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Speaker 2: What's up, Friendos and welcome in too, Fantasy pros MLB
Speaker 2: right here for leading off, I am Chris Welsh. That
Speaker 2: is the Joe Rico and we are back for another
Speaker 2: Big Baseball Day. Happy, Happy Spencer Strider Day. If you
Speaker 2: celebrate as you should. Our boy, Spencer Strider is back
Speaker 2: in the early onset. Actually probably right a couple minutes
Speaker 2: after we get off here from leading off, where you're
Speaker 2: going to see Spencer Stryder's debut again Joe Rico's Toronto
Speaker 2: Blue Jays. We got a lot to cover disappointing performances,
Speaker 2: a lot of injury news out there, and one of
Speaker 2: the weirdest home runs I think I have seen in
Speaker 2: quite some time.
Speaker 3: Joe Rico, how.
Speaker 2: Excited or not excited are you for Spencer's Strider to
Speaker 2: slice and dice? Because they did get to the other
Speaker 2: Spencer yesterday? Will they get to two Spencer's.
Speaker 4: I can only hope so for my Blue Jay's sake.
Speaker 4: You know, if this was an evening game, if it
Speaker 4: was like a seven Eastern game, I might have gone
Speaker 4: to this one, because Lord knows that Blue Jays aren't
Speaker 4: selling anything out. I might have been able to get
Speaker 4: some last minute tickets. But a little bit of Mattine,
Speaker 4: We're gonna do a lot of shows together today.
Speaker 5: Well, so have that one in the background.
Speaker 4: And you know, I was thinking about betting his over strikeouts,
Speaker 4: but I didn't want to be going too crazy on
Speaker 4: the first day.
Speaker 5: I want to see how he balances out. But it
Speaker 5: should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, it didn't work out for the other Spencer yesterday,
Speaker 2: and debuts are a little bit tough. But we are
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the hottest.
Speaker 2: Player in all of baseball, and funny enough, this player
Speaker 2: we've been trying to ship somewhere else so we can
Speaker 2: get the hottest minor leaguer in baseball to be Coming up,
Speaker 2: we have got to talk about Tyler Sodastrom, the former
Speaker 2: kind of still ish catcher. Tyler Sodastrom again with a
Speaker 2: pair of homers six runs on tuesday A's beat up
Speaker 2: on the White Sox twelve to three.
Speaker 3: A very very.
Speaker 2: Important thing happened in this though I don't want to
Speaker 2: take away from Sodastrom. But as I have been saying
Speaker 2: kind of at nauseum and maybe even kind of annoyingly,
Speaker 2: is for us to get Nick Kurtz, we need someone
Speaker 2: to go somewhere else. We did see a report yesterday
Speaker 2: about potentially Tyler Soderstrm going and playing some third, which
Speaker 2: I think would be great, good arm, former catcher, But
Speaker 2: the real unlocking of this has been Brent Rooker playing
Speaker 2: in the outfield. Well, guess what, Brent Rooker in left
Speaker 2: field again. That's two outfield appearances since I believe Saturday
Speaker 2: or Sunday.
Speaker 3: That's huge.
Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz is on the way, but it will not
Speaker 2: be at the expense of Tyler Sodostrum. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the viability because there is nobody hotter. There's kind of
Speaker 2: a maybe you'll want to feel like you're going to
Speaker 2: sell off of Sodastrum. But he leads baseball in Homer's
Speaker 2: right now. We can talk about his hitting metrics as well,
Speaker 2: But what you take on Tyler Soderstrom right now and
Speaker 2: what he is for you rest of season.
Speaker 5: It feels pretty legit.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know we did some videos talking about
Speaker 4: him as a good late first base power option in
Speaker 4: the offseason.
Speaker 5: I didn't think it would be this extreme.
Speaker 4: But if you look at the power numbers from last
Speaker 4: year sixty one game, he did hit nine homers. He
Speaker 4: had a fifteen percent barrel rate, fifty percent hard hit,
Speaker 4: and he's carried that over. I don't think he's going
Speaker 4: to continue at a nineteen percent barrel necessarily, but Tyler
Speaker 4: Soderstrom looks well on his way to a thirty home
Speaker 4: run season.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 4: You know, there's people who are talking about like redoing
Speaker 4: first base rankings. Is he a top ten guy? Is
Speaker 4: he a top seven or eight guys? He's definitely a
Speaker 4: top ten first baseman for me at this point, especially
Speaker 4: considering that ballpark.
Speaker 5: The lineup is actually really good.
Speaker 4: Like a Butler, Rookers, Soderstrom, Langaliers, Bladey, you add Kurtz
Speaker 4: in there, It's a pretty decent lineup all things considered.
Speaker 4: I think Soderstrom is going to end up as one
Speaker 4: of the better deals of draft season.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's even a question at this point.
Speaker 2: I like, what did who just put?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: Was Alwonkee the Big Kurtz or no? No, this is
Speaker 2: well the Big Kurts instead of.
Speaker 3: The Big Hurt. I like that for Nick Kurtz.
Speaker 2: Looking at Soderstrom, by the way, you mentioned his barrel
Speaker 2: rate around twenty percent this year. He's also getting the
Speaker 2: ball in the air a ton more. And you talk
Speaker 2: about being able to take advantage of that minor league ballpark.
Speaker 2: He had a nine and a half degree line. It's
Speaker 2: thirteen and.
Speaker 3: A half this year.
Speaker 2: That's huge launch aangle. He's getting that sweet spot right
Speaker 2: now forty three percent. That's it's shorts ample sized, but
Speaker 2: it's elite. Hard hit rates are through the freakin roof
Speaker 2: on average evs ninety two and a half and a
Speaker 2: secondary like in this the most important thing is like
Speaker 2: get the ball, pull the ball, get the ball in
Speaker 2: the air for a guy like him. But the other
Speaker 2: very exciting piece is strikeouts are down eighteen eighteen percent,
Speaker 2: which is huge and speaking of this is taking an advantage.
Speaker 2: I wanted to pull this number up. Last year pulled
Speaker 2: air percentage was only twelve percent. This year twenty five percent.
Speaker 2: Twenty five percent for him. So I ask you this,
Speaker 2: Tyler Soderstrom or Tristan Kasis rest.
Speaker 3: Of season, it takes Oderstrom.
Speaker 4: I think I would take Soderstrim at this point, like
Speaker 4: there's just so many improvements across the board. Everything we've
Speaker 4: mentioned already. The swing strike rates down, the oh swing
Speaker 4: percentage is down, he's not chasing as much, he's making
Speaker 4: more contact in the zone. Everything is positive. So I
Speaker 4: think I would have to go with him at this point.
Speaker 3: I think so too.
