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Speaker 1: Yes, I see that Welsh has gone uh full uh
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't know which variant this is yet,
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Speaker 1: had Adlie Rutchman debut, very exciting. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: him in a moment. My Trout hits his twelfth home
Speaker 1: run on Sunday versus the a showy Otani in a
Speaker 1: ball that hasn't landed yet over the greenery. It does.
Speaker 1: It feels a tremendous over run. Manny Machado continues to
Speaker 1: just be amazing. Four hits for him, and then of
Speaker 1: course he had the little U double dip in the Bronx,
Speaker 1: which I wasn't sure how much we were gonna get
Speaker 1: into or not get into. But it is kind of
Speaker 1: a baseball talk right now. It's not really fantacy related,
Speaker 1: it's not really betting related. But you know, I thought
Speaker 1: about this whole thing with Tim Anderson and with Josh Donaldson,
Speaker 1: and I took my time this morning to to really
Speaker 1: think about this and measure my words carefully about all
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: And let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson has a history Chris Meanie. One time interviewed
Speaker 1: Josh Donaldson, and I asked then, I was like, how
Speaker 1: did it go? And Chris Meanie, our good friend, friend
Speaker 1: of the show for many many years and a good
Speaker 1: personal friend of mine, might be the nicest human being
Speaker 1: on the planet. I say, that's probably super Canadian, just
Speaker 1: just just a brilliantly wonderful, kind human being. And he
Speaker 1: was like, that guy's kind of off putting. That was
Speaker 1: his big take away.
Speaker 2: He's like, we're not a couple of those. I've had
Speaker 2: a couple of those in my time, even with prospects.
Speaker 2: I've had a couple of guys that were kind of
Speaker 2: off putting. Major league major leaguers are a little bit
Speaker 2: more frightening because they're more established in their life where
Speaker 2: they're they're willing to go more full off putting. Like
Speaker 2: I could tell you a couple of prospects right now
Speaker 2: that once they get that money, they get that comfortability,
Speaker 2: they'll probably go into that comfortable uncomfortableness if you will.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Josh Donaldson obviously made a remark he
Speaker 1: called Tim Anderson Jackie like Jackie Robinson, like in you
Speaker 1: know that article from twenty nineteen. I think it was
Speaker 1: where Tim Anderson was saying that, you know, he wants
Speaker 1: to be like Jackie Robins, or he sees himself as
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, somebody bringing a fun intensity and a different
Speaker 1: style of play. He wasn't trying to say, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: you know, knocking down barriers and things like that. He
Speaker 1: wasn't being hyperbolic in that sense in terms of the
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson because that would be foolish thing to say
Speaker 1: because of what Jackie Robinson endured had.
Speaker 2: Said it to him. After this happened, I think Donaldson
Speaker 2: had like that, like to be his little thing apparently right.
Speaker 1: And again that was his little thing maybe three years ago.
Speaker 1: But there's been a lot of things that have happened
Speaker 1: in this country in the last three years. And I
Speaker 1: think that Tim Anderson also has dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of things in the last three years too. Also, let's
Speaker 1: not forget Josh Donaldson has got into it before with
Speaker 1: some other players, Lucas Gielino, like, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that Donaldson has gotten into it with before.
Speaker 2: Donaldson's the nu Machiado by the way, I just want
Speaker 2: to point out, if you remember, Machado used to be
Speaker 2: the guy that got into it for everybody. That was
Speaker 2: his memo, and it's now Donaldson. They know they just
Speaker 2: he passed on the torch to Donaldson to just be
Speaker 2: the biggest you know, doof in baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess what I came to the conclusion
Speaker 1: is this, I do believe Josh Donaldson probably didn't mean
Speaker 1: anything racially about it. He seems very sincere. However, you
Speaker 1: have to be careful of what you say. And I
Speaker 1: think even if it wasn't taken that way at first,
Speaker 1: sometimes people do laugh things off because it's either to
Speaker 1: laugh things off to get upset about it when it
Speaker 1: comes to these sort of moments. And I think three
Speaker 1: years later, maybe it's gotten to a point where the
Speaker 1: situation was different, it was heated between the two of them.
Speaker 1: It's the wrong thing to say in that moment, and
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson is right for being upset about it, and
Speaker 1: he has every right to be upset about it. But
Speaker 1: I will take it one step further too. I think
Speaker 1: it's also kind of if you if you want to
Speaker 1: call yourself or you see yourself as a Jackie Robinson
Speaker 1: mold and that kind of person was so important to
Speaker 1: you and the class with which Jackie Robinson handle all
Speaker 1: these situations, then I think after the game, too, you
Speaker 1: find a way to elevate the conversation instead of saying
Speaker 1: those I shut those mfors up in Yankees Stadium, mf
Speaker 1: this blah blah blah. So I think everybody can be better.
Speaker 1: That is where I've come to on this. I am
Speaker 1: more on the Tim Anderson side of this, because I
Speaker 1: think it's important to understand that side of it a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But I think everybody can be better.
