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Speaker 1: of course. Is the Welsh looking really snazzy today. It
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Speaker 2: I don't. I have a big day of talking to
Speaker 2: all you fine folks and talking about some fantasy baseball
Speaker 2: and some bedding and Jake McCarthy getting optioned down to
Speaker 2: the miners. You know that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yes, one of Welsh's bold predictions going into the season.
Speaker 1: My bold prediction was that shirt. You were going to
Speaker 1: lunch with somebody at the very least he taking a
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Speaker 2: It is kind of address. I want to change it up.
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Speaker 1: headlines at the top of the show today because right
Speaker 1: now what we've got going on is a whole lot
Speaker 1: of baseball, so that's always a fun thing. And we'll
Speaker 1: start with Spencer Strider, who is pretty pretty good. We
Speaker 1: talked about him as a wager for Cy Young going
Speaker 1: into the season. While that number is going very quickly
Speaker 1: and getting very smaller as we continue to look at.
Speaker 2: The point, is he number one in the NAWL right now?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's number one. And what's coupled is you
Speaker 1: have these shus of Verlander taking themselves out immediately in
Speaker 1: these first few weeks almost you have our contra doing
Speaker 1: with an injury. You have Corbyn Burns whose health and
Speaker 1: hasn't been great. So all of like five of the
Speaker 1: top ten guys, the only people are really standing really
Speaker 1: Gallon and our boy Spencer Strider went eight scoreless innings
Speaker 1: with thirteen strikeouts yesterday against the Marlins. And the Marlins
Speaker 1: offense is future, but I don't care. That's terrific.
Speaker 2: Had a no hitter through seven. I mean he had
Speaker 2: a that was kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: Joe.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about something. I want to ask you this.
Speaker 2: Think about this yesterday because that performance was dominant. I
Speaker 2: believe it's like nine straight games with nine strikeouts or
Speaker 2: something that Spencer Strider has going on. And I saw
Speaker 2: this post our mutual friend Aert Cross. I've had Sean
Speaker 2: McClanahan is like my number one Dynasty picture for a
Speaker 2: long time, and he made a proclamation He's like, Shane
Speaker 2: McClanahan is now my number one Dynasty and someone you
Speaker 2: know in truth be Trupe. Someone came in and was
Speaker 2: like chirpin' but the question was really fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: The person said what makes Sean McClanahan better and more
Speaker 2: trustworthy than Spencer Strider. And I was thinking about this
Speaker 2: after this start because of how dominant, and I can
Speaker 2: only come up with one thing with Spencer Strider, because
Speaker 2: the way this guy pitches, the way he approaches, the
Speaker 2: way his stuff fools everybody. The only thing I can
Speaker 2: come up with is that he is still a two
Speaker 2: pitch pitcher. That is all. I don't want to say,
Speaker 2: that is all that he is. To take away from him,
Speaker 2: he had thirty one whiffs in this game. Seventeen came
Speaker 2: for the fastball, fourteen from the slider. But that's the
Speaker 2: only thing that I could come to terms with when
Speaker 2: I'm thinking dynasty value or any value, is the two
Speaker 2: pitch pitch side of him. Is the thing that just
Speaker 2: holds us off from all unanimously being like, this is
Speaker 2: the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 1: Well, you know I've heard this before, the where you know,
Speaker 1: the two pitch thing, And I always go back to
Speaker 1: Dwight Gooden back in the day in nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: when he came up and dominated the entire league. He
Speaker 1: was the best pitcher in baseball for nineteen eighty four
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, he was a two pitch pitcher, and
Speaker 1: you can. I mean, it's about location. It's about changing,
Speaker 1: you know, location, changing the playing of the fastball. It's
Speaker 1: doing all that those little things. It's about pitching with
Speaker 1: those two pitches. And I understand in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, Yes, in this day and age in baseball,
Speaker 1: you know, the two pitch pitchers typically sending to struggle
Speaker 1: a little bit. And that's why even what about a
Speaker 1: year ago when we had a conversation about Schrider, I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe this guy would be a dominant closer, Maybe we
Speaker 1: should think of him that way because of the two
Speaker 1: pitch mix, how good he could be there, he'd be untouchable.
Speaker 1: But look, he's been absolutely tremendous, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: And the saw young race is started to get away
Speaker 1: a little bit already. So the big concern with him
Speaker 1: was innings. We'll see how that goes, but right now
Speaker 1: I think it's about three three and a half to one,
Speaker 1: depending on the book. But I would definitely be looking
Speaker 1: at if you drafted Spencer Schrider as your one, which
Speaker 1: was another conversation we had from a fantasy perspective, Welsh
Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't feel comfortable one hundred percent
Speaker 1: with him as their number one. I did. You did,
Speaker 1: And if you drafted him as such, and you stuck
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, and maybe you took two hitters
Speaker 1: in a row instead of went going hit or pitcher
Speaker 1: with the first two picks, you probably got him in the
Speaker 1: third round. You probably did pretty well. Tosh. Bradley did
Speaker 1: pretty well also, three runs in five innings on Monday
Speaker 1: and a win over the Astra. Six strikeouts for him,
Speaker 1: no walks, eighty two pitches, fifty three of them for strikes.
