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Speaker 1: it's me Joey p That of course is the Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's you, the Peanuts, the cracker Jacks hanging out here
Speaker 1: in the chat Welsh. I'm happy to see you here
Speaker 1: because I heard it was one hundred and twenty degrees
Speaker 1: yesterday in Arizona. Record highs every single day. They love
Speaker 1: to talk about the heat, but it's a dry heat.
Speaker 1: But I'm just glad that you haven't melted, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that your hair is somehow still soldiering on through
Speaker 1: this heat, because it looks spectacular today.
Speaker 2: My friend, Yeah, my hair is definitely fighting the heat.
Speaker 2: We're fining. I'm earing a hoodie actually today, and one
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Reasoning it's like I have a fan and one of
Speaker 1: those things where you're squirting the water on yourself. You there,
Speaker 1: you're like wearing a sweatshirt.
Speaker 2: Here's the difference here with you, Here's the difference AC
Speaker 2: is on twenty four to seven. Here, there isn't a
Speaker 2: time where we're like, oh, let's have a little break
Speaker 2: from it. Twenty four to seven, pound it down. It's
Speaker 2: got to go all the time because if it turns off,
Speaker 2: it's never gonna catch back up. But the offenses last
Speaker 2: night in MLB running a little bit like the heat here.
Speaker 2: What a freaking night, Yesterda. I don't know everyone was
Speaker 2: paying attention. If you had a pitcher, sorry, you're done.
Speaker 2: The offenses were crazy, pitchers were lit up. Manoa got Monoa.
Speaker 2: It's not Welsh, he's washed. There's so much to talk about.
Speaker 1: Joey there he is. We're gonna talk all about it.
Speaker 1: And also, you know, some of the prize picks were
Speaker 1: pretty good. At least got that combo of the TODs
Speaker 1: Bradley strikeouts. He almost did it by himself too. Todsh Bradley,
Speaker 1: let me tell you, you know, just did not like
Speaker 1: being in the minor leagues this year. TODs Bradley was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be here anymore. I'm too good
Speaker 1: for this. Slice seems striking all these guys. I like
Speaker 1: him to go more than five innings. But again, they
Speaker 1: can't have all things. So let's start somewhere. Let's start
Speaker 1: with those Texas Rangers, because I think that's a fun
Speaker 1: place to start today. Marcus Simeon three hits, a thirteenth homer,
Speaker 1: they beat the Rays. You know, they're starting to give
Speaker 1: you a little tease. Maybe this is the American League's
Speaker 1: you know Alcs. Perhaps could be when we all get there.
Speaker 1: Nati Valdi was very good, six scoreless things for him,
Speaker 1: eleven and three now with a two six ninety ra
Speaker 1: pretty darn good here for those Texas Rangers. And also
Speaker 1: Will Smith goes back to being closer, perfect ninth for him.
Speaker 1: So in case anybody was wondering about a world as
Speaker 1: Chapman getting a little bit more opportunity so far, they
Speaker 1: went right back to Smith. So something to keep in mind,
Speaker 1: at least, what'd you take out of this Rangers game here?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if all these getting away with stuff,
Speaker 2: you know, you can't coignity away with us. I don't
Speaker 2: know how long this is going to last with him.
Speaker 2: I've been a little bit worried. There's been a couple
Speaker 2: stinkers that have come in. He gave up two starts
Speaker 2: to go four against Boston. He gave up four against
Speaker 2: the White Sox. I mean I say that, and he
Speaker 2: has two no earned run games in his last five throwne.
Speaker 2: But my worry zat Velo continues to dip down last night,
Speaker 2: down over two miles per hour on the fastball on
Speaker 2: average splitter full mile, curveball mile and a half and
Speaker 2: his cutter two and a half miles per hour down.
Speaker 2: He had a twenty three swing in whiff. He only
Speaker 2: had eleven total swing in whiffs. Csw is down. There's
Speaker 2: a really good offense. I'd say he's a great pitcher.
Speaker 2: He's a great picture. But there was there was a
Speaker 2: moment where people were like, oh my god, Evaldi has
Speaker 2: to be like a top fifteen guy.
Speaker 1: He's not.
Speaker 2: And Brett set it in here and this is what
Speaker 2: I agree with. With little time that you have and
Speaker 2: seeing a two six, I think it's a two six
Speaker 2: ninety ra or whatever, I would be looking to Moveevaldi. Evaldi,
Speaker 2: this is one of those guys. Like the real low
Speaker 2: down tick in Velo has me worried overall. And as
Speaker 2: much as I love this Rangers team, this was actually
Speaker 2: my big preseason pick of a team that they were
Speaker 2: going to get into the playoffs and they were going
Speaker 2: to be a monster, I'm a little bit worried about
Speaker 2: Evaldi kind of unraveling a little bit, so he might
Speaker 2: be a trade option for me.
