Speaker 1: Good morning and afternoon peanuts and cracker jacks. My friend's
Speaker 1: over here at leading off.
Speaker 2: It is your.
Speaker 1: Dear friend, your dear friend who's not going to talk
Speaker 1: about you know who today Chris Welsh, of course on
Speaker 1: the host seat as Joe will be back with us
Speaker 1: again tomorrow. And joining me today is our dear friend
Speaker 1: Casey Bubba beat the intrick on Twitter in the house, Bubba,
Speaker 1: what is up my friend.
Speaker 3: Much man, Thanks for having me today, talk a little
Speaker 3: baseball with my friend. Oh here Chris Welsh, And you
Speaker 3: know I'll do my best to impersonate Joe Picpa, but
Speaker 3: no one can do well.
Speaker 2: You can take your hat. If you take your hat off, I.
Speaker 3: Think, yeah, we got half we're halfway there.
Speaker 2: You know what I got to tell you.
Speaker 1: I think you don't have to do it, of course,
Speaker 1: but if your hat was off, I think everyone would
Speaker 1: feel a little bit more comfortable that there's a ball guy.
Speaker 1: Not a balding guy like me, but a bald guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 3: I don't have the Harry Potter you know, stuff going
Speaker 3: on like Joe does. But we'll stick to it. We'll
Speaker 3: stick to baseball.
Speaker 1: Today we've got lots to talk about. Everything to talk about,
Speaker 1: of course, except a certain you know who who went
Speaker 1: over to with a strikeout in a couple walks no
Speaker 1: hits yesterday. We're not going to talk about that guy today,
Speaker 1: of course, who didn't do anything that was in the
Speaker 1: home run call. But we did get somebody that took
Speaker 1: advantage of the double rookie home run call yesterday.
Speaker 2: We've got lots of fun things.
Speaker 1: We actually have a very cool back to back trivia
Speaker 1: in this day in baseball history, and we're going to
Speaker 1: look at some props, which I actually think it's a
Speaker 1: very difficult day to really lock down on props for yesterday.
Speaker 1: There was so much to choose from from top to bottom,
Speaker 1: and great pictures going and there's a lot to go with.
Speaker 1: But how about let's jump right into the show, Bubba
Speaker 1: and look at number one show Heyo Tani yesterday, who
Speaker 1: was one of our three picks on the prop sheet.
Speaker 2: We were two two for three, yes Sho.
Speaker 1: Haotani fan eleven batters in a victory over the White Sox.
Speaker 1: And let me ask you this. I don't want to
Speaker 1: beat this over the head or anything. Since we've talked
Speaker 1: about it so much over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but Shoho Tani's MVP odds have now dropped to two
Speaker 1: point fifty. Joe and I were on here when it
Speaker 1: was what was it five hundred? We're telling you bet bet,
Speaker 1: bet bet, it went down.
Speaker 2: Came down to four hundred.
Speaker 1: We thought it would go down a four hundred after
Speaker 1: the big thirteen strikeout performance and went down into the
Speaker 1: three days. We're now down to two point fifty. Bubba,
Speaker 1: your take on the Aaron Judge Versus Otani MVP award
Speaker 1: race that's going on right now.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's Otani's an award to lose doing what he's doing,
Speaker 3: and it's just not fair to pretty much anybody else
Speaker 3: because Aaron Judge has been amazing. There's no sugar coating that.
Speaker 2: Do you still you feel that way?
Speaker 1: Also knowing Judge's minus money, I mean he's been minus
Speaker 1: money for over a week.
Speaker 2: You still hold to that.
Speaker 3: I still hold to that as long as he's pitching
Speaker 3: and hitting the way he is is great Now to
Speaker 3: be careful. In his last at bat last night, he
Speaker 3: tweaked his back. It looks like so that's something to
Speaker 3: watch with Otani because he had a couple of swing.
Speaker 3: He's grimacing a lot, so that could affect things big time.
Speaker 3: But for me, as long as he's pitching and hitting
Speaker 3: and he's just a clear cut favorite, they might have
Speaker 3: to just create a separate award so people like Judge
Speaker 3: can get the rightful MVP he deserves. It just won't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's a couple things in here too.
Speaker 1: Mayor just jumped in and he's proving a great point.
Speaker 1: He goes devers for MVP. But Wonky, you bring up
Speaker 1: a great point. I think that is all across the board.
Speaker 1: The books are going to make a freaking killing that
Speaker 1: guy Baltimore Cruz, who.
Speaker 2: We don't talk about. The Rookie of the Year in
Speaker 2: the NL is hysterically stupid. The AL is hysterically stupid
Speaker 2: in a different way.
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year award winning bets if you want
Speaker 1: to do because it's it's an open race. I mean,
Speaker 1: Julia looks amazing, but Bobby WIT's coming back. All the
Speaker 1: races are open right now. The Wonky's right, The books
Speaker 1: are going to make an absolute killing across the board
Speaker 1: on all of these bets.
Speaker 2: But I just find it interesting.
Speaker 1: After another double digit strikeout performance Atani has been amazing
Speaker 1: and we are teetering down into only two and a
Speaker 1: half on your money, where it was like ten days
Speaker 1: ago it was five to one on the money and
Speaker 1: Judge is incredible. But this race continues on and obviously
Speaker 1: we'll continue talking about it. This was an awesome story,
Speaker 1: especially for someone like me as followed prospects and everything
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Over time.