Speaker 1: He did give up two solo bombs to Bregman and Painia,
Speaker 1: but a really good outing for Bradley. We talked about
Speaker 1: these being kind of the starts to test him a
Speaker 1: little bit, and I would say, so far, first test
Speaker 1: was passed with flying colors. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he just hits zones. He knows how
Speaker 2: to pitch that curve. I love his curveball. I love
Speaker 2: the pitch mix. And behind him, he's got the best
Speaker 2: offense in baseball supporting him. Maybe the best home advantage
Speaker 2: in baseball is the raised one. I think it was
Speaker 2: the modern day era of fourteen straight home victories to
Speaker 2: start a season or however the hell it is. It's
Speaker 2: a good backdrop for a young pitcher who's got a
Speaker 2: great pitch mix and is a really good pitcher. You know,
Speaker 2: we always have that discussion pitcher versus thrower. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want to claim that, like Mason Miller is a thrower,
Speaker 2: but he throws really hard, and that's built around a
Speaker 2: lot of like why you know the fastball is rated
Speaker 2: so great and stuff plus, but like Tys Bradley is
Speaker 2: a true, true pitcher. And this is why we made
Speaker 2: the bet. This is why you go in and you
Speaker 2: spin the fab you did early on, because this guy
Speaker 2: might walk away this he might inject himself into this
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year conversation like we never expected and
Speaker 2: everyone was like.
Speaker 1: Already him today, Well everyone's like this morning for Rookie
Speaker 1: of the year because that outing yesterday to me was
Speaker 1: enough to prove that he can stand up to some
Speaker 1: of these better offenses. And if he can do that,
Speaker 1: I told you, iningks for me is not as big
Speaker 1: of an issue as from other people. I think he's
Speaker 1: around one fifty this year, which is what you get
Speaker 1: from most pictures nowadays. Like I mean, here, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty last year, one hundred and fifty is not
Speaker 1: pushing it. I understand if he, you know, falls off
Speaker 1: a little bit towards the end, but mechanics wise, he
Speaker 1: is so fluid. I don't see him being one of
Speaker 1: these guys that I'm really worried about in that sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, and he's super repeatable. What I was going
Speaker 2: to say was, like, how Strider was everyone's Accou's the
Speaker 2: next Strider does Betty, it's not a Strider, but in
Speaker 2: the same respect of how Strider came up last year
Speaker 2: kind of unexpectedly got all those starts and won some
Speaker 2: of the like I think it was like the ap
Speaker 2: rookie of the Year, but then it ended up going
Speaker 2: to Michael Harris. Like TODs, Bradley is one of those
Speaker 2: guys that is probably gonna get considerations, especially if he
Speaker 2: ends up having like twelve wins and a good k
Speaker 2: PRI nine and his era is in the threes. He's
Speaker 2: gonna kind of stick into that spot. So it's just
Speaker 2: a I don't like to call him like a safe
Speaker 2: fantasy guy because he's still a rookie, but everything so
Speaker 2: far pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's worthy of the overpay that I was pushing for
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. I was like, let's overpay for TODs
Speaker 1: Bradley because the upside there is what we're starting to
Speaker 1: see already. And with the way the pitching market's been
Speaker 1: in April, which has been pretty rough, I mean, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. I bet if we go back, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do this at the end of the month, go back
Speaker 1: and look at the top twenty starters and kind of
Speaker 1: grade where things are right now. It's been a rough
Speaker 1: month for those of you who invested heavily in pitching
Speaker 1: to start your drafts, so we kind of warned against that.
Speaker 1: So if you did a listen, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. J Full Metal Jacket buy away our
Speaker 1: boy j Full He said that he got Spencer Schrider
Speaker 1: plus a thousand, so did I, and I just doubled
Speaker 1: down on it again. Today I actually took one of
Speaker 1: those free fifty dollars bets that I had, and I
Speaker 1: threw it on there. Fand gives your money sometimes, they liked,
Speaker 1: they give me free money.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, what is the number? What is the number?
Speaker 1: Now? It's plus three fifty, oh man, So now's the
Speaker 1: time to get in again, because if it goes minus,
Speaker 1: it would take an injury for him to go in
Speaker 1: another direction. By the way, we have some new people
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Speaker 2: I didn't tell you yesterday too, by the way, you know,
Speaker 2: for the birthday weekend, I turned my alarm off so
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be disturbed through the weekend. Well, guess what
Speaker 2: I didn't do yesterday? Turn it back on. And luckily
Speaker 2: I had done some of my work before. But I
Speaker 2: woke up about eight minutes before the show did naturally
Speaker 2: and I went, oh my god, and had to get
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Speaker 2: of us West Coasters can sleep in a little.
