Speaker 1: Insufferable. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to fantasy pros.
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Speaker 2: We do it all here and that's how we roll. Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's great to see you, my friend. How is your
Speaker 1: holiday weekend? Because I didn't see it yesterday.
Speaker 3: Oh, stupendous. Couldn't be better, couldn't be better for a
Speaker 3: wonderful holiday weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm sensing some sarcasm in your voice.
Speaker 2: Really are you? No?
Speaker 3: No, I can't tell why, but it does feel like
Speaker 3: I've been uh not here forever. But it was since
Speaker 3: last Friday. I was off and then I am back.
Speaker 3: But I am back here for the next three days.
Speaker 3: I am excited about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, let's go.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you notice, I've been a little
Speaker 1: home run streak. I got the two from mister Alvarez. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got Matt Olsen last night. So that's three and
Speaker 1: two days.
Speaker 2: Somebody's in double digits. Let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 1: And Mike Mayor. I don't know what got into Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: He decided to do a deep dive all of a
Speaker 1: sudden before the show. Right before the show, he starts
Speaker 1: sending me all of these reviews of the show.
Speaker 2: But I don't know what the reviews are like.
Speaker 1: He is cherry picking ones that basically say I like
Speaker 1: when Mike Mayor does things I don't like Joe Kizepia,
Speaker 1: He's the worst. Those kind of things right before the show.
Speaker 1: Not my confidence. I feel like a little bit. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is just me by Mike Mayor.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. Mayor's on something right now too. He's
Speaker 3: back at his old home run tricks. Just would like
Speaker 3: to point out I actually, late in the night worked
Speaker 3: on the sheet put a name up for the home
Speaker 3: run call. Oh guess what name I see under Mike
Speaker 3: Mayor this morning. Absolute villainry is going on from Mike
Speaker 3: Mayor and people that don't podcast don't know. There's nothing
Speaker 3: worse than being knocked down a few steps before you
Speaker 3: go on air to like entertain and talk to people,
Speaker 3: and you want to find maybe the worst of the worst,
Speaker 3: talk about reviews, like podcast reviews. There's nothing worse on
Speaker 3: the planet. I gave up on it. I couldn't do
Speaker 3: it anymore because it's evil. It's evil stuff. And then
Speaker 3: of course you were getting some nice fun ones like that.
Speaker 2: He I was gotta say, nice one.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, it doesn't get much better than
Speaker 1: Joe Pisapia is an insufferable d bag. I mean, that
Speaker 1: is about as good as it gets. I might make
Speaker 1: that my Twitter wallpaper. I think that's my favorite one.
Speaker 1: And if anybody out there, you know, think about this.
Speaker 1: We give you free content every day we work for
Speaker 1: I know, I put in hours before the show trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what we're going to talk about, what
Speaker 1: the pieces are, researching stuff, going through things. Mike Mayer
Speaker 1: does a lot of work, no matter what I tell you.
Speaker 1: Welsh does a lot of work. Bogman does BVP stuff
Speaker 1: every time he's on the show. He still contributes anyway,
Speaker 1: even if it's one day a week. Imagine your life
Speaker 1: is so sad that something's given to you for free
Speaker 1: and you hate it so much that instead of just
Speaker 1: not listening to it, you're gonna leave a bad review
Speaker 1: of it. I just can't wrap my mind around that.
Speaker 1: But I know a lot of you do like the show.
Speaker 1: So if you do go out there today and counteract
Speaker 1: a little bit of the negativity and take a time
Speaker 1: to say something positive, because we appreciate it and we
Speaker 1: love doing this show. And I just don't understand why
Speaker 1: people have a problem. Sometimes I don't care.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be this day. Like, look at
Speaker 3: this right here. This is a prime example. This is
Speaker 3: one hundred percent going to be with this day? Is
Speaker 3: Joe Drew like love? I love Drew's comment here. Now
Speaker 3: I know why Welsh is usually wearing a hat. You
Speaker 3: want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: That's good natured fun now here in front of your face.
Speaker 2: And I think that's okay.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, it's a it's it's a not
Speaker 3: itune reviews. But the bar has been set for today.
Speaker 3: Thank you all. Drew dead to me, d bad guy
Speaker 3: dead to me, and Mayor we know where to put
Speaker 3: our villainry at. We know who the deal is and
Speaker 3: somebody's got to be the bad guy.
Speaker 1: Well, to be fair, we have over eleven hundred reviews,
Speaker 1: and one thousand and ninety of them are five stars.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Well, now you know what those ten, those ten read.
Speaker 3: It's hey, well I've got a really bad hairline. Joe's
Speaker 3: the dbat Mike Mayer signed.
Speaker 1: All right, Yes, he does look like John Lackey. We
Speaker 1: all know he looks like John Lackey Welsh.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get on.
Speaker 3: I have many looks, many, many looks.
Speaker 2: You have to have many.
Speaker 1: You're so versatile. Let's get into the baseball here. Martin
Speaker 1: Perez can't be stopped, no matter what. Mike Mayor actually
Speaker 1: wrote a piece of him a Fantasy Pros yesterday. You
Speaker 1: get check out about how you should trade Martin Perez.
