Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, but some good stuff here already
Speaker 1: in the chat. I want to start with this from
Speaker 1: The Peanuts and the Cracker Jacks Leeji, friend of the
Speaker 1: show for I think since inception. Yesterday Joey p was
Speaker 1: talking about all the other characters on the show, Cousin, Donnie, Walkee, Pengman,
Speaker 1: all the people. But what the show really needs is
Speaker 1: a theme song, and a theme song written by Ai Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's hard to argue that this isn't the best idea
Speaker 1: that we're gonna see all month.
Speaker 2: But now who sings it? What is the Ai voice
Speaker 2: of Leading Off?
Speaker 1: I don't know I don't know what that sounds like.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can only assume it sounds something like,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you guys like leading Off? I sure do.
Speaker 1: I love leading Off. It's the best show in the world.
Speaker 1: We love baseball. Oh, Jackson Holiday, you're adorable.
Speaker 2: Why does he know? He's like the cartoon character from Shrek,
Speaker 2: like not my com drop button.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very Pinocchio. Yeah, it's some hybrid of all
Speaker 1: those things. But let's get after. We've got a lot
Speaker 1: to do today, and of course it's Thursday, and that
Speaker 1: means we're gonna be prospecting with the Welsh. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: can get that pick axe out of your head from
Speaker 1: that graphic. If you haven't already, make sure you subscribe
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Speaker 1: here with ten or how nine strikeouts for him, beautiful
Speaker 1: complete game, shutout over the Guardians. We were in on
Speaker 1: this bunch of ching. So I had a good day
Speaker 1: yesterday on the betting side, which is good. I needed
Speaker 1: it in the worst way of being stone cold for
Speaker 1: about ten days now. But again, breakouts happen. Baseball's a
Speaker 1: long season. Pace yourself. Also Welsh fun fact, it was
Speaker 1: the fastest game since twenty ten. An hour and forty
Speaker 1: nine minute baseball game. That's barely enough time to wait
Speaker 1: on the line for beer or to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Whoa was it really? I mean, this is that whole
Speaker 2: you know, pitch clock and pace of game type of stuff.
Speaker 2: We've seen tons of minor league games push into two hours.
Speaker 2: It's something the experiment with the Arizona Fall League for
Speaker 2: quite some time. But under two hour games are wild
Speaker 2: to me. I didn't realize that it was that quick.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of down for it. I don't, you know,
Speaker 2: like the dragged on games or something about four and
Speaker 2: a half hours invested into like a twelve inning game
Speaker 2: or something that makes you want to dunk your head
Speaker 2: and water. So our forty commitment, that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Donnie c cousin Donnie says, do it ninety six
Speaker 1: com style. It might have to be we might have
Speaker 1: to figure out how this works. Oh great, I mean
Speaker 1: it should be like me turning around like, oh my,
Speaker 1: just as Joe Pi's appeal under it. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a great At a baseball game, he goes to catch a
Speaker 1: foul ball or like the nights found ball away from
Speaker 1: a kid and then like crying, and he's like this,
Speaker 1: He's like, actually, that's my Mayor's bit.
Speaker 2: And then you and I are and then and then
Speaker 2: pans to you and I were like, Mike.
Speaker 1: Here's so bad, Mike Mayor? All right, but yeah, if
Speaker 1: quick games are good, it's good for baseball. I like it.
Speaker 1: I got more fun facts I got. I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of fun facts. Today. Christopher Sanchez struck out ten
Speaker 1: unearned run allowed over six scorelessittings against the Rockies. Yes again,
Speaker 1: we said the same thing yesterday. It wasrez, We'll say
Speaker 1: it against the Rockies. Who cares, I'm telling you, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I was worried about the only thing that worried me
Speaker 1: a little bit about my wager this year about the
Speaker 1: Phillies winning that division was one thing was a back
Speaker 1: end of this rotation. I don't think I'm worried anymore.
Speaker 1: Those guys are stepping up, Sanchez, Suarez, all these guys
Speaker 1: are stepping up, the guys at the top. I know
Speaker 1: you can count on, Welsh. It feels like the Phillies
Speaker 1: are the team to beat in the East. For me,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what you've gotten so far. Look,
Speaker 1: losing Spencer Schreider is that was that one thing too
Speaker 1: that I was most fearful of. If Strider goes down,
Speaker 1: What does the rest of this rotation look like for Atlanta?
Speaker 1: I don't care how good the offense is. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the philm so far this year in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've seen Wheelers had absolutely no run support
Speaker 2: early on in this year. Aaron Nola up until that
Speaker 2: last game had been kind of but like you said,
Speaker 2: you had Ranger and Christopher Sanchez just absolutely lifting the
Speaker 2: team up. So it's great. Sanchez is a great fantasy option.
Speaker 2: His changeup has been incredible, big sweepy stuff. Like a
Speaker 2: team like the Rockies. He's going to absolutely dominate. But
Speaker 2: it's not unheard of to think that he's going to
Speaker 2: be more than a nine K per guy all season long,
Speaker 2: with maybe better earned run numbers and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So I'm into both of those guys. And if you're
Speaker 2: talking about the grand scope of it, yeah, this team's
Speaker 2: pretty dangerous. They've got depth in the bullpen. It would
Speaker 2: probably behoove them to go and make a move a
Speaker 2: little bit more in the bullpen, or like the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: did where they had the rotation kind of set and
Speaker 2: then they're like, hey, we're going to go and pull
Speaker 2: the trigger on Jordan Montgomery. They could go out and
Speaker 2: just get one more piece to make that a robust
Speaker 2: rotation and a robust pitching staff. When they're offense pretty
Speaker 2: dang good. It's a pretty dang good offense that just
Speaker 2: needs to click, and it has really started clicking. I
Speaker 2: mean every year they do the same thing.
