Leading Off: LIVE Wednesday, Aug 28th | Fantasy Baseball (Presented by bet365)

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome in friends to Leading off right here on fantasy pros I am the Welsh that is the Casey Bubba and hello to all of you all of you peanuts and Cracker Jacks playoff run prep time Madness around baseball divisionally and more we are ready to get into all of it Bubba is a company man now look at that hat Bubba look at that look at that ni old fantasy pros hat yep you know I just got to support the cause once they they let me hang around here long enough you know I might as well throw on some swag and be a company man I like it I'm ready to get into all the stuff and the things I had a I had a late night by the way and we'll kind of start with that a late night because I did a CVS hit which was like 1 P or 1 am Eastern and uh one of the pieces about it was about what's going on in the NL West and it's like NL West Madness right now so I want to make sure to uh cover a little bit of that last night Dodgers Lo to the Orioles Jack flarity allows three uh earned runs over six Innings looked okay and Baltimore was able to take a win where they've got Corin Burns going up today Brandon fought allows eight earn runs gets obliterated six or well eight runs six were earned four and two-thirds of an inning looks bad started off the game he did the sandwich thing where he gave up like the Homer in the first inning or whatever to Pete Alonzo and then he was like three clean and then he just got obliterated into the fourth inning he looked like crap while San Diego pulls it out which also pulled me out some bets here they were they had two different opportunities of losing they end up you know Jackson Merill does his business Manny Machado looks incredible and they pull this out we have abs I with pandemonium in the NL West where this isn't the Dodgers buba up by you know eight games or anything like this there is a two and a half or three game differential between the Padres Dodgers and the Diamondbacks right now and all of these guys are just floting and I'm curious what do you think the difference is going to be what's going to be the deciding factor in this division like is it you know someone's got to keep Pace with the starting pitchers Bullpen offense and and how do you think it's going to finish out well you got a Padre's team whose offens is playing well they might get tatis back middle of September you have uh their rotation might get you darish back in a week or two and they made all those trades to sh up their Bullpen which is what you want to do in the postseason Dbacks offense is one of the best in baseball Dodgers pitch stats and shambles boohoo so um it's it's pretty fun watching this Division and uh I think all three make the dance one way or another but it's getting really fun thinking the Padres are back in this the de Diamondbacks we thought were lost for dead you obviously follow them closely and now they're looking like that World Series Contender all all of a sudden here um it's a fun one and I think the biggest difference is San Diego's got the edge in getting U darish Back they just got Joe musgrow back and they have an elite Bullpen back into the bullpen that might be huge for them I mean I also think it's the reinforcements because I was looking at this so in all the study here are the the crazy thing so the Dodgers have the best erra I believe or was it no it was Bullpen bullpen erra in this division uh Diamondbacks have the worst in this division Dodgers are also the best representation of uh actual starter erra and run scored per game Diamondbacks are one of the worst I don't know I think it's trending in a weird Direction and they have the reinforcements Dodgers you know they've still got um Yamamoto Yamamoto looks like I believe he's going to be throwing today or no well he still has to throw at least three more rehab starts they say they they want two to three rehab starts he hasn't even this his first one so I think it's like a mid-september and I think they just want him for the postseason so I don't know how much of a reinforcement he'll be well but I think that's also like a a reinforcement for the playoffs and then you've got tatis in theory coming back Darvish finally kind of getting I think he was just throwing the other I mean so it's like you got have all this while the Diamondbacks are kind of faltering Brandon fought you know for all of my wrong doesn't look good did not look good and then Jordan Montgomery ends up going you know well no he's been garbage but then he comes in in relief that was foolish that was a horrible managerial decision though a guy that's a full-time starter bringing him in in the middle of an inning that is like just foolish stuff bring a like bring a bottom end reliever in to finish the inning then bring joom Mo in to start the next don't bring him in in that all that that's a mess way you guys are killing me in the chat I I is this the first time I've worn a backwards hat on all I wear it all the time what's the Welsh meter Matt's like Welsh looks like he's ready to talk some d a DFS Bros thing yes you know what's so funny about that the other thing I was up late with was I was I was watching um I was watching a DFS a football DFS stream last night my buddy Debo and Justin Steel who we'll talk about here in a little bit they were doing a