Speaker 1: Philly firing, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros.
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Speaker 1: Today is the Welsh and it's you and we got
Speaker 1: a big story to start the show. Oh a lot
Speaker 1: of people watching live today because the Phillies fired their manager.
Speaker 1: Joe Girardi is gone. It is sayonara, mister Girardi. The
Speaker 1: Phillies have gone one hundred and thirty two and one
Speaker 1: for one under Joe Girardi, including a twenty two and
Speaker 1: twenty nine stretch so far this season. Rob Thompson is
Speaker 1: going to take over as their interim manager now. Welsh
Speaker 1: Joe Girardi certainly has a lot of experience as a manager,
Speaker 1: has also had a lot of moments in his managerial
Speaker 1: career where he has rubbed a lot of people the
Speaker 1: wrong way. I remember in the Marlins situation, run a
Speaker 1: lot of people the wrong way, had a lot of
Speaker 1: success in New York, but still rubbed a lot of
Speaker 1: people the wrong way. I remember when the Mets were
Speaker 1: looking for a manager, it was not the guy as
Speaker 1: a fan that I wanted. Having lived the Joe Girardi
Speaker 1: cycle in New York already. But the Phillies, look, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, they struggled mightily. Last year.
Speaker 1: They made a run in the second half, it was
Speaker 1: not enough. This year off to the same dismal start.
Speaker 1: And look, they made investments in this team. They brought
Speaker 1: in Schwarber, they brought in Castillanos, they made moves that
Speaker 1: we all thought were really good in the offseason. So
Speaker 1: if you're not performing, eventually somebody's got a swing, and
Speaker 1: it looks like the swing is going to be Joe Girardi.
Speaker 2: And sometimes for these guys, those incredible, awesome roster moves
Speaker 2: are the death of them because you can't waste the years,
Speaker 2: and I think that's obviously what the team looks at.
Speaker 2: You cannot waste these years of Bryce Harper and what
Speaker 2: was it, twelve or fifteen loss. You can't do that.
Speaker 2: There's also you could question the under development of some
Speaker 2: of the young players. BOMs kind of gone up and down.
Speaker 2: Stott didn't quite work out so far. What I'm curious
Speaker 2: about though, because I find this still odd. I find
Speaker 2: it odd June third, that you're going and firing a
Speaker 2: you know, well respected manager, regardless of all of this
Speaker 2: stuff that what's the what's the plan? What was what
Speaker 2: was Joe Girardi holding this team back on? I would
Speaker 2: love to hear that conversation what's the thing with him gone?
Speaker 2: Because managers in baseball alone are kind of it's such
Speaker 2: a different situation than NFL coaching. Yet you get team
Speaker 2: philosophies of stolen bases. Diamondbacks, Astros do not want to
Speaker 2: steal bases, which can be a little bit of a
Speaker 2: whole back. But what is what's the move going to
Speaker 2: change for this team now? Unless he was hated across
Speaker 2: the organization and players wanted him out, what will actually
Speaker 2: change with a baseball manager being fired in June?
Speaker 1: Well, I think something that has been Look, it's been
Speaker 1: the Achilles heal. This Phillies team is that bullpen for
Speaker 1: quite some time. And his men of the Yankee bullpen
Speaker 1: when he was Yankee manager also was not very well
Speaker 1: thought of or well received. I remember that very well
Speaker 1: and very vividly. And they won sometimes despite that because
Speaker 1: the payroll of the Yankee you know, the payroll of
Speaker 1: the Yankees cures a lot of ills and can make
Speaker 1: up for a lot of mistakes that managers make, and
Speaker 1: he made a lot of in game ones that were
Speaker 1: magnified in the playoffs. But again, I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: not a good baseball man. I'm not saying Joe Girardi
Speaker 1: hasn't earned his opportunities. He absolutely has. But the Phillies
Speaker 1: bullpen continues to be mismanaged. I think over the years,
Speaker 1: and I think that you look at probably how the
Speaker 1: bullpen folks feel. I think it's got to come from
Speaker 1: some of the stars on the team too. I can
Speaker 1: only again, it's it's not fair to speculate, but I
Speaker 1: think you can only look at when you have hard
Speaker 1: nosed players like Bryce Harper. Schwarber is kind of a
Speaker 1: tough guy. Castiana is kind of a tough guy. If
Speaker 1: a manager is grating on those guys who are grinding
Speaker 1: tough guys, I think that says a lot. And I
Speaker 1: can only it's got to be part of the equation.
Speaker 2: And you're right, And you know what, someone just put
Speaker 2: it in the chat, the truth posted what Harper wants
Speaker 2: Harper gets. I agree with that statement. And if that
Speaker 2: is the case, if Harper didn't like the managing style
Speaker 2: and wanted him out, okay, as stupid as it is,
Speaker 2: that makes sense. You know, we don't need to lie
Speaker 2: to ourselves that star players in sports don't make these decisions.