Speaker 1: Mark A Pell made his debut we talked about a
Speaker 1: couple days ago because of Pel obviously got the call up.
Speaker 2: Which is like a super special moment.
Speaker 1: You guys know the story like Apel was drafted, went
Speaker 1: back drafted number one overall ahead. Chris Bryant played with
Speaker 1: the Astros for a bit, retired I believe it was
Speaker 1: four years, made a comeback, and he made his major
Speaker 1: league debut last night, having a nice clean ninth inning
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, believe.
Speaker 2: He got his strikeout one single olhways did a single.
Speaker 1: Okay, close to clean, but very whippy, very different than
Speaker 1: what I remember him being. But obviously he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's just kind of changed his trajectory. And Bubba twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: he goes back and we actually did a trivia question.
Speaker 1: I think it was on Monday where in that same draft,
Speaker 1: because everybody talked about, you know, he Chris Bryant was
Speaker 1: the pick after Markapell. Aaron Judges was the thirty second
Speaker 1: pick in that draft as well. So you've got the
Speaker 1: MVP that's floating around the Tim Anderson as well. Markapell
Speaker 1: in his career almost put up five hundred career innings pitched,
Speaker 1: and the guy hadn't pitched from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: He did those years he didn't pitch almost five hundred innings,
Speaker 1: had a five ERA five point zero one ERA in
Speaker 1: his minor league career. This year though, in Triple A,
Speaker 1: a one to six ninety ARRA with five wins in
Speaker 1: nineteen games pitched only in relief. There's nothing fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: of it, but pretty cool to see Markapelle actually out there.
Speaker 1: I think the oldest first overall pick to ever make
Speaker 1: his debut.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great to watch. I was actually watching
Speaker 3: it live on MLB Network and it was cool watching
Speaker 3: him When he struck out Duval, he smiled and kind
Speaker 3: of looked around like he's taking it all in and
Speaker 3: sawim in the dugout afterwards Hoskins and guys were like
Speaker 3: high five and I'm gon giving him hugs. It was
Speaker 3: fun to see him finally get his like you said,
Speaker 3: so it was a great baseball story. Yeah, no fantasy
Speaker 3: relevance right now, but good to see.
Speaker 1: Marco pell is probably like one of those really great
Speaker 1: teammates to have in the minor leagues because like he could,
Speaker 1: he could offshoot as most of those guys. Dad, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like it go old enough to
Speaker 1: do any of the stuff he's got to do.
Speaker 2: It's the oldest rookie. It's very cool. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Where the career fully goes with him, though, I will say,
Speaker 1: like you said, looked a little bit whippy on the mound,
Speaker 1: looked a little bit deceptive. Might there might be something
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 3: They're closer. Their bullpen's a mess, so there's an opening.
Speaker 1: And uh mayor close for the Red Sox right now.
Speaker 1: Probably maybe we'll see a career. Maybe we'll actually see
Speaker 1: a career out of it. Brian Reynolds three dingers, drives
Speaker 1: in six and win over the Nats. Probably at least,
Speaker 1: you know, for many of the haters in the chat here,
Speaker 1: not the pirate player they wanted to see hit three
Speaker 1: homers yesterday, but Brian Reynolds did it. Rowdy Teles your twin, Bubba,
Speaker 1: Rowdy Telez right goes deep twice in a win over
Speaker 1: the race.
Speaker 2: What do you think is more relevant? Rowdy Teles is.
Speaker 1: Your twin or Alejandro Kirk is Bogman's son? What do
Speaker 1: you think is What do you think is more accurate?
Speaker 3: I'd say Alejandra Kirk is Bogman's son. I It's very
Speaker 3: very accurate, to be fair. I've also been compared to
Speaker 3: Dan Vogelbach show. We got that going for me too.
Speaker 4: But lazy now that they're just that's too easy, that's
Speaker 4: too easy. Now, yeah, I'd say Kirk Kirk for Boggs
Speaker 4: for sure. Now at least I'm not at least I
Speaker 4: have fat John Lackey. So That's where I'm sitting at right.
Speaker 1: Those are my John Lackey one And people don't even
Speaker 1: say fat John Lackey. But let's be honest. You know
Speaker 1: he's lost a decent amount of weight. I'd have to
Speaker 1: like really get it in to be John Lackey. Like,
Speaker 1: so I'm still not really happy about it. Buba Justin
Speaker 1: Verlander becomes the first pitcher to ten wins. I think
Speaker 1: his brother was tweeting this out as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy coming off of you know, double Tommy John
Speaker 1: big deal.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, this is a big one.
Speaker 1: Sures throws eighty pitches in the rehab start dealing with
Speaker 1: the oblique injury, and this aligns him up if they
Speaker 1: want on Sunday rest of season, Bubba, your comfortability with
Speaker 1: Max Sures? You're moving forward because I saw a trade offer,
Speaker 1: someone sent me a trade offer that came in that
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about. But are you full go,
Speaker 1: full steam go on Max Suer's the rest of the
Speaker 1: year or with this oblique injury and the injury stuff overall,
Speaker 1: is that going to linger in your mind about how
Speaker 1: he's valued rest the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a full go for me. Like we knew
Speaker 3: going into the season, he was banged up. We've seen
Speaker 3: this from time to time with him getting backs, injuries
Speaker 3: and other things. But when he's out there, he's good
Speaker 3: to go. He's going to pitch if he can. They're
Speaker 3: not going to baby him. So the fact that through
Speaker 3: eighty pitches yesterday is big and once they put them
Speaker 3: back on the mount, I'm a full go with Max
Speaker 3: shars Or. He's not one of those kind of soft
Speaker 3: guys like others. He's good to go. Okay.