Speaker 1: Bit sometimes so so well, how bad does one have
Speaker 1: to get to get removed from an a's rotation? That
Speaker 1: is the question, because that happened to Shintaro Fujinami. He
Speaker 1: is going to the bullpen. So when you know when
Speaker 1: things are going bad for a deep and you're on
Speaker 1: a reversation, and look, it's good for Mason Miller, right,
Speaker 1: it's good for those people who are hoping. He continues
Speaker 1: to say in rotation. But I just saw that this morning,
Speaker 1: and I just thought, oh, that's just sad. If you're
Speaker 1: pitching so bad that the A's can't keep you in
Speaker 1: a rotation.
Speaker 2: Well, I would actually say that the Angels, who they
Speaker 2: were just playing and played in an absurdly stupid game last night,
Speaker 2: which of course I had a bet with the Angels
Speaker 2: on that. There is a picture on the Angels that
Speaker 2: is very A's like in Jose Swarez, who might be
Speaker 2: so when you're saying, like, you know, who can be
Speaker 2: worse or anything like that, I don't know Jose Swarez
Speaker 2: versus a centaurro. Oh yeah, because Swarrez is maybe the
Speaker 2: worst picture in baseball. I just I wanted to point
Speaker 2: out last night, like you know, I I know, if
Speaker 2: it's arguable, I think he might be the worst pitcher
Speaker 2: in all of baseball.
Speaker 1: We got some minor league stuff to talk about too.
Speaker 1: Here's one of them, Welsh. This is from Mark in
Speaker 1: the chat. Your boy Bibby was scratched. Is he going
Speaker 1: to pitch this week? Biby baby?
Speaker 2: The early look is yes. It looks like he's going
Speaker 2: to get the start on Wednesday. So far fifteen innings,
Speaker 2: nineteen strikeouts in three starts. He's got a sub to era.
Speaker 2: And this is another one of those like commands spin
Speaker 2: type of pictures that is just like it's fascinating watching.
Speaker 2: I never, in my wildest dreams would have thought that
Speaker 2: before May Peyton, Battenfield, Logan Allen and Tanner Biby would
Speaker 2: all hit that rotation at some point, which I would
Speaker 2: just throw out at this point, you can't discount that
Speaker 2: a guy like that Gavin Williams might not come up.
Speaker 2: Who is the best picture in that organization. He is
Speaker 2: phenomenal and he might come up. But Tanner Biby is
Speaker 2: a must pick up if he's out there because he
Speaker 2: has a chance to stay in the rotation. I like
Speaker 2: him better than Battonfield, and I like him as a
Speaker 2: better pitcher than Logan Allen. But Logan Allen, like with
Speaker 2: the success he had the strikeouts, being a lefty, I
Speaker 2: think kind of keeps him in that rotation. But Biby,
Speaker 2: this is a very very good sign. If he's coming
Speaker 2: up and it looks like he did he is Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget Espino in that minor league system too.
Speaker 1: I was coming back from injury, but yeah, pitching this
Speaker 1: year he got. Yeah. But they've got some fantastic young
Speaker 1: arms potentially in that rotation for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: We'll see if it comes together. It doesn't always happen
Speaker 1: for teams. All right, Let's talk about some of these
Speaker 1: other guys though, too. Because Brian Bellow goes down to
Speaker 1: Triple A, Red Sox optioned him. The Blue Jays recalled
Speaker 1: Nate Pearson from Triple A, so he was pitching out
Speaker 1: of the bullpen. He was available there so far over
Speaker 1: a few innings in Triple A eight and a third,
Speaker 1: sixteen strikeouts, five walks in the eight appearances, so obviously
Speaker 1: they need some depth. But Pearson, once upon a time
Speaker 1: was one of those guys everybody looked at, well, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in this rotation. Is it is that
Speaker 1: dream over for Pearson or is there still time for
Speaker 1: him to reclaim that potentially if you pitches well this year.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's over. I think that's done with.
Speaker 2: I think he's a reliever. You know, I got to
Speaker 2: see him in the AFL some years back, and I
Speaker 2: remember he had spent that time in between working at
Speaker 2: drive Line and then he was going to drive Line
Speaker 2: after this AFL stint, and he just was never able
Speaker 2: to make a big pitch mix work. Plus with injuries
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, that this is a better role.
Speaker 2: This is just sometimes what happens with these guys that
Speaker 2: he's better concentrated in a shorter outing. He can obviously
Speaker 2: pump triple digits. This is something he did. One of
Speaker 2: my favorite moments was in the AFL All Star Game
Speaker 2: that year. He hit one oh three on the gun
Speaker 2: and then Pete Alonso took that out at like one
Speaker 2: eighteen out of the stadium. He had a homer off
Speaker 2: of him, and Pearson dropped it to one oh three.
Speaker 2: So this is a good sign learning to pitch better.
Speaker 2: He's having great success in the bullpen and could be
Speaker 2: like a sneaky closer option if you're in a saving
Speaker 2: holds league. I actually like Nate Pearson as a pickup
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: All right. We also have a lot of people talking
Speaker 1: about Lance Lynn. Another disappointing day for Land. It's Lynn.
