Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody into Fantasy pros MLB. This is Leading
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Speaker 1: It is me Joey p That of course is the
Speaker 1: Welsh Happy Monday, everybody. Somebody's got to Keys of the Mondays.
Speaker 1: I just watched Office Space this weekend, so that's it
Speaker 1: in my head. It is so good. And I finally
Speaker 1: saw Idiocracy for the first time, which I had never
Speaker 1: mind you had never seen I had never seen it.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, it's scary that we're living
Speaker 1: in it sup mostly five hundred years in the future.
Speaker 1: It feels more like fifty years in the future.
Speaker 2: It's one of the last movies of all time, it
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 1: It's super relevant, and of course I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the Crocs story about that? By the way,
Speaker 1: before we get into the baseball.
Speaker 2: So cross that I know how Idiocracy came about. I
Speaker 2: don't know about this Croc story.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, they apparently told the costume designer,
Speaker 1: hey try to find like the dumbest outfits, the dumbest things,
Speaker 1: and the dumbest footwear that everybody's gonna wear. And at
Speaker 1: the time, there was this new product called crocs, and
Speaker 1: she thought that this was like the silliest looking thing
Speaker 1: and the wood should ever wear this. They're super comfortable,
Speaker 1: They're ridiculous, noe. But and you'll see them in the movie.
Speaker 1: Throughout people are wearing crocs.
Speaker 2: I don't think my first time.
Speaker 1: And I noticed it because I saw the reel a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago about this, and sure enough, everybody's
Speaker 1: wearing crocs in there, and uh, we're getting there.
Speaker 2: I love it. My favorite part is I love when
Speaker 2: they do we do it as an itl rejoin, it goes.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Carls Junior. I love you. Welcome to Carls.
Speaker 2: I love you. That's a great.
Speaker 1: Why doesn't my judge make more movies? I mean, Office Space, Idiocracy, brilliant,
Speaker 1: more my judge, please, I mean, come on, all right,
Speaker 1: more baseball for all of you. The Peanuts and the
Speaker 1: cracker Jacks hanging out in the chats are for a
Speaker 1: little sojourn today. But some fun stuff going on here,
Speaker 1: because as predicted, my boy Joey Lo Baffito, how you going,
Speaker 1: you'll join the Astros on Tuesday. Let's go h two
Speaker 1: eighty seven three ninety three seven thirteen slash thirteen homers,
Speaker 1: twenty seven rebies, five steals. The man can do it all,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be a first place first base in
Speaker 1: front of Jose Abreu, who again I do not think
Speaker 1: is long for this roster. So well, should we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this more, I don't know. It seems like
Speaker 1: a month now and now it's finally happening. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on low Baffido getting the call.
Speaker 2: It really does feel like it's been a really long time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned last week, I was ready to kind
Speaker 2: of like down talk a tiny bit and I had
Speaker 2: done my article and then literally because because he had
Speaker 2: like an eight day span where his average cut like
Speaker 2: eighty points and he had no homers and the strikeouts
Speaker 2: were rising. But this is a guy that barrels the
Speaker 2: crap out of the ball way over twenty percent in
Speaker 2: triple A so far this year, really good evs. And
Speaker 2: then over the last like five games he's put up
Speaker 2: three more homers. He got his average back up to
Speaker 2: to eighty seven. He's walking double digit percentage of the
Speaker 2: percentage of the time led the miners in homers. He's
Speaker 2: everything that you want, you know, out of like JOSEA Braiu,
Speaker 2: who stinks who's hitting like under one hundred. He's not
Speaker 2: long for this. I've kind of been waiting to see
Speaker 2: if they were gonna cut a really, you know, you
Speaker 2: thought that Bray was gonna be gone on.
Speaker 1: The IDA is coming, I do.
Speaker 2: I think he could still stick around unless there's like
Speaker 2: an anger of how this is going to happen. But
Speaker 2: Luperfido can play in the outfield. He has been playing
Speaker 2: first base. Watch the strikeouts. That's still the thing I
Speaker 2: think you need to focus on. That could be of worry.
Speaker 2: But in this place of like looking for massive production,
Speaker 2: he can steal. He can hit big homers. He probably
Speaker 2: goes and hits six or seven or something like that,
Speaker 2: which still could be a decent RBI opportunity.
Speaker 1: He's a pickout if he slugs anything close to five
Speaker 1: hundred and hits anything close to two forty five or
Speaker 1: two fifty. I think you take that. If you're the Astros,
Speaker 1: I think you're happy with that, Like that's what you're
Speaker 1: looking for out of that spot is literally a dead spot.
Speaker 1: If you saw Wonky here a Bray, you in Singleton
Speaker 1: collectively seventeen for one thirteen no homers and three RBI,
Speaker 1: like literally anything is better right now for the Astros.
Speaker 2: So I think Singleton will be the one that goes
Speaker 2: and they keep a bray you around unless there is
Speaker 2: a big like you know, I don't want to do
Speaker 2: this and I want it to play every day type
Speaker 2: of thing from a bradi a leadership type of thing.
Speaker 2: But I think he could stick around, be kind of
Speaker 2: a team leader off the bench in a Joey Vado way,
Speaker 2: and how it was treated last year when Cees and
Speaker 2: all those guys came up.
