Speaker 1: What's up, friendos, and welcome in to leading off right
Speaker 1: here on Fantasy Pros. I am Chris Welsh, joined by
Speaker 1: d D DA Bye God from the top rope. It's
Speaker 1: Joe Pisipia.
Speaker 2: Just when I thought I was out, wesh, they pulled
Speaker 2: me back in.
Speaker 3: Oh I was, I was in a football and now
Speaker 3: now that I want me to do a baseball because
Speaker 3: Buba had a he had an internet problem. Next thing
Speaker 3: you know, they're call him Joey p and Joey B's
Speaker 3: back talking to baseball.
Speaker 4: What's up everybody? What a fun surprise on a fun Friday.
Speaker 4: Who would have thought?
Speaker 1: Look at that?
Speaker 2: The crazy things happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that. Our our deer, our dear casey
Speaker 1: Bubba apparently was having So we've had lots of internet
Speaker 1: thingies over the past year. Here, well, he had complete
Speaker 1: internet outage and Joe Pisa Pia, he waved through all
Speaker 1: the people that were trying to get on the show today.
Speaker 1: He pushed them all back and he said, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. I got this, I got this, and we
Speaker 1: got this beautiful ball to head back. Joe Piezapia, host
Speaker 1: of Everything Betting Pros, got a big year ahead, but
Speaker 1: we got you back. Joe. It's great to see your face.
Speaker 1: It's great to see that you still love us, my friend.
Speaker 4: Of course, you know, I love all a few people,
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm sure all of you are wondering
Speaker 4: my thoughts about the trade deadline and some of the
Speaker 4: things that happened.
Speaker 2: But Welshiam Bubba did such a good job. I know.
Speaker 2: We do get to talk a little little.
Speaker 4: Verland or a little Scherzer though, because Schuzer did pitch yesterday.
Speaker 4: And I kind of love the fact that they've now
Speaker 4: it's like two old farts thrown into and areada together
Speaker 4: in the American League West to battle it out to
Speaker 4: the death.
Speaker 2: I kind of enjoy that aspect of those trades, as
Speaker 2: well as the pieces that we got back.
Speaker 4: As a Mets fan, I'm actually happy a Kunya, I'm
Speaker 4: a big fan of I like Gilbert. I'm I'm very
Speaker 4: pleased with what happened, and I'd rather take a step
Speaker 4: back than have to go too far next year with
Speaker 4: a bunch of foty year old pitchers and set the
Speaker 4: organization back for I don't know, ten years.
Speaker 2: I think this is their job.
Speaker 1: This is the thing to ask him since you were
Speaker 1: not here for all this, because this is the only
Speaker 1: thing I would get your take on. Do you actually
Speaker 1: believe that the Mets are rebuilding for the next years?
Speaker 2: Do you believe?
Speaker 1: Because I don't. I think this is all a ruse.
Speaker 1: I think this is sleight of hand. They're like, look
Speaker 1: over here, and then they're just gonna go BAA in
Speaker 1: the off season. I don't believe it. But do you
Speaker 1: actually believe that they're gonna do this and build around
Speaker 1: Gilbert and Kunya and the Pee Alonzo trade rumors in
Speaker 1: the off season? Are you buying this as a Mets fan?
Speaker 2: I am not buying that They're not trying to compete
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 4: No. I think they told Max Sures or that to
Speaker 4: get him the hell out of town. And let's be
Speaker 4: honest here, Max Suers are crap the bet in the
Speaker 4: playoffs last year. You know, I make fun of Mad
Speaker 4: Dog a lot because it's fun, but mad Dog was right.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw that ramp that he
Speaker 4: had about the whole thing where he's like.
Speaker 2: Matt, surey, you pan them all his money and next
Speaker 2: thing you know, I got that in to play. I
Speaker 2: think about full home runs. I've never seen anybody boot
Speaker 2: off a mound the way I seen that guy.
Speaker 4: And there's Stephen A Smith behind him, just kind of
Speaker 4: chuckling with his hands over his mouth and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and I'm and and I'm I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 4: You're right, And then you know he's had some injury issues,
Speaker 4: He's had some you know, other hiccups there. But to
Speaker 4: be honest, if you're looking at the body of work
Speaker 4: from Sureser, it was a little disappointing overall because the
Speaker 4: big spots when.
Speaker 3: He was bitual against the Braves for the division, he
Speaker 3: cropped the bed the next thing, you know, and then he.
Speaker 4: Goes out in the playoffs and what happened in the
Speaker 4: playoffs full home run to get dude, I get the
Speaker 4: said you.
Speaker 2: Have goo padres.
Speaker 4: They got the padres for god, take the next thing,
Speaker 4: you know, you're out there and then then now you
Speaker 4: know what.
Speaker 2: Yo, Yeah, the organization had the right to trade you.
Speaker 2: If they want to trade you, they go ahead and
Speaker 2: they trade you. And now he's intective. Don't see what happens.
Speaker 1: Then you're Russo impression. The audio of the Russo impression
Speaker 1: versus the visual. People don't know if you don't watch
Speaker 1: the YouTube, which you should subscribe to, the Vincy Pro MLB.