thing my buddy Justin steel um and and they all had backwards hats and I was just it was making me laugh and I I almost text him I was gonna say Colin card would be very upset with with this broadcast right now with all these backward hats so it's just you guys are making me laugh with it but I know it's not necessarily fantasy relevant but I think the inconsistencies of the division are really really interesting right now and I guess the only thing I would add to it is like kind of think the Diamondbacks might be on the wrong side of this uh yeah they're all locked in right at this moment for um you know for a playoff run and the Diamondbacks have been the hottest offensive team but I don't know man I think the I think the the Padres are on the PO positive trend Dodgers are not going to falter too much and the Diamondbacks have the worst combin I mean they have one of the they have the six worst erra in baseball overall for um I think it's just the overall staff not just the starting pitchers and their Bullpen stinks too so I don't know uh it was just in my mind but Brandon fought he stinks and I'm not really sure is even a trustable viable option uh maybe against pretty he's been pretty good this year he's been fine he's got an over four erra and everything right now I just don't know at this point I think he's wearing down a little bit I'm not sure I trust him in good matchups and like really really good matchups nor do I trust any of the Diamondbacks that's the other thing they all stink Marl Kelly garbage he's at best a streamer right now gallon under forms Eduardo's okay um Ryan Nelson had to replace Jordan Montgomery because he's one of the worst pitchers in baseball so you know what do what do you say here uh one of the best players in baseball we're g to talk about here in just a second want to remind um two things well one of them is that if you guys have any questions put them in the chat I wrote this in the chat we're gonna answer a few of your guys's questions here after the uh opening headline segment just to get you guys prep you know for your playoffs and everything like that and I completely forget what the oh I I have like a a fun little announcement um in here just a tiny bit which we've already kind of alluded to and some people no uh jiren Duran he went two for four with a solo Homer on Tuesday he's hitting 294 354 528 now has 20 homers 32 stolen bases and this was put out there Bubba he has joined the 2030 club which currently only includes Jose Ramirez la de la Cruz and show he Otani is jiren Duran a first- round pick next year not yet uh he went second round in our early draft like third or fourth pick in the second round so he's close close it's like they went 19th or 20th overall but um I'm not there just yet with jiren Durant I think they're still so many talented players in the front half but like he'd have to replace Julio Rodriguez or Fernando tatis Jr is that happening I don't know so like I get it 2030 is amazing 2030 is great but would you rather you know you got Duran chrio you got Duran Corbin Carroll you got Duran like there's a lot of these questions to be had I was looking at I think it was your guys's board uh someone shared it last night it had to have been you guys are like you guys are the only insane people me and Bloom we did a recap show on it last night so yeah yeah and uh yeah must it might have been bloomfield's board that I saw that was on there and Corbin went like 16 or 15 and I went two picks ahead of Durant I don't know man like I don't know if that's right like you love to Corbin hit a homer last night you love to see the power go on he has a legit shot to put up 20 this year which is insane what he have like three through June or something crap like that yeah so he's a legit shot to go 20 the stolen bases have completely gone by the wayside side and he can't H for average jiren Duran also has a 100 runs by the way so it's like jiren Duran is putting up first round numbers I just don't know if he doesn't belong in the conversation you say Julio Rodriguez should he go over Julio maybe like yeah I'm not opposing I'm just saying there's like a glob kind of at the back of the first early second where you could make arguments pros and cons for almost all of them yeah I understand I understand the Duran love I just don't think it'll happen is what I'm thinking yeah it'll it'll get there Lee asked Gunner or Durant gunar clearly a gunner was the fourth pick in this draft and that was pretty easy yeah yeah yeah yeah Gunner's still the guy but uh it's just kind of an incredible run that he continues to keep going on and the numbers are insane uh another great run for a guy that'll be second or third run Jackson Cheerio has not slowed down hit a two-run homer also a stolen base uh when the Brewers lost here and this is another one of those guys that's like um you know it's funny I beat I don't know if you're implying this like shout out to the glob there's actually a glob I think of of great hitters this year between probably the midc round to the third round I should say next year and there's going to be this glob and it's going to be the like carols and the durans and then to lower degrees it's going to be the cheros and the James Wood and Jackson Merrills yeah all those guys are going to be in there but anything on Cheerio right now dude all I got to say is I was watching that