Speaker 1: He's not wrong when a guy's era is under two,
Speaker 1: I mean seven more shutout frames on Tuesday for Mark
Speaker 1: Team Perez. I'm telling you some contender is going to
Speaker 1: go after him in the next thirty days. I don't
Speaker 1: know who it's going to be. If it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the Braves, if it's gonna be the Blue Jays, if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Mets, somebody's going the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna have to go get this guy, and when
Speaker 1: they do, his stock will never be higher. So if
Speaker 1: you could wait another couple days or a couple of weeks, okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to sell him now, that's fine. Trey
Speaker 1: Turner extends is hitting Street to twenty three straight games.
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen exploded yesterday two doubles.
Speaker 2: And a home run.
Speaker 1: I am the slump breaker. Let's go baby. That's three
Speaker 1: home runs in two days for Joey p. We had
Speaker 1: Chaz McCool make a chazz picking up three hits in
Speaker 1: the win. There a big late hit two in the
Speaker 1: extra innings of Frankie Montas go seven strong innings, but
Speaker 1: he ended up losing that game to the Astros.
Speaker 2: Christian Javier was not good last night.
Speaker 1: I'll take the l on that one, but he did
Speaker 1: get a great performance from Adam Wainwright, who was my
Speaker 1: favorite secondary DK pitcher last night. Ten k's against the Padres,
Speaker 1: who could use him off as of help right now.
Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday, Welsh. We talked about Will
Speaker 1: Myers not hitting, Trank Gresham not hitting. We brought up
Speaker 1: the idea of Andrew Benintendi. Is there anybody else you
Speaker 1: think might be able to help the outfield a little
Speaker 1: bit offensively, because right now the Padres are struggling outside
Speaker 1: of many Machado who got thrown out last night.
Speaker 3: Do you think that you were speculating that the Royals
Speaker 3: would move Benintendee.
Speaker 1: I think that they Well, somebody at MLB network had
Speaker 1: in MLB dot com, excuse me, how to peace yesterday
Speaker 1: or over the weekend that I saw that I thought
Speaker 1: was intriguing, So I of course brought it into discussion
Speaker 1: of the show about here's five trades you know that
Speaker 1: would be interesting to make for teams right now, and
Speaker 1: one was Ben intending to the Padres, and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, having a guy with a four hundred
Speaker 1: ol VP would really help this team at the top
Speaker 1: of this order because they're not getting anybody on base
Speaker 1: ahead of my Shado.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I mean I think, like logically that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Royal Ben and Tendi has been
Speaker 3: one of their best players, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: Where are they going?
Speaker 3: Built out team? Yeah, I mean, but I think they're
Speaker 3: still built. I think they still feel that they're in
Speaker 3: a contention spot to win because I've had so many
Speaker 3: guys that have underperformed from Carlos and Tan to mamy
Speaker 3: Wit being maybe specifically the one while Benintendi is held up.
Speaker 3: But I agree the Padres have to do something. They're
Speaker 3: the most, the most willing to move, and I'm surprised
Speaker 3: that these moves have not already been done because Grisham sucks.
Speaker 3: It's brutal right now. They cannot get this thing going.
Speaker 3: Tatus is probably still at least what a month away.
Speaker 3: Probably post All Star Game is the most likely scenario.
Speaker 3: They need an influx. Like I said, the Mets, even
Speaker 3: though they just continue to win games, need that pitching influx.
Speaker 3: The Padres should be doing the same thing. Yeah, ben
Speaker 3: Intendi would be a great move. I don't know if
Speaker 3: that's it. I'd love to see them bring CJ. Abrams
Speaker 3: back for a little bit of a spark, and then
Speaker 3: I'd like to see them I get what you're saying
Speaker 3: with like the OBP guy, but I'd like to see
Speaker 3: them really unload, like they've got these prospects. They still
Speaker 3: got these guys in the minor leagues that they can use.
Speaker 3: Take Robert Hassel if you have to, and go and
Speaker 3: move and get a huge, big piece, a real piece
Speaker 3: that can get on base a power not even a
Speaker 3: speed guy, but a power guy.
Speaker 1: I know the Nats just came out and said, everyone said,
Speaker 1: we're not trading one.
Speaker 3: No, don't do it.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what if you offered them Mackenzie, Gore, Abrams,
Speaker 1: whatever else like you mentioned there in that pile of prospects, man,
Speaker 1: that's quite a haul. You'd have to at least listen.
Speaker 2: To that trade. If you're the Washington National, you're not
Speaker 2: going anywhere fast.
Speaker 3: I love that Rizzo said, we're not trading like so no,
Speaker 3: like it's we don't even need to discuss this. It's
Speaker 3: not the move, it's not it's yeah, if they wanted
Speaker 3: to go Gore and Abrams and they're not going to,
Speaker 3: they're one hundred percent not going to. But I would
Speaker 3: love to see them go and attack and find a
Speaker 3: team that you know is a little bit middling and
Speaker 3: get like a big middle of the order piece, because
Speaker 3: that's what's struggling here. You know. Machada was great, come
Speaker 3: back Down.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but that's the album. I mean.
Speaker 1: Then boguards play shortstop, so I mean bringing in a
Speaker 1: piece like that, then you're gonna have to have to
Speaker 1: relegate tattoos to the outfit, which maybe is a good idea.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to do that anyway for them to
Speaker 2: be a little bit.
Speaker 3: But this is why, this is why I've speculated that
Speaker 3: I wonder if you're gonna really look at a situation
Speaker 3: where trades are just gonna be silent. We're not gonna
Speaker 3: get a bunch of trades all the way up until
Speaker 3: the deadline, and the deadline could be a flurry because
Speaker 3: there's so many teams that are gonna feel that they're
Speaker 3: gonna be in it for you know, leading up to August.