Speaker 1: Moving forward to your point, Welsh twelve teams last night
Speaker 1: scored ten or more run twelve teams and one team
Speaker 1: scored nine, So really thirteen if you want one score.
Speaker 2: One team scored twenty nine runs? And what was I mean?
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Joe, if I was putting this
Speaker 2: together today, I would have led off with the most
Speaker 2: insane game. The Diamondbacks fans are a little because they're like,
Speaker 2: this is the craziest game we've ever seen. It's not
Speaker 2: the craziest game, but it was insane last night as
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: And Braves boom, boom, boom, twenty nine runs. One game
Speaker 1: had twenty nine runs.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, one game.
Speaker 1: Basically, if you had the over yesterday, everywhere you did great.
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to think of what was the under
Speaker 1: yesterday if I'm looking right now, maybe Angels Yankees was
Speaker 1: an under. Probably that that's an under. Oakland Boston with
Speaker 1: the three runs total, that's under everything else I'm looking
Speaker 1: at right now. Also, probably Cincinnati. San France was close.
Speaker 1: They almost scored six runs. I imagine that was somewhere
Speaker 1: in that seven range. Everything else was an over yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was an insane day of Major League
Speaker 1: based Also, let's talk about Alec Manoa three innings, four runs,
Speaker 1: your thought things. I know we played welshed or washed
Speaker 1: yesterday and you said, Welsh, you want to take that back,
Speaker 1: you want to recanre Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, listen, talented picture. I want to
Speaker 2: go with the track record, you know, being sent down
Speaker 2: in the developmental style to work on stuff. He came back,
Speaker 2: he looked good. I was like, oh, okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to do this. We're not going to do this, and
Speaker 2: he ended up getting lit back up. He was walking.
Speaker 2: He looked like the picture that he was before. So
Speaker 2: to me, we go back and I don't want to
Speaker 2: take one star. I shouldn't take one start either way,
Speaker 2: but it's like, if we can that quickly go back
Speaker 2: to that old Manoa, what that has taken us back?
Speaker 2: Someone asked his question and it was an odd good question.
Speaker 2: Odd to answer was like, what are the characteristics of
Speaker 2: a player that are a must start? They had tweeted like,
Speaker 2: how do you determine this person as a must start?
Speaker 2: Hit her picture? I only ended up answering the pitching one,
Speaker 2: and this is my answer, Joe, I said, a guy
Speaker 2: that I believe is going to go five to six
Speaker 2: on every start, is going to strike out six plus
Speaker 2: every start, you know, or five to six I'm looking
Speaker 2: for the higher strikeouts, is going to give up four
Speaker 2: or less earned runs, And I that I feel confident
Speaker 2: about that. That's like a very rough, rough estimate of
Speaker 2: the type of player. So I'm alluding to is a
Speaker 2: guy that has quality starts with strikeouts in me, but
Speaker 2: I do the for the four earned runs, because maybe
Speaker 2: it's a guy that's Dylan Ces who strikes out nine
Speaker 2: but gives up four turns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're willing to give up some ERA for the
Speaker 1: bigger strikeout pitchers, you know, historically, like before Robbie Ray
Speaker 1: found his e R Chops like that kind of guy, like, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna strike out two hundred and sixty guys, I'll
Speaker 1: deal with your four and a half RA I think
Speaker 1: those are the trade offs you make it life.
Speaker 2: Or the inverse, like if I have to give up
Speaker 2: some strikeouts for a guy to like old Sandy Al,
Speaker 2: you know, if you go seven but he's strikes.
Speaker 1: One to nine, ERA five yeah, that is.
Speaker 2: The qualification of a player where it's like, I'm not worried.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about who they're playing. Alec Manoa does
Speaker 2: not qualify in that because yes, he had one good
Speaker 2: start and then he got his ass blown up again.
Speaker 2: So what that means is he's now back into just
Speaker 2: this this like matchup. Basically, yeah, he's in.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he could feel good about
Speaker 1: him in the ether. I gotta be And look, this
Speaker 1: is part of why I love Musgrove so much. Yesterday
Speaker 1: everybody said, look yesterday DFS what I tell you, Star
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove six innings, seven strikeouts, one earned run, beautiful time,
Speaker 1: got the W. What are you always looking for? A
Speaker 1: pitcher can go six innings, pick up a W maybe
Speaker 1: a quality start two. If so, you're really in a
Speaker 1: good position there. You know that bridge to the win
Speaker 1: is good for him. Muskgrove against Toronto. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't even look at the ross percentge I forgot to
Speaker 1: see what it was. But Musgrove was that right guy
Speaker 1: last night, taking advantage of the uncertainty of Manoa because
Speaker 1: people are like, well, oh, what Mino is gonna show up?
