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Speaker 1: me Joey p. That of course is the Welsh and
Speaker 1: we've got trade winds a blow in. We spoke about
Speaker 1: it last week Welsh. He said, look, the Mariners got
Speaker 1: to be first to the market before the big boys
Speaker 1: enter the dance, and sure enough they were. We had
Speaker 1: a no hitter yesterday. But I want to start with
Speaker 1: the Mariners making a move desperate to get some help
Speaker 1: with the offense. Well, I know if it's too little,
Speaker 1: too late, but Randy a Rose Arena officially now a
Speaker 1: member of the Mariner So the Rays making some room.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing I think for the Rays and
Speaker 1: their lineups. But a Rose Arena is now going to
Speaker 1: the Seattle side of things, to the West coast, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a great move for the Mariners. I
Speaker 1: hope it's a player that they plan to keep around
Speaker 1: for a while, because can't just be you know, Rosarina
Speaker 1: next year too, or is he a free agent?
Speaker 2: The no I believe he's got one or two more
Speaker 2: years under him, So that's why a very good move. Then, yeah,
Speaker 2: some of the things in this were maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit of a question. I don't know the trade side,
Speaker 2: like I want to even hold back. Everyone's so bitchy
Speaker 2: about like, oh we trade to this guy, you're trade
Speaker 2: to that guy. And the cost and the dah da
Speaker 2: da da.
Speaker 1: Dall Aidan Smith and Brody Hopkins, those are the two
Speaker 1: pieces they went.
Speaker 2: I feel that that was kind of light in a
Speaker 2: Randia Rosen rain of trade. I believe he's at least
Speaker 2: signed through next year. I'm not sure. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's anything beyond that. Aiden Smith has played really well
Speaker 2: this year. Hopkins gets some really good grades. He wasn't
Speaker 2: on like the big, big radar for everybody, even in
Speaker 2: the Mariners organization, but we know they really like them.
Speaker 2: There's already been some breakdowns, really good fastball. Shape has
Speaker 2: this really good sweeper. So it's like a classic raised
Speaker 2: type of a trade.
Speaker 1: Two years so, I mean, twenty five, twenty six, still.
Speaker 2: See that, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's actually even Many's thirty. He's gonna be thirty next year.
Speaker 1: Year thirty one the year after. That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I thought that they were going to be including one
Speaker 2: of the upper prospects in a type peat. Now there
Speaker 2: is a player to be named later and that could
Speaker 2: be a bigger piece here, of course. But you know,
Speaker 2: Aids bit this fine. Hopkins has been fine. But they
Speaker 2: didn't trade a TYPEE. They didn't trade a Colt Emerson.
Speaker 2: They weren't going to trade on the tippy tippy top.
Speaker 2: But like Typete was the guy that I thought they
Speaker 2: would do. And Randy's been struggling this year, hitting only
Speaker 2: two eleven, but he's been hitting over two seventy the
Speaker 2: last two months combined two ninety one in June, two
Speaker 2: seventy five so far in July seven homers. Seven of
Speaker 2: his fifteen have come in these last two months, you know,
Speaker 2: month and a half or whatever it is. And we're
Speaker 2: starting to see kind of the kickback. We're starting to
Speaker 2: see him, you know, bring back the game that we've
Speaker 2: known from Randa Rose Raina. His barrel percentage is moving
Speaker 2: up career high launch angle, and I think that's also
Speaker 2: been part of the pressing, is him getting the ball
Speaker 2: in the air. But now, like you said, like too little,
Speaker 2: too late. I don't know. This is great lineup protection
Speaker 2: for the future. It is a great stop gap piece
Speaker 2: while they're trying to get Julio back so they can
Speaker 2: get this offense kind of revved up. But the thing, Joe,
Speaker 2: that I'm not even like surprised about, because it's so
Speaker 2: much more difficult to do than just to say, I
Speaker 2: really thought they would try to get eastoc Parade's package
Speaker 2: in this deal as well, just do a big, mega
Speaker 2: trade and really overhaul that offense. They got one piece.
Speaker 2: I think this is great and Toss.
Speaker 1: I mean that's possible. Maybe this is just, you know,
Speaker 1: one of many, because we know Julio is going to
Speaker 1: be out for a while with that high ankle. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a few weeks for sure. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a great move. Rozori is a great player.
Speaker 1: He's an All Star caliber player, and now you've got
Speaker 1: a core of an offense. Now you can go out
Speaker 1: on the free agency and get some more pieces, and
Speaker 1: you still have this tremendous pitching staff that's going to
Speaker 1: be intact for another year next year. So this is
Speaker 1: a good move for now, a good move for the
Speaker 1: next two years. I absolutely love it. Also, as we said,
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceese made history a no hitter Thursday against the Nats.
Speaker 1: He was touching one hundred in the final ending amazing
Speaker 1: step one hundred and fourteen pitches. He looked absolute spectacular. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it was great. It's been a great season for
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceas three five zero ERA one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: eight strike outs. He's gonna have the Dodgers next week
Speaker 1: at home, so congratulations to him. But this wasn't the
Speaker 1: only news yesterday too. A lot of stuff coming in
Speaker 1: the mall.