Speaker 1: So that's how I underveled. As more Astros news, you
Speaker 1: want his return from the io on Sunday. You know,
Speaker 1: I forgot this weekend was the Mexico City Games. Had
Speaker 1: I remembered that I would have picked an Astro on Friday.
Speaker 2: I picked one on Saturday. I went into the Discord
Speaker 2: and I went into the home run channel and I
Speaker 2: picked Jordan Alvarez on Saturday and I got those two homers.
Speaker 2: But then I don't know why I didn't go back
Speaker 2: on Sunday and pick one when I should have fantasypros
Speaker 2: dot Com slash chat to get a part of all
Speaker 2: of our awesome discord stuff. But I was able to
Speaker 2: get those two homers in. Let's see if it got
Speaker 2: me back on the board to come later in the show.
Speaker 1: By the way, we checked in on Jackson Holiday since
Speaker 1: he got sent down. Heez, I'm so sad. I'm hope sad. Boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, things did not go great for me. You
Speaker 1: ever remember a guy being more red hot and triple
Speaker 1: A and getting called up and being so stone cold?
Speaker 1: I don't, I do.
Speaker 3: I've had a couple of guys in my hype and
Speaker 3: like like hysteria of a player, Like it feels like
Speaker 3: Joe Adell is like the the lower's lowest of the
Speaker 3: tier compared to what we've seen things that scared with
Speaker 3: Jackson Holliday.
Speaker 2: It is pretty intense. Maybe not to like the I
Speaker 2: feel like there were a couple of.
Speaker 1: Players in the valley of it that's so stunning to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were players that had maybe a bigger high
Speaker 2: of excitement. But I don't know if a player struggled
Speaker 2: and played us bad in that right like run before
Speaker 2: being sent down.
Speaker 1: So bad, so bad, But some good news, Eric Fetti,
Speaker 1: look at this guy eight and a third inning struck
Speaker 1: out nine guys. H so good news there against the
Speaker 1: raised lineup too, so White Sox have one pitcher, so
Speaker 1: that's nice. Michael King, oh Man, just when we thought
Speaker 1: it was safe to go out again with Michael King.
Speaker 1: Five and a third innings against the Phillies, so it's
Speaker 1: a tough lineup six runs. The strikeout to walk is
Speaker 1: still good, like that's the saving grace. Forty strikeouts, twenty
Speaker 1: one walks okay in the thirty six and things like,
Speaker 1: I feel like the ship will get righted. The era
Speaker 1: is five, the whip is at one four seven. Would
Speaker 1: you buying or selling Michael King right now?
Speaker 2: I would probably just dump Michael King if Eric Fetty
Speaker 2: was sitting out there at this point. Eric Fetty is
Speaker 2: a twenty eight percent k percentage, six percent walk rate
Speaker 2: on a bad team. But my problems with my problems
Speaker 2: with Michael King is just complete inconsistencies. The walks are
Speaker 2: still a massive problem. He's gotten expected era that's over five.
Speaker 2: It's actually worse than his actual era, and he is
Speaker 2: giving up so much contact. Eleven point nine percent barrel
Speaker 2: percentage against. That's a that's a picture against, and that
Speaker 2: is the number we would be like, this guy could
Speaker 2: maybe be elite with on almost twelve percent barrel percentage. Listen,
Speaker 2: if I had the ability to kind of like sit
Speaker 2: back and chill and get through the next couple weeks
Speaker 2: with Michael King, I would His changeup is still elite
Speaker 2: forty one point five percent. He throws at his second
Speaker 2: most of any it's gotten over forty percent wiff rate.
Speaker 2: It's elite twenty three percent wiff rate on the fastball.
Speaker 2: That's still good. But he is inconsistent. He's all over
Speaker 2: the board. So that ends up being kind of like
Speaker 2: a spot starter in leagues where there aren't a bunch
Speaker 2: of options. Now, I'm gonna hold on and maybe not
Speaker 2: start king a starter or two. In leagues where there
Speaker 2: are just a lot of burn and churn type of
Speaker 2: players pitchers that are out there, yeah, I probably would
Speaker 2: jump off that train, even though and I'm the biggest,
Speaker 2: like Michael King guy, but he's a little dethroned right now.
Speaker 1: A little dethroned. Well it's you know, it's a Monday,
Speaker 1: so you know, somebody casey the Monday. I was told
Speaker 1: that the last time when I passed it, they would
Speaker 1: get the cake, and I didn't get kick because.
Speaker 2: Michael King, what would you say you do here? Just
Speaker 2: keep doing all that things.
Speaker 1: It's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 2: I can believe you've never seen.
Speaker 1: I don't like Luke Wilson. That's why I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not like I just I think he's a crab actor.
Speaker 1: That's Owen Wilson. I know, I know, I was just
Speaker 1: I don't like him either. I don't like it. I
Speaker 1: like Mookie Wilson. That's the best Wilson all there. Wilson's
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's no good Luke Wilson. Owen Wilson not a
Speaker 1: fan of the Wilson, although Owen Wilson and Loki kind
Speaker 1: of redemed himself a little for me lightning round questions,
Speaker 1: I want to do these quickly for the penis and
Speaker 1: cracker jacks, the big dance, great avatar to look at this,
Speaker 1: let be uh a little devy uh drop Michael Garcia
Speaker 1: for lowperveto yes or no?