Speaker 1: Toronto's a good offense. If you did that and you stacked,
Speaker 1: you know San Diego yesterday, you did really well because
Speaker 1: they had nine runs to Soto hit a home run.
Speaker 1: He was two for three, but Shatto was two for
Speaker 1: four in that game. Fatist was two for four. He
Speaker 1: was back in healthy. So like, once those guys start
Speaker 1: hitting and the pitchers start rolling in San Diego, it's
Speaker 1: just whether or not they have enough time now to
Speaker 1: play catch up in that division. I want to move
Speaker 1: on though, because I want to.
Speaker 2: I know you want to move on. Sorry, was no,
Speaker 2: now I want to move No, the only thing I
Speaker 2: want to do real quick. I was just looking. I
Speaker 2: finally got to the savant page on Manoa. For this game.
Speaker 2: He had less whiffs than the next pitcher for the
Speaker 2: potteries that came in, Alec Jacob. He had six total
Speaker 2: whiffs Alec Manoa did in this start where he was
Speaker 2: walking everybody. Velo was down across the board, which is
Speaker 2: no good. Fifteen percent swinging with only three whiffs on
Speaker 2: the fastball, three on the slider, nothing on the sinker,
Speaker 2: nothing on the change up. A sixteen percent csw percentage
Speaker 2: is bad. Everything is bad that you're looking out of
Speaker 2: here outside the zone swing This might be one of
Speaker 2: the worst I've seen. Twenty one percent of pitches outside
Speaker 2: of the zone were swung at, which means he wasn't
Speaker 2: fooling nobody.
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa, speaking of not fooling anybody, Wonking just threw
Speaker 1: this in so I knew it's real and just came
Speaker 1: on the Philadelphia Phillies Twitter exactly a minute ago. Andrew Painter,
Speaker 1: phenom pitcher, the stud pitcher, number one pitching prospect in
Speaker 1: baseball going into the season. It's gonna have Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 1: This is not a surprise, wells the surprise that it
Speaker 1: took this long to get here. I just I don't understand, like,
Speaker 1: if it's a foregone conclusion, why we piss away an
Speaker 1: entire season, because that's what they did basically with him,
Speaker 1: Like we knew in April this is probably gonna be
Speaker 1: the outcome. But now because we waited all the way
Speaker 1: to July, now he's gonna miss all of the season anyway,
Speaker 1: which we already knew. But now he's probably not gonna
Speaker 1: be available at all next season, Like next season is
Speaker 1: gonna complete wash. Had he had in April, maybe you
Speaker 1: get a second half of a season where he starts
Speaker 1: to uptick a little bit and starts to get back
Speaker 1: maybe in August and September, gets his feet wet, and
Speaker 1: then can probably go into a good situation in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. But now twenty twenty three is shot. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four a shot. Painter's value in Dynasty is shot
Speaker 1: for the next two years period, maybe even three. Very
Speaker 1: frustrating to me. I'm frustrated, Welsh, Are you frustrated?
Speaker 2: I'm super frustrated. I would love to know the logic
Speaker 2: behind why what this all was? And I sometimes wonder,
Speaker 2: and I think we all know the answer to this,
Speaker 2: but it's more of me like wondering someone confirming it.
Speaker 2: Tommy John, is it like rolling your ankle, Like as
Speaker 2: soon as you know you have a really bad ankle roll,
Speaker 2: and then you're just bound to now just roll it
Speaker 2: all the time. You just to play basketball a lot.
Speaker 2: And I had one big severe ankle roll and then
Speaker 2: it just would happen all the time. And it's like,
Speaker 2: did they not want to start this clock of a
Speaker 2: Tommy John knowing that the susceptibility and the long term
Speaker 2: would be back because the reason to say this is because,
Speaker 2: like it's got a pretty good track record Tommy John
Speaker 2: surgeries of being able to have these recoveries and these
Speaker 2: guys can sometimes be better coming off of it. So
Speaker 2: I just don't understand what the hold up was the
Speaker 2: medical guy that's like, ah, we can fix it. I'm
Speaker 2: not worried about it. We'll do it, And then they
Speaker 2: just waited the entire season because you're right, what's gonna
Speaker 2: happen now? He is done, So you wasted the whole
Speaker 2: season in getting nothing out of him as far as
Speaker 2: maturation goes. Now it's going to be into next year.