Speaker 1: They start off slow and they get red hot, and
Speaker 1: then they make the playoffs and you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: where they can gauge this year. But look, I think
Speaker 1: this might I picked the Phillies to go to the
Speaker 1: World Series too. I think it's the Phillies year. I
Speaker 1: just I feel like that's it's, you know, one of
Speaker 1: those teams where it just feels right to me. It
Speaker 1: feels like they are knocking on the door. And it's
Speaker 1: one of the few places that has a home field advantage.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of places aren't a home field advantage,
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia's still one of them. That place is raucous,
Speaker 1: it's loud, it's tough building to play in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's it's something that's for sure. Here's one from Star
Speaker 1: Platinum to do the theme song to the Curb Your
Speaker 1: Enthusiasm song. I do only can get the rights to that,
Speaker 1: but I would like that that would be this, that
Speaker 1: would be the theme playing over my bets for the
Speaker 1: last seven days. That would be.
Speaker 2: But see, that's where AI could come in, as you
Speaker 2: could do like, you know, like a curb or office
Speaker 2: type theme. Ask AI to do it again.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Does AI make news. I don't even understand the whole
Speaker 2: time everything.
Speaker 1: I'm actually artificial intelligence right now. I'm ninety you're the intelligence.
Speaker 1: I'm the intelligent. There you go. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about some guys who had some big starts. Yesterday we
Speaker 1: previewed them. Now we're gonna talk about the aftermath. Kevin
Speaker 1: Gosman one run over five innings fastball velocity was at
Speaker 1: ninety four point eight. He topped out at ninety seven
Speaker 1: to nine. That's a good thing. Obviously, fourteen swinging strikes,
Speaker 1: so good start from Gossman era still at eight. But
Speaker 1: I think let's start with Gosman here real quick. Welsh,
Speaker 1: I felt good about the start. I think everybody should.
Speaker 1: Do you agree? Yep?
Speaker 2: This is that what we talked about, like, hey, don't
Speaker 2: freak out, don't lose your minds, buy in on some
Speaker 2: of those elite guys, and Gosman's starting to get it
Speaker 2: back going.
Speaker 1: Now. Max Freed gave up three runs and five innings.
Speaker 1: He walked four guys, gave up seven hits. Now it's
Speaker 1: the astro. So again the level of difficulty a little
Speaker 1: bit different here. But we were greating Gosman against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense to great Freed here against the opponent.
Speaker 1: And against the opponent, it was kind of a shaky
Speaker 1: start here for Freed. So what's your panic mode on him?
Speaker 2: I've been a little panic mode already, Like he was
Speaker 2: one of the wish it wasn't Logan Gilbert. It was
Speaker 2: like Freed and Logan Gilbert were like the guys that
Speaker 2: I was a little like not into coming into the year.
Speaker 2: Gilbert's been amazing, Freed has not. The early walks. Is
Speaker 2: it's either gonna be this bad trend that's gonna continue
Speaker 2: going and it's gonna put him in really bad spots,
Speaker 2: or it's a complete anomaly. I'm not super super into
Speaker 2: Max rate. I don't think he's looked really consistent, and
Speaker 2: I just wasn't like an elite, elite guy. So it's
Speaker 2: a little like my narrative base because like Goswen, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's good to go.
Speaker 1: He was. The health was a question going into the season.
Speaker 1: I put him as a red flag pitcher in the
Speaker 1: Black Book this year with good reason. And here we
Speaker 1: are and Strider's already gone. If Freed isn't right, this
Speaker 1: is a problem for Atlanta, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: problem as the season starts to go on because you
Speaker 1: know other injuries are gonna happen. It's just the nature
Speaker 1: of the beast. So it's already April and already in
Speaker 1: here it's bad. Michael King was good, though very good.
Speaker 1: Ten strikeouts for him, just two walks against the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Hee had noel yelg in the lineup, but still seventeen
Speaker 1: miss swings here, twenty five call strikes, one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine pitches on this one. A lot of the data good.
Speaker 1: Ninety six miles an hour was where he was sitting
Speaker 1: at so look, this was this was good. Here. He's
Speaker 1: now two and one with a three ERA, so this
Speaker 1: makes me feel really good because another bad outing for
Speaker 1: Michael King was gonna start to worry me just a
Speaker 1: little bit. This one was not just good, it was dominant.
Speaker 1: Now I feel really good and I feel stupid because
Speaker 1: I had him on my bench in one or two leagues.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, let's just kind of a show
Speaker 1: me start here. Well he showed me I'm wrong for
Speaker 1: sitting him. What do you think about Michael King's start yesterday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very very encouraged about it. You mentioned seventeen
Speaker 2: swing and missus with for a forty percent swing and
Speaker 2: whiff rate. In this game, he had a thirty nine
Speaker 2: percent csw His fastball was getting stuff done. He actually
Speaker 2: had a fifty three percent with rate on the fastball.
Speaker 2: His sweeper is just great. Villa was kind of up
Speaker 2: across the board, which was a good sign. He looked
Speaker 2: pretty consistent. I mean, he's a little walk heavy, he
Speaker 2: gets a little like walky, but he gets a strikeouts,
Speaker 2: he gets a swing and missus And this is that
Speaker 2: version of Michael King that I was trying to sell
Speaker 2: in the preseason that he could be elite like this.
Speaker 2: And the dude had a no hitter going through like
Speaker 2: five or six innings, so very very encouraged, great opportunities.