game cherio took out the top left corner of the scoreboard with that home run it was like 464 feet off of Logan web and then he played great def like the kid is so good and he's only 20 like it's unreal uh some pitching stuff out there Jeffrey Springs tossed five shutout innings in a no decision he ended up giving up one hit walk two struck out nine and I really also put this on here to say like dude he looks like he is back into his vintage self and that's another one of those guys that I do think he's going to as the offseason goes on he will start creeping up and up but I don't know if initial ranks are going to be appropriate on where he really should be because if you remember Jeffrey Springs was like what top 20 25 SP like in the in the hey he's going to break out and then he got hurt maybe he's around that vicinity but I love what we're seeing at a Jeffree Springs right now and I I just think you know it's back to Vintage and this is what you want also because he's not um he's not a big Power thrower you know what I mean like he's a guy that really works off of that change up and that he's already got that back it's a huge sign for next year and it's a great sign for the rest of this year yep definitely it's it's great for the rest of this year downside is's only going to throw 79 to 80 pitches it looks like every start so this year is going to be limited but great going in the next season look like he's healthy and should be back in that top 20 25 discussion for sure I will give you one that I am immensely IM immensely impressed with and I sat down um you know how this goes sometimes we're just like we're all over the place with uh games and you know where your focus can be on certain players I don't know if I had sat down and like give complete Focus to Spencer swell and boach in a in a game like you know what I'm saying like where you actually sit down you're like I'm GNA watch every pitch and I'm gonna go seen an inning I go over I don't actually clicking isn't that funny that was our change the channel thing saw you just showed your age you just showed your you just totally AED yourself there I don't click anything anymore except my mouse I would just be like click click click to change over keep talking about clicks let's have some and but like I'll watch like an inning or something like that but I watched the whole thing and Spencer swellen boach has definitely taken another step up and I know everybody you know has paid attention really knows that uh he ended up striking out eight I took his strikeout total over yesterday but that combination of the high 90s foring fastball the cutter that he can even uh slide a bit the splitter which has got double action he'll throw it high he'll throw it like the change up and the curveball I think I'm gonna be wildly high on Spencer swell and boach next year in Dynasty I want to buy him right now no matter what happens even it gets blown you know what get blown up in one start give me a discount I want to buy him in Dynasty I'm moving him way up in my Dynasty ranks and this is one of those dudes like I think he could be a top 25 SP next season like out the gates Bubba I might be I might be going a little bit too nuts about it but I love the repertoire I love the fast ball like the confidence massive strikeouts in there I think I'm gonna be one of the high high guys on swellen Bach I don't know where he went in that 10 round if he went but I legit think like this this is going to be he's going to be one of my huge breakout guys for next season yeah he's a 10th rounder and it's a it's a fun conversation because I I'm with you I think he's legit I think he's going to be very very good could take a step forward uh he feels like a good SP2 sp3 in fantasy right now I don't think he's the ace yet of course in that tier but no could be very very good and he'll be like the sp3 or four on Atlanta which bodess phenomenally well in that question so I think he's legit I'm with you and I was very bullish out the gate because minor league numbers look like a lot of pitch to contact which scares me at the big league level and he has Contin to improve as you said and the strikeouts have been amazing so I'm a big fan as well yeah no and like I'm agreeing with you but I wasn't like I'm I'm fully admitting like I wasn't like oh I love I was out I was out on him I told people not to pick him up he first came up that's what I'm saying I I was not on board because he was minor league wise looked like a pitch to contact guy and I didn't want anything to do with that he's he's completely he's completely changed his how he pitches basically it's been yeah no that that's where I'm at I me he's a two two uh two-way player too the guy was a shortstop but I think he's a bulldog out there I think his stuff is disgusting and nasty and he's going to get better into the offseason he's just he's going to be one of my favorite players also a fun note I think a lot of people saw this but the swellen boach versus Simeon Woods Richardson was the longest last name uh pitcher versus pitcher matchup in MLB history and then I think they said like when you added in the first name it was like 40 characters between the two or just some nonsense but schwellenbach versus Woods Richardson your biggest name is ridiculous I actually love those guys with those crazy names too there's a guy on the Rangers who's in the minor