Speaker 2: Hold on before we move on, because I didn't want
Speaker 2: to like move right past the seas thing. I just
Speaker 2: want to mention two things on his actual stuff. Thirty
Speaker 2: three percent whiff right, fifty five swings through one hundred
Speaker 2: and fourteen pitches, eighteen swing and whiffs ridiculous, csw was good,
Speaker 2: Vlo slider and fastball were up in this start like
Speaker 2: over like a mile and a half over across the
Speaker 2: board and this Unfortunately, there's always been some inconsistencies with
Speaker 2: Dylan Cees, like people complain about like oh, there's you know,
Speaker 2: four run outing, but like this is also who he is.
Speaker 2: It's very like the Taj Bradley types. You know, Cease
Speaker 2: is actually the pinnacle of it. He's the core player.
Speaker 2: Tadj Bradley is more likely Dylan Ceaese type. But this
Speaker 2: is what you get sometimes from these guys. But a
Speaker 2: fun fact was Luisa Rise was the player that broke
Speaker 2: up his no hitter. Whatever it was a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago with the White Sox, maybe it was like
Speaker 2: a year ago or two. Luis Rise was the player
Speaker 2: that got the final out for them and handed him
Speaker 2: the ball from the no hitter. I saw them talking
Speaker 2: about that. I thought that was like a really cool,
Speaker 2: like weird, you know, just weird thing that ended up happening,
Speaker 2: that had broken up. Yeah, very baseball thing to happen, exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the way those things go. But I wish I
Speaker 1: had shares of Dylan Cease. It was a good trade
Speaker 1: when the Padres made it. Padre is still kicking around.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not dead yet, for sure, the Marlins,
Speaker 1: they're dead. They traded Aj Puck to your Diamondbacks, so
Speaker 1: a little bit of help there in the bullpen for
Speaker 1: the d Backs. They traded Davison, Dela Santos, and Andrew Pintart.
Speaker 1: Now Dela Santos has been a guy who been talking
Speaker 1: about forever leading the league in the minor leagues, I
Speaker 1: should say at home runs, did this surprise you at all?
Speaker 1: That that's all it took to get you know? For
Speaker 1: all they got for Dela Santos was that, Like, I
Speaker 1: guess this is the thing. The Diamondbacks's not to love
Speaker 1: this guy in the first play, But I mean, how
Speaker 1: do you argue with the results? I understand the rule
Speaker 1: five thing and it came back and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's been a weird road for him. I understand the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks have been a little slow, But
Speaker 1: do you think they're just gonna say, hey, we got
Speaker 1: to cash it on this guy now and Puck is
Speaker 1: enough in terms of age that we're gonna give it
Speaker 1: a shot. It's kind of weird one to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple there's a couple things with this,
Speaker 2: so like I instant rec and this makes me I
Speaker 2: forget sometimes because maybe I'm baby they're coddled a little bit.
Speaker 2: Without having negativity on my timeline, I baby you too much. Well,
Speaker 2: the Peanuts, a cracker Jacks, everyone's so nice and stuff.
Speaker 2: I instant reacted to this trade last night because I
Speaker 2: was like, what what? Because I've watched AJ Puck this year,
Speaker 2: but in transparency, I've watched him a lot as a starter,
Speaker 2: and he is awful as a starter. They moved him
Speaker 2: to the bullpen. So my instant reaction, just instantly reacting
Speaker 2: to it, was like, what are they doing? David the
Speaker 2: Dea la Santos has been a top five overall Minor
Speaker 2: league hit or the entire higher season the home run,
Speaker 2: and he's doing it at a really, really low age
Speaker 2: to level. So you're trading off this huge bat. Andrew
Speaker 2: Pinar is also not something to just scoff at. He's
Speaker 2: played in the infield. He could be a super util
Speaker 2: guy who can run blah blah blah. And I got
Speaker 2: I was getting killed by people because I called puck
Speaker 2: men and everyone's like, oh, the disciplined you haven't looked
Speaker 2: at He's been awesome in July. He is one of
Speaker 2: the worst starters. There are two things I counted on
Speaker 2: earlier in the year. Joe it was six Do Sanchez
Speaker 2: the team against him was going to score all the runs,
Speaker 2: So take the overrun total and AJ Puck walking three
Speaker 2: or more. So if you got two and a half,
Speaker 2: you would always bet the over on walks because he
Speaker 2: was awful. So my instant reaction was that before looking
Speaker 2: into it, and people were just being such whiners about it,
Speaker 2: and he has been good, but to their credit, AJ
Speaker 2: Puck has been good July, he's striking out guys the
Speaker 2: walk numbers.
Speaker 1: Or he's not a starting down. That's it.
Speaker 2: He's not a star.
Speaker 1: But to the main you want to give up a
Speaker 1: twenty one year old power hitter for a bullpen guy,
Speaker 1: and I think the answer is unequivocally no. To me,
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad.
Speaker 2: Move and attempting not to make it a stupid middle
Speaker 2: relief trade for the Diamondbacks into ten minutes and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. My reaction is like, well, you're doing a
Speaker 2: good job. I am doing a very good judgment, even
Speaker 2: with Puck being good over this period of time. To
Speaker 2: trade one of the best minor league hitters for a
Speaker 2: middle relief guy, I don't like it regardless, even if
Speaker 2: Puck has been good. But to your point, I was
Speaker 2: told the Diamondbacks do not trust his defensive ability. They
Speaker 2: really didn't feel that they had a future hurt for
Speaker 2: him in the National League.
