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Speaker 1: the show today. That's right. So you're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 1: you might want to just you know, drift over to
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel because there's gonna be some visual stuff here.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to miss. That's a hell of
Speaker 1: a tease, Welsh, don't you think.
Speaker 2: I don'tbody even know what it is. I don't know
Speaker 2: what the technology is. I'm excited. Oh it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Not a good artificial intelligence.
Speaker 3: Not excited, actually, now that I think about it.
Speaker 2: No, not excited.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're gonna look, you're gonna be excited
Speaker 1: because you know, we have a whole thing here, Fantasy
Speaker 1: Pros where they're encouraging us to use AI more. So
Speaker 1: I used AI more for the show. So just sit tight.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it. Let's start with Sandy al Contra,
Speaker 1: though surrender two runs and six innings Wednesday, you got
Speaker 1: to win over the Rockies. His first win, by the way,
Speaker 1: since April seventh. He's zero to five since then, with
Speaker 1: a six seventeen ERA in his past seven starts. Ironically,
Speaker 1: I just did a ride up yesterday. It just came
Speaker 1: out on the buy low sell high on fantasypros dot
Speaker 1: com about going after Sandy al Contra, because if you
Speaker 1: look at the ERA and the fifth things are starting
Speaker 1: to go in the right direction. The strikeout rate has
Speaker 1: been right around nine and a half k per nine.
Speaker 1: That's where you want him to be. So for me,
Speaker 1: this is kind of that window, especially a good start
Speaker 1: in Colorado. I don't think the window is gonna be
Speaker 1: open much longer. So I think you want to stick
Speaker 1: your hands at the window. I think you want take
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra off somebody else's team put it on yours.
Speaker 1: Wealth Welsh. I know yesterday you had a trade opportunity
Speaker 1: with Sandy al Contra, but let's take that out of
Speaker 1: the equation. Let's talk about vacuum trades. Now, are you
Speaker 1: somebody that's buying Sandy al Contra or are you selling
Speaker 1: him off after a good start because you're worried about
Speaker 1: out what you've seen so far in twenty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm in general buying him. Like like
Speaker 3: you said, there's like a lot of stuff that's still sustainable,
Speaker 3: like yues, there may be some lows. He's walking a
Speaker 3: little bit more, he's striking out like a little bit less,
Speaker 3: but you know, as far as you know how he's
Speaker 3: getting barreled and the hard hit like that's kind of maintaining.
Speaker 3: It's really all come down to the effectiveness of his
Speaker 3: change up, and that has kind of dissipated. But I
Speaker 3: do think that's fixable. I want to say, let me
Speaker 3: pull it up here. So last year, the changeup had
Speaker 3: a one seventy five no a one forty five batting
Speaker 3: average against with a one sixty nine expected batting average.
Speaker 3: He threw that the most of any pitch twenty seven percent,
Speaker 3: almost twenty eight percent. This year, the change up a
Speaker 3: three twenty seven batting average three twenty seven with even
Speaker 3: a two forty four, So you can see even the gap.
Speaker 3: Even if, like the expected batting average against a changeup
Speaker 3: is higher than it was last year, there's almost a
Speaker 3: full hundred point gap between where it currently is and
Speaker 3: where it should be.
Speaker 2: So he's just kind.
Speaker 3: Of lost the field this year for the changeup, And
Speaker 3: of course I believe that's going to be able to
Speaker 3: be rectified once he has a better feel, better grip.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just a different arm angle and or you know,
Speaker 3: release point or something like that. But he's throwing a
Speaker 3: little bit less because you can see he's uncomfortable with it.
Speaker 3: So I think that's fixable. I don't see any other insane,
Speaker 3: big worries, and he's probably gonna start rattling off seven
Speaker 3: or eight inning games once we get into the summer.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's a pretty decent buy.
Speaker 1: I want to give some love to a player that
Speaker 1: I don't think we've talked about since the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season, at least I don't recall it. Riley Green
Speaker 1: two four with a home room two run scored. You know,
Speaker 1: quietly the Tigers have been competitive this year. Twenty two
Speaker 1: year old outfielder is you know, looking pretty good. Last year.
Speaker 1: A lot of struggles. This is sophomore season where typically
Speaker 1: you do struggle if you had a good year. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great rookie year for Riley Green. But
Speaker 1: here's the slash Welsh. It's two ninety one to three
Speaker 1: point fifty two OVP with a four point thirty for
Speaker 1: slugging percentage. You got five homers, five soulen bases, so
Speaker 1: you know, technically you're looking at potentially what like a
Speaker 1: fifteen to fifteen kind of player. If you can hit
Speaker 1: to ninety the rest of the year, that would be tremendous.
