MLB: Leading Off June 7th, 2022 (Ep. 526)

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Yeah, you know what it is.

Even though the d back Scott absolutely smoked last night and have been on a downward spiral ever since playing the Dodgers, it is still going better than the Angels for sure.

Yes, yes, so. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have not won a game in many moons. It's been a long time and I always feel like tasty. Well, you know they had a big hot stretch there for a while and then inevitably you know it's gonna come back around. But the thing is, if you have the big hot stretch and the big hole stretch, guess what that makes you a five hundred baseball team. So I don't know

I did, I am, I said, until they cut Mark Milance and this d Backs flag is hanging upside down in my lawn.

I'll tell you that much.

I am so Lance. I can not of that. Yeah, not a big fan. Guy is piping ninety one down the middle of the plate. So not my favorite.

Well, let's get to my favorite. Let's get to the headlines, and we're gonna start off with a cycle. Another cycle, well, this one by Eduardo Escobar, who was our lineup builder. Yesterday over on fandom we talked about those guys in the middle of the Mets lineup. We talked about Carrasco winning games looking for bad blakes. Now, well guess what we got them all? It was great. Carrasco ten strikeouts, and he gets tied for the major league lead with

A hit, finally, finally, big part of the problem, Trout, geez, way to get on track.

Are you getting paid enough money to not get hits? Come on, he hadn't been hitless since May twenty eighth. That's a long time. And when Michael Wakes throwing three hit shutouts against you, I think that's that's like the biggest red flag he could possibly have. The Astros are very good yesterday again, three hits, a homer, a stolen base for Tucker. We're gonna talk a lot about Julio Rodriguez today. That's the guy we're gonna get to. Hunter Green,

I'm betting Yeah, Look, he was very good last night. I d Backs have the second highest k rate in the league right now. I believe behind maybe the Angels is the only team that that's worse than them.

If i'm it could be the Braves.

I get him confused, but they're real bad, the d Backs, and they're not on a good pace right now. And Hunter Green, you know, if you let him take advantage, he absolutely will. I think the reason why he's low on those Rookies the Year odds are because it is because the Reds are just gonna let him work it out in the big so he's gonna have if he sucks, he's gonna work it out in the bigs. If he's amazing,

So he is forty odds forty one, forty to one.

Like, how is it say his name or does it just say the field is forty to one and he's in it?

I mean, and I was just making a sure like I'm looking at the right guy. Yeah, it's Hunter Green forty to one, forty five in one spot, thirty in another.

I mean, who are the top three right now in the NL? You have that?

I do, hold on one second, but that's just stunning. I mean I made a wager early on one hundred Green. I think I had it like nine to one or something like that, and of course he had to give up the five home runs. Everybody lost their mind and all that stuff happens. But man alive like that, that's

Well, and then we'll still a chance for say how to win. I mean, if he had just backed on vanduel forty five, I mean, come on, it's a good bet to make. You know, if forty five to one, throw throw yourself twenty bucks on it and see if it works out or however much you know, whatever unit is to you.

So I would I would do that.

I just I just don't know, Like I mean, Nolan Gorman's dealing with a back injury. Mackenzie Gore has been great.

But that's why I said it's wide open in there now.

Yeah, I mean, you look around everything. Suzuki is not the guy. I keep telling everybody.

He's not the guy.

We haven't seen Max Meyer yet. I mean, forty five to one hundred green right now, that's just absurd, Like, I mean, he might as well take a shot on it. It's something also in terms of what's going on in the news. Obviously, yesterday the Rangers Guardian game was postponed due to rain, and somebody on Twitter said, good call on John Gray. I'm like he got rained out the shows a new good call on John Gray. Are you not a weather man?

To Joe? Come on, remember Nick, remember that the weather Man.

I don't remember the weather I remember the Family Man. I remember the Family Man, the weather stretch of movies where he was playing people with the last with Man at the end of it.

Maybe he'll play bog Man at all.

So I want to talk to you about individual defensive players. So many so okay, uh, san Diego Padres, Okay, Padre, San Diego Padres. Fernando Tettis Junior, the wrist looking better. He's apparently gonna start swinging a batsuit. Their speculation. I just heard on MLB Network before the show that it looks like you might get Fernando Tetis Junior back in June. Now that is very exciting for those of us who

I mean, it's kind of it kind of seems like they're waiting to break out until Tatis gets back with them, right so, because they've spent so much money on the roster, it looks so good and they're kind of underperforming at this point. My first snarky thought was, I can't wait for Fernando Tis to come back so he can blow out his shoulder after waiting on the wrists for the last six months because he decided not to have surgery on the shoulder. So I don't know, man, I hope

But I don't have.