Speaker 1: Now for years, but.
Speaker 2: They didn't value the offense enough. There was also maybe,
Speaker 2: like I saw a radio person out here locally talk
Speaker 2: about maybe work ethic was a question. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: A bad kid and like that's why they roll find
Speaker 1: him in the first place. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: the inner workings. And maybe he is. Maybe he's the
Speaker 1: next yoan Moncata type guy, Like I don't know. All
Speaker 1: I know is twenty one year old guys leading the
Speaker 1: minor leagues at home runs should bring you back more
Speaker 1: than a middle.
Speaker 2: I completely agree, and I just want to point out principle.
Speaker 2: The relief market is a wild, wild place. There was
Speaker 2: a rumor that Dinonbacks could have had Tanner Scott in
Speaker 2: this trade, but they didn't want a rental player. That's
Speaker 2: they did prioritize getting someone they had control of INMPUCK
Speaker 2: if they're going to give up Dayla Santo's. But a
Speaker 2: big point here is that relief market is going to
Speaker 2: be ridiculously stupid, So just keep an eye on it.
Speaker 2: It is going to cost more. I mean, perceivably, it
Speaker 2: seems like it costs more for aj Puck than Randy
Speaker 2: rose Arena. You can make that argument and that's gross.
Speaker 2: We don't know the player to be named is here,
Speaker 2: but the relief market's stupid.
Speaker 1: Question here from the Penuts and Cracker tracks from Dev Brau, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: do you like Yamamoto or Corochet more and Dynasty? That's interesting?
Speaker 1: I like Crochet more about you.
Speaker 2: They're so so close, Like I want to say Crochet.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say probably Yamamoto at this second, but
Speaker 2: the answer might be Crochet.
Speaker 1: Okay. More trades and things going on, potentially.
Speaker 2: We have one just happened by now what just happened?
Speaker 2: Literally just happened. Yeah, sorry, is going to go to that.
Speaker 2: The Phillies acquired Austin Hayes from the Orioles, and the
Speaker 2: Orioles picked up sar Anthony Dominguez and Christian Pashe. This
Speaker 2: happened and in the chat like three minutes ago. So
Speaker 2: that was a weird, like outfielders swap Austin Hayes. Though
Speaker 2: there's I mean, if he's gonna get regular time, there's
Speaker 2: some fantasy implications for him in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Because there are. That's not an if you're the Phillies
Speaker 1: and you're trying to beef up man, Austin Hayes is
Speaker 1: not the answer, like like there's got to be something
Speaker 1: else for you there. That's that can't beay a move.
Speaker 2: But it's also that is like the most low impact
Speaker 2: trade of all time to get someone that you can
Speaker 2: maybe put out as a starter every day.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Philly fans are not gonna be happy
Speaker 1: with that. What do you do in Austin Hayes What
Speaker 1: kind of trade is that? It's crap, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell apparently getting some interest to the Giants are
Speaker 1: kicking the tires. The Astro is one of those teams
Speaker 1: interested actually in Jamison, tai On and the Pirates apparently
Speaker 1: are sending some scouts to look at Jazz Chisholm Junior.
Speaker 1: I think Blake Snell could help a lot of teams
Speaker 1: Welsh certainly, you know some teams like the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: I would think that the Houston Astros. You know on
Speaker 1: Snell Snell, I think is is the way he's pitching
Speaker 1: his last couple of starts could be a huge game
Speaker 1: changer for rotation because I think he's finally right after
Speaker 1: all these many months of being wrong. He just looks
Speaker 1: like the guy who want to sell young so I
Speaker 1: think now's the time, and we knew it was going
Speaker 1: to be a rocky road and has been. But now
Speaker 1: he looks finally like himself, and I think that could
Speaker 1: be a huge difference maker down the stretch for.
Speaker 2: I think there was a report that was even saying
Speaker 2: these last three starts, seeing that he does look right
Speaker 2: is the reason why that market has picked up so much.
Speaker 2: He's had it looks like fifteen strikeouts over his last
Speaker 2: three starts. He's gone five through the last three. He's
Speaker 2: still having a little bit of a walk thing. But
Speaker 2: we also know that about Snell that he is like
Speaker 2: a controlled chaos type of guy. Like he will he's
Speaker 2: not afraid to walk players to kind of just matain
Speaker 2: his game. Yeah, control like Snell and a controlled chaos. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of an outwardly chaos type of guy.
Speaker 1: You're kind of yeah, You're I'm more controlled chaos. That's yeah, exactly. Cool.
Speaker 1: Guy Clayton Kershaw was back six case for him in
Speaker 1: four innings, could start against the Giants and Max Schurzer,
Speaker 1: who was apparently dealing with some arm fatigue and some issues. Well,
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts later in six innings, pretty good for the
Speaker 1: Rangers to get the win, although it was against the
Speaker 1: White Sox. Here's some fun things. There's been two guys
Speaker 1: been absolutely crushing life for the last month. Lawrence Butler,
Speaker 1: who had another two run home run yesterday, and TODs
Speaker 1: Bradley another six innings, struck out seven guys. How good
Speaker 1: have these guys been? Well in the last thirty days
Speaker 1: Lawrence Butler slash four oh eight four sixty two nine
Speaker 1: with a thirteen ninety two ops. That's how good he's been.