Speaker 1: But this is another one of these reclamation prospects. That's
Speaker 1: the theme of twenty twenty three right where it's just
Speaker 1: reclamation project after reclamation project. Of these guys that didn't
Speaker 1: live up to their hype is Riley Green. Another one
Speaker 1: of those where you're starting to buy into what you're
Speaker 1: seeing here early in the year because it looks pretty good.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I actually was just doing like random stat stuff last night,
Speaker 3: just kind of going through looking at splits and looking
Speaker 3: at fun things, and I happened upon May and I
Speaker 3: went into hitters.
Speaker 2: Riley Green.
Speaker 3: It has a top ten WRC plus in May at
Speaker 3: outfield and he has the eleventh best war of any player,
Speaker 3: you know, so wins above replacement.
Speaker 2: How good he's been.
Speaker 3: Projections have him as like I think it's like seventeen twelve.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how like the bat X would end
Speaker 3: up putting him. But I really really believe with the
Speaker 3: strides that he's making that this could be like a
Speaker 3: twenty ten, twenty twelve, even maybe even twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Type of guy. Because as you would expect, as we
Speaker 2: would talk about.
Speaker 3: On here sometimes annoyingly, but like all the expected stats,
Speaker 3: they're underlining great. His barrel percentage is up, he's hitting
Speaker 3: the ball harder, his average exit velocity is two miles
Speaker 3: per hour harder. So he's just making better decisions, more
Speaker 3: quality decisions. And I think he's moving up from being
Speaker 3: like this fringy like you know, fifth outfielder to I
Speaker 3: don't know, like a much bigger stable because he's also
Speaker 3: going to be hitting the two or three for that
Speaker 3: lineup runs a point, but twenty fifteen is on my
Speaker 3: mind for Riley, and I'm a big buye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think this is a good opportunity
Speaker 1: where it just I just don't feel like anybody's talking
Speaker 1: about it. Uh, and you know, with shame on us
Speaker 1: for not really acknowledging it sooner. Marcus Stroman of course,
Speaker 1: went out and stuck into the Mets yesterday. He's tossed
Speaker 1: eight innings of two run baseball. He's got an ERA
Speaker 1: under three right now, two ninety five, one point zero nine,
Speaker 1: whip fifty four k's and sixty. He's never been a
Speaker 1: k per nine stud Stroman, but he's been oddly good
Speaker 1: this year. Now. We've seen some good runs from Stroman
Speaker 1: in the past, and then we've seen the bad runs
Speaker 1: as well. So what do you make of stroman seasons
Speaker 1: so far? Because an he r under three at this
Speaker 1: juncture in the season, as we're getting close to the
Speaker 1: end of May, is certainly something I think to acknowledge.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Stroman here being able to
Speaker 1: possibly sustain this run that he's been on with Chicago.
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting, And it happened early on, and
Speaker 3: you know, maybe I'm just crazy, but you know, one
Speaker 3: of the things we saw in his pitch mix, I
Speaker 3: guess I'm looking through like the different definitions of it.
Speaker 3: At one point there was a talk that he was
Speaker 3: throwing more of a sweeper. But Baseball Savant has now
Speaker 3: designated as a slurve, which is what he was throwing
Speaker 3: last year. So the biggest you know, changes you've seen
Speaker 3: is like a slight down tick and a cutter.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a split finger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's really out of the split finger, which or no,
Speaker 3: I guess that's what he cut last year, regardless of
Speaker 3: I mean, well, it's getting close to it.
Speaker 1: But either way, I mean, by the so you've talked
Speaker 1: yourself in circles about it, let's just call it this letter.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things I'm staring at and I'm like,
Speaker 3: why is this all just like not like registering in
Speaker 3: my brain of what he's done. But it's been a
Speaker 3: cutter a little bit more. Either way, what I'm getting
Speaker 3: at is like that slurve or however it was called
Speaker 3: as a sweeper. It's just been more effective this year.
Speaker 3: The whiff rate is up to almost thirty five percent,
Speaker 3: and that's why he's gotten some more case tharing a
Speaker 3: few more strikes.
Speaker 2: I think the pitch mix has helped him. It's been solid.
Speaker 3: I think he's like stabilizing a little bit, so he's
Speaker 3: not in the early parts of the year, it was like,
Speaker 3: holy crap, Pabo Lopez and Joe Ryan and Marcus Stroman,
Speaker 3: they're all changing. Stroman's come back down. I'm into it.
Speaker 3: I think he's a guy that you don't have to
Speaker 3: like stream you could hold on to.
Speaker 1: There you go. Bryce Elder has been terrific. Another good
Speaker 1: start for him. He's got his eer right now at
Speaker 1: two zero one. This is actually in that same piece
Speaker 1: that I was talking about on Fantasy Pros that's out
Speaker 1: there right now. I know Wonkey contributes, marri Coager becase
Speaker 1: I contribute to it sometimes well shows to you know,
Speaker 1: the Bilow Cell high stuff. And I'm looking at Elder
Speaker 1: and just like, I just don't know how long we
Speaker 1: can sustain this. And I like, Bryce Elder is a
Speaker 1: pitcher and you love environment. I just wonder if he
Speaker 1: can get somebody to maybe overpay for him, because two
Speaker 1: months of what Bryce Elder's given you has been spectacular.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if we're gonna get four more
Speaker 1: months of this. I think it's a hard sell there.
