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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading
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Speaker 2: channel Welsh. We got a lot to talk about today,
Speaker 2: tons of runs, loan saves, big news, and of course
Speaker 2: more star studded friendship circles with the Welsh. I guess
Speaker 2: you were out hanging out with Rhet Louder and clintonhaw
Speaker 2: yesterday just hanging out with the boys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no big deal. Yeah, hanging out with the boys,
Speaker 3: That's what it was. I mean, Welsch goes out and
Speaker 3: they're just like, hey, listen, can we stop our double
Speaker 3: a rehab assignment. Let me come down to Arizona. I
Speaker 3: gotta see my boy, gotta hang out. So yes, it
Speaker 3: was just Welsh hanging out with a couple of his
Speaker 3: best friends again. Rhett Louder with the locks. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 3: was rehabing future Hall of famer and needed to spend
Speaker 3: some time. But it was hands down, probably the best
Speaker 3: backfield matchup you're ever going to see in a current
Speaker 3: kind of young, studdish pitcher who's been hurt all season
Speaker 3: in Rhet Louder and then a Hall of Famer Clayton
Speaker 3: Kershaw pitching on the backfields and report back Rhet Louder
Speaker 3: looked pretty good. Velo was mid nineties or low ish
Speaker 3: nineties commanding. He did give up a two run homer
Speaker 3: to some seventeen year old kid, a little bit of
Speaker 3: hard contact. Clayton Kershaw unhittable. He gave up a couple
Speaker 3: big flies that were caught. Six innings, no hits. He's
Speaker 3: here because he's going to play this weekend ball is disgusting.
Speaker 3: Rhet Lauder told me he's leaving here. This is his
Speaker 3: only start and he's going to start his bigger rehab assignment,
Speaker 3: so he should be back, I think in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. Kershaw this weekend. Check out my Twitter if
Speaker 3: you want to see some of the videos.
Speaker 2: Big yeah, no, big deal, all right, big deal yesterday
Speaker 2: for the Yankees. They exploded for ten runs at the
Speaker 2: seventh inning to beat Michael Kelly's Padres. All Ill said,
Speaker 2: wells in a grand slam. Here'll be talking trash about
Speaker 2: yesterday and wanting to drop him. Uh so that was
Speaker 2: good Clark Schmidt. This was his first start back after
Speaker 2: the injury. Two runs and six innings. Michael King underwhelming
Speaker 2: at the strikeouts Blue the strikeout prop for me Boo,
Speaker 2: but he gave the Padres a chance to win. Aaron
Speaker 2: Judge his twelfth homer, So more good for the Yankees
Speaker 2: here as this bottom of the order started to come
Speaker 2: alive a little bit. And look, maybe they needed to
Speaker 2: get called out publicly Welsh maybe at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, but that's what they needed. They watched the show,
Speaker 2: they said, you know, Joe's right, and they started hitting
Speaker 2: baseball's all over the place, So good on them.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, not envisioned.
Speaker 4: And now we need AI to do this.
Speaker 3: I envisioned the entire locker room sitting around and looking
Speaker 3: up at a TV watching TV and has Joe piece
Speaker 3: of Pia on it and just chastise them. And then
Speaker 3: they're looking around and they're like, guys, Joe is right,
Speaker 3: we need to fix it. We could just a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Judge is like that beautiful, bald, handsome man is right.
Speaker 2: I keep coming up there. Nobody's on base. You guys
Speaker 2: gotta be better, you know, just be better. That's all.
Speaker 2: Be better.
Speaker 4: It's like a lot.
Speaker 3: It's like the any given Sunday speech, but it's Joe
Speaker 3: and then the rest of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you line ups not good right now? You gotta
Speaker 2: you gotta figure out what's going on in that offense? Yeah,
Speaker 2: almost is bad. Anthony Boby, you gotta you got a
Speaker 2: two twenty batting average. You ain't even hit your weight.
Speaker 2: Austin Wells, what's going on? What's happening here? Let's get
Speaker 2: to Giants. Blown saves scored nine in the eleventh though
Speaker 2: to beat the Cubs. But I think the fantasy news
Speaker 2: here is really Ryan Walker second blown save of the
Speaker 2: season era is not good.
Speaker 4: Welsh.
Speaker 2: We were talking last week about, you know, picking up
Speaker 2: Dovall because he has pitched much better. So Walker had
Speaker 2: gone three straight scoreless innings before two night, which completely
Speaker 2: imploded in Ryan Presley, of course, then got obliterated right after.
Speaker 2: So not a great night for bullpends just generally speaking.