Speaker 1: Oh and Larry just confirmed I didn't even see the
Speaker 1: sus are scheduled for Monday, so.
Speaker 3: Beautiful to start on the next one day one.
Speaker 2: I just gotta get everybody around them right.
Speaker 1: Pre All Star game going. Okay, So somebody's sent me,
Speaker 1: you know, not a request, but they just wanted to
Speaker 1: know what I thought about this trade. Pretty good in
Speaker 1: pitching guy had Shane McClanahan had a couple other good arms,
Speaker 1: like I would call it a serviceable staff.
Speaker 2: If Suerzer's not.
Speaker 1: On there needed some hitting, and he said, my sureser
Speaker 1: for Manny Machado. Who Manny Machado has gone think seven
Speaker 1: straight games with not playing. They just decided we're not
Speaker 1: going to even put him on the IL though he
Speaker 1: was an MVP candidate and I believe he still owns.
Speaker 1: Let me take a look here the third highest NL
Speaker 1: MVP odds right now after Paul Goldsman who's minus money,
Speaker 1: and by the way, Pete A.
Speaker 2: Lonzo is second. But at five point fifty.
Speaker 1: Would you move do you think it's fair? And would
Speaker 1: you move your suzer to acquire Manny Machado.
Speaker 3: If you need offensive help, I think it's quite fair.
Speaker 3: I think it's very very fair. Now Machado is running
Speaker 3: before this injury. This seems like a pretty bad ankle injury,
Speaker 3: so we might not be running anymore. But if you
Speaker 3: need offense, I'm good with that. I think it's fair
Speaker 3: because both guys have their risk involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're not worried, if you're sitting in
Speaker 1: a space where you're just like, I'm not really worried
Speaker 1: about any of the injury stuff or anything coming back
Speaker 1: on Max Schuzer, then you know who cares. By the way,
Speaker 1: it hat tip to him, he fed the entire clubhouse.
Speaker 1: They didn't say what he bought though, but I'm assuming.
Speaker 3: It's like he said, they ate good, and then one
Speaker 3: of the players that was playing another quote tweet and said,
Speaker 3: we ate very good.
Speaker 2: Oh so maybe maybe went to a little steakhouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They they said he was very nice to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure, She's a good dude.
Speaker 3: He's a he's a great guy.
Speaker 1: I got to Bogman and I met him when he
Speaker 1: was a diamondback, and I don't even think he had
Speaker 1: made his major league I've told this story, major league
Speaker 1: debut and I had this like card when he was
Speaker 1: with Vicelia.
Speaker 2: It was like the High a affiliate of the.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks, and you know, I didn't know anything about them,
Speaker 1: and we were there, and you know, Bogman's talking to
Speaker 1: Augio Haeeda if you remember Auguioheeda five foot five, Aggio
Speaker 1: hadad Yeah, exactly, they were and I gave Max the
Speaker 1: card and he was like enamored with it. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is the cool because it wasn't like the normal
Speaker 1: big car it was just a minor league card and
Speaker 1: he loved it.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, there's always been something about Max.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love that dude. Love love Max.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Scary moment yesterday Jordan Alvarez Jeremy Pania collided into each other.
Speaker 1: But the good news is theoretical good news is it's
Speaker 1: just a concussion. It looks like they're both being evaluated
Speaker 1: for concussions after the collision, but Jordan alpers was carted off.
Speaker 1: I don't recall a guy being carted off in a
Speaker 1: concussion standpoint, but that must have been really nasty and
Speaker 1: really bad.
Speaker 2: It was a scary moment.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, Bubba, Yeah, it was pretty early to see it
Speaker 3: all come down. Like you said, a guy gets carted
Speaker 3: off usually not a great thing, not good, Bob. But
Speaker 3: maybe it's like he's a size of an alignment, so
Speaker 3: they can't really help him off the field, so it's like, yeah, hey,
Speaker 3: let's throw him on a cart. I get it, I understand,
Speaker 3: I relate, But yeah, it was not looking good. But
Speaker 3: all reports are pointing two good things. Maybe miss a
Speaker 3: game or two. But big jord On and someone mentioned
Speaker 3: it in the chat that we're not even talking about
Speaker 3: him for MVP and he deserves it, like he's been
Speaker 3: a beast. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, actually, Bugman and I on ITL which is dropping today,
Speaker 1: we were looking.
Speaker 2: I think this is still relevant.
Speaker 1: It could have changed a tiny bit, of course, over
Speaker 1: a day. But there are seven players with twenty plus homers.
Speaker 1: The only player with twenty plus homers in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball to have three hundred batting average is Jordan Alurez.
Speaker 1: He's the only one to have a three hundred plus
Speaker 1: batting average. Three of the seven have an under two
Speaker 1: forty batting average, which was even more mind boggling of
Speaker 1: home run hitters Right now, Garrett Whitlock is expected to
Speaker 1: return as a reliever. Thank you, Mayor, you got to
Speaker 1: be excited. Put him back, put him in the closer role.