leagues I think it was like the longest name in history like no joke it was like it was like a horseshoe like it literally went up and it went all the way down under the number the name was so long like Sal lakia yeah used to wrap around I love Sal lakia that's a really good one uh O'Neal Cruz I just want to point this out he's batting third today uh I think playing at this moment but more importantly he is finally in the Outfield he had been dhing the last couple days he is starting in center field that's the new transition for him I also want to point out I did this I think on itl but like oal Cruz if you don't pay attention to him is really really good and he's not beating the expectation of the big homers because because here's the deal everyone was like he's just not going to hit for average the dude I think is hitting at two 270 marker he yesterday he hit a double and what I was telling bogs was what I think is so trippy is if you if I would have told you I'll tell ask you this right now I would have told you hey he's gonna hit 265 next season if I would have told you that in March what would you have said that statline is going to look like if O'Neal Cruz is hitting over 260 I'm thinking 30 I think he's the 3030 guy yeah I told bogs I was like I probably hit 40 homers so I think the disappointment has come from he actually hasn't tapped in to the P he's you know barreling he's hitting hard he's just not getting the ball I guess enough in the air but like he's hitting for great average he I think he just he stole a third base yesterday so he's gonna be a 2020 guy probably not going to be a 2525 but with a good batting average I don't know I felt like people were very indifferent about onal Cruz I I think he's way better than anyone's giving him credit for so yep he's been great the production's awesome I think part of the thing that's hurting him is in the preseason everyone did the lazy Ellie dily Cruz versus O'Neal Cruz discussion and Ellie's just been off the chart O'Neal's been banged up a little bit so it's kind of overshadowed him but yes O'Neal's been very very good the move to the Outfield could be fun too so I'm excited about I mean I I we talked about that but I also said like I thought they were different Ellie was gonna steal bases onal was gonna hit homers I'm just I'm a little surprised at the where the Home Run rate has been but he just hasn't been getting the ball in the air a ton he absolutely crushes it but once he learns to get the ball in the air with that batting average it's going to go and I think that Outfield eligibility all but helps next year you're going to be able to put him in the middle infield and you're going to be able to put him in the Outfield that's huge yeah gonna be the Jazzy Jazz of the world it's gonna be fun yeah but he does you know get hurt a little bit and then finally in this and we'll answer some questions my boy Justin steel allowed two earn runs of five innings struck out six was able to get the win and I'm actually more posting this because this is going to be super cool because they mentioned it last night on a stream on for you guys that be Friday we're g to be doing a show with Justin steel myself Derek Brown Justin Cubs Ace Justin steel and fantasy Guru Drew it's gonna be a football thing but we're gonna be doing a live Mock Draft live like we're going to be doing it and it's going to be up on the YouTube uh fantasy pros YouTube channel which is going to be super cool and we're going to be filling that mock draft on our Discord so another cool perk fantasypros.com chat where we're going to be hanging out with Justin steel so he's striking out out dudes and going to be uh drafting rosters he a DFS guy they were doing Mad DFS rosters by the way Bubba he said he's got like a 40% best ball share on Trey McBride big tight end guy too hey I'm uh two for two with Trey McBride shares in my fantasy league so I'm pretty fun that hey I've always loved Justin steel now now it's making sense oh okay nice yeah there you go so all right yeah but Justin steel wellsh Justin steel x Welsh uh to well we're recording it tomorrow but it'll be on the YouTube channel so I think that'll be uh pretty fun probably won't talk a lot of uh baseball but maybe we'll do a little bit all right let's answer some questions we'll burn through pistol looking for saves Jorge Lopez or Podge it's a coin toss looks like it's like I like Podge better but they're both getting their fair share um yeah I guess Podge is is fine by me uh Matt says uh big Christmas or jock for the rest of the week it's uh it's Christmas in August everybody I like jock but uh Joan Kinsey's been uh playing lefties of course half the righties and just been beasting out right now dude I I mentioned this in itl too if you look at big christmas' um like overall or underlying numbers yeah he might be the dude he might be like what Naylor was like two years ago because it's like 19% Barrel rate um over 50% hard hit rate he gets the ball in the air almost like a 20 degree launch angle he just needs to stop striking out and that's improving that's improving too he's getting better yeah like he might be a huge breakout for next year who did you say for this one I picked Noel um yeah I go with Noel I think they're giving him regular playing time jock is still you know he's P pure platoon he's a pretty good pretty damn good platoon but oh