Speaker 2: He gave up nine runs, Presley eight, earned five hits,
Speaker 2: didn't record a single out in the eleventh inning. It
Speaker 2: was brutal. But do you think the Giants might make
Speaker 2: be making a change here with the closer situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fire up your Kamilla Deval shares and fire up
Speaker 3: your Porter Hodges. Kamilla Deval should have already probably been
Speaker 3: picked up. He had been getting save opportunities. He has
Speaker 3: been phenomenal this Year's not striking anyone out, which is weird.
Speaker 3: You know, this is like a twenty eight to thirty
Speaker 3: percent k guy. He's at seventeen percent, but he's got
Speaker 3: a one and a half hera. His walks are the
Speaker 3: lowest of his career right now. He's giving up the
Speaker 3: least amount of barrels being he's become a different pitcher.
Speaker 4: I think that is the guy. That's the guy.
Speaker 3: He shouldn't be out there. But you should also go
Speaker 3: and run and pick up Porter Hodge right now because
Speaker 3: the Ryan Presley experiment is not working. They'd already told
Speaker 3: us that they were going to give him some saves.
Speaker 3: This is probably going to lead to a few more.
Speaker 3: What a weird world where it's like Ryan Walker and
Speaker 3: Devin Williams are not going to be trusted and it's
Speaker 3: going to be you know, Luke Weaver and camulodvall back.
Speaker 3: So I would go and fire up both of those
Speaker 3: players because we're at a point in the season where
Speaker 3: if if maybe these both of these guys of Presley
Speaker 3: and Ryan Walker didn't have any issues prior to this,
Speaker 3: I'd probably just kind of like, you know, just like
Speaker 3: move on, like they're going to get a lease. There's
Speaker 3: still a decent amount they can run with. But these
Speaker 3: guys both have had issues leading up into this first month.
Speaker 3: It's enough so that you should make sure that those
Speaker 3: guys are not on the wire and you should get
Speaker 3: those saves.
Speaker 2: Saves are always bountiful. You'll find them every April, every May,
Speaker 2: and then again in August you can find them too,
Speaker 2: and everybody gets traded in, more jobs opened up. It's
Speaker 2: just it's beautiful to watch every single day.
Speaker 4: A greeting card there. Saves are always.
Speaker 2: Been, Saves are plentiful. In August, trades happen more, saves
Speaker 2: come without delay.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll work on it, work on it.
Speaker 4: That was our Hoglin Horton.
Speaker 2: That was funny yesterday. That was actually pretty good. Some
Speaker 2: big k performances. Chris Sale ten strikeouts, six and two
Speaker 2: third shout one innings, but no w brutal. Pablo Lopez
Speaker 2: also great eleven strikeouts yesterday and five innings. Zach Wheeler
Speaker 2: had nine shrikeouts against the Rays. So some big performances
Speaker 2: for some big dogs. Who was the biggest of the
Speaker 2: big yesterday?
Speaker 3: For you, Welsh, Well, I think Pablo Lopez is the
Speaker 3: most interesting to me. It's funny those names you were mentioning.
Speaker 3: Because I'm doing a betting Pro show that should be
Speaker 3: out later today or tomorrow. We're kind of regrouping and
Speaker 3: looking at betts for the season, and we're kind of
Speaker 3: retreading what we had talked about preseason, and one of
Speaker 3: those is talking about like the cy Young race, and
Speaker 3: the Cy Young race is just weird right now, even.
Speaker 4: In the NL. You know, I think like schemes.
Speaker 3: Is at like the best value you're probably going to
Speaker 3: see him at if you still buy it, even though
Speaker 3: he hasn't been great. But Zach Wheeler, I don't mean to,
Speaker 3: I said Pablo, I'm just bringing this back to Wheeler
Speaker 3: for a second. Wheeler's like eleven to one right now,
Speaker 3: NL for scient and like that. Those odds seem really
Speaker 3: really great. So there's quite a few players that you're
Speaker 3: jumping out around. But of those names, I think there's
Speaker 3: the most like fantasy relevant and prevalent right now. Seemed
Speaker 3: to me to be Pablo Lopez. Because Pablo, there's just
Speaker 3: some early trends. I think that was not making us
Speaker 3: feel comfortable. There's a lot of narrative stuff around it.