Speaker 2: Maybe he pitches in the Fall League. Maybe he's an
Speaker 2: option in twenty twenty five, which sinks the ever living
Speaker 2: hell out of his Dynasty value. And I'd already moved
Speaker 2: him down a bit, but the Tommy John confirmation is
Speaker 2: going to move him even further. And this is a
Speaker 2: tough Max Meyer had the exact same situation happened with
Speaker 2: his injury, where this was one of the top pitching
Speaker 2: Dynasty prospects got hurt, moved down. He's finally making his
Speaker 2: way back up. We haven't seen an ounce of Andrew Painter,
Speaker 2: and surprisingly enough, his Buddy Mick Abel is probably gonna
Speaker 2: now beat him to the majors and is a more
Speaker 2: viable pitching option for Dynasty for investment at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. Also, you know JP makes a comment here,
Speaker 1: he's twenty. They have time. There are no rush, yes,
Speaker 1: and no JP, because take a look at what happened
Speaker 1: this year with the new rules in place and everything
Speaker 1: going on here in terms of contracts and rookies and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Emma chi Hen made it to the
Speaker 1: big leagues, making it Bobby Miller right, like there were
Speaker 1: pitchers galore here, Todds Bradley. Nobody thought we'd get TODs
Speaker 1: Bradley as or as he did. These teams that are
Speaker 1: trying to compete, they need these kids. You know, this
Speaker 1: is part of the strategy here. So like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no rush, but at the same time, it's it's very
Speaker 1: frustrating from a Fantasti standpoint, and I think for the
Speaker 1: Philly standpoint too. TODs Bradley, by the way, just mention
Speaker 1: him two runs, five innings, struck out nine guys nine
Speaker 1: nine times. Alex Kirloff three for four with a homer,
Speaker 1: a triple, two RBI, three run scored, and a partridge
Speaker 1: in a pear tree. He is now slashing two eighty seven,
Speaker 1: three eighty one four to forty seven, six homers twenty
Speaker 1: five ribies on the season. Are we starting to see
Speaker 1: finally the real Alex Kirilov? And can we maybe sustain this?
Speaker 1: Welsh fingers crossed for August in September because that would
Speaker 1: be nice.
Speaker 2: I think we can. We are starting to get into
Speaker 2: this territory. Somebody asked me I was a big Culton
Speaker 2: Kowser guy, and that's been a big, huge failure. Someone
Speaker 2: asked me, can I cut Kowser four cure Lough And
Speaker 2: I was like, absolutely, you can absolutely make that move
Speaker 2: right now. It's been a kind of back and forth year.
Speaker 2: Hit three fourteen so far in May, had a horrible June,
Speaker 2: hitting three sixty one here in July, which has been
Speaker 2: a big turnaround for him. XBA in his favor. A
Speaker 2: lot of the other hard hit data I just don't
Speaker 2: think plays well unless you're looking at like short term stuff,
Speaker 2: because the season stuff. His barrel rates the lowest of
Speaker 2: his career, hard hit percentage, lowest of his career, average
Speaker 2: EV lowest of his career. It's just been about rhythm
Speaker 2: and getting consistency, and he's starting to get that right now.
Speaker 2: And he is a phenomenal hitter. I've said this kajillion times.
Speaker 2: His dad's a hitting coach, his a whole hitting series.
Speaker 2: This is a really, really smart hitter who's just had
Speaker 2: injury after injury, and that's now kind of coming away
Speaker 2: funny enough, everybody, but the stars are starting to pick
Speaker 2: up in Minnesota, Edward Julian Fred just mentioned there. That's
Speaker 2: another guy that's absolutely heating up right now. Power contact
Speaker 2: is getting in there, Kira Loft starting to hit. So
Speaker 2: you're getting a lot of these like ancillary guys in
Speaker 2: that lineup that are going to be picking up the slack.
Speaker 2: And kier Lof is one hundred percent of player I
Speaker 2: would be looking at picking up in the very very
Speaker 2: near future.
Speaker 1: I love a good ancillary guy, you know. I gotta
Speaker 1: love those ancillary fellas. They do a good job. Jordan
Speaker 1: Montgomery pitched six innings of one run ball, no decision
Speaker 1: against the Marlins. Aernado two for four with a game
Speaker 1: ending three run bomb. Do you think these guys are
Speaker 1: on the Cardinals come August first? Montgomery and Aernato.
Speaker 2: I think both are gone. I think these are specifically
Speaker 2: the ones. I think Aeronado, the rumors that are floating
Speaker 2: out there about him getting traded, I think he said
Speaker 2: it at All Star Break. He was like, I'm probably
Speaker 2: gonna get traded. So I think this team is going
Speaker 2: to unload it. Montgomery seems very very likely. And I
Speaker 2: guess the rumor is the Cardinals are going to.