Speaker 2: If people were just kind of down on the slow start, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, you know, face the Dodgers multiple times
Speaker 2: to start the year, it might be a little bit
Speaker 2: of a more difficult struggle. And Michael King is really
Speaker 2: coming into himself and those whiff numbers are very very
Speaker 2: encouraging because it looks like the starter version of him
Speaker 2: from last year, and that's what I love so much.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the you know, rps and
Speaker 1: cracker jacks of the chat and I'll often wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: people will come into this madness here who've just found
Speaker 1: this channel this year. The amount of inside jokes that
Speaker 1: are already like just for like two years are hilarious,
Speaker 1: like Michael talking about Schwarberfest being back again. I mean
Speaker 1: like things like that. I just get imagine what people are, like,
Speaker 1: what are they talking about? Like, what are these crazy
Speaker 1: lunatics talking about? Stick with us, watch us live, you'd
Speaker 1: be part of the lunatic that's the way to go.
Speaker 1: Thing was the quahah thing, which, by the way, I
Speaker 1: am so depressed because they closed the Wah Wah after
Speaker 1: a decade of living in this town. They closed the
Speaker 1: small little wah wah on the corner of my Stree
Speaker 1: wah Wah. Well you, oh no, the wahwah. The waha
Speaker 1: is the push you go for breakfast, sandwiches and coffee,
Speaker 1: and it's the place you go out for. You know,
Speaker 1: you stop by for a lunch, or you're you're driving
Speaker 1: back from somewhere where you're going to the beach that day.
Speaker 1: You get some Hogi's. You get a hogi at the
Speaker 1: wah Wah. I'm so mad just because it wasn't a
Speaker 1: big enough wah wah. They closed it because they didn't
Speaker 1: have a gas station of wah wah. It's our little
Speaker 1: wah wah. You took it away from this and I'm
Speaker 1: mad about it. I'm pounding the table about it.
Speaker 2: You're getting paid for every wah wah you mentioned there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they should be a sponsor the show.
Speaker 2: We don't have those here. We don't have those here.
Speaker 1: So Ezekiel Tovar three for five with a run scored.
Speaker 1: He is slashing three zero six, three sixty three four
Speaker 1: eighty six with three homers two steals in his first
Speaker 1: eighty played appearances. I love this. He was one of
Speaker 1: our late pick guys. Elie de la Cruz his fifth
Speaker 1: home run yesterday, and Juan Soto three for three with homer.
Speaker 1: So obviously good things from wan so will continue. Here's
Speaker 1: some fun stuff. Farrest Whitley came up. Fares Whitley goes
Speaker 1: down obviously because Verlander's coming up. Today's Jack Lighter's debut,
Speaker 1: so we'll be obviously talking about that tomorrow. Mason Miller
Speaker 1: struck out two in another scoreless ninth inning, and his
Speaker 1: Sterio Ruiz apparently came back as a power hitter. He
Speaker 1: is reincarnated. He's still a base being another home run too.
Speaker 1: Are you buying the power of a story Ruiz?
Speaker 2: This is actually the first thing I saw him when
Speaker 2: he was in Complex Ball and he was a Royal
Speaker 2: at the time before he got traded to the Padres,
Speaker 2: and I thought he was like an Alfonso Soriano light.
Speaker 2: He had big power double. He led the Complex League
Speaker 2: rookie ball at the time in doubles. It's always been there.
Speaker 2: It's just been how to tap into it is what's
Speaker 2: fallen apart. They sent him down this year because they
Speaker 2: said his bat stunk. He kind of heated every call.
Speaker 2: He started walking more, he got on base, and you're
Speaker 2: seeing just a resurgence in the power. He's not a
Speaker 2: twenty home run hitter, but like, could he hit fifteen
Speaker 2: in the season if he was for high contact? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I kind of.
Speaker 1: Well, he's still sixty bases at his fifteen home runs.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is the top, he's the first round talent,
Speaker 2: but he's not got all.
Speaker 1: I mean, the problem is easy hits.
Speaker 2: Two ten, you know, or two twenty. But the A's
Speaker 2: have already kind of made this commitment, Like if he
Speaker 2: doesn't hit, he's not sticking around. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'm encouraged, and a lot of you might have had
Speaker 2: opportunities to pick him up being sent down, people dropping him.
Speaker 2: He's kind of a must ad right now, especially because
Speaker 2: his opportunity is back.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some more fun things here.
Speaker 1: Last year, I just I saw this and I'll show
Speaker 1: and I just want to bring it up here. Last year,
Speaker 1: for there were three point five thousand stolen bases in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, thirty five hundred exactly on the button
Speaker 1: that It was the most by the way since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven, which was the record high by the way
Speaker 1: three thousand, five hundred and ninety. I thought that was
Speaker 1: fascinating that in one year that they that they almost
Speaker 1: broke the record and it was the second highest number
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven and baseball nineteen eighty seven. You
Speaker 1: had a lot of those guys, you know, the thirty
Speaker 1: thirty Club guys, you know, the you know, the guys
Speaker 1: like the Jose Canseco's and the you know, Daryl Strawberries
Speaker 1: of that time. There were guys who had power and speed.
Speaker 1: That was the thing. It was this big power speed combination.