Speaker 3: I have to imagine so many teams with the expanded playoffs,
Speaker 3: they're gonna go in. Diamondbacks would be a prime example.
Speaker 3: They're middling right now. You know they're getting wins, but
Speaker 3: they're still a middling team. That's a team that might
Speaker 3: hold all the way to the very end and you
Speaker 3: still might not get you know, teams that are gonna
Speaker 3: jump into the fray, which I think makes it difficult
Speaker 3: and it makes them more costly. So I think trades
Speaker 3: are going to cost more and we're gonna look and
Speaker 3: we're gonna be like good lord, like it took Robert
Speaker 3: hassel to get. You know, I can't even think off
Speaker 3: the top of my head. You know whoever it is,
Speaker 3: you know some decent you know, some decent obp outfielder
Speaker 3: out there, and we're gonna look back and we're gonna
Speaker 3: be like Jesus, these trades do not make sense.
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo is going to be on that trade block
Speaker 1: pretty soon too, especially after another album like he had
Speaker 1: last night. Ten strikeouts over six scoreless innings. The sinker
Speaker 1: was topping out. I think I'm sorry. His fastball was
Speaker 1: topping out in ninety nine last night, So that's very high.
Speaker 3: You've seen some of those guys actually pop back. They're
Speaker 3: doing some I cannot think of who the pitching coaches
Speaker 3: off the top of my mind, but they're doing some
Speaker 3: good stuff over there. Finally right now, because you've seen
Speaker 3: Hunter Green make that deserted change of throwing sliders more,
Speaker 3: throwing it more than his fastball, and he's finding success.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see it tonight. You're seeing Tyler Molly, who's
Speaker 3: been really brutal throughout the season, still kind of maintain
Speaker 3: a lot of that underlying stuff and then what went
Speaker 3: six no hit And now you're seeing Louis Castillo pop back.
Speaker 3: There's a formula that they're clicking back with. Some of
Speaker 3: these pitchers all decent. Bye, I would say Castillo and
Speaker 3: Molly are interesting buys in fantasy right now. And Haunter
Speaker 3: Green though, my take is that he is more sustainable.
Speaker 3: So Luis Castillo getting better and then potentially going to
Speaker 3: another team could be a room really interesting second half
Speaker 3: boon for fantasy owners if it works out like that.
Speaker 1: Now, we told you yesterday Gobo be proactive because Wander
Speaker 1: Franco was gonna go to the IL, and guess what,
Speaker 1: he went to the IL. So he tried to help
Speaker 1: you out there. We tried to tell you some guys
Speaker 1: you could add in the middle infield spot. Hopefully you did,
Speaker 1: because he's going to be out till at least what
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen days, depending on how long he's gonna
Speaker 1: be out there. A Nolan Gorman also is out again
Speaker 1: in the lineup. He's doing with a back issue. So
Speaker 1: if you have daily transactions, you're gonna get him out
Speaker 1: of there. That's no good. Nobody, no, nobody likes that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Welsh, the Phillies and Braves both
Speaker 1: lost extra inning games last night, and as the calendar
Speaker 1: turns to June, the Mets are ten and a half
Speaker 1: games up on Atlanta, twelve and a half games up
Speaker 1: on Philadelphia. The ten and a half game lead is
Speaker 1: by far the biggest in baseball. The next biggest is
Speaker 1: the Yankees eight and a half Excuday five and a half.
Speaker 1: Excuse me over Toronto currently. Now some little stats about this,
Speaker 1: the June first lead of that magnitude, we're talking to
Speaker 1: two thousand.
Speaker 2: And one Mariners fourteen.
Speaker 1: We're talking to the two seventeen Astro twenty seventeen Astros with eleven.
Speaker 1: The Mets are third at ten and a half, along
Speaker 1: with the twenty nineteen Twins who were ten and a half,
Speaker 1: and the nineteen seventy one Giants at ten and a half.
Speaker 1: So that is some incredible elitist company. That Mariner team
Speaker 1: from two thousand and one. I think we all remember
Speaker 1: how good that team was and unfortunately they just didn't
Speaker 1: get it done against the Yankees and the playoffs that year,
Speaker 1: and that was the nine to eleven years, very emotional
Speaker 1: time in New York. So they kind of went into
Speaker 1: that series I think with a bit of a deficit,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to win in that environment was very hard.
Speaker 2: It was a very passionate group of people. It was
Speaker 2: a very sensitive time.
Speaker 1: But man, this is an unbelievable lead.