Speaker 2: What about Jake Berger, who I've talked about is kind
Speaker 2: of a by low. He's still not picking back. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure at this point. I mean, there's definitely a
Speaker 2: from here on out that could change, but I think
Speaker 2: it's Sodastrim as well.
Speaker 3: The hitting profiles ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's Soderstrim. I mean, the third base,
Speaker 4: first base eligibility of Burger's nice. The lineup is objectively
Speaker 4: better in Texas, but I think Soderstrom.
Speaker 5: Has to be the choice at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'd be curious too if anybody else has got any
Speaker 2: other hooju rathers on on Tyler Soderstrim. Let's play it
Speaker 2: today because it is it is.
Speaker 3: Time to celebrate him.
Speaker 2: Eight homers three twenty eight average, four hundred OVP and
Speaker 2: a seven hundred slug right now. They definitely is something
Speaker 2: we want to watch and not get like two over
Speaker 2: zealous about but he doesn't have overinflated Babbitt.
Speaker 3: He's got great, great.
Speaker 2: Just barreling and contact numbers, and he's got a ballpark
Speaker 2: that you know, we broke down. It's just no matter
Speaker 2: what it is, if it's the home run factor, the
Speaker 2: actual ballpark factor. Right, he's and left, he's That ballpark
Speaker 2: is just good. It's just an absolute good one real quick.
Speaker 2: Since these are up here, soda Strom or Torque, it's
Speaker 2: soda Strom.
Speaker 5: Soda Sum. Yeah, I love, I love Tork. Talk has
Speaker 5: been great, but it's Soderstrom.
Speaker 2: Well, talk is also striking out like thirty percent of
Speaker 2: the time, so it's it's not close. Michael Bush, we
Speaker 2: talked about that's a good one, but it is Sodastrum.
Speaker 3: I got this exact question yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's relatively close all things considered, but
Speaker 4: it's still sodastrom.
Speaker 3: Yandy Diaz or soda Strum.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Probably. I really like Yandy, but it's it's probably Soderstrom.
Speaker 2: It's probably Sodastrum. So these are there's some good ones.
Speaker 2: We'll kind of keep rolling and see what we've got.
Speaker 2: It was not a great day man for betting, but
Speaker 2: also Spencer Schwellenbach. He was hit hard in Tuesday's loss
Speaker 2: against the Blue Jays. He gave up six runs, six hits,
Speaker 2: four and two thirds of an inning, a massive blast.
Speaker 2: I think we had a questions yesterday about Anthony Santander.
Speaker 2: Anthony Santander took him to space. His ball joined all
Speaker 2: the ladies that went in.
Speaker 3: Space with Jeff Bezos's stuff. That ball was destroyed.
Speaker 2: I was obviously watching that because he was getting a
Speaker 2: little bit shaky. I will say this, and I am
Speaker 2: so sick of the umps, especially for somebody that just
Speaker 2: bets in general. When you have you know, first fives,
Speaker 2: whatever the hell it is, all you're looking for is
Speaker 2: just like get me out of this. And the amount
Speaker 2: of bad calls out. The Strider had a nice pitch
Speaker 2: right on the corner. I think it was on Vlatty
Speaker 2: now that I'm thinking going through it, but it was
Speaker 2: like right on the corner, should have been a strikeout,
Speaker 2: it's a walk, and then Santander just blasted out.
Speaker 3: So I mean that's a little.
Speaker 2: Bit making excuses, but it just kind of opened up
Speaker 2: that whole bag of just how bad the umps have been.
Speaker 2: But Schwellenbach was bad. He looked kind of gassed at
Speaker 2: the end. The Blue Jays are making a lot of contact.
Speaker 2: He wasn't getting any of that swing and miss stuff.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about Schwellenbach. Is there any worries after
Speaker 2: that start, like as in, was the early onset of
Speaker 2: starts to you maybe a little bit miraji or was
Speaker 2: this one just the outlier?
Speaker 4: No, I'm more inclined to say this is the outlier.
Speaker 4: Just made a few bad pitches. Like you said, he
Speaker 4: got squeezed a little bit. There's nothing I would take
Speaker 4: from this other than throw an offer to the Schwellenbach
Speaker 4: owner in your league, just in case there's some early
Speaker 4: season jitters. This time of year, people panic all all
Speaker 4: over the place. So throw a low ball at the
Speaker 4: Schwellenbock owner and maybe he's a little bit nervous. Toronto's
Speaker 4: not a juggernaut team, so maybe they think, Okay, maybe
Speaker 4: there's he's getting exposed.
Speaker 5: A little bit or whatever. But I'm not worried. I
Speaker 5: think he's totally fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, looking here too, Vila was just kind of up
Speaker 2: in general fastball. Yeah, looking in here, this is actually interesting.
Speaker 2: He really threw his I guess i'd have to look
Speaker 2: at his pitch mix his season long pitch mix, because
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the game, but he barely threw his splitter.
Speaker 2: That seven percent cutter was down there. I mean, you
Speaker 2: and your curveball. A lot of the strikeout pitches, he
Speaker 2: wasn't throwing a bunch. The slider was his third most used.
Speaker 2: That was only thirty eight percent in the zone and
Speaker 2: it got absolutely no whiffs. Kind of tough here when
Speaker 2: I'm playing hosts and I want to like do these
Speaker 2: dig ins to these players. I'm just gonna do this
Speaker 2: real quick on Schwellenbach on the season. It'll now be
Speaker 2: affected by this. Yeah, look at this almost fourteen percent
Speaker 2: splitter on the season, and it was his and he
Speaker 2: uses it as the third most used pitch. It was
Speaker 2: the least used pitch in yesterday's start, and the sinker
Speaker 2: the fourth most used pitch. He used the second most yesterday.
Speaker 2: So what I'm getting at is he was he didn't
Speaker 2: have his strikeout stuff. He was throwing that sinker just
Speaker 2: to try to, you know, get out of innings and
Speaker 2: pitch to some bad contact. But he down used the slider,
Speaker 2: the curve, and the split finger. He just didn't have
Speaker 2: it in the zone. So I tend to think that
Speaker 2: that's just a little bit of an anomaly. But I'm
Speaker 2: also a Spencer Schwellenbach homer, and I can't help myself
Speaker 2: with Spencer Swellenbach.
Speaker 3: But we'll move through it, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 4: He's still at eleven whiffs, no real drop in velocity
Speaker 4: or anything. I think we just chalk it up to
Speaker 4: a rocky start and you put him back in your
Speaker 4: lineup next week, no question about it for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I like the idea of, like off of that start,
Speaker 2: just real quick going and hitting up an owner that
Speaker 2: maybe was like, oh crap, you know, he's a pumpkin,
Speaker 2: and then trying to get something cheap if you can.
