Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading
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Speaker 1: It's me Joey p That of course is the Welsh
Speaker 1: and out about you Welsh. I feel a little naked today.
Speaker 1: My head's a little colder than it was yesterday on
Speaker 1: Opening Day. I guess that's just how it rolls. You,
Speaker 1: my friend, have pared down from the handlebar to just
Speaker 1: the This is like the Johnny Depp Don Juan kind
Speaker 1: of thing you've got going on here. But you, my friend,
Speaker 1: got to experience opening Day yesterday in Arizona with Scott
Speaker 1: Bogman only sixteen runs for the d Backs. That's it.
Speaker 1: How did that feel?
Speaker 2: I hope you had the over It was pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: I mean all through here, this is my Paul Skeens.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 2: If anyone hasn't seen, it's the Diamondback hats got a
Speaker 2: little pirates look, this is my Paul Skins. Look. Yesterday
Speaker 2: was a magnificent day yesterday around baseball, just because we
Speaker 2: were at the fourteen runs, which was crazy, the crazy
Speaker 2: scoring yesterday. Yes I had the Diamondbacks one and a
Speaker 2: half runs, I had, we hit all of our bets
Speaker 2: three team parlay twelve units. Yesterday, Joe, I'm in brag
Speaker 2: mode here hit a twenty to one parlay which was
Speaker 2: on betting pros, and all of that happened while I
Speaker 2: decided to keep the stash.
Speaker 1: So today I was.
Speaker 2: Told I was forced. I'm forced to keep the stash
Speaker 2: while things are going on. By the way, can we
Speaker 2: also point out through all the craziness yesterday, Joe knows
Speaker 2: exactly where I'm going all of the new We had
Speaker 2: a great day. We had lots of great hits. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about amazing stuff today. We had the
Speaker 2: Joe Exotic actual account responding to us yesterday on the wigs,
Speaker 2: so I don't feel as naked. But shout out to
Speaker 2: Joe Exotic's official Twitter account.
Speaker 1: And shout out to everybody who joined us live yesterday too.
Speaker 1: Nearly four hundred of you live. It's almost double the
Speaker 1: previous high. Incredible number, incredible amount of views. Yesterday. We
Speaker 1: promised we'd wig out for you, and look we're closing
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Speaker 1: so we're getting close to twenty thousand. Goodness knows what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do next. But again. It was a good
Speaker 1: day of Opening Day Baseball yesterday, some good performances. I
Speaker 1: will continue to troll the A's all year, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna be right we I'm gonna troll
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Speaker 1: start with the headlines and a lot to get through here.
Speaker 1: Let's start here at the top. Corbyn Burns absolutely dominant.
Speaker 1: This is what the Orioles signed up for. They got
Speaker 1: an eleven strikeout performance. Now, yes I was trolling the
Speaker 1: Angels and yes it worked. But a great debut for
Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns. It has to make everybody in Baltimore feel
Speaker 1: really good. I have shares of Corbyn Burns for say Young,
Speaker 1: I wish I had more shares in fantasy. Just didn't
Speaker 1: work out that way. Shane Bieber, on the other hand, too,
Speaker 1: a guy do have some shares of in fantasy. He
Speaker 1: also struck out eleven guys yesterday. It was against the
Speaker 1: A's again some lesser opponents. Bieber has a great history
Speaker 1: about the A's too. But here's a question for you, Welsh.
Speaker 1: To me, this is important regardless of the fact that
Speaker 1: it was against the A's. Shane Bieber, I think is
Speaker 1: one of those pitchers that needed to get off to
Speaker 1: a good start considering last year, and I think this
Speaker 1: is exactly what the doctor ordered and I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to see what is to come for Shane Bieber in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so starting with Shane Bieber, obviously, we did this
Speaker 2: Betting Pro show and I was talking about trolling the
Speaker 2: A's and I've seen some people like you're saying, a
Speaker 2: lot of people being like, I don't know if the
Speaker 2: A's are this bad. Let's put into some context here.
Speaker 2: These are some wild things and I'm going to compare
Speaker 2: it to what Corbyn Burns did. So yesterday Shane Bieber
Speaker 2: had eighteen swing and whiffs pretty great. He had a
Speaker 2: thirty seven percent csw and a forty three percent whiff rate,
Speaker 2: which is pretty crazy. Fastball was up a mile per
Speaker 2: hour on average year over year. That's good. You had,
Speaker 2: the change up was up, velos were up kind of
Speaker 2: across the board. But he had forty two swings forty
Speaker 2: two on eighty three pitches, so half of his essentially
Speaker 2: half of his pitches were being swung through. Is it
Speaker 2: because Shane Bieber is the best pitcher on the planet.
Speaker 2: There's partial parts of that. Also, the a's are really bad.
