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Speaker 1: fun today. Oh hello, Bubba, what a weekend of he
Speaker 1: knew he who shall not be named players, huge home
Speaker 1: run board changes and a whole bunch more Bubba, How
Speaker 1: was your weekend, my friend?
Speaker 2: It was good. It was a chill pretty hot where
Speaker 2: I live, pretty hot where you live. It's a relaxing
Speaker 2: weekend actually for the first time god knows how long.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just watch some baseball, watch some golf, and
Speaker 2: so far I am not in do not fly list,
Speaker 2: so we're good.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, Bubba and Welsh. He's staying out
Speaker 1: of trouble. I'm gonna stay out of trouble. In this segment,
Speaker 1: we will talk about that thing here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Tons of talk about and we have a brand new
Speaker 1: where are Corbin and Welsh today. Uh, in just a
Speaker 1: little bit, I'm going to give you the hint, and
Speaker 1: then at the end when we get to the home
Speaker 1: run contest, I am going to We're going to get
Speaker 1: into it. Remember, I'm gonna start tallying. So this is
Speaker 1: going to be done only in the chat. So once
Speaker 1: I give the hint, and you know, leading up to it,
Speaker 1: you guys can give some guesses. I will tally in
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have a little you know, autograph Corby
Speaker 1: Carroll card to give at the end of the season
Speaker 1: for everybody that hangs out and plays the game. Where
Speaker 1: are where are we? Now? That's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Matt Olsen took over the home run
Speaker 1: board not just here and vaulting me up a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And Joe, Joe finds this amazing way every
Speaker 1: year to hone in on the player. When he leaves
Speaker 1: that he's just like, I'll take the player and that
Speaker 1: guy just has homer's galore because he took medals and
Speaker 1: I took medalson this week in Bubba. He had three
Speaker 1: homers this week and including a double dong day now
Speaker 1: forty three. I believe that is too up on Otani
Speaker 1: for the league lead in home runs.
Speaker 2: It is two up on Otani. It's got well over
Speaker 2: one hundred RBIs this year. It's crazy as recording a
Speaker 2: show on Sunday night and just bone blasts one off
Speaker 2: of the eighth inning, and I'm just like, the guy's
Speaker 2: just not human. It's like I just said it a
Speaker 2: while ago on Twitter. While the brains are a cheat
Speaker 2: coild right now and they don't even need coors Field,
Speaker 2: that just wherever they play. It's insane.
Speaker 1: He has nuts that you remember that bet we were talking
Speaker 1: about last week, the Akunya or any other player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's still live on DK.
Speaker 2: Olson's making an argument, but it's moved down.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit. It moved the plus was five hundred,
Speaker 1: it's moved to plus four hundred. Acunyas is still the
Speaker 1: exact same. Matt Olsen. Not to say that it would happen,
Speaker 1: because especially when you have two players eating into each other,
Speaker 1: but you do want to start talking about the crazy
Speaker 1: things that can happen with still like almost two months
Speaker 1: left of a season, he's got forty three. He's plus
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred. If you are trying to bet MVP Freddy
Speaker 1: Freeman is plus four hundred, and those are probably your
Speaker 1: two biggest bets. You're you're essentially betting Olsen and Freeman
Speaker 1: to beat Akunya when you get that plus four hundred.
Speaker 1: But if you want to bet Olsen eighteen hundred, the
Speaker 1: better odds are just sticking with him. He has been
Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers. I mean, do you think, how badly do
Speaker 1: you think we underestimated Matt Olsen? And how much do
Speaker 1: you buy this version of Matt Olsen right now going
Speaker 1: into next year. I know that's kind of a weird question.
Speaker 1: But he's got his batting of which is two seventy three.
Speaker 1: He's already hit over one hundred rbi. He's this week
Speaker 1: he's gonna probably crush thee hundred run marker. And you
Speaker 1: want to talk about, you know, baseball savant fishing. Here
Speaker 1: he is the king of Kings. It's ninety nine percentile
Speaker 1: bill percentage, ninety nine percent to a hard hit, walk
Speaker 1: is ninety six percent, oile x lug ninety eight percent
Speaker 1: tile Outside of the strikeouts, he's improved in every other facet.
Speaker 1: I just made an adjustment in my dynasty rank to
Speaker 1: kind of re establish who he's been this year. Do
Speaker 1: you think we're gonna be paying next year for what
Speaker 1: Olsen did this year? And that's gonna hurt.
Speaker 2: Us one hundred percent. You're gonna have to pay the
Speaker 2: piper on this one. I think he's close to this talent.
Speaker 2: I think he's more of a two fifty hitter, but
Speaker 2: the power's legit. This is who he is, especially in
Speaker 2: that ballpark he got to Oakland, which we all knew
Speaker 2: would benefit him in a big, big way. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he's worth every penny. He's like, I guess
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things, we're paying the price
Speaker 2: because if people like Pete Alonso, why don't you like
Speaker 2: Matt Olson, Like they should be going to the same
Speaker 2: conversation now come draft day. Alonzo's proven he can it
Speaker 2: for a better average, more consistently throughout his career. But Olsen,
Speaker 2: You're gonna pay the price. And that's just the way
Speaker 2: it's gonna go. It's gonna be interesting to see if
Speaker 2: it's worth enough, because he got Freddie Freeman, not his
Speaker 2: gold shmitht fall. Even more, he's not having the greatest season,
Speaker 2: but still a good season. Like that's a whole other
Speaker 2: discussion for later. At a different time. But yes, you
Speaker 2: will be paying for med Olson and it's probably worth it.