Speaker 2: This offense just doesn't seem to quit.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who they're plugging in their Welsh What
Speaker 1: do you make of this enormous lead right now that
Speaker 1: they just keep on piling on to this East which
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the Kuyper competitive division, It looks
Speaker 1: nothing like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And what's interesting is that, you know the offense
Speaker 3: had had some stuttery points earlier. You know, it was
Speaker 3: kind of like Alonso and everybody else was just kind
Speaker 3: of slowly trekking their way up, and then lind Or
Speaker 3: has just started to pop off. Everybody ed whar to
Speaker 3: Escobar has gone. Everybody is startings to this is what
Speaker 3: they make an incredible player, and this is exactly what
Speaker 3: they needed to maintain with those rotation pieces hurting. But
Speaker 3: I think you have to be aggressive. If if I
Speaker 3: had a ten game lead, I would be hyper aggressive,
Speaker 3: pinpointing exactly what do I need? What do I need
Speaker 3: to continue to maintain this because it's cyclical. You know,
Speaker 3: it's great that they got this lead now, but there's
Speaker 3: gonna be you know, there's gonna be a little run
Speaker 3: that's gonna start kicking back on them. They're gonna lose
Speaker 3: some games they shouldn't lose, sure, and might unravel a
Speaker 3: little bit. So how do you maintain that lead? Maybe
Speaker 3: it's not on offense. Maybe it is that continued run
Speaker 3: on unpitching that they should be doing. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, what do you make of it? They're one
Speaker 3: of the best teams in baseball? Hey, any surprise that
Speaker 3: you know lynnd'or with Pete Alonzo is working out to
Speaker 3: be an incredible offense when you have a table setter
Speaker 3: in Starling Marte.
Speaker 1: No, it's just I mean, but we've been talking about
Speaker 1: this all the time, and this is the difference in
Speaker 1: a lot of offenses that we see nowadays in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball.
Speaker 2: The station to station.
Speaker 1: If we're not hitting home runs, we're not scoring offenses
Speaker 1: versus the do you have athleticism, do you have guys
Speaker 1: that can get on base, take an extra base, good
Speaker 1: base runners. All of those things do add up eventually,
Speaker 1: and then you have those guys to drive them in.
Speaker 1: And it's look, I'd like to see a little bit
Speaker 1: more of that style baseball played, and there are some
Speaker 1: teams that are playing it right now.
Speaker 2: You know that'say to be one of them.
Speaker 3: It's actually funny that you that you bring that up,
Speaker 3: because I was going through yesterday and I was just
Speaker 3: starting to, you know, piece together and look at stolen bases,
Speaker 3: particularly as a Diamondback fan speaking two thousand and one
Speaker 3: as a Diamondback fan, and some of the bottom teams,
Speaker 3: it's crazy frustrating the level of especially like not winning teams,
Speaker 3: how much they don't look to manufacture runs. And I
Speaker 3: found it interesting when I was going through and looking
Speaker 3: at like stolen bases by teams. It's never a one
Speaker 3: for one, but when you go and look at the
Speaker 3: teams that are aggressive on the base pass number one,
Speaker 3: Saint Louis, Hey, they're pretty good. Right now. Inside the
Speaker 3: top ten, you've got Tampa Bay, You've got Cleveland, You've
Speaker 3: got the Dodgers, You've got Milwaukee Angels. On the bottom end,
Speaker 3: you know thet and I was specifically look in the
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks are six worse in baseball, but you've also got
Speaker 3: like Detroit is in there, Boston has struggled, Washington is
Speaker 3: in there, and you're looking at the top teams averaging,
Speaker 3: like the top ten teams are averaging almost double the
Speaker 3: stolen bases per game than the bottom ten teams, and
Speaker 3: that is such a weird way to play. Ironically, the
Speaker 3: Mets are kind of in the middle. But it's also
Speaker 3: because their bats have been hot. You know they have it.
Speaker 1: It's not even stealing bases, it's going it's going from
Speaker 1: first to third. It's it's having moving runners over runners,
Speaker 1: but beating out an infield hit. Simple things like that.
Speaker 1: Having speed on a team. Speed matters. By the way,
Speaker 1: I saw this yesterday, it's a little trivia question I
Speaker 1: could throw off for everybody. Who is the current the
Speaker 1: current leader of active guys in stolen bases in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball? Anybody got an idea? Drop in the chat
Speaker 1: over there Fantasy pros. Again, if you're watching live, who
Speaker 1: is the current leader of stolen bases right now? Is
Speaker 1: it Starling Marty? It is not Starling Marte. It's a
Speaker 1: good guess, but we'll.
Speaker 2: Go on to more things.
Speaker 1: George Kirby picked up his first major league win last night.
Speaker 2: Six shoutout innings.
Speaker 1: Another picture we liked as a secondary arm on DK,
Speaker 1: so we did pretty good on DK last night. On
Speaker 1: the season twenty six innings, three forty six, a one
Speaker 1: point one five whip, a two point eight walk rate,
Speaker 1: a twenty five point nine k rate. Eric Cross tweeted
Speaker 1: all this our good friend Eric Cross from Fantasy pros
Speaker 1: fan Trax black Book. He says, top fifty pitcher rest
Speaker 1: of season? Do you agree with that? Is he a
Speaker 1: top fifty pitcher rest of season? George Kirby, I think
Speaker 1: he's right around there, But I think it's a good question.
Speaker 3: He's in that range. I don't know if I would
Speaker 3: anoint him. I mean, it's fun after this start. He's
Speaker 3: had two starts. I believe it's two. This last one
Speaker 3: was great. By the way, I made this bet yesterday
Speaker 3: and I did it as a solo bet and place it.
Speaker 3: George Kirby's k prop was three and a half and
Speaker 3: he had eight. That'll go away.
Speaker 2: He talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be yeah, it's gonna be probably five and
Speaker 3: a half to maybe four and a half if you're lucky.