Speaker 1: And then on the pitching side in the last thirty
Speaker 1: days for Todd Bradley in five starts a point two
Speaker 1: zero ERA, four wins, thirty one innings, thirty six strikeouts,
Speaker 1: nine walks, point seventy nine whip. Butler made an adjustment
Speaker 1: with his hitting coach about keeping his head still and
Speaker 1: it's something I actually saw a little breakdown of and
Speaker 1: it was really interesting and you could see how much
Speaker 1: he is doing that now, and my god, what difference
Speaker 1: it has made. This is a strong athletic kid, and
Speaker 1: if he can harness that athleticism with good baseball fundamentals,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Laura's Butler is not a flash
Speaker 1: of the pan. Here this month. If this is something
Speaker 1: we can like start to watch the development of a
Speaker 1: kid at the major leagues. And then Bradley another guy
Speaker 1: talk about Night and Day. Last year it was a
Speaker 1: complete disaster. He was rushed to my major leagues because
Speaker 1: of injuries, and this year he is looking like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, him springs next year along with McClanahan potentially
Speaker 1: in that rotation, the Rays are gonna be back in
Speaker 1: a big way next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, on Butler real quick, it's interesting bring
Speaker 2: up bt Fouts kind of snarky comment. It's not at us,
Speaker 2: but it's just at life, saying I love how nobody's
Speaker 2: talked about Butler until he's over seventy five percent roster.
Speaker 2: And I actually think that's an interesting thing because, like
Speaker 2: I brought up Butler yesterday and on ITL, I was
Speaker 2: talking about him last week, but we heard a couple of.
Speaker 1: Weeks ago, and I think the answer was the same thing,
Speaker 1: which was, yeah, this kid's had some struggles in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues and he I mean, just like Reese Hines.
Speaker 1: We were saying, look, this kid's you know, maybe not
Speaker 1: you know, you got to take the great assault with
Speaker 1: a hot week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but not me. I mean, like, let's sit in
Speaker 2: bt Fouts's snark for a second in that you're not wrong,
Speaker 2: You're not wrong that like, like specifically me, I was
Speaker 2: discounting him a bit and I wanted like Jacob Wilson
Speaker 2: over him, like two weeks ago or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that I've kind of come
Speaker 2: to terms with too is he's been in A And
Speaker 2: I don't want to put like big markers on A's players,
Speaker 2: even though they've been really good. But there has been
Speaker 2: something at the major league level as far as what
Speaker 2: they're doing with the hitting coaches, Like you're talking about
Speaker 2: keeping your head straight. This isn't just Butler. It's been
Speaker 2: Brent Rooker this entire year. We've seen Geloff have the flashes.
Speaker 2: We've Abraham Toro was one of the leaders in like
Speaker 2: hard hit and barrel percentage earlier in the year. What
Speaker 2: they're doing and this is not something that I caught
Speaker 2: onto early enough to be like, oh, we do need
Speaker 2: to click on those that they are doing something at
Speaker 2: the major league level that is activating a lot of
Speaker 2: these powers from these guys. And Lawrence Butler, you're seeing it,
Speaker 2: You're seeing fifty two percent hard hit rate paired with
Speaker 2: a twelve percent beariate. Those are phenomenal. I'm gonna love
Speaker 2: those every time. Also in it, he's got an almost
Speaker 2: seventy five mile per prower swing on the bat speed
Speaker 2: seventy five, it's four point seven, which is way above average.
Speaker 2: You've got this fast swing for this guy that is
Speaker 2: keeping it all in line. Good barrel, good hard hit
Speaker 2: and expected batting average that is actually better than it
Speaker 2: currently is. All of those things have activated and locked,
Speaker 2: and he's becoming this really, really great player with all
Speaker 2: those tools. But I was dismissive of it simply because
Speaker 2: of the organization and it's like what run supports out
Speaker 2: there in the A's. But it took me too long,
Speaker 2: not about Butler, but to connect that. Oh, the A's
Speaker 2: are actually doing something developmentally great at the major league level,
Speaker 2: and they have activated these guys of like Abraham Torel,
Speaker 2: Lawrence Butler. Those were just not big dudes. So if
Speaker 2: he's out there, Schumann is another one of those. Lawrence
Speaker 2: Butler one hundred percent should be owned if he's not
Speaker 2: already owned. And we were talking about that as a
Speaker 2: replacement to yell At yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh well, yellich more to come on that too,
Speaker 1: also fun. James Paxon got picked up by the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: So there you go, going back to Boston again. James
Speaker 1: Paxon journeyman. I don't know. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are doing, get rid of starting pitchers. I just
Speaker 1: standing at all. They need starting pictures, like, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know if they need Paxton. They might need pictures been
Speaker 2: not packs, then.
Speaker 1: Why Paxton has been at least he's been there. At
Speaker 1: least he's made the starts. I mean, look, I mean
Speaker 1: I look. I'm not saying James pax is the greatest
Speaker 1: thing ever, but but I mean, at least he's been
Speaker 1: present for all of his starts, which is not something
Speaker 1: I guess we all thought would happen. Where what are
Speaker 1: the you know, what's the now that we've sullied his name?