Speaker 1: So even if he just kind of regresses a little bit,
Speaker 1: he's still could be a good pitcher. But I just
Speaker 1: I want to kick the tires on the value now
Speaker 1: and see just how high I can sell him off
Speaker 1: of what he's done so far. It's not that I'm
Speaker 1: looking to desperately unload him, but i want to see
Speaker 1: what the value is on the market.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be doing a little bit more of
Speaker 3: a breakdown on Bryce Elder today with you Know Seris
Speaker 3: because I want to talk because there's also an interesting
Speaker 3: thing that's come out, Like the problem with him. He
Speaker 3: has maybe the ugliest baseball savant page you've ever seen
Speaker 3: compared to a player who's been productive. But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: This is another one of those just random players I
Speaker 3: was looking at last night. The slider has completely changed
Speaker 3: his game. And actually, this is what I like about
Speaker 3: Bryce Elder because I've never been a Bryce Elder guy.
Speaker 3: His slider's his most used pitch last year through at
Speaker 3: twenty six percent of the time. This year thirty eight
Speaker 3: percent of the time. We've seen this bere so effective
Speaker 3: with so many players ovi eighth Hunter Green kind of
Speaker 3: changed who he was as a pitcher doing that. And
Speaker 3: the thing that's so unique about it for Bryce Elder
Speaker 3: is he's throwing it for strikes. It's an over fifty
Speaker 3: percent zone percentage. So I mean this guy can throw
Speaker 3: not just a slider across his zone. There's lots of
Speaker 3: guys that have these like twenty something percent slider zone
Speaker 3: percentage because they're just throwing it across getting whiffs. Now
Speaker 3: this guy can get it in the zone. He can
Speaker 3: get called strikes because he can throw it for a
Speaker 3: strike at any time, and it's his number one pitch
Speaker 3: and that just makes your other pitches more effective. And
Speaker 3: he's been living off of that slider. I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be pretty hard to sustain because like maybe we're
Speaker 3: just wrapped into our little world. But like when you're
Speaker 3: bottom ten percent in like everything hard hit, you know,
Speaker 3: spin rate, whatever it is means come back around. Velocity, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it will come back in maybe a weird way. But
Speaker 3: I just don't know if there's any value. Like who
Speaker 3: the hell's buying Bryce Elder.
Speaker 1: Well, I think people that have huge injury and pictures.
Speaker 1: I think people who have Corbyn burns and are really panicking.
Speaker 1: I mean that you never know you could put. I
Speaker 1: mean it gets to a point in the season when
Speaker 1: we get to June where people start making some hard
Speaker 1: decisions on guys that have underperformed. If you put Elder
Speaker 1: in a deal with another picture for all contra or
Speaker 1: or a big time hitter, I wonder if you can
Speaker 1: get that deal done. I mean, think of what Sandy's
Speaker 1: done to your e Ra this year, and Elder looks
Speaker 1: like a really good bye. I mean maybe he's lower
Speaker 1: that e Ra.
Speaker 3: There's a tiny little part of me that might actually
Speaker 3: be like he might be a bye. And and I
Speaker 3: don't like doing it because.
Speaker 1: I understand pages. I think that's in a sharp league.
Speaker 1: He's a bye because I think all the sharps are
Speaker 1: looking at and saying, okay, you know it's time to
Speaker 1: get out. Whereas you know, in the more casual formats,
Speaker 1: he might be a bye because people don't realize just
Speaker 1: you know, how valuable he might be. So I think
Speaker 1: that's an interesting.
Speaker 3: Dangle him out there, man.
Speaker 1: That's a Welsh's advice, is everybody dangle him out there.
Speaker 1: Edward Julian and whatever's left of the Minnesota Twins. Julian
Speaker 1: let off the game with a homer, his first career
Speaker 1: leadoff homer. Joe Ryan went to seven and one, So
Speaker 1: good stuff there for my boy. Edward. And speaking of rookies,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Bryce Miller, your boy. Bryce Miller struck
Speaker 1: out six batters over six shutout innings. Yes it was
Speaker 1: against the A's, but we told you go in there,
Speaker 1: go in hard against the A's every time. It just
Speaker 1: always works out. For the most part. It's gonna work
Speaker 1: out one hundred plus times this year. So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying like they're gonna be one hundred lost team. They're terrible.