Speaker 1: Please get him back in that fire roll.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 1: Injury Wise, Jazz Chism placed on the IL. I've always
Speaker 1: worried a little bit Bubba that I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to tag him with the injury prone stuff.
Speaker 1: Bogwin's kind of relenting with me. He's an all or
Speaker 1: nothing player. He's hyper hyper aggressive. He's more hyper aggressive
Speaker 1: than Haabi Baias. But he's got insane trajectory of how
Speaker 1: he swings a torque in his body. He's heavy pull,
Speaker 1: he's just, you know, balls to the wall type of guy.
Speaker 1: And he's back on the IEL. And I feel like
Speaker 1: this is kind of a trend for him. So do
Speaker 1: you have any long season worries? I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: probably one of the best middle infielders in all of
Speaker 1: baseball from a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a diehard Chism guy. I was hard on them,
Speaker 3: uh draft wise this season, so a stinks. I'm not
Speaker 3: super concerned because like he tried to play through it. Now,
Speaker 3: I was gonna put him down and let him get
Speaker 3: fixed back stink because they they flare up easily. But
Speaker 3: you're not going to stop the way he plays. That's
Speaker 3: just who he is. And so this might be a
Speaker 3: yearly thing. Like you said. Last year is like the
Speaker 3: ankle and some other stuff. This year it's the back.
Speaker 3: So I'm good with them once he's back, but it
Speaker 3: definitely stinks.
Speaker 2: Neck back all that.
Speaker 1: Other injuries, Herman Marquez leaves a start due to a
Speaker 1: cut in his right thumb, says he couldn't grip the fastball.
Speaker 2: That's no point.
Speaker 1: No Mooki Bets expected back before the All Star break,
Speaker 1: so that's becoming a little bit more official on his
Speaker 1: return back. I believe he is fourth in betting currently.
Speaker 1: This would be something I would throw out to people
Speaker 1: that mookie Bets is. We've we've seen it this year.
Speaker 1: I think it was fourteen homers in a month. I mean,
Speaker 1: second half of season's mookie Bets can go nuts. He
Speaker 1: is fourth in betting on an l MVP right now,
Speaker 1: and he'll be back for All Star breaks for the
Speaker 1: entire second half.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Other injuries, Tyler Stevenson taking some bating practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Sales Suzuki, who had been out here in Arizona actually
Speaker 1: training at the Sloan Complex, is beginning a rehab assignment
Speaker 1: in triple A today. Nicolodelo is set to return to
Speaker 1: the rotation next week, thank you, and Tyler Naquin going
Speaker 1: to begin a rehab assignment on Thursday injury wise. Also,
Speaker 1: I would throw out a Joe's Tough Guys or Welsh's
Speaker 1: herdoes if you will one of the two, whichever one
Speaker 1: you want to go, Wonky pointed out, can we talk
Speaker 1: about how about Josh Naylor with his head butt celebration
Speaker 1: on a helmet he had?
Speaker 2: God was it Terry Franco?
Speaker 1: Didn't he head butt Terry Francona's helmet last night in
Speaker 1: a celebration?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was pretty wild. I love Naylor, man. The
Speaker 3: dude's awesome, just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been around Naylor a whole bunch when
Speaker 1: he was like a padre and then he got traded
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I never saw this energy when
Speaker 1: he was out here in the AFL. I've seen him
Speaker 1: on the backfield. I feel like it's something that kind
Speaker 1: of picked up and then he knows it and recognizes
Speaker 1: it and carries it because he is insane.
Speaker 2: He's like insane energy. I gotta love it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great bit, especially because I think
Speaker 1: it is a little bit bit ish. He's been kind
Speaker 1: of quiet. His brother Bo Naylor, who's killing it right now.
Speaker 1: He's a catcher, outfielder. It's going to be up pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Bo is more athletic, not quite as you know, not
Speaker 1: like Josh Naylor sometimes. But this energy thing came out
Speaker 1: of absolutely nowhere, and I love it. Can we talk
Speaker 1: about this bubba? Nick Castianus is in danger of his
Speaker 1: first homerless month since September of twenty fifteen. That was
Speaker 1: a tweet by Mark Farzetta.
Speaker 2: No homers.
Speaker 1: I mean he's got one day. He's got today be
Speaker 1: the first time since twenty fifteen. What is wrong with
Speaker 1: Nick Castianos?
Speaker 3: I know it's pretty wild. You know, maybe he needs
Speaker 3: a deep fly ball to the left field with two
Speaker 3: outs or something to get him going, But are you
Speaker 3: mad face? It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy because he's
Speaker 3: still hitting the ball like pretty well, it's just not
Speaker 3: elevating it and a great American small park usually helps
Speaker 3: with that. But he's not there. He's in a good
Speaker 3: old citizens Bank, which is struggling as well. So we'll see,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens that Schwarber. Maybe maybe Schworber should like,
Speaker 3: you know, go major league and rub his bat against
Speaker 3: his bat and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Dude, he absolutely he needs something.
Speaker 2: They need something in all the chicken.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, maybe I'm forgetting the name now, I always
Speaker 1: forget it.
Speaker 2: What's the doll from Major League?
Speaker 3: Jobu?
Speaker 2: Jobu?