Speaker 2: A couple bigger performances. Alex Bregman five for five, had
Speaker 2: a couple solo homers, Red Sox beating on the Rays,
Speaker 2: just kind of getting back to everything. Thought, also, I
Speaker 2: think he's out today on maternity leave. They brought up
Speaker 2: Eric Soguard and I put this on here even though
Speaker 2: the stat isn't crazy many Machado was one for four,
Speaker 2: had a solo homer, But what I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about was that homer if anyone paid attention.
Speaker 3: My god, you.
Speaker 2: Had two dropped fly balls that then turned in, So
Speaker 2: pop up over into right field. Kyle Tucker comes in,
Speaker 2: leans down, kind of ducks ball, drops out of his glove.
Speaker 2: All right, egg on our face, let's move on.
Speaker 3: Next.
Speaker 2: He pops up to the catcher and third baseman comes in,
Speaker 2: drops the ball at home plate, and then what happens
Speaker 2: right after that?
Speaker 3: Good, good gone.
Speaker 2: Manny Machado absolutely rips it. Yeah, Unicorn Homer.
Speaker 3: It was incredible.
Speaker 2: It's one of those that you were like, you know,
Speaker 2: this is going to happen right now. But also I
Speaker 2: just want to point out, like, MANA Machado is just
Speaker 2: having like a hell of a season, averages up. Homer's
Speaker 2: are there still, He's stealing bases, just having like an
Speaker 2: absolutely hell of a season right now.
Speaker 4: Rico, Yeah, I honestly didn't see the play in question
Speaker 4: last night, but that's just such a classic baseball type
Speaker 4: of thing to happen.
Speaker 5: You know, it just screams baseball at you.
Speaker 4: But Manny was somebody that I was kind of interested
Speaker 4: in coming into the year. I didn't really expect the
Speaker 4: walk rate to jump back up the way it has
Speaker 4: so far. The WRC plus is at one fifty four.
Speaker 4: It would be the best mark of his career if
Speaker 4: he's able to keep it up. Heart hit rate at
Speaker 4: fifty five percent, Like he's been objectively really really good.
Speaker 4: And of those third basemen that we're in that like
Speaker 4: second third round grouping, Austin Riley's kind of picked it
Speaker 4: up recently, but I think Machado might have been the
Speaker 4: best answer out of that group.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I have a lot of I think
Speaker 2: it's in the state of his career where I'm looking
Speaker 2: at Manny Machado and I'm just thinking, like, you know,
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame and just where he's going and
Speaker 2: what we're watching. Sometimes I like to kind of reminisce
Speaker 2: and take a step back on players and be like,
Speaker 2: who are the great players that.
Speaker 3: We're looking at?
Speaker 2: You know, like I think the parameters for being a
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer feels like it should be. Maybe is
Speaker 2: tougher statistically anymore, And you just kind of see that
Speaker 2: from him, but just a ridiculously crazy. It's one of
Speaker 2: those things that there's so many elements of baseball that
Speaker 2: we're gonna miss that even when we just you look
Speaker 2: at like stat sheets, if you're not watching from one
Speaker 2: of the worst strike calls of all our ball calls
Speaker 2: of all time yesterday. Why the umps are so bad?
Speaker 2: I think someone put it in the chat. It was
Speaker 2: the j t Romuto.
Speaker 5: It was literally.
Speaker 2: Completely in the zone and it didn't get called to strikeout,
Speaker 2: and then everything turned bad to unicorn homers of foul balls.
Speaker 2: Speaking of over on that Phillies game, Jesus Lozardo five
Speaker 2: and one third did give up three runs. It was
Speaker 2: a no decision. Most interesting in this though, and I
Speaker 2: think we know the reason behind it. But Jose Alvarado,
Speaker 2: he pitched in like a three run lead situation in
Speaker 2: the eighth, and I guess they considered it like super
Speaker 2: high leverage and they were concerned and that led to
Speaker 2: Matt Strong coming in the ninth and cleaning up, having
Speaker 2: an absolute cleanup of an inning and picking up the save.
Speaker 2: But also, is Matt Strong maybe the guy that they're
Speaker 2: gonna go to before or is this just one of
Speaker 2: those You know, there's plenty of teams that run out.
Speaker 3: Like three or four.
Speaker 2: Guy the Dodgers do that, like they'll throw out like
Speaker 2: Vesia or something. Is there anything with Matt Strong for you?
Speaker 2: Hoe Alvarado's got the gig. They put him in high
Speaker 2: leverage here, but do you think he's a next up
Speaker 2: type of player that you want to look at.
Speaker 4: They're kind of a hard team to figure out with
Speaker 4: bullpen usage because there's I mean, Ryan Kirkering, if I
Speaker 4: was managing, would probably be the guy getting a lot
Speaker 4: of the save opportunities. But Alvarado, they brought him into
Speaker 4: face Ramos Willia, Damas Jung Hu Lee. I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna let him, for the most part, continue with the ninth.
Speaker 4: But if there is a situation where you're getting the
Speaker 4: toughest part of the order to up in the eighth,
Speaker 4: maybe they go with him. But if there's one arm
Speaker 4: to own in Philadelphia, I'd say it is probably still Alvarado.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't think that's a question. I think
Speaker 2: Alvarado is still He's the he.
Speaker 3: Got squeezed the little bit, and you know he gave up.
Speaker 2: By the way, I had live bet just to clean
Speaker 2: up my day because it was a bad betting day
Speaker 2: for me, just an idiot, but I live bet to
Speaker 2: save my day, and I had live bet the inning
Speaker 2: prior Philly to one and a half and then they
Speaker 2: got that lead, and then Alvarado started giving it up
Speaker 2: right after, and I was like, let's close this thing down, Jose,
Speaker 2: good lord. A couple pitching performances, Max Freed really strong
Speaker 2: and Tuesdays went over the Royals. He struck out seven
Speaker 2: six and two thirds. Two run ball has been great,
Speaker 2: and Bailey over with a bounce back. He pitched well,
Speaker 2: three runs, five hits over six and one third. Are
Speaker 2: you kind of a I know you are a big
Speaker 2: ober guy you with this bounce back? Is he kind
Speaker 2: of a bye for you right now? I think the
Speaker 2: era is still pretty inflated. Hasn't been good to start, but.
Speaker 4: This was, Yeah, he's been a little bit shaky. I
Speaker 4: kind of bounced back and forth on him like I
Speaker 4: was really into him, and then I did that show
Speaker 4: with Eno and Nick, and then Eno kind of poppooed
Speaker 4: him a little bit and I took my foot off
Speaker 4: the gas. But I think he's still going to be fine,
Speaker 4: and the overall numbers are still going to be inflated
Speaker 4: like they were last year for a while because of
Speaker 4: that first start. But I think we're gonna look at
Speaker 4: it probably somewhere in mid June or July and say
Speaker 4: if you took out that first start, the era would
Speaker 4: be x with the with the bad start.