Speaker 1: But what an incredible start at one point one five right,
Speaker 1: a point five to one whip twenty eight strikeouts in
Speaker 1: thirty one innings. He's got the Yankees and in his
Speaker 1: next start in Seattle on Monday, so that'll be fun
Speaker 1: to watch Zach Netto three for three with a home run,
Speaker 1: So a little sighting for him. He's been relatively quiet
Speaker 1: since getting a little publicity with his call up, but
Speaker 1: you look at the slash two sixty six, three thirty three,
Speaker 1: four eleven. Now, Mickey Moniac, our best friend is sitting
Speaker 1: today for.
Speaker 3: Oh no, the starts sitting.
Speaker 1: He's sitting today, which I don't know why. It's like,
Speaker 1: do the Angels not want to win baseball games? I
Speaker 1: don't understand. This is what he had. When you are
Speaker 1: you know what it is.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 1: This is when you are too loyal to the veterans.
Speaker 1: This is what happens. It's like, Okay, Taylor Ward happen
Speaker 1: said too.
Speaker 2: Many ward in too.
Speaker 1: I believe he is Taylor Ward.
Speaker 3: Let you put Vick and keelback out there. Here is
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward in over Mickey Moniac. Oh my god, the
Speaker 3: chat must be livid, the Taylor Wards.
Speaker 1: They should be eduard O Sealazar from Triple A getting
Speaker 1: called up by the Reds. Uh this year in seventeen innings,
Speaker 1: he got twenty five strikeouts, three walks point five to
Speaker 1: one e RA point ninety six whip. Is this a
Speaker 1: guy that can help you with ratios in some of
Speaker 1: those deeper leagues?
Speaker 3: Potentially he's a Red so he's kind of a more
Speaker 3: of a pop up. I had big stuff plus numbers,
Speaker 3: Sure I would take a look at it. But this
Speaker 3: is not the this is not the Reds that I'm
Speaker 3: trying to buy into. I'll point this out and I
Speaker 3: talk about it on CBS last night. Andrew Abbott for
Speaker 3: the Reds twenty one swinging whiffs last night.
Speaker 2: I mean everyone's like, oh, Double A. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Double A kind of inflated him.
Speaker 3: He had twenty one swinging whiffs in that game, and
Speaker 3: he had nine strikeouts. I believe it's like four of
Speaker 3: his five triple A or five of his six triple
Speaker 3: A starts, he's had seven plus strikeouts. Andrew Abbott's the
Speaker 3: guy that I'm looking for. The guys like Salas are
Speaker 3: that it's more like Bullpenny type of stuff.
Speaker 2: Like I'm i'd be very.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Like we're talk about ratio, some
Speaker 1: extra strikeouts, maybe some holes you get for him. That's
Speaker 1: what the plus.
Speaker 3: Numbers would make me pick him up. We would make
Speaker 3: me like maybe speculate, but like I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 3: but I do that sometimes.
Speaker 2: I'm just no Mickey moniac.
Speaker 1: You know. He's also in the rookie Lookie, Matthew Libertor
Speaker 1: is going to start on Friday, which is no surprise
Speaker 1: because guess what, Stephen mattch crap the bed again, So
Speaker 1: no surprise there. This could be an interesting thing to
Speaker 1: watch today. Danny Jansen was removed from Whens his game
Speaker 1: get the groin tightness. He's going the MRI route today.
Speaker 1: That's never a good thing typically, so I imagine he's
Speaker 1: going on the IO, which means Kirk is gonna be
Speaker 1: catching again. Now when you have Kirk and Minoa together
Speaker 1: hasn't been great this year. So if Manoa hasn't excuse me,
Speaker 1: if Kirk hasn't fixed up that whole issue of setting
Speaker 1: up too early or whatever that is preparation, what whatever's
Speaker 1: going on there with Kirk that was giving us bad
Speaker 1: results and aiding some of the bad stats for Alec Manoa.
Speaker 1: Keep a close eye on today and what happens here
Speaker 1: going forward, because that's another one of these things. If
Speaker 1: Dan Chance's out for a long period of time, I
Speaker 1: don't know what we're gonna do there. Eloya Menez will
Speaker 1: begin a minor league reab assignment on Wednesday, so I imagine
Speaker 1: if he's Wednesday, then he's probably gonna be back. He
Speaker 1: would assume sometime next week.
Speaker 3: You know, Monday, like it doesn't need that much, like maybeybe.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's even back like Sunday. I don't know why
Speaker 3: you dream of Sunday. I'd say Monday, Well, he's he's
Speaker 3: gonna be.