Speaker 2: You know, the Lebron James coaching joke that's always been
Speaker 2: out there. I get that little mismanaging. I would just
Speaker 2: love to hear because what will be the philosophical change?
Speaker 2: And that's actually why this the most sense makes that
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper did not defend him. You know, if Bryce
Speaker 2: Harper wanted him to stay, there's no way you make
Speaker 2: this move in June because relatively short clip that's kind
Speaker 2: of been out because I don't see what the philosophical
Speaker 2: change in this team is going to be. Are they
Speaker 2: going to run more? Are they going to have a
Speaker 2: different rotation of what they do in their bullpen? Their
Speaker 2: starters Kyle Gibson had been playing. We define like they've
Speaker 2: been relatively fine. What is a philosophical change outside of
Speaker 2: just saying screw it, he's done, he sucks, we don't
Speaker 2: like him. Buy and Bryce Harper does not give the
Speaker 2: stamp of approval to keep him, and we get our
Speaker 2: first big big move of baseball managers kicking rocks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and the ripple effect here is that you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear now that the Phillies may
Speaker 1: respond to this. Sometimes this typically happens, or the short
Speaker 1: term sometimes you get a little boost from this. It
Speaker 1: happens in the NFL every year, but sometimes the Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball happens too. We're just a little change. So
Speaker 1: monitor of the Phillies very closely in the wagering market
Speaker 1: and in the fantasy market. This might be a great
Speaker 1: time to buy some Phillies on the cheap to see
Speaker 1: if maybe a different voice or maybe just not Joe
Speaker 1: Girardi's presence changes the tone of the locker room or
Speaker 1: the the interesting you know, of the clubhouse. Because I
Speaker 1: think that's there's always a short term Typically there's at
Speaker 1: least the opportunity for a short term boost.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the support you would hope, you would hope, but.
Speaker 1: It might be a guy you you would hope, so,
Speaker 1: but again it might not be long sustained.
Speaker 2: And well, I'll tell you this, they've been so bad
Speaker 2: that everybody's gonna instantly be like, what a great move
Speaker 2: this is when they start winning a couple games. That's
Speaker 2: what's so stupid and weird about that situation.
Speaker 1: Right, they'll go in five and two, and they'll think, oh,
Speaker 1: look it's a complexer.
Speaker 2: Joe Girardi, what a disaster he was. What a great
Speaker 2: move this is for? Who'd you say? Was this? The
Speaker 2: lead singer of Matchbox twenty became the new manager, Rob Thomas.
Speaker 1: I want to push you around? Were live?
Speaker 2: Where we where? Will?
Speaker 1: I love? Nineties guys? Singer voice? Sing any song from
Speaker 1: the nineties in that voice, you know, our hair'll become cumbersome.
Speaker 1: It's the same ass. It's three am, almost beloadly. It's
Speaker 1: the same voice, same voys, same things. It's awesome, cake
Speaker 1: enough of it, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: What do nineties singing Fridays?
Speaker 1: We'll just do that.
Speaker 2: We'll do a singing segment.
Speaker 1: Of our Oh let just talk about that heroes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're losing viewers the more we sing, so we should sie.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Trey Turner extending his hit
Speaker 1: straight to t five games, Paul Goldschmidt right behind it,
Speaker 1: with twenty four of those guys stayed red hot. Craig
Speaker 1: Kimbrel notches the save on Thursday against the mess. Tony
Speaker 1: Gonsolin continues to be unbelievable six inning gym against the Mets,
Speaker 1: Travis Darnault hitting two bombs. The Royals made a move
Speaker 1: acquiring Alberta Brew in a trade with the Rangers. Jameson
Speaker 1: tai On takes the perfect game into the eighth gets
Speaker 1: a w Cetie. Al Kontrac continues to be a maze
Speaker 1: balls blanking the Giants over seven innings. Now wel al
Speaker 1: Contra right now over on FanDuel is plus eight hundred
Speaker 1: for the cy Young. I think this is a fascinating
Speaker 1: time to start investing in al Contra. For this market.
Speaker 1: Eight to one is great odds. You could throw ten
Speaker 1: bucks there and win eighty and just sit and watch it.
Speaker 1: And again, if he continues to be great over the
Speaker 1: next six weeks, that number will probably get cut in
Speaker 1: half and then you can put another twenty on that.
Speaker 1: You don't have to invest a lot to enjoy wagering
Speaker 1: on baseball and to enjoy the futures market here when
Speaker 1: it comes to awards, but our Contra, I think has
Speaker 1: really put himself now into the national consciousness for this award.
Speaker 1: Musk Grove, I think is in that conversation he's also
Speaker 1: at that same eight to one, And of course CORYN.
Speaker 1: Burns is still at the top. But now what sures
Speaker 1: as out of the equation to proms out of the
Speaker 1: equation completely. We knew that all of a sudden some
Speaker 1: of these other guys are gonna start to get more publicity.