Speaker 1: Just fit for a lot of teams. Montgomery will be
Speaker 1: a nice pickup. You know, he had a really good
Speaker 1: finish to his Yankee career before going with the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals, you know, same thing really picked up
Speaker 1: East steam even there. So you know, I just watched Montgomery,
Speaker 1: you know, in his early Yankee days too, and to me,
Speaker 1: he was just a guy who needed confidence. You know,
Speaker 1: he started to see that last year really blossomed, and
Speaker 1: you saw it in sporadic periods for the Yankees, and
Speaker 1: you could tell sometimes his demeanor on the mound was
Speaker 1: better than other times. And when his demeanor on the
Speaker 1: mound was good and he was confident, he was pitching
Speaker 1: very well. And I think Montgomery's a guy that's ready
Speaker 1: for a shot with a contender here to really, you know.
Speaker 2: I think he's the most.
Speaker 1: That's a guy I want to I want to acquire
Speaker 1: him in a fantasy trade because I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. I think he's ready for it,
Speaker 1: like I think he has really proved himself. He's had
Speaker 1: a good season this year too. And lastly, Corbyn Carroll
Speaker 1: two for five with a triple two Ribbies, two steals,
Speaker 1: three scored in that crazy game with the Braves, rookie
Speaker 1: lookie time Christian and Garnaccio Stran two for three, first
Speaker 1: big league homer, Let's go three Ribby's there. Eleven to
Speaker 1: ten loss, but what are you gonna do? Crap happens
Speaker 1: right on Tuesday and then the Guardians Logan Allen getting
Speaker 1: recalled from Triple A. That's something he keep in mind.
Speaker 1: Paul Skeins, by the way, already signed with the Pirates,
Speaker 1: so not wasting too much time. S Keith Skeens, what
Speaker 1: do you think about Marco Luciano promoted to Triple A
Speaker 1: after hitting two twenty eight. He's a weird one. I
Speaker 1: know he's still young, but the Double A numbers eleven homer,
Speaker 1: six steals and two forty two plays appearances. The four
Speaker 1: to fifty one slugging low batting average three thirty nine obph.
Speaker 1: Is this a prospect? You still have your eyes on it?
Speaker 1: You think this is one of these guys that ends
Speaker 1: up never reaching his full potential.
Speaker 2: Not really for me. I'm kind of done with it.
Speaker 2: And I was a pretty big proponent years and years ago,
Speaker 2: And I don't sure it's so weird his place right now,
Speaker 2: Like anytime he does something like MLB pipeline, they'll tweet,
Speaker 2: they be like, is doing it again?
Speaker 1: And it's he's never doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you just you just tweeted the one
Speaker 2: thing he's done because he doesn't hit. He it's two
Speaker 2: twenty eight. I think some of this could have to
Speaker 2: do with, you know, the draft just happened. You've got
Speaker 2: twenty plus players that are going to be sent out
Speaker 2: throughout the organization that maybe you move Luciano up. What
Speaker 2: more does he have to prove? What more is he
Speaker 2: gaining at double A? But like, the guy's not a
Speaker 2: good hitter, he's got good raw power. I don't believe
Speaker 2: I think he's going to strike out a decent amount
Speaker 2: in the majors. I think he's going to be a
Speaker 2: very average player. I would not be run to the
Speaker 2: wire to pick him up. It's great that they got
Speaker 2: him to triple A, but he is not and he's
Speaker 2: still very young, by the way. That's the other like
Speaker 2: weird thing. I don't even think he's twenty two, and
Speaker 2: he's already up there. He has just had such a
Speaker 2: slow run of bad results as he's moved. I don't
Speaker 2: see what the excitement is right now because he doesn't
Speaker 2: exhibit any really positive prospects signs. But you know what,
Speaker 2: he's got major talent, and maybe they'll fix something finally
Speaker 2: and they'll put a focus on it and he'll be
Speaker 2: a great buy. But no, thanks for me, give me
Speaker 2: Christian Krashlan strand.
Speaker 1: There you go. By the way, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: Arnaudol contract. So he's getting thirty five million this year,
Speaker 1: thirty five next year, thirty two and twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty twenty six, and then fifteen million
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven. So I don't know how much
Speaker 1: prospects he's gonna bring back, to be honest, like this
Speaker 1: is like this feels like a salary dumb kind of deal.
Speaker 1: If you're a Cardinals fan, don't hold your breath. For
Speaker 1: a big return here. I don't think you get that.
Speaker 2: No, this is and that's the tough thing. Someone in
Speaker 2: there was like, they're not trading Aernaudo, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: the contract doesn't I think they are.
Speaker 1: And maybe a team like you know, somebody mentioned the
Speaker 1: Yankees in there. If the Otani sweepstikes get out of control,
Speaker 1: you could be Brian Cashman say, okay, you know Donaldson's done.