Speaker 1: You had teams like the Cardinals that were you know,
Speaker 1: and that were you know, out there steeling bases, playing
Speaker 1: white herzog ball. It was a very different time. It
Speaker 1: was my peak viewing time in the mid eighties of
Speaker 1: like my youth of capturing me with baseball. But I
Speaker 1: thought that's really interesting because I wonder, now, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the early game, right with the quick
Speaker 1: game hour and forty nine minutes, you're talking about the
Speaker 1: steels being up. Maybe there is this opportunity here where
Speaker 1: baseball can continue to be on this trend and hopefully
Speaker 1: get this pitcher thing straightened out. That's really fascinating. Did
Speaker 1: you know that did you know that this was the
Speaker 1: second highest total in the history of baseball? Yes? Last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I would have guessed it. The stolen
Speaker 2: bases were up percentile wise by like a dramatic margin,
Speaker 2: like dramatic, dramatic, So I gotta be honestly, I probably
Speaker 2: would have thought it was number one last year with
Speaker 2: the amount of I mean, with a Kunya and as
Speaker 2: story Ruiz and Cormick Carroll like, the stolen based numbers
Speaker 2: were not just up on the top end, they were
Speaker 2: up on everybody. And that's been kind of the key marker,
Speaker 2: which is so interesting because stolen bases went from this
Speaker 2: thing where everybody's chasing in everybody wants to get the
Speaker 2: high end stolen based guys, to it kind of being
Speaker 2: a fade from last year into this year because it's like, well,
Speaker 2: everybody's stealing more, but the elite guys are still, you know,
Speaker 2: at the tippy top. But then there's the Bryce terrangs
Speaker 2: of the world that are you know, leading baseball and
Speaker 2: stolen bases right now that we never really would have expected.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would have thought it was number one.
Speaker 1: Rapid flashes and or boguards has been hard. Yes, I
Speaker 1: would buy him and I would buy Randy Rose Raina,
Speaker 1: both of them right now, two of my favorites. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they made the Welsh video for next week,
Speaker 1: but we shall see. Also Sabos goggles Ai song Where
Speaker 1: in the world is kentama Eta for Welsh? I support that.
Speaker 1: That's a good one that you guys don't forget now
Speaker 1: now again, all the inside jokes are unbelievable. Welcome to
Speaker 1: leading off. Here's a fun one too, The Dodger seven
Speaker 1: through nine hitters so far this year and fifty one
Speaker 1: played appearances, four doubles, four homers. Here's the slash line
Speaker 1: one two twenty seven, two thirty nine. We talked about
Speaker 1: this line of being top heavy Welsh. It's been top heavy,
Speaker 1: but the top has been so good. What happens when
Speaker 1: the top comes back down to earth and Mookie bets
Speaker 1: stopped going five for five every day?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the team's gonna get shut out by
Speaker 2: the Nationals. That's what's gonna end up.
Speaker 1: There's talking about the way that was the only thing
Speaker 1: I get't hit yesterday was the stupid It was nine
Speaker 1: and a half. Even Vegas was like nine and a
Speaker 1: half and they got it two.
Speaker 2: Here's the Here's the thing, though, Like we can do
Speaker 2: those speculative things with the Dodgers, but like they lose one,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna lose all of them, but they lose one,
Speaker 2: they still have like Otani and Freeman or Bets and whatever.
Speaker 2: Like it's so uniquely great on the top part that
Speaker 2: like we we can't even do this pure speculation. What
Speaker 2: about the back But the depth of this team from
Speaker 2: an on offensive standpoint completely suffers. Clearly, like they have
Speaker 2: taken more of a priority to insively than it is
Speaker 2: often on the offensive side. And it's like having Gavin
Speaker 2: Lux out there every day doesn't make any sense. I
Speaker 2: think he's one of the worst offensive baseball players out
Speaker 2: there right now. So I'm not really sure what's going on.
Speaker 2: I do think they will make some type of a move.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that's gonna look like in the
Speaker 2: mid season, but I think like that is something clear,
Speaker 2: like you can't have that big of a discrepancy between
Speaker 2: the top and like not just like that those guys
Speaker 2: are so talented, but you're so bad on the back half.
Speaker 2: Like they're gonna fix that. The Dodgers are going to
Speaker 2: be the team that will fix that across the board
Speaker 2: because they got the assets to trade but have been
Speaker 2: pretty good. If theyd Michael Busch though telling you right.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you would have been an out, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: rookie lookie. Then we get to prospecting with the Welsh.
Speaker 1: Parker Meadows his first homer. Here you go, congratulations to you,
Speaker 1: and jose Brew went over to and made an error.
Speaker 1: So I think it's time ladies and gentlemen to look
Speaker 1: for Joey low Perfido. Because Joey the Pride of Philadelphia
Speaker 1: twenty one runs nineteen hits, ten homers, twenty four ribies,
Speaker 1: two steals, hitting two ninety seven with a ninety seven
Speaker 1: OBP and eleven ninety four ops. I think people should
Speaker 1: start picking up this guy. If I made my way
Speaker 1: for a wire video today instead of yesterday, I would
Speaker 1: have added him. Welsh, what do you think about this?
Speaker 1: As we transition into more prospect talk.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll take him off the list because he was
Speaker 2: one of the prospects we were going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Joey lous Well, no, no, no, no, don't. Instead, let's
Speaker 1: get to it prospecting with the Welsh there's the pickaxe,
Speaker 1: and that's Welsh wielding it. And look at that. He's
Speaker 1: discovered baseballs and he's going to discover some prospects you
Speaker 1: need to add to your roster. So Welsh, let's start
Speaker 1: with Joey low Perfido Joey Lowe because I like to
Speaker 1: call him, although in Philadelphia be low Perfidu. That's WWA, Joey.
