Speaker 1: The return of the Max Let's play Ball.
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Speaker 1: with me is the Welsh who's a little red from
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Speaker 1: Max Scherzer return to baseball. Last night we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about some refresh of the top ten prospects and baseball.
Speaker 1: I want to get mister prospect himself, mister prospect one's
Speaker 1: opinions on that. We've got betting, We've got dfs, We've
Speaker 1: got everything.
Speaker 2: Welsh, how the hell are you? My friend? And good?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? This little scorpion that's right up here, I'm
Speaker 3: almost the same color. I did not realize I was
Speaker 3: out celebrating multiple birthdays, going head to head with snakes
Speaker 3: and uh, just a foot away from the sun. But
Speaker 3: otherwise I'm good stuff foot away from the sun.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a you know, and you know, I keep
Speaker 1: reminding everybody you don't have to live in these places
Speaker 1: where there's you know, one hundred and twenty degree weather,
Speaker 1: where there's no water, where there's scorpions and things like this.
Speaker 1: It's the same goes for the people who live in
Speaker 1: these places where its snows for I don't know, six
Speaker 1: months and they can't get out of their house.
Speaker 2: You don't have to live like this, folks. You can
Speaker 2: move around.
Speaker 3: It's a lot easier. To your point, though, you would
Speaker 3: start centralizing everybody to like three or four states. You're like,
Speaker 3: you don't have to live in the really hot, you
Speaker 3: don't have to live in the really cold. There's not
Speaker 3: many more states that don't kind of encompass that, Like
Speaker 3: buy Montana by east coast. You're gonna put people in
Speaker 3: like California. I don't even know where else you would
Speaker 3: like what.
Speaker 1: I feel like all these plates, well a lot about
Speaker 1: like Oklahoma, Nebraska, all those states that I can't identify
Speaker 1: in a map because they all look the same to me.
Speaker 1: Does it feels like ten people live there? I'm sure
Speaker 1: that we can. We can put a Starbucks there and
Speaker 1: people will move. We'll get some like that South Park
Speaker 1: with some Laqua Lacroix or whatever the hell that's that
Speaker 1: selter is.
Speaker 3: I like that you assume there's no Starbucks in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: right now? That actually is my favorite thing of the day.
Speaker 3: They're like, well, modernize that old state there, that old
Speaker 3: Oklahoma will get them.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I see my cousin Donnie. Of course, our
Speaker 1: cousin Donnie the show's cousin is in the chat today,
Speaker 1: which is very nice. Yes, I'm wearing a fancy shirt
Speaker 1: at TV this morning, so there you go. By the way,
Speaker 1: this is this is before we get to baseball.
Speaker 2: One last thing.
Speaker 1: I had a manscape shirt for my cousin. His kids
Speaker 1: were here visiting my kids over the July fourth weekend.
Speaker 1: They were here from Arizona. I gave them one job,
Speaker 1: take this shirt back to your father. They left my house.
Speaker 1: They didn't take it, so now I got to mail
Speaker 1: it to him. It's just kids are the worst. They
Speaker 1: just don't follow through with anything. By the way, we
Speaker 1: also have a winner from the photoshop contest and it's
Speaker 1: it's one of the Peanuts and racker Jack's Elite.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that a little later. Let's get I'm.
Speaker 3: Glad you did not do this without me yesterday. We
Speaker 3: had a little confusion about it. Who was gonna be
Speaker 3: there yesterday, And I'm very glad that it wasn't done
Speaker 3: without me because this was one of my favorite contests.
Speaker 1: This is your brain child, A couple's let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get to that person there in a bit.
Speaker 1: But first, Max Sures are striking out eleven. It was
Speaker 1: a season high eleven strikeouts, six shutout innings.
Speaker 2: For Max Scherzer.
Speaker 1: I wish the Mets had had some offense, but alas
Speaker 1: that was not to be. But Schures are looking good.
Speaker 1: I think this is very important Welsh, because you know,
Speaker 1: from a fantasy standpoint, from an investment standpoint, wagering all
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 2: In real life baseball, waiting and.
Speaker 1: Not pushing Max schuers are with this injury seems like
Speaker 1: the right call because the Max Schuerser you got was
Speaker 1: the one you wanted. We joked before the season, right,
Speaker 1: kind of half joking but really serious. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: fifty stars between these two guys. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit that mark. We might, who knows, but uh,
Speaker 1: This is the Sureser you need for the stretch run,
Speaker 1: for your fantasy lead, and certainly the Mets need him
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know that when you were saying that,
Speaker 3: I was wondering to myself, when's the last time we
Speaker 3: didn't get that Max suers Er, when's the last? Not
Speaker 3: Max sures or Max Schuerser. He is. He is the
Speaker 3: epitome of consistency when he's out there. He ended up
Speaker 3: getting fifteen swing and misses. Nick Lodolo had a great
Speaker 3: performance as well, but Suzer went in had the top
Speaker 3: velo in the game fifteen swing and misses, which were
Speaker 3: tied for the most. Obviously him and Lodolo did that,
Speaker 3: and it was just like right back at it. You know,
Speaker 3: the fastball was getting h got nineteen actual full swings
Speaker 3: through five whiffs on it. In general, the Villo was up.
Speaker 3: I mean, he looked fantastic. He is the epitome of consistency.
Speaker 3: And what makes him difficult, I think for a lot
Speaker 3: of people is these guys that are injured you kind
Speaker 3: of have to rectify. He was like right at the top,
Speaker 3: like this is a guy that's been out for a
Speaker 3: while and he goes back at the top. I've had
Speaker 3: the same question with de Grom, What do you start
Speaker 3: doing with de Grom? You know, for my rest of
Speaker 3: season ranks, I'm putting him really far back up there.