Speaker 2: Oh that's tough, big expected numbers in favor of Michael Garcia.
Speaker 2: He is turning it around. You know what.
Speaker 1: I say? No, but I I get why I think
Speaker 1: I could. Garcia is a bench player, then yes, if
Speaker 1: he's start.
Speaker 2: Good way to say, like, I really want to see
Speaker 2: what if I can be invested in the luper Veto business.
Speaker 2: I think I would because that is a friendly ballpark.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of lineup protection out there. I'm literally
Speaker 2: just worried about those k's getting out of control. But
Speaker 2: if they don't, he said, he barrows the crap out
Speaker 2: of the ball, makes really good decisions at the plate,
Speaker 2: and the ball flies. Michael Garcia has been playing down
Speaker 2: though he's going to fight back up.
Speaker 1: It's sorry, it's it's it's called you're the worst. Angelo
Speaker 1: want Angelo wants to know Torkles in point zero five
Speaker 1: to nine, any hope left lo o L. I picked
Speaker 1: up low berfto here.
Speaker 2: In a smaller league, like, I think you could get
Speaker 2: off of it. Like he's not going to hit point
Speaker 2: five to nine all season. I think he'll bounce back
Speaker 2: for sure, but hope. There's probably stuff on the wire
Speaker 2: that you could move to in favor of Torkelsen.
Speaker 1: All right, one more to get to here. Some good
Speaker 1: performances we had. Brendan Fought looked really good. He was
Speaker 1: my big by Low this past week eleven strikeouts and
Speaker 1: six innings. Again the on Sunday morning. I talked about
Speaker 1: this on the TV show too, that his era and
Speaker 1: has expected era were like a run different. I was like, look,
Speaker 1: this is your window. It's going to close real soon
Speaker 1: to get fought, and sure enough it closed by the afternoon.
Speaker 1: George Kirby over the weekend twelve strikeouts, So feeling good
Speaker 1: about those. George Kirby shares for Zy Young. Maybe starting
Speaker 1: to come alive again. Jordan Hicks very good.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Recorded a career high nine strikeouts over six innings of
Speaker 1: one run ball, no decision against the Pirates. He was
Speaker 1: complaining though, a little bit about side tightness. Please, Jordan Hicks,
Speaker 1: can we not have an oblique issue? Please, for the
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Speaker 2: I mentioned to the this to you last week. I
Speaker 2: thought you were actually gonna lead into this so that
Speaker 2: we have a big celebration.
Speaker 1: But eight hundred the weekend.
Speaker 2: It's episode eight hundred of Leading Off. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to that is like cool number.
Speaker 1: That is number eight hundred for us, it's very exciting here.
Speaker 1: Uh that wait that eight hundred of the baseball pockets
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Speaker 2: This is just of leading off, only of leading up.
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Speaker 2: I think more than half of Leading Off's history, so
Speaker 2: I feel like I kind of have an ownership of
Speaker 2: it now. But Joe is the og. Joe is the creator.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred strong because of Joe, piece of Pius. So
Speaker 2: just shout out to you for eight hundred and you
Speaker 2: were here.
Speaker 1: For I want to. I want to thank my agent.
Speaker 1: Of course, first and foremost always thank the agent because.
Speaker 2: Did Joe freeze or did I?
Speaker 1: No? I froze? You know why, because the the machines
Speaker 1: hate it. When you say nice things.
Speaker 2: About it, I'm like, just amazing. It's showing.
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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, it's move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go make a lasagna instead. That's let's go
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Speaker 1: Twenty thousand plans gonna be fun. Let's just say good.
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Speaker 1: gonna say. That's the tease. That's what we're gonna be doing.
Speaker 1: Twenty k's around the corner just for fun. Why Langford
Speaker 1: his first career home run, but it was an inside
Speaker 1: the parker. That's fun, that's amusing. Jared Jones finally took
Speaker 1: a loss of three runs at five innings, So he's
Speaker 1: human after all, Logan Gilbert. No decision, but nine strikeouts
Speaker 1: and six and a third inning saw young Logan Gilbert,
Speaker 1: I'll be good.
Speaker 2: I get the Diamondbacks. By the way, Diamondbacks don't strike out.
Speaker 2: I think, what did Kirby have? Like ten strikeouts in
Speaker 2: that game? Nineteen strike out twelve twelve twenty one strikeouts
Speaker 2: between two.
Speaker 1: And Ryan Mitcher is working his way back. So let
Speaker 1: me tell you, boys and girls is down to be
Speaker 1: buying in Seattle. Look at the Seattle market. It is
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous right now, it's good nuts. I want to say,
Speaker 1: like the Julio MVP thing is absurd right now. I
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Speaker 1: just do it please, ty Lord mcgild ty Lord the Terrible,
Speaker 1: by the way, struck out six and two innings of
Speaker 1: work for hy A Brooklyn. So if Tylre is coming back,
Speaker 1: does ty Lore get into the rotation? If so, who
Speaker 1: gets bumped out for the Mets? Is it Houser? Is
Speaker 1: it bhutto the booty Man? Or is Tylor gonna toil
Speaker 1: away in triple A instead? No?