Speaker 1: Go get me a HOGI and a cake. Come on, Joey.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's talk about prospects that we are
Speaker 2: gonna stash. Joey Luperfdo is near the tippy top of
Speaker 2: the list. He is in this top five that I've
Speaker 2: got for you because he has been the most prolific
Speaker 2: power hitter so far in the minors. Interestingly enough, he
Speaker 2: had quite a few homers in the first couple games
Speaker 2: with a really bad low batting average, and then he
Speaker 2: has completely taken off. He's the only minor leaguer so
Speaker 2: far to have double digit homers and we're talking about
Speaker 2: like fifteen or sixteen games. He's gotten his batting average
Speaker 2: over three hundred. Those double digit homers and the power
Speaker 2: is for real. But his ability to continuously maintain high
Speaker 2: batting average is the question. There was actually a broadcast
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago when Joey Lubervito was still
Speaker 2: popping with all the Homers being at the very tippy top,
Speaker 2: and they had Astro's management on it, and they kind
Speaker 2: of poured a little bit of cold water on it,
Speaker 2: saying that he had a few little stance based things
Speaker 2: to still work on. So pretty much what they're saying
Speaker 2: is is like he kind of has like a like
Speaker 2: a lower body sense to how he approaches and comes
Speaker 2: up that I think they want him to fix something
Speaker 2: in his approach before they make this big commitment. But
Speaker 2: there's also going to be some type of a push
Speaker 2: at some point where auan offensive support and be like
Speaker 2: this guy is just too good for this level.
Speaker 1: Too good to be down there. But also jose A
Speaker 1: Bray was done like he's going to get dfaid. I
Speaker 1: think by moral day.
Speaker 2: I don't think luper Fido is going to take a
Speaker 2: first base spot. I mean he can kind of play around.
Speaker 2: He's been playing in the outfield, but they've also been
Speaker 2: playing like you know, Jack Myers, like JACKA. Myers has
Speaker 2: been out there, like like Luperfido is the guy that
Speaker 2: they can put in there, but I worry a little
Speaker 2: bit about batting average. So I think you should pick
Speaker 2: up Joey Luperfido now and stash him because I think
Speaker 2: we are in a two to three week window where
Speaker 2: he comes up, but beware that it could be a
Speaker 2: little bit open with some bad batting average.
Speaker 1: Now, one guy that did make my waiver wire video
Speaker 1: this week because he's only roster in about sixty percent
Speaker 1: of leagues now because he got hurt to start the
Speaker 1: year with Junior Camonaro, I want everybody to add him again.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Junior Camonaro and maybe some ETAs in
Speaker 1: your opinion.
Speaker 2: Well, we thought the injury was going to really, you know,
Speaker 2: pour a massive amount of cold water on this entire situation.
Speaker 2: He missed almost two weeks, but right on his day back,
Speaker 2: smash smash, a home run, first game back, opposite field stuff.
Speaker 2: He just got crazy, pure rob power. He currently has
Speaker 2: a three four six slash in the miners right now.
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely, I'm starting over six hundred slug. His
Speaker 2: strikeout rate has been a little bit higher than you want,
Speaker 2: and that might be something that the Rays hold back
Speaker 2: a little bit. He is walking, he's got two homers,
Speaker 2: he has a stolen base an over three hundred ISO
Speaker 2: right now, and the Rais offense has been kind of ehh, like,
Speaker 2: I think they could justify it. The only problem is
Speaker 2: Esock parades has been pretty good, so when they do it,
Speaker 2: the commitment is going to have to be an Esock.
Speaker 2: Pardi is going to play maybe DH or cam and
Speaker 2: Arow and him going back and forth unless they went
Speaker 2: back to his original spot of having him be a
Speaker 2: shortstop like luper Fido. A lot of these players I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. I think cam and Aro is in that
Speaker 2: two to three week window we're closing in where you
Speaker 2: get extra year of arbitration. That's the most important thing
Speaker 2: to the Rays. But I think it's still going to
Speaker 2: be right around May. But he is at the top
Speaker 2: of the list because he's a top prospect in baseball.
Speaker 1: Joe, Yeah, all right, camon Aro. Again, we all say
Speaker 1: at James Woods, a guy who been talking about a lot,
Speaker 1: he's just been tearing it up. So any change this
Speaker 1: week over a last from the James Wood discussion.
Speaker 2: Not that there's any just massive change outside of like
Speaker 2: this ticking clock is as big as it's ever been
Speaker 2: and one thing I just wanted to point out, this
Speaker 2: is another guy three four to five slash currently big
Speaker 2: numbers two homers, fourteen runs, five stolen bases. I want
Speaker 2: to remind you he six foot seven, two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty pounds. But the most impressive thing why I think
Speaker 2: not only is he coming up soon, but he is
Speaker 2: gonna find success, is the lowered k rate. He has
Speaker 2: the same walk and strikeout rate right now twenty percent,
Speaker 2: striking out twenty percent of the time and walking twenty
Speaker 2: percent of the time, which is absolutely crazy. He had
Speaker 2: an over thirty three percent strike cut rate last year
Speaker 2: in Double A. He's good friends with Jackson Merrill. He
Speaker 2: actually spent some of the offseason with Jackson Merril. I
Speaker 2: like to pretend to my little world that he ended
Speaker 2: up getting some more plate presence and working on his strikeouts.
Speaker 2: He has got the tools of tools. When you think
Speaker 2: about the Ellis of the world, this is that guy.
Speaker 2: He's stealing a ton of bases. He is coming soon,
Speaker 2: and the Nationals are winning some games. There's only so
Speaker 2: much longer they're going to keep him down again. If
Speaker 2: May first hits and James Wood isn't up, I would
Speaker 2: be surprised.
Speaker 1: Good question here from Brandon stashing Kerstad right now? Would
Speaker 1: you hold on to him or prefer Low Berffedo. I
Speaker 1: like Kierstad better as a hitter from what I've seen,
Speaker 1: but and it's not a knock on Loperfito. I just
Speaker 1: that's how much I like Kerstad. Here's my only thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like the low Perfido pathway is sooner, Like
Speaker 1: I think right now, Kierstad's kind of stuck. You know,
Speaker 1: Cedric Walldins is a big walk off moment too, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a room at the inn
Speaker 1: right now for him. Where is low Perfido right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, the astros are struggling. They need to figure
Speaker 1: some stuff out.