Speaker 2: Just know it ain't gonna be this good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like it doesn't mean it's like a negative
Speaker 1: when you say you're paying you know this for last
Speaker 1: year's production.
Speaker 2: You're pretty good. You're getting forty plus homers, even if
Speaker 2: it's two fifty average, he's gonna get one hundred rbiyes regardless,
Speaker 2: Like it's still going to be a great pay spot.
Speaker 2: But you will be paying.
Speaker 1: It's just like I think this year we paid for
Speaker 1: pet Alonzo the previous year, and that's maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of disappointment, not to say that these are going
Speaker 1: to be the same. The strikeout worries definitely are something
Speaker 1: with Matt Olson, but you also can argue like there's
Speaker 1: so much lineup protection. And also walk made a great point.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about beneficiaries of the shift. That's
Speaker 1: one of the guys right there. You know it's a
Speaker 1: it's a big victory lap. He said the shift rules
Speaker 1: benefited him even if he's just.
Speaker 2: Hitting it over everybody. Yeah, did they shift in the bleachers?
Speaker 2: Did I miss that part?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the homers have been to yeah, but
Speaker 1: to that point, though I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much quantitative stuff we have. I don't have it
Speaker 1: like in front of me, but without the shift. I
Speaker 1: do think there are some pitchers that are pitching differently
Speaker 1: a la Sande Contra. I think the approach to pictures
Speaker 1: might be a little bit different on heavy pole guys.
Speaker 1: And Matt Olson is one of those players. So he
Speaker 1: did good by me this weekend, my friend. So wait
Speaker 1: till you see that home run board. Wel she's coming.
Speaker 1: If I could do the whistle the nigan, the.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I go say Omar's coming from
Speaker 2: the water.
Speaker 1: Oh that would be another Yeah, see right there, I
Speaker 1: nailed that Nigan's coming. But it's well, So let's get
Speaker 1: that photoshop in here, please, we're all photoshopped out.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: The Yankees absolute collapse. This is a quote by Clay Holmes.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend. The mountain gets bigger with every loss.
Speaker 1: We put together some wins and string them together and
Speaker 1: get some momentum going and then pull down the drain.
Speaker 1: And they gave up. I think it was a five
Speaker 1: run eighth or ninth, was it? It was a five
Speaker 1: runner from the Marlins, and the Yankees are in a
Speaker 1: full on collapse, So you know, we're not trying to celebrate,
Speaker 1: but a little bit, a little bit, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: A little bit. The Evil Empire for a reason.
Speaker 1: What do you think, by the way, is going to
Speaker 1: be the fantasy catalyst from this collapse? Is it going
Speaker 1: to be aggressiveness and free agency for players that they're
Speaker 1: going to go pick up. Do you think someone's losing
Speaker 1: their job? Do you think there's a player two that
Speaker 1: is going to get ousted?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How do you think they're going to rebound from this?
Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting because you know, Cashman's had
Speaker 2: his leash forever, but it feels like it's either let
Speaker 2: him spend all the money, which they've kind of held
Speaker 2: back in the last few years because they said they
Speaker 2: wanted to save Fortani and others, or Cashman's gone. That's
Speaker 2: going to be the real That'll be the first domino
Speaker 2: that will determine I think everything else after that, and
Speaker 2: that'll be the interesting part for sure.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Dane Dunning this week, and I
Speaker 1: you know, we could have put him in the like
Speaker 1: three up and three down, but I wanted to highlight
Speaker 1: him with.
Speaker 2: The Giants first. I'm just gonna stop you right ahead.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but struck out twelve. He's now had double
Speaker 1: digit strikeouts in two of his last three. He has
Speaker 1: been kind of a monster. A three to ten ERA
Speaker 1: has a big all expected era though over a run
Speaker 1: over four point three five to his three to one
Speaker 1: zero era. Guys are hitting him hard. But this is
Speaker 1: one of those guys. I think we've talked about it here.
Speaker 1: You just have players, and especially if you make a
Speaker 1: board of players that defy what the underlying things say
Speaker 1: to you, I would say Dane Dunning is probably on
Speaker 1: this because there isn't much working in his favor as
Speaker 1: far as like what's good. You know, he doesn't walk
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of guys. He's a command pitcher, pitches
Speaker 1: to command. But he's taken this new step so far
Speaker 1: kind of really. Ever since the trade deadlineer for being
Speaker 1: on August, he's got a two to one eight RA
Speaker 1: over his last three starts, twenty nine strikeouts in twenty
Speaker 1: innings pitched, and looking at this, he did not have
Speaker 1: one single month leading up to this one where he
Speaker 1: had more strikeouts than innings pitched. Ever, and then this
Speaker 1: month he's gone off. Do you buy Dane Dunning rest
Speaker 1: of season because I'm pretty sure ownership is still very
Speaker 1: very palatable out there.