Speaker 1: I want to bench him. Some people want to drop him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't see a chance where he
Speaker 1: loses a rotation spot. And last year, I mean, he
Speaker 1: was so bad in his first seven starts last year
Speaker 1: and so good over the last fourteen I don't want
Speaker 1: that to happen again. So I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a situation where he's having trouble getting ramped up for
Speaker 1: the season. I don't know if it's trouble where you know,
Speaker 1: the colder weather. I don't know what it is. All
Speaker 1: I know is I think to drop him is a
Speaker 1: little crazy right now. To bench him is fine. I
Speaker 1: bench him this week in favor of Toads Bradley Lynn
Speaker 1: a two starts Bradley at two starts. The two starts
Speaker 1: for Bradley on paper looked very daunting. I threw Bradley
Speaker 1: in there, and I'm glad that I did. But I
Speaker 1: think you bench not drop. What do you think.
Speaker 2: Welsh in like a ten man league? I think you
Speaker 2: can drop.
Speaker 1: League is different.
Speaker 2: I think yeah, you could. Stream I'm with you. I
Speaker 2: think April and May are for the time of like
Speaker 2: benching and experimenting with your pitching staff, for things to
Speaker 2: get better, for summer to come in, for the season
Speaker 2: to get right. Three or four starts is a it's
Speaker 2: becoming enough of a sample size, But like, is it
Speaker 2: an enough to quite give up on a player like
Speaker 2: Lancelin or someone? Just in the chap mentioned Chris Sale.
Speaker 2: You know, Chris Sale was crap and then he had
Speaker 2: one good start and I saw people just like dance
Speaker 2: Oh Mary, I like, hey, told you not to.
Speaker 1: I was reinvesting yesterday. He was one of my prize picks.
Speaker 1: He was again he was yesterday. So take the huge
Speaker 1: l on that one. By the way, I just want
Speaker 1: another point out to you. I mean, I look at
Speaker 1: it's just starting to feel like a victory lap kind
Speaker 1: of a show here, and I don't want it to
Speaker 1: be like that. But I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward, who was a player that scared the crap
Speaker 1: out of me going into the season. He did two
Speaker 1: sixteen right now, he doesn't have three homers, so he's
Speaker 1: got that going for him. I know the Angels have
Speaker 1: had issues. He got sixteen runs because he's going to
Speaker 1: at the top of that order. Still to sixteen batting
Speaker 1: average is certainly a problem. I keep pointing out to
Speaker 1: people last year who only wanted to see the good
Speaker 1: months and not the bad months of Taylor Ward. That
Speaker 1: could just be who he is. He could be this
Speaker 1: kind of player that gets red hot and an ice cold,
Speaker 1: or he's maybe just never as good as those hot
Speaker 1: streaks were. And I think all those fas you know,
Speaker 1: some people loved him going into this year. To me,
Speaker 1: the ADP didn't not match the risk. There were other
Speaker 1: players that like to round that same ADP. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Taylor Ward? Is he a guy that
Speaker 1: turns things around?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. I think there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of struggles. Maybe some of it is like built around,
Speaker 2: you know, the rotation and just how underperforming it is overall.
Speaker 2: But I watched you know, there's a couple of teams,
Speaker 2: like the Cardinals have been super offensively underperforming. I think
Speaker 2: the Angels have had some games where it's wild how
Speaker 2: they're not. I'll also say, like, I think that range
Speaker 2: of outfielder, how kind of stinky is that outfield range?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 2: Dude, Jake McCarthy, Taylor Ward, they're both stinking up. I
Speaker 2: guess Kwan has probably been a little bit of a
Speaker 2: better get Nick Castillanos has been in that. It's just
Speaker 2: been a really weird range. I think daylor Ward can
Speaker 2: turn it around. I think he can get these of
Speaker 2: those stolen bases and some of that power. He's another guy.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna go and take guys like lenn and stuff,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna keep them but not start them, just
Speaker 2: put Taylor Ward on the bench and hold it out.
Speaker 2: I don't see why you can't do that for two
Speaker 2: or three more. We to see if it gets right
Speaker 2: and if the months turn, because sometimes these guys have
Speaker 2: a bad month and it's a bad start to the season.
Speaker 2: I think he's too good of a hitter. He's not
Speaker 2: striking out a whole bunch, but the contact woes are
Speaker 2: pretty serious and that's something we do have to watch and.
Speaker 1: It's something we've seen before. But speaking of that range
Speaker 1: of outfielders, the Giants activated Mitch Haniger. There you go,
Speaker 1: run to the waiver wire for the ten day. Il
Speaker 1: your Nolvarez also Jordan Alvarez or jor Don Alvarez, however
Speaker 1: we want to call him on the show. From now on.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, let's have an official statement or
Speaker 2: because people get like pissy about using the Jordan which
Speaker 2: was out there.
Speaker 1: This was the original name, by the way, for everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, everyone gets very uptight about it.
Speaker 1: Let's just call him and Jordan. Alvarez was held out
Speaker 1: of the team starting lineup on Monday. Lucas Giolito went
Speaker 1: on the bereavement list. Chris Bassett said he won't even
Speaker 1: miss a bullpen. He's okay. He had a little back issue.