Speaker 1: The visual that Joe has when he does Robert de Niro,
Speaker 1: like you turn into Denier. Yeah, you literally turn into DeNiro.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's better. Is it the Russo impression
Speaker 1: or the de Niro physical. Look, he's very you're very
Speaker 1: good class six slapsticky, Joe. You really turn It's like
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 4: Sure, you know it's I will say this like I said,
Speaker 4: I I agree with you, just to recap in all
Speaker 4: honesty that I don't think they're out of the Otani
Speaker 4: sweep steaks. I think they're gonna be very much in
Speaker 4: Giolito sweepstakes and very much in Aaronola sweepstakes. Like I
Speaker 4: think they're going to retool the pitching. I think they
Speaker 4: realized they tried really hard to hold on Real Type
Speaker 4: for one more run.
Speaker 2: It did not work. So what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: You need it.
Speaker 4: You get a bunch of prospects, And it wouldn't shock
Speaker 4: me if they flipped those prospects to bring in Sodo.
Speaker 4: If the Padres thing all falls apart and they decide
Speaker 4: to blow everything up like they've got a lot of
Speaker 4: options now and not all these prospects are gonna come.
Speaker 2: Up and play for the Mets. And that's you know
Speaker 2: that fact. I don't know if you saw that stat.
Speaker 4: The MLB coverage that they did for a trade deadline,
Speaker 4: but it was something to the long lines of you know,
Speaker 4: something like three or or eight percent or something like
Speaker 4: that of so these prospects they go back and forth
Speaker 4: and these deals actually make it impact.
Speaker 2: There aren't quote unquote.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like one in four, like one in four.
Speaker 1: Act up. We talked about this on Rates and Barrels
Speaker 1: that one in four prospects on the deadline have an
Speaker 1: over two career war which you know.
Speaker 4: Well, then there was a staggering stat of the number
Speaker 4: of that don't even ever get to play in the majors,
Speaker 4: which was also stunning. So, look, prospects are capital at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, It's what they are. Some
Speaker 4: of the capitale heavier is very good. They can go
Speaker 4: out in there and can make some moves. But I
Speaker 4: don't think there I agree with you. I don't think
Speaker 4: they're like, oh yeah, we're not competing for two years.
Speaker 4: I think that's the line that they sent to Max
Speaker 4: Schurzer to get him out of town because they wanted
Speaker 4: to get him out of town and they wanted him
Speaker 4: to feel uncomfortable that staying here was not in the
Speaker 4: plans for him because I think next year they didn't
Speaker 4: think that he gave them the best chance to win.
Speaker 1: And that's just honest lowering expectations. You know, if you
Speaker 1: if you've set a low bar in net.
Speaker 4: Fan since nineteen eighty four, I've been lowering expectations since
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Lowered expect Hey breaking news from Anthony XC seven according
Speaker 1: to Mark Tope Topkin that the Razor calling up Curtis Mead.
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead, who is one of their top prospects. Fun fact,
Speaker 1: anyone who's prospect one related knows it's my one of
Speaker 1: my worst interviews I've ever done, so bad that I
Speaker 1: didn't air it that I did with Curtis Meat at
Speaker 1: the Arizona Fall League. I literally just it was actually, like,
Speaker 1: I think it was my first interview off of the
Speaker 1: COVID year lost, so I was a little rusty and
Speaker 1: I asked him just some of the dumbest questions and
Speaker 1: he couldn't have been kinder and nicer, but it was
Speaker 1: so bad I scrapped it and it just lives in
Speaker 1: the Prospect Won vault of interviews. But Curtis Meat, high
Speaker 1: contact hitter, kind of low counting stats, especially this year
Speaker 1: he's had a lot of injuries. He would be somebody
Speaker 1: you might want to take a look at, but it's
Speaker 1: in the South Freelick Well self really has been going nuts,
Speaker 1: but it's in the South Freelick world of where will
Speaker 1: you get the counting stats? He's very interesting prospect. Maybe
Speaker 1: you guys want to go pick him up. But let's
Speaker 1: look at the headlines. Shoe and how appropriate that shoe
Speaker 1: Heo Tani is at the top because Shoeo Tani pitched
Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday, came out with some cramp stuff.
Speaker 1: But fortieth home run of the season. He is top
Speaker 1: to be. Fourteen stolen bases, forty home runs not traded
Speaker 1: al MVP. Do you did you? Did you get a
Speaker 1: ticket for Otani?
Speaker 2: Oh ticket? I had a no ticket. I had I
Speaker 2: had to mean a whole ticket. I had to be
Speaker 2: an old tickets a long time ago, before the season
Speaker 2: even started. No, I hadn't I had a no TWI ticket.
Speaker 4: Samuel ticket at the two and a half when the
Speaker 4: season started, because I was like, look, I just have
Speaker 4: to be in on this anyway.
Speaker 2: And then I had no tani Cy Young ticket as.
Speaker 4: Well, which is getting really interesting now that the McClanahan
Speaker 4: injury is coming, which I know that could be a
Speaker 4: nice little segue we're doing here, But if you look
Speaker 4: at it, Shoey Otani right now is plus three thousand.
Speaker 2: So for that award, it was, you know, earlier in
Speaker 2: the year, not even that good.
Speaker 4: And I feel like, if you're looking at the boring
Speaker 4: thing is still Garrett Coles the chalk. But I think
Speaker 4: that's just a really public nonsense number because there's a
Speaker 4: lot of Yankee money. I think everyone if the Angels
Speaker 4: make the playoffs, Welsh, don't you think they're good to
Speaker 4: all push in and say let's just give Otani all
Speaker 4: the stuff, because I know fra Amber Valde has had.
Speaker 2: His moment this week, but he had been bad.
