better results for the most part. That's tell people 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.080 my whole life anywhere. Everyone, Oh Welsh can't pronounced this. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.560 Joe can't even get through this. Yes, but I think 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.400 I think Vantario will be find long term, but for 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.920 this season, I don't know. I think how he's performing, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.720 it's gonna be really hard for them to stick around 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.520 with or with Manzaro. But he's probably still got three 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.680 weeks until Kwan comes back, all. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.280 Right, Yeah, that's the whole thing. When Kwank comes back, 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.520 that might make things a little touch. Jason Vargas, I 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.680 just traded uh Ober and McGill for a ros A Reina. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.920 Did I do a good uh? Jason? I think he 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.040 did a great uh. To be honest with you, like 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.000 Ober is a good picture and and McGill has been 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.400 really solid in the rehab starts. But still a Rosareina 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.400 is an all star. Rosarina is a guy, you know, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.760 a second round pick? Yes, oh yeah, took a lot 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.800 out of me. What's the X plug numbers on the 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.400 did did the ex plug come out in some of 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.480 those new uh after? 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:34.880 I wish we could. I wish we really could get 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:35.880 X plug on there. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.040 Sounds like if that's I mean, what are we doing 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.600 if we don't change the dame of this show? From 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:47.160 leading off the blastery, there's Wonky Penguin for the wind. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.440 They have better blast rates on sletters, but I'm not sure. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.840 Oh God, bless this place. This is our happy place. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.280 All right, Lopez, I'm gonna do this to run Homer 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.280 for him. I want to talk about auto Lopez for 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:04.720 a second. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.040 Yeah, let's talk about Auto. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.879 Well, I don't know He's twenty five year old kid 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.240 the slash right now three thirteen, three seventy one, six 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.000 fifty six. He's got three homers in this steal in 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.399 thirty five played appearances. He is rostered in like ten 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.520 percent of leagues? Should he be rostered in more? Is 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.320 this a guy that actually might have something to contribute here? 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.960 Which I know for the Marlins we're talking about contributions, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.200 it's it's kind of few and far between. But is 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.439 Otto Lopez one of these guys that is slowly kind 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.560 of sneaking up on the radar? Maybe? 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.560 Okay, so on the A's Abraham Toro is a guy 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.199 that I've never really been super into. He's always been 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.040 kind of like a super utail player, and he's just 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:46.200 getting time. He's getting, you know, the ability to get 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.080 in there, have some at bats and have a little 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.879 bit of success because there's no one out. We always 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.760 see this from these teams that get rid of good players, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.560 and obviously, you know, the Marlins getting rid of a 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.560 rise kind of starts that process. I think they're going 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.120 to release a few other players. This could be one 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.080 of those speculative ones in the near future. He had 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.800 a little I mean the the data so far from 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.840 this year and what he's done at a major league level, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.520 it's actually pretty good. Really high hard hit and barrel percentage, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.600 low k rates. There might be something. I think it's 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.520 probably more speculative than anything else. But yeah, keep on 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.040 keep on a wire as playing time keeps, you know, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.199 being given to him. And yeah, I could be interested, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.200 but I don't think he's gonna He's a watch. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.760 This guy, watchless guy like or if you're in a 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.320