Speaker 3: And he went heavy fastball in this matchup great WIF
Speaker 3: percentage his top three pitches, he used thirty percent or
Speaker 3: higher whiffs in this game. He ended up having a
Speaker 3: thirty nine overall with percentage because he had eighteen of them,
Speaker 3: so he was missing bats in a great way and
Speaker 3: csw over thirty. I think it's a very positive, big
Speaker 3: win for us for Pablo Lopez because I think he
Speaker 3: had lost a lot of steam. So I think this
Speaker 3: is something we can build up.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the futures market by the Brewers are plus
Speaker 2: six hundred for that division right now. The Cubs are
Speaker 2: minus three fifty, which is an absolute freaking joke. Even
Speaker 2: August Hurt steals out of the year. The bullpen stinks.
Speaker 2: The offense eventually is going to come back down to earth,
Speaker 2: and now's the time to bet the Brewers. Everybody go
Speaker 2: make some money. Uncle Joey just told you already, did it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can all you want. That that ain't going to
Speaker 2: carry them into the postseason, I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 3: But it's also okay to your point. Yes, like I
Speaker 3: agree with that the Cubs need to be aggressive, but
Speaker 3: the Brewers are still rolling out like Quinn Priester. You know,
Speaker 3: shame on me for Chad Patrick and stuff. And I
Speaker 3: know they've got reinforcements start away.
Speaker 2: They just Myers just came back, so I want to
Speaker 2: give him some time. Logan Henderson look really good in
Speaker 2: his start. Mizowski's down there. They've got a lot of
Speaker 2: depth in that.
Speaker 3: It's a smart, smart, smart tet by you. I'm not
Speaker 3: the Brewers always figuring.
Speaker 2: Out it's the smart And again, if you can't pitch
Speaker 2: and you can't close games, you're gonna struggle down the stretch.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Skeens, also struggling, he's not against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's oh, four and five starts against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: He's fourteen and three against the rest of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: So I guess we could just chalk it up to
Speaker 2: maybe there's an interesting Skeens oppo play against the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Maybe they just have his number for whatever reason. I
Speaker 2: walked a couple of guys yesterday, so as Welsh mentioned,
Speaker 2: an interesting time to get back in on the Skiens
Speaker 2: market if you like him. Also, Zach Wheeler, Jordan Walker, though,
Speaker 2: we got to talk about that Cardinal over two. Here's
Speaker 2: the slash ret you're ready wash one ninety four sixty three,
Speaker 2: two sixty.
Speaker 4: Nine terrible nice?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Is it time to send Jordan Walker
Speaker 2: back to Triple A again?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I think at this point you have to They need
Speaker 3: to move on from There's only so many times you
Speaker 3: can continuously keep sending him down. I mean, I guess
Speaker 3: you can send them all the options that you possibly have,
Speaker 3: but I think it would be a really bad precedent
Speaker 3: for from a developmental standpoint if you did this, for like,
Speaker 3: it'd be like the third fourth time, I think that
Speaker 3: they've done it. But like to your bigger point, yeah,
Speaker 3: he stinks. He's been really bad. I mean, there's some
Speaker 3: underlying stuff that feels okay, but his strikeouts are the
Speaker 3: worst they've ever been. So not only is he just
Speaker 3: not hitting the ball a we don't see any type
Speaker 3: of supportive data that's like, oh, he's going to a
Speaker 3: two fifty expected batting average that's gone. Now that's the
Speaker 3: sample size is kind of leveled itself out. But also
Speaker 3: he's striking out worse than he's ever done. So it
Speaker 3: didn't matter what offseason he work he did. We figured
Speaker 3: that out that you know, he was trying to shorten
Speaker 3: his swing stand so he could get to the path quicker.
Speaker 3: Didn't work, didn't happen, and it's a it's a shame,
Speaker 3: and we might be at the point where it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's a little bit of a lost cause. Maybe a
Speaker 3: new team, get your mind out of it and you
Speaker 3: can fix it. Or he's the next Joe Adell slash
Speaker 3: Jared Kellnick and it's just a star in the making
Speaker 3: that just could not get the stuff to work.
Speaker 2: More questions here, Ja Rivy Wolshwell and Ball get back
Speaker 2: on track anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Welsh, I think he's gonna get I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say yes, But I think he's been super mediocre this year,
Speaker 3: and even in all of my praise and you know,
Speaker 3: must draft.
Speaker 4: And everything like that to start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, and everyone was like cy Young, cy Young.
Speaker 3: And now he's up to a three nine two ERA.
Speaker 3: But you know, taking a look here, he's expected era
Speaker 3: is actually three nine nine, so it's almost at four.
Speaker 3: He's giving up a lot more barrel, lot more hard hit.