Speaker 4: With you know, natiy Valdi missing time, like Garrett Cole's
Speaker 4: been very steady's very at the top.
Speaker 2: All that stuff is great, but I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's like the fun vote.
Speaker 4: If I'm a voter, I'm giving Otani all the awards
Speaker 4: if the Angels getting the playoffs, I want to give
Speaker 4: him everything.
Speaker 1: I agree with the playoff thay. The only problem is
Speaker 1: what has been happening. What happened like right after the
Speaker 1: trade headline passed, like Otani had the thing, he had
Speaker 1: to come out of the game. What happened in this
Speaker 1: one had a cramp, only went four innings. Little bit
Speaker 1: worried about what the back half of this year is.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of little crampy things that are going on,
Speaker 1: not finishing games. But I agree he actually might be
Speaker 1: the most fun bet because, as you mentioned Sean McClanahan,
Speaker 1: fifteen day il, they did not announce what the diagnosis is.
Speaker 1: This is on his forearm, and I actually broke this
Speaker 1: down earlier in the week. One interesting thing that happened
Speaker 1: pre injury was he was throwing harder. He was starting
Speaker 1: his slider two and a half miles an hour harder.
Speaker 1: In the game where he then came out, you could
Speaker 1: maybe say there's some type of speculation there, but then
Speaker 1: he has a form issue. This is the quote I
Speaker 1: didn't like. Club statement was quote. In the process of
Speaker 1: gathering further information and updates will be provided of will
Speaker 1: be provided when available that just seemed very like robotic,
Speaker 1: you know, very like we do not raise it doesn't
Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel good. I don't feel like they're
Speaker 1: not There's nobody being like, hey, you know, McClanahan had
Speaker 1: a thing, we'll get out of it will be good.
Speaker 1: It's like, we really don't know. We have to check
Speaker 1: this sole situation out. And this is very reminiscent of
Speaker 1: Rasmusen and Springs and the whole process that happens. So
Speaker 1: I am very very worried about it.
Speaker 2: You should be.
Speaker 4: If you have McClanahan still in leagues where you know
Speaker 4: he is your ace, you should be terrified right now.
Speaker 4: I think the Razor are terrified. It's funny because the
Speaker 4: Razor's still at the top of the betting board right now.
Speaker 4: Look at a FanDuel. They're still plus three twenty to
Speaker 4: represent the American League. Yet they are not the team
Speaker 4: that is slated to win the divisi The Orioles are
Speaker 4: the minus one hundred favorites now. Whine is one ten
Speaker 4: right now. So yeah, kinda kind of cuckoo, kind of
Speaker 4: crazy there. And look right now, you've got the Rangers,
Speaker 4: the Astros, the Orioles kind of after them, the Astros
Speaker 4: are plus three fifty. I'm looking at the Astros, you
Speaker 4: know that. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago that number
Speaker 4: was plus eight fifty. I told everybody before they make
Speaker 4: moves bet it. Then after the Verlinder tried it went
Speaker 4: down this trade it went down to seven hundred. Now
Speaker 4: it's down to plus three fifty.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: At this point, you gotta make the wager on the
Speaker 4: Houston side, Like I think, it's just crazy not to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like what you talked about too with
Speaker 1: that bet. If you're looking at that bet with Otani
Speaker 1: on the the cy Young stuff. With everything that's going on.
Speaker 1: There also more headlines here. Ellie dla Cruz got his
Speaker 1: what was it, eighth homer in a loss, but just
Speaker 1: wanted to point out great on the homer. We did
Speaker 1: this a couple of days ago, Joe. But Ellie's up
Speaker 1: and down the season though he is a monster as
Speaker 1: far as hard hit stuff goes, actually barreling the ball
Speaker 1: quite a bit better than he was. I believe he
Speaker 1: was down in the fours early on in the year.
Speaker 1: Forty seven percent hard hit thirty three percent K percentage
Speaker 1: so far this year, which is no bueno, but he
Speaker 1: does have an expected batting average that is close to
Speaker 1: the current batting average. Maybe that doesn't make you feel
Speaker 1: good if you're somebody that believes it's going to be
Speaker 1: so much better. But also on the strikeout front with
Speaker 1: something Bubba and I were talking about h five strikeouts
Speaker 1: in his last two games, he has multi strikeouts. I
Speaker 1: believe that's five games in his last seven he has
Speaker 1: struck out more than twice as the batting average kind
Speaker 1: of dipped. So we're you and I. You and I
Speaker 1: remember a time when Ellie de la Cruz was you
Speaker 1: might pass Corbin Carol and blah blah blah. I think
Speaker 1: this is the Elie de la Cruz people need to really,
Speaker 1: you know, come to transit. Two sixty five hitter, big homer,
Speaker 1: stolen bases.
Speaker 4: Stolen base on a kid who's going to get better
Speaker 4: over time too. I mean, like, like exactly look in Dynasty.
Speaker 4: I'm all over it still because the ceiling is ridiculous
Speaker 4: because if we've seen kids with tools sometimes who figure
Speaker 4: it out go on to just absolutely crush the league.
Speaker 2: I mean you could even point to rond Akunya.
Speaker 4: Early in his career is a kay who had a
Speaker 4: lot of tools where you're just kind of looking for
Speaker 4: him to put it all together, and then he did.
Speaker 4: And look how terrifying the player he is right now.
Speaker 2: And you know that size too.