Speaker 3: There's a consideration you can have, basically have for the
Speaker 3: injury prone nous that he's going to carry. But once
Speaker 3: he gets back out, you know, I know we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk about him. We already saw him out in a
Speaker 3: minor league performance. Where do you go, like, can you not, Joe,
Speaker 3: can you not put Max schers or in your top
Speaker 3: five SPS rest of season after him coming back healthy
Speaker 3: and showing no, Well, let's let's.
Speaker 2: Do it right here. Al contra, Yep, he's got to
Speaker 2: be in the top five.
Speaker 3: McClanahan, number one.
Speaker 2: McClanahan.
Speaker 1: I mean, Verlander's got to be in that conversation. Cole's
Speaker 1: got to be in their station. So that's four and
Speaker 1: you Musk Grove Corbyn Burns like those guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: Max is in the top ten. But because of his age,
Speaker 1: and I know Verlander's you know, four hundred years old too,
Speaker 1: but because of his age, I think you have to
Speaker 1: at least, you know, bump him out of that top five.
Speaker 1: But he is he is worthy of top five talent.
Speaker 1: He's worthy of top five consideration, but I've hard time
Speaker 1: ranking him there. I am fascinated to see what McClanahan
Speaker 1: does in the next eighty innings. You know that that's
Speaker 1: the one thing about that. You know, everybody's on the
Speaker 1: McClanahan wagon right now. You know me, I'm team Verlander
Speaker 1: for the cy young have been all year. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to change horses now, but I'm fascinated to see
Speaker 1: can he can he run the table here because if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, it's Verlander's award and it's it's.
Speaker 3: Yea for the alt. So like in the clump, I
Speaker 3: think the Tier one clump is McClanahan, Burns, Cole and Alcantra.
Speaker 3: That's like clump one of consistency and.
Speaker 2: How do you not put Muskrove in?
Speaker 3: But see, but that's my problem. I think Tier two
Speaker 3: is the Verlander musk Rove I think you got even
Speaker 3: though inconsistencies we're talking about fantasy. Dylan Ceese is kind
Speaker 3: of kind of be in there with the strikeouts.
Speaker 2: He's very consistent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm probably forgetting somebody. But then my my question
Speaker 3: is does chuzer go back into that because you know, preseason,
Speaker 3: Suresuer was top two or three overall in sp miss
Speaker 3: his time, but he's back and he's back at it.
Speaker 3: So what's the thing that moves him off? Is it
Speaker 3: that he had an injury? I mean, he's showing no
Speaker 3: ill signs. He's right back at it. And that's why
Speaker 3: I think there's always a really interesting discrepancy of these
Speaker 3: guys win. You know, somebody said Wheeler Wheeler could I
Speaker 3: don't know. I Wheeler's in that tier two. Now the
Speaker 3: next tier three? Yeah, is there an opportunity? Is there
Speaker 3: that trade acquisition opportunity out there when we haven't quite
Speaker 3: placed him back? Two more starts like this of Suersier
Speaker 3: and we're gonna be like, oh, yeah, we forgot. He
Speaker 3: is one of the best pitchers alive, even though he's
Speaker 3: a million years old. And you're saying Verland is so
Speaker 3: easy over him, I'm not even so sure. I just
Speaker 3: think that the top four is a clump. That's theirs,
Speaker 3: and then that next tier of guys, which I think
Speaker 3: Suser has to go back into, is open for interpretation.
Speaker 2: Ranked the season.
Speaker 1: Where we ranked to gromw when he comes back is
Speaker 1: a more fascinating conversation.
Speaker 3: It is a much more fascinating that's the one.
Speaker 2: Let's save that for another day because we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to fill time with it.
Speaker 3: I think it's a much bigger debate.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do that on the day where
Speaker 1: we don't have baseball by the All Star break time.
Speaker 1: That's that where do we re you know what we
Speaker 1: should do that we should do our official rest of
Speaker 1: season rankings.
Speaker 2: Let's make that day after the All Star break.
Speaker 1: That's what we'll do because there's no actual games to
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 3: Nobody can the more photoshop contest. We have a mustache
Speaker 3: photoshop contest. Maybe on the next one.
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra was dominant over eight scoreless sittings. This
Speaker 1: is a player that's not gonna be on the Marlins
Speaker 1: much longer. I'm just telling you guys, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: pay him. It's just not gonna happen. So I would
Speaker 1: be you know, there's certain things like you want to
Speaker 1: buy low on people. He's a bye high in any
Speaker 1: keeper dynasty format. If you can get Sandy al Contra
Speaker 1: for the next few years when he goes out and
Speaker 1: gets paid a ton of money, and this is a
Speaker 1: you know, it's been a fascinating journey for him because
Speaker 1: this was a guy that flashed this dominant moments. And
Speaker 1: I remember he used to own the Mets. When he
Speaker 1: first came up, he would be dropping ten K games
Speaker 1: against the Mets. Then he would struggle against other teams.
Speaker 1: But you could see it, you could see the talent
Speaker 1: was there, and him putting all together in the last
Speaker 1: year and a half just been unbelievable. Chris Bryant, Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant's hiding finally for the Rockies. Uh So there you
Speaker 1: go where at one?
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 3: Did it? He did it?
Speaker 1: Yay Anticipation Trophy for Chris Bryant. Kyle Schwarber hit two
Speaker 1: continues to be a slugging value all across the board
Speaker 1: in Fantasy End for the Phillies.