Speaker 2: I am all here for Shane Bieber. Now in the inverse,
Speaker 2: here's a crazy thing. Corbin Burns. He had twelve swing
Speaker 2: and whiffs on eleven strikeouts. That's I don't really recall
Speaker 2: that I've seen a number like that. He had a
Speaker 2: thirty three percent swing rate and a csw of thirty
Speaker 2: nine percent, and his VILO was up kind of across
Speaker 2: the board a little over half a mile per hour
Speaker 2: on the fastball. You had the slider which almost had
Speaker 2: a full mile per hour, and he was just efficient.
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns is a big payoff, But we talked a
Speaker 2: ton about Shane Bieber. You got to minimize some of
Speaker 2: the results because it is the a's. But with velo
Speaker 2: up efficiency getting those k's, we're going to take those
Speaker 2: eleven strikeouts across the board and we're not talking assistant
Speaker 2: downticks from Shane Bieber. So it's a huge buy and
Speaker 2: hopefully it pairs.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a really good feeling. You know. It's
Speaker 1: funny the win total for the A's is seven more
Speaker 1: than was last year. How did the A's get seven
Speaker 1: wins better than last year? I don't see it on
Speaker 1: that roster, folks, I just don't see it all right.
Speaker 1: Next year, Cole Reagan's nine strikeouts, six hittings, but he
Speaker 1: takes the loss unfortunately. But overall, what we wanted to see, also,
Speaker 1: what I wanted to see from Frankie Montoss. I've been
Speaker 1: talking about this guy all offseason. We talked about in
Speaker 1: our last it was the audio only episode of the
Speaker 1: Spring training Risers and Followers. I talked about Montas. I said, look,
Speaker 1: he looked pretty good here at the end. Yes, I
Speaker 1: know it's just the Nationals, but six shutout innings is
Speaker 1: six shutout innings. I don't care how you slice it.
Speaker 1: He qualifies a rp nd SP. It's a good first
Speaker 1: effort for Montoss, A good signal here for the Cincinnati Reds.
Speaker 1: One O Cruz goes solo homer, A great opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: And Welsh Welsh, that made you some money, did it not?
Speaker 1: I believe yesterday?
Speaker 2: So we had this Bogman and I and a couple
Speaker 2: of our friends were like moving around town. If you
Speaker 2: remember Dan Marley, Dan Marley, Marley's got love Dan Marley.
Speaker 2: I know he has a wife from three I Love.
Speaker 2: At a restaurant, we were over there. Oh it socks
Speaker 2: Elliott Perry. It is great Old Sun's team. We were
Speaker 2: there and then we moved over to one of the
Speaker 2: sports books and I had a couple bets flying around
Speaker 2: and I had this one and I was like, man,
Speaker 2: we're at the back of the game. It was I
Speaker 2: called it the cruise Control. It was Oneal Cruz to
Speaker 2: hit a homer and Ellie de la Cruz to steal
Speaker 2: a base. We're sitting at the sports book. They're both
Speaker 2: up within one batter of each other. Ellie gets on
Speaker 2: steals a base. O'Neal's up and I look at bagman,
Speaker 2: I go, I just need a homer. He swings that
Speaker 2: bad boy. Looks like it's going to be a foul
Speaker 2: ball because the pure rob power gets at homers. A
Speaker 2: twenty to one stupid parlay that I hit. It's the
Speaker 2: first week things you can see, but it was up
Speaker 2: on the betting pros app and Oneal Cruz showing off
Speaker 2: exactly what we saw in spring seven Homers big home
Speaker 2: run power. And again, what was my favorite season long
Speaker 2: bet prop that we did on the Betting Pro Show, Joe.
Speaker 2: It was Oneal Cruz Homer's over twenty four and a
Speaker 2: half and he gets that first one on the board
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Not bad by the way, everybody I mentioned that audio
Speaker 1: only episode, That's not the only thing we've got going
Speaker 1: on there. So every single week on the regular podcast
Speaker 1: on YouTube, but on the podcast channel by itself, we
Speaker 1: have Mike Mayer and the Worm are going to be
Speaker 1: doing a little bit more of a deep dive extended
Speaker 1: look to show called the Cycle. What they're gonna be
Speaker 1: doing basically is deep dives at the top of the
Speaker 1: show on the big news of the week, whatever that
Speaker 1: big item or two is. They're really gonna give you
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You know, this is a condensed
Speaker 1: half hour daily show, so they're gonna give you a
Speaker 1: little bit more of the long form fantasy stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: she's gonna do some prospect stuff on there. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be great. So they're gonna hit their you know, trades
Speaker 1: in the waiver wire. So basically it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a podcast is gonna prepare you for the week to come,
Speaker 1: basically and recapping the week that was. So that's a
Speaker 1: great addition to the lineup here.
Speaker 2: Yes, this new episode was out yesterday. It's longer than usual.
Speaker 2: It was an hour, but Kelly Kirby, the wonky penguin
Speaker 2: who's in the chat, was a guest and I was
Speaker 2: a guest on it as well, So you guys can
Speaker 2: check that out episode.
Speaker 1: That's why it wasn't hour. You go very long here,
Speaker 1: very long, Wain.