Speaker 4: So the taller guys, the bigger guys Welsh, you know,
Speaker 4: they're more susceptible to the strikeouts because they have a
Speaker 4: bigger strike zone. At the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 4: guys are gonna be able to pitch to them differently
Speaker 4: as opposed to the guy who is, you know, five
Speaker 4: ten six foot tall, aspose as the guy who's what's
Speaker 4: cruise six five?
Speaker 1: Oh, I think they list him at He's like, dude,
Speaker 1: he's like six six sixty seven.
Speaker 2: He's huge. He's a big dude. But he's always gonna
Speaker 2: have a bigger strike zone.
Speaker 4: So therefore you have to always understand that in those
Speaker 4: points leagues with the minus for the k's and things
Speaker 4: like that. But look, if he ever harnesses everything in
Speaker 4: a couple of years, it's gonna be scary. But Dela Cruz,
Speaker 4: especially in this new era of the stolen base, this
Speaker 4: rebirth of stolen bases, I still want de la Cruz
Speaker 4: on all my teams.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, it's it's not not why it just would
Speaker 1: definitely point out nobody did it here. I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but I saw it on the internet of like the
Speaker 1: the anger that would happen when anyone would question Ellie
Speaker 1: de la Cruz and people are you know, he's a
Speaker 1: first round or rest of season and people going nuts.
Speaker 1: But like, maybe listen to some of us when we
Speaker 1: do look at that stuff that like you could again
Speaker 1: he had there was a thirty day period where he
Speaker 1: was the leader in stolen bases. Power wasn't there. He's
Speaker 1: starting to redevelop into that, but there's a time that
Speaker 1: you were able to maximize him for first round talent
Speaker 1: in this year, and the hype kind of took a
Speaker 1: lot of people out.
Speaker 4: No, you were right, and you did that video about it,
Speaker 4: and you were one hundred percent correct at the time.
Speaker 4: If you can get somebody to overpay and redraft, it
Speaker 4: made sense. But in dynasty keeper formats, there's just out
Speaker 4: of my cold dead hand, are you getting Ellie della Cruz.
Speaker 1: You were talking about the Mets pitchers real quick both well,
Speaker 1: we bought news on both. Max Scherzer went six, gave
Speaker 1: up seven hits, three earned runs, nine strikeouts, in his
Speaker 1: Rangers debut. It seems like a very this era Max
Speaker 1: Scherzer line right there, You're always going to give up runs.
Speaker 1: Now he goes six. That's good for the bullpen, strikes
Speaker 1: out a bunch. I don't know if there were any
Speaker 1: thoughts at all on Suresier's debut with the Rangers.
Speaker 4: Oh, look, what you said was perfect, But I would
Speaker 4: also add that let's see what the next couple are.
Speaker 4: Let's see does he harness the inconsistencies or you know,
Speaker 4: and gets back to being on track, or does he
Speaker 4: have like the oh Max Scherzer came out because he's got,
Speaker 4: you know, a tweak in his back, or you know,
Speaker 4: he rolled his ankle a weird way. Like he's had
Speaker 4: a lot of that in the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: even that playoff run in the Washington year where they
Speaker 4: went won the World Series. Let's not forget he had
Speaker 4: a couple of weird injury things. I just think the
Speaker 4: body's breaking down a little bit. So you're gonna get
Speaker 4: the good starts. I think this is the best of
Speaker 4: those starts you get. And I know Verlander you are
Speaker 4: gonna get on Saturday against the Yankees, which should be
Speaker 4: really good theater. If you love baseball, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: hard not to enjoy that. And look, I wish those
Speaker 4: guys well. I Verlander was the one that hurt a
Speaker 4: little bit more sureser to me. Just look, the intensity
Speaker 4: is great, but I feel like guys like that that
Speaker 4: are so intense they wear on you after a while.
Speaker 2: And I think it kind of wore on everybody. So
Speaker 2: good luck to both of them. My money's on Houston, folks.
Speaker 1: There's definitely something in that water, though, because you know
Speaker 1: he is popped back up Dane Dunning struck out eleven.
Speaker 1: There's some type of you there's again, it could just
Speaker 1: be adrenaline. It could be an excitement, it could be seriousness.
Speaker 1: It could be actual pitching changes by Greg Maddox or
Speaker 1: Mike Maddicks. I'm sorry, Mike Maddocks. Greg was also with
Speaker 1: the team for a bit in the spring. But I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but it's a positive turn.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned Verlander, rookie. Lookie, someone asked this earlier.
Speaker 1: They said, Welsh, what's up with Brandon Fott. Well, Brandon
Speaker 1: Fott had his best start of his career. He wins
Speaker 1: seven innings, Joe two hits, one walk, seven strikeouts, did
Speaker 1: give up a homer. Here are the cool things. This
Speaker 1: is why, like I know, like, hey, I'm the Brandon
Speaker 1: Fought guy. Hey, you were wrong, but it's very excited.
Speaker 1: When we heard that Brett Strom made him move across
Speaker 1: the rubber. That's a big change. So he's now on
Speaker 1: the first base side of the rubber and we've seen
Speaker 1: the results kind of work themselves out decently. Well, guess
Speaker 1: what this start he threw his predominant pitch as a sweeper.
Speaker 1: There was a time this year where he was like
Speaker 1: seventy percent fastball, thirty nine percent sweeper, thirty one percent
Speaker 1: fastball in twenty three percent. Changeup was his pitch mix
Speaker 1: in this start thirty three percent overall swing and wiff
Speaker 1: rate thirty seven percent CSW. And what was so encouraging
Speaker 1: to me was he had big outside the zone swing
Speaker 1: in whiffs outside of them. People were actually trying to
Speaker 1: swing at these pitches that were not in the zone.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent on the sweeper over twenty percent on the fastball.