Speaker 2: The Dunning thing, he's still a streamer for me, is
Speaker 2: just much more like towards the top of the streamer list,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense for people. Uh, there's gonna be
Speaker 2: matchups where you might still get you okay racials, but
Speaker 2: strikeouts won't be there. But there's matchup like the Giants,
Speaker 2: he had the whiffs and like if you see if
Speaker 2: you're a CSW person, he had all that going. He
Speaker 2: was shutting him down. He's in the same kind of
Speaker 2: discussion as like a Brady Singer where they're getting you
Speaker 2: the ratios, but the strikeouts kind of fluctuate based on
Speaker 2: their outings. So I think Dunning is very very formidable
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have chances for wins with that lineup
Speaker 2: in a big, big way. So he's a good streamer
Speaker 2: going forward. I still can't start him confidently every time out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big strikeout teams do make me feel confident. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm like, probably one more start away, one
Speaker 1: more start like this, well.
Speaker 2: At least the middle of the pack team. I I'd
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, now we can kind of live with it.
Speaker 1: Could the Rangers have later this week, let's.
Speaker 2: Go to like they have the Angels to open I
Speaker 2: know the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they got the Angels right now, So
Speaker 1: dunning would be let's look at Friday. That team is
Speaker 1: a team with the name as the Brewers.
Speaker 2: Okay, so would you I'd start doing I started donning
Speaker 2: us the Brewers.
Speaker 1: I think we're getting into a space where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: so who are you not starting donning a gait?
Speaker 2: Okay? The Braves a top probably like a top ten offense.
Speaker 2: I'm still staying away. Like the Ora, he hasn't face
Speaker 2: the Rangers, so that's good. The Orioles, like if he's
Speaker 2: going into Coors are great American.
Speaker 1: I'd be very hesitant you started versus team like Boston.
Speaker 2: Right now they're surging, so I'd be very nervous there.
Speaker 2: I'd be very nervous. That's why it's kind of like
Speaker 2: a I really would be picking my bad, especially as
Speaker 2: it's later in the season. If you get shelld it's
Speaker 2: really really hard now to fix those ratios. If you're
Speaker 2: in a roto format, I know, like you know itl
Speaker 2: they preach the head to head this time of year
Speaker 2: and everything. But if you're playing rotos, that he could
Speaker 2: be one of those guys that'd either he's great for
Speaker 2: you last few weeks or he could crush you in
Speaker 2: the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: Well that's ahead. He can crush you too, crush any
Speaker 1: possibility of your playoffs. You got to get ratios, right,
Speaker 1: That's why I get a little bit more worried. But
Speaker 1: I feel like he has become more startable than not startable,
Speaker 1: and those are guys. Is that it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you can start taking risks with with there are
Speaker 1: more teams that you can play him against than you can't,
Speaker 1: and that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: And he's got a good schedule. It's Milwaukee this week,
Speaker 2: at Minnesota next week. You're starting for both of those,
Speaker 2: So he's definitely on the path of you know, he's
Speaker 2: only got six or seven more starts, so you're probably
Speaker 2: starting at least four of those, just just thinking out loud,
Speaker 2: four or five at least. That's probably a pretty solid
Speaker 2: ad for sure.
Speaker 1: Lead you right into fantasy playoffs or crunch time for roto.
Speaker 1: Interesting stuff in the chat going on a lot of
Speaker 1: Matt Olson rank stuff. Vlad came in there, which is interesting,
Speaker 1: And you know, I just moved. I was moving flat
Speaker 1: down a little bit of my dynasty ranks, and I'm
Speaker 1: a little torn on Olsen versus Vlad long term, but
Speaker 1: like if you are just coming back to it for
Speaker 1: a second, Olsen has easily surpassed a Pete Alonzo, and
Speaker 1: I think for redraft next year it's still Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 1: but then it's Alonzo like right there those So essentially
Speaker 1: I think Olsen has flipped with Alonzo but pushed up
Speaker 1: where I think those got. I think it'll be hard
Speaker 1: pressed that Olsen and Freeman are both not top fifteen
Speaker 1: picks next year, and I think you could argue there's
Speaker 1: not a picture that deserves to go over them. So
Speaker 1: you know, the first round should be all hitters next
Speaker 1: year probably in most formats, and Vlad is tailing behind.
Speaker 1: A better debate would be Vlad versus Pete a Lonzo.
Speaker 2: I we I say, in reality, for me, it's Vlad
Speaker 2: verse a guy like Paul Goldschmidt. I guess Lad fall
Speaker 2: into fourth or fifth. I still have a Lonzo over Blad,
Speaker 2: but again that could be a debate. But how far
Speaker 2: does Blad go because he's still having an okay year,
Speaker 2: but he's not having a it's not a good round.
Speaker 2: It's like it's tough to justify a top three round
Speaker 2: pick right now.
Speaker 1: It's not good at all. Another piece here, This is
Speaker 1: a wood you rather Dylan Ceese had a seven inning,
Speaker 1: seven K game. It has been a bad season, mainly
Speaker 1: because of expectations and early victory laps by people that
Speaker 1: didn't want to hear that Dylan Seas could be bad.
Speaker 1: Versus Freddie Peralta, who has been I think I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if you presented them all to me,
Speaker 1: I would have a better idea of like things that
Speaker 1: I have got wrong or dismissed. You know, obviously I'll
Speaker 1: have things that I get right, and I'll be like
Speaker 1: annoying about it, but like I can one hundred percent
Speaker 1: acknowledge of things are wrong. I feel like Freddy Perrault
Speaker 1: is one of my biggest wrongs this year. I was
Speaker 1: just done with it over it. The lack of command,
Speaker 1: the lack of consistency. It's still been there a part
Speaker 1: of this season, but even when he started turning around,
Speaker 1: he has just been turning in around.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Freddy Perlta has been very, very good six innings, six strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I believe no earned runs in this one, and looking
Speaker 1: over his last couple, yeah, he has his last four.