Speaker 5: It's still pretty bad.
Speaker 4: But like even after that huge blow up, Hey, at
Speaker 4: the beginning of last year, he still finished with the
Speaker 4: sub for e RA. The whip was at one on
Speaker 4: the dot, so I'm not really worried. I think he
Speaker 4: still falls out of that bi low territory. For those
Speaker 4: who are playing with people who maybe don't pay quite
Speaker 4: as much attention, They're just gonna look at the surface
Speaker 4: and look at that era and say, I need to
Speaker 4: get this guy the hell off my team. If you're
Speaker 4: in a league like that where the ober manager is
Speaker 4: still panicking, then I wouldn't hesitate to try and acquire him.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the audience. Let's see some questions of
Speaker 2: what we got going down here. Anthony, is Louise Robert
Speaker 2: and Riley Green? Are they buy lows that cast pages
Speaker 2: look horriboo? Luise Robert, Yeah, everything doesn't look great, but
Speaker 2: he's stealing a bunch of bases. Riley Green always has
Speaker 2: really great hard hit numbers. But I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: I'm actually a little like on Riley Green right now,
Speaker 2: So I think he if I remember correctly, like the
Speaker 2: babup isn't telling us any good story where things are
Speaker 2: going to bounce back. The K's are still there. I'm
Speaker 2: a little indifferent about Riley Green. I kind of think
Speaker 2: Luis Robert is at like an all time low, So
Speaker 2: I'm into that. Are you into buying either one of
Speaker 2: these guys?
Speaker 5: I like buying lou Bob.
Speaker 4: You know, even with the kind of slow start we
Speaker 4: talked about this yesterday, double digit barrel rad he's still
Speaker 4: stealing bases. I think he's gonna get traded overall, not
Speaker 4: really worried there.
Speaker 5: With Riley Green.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit different, Like you need him to
Speaker 4: really smash in the power and counting stats departments, because
Speaker 4: he's not going to give you stolen bases. He might
Speaker 4: give you a pretty good batting average, but you need
Speaker 4: kind of thirty plus home runs from him, which he's
Speaker 4: definitely capable of. But that lineup in Detroit is terrible.
Speaker 4: It is an awful lineup. Labor Torre is leading off.
Speaker 4: I really like Kerry Carpenter, I do like Green and
Speaker 4: Spencer Torkelsen, but cold Keith, Dylan Dingler, Zach McKinstry, Bias Sweeney.
Speaker 4: It's a tough group there for counting on him in
Speaker 4: terms of the runs and RBI. So I'd prefer to
Speaker 4: buy lou Bob. I think the price would probably be
Speaker 4: a little bit lower. People seem to be kind of
Speaker 4: out on him in general. Between the two of them,
Speaker 4: I would go with lou Bob. I don't think that
Speaker 4: Green is a bad buy. I just I don't have
Speaker 4: him as as high of a priority as Loo Bob.
Speaker 2: Who do you like better rest of season? From Lee
Speaker 2: Jonathan India or Brooks Lee Brooksley. I think hit his
Speaker 2: first homer yesterday.
Speaker 4: It's don in India for me. That second base only
Speaker 4: that you're seeing on there as well, Like we talked
Speaker 4: about that yesterday as well, that's gonna change. He's already
Speaker 4: picking up a ton of appearances, a third and then left.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be triple eligible pretty soon, if he's not
Speaker 4: already on your on your given site.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with that, all right.
Speaker 2: We have a whole bunch of Kurtzes, by the way,
Speaker 2: so let's do this real quick.
Speaker 3: Thrasher said.
Speaker 2: Curt's only six percent owned on ESPN, but one hundred
Speaker 2: percent on his two teams. I like that, but also
Speaker 2: ESPN lol, all right, so we're gonna plowut through these
Speaker 2: Manzardo or.
Speaker 5: Kurtz Manzardo, I think.
Speaker 3: Oh I forgot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a Kurtz one and we got the
Speaker 2: soda Strom ones in here. I would go with Kurts
Speaker 2: as well. All right, so now here's our soda strom ones.
Speaker 2: These are all these are all putting us to test
Speaker 2: here game soda Strom or Vientos Man, you know, And no, I'm.
Speaker 5: Gonna say probably Viano's still.
Speaker 4: I know that's probably of an already take at this point,
Speaker 4: but give me that guy in that lineup who can
Speaker 4: still drive in a hundred plus. I'm filling it for
Speaker 4: joeyp in more ways than one today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you one hundred percent are about to say a
Speaker 3: piece of pa was here. We know exactly what this
Speaker 3: would be. I am.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be recentcy. I'm gonna say sodas strum on
Speaker 2: that one. I'm not, but I'm not a big.
Speaker 3: I'm not a big Vento's guy right now, Goldie or
Speaker 3: soda strum.
Speaker 4: Man the soda strim questions. The more that we get,
Speaker 4: the more I realize how much I like him. I
Speaker 4: think it's probably Soderstrom Goldschmid has been pretty decent to
Speaker 4: start the year. I mean, he's batt in three point fifty.
Speaker 4: But I think it's Soderstrom.
Speaker 3: I think it's Soda Strim as well. All Right, this one.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go to sodastrm on this one.
Speaker 2: And it's not a Homer take. But you tell me
Speaker 2: Josh Naylor or Soda Strom.
Speaker 5: No, it's Naylor. We need to draw the line somewhere.
Speaker 2: Okay, we drew the line, so there you go. We're
Speaker 2: definitely like in on on what Soda Strim is doing
Speaker 2: for the most part. Maybe me a tiny bit more,
Speaker 2: but not over a guy like Josh Naylor. So that's
Speaker 2: where the lines are a little rookie. Lookie here, Logan
Speaker 2: Henderson is getting the call by the Brewers. We've been
Speaker 2: talking about this for a little bit, just waiting to
Speaker 2: get him up.
Speaker 3: A couple of people had asked some questions.
Speaker 2: I think it was yeah, right here, trill, what's your
Speaker 2: take on Logan Henderson getting the call and need one
Speaker 2: more pitching streamer this week? Is he worth an ad
Speaker 2: head to head points twelve team? I kind of think
Speaker 2: he is. He definitely builds off of a lot of command.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get some early swing and misses.
Speaker 2: The problem is is, like, you know, he's going to
Speaker 2: pitch around in the zone a decent amount, so you know,
Speaker 2: pinning that matchup, there could be a little bit of
Speaker 2: home runs going. But I think he can go deeper
Speaker 2: into game. In a points league, I'm even a little
Speaker 2: bit more likely to do it because I don't think
Speaker 2: he's gonna get absolutely blown up. And I'm not chasing
Speaker 2: like a quality start or anything like that. I'm just,
Speaker 2: you know cha, I'm just chasing the stats every single inning,
Speaker 2: So I think I would.