Speaker 1: Yeah, jobo. He needs like some jobo. He needs something
Speaker 1: in that. He needs some milk or luck. He does
Speaker 1: have seven homers on the year, three stolen bases, but
Speaker 1: a pretty high strikeout rate, I mean, second highest since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen when he was at Detroit, second worst batting
Speaker 1: average in his career actually on the season, and he's
Speaker 1: got an over three hundred BABO. So it's not like
Speaker 1: a major major struggle. The power has just kind of been.
Speaker 2: Zapped a bit.
Speaker 1: It is the lowest ISO of his career except for like,
Speaker 1: you know, a stupid eleven game stint in his rookie debut,
Speaker 1: so you wouldn't count that. So yeah, he needs to
Speaker 1: like do anything possible. Maybe a break is going to
Speaker 1: be really good for him.
Speaker 3: That's called mars.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, I mean, what what is it going
Speaker 1: to look for here? Is it going to be drinking
Speaker 1: or is it going to.
Speaker 2: Be for home run calls?
Speaker 1: That's the difference this day in baseball, This day in baseball.
Speaker 2: I pulled one. I believe you know.
Speaker 1: I didn't pull the date, but I believe I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: This is nineteen oh eight, A good old nineteen oh
Speaker 1: eight reference for everybody.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Cy Young pitched his third career no hitter in an
Speaker 1: eight to oh Boston win.
Speaker 2: Over New York.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: We just talked cities on this.
Speaker 1: At forty one years old and three months, he was
Speaker 1: the oldest pitcher obviously to turn that no hit, that
Speaker 1: no hitter up until nineteen ninety where Nolan Ryan beat
Speaker 1: him at the age of forty three. I thought that
Speaker 1: was interesting. I love those old references, and he held.
Speaker 2: That for eighty two years. Uh, my mouth is correctly.
Speaker 1: I've got a trivia question for you, Bubba. I don't
Speaker 1: think if you're looking at on the sheet you.
Speaker 2: Were, I'm not allowed. You're not allowed.
Speaker 1: So here's for the peanuts and cracker Jacks trivia question.
Speaker 1: Shoho Tani has twenty four strikeouts over his.
Speaker 2: Last two outings. Pretty good.
Speaker 1: Who was the last Angels right hander to strike out
Speaker 1: that many in consecutive starts? So again, Otani twenty four
Speaker 1: strikeouts the last over two outings, the last Angels pitcher
Speaker 1: to have that many strikeouts over consecutive starts. Let's see
Speaker 1: what you guys got. Let's go through some stat heroes though.
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander, big performance, and we will look and I
Speaker 1: will give you guys some time while I do the
Speaker 1: stat heroes to see if we get some guesses in here.
Speaker 1: Should be actually kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Stat hero is.
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander went eight, struck out six, only two hits.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Mike Clevenger, I thought Klevee was gonna get
Speaker 1: beat up.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: We had the double points home run call for rookies
Speaker 1: yesterday and I went Alec Thomas just thinking, Kelevee's been
Speaker 1: a little inconsistent. Strikeouts have been good. He went six,
Speaker 1: gave up one hit, and struck out six. Bubba, I mean,
Speaker 1: Klevee is a dude. Clevee is kind of a dude,
Speaker 1: even though the inconsistencies are still out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a great CSW yesterday pitch mix was
Speaker 3: really strong and getting tons of whiffs. It was great
Speaker 3: to see. Now to stay healthy, Clev, it's all we need.
Speaker 2: Just stay healthy.
Speaker 1: If you got to put in those French braids, it's
Speaker 1: all good, dude, Just stay healthy. Tymin Walker seven and
Speaker 1: one third, struck out three, gave it four hits.
Speaker 2: But nowhere and run show.
Speaker 1: Hey Tani, we talked about eleven strikeouts in five and
Speaker 1: two thirds.
Speaker 2: Kyle Wright kind of back at it.
Speaker 1: Seven innings he struck out four, gave up only one
Speaker 1: on the hitter side for positives.
Speaker 2: Brian Reynolds was the.
Speaker 1: Big dog yesterday, three for five, three homers with six RBI.
Speaker 1: Rowdy Telez had two bombs. Alex Erdugo four RBIs going
Speaker 1: two for five. Stephen Kwan? Are those counting stats by
Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan? Yes, he had a stolen base. He was
Speaker 1: three for four with the double, the stolen base and
Speaker 1: three runs. Freddy Freeman two for four with a bomb,
Speaker 1: and Wilson Contreras Bogman was a day short three for
Speaker 1: four with a homer, two doubles, two runs and two RBI.
Speaker 1: In here now I believe JP got it though he
Speaker 1: only put the name. So what was the first this
Speaker 1: day in history. It was the oldest no hitter since
Speaker 1: Cy Young, you know, Sy Young did it whatever, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve years ago, one hundred and fourteen years
Speaker 1: ago today.
Speaker 2: Then it was Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1: Well, the last Angels pitcher to have consecutive twenty four
Speaker 1: strikeouts over two.
Speaker 2: Games was Nolan Ryan. It was Nolan Ryan again.
Speaker 1: And our boy Mike Mayer hit me up in the
Speaker 1: chat before the show and he's like, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I love this because his kid was named after Nolan Ryan,
Speaker 1: and he is a Nolan Ryan guy.