Speaker 2: He was a great signing. I love this signing for
Speaker 2: the Phillies. This year.
Speaker 1: Var Show had a three homer game versus the Giants.
Speaker 1: There Cedric Mullens reach base five times and a lot
Speaker 1: of MVP chants for Jordan Alvarez. Uh and of course
Speaker 1: he had a home run yesterday too. So I picked
Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez for five six days. He didn't home just
Speaker 1: every other day. No, but I picked him again today,
Speaker 1: which means he won't so everybody the spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: But look, he's not m v P. It's he can't
Speaker 2: leave Prago Tani and it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: To leap frog Judge to you. So, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a fun conversation, but it's not one worth having.
Speaker 2: It's cute.
Speaker 3: It's cute astro fas like not to like, it's super funny. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're so adorbed. I love you all your little cute
Speaker 3: things like, oh, you want to be a fireman when
Speaker 3: you grow up, and you also want Jordan MVP. You
Speaker 3: can do it.
Speaker 2: Your name starts with a why, but we say it
Speaker 2: like a j It's so adorable. It's fun.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Uh, it was very swinger. It's just that of us,
Speaker 1: like we're just beating around the punny.
Speaker 2: You're just like a big bear man there. You don't
Speaker 2: know what you do to this little money for a second, then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, no, I knew, I know, I know,
Speaker 3: I know how to do it.
Speaker 1: Not to do the whole bit clause injuries to talk
Speaker 1: about Kyle Hendricks leaves start with a sore shoulder that
Speaker 1: ain't good CT scans, so there's no issues.
Speaker 2: For Craig Kimball's back.
Speaker 1: X rays clean on Bobby Wood Junior's hand after you
Speaker 1: exit the game, so that's positive. But no MRI results
Speaker 1: yet for Frankie Mantas's shoulder, Welsh Montas Go.
Speaker 3: Don't like it. No, I don't like it. One of
Speaker 3: the market.
Speaker 2: I like man.
Speaker 3: I mean I want I want him to move on
Speaker 3: to another team. I want another team to curate him
Speaker 3: with offensive support and better defensive support and just you know,
Speaker 3: anything that Oakland doesn't provide, and a shoulder injury. Injury
Speaker 3: is a major worry. You know, this is something that
Speaker 3: could completely derail the trade value. It could derail part
Speaker 3: of the season if it's even mildly bad. So I'm
Speaker 3: very concerned, and obviously fantasy owners should be really, really
Speaker 3: concerned by the results of this.
Speaker 1: This is the worst two for the because they looked
Speaker 1: like geniuses about three weeks ago, waiting for the Montas market, right,
Speaker 1: they went ahead and they traded me and Ia before
Speaker 1: the season started, and they waited for this Montos market
Speaker 1: to build, and it is built to a fever pitch.
Speaker 2: But then that one thing you know, the.
Speaker 1: Injury just can just destroy it and now they're gonna
Speaker 1: have remorse if they can't move them, or if people,
Speaker 1: you know, get sketchy about.
Speaker 3: The medical as. You almost wonder if it's like something
Speaker 3: the Reds would deal with with Molly and Castilla, Like
Speaker 3: I don't know if they move either or move only one.
Speaker 3: But seeing something like that, you wonder if it gives
Speaker 3: any pause to teams maybe you know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe kicking the tires a little bit on this trade market.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think I talked about this with you.
Speaker 1: I might have mentioned it yesterday with Box, but we
Speaker 1: had a big discussion on the Sunday show on Sports
Speaker 1: Grid about this.
Speaker 2: Which I have the brainchild of.
Speaker 1: If you're the Minnesota Twins, you go out to the
Speaker 1: Reds and you get Castillo and Molly, you trade Royce
Speaker 1: low because acl injuries are not what they used to be.
Speaker 1: You have you know, you signed Korea anyway, so you're
Speaker 1: living there. Royce Lewis isn't going to help you this year.
Speaker 1: You move Larnick, you move kral Off, you take back
Speaker 1: those two pitchers and you try to compete for that
Speaker 1: central What do you think of that blockbuster concept.
Speaker 3: So you're doing Larnick and Royce Lewis.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, here's the three position player ready to go
Speaker 1: day one in your lineup Cincinnati Red Guys on opening
Speaker 1: day next.
Speaker 3: Year, next year. I was about to say, I want
Speaker 3: to yeah, next year.
Speaker 1: Ryce Lewis is gonna be out for these year. But
Speaker 1: like three guys, you can say, Okay, this is our rebuild.
Speaker 1: Here's our players we're going to rebuild around. And you
Speaker 1: get two legitimate front end starters now into that rotation
Speaker 1: to go with Ryan and whatever else you can piece together.
Speaker 2: Who's healthy.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that blockbuster concept of going
Speaker 1: out there not getting the one, but going for the
Speaker 1: two and just going all in. If you're the Twins,
Speaker 1: because the Guardians are starting to come back to earth
Speaker 1: a little bit, the White Sox are still the White Sox.
Speaker 1: They you know, they're like one step up and two
Speaker 1: steps back. I think the Twins should go all in
Speaker 1: here and give it a shot.
Speaker 3: I mean, I agree that they should go all in.
Speaker 3: Would I do that trade if I'm them? I mean,
Speaker 3: probably two controllable young pitchers who are big strikeout guys.
Speaker 3: You have a formidable rotation. Now, the the realism of
Speaker 3: that happening, I feel like the Reds would need pitching back.
Speaker 3: You know, they've done it half decent job. They acquired.
