Speaker 1: Jock Jams, let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros.
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Speaker 1: Is the Welsh again?
Speaker 2: Three straight?
Speaker 1: Well again?
Speaker 3: What sort of did I win? You're like, I'm with
Speaker 3: Welsh again.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of disdain. It is.
Speaker 2: It is pure joy and and I'm grateful to the universe.
Speaker 1: You know how people like to talk about the universe
Speaker 1: that actually cares about their individual moments. I've clearly become
Speaker 1: one of those people where I'm very happy that the
Speaker 1: universe has worked out for me that I have you
Speaker 1: here for an extra day this week. And of course
Speaker 1: we're talking about all the crazy, wacky things that went
Speaker 1: on in Major League Baseball last night, and there were
Speaker 1: plenty of them. Welsh. Let's start with Jack Peterson going
Speaker 1: absolutely bananas. Three home runs, eight Ribby's. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good night for Jock Peterson. I wonder if anybody picked
Speaker 1: him in the home run contest.
Speaker 2: I highly doubt it.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine someone did it. Definitely is one of
Speaker 3: those where I'm just like, dang it, why wasn't I there.
Speaker 3: You know what I love about Jock Two. Jock has
Speaker 3: also turned himself into like like a competitive division softball player.
Speaker 3: His body, he doesn't look like a baseball player anymore.
Speaker 3: It's what's so special, by the way about baseball, and
Speaker 3: he just it's kind of like a me looking guy
Speaker 3: like you and me. He just gets up there and
Speaker 3: he's just cranking homers, and he cranks three of them.
Speaker 3: And I think he also that game was just wild
Speaker 3: in general, the Mets coming back how they did the
Speaker 3: three homers. Mets baseball in general has been much watch TV,
Speaker 3: and Jock definitely will make you feel a little bit
Speaker 3: better just about you know, general athleticism for all of us.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I always support those those body types in
Speaker 1: Major league baseball. I also, you know, it's funny. I
Speaker 1: remember the arc of his minor league career, and remember
Speaker 1: how excited everybody was at Jock Peterson was gonna cop
Speaker 1: He had like a four hundred OVP I think at
Speaker 1: one point in the minor leagues, and he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be this guy was just gonna crush everything, and
Speaker 1: that just never really happened. He became like a platoon player.
Speaker 1: It's kind of balanced around the last few years. I mean,
Speaker 1: certainly made an impact in Atlanta last year, but still
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of funny that, you know, the
Speaker 1: more you look back, there's so many more Jack Peterson's
Speaker 1: and maybe Jared Keelnix than there are guys like Juan Soto,
Speaker 1: And it's just a good reminder in those dynasty leagues
Speaker 1: and those formats you play on, if you could acquire
Speaker 1: a good, young, talented major league player for a prospect,
Speaker 1: most of the time is probably.
Speaker 2: A good idea. Would you agree with that sentiment most of.
Speaker 3: The time, Yeah, I think most of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's nuance to all of it, but it is for
Speaker 3: sure like Jock is actually he's kind of like the
Speaker 3: prototypical baseball player now, you know, it's like at two forty,
Speaker 3: you know, there's some big power outputs. Maybe I go
Speaker 3: zero for ten with five strikeouts, like you know, you
Speaker 3: never know, like he's gonna keep you surprised. He's like
Speaker 3: a birthday present every day you don't know what you're
Speaker 3: gonna get. Lou Trash are the best player in baseball.
Speaker 1: So you're right, I feel like the league has come
Speaker 1: to Jock Peterson though I think that's more. I think
Speaker 1: he's been this guy and all the rest of the league.
Speaker 1: He's like, Yeah, you know what I think we're all
Speaker 1: gonna do with Jock Peterson does Lindor Homer's in that
Speaker 1: same game, drives in six runs again, crazy situation.
Speaker 3: Fourteen RBIs between those two fourteen Yeah, wild.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy. Could you imagine if you had those
Speaker 1: two guys in the DFS lineup? Imagine you won. You
Speaker 1: had to have won money last night. Cindergaard to handle
Speaker 1: the Rangers last night, got a w there, Danny Jansen
Speaker 1: two home runs of his own, a lot of home
Speaker 1: runs last night. Hit a lot of weird ones too.
Speaker 1: But vlad Guerrero goes deep after a huge cold streak,
Speaker 1: which is great because Vladdie hasn't hit a dinger in
Speaker 1: some time. So hopefully this gets Bladdy going. Are you
Speaker 1: hopeful that we're getting to the to the Vladdie hot streak,
Speaker 1: that we're right on the precipice of this, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I got a bet slip that was most
Speaker 3: homers by Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Just I have a couple
Speaker 3: of those guys, and so yeah, I'm very, very hopeful
Speaker 3: that can get picking up. I don't have anyone is
Speaker 3: gonna catch you. Let me ask you, do you think
Speaker 3: anybody is going to catch Judge? And I say it
Speaker 3: like it's kind of like hyperbolic, but like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's may. There's so much time in front of us.