Speaker 1: Brandon Fought might be figuring it out. And it's a
Speaker 1: great bilo in Dynasty Joe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: I think it was here with us together, where we
Speaker 4: had that equation of here remind us of another you know,
Speaker 4: old Arizona diamonbacks pitchure named Robby Ray. Where you're gonna
Speaker 4: you know, there's gonna be a lot of growing pains here.
Speaker 4: The strikeout potential is very good. You know, that's something
Speaker 4: you want to look forward to and hope that it
Speaker 4: goes well. And then you know, I always thought that
Speaker 4: if they just decided to make him a closer, he
Speaker 4: could be very good in that role because the effectively
Speaker 4: wild portion of him really plays well into the closer
Speaker 4: role because guys are going up there in the ninth inning,
Speaker 4: they're trying to just make contact their down three runs,
Speaker 4: they want to go home like.
Speaker 2: They're not looking to, you know, break the wheel.
Speaker 4: But to Arizona, he's more valuable as a starting pitcher
Speaker 4: right now, so hopefully he can look if he can
Speaker 4: give you anything close to five good innings over the
Speaker 4: next what eight weeks of the seven weeks of the season,
Speaker 4: whatever's left here. That's huge for Arizona because they can't
Speaker 4: exactly make the biggest splashes either, I think of this deadline.
Speaker 2: But they did get Paul c Wald nailed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're ever going to use him, they're ever going
Speaker 1: to be in a position to use them. That'd be well,
Speaker 1: you got to be in a position to use him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but you see Donnie. Donnie was saying, I
Speaker 1: nailed that. Did you? Did you see that tweet where
Speaker 1: I just butchered an analogy on prospect one? I did
Speaker 1: a prospect show. I don't. I think I was like,
Speaker 1: what did I say?
Speaker 2: It was something about cookie cutters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was some ridiculous I don't.
Speaker 2: I'll find it. You talk somewhere ver come out of
Speaker 2: my mouth. Well, that's that's the beauty. That's the beauty
Speaker 2: of the Welsh ism. Is it just kind of happens.
Speaker 1: You know, it's natural, it's not forced. It's not a
Speaker 1: force thing.
Speaker 4: So no, never force, always always always good, always entertaining
Speaker 4: and always original.
Speaker 2: That's that's right.
Speaker 1: The other rookie, look, he Southreelick two for three five RBI,
Speaker 1: already hit his second homer. So I'm sitting here questioning
Speaker 1: where the accounting stats are going to come from, and
Speaker 1: he's doing it. So he's pushing himself more into that
Speaker 1: five outfielder pickup range. If he does seem to be
Speaker 1: floating out there. That's also the thing with Brandon fo
Speaker 1: Brandon fat might just be like floating in the ethers
Speaker 1: because people don't trust him. This would be a good
Speaker 1: time to jump on that, Joe. I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of injuries and I'm gonna plow through them.
Speaker 2: Obvious.
Speaker 1: See if there are any takes. We got Max Freed,
Speaker 1: who's being activated from the sixty day IL seeing a
Speaker 1: couple people. I want to say it was Angelo and
Speaker 1: a few others maybe concerned. Nick was saying right here
Speaker 1: about how Fred has already been up to eighty pitches
Speaker 1: in his rehabit of people saying, are we concerned about
Speaker 1: him starting today? You can be. And I think the
Speaker 1: operating procedure should always be like, maybe don't start starters
Speaker 1: coming off of injury. But I'm okay with this one
Speaker 1: against the Cubs. I'm actually going to put them out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am too.
Speaker 1: It could hurt Ratios big, there's always that potential, but
Speaker 1: I think you can get on this Cubs offense. And
Speaker 1: I also think they're going to beat up on Kyle Hendrick.
Speaker 1: So if you're chasing a win, that's a spot I've founded.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's let's not cookie cut it, which
Speaker 4: should be let's sugar sugar coat it, and you made
Speaker 4: you made it into a sugar cookie.
Speaker 2: Let's not cut it.
Speaker 1: Sugar cookies are great too, by the way. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the guy was like, we should put that on
Speaker 1: a shirt, so let's not cookie cookie cut it.
Speaker 4: You said let's not cookie cut it as opposed to
Speaker 4: let's not sugarcoat it, So you must have thought sugar cookies.
Speaker 4: I hope your mouth, your mouth and your brain just
Speaker 4: don't get along sometimes.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 1: I hope this is the only version of Alzheimer's I
Speaker 1: ever have, Like, let this be the version.
Speaker 2: Please. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you know, this
Speaker 2: is where we're starting. God knows the fun things that
Speaker 2: might command.
Speaker 1: I hope not. Dodgers manager tell reporters at Walker Bueller
Speaker 1: is on the verge of starting a minor league rehab assignment.
Speaker 1: They said that he's going to be throwing today and
Speaker 1: this will be over at campbl Back Branch because I
Speaker 1: can tell you I've seen him twice on Saturdays over
Speaker 1: at campbel Back Ranch, so he is getting back. They
Speaker 1: are saying they might expect him back in September. I
Speaker 1: imagine it would be in a very low leverage situation
Speaker 1: a couple innings, maybe an opener or something like that.