Speaker 1: What are the starts on Pack.
Speaker 2: Four four three e RA A worst expected era, career
Speaker 2: low strikeout percentage, one of the career worst walk percentage
Speaker 2: twelve point three. That's one of the worst in the majors.
Speaker 2: That's equivalent to aj Puck as a starter. He's giving
Speaker 2: up some really bad hard hit numbers, but he has
Speaker 2: put up a bunch of innings eight point nine, but
Speaker 2: he's got a one point four to six whip and
Speaker 2: he has an eight and two record because he was
Speaker 2: a Dodger like six. Okay, so yeah, that's like, that's
Speaker 2: a good fifth starter who you're trying to replace.
Speaker 1: Y I guess, I thin guess he's taking the ball
Speaker 1: and he's given him innings and I think that's what
Speaker 1: they've needed so far. But yeah, again, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens here. Yeah, all right, let's do a little up
Speaker 1: and down here, three upland door about those Mets well
Speaker 1: to run Homer Thursday extra ning win over the Brave.
Speaker 2: I think they said they're buyers now I think they
Speaker 2: even need a statement that they're gonna they're not gonna sell,
Speaker 2: that they're gonna go buy stuff. Now, that's how fun
Speaker 2: is that? Windows?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, great, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Who would you like to buy? Who's on your buy list?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see that's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're getting Senga back today.
Speaker 2: We get Snell, Oh my god, go get Snell. Put
Speaker 2: him with Sanga. What an epic awesome disaster that could
Speaker 2: be or greatness?
Speaker 1: I don't know Snell isn't met Maybe maybe he's the
Speaker 1: exact goofp all they need. I don't know. Chris Sale
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts, two runs in that same game, unfortunately, no
Speaker 1: decision for him right in Lao four for four with
Speaker 1: a homer and three rebies. Three down, Kenny Rosenberg three
Speaker 1: and a third inning, six runs, Logan Web four runs
Speaker 1: and five innings at Riley Green, Oh for four. Not
Speaker 1: a good day against the Guardians. Injuries A lot to
Speaker 1: get to here, Ken Rosenthal speaking of Christian Yelich, Apparently
Speaker 1: he's gonna rest and rehab instead of undergoing the season
Speaker 1: ending surgery. So Welsh, I know you guys talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the Yelish thing yesterday. This is always the
Speaker 1: looming thing when it comes to Yelich every single year
Speaker 1: is he has a chronic back issue. And one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two games is a very long season. And
Speaker 1: I think at this point season long. I get it.
Speaker 1: When you're in a season long roader league, I understand,
Speaker 1: well Yelich can give you maybe one hundred games or
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty games, whatever it is. But he's
Speaker 1: just a guy that every years a pass for me
Speaker 1: because of this chronic issue that I think is just
Speaker 1: always gonna need now just part of it, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get incomplete seasons, and you're gonna get good stretches
Speaker 1: and bad stretches, and I just don't want to spend
Speaker 1: my fantasy dollar that way. But where are you at
Speaker 1: long term with Yelich too? Because from a dynast perspective,
Speaker 1: now this is really hurt it. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: sold him early, you did well, but now you're kind
Speaker 1: of stuck, and I don't know what the value is
Speaker 1: in Dynasty going forward for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's I think it's a little
Speaker 2: bit worse than it was in the preseason. I'd have
Speaker 2: to go look at my Dynasty ranks where I have him,
Speaker 2: But like I put him in that outside the top fifty,
Speaker 2: it's probably outside the top seventy five. It's like a
Speaker 2: mini Trout. It's not quite as trout esque, and obviously
Speaker 2: Yelich has the stolen bases that are going to be
Speaker 2: tagged on along with it, but it is Trout esk
Speaker 2: and that it's like, oh, you know that there's going
Speaker 2: to be injuries that are going to take him away.
Speaker 2: You try to presume that it's going to be not
Speaker 2: as dramatic as Trout, but he's probably going to miss
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. I mean, he's going to rehabit.
Speaker 2: Maybe he gets back, I'm not sure, but yeah, I
Speaker 2: think the dynasty value definitely took a hit after having
Speaker 2: a really, really good run in performance earlier in the year.
Speaker 2: But that's why it's trout esk. You know, when Trout
Speaker 2: is out there, he performs really well. Yelich is doing
Speaker 2: the same thing, but they can't stay out there right now.
Speaker 1: What's out there for the Brewers? I mean you go
Speaker 1: is hitting now, that's great, yeah, but I mean Yelis, now,
Speaker 1: this is really tough. No Burns, no Yelich. You're at
Speaker 1: the top of these standings. I mean, Bruce fans must
Speaker 1: be going crazy right now thinking like what might have
Speaker 1: been if they just kind of held things together a
Speaker 1: little bit longer. But I don't know where you go
Speaker 1: from here.