Speaker 1: If he starts on Wednesday next week, then you would
Speaker 1: imagine Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I would think they'd probably give
Speaker 1: him through the weekend, but you never know. Maybe just Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: maybe they get back Saturday, Sunday. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Manny Machado took some grounders on Wednesday and Julio Urius
Speaker 1: to read bullpen session. Yondi Diaz. It's also away from
Speaker 1: the team for a family matter, so keep that around
Speaker 1: as well. I don't know if it's I hope it's
Speaker 1: nothing serious. I hope it's you know, everything is okay
Speaker 1: for Yandi. We're just saying nice things about Yondi now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of nice things, I teased at the top of
Speaker 1: the show. And it's funny because Thursday is always like
Speaker 1: people think, oh, you know, it's Thursday. It's a light slate,
Speaker 1: you know. They this is tend to be when we
Speaker 1: do our best work. I feel this is when we
Speaker 1: sang boys to men just a few weeks ago on
Speaker 1: Thursday show. We did another wacky thing last Thursday. So
Speaker 1: I read a piece on MLB dot com about Francisco Alvarez,
Speaker 1: Brett Bady and Mark Viento's going to I guess the
Speaker 1: apartment or condor or whatever wherever mister Alvarez is living
Speaker 1: and Alvarez invited them all over and made lasagna for everybody.
Speaker 1: He made like a Spanish lasagna, which you know, the
Speaker 1: sauce is a little bit different, it's not quite you
Speaker 1: know's what's this sort of like a red chili sauce
Speaker 1: than like a traditional tomato sauce. But it's like the meat,
Speaker 1: the whole things. And I read this article and it
Speaker 1: was really nice. So talking about the guys kind of
Speaker 1: hanging out, you know, kind of being together. And you
Speaker 1: know that Alvarez is a pretty good cook. And we
Speaker 1: even encouraged here Fantasy Pro to use more AI technology.
Speaker 1: And that being said, I asked Ai, I said, can
Speaker 1: you generate me a picture of Francisco Alvarez, Brett Batty,
Speaker 1: and Mark Viento's at Francisco Halvearez's house making lasagna together?
Speaker 1: And so AI did that for me, and it is
Speaker 1: The results are terrifying. So I want you to take
Speaker 1: a good look at this. So here you go. Ethan
Speaker 1: did this up for us. Dinner is served. As you
Speaker 1: can see, it's a pretty much giant lasagna. I'm not
Speaker 1: exactly sure what's happening here. Also, you could tell the
Speaker 1: logos for the New York Mets don't have I guess
Speaker 1: official licensing on AI, so they're very strange looking.
Speaker 3: I mean, Brett Batty is nice. I'm assuming that's him
Speaker 3: nice mare Fuel that looks like he's like it's the
Speaker 3: Powder meets the Goonies guy that from the Goonies. Francisco
Speaker 3: Alvarez is missing an eye. God, yeah, it is so terrifying.
Speaker 3: Look at the fingers that are melting with the cheese.
Speaker 2: What is this? Why would you do.
Speaker 1: This to us? Because it's funny? Uh and because it
Speaker 1: was a nice story. So here says in the left,
Speaker 1: I guess that's Viento's I assume that's theirn Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: AI is terrifying. And this is I again. I wanted
Speaker 1: to share this with everybody because it made me laugh
Speaker 1: out loud when I plugged this into AI and asked
Speaker 1: him for a picture, and and you know, it's it
Speaker 1: definitely gives you some sort of zombie Lasagna sort of
Speaker 1: feeling going on with these guys. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: really scary to recognition.
Speaker 2: Look at this.
Speaker 3: Look at the upper half of Alvarez's body and then
Speaker 3: compared to the lower half that's under the bowl. Like
Speaker 3: it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: No, but it get it works so well altogether. So
Speaker 1: there you go. So dinner is served. I hope it
Speaker 1: looked better. Hope was a better experience than that was.
Speaker 1: But again, we've been encouraged to use AI technology here
Speaker 1: at the company. Oh sure, Oh absolutely. I tried to
Speaker 1: put something in about you and me and a buddy
Speaker 1: cop movie, but it wouldn't pull up our faces. So
Speaker 1: you know, we're not famous life yet. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know there's some of these programs that you can
Speaker 3: well I guess this is just probably chat GPT, but
Speaker 3: you can like upload video so it's got photos and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: To your screen tube.
Speaker 1: I just I know, like.
Speaker 2: Everybody, just see what happened to Joe.
Speaker 1: If you're watching on the YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
Speaker 1: I might be Max Headroom. I might be a robot.
Speaker 1: I don't know that was If you say AI five times,
Speaker 1: I guess the AI monster shows up in the camera
Speaker 1: or something that was creepy. So again, if you're listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast, I encourage you to follow us over
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel, subscribe to the YouTube channel, and
Speaker 1: check out the visual of show it one more time.
Speaker 1: Just everybody there, it is Dinner is served at Francess
Speaker 1: blow for britt Baby is so happy. Look at him
Speaker 1: just getting ready with the gees.
Speaker 2: His face is like out of evil Dead Rise.