Speaker 1: Third base has been a problem for us. Let's let's
Speaker 1: help our pitching staff with a great defensive player, number one,
Speaker 1: number two. You get him in a small ballpark towards
Speaker 1: the end of his career. Also a good thing as
Speaker 1: he starts to age. You know, we always see decline
Speaker 1: the players. Yankee Stadium could certainly help any any agent
Speaker 1: player power wise. That makes sense to me. I get
Speaker 1: that because you could keep Vaulty, you can keep Domingez
Speaker 1: and probably stell get Aeronauto with some lesser second tier
Speaker 1: prospects if you're just gonna suck up the cash. But
Speaker 1: it's something to watch because that is a big commitment.
Speaker 1: That is a move where you're not it's got to
Speaker 1: go to a team that has their eyes on the
Speaker 1: next couple years. Let's get our eyes on some of
Speaker 1: the injury guys. To your Alvarez finally the beginning of
Speaker 1: his minor league rehab assignment today. That's very exciting. Raphael
Speaker 1: Devers was still out of the lineup yesterday for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox tatists did return judges getting close quote end
Speaker 1: quote to returning. Oh that means August Forrest Fokes. I
Speaker 1: think the plan has always been August first, they just
Speaker 1: don't want to say it. So August first. Trevor's story
Speaker 1: will begin his man in league right rehab assignment this
Speaker 1: week as well, So I don't I'm not excited about that, Welsh,
Speaker 1: are you? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think I think he's been a good
Speaker 2: stash if he if he's still out there, I would.
Speaker 1: Why not? Now?
Speaker 2: I know you don't have to be a story guy,
Speaker 2: but there's still some good offense and.
Speaker 1: The Trevor Or never ending, never ending hands. Were you
Speaker 1: upset when the like did you have like a did
Speaker 1: you have to go to therapy when the horse was
Speaker 1: in the it was in the quick Sam thing. That
Speaker 1: was a very upsetting thing for a.
Speaker 2: Lot of I don't remember it. I just remember the
Speaker 2: Dog and the Fly.
Speaker 1: Maybe you suppressed it in your member. May might be
Speaker 1: Welsh watches that with his kids and he's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, and all these terrible feelings come back, and
Speaker 1: it's just like this onset of of emotions.
Speaker 2: The worst part about that movie is like growing up,
Speaker 2: you know, like fantasy type movies were really like, you know,
Speaker 2: starting to come up, and it had a very puppety
Speaker 2: feel and then you like you have it in your brain,
Speaker 2: and then you watch it with your kids now and
Speaker 2: everyone's looking at each other like this is not weird stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, story watching. No, I don't think that one holds up.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched I never watched that one with my kids,
Speaker 1: but I remember as a kid liking that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure the graphics of the kid riding
Speaker 1: that dragon thing are probably pretty goofy.
Speaker 2: Isn't it a dog? Isn't it a giant?
Speaker 1: It was like a dragon dog. I don't know Foul
Speaker 1: Foul corves that. I think his name was Foul. Why
Speaker 1: do I know this?
Speaker 2: I don't know what the big giant rock is.
Speaker 1: Yeah that guy too, Yeah, guy too. All right, let's
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Speaker 2: And you well, miokie bets did us wrong. Yesterday we
Speaker 2: had the comeback on Corey Seger with the bomb and
Speaker 2: Carrol was obviously amazing. By the way, if you didn't
Speaker 2: see Corb and Carrol.
Speaker 1: Artex was the name of the horse. But anyway, oh.
Speaker 2: Really, oh okay, I don't remember the horse that you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: I just remember remember it was very upsetting, very greba Carrol,
Speaker 1: by the way, struck out and got to third base
Speaker 1: in one of the just one of those ridiculous stupid
Speaker 1: plays and then ended up scoring.
Speaker 2: We did that, but BET's just completely failed. So today
Speaker 2: we are back at it with a Burrios Darvish strikeout
Speaker 2: combo meal at ten and a half. We're going to
Speaker 2: take those two bad boys, pairing it with a good
Speaker 2: Sandio Contra day two point five earned runs under, and
Speaker 2: then I'm going to take Matt Olsen Fantasy score. I
Speaker 2: cannot imagine, I know there was twenty nine runs yesterday,
Speaker 2: and I would say that the thought process would be like, well,
Speaker 2: they're just they're going to have a downturn. They're not
Speaker 2: going to score in school the diamond back Nelson.
Speaker 1: Dude, I had Matt Olsen as my home run pick
Speaker 1: today and I changed it too a Kunya, and now
Speaker 1: I want to change it back to Olsen.