Speaker 3: But like two starts ago, people were ready to send
Speaker 3: him to the woodshed because he was he was allowing
Speaker 3: all this contact. He was he was getting beat up
Speaker 3: a little bit because all those pitches there weren't any
Speaker 3: more whiffs, and he was getting hit hard and the
Speaker 3: contact was getting hit hard, and you still see some
Speaker 3: of that. He's I mean, it's not even in qualifications,
Speaker 3: but he's bottom five in the league so far of
Speaker 3: average exit velocity given up, and he's bottom five in
Speaker 3: the league and hard hit given up right now, So
Speaker 3: you know this is this is a dude who's dialed
Speaker 3: it back. I've seen I've personally seen him pitch hit
Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour and he's now hitting in
Speaker 3: that like ninety six range. He's got a good mix,
Speaker 3: but his command is key. My problem is is I
Speaker 3: still think he's a bit inconsistent, just like the Mariners.
Speaker 3: So when you've got a guy who's in some inconsistencies
Speaker 3: and his overall hard hit metrics are some of the
Speaker 3: worst in baseball right now, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 3: ready to anoint him. It's all adjustment and it's rookie pitching.
Speaker 2: So the top fifty is not.
Speaker 1: Fifty I think is right in that lane, and I
Speaker 1: think it's achievable.
Speaker 3: Okay, I agree, but I also feel like when you
Speaker 3: go and you make it. And I'm not calling out
Speaker 3: Eric or anything. I just did a podcast, so Eric,
Speaker 3: that's all. But when you make a tweet specifically about
Speaker 3: a player and you put a number like it's top
Speaker 3: fifty sp I agree, that's not that big of a deal,
Speaker 3: but you've made it a big deal. You're making it
Speaker 3: this big marker. Hey, guys, he's this type of thing,
Speaker 3: and I think what that does for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: What I would usually see the fervor would be like,
Speaker 3: let me give you a name, drop this guy for
Speaker 3: this guy. Would you do this for this and I
Speaker 3: think you.
Speaker 2: Can give you name.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have Alex Cobb or George Kirby?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would be fine with Cobb had he
Speaker 3: was one of those guys. I think he had the
Speaker 3: MLB's worst to E RA in the first three innings
Speaker 3: of baseball there's been some unluckiness. I would go with Kirby.
Speaker 3: That's fine. What about I think I might go Sandoval.
Speaker 3: I mean, the upside is there with Kirby, but I
Speaker 3: think I might go Sandoval.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just those just kind of names are floating
Speaker 1: around there. The answer, by the way to the trivia
Speaker 1: question bis Arizigiza got it? Uh it is de Strange
Speaker 1: Gordon three hundred and thirty six stolen bases the Strange.
Speaker 3: It's a good question too, by the way, with the ranks,
Speaker 3: I'm doing a rank update on in this league dot
Speaker 3: com for the Patreon and I'm updating my Redraft ranks
Speaker 3: every month, and I have to go back and do
Speaker 3: my next run of pitching, and it's going to be
Speaker 3: going on this in the next day. That's going to
Speaker 3: be an interesting one where I want to place him
Speaker 3: because I think there's some rookie pitch. I think an
Speaker 3: interesting debate could be Kirby versus Max Mayer. And I
Speaker 3: know you could easily say Kirby because he's here, he's
Speaker 3: had some success, but I'm a little bit hurried about
Speaker 3: the hard hit and when and he has got the help.
Speaker 3: But when Mayor comes up, you know, that could be
Speaker 3: question of dominance or even Shane bos that's a better
Speaker 3: one because Bozz is right around Shane Boss.
Speaker 1: I think Shane bozz I would take ahead of him
Speaker 1: right now, and just again I believe more in the race.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Look, the wonder Franco injury is a little concerning right
Speaker 1: now that offense is not that great to begin with.
Speaker 1: He was wander Franco for a couple weeks. Doesn't make
Speaker 1: me warm and fuzzy. But they're gonna have to do something.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad they put him on the eye out
Speaker 1: because he's clearly not right. Give him some time to
Speaker 1: get right.
Speaker 3: And he says he was gonna be good by the way,
Speaker 3: like he says, he's already feeling good and right after
Speaker 3: the stint he should be right back up. So that's
Speaker 3: a possibly.
Speaker 1: He'll be fine. He'll be fine, Everything's to be fine.
Speaker 1: Joe's tough.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: We haven't done this in a while, but there was
Speaker 1: a moment last night. Jose quass Who what a crazy
Speaker 1: story this is. This is a pitcher for the Royals
Speaker 1: who came in last night pitched a scoreless enning of relief.
Speaker 1: This was a guy who was drafted many years ago
Speaker 1: as a position player, ended up getting converted to a pitcher.
Speaker 1: Things didn't work out. He ends up in the Mexican League.
Speaker 1: He starts pitching and dealing with another sort of the
Speaker 1: side arm delivery that starts working for him. He goes
Speaker 1: to independent league baseball. He ends up getting signed last
Speaker 1: year and ends up getting dropped because of COVID a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Just crazy situation. Right, Finally he
Speaker 1: gets his opportunity. And the best part about this whole
Speaker 1: story is that his brother, his younger brother, wouldn't let
Speaker 1: him give up. The guy was working at FedEx, all right.
Speaker 1: He was working at FedEx delivering packages.
Speaker 2: Then he would come home.