Speaker 3: The obvious answer would be like, yeah, dude, of course,
Speaker 3: but like really think about like how dominant he's been,
Speaker 3: his lead he has. You really think anybody is gonna
Speaker 3: like really catch Aaron Judge. Is he gonna run away
Speaker 3: with this?
Speaker 1: You know? With Judge there's always that injury risk because
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen a lot in his career. If
Speaker 1: anyone can do it, I still think Alvarez is the
Speaker 1: guy to do it because that's a guy that could
Speaker 1: just go on these monstrous You know, the guys are
Speaker 1: gonna have those three home run games, those two home
Speaker 1: run games like they're nothing. John He's got a big deal.
Speaker 3: J Peterson's gonna leadball.
Speaker 1: John Peters is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But those are the kind of guys that I would
Speaker 1: look to. But I think Judge is the favorite. He's
Speaker 1: a favorite on FanDuel over the weekend. For that same wager,
Speaker 1: you could make and rightfully so as he should be.
Speaker 1: And I think Alfred was number two, and Alvarez is
Speaker 1: that guy that I can think cold really challenge him.
Speaker 2: I think Vlad could also.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a part of me that's not done. Even
Speaker 3: though I know he's got half of the homers that
Speaker 3: Judge does. There's a hard one that would one slow month,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, well yeah, with the injury stuff, it
Speaker 3: really kind of comes it into play.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't, like, you know, put Vlad to bed here
Speaker 3: on that scenario. But I just don't know if it's
Speaker 3: even gonna happen. It's one of those where it's like,
Speaker 3: I think I don't know what the number is right now.
Speaker 3: I had imagine that would look so juicy, whatever it's
Speaker 3: plus eight hundred for him to lead or whatever, but
Speaker 3: is it even worth it. You're thrown away your money
Speaker 3: because Judge looks I'm just trying to make this all
Speaker 3: about you. He just looks so dominant when you think
Speaker 3: about homers and so locked in that it's like a
Speaker 3: lot of these other guys maybe don't have that batting
Speaker 3: average that comes with a player. Why I would bet
Speaker 3: on Vlad, But Judge's playing out of his mind, but
Speaker 3: thank god Glad is breaking out of it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun fact from Wonky Penguin Jock Peterson versu
Speaker 1: Righty's nine sixty seven ops versus lefties two hundred ops.
Speaker 1: Yaosa called split.
Speaker 3: Those are split ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Ms are splits. Indeed, nikes uh glabor.
Speaker 1: Torres also hit two home runs versus the Orioles. He
Speaker 1: was one of our lineup builders yesterday and is cheap
Speaker 1: yet again today. So it looks like Torres has finally
Speaker 1: found himself again, his back on track, which is used
Speaker 1: for this likeank e lineup, and it's something that they're
Speaker 1: gonna need, especially because it looks like Stanton. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get an MRI on that calf muscle and here we
Speaker 1: go again. I mean, this is the Giancarlos Stanton roller
Speaker 1: coaster that we're used to. Great productivity, cold Strey, great productivity, injury.
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, It's one of these players
Speaker 1: that I always stay away from because I just feel
Speaker 1: like the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about Stanton at this point?
Speaker 3: I've always been a Stanton guy though, because I agree
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, but as far as where
Speaker 3: that juice is, that juice was in the back end
Speaker 3: of the top one hundred or outside the top one
Speaker 3: hundred and getting that type of prolific power, I think
Speaker 3: it's really really hard to pass up. But you know,
Speaker 3: there's just another instance of it. I've got shares. I've
Speaker 3: absolutely got some shares of Stanton. Picked him as my
Speaker 3: home run call yesterday has not been as dialed in,
Speaker 3: but that's a dialed in team. It's frustrating. It's a reminder,
Speaker 3: it's a clear reminder of these injured guys.
Speaker 1: You know, they all do it.
Speaker 3: That's the crazy thing is I get very like mush
Speaker 3: brained about injured players. Where a Pollyanna. I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, just think about the potential. And it's like
Speaker 3: those guys always remind you. Buxton, you know who I
Speaker 3: consistently talk about kind of just consistently remind you about
Speaker 3: those dings and misses and stuff like that. Stanton, this
Speaker 3: is what Stanton does. De Gram, that's what he does.
Speaker 3: This is what these guys Clayton Kershaw, it's what he does.
Speaker 3: That injury. It comes back Joe to the injury prone
Speaker 3: versus injury plagued.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. My favorite argument we've ever had
Speaker 1: in discussion we've ever had. Frank Schwindell also two home
Speaker 1: runs against Cincinnati yesterday, so Stanton wasn't the only injury
Speaker 1: out there. You also had MRI turning up clean for
Speaker 1: DJ Lemayhew and the left RST. So that's good. Jack
Speaker 1: Flaherty is gonna face live hitters on Thursday. That's huge,
Speaker 1: especially with that Stephen Matt's.