Speaker 3: They've got this guy Joe Doyle. They acquired Connor Phillips
Speaker 3: in the offseason. They've got a couple of guys. They've
Speaker 3: obviously got Green and Lodolo to back off of, but
Speaker 3: they I wouldn't say they have a ton more, so
Speaker 3: they would need something back. The Twins don't exactly have
Speaker 3: tons of pitching, but they got this kid, Jordan Blazovic.
Speaker 3: So I'm picking I'm you know, picking Harris here. Like
Speaker 3: maybe it ends up being Royce Lewis and kirol Off
Speaker 3: and then maybe they trade one of those pitching prospects
Speaker 3: and another young guy at the end of the day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would do it if I'm the Twins. I think
Speaker 3: it helps it happen. I'm a believer. I'm a cure
Speaker 3: Lot believer. I'm a Royces believer. But you got to
Speaker 3: go money direct.
Speaker 2: So you might as well. You might as well move him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he showed a lot of.
Speaker 3: Crea comes back though. If Karrea doesn't come back.
Speaker 1: I think that's the caveat. The caveat is if you
Speaker 1: go and you win. Isn't that an easier sell to
Speaker 1: Carl's Kara to come back?
Speaker 3: No, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: If it's it's sort of you know, chicken an egg
Speaker 1: in that sense, like make that move. You're Minnesota, go
Speaker 1: ahead and make go all in. This is your opportunity
Speaker 1: to win the Central and maybe be the front runner
Speaker 1: next year too. Who knows what's going on with these
Speaker 1: white I mean the white I mean Eloja men is
Speaker 1: supposed to come back, and everyone's waiting for her to
Speaker 1: come back, and everyone's.
Speaker 2: Looking at each other, go, what's going on here?
Speaker 3: White sox are It's a really interesting concept of like
Speaker 3: Royce maybe do Josh Winder and then one of Larnick
Speaker 3: and kirol Off. I feel like the team would want
Speaker 3: to keep kierl Off. You know, I'm just big on him.
Speaker 3: He's really starting to turn the corner, powers getting back,
Speaker 3: major contact guy, just a super smart kid. But I
Speaker 3: don't think it would.
Speaker 2: Hold it up.
Speaker 3: I don't think it would hold it up here. But Larnick,
Speaker 3: Winder and Royce.
Speaker 1: Would probably be as you know, as good Castillo and
Speaker 1: Molly put you in the conversation that if you got
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with Castillo, Molly and Joe Ryan, you have.
Speaker 2: A puncher's chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just do, and you would have and you
Speaker 1: would look good next year too, because those guys are
Speaker 1: I believe both controllable.
Speaker 2: Neither of you. Molly.
Speaker 3: I believe that's part of the problem that's keeping Castillo
Speaker 3: and Mali not from being moved is they're still control
Speaker 3: We're not even through arbitration, I think with Mom.
Speaker 2: And that's why you have.
Speaker 1: To give them, not prospects, you have to give them
Speaker 1: major league ready, young talent.
Speaker 2: That's pre arbitration.
Speaker 1: They can get in there and go ahead, and you
Speaker 1: can sell that to the fan bases like look, Lodolo Green,
Speaker 1: that's the future of our pitching staff. Hopefully those guys
Speaker 1: become who we think they can be. I know there's
Speaker 1: been some struggles this year, but their kids and then
Speaker 1: you build around this young talent, and that's what you
Speaker 1: try to do.
Speaker 2: That's what I'd like to see. It's a fun conversation.
Speaker 1: We just spent more time on the twins than we
Speaker 1: spent all year on the twins, so good for them.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this updated top one hundred prospect list
Speaker 1: looks a little different.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Just came through from Major League Baseball. Number one, Riley
Speaker 1: Green had himself a nice night. Francisco Alvarez, the catching
Speaker 1: prospect for the Mets is number two. And while you
Speaker 1: Dynasty people out there, all you Keeper league people, he
Speaker 1: just moved up to Triple A last week. Corbyn Carrol
Speaker 1: of the Diamondbacks was number three. Grayson Rodriguez a four gunner,
Speaker 1: Henderson at five. So the Orioles have two guys at
Speaker 1: four and five and the top five Mont.
Speaker 2: For the Blue Jays at six.
Speaker 1: The catching prospect there Jordan Walker for the Cardinals at seven,
Speaker 1: Anthony Volpi and eight, who I actually got to see
Speaker 1: play in person a few weeks ago over in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: It was very fun. Good player here. He reminds me
Speaker 2: a lot of Padroya.
Speaker 1: He in that skill set wise and the way he
Speaker 1: turns on the ball, and he's very Paedroya esque. I
Speaker 1: see a Pedroya esque career for him. A little bit
Speaker 1: stronger in the lower half, a little bit thicker of
Speaker 1: a kid. Padroita was very slight, especially when he was young.
Speaker 1: Luciano is nine for the San Francisco Giants, and Marcelo
Speaker 1: Mayor is ten for the Red Sox, and I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for Mayor to make it to the big league
Speaker 1: so that Mike Maher can get a Red Sox jersey
Speaker 1: that has his name spelled wrong.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm oh, that would be great. Absolutely, I
Speaker 3: like that. I like that a lot. This list. You know,
Speaker 3: here's the funny thing that always happens. This is why
Speaker 3: one of the reasons I jumped in like four or
Speaker 3: five years ago, in you know, making sure I was
Speaker 3: curating a list that was prospect centric for fantasy, and
Speaker 3: I go out and see lots of these guys. I
Speaker 3: try to I tried to corporate best I can, from
Speaker 3: you know, watching video to studying stats but also seeing
Speaker 3: them in person. But translating is always the goofiest thing.