Speaker 1: And he would throw with his brother every single day,
Speaker 1: doing bullpen sessions. And he pitched in the major leagues
Speaker 1: last night. This is a kid from Brooklyn. So again,
Speaker 1: shout out to my people. I am from Brooklyn. We
Speaker 1: are very tough, we are insufferable in many many ways.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely so. This was a great story. If you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, go check it out. And good for
Speaker 1: Jose And that is a nice story. No matter what
Speaker 1: happens now, at least he got there and at least
Speaker 1: he can say he did it. And I think you
Speaker 1: see so many stories of these guys Welsh who have
Speaker 1: all this talent and for one reason another it doesn't
Speaker 1: click or it doesn't click in that organization and then
Speaker 1: they just give up. And the guy just didn't give up.
Speaker 1: And I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this segment brought to you by FedEx.
Speaker 1: That's rights to you by FedEx, new sponsor of the show.
Speaker 2: A lot of people asking about Grayson Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of that going on in the
Speaker 1: chat right now before we go on to the u
Speaker 1: STAT heroes and zeros. Do you have any inside information
Speaker 1: on any Grayson Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: Potentially would say, you know what, I probably would take him.
Speaker 3: It is so hard. The hardest thing I think on
Speaker 3: the planet to do, especially in Redraft, is talk about
Speaker 3: taking a prospect over another guy that is in the
Speaker 3: majors right now, especially at Prospect with similar ish ceiling.
Speaker 3: I do believe Grayson will be up soon, like within
Speaker 3: the next two ish weeks. That's just my guess, and
Speaker 3: he him and Elie Rushman are like this and they
Speaker 3: are a great connection. It's a It would be a
Speaker 3: great way for him to get to the majors. Guys
Speaker 3: that know each other to a t. I would, if
Speaker 3: all things considered, I would want Grayson Rodriguez over George Kirby,
Speaker 3: regardless of what Kirby's doing right now. So if I
Speaker 3: if he had insight that he would be here in
Speaker 3: the next two weeks, I would say yes, I would say.
Speaker 1: Look who's in the chat, Welsh cousin, Donnie's in the chat. Strong,
Speaker 1: my cousin's in that chat.
Speaker 3: Looking that us Brooklyn people always Donny is a made
Speaker 3: man in the chat. So chat treat this, ye, he is.
Speaker 1: A made man in the chat and all over Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and Arizona as well.
Speaker 3: You know, I forgot I got a made man. I
Speaker 3: might have. I might have some work for this made
Speaker 3: man to do, for some recent events of my life.
Speaker 3: I might have some people for him to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some people go visit, make a couple of conversations.
Speaker 3: Hit Jem, Donnie, I might have need you to make
Speaker 3: a couple of visits or two.
Speaker 1: And if you think I'm insufferable, you ain't see nothing
Speaker 1: to him at the rest.
Speaker 2: Of my family.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, forget it. You should see what Christmas
Speaker 1: is like. All right, let's go to the stat.
Speaker 2: Heroes and zeros.
Speaker 1: Adam wayinwright brilliant ten K's Last Night, Seven Innings, No
Speaker 1: Earned Castilla. We talked about him in the ten K's.
Speaker 1: Martine Perez was great, Kirby was great, Blake Snell was
Speaker 1: pretty good. Six innings, six K's to earn. Jordan Montgomery
Speaker 1: had a gem last night against the Angels, four K,
Speaker 1: seven innings, strong, one earned running. Frankie Montass give up
Speaker 1: seven hits over seven innings, five k's, two earned. Lejandro
Speaker 1: Kirk was three for four with two home runs. My
Speaker 1: boy Matt Oles at four for five. Christian Walker thirteen
Speaker 1: home runs.
Speaker 2: That snuck up on me. I heard that last night
Speaker 2: when I was watching that game.
Speaker 1: He's got that many. It wasn't that funny.
Speaker 3: Ray Hard hit. I mean he I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's some guys to sneak up on you anyway.
Speaker 3: Well I should have gone and looked too, because I
Speaker 3: don't know how many twelve homer guys are not hitting
Speaker 3: two hundred in baseball right now. That obviously improved last
Speaker 3: night where he went three for four, but he got
Speaker 3: on base. Dude smacks and crushes the body. He's done
Speaker 3: this for a long time. You just got to be
Speaker 3: more consistent. But think about what he could do if
Speaker 3: he was hitting, you know, two fifty. He's hitting up
Speaker 3: ninety eight he was, and he's crushing all those homers.
Speaker 3: So he's definitely one of those underrated guys.
Speaker 1: Speaking underrated. Andrew Vaughn four for five, another home run.
Speaker 1: He's been underrated too.
Speaker 3: You know the watch live.
Speaker 1: I watched this hommer and live, But how much did
Speaker 1: you and I talk about Andrew Vaughn? And then he
Speaker 1: had like kind of an unceremonious beginning to his career,
Speaker 1: and now nobody cares about him.
Speaker 2: I care. He's doing great. Jonathan Scope two.
Speaker 1: For three with a dinger, Jose Travino hit a home run,
Speaker 1: Wilson Contreros two for four with a bomb as well,
Speaker 1: Max Kepler a good night to play three for four
Speaker 1: with three ribies, and Markana four for five. He's been
Speaker 1: a great pickup for the Met's all right, here's the stat.
Speaker 1: Zero is Patrick Corbin boy seven earned runs, twelve hits.
Speaker 1: It's over, it's done.