Speaker 1: He's given up four total earned runs. He did have
Speaker 1: a big clunker in there against Atlanta, but you almost
Speaker 1: just kind of throw that off or something. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he's got two thirteen strikeout games in there, hasn't struck
Speaker 1: out less than six in his last two. So who
Speaker 1: would you rather, not just like rest of season, but
Speaker 1: going into next year, Freddy pralt or Dylan Cease.
Speaker 2: I'm team Freddy Peralta on this one overseas. Yes, I
Speaker 2: was had seats to begin with because he had a
Speaker 2: great year last year, but he's always been a high
Speaker 2: wa guy and just consistency with him, so it was
Speaker 2: like prove it to me again, and he's kind of
Speaker 2: not proven it this year, if that makes sense to anybody.
Speaker 2: With Freddie, I've always liked fastball upside that he brings
Speaker 2: for a strike up. He's like multiple fastballs. He can
Speaker 2: is almost a little Lancelne light which what he does here.
Speaker 2: It's just it's also a walk thing with Freddie, who
Speaker 2: he's been able to stay without ten percent, where Cease
Speaker 2: usually goes over ten percent, So that's the big difference.
Speaker 2: Plus I like the situation of Milwaukee much more than Chicago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think I'm the same. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of my big like he's gonna stink this year
Speaker 1: bold predictions was Dylan cease and that got people up
Speaker 1: in the arms. So that's what I'm saying. This is
Speaker 1: actually like a one I got right when I got wrong,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of flipped in the same direction. You know,
Speaker 1: you pictures in like Baseball Savant pages and the little
Speaker 1: you know, scroll bars and stuff mean a lot less,
Speaker 1: but you want to dig into it, kind of like
Speaker 1: you were saying, Like the K percentage is almost thirty percent.
Speaker 1: Walk percentage isn't quite where it was last year, but
Speaker 1: expected era is a half run less. He's got a
Speaker 1: four point zero eight with a three four seven this season,
Speaker 1: and we've just seen the consistency. The four seam last
Speaker 1: year had a twenty it's essentially twenty five percent with rate.
Speaker 1: It's essentially a thirty percent with rate this year. Slider
Speaker 1: forty percent with rate last year or at thirty percent
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, forty seven percent this year. Way way more effective.
Speaker 1: Found his groove. Stella found his groove back, so I'm
Speaker 1: with Freddy.
Speaker 2: He's also getting healthier, like he had the injury last year,
Speaker 2: so he's gonna slow start. I got a little speed
Speaker 2: bump in the middle of the ear of the injury.
Speaker 2: He's last four start showing health and he's actually pitching
Speaker 2: really well.
Speaker 1: Uri Prisla had four runs on four hits and four
Speaker 1: innings and a no decision. Again. Yeah, well, the big
Speaker 1: thing I just want to point out is he's definitely
Speaker 1: he's on a strict pitch count. It was like eighty
Speaker 1: two innings. He's still fantastic. I think he's gonna be rough.
Speaker 1: It's good just these type of guys, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: rough the rest of the way through with their management
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So you know, if you've got
Speaker 1: any keeper implications, you got a hold, but anything else,
Speaker 1: I think, I don't tell you to cut him or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but you know what, you might be
Speaker 1: better served to the guy like Dan Donning than Uri Perez.
Speaker 1: And I know that stinks like they'll be a good
Speaker 1: starter or two. But there's only so far that Eurie
Speaker 1: can go. So any bump or bruise in a long inning,
Speaker 1: and he's not going to qualify at the wins. So
Speaker 1: if you're really chasing wins and stuff like that, there's
Speaker 1: probably better options just to rest of the way through,
Speaker 1: because yeah, you just send him to the miners. He's
Speaker 1: just it's just gonna be.
Speaker 2: Bl Yeah, and we're gonna see that with a lot
Speaker 2: of these young arms coming up here, like the Guardians pitchers,
Speaker 2: they already we already do like a biby and those
Speaker 2: guys that they already were stretched out. But a lot
Speaker 2: of these young guys, you know, Wu's on the i
Speaker 2: OW in Seattle speculating the might be more innings based
Speaker 2: in the actual injury. There's there's a lot of guys
Speaker 2: like that that we're going to see in the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks where it's be three innings here, skip
Speaker 2: a start here, and it's really gonna make fantasy implications,
Speaker 2: uh difficult.
Speaker 1: Angelo, by the way, on the U parlt to see said,
Speaker 1: I'll take byb over both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe we can.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could give Freddy a nickname. We can call
Speaker 1: him Stella, like Wonky Stella, Founder groove back, and we
Speaker 1: can we'll all just know that together, all right. Then
Speaker 1: the last thing Wandafranco is potentially in trouble. Not gonna
Speaker 1: do a whole bunch on Wander Franco today, not gonna
Speaker 1: do what the Internet does with it, but suffice it
Speaker 1: to say, if you have not paid attention, and you know,
Speaker 1: really not a lot of people knew what was going
Speaker 1: on because it was very internet and based. But then
Speaker 1: Jeff Passen kind of jumped into the fray. But Wander
Speaker 1: Franco is currently being investigated for some troubles. Oslavia's Baisby
Speaker 1: was brought up yesterday. They said it and early on
Speaker 1: they said it was very like clerical. If I'm being
Speaker 1: honest with you, I kind of don't believe the rays
Speaker 1: where they were like, oh, during the game, we found
Speaker 1: out about this stuff online.