Speaker 2: So I got to.
Speaker 1: Tell you I didn't even plan to do back to
Speaker 1: back Nolan Ryan's. I didn't notice it until Mayor even
Speaker 1: said it. I was like, oh, yeah, these are both
Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 3: Wow. I was going to give you like props for
Speaker 3: doing that, but apparently you just have a good accident.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that have been amazing If I was like, that's
Speaker 1: smart and I picked both of those and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: this would be super fun.
Speaker 2: I just didn't.
Speaker 1: They both were interesting to me, and the trivia question
Speaker 1: was the one I found. And you know, I probably
Speaker 1: should keep it to myself and I should just like
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, as me as a great host, and
Speaker 1: I did a really good job everybody. Uh stat zero's
Speaker 1: Nick Vespie one third of an inning, giving up six
Speaker 1: earned runs and six HiT's. Jesus Cole Irvin, I only
Speaker 1: this one seven innings. I do have them in a
Speaker 1: I think I have my Ale League and this was
Speaker 1: not good. Seven innings, five earned runs, five strikeouts in
Speaker 1: a walk.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with your A's?
Speaker 3: Why are they?
Speaker 2: I mean you're a.
Speaker 3: Giant, Yeah, what's up with your Dodgers? Want to go that? Well?
Speaker 2: Okay, but I'm just saying, like a Bay Area I'm.
Speaker 3: You're throwing in the towel. The A's are trying to move.
Speaker 3: It's garbage. Like there. I feel bad for any real
Speaker 3: AS fans out there.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, they don't really exist.
Speaker 1: They're going to Vegas if they are exact. Mitch Keller
Speaker 1: four innings, five earned runs, give up nine hits, and
Speaker 1: Hermand Marquez couldn't make it till the fourth with five
Speaker 1: earned runs.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There were some zeros as far as haters go, and
Speaker 1: there's some big names. Vladimir Guerrero, oh for five with
Speaker 1: three strikeouts. You just do not see that that often
Speaker 1: that is not a common thing. Dansby Swanson, Dan's may
Speaker 1: zero oh for four three k's y'all moncatta now, who
Speaker 1: has cooked oh for four to three strikeouts? I couldn't
Speaker 1: be more out on you.
Speaker 3: I used to be all in on him too, and
Speaker 3: I have so far out on him.
Speaker 2: At this point. Jake Berger is just a better option
Speaker 2: for that team.
Speaker 3: It's a shame that drunk uncle Tony is platooning Burger
Speaker 3: with sheets right now. It is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean he's a We actually have just
Speaker 1: pointed if you're a White Sox fan, we have one
Speaker 1: of our listeners, the one time Boom King. He does
Speaker 1: parody songs. He's sent in a White Sox parody song, and.
Speaker 2: It is it'll drop today.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: It is a wild one.
Speaker 1: But agreed, everything they do is frustrating, and you know
Speaker 1: you seeing you all, I mean, it's hard to not
Speaker 1: have Mancotta out there. It's just you wish that they
Speaker 1: could adjust him, move him off. But fantasy wise, Burger
Speaker 1: is just a better option. It just doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 1: Brenda Marshaw for three to three strikeouts, Copy and paste
Speaker 1: that one. Paul Goldsmith zero oh for four two k's, Bobaschett,
Speaker 1: oh for five with two k's he's been frustrating. And
Speaker 1: zero for five with two k's for Tim Anderson. So
Speaker 1: a lot of big names on there, missing a lot
Speaker 1: of baseballs friends. It is home run time. Yesterday we
Speaker 1: had the rookie two points extra points for the rookie calls.
Speaker 1: It did not work out in my favor, ugh, but
Speaker 1: it worked out in Mike Mayer's favor. Yep, you can
Speaker 1: see it over there, twenty two bombs because he was
Speaker 1: able to jump in with Joe pis Apia because he
Speaker 1: got those double points. He picked Julio Rodriguez, I just
Speaker 1: selfishly and what garbage by me forgot to even mention
Speaker 1: mayor's pick yesterday.
Speaker 2: He had Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: I Bogmann had the man we don't speak of on
Speaker 1: the Pirates, and I had Alec Thomas. As far as
Speaker 1: taking advantage, Deeblum did the best job because Hi Kubby
Speaker 1: did not move. He had Adlee, Larry had Bobby Witt,
Speaker 1: but dee Blum took Julio and was able to jump
Speaker 1: in to Tide for third play. Very impressive with title
Speaker 1: chaser as the home run calls, move on. Mike Mayer
Speaker 1: jumped up and El Scale I think was the only
Speaker 1: other person to hit Homer. That is on the top board.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to everybody on that front. And you know
Speaker 1: where that takes us, my friends.
Speaker 2: That takes us too.
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Speaker 1: leading off and get betting. Get betting on these props, Bubba.
Speaker 1: Do you like my tiara?
Speaker 3: Is the question?
Speaker 2: You're not commenting on it.
Speaker 3: I was letting you get your spiel out there. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: Do I look beautiful? Do I look pretty?
Speaker 3: You look oh so pretty?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 2: That's all I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: You know what, since you said that, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: wear this through my props Okay, Joe's got the big
Speaker 1: manly crown. And as JP said, this is what we
Speaker 1: should call it, The Daily Princess.
Speaker 3: You need like a whole thing, a whole production for.