Speaker 3: What about you and Logan Henderson?
Speaker 4: Again, I'm not like a huge minor league guy, but
Speaker 4: like you mentioned, the home runs have kind of been
Speaker 4: pretty prevalent for him, especially last season across the miners
Speaker 4: one point four homer for nine. But I think that
Speaker 4: he's pretty solid. I'm always a little bit nervous about
Speaker 4: starting a guy in their first career outing. I would
Speaker 4: prefer to go a different route depending on what's on
Speaker 4: the wire, but it's not a horrible idea. I just
Speaker 4: tend to generally just fade guys making their debut this.
Speaker 2: Is well, I'm gonna this isn't the question this person
Speaker 2: is doing. But Til though says Kumar was just dropped
Speaker 2: in a twelve team dynasty, points like should I chase
Speaker 2: upside and speculatively add I'd say yeah in the dynasty
Speaker 2: pinning what the drop is, Yeah, maybe, but who would
Speaker 2: you rather for this season and redraft right now?
Speaker 3: Kumar or Logan Henderson.
Speaker 4: Probably take the chance on Henderson. Rocker just hasn't really
Speaker 4: looked good. That start against Seattle was kind of the
Speaker 4: nail on the coffin for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will.
Speaker 2: Say I don't think Logan Henderson is as solidified anything.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna go back down to the miners because
Speaker 2: you've got Myers who's about to come back in woodrift.
Speaker 3: But Kumar is not really doing anything for anybody.
Speaker 2: A little bit more in the rookie lookie, we had
Speaker 2: had this hopeful, optimistic speculative since with Zebi Matthews. It was, Oh,
Speaker 2: David Festa is going to come up, but guess what
Speaker 2: on Monday, there's an open spot. Nope, David fest is
Speaker 2: pitching today. Zebe is still down in the minors, but
Speaker 2: in his last start had seven strikeouts, one run, five
Speaker 2: innings in a Triple A start. In his fastball, he
Speaker 2: kind of tapered it down to start and then he
Speaker 2: was pumping like ninety eight I think close to ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Zebi looks really good if he gets an opportunity. I mean,
Speaker 2: if Festa gets blown up at all today, I think
Speaker 2: we could see Zebi soon. Jordan Walker one for four
Speaker 2: solo home run in Triple A over with Reno on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: He's now hitting two ninety two with a three ninety
Speaker 2: five OBP and a five twenty three slug so almost
Speaker 2: a three four five sixteen games so far this season,
Speaker 2: three homers, twelve RBI, four steals. I think the speculation is, oh, hey,
Speaker 2: Kateel could miss time. I am told that kuld Tell
Speaker 2: will be back for the next home.
Speaker 3: Series that is next week.
Speaker 2: Could Tell I was at the Diamondbacks facility yesterday. He
Speaker 2: was working out. He was on the side field working
Speaker 2: you in his stuff. Didn't stay for any games. Could
Speaker 2: be in a game this weekend and then is going
Speaker 2: to stay here and then Tuesday. So look for Kotel
Speaker 2: Marte to be coming up Tuesday. But I don't think
Speaker 2: he is going to be the reason that Jordan Walker
Speaker 2: is gonna come up. Jordan Walker's playing second base right now.
Speaker 2: I wonder if they keep moving him around. But he
Speaker 2: is hot, hot, hot right now. And if he does
Speaker 2: come up, he's someone we're gonna want to look at.
Speaker 2: And then finally on the rookie lookies, Matt Shaw. Matt
Speaker 2: Shaw has been demoted. We salute you, Jordan Lawler, I said,
Speaker 2: Jordan Walker. We salute you and say goodbye. Is there
Speaker 2: any worth for you to hold on to Matt Shaw
Speaker 2: while he tries to figure this out?
Speaker 5: Not in redraft leagues?
Speaker 4: No, Like he's a solid hold in Dynasty, of course,
Speaker 4: but Redraft now you move on well, And that.
Speaker 2: Is the reason that is going to take us to
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Speaker 2: That's always a joey thing. So I was able to
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Speaker 2: of challenges.
Speaker 3: That was fun.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go do some three up and three down,
Speaker 2: three up. Dylan Moore three for five, two homers against
Speaker 2: the Red, stepping in the Red, stepping in for Victor
Speaker 2: Roebliss a bunch. Alan Roden hit his first career homer
Speaker 2: off of Spencer Schwellenbach and Tyler Molly six shutout innings
Speaker 2: versus the Angels picked up nine strikeouts.
Speaker 5: In the win.
Speaker 2: It is just lally man to me because they had
Speaker 2: originally put Patrick Corbin in as the starter for that
Speaker 2: and I was betting against it, and then Molly comes
Speaker 2: in and they shut that thing down. Dude, Tyler Molly
Speaker 2: looked really good against that Angels team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on short notice.
Speaker 4: I mean the different sites, there were some of them
Speaker 4: that had Corbyn going, there were some of them that
Speaker 4: had Molly going. It looks like the kind of had
Speaker 4: to fill in for some reason.
Speaker 5: They did a swap.
Speaker 3: But Corbyn's today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tyler Molly through nineteen innings as a sub one
Speaker 4: era a point eight six whip.
Speaker 5: Is that going to continue?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I would say that probably not going to get a
Speaker 5: hell of a lot for him, But package him up
Speaker 5: and see what you can get for him after your
Speaker 5: daylight today. For me, personally, I just don't buy it
Speaker 5: in the long run.
Speaker 2: If Logan Henderson was out there and you had to
Speaker 2: drop Tyler Molly, would you do it?
Speaker 5: God, I'd probably take a chance on Henderson.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I Just with a guy like Molly who's been
Speaker 4: around for so long, we know who he is, right,
Speaker 4: unless he's making drastic changes this year, which I'm not
Speaker 4: really seeing. He's still walking a lot of batters. He
Speaker 4: has a really low babbit high strand rate. I think
Speaker 4: it's just been a lucky couple starts for him. I
Speaker 4: would kind of try and take advantage of that in
Speaker 4: the trade market if you can. You're not going to
Speaker 4: get a king's ransom for him. But you know, as
Speaker 4: a package with another guy could do something.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: I would not drop Molly to pick up Logan Henderson.
Speaker 2: And I guess I always kind of come back to
Speaker 2: the same thing and prove me wrong, show me and
Speaker 2: I'll jump on it. But there's so many guys that
Speaker 2: we just we sit on these shows and just are like,
Speaker 2: we should trade this guy, we should trade this guy.