Speaker 1: He was pulled right there, so just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. It was tightness in the lower back. And
Speaker 1: congratulations Max Munsey on the paternity because he's officially my daddy. Now,
Speaker 1: I figured that's where we're going with that. Now, well,
Speaker 1: we are the People Show, and I'm all about consistency,
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Speaker 1: the same question five thousand times from one of our listeners,
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Speaker 2: Let me read this question. Let me read this question,
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Speaker 1: Let's gid it didn't come up the way I hoped
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Speaker 2: Okay, I can read it from the other chat here.
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Speaker 1: So well, I'm going to bring it up because I
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Speaker 2: Okay, the question is there?
Speaker 1: It is now, Miles.
Speaker 2: I have Max on my pictures and wanted to know
Speaker 2: if there had or a normal thing to see. Any thoughts.
Speaker 2: He asked it a lot of times. I don't understand
Speaker 2: the question because it looks like it is copy and pasted.
Speaker 2: I have Max on my pictures and wanted to know
Speaker 2: if there had or a normal thing to see. Is
Speaker 2: this about Max Scherzer or is this about having Max
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Speaker 1: means max innings a week, which okay, again, the great
Speaker 1: thing about fantasy baseball is you could tailor it however
Speaker 1: you want. If you don't like certain ways of playing it,
Speaker 1: don't play those ways. And if you're gonna get into leagues,
Speaker 1: and I like, you know for a fact, like Bogman
Speaker 1: asked me to last minute to get in a league
Speaker 1: with you guys, and I said no because it was
Speaker 1: daily transactions. And I said, nope, not doing it. Can't
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Speaker 1: I'll never be good enough in that league. And I'll
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Speaker 1: right of course, people like you. This is my we're friend, I.
Speaker 2: Think, But like, I think that maybe the concern is
Speaker 2: and I see this a lot, and I'm not trying
Speaker 2: like totally make fun of the question, but if you're
Speaker 2: gonna ask the same question like a hundred times, like
Speaker 2: make sure it's like legible, like because I didn't, I
Speaker 2: couldn't understand what that is, and I think that's pretty
Speaker 2: well known. But what I think it is, and I
Speaker 2: see people do this a lot, is people want to
Speaker 2: have like verification that is my league being normal if
Speaker 2: they don't understand it. Normal is normal, normal thing.
Speaker 1: It is a normal thing. It's not a thing that
Speaker 1: I like. It's again, it's a thing that I understand.
Speaker 1: I think it's something that you would you would see
Speaker 1: more in the shallow leagues because they're trying to stop
Speaker 1: you from streaming every five seconds. Uh. But again, if
Speaker 1: some if it's not a rule you like, then don't
Speaker 1: play in that format or have a big conversation about it.
Speaker 1: But yes, it's not. It's not an abnormality by any
Speaker 1: stretch of the means. Also not an abnormality. Stone bases
Speaker 1: are up here, you go, Welsh. This is fun teams
Speaker 1: with the biggest increase in steals per game. You're ready
Speaker 1: for this, from point five nine to one point one
Speaker 1: nine per game, so it's nearly doubled, which is unbelievable
Speaker 1: sixty percent. The Pirates are second on this list, the
Speaker 1: Mets are third, the Cleveland Guardians, the A's, the Cubs,
Speaker 1: and the Yankees all on there.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm actually not on there just because of
Speaker 2: how they're running. But I know that like they did
Speaker 2: have nombing, like their total number got really inflated from
Speaker 2: last year. What is it. Welsh's hair is gonna need totally.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm surprised it's not there yet.
Speaker 1: Welsh's hair is going to need its own accounts.
Speaker 2: It's on Twitter account. We today's not a good one.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you pretty good the other day and
Speaker 1: the other day.
Speaker 2: We almost went hat today, but since I was going
Speaker 2: with the shirt, I wanted to go with hair because
Speaker 2: I could not get it going. It's just not a
Speaker 2: good It wasn't a good one. So if we can
Speaker 2: get a good screenshot of a good Jimmy Neutron hair today,
Speaker 2: then someone can go make the Welsh hair Twitter account.
Speaker 1: The Jimmy Newtron hair is very good, all right? Three
Speaker 1: up and three down for me. Yesterday Alex Cobb dominant
Speaker 1: six hits, one walk, complete game shut out of the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: So there you go. I think with somebody said it
Speaker 1: was what like eight or ten years since he had
Speaker 1: a complete gamer some crazy stuff like that. Good times.
Speaker 1: Josh Young went two before two homers and nice to
Speaker 1: see him getting hot there against the Reds. It's the
Speaker 1: Reds wander Franco four for five with an RBI. And
Speaker 1: what a catch he made. To you see that play
Speaker 1: I did with.
Speaker 2: The hand he had the glove, He's like ah, and
Speaker 2: then he just grabs it bare handed. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: God, I love that. Wonder Franco. If you made a
Speaker 1: baseball player in a laboratory, so good. Remember you know,
Speaker 1: Franco the eightieth best player in baseball court in ADP
Speaker 1: this year. Stupid.