Speaker 3: The very first episode of Prospect one I every did
Speaker 3: was a Jonathan Mayo and we had this discussion where
Speaker 3: at that time, you know, I've said this a million times,
Speaker 3: it was like a Mederzaria was like three overall in
Speaker 3: their prospects, and I was like, okay, but you know
Speaker 3: this is heavy on defense. If it was just about offense,
Speaker 3: He's like, oh, he'd be in the twenties. So it's
Speaker 3: something that people have to rectify when you read these
Speaker 3: type of lists because here the thing that jumps out it's.
Speaker 2: About baseball, not about fantasy necessarily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's two catchers. Two catchers on the top ten.
Speaker 3: But I mean this is relative to minehe it would have.
Speaker 2: Been three if Rutchmen didn't get called off.
Speaker 3: You all these catchers, I mean, I'm Riley Green at one.
Speaker 3: I've got Cormyn Carroll at two. Gunner Henderson has jumped
Speaker 3: into my top ten. Jordan Walker, I think I have
Speaker 3: at four or five Volpie So I mean I've got
Speaker 3: like half of these guys inside of my top ten here.
Speaker 3: So this, you know, it's a solid list. But what
Speaker 3: will happen? And this is why these are important as well,
Speaker 3: is is much of us that you know pay attention
Speaker 3: to Eric Cross, Sir James overt Rodewire, myself and my
Speaker 3: list at in this league dot com. There's so many
Speaker 3: people that live and die by these type of lists,
Speaker 3: by like pipelines or Baseball Americas. So it's good for
Speaker 3: you to know the value of some of these sites
Speaker 3: because that might help you take advantage or create more
Speaker 3: value you know you have more value in Gabrielle Moreno
Speaker 3: or Francisco Alvarez in the fantasy market is giving you
Speaker 3: with pipeline, so that might create a better trade. It's
Speaker 3: free to get some more assets.
Speaker 2: Really good point. I like that.
Speaker 1: Here's another interesting piece I want to talk about. This
Speaker 1: came out on SNY, which is the Mets television network.
Speaker 1: Andy Martino wrote a piece. It says some league executives
Speaker 1: speculate that if ded Grom returns during one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour, he could tempt another team to offer a
Speaker 1: contract above with the Mets, consider rational quote unquote. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people thinking that, you know that
Speaker 1: the de Grom opt out might mean the end of
Speaker 1: de Grom for the Mets. Is that something that you
Speaker 1: think is true or do you think potentially I know
Speaker 1: it's kind of early to talk about this, but it
Speaker 1: was very provocative. It's getting a lot of traction, especially
Speaker 1: in the New York area right now about you know,
Speaker 1: is the gram going to opt out? And how far
Speaker 1: will Uncle Steve go? Because it's a real question, as
Speaker 1: talent as he is, how much of an investment do
Speaker 1: you want to make? Even if you're somebody who likes
Speaker 1: to throw money around.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if there's any team on a
Speaker 3: lower year base that is going to beat the Mets,
Speaker 3: because I assume no team is going to come out
Speaker 3: and give because how old is ya gramm right now?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty three.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So okay, I actually we should probably know exactly
Speaker 3: how he is because this is important to my conversation.
Speaker 1: So what I I want to make NFL? He's four crossover,
Speaker 1: so my brain is mush.
Speaker 2: So he's thirty four thirty.
Speaker 3: I think the best you could logistically get from a team,
Speaker 3: and they would obviously tier the years, is maybe five years.
Speaker 3: No team is going to go, you know, maybe you
Speaker 3: get that Brady thing where you get into forty. I
Speaker 3: think it's a five year contract is what you can get. Now.
Speaker 3: That even makes me believe. I don't know how a
Speaker 3: single team from an annual basis over that amount of years.
Speaker 3: The problem that teams have is only stupid contract for
Speaker 3: ten and twelve and thirteen years now, and teams get decimated.
Speaker 3: The Arizona Diamonbacks decimated themselves by the Zach Grank signing.
Speaker 3: They had to literal Paul Goldschmidt is off of the
Speaker 3: Arizona Diamondbacks because of the failed Zach Grank signing. It's
Speaker 3: a fact, and the Diamonbacks haven't even disputed it. So
Speaker 3: you know, you can dismantle your entire team by those contracts,
Speaker 3: But four or five years does not even if you
Speaker 3: look at three years. I don't know a team that's
Speaker 3: going to go on a higher annual per year basis
Speaker 3: than the Mets. Cohen will just drop the cash, will
Speaker 3: drop whatever they have to drop to keep a guy
Speaker 3: like him with the Mets. So this is fun to speculate.
Speaker 3: I think it's a weird article. If he returns to
Speaker 3: throwing one hundred, guess what he did. He threw one
Speaker 3: hundred in the minors. He still has the same injury issues.
Speaker 3: No one's going to give him over five years. How
Speaker 3: does anybody beat the Mets pocketbook.
Speaker 1: Pressure from an organization that thinks that like, we got
Speaker 1: to go in and take a shot, and and I
Speaker 1: guess that's the one to me, I'm mean, looking around
Speaker 1: that landscape, I don't know. I mean, if Kershaw doesn't
Speaker 1: come back to the Dodgers, try.
Speaker 3: That Dodger, Like I'll tell you that there's no chance
Speaker 3: in the history of a there's no chance that the
Speaker 3: Yankees could offer that the Mets, Thank you, Doctor Klan.