he's awesome yeah in a daily League probably play jock but I'll take JN Kinsey for the yeah they don't like to play him a a big Christmas big Christmas i' I think I've told this big Christmas he's one of the I've it's one of the furthest balls I've ever seen hit in the back fields it was at the Rangers stadium and the Rangers it goes like here's the field and then there like right here is the facility like right behind the uh center field wall is their their workout area and then there's this big net and everything like that and then there's a parking lot to the left he didn't hit I'm sorry he didn't hit the Homer but he hit it so far it went over where the netting was it went past the building and went into the parking lot and bounced over to the Royal side and I know I'm not I'm trying to like give you guys the audio version of that it was stupid it was one of the D that guy's that guy's power is like 500 home run 500 feet home run type of power but I think you know that Michael impo says is Julio droppable in a 10 team I don't think that's out of the question of possibilities because there in a 10 Team league the waiver wire should be pretty plush with options to string link the week I could move on from uh Julio right now yes uh I want to look at his numbers over this last recent time I think these questions should bad it's bad is it really that bad I mean that team in general by the way worse than replacement level talent I was looking at this team it's crazy they have the number I mean I think you guys know this they have the number one erra in baseball they also I think had like a top 10 Bullpen erra and they I believe are like the actual worst as far as run scored per game they or their bottom three in run score I mean it is literally the Polar Polar Opposites how you have the maybe the best rotation in all of baseball and you can't put it together with Julio and you know you you go out and get Randy or Ros Arena uh he is hitting oh man 167 in August right now he had a 267 pre-all-star break average he's down to 156 in the second half I mean this is the type of year and redraft you could do it if there's like a cool alternative that was sitting out there yeah sure one of the you know one of those dudes that we've been talking about that were like hey he shouldn't be available you know like how like Tyler Fitzgerald has been dude I I got one for you would you rather Julio or Jake McCarthy I'll take Jake McCarthy right now easy think yeah I think it's I think it is Jake uh all right let's see what else we got here JJ said that Texas Chicago is are they replaying their game today you know I would love to know too because I had a little parlay bet yesterday for the Padres to win which they did and for uh Texas and Chicago to have a nerfy and it got suspended and it still they didn't like cash me out they're just like holding it they're holding it hostage for I don't know what the hell I don't know what is going on with that game I on the schedule today it's restarting today and then so it's basically a double header since they only threw four pitches but they're going to play that game and then start the second one right afterwards okay I need to see it I need to my catch it was it was a it wasn't a like a su it was a suspended game not a postponed game What's the difference suspended means they're going to pick up where they left off postponed you'd start over they they four pitches Garrett crochet the white sock white socks this so bad they threw crochet who doesn't even throw more than four Innings he has two starts this week threw four pitches we probably lost him for the rest of the week it's that's the white socks going full way and by the way it's actually criminal because I bet that because I wanted crochet versus uh what was it ivaldi or heene or whatever it is and now and now I'm Gonna Get You Know Dane Dunning versus uh whoever some awful you still get hey but you'll get whoever the white socks thr out there which doesn't matter that's really stupid by the way uh all right let me see if we can get to a couple more here Amaya or ohappy rest of the season Amaya has been one of the hottest catchers on The Wire right now yeah Maya's on fire I guess if it's a shallow league go Amaya if it's deeper I'd still stick with ohpp just cuz I think he's the overall better player but ohay has been on fire so like I If you want to play the hot hand for the last four weeks of the Season go for it if you were desperate I would I would go oh Hoy like in a vacuum but I'm fine with Amaya because he's been like really hot uh this is an interesting one we're gonna talk about beo in a little bit would you stream beo or arag Getti today um I'm down with both I mean arag Getti is scary he's scary because he's going up against Philly but dude has had a second half three and a half ra so he's been a and a strikeout guy bto's been decent I'd probably stream both just know what you're getting into there's blow up potentials V going up what against the Reds so American yeah yeah I mean that's a little bit scary uh arti ail is scary I don't know I I I guess it depends on your situation I think they are both streamable pitchers is a better way to put it deeper formats both in play beo better next week twep I'll take Eric Getty today though Philadelphia is a good offense but overall the last 30 days have taking a big step back for shes yeah