Speaker 1: I hope those two guys get together and figure it
Speaker 1: out and then have a more elevated conversation. So there
Speaker 1: you go. That is I've really taken my time to
Speaker 1: come to listen to everybody this morning, think about it,
Speaker 1: have my thoughts about it, and I'm bringing my thoughts
Speaker 1: to you, Welsh. I'm curious what your take is, if
Speaker 1: you even want to dip your toes in this water.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I kind of think just about the
Speaker 2: same thing. I think they're both you know, they're both
Speaker 2: complicit kind of like in the issue. I kind of agree.
Speaker 2: I don't think Donaldson had a bunch of necessary hate
Speaker 2: built around all of it, but he obviously doesn't have
Speaker 2: any like introspective nature to understand like you're you know,
Speaker 2: you're being awful, you know, like you are pressing somebody,
Speaker 2: and this can be charged in a certain way. He's
Speaker 2: just like, I'm just having fun, just boys being boys,
Speaker 2: and it's like, nah, ain't a boys being boys type
Speaker 2: of situation. I want one hundred percent see the instant
Speaker 2: how that could affect him Anderson and why he would
Speaker 2: be affected by it. And it's a good point. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you. One thing I didn't think about was, you know,
Speaker 2: you want to be better in it. You try to
Speaker 2: elevate yourself above. I don't think there's many baseball players
Speaker 2: or mini athletes right now that really push themselves above
Speaker 2: a certain situation to try to fix it. Everyone's very reaction.
Speaker 1: I'm not this. Do you remember when there were anti
Speaker 1: semitic comments made and Julian Edelman reach out to the person,
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna educate that person. I don't remember
Speaker 1: who it was about. Maybe someone of the Penis and
Speaker 1: Cracker Jacks can remind me. You remember me some anti
Speaker 1: semitic or they came off as anti semitic about something,
Speaker 1: and Julian Edelman, who takes it very seriously, said Hey,
Speaker 1: instead of killing this guy, I'm gonna go and reach
Speaker 1: out to him and invite him to come to the
Speaker 1: Holocaust with me. That's the kind of stuff we need
Speaker 1: where we all just go, oh, I get it now.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's a better place to be.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to disciplining people and all these things. You know,
Speaker 1: look one hundred and sixty two games in a long season, man,
Speaker 1: and it's and you're playing in ninety five degree weather
Speaker 1: and it's hot, and you know, guys get physical sometimes.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of things that can get out of control.
Speaker 1: And I just think that everybody. Donaldson certainly can learn
Speaker 1: to be better because he has a track record and
Speaker 1: Tim Anderson if he really is truly inspired by Jackie Robinson,
Speaker 1: then it's not about eating it all the time. It's
Speaker 1: not about you know, dying at a young age because
Speaker 1: you know, of all the things that Jackie Robinson had
Speaker 1: to bear the burdens of, but I think you can
Speaker 1: bear the burden of find a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a class at the end of it all, because I
Speaker 1: think that's a better representation for everybody, for the kids
Speaker 1: who are watching the game. That's it. That's my two cents.
Speaker 1: Let's go talk to the rest of bats by the show.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Michael Kopek was fantastic, by the way in that game.
Speaker 1: Also Aj Pollock with the gohet homer in the ninth
Speaker 1: in that first one. All right. Injuries Freddie Peralta, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I've got a team that's got the gram
Speaker 1: Scherzer and Freddy Parolta on it. And Welsh I am
Speaker 1: not a happy camp you had a team. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: still in second place out of fifteen, baby, because I
Speaker 1: had Justin Verlander for a buck last year and I
Speaker 1: kept him. Whoo, Rick Flair Freddy Parolta had the same
Speaker 1: injury last year. Are we panicked? Because this is literally
Speaker 1: the same thing. They shut him down, everybody panicked. He
Speaker 1: came back and he was gangbusters rest of the season.
Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of, Hey, this is just
Speaker 1: the Freddy Parolta pathway, or should we be a little
Speaker 1: bit more concerned that it's twice in two years.
Speaker 2: I would be a concern that it's twice in two years,
Speaker 2: because we don't give passes to anybody that have multi
Speaker 2: year injuries that are of the same, like like who
Speaker 2: gets the pass? Look at the hitters. Byron Buckson's been
Speaker 2: one of the best baseball players out there, and it's
Speaker 2: like his track record of injury follows him. So we should,
Speaker 2: especially with the pitcher, be a little bit concerned. But
Speaker 2: I think it's also it's volatility. You know that he's
Speaker 2: a volatile type of pitcher. You know what you're getting
Speaker 2: in for. They've definitely pitched him higher. It's actually funny.
Speaker 2: I was looking at a lot of his prop jests.
Speaker 2: Is very interested in betting on him, and ultimately I didn't,
Speaker 2: and I was really paying attention to pitch counts because
Speaker 2: you know, he's someone that I feel I can go
Speaker 2: both ways, and they've pushed him this year. You know,
Speaker 2: he's pushed I think all but maybe two starts he
Speaker 2: had gone over ninety pitches in games, so they had
Speaker 2: really pushed him further and not babied him whatsoever. And
Speaker 2: then look what happens and injuries kind of followed. So
Speaker 2: he can be awesome. I just here's what I wonder
Speaker 2: when he comes back, do they play the piggyback game?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I see some of the chat has already thrown in
Speaker 2: some of those names that Aaron Ashby's are out there.