Speaker 1: But he's working his way back, so keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. Max Munsey was removed from Thursday's game against
Speaker 1: A's with a left wrist contusion. Twins placed Joe Ryan
Speaker 1: on the fifteen day il with left groin with a
Speaker 1: left groin strain. No no bueno at all. He his
Speaker 1: splitter was really ineffective and he didn't really tell anybody,
Speaker 1: So that's not good. So this is part of that
Speaker 1: reason because people are like, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 1: Is he broken? We also had Anthony Rizzo who had
Speaker 1: some concussion like symptoms which have been like two they
Speaker 1: I think they put it back like two months ago
Speaker 1: when Fernalo Tatis Junior ran into him. Okay, Joe Musgrove
Speaker 1: was scratched on Wednesday with a minor right shoulder strain woodruff.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be back on Sunday in Nesterra Cortes is
Speaker 1: back on Saturday. Anti Rostrata is expected back this weekend.
Speaker 1: I added a new little segment that I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: to you guys, and we'll do it really quick. It's
Speaker 1: weekend streamers that we can do on Friday, Jo, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw out four names. You tell me if there's
Speaker 1: someone you dig. I'll also mention if you guys are
Speaker 1: looking for players to kind of hone in on this weekend.
Speaker 1: Bryce Elder versus the Cubs gotten eate into record, Treek
Speaker 1: Schooble going up against Tampa Bay, You've got Chris Sanchez
Speaker 1: going up against Kansas City, and Steven Matts against Colorado.
Speaker 1: Elder and School are a little bit more owned, but
Speaker 1: from the way I've been hearing a lot of people talk,
Speaker 1: they're still out there. Sanchez and Matt's a lot more accessible. Elder, Chicago, Schooble,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Sanchez, Kansas City, Matt's Colorado. Anything you like there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, School, because I think the Rays are vulnerable right now,
Speaker 4: so why not take advantage of them when they're down
Speaker 4: in School's been very solid, So that's.
Speaker 2: Whey I'd go.
Speaker 1: I like the Sanchez one just because I think he's
Speaker 1: really available in Kansas City kind of stinks. Schooble is
Speaker 1: an absolute no brainer to me. Thanks, Steven. That's actually
Speaker 1: might be kind of sneaky. He's been good as of
Speaker 1: recent He has at Colorado. This is not this is
Speaker 1: not at Colorado.
Speaker 2: That's right, like Colorado in Saint Louis so exactly, So
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: And then Sunday I only put up two. Taylan Walker's
Speaker 1: going up against Kansas City, and you've got Andrew Heeney
Speaker 1: who's going up against Miami, who just said that eleven
Speaker 1: strikeout performance. Both excessively owned in places. If you had
Speaker 1: to start one Walker or Heeny, where are you going?
Speaker 4: Uh see Walker Heeney? I would probably go with Walker
Speaker 4: against Casey such at it. Yeah, I'm just gonna play
Speaker 4: match up there, I hope for the best. I thought
Speaker 4: Trey Turner was dropped to the eighth spot the other
Speaker 4: day though. How about them apples yia.
Speaker 1: Y, Yeah exactly. Now nobody there Three up, three down.
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty six innings, eight strikeouts, only four hits, two
Speaker 1: walks in his Baltimore debut. There's your three up, one
Speaker 1: of your ups. Bobby wait Junior went three for four
Speaker 1: with a homer stolen based two runs, two RBI got
Speaker 1: he has been awesome. My final of the trade videos
Speaker 1: telling you to go get him and Ryan mount Castle
Speaker 1: shout out to Mike Mayer four for four on the downs.
Speaker 1: I think I skipped him before as we were kind
Speaker 1: of rolling through. But you know, is Mitch Keller broken
Speaker 1: five innings, eight earned runs, three walks, and now three
Speaker 1: of his last four starts he has given up six
Speaker 1: or more earned runs. Someone asks, do you drop Mitch
Speaker 1: Keller right now? He's goppen.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: He had I think three thirty one era in the
Speaker 4: first half of the year nine and four. Three thirty
Speaker 4: one was first nineteen starts. Over his last four starts,
Speaker 4: he has a nine point nine to seven e RA.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just it's unbelievable. And look, and we
Speaker 4: know where that era was too, and he had some
Speaker 4: clunker starts kind of leading up into the break also.
Speaker 4: But I don't know if it's broken. I don't know
Speaker 4: if he you know, if it's mental. He's still young,
Speaker 4: he's still just twenty seven years old. So I think
Speaker 4: in those keeper dives he leagues he's a fascinating by
Speaker 4: low on the on the dip right now with Pittman
Speaker 4: being bad, but I mean, right now, rest of the season,
Speaker 4: you can't have any confidence in him.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and this last start you had ve Lo down.
Speaker 1: I was just looking at that. I mean just kind
Speaker 1: of across the board almost a full mile per hour
Speaker 1: down on the fastball. On the sinker sweeper was down. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was two miles an hour down on the cutter.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's something wrong. And I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the big good. He does have a
Speaker 1: better expected era, So I would throw that out to you.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would like cut him. I
Speaker 1: try to put him on the bench unless you've got
Speaker 1: like way better cooler options, and if you do, you know,
Speaker 1: good on you. I might go there. The others on
Speaker 1: the down. As I get back to this, we had
Speaker 1: Anthony Santander who went zero for five with four strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and Carlos Carrasco gave up six. He struck out six
Speaker 1: or no, I'm sorry, he gave up six, went six
Speaker 1: and struck out zero zero in six. No bueno, Joe.