Speaker 2: Well, it was Kelly that went forty minutes, not me.
Speaker 1: So well, Kelly can go as long as she wants there,
Speaker 1: because Kelly's amazing you, we'll say, all right. Just for fun,
Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neil steals a base and also so it's a
Speaker 1: major league record by hitting a home run is fifth
Speaker 1: consecutive Opening Day, So there you go, Tyler and Neil
Speaker 1: loves Opening Day and I love this too. Also for fun,
Speaker 1: a little bit of history, Jenny Kavnar becomes the first
Speaker 1: female play by play announcer for the A's and that
Speaker 1: was a wonderful moment there for women in baseball. My
Speaker 1: friend Jess works out there for the A's too, and
Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic that we're you know, continuing to
Speaker 1: change the shape of what front offices look like, what
Speaker 1: the announced crew looks like, with the umpires, referees in
Speaker 1: football all that. It's very encouraging women in sports. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm a flag football coach. I coached my daughter for
Speaker 1: the last three years actually almost four now that i'm
Speaker 1: thinking about it, and you know, it's very important to
Speaker 1: encourage them. And you know, I know my godmother it
Speaker 1: had she known that baseball general manager or front office
Speaker 1: executive was a job that was going to be open
Speaker 1: to her, it would have changed her entire career path,
Speaker 1: she told me once. And I think that's a very
Speaker 1: important thing that, you know, for women. You have to
Speaker 1: see these things out there as achievable and possible now
Speaker 1: and it's great. And this is another one, I think,
Speaker 1: another feather in the cap here for MLB, So good
Speaker 1: on them. Rookie Lookie Welsh Wyatt Langford first career RBI,
Speaker 1: so that's a positive. Victor Scott stole a base, lots
Speaker 1: of steels come blaze, Alexander got his first career hit
Speaker 1: for the d Backs and Jackson Cheerio leading off today,
Speaker 1: so that's good. We'll see Churio, We'll see Peralta, We'll
Speaker 1: see the Mats. By the way, more Peralta news to come.
Speaker 1: Any rookie, lookie moment that stood out.
Speaker 2: For you, well, well, I mean I was there to
Speaker 2: watch Blaze Alexander as a DH go and not only
Speaker 2: get his first hit, but he was the one that
Speaker 2: put the last run on the board for the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: which was a all time record for an inning for
Speaker 2: the team. So Blaze looked great, you know. And just
Speaker 2: a couple of the things on these White Langford was
Speaker 2: intentionally walked in his first game, also got his first RBI.
Speaker 1: Which was crazy.
Speaker 2: It is amazing. And Victor Scott, you know, we were
Speaker 2: at Marley's when this happened. We were getting up to
Speaker 2: leave and then he's on base and I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 2: hold on, we got to watch he had that buy
Speaker 2: him out.
Speaker 1: I believe it was.
Speaker 2: He was tracked at twenty nine point six, which I
Speaker 2: think would have been faster than any runner last year.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong about that. So I think those
Speaker 2: are all interesting. But Jackson Churio today leading off for
Speaker 2: Pat Murphy is not what I expected. Pat Murphy's like
Speaker 2: an old school baseball.
Speaker 1: I like it though, I like of course you like it.
Speaker 2: I like it too, But that's not something that Pat Murphy. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you want the.
Speaker 1: Lineup protection, you know that you want the kid to
Speaker 1: be successful, don't hit him eighth, like, don't do that
Speaker 1: to the kid. By the way, my line up note
Speaker 1: today Michael Harris hitting sixth in the lineup today too.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Not out there you do like that or don't like that.
Speaker 2: I don't like that at all. I want Michael Harris
Speaker 2: at the top of the lineup.
Speaker 1: What do we do well, I'm just saying, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: what is By the way, I know the cycle started
Speaker 1: and someone made a comment here that where is that.
Speaker 1: I need more Mayor? We need more Mayor in our
Speaker 1: lives than we don't.
Speaker 2: What is JP? What are you trying to get for free?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: No less Mayor? Usually we'll take him for that hour
Speaker 1: because he's good with the baseball.
Speaker 2: Not even seeing Mayor in the chat. You notice how
Speaker 2: great the show was yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right. Mayor was nowhere to be found yesterday.
Speaker 1: He had other things going on. I believe who knows what,
Speaker 1: but you maybe yesterday's show. I encourage you to go
Speaker 1: back and watch it because the Whigs were amazing, and
Speaker 1: I still had nightmares about when you pulled back your
Speaker 1: wig to just the bowl cut that. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: put that away. I don't need to see that again.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sleep all weekend if we do that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the three up and three
Speaker 1: down here, three up my trout home run first at
Speaker 1: bad and it was a long bright spot for the Angels.
Speaker 1: It was all downhill after that, but still it's a
Speaker 1: good start. Trade them now, folks, pabloz.
Speaker 3: Come on, I'm all about this. I'm all about the note.