all right and then Jack said uh what's up Boyce uh McCarthy or Jazz let's just assume it's I don't know redraft this year McCarthy really I'm guessing it's rest of season so I'm guessing Jazz I don't think is fully healthy he hasn't looked the same since he came back so give me McCarthy I'm gonna go jazz on that one but like I get it I get it all right was there any others that we wanted to hit look at us uh oh uh can we trust Burns against the Dodgers today I'd prefer other options if you have them I mean but like when you when you roster Corbin burns like what else is it that you like that's your guy that's your number one guy I don't like this if you're asking that question you can't afford it is the way I look at it yeah big man you can't afford it big man I uh I probably still put him out there for being honest if I am hugging ratios though I would not yeah then I would also probably avoid all right good questions get you guys uh prepped into this week for whatever the hell you're doing trying to get into the playoffs or that you are actually there um let's go over to a little three up and three down Zeke Zeki Tovar three for four two homers four RBI yesterday dude I don't know what to make of him next year because like he has he's one of the worst plate presents in baseball the way he just whiffs through in the strikeouts I just I don't know I'm not I don't know about it but like then he puts off these performances to homers for RBI where did did he go in the top 10 rounds of your guys's thing let me check um Let me give me one second here because that name does not stand out so I don't think I bet he didn't because that would have been like the top 120 yeah no he did not yeah I don't oh Tovar did Tovar did Tovar did because uh he went like round eight or nine okay so right on the back there was eight Short Stops taken in the first three rounds so then and then there was like four or five more the rest of the draft that's interesting that's very interesting um by the way another one Matt hers trustable versus the Cubs Revenge narrative absolutely DJ hers has been awesome the underlying metrics are phenomenal he's a guy I want everywhere next year yeah strikeouts baby uh Victor roblas two for four with two stolen bases he's been about the life of the Mariners offense as of recent and Logan Gilbert speaking of six Innings 10 strikeouts gets them in the position every single time that team is absolutely wild they might have because well it's perceivable that they are going to have five pitchers that are going to go in the top 10 Rounds next season because I saw in your guys's draft Brian woo went there Brian Woo is GNA be a huge breakout candidate for next season if he can stay healthy you got Bryce Miller Logan Gilbert Kirby and Castile you're gonna have four do you think there's ever been an entire rotation five pitchers in the first 10 Rounds no way no way and it's going to happen all draft season baring an injury like they're that good yeah and I'm I'm going to be in on uh on the down rotary munes garbage one and onethird of an inning six earned runs crap Jared Jones back four earned he had five or I'm sorry four Innings five earned runs he walked three just doesn't look like that Jared Jones from the beginning of the year where he was just pounding these power fast balls up and no one could get it it's kind of hitable yep kind of hitable right now Bubba it's not it's not good it uh things looked really good early on and um yeah I'm with you it's not good and I don't even trust starting these days so it's tough yeah look at wonky too by the way Burns is undroppable in your ESPN League come on wonky we know what the issue with that is ESPN League yeah what are we doing H also on the down Taylor walls 0 for four with four strikeouts on the injury Market there are some daack updates I guess I was talking about all the reinforcements the other teams in the NL West are going to get the Dbacks are going to get some reinforcements from the I I here shortly I suppose unfortunately it won't be in the rotation catel Marte has resumed hitting which is a great sign the Diamondbacks definitely need him back also Christian Walker took batting practice on Tuesday so both of those coming back that will give a new jolt for the Diamondbacks plus I need the Diamondbacks to pick up 10 wins to the rest of the year to cash my over on their uh win total for the I like those chances a lot like you're sitting pretty there I feel decent about it but like I said I've got I got a couple of these bets right now where my Ellie one is locked my Ellie stolen base lead the league we're good we're we're good on Ellie uh but I've got the Diamondback win total I've got Jackson Marill rookie of the year and then I got I have onil Cruz over 24 and a half homers so I need seven homers from now to the end of the year and I don't feel great about that one yeah Jackson Merill the like three out of four on those that's going to pay pretty nice oh yeah no we're going to have we're have a good cash day on some of the future betting so we'll do some more next season uh but we need those reinforcements and fantasy reinforcements for Christian Walker and catel Marte coming back another interesting one that happened in your guys's draft I was actually shocked at how high he did go Jacob De gram fired two perfect Innings on Tuesday in the minor league rehab assignment