Speaker 2: I we're gonna look back. We're gonna look back, and
Speaker 2: we might really be talking about him as a first
Speaker 2: round player. I like that type of catch, by the way,
Speaker 2: more than I like a dude like catching it and
Speaker 2: falling into the stands or whatever. Maybe even a diving catch.
Speaker 2: There was something about that where he just like he
Speaker 2: bare handed it from the from the glove. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I thought that was like one of my that was
Speaker 2: one of my favorite catches of the season.
Speaker 1: It was great, it was it was tremendous. Not tremendous.
Speaker 1: Chris Sale boo oh. I thought this was the turning
Speaker 1: point for Chris Sale And I thought the Orioles were
Speaker 1: a matchup that he could exploit. I was wrong. Five runs,
Speaker 1: get out, five innings.
Speaker 2: You know what you love Sale?
Speaker 1: I want to get out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what you love from Chris Sale too?
Speaker 2: You love after having really bad outing for him to
Speaker 2: go in the dugout and slam his hand repeatedly on
Speaker 2: the bench. That's like a really good that's gonna have
Speaker 2: good results. And it's not like, you know, he hasn't
Speaker 2: done stuff like this a million times before.
Speaker 1: So just so give Edward Cabrera four earned four walks,
Speaker 1: two home runs. His rotation spots getting dicey at this point.
Speaker 1: But nobody's worse than Jose Suarez, a ten point two
Speaker 1: six era Welsh not one, not two, not three, not four,
Speaker 1: but five five homers. Give it up. I Suarez last week.
Speaker 1: If you watch the videos, I know Welsh has his
Speaker 1: trade video up. I have the waiver wire pickup video
Speaker 1: last week. I added a last minute guy to that
Speaker 1: waiver wire pickup was Griffin Canning. And Canning was going
Speaker 1: against the Yankees that night, and I told everybody, look,
Speaker 1: unless he gets absolutely shelled, still pick this guy up.
Speaker 1: Because Suarez is this bad. I think Canning was like
Speaker 1: he's getting back on track. This guy's got some potential,
Speaker 1: he's got some upside. He could have got him for
Speaker 1: a buck. Last week, nobody was picking up this guy
Speaker 1: who was rostered like fifteen percent of leagues. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now, Suarez is done.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked Schwarz hasn't been DFA today. Like that's what
Speaker 2: I was saying on Twitter yesterday because it was for
Speaker 2: it's frustrating. Watching him giving up five homers to the
Speaker 2: A's is like, correct, what's that uh? In the math terms,
Speaker 2: you know where everyone's like, well, if someone does something
Speaker 2: good against the A's, that's not really that good. Again,
Speaker 2: five homer against the A's is like eight homers against
Speaker 2: any other real normal team. Jose Schwarrez. That he even
Speaker 2: has a job right now is shocking. The only reason
Speaker 2: he does is the Angels have to figure out because
Speaker 2: he has no options, so they have to DFA him.
Speaker 2: But the broadcast last night was like, well, if they
Speaker 2: dfa him, then maybe someone to pick him up. Who
Speaker 2: the hell's gonna pick him up outside of maybe putting
Speaker 2: him in a bullpen? Why would anybody pick up Jose Schwarz?
Speaker 2: He is god.
Speaker 1: Awful Danny g listened. Dan Gee's listening. I got canning
Speaker 1: last week. Yay me, that's right. Yeah, you this is
Speaker 1: why you subscribe to the channel, because we know we're
Speaker 1: doing over here. And you know what, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear about twenty twenty two. I see you, doc,
Speaker 1: I see I've seen the channel talking about. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is bad for Wander franc It was
Speaker 1: hurt most of the year, and you know what, towards
Speaker 1: the end of the year, he became Wonder Franco again.
Speaker 1: Wander Franco is a young kid, Wander Franco is a
Speaker 1: baseball savant, and again, as he continues to grow physically,
Speaker 1: he was going to continue to grow power. This is
Speaker 1: absolutely going to happen. Let's get to some prize Picks, Welsh,
Speaker 1: because that's why the people are here. Let's bounce back
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Speaker 1: Welsh lead us off.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to do a combo one I might.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I did on my other two,
Speaker 2: but I had the sale in Todge Bradley's strength.
Speaker 1: Sail got you how many strikeouts?
Speaker 2: Uh the zero and rarely did his job. Todge did
Speaker 2: his job, but I wasn't expecting that. But there you go.
Speaker 2: So today we're going to keep it a little. We're
Speaker 2: going to kiss, We're going to keep it simple, stupid,
Speaker 2: That's what we're gonna do. Julio Rodriguez fantasy score. I
Speaker 2: am all on Julio Rodriguez today, especially with his numbers
Speaker 2: against lefties, so I'm gonna go with this fantasy score
Speaker 2: eight and a half after a day off. Luisa Rise
Speaker 2: absolutely murder balling hits, not a big not a big
Speaker 2: extra bass guy, which is a little bit my problem here.