A ton of confidence in Tatis right now. And remember the dude fell on his wrist the day playing soccer. Like, I don't know, he just looks like he's waiting to get hurt.

To me. Well, he was working on a shortstop too, which I thought was odd. I thought, if anything, let's get him out in the outfield where he doesn't have to take nearly as much contact, potentially nearly as many reps I mean, I get it, he's a shortstop. He wants to play short stop. But I don't know, man, maybe he's just better off than the outfit need that bat in that lineup. Tylor McGill expected back this weekend, Tyler the Terrible, so he shall return for the New

I mean when you when you take a rookie, and this is why everyone says to take one. You don't take multiple rookies, you know. This is why everyone says to take one, because they have such violent swings in their performance initially, and this is what this is what say. I did say I was amazing for the first month and has been awful ever since then. Julio is the opposite. He was awful the first month, has been amazing since then.

You know.

His max ex velocity is top five percent, his k rate is bottom ten percent, you know, so it shows, it shows wild swings in a player like this, So you know, expect more bumps, more peaks and valleys for Julio moving forward this year.

For sure.

I think you just named the film that Nick Cage is going to star as Scott Bogman in Peak Scott Bogman played by Nick Cage in Max VELOCITYX.

Velocity, Max Exit Velocity. Maybe if we're talking about food.

How are you gonna get to the front of that drive through? That's the question, all right, I can't believe it. Look at the line. You've gotta find a way to the front. The babbit leaders, I want to talk about this. Let's do a little deep dive here for a second. Some of the guys who have babbebs that are off

Think for sure?

I mean, you know, just looking at like like Chris Taylor has a very high career BABEP it's three forty six, so you know, uh, this is kind of what he does anyway, but three seventy seven is still well above that. So you know, anyone that is leading the league in backpup you should expect regression in because it showed you know, this stat shows a lot of luck. But you know, some of these guys are just good hitters. And the

So and that's what you see with a lot of these players here.

Yeah, and it's no surprise see names on that list, like you know, Ty France, Jeff McNeil's been very hot, he's been very good in there. Cabrian Hayes was one that surprised me. He'sitting two eighty nine in the year the babbitt is three sixty, hasn't it for a lot of power. But Brandon marsh is another guy with a weird one. He's got a three fifty six Babbitt but if you look over at the batting average is two fifty, so one hundred point difference there. That's one too. That's interesting.

Kind of like, yeah, I mean, I you know, I have Caesar in a bunch of leagues because he's hitting lead off, so uh, you know, a lot of runs, a lot of batting average, just blanking you in homers. And it's just kind of difficult to take a zero in homers these days on your roster because yeah, unless dfs, of course, but you know, because it seems like everybody hits twenty. So if you take a guy with zero you have to have the guy to hit forty that

So yeah, I'm out on those guys. It's the same reason I don't like the guys who are all power and no batting average either. I just I don't like the players that zap you somewhere else. I know some people say you can make it work, and you can. There's a little bit of luck into that too, almost too much.

That's Moon Night out there. Your skills need to balance.

So I haven't seen The Moonnight yet. Is it worth my time? Is it good?

It is? Okay, it is. I've heard a lot of like describes incredible in it.

He really, yes, so because he has to play so many different characters.

So because Moonnight is got multiple personality, so.

Nick Age can play a lot of different characters, but they all sound just like Nick.

They all sound like Nick Cage, right, There's no there's no throw in your voice at all.

There's no accents or anything.

So I'm trying to think my my top three Nick Cage movies have to be Raising Arizona. Still at the time, I still I think Raison Arsla is just amazing. I would say probably con Air and then face Off, right, is that like the like the.

Con Air face Off have to be on there. The third one is really dealer's choice. You could throw a National Treasure in there. Uh national Treasure?

Really?

Uh that I don't mean it's not surprising because you get you will put your nose in the air about some movies.

Just I will not see it's not true. I just thought, I like, yeah, but but you were Yeah, but you were young when con Air came out, come on, you know so Uh, I was in height, I was in college. I think when Conny Air came out. Really the buddy in the box? Uh, the Rock, I didn't like the rock. The rock to me was, how did.

You not like the rock? What do you comedy? The rock was?

It was great?

Uh dude, Have you got to the part in Brooklyn nine nine where Kevin and Peralta are discussing all the wor Nick Cage.

No, I don't think I've gotten to that point. But I have gotten to the point in Brooklyn nine nine though, where we've gone through like the die Hard stuff and all the things. So he's obviously a man after my own heart. All right, here we go today in baseball history, which is also a fun fact, we're doing both of them together today. In nineteen ninety four, A's outfit Rickey Henderson Steels is one thousand, one hundredth career base on

And then he said, now I am the greatest of all time. Right, what a speech.