Speaker 2: Injury, so he went to the IL.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get Flaherty back in the next two weeks
Speaker 1: or so and Chris Bryant back to the IL with
Speaker 1: lower backstrain. Your thoughts on the Bryant injury and what
Speaker 1: to do with Chris Bryant, what to do to replace him?
Speaker 3: By the way, I mean, Jock Peterson be sitting out
Speaker 3: on the wire until you replaced Chris Bryant. Oh Calhoun,
Speaker 3: as long as he's anybody, any hot bat right now.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty frustrated because I actually came off of the
Speaker 3: Bryant train until he went to Colorado, and then I
Speaker 3: just tucked myself back into it. I didn't get a
Speaker 3: lot of shares because he was going for a just
Speaker 3: absurd cost this year, even though in a position that
Speaker 3: you want it, I think you got a hold, but
Speaker 3: I understand it comes down to il positional stuff. This still,
Speaker 3: this only feels like a couple of weeks. It's Colorado.
Speaker 3: It's not something I can completely give up on. But
Speaker 3: on my updated redraft ranks, he's falling and he has
Speaker 3: to fall because they're players that are just jumping over him.
Speaker 3: And frankly, you know, like popped in my mind. You
Speaker 3: got to think about, like what about who would you
Speaker 3: rather have rest of the season, Chris Bryan or Brandon Jury.
Speaker 3: You know, some of those guys are starting having well
Speaker 3: I'm just saying well, but I'm saying like Brian hasn't
Speaker 3: been performing at like an incredible clip and he's hurt
Speaker 3: and he's hurt again. Guys with Brandon injury continue to
Speaker 3: keep stabbing the ball how they are and are going
Speaker 3: to keep going the rest of the year. They're legit
Speaker 3: conversations you have to have if you're put to the test,
Speaker 3: if you're put to that test where you like, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: I don't have il spots or I don't have a
Speaker 3: big bench and I can't hold him.
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I mean, at this point, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure Bryant is so holdable that you couldn't choose
Speaker 3: Brandon Jury, even though you know we think he comes
Speaker 3: back to earth. It's a you know, we had a
Speaker 3: poll feature on here, I'd put it out there. I wonder,
Speaker 3: and I wonder what it would sit at.
Speaker 1: It's another than a long line of bizarre Colorado Rocky
Speaker 1: signings and the way they use their money. Like I
Speaker 1: keep always going back to the Daniel Murphy signing for
Speaker 1: Colorado is the one that just stuck with me and going, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got a bunch of guys who basically can only
Speaker 1: play first base and maybe a little second base. We
Speaker 1: have no DH Let's go sign Daniel Murphy and to
Speaker 1: plug that wholesome more like what you know, Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: One is another one where I look at it and
Speaker 1: I says to myself, Okay, like I understand Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're hoping that some better health means he maybe
Speaker 1: has a second leg of this career of his where
Speaker 1: he reaches a little bit more of the potential of
Speaker 1: that MVP caliber talent. So I get that, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I keep coming back to the
Speaker 1: way they spend money and what they spend money on,
Speaker 1: and it just always looks like Colorado is a team
Speaker 1: that it's over before the season starts for them.
Speaker 3: But there are teams that I don't think have anything
Speaker 3: outside of their organization. And what I mean is like
Speaker 3: no one wants to go to Colorado. Pitchers don't want
Speaker 3: to go to Colorado. They have to interdevelop hitters don't
Speaker 3: necessarily want to go there. They're really pretty bad, like developmentally,
Speaker 3: Like this is like they think the first year that
Speaker 3: they did extended spring training games and stuff like, they
Speaker 3: don't partake in a lot of developmental stuff. They haven't
Speaker 3: really done that well internationally. They can't get guys to sign,
Speaker 3: so it's like if you can get one, you overpay
Speaker 3: them and hope, you know, if you sign him, they
Speaker 3: will come. And Chris Brian just wasn't that guy. Colorado's
Speaker 3: weird Pirates are kind of like that is going to
Speaker 3: go play with the Pirates. Who's going to play with
Speaker 3: you know some of those things.
Speaker 1: Well, the Pirates is just a failure by the scouting
Speaker 1: department to to identify the proper pieces to bring back
Speaker 1: in these trails. I mean there's some there's some organizations
Speaker 1: that do a great job of identifying talent to bring
Speaker 1: back in trades when they are going to sell off
Speaker 1: and the build padres. I feel like the Rays have
Speaker 1: done a pretty good job of that over the years,
Speaker 1: right sure. But then there's some organizations like the Pirates
Speaker 1: that just don't. I was actually on with Scotti Ferrell
Speaker 1: yesterday on his show, and he's a big Pirates fan,
Speaker 1: so of course he had asked me a Pirate question
Speaker 1: and we were talking about it, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to crap on the Pirates, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you have a trade and you bring back Joe
Speaker 1: Muskgrove and then you can't develop Joe Muskgrove and then
Speaker 1: he goes and he's got a sub to era for
Speaker 1: the padres, you have to think about what are you
Speaker 1: collectively doing here where you're missing on the Gregory Polanco's
Speaker 1: I always thought Austin Meadows was incredibly overrated. We've had
Speaker 1: this conversation the other day about Brian Hayes. It's just
Speaker 1: it's frustrating to for Pirates fans because it's a really
Speaker 1: good fan base, and they were a kind of a
Speaker 1: fringe playoff team for a couple of years there, and
Speaker 1: then to watch all of that after the McCutcheon years
Speaker 1: just kind of get washed away is really frustrating because
Speaker 1: they're an unwatchable team, which is bad.