uh tripa Round Rock so he is looking like you know they are positioning him to get maybe two starts uh to end the season something like that I think that's what they're looking for and I believe he went in the third round so if he if you have him I think I'm relatively comfortable just throwing him right back out there whatever you know he's going to do for this season if you want that little boost for Fantasy next season you're getting really almost no discount because this version of deg Grom which shouldn't get anything crazy is already going in the third round of your guys's draft you did which you know in like like more consumer type drafts that maybe that's like the fourth or fifth but also shows you he's going to creep up so even if he's a fifth round guy by the end of the preseason or the spring training he's probably gonna be back into the third round oh easily easily he's gonna be there was times he was going in the first and second round in the past so if he shows that he's back to being de gram he's going early there's no doubt about that I just I mean I'm the I've always been the biggest dummy about deg Gro I'm like guys he's the best but that is the truth it's actually it's Sim similarly my Mike Trout argument where if you give me the player that is injury-prone and also the production goes away I'll I'll relent and I'll I'll you know on my back belly like okay I'm wrong but like that's why that was my argument with panowski on this show in the offseason was like his argument was he's gonna get hurt and he's not good anymore and I was like well he might get hurt but he is still good and I I was Technic I mean I was right about that he was still good but then he of course had an even worse injury and panowski got the win but that's the same thing with deg Gro and was always my argument problem is when he's out there he's one of the best pitchers in all of baseball it's just are we now are we too far gone that you just know like it's May if at best it's 80 Innings and that's where I need to come to terms with like he's the best pitcher in baseball when he is out there except you might get 12 Innings or you might get 80 you're just not going to get 140 yeah you're not getting the full deal you kind of I treat it like the the Cur Shaw situation you're going to get 80 to 100 innings are those good enough for where you're picking him it depends but you can't go in the third round if that's the case no no you can't but yeah that's why I'll never draft him personally because it's just too rich for my blood but some people might believe it's like you know some people said the same thing about Tyler glass now this past year and he's got a career high endings already I know he's HT again but back on the second trip he's already been worth all all that draft Capital so you never know it's just it's a tough game because deg Grom is that good that it might only take like 120 Innings to pay off a third round we're going to have the best debates in the offseason me and Joe with the de gram stuff it'll be fun another guy that we'll be debating Sandy Elantra Tommy John surgery last October says he would be able to return to the mound before the end of the year if the Marlins would let him which I can be honest with they actually think they should you should let him get a start in if this is true just like one start on the back end but I don't think they're doing any of it it's going to be all offseason work and we'll get him back but it looks like we're lining up to like be okay back with Sandy for next season which is a huge plus there's another guy I'd rather have Sandy of course over to but I I don't know if they went like that in your draft no it's oh no we lost Bubba's audio did you come back I don't know why I just oh there you are there you go PR just muted me out of nowhere that was fun um yeah like your take apparently no Sandy went around nine or 10 so they would yeah no I think that's stupid I think that's dumb that's ridiculous uh the other injuries uh the injury stood at least that's out there Grayson Rodriguez progressed to playing catch from 90 feet that was at Dodger Stadium and Liam Hendricks is on track to return to the Red Sox bullpen here in September so there you go there's some good positive news friendos let's talk about some bets what are we betting well we got it for the Best Bets of the day with Bubba in the Welsh brought to you by bet 365 by the way you can use promo code yes leading off where you can bet $5 to get 150 in bonus bets go and use that promo code leading off today $5 for 150 and you can take part in some of these fun bets that we got going on bubba you are uh an absolute fireman on this show with prop betting hit run RBIs are buba specialty so please tell us you got some that are going to cash today well we we're going total basis tonight because hit run RBI the Market's gotten way too ridiculous is a tough Market it's gotten bad so we're going to Total Bas it's got the Clean Sweep last week so we're going to do it again here JJ BL in Great America small park over one and a half at plus 130 it should be a lot of offense in that game so give me some JJ blay they had no Lawrence Butler options I was very angry on that I was about to ask you I know there's GNA be a Lawrence Butler there was no Lawrence Butler options I was not happy on that one um Jackson Marl it's even money over one