Oh my god, I love him. It's so funny. Okay, So, Glaber Torre, as we teased this at the top of the show, this was a player a lot of people left for dead, I continued to say in draft season, this was a player that has was too young, with too much talent, too much of that can't miss stuff. And also the fact that you saw the dude put up thirty home runs, and you put up a great season at a young age. So why are we going to give up on this guy altogether? He's dirt cheap.

No, I think he's getting back. You know.

It's funny, WELSCHNEI were doing interviews in the season. You know Sarus pointed out Glabor Torres as a guy that he was investing a lot in, and if you look at him too, you know, hitting two forty seven, which isn't particularly fantastic. He's a career to sixty six hitter. But we just talked about Bapup Joe. His Backpup is to forty eight this year and his career is three hundred, so he's hitting fifty points below what his career is.

Adaptation very good. That's a very good movie. H And also a match stick Man Struck, match stick Man, very good.

Movie, match stick Man Out Love, Moonstruck.

How great is he in Moonstruck?

I don't think that moved hand.

I lost my bride. Johnny has his hand. Johnny has his bride.

That's great, hilarious, man, I feel like I don't need to see it anymore.

And then he just killed it.

Yeah, match stick Man was a good one too. I forgot Dick Matts. Yeah, that's a good flame. We need more movies like that. Absolutely a really good movie.

You Catch Me if you Can kind of has the same feel, you know, sister movies.

So, sister shaster, you're picking a squad.

Do you ever see Welcome to Colinwood. Have you ever seen that one? That's a good.

Yeah?

Yeah, that was Clooney. Uh makes an appearance in that as well. So now that's not Nick Cage, that's Sam Rockwell.

Sam rock Well, good dude, good dude, good actor. All right, stat heroes. Michael walk obviously the Nine Innings. Nobody touches that. He's at the top of the list.

No.

Earned six, K's under Green was eight case. Carls Carrasco was terrific last night. No A. Cinderguard actually good, but again the strikeouts just three. I don't know. Cinder Gar is very frustrating. I'm out. I would trade him if I were you, off of this start, like take him off the good start, trade him because it's some point there's gonna be an injury. Probably. Dardo Escobar four for five with the homer, six RBIs in the cycle. Just

No, it was so disgusting about that bomb that Drury hit. Drury hit it as a diamondback that was released. Hit it off of Madison Bumgarner, who got all of Paul Goldschmidt's money, and that that whole thing just made me disgusted.

So all gold Schmid's money sounds like a heist movie.

Starring the Cage. Let's get it Paul money. We gotta get Jared's money.

Gold Schmitz money's gone. Jerkson Profar three for four and also Luke Hooit with a home run last night. That zero's d seconds, by the way, I mean, come on one, that just kind of you know what happens? Are you hold on, Joe, hold on? This needs to be addressed.

Are you about to tell me that you haven't seen Gone in sixty seconds? No, okay, all right, okay, if we're about to have our first fight.

So just so you know what, if I was gonna say it's bad or if no, not.

If it's bad that you haven't seen it, the thing is everyone has to sit through it.

That's the rule.

You have to have sat through Gone in sixty seconds because it's so bad. If you're gonna make any comments about Nick Cage, you have to have sat through that movie.

That's all I'm saying.

I know he does this thing very passionate. Yeah, yeah, that zero that great. I bet we could get him on the show. He's not doing anything. You know what was fun the Netflix special on him where he did about the curse words that I did.

That I didn't see, Uh, that I did not see, but I will watch it. I think you told me about that too.

It was good sports seeing. I think you'd enjoy it. Dad on the list, Oh my god, Last King Is should be top of your list, bro, so good. Six earned runs for Daniel Lynch. Christian Xavier was bad. I'll take the L on that one. Blake Snell was bad. I'll take the w on that one because they said, let's go after Blake Snell with the Mets last night. The Mets of the number one offense in baseball, which is pretty terrifying considering they haven't had Jacob de gromer

What a shock.

Oh my god, you're probably gonna cash him in for Vlad. Two weeks ago, Joe Adele came up and went over three with two strikeouts. Bobby with Junior over four with a k. Eric Cosmer same thing, hitting two point fifty five in May, he's hitting a buck thirty all the way. Uh since in the first week of June, So a way to go, Eric Cosmer. All right, let's get to the home run board, boys and girls. It's uh, it's got Mike Maher on it, which still makes me depress

Dare you? Mayor does a great every day? How dare you? Joe?