Speaker 1: It's terrible, it's terrifying, it's great. So many good things,
Speaker 1: all right. The other funny thing that happened yesterday in
Speaker 1: baseball was Trey Turner. We were talking after the show
Speaker 1: about Trey Turner's WBC stat's being better than when he's
Speaker 1: done so far for the Phillies, and the Phillies started,
Speaker 1: of course it's Philadelphia. They start to boo him because
Speaker 1: that's Philadelphia. And then I guess after you know, you
Speaker 1: have a big home run. Yesterday it was it was,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a breakout for him. His mom
Speaker 1: texted them, good game except for your fourth a bat.
Speaker 1: I was booing, you love, mom. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Trey Turner's mom, who's also trolling him. You gotta love that.
Speaker 1: Joe's tough guys. Ben Lively struck out eight and allowed
Speaker 1: two runs and six innings Wednesday. It's his first major
Speaker 1: league win since twenty seventeen. It's a long time going
Speaker 1: between wins, so shout out for Ben Lively for being
Speaker 1: tough and toughing it out, three up and three down.
Speaker 1: Labor Torres two homers yesterday you'll agreel four for four
Speaker 1: with a triple, two runs and a ribby Michael Kopek
Speaker 1: A good Michael Kopeks tart, what's the world coming? To?
Speaker 1: Seven innings nine k's for the White Sox in their
Speaker 1: win the three down James Paxton was going so well,
Speaker 1: but you whatever, he still had five strikeouts, he gave
Speaker 1: up the five earned. This is bound to happen, and
Speaker 1: I want to see the next start three innings, but
Speaker 1: Steven Mattz is done. It's over. It's done. As Era
Speaker 1: is almost six now eleven hit, six ened runs, he
Speaker 1: is done. It's over. Matthew Libertor is gonna be the
Speaker 1: guy going forward. You say, Kakuchi five earned runs, eight
Speaker 1: hits and five innings. He was also bad. But you
Speaker 1: know what's good Welsh, what's always a good time is
Speaker 1: price Picks. So download price picks app or go to
Speaker 1: prize picks dot com. Use that promo code leading off
Speaker 1: when you do, and get a one hundred percent deposit
Speaker 1: match up to one hundred dollars. Welsh, let's pick some prizes.
Speaker 3: What do you have for the very interesting you just
Speaker 3: slipped up there. AI wouldn't be able to say one
Speaker 3: hundred years.
Speaker 1: I'm terrified of of the robots coming to get me.
Speaker 1: It's going on.
Speaker 3: I don't if I'm doing a show with Joe pis
Speaker 3: Apia or if this is John.
Speaker 1: You want to come over? You want to come over
Speaker 1: and make Lasagnia. I don't.
Speaker 3: I've never wanted anything last. All, right, price picks, Let's
Speaker 3: get to it. I have a weird collection. I'm getting
Speaker 3: weird on a Thursday because everything is odd, like this show.
Speaker 3: So here are my picks. I have got the White
Speaker 3: Sox Detroit, no run first inning. There's just something about it.
Speaker 3: The top of the White Sox lineup a little wonky,
Speaker 3: not like the Penguin, and just Detroit going up against
Speaker 3: gi Alito. So I like no runs in the first inning.
Speaker 3: Austin wins with Colorado hit run RBI.
Speaker 2: Is at one and a half.
Speaker 3: I'll take the under. I don't care if it's in Colorado.
Speaker 3: It's Austin wins a nine hole hitter, and I'll stay
Speaker 3: in that same game.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: Kyle Frielan outs over fifteen and a half. He's quite
Speaker 3: a bit better than you.
Speaker 2: Expect.
Speaker 3: Only one Marlins hitter is hitting over three hundred against lefties.
Speaker 3: That is Luisa Rise, who happens to be the league's
Speaker 3: best hitter against lefties, which isn't great. He hits three
Speaker 3: ninety one, but who cares he hits singles. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go with Kyle Freelan outs essentially saying that he's
Speaker 3: gonna get to five and two thirds. So that's my
Speaker 3: weird price picks, my AI, my AI approved Angelo.
Speaker 1: Listen here, I see you in the chat here talking
Speaker 1: about Liberator getting blasted relief. It's because he's not a
Speaker 1: relief picture. When you take these creatures of habit, these
Speaker 1: delicate flowers that are major league starting pictures, and you
Speaker 1: make them do anything that's out of their routine, it's
Speaker 1: typically gonna go poorly. Don't even I don't care about
Speaker 1: that at all.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't care. It means nothing. Don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: says the delicate flower.
Speaker 2: I am a robot.
Speaker 1: Here's my prize picks for the day, hopefully better than yesterday's.
Speaker 1: So mad, Aaron Judge, let me down, packs and let
Speaker 1: me down. Lucas Gilido five and a half k's over
Speaker 1: Aaron NOA five and a half, k's over and Trey Turner,
Speaker 1: who is back? Baby, let's go just seven and a
Speaker 1: half fantasy points. I love the guys that do the
Speaker 1: multiple things because it's easy for them to get over
Speaker 1: the low number of fantasy points. By the way, Trey
Speaker 1: Turner is super sheep a DFS two on FD he
Speaker 1: is like two point eight. It's absurd.