Speaker 2: They've got this really great minor league Antoine, Kelly, Ethan
Speaker 2: Small as well. There's a couple guys out there that
Speaker 2: I wonder if they start playing piggybacks so you don't
Speaker 2: press Freddy perraulta to ninety two one hundred pitches. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's part of the problem at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: and maybe they need to keep him. When he comes back,
Speaker 2: he can be great, But what if he is going
Speaker 2: to be pushed down a little bit and you piggyback Ashby?
Speaker 2: You know that the Potteris were doing it with Clevenger
Speaker 2: and Gore. I could see it something. So again, you know,
Speaker 2: do you freak out? Do you freak out about any
Speaker 2: of these guys. Know you don't go nuts, but I
Speaker 2: will be concerned, and I would any injury concern you
Speaker 2: would add to other pictures that you know, Clayton Kershaw's alike,
Speaker 2: I would throw in with with Freddy Peralta.
Speaker 1: I would add Ashby if I had that opportunity to
Speaker 1: answer Eric's question, and I would also add insurance. That's
Speaker 1: what I would like to do. Also, good job here.
Speaker 1: Aaron over here said that it was to Shaun Jackson.
Speaker 1: So the piance of the cracker Jacks remind me of
Speaker 1: who that person was cause to Shawn Jackson. And again,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's something he meant to do or
Speaker 1: it came off that whatever it was, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it was insensitive, and it's okay to
Speaker 1: be insensitive. Everybody makes mistakes. It says stupid things, my goodness,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many stupid things do I say in
Speaker 1: a day? Doesn't mean I can't learn from the movie better.
Speaker 1: But let's not like you know, let's let's find a
Speaker 1: way to elevate the conversation. I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: best thing we can do. Taylor Award set again to
Speaker 1: go an MRI exam on Monday. So all those people
Speaker 1: who yelled at me about you know, I just nobody
Speaker 1: said that I did want anybody to get hurt. All
Speaker 1: I know is that Taylor Ward when something's good, too
Speaker 1: good to be true, it always is. And I hope
Speaker 1: he's okay. It is his frustrating. So you say, Joe
Speaker 1: Adell time, Is it just as simple as that.
Speaker 2: Well, Jodell's been killing it in the minors. I think
Speaker 2: that's the play. I you know, you send him down
Speaker 2: to get regular bats to succeed. He's been doing that.
Speaker 2: He was the guy that was kind of the fall
Speaker 2: He was the fallout of Taylor Ward getting the starting
Speaker 2: gig and being successful. Yeah, I think that's the play
Speaker 2: that they're gonna have to do if Ward is going
Speaker 2: to miss extended time, Adele's got to come back and
Speaker 2: for the third time, try to show some maturation, try
Speaker 2: to show some growth hitting a breaking pitch and not
Speaker 2: striking out thirty five percent of the time. So I'd
Speaker 2: be interested in he's had a really really successful run.
Speaker 2: As you know, he's faltering between that quad A type
Speaker 2: of stuff right now. You know, he kills triple A.
Speaker 2: He does not succeed at the majors. Something's gonna have
Speaker 2: to bend at some point, and maybe this will be
Speaker 2: the shot. I'd I'd be speculative adding Jo Adell right now.
Speaker 1: All right, U, Chad Green is already having howmy John
Speaker 1: surgery now a role? This Chapman is dealing with an
Speaker 1: achilles injury? What do you do with his Yankees bullpen?
Speaker 1: Right now? Is there somebody in particular you are Chadigan.
Speaker 2: Oh, you go get Chad Holmes. You get him yesterday, Chadhame.
Speaker 2: If Chapman were to miss serious time, there's a serious
Speaker 2: conversation going on. Even if Chapman doesn't miss anytime, that
Speaker 2: Holmes might need to be the guy that takes over
Speaker 2: the closing role. He's already got four saves, He's got
Speaker 2: a boatload of wins. He's actually been probably the most
Speaker 2: valuable reliever in fantasy baseball right now. If he were
Speaker 2: to take over that closing gig, Clay Holmes, I said,
Speaker 2: chat Clay Holmes, I would probably say he immediately jumps
Speaker 2: in his top four closers in baseball. So Holmes would
Speaker 2: be the guy that you go pick up yesterday. And
Speaker 2: everyone should be speculating right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, Aaron's crushing it today. Aaron
Speaker 1: is the MVP of the Peanuts and Cracker Jacks crushing it.
Speaker 1: He has the right homes, He's got the right the
Speaker 1: Shan Jackson call in there, Aaron.
Speaker 2: Well, the award MVB.
Speaker 1: That's a cracker MVB.
Speaker 2: About the jack MVP award for the day is there?
Speaker 1: You get my undying respect and some crop reviver from landscape.
Speaker 1: That's what you get for your mom. Yes, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the minor leagues for a second, because
Speaker 1: Ali Rushman came up and is now a Baltimore oriole
Speaker 1: beautiful moment where he came out behind home plate soaked
Speaker 1: in the crowd. It's beautiful. He seems like the best
Speaker 1: kid ever. Certainly switch hitting catcher. You look at the
Speaker 1: minor league track record over one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 1: games at two eighty two and the three ninety one
Speaker 1: ovp A four eighty eight slugging a eight seventy eight ops.