Speaker 2: What do you think I really like Sandy. I've actually
Speaker 2: watched Sandy directly his last three starts, because I've done
Speaker 2: pitching props on him, and I believe, if I'm correct,
Speaker 2: he's at least hit hit the over on his strikeout
Speaker 2: props in his last three did yesterday that was one
Speaker 2: that I played as well. He looks phenomenal, He goes
Speaker 2: deep into games, he does not get bogged down. So
Speaker 2: many pitchers man so many pitchers this year, especially whenever
Speaker 2: I bet on them. We'll have these twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: in pitch innings, and Santo Contra is efficient, that change
Speaker 2: up phenomenal controls the zone he just had. It's actually
Speaker 2: kind of like Nestor Cortez in that when you watch
Speaker 2: Nestor Cortez sometimes you're just like, I can't believe we're
Speaker 2: not even talking about him too completely outdeeling.
Speaker 1: Well, a, oh, we got a hold Nestor coret tes second.
Speaker 2: But Nester sometimes he does things where you're just like,
Speaker 2: how are these pitchers so fooled? And you know he
Speaker 2: likes to play off of messing with timing. I saw
Speaker 2: some quick pitches in the first inning of yesterday's game.
Speaker 2: He does. His pitches don't seem like they are so
Speaker 2: wildly incredible, yet you will get guys completely fooled out
Speaker 2: of their brain, so sometimes they can pitch from behind.
Speaker 2: Sanuel Contrac kind of has the same thing. Stuff is awesome,
Speaker 2: but he fulfills it to the very very top where
Speaker 2: he looks like one of the best pictures. You trust
Speaker 2: he's going to go seven every game. You trust he's
Speaker 2: going to strike out six plus every game, and he
Speaker 2: will dominate every game on a Marlins team that you
Speaker 2: know would probably give you a little bit of pause.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I agree. I think if you want to
Speaker 2: have some fun, if you like doing the cy Young
Speaker 2: the award stuff in mid season, put a couple bucks
Speaker 2: on it. Sandy is a killer choice for the nl sion.
Speaker 1: A couple of injury notes. Real quick wi Leah Damas
Speaker 1: making his way back one for three in the rehab start,
Speaker 1: so he should come back probably. I would think early
Speaker 1: next week. I would imagine maybe sooner we shall see
Speaker 1: on exact days off for him. But Lindor was out
Speaker 1: yesterday because of the finger injury too. Slammed his finger
Speaker 1: yeah into a Lindor and unfortunately was unable to play.
Speaker 1: So also shout out to James Geary who won the
Speaker 1: Wander Franco autographed bat. Here again we just giveaway free
Speaker 1: stuff just for hanging out with us. So if you're
Speaker 1: that we had that, we had that last month. It
Speaker 1: was last month in May we had the Gander francl
Speaker 1: bad we gave it away.
Speaker 2: Who won May?
Speaker 1: We had a three way We had a three way
Speaker 1: win for May for the T shirts. Uh those three
Speaker 1: names I do have. Let me just pull that up here.
Speaker 1: But while I'm looking for that, Uh, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this because Nessor Cortes once again was unbelievable. Lois whips
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Right now is Verlander a point
Speaker 1: eight Burns at point a two, Nessor Cortes at point
Speaker 1: eight three. Jeff Passing tweeted this, Cortez is down to
Speaker 1: one point five after seven shutout innings. Thirty sixth round
Speaker 1: pick by the Yankees returned to them as a rule
Speaker 1: five pick in Baltimore and then traded the Seattle, got
Speaker 1: released back to New York. Is there a better story
Speaker 1: than Nestor Cortez right now? No?
Speaker 2: No, I mean Nestor Cortez looks like one of the
Speaker 2: best pitchers in baseball. He shouldn't, but he does.
Speaker 1: He looks.
Speaker 2: It's those guys, man, I fall in love with those
Speaker 2: guys that screw it timing. That's one thing I've always
Speaker 2: loved about Hazus Lozardo. Johnny Quato is the most famous
Speaker 2: for it, for just being just kind of crazy and
Speaker 2: messing with timing. It is peak efficiency and Nestor comes
Speaker 2: out there and you know, I to be fair, I
Speaker 2: always kind of talk about his stuff feeling average. It
Speaker 2: was ninety four, and he just moves it all around.