Speaker 2: Everybody's watching Trevor Story.
Speaker 1: By the way, fun fact, boys and girls, Trevor Story
Speaker 1: has driven in seventeen runs over his last five games,
Speaker 1: the most by any hitter over a five game stretch
Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen when Alfonso Sorano had eighteen over a
Speaker 1: five game stretch.
Speaker 3: Where that that no one's ever done it in the past,
Speaker 3: like player to have the last name Story with seventeen
Speaker 3: RBIs in a five game stretch and where's that stat
Speaker 3: where's the guy?
Speaker 1: Well, he wasn't He was the closest guy, So it's
Speaker 1: still Alfonso Soriano. But I actually did a video yesterday
Speaker 1: here on our YouTube channel welsh Well I suggested this
Speaker 1: is a great opportunity to trade Trevor Story. His value
Speaker 1: is at peak. You've seen the downside of Trevor Story.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't play in Colorado anymore. Granted, Benway's
Speaker 1: still a good ballpark. I do like him there, But
Speaker 1: I always believe that Trevor Story is just okay, and
Speaker 1: he propped up quite a bit by Colorado. The number
Speaker 1: suggests that, and I think this is a unique opportunity
Speaker 1: where he is through the roof right now and it's
Speaker 1: at least I don't know, worth kicking the tires to
Speaker 1: see what you can get back. Maybe it's an overpay.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on potentially dealing Trevor Story after
Speaker 1: this torred, torrid stretch he's at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's something that you can consider. There's
Speaker 3: there's guys that are sitting out on the wire that
Speaker 3: you've been able to pick up in the middle infield,
Speaker 3: there's some guys that are still going to get some run.
Speaker 3: Story's been a little bit inconsistent. I'd be curious about
Speaker 3: what that looks like. You know, if I were to
Speaker 3: make like a top five the Tradeables, if you will,
Speaker 3: there you go, there could be my YouTube series.
Speaker 2: Is that a movie with Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lungren.
Speaker 2: Weren't they on the Tradables?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a shoot off. This is a shoot
Speaker 3: off of that, and it's the five guys that you
Speaker 3: would look to trade right now. Story would make that list.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's number one on it, but
Speaker 3: I would look and I would explore. I'd be an
Speaker 3: exploratory because, yeah, I kind of agree, like we saw
Speaker 3: the horrid, we're literally seeing the polar opposite of it.
Speaker 3: So can you be comfortable in the middle. I actually
Speaker 3: think you can hold because he's a shortstop and a
Speaker 3: second baseman, which is really nice for qualifications. It reminds
Speaker 3: me kind of like of Simeon last year. But you
Speaker 3: got to listen, you know, especially if you've got any
Speaker 3: other options. And shortstop was deep, middle infield was deep,
Speaker 3: so if you've got viable options out there, I would
Speaker 3: be looking at it for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, what kind of pieces would you be looking
Speaker 1: fort of curiosity your story?
Speaker 3: I would I think I would be focused. Well, but
Speaker 3: it's going to be need. It's going to be whatever
Speaker 3: the team. But see, that's the problem. If you have
Speaker 3: an offensive need, I'm not really sure trading Trevor story
Speaker 3: makes any sense, but if you have a pitching need,
Speaker 3: that makes a ton of sense. I would probably be
Speaker 3: targeted in on you know, maybe you get a two
Speaker 3: fer on SP. Maybe you get one higher SP and
Speaker 3: a little bit lower. Maybe you can get a bullpen arm,
Speaker 3: maybe you can spect it. Maybe you can get Clay
Speaker 3: Holmes and a really solid starting pitcher. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: think of what the starting pitcher is. I mean, maybe
Speaker 3: Cease coming off of a really bad start, just got
Speaker 3: lit up. Maybe you could get Cease and and home
Speaker 3: or just see straight up. I think ce straight up
Speaker 3: for a story would be fair if you had a
Speaker 3: pitching need.
Speaker 2: All right, fair enough, here's a fun trivia question for
Speaker 2: the group.
Speaker 1: You know, we always talk about, you know, the number
Speaker 1: one overall picks, and we talk about the guys that
Speaker 1: can't miss and all these things.
Speaker 2: Well, for all the number one picks we've ever.
Speaker 1: Had a Major League Baseball only one person, only one
Speaker 1: was ever drafted first overall and won a Cy Young Award.
Speaker 2: Can you believe that?
Speaker 1: Just one? That seems like a crazy stat Who is
Speaker 1: that person? Peanuts and Cracker Jackson.