Speaker 3: Why thirteen RBI and I don't care.
Speaker 1: He's still Trey Turner. So take advantage while the getting's good.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk to some wagering here. Now that
Speaker 1: Saint Louis has set everybody go jump on the reds
Speaker 1: before that line changes anymore.
Speaker 2: It's rude me.
Speaker 3: I made a bet last night for the team total
Speaker 3: run to the Cardinals. I'm like, oh, I love this,
Speaker 3: And then this morning when.
Speaker 1: No gold, nothing, nothing, they're all gonna play AI people.
Speaker 1: So Toronto plus one thirty on the money line, Washington
Speaker 1: plus one fifty eight. He put Toronto and Washington together
Speaker 1: with the very heavily favored Mariners and Logan Gilbert against
Speaker 1: the terrible awful A's you get seven to one in
Speaker 1: that little parlay, so bet them separately. Throw the Mariners
Speaker 1: in there in the parlay bet them all together. You
Speaker 1: could do a unit on each of these three things,
Speaker 1: and if everything hits, guess what, You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: nice day. It's gonna be a really fun day. Welsh,
Speaker 1: What do you have on the betting line today? Man?
Speaker 2: Betting is so wild too.
Speaker 3: By the way, just out a couple people were talking
Speaker 3: about my bets yesterday because I was perfect yesterday. I
Speaker 3: had an incredible, amazing day. Yet the day before I
Speaker 3: was over. I live like oh for three, oh for four,
Speaker 3: missed all of them, and then yesterday I hit all
Speaker 3: of them. Betting is such a weird ride where you
Speaker 3: guys get pissed and happy and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 3: So hopefully we can keep you on the happy side today. Again,
Speaker 3: I don't like a lot of the stuff. I loved
Speaker 3: the Cardinals one, but I wasn't bringing it here because
Speaker 3: it started when we started. So I'm going with the
Speaker 3: Yankees and Baltimore Orioles over total game over, just nine
Speaker 3: runs over. Kind of like that one pitching matchup on
Speaker 3: both sides, I think, is you know hit aable?
Speaker 2: I've got a hit parlay.
Speaker 3: Juan Soto and Aaron Judge both to get one hit.
Speaker 3: It's essentially even money minus one of four. And sticking
Speaker 3: with that, I'm going with the San Diego first five
Speaker 3: team total runs, it's minus one ten, it's two and
Speaker 3: a half. So it's essentially the Padre's got to score
Speaker 3: three runs through the first five going up against Jake Irvin,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to make that bet. I like Wan
Speaker 3: Soto a lot today in there to maybe put that up.
Speaker 3: So if you want to.
Speaker 2: Go total bases, I do that too. But those are
Speaker 2: my bets, all right.
Speaker 1: Bt fout saying a pizza pias Alsagni can be found
Speaker 1: in your local grocery section the freezer, and of course
Speaker 1: Donnie c cousin. Donnie said Joe would never, as a
Speaker 1: true Italian ever get frozen lasagnia.
Speaker 3: This is this brings up an interesting thing. So like Barstool,
Speaker 3: they like all their like personalities and stuff. They're all
Speaker 3: just like doing foods like pizza and they're like a
Speaker 3: coffee and all this type of stuff. If you got
Speaker 3: to the popularity point, what would be the thing that
Speaker 3: you would have.
Speaker 1: As somebody who makes homemade pizza and the dough from
Speaker 1: scratch and everything, I would actually be able to give
Speaker 1: you informed pizza reviews.
Speaker 3: Pizza pizza pias, pizza pies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Joey's pizza pizza, A piece of pizza,
Speaker 1: I know, something like that. But you know, and I
Speaker 1: love when everybody figures that out for the first time,
Speaker 1: as if I've never heard that my entire life. That's
Speaker 1: always my favorite. Yes, very qualified for that. I'd be
Speaker 1: very qualified for ice cream tastings because I think I
Speaker 1: have a very I have a pretty good palate. Now.
Speaker 1: Lazani is a pain in the ass to make. It's
Speaker 1: something that it's very laborious, it takes a long time.
Speaker 1: It's a whole process. I only do it at Christmas.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because cousin Donnie's sister when she comes
Speaker 1: over after Christmas, like the day or two after with
Speaker 1: all her kids, and we do like, you know, because
Speaker 1: we're telling you have like four or five Christmases because
Speaker 1: you got to see everybody at some point. I always
Speaker 1: make two lasagnas, one for Christmas Day and then one
Speaker 1: for whatever the other company coming that week. So it's
Speaker 1: a it's a whole day event when you make lasagna,
Speaker 1: and my lazani is outstanding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just curious. So Joe's pizza pia piece of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would be very qualified for pizza reviews. I
Speaker 1: would be very qualified. I think for Burger reviews too.