Speaker 3: We picked up his eighth loss of the season. Think
Speaker 3: about that for a minute. I don't think. I don't believe.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a eight win pitcher so far
Speaker 3: this season. He is one an eight well give given
Speaker 3: earned all eight of them. When he starts, you're gonna
Speaker 3: get a decision. He's not indecisive. You'll get a decision
Speaker 3: for Patrick Corbin. Just almost ninety percent of it tells
Speaker 3: us it's gonna be a loss. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: By the way, Wonkeye Penguin, I feel you're paying She said,
Speaker 1: I had Von everywhere last year and then figure Tony
Speaker 1: Lewuss was never gonna let him play me too, and
Speaker 1: I had no shares this year, and I pissed off
Speaker 1: about it. So yeah, pretty frustrating stuff there. Noah Cindergard
Speaker 1: also frustrating came back to New York City, not to
Speaker 1: the Mets Stadium yet but to the Yankees and five
Speaker 1: earned runs, no strikeouts. So he continues to be all
Speaker 1: over the place. Gi Leo had a bad start. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about that, Heimer Candelario.
Speaker 2: How about this one?
Speaker 1: Oh for seven wa wow, three strikeouts, Trevor Story, oh
Speaker 1: for four with three strikeouts. If only there was somebody
Speaker 1: for the last week telling you it can't get any
Speaker 1: better than this. If you could sell Trevor Story for
Speaker 1: an overpay, go do it, because here comes, I mean
Speaker 1: here comes coming around again. This is what happens, is
Speaker 1: what he does.
Speaker 3: He's tough too, because like he hit I think it
Speaker 3: was two twenty four if I remember quickly in April
Speaker 3: and we were like, you know, send him out, get him,
Speaker 3: pitchforks and fire this month or in May? Is now
Speaker 3: it to June? I forget In May the guy had
Speaker 3: nine ten homers. Incredible. We're like, oh my god, he's back.
Speaker 3: He had a worse batting average in May than he
Speaker 3: did in April.
Speaker 2: It was worse, dude.
Speaker 1: I keep telling everybody the strikeout rates the same. What
Speaker 1: happens when he stopped sitting home runs and stealing bases
Speaker 1: because you can't steal first.
Speaker 2: His OBP was under three hundred.
Speaker 3: Biggest cell of all time, biggest, maybe the biggest fantasy
Speaker 3: cell of the season.
Speaker 2: I kept every week.
Speaker 1: I did a video on here, on this very channel,
Speaker 1: sell Trevor's Story's basically the title of the video right here.
Speaker 2: Subscribe to the channel.
Speaker 1: Adlie Rutchman over four or three ks. JD Martinez over
Speaker 1: three with three g or show after a great night
Speaker 1: went the other way over four to three ks.
Speaker 2: Vlad euro Junior over five to one k.
Speaker 1: I did a video about him yesterday, just came out
Speaker 1: this morning. Look, I think this is your window in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: especially to buy Vladdie. Gladdy's gonna have a great career.
Speaker 1: And I think anybody right now is a little frustrated,
Speaker 1: and you don't usually get a window on this kind
Speaker 1: of player at all.
Speaker 2: I think this is.
Speaker 1: Your Dynasty window to buy Vladdie.
Speaker 2: What do you think? Welsh?
Speaker 3: Thousand percent?
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm never an out on flat guy like in his
Speaker 3: rookie year, Everyone's like, this guy can't get the ball
Speaker 3: up in the air. What is going to happen here?
Speaker 4: Da da da da da.
Speaker 3: Nope, I'm always by and I'm always going to be
Speaker 3: I'll get right back in and actually uh. On the
Speaker 3: I Tail Baseball podcast coming up for tomorrow, we are
Speaker 3: going to debate Vlad in redraft versus There's a couple
Speaker 3: other popular first basemen that have been debated in there.
Speaker 3: And you know that question. I think I actually might
Speaker 3: have been cross or somebody had posed the question that
Speaker 3: that is the one.
Speaker 1: I think about Alonso or Vlad. I guess, well, let's
Speaker 1: let's say Dynasty, who would you rather have?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that is the question. That is the exact
Speaker 3: debate we're gonna do. And we're going to put a
Speaker 3: poll out there because if in that whole, like if
Speaker 3: you were to draft, now, who would you take in Dynasty?
Speaker 3: I'll still take Vlad. I'm not going to take Pete
Speaker 3: Alonzo over them in redraft. You know, I think there's
Speaker 3: there's a there's definite possibility that you could do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't we get the halfway point. We'll
Speaker 1: redraft the first round here on the show, We'll do that.
Speaker 3: That's a fun I just don't know what would you
Speaker 3: take Alonso just hands down over Flat rest of season redraft.
Speaker 1: I still think Vlad is the better overall hitter, but
Speaker 1: it's really tough because Alonso is getting it done right now.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the hot look in redraft. In redraft,
Speaker 1: I could see where maybe Ladd has a down year
Speaker 1: in dynasty, I still want Flat in redraft. I understand
Speaker 1: wanting to hold tight with Alonso because it's working, So
Speaker 1: why why muck with something that's.
Speaker 3: Working and also is fine by me? And why move
Speaker 3: a crazy performing player that's maybe two rounds less than
Speaker 3: this other guy who's underperforming like that. It's not a
Speaker 3: trade you can make, it's not necessarily applicable, but it
Speaker 3: is fun to ask the question, like who would you
Speaker 3: rather have the rest of this sek.
Speaker 1: Right, all right, there's the leaderboard to Bloom to Bloom
Speaker 1: to Bloom, it's the blum I like to call him
Speaker 1: to Blue Looms. I thought that was Jeff Jeff de Blum. Yes,
Speaker 1: you see the home run. The call that I make
Speaker 1: goes upward.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 1: So the Niking of the North has eighteens, Bill I
Speaker 1: have after last night, I have twelve.