Speaker 3: I always look, and I don't want to look. I
Speaker 3: want to guess, I want to think about it, and
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Look, it's a player, that is he still on the roster.
Speaker 3: He's technically still in base technically.
Speaker 1: He's still on a roster. Yeah, So I just kind
Speaker 1: of curious with that.
Speaker 2: But there you go.
Speaker 1: There's your little hint for everybody out there. But you
Speaker 1: would think there would be a couple of these at least,
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, not so much, which tells you
Speaker 1: just how hard it is to identify good pitching and no,
Speaker 1: what is not kersh on. If you want to guess again,
Speaker 1: you have to be part of the penuts and cracker
Speaker 1: jacks here, which means you have to be a subscriber
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros MLB in order to make comments here in
Speaker 1: the chat. Let's go to the stat heroes. There's certainly
Speaker 1: plenty of them.
Speaker 2: Sunny Gray.
Speaker 1: Ten strikeouts for Sonny Gray, seven k's cinderguard, five k's
Speaker 1: over eight innings. Nice start for him. Jane McClanahan, how
Speaker 1: many strikeouts wel nine? Admit that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you and I were, Actually we were fading betting
Speaker 3: pros yesterday. We said it, we did. I didn't like
Speaker 3: the eight and a half number that a lot of
Speaker 3: places were popping, but before the game it jumped up
Speaker 3: at seven and a half, so you could jump back
Speaker 3: on nine.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gossman had eight strikeouts of his own, no earned boys.
Speaker 2: He'd been fantastic.
Speaker 1: So anybody who's worried about Vin Gossman at the end
Speaker 1: of last year, I can't imagine you're worried anymore. And
Speaker 1: Ronzie Contreras, Am I saying it correctly because I know
Speaker 1: you're always.
Speaker 3: The rains runs? I mean, I think, yeah, real, all right, So.
Speaker 1: Give me your take on Contreras. Five innings, no earned runs,
Speaker 1: five k's. This seems like a first five kind of
Speaker 1: wager guy or a five inning pitcher. Probably right for
Speaker 1: the Pirates. Very little, Yeah, opportunity for wins. But can
Speaker 1: he be useful in terms of you know, peripheral stats
Speaker 1: and can he pile on off innings to make an
Speaker 1: impact there?
Speaker 3: Well, that's I think we were talking about this yesterday
Speaker 3: or Monday, whatever it was where it was that I'd
Speaker 3: said air Cross had brought up the librator versus contrerasts,
Speaker 3: and Contreras might be able to stick around longer. But
Speaker 3: they've brought him down into the miners. They put him
Speaker 3: into the bullpen. It's the Pirates. I'm really I question, like,
Speaker 3: how much will they push him because I don't think
Speaker 3: his innings can go as a starter of the entire year.
Speaker 3: Now he could get a load of starts, and he
Speaker 3: looked pretty good. He was commanding the fastball, wasn't getting
Speaker 3: hit up, wasn't giving up a lot of hard contact.
Speaker 3: He's a good pitcher. He's a top one hundred prospect,
Speaker 3: so I could buy in when he starts against suboptimal lineups.
Speaker 3: But I do think the league is going to adjust
Speaker 3: to him shortly, and I'm concerned that he's going to
Speaker 3: go back into the bullpen. So that's my level of
Speaker 3: where I'm at with him. You know, I think somebody
Speaker 3: popped in Aaron Ata. I just saw his name, and
Speaker 3: it's like I would rather have Ashby than Contrast at
Speaker 3: this point for sure. But he is someone to monitor,
Speaker 3: but I think he's going to become more of a
Speaker 3: streaming like an optimized streaming option than he is a
Speaker 3: hold and don't cut guy.
Speaker 1: All right, somebody did get the answer correct, Chrissebo's goggles
Speaker 1: says Price correct. It was David Price. That was the guy.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't have guessed that too.
Speaker 1: That would not have been the name that.
Speaker 3: I don't think I would be because also you got
Speaker 3: to go back to like who were the top picture.
Speaker 3: I just don't remember, you know, like that far back,
Speaker 3: like who is the number one overall?
Speaker 1: Pick that?
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny.
Speaker 1: You don't get a lot of number one overall pictures
Speaker 1: typically speaking like wasn't Mark Appelle number one overall picture?
Speaker 3: Hell was a number of recently? Yeah, actually, it would
Speaker 3: be fun.
Speaker 2: Looking at Morgan was a number one overall pick.
Speaker 1: I remember because I had the baseball card. Usually typically
Speaker 1: it's a position player, but it's so funny to see that.
Speaker 3: It would it would be interesting to go back and
Speaker 3: look at the the success rate of the number one
Speaker 3: over I'll pick hitter versus pitcher, you know, like how
Speaker 3: many actually end up hitting and making the majors and
Speaker 3: having impact for the pitchers versus the hitters. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: guess it's probably like a sixty percent rate of hitters
Speaker 3: drafted over pitchers, and then the pitching rate. I mean,
Speaker 3: to win a cy Young, I think is is a
Speaker 3: beyond level of success. Even just making to the majors
Speaker 3: and winning double digits would be a success to me.