Speaker 3: His strikeouts are down. It's it's it's pretty worrisome. The
Speaker 3: four seeing fastball also seems to be one of his
Speaker 3: bigger problems. That he's got more whiffs on it. But dude,
Speaker 3: guys are hitting it really hard ninety three point four
Speaker 3: average exit velocity. That's it's three and a half miles
Speaker 3: an hour higher than last year. And his split finger
Speaker 3: I guess the split finger usage is up. I guess
Speaker 3: it's the cutter. The cutter is really getting demolished and
Speaker 3: he leans on that pitch a lot.
Speaker 4: So will he fix it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of believe he will, but we might
Speaker 3: just be like men on Schwellenbach where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: you buy, you buy, you buy, you might just get
Speaker 3: what you paid for at the end of the day
Speaker 3: instead of having the biggest return. But it's it's a
Speaker 3: month and he's like a super talented guy. I'm pretty hopeful.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't.
Speaker 3: It looks like like I look and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I think I see a fix or two on maybe
Speaker 3: pitch usage and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I just don't know if he'll be comfortable with that.
Speaker 4: That cutter. He needs to drop that cutter in.
Speaker 2: Some roadsplits too, three twenty eight at home for eighty
Speaker 2: six on the road. Just something to keep in mind too,
Speaker 2: if that's a trend, would you drop Ryan Walker for
Speaker 2: dov All? Right now? I would. I would probably go
Speaker 2: that d I'm not waiting around and I'm not waiting. Also,
Speaker 2: I'm not waiting for Marcelo Mayor because I think Trevor
Speaker 2: Story might be opening the door. Oh four to three strikeouts.
Speaker 2: We told you Winter was coming on the trade video
Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago for Trevor Story to trade him. Now,
Speaker 2: it couldn't get any better? Was that two weeks ago? Welsh?
Speaker 2: And it's been crap. Ever since three strikeouts for him
Speaker 2: in ops all the way down to six point eighty.
Speaker 2: It was like a thousand at one point. So things
Speaker 2: have hit hard here for Trevor Story. It's time to
Speaker 2: move things around, make some moves here. If you are
Speaker 2: the Boston Red Sox Marcel Mayor just crushing it down
Speaker 2: at Triple A right now, you don't have to play
Speaker 2: Trevor Story every day. I don't care. It's about winning
Speaker 2: games right now. Jock Peterson signs of life two two
Speaker 2: for three with a double yesterday. So one guy going up,
Speaker 2: the other guy going down. Go ahead, Welsh.
Speaker 3: Well, I I'm still just like I'm an idiot about Jock.
Speaker 3: But you know, I will say that when we did
Speaker 3: that video because I put Trevor Story on there. I
Speaker 3: put him on there when he was still hitting over
Speaker 3: three hundred because it actually wasn't really built around that.
Speaker 3: I thought he was going to completely just fall apart
Speaker 3: as a fan player. It was built a little bit
Speaker 3: more around like, look at how he's performing to his
Speaker 3: injury history. But what's also following is like underlying everything
Speaker 3: is coming back down. He's dropped like fifty points. I
Speaker 3: think since we did that video, and he was striking
Speaker 3: out a lot. So I think that that opportunity we
Speaker 3: happen to jump right at the very tippy top height
Speaker 3: of being able to trade him at a peak. Right now,
Speaker 3: it's not quite there, and that's only going to speak
Speaker 3: to like what you said, it's going to speak about
Speaker 3: Mayor potentially getting a look, hopefully within the next month.
Speaker 3: I still don't think it's on the like horizon horizon
Speaker 3: because they got to figure out who do they bring
Speaker 3: up first? Is it may Or is it Roman Anthony?
Speaker 3: I tend to think it needs to be Anthony, but
Speaker 3: you know, we'll, yeah.
Speaker 2: It probably also tends to well more morecent. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: keep that. I'm gonna I'm gonna push that those feelings
Speaker 2: down for later in the show because I don't want
Speaker 2: to get off track transactions. Yankees desigating Carlos Garrasco for assignment,
Speaker 2: So there you go, Ryan yarb Garboro, I guess is
Speaker 2: going to be getting some starts here for the Yankees again.
Speaker 2: I e oh, Yankees. Oh, I know Carrasco wasn't good,
Speaker 2: but geez, we're in a weird spot now. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: they recall James Outman, after putting taskcar and does on
Speaker 2: the IL everyone's excited for Evan Carter got called up again.