Speaker 2: He is He is incredibly, incredibly fun to watch, and
Speaker 2: it is an incredible story too. I always love those
Speaker 2: like what was it like, Johann Santana, wasn't he like
Speaker 2: a rule five? He was? Yeah? Yeah, those are always
Speaker 2: like really uniquely fun stories. And he's kind of got
Speaker 2: he's got that path. He's got that path where he
Speaker 2: was just couldn't do anything. Also, just side note, if
Speaker 2: you think about the New York Yankees and how they developed,
Speaker 2: you know, really great minor league prospect systems. They have
Speaker 2: had great pitching prospects for quite some time. To think
Speaker 2: that Nestor Cortez is maybe the most valuable outside of
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole pitcher on this team when they've had guys
Speaker 2: like Davey Garcia, Luis Medina and the miners Luis Severino
Speaker 2: has developed, and you know, just a handful more, it
Speaker 2: is relatively incredible. Even beyond just that story of you know,
Speaker 2: Rule five and changing teams and being bought back. Also
Speaker 2: that that is not Yankees are not an organization that
Speaker 2: have like, you know, minor leaguers or minor league pitching. No,
Speaker 2: it's really good, huge names, big names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. And also to answer your question, there were
Speaker 1: three people, the three way tie who won the t
Speaker 1: Shirts de Blom title. Chaser ninety and Drew all called
Speaker 1: twelve home runs in the month of May, and two
Speaker 1: of the three got multiple homers from Johanno Suarez on
Speaker 1: May six, the greatest Yahoo player that ever lived.
Speaker 2: Well, the greatest Yahoo player. Yeah, it didn't work out yesterday.
Speaker 1: Fred, which again now somebody counteracted that on Twitter. And
Speaker 1: and also said, I don't know what the hell Mayor
Speaker 1: was pulling up. But this is not true, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what Mayor was looking at. What stat things?
Speaker 2: Well, they had an all timeline too. They called Mayor
Speaker 2: the Thief of Joy, which was Joy timeline.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is the greatest title for Mike Mayer. Ever,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the overlay change next time he's on
Speaker 1: the show. So underneath, you know, we're Welsh's face on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel where it says Chris Welsh. Instead it's
Speaker 1: gonna say Thief of Joy. Oh that's gonna be you
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 2: But just want to point out that is four four
Speaker 2: cool things that were given away in the month of
Speaker 2: May to listeners of the show. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, Wander Franco autographed bat and three T shirts
Speaker 1: for leading off. I mean, unbelievable stuff. Also, it wasn't
Speaker 1: all roses for Nestor Cortez because Jim Cott once again
Speaker 1: put his foot in his mouth. Jim Cott is a
Speaker 1: great announcer, but Jim Cott needs to step aside. I
Speaker 1: think it's time for him to or at least be
Speaker 1: more careful. I know he called him Nestor the molester,
Speaker 1: it's just not a good look, and we all have
Speaker 1: tes doesn't help.
Speaker 2: It doesn't help. We all have those moments where we
Speaker 2: say things and you kind of catch yourself in the
Speaker 2: moment you're like, oh, that was stupid, and you could
Speaker 2: kind of laugh at it. He definitely should have immediately
Speaker 2: been like, my bad, because it's not just a horrific name,
Speaker 2: but yeah, nessor Cortes. The look also doesn't it's not great.
Speaker 1: Why Grandpa?
Speaker 2: Why did grandpa? Announcers and play by play why do
Speaker 2: they say so many stupid things? Is it because there's
Speaker 2: such a large number of them that are talking so much,
Speaker 2: the amount of dumb things where they start to talk
Speaker 2: about players, money in their chains and things.
Speaker 1: We say, yes, there is a bit of a there
Speaker 1: is a bit of that old guard in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball announcing that has You got to realize these guys
Speaker 1: work more than one hundred and sixty two games a
Speaker 1: year because they're also working spring training. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of talking. Three hours straight a day. I mean I
Speaker 1: do more than that in the day typically, but I
Speaker 1: don't do it continuous. I'll do two hours here and
Speaker 1: then an hour later in the afternoon, an hour later
Speaker 1: then it's a lot and eventually, yes, sometimes you go
Speaker 1: a little cross eyed, you say stupid things, but man alive,
Speaker 1: like it's and it's you can get away because you're old.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're like, oh, don't you know, just ignore a ground.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's it's just the oldest. Your brain just starts to fry.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, let me tell you about my
Speaker 2: opinions on the economy like that. Just stop, like stop
Speaker 2: with those things. And these old guys really need nothing.
Speaker 1: Tom Brenneman and uh, you know, the fly ball to
Speaker 1: left field and I think I've lost my job and
Speaker 1: there's a ball, there's a fly ball left all you
Speaker 1: know what?
Speaker 2: You know what now that I think about it, let's
Speaker 2: not get rid of these guys. What would we be
Speaker 2: without these types of moments. We need levity, we need
Speaker 2: stupidity in baseball.
Speaker 1: I think everybody deserves second chances, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: has to understand these jobs are hard. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: say things and you know, oops, you know it, just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not great.
Speaker 2: Hey, sometimes you call someone need to get over themselves too.
Speaker 1: They need to realize that this is not nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five anymore. And the game has changed and the people
Speaker 1: in it have changed, and you've got to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more aware of your surroundings too. They they've
Speaker 1: got to it. The problem is they don't work to
Speaker 1: improve because they've already established themselves. So there's no incentive
Speaker 1: for them to establish themselves and to improve unless it's
Speaker 1: do not lose your job.