Speaker 2: I have matt Olsen in there because Ryan Nelson is
Speaker 2: out there. Charlie Morton good, There'll be some runs. Mattelson
Speaker 2: destroy hits three eighty seven against righty. So far this year,
Speaker 2: Ryan Nelson's given a fourteen plus homers. I think. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Matt Olsen fantasy score to finish
Speaker 2: out my prize picks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Touardo Rodriguez against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: the gift that keeps on giving and strikeouts five and
Speaker 1: a half low number. Let's go and Todo Roriguez could
Speaker 1: be making his last starter. Two here you look good
Speaker 1: in the last one. Mookie Bett's eight point five hitter
Speaker 1: fantasy score against Baltimore Tae and cormaccarroll seven point five
Speaker 1: hitter fantasy score over as well for me, I didn't
Speaker 1: do three up and three down, so I'll do that
Speaker 1: real quick. Christian Walker hit two home runs his nineteenth
Speaker 1: and twentieth. Another underrated guy every year. Francisco Alvarez can't
Speaker 1: be stopped. Welsh. This is great. I love Francisco Alparez
Speaker 1: because he's kind of built like me. He's like a
Speaker 1: little guy, he's kind of stucky, and he's just like
Speaker 1: you know. I love this guy. Two more homers for him.
Speaker 1: Austin Riley had two homers. Everybody had two homers. Brian
Speaker 1: Woo was knocked around a little bit yesterday. Seven run
Speaker 1: six earned not great start for him. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I'm Doctor Evilie today, but I am Bryce Elder
Speaker 1: another bad star for him. This is two in a row.
Speaker 1: Is it time to pay the fiddler? For Bryce Elder?
Speaker 1: Five earned runs, two and two thirds, back to back
Speaker 1: bad starts. Welsh, Your thoughts is this? It? Is this
Speaker 1: the downturn for Elder?
Speaker 2: It's pretty bad. I mean, the slider is amazing, but
Speaker 2: people are starting to catch up to it. I mean,
Speaker 2: he here's the problem for me. He didn't look as
Speaker 2: bad as the garbage on the other side of the
Speaker 2: mound in Kyle Davies, and I don't know if you
Speaker 2: saw my little photoshop, my photoshop that get put out there,
Speaker 2: it in my head. Have you seen that?
Speaker 1: Do it on threads? I?
Speaker 2: No, I did, didn't do it. I didn't need to
Speaker 2: do something on threads. I'm not doing anything because Joe
Speaker 2: is more followers than me, so I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: But have you ever seen that YouTube series that that
Speaker 2: what is it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Zach Morris is trash z Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that track.
Speaker 2: So I did one. I went Davis trategy right here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he gave up niner and runs and was garbage.
Speaker 2: Yeah it ish. That was my dumb photoshop. So I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit focused on Davies in that. But Elders
Speaker 2: fastball wasn't fulling anybody, and that slider was hanging a
Speaker 2: little bit. We're paying the pied pipe.
Speaker 1: We'll let you, don't let your slider hang out. Also,
Speaker 1: gi Aledo three and two thirds five k's eight earned
Speaker 1: runs against the Mets, So good for you, Francisco Alvarez,
Speaker 1: bad for ge Alito, who is also a pick for me. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: let's stalk betting, Okay, day today again, I'm continue to
Speaker 1: go with some of the things I liked earlier. So
Speaker 1: atter Rodriguez five and a half, k's gonna go the
Speaker 1: over on that number. It's minus one twenty. So again,
Speaker 1: if you want to just take the Tigers to win,
Speaker 1: because he bitch as well put that little duo pairing
Speaker 1: together at the skinny parlays as we talked about. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Also, the Mets offense showing signs of life.
Speaker 1: Let's go at Justin Verlander six and a half strikeouts
Speaker 1: over against the White Sox, who were just I mean,
Speaker 1: Jake Berger can give you four in a day anyway,
Speaker 1: so why not. And then this is just money in
Speaker 1: the bank here. You're getting plus money on one and
Speaker 1: a half hits over on Ronald Acunia. It's plus one seventeen.
Speaker 1: I'm hammering this today, Welsh. I'm hammering a lot of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. I think that's just the way to go, Welsh.
Speaker 1: What do you have for people on the betting side?
Speaker 2: I like that I stay away from two hit ones,
Speaker 2: but that's.
Speaker 1: A right I do too.
Speaker 2: Good one I do too.
Speaker 1: But you know why, I looked at that and I'm
Speaker 1: just like man one and a half hit, like coon
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a two hit day.
Speaker 2: Today just feels like, I mean, I feel a little
Speaker 2: gun shy. I'll tell you the adward to one I
Speaker 2: really like. But you know, yesterday my big all of
Speaker 2: my money was essentially on Treike Scooble, and Scooble had
Speaker 2: three strikeouts through two or three innings with two hits
Speaker 2: and then absolutely any other under fifty pitches and then
Speaker 2: fell apart and we didn't get to the five, and
Speaker 2: that's screwed up a couple things. After I hit the
Speaker 2: Carrasco though we did cash the the what was it?