Speaker 1: Typically speaking, you know, big time young catchers tend to
Speaker 1: struggle because they're learning, they're they're they're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out the pitching staff. They have a lot there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on your fantasy teams.
Speaker 2: There's two you're learning two things on the fly. Not
Speaker 2: that you don't know how to be a catcher, but catching,
Speaker 2: you know, starting pitchers and calling games and finding the
Speaker 2: rhythm is quite an undertaking though many many believe, and
Speaker 2: you know, Grayson Rodriguez, his teammate, believes this guy's going
Speaker 2: to go down as the greatest catcher of all time.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously you got to pump up your guys,
Speaker 2: but Grayson touts.
Speaker 1: And also Rodriguez is also fifteen years old, so in
Speaker 1: his mind, who's that, well, he might be.
Speaker 2: Funny thing is like, yeah, no, I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: A funny thing though, it'll be really interesting to see
Speaker 2: is Adley has gotten DL Hall and Grayson Rodriguez to
Speaker 2: a round a two to e ra when he catches
Speaker 2: them and when he doesn't, those guys have ballooned up
Speaker 2: into the fives and whatnot. I mean, great, Grayson is
Speaker 2: a phenomenal catcher. But to your point, you're learning your staff,
Speaker 2: you're learning that thing, and then you're also learning to
Speaker 2: hit at major league level. The thing about him, though,
Speaker 2: is this is an advance, advance hitter. This is a
Speaker 2: big bat who doesn't need power. His first major league
Speaker 2: hit was a stand up triple, though you know probably
Speaker 2: call it a double because it was I think it
Speaker 2: went past I don't remember what it was. I think
Speaker 2: I saw also mayor immediate surprise. His first comment was, Okay,
Speaker 2: he gets his first hit, but do we really have
Speaker 2: to say that's a triple? I mean he immediately crapped
Speaker 2: on his first major league hit. I mean, it did it.
Speaker 2: It went past the guy bobbled I don't remember which
Speaker 2: one it was, but advance advanced hitter. But you do
Speaker 2: have to be a little bit cautious, of course, especially
Speaker 2: with rookie catchers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's go through some other things here.
Speaker 1: So Atli rutchmand up and look the moon of the
Speaker 1: stars for this kid, like I want him to be
Speaker 1: great right out of the gate, but if he struggles
Speaker 1: a little bit, just understand there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: responsibility at that position. And I'm not gonna make the
Speaker 1: Matt Wieders comparison, because I'll be honest with you, I'm
Speaker 1: old enough to remember when Matt Wieters came up and
Speaker 1: we heard the same thing, the same that this guy's
Speaker 1: going to revolutionize the catcher position. He's going to be
Speaker 1: the best hitting catcher, best offensive catcher, a perenhal All Star.
Speaker 1: He was none of those things watching Rutchman and tape
Speaker 1: that I've watched him over the years. Totally different hitter,
Speaker 1: totally different thing. I think this guy is that good.
Speaker 1: But again, just remember there is a range of outcomes here.
Speaker 1: But you should be very excited that he's up. And
Speaker 1: you called this, you said, hey, there's gonna be more.
Speaker 1: And now that Nolan Gorman's up, there's gonna be another wave.
Speaker 1: So I guess here's the next one.
Speaker 2: That wave is starting out for sure?
Speaker 1: Well, is that wave going to bring us on your Cruz?
Speaker 1: And Mason Martin, who both Homer this weekend as well?
Speaker 1: Is that? I mean? The pirates, the poor pirate fans
Speaker 1: have to sit there and watch this dribble. Why can't
Speaker 1: they get Yeah, at least an your cruise up? What
Speaker 1: the hell?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the Ano Cruz one is pretty crazy. So
Speaker 2: a couple of the things they just called up. Rowinsa
Speaker 2: Contreras who is nuts, and if he gets a starting
Speaker 2: rotation shot, he's very interesting. I don't know about Mason Martin.
Speaker 2: He I mean he's got huge, massive power. This guy,
Speaker 2: he's actually his whole family like bodybuilders, Like he's going
Speaker 2: to be some just nuts, muscle bound freak who's gonna
Speaker 2: hit big bombs. But he hits like two forty O'Neill.
Speaker 2: I think they're dealing with some stuff because it sounds
Speaker 2: like they're making the big move to outfield for him
Speaker 2: and he doesn't want it. He even said in an interview,
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't want to play in the outfield.
Speaker 2: So I think there's a transitional period that they're still
Speaker 2: dealing with. Is he's not hitting the cover off the ball.
Speaker 2: I've never been a begging O'Neil Cruz guy. He's not
Speaker 2: destroying Triple.
Speaker 1: A, but he's I mean, Polonko was a huge disappointment
Speaker 1: trying to I mean, Marte was very good, but there
Speaker 1: was another one in between there. I mean, Josh Bell
Speaker 1: is another one I thought was just always okay, Like
Speaker 1: I thought he would be an okay player and he
Speaker 1: turned out to me Austin Meadows. Everybody knows my Austin Meadows.
Speaker 1: Things have gone on for years and years about how
Speaker 1: over at Austin Meadows was. And he's a fine, he's Fine,
Speaker 1: he's just fine. I don't know if he's special. Fine.