Speaker 2: Why I don't know, because he's slashing two twenty one,
Speaker 2: three thirty three with a four to sixteen slugging. He's
Speaker 2: just not good. So great another guy who can hit
Speaker 2: left dand and pitching who's just not echo. He's overrated. Okay,
Speaker 2: I know the goods when I see the goods. He
Speaker 2: ain't the goods. Alex Cora reaffirmed on Tuesday that he
Speaker 2: has no plans through raphaeld Everes to first base okay,
Speaker 2: which means that he also confirmed that he's planning on
Speaker 2: moving forward with Rome Gonzalez and Abraham Toro at first base,
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Speaker 2: should you have any retorts for that?
Speaker 3: Listen, I'm not a not an executive in baseball. I
Speaker 3: didn't play professional baseball, even though my name and sometimes
Speaker 3: CBS likes to think that I did. So I don't
Speaker 3: want to be the one to be like I know
Speaker 3: better than a lot of people, because I think that
Speaker 3: gets overused by a lot of us.
Speaker 4: Arm U, what is it? Monday morning couch?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, quarterback quarterback and Monday morning quarterbacks. You
Speaker 2: made it an armchair Monday morning.
Speaker 3: I turned it into two.
Speaker 2: It's a class like an armchair Monday morning quarterback or field.
Speaker 4: Our chair Monday morning, Prince on Wednesday, that's all time
Speaker 4: Welsh is.
Speaker 3: But this is one of the stupidest things, Like I
Speaker 3: stared at it yesterday. To with a straight face have
Speaker 3: a guy like Roman Anthony who had worked some in
Speaker 3: spring at first, and a guy Rae Faeld Devers who
Speaker 3: is not able to play third, who's a big bodied
Speaker 3: guy and could get one of those bats in the lineup.
Speaker 3: To with a straight face have those two players and
Speaker 3: say no, nay, we are going to have Romeganzo and
Speaker 3: Abraham play first is the stupidest thing I can possibly imagine.
Speaker 3: It almost seems counterintuitive, like you are trying to sabotage yourself.
Speaker 3: Why is Roman Anthony on some super two thing that
Speaker 3: they're trying to control. What is the possible reason to
Speaker 3: do something so idiotic, or for Stevers to do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta tell me he's not proud of it. I
Speaker 3: can't fathom that this is the solution. There's no world
Speaker 3: where this should be the solution. So much the Padres
Speaker 3: made the tough, tough decision two years ago, the super
Speaker 3: tough decision when they sign Xander Bogart's They had an
Speaker 3: amazingly talented, better defensive shortstop in Jackson Merrill, and they
Speaker 3: made the tough decision to move him to the outfield,
Speaker 3: and it was a game changer and a winner. And
Speaker 3: the Red Sox are not too easy to do that.
Speaker 4: It's stupid to do.
Speaker 2: It with the guys, our veterans and guys were older,
Speaker 2: and they don't want to do that. They're getting paid
Speaker 2: and they're like, screw you, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2: So you know what, screw them. Move on from him,
Speaker 2: trade him, get a first basement or better yet, get
Speaker 2: some bullpen help or something else that can help you,
Speaker 2: because that is crazy right now. I agree with you
Speaker 2: one thousand percent. All right, let's continue on here with
Speaker 2: some more baseball news. Let's do a little rookie lookie,
Speaker 2: because Jack Caglione went three for four with two more
Speaker 2: dingersis what the hell is he doing in Double A?
Speaker 2: I don't know. He's hitting three thirty with a six
Speaker 2: hundred slugging and a four hundred dollar base percentage. He's
Speaker 2: got eight homers already, thirty one RBI.
Speaker 3: Like, what do we do here?
Speaker 2: Move them up to Triple A or move him to
Speaker 2: the big leagues. Also talked about him Monday. I talked
Speaker 2: about him Sunday. Tim Elko two for three, a pair
Speaker 2: of walks yesterday. He's up to ten homers thirty games
Speaker 2: here at Triple A. So Elco could be a help
Speaker 2: too if you lost Cassus. Elko is a guy to
Speaker 2: pick up. Chase Petty struck out eight in six innings.
Speaker 2: Now I understand this first start wasn't great for the Reds,
Speaker 2: but just something to monitor. And Gustill Romirez two for
Speaker 2: four with an RBI, so he's getting back on track,
Speaker 2: which is nice to see, isn't it, Welsh?
Speaker 4: It is very nice.
Speaker 3: So Gustin's still that top ten catcher we talked about
Speaker 3: on prospecting him with Welsh, tim Elko someone to take
Speaker 3: a look. I'm not interested in Petty, be honest with you.