Speaker 2: First three on Texas money Line? Thank you to Marcus Simeon.
Speaker 2: Today I've got two for you. I really like Miami's
Speaker 2: money line through the first five and I believe it's
Speaker 2: playing paint plus money. That's on Sandy. Also, Brian Bago
Speaker 2: five point five k's over, So I like that one
Speaker 2: a lot. Those are my two plays right now that
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Speaker 1: day yesterday in DFS looking to make it two for two.
Speaker 1: Joe Musgrove is really good again. I'm going back down
Speaker 1: to the well. The pitchers are expensive today. Verlanders nine
Speaker 1: to five at Duardo at ten to six. I like
Speaker 1: Eduardo in the tournament realm because he's a little pricey,
Speaker 1: but it's against the Royals. Can he give me six
Speaker 1: k's a low roster percentage and a win. I think
Speaker 1: he can. Luis Castillo ten point five k's also an
Speaker 1: interesting select today Atlanta, all in Atlanta, Seattle. I'm excuse me, Atlanta, Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: The Mets offenses today, say Suzuki, swinging to hop out
Speaker 1: of two point seven. Alvarez is still just two point
Speaker 1: a for the Mets and Christian and Carnassion strand again.
Speaker 1: We picked them yesterday as a value, We're gonna pick
Speaker 1: them again today two point eight. They're always slow to
Speaker 1: adjust the prices on the rookie, so take advantage when
Speaker 1: these kids are up and when, especially when they're hot.
Speaker 1: It's the way to go. Welsh, I changed my tune.
Speaker 1: I went with Matt Olsen for my home run. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, I got it, mine took it out, and
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna stick with the gut.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go hold hands again. We held hands with
Speaker 1: Shoe Heotani. We went full Joe Heyotani, and now I'm
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Speaker 1: They got a new tool Welsh. Last year they invented it,
Speaker 1: but this year they perfected it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know about this. It's basically draft intelligence, So you
Speaker 1: could set up your uh sink your league and it
Speaker 1: tells you historically how people in your league draft, and
Speaker 1: then if you're premium, you can use those robots to
Speaker 1: mock draft against basically the robots of your league. So
Speaker 1: there's a Welsh robot and a Bogman robot that only
Speaker 1: wants a draft Pittsburgh Steelers, and one that's like a
Speaker 1: zero RB guy or gal. That to me, is the
Speaker 1: most valuable thing you could do. Mock drafting is good,
Speaker 1: but mock drafting for the specific leagues against the people
Speaker 1: you're in that is intelligent.
Speaker 2: That is pretty sweet and also a little bit scary.
Speaker 2: There's the age AI is going to take over, But
Speaker 2: I mean I will take that type of scary all
Speaker 2: day long. I would love to see, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I scary with those of them.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't done an AI one in a
Speaker 1: long time. Maybe peanuts and cracker Jacks. Let me know,
Speaker 1: what would you like to see AI? Create next for leading.
Speaker 2: I've got something for us, actually something I did months
Speaker 2: ago and I just forgot to do, but it's actually
Speaker 2: relevant into the near future. So I'll bring and I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm bringing tomorrow, but I'm gonna bring
Speaker 2: it here in the next couple shows. But you might
Speaker 2: want to put a piece of AI together here. But yeah,
Speaker 2: those guys are scary. But I would love to see
Speaker 2: like a historical piece of Pa Bot and a Welsh
Speaker 2: Bot and see like how they draft. I would actually
Speaker 2: like to.
Speaker 1: Mind would be having draft against the football for sure,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Look, we need to get that for baseball.
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Speaker 1: I got coming up in that draft. It's wild. It's scary.
Speaker 2: Ooh, could we get one on on Jake because I, oh,
Speaker 2: you know what, Jake is not in my league. We're
Speaker 2: both in Flex. I'm in the online you get to
Speaker 2: do the in person fun story.
Speaker 1: Well, well you should go. Well, look, Debro and Ericson
Speaker 1: are coming over my house. We're gonna have a sleepover
Speaker 1: for two nights and over na wear the jammies. We're
Speaker 1: all gonna do Ericson's hair because Debro and I can't
Speaker 1: do anyone else. Uh, And then we're gonna go draft
Speaker 1: and eat and drink and be merry. You bogman should
Speaker 1: all come out for next year. Same weekend. Well, paint
Speaker 1: the town red m I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Amazing, Yeah, I better buy a ticket today and start saving. Yeah,
Speaker 2: why is that saying? There's probably a good story behind it?
Speaker 1: So welsh is paint the town Turquois. That's a walshism
Speaker 1: for the day. That'll do it for us, But the
Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm
Speaker 1: Joey B. We'll see you next nine kids. Enjoy your
Speaker 1: Wednesday
Speaker 2: A bart to till the gu