Speaker 2: I don't think so you got tipped off.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's not he's not traveling. They brought up this guy.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. But Wanderfranco is in some serious trouble,
Speaker 1: some serious trouble, some big allegations. You guys want to
Speaker 1: go check it out, you can. Uh, he is not
Speaker 1: traveling with the team. MLB is investigating some video photo
Speaker 1: stuff that kind of surfaced online with someone that is
Speaker 1: not his age, and it does not look good for
Speaker 1: Wander Franco. It's a bad, bad look and we god
Speaker 1: knows when we're gonna hear about it. But he is
Speaker 1: not traveling with the team, and it can go from
Speaker 1: worse to the worse, worse to even worser if you
Speaker 1: will with Wander Franco. So it is a nasty, nasty situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: turn the table, wipe that clean. Here. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give the Corbin Welsh where are we hint? Okay, so
Speaker 1: keep it in the back of your head. You guys
Speaker 1: want to jump in at any time, even maybe more
Speaker 1: preferably when we get there for your guesses, and I
Speaker 1: will mark you. The guess is Steve Martin. Steve Martin
Speaker 1: is the guess. I know, maybe it was too good
Speaker 1: of a guess.
Speaker 2: I guess the guess.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the guess for where in the world are
Speaker 1: Corbin or Welsh and Corbyn Carrol come up here? In
Speaker 1: just a tiny bit quick rookie lookie Brandon Fott racked
Speaker 1: up a career high eight strikeouts over five and two
Speaker 1: third innings and a no decision against the Padres. Just
Speaker 1: continues to get He's getting his groove back. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Matt Strom. Just want to just want to continuously reiterate
Speaker 1: how moving on the rubber has changed him and how
Speaker 1: he's able to you know, how he's able to throw
Speaker 1: in different spots. So you know, he has been very good.
Speaker 1: If you had like deep, deep keepers, I think that's
Speaker 1: a positive you can hold on to. I just think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that you could hold and you still
Speaker 1: might be able to spot start the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Because Diamondback's got nobody else. They designated a bunch of dudes.
Speaker 1: They brought up Bryce Jarvis, my guy.
Speaker 2: But he's in right, it's all over the place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a mess, it's a disaster, and our boy
Speaker 1: this I think. The very first comment in the chat
Speaker 1: today was about Zach Gehloff, who Bubba and I have
Speaker 1: been talking about since Bobba came back on So hat
Speaker 1: tip there four for five, two solo homers in a
Speaker 1: win and z Geloff he's not a league winner anything
Speaker 1: like that, but dude, he might be the pickup of
Speaker 1: the last month. And it continues to roll eight homer
Speaker 1: six dolen bases, hitting two point eighty one. He's cut
Speaker 1: that k percentage down and his expected batting average holds
Speaker 1: with a sixteen plus percent barrel percentage. It's very very nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what you got to say
Speaker 1: on Galoff here.
Speaker 2: I've just been raving about him and tweeting about him
Speaker 2: and added him in all my leagues the last few weeks.
Speaker 2: But the one thing I will mention is an underdog.
Speaker 2: They tweeted it. I know it probably should have said
Speaker 2: that word on the show, but they tweeted out a
Speaker 2: list of all the rookie f wars and the leaders,
Speaker 2: and he didn't make the list because it's like top ten.
Speaker 2: But I tweeted out, I quot tweeted, I said, Zach
Speaker 2: Gelloff one point three flour in twenty five games, so
Speaker 2: like the lowest of the top ten was like two
Speaker 2: point one. He's almost in the top ten and twenty
Speaker 2: five games. That's how good he's been. He is. He
Speaker 2: is the second half fab Unicorn that Matt McClain was
Speaker 2: for the National League. This is who he is.
Speaker 1: Uhh, that's an introg you know. You know what it
Speaker 1: would be really fascinating breakdown would be McClain versus Gelloff
Speaker 1: because they have a lot of similarities. They were both
Speaker 1: in the AFL, you know, and Gelloff he was he
Speaker 1: was a little bit more inconsistent, but you know, great defender.
Speaker 1: You could see how he could get into his power.
Speaker 1: He could run, but there's more pop in McClain's back.
Speaker 1: But he was so inconsistent. It would actually be very
Speaker 1: interesting because let me look here.
Speaker 2: I remember I had a follower I was tweeting about
Speaker 2: Gloff on Saturday. He is the Matt McClain of the ALMNK.
Speaker 2: That's fricking genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, that's really interesting. Well, so the differences lie in,
Speaker 1: first off, the consistency of McClain for this long term.
Speaker 1: But they both have similar K percentage, similar walk percentage.
Speaker 1: I just went away. Let me see if I can go.
Speaker 1: I can go back and forth here hard hit percent
Speaker 1: but see hard hit percentage in the early front goes
Speaker 1: in favor of Gelloff, and the barrel percentage is really
Speaker 1: not close so far. So we'll have to see if
Speaker 1: that changes. Because a heart hit in for Galaf is
Speaker 1: forty eight compared to forty one, and it's nine to
Speaker 1: sixteen on the barrel percentage. But kind of similar players.