Speaker 1: Fun facts, let's go to fun facts. Here's a Many
Speaker 1: Mitchado fun fact. Many Mitchaddell became the first player in
Speaker 1: Major League baseball history, Welsh history, with three doubles, a triple,
Speaker 1: three run scored, and a walk in a single game,
Speaker 1: the history of Major League Baseball. Many Mitchadell is the
Speaker 1: only got to do that this weekend.
Speaker 2: That's that is kind of wildly weird to me that
Speaker 2: the I love those stats, by way, those are my
Speaker 2: favorite about baseball. Or someone cherry, something we'll never talk
Speaker 2: about in the history. There will be two generations of
Speaker 2: fantasy pros analysts that'll come on here and we'll never
Speaker 2: talk about, Hey, who's that last guy that had three
Speaker 2: doubles of triple, three runs and a walk in a game.
Speaker 2: It's something special about baseball that it always provides us
Speaker 2: something we'll never talk about again.
Speaker 1: All Right, here's a fun trivia question at which ballpark
Speaker 1: has Albert Pools hit the most home runs as a
Speaker 1: visiting player? Most home runs as a visiting player for
Speaker 1: Albert Pools. If anybody knows the answer, drop it in
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Speaker 1: it's like the audible version of Fantasy pros. So that's
Speaker 1: that's what I've got here. Someone says Pittsburgh, someone says Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Know that that is not correct. You would think maybe perhaps,
Speaker 1: but nope, as a visiting player. There's another one. So
Speaker 1: we'll get to that a little later on. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the next segment here, and let's talk about
Speaker 1: this day in baseball May twenty third, two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: I remember this game. Sean Green, then playing for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: go six for six in Milwaukee with four home runs,
Speaker 1: seven rubies, and nineteen total bases. So, needless to say,
Speaker 1: he hit the over on the one and a half
Speaker 1: he probably had that day.
Speaker 2: You know, funny thing about Sean Shawn Green will always
Speaker 2: have this little tiny place in my heart. When I
Speaker 2: was very, very younger and I worked for sports radio station.
Speaker 2: We were doing a live broadcast outside of Chase Field
Speaker 2: and they were it was right before the season started,
Speaker 2: and they were bringing in players to us to interview.
Speaker 2: Brandon Webb came down a couple of other players and the
Speaker 2: PR person comes up to me and says, I can
Speaker 2: get you, can have Sewn Green, or we can get
Speaker 2: you Steven Drew. And as a prospect person, I immediately
Speaker 2: was like Steven Drew and then I just shoot Sewan
Speaker 2: Green as side to never be interviewed and go off
Speaker 2: into obscurity when he played his one season with the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and it was all Steven Drew the time for
Speaker 2: that and then that worked out.
Speaker 1: Like so did not work out? No, I look at
Speaker 1: it may pretending like here's Joe claiming to remember something ridiculous. Again, No,
Speaker 1: I remember it because I was playing fantasy baseball all
Speaker 1: Mike Maher was in fifth grade. So yeah, so I
Speaker 1: remember this. I remember.
Speaker 2: I also remember a couple a couple of those four homers.
Speaker 2: Bagman and I have had any discussions about how the
Speaker 2: four homer game is equivalent to a perfect game for
Speaker 2: a pitcher, where the cycle is equivalent to a no hitter,
Speaker 2: they actually kind of interact line there's not a whole lot,
Speaker 2: because you can kind of remember those I think Luis
Speaker 2: Gonzalez had a four homer end game, like there's not
Speaker 2: a lot. It's very, very minimal, and I equate it
Speaker 2: to like that type of impressiveness. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I did see somebody in the chat nail the question, ah.
Speaker 1: Because the correct answer is Houston a Mark minute May
Speaker 1: Park is correct. That's where Albert Pools is the most
Speaker 1: road home runs. He went off Brad Lynch that still
Speaker 1: hasn't landed.
Speaker 2: If you're the most memorable, probably the most memorable homer
Speaker 2: of Albert Poolhols's career, if you're not like a big
Speaker 2: Albert pool Hols fan, that's the one. The bride Ledge homers,
Speaker 2: the one.
Speaker 1: There you go, All right, boy, Pens and Cracker Dricks
Speaker 1: are crushing it today. Let's do the stat heroes in
Speaker 1: one breath for the pitchers. Zach Efflin twelve case to earned,
Speaker 1: Nady Evaldi eleven case two earned over six and two
Speaker 1: third Shane Bieber seven innings, ten k's was it your
Speaker 1: Queiti ten k's as well. One earned over six and
Speaker 1: two thirds. Christian Hoavier one earned over six. Nine k's
Speaker 1: Justin Steel five scoreless innings, nine k's Justin Verlander again,
Speaker 1: eight excuse me six innings, eight case Sandy Alcantra seven
Speaker 1: k's nine innings, pitch of Patrick Sandoval seven k's one
Speaker 1: earned over seven pretty pretty good deep breath. I didn't
Speaker 1: get through all of them. Also, Hunter Green six k's
Speaker 1: one earned over six innings. So for everybody freaking out
Speaker 1: on Hunter Green, I told you just stop freaking out,
Speaker 1: Just give the kids some time. He's just the boy.