Speaker 2: I think the booty Man is first down. You know,
Speaker 2: so weird. I was ready to like I was ready
Speaker 2: to go hard on the Christian Scott's stuff after Adrian
Speaker 2: Hawser got banged around, but then we had them like
Speaker 2: essentially confirm like, oh, Howser's rotation spots all good, It's
Speaker 2: just things we need to end up going and working on.
Speaker 2: So no, I think it's booty Man is gonna be
Speaker 2: out and we still have to wait on on when
Speaker 2: we're gonna see Christian Scott, which God knows at this point.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, but why can't we have our Scott
Speaker 1: and eat eat it too? Like I don't understand, like
Speaker 1: why do we why can't we have butou at lease, don't.
Speaker 2: Make that AI, Please don't put that in AI.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not gonna put it in A. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: There were so many things too about you know, not
Speaker 1: the booty Man and things like that, but I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do those jokes. I'm not gonna We're
Speaker 1: above that to.
Speaker 2: Save that for Wednesday on the cleaning up.
Speaker 1: When you're out, I won't.
Speaker 2: Be here for cleaning up, by the way, so I
Speaker 2: don't know what that's going to be it'll work.
Speaker 1: How are we going to do that? I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Now we have to figure that out.
Speaker 2: It makes me feel so good. I feel so loved
Speaker 2: and wanted and needed when people don't know how it's
Speaker 2: going to work when I'm not there. But you'll only
Speaker 2: have to talk with Joe, and Joe will be.
Speaker 1: Doing how we're going to record it though, I literally
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Wait, they're taking care of it.
Speaker 1: So they the people I camera for a second, the.
Speaker 2: People that you know with the the electrolytes.
Speaker 1: All right, the Mariners are going to option Jonathan class
Speaker 1: A to triple A sou Welsh. Will he be back
Speaker 1: up in your opinion this year? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so, but I don't as when he came up,
Speaker 2: I didn't really think it was something you need to
Speaker 2: pick up. I don't think it's going to be in
Speaker 2: a place where it's going to make a ton of sense.
Speaker 2: If anything. With the Mariners pitchers all kind of coming
Speaker 2: back into place and the Mariner's kind of refining themselves
Speaker 2: a little bit more, I really think they need to
Speaker 2: put an emphasis on making a trade offensively. They need
Speaker 2: some offensive upside. Class could be somebody that they move
Speaker 2: in one of those trades. But regardless of my point is,
Speaker 2: I just don't think class A is going to have big, fantasy,
Speaker 2: impactful stuff this year whether he comes back or not.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't really matter to me.
Speaker 1: All right, I think I'm we might see angry Joe
Speaker 1: here because I see a comment that makes me a
Speaker 1: little upset. All right, No, Razor Ramone says, Bhutto isn't
Speaker 1: good though, all right, So let's just look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: shall we. Can we just do that. We'll just look
Speaker 1: at the numbers for Jose Butto. So he's got a
Speaker 1: two eighty six era right now, where four starts, twenty
Speaker 1: two innings. He's given up just twelve hits in those
Speaker 1: twenty two innings. And let's not forget one of those
Speaker 1: starts was against the Dodgers. Okay, the walks twelve a
Speaker 1: little higher than you wanted to be, but the strikeouts
Speaker 1: are there twenty five. The whip is at one point
Speaker 1: zero nine. Uh, he's got ten k per nine right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what about those numbers are bad? Can
Speaker 1: I just know you explain it to me like I'm
Speaker 1: a five year old that those numbers are bad because
Speaker 1: those Michael King would like those numbers right about now.
Speaker 1: He'd love for the ERI, he said at two eighty six.
Speaker 1: He is much better than you realize. He should be
Speaker 1: in the rotation. Social Christian's got Adrian Housing and Sean
Speaker 1: ma and I. I don't need those guys in my rotation anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't need.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do agree with that. I don't know
Speaker 2: if Buddo is like you know, lockdown, keep your rotation
Speaker 2: all year's.
Speaker 1: Great, but he's better than Houser, and he's better. He
Speaker 1: has a future potentially, whereas Sean ma and I is
Speaker 1: nothing but a stopgap kind of guy. I got.
Speaker 2: Joey's a little budo hurt here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done. Let me tell you I was fiery
Speaker 1: on the Cleaning Up Show last week. I was, I
Speaker 1: was all kinds of sideways. Matt, let's do three up
Speaker 1: and three down? Tanner, how fantastic nine strikeouts for him?
Speaker 1: How good has he been? And two thirds? Dane Dunning
Speaker 1: one earned five and a third struck out ten. Lots
Speaker 1: of strikeouts, boil boy this weekend, Holy hat, where there's
Speaker 1: some high strikeout totals. I hope you had all the
Speaker 1: overs and strikeouts this weekend. Bryce and thought had a
Speaker 1: pair of two run dingers. Good for him. Phillies won
Speaker 1: eight to six over the Padres and then three down Redebt.
Speaker 1: Meers struggled five runs, nine hits, No bueno, Taiwan Walker.
Speaker 1: Kind of a weird debut for him. You gotta win,
Speaker 1: but it was really good. Six runs, eight hits and
Speaker 1: six and the third not the best. And Nolan Ernado
Speaker 1: big that over five there and that snapped his twenty
Speaker 1: five game on bass streak. So anything in the three
Speaker 1: up and three down float your boat.