Speaker 2: What do you think I agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. Kirstad's in an interesting spot because
Speaker 2: that team, that Norfolk team is ridiculous. I do believe
Speaker 2: that he's the next Oriole to come up, except if
Speaker 2: something were to happen where the Orioles kind of let
Speaker 2: go of this Jackson Holiday stuff where like Jackson Holiday,
Speaker 2: they've given him a very large rope and if they
Speaker 2: were just cut that come on. But if they were
Speaker 2: decide to cut that it wouldn't make sense for Kurstad
Speaker 2: to take his spot because rfield No Kobe Mayo, well,
Speaker 2: Karen Norby would make some sense, but I think they
Speaker 2: moved Westburg over to second, and Kobe Mayo would be
Speaker 2: a person play third.
Speaker 1: But Kurstad's about embarrassment of riches, like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: They're the bestball team, better than the White Sox right now,
Speaker 2: maybe better than the ag Yeah, maybe better than the
Speaker 2: White Sox. They would die to put that roster ock here.
Speaker 2: But seven homers for kurs Dad, you want to check
Speaker 2: out where he ranks versus luper Fido, go check out
Speaker 2: my article on fantasy pros right now for prospects to stash.
Speaker 2: You can absolutely see where he ranks as a top
Speaker 2: ten list. But I got two more in their pictures, Joe, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to plow through them there. The easy quick
Speaker 2: one is Paul Skeins. Paul Skeins, he's coming again May first.
Speaker 2: If he's not called up, I would be surprised. Twenty
Speaker 2: percent swinging strike great. He has an over fifty k
Speaker 2: minus walk percentage, which is absolutely absurd. Three starts though,
Speaker 2: of three innings. They are saving those bull or they're
Speaker 2: babying him. We still don't know. I'm leaning on saving
Speaker 2: those bullets and he'll be up soon. And then finally,
Speaker 2: we've talked a decent amount about him. If we are
Speaker 2: highlighting a top five stash situation here Christian Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Christian Scott with the New York Mets. We've talked about
Speaker 2: his last start, ten strikeouts over five innings. He's got
Speaker 2: a four ERA, but he's got a sub one whip
Speaker 2: nineteen strikeouts and nine innings. I love the combination of
Speaker 2: the fastball slider with the splitter that he implements. And
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be up pretty pretty soon. And
Speaker 2: there's more names over on my article, like I said,
Speaker 2: over on Fantasy Pro, so you can follow me on
Speaker 2: Twitter at is it the Welsh to see it? Ten
Speaker 2: names and even a few more names that you can
Speaker 2: keep on your watch list moving forward in the year.
Speaker 1: Ten things I love about you Welsh?
Speaker 2: Oh good one?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah there you go. Oh by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: I love Heath Ledgerd. I think that movie's overrated. My
Speaker 1: daughters love it. I think it's a little overrated. I
Speaker 1: took a lot of heat the other day at dinner
Speaker 1: about this. It's like I like it. I just think
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always wanted it to be more
Speaker 1: than it was. And I'm a big rom com kind
Speaker 1: of kind of guy. Just I don't know, not a
Speaker 1: big round I'm more when Harry met Sally, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a prospect guy. You're a prospect guy. There you go, everybody,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get to the three up and three down.
Speaker 1: Mike Trout one for four with a homer. He just
Speaker 1: keeps hitting home runs. Kyle Schwarber Schwarberfest two more homers
Speaker 1: for him, big win for the Philadelphia Phillies and Bryce Miller.
Speaker 1: Great performance from him over the Reds. There one run,
Speaker 1: one hit over six innings, three down. My boy, Julian
Speaker 1: Oh for four, struck out three times. I don't like this. Well,
Speaker 1: he is striking out way too much. That's not his
Speaker 1: game in the minor leagues. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on with him. I'm a little worried. I'm a little annoyed.
Speaker 1: We'll see if it's just like a little blip on
Speaker 1: the radar, something's bothering him. Confidence that whatever it is
Speaker 1: hopefully figures it out. Also, David Bednar not good gave
Speaker 1: up three runs and two thirds of an inning, so
Speaker 1: things are going south for him very quick. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the Pirates too, Jacksonwinsky oh for four against the Mets.
Speaker 1: He's in a buck seventy two. Is Jacksonwinsky on the
Speaker 1: way to the waiver wire for a lot of teams?
Speaker 2: Uh ooh for team? I thought he was saying like the's'
Speaker 2: be like no, no, not for Pirates, but for for fantasy.
Speaker 1: I think people are like, why am I holding this
Speaker 1: guy when there's a lot of like I should be
Speaker 1: stashing a litt perfito or curestat are these guys?
Speaker 2: That's actually really good point. I was gonna say, people
Speaker 2: might be kicking themselves if they had Sewensky didn't want
Speaker 2: to drop him when guys at Clton Kowser were sitting
Speaker 2: out there. But yeah, at this point, Swensky's not playing
Speaker 2: to a level that you you should feel pot committed
Speaker 2: that you got to keep holding. Yeah, you could absolutely
Speaker 2: dump for a cursed ad or a loop Berfido if
Speaker 2: you're just looking for some production here soon, because all
Speaker 2: those guys, all the five players we just talked about,
Speaker 2: like these are in the window of the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. We do this next week. This is gonna
Speaker 2: be kind of similar again. Once we start going down
Speaker 2: the shroad. These guys should be coming up soon, just
Speaker 2: like hey, Jack Lder was in my article from two
Speaker 2: weeks ago. He's already up. You know you're gonna start
Speaker 2: seeing more and more of these, especially over the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. So yeah, better than stashing a struggling
Speaker 2: Jack Swinsky.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get high falutin here for a second with
Speaker 1: our friend here in the chat, BT fouts. He says
Speaker 1: it's never easy to adapt Shakespeare. You're right, Bet, it's
Speaker 1: not because Shakespeare is the greatest, So whenever you try
Speaker 1: to modernize it or whatever it is, you're already a
Speaker 1: step behind everything. So there you have it. Everybody either
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Speaker 1: set it in the high school, or don't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, BT is very hot, but I'm talking
Speaker 1: about ten things I hate about you. It's Taming of
Speaker 1: the Shrew adapted. You see, I knew culturally you would
Speaker 1: never keep up with.