Speaker 3: There's no way that the Mets would let the Yankees
Speaker 3: out by them in this scenario.
Speaker 2: That is wh Yankees no chance.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are the one to come to mind because
Speaker 1: of again, the I think Kershaw was like one more
Speaker 1: ride off into the sunset. And then when Kershaw's gone,
Speaker 1: it frees up money, and it frees up a rotation spot.
Speaker 2: And Walker Buehler's health is questionable.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a lot of pressure there because you
Speaker 1: made some heavy investments in Mookie Bets, in Freddy Freeman
Speaker 1: that if you don't have a pitching staff, it's all.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if they can with the money
Speaker 3: they've spent positionally, if they could, even.
Speaker 1: Kershaw comes off the books, and with Kershaw off the books,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think that there's another piece there too.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think I don't know what Turner didn't
Speaker 2: turn It was an option. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I guess another guy that was getting like I think
Speaker 1: they can make it work, but more importantly, they might
Speaker 1: have to because once you're in for a penny, you're
Speaker 1: in for a pound. There's no way the Dodgers can't
Speaker 1: continue to you know, be all in with that.
Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers can compete. But I think at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, you do have a Mets
Speaker 3: team that has stood behind Jacob de Grom. They're not
Speaker 3: afraid to spend money. They brought him in a one
Speaker 3: B one, a starter, and Max Scherzer. They've got the offense.
Speaker 3: I just don't see a scenario. The best thing working
Speaker 3: in favor of the Mets here is the time is
Speaker 3: the amount of years on the contract. I think that
Speaker 3: works greatly in their favor because if there was a
Speaker 3: team like the Cardinals and he was thirty two years
Speaker 3: old and they say, screw it, we're gonna give him
Speaker 3: ten years and we'll just you know, frontload a little
Speaker 3: bit of it and the two years are out. Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe things change. But in this scenario with four or
Speaker 3: five years maximum, I just don't see it.
Speaker 2: I see It's funny.
Speaker 1: Here's Brian in the chat saying that, you know, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers will have to pay to keep Trey Turner because
Speaker 1: he's a free agent this year.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come out flat out and just tell you. I
Speaker 1: could see that going another direction with that potentially, And
Speaker 1: if the Nationals are serious about keeping Juan Soto, it
Speaker 1: would not shock me if the Nationals decided to go
Speaker 1: back out and try to bring back track, because.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought you were gonna do the whole one.
Speaker 3: So you see, Wan Soda bought a house in l
Speaker 3: a little team Z action. He bought a seven seven
Speaker 3: million dollars house in LA and people with photo shopping
Speaker 3: Dodgers on him.
Speaker 2: He ain't going to the Dodgers. I mean, why would
Speaker 2: he buy a house in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: So, I mean, could you pick a worse market to
Speaker 3: buy a house in for just every reason, taxes in
Speaker 3: price and no.
Speaker 1: But if you've got a lot of money and you
Speaker 1: want to see it grow even more, real estate in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles seems like a good idea.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess when you got when you got
Speaker 3: four hundred million coming in the wings, share whatever you want.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put ten million in this house and in
Speaker 1: three years it'll be worth you know, seventeen.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good investment.
Speaker 3: It's good I might have waited. I'm wait a little
Speaker 3: bit one.
Speaker 1: So, hey, you've got a real estate show coming on
Speaker 1: HGTV where he just goes in and what happens is
Speaker 1: they redo the houses and afterwards he hates everything that
Speaker 1: they've done.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, everything that they've redone. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, yeah, this open concept really, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it just makes the house feel cavernous.
Speaker 2: I don't like it at all.
Speaker 1: You know, the basement game room, you know, didn't turn
Speaker 1: out the way he wanted to. You can't fit the
Speaker 1: ping pong table. Everything is everything about the remake of
Speaker 1: it is terrible.
Speaker 3: I like it called watch it's called House.
Speaker 2: I like House flip off with Mike Mayer.
Speaker 3: But he does this, Yeah, yeah, exactly do it this way.
Speaker 2: So we learned.
Speaker 1: You lean in, you got to lean in the other
Speaker 1: way on the YouTube channel to lead in the box.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: There's the screenshot moment in the background somewhere.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. All right, let's get to this day
Speaker 2: in baseball history. Nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Despite retiring, man Mike Schmidt was elected to the All
Speaker 1: Star Game.
Speaker 2: Actually because it's based.
Speaker 3: Isn't it fun? The voting, it's so fun and.
Speaker 2: The best part.
Speaker 1: And then jose Kasseka, who hadn't played a game all
Speaker 1: season because of a wrist injury, was also elected to
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. Neither played the game, and it
Speaker 1: just was a reminder that stupid nonsense has gone on.
Speaker 2: In the All Star Game for many years.
Speaker 3: That's well, it's a fan voting is always a joke.
Speaker 1: Speaking of All Star Game, how about a little trivia?
Speaker 1: Which player has the most All Star Games as a
Speaker 1: Marlin as a member of the Marlins. Who has been
Speaker 1: in the most All Star Games? If you know the answer,
Speaker 1: drop in the chata Fantasy pros MLB. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run through. Yeah, you can GUESSL Cabrera.
Speaker 2: That is incorrect.
Speaker 3: One year. No, I have no more guesses. No more guesses, Josh.
Speaker 2: Beckett, stop it. You're embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 3: I have no more.
Speaker 2: All three were very good guesses.
Speaker 1: I was hoping you would say Jeff co nine, but no, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually a pretty I mean, you're gonna hate yourself
Speaker 1: when I tell you the answer.