Speaker 2: That's the only problem with I appreciate you. I appreciate
Speaker 2: you that you are alike how you are. You're very
Speaker 2: optimistic about the whole thing, and you kind of have
Speaker 2: I love the attitude of like, hey, sometimes we call
Speaker 2: people molesters and stuff. That's totally normal, right.
Speaker 1: No, but he didn't mean it like you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't mean it like that. He like he meant it
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, it rhymes. He was too excited
Speaker 1: with the fact that it rhyme. Did even think about
Speaker 1: the repercussions of of what he was rhyming it with.
Speaker 2: That rap music. Make got to make sure I get
Speaker 2: a rhyme in here.
Speaker 1: Now, let's let's quit this before we say something stupid.
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra fun facts. Here we go. He writes,
Speaker 1: first in era in the National League, first in x ERA,
Speaker 1: first in innings pitch first UH in wins, he's tied
Speaker 1: for six. UH with six I should say eleven starts first,
Speaker 1: one point nine to one opponent's batting average he is second.
Speaker 1: He is plus eight hundred right now on FanDuel to bet.
Speaker 1: I would go ahead and bet that he's probably probably
Speaker 1: eight hundred on bet MGM and a couple other places
Speaker 1: as well. Eight quality starts seventy one strikeouts is third,
Speaker 1: the eight quality starts is tied for second, and the
Speaker 1: whip is tied for third a point nine to eight unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Also fun fact, yesterday was the first time since nineteen
Speaker 1: forty five that a player served as a starting pitcher
Speaker 1: in a matinee before starting the second game of a
Speaker 1: doubleheader as a non pitcher. Of course, shoe Otani once
Speaker 1: again making baseball history. Here you go, Welsh, I know
Speaker 1: you love the trivia. Tony Gonsolin yesterday led National League
Speaker 1: leads the National League in era at one point five nine.
Speaker 1: Who was the last Dodgers pitcher to finish as the
Speaker 1: n L e r A leader? And it is not
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, for all your peanuts and cracker check, So
Speaker 1: who's the last Dodger to lead the league in uh
Speaker 1: e r A drop your potential voices right there?
Speaker 2: You know what, It's funny. I was looking at the
Speaker 2: next thing. I was looking at the next thing, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, I guess not a Dodger, Like how is
Speaker 2: this the answer? Like you don't have this answer in there?
Speaker 2: I was like, these do not.
Speaker 1: I didn't put the answer because you keep yelling at me.
Speaker 1: I put in the answer and you want.
Speaker 2: Okay, So again it's Tony. Who's the last Dodgers picture
Speaker 2: to finish as the n L E R. Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1: It's not Clayton Kershaw, the last Love, the last one.
Speaker 1: It's oh was it?
Speaker 2: Wait? Wait? Wait was it you? Every hour?
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't yet or anyone who rhymes with that.
Speaker 1: This day in baseball history in nineteen ninety five, the
Speaker 1: Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez, Yes, the Expos picture is perfect
Speaker 1: for nine innings in San Diego, but loses a no
Speaker 1: hitter when bit Roberts, a name from the past, doubles
Speaker 1: delete off the tenth. Montreal eventually comes away with a
Speaker 1: one nothing win, but he lost the no hitter in
Speaker 1: ten innings. Stat Heroes Yesterday ty On was great. Eight innings,
Speaker 1: five k's one earned. Al Contra and Cortez talked about them.
Speaker 1: Gonsolin five k's no earned six innings. I still say
Speaker 1: the wheels have gotta come off eventually. Gonsoly can't be
Speaker 1: this good this long. I just I can't buy it, can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. Graham ash Ashcraft, Now I screwed it up.
Speaker 2: Watch out the innings.
Speaker 1: Five k's for Ashcraft, you know Ashcraft. Sean Manyah, that's
Speaker 1: a great Tony Danzel. The word is that Ishcrift Craft's
Speaker 1: a great pitcher. Mona Samita Jenetine Edhcrift Sean Mania one
Speaker 1: earned six innings, eight ks, and Alec Manoa five k's
Speaker 1: over seven to two thirds, three earned. Travis Darnau two dingers. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Schwindell hit a home run sort of Jorge Alfaro. It
Speaker 1: was the catchers going yard. Joey Vado, who was our
Speaker 1: cheap lineup guy of the night last night. Oh look,
Speaker 1: another home run for Joey Vado. To ask Hernandez, last
Speaker 1: week's by low candidate starting to show signs of life.
Speaker 1: Two for five with the dinger, Harrison Bader with a
Speaker 1: home run, Kyle Farmer hit a home run, Connor Joe
Speaker 1: two for three, and Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 2: All the guys you hire, all the guys you put
Speaker 2: your hopes in yesterday, of course, the Kyle Farmers, the
Speaker 2: Jason Peterson's and the Connor Joe's, everybody that you wanted
Speaker 2: to succeed yesterday. Thank you so much, Jason Connor.