Speaker 2: That big stupid idiot I am that would not.
Speaker 1: It's remember intelligence, artificial this guy intelligence here there an
Speaker 1: HR Report's going to be filed right after this. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the injuries. Not too many today, thank god.
Speaker 1: Brendan Drury was held out of the line up yesterday
Speaker 1: John means not good. Another bad one for him. Five runs,
Speaker 1: five hits and a third of an inning, yikes. And
Speaker 1: then Garrett Whitlock, who we knew was going on the IL,
Speaker 1: officially went on the IL. So there you have it, everybody.
Speaker 1: But we turned the page yesterday we got hot again,
Speaker 1: or at least I did. So I'm ex to bring
Speaker 1: you today Thursday's Best Bets of the Day with Joey
Speaker 1: p and the Welsh. That's right, everybody. It's a fun
Speaker 1: Thursday limited slate, so we don't have a lot to
Speaker 1: choose from. But whenever you make your wagers, make sure
Speaker 1: you do it with bet three sixty five. Use that
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Speaker 1: I use the Betting Pros tools today a lot for
Speaker 1: mine because the tools are spectacular. If you haven't already
Speaker 1: download the Betting Pros app check it out. Amazing what
Speaker 1: you could do there. But also using that prop bet
Speaker 1: cheat sheet is just perfect, especially on a day like
Speaker 1: this where things are a little light, really helps you
Speaker 1: kind of zero in on the best odds of places.
Speaker 1: So give me the Cubs on the run line minus
Speaker 1: one and a half plus one forty eight against the
Speaker 1: Marlins here. I like that one a lot. Also, we've
Speaker 1: got Marcus Simeon over point five RBI you get plus
Speaker 1: money plus one sixty five on that. And then Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger in this matchup today starting to kind of like,
Speaker 1: I feel like kick out of the slump a little
Speaker 1: bit over zero point five run scored for him at
Speaker 1: plus one forty So I think those are some really
Speaker 1: nice plus money bets on a lighter schedule today. So
Speaker 1: the Cubs on that minus one and a half run line,
Speaker 1: Marcus Seman over the RBI point five and over the
Speaker 1: run point five number here for Cody Bellinger. No parlays
Speaker 1: for me today because it's just again limited Thursday slate.
Speaker 1: But Welsh, what do you have for the people that's
Speaker 1: fun On the betting side of things.
Speaker 2: I was literally locking in a couple of those bets
Speaker 2: because not only is it like a massively low today
Speaker 2: in the amount of games they are playing, so most
Speaker 2: of them are playing in like five or ten minutes
Speaker 2: like they're early, so I don't know why they're also
Speaker 2: throwing to us early, So make sure to get your
Speaker 2: bets in. My play of the day is a later
Speaker 2: day bet though, so you got a little bit of
Speaker 2: wiggle room. And I'm going with my Diamondbacks through the
Speaker 2: first five innings. I'm taking the money line, which is
Speaker 2: plus money plus one thirty. They're going to getst the
Speaker 2: Giants and Logan Web. Ryan Nelson is on the mound,
Speaker 2: so that's why it's a little bit less, but the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks or you're getting plus money, and the Diamondbacks are
Speaker 2: the number one scoring team through the first five innings,
Speaker 2: while the Giants are on the bottom five of the
Speaker 2: league and scoring through the first five. Diamondbacks over half
Speaker 2: of their starting roster actually has a career three hundred
Speaker 2: plus average against Logan Web. Logan Web's been okay so
Speaker 2: far this year. The Giants, they actually do worse against
Speaker 2: righties than lefties. And Ryan Nelson, though his era has
Speaker 2: been a little bit inflated, is actually a little bit
Speaker 2: better than his stats are actually showing. Xtip is over
Speaker 2: a full run lower. So I'm gonna take those first
Speaker 2: five innings, where there's actually almost a two run difference
Speaker 2: between them in scoring on the year. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: plus money on the Diamondbacks. That's my favorite play of
Speaker 2: the day through the first five. My others, it's literally
Speaker 2: about to start up. I had someone yesterday called me
Speaker 2: the nerfy god because we've been hitting them good.
Speaker 1: This is good yesterday too, let me tell you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this one's a little bit riskier and I
Speaker 2: say that and I'll probably lose it, but I'm going
Speaker 2: with the Angels and Tampa Bay no run first inning,
Speaker 2: the odds between like one twenty one fifth even dropping
Speaker 2: a little bit Ryan Pepio. I think that's the key,
Speaker 2: is the Rays stopping the Angels a little bit, and
Speaker 2: Pepio's on the mount, which I like, and Griffin Canning
Speaker 2: with the Rais lineup, I'm a little bit less worried about.