Speaker 1: I'm a definitely Burger Connissan.
Speaker 3: Product like your product, so but it would be a pizza,
Speaker 3: so look out for it in the future.
Speaker 1: I do some excellent pizza work and I do them
Speaker 1: on the grill in the summertime too, because you get
Speaker 1: that nice little that nice crust on the grill, you
Speaker 1: flip it over, then you dress it boom.
Speaker 3: You know, we would do There's a lot of streamers,
Speaker 3: like video game video games streamers like they just play
Speaker 3: video games and all of a sudden, out of nowhere,
Speaker 3: they'll do what it's called like a cooking stream and
Speaker 3: they'll bring their camera in.
Speaker 1: So you need My daughter just told me yesterday when
Speaker 1: we were making a banana bread. She's like, you should
Speaker 1: do a cooking show. She's like, you'd be very fun
Speaker 1: on a cooking show. And you know what, thief cooking show.
Speaker 1: Get that stream going? All right? Cooking with Joey p
Speaker 1: You what else is cooking right now? Do you come on?
Speaker 2: I have no idea where we're going.
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Speaker 1: dot Com slash leading off league Welsh. In terms of
Speaker 1: DFS today, Logan Gilbert ten point six. Slam dunk, just
Speaker 1: slam dunky baby, just like Bryce Miller yesterday. Just keep
Speaker 1: doing it. Lucas Gilito ten k is also interesting if
Speaker 1: you want to just got a little differential. If you're
Speaker 1: playing five lineups, I would do three Logan Gilberts, one,
Speaker 1: Lucas Gilito and then an Aaron Nola at nine to
Speaker 1: seven and just go up somewhere else for some hitting
Speaker 1: White Sox, Phillies Cubs. That's where I'm looking for offense today.
Speaker 1: Carls Carrasco stinks too. Value plays Tim Anderson two point eight,
Speaker 1: Right Turner two point eight and Matt Murrays two point six. Again,
Speaker 1: Carls Carrasco stinks you go out there. Maybe I'm crazy,
Speaker 1: but as long as the Orioles are still playing the Yankees,
Speaker 1: I'm still going to go with Aaron Judge. It was
Speaker 1: not fruitful yesterday, I don't care. I'm gonna stick to it.
Speaker 1: If we look at the home run board, we've got
Speaker 1: Prime Time Open nineteen, still BHB at eighteen and Razor
Speaker 1: at eighteen. Razors doing a good job. No Welsh yet
Speaker 1: he was there for like a hot minute.
Speaker 2: What did you hear yesterday too?
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I really want to take Corey Soelaire,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna take stupid Christian Walker and Solai hit
Speaker 3: a bomb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was a weird one. I was
Speaker 1: surprised you want Christian Walker on that one? So, all right,
Speaker 1: what will you taking today? And that's all that matters?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'm gonna go with one so too.
Speaker 3: One Soto just under three hundred batting average against Rydy's
Speaker 3: Jaker and give up a couple homers in his last start.
Speaker 3: One SODA's been heaten up. So I was originally had
Speaker 3: I but the show was going early. I would have
Speaker 3: picked one of these cardinals that are all sitting. So
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Nolan Gorman. Specifically, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with one soda for my home run call today.
Speaker 1: Please hope, please want so here here you try to
Speaker 1: show you this. This is the joe Piece of Piece
Speaker 1: signature pie straight from my grill. This is a sausage
Speaker 1: and pepper yellow and orange only. I don't really care
Speaker 1: for the red of the green all that much. With
Speaker 1: the different kinds of sausage that straight off the Joey
Speaker 1: p grill.
Speaker 3: That Ai, that cheese doesn't look real.
Speaker 1: The cheese is real. You got the regular throw, but
Speaker 1: you also got some fresh parmesan on top. You got
Speaker 1: a little of the paw the provolone too. You do
Speaker 1: all different cheeses on this because you want a sharper
Speaker 1: kind of cheese. So there you go. There's there's the
Speaker 1: Joey Pece signature.
Speaker 3: If Ai Brett Baty comes into that picture, I am
Speaker 3: going to screen. You know those like jump scare games
Speaker 3: and all these kids like now it's like five nights
Speaker 3: at Freddy's like that. We could use that for a
Speaker 3: jump scare scare game of just pizza. Just Bready comes
Speaker 3: and he's.
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Speaker 1: rankings are up there, so many good things and it
Speaker 1: was great. So this was a fun show today. A
Speaker 1: lot of food. I'm hungry now we're going a little
Speaker 1: little food, a little baseball, a little this, little that.
Speaker 1: So we hope you had a good time. Uh so
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us. But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time, kids, and I'm gonna leave you with
Speaker 1: a lasting image. Dinners served everybody. Yeah, AI taking over, terrifying.
Speaker 2: See you later, kids,