Speaker 1: The answer is here, by the way, and I believe,
Speaker 1: if I'm correctly, Jesse was the first one. Reu that's
Speaker 1: that's the last guy to do it. There you have it.
Speaker 1: Lead the National League all right before his arm's falling off,
Speaker 1: which it is right now. Stat zero's Austin Gomer nine
Speaker 1: earned runs in five innings, Ian Anderson five earned runs
Speaker 1: and six innings, boy and Anderson not going the right direction.
Speaker 1: Matthew Lebator was disappointing. I'll take the l on that one.
Speaker 1: Taylor Rogers four earned run, did not get an out
Speaker 1: last three outings, three losses, two blown saves. Trush is
Speaker 1: the Padres ownership to do here with Taylor Rogers? What
Speaker 1: do we do?
Speaker 2: Get get more armed, to get all the arms? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I thought you were I thought you were
Speaker 2: being retorted.
Speaker 1: No, I mean they made this move that April. Now
Speaker 1: we're sitting here and all of a sudden it doesn't
Speaker 1: look so great. So I guess the question is is
Speaker 1: this a blip on the radar here these last few outings.
Speaker 1: This is a mechanical issue. Craig Kimberl just had a
Speaker 1: mechanical issue. He fixed it. If you're the padres, what
Speaker 1: do you do here? Do you take him out of
Speaker 1: the role or do you look for more help? What's
Speaker 1: the deal?
Speaker 2: I mean? The problem is is, like, you know, they
Speaker 2: had Suarez, who was like a you know, a far
Speaker 2: off thought who can throw one hundred but can't throw
Speaker 2: a strike. They just don't have the other arms to
Speaker 2: go to unless, you know, obviously, unless they were to
Speaker 2: start taking all those starting pitchers and put someone back there.
Speaker 2: I think you got to stick through it unless it
Speaker 2: gets too bad. I mean, it's like the Phillies and
Speaker 2: you know, oh you lost ten and you fire him
Speaker 2: like you're already. I think you got to stick through it.
Speaker 2: He's been phenomenal all season. It's fallen off a little bit.
Speaker 2: This happens with these relievers, but you can't you don't
Speaker 2: want to kill confidence. Give him a couple days off.
Speaker 2: Put someone else in there. You don't p Peter Johnson
Speaker 2: right now, give someone else a shot, bring him back,
Speaker 2: see if you can get it. And if if this continues,
Speaker 2: then obviously what will they do. What would Peller do?
Speaker 2: Go buy, go trade, go make moves. That's what he'll do.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout oh for six, three K Showyotani won for
Speaker 1: eight with three k's Joey Gallo won for seven, three
Speaker 1: k's pet A Lonzo four, three k's Christian Yelich oh
Speaker 1: for four to three k's Christian Yelich hitting a buck
Speaker 1: twenty over his last seven games and Randiro's arena over five.
Speaker 1: I'm done with Yelich. Look, you know, Yelich and Bellinger
Speaker 1: was like the hot discussion in preseason. One of these
Speaker 1: guys get bounced back. Who's that guy gonna be? I
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with either one of them. And
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I got zero share as well, because
Speaker 1: it's been a hot mess. And I thought there was
Speaker 1: this little glimmer of hope there when Yellick hit that
Speaker 1: cycle and he had a good week, when like, okay,
Speaker 1: he was gonna turn things around. But look, I understand
Speaker 1: Willia Donalds getting hurt didn't help. I understand there's not
Speaker 1: a ton of lineup protection, but geez man, I mean,
Speaker 1: like this Yelich window, he's because gona be We're gonna
Speaker 1: look back at Yelich as one of these guys that
Speaker 1: was like remember that two year window that was awesome.
Speaker 1: It's like that Chris Farley interview on SNL when you say, remember, hey,
Speaker 1: when you're in the Beatles. Remember remember You're in the Beatles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's good, But we're gonna look back at
Speaker 2: that Marlin's team. I do that all the time, where
Speaker 2: it's like, can you believe they had Ozuna, Yellich and
Speaker 2: Stanton at one time and Yelich looks like the worst
Speaker 2: Fernandez we just did. We were just talking with Frank
Speaker 2: Sample from CBS on IL about this exact thing that
Speaker 2: it's so it is this exact thing you're saying Gellich
Speaker 2: and Bellinger because it's so funny because what's ended up
Speaker 2: happening is it's all irrelevant. It doesn't matter at this point,
Speaker 2: there is no winner. Everybody loses, and the bigger part
Speaker 2: of the conversation is these guys are no longer in
Speaker 2: that space where we're like, hey, this is kind of
Speaker 2: a value. Could we get back to this? No, this
Speaker 2: is who they actually are, and that's what we have
Speaker 2: to come to terms with. Bellinger's not good and I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's a change of scenery or whatever
Speaker 2: it is. He's an eight or nine hitter at best.