Speaker 3: He got blown up in his first start, not a
Speaker 3: great destination in general. And Rhet Lauder's coming back rhtt
Speaker 3: he's going to move up and that's going to be
Speaker 3: even less of future opportunities. So there's no speculation for
Speaker 3: me on Chase Petty.
Speaker 2: No speculation on the Petty. That seems petty of you, Welsh.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the three up and three downs.
Speaker 2: Zach Gallon one run, six strikeouts at seven innings at
Speaker 2: a w over the Mets. He was dropped in some
Speaker 2: shallow leagues early on. I picked him up in our
Speaker 2: Fantasy pros league because it's a ten team league with
Speaker 2: very shallow benches, and you know what, I'm glad I did.
Speaker 2: I've been streaming him, throwing him in there.
Speaker 4: I have been super down on him.
Speaker 3: I'm the most negative about Gallon, but he is stringing
Speaker 3: a couple of decent ones. He still has a four
Speaker 3: to three ERA. He's had two straight starts quality starts,
Speaker 3: giving up only one earned run, but he still has
Speaker 3: a four ERA. Expected ERA, though, is in the three
Speaker 3: and a half range. Maybe maybe it was a month
Speaker 3: blip and things are picking back up. I'm still worried
Speaker 3: about the inconsistencies kind of in general. When the fastball
Speaker 3: is not commanding, he just doesn't have the stuff for
Speaker 3: the secondaries.
Speaker 4: I still hold too, that he is.
Speaker 3: Going to be wildly inconsistent this year. He's gonna have
Speaker 3: some blow ups that are going to really hurt your roster.
Speaker 3: But then he has gems like this where he's all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, unhittable against the Mets, but
Speaker 3: no better than I think I was giving some credit for.
Speaker 3: If he did get picked up, it's a solid, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, solid pickup. I'm probably still looking to potentially
Speaker 3: trade off of him after a couple of good starts
Speaker 3: if people think he's back, because I kind of don't.
Speaker 2: Matthew Libator was very good, struck out eight guys and
Speaker 2: seven innings for the Cardinals. Tony Gonsol another big strikeout
Speaker 2: performance eight case Tony Consolin.
Speaker 4: Strike out prop we hit it, yes.
Speaker 2: Hit it, you hit it with then some all the
Speaker 2: downs though. Yesterday Hayden wes Neski struggled again four runs
Speaker 2: and five innings, Katee Povich lost to the Twinkies five
Speaker 2: runs and six and Lucas Giolito first time good, second
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Speaker 2: Fantasy Bros. Fantasy Baseball My Playbook app. Injuries A lot
Speaker 2: to get to here. Brandon Woodruff two runs, five innings
Speaker 2: Tuesday in a minor league rehab start. He threw sixty
Speaker 2: of his eighty three pitches for strikes. He finished with
Speaker 2: five strikeouts only through one walk there, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Milwaukee's rotation could be this weekend or maybe early next week.
Speaker 2: Spencer Horwitz two to four with a double, working his
Speaker 2: way back to the Pirates there. Aaron Ashby, there's a
Speaker 2: name we haven't talked about in a while. Three runs,
Speaker 2: one and a third in a minor league rehab start.
Speaker 2: Another arm there. William Contrerez, though for the Brew crew,
Speaker 2: undergoes X rays on a left finger. More on that
Speaker 2: to come to have a Marte. Boy, oh boy, can't
Speaker 2: catch a break with this guy. He's going for further
Speaker 2: evaluation with a side injury. We know what that means.
Speaker 2: Ronnie Maurisio, remember him, Dynasty prospect. He's going to begin
Speaker 2: a minor league rehab assignment in double A on Friday,
Speaker 2: moving up and Uri Perez got another start in only
Speaker 2: got one out though twenty seven pitches. He was not
Speaker 2: efficient at all. The good news is he was still
Speaker 2: very good velocity ninety seven point one, ninety eight point one.
Speaker 2: That's where he was looking so well if Eurie Perez
Speaker 2: were still ways away. But it's good to see the
Speaker 2: velocity is good. But this is what happens in spring training.
Speaker 2: Guys come in, they look good that first outing, and
Speaker 2: then everything's like all over the place usually for the
Speaker 2: next two and then you hope that he rounds into
Speaker 2: form of the weeks ahead. Welsh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say, though it does seem quite a
Speaker 3: bit more babying because he you know, it looks bad
Speaker 3: because he only had like, you know, was one out
Speaker 3: because he hit the pitch marker twenty seven pitches. You know,
Speaker 3: we're done. But that's a pretty low amount that I
Speaker 3: think if you had tempered expectation, or you need to
Speaker 3: temper your expectations, if you thought he was gonna be
Speaker 3: back on say in like two weeks. If you're twenty seven,
Speaker 3: you're gonna ramp up next one to probably thirty five,
Speaker 3: let's hope. Maybe then you push to forty forty five
Speaker 3: and then you're getting to fit. He's got to get
Speaker 3: to like seventy and that that might not be three
Speaker 3: starts away, that might be five or six, So it
Speaker 3: could be more of a mid June. So just remember
Speaker 3: that in wherever and however you've speculated on picking up
Speaker 3: Euri Perez, and just so you're you have your expectations, so.