Speaker 2: There, Welsh, not Nolan Aronado. He sinks it, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I like readeat Meers just overall this season. And I
Speaker 2: don't know any time, like we're still in this early
Speaker 2: phase and we get you know, any discounts or something
Speaker 2: like that, Like if someone's just kind of done with debtmers.
Speaker 2: This is good. And I know this is gonna be
Speaker 2: annoying to people, but this is you know, we only
Speaker 2: talked about Halck a little bit more. Joe, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we did did and we did it on the trade view.
Speaker 2: I did it on the trade video. We did a
Speaker 2: great one. Our boy Tyler shout out to Tyler. He
Speaker 2: did this good one I had this idea with but
Speaker 2: then I realized, like, oh, people are going to get annoyed.
Speaker 2: My first video of the year was you know, hey,
Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson's hitting two hundred. You should buy him. He
Speaker 2: could be a first round talent. And then he had
Speaker 2: his ninth homer this weekend and I told Tyler like,
Speaker 2: that might be a fun video to do, and then
Speaker 2: every comment has just been, oh, grey, but how do
Speaker 2: you buy him? I'm like, go back to when I
Speaker 2: said it he was hitting two hundred, and it was
Speaker 2: you could get him as a first round talent.
Speaker 1: Kind of same thing about video two was the weird
Speaker 1: VHS looking date where I was supposed to be like
Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, is that Tyler's idea was Tyler.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I My idea was we show me talking
Speaker 2: and then we do a SpongeBob three weeks later and
Speaker 2: we show him hitting. He did the old tape stuff
Speaker 2: and his.
Speaker 1: Was really cool. Old tape stuff was really good. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Tyler on the old But the.
Speaker 2: Whole point was we did this on Tannor Hawk as well,
Speaker 2: so you know, cheap, ridiculous plug.
Speaker 1: To stranger things like that. It's very good. Injuries speaking
Speaker 1: of strange things, John means finally a good minor league start,
Speaker 1: So it looks like that's gonna be a good thing
Speaker 1: for him. We'll see how it goes. Seven scoreless sittings,
Speaker 1: So John means gonna be back in the rotation and
Speaker 1: Welsh in the month of May. Kyle Bradish looks to
Speaker 1: make his next start in the major leagues. You as
Speaker 1: surprised as I'm about this.
Speaker 2: I am surprised. Discounts galore. Hopefully he doesn't suffer another
Speaker 2: injury and then it doesn't matter. But this is a
Speaker 2: guy that was going outside the top two hundred. You know,
Speaker 2: John means his return is really interesting as well, and
Speaker 2: it kind of takes back to a guy I haven't
Speaker 2: really talked about but has been in my prospect article.
Speaker 2: Katee Povich has been incredible for the Baltimore Orioles and
Speaker 2: he's in Triple A right now, and there's just no
Speaker 2: spot with means am Bradish coming up, and then that's
Speaker 2: gonna take away from other really good guys like Albert Suarez.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm extremely excited about Kyle Bradish, and you know,
Speaker 2: good for anybody that got those discounts right now at
Speaker 2: least for.
Speaker 1: Now over under eight and a half starts this year
Speaker 1: for Kyle Brash, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna be positive that Bradish is gonna roll the You're
Speaker 2: gonna be positive?
Speaker 1: Is that? Well? Is it? The Welsh?
Speaker 2: I'm going on a little minivan k here literally when
Speaker 2: I'm rolling out.
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't gonna record cleaning up. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at the water park for two days,
Speaker 1: not editing bringing antibiotics with you or you just have
Speaker 1: them like waiting for when you get home.
Speaker 2: You want to know the funniest thing, ever, How'm gonna
Speaker 2: avoid those antibotics. I'm gonna bring my crocks. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: bring some crocks so I'm not stepping on all the
Speaker 2: wed that stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You're in the water. It's five thousand people. I don't
Speaker 1: care how many chemicals they put in there. Everybody comes
Speaker 1: home sick two days later for.
Speaker 2: The water trail.
Speaker 1: All right, well just make sure you you should just
Speaker 1: schedule a doctor's appointment on Thursday. Just get ahead of it.
Speaker 1: And I love the water park. The water park is amazing.
Speaker 2: It's I'll just some videos from the water park. I'll
Speaker 2: do uh, I'll go down the slide.
Speaker 1: I'll do that.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll answer fantasy questions going down the slide and
Speaker 2: I'll tweet them out.
Speaker 1: I would love it so much like this player is
Speaker 1: on his way down.
Speaker 2: Did you you want to know a fun fact really
Speaker 2: really quick?
Speaker 1: Did you?
Speaker 2: I don't think I ever published this, but I recorded
Speaker 2: the video of the announcement of being hired by Fantasy
Speaker 2: Pros when I was at Great Wolfledge is that Great wolfldge?
Speaker 2: I did, but I don't think I published.
Speaker 1: This is just a happy place, you guys.
Speaker 2: You want to know why there's something.
Speaker 1: Else to do in Arizona. That's it.
Speaker 2: There's nothing else to do. It's close by. And also
Speaker 2: my kids are gonna hate it soon, like they're gonna
Speaker 2: be like too big for it, but they love it
Speaker 2: right now. So it's like, as much as possible, I
Speaker 2: want to do those things. But there is something about
Speaker 2: Fantasy Pros where I was recognized at at Great Wolf
Speaker 2: the last time and doing my announcement, I'm gonna answer
Speaker 2: some fantasy questions going down the slide, and if I
Speaker 2: fall off, it's a cell. If I stay on, it's
Speaker 2: a buye. See there you go.