Speaker 2: And it's like, who in God's name is buying Tyler
Speaker 2: Molly that is worth moving off of him? Like what
Speaker 2: if Tyler becomes a nine K per nine guy on
Speaker 2: a Rangers team that picks up their offense and there's
Speaker 2: tons of wins support it's not a great ballpark, But
Speaker 2: what if he's a what if he's an under four
Speaker 2: era pitcher for the rest of the year, picks up
Speaker 2: eleven wins. It's like, was it worth trading him when
Speaker 2: no one believes? So that's Kiren Parris to him. I
Speaker 2: just I struggle with guys like this. But the context
Speaker 2: of what you're saying, I totally understand. You're like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is not gonna last. I don't really buy into it.
Speaker 2: Move off of him. I don't know what that looks
Speaker 2: like outside of maybe like a two person trade like
Speaker 2: you were saying, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Like Kien Paris and Tyler Molly for I don't know,
Speaker 4: pick any top one hundred player who's been struggling so
Speaker 4: far and maybe it gets it done. Probably not, but
Speaker 4: we see see crazy stuff come across the inbox every day.
Speaker 5: You never know, no harm in trying, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, you're one hundred percent right about that. There's no
Speaker 2: harm in trying. And uh, you know, you look at
Speaker 2: the YouTube comments, You're going to see people that are
Speaker 2: able to pull some crazy trades together. So maybe you
Speaker 2: can put him out there and see who's overreacting.
Speaker 3: On the down.
Speaker 2: Are we overreacting? I don't know, but Joe and I
Speaker 2: just did the trade video about a day and a
Speaker 2: half or a day ago, and one of the highlighted
Speaker 2: players we were trying to get out from was Luis Castillo,
Speaker 2: and Luis Castillo was tagged for six runs and four
Speaker 2: and one third innings by the Reds. On Tuesday, we
Speaker 2: also saw Sean Burke give up five against the A's
Speaker 2: not so great and then making his season debut after
Speaker 2: returning from the IL. Alexis Diaz with the Reds was
Speaker 2: pulled mid inning after walking two of four batters that
Speaker 2: he faced in the game against the Mariners. There so
Speaker 2: not a great return, especially with Francona kind of like,
Speaker 2: you know, jumping around to closers and potential, you know,
Speaker 2: Emilio Pagan. I'm not sure that really bodes super well.
Speaker 2: But you want to add anything on the Lais Castillo
Speaker 2: thing because you and I were and you can go
Speaker 2: to Diaz as well, but you and I were really
Speaker 2: hyper focused on Castillo as kind of a trade and
Speaker 2: things were not great yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm totally into trading Castillo. It might be a
Speaker 4: little bit harder after today. When we were talking yesterday,
Speaker 4: his ERA for the season was like two point one
Speaker 4: and now it's at four point two two, So that
Speaker 4: might have been very short for you. Maybe you can
Speaker 4: still do something to move off of him. But go
Speaker 4: check out the trade video on the channel from yesterday, kind.
Speaker 5: Of laid it all out.
Speaker 4: The stuff and fastball velocity declining in each of the
Speaker 4: last four seasons as he enters into his mid thirties.
Speaker 5: Just kind of a bad recipe.
Speaker 4: And also with Seattle, you trust them for the home starts,
Speaker 4: but then you see what happens when they're away from Seattle.
Speaker 5: It's a big risk.
Speaker 4: Not just for Castillo, but all of their pitchers have
Speaker 4: kind of extreme home and a waste splits. But for
Speaker 4: a guy like Castillo when there's the other concerns, that's
Speaker 4: not good. But for the Reds, Alexis Diaz is probably
Speaker 4: a drop. I think, like Terry Francona, wasn't the one
Speaker 4: who christened him the closer, He wasn't his closer. For
Speaker 4: these past several years. He seems to like Pegan. Pegan
Speaker 4: has been getting the saves consistently. We see Das continue
Speaker 4: to struggle dealing with an early season injury. Maybe he
Speaker 4: gets back into that role at some point, but I
Speaker 4: think Diaz is the third or fourth best reliever on
Speaker 4: this team. Tony Santian is probably better at this point.
Speaker 4: Pegan has been doing well. Holding Diaz is gonna be tricky.
Speaker 3: I think I can't do it.
Speaker 2: I can't cut Diez off of his return from the
Speaker 2: IL and one bad outing because he has been the closer.
Speaker 2: I think that's way too preemptive. I think you need
Speaker 2: to wait and see what does the next outing look like.
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be a save situation. I think
Speaker 2: you need a tiny bit of time before you go
Speaker 2: and make a drastic move off of him. But I
Speaker 2: understand Francona, he might be done. We just don't have
Speaker 2: any big actual word on that. I'd also say when
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Speaker 2: few questions in here. You guys have been stacking that up.
Speaker 2: Let's go right here. Thoughts on Jonathan Aranda. Jonathan Ronda
Speaker 2: has been hitting four for the Reds. Are you a
Speaker 2: by on Ronda right now?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm kind of a by on him.
Speaker 4: The only problem is that there's been so many breakouts
Speaker 4: that are all first baseman this year. Soderstrom tarkles, it's
Speaker 4: hard for dhs. Yeah, first base slash DH Manzardo's kind
Speaker 4: of cooled off, but there's been so many first base
Speaker 4: pickups that it does get a little bit hard to
Speaker 4: pick up all of them and start all of them.
Speaker 4: A lot of leagues don't even have those corner infield spots,
Speaker 4: so it's just like a guy sent me a question yesterday.
Speaker 4: He has Schwarber, Harper, and Soderstrom and just the first
Speaker 4: base in DH spot, so he's sitting one of them
Speaker 4: every single day. In the shallow leagues, it does get
Speaker 4: very hard. But Miranda, I think, I think his first
Speaker 4: in Major League baseball at WRC plus three homers, he's
Speaker 4: batt in four thirteen twenty one on the barrel, sixty
Speaker 4: two hard hit. The numbers are stupid, they're unsustainable to
Speaker 4: this degree, but last year nearly a seventeen percent barrel rate,
Speaker 4: forty seven on the hard hit.
Speaker 5: The ballpark is great. I love him. It's hard to
Speaker 5: figure out.
Speaker 4: The priority for these first basemen, but like, would you
Speaker 4: take him over?
Speaker 3: So Tostrom, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I don't like Ronda as much as you have good
Speaker 2: contact skills and he's being putting. Sometimes you just get
Speaker 2: these dudes that just make the contact and you put
Speaker 2: them at four and then all of a sudden, they're
Speaker 2: just good. Things are gonna happen. I'm just not sure
Speaker 2: he's ever going to be a massive counting stat guy.