Speaker 2: On the Dodgers. She hits two thirty. The best you're
Speaker 2: gonna get out of Yelich, it looks like is a
Speaker 2: two forty ish hitter who could have better counting stats
Speaker 2: because of the stolen bases and whatnot. But there is
Speaker 2: no more building the upside on these players. We draft
Speaker 2: them because hey, we could get this. It's like, No,
Speaker 2: we have to come to terms with. This is who
Speaker 2: those players are, and if you want to play upside,
Speaker 2: there's probably gonna be one hundred, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: better names come next year than diving into either one
Speaker 2: of those guys.
Speaker 1: You want to call them, comebine, you want to call
Speaker 1: them Bellich or Yellinger. What's the Belle.
Speaker 2: Bellich?
Speaker 1: For sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds more like aggressive like Bellich.
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Speaker 2: All right, totally the same thing to totally the same thing.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber on DraftKings tonight. The strikeout total number is
Speaker 1: five and a half. We have him over on Fantasy
Speaker 1: Pros against Baltimore at eight and a half minus one
Speaker 1: twenty is the juice that looks like a really good
Speaker 1: investment over on bet MGM. Jose Ramirez total bases one
Speaker 1: and a half. The juice is minus one o six.
Speaker 1: That's not bad for a guy of that nature. Also,
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Speaker 1: against Anderson, the lefty for the Dodgers, plus one ten,
Speaker 1: one and a half total bases Welsh anything strike your
Speaker 1: fancy on the prompt market today?
Speaker 2: Well, how about that three and oh day yesterday for
Speaker 2: me too? Ian Anderson? Three and a half was my number.
Speaker 2: I took that. That was plus money. I think it
Speaker 2: was even or plus money. He hit nine and I
Speaker 2: hit my two total base over, So three and oh yesterday. Friend,
Speaker 2: does I don't know if I love. I haven't dug
Speaker 2: through every single thing. I might tweet out a couple.
Speaker 2: I don't love the options you have this this week.
Speaker 2: And here's part of the problem is there's such big names,
Speaker 2: and the big names are getting tougher. You're not getting
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of advantages on players like Sandy's strikeout
Speaker 2: yesterday was five and a half, that will be six
Speaker 2: and a half next week. There's no way they're gonna
Speaker 2: let you play at anything lower. And that's what's happening
Speaker 2: to the rest of these guys. I do have two
Speaker 2: bigger names. I still like to play Logan Gilbert. Logan
Speaker 2: Gilbert at five and a half strikeouts, it's a little dicey.
Speaker 2: I think he's hit that number five. He's five and
Speaker 2: four essentially on that number. But I like the matchup
Speaker 2: and this one. I really don't play these a whole lot,
Speaker 2: but I think I might hear Shane McClanahan strikeouts is
Speaker 2: a seven and a half. I think I would take
Speaker 2: the under on that. He absolutely can go over. But
Speaker 2: White Sox strike out the fourth least in baseball per game,
Speaker 2: and they're not on any you know. That was something
Speaker 2: I took advantage of with Ian Anderson that the Rockies
Speaker 2: didn't strike out necessarily as much, but they had currently
Speaker 2: been striking out a decent amount. White Sox are kind
Speaker 2: of in that same role in that same period of
Speaker 2: time that I don't know if I love this matchup
Speaker 2: for McClanahan, especially with how patient they are and hitting
Speaker 2: eight strikeouts. So I actually think I might hit the
Speaker 2: under on that. And I think it's juice though at
Speaker 2: one forty, so maybe I put two together. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of total base ones out there, but I'm not
Speaker 2: in love like I was yesterday, but those are two that.
Speaker 1: I kind of did. All right, let's look to the
Speaker 1: slates tonight and looking ahead over on DraftKings for TFS.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber at nine point eight, good investment, Merrill Kelly
Speaker 1: Rural Merle six point eight, super cheap as a secondary arm.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole is going to be the chalk tonight, and
Speaker 1: that's fine at ten point nine. Uh shame m Klina
Speaker 1: at nine point six. My only problem with McClanahan tonight
Speaker 1: also is without Wonder Franco in that lineup, I just
Speaker 1: have very little faith. I know it's Velaskiez they're going against,
Speaker 1: and I should have more faith, but still it's just
Speaker 1: I worry about the win. I worry about them scoring
Speaker 1: runs like he get brilliant and get a no decision,
Speaker 1: and that I'm staying away from tonight. He's six point five.
Speaker 1: He's super cheap too.
Speaker 2: And I just want to point out like he is nasty.
Speaker 2: I think from a Dynasty perspective, it's number one pitcher.