Speaker 3: I'm by Pablo Lopez. I'm all about a great opportunity
Speaker 3: for him. Uh seven innings, striking out seven, just awesome,
Speaker 3: one run on four hits, tremendous opener for the Twins.
Speaker 3: More on Royce Lewis, more on Justin Steele.
Speaker 1: I see you in the chat. We'll get to it
Speaker 1: in a second. We're trying to be positive here. We
Speaker 1: don't want to depress everybody. At the top of the show,
Speaker 1: Hazels Lozardo recorded eight strikeouts, two runs, five innings. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing with Lozardo. We talked with Craig Mish and
Speaker 1: he was telling us, look, Lozardo is being shopped. It's
Speaker 1: something that's actively going on. It was actively going on
Speaker 1: in the spring. They didn't get what they wanted. Some
Speaker 1: team is going to end up with him. Welsh, this
Speaker 1: was a good star for him. I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: a question, if you have Lozardo, do you want to
Speaker 1: start to you know, if he gets off to a
Speaker 1: good start, start to poke around the trade wins and
Speaker 1: see if somebody wants to overpay for Lozardo or do
Speaker 1: you want to hold him and wait to see if
Speaker 1: he does get trade to a contender earlier as opposed
Speaker 1: to later.
Speaker 2: I think it's it. I you know, I hadn't really
Speaker 2: given a lot of thought of like, oh, him on
Speaker 2: this new team and what positives could come out of it.
Speaker 2: I'm just not a big hazuse Losardo. I had him
Speaker 2: as kind of a fade this year. He did have
Speaker 2: a huge day. I think it was eighteen swing and
Speaker 2: whifts forty six percent swing with rate, which was crazy,
Speaker 2: over thirty five percent csw which is good. But you
Speaker 2: also saw massive downticks as far as Vilo fastball was
Speaker 2: down half a mile per hour. His sinker was down
Speaker 2: almost two miles per hour. Slider was about like on target.
Speaker 2: He looked okay. I watched it. He looked okay. He
Speaker 2: was decent early. I'm probably a sell, especially if you
Speaker 2: can take like you know, big stats, you know, big
Speaker 2: whift numbers. You can sell someone on it. Maybe there's
Speaker 2: another good performance coming up and then you could sell
Speaker 2: and get equal value and probably moving off him. But
Speaker 2: to your point, if he is sold, it's gonna probably
Speaker 2: be some contendye type of team that is missing, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe like a Rangers, you know, a Rangers type of contendy.
Speaker 1: I like that. Nothing, I like it. It's it's a
Speaker 1: phrase that I'm very excited about using in the future.
Speaker 1: Three down Kyle Freeland, two and a third, ten hits,
Speaker 1: ten earned yikes. Zach Efflin not the best start for him,
Speaker 1: kind of fell apart towards the end though, to be fair,
Speaker 1: like the line is a little misleading. I'd be buying
Speaker 1: low on Zach Efflin because I know, and you know Welsh,
Speaker 1: there's people that weren't buying in a Zach Eflin that
Speaker 1: might have ended up with him in their league and
Speaker 1: they're going, oh, No. Six earned runs five and two thirds.
Speaker 1: But if you watch the start, first four innings were
Speaker 1: pretty clean.
Speaker 2: For him and had no hitter through like three innings.
Speaker 1: He was really good here from the beginning. I think
Speaker 1: it just kind of, you know, just kind of fell
Speaker 1: apart a little bit. I would jump all over this
Speaker 1: start early if there's somebody in your league that is
Speaker 1: panicking about him, and I.
Speaker 2: Trade move the Lizardo for e Flyn.
Speaker 1: If we can do that, I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the first guy on the trade video this week. I
Speaker 1: gotta go like, buy low Gelin right now, Heimer Candelario
Speaker 1: Umboo over four to three strikeouts, So not the best
Speaker 1: the hat trick for him, not the best start. You know,
Speaker 1: it pisses me off, and it pisses a lot of
Speaker 1: people off Welsh too.
Speaker 2: What grinds your gears?
Speaker 1: You know it grinds my gears, and I know it
Speaker 1: grinds everybody. And I want to hear from you in
Speaker 1: the chat because everybody's watching live right now on the
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Everybody complains about the same thing. Why do
Speaker 1: we have to wait to the last minute to put
Speaker 1: guys on the il because it affects everybody's ability in
Speaker 1: leagues with roster moves and things like that, you're waiting
Speaker 1: and waiting and waiting for somebody to go in the IL.
Speaker 1: They haven't put them on the eye. It's why we
Speaker 1: all know that guy. They announce it, they say it,
Speaker 1: but they don't actually do it. It's ridiculous. Now in
Speaker 1: my home league, I'm the commissioner, So why allow people
Speaker 1: to just put people in IL spots the first week?