Speaker 2: I am a firm sodastrom over Aroanda.
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe he might.
Speaker 2: He might have a really great shot at staying in
Speaker 2: that spot all season, though.
Speaker 5: I think I'm still so strom over Aranda. I just
Speaker 5: wanted to figure out where you were on that one.
Speaker 2: Sure, Lisa, will Dylan Cruz get sent down? You think
Speaker 2: they're gonna send Cruise down.
Speaker 4: It's definitely possible. He's not really looked that great dealing bases.
Speaker 4: He has what is it, four stolen bases so far,
Speaker 4: but he's patting a buck twenty thirty five percent strikeout right.
Speaker 5: His WRC plus this is minus thirteen. It's just really bad.
Speaker 4: He might he might end up going down at some point.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't drop him just yet, but there's a chance.
Speaker 2: There was one more I wanted to hit in this
Speaker 2: little section. I just went away from it. Thoughts on
Speaker 2: Cameron Meisner. So we're going to be doing the Waiver
Speaker 2: Wire video that's going to be coming out tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: I can I'm gonna just preview to tell you that
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Cameron Meisner. I'm very much
Speaker 2: in on Meisner, and the Rays have got a bunch
Speaker 2: of sneak They're just sneaky guys. And which of those
Speaker 2: guys are going to stick around you Like Aronda, you
Speaker 2: got Mangum that's up there stealing bases. I'm very much
Speaker 2: in to Cameron Meisner right now. Ten percent barrel rate,
Speaker 2: fifty one percent hard hit. He's not striking out, consistently
Speaker 2: hitting the ball. Frankly, you know what, the profile kind
Speaker 2: of looks like, kind of looks like a SODASTRM right now.
Speaker 2: I mean slow strikeout rate, walking some crazy good hit tool.
Speaker 2: He's striking the ball really hard. He's hitting almost four
Speaker 2: hundred with three homers. I think my end Meiser's being
Speaker 2: put in some good RBI opportunities. I think Meisner is
Speaker 2: a definite pick up right now.
Speaker 4: What's say you, Yeah, I think the cheap comp But
Speaker 4: the one that actually does make sense kind of.
Speaker 5: Is Josh Lowe.
Speaker 4: You know, decent power, really good speed, he pulls the
Speaker 4: ball up, he strikes out. He is the replacement essentially,
Speaker 4: so it's a little bit of an obvious one, but
Speaker 4: he's put up some really good minor league seasons in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, it was seventeen homers and thirty steals.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty three it was twenty one homers twenty one steals.
Speaker 4: The strikeouts are usually a bit of a concern. Wouldn't
Speaker 4: expect the sixteen percent strikeout right to last like at all,
Speaker 4: He's probably going to be above thirty percent. But while
Speaker 4: he's doing what he's doing, he's definitely worth picking up
Speaker 4: in the upshot. Is a fifteen to fifteen season from
Speaker 4: him potentially, if not even.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I really I really like Meiser right now,
Speaker 2: I'm picking him up for sure. Let's talk about some injuries.
Speaker 2: There are a bunch of things. Let's burn through these.
Speaker 2: Carlos Korea had to leave Tuesday after injuring his wrist
Speaker 2: on a swing.
Speaker 3: Considered day to day.
Speaker 2: He's out of the lineup today as his Mount Walner,
Speaker 2: so they're a little bit light, with David Festa Orioles
Speaker 2: hopeful that Efflyn is out weeks instead of months. We
Speaker 2: also had Grace Rodriguez with no timetable, still a lot ahead,
Speaker 2: which is a really bad sign for him coming back
Speaker 2: anytime soon. And Kyle Bradish is moving along really well
Speaker 2: in his rehab from Tommy John hoping to return later
Speaker 2: in this summer, So they've got an arsenal of pitchers
Speaker 2: they need to come back. They have almost nobody right now,
Speaker 2: Go make a trade, please? Why at Langford could be
Speaker 2: activated as soon as this weekend recovering from that oblique injury.
Speaker 2: Absolutely huge for all of us in fantasy and just
Speaker 2: a good boost to that Rangers team. I'd love to
Speaker 2: have a really good contact hitter at the middle of
Speaker 2: the lineup after Corey Seeger because then you've got, you know,
Speaker 2: Jock who's struggling, one of the lowest babtists in baseball.
Speaker 3: Behind Josh Young Berger. All these guys are struggling.
Speaker 2: It's like it's a struggle sandwich is Corey Seger in
Speaker 2: the middle of like Simeon who's at the front, he's
Speaker 2: one bun he's struggling, and then all these other big
Speaker 2: power hitters.
Speaker 3: So we need Langford to come back big, big time.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's anything to say in here,
Speaker 2: but like, I want the Rangers to kick back. I
Speaker 2: thought these guys are going to be crazy, and it's
Speaker 2: just everybody is struggling outside of like Josh Young and Seeger.
Speaker 4: Right now, Yeah, I called them the best offense in
Speaker 4: the American League before the season. It doesn't feel very
Speaker 4: smart at this point. I think we're going to get
Speaker 4: there eventually, and getting Langford back should do wonders for them.
Speaker 5: He looked very good before he went down.
Speaker 4: I worry a little bit with the oblique because wasn't
Speaker 4: there something in spring as well? Like I hope this
Speaker 4: doesn't become a recurring thing for him, But it's good
Speaker 4: that he should be back this weekend.
Speaker 2: Oh, obliques in general, obliques in general, it's Scarry Jackson
Speaker 2: Merril slowly ramping up.
Speaker 3: He did some VP and bunting drills. He's still not running.
Speaker 2: He's not going to come off the IL when he
Speaker 2: is first eligible, so mark your fantasy calendars for that.
Speaker 2: Zach Netto could be activated. I think I'm saying as
Speaker 2: soon as tomorrow. I saw something saying this weekend. But
Speaker 2: like he's been at Triple A. I think he had
Speaker 2: another homer. He's got four homers in twelve rehab games
Speaker 2: with Triple A. Salt Lake doesn't need to be there anymore.
Speaker 2: It's any day and Friend of the Show DJ hers
Speaker 2: he's undergoing Tommy John surgery. I think that is really
Speaker 2: friends of the show are not want to be friends of.
Speaker 5: The show, right, We're gonna stay away from us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, all right.
Speaker 2: It doesn't deserve the song because it was a bad
Speaker 2: betting day, so we're not gonna joyfully sing it's the
Speaker 2: best bets that No, it's the best bets of the day.
Speaker 2: Let's get serious. We're talking bets here, Joe Rico. It's
Speaker 2: an interesting slate today. There's a bunch of early games.