Speaker 2: His changed just the boy, well it's not even just
Speaker 2: a boy. He made a very very big This is
Speaker 2: actually something we were breaking down on itl and he
Speaker 2: did it again in this last start and it has
Speaker 2: equated to three good starts. Because I was watching this game,
Speaker 2: because I actually had a couple different bets on the game.
Speaker 2: One of the bets as I was betting Hunter Green
Speaker 2: walks and I had it two and a half and
Speaker 2: he hit two. But the last three starts Hunter Green,
Speaker 2: the change he's made is he's throwing his slider more
Speaker 2: than his fastball now. I mean he is concertedly like
Speaker 2: fifty ish sixty percent sliders, and he is going heavy
Speaker 2: early pitch sliders. That's something he's never done in his
Speaker 2: career before. And if you look past the last three starts,
Speaker 2: he was fastball fifty five sixty percent of the time.
Speaker 2: Ever since he has gone so dominant slider and that
Speaker 2: fastball has been set up, he's finding great results and
Speaker 2: his pinpoint command right now with the slider, it is
Speaker 2: what is getting him really, really, really good starts. And
Speaker 2: if this twenty years, he's gonna be rough.
Speaker 1: Stevenson was on the il when he had that blow
Speaker 1: up start, Wasn't he Howard Stevenson wasn't I believe? So? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so okay, because that's that's the other thing
Speaker 1: that's changed recently in the last couple of weeks is
Speaker 1: that you've also had a real catcher come in there
Speaker 1: and call his games, who knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Lots of guys on some of the catchers. We've seen
Speaker 2: that over many, many years, where you need specific catchers
Speaker 2: who understand. I think it's a little bit different now
Speaker 2: with like Pitchcolm and you know they're they're scheduling out
Speaker 2: a whole bunch more. But I would love to know
Speaker 2: the details of who made the decision for Hunter Green.
Speaker 2: Was it himself, was it a Tyler Stevenson? How is
Speaker 2: that work?
Speaker 1: He was, Yeah, Yeah, results are all that matters. Josh
Speaker 1: Rojas got results three for five with three home runs
Speaker 1: on Friday, but he ended up leaving the game after
Speaker 1: being hit by a pitch that he swung at, So
Speaker 1: that's an interesting one. Patrick Wisdom for for eleven with
Speaker 1: three home runs over the weekend. I did not have
Speaker 1: Patrick Wisdom at Randy Rose Arena heating up, like I
Speaker 1: told everybody. So if you made the trade on Friday
Speaker 1: for Randy Rose Arena for Taylor Ward like I told
Speaker 1: you in the video to he did pretty well this
Speaker 1: weekend eight for thirteen, two home runs, three a steal,
Speaker 1: hitting three twenty one with four home runs in the
Speaker 1: month of May, Bobashett three for twelve with two home runs.
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts had two dingers this weekend. Trevor Story after
Speaker 1: the Great Game just two for eleven, but those two
Speaker 1: were two home runs over the last eight games, still
Speaker 1: looking much better than he was. Will Meyers five for
Speaker 1: fourteen with two doubles. Man Matchato we talked about the
Speaker 1: top of the show, just incredible, and Tommy Edmond continues
Speaker 1: to be very steady. Seven for sixteen with a stolen base.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people at soured on Tommy
Speaker 1: Edmund in drafts this year. He has really kind of
Speaker 1: stuck it to those people that thought he was just
Speaker 1: kind of a, you know, a flukish kind of player.
Speaker 1: He's a very steady, you know, dink and doink kind
Speaker 1: of hitter. But at the end of the day, man,
Speaker 1: he hustles, he plays hard, and he fills the statue.
Speaker 1: He plays above his potential talent, and I think people
Speaker 1: sometimes can't wrap their mind around that. So good for
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund. Where were you on the Tommy Edmund train.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: It's a little indifferent. I mean I had him, you know,
Speaker 2: firmly inside the top one hundred. He wasn't a big
Speaker 2: draft target. I do think I was a little bit
Speaker 2: more and the you know, it's all going to kind
Speaker 2: of come back down a little bit. They also have
Speaker 2: some pieces around this team that we're going to be
Speaker 2: coming up. But I saw somebody say this a little
Speaker 2: while back. I can't recall who it was, but Edmund
Speaker 2: has been everything that we wanted out of wit mirrorfield.
Speaker 2: You know, he has had some power stealing basis. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this year, of course, and you know it's a game changer.
Speaker 2: So i'm I'm hey, Tommy Edmund, you can play multiple positions.
Speaker 2: He's now going to be playing shortstop with that qualification.
Speaker 2: He's hitting, he's running, He is everything that you want.
Speaker 2: So shame on any of us that did not like
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 1: All right, here's the bad news. We talked about Chapman
Speaker 1: already having some issues physically and on the mat. Obviously
Speaker 1: it's affecting him. Kyle Bradish five earned runs, Bryce Wilson
Speaker 1: seven earned runs, Kykele six earned I think Kykle's gonna
Speaker 1: be out of this rotation sooner than later. Trevor Rodgers
Speaker 1: continues to struggle give a three home runs, five earned
Speaker 1: Garrett Witlock terrible start for him, or after he had
Speaker 1: been pretty good. Five earned runs, So let's not freak out.