Speaker 1: Because I know it's such a disaster, But don't you
Speaker 1: think it's like it's kind of obnoxious, Like they know
Speaker 1: they're starting on the IL, put these guys in the
Speaker 1: IL and then give us the rosters. Like why shouldn't
Speaker 1: we encourage people to putting fantasy because that's a huge
Speaker 1: part of our fan base. I don't understand it, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Well, Baseball's never embrace fantasy. They're embracing betting. By the way,
Speaker 2: I saw this tweet out there the New York the
Speaker 2: New York Yankees actual account. I think it was tweeted
Speaker 2: out Nestor Cortes strikeouts with a check mark and the
Speaker 2: over number and everything like that. They've never embraced fantasy.
Speaker 2: If they did to your point, we would have ils,
Speaker 2: they would literally cater how they do to show betting,
Speaker 2: but they don't cater to it. Yeah, it's super super annoying.
Speaker 2: It's why having a great commissioner is probably really important,
Speaker 2: and a site that you can like manually make those moves.
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Speaker 1: We know because we use it. I mean that's how
Speaker 1: I stay on top, especially my football soft forget it,
Speaker 1: like that's the only way I could possibly do it. Injuries. Okay, everybody,
Speaker 1: now it's time to depress everybody.
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I'm texting a really good friend
Speaker 2: right now. He got hurt yesterday and I'm.
Speaker 1: Just oh friend, Justin Steel, Yeah, Justin Steele, who is
Speaker 1: pitching grape by the way. Unfortunately removed because of hamstring
Speaker 1: tightness they're calling it now. When he went down, it
Speaker 1: didn't look tight to me. It looked popped to me
Speaker 1: the way he went down. But I'm thinking good thoughts.
Speaker 1: Let's see what's going.
Speaker 2: To be staid. It's going to be a while. They
Speaker 2: didn't give any like affirmatives. He's gonna go on the eel.
Speaker 2: They're going to be a while. Could be a month.
Speaker 2: It could be three weeks, it could be a little
Speaker 2: bit longer.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I would prepare to be without
Speaker 1: him for a minimum two weeks.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking a month. I'm thinking a month. But it
Speaker 2: was officially announced as a hamstring and I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's right. He showed up to work today, that's true,
Speaker 1: Justin Steele. He has my playbook. We know because we
Speaker 1: saw when Welsh met him and he showed him Look
Speaker 1: here I am with my fancy pro stuff. So there
Speaker 1: you go. So unfortunately, not the best stuff. Royce Lewis
Speaker 1: was removed yesterday. This was like the quintessential Royce Lewis game,
Speaker 1: like like the You're too encapsulate the feeling of Royce Lewis.
Speaker 1: He hits a home run, looks amazing off Reagan's no
Speaker 1: less right off of a premium pitcher, goes yard, looks
Speaker 1: awesome on base. Later in the game, pulls up with
Speaker 1: He's saying was this tight quad? And he was saying
Speaker 1: was tight? I listened to what he was talking about.
Speaker 1: I saw some you know, the doctors online talking about
Speaker 1: different things. So if it's a tight quad, if it's
Speaker 1: some sort of cramp, that's possible, but it's more likely
Speaker 1: we all know, probably worse than that. So more news
Speaker 1: to follow here. But this is very frustrating because Royce
Speaker 1: lewis dark horse for MVP, a guy that I would know,
Speaker 1: I was very high on. But here we go again.
Speaker 1: We didn't get one full game yet, We're already dealing with.
Speaker 2: Injuries, I know, and he killed the nerfy yesterday. That
Speaker 2: was the only one that I was kind of interested
Speaker 2: in it. But it wasn't the knee though, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of an important thing. That's a thing that's
Speaker 2: continuously being reconstructed and I haven't seen, like what the
Speaker 2: the timetable is going to be, but it's from like
Speaker 2: resting a couple of days up to a month, so
Speaker 2: it's somewhere in between. I think they would baby him,
Speaker 2: just put him on the I L for two weeks,
Speaker 2: do whatever you gotta do, messuses every day, rub it out,
Speaker 2: figure it out, and get him back on the field.
Speaker 1: Just sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure yeah. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: the problem. Man, No, I got no problem. But take
Speaker 1: a look at the twins schedule for the month coming up,
Speaker 1: because that's what I want to see here because of
Speaker 1: this this quot here from Jeremy Arms your doctor here,
Speaker 1: he needs a leg replacement. There you go, he needs
Speaker 1: a l It's like Dave Chappelle, I need a backtomy.
Speaker 1: I love the backyotomy. It's one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: So who do they have coming up here? They've got, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see the Royals, the Brewers, the Guardians, and they've
Speaker 1: got the Dodgers and then the Tigers Orioles Tigers again
Speaker 1: White Side.
Speaker 2: So what's your what's your point to this?
Speaker 1: Like my point is this, My point is this, can
Speaker 1: you beat up on the angels of White Sox and
Speaker 1: the Tigers? In the opening of the season, especially you
Speaker 1: got the Tigers twice. Yeah, so if it takes a
Speaker 1: little while to get Royce Lewis, get Royce Lewis right,
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying if I'm the Twins, I'm not
Speaker 1: pushing it's April and the schedules. In my favor, it
Speaker 1: all depends who you're playing early. You should be able
Speaker 1: to beat those teams even without Lewis. Theoretically, yeah, you
Speaker 1: gonna have a struggle against the Dodgers. That's fine. But uh,
Speaker 1: before Welsh gets canceled, let's move on to you.