Speaker 2: So I think actually, ironically, Austin Hayes would have been
Speaker 2: a great like, hey, we're just gonna like trade nothing
Speaker 2: to have more depth. They do have Garrett Mitchell, they
Speaker 2: do have South Freelick to help out if they want
Speaker 2: to do that. I did the ITL thing two days ago,
Speaker 2: Joe where we were putting players on teams, and I
Speaker 2: know it hasn't scouted, but I think Jazz chishm would
Speaker 2: have made a lot of sense. Jazz could get out
Speaker 2: there in the OUTFLA, you could have control. It's still
Speaker 2: might you would have control over him. I think. I
Speaker 2: think they're going to just either stand pat with the
Speaker 2: outfield they have and hope Yelledge gets back, or it's
Speaker 2: gonna be I think the injury will be very telling.
Speaker 2: If they go and they go and acquire you know,
Speaker 2: it would have been a Randy or they acquire a
Speaker 2: Jazz or something that shit.
Speaker 1: What about a Lane Thomas from Washington.
Speaker 2: That'd be a fantastic one as well. If they were
Speaker 2: to go and get a Lane Thomas, I think that
Speaker 2: tells you where the Yelich thing is. I'm assuming you're
Speaker 2: just not gonna have Yelichs this year.
Speaker 1: So if they're gonna keep this Piker, it's Lane Thomas.
Speaker 1: Like those are the names that keep popping.
Speaker 2: But the problem is they need they need pitching help.
Speaker 2: I mean, the best thing they do, if they can
Speaker 2: go do the Crochet and Robert thing, that would be
Speaker 2: the greatest thing of all time. But you'd have to
Speaker 2: absolutely unhod their system.
Speaker 1: But do they have the system worthy of unloading for
Speaker 1: those two guys.
Speaker 2: They've got guys Jacob Mizerowski, Brock Wilkin, Cooper Pratt. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could definitely base like a trade around that. They've
Speaker 2: got other guys, but that's kind of like the upper
Speaker 2: core and forget they've got Jefferson Quero, Luis Laura. They
Speaker 2: have guys. They've got guys that are that could front
Speaker 2: line and like Jacob Mizerowski and a Garrett Crochet trade
Speaker 2: would make a lot of sense. I just don't know,
Speaker 2: Like what do the White Sox want? Do they want
Speaker 2: five prospects that are all top one hundred, Then then you.
Speaker 1: Want a lot. You want bulk and quality, you want everything.
Speaker 1: If you're the White Sox, this is your chance. You
Speaker 1: can't screw this up because they need a complete remake.
Speaker 1: They're going to be bad for the next three to
Speaker 1: five years, like and then that's not being hyperbolic. They're
Speaker 1: going to be bad for the next three or five
Speaker 1: years no matter what. So you might as well get
Speaker 1: quality and a lot of it. And these are your
Speaker 1: two chips and you've got some big chips.
Speaker 2: How funny, though, you've.
Speaker 1: Got to be selling to the Orioles or the Yankees
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. You've got to be getting some of
Speaker 1: these big time prospects.
Speaker 2: How funny would it be, though, if the Brewers went
Speaker 2: and got a Garrett Crochet and then he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm not going to pitch in the
Speaker 2: playoffs until you get extension and then the contract to
Speaker 2: burn Well, Burns don want to come back either.
Speaker 1: See. That's why I keep saying that Crochet to the
Speaker 1: Oriols makes the most sense, because the Orioles are this
Speaker 1: is their window. They have the money to spend on him.
Speaker 1: They I mean, that's a three man rotation that's going
Speaker 1: to be very formidable in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: And they can move a Jackson Holiday Anacob Meyo and
Speaker 1: not skip a beat at their major league level like
Speaker 1: for years. I mean, that's the thing. They could pull
Speaker 1: that off, and that's what that helps everybody. I think
Speaker 1: the Orioles are the team to beat out for Crochet
Speaker 1: at this point. To me, it makes the most sense
Speaker 1: for both teams. We'll see if I'm right next week
Speaker 1: or I've been today. Who knows. Mason Miller, he won't
Speaker 1: be pitching today on the IL with a left pinky
Speaker 1: finger broken. He watched it got mad, his pinky got
Speaker 1: mad something. He punched the trainer's table and now he's mad.
Speaker 1: Devin Williams struck out two in a hitless rehab started
Speaker 1: Triple A. The Twins are activating Royce Lewis today and
Speaker 1: he's heard again. Jeffrey Springs struck out four three earned
Speaker 1: bibe innings, so he's working his way back in Triple A.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout is undergoing further evaluation in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 1: of course Michael Harris resuming baseball activities.
Speaker 2: Basketball activities, but they said that he felt some soreness
Speaker 2: through running and that's why they put him on the
Speaker 2: sixty day IL, so he is not eligible to come
Speaker 2: back until August fourteenth, and we now know that was
Speaker 2: because of some of the lingering soreness or.
Speaker 1: Disrecomfraut or John about Harris.
Speaker 2: Michael Harris, this is Michael Harris, so discomfort August fourteenth
Speaker 2: because he's on the sixty day IL, and hopefully that
Speaker 2: doesn't lead over and in Michael Harris's season whatever this
Speaker 2: discomfort is well.
Speaker 1: She excited about code is Senga tonight.
Speaker 2: I watchually I wanted to, but the k prop is
Speaker 2: a little bit high.