Speaker 1: I buy that one. I kind of dig that one,
Speaker 1: but Zach Geloff still must pick up if he's sitting
Speaker 1: out there, so don't delay act now on some injuries.
Speaker 1: Royce Lewis is going to be returning on Tuesday. God
Speaker 1: knows where he's gonna be playing, but we'll get to
Speaker 1: see Cash versatile. See you, Bye bye, bye bye. Hunter
Speaker 1: Brown is going to have his start skipped and is
Speaker 1: going to start next Friday versus Seattle, though they did
Speaker 1: say he'd be available in like a bullpen roll, so
Speaker 1: you know, we're into management time. I want to put
Speaker 1: like my blinders on for it, but sometimes we're just
Speaker 1: in management with these rookies. This is why I don't
Speaker 1: heavily invest in rookies in general. And this year has
Speaker 1: proven more than ever how fun it is to just
Speaker 1: be aggressive on the wire and pick up the guy
Speaker 1: the Biby's and Bradley's when they're good, and Bobby Miller's
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, instead of heavy investment, which you know,
Speaker 1: even Hunter Brown wasn't a heavy investment. Shohel Tani is
Speaker 1: gonna miss his start versus Texas with fatigue, and we'll
Speaker 1: start next versus Cincinnati. Any little slowdown worries for Otani
Speaker 1: with like the role he's had. I kind of do
Speaker 1: feel like this is an opportunity, even though he had
Speaker 1: his forty first home over the weekend. These are the
Speaker 1: type of things I feel like I'm gonna push Matt
Speaker 1: Olsen up a little bit, you know, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: push starts. Otani's gotta be wearing down. I mean, no
Speaker 1: one's no one's going harder than Otani this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's wearing down. We see all these
Speaker 2: cramps and all he's like every time he goes out there,
Speaker 2: there's a new injury. It feels like he's gonna need
Speaker 2: a breather. The fact the Angels went all in and
Speaker 2: then they have him like one two games maybe since
Speaker 2: then it's time to start putting the white flag up
Speaker 2: and Otani. That's the fact. Is Otani told the manager
Speaker 2: Phil Nevin he wanted a day off for fatigue. That
Speaker 2: says everything he needs to know right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. He's doing a little bit here all right. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think we had another Jonahim activated from the IL
Speaker 1: had a schedule.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Mister Cortez back on the aisle with rotator cuff strain.
Speaker 1: Probably gonna miss the rest of the season, so no bueno.
Speaker 1: Three up, three down. Someone just mentioned it Trevor's story.
Speaker 1: How about your story going four for four with two
Speaker 1: runs scored as the Red Sox beat the Tigers? Are
Speaker 1: you kind of back in with story?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm mom all in on story. It's you know,
Speaker 2: you flip the page and it's a great time.
Speaker 1: Whichever story or Gallof rest of the season.
Speaker 2: I think I had this question by someone else. I
Speaker 2: said gell Off, because I don't think story is gonna
Speaker 2: be fully good to go till like first or September.
Speaker 2: It's close. But he did the four for four here,
Speaker 2: which is a great, a fully healthy story of tech.
Speaker 2: Story one.
Speaker 1: I need to see the chat because we got both
Speaker 1: story in Galloff fans story or gell Off.
Speaker 2: It's a good one. Probably story like that's probably the
Speaker 2: smart play. I just love Geloff man my my bias,
Speaker 2: and what he's done is amazing.
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see you guys
Speaker 1: go in there. On the rest of the three ups,
Speaker 1: Oner Jimenez went four for five with the homer and
Speaker 1: a stolen base, and Julio Earl is seven innings. I
Speaker 1: can't roll my tongue, so I can't do like Joe,
Speaker 1: we do. I can't do that. Julio Aria seven innings,
Speaker 1: three and runs, but twelve strikeouts. That is not something
Speaker 1: that he does a lot. On the three down Jamison
Speaker 1: ti On three innings and eight earned runs. Jake Bowers
Speaker 1: zero for five with four k's, and Cees had a
Speaker 1: dual match up eight at bats. He had one hit
Speaker 1: but four strikeouts. No bueno, my friends, no bueno at all.
Speaker 1: But what is bueno? As soon as I can find it?
Speaker 1: Takes us too real quick? Now, hold on, we'll do
Speaker 1: price Yeah, I know what you're going to talk about.
Speaker 2: We'll go there.
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Speaker 1: to mention the Wander Franco news, which is wander Franco
Speaker 1: has officially been placed on the restricted list.
Speaker 2: Was there something else we ain't going to see him
Speaker 2: the rest of the year. That's what that comes down to.
Speaker 2: I will say, unless it's a quick investigation, that's all
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I will say this is a standard play for an investigation,
Speaker 1: so they have roster flexibility. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: this thing being placed on the restricted list. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is the smoking gun at all. I think
Speaker 1: this is the standard procedure. But that twenty four hours
Speaker 1: they didn't get the insight that they had probably not
Speaker 1: a good sign.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's not good.
Speaker 1: Pretty ugly, it's a pretty ugly situation. Yikes. But price
Speaker 1: picks very pretty Hey, price picks, what are we picking?
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be picking one to Franco in there, Bubba,
Speaker 1: So what do you go?