Speaker 1: This, like mayor Baba keeping a straight face when I
Speaker 1: put on the tr I gotta tell you, I was
Speaker 1: actually kind of waiting for you to break and you weren't,
Speaker 1: and that was distracting me.
Speaker 2: I'm a pro I'm very proud of you, Bobba.
Speaker 1: Let's see what you think of my props today, number
Speaker 1: one on the board on K's. I went through just
Speaker 1: a host of them, and I just don't love a lot.
Speaker 1: There's a couple you could just take a gamble with
Speaker 1: the only one that I really got locked into was
Speaker 1: my boy, Logan Gilbert, who is going against.
Speaker 2: Your a's, your a's, Baba.
Speaker 1: He's struck out six in each of his last three games.
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert has his prop today is at five and
Speaker 1: a half.
Speaker 2: It's not juice like you think it would.
Speaker 1: I mean it's in the like one minus one thirties,
Speaker 1: but the a's are about middle of the strikeouts. Logan
Speaker 1: Gilbert's just a beast and a monster. And this is
Speaker 1: probably my favorite. K prop one of the day. You
Speaker 1: like you some Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. When we get to DFS picks, we will
Speaker 3: talk about Logan Gilbert. So I love Logan Gilbert. Today
Speaker 3: the a's there's a team you want to target every
Speaker 3: time you can.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is my A plus Princess prop of the day.
Speaker 1: So my Princess Tiara prop of the day is Logan Gilbert,
Speaker 1: my number one favey. I kind of really going down
Speaker 1: the barrel on my next two, so you know, I
Speaker 1: was doing some digging.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: I like the total base marker for Brandon Drury today
Speaker 1: over on bet MGM. They've got the best odds at
Speaker 1: minus one twenty. You get your one and a half
Speaker 1: total base over. He has six straight games of hitting
Speaker 1: this one and a half over. He's also in seven
Speaker 1: of his last eight as well. He's got a two
Speaker 1: for five career against Hendrix Hendricks. Hendricks has just been
Speaker 1: kind of a struggle in general, and Brandon Jury has
Speaker 1: been pretty pretty hot. So I like the Brandon Jury
Speaker 1: total base marker and I went, j oh, you know
Speaker 1: what I forgot? I did do one other K prop.
Speaker 3: JT.
Speaker 1: Brewbaker, who has hit the five strikeout marker and four
Speaker 1: straight starts today.
Speaker 2: It is that four and a half. It's a little
Speaker 2: bit juiced.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee's bottom seven in strikeouts, and those are my picks.
Speaker 1: That is not the pretty. It's not as pretty as
Speaker 1: me and my Tierra type of group of.
Speaker 3: Dudes today, right, Yep, yep, it's not as pretty. It's
Speaker 3: a rough day though, Like we said, we'll get the DFS.
Speaker 3: It's not the It's not juicy, that's for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh and Wonk even said wind blown out and things.
Speaker 3: It's hot and windy and Wrigley, So pray for Hendrix
Speaker 3: and Ashcraft.
Speaker 2: That is going to work for me.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, why don't we get right to
Speaker 1: a DFS picks? Bubba was kind enough to get us
Speaker 1: a few dudes. I did pick some lineup some stacks,
Speaker 1: if you will. I did pick Cincinnati. You're talking about
Speaker 1: the wind blowing out. I kind of like Philly and
Speaker 1: San Diego. Those are my three player stacks, like Cincy,
Speaker 1: Brandon Drury, and Kyle Farmer. I might be going with
Speaker 1: Mitchell White can be fine, but I kind of like
Speaker 1: picking up a couple of San Diego guys and just
Speaker 1: Philly in general. But what do you like on the
Speaker 1: DFS slate tonight for pitchers and hitters.
Speaker 3: For pictures, especially on DK, Logan Gilbert at ninety five
Speaker 3: hundred is really really strong. It's Oakland. I like, I'm
Speaker 3: on a fandle as well at ten four if you're
Speaker 3: paying up. We talked about the strikeout prop. The A's
Speaker 3: offense is just dreadful, so so picked up early and often.
Speaker 3: But I don't mind going like on DK with an
Speaker 3: Aaron Nola to be contrarian if you want to pay up.
Speaker 3: He's just consistent, is you like, usually six or more
Speaker 3: innings as long as he doesn't have to blow up.
Speaker 3: He's gets tons of strikeouts. There's a lot to like
Speaker 3: there with.
Speaker 1: Nola his strikeout prop today too, I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't like to take seven and a half a whole lot.
Speaker 1: I'll only do it with Shane McClanahan and see, so
Speaker 1: that's the problem. But it's probably going to hit against Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Like it's probably going to hit strike. I think that
Speaker 1: time you could be comfortable taking it. I just wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it on like my record of markers and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But it's a relatively comfortable one because he's
Speaker 1: been striking at an insane clip and it is against
Speaker 1: one of the worst strikeout teams in baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then Mitch White could be a cheap punt, like
Speaker 3: if you want. But on Fando, I didn't want to
Speaker 3: bring up Jeffrey Springs is getting the start. Toronto's a
Speaker 3: great offense, but you're getting a good discount on Springs
Speaker 3: at eighty six hundred bucks on Vandals, So lots of
Speaker 3: strike out upside there, and look at how interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, look at Toronto, like
Speaker 1: we were talking about that k's left and right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think what was it Vlad and Bow yesterday when
Speaker 1: a combined oh for ten with five strikeouts. I think
Speaker 1: it is that's actually really not a bad one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then when it comes to bats, like I
Speaker 3: like your stacks, I'm going to really talk at that
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Chicago game. Love Sincy against Hendrix, but Chicago could
Speaker 3: be fun because most won't go there. They'll go to Sincy.