Speaker 2: Well, I you know me, if we're gonna start the
Speaker 2: rabbit hole, we're gonna go down it.
Speaker 1: So let's have some fun. Casey maies in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: obviously too soon.
Speaker 2: Position players.
Speaker 1: You know you go through here, Dansby Swanson, Brady Aiken
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, not gonna happen, I was right, Marko Pel
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, So that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's one Pirates a Cy Young.
Speaker 2: He doesn't do well. No, I guess not.
Speaker 3: But I but if you want to go back to
Speaker 3: the if we don't want to like focus on the
Speaker 3: Cy Young thing and just talk about success.
Speaker 1: That's a successful Oh, that's a huge success there before
Speaker 1: that's stevens Rosburg. I think we could say some success
Speaker 1: David Price in two thousand and seven. He won it
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve. Continuing on man, some of these names
Speaker 1: are fantastic. Dilman Young and Matt Bush, Brian Bullington again
Speaker 1: of the Pirates, well done, Pirates boy, they talk about
Speaker 1: staying on brand. Looking through some of the other names,
Speaker 1: there's some good names here. Pat Burrow is a good one.
Speaker 1: Let's see Matt Anderson of the Tigers that did not
Speaker 1: work out. Chris Benson of the Pirates had a good career,
Speaker 1: did not work out. Those VARs Cy Young's are great.
Speaker 1: It's certainly interesting life. There's no doubt about that ex
Speaker 1: wife too.
Speaker 3: Wife was what I was saying.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I was imagine that social media was around then.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that would have been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Darren Erstad, Paul Wilson, there's a picture also did not
Speaker 1: work out for my mets. So yeah, you got to
Speaker 1: go all the way back to Brian Taylor in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one two, and then Chipper Jones in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: so it's a little a little over the place, you know.
Speaker 1: But the pictures typically, I mean, there's a lot more
Speaker 1: of the Andy Bennis and Ben McDonald's than there are
Speaker 1: the Garrett Coles.
Speaker 2: When you started looking at them.
Speaker 3: It's amazing that guys would also just completely fell apart.
Speaker 3: It's amazing to think in the last like fifteen years,
Speaker 3: it sounded like we had about four or five pitchers
Speaker 3: that were taking first overall, and two of them didn't
Speaker 3: even make the major leagues. Like at this point, it's
Speaker 3: hard to not even get a shot and then just
Speaker 3: fail like they didn't even make it. MARKA. Pell left,
Speaker 3: Paul Brady Ake and I think is still sitting around.
Speaker 3: I don't know if pa Pell try to make a
Speaker 3: comeback it's it's it's wild. It's wild to me.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that. All right, let's move on to some
Speaker 1: more of the stat heroes. Jack Peterson four for six
Speaker 1: with three home runs. Bookie Betts had two home runs.
Speaker 1: Someone did have him in the contest last night. I
Speaker 1: know that Frank Swindell hit two, Franciscold indoor ed one.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Danny Jansen Glabor tors All with two, Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper looking good three for five with a dinger, Jose
Speaker 1: Trevino who had a home run, Christian Vasquez three for
Speaker 1: five with a dinger, Jadie Martinez four for five, and
Speaker 1: Trevor Story of course, great night, although he did strike
Speaker 1: out four, so he hit the home run. And this
Speaker 1: is what I keeps saying. He's still a strikeout machine.
Speaker 1: So he's not hitting home runs again. What happens? You
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself that question. This is your window.
Speaker 1: He's stealing bases, he's hitting home runs. Everything is coming
Speaker 1: up Millhouse right now. For him, it's time to investigate
Speaker 1: what you can get.
Speaker 2: Pictures.
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett and the Zeros not good for Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: eight earned runs. When you lose Max Schurzer and Jacob
Speaker 1: de Gram and you're supposed to be the guy who
Speaker 1: steps up.
Speaker 2: This is not the start you want to have here,
Speaker 2: to me is.
Speaker 3: Why they make that move. But yeah, keep going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're right.
Speaker 1: Tyler Molly eight earned runs. Josiah Gray had seven earned runs.
Speaker 1: Dylan Cease. What happened to Dylan Cees? He was my guy.
Speaker 1: I'll take the l last night, boy, that was a
Speaker 1: rough night of DFS with Dylan Cees. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened there, any any ideas well? Seven earned eight
Speaker 1: hits for Dylan Cez, who had been so good this year.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think it's just a blip.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't hYP I was hyper focused on a few
Speaker 3: games that was not necessarily the one. It wasn't one
Speaker 3: that I was betting or playing with. My much as
Speaker 3: I love Cease, I'm gonna avoid Cease in that matchup.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look. But this is
Speaker 3: blip type of stuff. I've watched three or four of
Speaker 3: season starts this year. He's phenomenal. I mean, the command,
Speaker 3: the pitch mix, he is an absolute ace. In my mind,
Speaker 3: this is just a pure blip. Not worried at all, okay.