Speaker 2: Well, no, the only thing I want to we're just talking.
Speaker 1: It's gonna We're just guys.
Speaker 2: We're just two guys, just guys, dudes talking about getting
Speaker 2: a good massage.
Speaker 1: That's talk.
Speaker 2: The only thing with the Twins, And this is why
Speaker 2: I don't say it. This is why I think they
Speaker 2: should put them on the aisle, even if it's a
Speaker 2: mild mild thing, is because they've got depth. Jose Miranda
Speaker 2: got sent down, Bring Miranda back up. You've got Brooks
Speaker 2: Lee who's gonna be coming soon. Like, just don't don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. And both of those guys, by the way,
Speaker 2: if they were to be a replacement would be guys
Speaker 2: I'm interested in, but most likely Willie Castro would be
Speaker 2: one of those players that would benefit from roy out.
Speaker 2: So if we want to talk about just the quick pickups,
Speaker 2: real quick, Willie Castro would be a player I would
Speaker 2: be speculative, speculatively picking up right now because of the
Speaker 2: stolen bases. And then I just wanted to comment on
Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with this, but someone was
Speaker 2: talking about because I don't think we're gonna talk about it,
Speaker 2: but Jason Foley probably one of the top pickups as
Speaker 2: far as closers to go after yesterday since we didn't
Speaker 2: have that set in here.
Speaker 1: But for Royce, will Nkle, some other guys who Garrett
Speaker 1: Crochet had a really good start yesterday. Someone asking me
Speaker 1: about Crouchet, like I'm still on the fence about him.
Speaker 1: I watched ing Pitch and Spring. Things I liked about
Speaker 1: on things I didn't. It was a good start for him.
Speaker 1: He's only roster in fifty percent of leagues.
Speaker 2: Right, it looked amazing yesterday. I would I mean, if
Speaker 2: we're talking Hicks.
Speaker 1: Still available in thirty three percent of leagues, I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: John Wick, Yeah, John Wick. He kills my Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking I'm back.
Speaker 1: Miguel and ahrr he won't be back for a while.
Speaker 1: Segue underwent a right knee surgery on Thursday. Edward Rodriguez
Speaker 1: resumed his throwing program. That's good, Nick Senzel, talk about
Speaker 1: another one too, like encapsulate. Like Nick Senzel's entire MLB career.
Speaker 1: He's finally got a spot here with the Nats. He's
Speaker 1: got kind of a second life. Maybe broken thumb in
Speaker 1: practice before the game, I mean, how horrible is that?
Speaker 1: Also kind of down on the farm news here, diamond
Speaker 1: back shortstop Jordan Lawler is gonna undergo thumb Surgery's gonna
Speaker 1: miss ten weeks potentially, so oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm I was trying to trade him for weeks.
Speaker 2: But this is why like Blaze is gonna get this opportunity.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll dh him as much as
Speaker 2: they did, but he is a future play here. I
Speaker 2: just don't think he'll play enough. But Lawler is out
Speaker 2: of it, cutable, don't worry about it. Might actually be
Speaker 2: an interesting dynasty by right now because he is at
Speaker 2: the lowest of lows of lows. But yeah, this year,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get a ton out of Lawler.
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Speaker 1: you were three and oh I think I was three
Speaker 1: and oh as well.
Speaker 2: Because scooball I think you were two and one, because yeah.
Speaker 1: I was two and one. But another bet that I
Speaker 1: gave Thoor hit, so I made Thor very happy. I
Speaker 1: gave him four to six of the MLB bits I
Speaker 1: gave him actually hit yesterday. So let's start with the
Speaker 1: man who's red hot with the mustache that won't quit. Welsh,
Speaker 1: What do you have today for the people on?
Speaker 2: For I hope to keep it up. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna have days like this, but that was
Speaker 2: like a thirteen unit day I had yesterday because that'd
Speaker 2: some other bets going on. So we're getting a little cute.
Speaker 2: The odds are gonna tighten down a tiny bit. And
Speaker 2: here's what we've got today. We're starting with one of
Speaker 2: my favorite pitchers, and I've actually gotten three different things
Speaker 2: I like with him. It's George Kirby. I'm going to seattle.
Speaker 2: His outs was in play for me. His total out
Speaker 2: seventeen and a half, which means he's got to go six.
Speaker 2: Last year, four of his first five games he went six.
Speaker 2: I kind of liked that one. That's not the bet.
Speaker 2: His walk number under one walk is big plus money.