and a half at plus 100 the dude just keeps getting it done Palante on the mound I don't see that slowing down and I'll go Jackson Cheerio we'll ride the hot hand they're over one and a half at plus 120 Kyle Harrison on the bump for the Giants he's been All or nothing and um this Brew's offense is legit Trio H at the top of the order so I'll take plus money on an over one and a half there as well I like well I'm going to be betting against a little bit in that first inning uh some bets I've got going today I'm actually going as vdoo on the strikeouts I'm going with the over strikeouts it's four and a half right at minus 110 going up against the Reds that is a strikeout aable team if you will and as of recent I believe VTO has hit this marker in six straight I think it's like six straight games so this is a pretty fair line so we're going to go with beo over strikeouts otherwise I'm going nerfy today and I am going with San Francisco and Milwaukee on the nerfy Milwaukee has been I CED this yesterday with with different lineup Toby Myers and Logan web close to not getting it with Logan Webb yesterday but um Milwaukee's like a middlin firstr run scoring team while San Francisco is a lot closer to the bottom you're right this is going to like go right away from me immediately or I think this is going to be a really good opportunity so it's paying out decent like minus 125 for a nerfy at this point so I like this one because I I do like the pitching matchup early on uh the other one we're gonna go Atlanta and Minnesota obviously this is a Chris Sale bet anytime I can find Chris sale nerfy that are not minus 150 I pay attention to them and obviously the other pitcher is going to be important here and David Festa is one I actually think I'm relatively comfortable with now these are two bigger Powerhouse offenses but I am betting sa is my lock and then confest to hold down that top end of the Braves order I think they can actually I think that Braves lineup is a little bit beat up right now and Festa has been okay so I'm gonna go with the nerfy Atlanta Minnesota so beo over strikeouts the San Francisco Milwaukee nerfy Atlanta Minnesota nerfy and then Bubba has got over blade Merill and sherio total bases and I will also tell you I almost did the Merill total bases one in here and shout out to my boy Dennis Sidler who just did a signing with Jackson Merill yesterday got some fun stories got some cool stuff and we're gonna have some more fun Jackson Merill stuff here behind us and I'm gonna try to pick up a thing or two uh for next year because I want to do some more giveaways here on leading off if you guys want some merch yeah some Jackson Merl I have the bet I'm so excited to share it I could actually ask him if I can even share it on but I have the best thing to share with you like I my new bit by the way let me see if I can I think I've shown people this I have one that I'm going to do a giveaway of soon but my new bit is getting the autographs with like special inscriptions so have you seen this one this is the Cole Reagan you see what that says no what's it say it says Welsh throw the cutter or throw the cutter Welsh so if you know the bit so that's Cole Reagan's autograph one I have a Jackson Merl one and it's phenomenal and you guys are going to be so excited to see it yeah yeah that's the where in the world are welshon we actually were doing that Bogman and I were talking who will be my best friend next year because two years ago it was Carol uh this year it was Justin steel and Merill maybe maybe Merill will be the new best friend for next season so I'm I'm open to best friends so we're on the lookout for my 2025 baseball best friend but there you go those are our Best Bets of the day my friends home run call let's finish this bad boy out we're giving people extra content today what are you doing on the Home Run board we're picking on Walker beer cuz he's garbage these days we're going with Anthony santand there finding the cheap seats in Chavez Ravine all right well I think I uh I inspired you because I'm gonna go with gunar Henderson on this one so we're sticking into that do not like the Walker buer not into the Walker bu at all into the Gunner Henderson for getting some homer so I like that and the Home Run board by the way I am still not there I think I am I think I'm still at 33 I can't believe no one has jumped up won's at 37 still at 16th Place Joey has got 13th Place on hold for 39 but we have one person that has got 51 that is South African G I believe yeah this is the updated board this looks the same as the other day uh 51 for South African G bet Trot at 48 and my boy Larry at 45 so it is I don't know South African G's got a really good hold on this but it's still anybody's game except mine it is not my game it's just me to try to get on the board there you go friends that is it uh bubba love you brother GNA see you next week yeah we'll talk we also tell everybody the plan for September we'll do it on Friday Joe Rico will be back on Friday get lots of Bubba and Joe in September as well hopefully you guys have a great week you know where to find us you can catch us over on uh the Discord fantasypros.com chat join up with the community ask questions or you can find me on Twitter is it the Welsh or Bubba BD INRI you guys have a fantastic day and we'll talk to you next time right here on leading off goodbye friends