Speaker 2: This is the guy that you go with. It's just
Speaker 2: white Sox. They can run counts, they can run his
Speaker 2: pitch count up. There's not a lot of offensive support.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree with you, like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that like the wins are going to be there for
Speaker 2: a time, but I hate this offense without Wander Franco
Speaker 2: right now, and mcclan don't like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, if you want to be a little
Speaker 1: different tonight, you can go with Logan Gilbert and Chris
Speaker 1: Bassett together and kind of fade the top guys. Eight
Speaker 1: point six for Gilbert, eight point one for Bassett. Musgrove
Speaker 1: and Burns are going against each other, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to pick a side here now. If I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick a side, I'm gonna pick the mus Grove side.
Speaker 1: But once again, both these sides have problems, and I
Speaker 1: think if you're gonna spend up, you might as well
Speaker 1: just go all the way to the top and try
Speaker 1: to get Garrett Cole because the path to the win
Speaker 1: is just much clearer there for him because Burns right now,
Speaker 1: the offense of the Brewers isn't great, and we just
Speaker 1: talked about the Padres blowing saves. So again, these guys
Speaker 1: could both be awesome at the end of the day
Speaker 1: not get the w and that could cost you. On
Speaker 1: FanDuel Garrett Cole at ten point eight he's cheaper than
Speaker 1: Jane McClanahan. I would take it safer, pass to the win,
Speaker 1: Musgrove and Burn, same thing. You could pick a side.
Speaker 1: The nice thing is that, like all these big pictures
Speaker 1: tonight on FanDuel are all pretty much in that same range.
Speaker 1: So you could just make a good lineup that you
Speaker 1: like offensively and then look around for some of the
Speaker 1: pictures and switch around. You know, hopefully if you're gonna
Speaker 1: play multi entry tonight and tonight it's a good night.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 1: In tournaments, just one of those lineups hopefully will really
Speaker 1: come through. The good names tonight. In terms of BVP
Speaker 1: you're looking at, Honestly, there's not a whole lot, but
Speaker 1: the one guy that kind of sticks out to me
Speaker 1: is Caesar Hernandez, who has been very quietly good at
Speaker 1: the top of that Nationals lineup, and it's not a
Speaker 1: good lineup. Nelson Cruz also has good numbers against minor
Speaker 1: so keep that in mind. Tonight, home run call Welsh,
Speaker 1: I actually forgot to put mine in there. This morning
Speaker 1: when I was doing all the show sheets, I remembered finally,
Speaker 1: oh wait, I forgot to put my guy in. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Aaron Judge for the weekend against the Tigers.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the fish in the barrel because
Speaker 1: I want to be on that board we come back
Speaker 1: here on Monday. I want to see that name of
Speaker 1: Joey p Up on that board. Welsh, who's your home
Speaker 1: run call for the weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I
Speaker 1: like it?
Speaker 2: And that's the play, my friend. That's a smart thing
Speaker 2: to do here. My home run call. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go with Vladdie Junior to get it going some good
Speaker 2: over numbers two on the Minnesota and Blue Jays, just
Speaker 2: like even today's line is like nine and a half
Speaker 2: right now, and I'm going to be looking for him
Speaker 2: to pick it back up, get me a couple homers
Speaker 2: and get me back into this race a little bit.
Speaker 2: So Laddie Junior Friday through Sunday for wah, Hey, I.
Speaker 1: Got Matt Olson going. You should get Lattie going. Let's go,
Speaker 1: everybody gets going. Mike Mayer, the Thief of Joy is
Speaker 1: gonna take Bryce Harper. So he expected an immediate response
Speaker 1: from Joe Girardi's firing of now I'm free and running
Speaker 1: in a meadow. We'll see what other shoes are gonna
Speaker 1: drop here over the weekend. Certainly, the injuries are starting
Speaker 1: to pile up a wee bit. It's been a little frustrating.
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez did indeed get the lat strain diagnosis yesterday.
Speaker 2: Not fun.
Speaker 1: I assume in the month of June we are going
Speaker 1: to get some team to make a move off for
Speaker 1: a picture. I don't know who's gonna blink first, but
Speaker 1: I feel like somebody's gonna be aggressive on that market
Speaker 1: sooner than later. Castillo, montass Perez, one of these guys
Speaker 1: is gonna get moved. Also Welsh. Anything you're looking for
Speaker 1: this weekend to keep an eye on for everybody, you know.
Speaker 2: One guy I would take a look at if he
Speaker 2: got back out on the wire just throwing it out
Speaker 2: there is being a lookout for cj Abrams if you
Speaker 2: want to look at the prospect market. C j Abrams
Speaker 2: has been absolutely dominating. Triple A made one of the
Speaker 2: most insane plays. Go back and just do a type
Speaker 2: on Twitter where I mean it was Jeter esque but better.
Speaker 2: I mean just one handing in the outfield from shortstop
Speaker 2: and throwing it to first Great Defensively, he's been playing
Speaker 2: center and short, he's been hitting like crazy, and I
Speaker 2: think that offense could use a little boost here coming soon,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I think I would be premptively
Speaker 2: getting CJ. Abrams back as I think a call should
Speaker 2: be coming here pretty soon for the padres.
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