Speaker 3: But I love India and Vado. They are very since
Speaker 3: he is just a great value on both sites today,
Speaker 3: so it'll allow you to pay it for pitching. I
Speaker 3: like the Pirates again, I keep rolling with them. You
Speaker 3: can go back to Reynolds, but you got vogel Bach,
Speaker 3: you got Black Madris has been very good. They're very affordable.
Speaker 3: But if you want one pay up spot, that'll be different.
Speaker 3: Probably low rostered on this slate Seattle going up against
Speaker 3: a rookie pitcher for Oakland. Julio and Winker are swinging
Speaker 3: really hot bats, very expensive, so most of you know
Speaker 3: roster the Dodgers or somebody else. So you can get
Speaker 3: some low ownership on Seattle and have a nice, really
Speaker 3: contrariy and look to the slate if you want to
Speaker 3: go that direction.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: For the home run call today, I actually almost went
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez and that would have been a back to back,
Speaker 1: you know, double dong type of situation. Over two days,
Speaker 1: I moved away from it, and I'm actually gonna go
Speaker 1: with our total based guy today. Wind blown out. Give
Speaker 1: me Brandon Drury. This is probably the furthest down I've picked.
Speaker 1: I know I had one earlier in the year that
Speaker 1: was wildly weird, but I'm going to go with Brandon
Speaker 1: Jury today for my home run call.
Speaker 2: Just out of left field. Joe has still got Jordan Alvarez,
Speaker 2: which isn't super great. Our boy.
Speaker 1: Mayor is going with Patrick Wisdom, so he's call, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're playing the same thing, and Mayor is up near
Speaker 1: the board. What do you got, Bubba, who you gonna
Speaker 1: jump in with?
Speaker 3: Side note, Patrick Wisdom, I think is a phenomenal tournament player.
Speaker 3: I'm going Joey Vatto, the lefty going up against Hendricks.
Speaker 3: Vado has been heating up since he came off he
Speaker 3: covid Il, and I think with that wind blowing out
Speaker 3: and the weather at really, we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 3: of fly balls going deep, deep, deep, So give me some.
Speaker 3: Joey Botto I call him Sir Joey Botto because he's
Speaker 3: from Canada. BVP.
Speaker 1: I think he's got the highest home run track record
Speaker 1: against anybody today, but you know he's also one hundred
Speaker 1: years old, and as is Kyle Hendry. We don't age shame, Okay, no,
Speaker 1: Wed one hundred percent don't because we're getting up there.
Speaker 1: Bubba on Twitter at Beattie in trick. What do you
Speaker 1: got to promote? Bench with Bubba? What's up in your world?
Speaker 3: Real quick? Yeah? Bench with Bubba writing two times a
Speaker 3: week for a Fantasy pros check that out and just
Speaker 3: so much more fun. I could do a DFS show
Speaker 3: money through Friday as well, so follow me on Twitter
Speaker 3: you'll get all my good stuff. But check out bench
Speaker 3: with Bubba. I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I always forget too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are a Fantasy Pros family, so getting on
Speaker 1: the podcast. We've done plenty, but I think this is
Speaker 1: your first time on leading off. Sorry it was with
Speaker 1: me and not with Joe Pi Zapiaugh, I apologize about that.
Speaker 3: It's okay. There's too much glor when both of us
Speaker 3: around the screen at the same time, and it's.
Speaker 2: Not a bad point. Joe is back tomorrow. I will
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 1: There were no new submissions today for the Joe Photoshop contest,
Speaker 1: so I've only got the three. I've only got Coolie Joe,
Speaker 1: which was one.
Speaker 2: We've got the.
Speaker 1: Devil's reject or Devil's Advocate, whichever one it was, the
Speaker 1: car salesman Joe, and then Joe deGrom. Those are the
Speaker 1: only three that I have on the hair contest. So
Speaker 1: if you guys want come and check out the Premium discord.
Speaker 1: You can get in on the home Run contest. You
Speaker 1: can get in in the welsh Ama, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I should be doing my stages today at five pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: So come and hang out with me like you know,
Speaker 1: keep me busy. Please five pm Eastern and you guys
Speaker 1: can in the AMA Welsh You can post a picture
Speaker 1: of your photoshop and we will present them to Joe
Speaker 1: on Friday Show. Bubba, you did fantastic. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me. I appreciate you, my friend, always.
Speaker 3: Been a friend. If you guys ever need help, just
Speaker 3: let me know and I will do my best to
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 1: Pianza, Greger Jacks, thank you so much for hanging out.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys had a good time. Thank you for
Speaker 1: letting me fill in for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: But you got me and Joe coming back tomorrow. Let's
Speaker 1: go win some money, Let's go do some stuff.
Speaker 2: The story of the game goes on. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: do Joe thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah now, I'm not going to do Joe sling. We're
Speaker 1: not going to be silly about that. Love you all, friends.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again right here on leading off
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Pros tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Peas out