Speaker 1: We don't likeever, how do you I don't understand the
Speaker 1: zero strikeouts through six things. Sometimes that is affine to me.
Speaker 1: How how do you do that?
Speaker 2: Carlos Carrasco has done a lot of things that I
Speaker 2: have no reasons for. The Mets.
Speaker 4: The Mets have to and the thing is they got
Speaker 4: all these great young position player wou is great, but
Speaker 4: they have to go out and make some pitching commitments
Speaker 4: that are going to be better suited that guys aren't
Speaker 4: in their late thirties or early forties.
Speaker 2: And look, SEINGA is going to be in that rotation
Speaker 2: next year. I imagine kntm's going to be in that
Speaker 2: rotation next year. After that, we wash.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think you have any clarity about anybody.
Speaker 4: So they have a lot of work to do. And
Speaker 4: don't be surprised by use some of.
Speaker 2: That prospect capital to get that done either, because I
Speaker 2: think they will very true.
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Speaker 1: what you think about this one. Okay, I've got it's
Speaker 1: a it's a kind of combo meal. I've got one,
Speaker 1: so it's like a full miss.
Speaker 2: The first one smash, by the way, the first one smash.
Speaker 1: He's just Lozardo, Jordan Montgomery, eleven and a half strikeout,
Speaker 1: combo over smash, smash, smash, smash, smash, read debt Merz,
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo, Nurphy, no run first inning, not a smash,
Speaker 1: but like this one.
Speaker 2: I think it's good. And then Matt that Seattle makes
Speaker 2: some times. I think that plays into your favor.
Speaker 1: There, Yeah, exactly. And then we're going with Matt Olson
Speaker 1: fantasy score eight and a half like him today. Also
Speaker 1: a little Loki might throw in Jordan Alvarez going up
Speaker 1: against Louis Severino if you wanted to like play it
Speaker 1: on another side. So that is the price picks today,
Speaker 1: if you guys want to check that out on the bets.
Speaker 1: I actually placed one right before we started up here.
Speaker 1: Got a little moneyline parlay Atlanta and Houston. So you
Speaker 1: asked about Max Fried earlier. I will back them with
Speaker 1: Houston and Hunter Brown going up against Louis Severino who
Speaker 1: is broken and last night. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different odds now, but plus one seventy. It's somewhere
Speaker 1: in that general vicinity you'll get for both of those
Speaker 1: money lines. And I even had a third one too.
Speaker 1: There's a couple other teams that I kind of dig today.
Speaker 1: I'll put that over on. I'll play some moneyline bets
Speaker 1: on the betting Pros group if you guys want to
Speaker 1: go and check that out and you'll be notified of
Speaker 1: all the stuff. And I don't think the Diamondbacks can
Speaker 1: keep losing, so it's plus money for them on the
Speaker 1: money line with Merle going today, So I'm taking the
Speaker 1: plus one to ten for Merril Kelly on the straight
Speaker 1: up money line for the Diamondbacks. Joe, I feel weird
Speaker 1: about doing the dfs. Do you want to read off
Speaker 1: the dfs? Do you want me to read it off?
Speaker 2: Well, but it was Bubba's work. It was Bubba's work.
Speaker 2: I mean, why don't you read it off there? Because
Speaker 2: I should pretend to.
Speaker 1: Be Bubba Brump. You should pretend to.
Speaker 2: Be bu you know, Bubba. Bubba's just just just chill
Speaker 2: and I can never just do that.
Speaker 4: But look, basically Bubba has Castillo, who well S already
Speaker 4: talked about, no run first inning at ten point two.
Speaker 4: James Paxon at nine K against Toronto. Again, that's more
Speaker 4: of a tournament play. And then Dean Kremer against the
Speaker 4: Mets absolutely seven point two. That is your real tournament
Speaker 4: play because then you can go up and get olds,
Speaker 4: and you can go up and get braves and get
Speaker 4: up again whatever you want. He's Stack in Milwaukee against Preacher,
Speaker 4: which is really smart too because the Milwaukee Bats are cheap.
Speaker 4: Boston versus Manoa for obvious reasons, because he's Alec Manoa,
Speaker 4: He's a human gas can. And then Houston against Averno.
Speaker 4: The Yankee pitching obviously is just outside of call. It's
Speaker 4: a hot mess for the most part. So the value
Speaker 4: plays is Trent krushevat two nine, You get Matt Walner
Speaker 4: at twenty four hundred, and Uennio Soarez as well against Debtmer.
Speaker 2: So those are your value plays.
Speaker 1: Of the day.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows I'm Matt Olsen for the rest of the season.
Speaker 4: So Welsh, were you picking for your home run call
Speaker 4: this weekend?
Speaker 1: Hey, well, I am gonna go with Matt Olsen. I'm
Speaker 1: with a little bit Matty Olsen, and here's two fun
Speaker 1: things I've got for you. I do have an updated board. Bam,
Speaker 1: look at that Blue Harvester has taken the league.
Speaker 4: Believe forty two Razor, what happened? I left for a week,
Speaker 4: I come back and Harvester forty two to thirty nine.
Speaker 2: My god, Welsh will I will tell you this too.
Speaker 1: I did. I was given what the leader board was
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We just had so much going on with
Speaker 1: the tradeline. When we got to the end, I was
Speaker 1: just like, here's my home runs. Goodbye everybody, goodbye, bye bye,
Speaker 1: and I love you all and move past it. But
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa blue Heart? So he gained another
Speaker 1: Blue Harvester. This is a huge adjustment and change here.