Speaker 1: There could be an opportunity to buy Whitlock. They need
Speaker 1: him in that rotation.
Speaker 2: I mean, also, besides a rotation real quick, they could
Speaker 2: probably use a closer as well, and Whitlock was meant
Speaker 2: to be the closer. So he's a weird situation where
Speaker 2: if they don't, you know, if that doesn't work, just
Speaker 2: slide him over back into that like high leverage role
Speaker 2: and he would have value.
Speaker 1: Here we go Luis Robert two for fourteen, six k's,
Speaker 1: Alec Bohm five k's, two for thirteen, Jared Walsh over
Speaker 1: seven and five k's. I'd still buy Jared Walsh. We
Speaker 1: have Usmani Grondald two for fourteen with four k's or
Speaker 1: a mateo over fourteen with four k's and Cabrian Hayes
Speaker 1: two for fourteen with one k. This is the problem.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh prospects continue to just not live up to the hype.
Speaker 1: This is another one. Cabrian Hayes. We Brian Hayes should
Speaker 1: be a real nice player, and I think we had
Speaker 1: our lower expectations for Hayes not to be a star,
Speaker 1: but I mean, he's not getting it done well. She
Speaker 1: is just frankly not getting it done. And this is
Speaker 1: why Pittsburgh is where Pittsburgh is because the scouting department
Speaker 1: has not done a good enough job of bringing back
Speaker 1: pieces in these trades. These mega trades that they made
Speaker 1: bringing back the wrong prospects or then bringing back the
Speaker 1: right prospects like Joe Musgrove and then flipping them because
Speaker 1: they can't get Joe Musgrove to be Joe Musgrove.
Speaker 2: So well Fantasy honors to me. Actually, it's actually it
Speaker 2: reminds me of dynasty Fantasy owners specifically, where you know,
Speaker 2: you put all of your eggs into this basket of
Speaker 2: building up these prospects, and then they come up, they
Speaker 2: don't succeed, and then you just move on and they
Speaker 2: really struggle. I think their scouting department is actually good.
Speaker 2: They were really known to have issues with developmental stuff,
Speaker 2: so like they were not an analytical team. I believe
Speaker 2: some of that's changed. But then the you know, the
Speaker 2: idea to be able to mature these players is where
Speaker 2: they struggle the most because look at the success stories
Speaker 2: we see, you know, Meadows did find Glass. Now the
Speaker 2: guys they move off of that go to succeed. They've
Speaker 2: got an internal problem. I don't think they're getting the
Speaker 2: wrong guys, they just don't know how to develop any
Speaker 2: of these guys or put them in a place to succeed.
Speaker 2: Kee Brian Hayes is a guy that needs to succeed.
Speaker 2: If he were going the next year, he will explode
Speaker 2: if you were to go to a team like the
Speaker 2: Cardinals or you know, whoever, really whoever at this point.
Speaker 1: Just another in the long line of disappointments, though, and
Speaker 1: then the Pittsburgh Pirate fans watching Joe Musgrove pitch to
Speaker 1: a one nine era going what the hell? And I
Speaker 1: don't blame them. I would be furious if I was
Speaker 1: all right. I'm also furious about the leaderboard for home
Speaker 1: runs because nobody seems to be more shake the night
Speaker 1: King in the North, who's up to sixteen over the weekend?
Speaker 1: Two more home runs?
Speaker 2: We need to get rid of this night.
Speaker 1: Where is Arius Stark when you need her? Uh? But yeah,
Speaker 1: look at the Niking in the North just crushing it.
Speaker 1: That Fernando Tattis Jersey autographed is not gonna give away itself.
Speaker 1: It's still a race, by the way, Mike Mayers and
Speaker 1: double digits now. So he's gritting real close to the
Speaker 1: top of that board, which is you know, even more upset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get to you.
Speaker 2: Did not get homers by the way this week, and
Speaker 2: nor you are.
Speaker 1: I No, I went to know on Gorman, I was
Speaker 1: trying to have some fun with the kid. Didn't didn't work.
Speaker 2: But that's for a little bit. So I'm one away.
Speaker 2: I think I'm one away from double Digi's.
Speaker 1: Well, I've put the crown on, so you know what
Speaker 1: that means. It's time for some betting pros. It's time
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Speaker 1: today on betmgm, I've got over on the one and
Speaker 1: a half total basis for Joser Ramirez at plus one
Speaker 1: thirty three, you're getting Stanton with a great match up
Speaker 1: against Jordan Lyles tonight, same number one point five you're
Speaker 1: getting at plus one twenty, you're getting plus one oh
Speaker 1: four on that same one and a half on Jose
Speaker 1: Al two A on the total basis. Brian Reynolds, I
Speaker 1: know you're goetta think them crazy, but plus one thirty
Speaker 1: against cool Chad and then ty France same thing, plus
Speaker 1: one fifty excuse me, one and a half plus one
Speaker 1: thirty for ty France. Any prop bets that you scooted
Speaker 1: out there and found that you liked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, er one was as Jean Carlos Stanton one. I've
Speaker 2: also got that plus one twenty total bases one and
Speaker 2: a half. This is very good matchup for Stanton. You're
Speaker 2: gonna play the total bass marker, You're gonna you know,
Speaker 2: you're obviously playing multi hits, or you're gonna want to
Speaker 2: play for a big bopper and just ended in one spot.