Speaker 1: Zach Pleisak has also been terrible lately. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: you guys gotta load up on police Sack. He's been
Speaker 1: awful of his last like three or four starts. Tyler
Speaker 1: Rogers seven earned runs, Please sacks seven runs, Zach Gallon
Speaker 1: bound a good star for him, six third. Nolan Gorman
Speaker 1: over four with three k's terrible. Brett Phillips same thing
Speaker 1: over four, three k's as money Gardal over four, three
Speaker 1: k's Grisham over four, three k's drank. Grisham hitting a
Speaker 1: buck fifty two by the way, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I mean he's droppable right.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple of those padres right now, Coroninworth
Speaker 3: him struggling. Yeah, I mean it's been terrible too. Grisham
Speaker 3: with the depth in the outfield is droppable for sure.
Speaker 3: They keep hitting it near, they keep pushing him to
Speaker 3: be at the top of the lineup and try to
Speaker 3: get him going. He's just not doing it. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Robbie Grossman over four to three K's continues to be
Speaker 1: Robbie Grossman Man. Just nothing goes right for that guy.
Speaker 1: Hore Solaer same thing, Oh for four to three k's
Speaker 1: and then you have CJ. Crown Oh for five three
Speaker 1: k's and Yepez over four three k So not a
Speaker 1: good night for the youth of the Cardinals. A good
Speaker 1: night though for a title chaser ninety who got two
Speaker 1: more home runs for Mookie Betts and moved up to
Speaker 1: number and fourteen I think overall, so wow, good on them.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the leaderboard. Still Niking in
Speaker 1: the north at sixteen leading the charge. I don't see
Speaker 1: Mayor on this board yet, so it's a good day.
Speaker 1: That's good, so we will thank the gods for that,
Speaker 1: and shout out to the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks who
Speaker 1: let me know that I Louis Robert, my Louis Robert
Speaker 1: pick was out of the lineup, so allowed me to
Speaker 1: make a change there. And I still did not get
Speaker 1: a home run, so I.
Speaker 3: Didn't big big All right.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 1: Tyler Naquin has been fantastic on betmgm. You got even
Speaker 1: money on the one and a half total basis for him.
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez. I watched him take a twelve pitch at
Speaker 1: bat last night before hitting a home run off of
Speaker 1: Valdez was unbelievable. Yeah, guys, just a monster, same thing
Speaker 1: total bases one and a half. But the juice is
Speaker 1: plus one twenty five plus.
Speaker 2: Money on that.
Speaker 1: Aaron Ashby, who we mentioned before. Right now, the kprop
Speaker 1: is three point five on betmgm. It's minus one thirty
Speaker 1: but three and a half. I mean, come on, we
Speaker 1: can get there, can't we. I mean, geez against the Padres,
Speaker 1: just Trent Grisham can help us get there. And then
Speaker 1: Rich Hill strikeouts to three and a half, also very
Speaker 1: low in my opinion, minus one twenty eight going against
Speaker 1: the White Sox. And look, the White Sox have some
Speaker 1: injuries right now they're dealing with, so anything for you
Speaker 1: pop up in the prop Market Welsh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually find it. It's kind of tough. By
Speaker 3: the way that Kyle Gibson won yesterday. That my favorite
Speaker 3: of the day that slapped I actually ended up putting
Speaker 3: it with. I actually shied away from my Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 3: I went with Marcus Stroman and I put a little
Speaker 3: to strike Out parlay together and that worked very well.
Speaker 3: I don't like a lot of what I've seen early.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna continue kind of looking around. I love the
Speaker 3: Ashby though one. That's the one I'm with you with.
Speaker 3: That was kind of my top one so far at
Speaker 3: the three and a half case. He's got an eight
Speaker 3: strikeout marker on his belt. The last start he had
Speaker 3: one strikeout and only pitched one inning. He pitched four
Speaker 3: against Atlanta and picked up three, but Miami he picked
Speaker 3: up eight. He's kind of gone a little back and forth,
Speaker 3: but he had a run of essentially four straight starts
Speaker 3: where he would have hit this marker. He had Baltimore,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Fillian Pittsburgh. So I really liked the Ashby one.