Speaker 1: Blue Harvester has taking a big commanding lead. Razor ramone
Speaker 1: at thirty nine, JJ Tater at thirty nine. Then there's
Speaker 1: another kind of drop down to our Hoffman at thirty six.
Speaker 1: Wonky is on there at thirty two. I got one
Speaker 1: the other day. I think I'm at thirty so I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit further off trying to get on the board.
Speaker 1: But I also have a programming note for everybody on
Speaker 1: Monday this show, we're going thirty minutes earlier, so everybody
Speaker 1: tune in. Bubba will be back. Assuming that Internet gets
Speaker 1: placed back into California, we will be going thirty minutes early,
Speaker 1: twelve pm Eastern. You ask yourselves, why Welsh, why are
Speaker 1: we doing that? Well, I need a little bit of
Speaker 1: extra time to travel down to Scottsdale to go hang
Speaker 1: out and be around Corbyn Carrol because the Carbon Carrol
Speaker 1: signing is happening on Monday with my dear friend Dennis
Speaker 1: Sidler of sids graf. So you guys can go and
Speaker 1: check out sidsgrafs dot com and I will be there
Speaker 1: and I'm going to try to get the video of
Speaker 1: him signing the helmet and then I will probably take
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm been able to have him
Speaker 1: do it or if I'll just take it and then
Speaker 1: ship it out. I don't like shipping things. But I
Speaker 1: will be there at the signing for the helmet. Fantasy
Speaker 1: pros hom run Champ inscribed, So we're going thirty minutes
Speaker 1: earlier so I can get the hell over there. So
Speaker 1: just know make sure you guys are locked in. That's
Speaker 1: our programming note. Joey, thanks for pinch hitting today. You're
Speaker 1: all betting price now.
Speaker 2: But I'm the Lenny Harris of Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 4: I show up when it counts and I get the hits,
Speaker 4: and I like that My relatives are still in the
Speaker 4: chat even though I'm not here. That says a lot
Speaker 4: about them. You know them, what kind of people they are.
Speaker 4: It's good to see everybody, and thank you for continuing
Speaker 4: support the show with Bubba on there. Hopefully Bubba's Internet
Speaker 4: will be fixed by Monday and he and Welsh will
Speaker 4: recap the rest of the weekend of baseball for you
Speaker 4: on Monday afternoon.
Speaker 1: There you go, uh one, Franco Franco, That's who's a
Speaker 1: great pinch hitter. I'm completely blank. It wasn't Frank Julio Franco.
Speaker 1: That's a Julio Franco.
Speaker 2: Was a really good player and then his later years
Speaker 2: became a good pinch hitter. No money Harris.
Speaker 4: When somebody says pinch hitter like, I don't know who
Speaker 4: the all time pinch hitter leader is, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I think it might be.
Speaker 1: Franco because, like I remember my growing up, I feel
Speaker 1: like predominantly Julio Franco was like the pinch hitter of
Speaker 1: pinch hitters. I feel like he did it for like
Speaker 1: ten years in my earlier days. But now we need
Speaker 1: to know. I can see Joe's looking this up. I
Speaker 1: am Harris. I say, Julio Franco, chat, do you have
Speaker 1: anybody the most dominant pinch hitter.
Speaker 2: Hits by Oh no, that's hit by pitch, I mean
Speaker 2: pinch hitter. That's what I need right now?
Speaker 1: Who's our pinch hitter? Because I say, Julio Franco, is
Speaker 1: there someone we're for? I feel like there's someone we're
Speaker 1: forgetting to something.
Speaker 4: Probably is MLB pinch hitting. This is great radio and
Speaker 4: tell this is something pinch Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know what, like people, people appreciate seeing you
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate seeing all of them too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Who has the most pinch hits in MLB history? It
Speaker 4: is Lenny Harris two hundred and twelve.
Speaker 1: Where's Julio? Where's Julia?
Speaker 4: Mark Sweeney by the way is two, Manny Mota is three?
Speaker 4: And Smoky Burgess somewhere smoking up.
Speaker 1: Franco?
Speaker 2: What about I told you because he was a good
Speaker 2: player for.
Speaker 1: A long hit homers.
Speaker 2: Like I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: I got Derek Brown coming to my house in like
Speaker 4: an hour ago. Really, Oh yeah, Debro's coming, Ericson's, everyone's
Speaker 4: hanging out.
Speaker 2: We're going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Eric Young just texted me that his flight
Speaker 4: got canceled. Now he's on standby, so I told him.
Speaker 4: I was like, look, we'll figure this out. If he
Speaker 4: has to come to my house to everyone and we're
Speaker 4: all having to big sleep over together fun, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: Well we'll all do Andrew Erickson's hair because none of
Speaker 4: us have hair, three of us.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could be honest with how the hell
Speaker 1: am I going to be able to focus on Monday
Speaker 1: for the show. All I'm going to need to know
Speaker 1: is all the details of all the little gossiping that
Speaker 1: you guys are going to do sleep having a little sleepover,
Speaker 1: doing Ericson's hair. It's amazing. But friends, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for hanging out with us. Hat tipped
Speaker 1: to Bubba. He'll be back. Joe Pizzapia always the rock star.
Speaker 1: That'll do it for now, But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for Joe Pizzapia. I am Welsh, my
Speaker 1: friends
Speaker 2: Stay we here from those sugar cookies,