Speaker 1: Ah well, speaking of props, let's get to the best
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go right to Taj Bradley from yesterday. It
Speaker 1: was a good one from Joe Rico. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: going there and put my faith another pitcher. This one's
Speaker 1: gonna be Pablo Lopez of the Minnesota Twins on the
Speaker 1: run line minus one and a half plus one hundred
Speaker 1: against Detroit today. So give me Pablo Lopez. You've been
Speaker 1: saying all year, he's been pitching better than the era.
Speaker 1: He deserves better. Royce Lewis back tonight in the lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling the Twinkies, let's lock it in and plus
Speaker 1: money minus one and a half on the run line.
Speaker 1: Give me Baltimore on the run line two minus one
Speaker 1: and a half against San Diego. That's at minus one five.
Speaker 1: But you can also put Gunner Henderson total bases at
Speaker 1: minus one oh eight with it and get just about
Speaker 1: two to one. So Gunner Henderson over one and a
Speaker 1: half total bases and then the run line for the
Speaker 1: Twinkies and the Orioles. Welsh, what do you have for
Speaker 1: the people on a fun Friday?
Speaker 2: All right, well, let's see if we can make it fun.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Cincinnati first five money line, Nick Lidolo
Speaker 2: minus one fifteen. You can find that out, so just
Speaker 2: give me. Give me a little lead, Nick Lidolo. So
Speaker 2: Cincinnati first five money line. I'm also going to go
Speaker 2: at Ellie day La Cruz. There's a part of me
Speaker 2: that's like, how long can he keep doing this? But
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good matchup today. I a Shane Boz
Speaker 2: is coming up. Shane Boz had some decent results so
Speaker 2: far in the miners. There's been a little bit of wonkiness.
Speaker 2: Strikeouts haven't quite been there, and Ellie has got like five.
Speaker 2: I think it's five or six straight games with two
Speaker 2: total bases. I'm tackling the one and a half total
Speaker 2: base over it's plus one fifteen. Again today Boz gives
Speaker 2: up some of the our gives up like fifty four
Speaker 2: point five the way to say this, but he gives
Speaker 2: up some of the most contact. That's not the way
Speaker 2: to say it. But the contact rate on ninety five
Speaker 2: plus is one of the highest against Shane Boz and
Speaker 2: that works really well for a guy like Ellie Daily Cruz.
Speaker 2: So there's a way to say it. And then finally
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the nurfy. Give me Saint Louis
Speaker 2: and Washington. Washington's the worst first inning scoring team. They
Speaker 2: have got McKinsey gore up, and Saint Louis has got
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray Sonny. The Cardinals have been like top fifteen,
Speaker 2: and they are pretty decent at home, but over the
Speaker 2: last three they haven't been scoring in the first inning.
Speaker 2: So no run first inning, Saint Louis, Washington, those be
Speaker 2: some of the bets. I very much like your Minnesota
Speaker 2: bet as well.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to say, yeah, they're a turn of Royce Lewis.
Speaker 1: Just go right in for Bryce Lewis home run prop
Speaker 1: too white as well, right, I mean that's what he does.
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis is playing ball. All those home runs in
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Speaker 1: for the weekend. I'm just gonna keep it simple. Go
Speaker 1: with Shoeyo Todi for the weekend old fashioned show Haotani
Speaker 1: and see if I can climb back up that board
Speaker 1: here because I am literally again hanging by the thread
Speaker 1: Walkee Penguins on the board. El Skill is still at
Speaker 1: the top. Welsh, where are you going for your home
Speaker 1: run call for the weekend?
Speaker 2: Give me Ellie. I'm gonna go with my total base guy.
Speaker 2: Give me the Ellies I wanted to go Gunner. Gunner
Speaker 2: will probably hit three homers today or something like that.
Speaker 2: He's been on kind of a cold spell. It is
Speaker 2: a good matchup. I like your total base marker there,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna go with Ellie de la Cruz for
Speaker 2: a homer through the weekend. But maybe I'll change it
Speaker 2: because guess what, I can do it because I'm in
Speaker 2: the Discord Fantasypros dot Com slash Chat and you can
Speaker 2: get right into the Discord and there's a home run
Speaker 2: call room, so I can make my change every single
Speaker 2: day of the weekend if I want to, but otherwise
Speaker 2: it is Ellie until told otherwise.
Speaker 1: There you go. I'm thinking we're gonna get more trades
Speaker 1: of this weekend Welsh and Monday when we come back
Speaker 1: here and we will be live Welsh myself next Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll have more trades to talk about. I feel that way,
Speaker 1: and I am. I am gonna stay steadfast at Crochet
Speaker 1: and the Orioles just makes the most sense for everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, the the Orioles are so
Speaker 1: deep with infield prospects, and I feel like that's kind
Speaker 1: of where the Detroit Tigers already are good. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the place to go, but I could
Speaker 1: see a Kobe Mayo, Povich, Connor Norby for Garrett Crochet deal,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a pretty good deal for everybody.
Speaker 2: Run if I'm mean again, it's Connor.
Speaker 1: Mayo, Norby Povich for Crochet. I think that's a win
Speaker 1: for everybody. And you extend Crochet immediately.