Speaker 2: I'm really interested in that. Seventeen games last year he
Speaker 2: did not walk a batter. That's not the bet, you
Speaker 2: could do it. The bet today is going with his
Speaker 2: strikeouts under. It's high today it's six and a half.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if we're gonna see him going
Speaker 2: over ninety pitches. And when he has gone under ninety pitches,
Speaker 2: I want to say it was every game but one
Speaker 2: last year that he was under ninety pitches. He was
Speaker 2: under six strikeouts. Now he could be unleashed. We saw
Speaker 2: all of these castill do some stuff yesterday. I just
Speaker 2: don't think they're going to do that. So I'm a
Speaker 2: little tenuous. That's why, by the way, the striker number,
Speaker 2: I'm tenuous if he ends up going six. So I'm
Speaker 2: taking the under on the strikeouts because I think it'll
Speaker 2: be under ninety pitches. I believe. I saw Derek Carti
Speaker 2: talking about the seventy nine pitches I think was the
Speaker 2: average on opening day yesterday, so that it was with Darvish.
Speaker 1: Yesterday too, and I look for that when I was
Speaker 1: giving him the number on him. So all right, so
Speaker 1: that's your number on Kirby. Let's get to number two here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the best odds. By the way, bet
Speaker 2: three to six y five has the best odds out anywhere,
Speaker 2: so she don't even have to worry number two. Going
Speaker 2: back to my Diamondbacks, everybody had a hit last night,
Speaker 2: but Corbyn Carrol. He had two walks, a couple runs,
Speaker 2: but he looked good, he looked patient. Yes, a couple
Speaker 2: balls were hit into the ground, but he was going
Speaker 2: up against the lefty for the majority of it. I
Speaker 2: guess maybe two or three of the at bats. But
Speaker 2: Corman Carroll's going up against a guy that he has
Speaker 2: never faced before in cal Qwan Trail, who is not
Speaker 2: great not very good. So I'm going with the total
Speaker 2: bases over I expect more offense one and a half
Speaker 2: over minus one fifteen. I like that one. And I'm
Speaker 2: going with kind of a gimmicky bet. I usually don't
Speaker 2: do this, but I love George Kirby and I like
Speaker 2: him to pitch to contact and groundouts, and I like
Speaker 2: Nick Pavetta. Nick Povetta on the Boston Red Sox has
Speaker 2: got to get through JP Crawford, which I think is doable.
Speaker 2: Julio's your big concern, and Jorge Polonko, who does have
Speaker 2: a good track record against. But my bet here is
Speaker 2: the Nerfy Mariner's Red Sox no run first inning with
Speaker 2: Kirby with Pavetta locking it down minus one thirty. Its
Speaker 2: not the best, best best odds out there, but these
Speaker 2: are my three favorite Kirby, Carrol and the Nerfe on
Speaker 2: Mariner's Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Here you go. You love a good Nerfy for me,
Speaker 1: Freddy Parol to over on the six and a half
Speaker 1: strikeouts at plus money plus one oh five you're getting
Speaker 1: right now, that's the best number on VP. Spencer Streider
Speaker 1: now Welsh knows this ICEE eight and a half, and
Speaker 1: I automatically go to the under. But it's early in
Speaker 1: the year and with Strider pitching the way he has,
Speaker 1: dominating the way he has in spring, and we all
Speaker 1: know the bats usually take a little bit more time,
Speaker 1: like the pitchers are typically a little bit ahead here
Speaker 1: of the hitters when we get to this part of
Speaker 1: the season. I'm gonna go over on the eight and
Speaker 1: a half. It's not something I always do. It's minus
Speaker 1: one thirteen, so it's a decent number here. But Welsh
Speaker 1: knows icee eight and a half and I run to
Speaker 1: the under every time I see it, and seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of the time I am right on that. But
Speaker 1: today I'm gonna buck the trend again. Stryder, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little ahead of it.
Speaker 2: It's a game at the day, like we have either
Speaker 2: wheel on it.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be an eight to five game. You
Speaker 1: go because we're all thinking, Oh, it's gonna be this
Speaker 1: picture duel. That's that's MLB.
Speaker 2: I'm I actually have another bet I put on.
Speaker 1: You will see it. Why did you finish mine yet?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to prove. I just want to say
Speaker 2: how much I love this game.
Speaker 1: Your time, and now it's my turn.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about how amazing it is. I just
Speaker 2: want to say it's amazing. And I have another bet
Speaker 2: in this on the betting pros app Sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 2: Strider eight and a half. I'm shocked that you're taking
Speaker 2: the over.
Speaker 1: I know. Well again it's Strider, it's special, and it's
Speaker 1: today because it's opening day for them. Cleveland minus one
Speaker 1: and a half plus one thirty. You're getting plus money
Speaker 1: again on this. I did it yesterday, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it again today. It's gonna be right. I'm just like
Speaker 1: Stripling was so bad in the spring too. Just do it.
Speaker 1: If it fails, it fails, but it is right. So
Speaker 1: Paralta over six and a half plus one oh five,
Speaker 1: Strider over eight and a half, K's minus one thirteen,
Speaker 1: Cleveland minus one and a half plus one thirty. Now,
Speaker 1: if you put my three favorite things together for the
Speaker 1: parlay of the day, plus seven seventy on those odds.