Speaker 2: I love the Typhrance one that you have. I really
Speaker 2: like that one as well, at plus one thirty over
Speaker 2: one and a half. The only other one the strikeout markers.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm in love. They've been getting tougher, especially.
Speaker 1: The day half. Actually, it's funny you mentioned that Welsh
Speaker 1: because I looked specifically for some pitching ones tonight couldn't
Speaker 1: find anything I liked. It was just a hot mess.
Speaker 2: Well, well, not only are they getting tougher in how
Speaker 2: they're being placed, they're also moving through the day. I've
Speaker 2: had multiple guys we've talked about on shows. Come in.
Speaker 2: Look again, and you're looking at different books, and I'll
Speaker 2: see a full strikeout ahead or after an hour. It'll
Speaker 2: move as people are betting them, So that's becoming tougher.
Speaker 2: One I do kind of like, is I like the
Speaker 2: Miles Micholis strikeout marker. It's a low marker. He's not
Speaker 2: a huge strikeout guy, but I believe five of eight
Speaker 2: starts he's hit five strikeouts. It's at five. This is
Speaker 2: actually contrary to what the what the betting priss cheat
Speaker 2: sheet wants. They actually kind of like the under. I
Speaker 2: like the over, which would actually it's minus one forty
Speaker 2: five on the over, so I'm actually not even sure
Speaker 2: what the plus is going to be here. But five
Speaker 2: strikeouts against Toronto, I'm gonna take that one on Miles Nicholas.
Speaker 1: All right tonight, DFS, keep it simple. We're doing the
Speaker 1: kiss method here, Okay, just keep it simple. Stupid and
Speaker 1: I'm stupid being me. Garrett cole and DK is ten
Speaker 1: point five, Zach Wheeler is nine point nine. Going against
Speaker 1: a braze, I'd rather have Garrett Cole. Garrett cole Over's
Speaker 1: last nineteen innings has been twenty four. K's two walks
Speaker 1: has been ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Good hitting success against Wheeler as well.
Speaker 1: By the way, yeah that's it, so stay away from
Speaker 1: Wheelers the trap tonight, go with Garrett Cole and then
Speaker 1: pair them with either Peterson or Cobb or do one
Speaker 1: of each. One of those is going to be right
Speaker 1: in that Mets Giants game. And then a FanDuel just
Speaker 1: play cash with Garret Cole, best Cole lineup wins, don't
Speaker 1: get fancy tonight stacks tonight Houston, Minnesota, the Dodgers, the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and then looking at Nolan Gorman two K on DK,
Speaker 1: Peralta three point eight, Julio at three point four, then
Speaker 1: on FanDuel David Peralta two point six, Gorman at two
Speaker 1: point five, Chris Taylor to eight, Labor tour Is at
Speaker 1: two eight, and Mike Mayer actually did something useful. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Scope fifteen for forty hitting three seventy five with six
Speaker 1: homers against Chris Archer and he's just two point three
Speaker 1: on FanDuel, three point four on DK. So Jonathan Scope,
Speaker 1: I'm surprising to make him his home run call. I
Speaker 1: made Aaron Judge my home run call because nobody could
Speaker 1: stop that guy, So let's go. And you took the
Speaker 1: other guy for the same team that I was contemplating taking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I took Jean Carlos Stanton, So that's the big one.
Speaker 2: He has a good, good track record, especially if you
Speaker 2: took looking BVP, because Mayor did take Scope, who is
Speaker 2: the number one he did. If you go and look
Speaker 2: at BVP, there's nobody that has a bigger advantage Scope
Speaker 2: with those six homers. I saw that as well. Stanton though,
Speaker 2: has got a close to five hundred average against Lyles
Speaker 2: and there's a decent amount of experience and they're not
Speaker 2: a ton of home but he's been crushing homers. So
Speaker 2: I really like Stanton today. I like your judge one
Speaker 2: as well. And listen, Scope is just a good play
Speaker 2: because it's straight BVP for Mayor. So we got some
Speaker 2: good calls and very curious to see what the rest
Speaker 2: of the community is it has and you can actually
Speaker 2: see what everybody has when you have the Discord app
Speaker 2: and you go into the homer and call room where
Speaker 2: everybody can make their own calls, you can see all
Speaker 2: the awesome calls by the community.
Speaker 1: There you go, and we'll be back tomorrow with seven
Speaker 1: thousand subscribers to the YouTube channel. Let's go thirty more people.
Speaker 1: Let's go if I don't have it when I come
Speaker 1: back here tomorrow. Oh, we had it already, did we
Speaker 1: hit it?
Speaker 2: I was about to say, let's not do a show.
Speaker 2: Let's not let's not.
Speaker 1: Go live until we want to protest.
Speaker 2: Awesome, we protested. We don't go if we didn't hit it,
Speaker 2: we don't go live. We don't go live.
Speaker 1: Higher else we might have a problem with that, but
Speaker 1: we'll see, we shall see. In the meantime, we hope
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