Speaker 4: You're not like, guys, when's you gonna come up? I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be mid June. You know, you
Speaker 3: guys can go when you're gonna come up to Bubba
Speaker 3: Chandler to me if you want. I don't know at
Speaker 3: this point, what the hell are we waiting for. It's
Speaker 3: got to be next week, if not just every day,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it's gonna be next week or you know,
Speaker 3: in five days. But Uri Pez looks like it's pretty
Speaker 3: locked to like June to mid June.
Speaker 2: You know else looks good.
Speaker 3: The Best Bets of Wednesday.
Speaker 2: With Joey p in the Welsh. All right, let's take
Speaker 2: a look at the bets for today. Tyler Molly just
Speaker 2: four and a half K's what minus one twelve? What? Why? Why?
Speaker 2: The Boston Red Sox have the second most strikeouts of
Speaker 2: any team in Major League Baseball and Tyler Molly has
Speaker 2: been outstanding this year. It's a small number four and
Speaker 2: a half. I think you can get it. You're getting
Speaker 2: minus one twelve, So give me Tyler Molly today against
Speaker 2: the Boston Red Sox lineup. Also give me Pete Alonzo
Speaker 2: plus one thirty five to drive in or run today.
Speaker 2: Petere A Lonzo's got some pretty good numbers against Merle
Speaker 2: Kelly three homers, seven rebbies and sixteen at bats, hitting
Speaker 2: three thirteen with at twelve fifty one ops in his career.
Speaker 2: And the Minnesota Twins. Give me the team total over
Speaker 2: four and a half. Why because Charlie Martin is back
Speaker 2: in the lineup of starry rotation here for the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2: What happened? I don't know, but Charlie Mooreton they're giving
Speaker 2: another crack of the rotation, which I don't think is
Speaker 2: gonna go well. So give me the Twinkies four and
Speaker 2: a half team total. Welsh, what do you have for
Speaker 2: the people on this beautiful Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Not the biggest fan of the nickname Twinkies for the Twins.
Speaker 3: You do that a lot, and I'm always like a
Speaker 3: little l I'm like, it's it's great last forever. Right here,
Speaker 3: I'm going all first fives. We're playing in all first five.
Speaker 3: One of the bets got rained out yesterday.
Speaker 4: I was one in one.
Speaker 3: Chad Patrick of course had the strikeouts that didn't work,
Speaker 3: but we did get Tony Gonsolin. I decided I like
Speaker 3: some first five plays today and I might even screw
Speaker 3: around and maybe parlay them. First up, the New York
Speaker 3: Mets against it. The Diamondbacks have had a decent number,
Speaker 3: but Merle is online against kode I Sanga. I think
Speaker 3: the Mets are going to get in early. Merrill continuously
Speaker 3: has these issues with hydration and being able to keep
Speaker 3: going through the games.
Speaker 4: It's really weird.
Speaker 3: Home ballpark has actually affected him. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with the Mets, who the first five at minus twenty
Speaker 3: phillies because Chris Sanchez. We are going with the Chris
Speaker 3: Sanchez first five money line. I believe that is up
Speaker 3: against Tampa and Shane Boss As you know, obviously tougher
Speaker 3: matchup against Boz but Chris Sanchez is the truth first
Speaker 3: five money line minus one thirty and then a little
Speaker 3: bit riskier Boston first five money line. Tanner Houck is
Speaker 3: on a deck, but we have a secret weapon. Andrew
Speaker 3: Erickson from Fantasy Pros will be at this game, and
Speaker 3: I got to send him bets. And just because he
Speaker 3: is there, hoping the rain is going to be good,
Speaker 3: we are rocking Boston first five money line. Andrew Erickson
Speaker 3: will bring us good luck. Tanner Hack will have one
Speaker 3: of those good outings minus one twenty. Those are my
Speaker 3: three bets, all first three.