Speaker 1: So I would bet them all separately, and then bro,
Speaker 1: like you know a little bit, throw five bucks on
Speaker 1: the parlay just in case all three of them hit.
Speaker 1: Then you get a really big day. Now, Welsh, I
Speaker 1: heard you might have an extra bet that you were
Speaker 1: very excited about. What was it?
Speaker 2: Oh? And I wasn't trying to Actually I didn't want
Speaker 2: to say it, but I wanted to promote to people.
Speaker 2: Is go to the Betting pros app download today and
Speaker 2: follow the Welsh follow piece of PA and you'll see
Speaker 2: the other bets that jump on there.
Speaker 1: And yes, and all my futures are up there right now.
Speaker 1: So again, if you follow us, you can see all
Speaker 1: the future bets. Everything's up there, all the MVP awards,
Speaker 1: all the Julio bets, all the Julio.
Speaker 2: Bodman told me last night by the way, he said,
Speaker 2: we were talking about Julio and he goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: Julio's my MVP, and I said, oh my god, it's mine,
Speaker 2: it's Joe's. It's guaranteed not to be now, it's guaranteed
Speaker 2: not No.
Speaker 1: Joey futures always makes it truth. So there you have it, folks.
Speaker 1: Those are the best bets for today, Friday, the twenty
Speaker 1: ninth of March. Also, this is really nice here, look
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Speaker 1: doing here for goodness sake. Also here we like to
Speaker 1: call home runs. So this is the part in the
Speaker 1: show where we call the home runs of the day.
Speaker 1: We'll take a look because the leader board is live.
Speaker 1: Boom there it is, Oh, Hudgens had one there, finner
Speaker 1: fred Dinger of course by name fred Dinger is always
Speaker 1: good in this contest. You got high Cubby Key, it
Speaker 1: was it kat coach trail. Larry's there, mister Buster. Is
Speaker 1: that Pazzi Pazzi twenty five ports circus Sky there's the
Speaker 1: Welsh one he got all the I don't know the
Speaker 1: Welsh with the home run call it? Yes, how tid
Speaker 1: everyone's tied with one, but you're still twelve, Like there's
Speaker 1: no respect.
Speaker 2: I need what I noticed. I was gonna say, like,
Speaker 2: don't you think like Welsh and walk. You should be
Speaker 2: at the top. It's the he went you should be
Speaker 2: at the bottom. Both went to America.
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Speaker 1: Welsh myself, take questions, talk to you all some more,
Speaker 1: get outside the box a little bit and talk more
Speaker 1: MLB because you all demanded more of us, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you more of us. So I did not
Speaker 1: go yard yesterday. I was being cute. This is my
Speaker 1: call for the weekend. I looked ahead at the Cardinals
Speaker 1: pictures and I looked ahead and I think it's time
Speaker 1: that show Heyotani get off to a good start here.
Speaker 1: So I am betting on Shoeyotani to go yard this weekend,
Speaker 1: not once, but twice. I think he's gonna get two
Speaker 1: for me. I'm very excited. Welsh, Where are you going
Speaker 1: this weekend for your home run call? Or are you
Speaker 1: just calling today? And then you're gonna pick Saturday and
Speaker 1: Sunday on your own.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to look at right, look at Ryan's comment.
Speaker 2: By the way, I said numerical, and yes it is alphabetical.
Speaker 2: That was not numerical. So I'm were you go. We're
Speaker 2: off on the big dumdiot folks.
Speaker 1: So Friday Mon went all over that correction.
Speaker 2: Way. Yeah, Well, here's the cool thing. If I want
Speaker 2: to change off of my player, I can do it
Speaker 2: in the discord in the home run channel. You simply
Speaker 2: just boo put the name in and it tracks it itself,
Speaker 2: which is pretty awesome. But my home run for today,
Speaker 2: because I probably am going to change it, I am
Speaker 2: going with Juan Soto against the two pitch Christian Javier, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, he has a little bit of a
Speaker 2: track record on he walks quite a bit, but a
Speaker 2: thousand slugging little career. I think he's going to get
Speaker 2: a hold of Javier. He's going to get a hold
Speaker 2: of one of those fat because he's be fastball slider
Speaker 2: and he's going to put one in the seats. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Juan Soto. From a home run
Speaker 2: call on Friday.
Speaker 1: Big play by Soto yes, or in that game defensively too.
Speaker 1: Really turn things around here. Yank has had quite a comeback.
Speaker 1: So that's a big win because the Astros have really
Speaker 1: kind of been the daddy of the Yankees last weear,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, so kind of a big one, important one. Again,
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Speaker 1: Before anybody really was in the Corbin Carrol we were
Speaker 1: and Laddie by the way going yard yesterday. Nice to
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Speaker 1: That'll do it for us, But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time. Kids, go o Tani, let's go
Speaker 1: multiple dingers.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,