Speaker 2: But against Charlie Morton, he does have a little history
Speaker 2: hitting four hundred, so I am gonna also go with
Speaker 2: the fantasy score. He's a guy, you know, scoring runs.
Speaker 2: That's something I'm hoping for here. Ronald Acunya total bases
Speaker 2: has filled me yesterday. I'm gonna go back to the well.
Speaker 2: Acunya total bases one and a half, so score for Julio,
Speaker 2: score for a Rise, total basis for Acunya. Those are
Speaker 2: my three twenty two, one hundred cashing today. That's what
Speaker 2: I need to so I'm doing. I'm cashing this one today, Joe,
Speaker 2: how are you going to cash this sucker?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go with Paul Goldschman at eight
Speaker 1: and a half. Arenata has a lower number of seven,
Speaker 1: but I believe in Goldschmid today. Salvador Perez seven and
Speaker 1: a half. Good matchup there against Nelson in Arizona. We'll
Speaker 1: see him gets hot and sho heo Tani eight and
Speaker 1: a half going against the lowly Oakland A's so there
Speaker 1: you go. I know Miller's on the mat. I really
Speaker 1: don't care. From a betting standpoint too, Our betting group
Speaker 1: has tripled in the last week. So shout out to
Speaker 1: everybody out there again. If you haven't betting pros dot
Speaker 1: com slash leading off, go in there. Two people jump
Speaker 1: me in the last couple of days, because last two
Speaker 1: days it was a a little cold. Getting back on
Speaker 1: the hot streak. I told you yesterday was a weird
Speaker 1: betting day. If you want to get in with us,
Speaker 1: start to follow us, can follow me, can fall Welsh,
Speaker 1: but go to bettingpros dot com slash leading Off. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's legal or not your state. You
Speaker 1: can still join the group and make your picks and
Speaker 1: compete against us, because that's what it's about. Its about
Speaker 1: having fun. Toronto and Chicago today, Chicago is heavy underdogs
Speaker 1: at plus one to eighty and Marios is nothing but inconsistent.
Speaker 1: I just look at this Welsh's opportunity. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: getting almost two to one. That's a really big number.
Speaker 1: The White Sox still are a team that can show
Speaker 1: up from time to time. I know they've been terrible
Speaker 1: year for the most part, but Barrios can be just
Speaker 1: as terrible. So I think there's opportunity with that one.
Speaker 1: I also think there's opportunity with the Nationals. Dare I
Speaker 1: say today, Josia Gray's been pretty good this year? There
Speaker 1: plus one seventy five. These are two very heavy underdogs.
Speaker 1: I would not put them together. I would do this separately.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you hit on one of them, but I would
Speaker 1: just again, it's not a great night of wagering again
Speaker 1: the way things have kind of mapped themselves out. Joe
Speaker 1: Ryan six and a half strikeouts, I know he was
Speaker 1: so good last time against the Yankees. It's six and
Speaker 1: a half. I'm gonna go with the under here because
Speaker 1: you're getting even money on it. But in that same
Speaker 1: game with Nesro Cortez, I'm gonna go with the over.
Speaker 1: The six and a half against the Twins. Twins line
Speaker 1: up again continues to have a lot of swing and
Speaker 1: missing it. Plus one twenty you're getting on the over
Speaker 1: at six and a half, I think you can get seven.
Speaker 1: Griffin Canning at six and a half strikeouts, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go the under. It's a good number though, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go slightly at the under on that one. On VP. Well,
Speaker 1: should you have any betting stuff today for anybody?
Speaker 2: Well, I did, and somebody just happened to delete them.
Speaker 1: Is that somebody be that?
Speaker 2: Somebody might be you, Joe, But I do. I have
Speaker 2: a couple of them that I can still give you.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite plays today, even though, honest with you,
Speaker 2: I've been so much better at strikeouts than I have
Speaker 2: anything else. Is a total base has been a little
Speaker 2: bit rough I'm going with the total bases on Julio
Speaker 2: Rodriguez today. Again against lefties. He has been good. He's
Speaker 2: got a six thirty two slug three sixteen against lefties
Speaker 2: so far this year. Two hundred WRC plus going up
Speaker 2: against Bailey Falter. So I really like the total base
Speaker 2: marker with Julio today. Speaking of strikeouts, pay a little
Speaker 2: bit of the juice Mason Miller. Mason Miller's strikeouts are
Speaker 2: four and a half against the Angels. You've got some
Speaker 2: struggling there. He's gonna pump one hundred early on. I
Speaker 2: actually think he can get this. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's gonna go nuts with the strikeouts, but I think
Speaker 2: he can get this through that first run of the
Speaker 2: order and then they're gonna catch up a little bit
Speaker 2: and then another one of my favorite bets today is
Speaker 2: I'm going with the team total runs first five on
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers. Rangers, I believe still second highest team
Speaker 2: total runs through the first five of any team as
Speaker 2: far as the score. Around three and a half they score,
Speaker 2: and they're going up against the Reds and I got
Speaker 2: that at two and a half today, So you can
Speaker 2: go get that two and a half and I believe
Speaker 2: that was almost even money. So Rangers team total runs
Speaker 2: one and a half, two and a half through the
Speaker 2: first five hu the Rodriguez total bases, Mason Miller strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Those would be my three bets.