Speaker 3: Moving over the hitters because I didn't like a lot
Speaker 3: of the pitch. I really like this one. Ian happ
Speaker 3: total basses. It's at one, it's at a half. All
Speaker 3: you gotta get is one total base today he's got
Speaker 3: a three fifty career batting average versus Luis Castillo, and
Speaker 3: he has been a relatively hot bat. It's juiced up,
Speaker 3: but I really like it. And so if you want
Speaker 3: to play that solo, that's always a safe play. If
Speaker 3: you want to put it with something, do it. Maybe
Speaker 3: Ramirez and Ian Happ might be a fun total bass
Speaker 3: s Harlay to put together one. But I like the
Speaker 3: Ashby one and the other pictures. They got him real
Speaker 3: good today. They got all the numbers really good, where
Speaker 3: it's like you don't want to go under, you don't
Speaker 3: want to go over yet, So I'm gonna look a
Speaker 3: little bit more.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. We did give you a
Speaker 1: couple of those pictures. Speaking of pictures, let's look at
Speaker 1: the Knight's Late for DFS. You got Charlie Morton at
Speaker 1: nine k Gilito at nine point eight, and Christian Haveavier
Speaker 1: at nine point three. I think those are the guys
Speaker 1: in play on DK tonight. Some combination of those three
Speaker 1: those will be my pick. Same thing on FanDuel, you're
Speaker 1: getting Christian Hobbyer just eight point two, Gilito all the
Speaker 1: way up at ten point three, Charlie Morton a little
Speaker 1: bit kind of in the middle at eight point eight,
Speaker 1: so you could choose your own enterre there. Gilito I
Speaker 1: would pay up for in cash, though, because I still
Speaker 1: believe in Lucas Gilo, and especially after a night where
Speaker 1: everything went wrong for the White Sox, typically you know
Speaker 1: the next night it's not the same thing. So you
Speaker 1: can't necessarily think that I would be in on the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Yankee game today though. I just don't believe in
Speaker 1: the pitchers, so I think there's gonna be some run
Speaker 1: scored there in this one, even with Stanton out. There's
Speaker 1: some value in this lineup. We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a second. I would also be on Houston as well.
Speaker 1: The lineup builder is Ryan Mountcastle two point four. In
Speaker 1: that same Baltimore game, Michael Brantley three point eight. AJ
Speaker 1: Pollack hitting in the three spot, by the way, three
Speaker 1: point two on DK. That's a nice spot against the
Speaker 1: lefty tonight, Mitch Garver two point seven. AJ Pollock two
Speaker 1: point seven on FanDuel. Adlie Rutchman two point six on FanDuel.
Speaker 1: Also so let's go Addlie Rutchman. In fact, I like
Speaker 1: Adlie Ruchmand so much. How about give Addlie Ruschman a
Speaker 1: home run in Yankee Stadium from Joey Pain today. Let's go,
Speaker 1: let's have some fun Adlie Rutchman. No moment is too
Speaker 1: big for the kid. So there you go. I'll get
Speaker 1: to go. There are you going for your home run tonight?
Speaker 3: While she was going going to go back to my roots,
Speaker 3: It's been since the fifteenth that this has happened. But
Speaker 3: we're going back to Byron Buxton versus the Tigers were
Speaker 3: going offense. We're going big flies. We're back to Byron Buxton.
Speaker 1: Let's go buck back to basics, back to Buxton. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is from last night, carried last night.
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 1: I think he's carrying over Mike Trout for Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: We shall see. He does like picking guys name Mike.
Speaker 1: That's one thing that we do know about him. Any
Speaker 1: other final thoughts today, Welsh on anything you saw last
Speaker 1: night or looking forward to today in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3: Uh? You know, I wish I had something really good.
Speaker 3: The prop market was actually really fun. Yesterday I felt
Speaker 3: like there was tons and tons to get Today it's readjusted.
Speaker 3: I've been live betting a little bit, which I think
Speaker 3: has been fun on the back end of games. That's
Speaker 3: been a really good way to go. But the pitching
Speaker 3: performances are starting to get back to a little bit wonky.
Speaker 3: I'd say, just watch it. You know, Cole getting hit
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys. It's like you get the
Speaker 3: Dylan Ce's blow up. This might be the time of
Speaker 3: the season. I don't necessarily think there's teams doing massive
Speaker 3: adjustments where you're seeing guys like Bassett and you're seeing
Speaker 3: guys like Cease getting lit up, because oh, teams are adjusting.
Speaker 3: It's kind of just the transitional period of what happens
Speaker 3: with these guys. You're moving into more summer, you're moving
Speaker 3: into more riggers. These guys have gone through, you know,
Speaker 3: six weeks, seven weeks of straight baseball, bodies breaking down
Speaker 3: a little bit, and they've got to find their ways
Speaker 3: to adjust. So I'd say prepare for the chaos a
Speaker 3: little bit. I think there's gonna be, especially some pitching
Speaker 3: chaos that's gonna be coming pretty soon. And whatever you
Speaker 3: think is chalk might not be so chok.
Speaker 1: Chaos is a ladder after all. The Twins, by the way,
Speaker 1: a couple of notes on them, placing Joe Ryan on
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen list and Hori Polanko's sideline due to
Speaker 1: sore right ankle yesterday in the by Low video. Polanko's
Speaker 1: one of my by Low guys too, because he's just
Speaker 1: better than what you've seen. And if the ankle has
Speaker 1: been of the issue or whatever has been bothering you,
Speaker 1: I don't know. All I know is you had thirty
Speaker 1: bombs last year and he's sitting two hundred this year,
Speaker 1: so we can we can find some love there for him.
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