Speaker 2: Big meat Pete, Pete Alonso. I like him against Quinn
Speaker 2: Priester today. PreCure with tons of hard contact, Alonzos heating
Speaker 2: up over one and a half hits, runs and RBI
Speaker 2: seems too good to be true. Corbyn, Carrol Cooorsfield, Chris
Speaker 2: Flexen over nine and a half Fantasy points. That's easy
Speaker 2: peasy for me, and I'll stay with that game. Could
Speaker 2: tell Marte over eight and a half fantasy points as well. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I didn't love the board a ton. When I looked
Speaker 2: at the price picks today, I would.
Speaker 1: Agree with you on that. I took Logan Gilbert with
Speaker 1: the fantasy score thirty one and a half, Corbyn Carrol
Speaker 1: eight and a half hitting in Colorado against Chris Flexen
Speaker 1: just seems like a fantastic spot. I'm gonna throw this
Speaker 1: out to you too to tell Marte pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: So I might throw kateel Marte in there if you
Speaker 1: want as well, if you want to attack Colorado. And
Speaker 1: then I went with Max Scherzer strikeouts seven and a
Speaker 1: half under. Now I know the Angels strikeout more than anybody,
Speaker 1: but also just a couple at bats getting to Max,
Speaker 1: He's just not gonna be able to get there. Last
Speaker 1: five starts he did go over eight once or eight plus,
Speaker 1: so he can still get to seven and not and
Speaker 1: he will cash this because it's under seven and a half.
Speaker 1: So Gilbert Logan Gilbert fantasy score, Corbyn Carrol Fantasy score,
Speaker 1: and Max Scherzer under is where I'm going. Also want
Speaker 1: to point out how hilarious hilarious is gell Off story
Speaker 1: thing is because Wonkee goes gell Off, Lee Go's story
Speaker 1: one hundred and then we have gell Off and then
Speaker 1: we have Toy story. No question, you know, it's almost
Speaker 1: chat yeah. Yeah, but it's also funny. Is like everyone's like, no,
Speaker 1: this is not even a question, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent is a question because we keep going
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, bets, going with the best bets. I've
Speaker 1: got two that I locked into. Like you said, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a rough, weird day. What I did love,
Speaker 1: I don't care what the juice is. Atlanta through the
Speaker 1: first five innings, team total runs two and a half
Speaker 1: smash for me. That offense is banging. They're going up
Speaker 1: against Clark Schmidt. I love that play.
Speaker 2: It is juiced.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to play it with something, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to put it with some fun money line somewhere,
Speaker 1: or you just pay the juice and say screw it.
Speaker 1: But through the first five innings, team total runs two
Speaker 1: and a half over for Atlanta today. And then I
Speaker 1: also like the Seattle Kansas City first five under total
Speaker 1: runs that's four and a half. Now why because Brady
Speaker 1: Singer's been kind of hot. Logan Gilbert's a monster, so
Speaker 1: under total runs between the two teams four and a
Speaker 1: half through the first five innings. Those are my two
Speaker 1: favorite bets today.
Speaker 2: What do you got, Bubba Pete Alonzo go back to
Speaker 2: big beat Pete here over one and a half total
Speaker 2: basis plus one forty, which is just sliy to me.
Speaker 2: You'll see why later, Zach Geloff, I'm gonna keep riding
Speaker 2: the hot hand here over one and a half total
Speaker 2: basis at plus one twenty five facing Miles Micholas. That
Speaker 2: seems pretty nice to me. Is plus money in general.
Speaker 2: And then I also like in that game Saint Louis
Speaker 2: first five over two and a half runs minus one
Speaker 2: twenty five. I think Saint Louis takes care of JP
Speaker 2: series giving up four runs a game on the rig
Speaker 2: these days.
Speaker 1: MA, right, what do you got on DFS? What are
Speaker 1: we playing?
Speaker 2: Mad Max versus the Angels. Pitching stinks on this slate,
Speaker 2: So Mad Max, if you just want to punt pitching,
Speaker 2: I'm cool with that. Mikolas at seven k versus the Aids, Rays,
Speaker 2: Rodriguez six six point four caver San Diego. I like
Speaker 2: Grayson at that price quite a bit, stacking it up obviously,
Speaker 2: Arizona and Cooors versus Flexing, Saint Louis vers Spear or
Speaker 2: JT sears A Pars, and then the Rangers versus Lefty
Speaker 2: Patrick Sandoval and there's not a ton of value, honestly,
Speaker 2: but Pagero of Pittsburgh second may short stop two point
Speaker 2: eight cavers Carrasco has been hidden really well. Actually since
Speaker 2: the All Star break. Nelson, Alaska has two point seven
Speaker 2: K mentioned him last week. He homered Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 2: If you're keeping tracking home and they sent Edward Oliveris
Speaker 2: down and kept Blaskaz up when Drew Waters came back.
Speaker 2: So Nellie Velaskas two point seven Waters two point five.
Speaker 2: Ye just want some value versus Kirby, but I mean
Speaker 2: versus Logan Gilbert. But I'd probably go elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Where in the world are Welsh and
Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll? Your hint was Steve Martin. I made some
Speaker 1: production over the weekend. Think on it. You have thirty
Speaker 1: more seconds to lock your pick in because where in
Speaker 1: the I know I'm gonna go to you first? Where
Speaker 1: in the world are Welsh and Corbyn Carroll? Where are
Speaker 1: we the last guesses are getting in? I see a
Speaker 1: couple of funny ones. I will tell you, unfortunately for
Speaker 1: the chat, because this is it right here in North Korea.