Speaker 1: Nolan Jones were moving again. From Sunday's game. Very frustrating
Speaker 1: because the back, I guess stiffened up on him again.
Speaker 1: So I clearly assume we're gonna put him on the
Speaker 1: eyel and I'm I don't want Nolan Jones to be hurt.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the back is the reason we're getting
Speaker 1: what we've gotten at a Nolan Jones, And if it is,
Speaker 1: let's just go on the IL for a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks here. Let's just get healthy, get right on assignment,
Speaker 1: and come back, Like you should be rooting for Nolan
Speaker 1: Jose to go on the IL. Just kind of forget
Speaker 1: April happened. Just shelve it. Take two weeks off, go
Speaker 1: to Great Wolf Lodge, come out with a disease, come back,
Speaker 1: get your six day Z pack of antibiotics, and then
Speaker 1: you're onto, you know, the next Can we get.
Speaker 2: Betting pros odds if I'm sick or not by next day,
Speaker 2: Let's get that one of the odds.
Speaker 1: It's like minus six hundred, Like I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: how deep the juice is on that, Like minus it's
Speaker 1: making TODJ. Bradley dealing with that pectoral muscle, He's gonna
Speaker 1: make a minor league rehab start on Sunday.
Speaker 2: He did he so good, he was so good. Seven strikeouts,
Speaker 2: five innings. He went out right out the shoot. Think
Speaker 2: he gave up one hit. It was vintage TODG. Bradley.
Speaker 2: Go pick him up right now if he's sitting out
Speaker 2: on the wire, because he's going to be up in
Speaker 2: that rotation roster.
Speaker 1: Percentage of TODH. Bradley, Let's let's love that you're never right.
Speaker 1: Give me this, Bradley. Well, let's say CBS where you
Speaker 1: have to pay.
Speaker 2: You know, thirty eight percent. Thirty eight is the number
Speaker 2: that came to me.
Speaker 1: Thirty eight percent on CBS Welsh thirty nine percent. Wow,
Speaker 1: I've never been that good, but that is stunning.
Speaker 2: And my hands I like free hands. I didn't know
Speaker 2: this was coming.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't. That's why I'm so impressive. The
Speaker 1: Red Sox Garrett Witlock with the oblique has yet to
Speaker 1: be clear to throw up a mound, no kidding. Brian Bayo, however,
Speaker 1: with a lot, is making good progress apparently, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be back sooner than later, whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the timetable jackasses, paulse I have my I
Speaker 1: guess Paul walk I was actually really happy and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden like, I don't know, there's got my dan.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite Michael Bolton song? Oh, they're all right.
Speaker 1: It's hard to pick. I mean, I go by Mike.
Speaker 2: I'll you Michael.
Speaker 1: It's such a perfect movie, it really is. It's just
Speaker 1: so good. That guy's got Upper Management written all over him.
Speaker 1: Paul Seawald oblique. I feel like we've been doing Paul
Speaker 1: Seagold updates for like sixty years. It's gonna be like
Speaker 1: September and it's like when George R. Martin in South
Speaker 1: Park is trying to order the pizzas for the kids,
Speaker 1: He's like, pizzas are coming, just wait and they never
Speaker 1: orders the pizza. I feel like that's what we're doing
Speaker 1: with Paul Seawald here. So another bullpend session wednsday? Why, Like,
Speaker 1: what else are we waiting for?
Speaker 2: Well, they wanted to slow it, they said they wanted
Speaker 2: to slow it down because he was starting to feel
Speaker 2: a little bit of soreness and whatever Ginkle did get
Speaker 2: the safe over the weekend. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's probably another week until we see Seawald. It was
Speaker 2: good to see that Ginkle got some of the saves.
Speaker 2: I actually think there's this small chance. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they will do it, but I think there's a
Speaker 2: small chance that when Seawald comes back, maybe they don't
Speaker 2: thrust him right back into that role. With how slow
Speaker 2: they're playing this and Ginkle finding himself. But if we're
Speaker 2: being honest, it's probably gonna be cut Ginkle in you know, ten.
Speaker 1: Days or so. All right, So Uncle Ted saying Robin
Speaker 1: Hood theme song, Michael Bolten, like I thought, everything I do,
Speaker 1: I do it for you. That's Brian Adams. That's not
Speaker 1: Michael Bolton.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Let's move on, all right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean I saw the right like was
Speaker 2: this Kevin Costner Robin Hood or Princess Amazing?
Speaker 1: The Russell crow like dark Robin Hood. And then there's
Speaker 1: a Michael Bolton song and marry you.
Speaker 2: Three hundred pound Russell Crowe flying through the trees.
Speaker 1: But god, Russell Crowe loves to sing. Maybe he does
Speaker 1: a little duet with Robin with Michael Bolton. That could
Speaker 1: be fun. This is by far the best episode two
Speaker 1: hundred in it feels like it Christian Yelich has not
Speaker 1: resumed swinging. Progress is stalled again in quotes, so that's
Speaker 1: not good, Craig Council told reporters on Saturday. Justin Steel though, however,
Speaker 1: will make a minor legue rehap start this week, so
Speaker 1: things are going in the right direction there. Welsh, you
Speaker 1: know what time it is. It's Monday. Let's get after
Speaker 1: the best bets of the day with Joey and the Welsh.