Speaker 2: Here's your stat hero from yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'll contra ten K's eight innings scoreless six inning scorels
Speaker 1: for sure as or eleven, k's Nick Lodolo eight k's
Speaker 1: no earned runs, four and two, third, Alex Kirolov we
Speaker 1: mentioned before, three four to two dingers, Kyle Schwarber, same thing,
Speaker 1: two home runs, Max Munsey with anice, bounced back game
Speaker 1: after being terrible on the weekend, two for two with
Speaker 1: a home run. Haggard he hit a home run. Nathan
Speaker 1: low hit a home run. Cedric Mullens had a great
Speaker 1: night at the play. So did Austin Riley three for.
Speaker 2: Four with a bomb.
Speaker 1: Corey Seger three for five with a home run. Who
Speaker 1: I just traded four a couple of weeks ago. He's
Speaker 1: getting there. Alex Bragman three for five with a dinger,
Speaker 1: and Alendna's Diaz the same thing for him. Looking at
Speaker 1: the chat, I see some Mike Lowell also a very
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 2: But no, it is not Mike Lowell.
Speaker 1: It is not Louis Gestillo, it's not Jeff co nine,
Speaker 1: it's not Pad Rodriguez. I'll give you the answer after
Speaker 1: the zeros. I'll give people a little bit more time.
Speaker 1: Nick Pavetta, I'll take the l I tell it everybody,
Speaker 1: Nick Pavetta.
Speaker 2: That's on me. I'll take it. It's fine. Nick Pavetta
Speaker 2: seven earned runs yesterday not good.
Speaker 1: Michael Kopek not good either, six earned runs, Kakuchi four
Speaker 1: earned runs. Was a bad night at DFS, folks. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you eat the bear, Sometimes the bear he eats you.
Speaker 1: William Domas oh for four with three k's, Adolas Garcia
Speaker 1: both zero for five with three Cody bell and Jerk
Speaker 1: Old reliable over four with three k's. I'd like to
Speaker 1: hear a podcast where Cody Bellinger and Blake Snell just
Speaker 1: talk to each other.
Speaker 3: That sounds awful.
Speaker 2: It was just like, hey, man, did you see this? Noh, Bro,
Speaker 2: I didn't see that at all. That's so cool. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I thought so too, Bro, Like, that's that's the podcast
Speaker 2: we need.
Speaker 3: I think I think you just described like eighty percent
Speaker 3: of podcasts, and yeah, welcome in, man, Bro.
Speaker 2: Did you see that the other day? What man? Remember Broude?
Speaker 3: Did Ken just get it? Did Ken just get it?
Speaker 2: There? Did Ken just get it? Ken did get it?
Speaker 2: Hanley Ramirez as.
Speaker 3: Soon as I saw it. As soon as I saw it, I.
Speaker 1: Told you, Hanley Ramirez the most Marlin All Star Game appearances.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right? The other hitter zeros REYE.
Speaker 1: Hoskins over five two k's. That's okay, he's been red
Speaker 1: hot for a month, no worries. He Suarez over five
Speaker 1: with a K and then oh four to two k
Speaker 1: Club Alonso Cabrian Hayes, Jonathan India, Francisco, Linda Lindor, Trey
Speaker 1: Turner and John and VR. What a terrible season for
Speaker 1: Jonathan India, right, I mean this has just been Man,
Speaker 1: you just want to punt it like you just want
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: It's big old post type. Yeah, we'll come back into
Speaker 3: next year. He's going to come at the best discount
Speaker 3: for next year.
Speaker 2: But it is a I buy him everywhere in keeper
Speaker 2: leagues right now.
Speaker 3: The two I think he's a great dynasty.
Speaker 2: Let's go do that.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez one and a half total basis plus one
Speaker 1: oh two Jose Barrios at BETMGM is four and a
Speaker 1: half on the k prop. That is tenuous, but I
Speaker 1: think you can get over that against Oakland. It's it's dicey,
Speaker 1: but it minus one forty five. You that if you
Speaker 1: put it with something else, if two things that are
Speaker 1: really good locks, I think you can make a nice
Speaker 1: little parlay with that. And the Jose Ramirez at one
Speaker 1: and a half total bases at plus one ten. Well,
Speaker 1: she got some prop bets for everybody.
Speaker 2: What do you got?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like your I like the Jose ramiroz one.
Speaker 3: I would probably put that on my card. Strikeout prop
Speaker 3: Joe Ryan four and a half versus the White Sox.
Speaker 3: I believe they're over nine strikeouts over their last three games.
Speaker 3: Though they are good on the season total last three
Speaker 3: they've opened up a little bit. I love me some
Speaker 3: Joe Ryan and Freddy Freeman total bases. He's hitting over
Speaker 3: four to nineteen in a career versus Jose A Rena
Speaker 3: and it's minus one oh five. It's essentially even money
Speaker 3: for two total bases, a double homer, two singles, whatever.
Speaker 3: You gotta get good track record. It's a little BVP,
Speaker 3: of course, but I'm gonna go with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: You know what, I almost picked him for my home
Speaker 1: run call, and because I'm so mad as Jordan Alvarez,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna go with Freddy Freeman today,
Speaker 1: Freddy free And you know what, pick It's time that
Speaker 1: you and I be together and can celebrate tomorrow. Let's
Speaker 1: let's have a good to have a good day together.
Speaker 3: It's good week.
Speaker 2: Tonight's gonna be a good night. Okay, tonight's the night tonight,
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get to the DFS, I promised this,
Speaker 1: so here it is.