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Speaker 2: home run board and see where we're at today. I
Speaker 2: didn't get one yesterday all finally Wonkee Penguin right behind
Speaker 2: the Welsh. There we go twelve and thirteen. Marty's at
Speaker 2: the top at seventeen. Starry to separate a little bit here,
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Speaker 2: chat to call your home runs. I'm calling Pete Alonzo
Speaker 2: today baby against Merle. I already gave you the numbers
Speaker 2: here for him plus four hundred today for him to
Speaker 2: hit a home run. Love that, So give me ped
Speaker 2: Alonzo Welsh? Where are you going for your home run call?
Speaker 4: I was actually thinking about the Mets too.
Speaker 3: I was leaning on Lindor, but I'm going to go
Speaker 3: bet I I completely I just got caught in the day.
Speaker 3: It was a crazy day, and then I was out
Speaker 3: hanging with my dear good friend KLAYD Kershaw, so I
Speaker 3: forgot to make the change because the Rockies Tiger's game
Speaker 3: got rained out and I had Cary Carpenter yesterday, so
Speaker 3: I didn't. I just gave everybody a free pass on that.
Speaker 3: But I'm going to go right back to Kerry Carpenter
Speaker 3: because Dolander is scheduled to pitch today is in Colorado.
Speaker 4: As long as you get me a righty pitcher.
Speaker 3: I got carry Carpenter, the masher of lefties, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to go right back to him. I believe it's
Speaker 3: still around three and a half, or maybe it's closer
Speaker 3: to four to one, but give me Kerry Carpenter again.
Speaker 3: I will pay attention to the rain out and pick
Speaker 3: a different if I you know, if I don't, I
Speaker 3: might look at Lindor if there's some early rainout or
Speaker 3: something like that. But gimme Kerry Carpenter.
Speaker 2: Here's one from O Greedy Pepio or lighter. It's Pepio
Speaker 2: for me. I know he hasn't been great, but sorry,
Speaker 2: that's an easy one.
Speaker 4: Go with Pepio as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look, I wanted to turn things around a
Speaker 2: little bit, but still like it's it's kind of been
Speaker 2: not great. Not great? Is Kate Horton a stash or
Speaker 2: a monitor depends on the death of your league and
Speaker 2: what you need pitching wise. I mean, I want to
Speaker 2: stash it if I could, because if he's good, then
Speaker 2: you run the risk of everybody picking him up. That's
Speaker 2: how I think about.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's like like Staff. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's coming up. You're not stashing him away for like
Speaker 3: some future thing. You're picking him up because he's uh,
Speaker 3: presumably starting on Saturday. But I guess back to your question,
Speaker 3: like I would Stash, I think he's I think he's above.
Speaker 3: Like we talk about a lot of these other you know,
Speaker 3: type of pit like Horton, like Bubba Chandler is the
Speaker 3: ultimate Stash, and Horton is like a couple of notches below.
Speaker 3: But I don't think there's a lot of other guys that,
Speaker 3: Like I think Horton's above, even like a Logan Henderson and.
Speaker 4: Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So it looks like we have a tunnel vision for him.
Speaker 3: So I would say he's closer to Monitor than he is,
Speaker 3: or closer to Stash than he is, just like.
Speaker 2: A Michael says, I have Hunter Green and Lodolo, but
Speaker 2: somebody drop Abbot in my league? Is that too many
Speaker 2: Reds pictures? No, oh, they've been just get good pictures.
Speaker 2: Gonna get two star weeks.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think it has anything to do
Speaker 3: with you having those other guys. You know, this isn't
Speaker 3: like fantasy that's more of a fantasy football thing. So
Speaker 3: do you have too many wide receivers on the same thing?
Speaker 3: Like it's more about like who are you dropping right for?
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 4: But he's this is a great.
Speaker 2: Social media guy. Tyler over under on beers, ericson drinks.
Speaker 2: I mean Erickson is more of a martini kind of guy.
Speaker 3: Definitely, Uh, you will have I would like chocolate and
Speaker 3: a half is the number.
Speaker 2: I would say it, and I'm gonna go under. It
Speaker 2: probably gets just two because they're expensive too.
Speaker 3: They are super expensive. But he's going on to have
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: Here's where uh, here's where this gets messed up. He
Speaker 3: will pregame.
Speaker 4: Ericson is a game.
Speaker 3: I would say the under actually is very likely because
Speaker 3: I say two is the number.
Speaker 4: But if you're talking, if you give me.
Speaker 3: The day way over, if I get pregame involved.
Speaker 2: Over fair enough, fair enough. So we'll monitor that. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll try to get back to you with the answer
Speaker 2: to that question tomorrow. While we're at it. Don't forget
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