Speaker 2: So that's my nerf You play number two, and then
Speaker 2: finally I'm going to back Jack Lder. I did a
Speaker 2: social video on Jack Lighter for you guys to watch,
Speaker 2: and I'm going Texas money line, which is right at
Speaker 2: that like minus one to twenty marker. It's actually pretty
Speaker 2: even odds because they don't know what they're getting. But
Speaker 2: guess what, Jack Lder's been striking out guys, not walking,
Speaker 2: but he's got a home run problem. But the Tigers
Speaker 2: have not been hitting rdy super well. They have not
Speaker 2: been hitting homers super well. And I think this is
Speaker 2: actually a pretty good matchup for Jack Lider, especially in
Speaker 2: his debut. Kintamayta over ten home run on fly balls
Speaker 2: ten percent. So I'm going to back the Texas Rangers
Speaker 2: and take the money line for my third bet, because boy,
Speaker 2: it is some hard work mining for bets today with
Speaker 2: the short cities.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, and I know when it's day games,
Speaker 1: people are saying, you know, if I can't watch the
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Speaker 1: in the morning. My favorite things at probably around by
Speaker 1: nine o'clock in the morning on Eastern time. So that's
Speaker 1: a great way, especially if you know you can't see
Speaker 1: the show and you want to get involved or see
Speaker 1: what we're in on. That's gonna be locked in there
Speaker 1: well before the show, before those one o'clock games start
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. So just wanted to get that
Speaker 1: out there. Those are the best bets all of the
Speaker 1: day for Thursday in Major League Baseball, before we get
Speaker 1: to the home run calls and and the wheel. I
Speaker 1: assume we're back, why we'll say no wheel, that's it.
Speaker 1: The wheel is There was a good question here. I
Speaker 1: wanted to pull this up from Jorge Welsh, how close
Speaker 1: is pretty soon for Christian.
Speaker 2: Scott everybody that I mentioned to you, I think we're
Speaker 2: in the two week window. Now. I don't have a
Speaker 2: magic I don't have a magic wand it might not happen,
Speaker 2: but this might be like May first right around there.
Speaker 2: I think this next week is really important because then
Speaker 2: you're pushing back any of that like extra year compensation.
Speaker 2: But all of three, all five of those guys that
Speaker 2: we talked about, MY assumption is in the two weeks.
Speaker 2: So if it May first happens so they're not up,
Speaker 2: I would be a little bit surprised, and then maybe
Speaker 2: I'm making other moves. But then the problem is just
Speaker 2: like I think they'll be up any day. But you
Speaker 2: know what, Hey, sometimes I'm right about this and then
Speaker 2: sometimes it's Christian.
Speaker 1: The Scott one would surprise me because I feel like
Speaker 1: again with Boutau pitching how well he's pitched and Sanga
Speaker 1: on his way back, I think I think that one
Speaker 1: might take longer. I could be totally like, well, shit
Speaker 1: like could be totally wrong. You never know these organizations
Speaker 1: sometimes they just flip the script. I think it would
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see, you know how Howser and
Speaker 1: Mania pitch because again manyas specifically, if he has another
Speaker 1: bed outing, you could easily move into the bullpen, Like
Speaker 1: that's a move that you could make and it would
Speaker 1: probably be better for everybody involved.
Speaker 2: So that that's like, how long do you want a
Speaker 2: talented young pitcher to be wasting good outing in triple A?
Speaker 2: How Like how many innings are they going to be
Speaker 2: comfortable with come May if Manaya is stinking or Houser
Speaker 2: stinking and not wanting to give him an opportunity.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's see Christian Scott in April.
Speaker 1: I really don't. Definitely not. I'd be surprised, I hope.
Speaker 1: So that would be nice. You know what else I'd
Speaker 1: like to see somebody win this the Jose Ramirez autograph. Jersey,
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Speaker 1: got to do to win this, And it's time to
Speaker 1: look at the home run board and continue on. So
Speaker 1: I have fallen down here. I'm just at eight now
Speaker 1: with everybody else. Everybody else joined you, geez, everybody caught up.
Speaker 1: I've been stone cold recently, so Welsh. Now that you're
Speaker 1: back to picking your own home runs like a big boy.
Speaker 1: Who do you have today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, big boy taking his own home runs. I'm back
Speaker 2: in those Texas Rangers, and I'm gonna back Adolice Garcia. So,
Speaker 2: like I said, outside of Jack Glider, I think one
Speaker 2: of the bigger home run to flyball ratios is Quentemayeda today.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna attack for one of the bigger power
Speaker 2: hitters in adols.
Speaker 1: So there you go, there you go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Cody Bellinger again. If I'm already in invested in him,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue. He Actually, you know, so far this
Speaker 1: year against left handed there's been pretty good. J Puck's
Speaker 1: on the mound. He's not long for this game. Give
Speaker 1: me middle relief and I shall show you, Homer. That's
Speaker 1: what I say. So hopefully we're right about this. I'd
Speaker 1: like to get up to nine, to that top spot.
Speaker 1: That's what I'd like to do. And of course, if
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Speaker 1: gonna get a signed Vladimir Guerrero bat. He doesn't need it,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna give it to you. That's it. Well,
Speaker 1: just was a jam hack show. Lots of talk about
Speaker 1: the youth of baseball for a light slate of Major
Speaker 1: League baseball. I felt like, as the kids say, we
Speaker 1: ate today.
Speaker 2: We cooked I think one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ate collectively.
Speaker 2: There's like nothing left by the way a giant bought
Speaker 2: my kids fan Oh the Tri Colors were number one.
Speaker 2: I was actually had no never had any of those things.
Speaker 2: My wife got very excited about the cannoli and then
Speaker 2: the kids demolished the Tri Colors a big hit in
Speaker 2: the household today. But we're not eating today because we
Speaker 2: and everyone was up super late. Now I'll sugared up
Speaker 2: last night. But yeah, you know, jam packed, we cooked today,
Speaker 2: and short slates doesn't mean we don't have lots of
Speaker 2: info for everybody. So rightfully, we were all enjoyed.
Speaker 1: There you go. That'll do it for us. But the
Speaker 1: story of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm
Speaker 1: Joey p. We'll see you next time. Kids. Enjoy your
Speaker 1: baseball