Speaker 2: I do think there's even more of a chance that
Speaker 2: maybe Jackson Holiday is the guy that gets moved. Jordan
Speaker 2: Westberg can be their future second baseman. They've got their
Speaker 2: future shortstop. The corner infields can be manned by Kurstad
Speaker 2: and Kobe Mayo. I think it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: Well Mayo's going in that deal by way, No, no.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But that's why I'm saying. I think
Speaker 2: my version of that, I might send Jackson Holliday, Connor
Speaker 2: Norby and like a Povich. So I'm gonna swap those
Speaker 2: out because I also, I just don't think Terry Scoople
Speaker 2: is getting moved. And I do think once they've don't
Speaker 2: either off. I think once Orils have moved off of Schooble,
Speaker 2: they are going to turn their sites to a guy
Speaker 2: like because.
Speaker 1: You already got cold Keith, you've got torkosin you don't
Speaker 1: want to give up on quite yet. I don't think,
Speaker 1: like I'm looking around there, I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: don't think they're a good match. I do, however, think
Speaker 1: the White Sox are an excellent match in terms. They
Speaker 1: need everything, so it's just time to just bring in
Speaker 1: that piece.
Speaker 2: And as I mentioned before this thing kind of that
Speaker 2: was going around after they drafted Hagen Smith. That might
Speaker 2: have been a completion for this team to look at
Speaker 2: their future rotation. The White Sox, that is where they've
Speaker 2: got Drew Thorpe, They've got Hiro Iriarity, They've got guys
Speaker 2: like Nick Nastrini, and then they drafted their future Ace
Speaker 2: and Hagen Smith. So now when you go out and
Speaker 2: you train, and all these trades have been doing in
Speaker 2: the rebuild have been around pitching. Now you go out
Speaker 2: and trade Garrett Crochet, build up your hitters, get some
Speaker 2: more of those guys, and if you can go get
Speaker 2: you can get two of those top like four prospects
Speaker 2: from the Orioles. It's a huge win, even if it's
Speaker 2: a Cowser, but you got to get one of Mayo
Speaker 2: or Holiday and it really will be part of their
Speaker 2: big rebuild.
Speaker 1: Wells if you end up with Crochet pitching into the
Speaker 1: postseason this year. Is he a guy that scares you
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five because of the workload.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think he's a little bit scary. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he had I mean he's not he's like relatively
Speaker 2: fresh off of his injury as well. He'd like, I
Speaker 2: think it was the Tommy John because he was out
Speaker 2: for a.
Speaker 1: Year Tommy John. And look, he is a bigger kid.
Speaker 1: He's six six, Like, he's a big dude. So physically speaking,
Speaker 1: you would hope. But again, you know, elbows or elbows
Speaker 1: at the end of the day.
Speaker 2: But I just like, I don't think it's something that
Speaker 2: can like you like, like, who are you picking and
Speaker 2: choosing that you're scared.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying to be scared. I'm saying that is,
Speaker 1: you know, to make a leap of eighty innings over
Speaker 1: previous high is a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why he wants a contract, by the way,
Speaker 2: I mean that's the word he's like, he said, will
Speaker 2: not pitch into the playoffs over Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good for him, you know, show him the money. Like
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. Here you go. Would you sign
Speaker 1: off on this deal for both teams? This is the
Speaker 1: mega deal Robert and Crochet you give holiday curse Dad
Speaker 1: and Mayo? Would you sign up on that one?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I Mean one of my big things is like I
Speaker 2: think what any of the teams, whether it was the
Speaker 2: Tigers of the White Sox, they should hold pat and
Speaker 2: be like we want Mayo and Holiday and whatever you
Speaker 2: have to do to get Mayo and Holiday, that's what
Speaker 2: you do if you're gonna make these moves. I just
Speaker 2: don't know the Orioles will will make that push. It
Speaker 2: doesn't I don't like to get I don't think they'll
Speaker 2: trade one of them to.
Speaker 1: Be I do. I think they will trade one of them.
Speaker 1: I think they'd want to trade Holiday. But I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to trade Mayo. But they could get
Speaker 1: away with trading Holiday if it was to the White Sox.
Speaker 1: But the White Sox where you know, why keep going
Speaker 1: wrong with the White Sox is you you can't. You
Speaker 1: have to look for those big middle of the order guys.
Speaker 1: They are gonna be your franchise players. Now you can't,
Speaker 1: you can't go you know, I remember they remember Nick Madrigal.
Speaker 1: Remember they kept selling us that bill of goods that
Speaker 1: he was gonna be a good basement. Oh. I hated
Speaker 1: Nick Madrigal because they drafted him. Was terrible baby. He
Speaker 1: is a little bit. But I'm just saying, like those
Speaker 1: kind of guys like that's not you know, that's not
Speaker 1: gonna not those guys at that high pack.
Speaker 2: Well, those Orioles are not those guys. They're all six
Speaker 2: foot four. I mean it's Mayo and kers Stout and
Speaker 2: Kowser moms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting to see. I hope
Speaker 1: we have more of it to talk about. I love
Speaker 1: the trade deadlines, one of my favorite things. We'll see
Speaker 1: if I get dealt. Last year, I did get traded.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2: Well, Just to the football podcast.
Speaker 1: But who's the player to be named later? But I
Speaker 1: did re sign with baseball in the offseason. Oh good,
Speaker 1: here we go. All right, that'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for the
Speaker 1: Well sho. I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time, Gads. Peace,
Speaker 1: Well for you.
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