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Speaker 1: is a Monday and we've got some fun things here
Speaker 1: on the board. I'm going with Elie de la Cruz
Speaker 1: over on the point five RBI plus one seventy five
Speaker 1: were getting on that we almost two to one. I
Speaker 1: love that Jews Ellie de la Cruz right now. By
Speaker 1: the way, his MVP odds have shrunken considerably. They're plus
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred now in most places, so I don't know
Speaker 1: if he can sustain this, but my goodness, Ellie de
Speaker 1: la Cruz has had quite the April, and that was
Speaker 1: even with a week that was bad. Makes it even
Speaker 1: more stunning how good the overall pictures of his numbers
Speaker 1: have been. But good matchup today. I love to drive
Speaker 1: in a run today, Joe Ryan. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Twins game here against the White Sox over six and
Speaker 1: a half k's minus one twenty. I like that one too,
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan. I'm a guy who's been fantastic so far
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Twins and for the Phillies. This is
Speaker 1: the one I like the most today. On the run
Speaker 1: line minus one and a half plus ONEUS sixteen. You
Speaker 1: got the Phillies here against Griffin Canning. Lefties are hitting
Speaker 1: over three hundred against him with a nine to sixty ops.
Speaker 1: You got Schwarbur in that lineup. You got Harper in
Speaker 1: that lineup. You got Griffin Canning as a seven era.
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten out of the fifth inning all year long.
Speaker 1: So not only to get Gryffith Canning, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the Medy middle of the middle relief of the Angels.
Speaker 1: So give me the Phillies on the run line and
Speaker 1: you want to have some fun in the parlay of
Speaker 1: the day Minnesota twins with Joe Ryan on the mound
Speaker 1: minus one and a half at the gain of that
Speaker 1: plus one oh six run line and Joe Ryan over
Speaker 1: minus six excuse over six and a half strikeouts at
Speaker 1: minus one twenty. You can put those two things together
Speaker 1: in the same game parlay and you get two twenty eight.
Speaker 1: That's the over on Ryan strikeouts and the run line
Speaker 1: for Minnesota minus one and a half at plus one
Speaker 1: oh six. Welsh, what do you have for the people
Speaker 1: for the bets of Monday?
Speaker 2: Ooh, I'm gonna stick to Minnesota here too. You sound
Speaker 2: like you said at least in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I'm spent ten hours with thor so I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of Minnesota for the last couple nights here.
Speaker 2: Well, I like the Joe Ryan stuff. You know, the
Speaker 2: pitchers themselves, hurt them hurt themselves again. Such such a
Speaker 2: bad offense in Chicago, though Eloy is healthy ish and
Speaker 2: getting going, and Tommy fam is back in that lineup,
Speaker 2: which makes the top of the lineup a little bit
Speaker 2: more dangerous. But I like trying to back Joe Ryan
Speaker 2: in some capacity here. So I'm going through the first
Speaker 2: five for Minnesota to be up by a run, so
Speaker 2: to have a one run lead after the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: and that's even money, so that's plus one hundred, So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that. Garrett Crochet is on the mound.
Speaker 2: I don't trust Garrett Crochet anymore. Even though he has
Speaker 2: one of the bigger era who expected differentials positively in
Speaker 2: his favor, he has been wild you know, yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's actually like a in the two's expected era. But
Speaker 2: he's been wildly inconsistent. Second inning. Specifically, Minnesota's not a
Speaker 2: big power offense, but Joe Ryan shuts down, which I
Speaker 2: like enough. I'm gonna back Ryan Pepio today. Take Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay first five money line bet three six five. You
Speaker 2: can get that at minus one ten. This is all
Speaker 2: about Pepio here. And I'm gonna take a player prop
Speaker 2: on the hitting side, which I haven't done in quite
Speaker 2: a bit. Gunner Henderson, my boy, Gunner Henderson, one point
Speaker 2: five total bases over. That's minus one ten going up
Speaker 2: against Clark Schmidt where he hits over three hundred. When
Speaker 2: he gets hits against Clark Schmidt, they are of the
Speaker 2: extra base variety. So give me Gunner Henderson on the
Speaker 2: total basis. Those are my three favorite bets. Might add
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Speaker 2: Oh you just claimed Joe on Betting Pros. That's like
Speaker 2: getting it on Twitter. That's pretty nat.
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Speaker 1: Joey p and the Welsh now Welsh one of our
Speaker 1: genius peanuts and Cracker Jacks has the comment that is
Speaker 1: the best comment here. I gotta find it here. B T.
Speaker 1: Disney Robin Hood Lalie is by far the greatest Robin Hood.
Speaker 1: This is not up for debate. It is the best
Speaker 1: the music. I love how like it's told in weird
Speaker 1: Southern like terms from the one guy who's like the rooster.
Speaker 1: It's all over the place.
Speaker 2: Isn't Friar Tuck Tell Tuck is in the whole story too.
Speaker 1: The whole whole thing is great. Robin Hood Disney probably my.