Speaker 2: I kind of moved away from the early games. You are,
Speaker 2: you're back on the heavy player prop. So what do
Speaker 2: you got today?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm targeting some total bass overs. There's one safer bet.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get to it in a little bit, but
Speaker 4: the total basis, I'm going with Lawrence Butler over one
Speaker 4: and a half at plus one thirty, I don't really
Speaker 4: understand it. Going up against Jonathan Cannon and the White Sox.
Speaker 4: This feels like a pretty easy opportunity.
Speaker 5: To make some money.
Speaker 4: And then Jose Ramirez plus one twenty over one and
Speaker 4: a half total bases going up against Dean Kramer. It
Speaker 4: just feels like these lines are a little odd. I
Speaker 4: would have thought maybe you'd see a you know, point
Speaker 4: five bases at a bit of a juiced line for
Speaker 4: both of these guys. But I'll take the one and
Speaker 4: a half at plus one twenty and then this one
Speaker 4: is minus one seventy five. So in terms of the value,
Speaker 4: it's not great, but it just feels like a really
Speaker 4: weird number. Max Meyer over three and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 4: He's facing the Diamondbacks, but I'm striking out less than
Speaker 4: any team in baseball at the moment.
Speaker 5: That being said, three and a.
Speaker 4: Half still feels really easy for a guy like Max Meyer,
Speaker 4: who's a twenty five percent roughly twenty five percent strikeout.
Speaker 5: Rate guy to achieve.
Speaker 4: He's been doing well so far this season. If you
Speaker 4: think it's a little bit too juice, you can maybe
Speaker 4: pair one of those together and get that number down.
Speaker 4: You probably get plus three hundred or so if you
Speaker 4: throw those in a parlay. But Lawrence Butler, Jose Ramirez
Speaker 4: over on the basis and then Max Meyer over on
Speaker 4: three and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 3: I'm I think you're mentioning the Angels one of those.
Speaker 2: I'm tailing some first fives today, just you know, an
Speaker 2: all transparency bad day for me yesterday, not even like
Speaker 2: like I'll say many times. You know, sometimes the process
Speaker 2: is really great and then blah, now it wasn't good yesterday.
Speaker 2: It kind of a blow up there my life betting
Speaker 2: did save me, so again that's kind of the plug
Speaker 2: to betting pros on the app that picked me up
Speaker 2: pretty big the day.
Speaker 3: So I'm going with a couple first fives right now.
Speaker 2: I don't really love any of the player props as
Speaker 2: far as the pitching market goes. I don't play a
Speaker 2: whole lot of total based stuff in general. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be tailing Bryce Miller on the first five money
Speaker 2: line minus won ten, so we're looking for obviously the win,
Speaker 2: but a push can save us. And backing Jose Soriano
Speaker 2: through the first five minus one forty that one's juiced
Speaker 2: up a little bit, but he has just been a monster.
Speaker 2: So first fives in Seattle and the Angels for me for.
Speaker 3: Those best bets of the day where we can earn
Speaker 3: back the song that probably no one really even wants
Speaker 3: us to do.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the home run board. There
Speaker 2: were no homers yesterday, I think for absolutely anybody. Maybe
Speaker 2: a couple, but I don't see much movement. I think
Speaker 2: me and Wonkey were seven and eight yesterday, we're both
Speaker 2: sitting at eight. We've got a Ferret and Marty both
Speaker 2: at eleven at the top. We got a couple tens
Speaker 2: in there, Razor Ramone, we got the people. It is
Speaker 2: still very very obtainable. If you guys get an Amazon
Speaker 2: Prime Twitch connection. If you can connect those two bad boys,
Speaker 2: you can get in on the home run contest, or
Speaker 2: you can be a part of the premium discord. You
Speaker 2: can do that as well, and you can win that
Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa Jersey autograph. Samy so said Jersey to the
Speaker 2: winner of the home run contest. So not a lot
Speaker 2: of movement. So that means there are some people to catch.
Speaker 2: Joe who and how are you catching? Who's your home
Speaker 2: run call for today?
Speaker 4: Well, we wanted to target him yesterday. We're gonna target
Speaker 4: him today because of that switch in the pitching matchup
Speaker 4: was Patrick Corbin going up against the Angels. I'm taking
Speaker 4: Jorge Celearra to hit a home run plus two seventy
Speaker 4: on the various books. If you're looking to bet that one,
Speaker 4: it's Patrick Corbyn. Whether you're betting the home runs individually,
Speaker 4: the over earned runs, the over hits, you know the
Speaker 4: Angels team total Angel's money line. Bet against Patrick Corbin.
Speaker 4: Make yourself some free money today?
Speaker 3: What did I call it? You're picking on me? What
Speaker 3: did I say? It's a sub subscription? What did I say?
Speaker 5: They say? I don't know, let me know.
Speaker 3: What I said?
Speaker 5: Call? Is that? So Mayor messing with you? Oh it's
Speaker 5: not Mayor. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I said.
Speaker 2: I said something stupid shock welshism. So yesterday, dummy, I
Speaker 2: saw that Patrick Corbin was on the slate, I bet
Speaker 2: against it. I went with Mike Trout and then apparently
Speaker 2: I looked at the wrong place. I got screwed or
Speaker 2: just screwed myself and it went against me.
Speaker 3: Tyler Molly was amazing.
Speaker 2: But I see Patrick Corbin is back, So I am
Speaker 2: going right back to Mike Trout. That was my whole
Speaker 2: dig was Mike Trout versus Patrick Corbin. So I am
Speaker 2: back on Mike Trout today, going up Patrick Corbin. Bang,
Speaker 2: we're not going to go over runs, but you and
Speaker 2: I both attacking him. So he is assuredly going to
Speaker 2: go six and strike out nine and he'll be at
Speaker 2: Tyler Molly again.
Speaker 3: But you guys can be a part of it.
Speaker 2: Join in on the Discord and you can get on
Speaker 2: the home run contest and guess what more opportunities to
Speaker 2: talk to us today? Tons of questions, tons in the
Speaker 2: chat and I know we didn't get to a lot
Speaker 2: of it. Well, guess what you want to get to
Speaker 2: more of it? You guys can come over to the
Speaker 2: discord two pm Eastern today Arico and I we're doing
Speaker 2: the live show on Discord. We're doing cleaning Up. I remember,
Speaker 2: there's so many shows in there where we're going to
Speaker 2: be bringing you guys on to answer questions. And then
Speaker 2: at four pm Eastern live on YouTube, we'll be back
Speaker 2: again answering questions for a full hour. So if it's
Speaker 2: missed here, come on over and hang out live with us.
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Speaker 2: on Twitch at twitch dot tv slash Fantasy Pros. That
Speaker 2: is going to do it, my friends. Hope you guys
Speaker 2: have a fantastic day. For Joe Rico. I'm Chris Welsh.
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