Speaker 1: Razor Ramone, who says he's having trouble with the betting
Speaker 1: pros app. Just talk to uh, talk to my boy Mayor.
Speaker 1: Go talking the discord there.
Speaker 2: He'll get you. That's what I do. I yell at
Speaker 2: Mayor all the time. I'm like, this is there?
Speaker 1: How do I do this?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like, this bet hasn't cleared. Come on,
Speaker 2: like give me, give me go.
Speaker 1: Very easy, I mean basically, you just sign up, you
Speaker 1: get the account. I would do it on the app.
Speaker 1: It's very easy, and you just click on them and
Speaker 1: then you just go to you know the quick pick
Speaker 1: and the quick pick you know, one unit, two units,
Speaker 1: three units, make your wagers and it tracks them and
Speaker 1: just do it in the group. Join us first, Oh Welsh.
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Speaker 2: Baseball's cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you like uh? Do you like baseball cards?
Speaker 2: I kind of like baseball cards. I've been known to
Speaker 2: like a few baseball cards.
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Speaker 2: Freeze kind of one of my favorite things.
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Speaker 2: I was about to say, so, you can go to
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Speaker 2: I did a intro video of what it's all about.
Speaker 2: And then I did a video a week or so ago,
Speaker 2: maybe two weeks ago, just about some buys you know
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Speaker 2: invest in, all right.
Speaker 1: Also investing in today Griffin Canning eight point eight, Charlie
Speaker 1: Morton nine point eight on the DFS board. I like
Speaker 1: the Angels against the the A's y because we troll
Speaker 1: the A's every single day. I know Miller's better. I
Speaker 1: don't care. Atlanta Braves again, just watch the lineup tonight.
Speaker 1: Sal sal Perez two point seven k. I talked about
Speaker 1: him on Prize Picks. He is very cost effective in
Speaker 1: the middle of that order at Rosario two point two.
Speaker 1: For the Braves home run calls today, Well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Paul Goldschmid. I'm feeling Goldie. Haven't picked up
Speaker 1: the Goldie yet. I haven't done that quite yet. In
Speaker 1: terms of the leaderboard, BHB is still at the top
Speaker 1: with eleven and Primetime in Calson at ten. We got
Speaker 1: Razor up at nine. Look, so Razor can pick home runs.
Speaker 1: Whether you can do betting pros or not, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter because you're picking home runs like a mad man racer.
Speaker 2: Well, what's your favorite name on that board? By the way,
Speaker 2: put that board backup, Proke, question which your favorite of
Speaker 2: those names? Because I have one.
Speaker 1: Helpless in Miami is fun because it sounds like a
Speaker 1: It sounds like a call in radio show thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, JJ Tator. Every time I see yeah, I always
Speaker 2: the Tator gets me going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't in Major League three? I feel like JJ, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what's his name? Jo? Video? Major League? There was
Speaker 1: a Major League three, wasn't That was like the Back
Speaker 1: to the Miners one.
Speaker 2: I think that sounds right. Yeah, I mean I haven't
Speaker 2: watched so well.
Speaker 1: Who am I asking? I'm not I'm asking the wrong guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's get your pick here. Where are
Speaker 1: you going for your home run call tonight?
Speaker 2: I mean you're gonna be able to uh, you know,
Speaker 2: follow the trail. It's gonna be Julio today. Julio has
Speaker 2: a day off. He's good against lefties, Like I said,
Speaker 2: three sixteen, four thirty five, six thirty two slash against
Speaker 2: lefties so far this year. So I'm gonna play it
Speaker 2: out and hopefully I can get on this board again.
Speaker 2: Let's go. I wanted four this week and uh.
Speaker 1: Okay, so good. Yeah, just because you're going, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: crazy there. And look, Razor Ramone can do the so
Speaker 1: rare too, So Razors all over. Razer's doing this so rare,
Speaker 1: he's all over. We're so happy. You're all over it too,
Speaker 1: go check out Welsh's trade video just dropped on the
Speaker 1: YouTube channel Fantasy Pros MLB.
Speaker 2: Make sure you guys are gonna like one of them.
Speaker 2: You're gonna hate one of everyone's given.
Speaker 1: A more reason.
Speaker 2: You're gonna hate the first one, but but just give
Speaker 2: thumbs up, give thumbs up and clicks. You're gonna hate
Speaker 2: the top name on the list.
Speaker 1: I watch it, but.
Speaker 2: I warned everybody about what might happen in between the
Speaker 2: time of recording and airing, So just know that I
Speaker 2: know you're not gonna like it because I've seen this
Speaker 2: question come up in the chat. But you can check
Speaker 2: out this certain player with four other players on the
Speaker 2: trade video that's live right now.
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll be back again tomorrow to do
Speaker 1: it all again. We'll see you next time. Kids past,
Speaker 1: enjoy your baseball today, everybody,