Speaker 2: Favorite of the hoods have they done.
Speaker 1: There's like, there's a million Robin Hoods. And there was
Speaker 1: that weird one with Jamie Fox a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: There was a Robin Hood.
Speaker 2: I saw that one.
Speaker 1: We saw Kevin Costner one right with Alan Rickman.
Speaker 2: That's like, that's the og one, that's the one I
Speaker 2: grew up.
Speaker 1: Oh g one. But it's so weird because everybody has
Speaker 1: a British accent except Hood Kevin cosers like, I only
Speaker 1: work so hard here, folks, I know, could you imagine that?
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't willing to put in the work to
Speaker 1: try to do a British accent, but he wanted to
Speaker 1: play Robin Hood. I kind of feel like, you gotta play.
Speaker 1: You gotta do the bridge acient if youre gonna play Robin.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's a.
Speaker 2: Guy that did water World. So I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: it's what I expects is the.
Speaker 1: Heights. See Men of Tights is disappointed me. I'm more
Speaker 1: of a Spaceball's guy.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm oh, give me a break. Spaceball's that's my movie.
Speaker 2: But Men and Tights? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: It's kind of disappointing. It doesn't hold up. Let's just say.
Speaker 2: Spaceball doesn't quite hold up either.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's see how the board holds up
Speaker 1: for the home run. No, Spaceballs does hold up. I
Speaker 1: totally disagree with that. It's more of a movie show
Speaker 1: today than the baseball show. You the Leader, double digits
Speaker 1: for Joey p There you go. However, Scalarp and Yankee
Speaker 1: rules both at thirteen. But I'm still on the board,
Speaker 1: so feeling good about that. I'm keeping pace.
Speaker 2: I don't I think I'm a six because I had
Speaker 2: two with I think I'm.
Speaker 1: Close double for Alvarez. That's right, Yeah, you're you're right there.
Speaker 1: You're scratching the border. Scratching, close scratching and clawing. And
Speaker 1: if you want to get in scratching claw use our
Speaker 1: discord Fantasybros dot Com slash chat, join the home run
Speaker 1: Channel and uh enjoy the competition here with us. So
Speaker 1: I'm going right back to the gas can Griffin Canning,
Speaker 1: and give me the Schwarber fest today. I want all
Speaker 1: the Kyle Schwarber heat. I want the Schwarber home run. Actually,
Speaker 1: know what, no, no what? Bryce Harper just had a kid,
Speaker 1: didn't he right? He was on the paternity list. Guys
Speaker 1: have kids, they come back and hit home runs. Give
Speaker 1: me Bryce Harper instead, Bryce Harper that we're going with
Speaker 1: the mojo of the child being born Bryce Harper instead.
Speaker 1: I was going back and forth. Let's go with Bryce
Speaker 1: Harper instead. Plus, it's a bigger name, so that'll upset people. Well,
Speaker 1: where are you going with your home run call today?
Speaker 2: I do love the big name.
Speaker 1: What do you keep picking good players to hit home runs?
Speaker 1: Because it's in contest, dummy, that's wid I was.
Speaker 2: One day. I'm gonna go with Gunner Henderson. He's my
Speaker 2: little bass call. You know, we'll see where go. You
Speaker 2: want to know a more interesting one, also from the
Speaker 2: betting side. Rhin O'Hearn is plus money on total basis
Speaker 2: right now. I was looking at rhinoharn this weekend. He
Speaker 2: is exclusively right hand platoon. He has three at bats
Speaker 2: versus lefties so far this year. He has a higher
Speaker 2: expected batting average than his actual batting average. He's crushing
Speaker 2: the ball everywhere, big barrel members, big hard hit numbers.
Speaker 2: He's just such a good play up against the rity today.
Speaker 2: That might be a fun total bass play, might be
Speaker 2: a fun home run call if you don't want to
Speaker 2: have you know, good players. But I'm gonna go with
Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson and the leadoff spot is my top guy
Speaker 2: for the home run call because Gunner usually does right
Speaker 2: by me.
Speaker 1: He does indeed all right, got off on a good
Speaker 1: foot here on the week This was a very peppy
Speaker 1: show number eighty everybody. Thanks to everybody. Welsh's gonna go
Speaker 1: get the strip throat and do a couple of water
Speaker 1: slides and they'll be I think.
Speaker 2: The plus money play is here. I'm gonna stay healthy.
Speaker 2: I way too sick at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: I'm six hundred.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Any member of the Welsh family there's no way all
Speaker 1: four of you come back health.
Speaker 2: I have a seven year old daughter. She's perpetually sick.
Speaker 2: She's just always. That's minus twelve thousand.
Speaker 1: Sure. When you check out of the hotel, I feel
Speaker 1: like they should just give you. It's not like a
Speaker 1: mint on your pillow. It should be like an antibiotic.
Speaker 1: It's not that bad.
Speaker 2: Well see, but Scott Bogman is going to be here
Speaker 2: the next two days with Joey so uh, you know,
Speaker 2: love on these guys, have fun and I will miss
Speaker 2: you all, but I will see you on Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's right. So Bogman will be here next two days.
Speaker 1: Welsh go enjoy the time off. That'll do it for us,
Speaker 1: but the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids. Where's
Speaker 1: my stamid er?
Speaker 2: Nice step dad.
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