This is fun. It's part of the shtick of the show. I picked Flatty because I said, I'm not playing your catcher game. Yesterday. If you took a catcher, you got double points. Only one catcher hit a home run and no one called it. It was cal Rawley, and poor Welsh changed his pick. He actually changed his pick to a catcher when he found that out. So sorry, you gotta stick with what works. Yeah, I don't know where I'm at there.

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Well you deleted them last week, so I figured I just used the link instead, so if you click on that link you can see them.

Oh so the BVP is so you created a failsafe for the old man to make sure that you didn't delete that.

That's what Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So Miguel Cabrera six for fifty eight with what would that be two homers and five doubles against Jose Quintana. Obviously, these guys are both very old and have a lot of experience against each other. Brandon Crawford eleven for thirty five, that's three forty four average, with a double and a triple and a bomb against from Man Marquez. Robbie Grossman also hitting over three hundred against Quintana. He has three

Those are the PBB guys for today.

I'm getting hazed once again. Here's Mayor. Blue text means it's a link. Joe, Welcome to the Internet, thanks Mayor. Because I was literally looking around going. I don't see it. I can't delete it if it's not in there.

No, dundee, what kind of mail is this? I only get my male host mail.

I don't know about this electronic mail. I don't know, but I am at delivers the electronic mail. I don't understand.

Fifteen. So that means railation.

I just want to I just want to be clear here. That means that I am probably one of these tied for or almost there fifteen sixteen guys. So I just want to. I just want to say that we're getting close.

We're getting hard as mayor tell me how many I have, probably like six.

So I mean, do you pick every day? I need to start picking every day.

I need to do it. I need if you want to pick it part of my rotation, I will well.

Look, I mean it's very easy. You go in there and if you want to be a part of this, we're still doing. Look, we're doing prizes for the month of June. You're gonna win a free leading Off T shirt just for hanging out. Maybe you don't win the overall prize, which is a TA Tease autograph Jersey, I don't know which risk he's gonna autograph food. But we'll see. But the uh, the giveaway we still got in June.

Now, come on, do we go over how quickly you said his name without issue Bussiges.

I mean that was yeah, I mean, I mean that was amazing.

He's an O G Peanut and cracker Jack, which means just it just flowed so fast.

It was surprising.

Well I was. People don't know this. I was actually a member of the Wu Tang clan when it originally formed.

But is that right?

Eventually yeah, I got cut out. Yeah, it was bisit risig is a piece of pia. That was a.

You know what, I don't even know how to argue against that, So.

It was it was the pizza. I was the pizza and the dirty bastard method man and inspected deck, and that.

Was the entire method man man. I was in there, so don't forget about me.

See look he knows wu tang for the pizza.

The remember the race draft in the Chappelle Show, Oh God, the time shizzle.

The all time and great sketches ever. All right, let's get to the home run call tonight. I'm going with Jordan Alvarez tonight against Chris Flexen. High fly ball rate gives up Homer's small ballpark, big honking slugger. Let's go. Let's keep it simple, coming for that board, baby, let's go. And you know what, you know, if I get the sixteen and I'm tied with everybody, you know, I'm gonna be with those and seventeen people tied with sixteen. He's

May name off of the list. I will also tip I'm gonna go.

I wanted to go with Alvarez, but you already had him on the sheet. That's getting to the sheet first. That's what it does for you. So I will go with big meat. Pete, let's go along, So get a bomb. Let's go all right, Pete Alonso for Bogman. Tonight in the home run contest, Mayor's going with Bryce Harper again. Oh God, something different, God, Mayor also mister Buster just pointing out acknowledging the first year anniversary of the Discord.

Channel and the home run contest. So there you go. So this started off. It is something I used to do with another network and people loved it. We had a good time, and I brought it over here and Dan and I were just going head to head last year and I said, let's let's open it up to everybody, and everybody wanted to get in on it. And then before you know it, the bots were created in order to get all the home runs. And now Wonky Penguin's

That guy just needed to get into spring training a month early. I guess right, it's whatever happened for him.

It was a clockwork mark. To Scherer, there's a two hundred and you know, two home runs in April. There's May three sixty with eleven digs, just waiting for.

The weather to warm up. So yeah, he grew up only in warm weather places. So I like bad excuse always. Well, you know, he grew up around all the warm weather.

Okay, if you say so baseball's played outside, it's not really, you know, it's not like, you know, we're almost playing baseball in the snow, except in Colorado. But that's a story for another time. If you enjoy the show, and I know you do, make sure you subscribe to Fantasy pros MLB channel. We're trying to hit eight thousand subscribers. That's the new goal. We are well on the way to that. We want you to be a part of it.