Speaker 1: I have not seen one person get it correct. So, Bubba,
Speaker 1: where are Corbyn and I?
Speaker 2: This might just be me overthinking because I know you
Speaker 2: at at your sarcasm level, he said Steve Martin. So
Speaker 2: I went with three amigos and I went the Alamo.
Speaker 2: But I could be totally wrong.
Speaker 1: Boy, that is a great one and I love I
Speaker 1: love three.
Speaker 2: Me That's why I went there. I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: that's it's.
Speaker 1: One of my all times. It's one of my all
Speaker 1: times save o. Actually Green Canyon was last time. That
Speaker 1: was from last time. I'm going to be incorporating them
Speaker 1: as we go. No, it was a much deeper hint.
Speaker 1: If you know Steve Martin, you know King Tut, d
Speaker 1: da da da. We are at the Pyramids. That's right.
Speaker 1: We're in Egypt. We took a plane, we flew out,
Speaker 1: me and Corbyn. We're seeing the sites. We're seeing one
Speaker 1: of the seven Wonders of the world. Ken, you be
Speaker 1: so funky. Duda California down Da da da da da
Speaker 1: King Tut that's it. There you go. Me and Corbyn.
Speaker 1: We visited the Great Pyramids and hopefully we're gonna visit
Speaker 1: the batting cages next. Is going to be happening because
Speaker 1: it hasn't been going so super great, but there you go.
Speaker 1: Nobody got it right. I'm so sorry. But next time
Speaker 1: we will keep going with where in the world are
Speaker 1: Corbin and the Welsh? That's where we were. We were
Speaker 1: at the Pyramids, so that'll be incore brand into the open.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys like the open I made that.
Speaker 1: Like I have a bad habit of when I don't
Speaker 1: have the time to do things, my brain gets locked
Speaker 1: into something and I have to make it the old
Speaker 1: itl days. I would spend four hours making a song
Speaker 1: when that four hours could have been done as something
Speaker 1: so much, so much better. I could have put my
Speaker 1: time and usage in there. But I did make the open.
Speaker 1: It continues on Wednesday. We'll do it again here, Bubba,
Speaker 1: who do you have for your home run? Call today
Speaker 1: and then I'll put up the home run board.
Speaker 2: Go on with my strake here Big Meat Pete's polar
Speaker 2: Bear going up against a priest or, Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 1: I think people are liking your name, your name.
Speaker 2: See the shows. They don't listen to my other content.
Speaker 2: I've been calling on this forever, Big.
Speaker 1: Meat Pete home run board. Don't look now, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Blue Harvester did pick up one this weekend. JJ Tator
Speaker 1: did not. I don't know if Hoffman and Razor moved,
Speaker 1: but look at that at number five. I have tied
Speaker 1: it up with Wonky me and Wonky at thirty five
Speaker 1: because I had a three homer weekend. We have Randy
Speaker 1: Helpless in Miami and a couple others. I will say,
Speaker 1: we're probably getting to the time of the year where
Speaker 1: some people are bailing out, so the board isn't probably
Speaker 1: going to do a crazy move. But from a stat perspective, Wonkee,
Speaker 1: I'm very curious. Can you tell me and maybe we
Speaker 1: can figure this out. I want to know who on
Speaker 1: leading off of any of the hosts have had the
Speaker 1: most homers of all time. What would the most homers
Speaker 1: of all time from a leading off personality? If it
Speaker 1: was you, It's probably going to be you or Joe,
Speaker 1: But I know Mayer did really good last year. Let's
Speaker 1: find out what that is because I want to see
Speaker 1: where you and I are are rocking on the board.
Speaker 1: But that is where the homer on board is and
Speaker 1: I'm looking to keep it going. So today I'm going
Speaker 1: with another brave Austin Riley Austin Riley, by the way,
Speaker 1: I believe has like seventeen of his homers or some
Speaker 1: instant twenty one of his homers on Righty's. This year,
Speaker 1: he's been destroying Righty. So I'm very much about this matchup.
Speaker 1: I was trying to get involved with it. So that
Speaker 1: is where I want. So I say, we're saying Joe
Speaker 1: has the record. What did Joe have last year? Yuck? See,
Speaker 1: I want to beat that. That's my goal, Like I
Speaker 1: want this way.
Speaker 2: Joe left Aaron Judge every day, so that worked out
Speaker 2: pretty well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's why I want to know, like, did
Speaker 1: how far did he go? Did he go to forty
Speaker 1: something like that? I want to take that ten. Now,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about winning percentage of hit percentage, it
Speaker 1: might be Bubba, because Bubba, I think you're at like
Speaker 1: a sixty percent hit rate right now, which has been absurd.
Speaker 1: So there you guys go. I hope you guys enjoyed
Speaker 1: all of it. I hope you enjoyed. Where in the
Speaker 1: world is Welsh and Corbyn Carroll? We'll play that again.
Speaker 1: So again I'm gonna be telling nobody's on the board.
Speaker 1: So Wednesday will do it again. I'll be keeping those names.
Speaker 1: Will also be given away that autograph Corby and Carrol
Speaker 1: helmet to someone on the home Run Contest via Dennis
Speaker 1: Sidler and sids Grass. You guys go check out price
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Speaker 1: to break it all down for Bubba. I'm Welsh. You
Speaker 1: guys have a fantastic one. Goodbye for now, Frindos, peace out,