Speaker 2: This is the winning image. We've saw.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of great entries, but I told
Speaker 1: you this week we pick a winner. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: this person the hat. He's an og also, and he
Speaker 1: was laying in the weeds. And then he finally showed
Speaker 1: us this mister buster. Look at that, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: look at that, the Ryan Fitzpatrick. Because not only did
Speaker 1: he give us the hair, he gave Joey p the
Speaker 1: beard and the open chest hair.
Speaker 2: So all of that together that is spectacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is a look. I think it's a great choice.
Speaker 3: I still personally love my guy one time boom King
Speaker 3: who's on Twitter. His something about Joe well Mary was
Speaker 3: very good. That was my favorite. I think that was
Speaker 3: my favorite. But I sure do like that look. That
Speaker 3: is quite the look there the Joey Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2: Joey Fitzpatrick, here's.
Speaker 3: A whole sounds like a singer from inside.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows Joey Fitzpatrick. He's such a good lad. He's
Speaker 2: a good fellow. You should get to know Jelly Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 2: Home run later, board's still got to high.
Speaker 1: Colby's at the top there at thirty one, so no
Speaker 1: change there at the top of the board except Mike mah'
Speaker 1: is still there twenty six, which is terrible. So we
Speaker 1: got to get Mike Marra out there fast as possible.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the DFS section here, Louis Severino,
Speaker 1: I was Joey Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 3: What do you want?
Speaker 1: Nine point one K for several Reno on DK, ten
Speaker 1: point one from Aaronola, nine three for Christian Vier, and
Speaker 1: then Brian Bellow is five K. He's gonna be very
Speaker 1: popular tonight. I'm not saying you shouldn't have a Brian
Speaker 1: Bellow secondary arm, but Christian Xavier at nine three Aeronola
Speaker 1: ten one. If you can make it work with those
Speaker 1: two guys, I would do that. It's a kind of
Speaker 1: very very tunnel vision tonight in DFS two things.
Speaker 3: It's it's said bio. It's very confusing because it's it
Speaker 3: looks like Bello. It's a Brian And I like it
Speaker 3: because this dude hits a hundred and he's gonna light
Speaker 3: it up for early innings. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I didn't even see now that i'm thinking about it,
Speaker 3: I didn't see his k prop on you.
Speaker 1: Should look at US four and a half.
Speaker 2: I bet it's three.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you a lot of these books
Speaker 3: don't like to get these high minor league strikeout guys
Speaker 3: on the books. Early Spencer Straider didn't. But if they
Speaker 3: do and it's four and a half, take the over
Speaker 3: on Bio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, it is bio. It's like I said,
Speaker 2: it's us one of names in the brain right now
Speaker 2: for me, like i'le g I l.
Speaker 1: On FanDuel single picture site. You can have a sevar
Speaker 1: Reinald lineup.
Speaker 2: He's a little cheaper.
Speaker 1: I still prefer Javier on the strikeout total. And then
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola at ten point five. If you want to
Speaker 1: go in cash, that's fine. And I said last night
Speaker 1: it was not a good DFS day. You know, part
Speaker 1: of the show is we always give you something. It
Speaker 1: was wrong tonight, we make it back. Keep it simple. Yankees, Phillies, Astros, Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Those are the lineups to look at target stack wise,
Speaker 1: and you've got some value in there. Aaron Hicks is
Speaker 1: two point five on DK, two point four on FanDuel D.
Speaker 1: D Gregorio's is two point three, Derek Hall is two
Speaker 1: point eight on DK, and Jake Lamb is cheap on
Speaker 1: both sides too, at two k on FANDEL and two
Speaker 1: point three. So free square against the righty who's not
Speaker 1: very good in Urina. You know, give it a shot,
Speaker 1: you know, just get get in some of those better
Speaker 1: lineups that have some good matchups with some of the
Speaker 1: cheap guys.
Speaker 2: Phillies have some cheap guys.
Speaker 1: Yankees bottom of the order, Astro's bottom of the order,
Speaker 1: and of course the Dodger.
Speaker 2: Botto of the order is pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, I'm gonna hold hands with Welsh
Speaker 1: and we're go with Freddy Freeman and Mike Mayer is
Speaker 1: gonna be back on Mike Trout today, So there you go.
Speaker 2: There you have it.
Speaker 1: Any other final thoughts for our our peanuts and cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks before we call things out.
Speaker 3: Bogman and I are going to be on our twitch
Speaker 3: twitch dot tv slash in this league if I could
Speaker 3: give a little promotion there. We're doing some live stuff
Speaker 3: Monday through Thursdays a little bit after this, so if
Speaker 3: people want to come check it out. Today's our first
Speaker 3: one plans. It's a fun games, it's fun fantasy stuff.
Speaker 3: We're doing so twitch dot.
Speaker 2: Not only that, the Secret show coming up.
Speaker 1: I got a little taste of it yesterday after the
Speaker 1: show Bodman showed me with the reels and I had
Speaker 1: some hilarious it's basically like ridiculousness where we're gonna watch
Speaker 1: reels and make comments on it.
Speaker 2: I'm all for that. I told him, I want to
Speaker 2: be on all these because this looks like a good time.
Speaker 2: I want to get Oh my god, you totally.
Speaker 3: I would love it if you are. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: it's a fun live stream stuff that then hour two
Speaker 3: of it goes to our Patreon where we'll be doing
Speaker 3: podcasts and stuff like that. But yeah, the ridiculousness side
Speaker 3: is fun.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that, So go check out the
Speaker 1: it l Army on Patreon and that'll do it for us.
Speaker 2: But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 2: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time, kid,