Speaker 3: I believe, Holy Cow, I don't know where I'm at.
Speaker 3: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you're at.
Speaker 1: But I am at twelve and I am getting very
Speaker 1: dangerously close. Mike Mayor has fourteen. All I want to
Speaker 1: do in life is get ahead of Mike Mayor on
Speaker 1: that board first. At my only does he have in
Speaker 1: my entire life, He's got fourteen. I've got twelve. I
Speaker 1: can get two tonight from my guy.
Speaker 2: We're tied. Let's go all.
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Speaker 2: See it's a bit.
Speaker 1: That's what I do every single day. I put the
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a great bit, it's a great.
Speaker 2: But it's fun. I mean, you know, I'm the king.
Speaker 1: I'm the King of insufferableness. That's what I am.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I saw bet mgm one and a half total bases
Speaker 1: minus one twenty on Jazz Chisholm in Colorado tonight.
Speaker 2: I'll take that every day of the week.
Speaker 1: I liked against the Phillies struggling, but this is I
Speaker 1: think a trap one the numbers eight and a half.
Speaker 1: You want to go the under on this one, Welsh
Speaker 1: or the over at eight and a half with the Phillies.
Speaker 1: I know the Phillies have been struggling. I think I
Speaker 1: feel like this one's a trap. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like the under is the way to go tonight.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know when actually we were just talking about Rodon
Speaker 3: the other day. Redon is a crazy home split or
Speaker 3: split a home away split guy right now where he
Speaker 3: is absolutely dominant, like a two two era at home,
Speaker 3: but he's like four and a half or higher on
Speaker 3: the road. So I look at this and I go, eh,
Speaker 3: I would take the under. I'm not sure I make
Speaker 3: this bet. The understrikeout ones are tough. But if it is,
Speaker 3: is it really at eight and a half? Where is
Speaker 3: it at eight and a half? Is that? M?
Speaker 2: Jim at MGM.
Speaker 3: If I'm feeling loose and I'm wanting to make some bet,
Speaker 3: you know, because sometimes, you know, sometimes you're making bets
Speaker 3: and you're like, all right, we gotta get like we
Speaker 3: got a hammer down here, and sometimes feel a little
Speaker 3: bit loose and you like them. I actually do like
Speaker 3: this one eight and a half. I would take the
Speaker 3: under because away is not great for him and this
Speaker 3: is in Philly.
Speaker 1: All right, we're running along today, so let's hammer these out.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge one and a half two A plus one
Speaker 1: twelve at MGM. Also Kyle Wright five and a half
Speaker 1: k's against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I like the over on
Speaker 1: that it's minus one fifty two. It's a lot of juice,
Speaker 1: but I don't care. Well, what were the props that
Speaker 1: you had your eye on real quick before we go
Speaker 1: to DFS.
Speaker 3: And theirs was under? By the way, I want to
Speaker 3: point out that one minus one fifty two is at
Speaker 3: use on the underd I're going to get over. Nope,
Speaker 3: I probably go over. The two I like the most
Speaker 3: is Robbie Ray strikeouts six and a half Baltimore and
Speaker 3: Copex strikeouts four and a half is against Blue Jays, though,
Speaker 3: But I don't necessarily always say to do this, but
Speaker 3: I put those two together in a little two strikeout parlay.
Speaker 3: Those are my two favorites. I think there's actually a
Speaker 3: lot of good ones. I also kind of like Jeffrey
Speaker 3: Springs and you Darvish both at four and a half.
Speaker 3: If I were, you know, wanting to maybe put a
Speaker 3: little four team or together, you can bet solo Juice
Speaker 3: is a little bit weird all over, but Robbie Ray
Speaker 3: is the one. I think I might also solo bet.
Speaker 3: I think it's the Juices round one thirty right now.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Robbie Ray on DK nine and a half,
Speaker 1: K for him, but I'm all Nesser Cortez tonight ten
Speaker 1: point seven, pay for it, Just pay for it.
Speaker 2: He's been so good to reach.
Speaker 1: Schooble at ten point two is the pivot if you
Speaker 1: want to have one lineup with Cortes and one with
Speaker 1: somebody else, just in case, John Gray's just six point
Speaker 1: four tonight. Again, it's a six point four, so go
Speaker 1: get Cortes, go down to Gray Hope for the best,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully you can get a w there on FanDuel.
Speaker 2: Keep it simple, go right for Cortes a ten point eight.
Speaker 2: Same thing.
Speaker 1: If you want to differentiate in the tournament, go with
Speaker 1: Schooble a ten point five. If Cortes loses Tonight has
Speaker 1: a bad start, you have schoobl in the same lineup
Speaker 1: that goes off all of a sudden, you're in good standing.
Speaker 1: Like the Yankees. My favorite stack of the night. There
Speaker 1: really is a lot of value tonight on the DFS
Speaker 1: names in terms of guys in the lineup, So just
Speaker 1: get that picture right. For me today, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Raphael Devers for my home run. Call Welsh, who are
Speaker 1: you going with tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, I told you I just got cherry picked. I
Speaker 3: made it before anybody else but Mike Marrige, you did
Speaker 3: care and he just put it on the board. I
Speaker 3: got Elson Cruz playing the true BVP. This is like
Speaker 3: that Jonathan Scope one from a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: You look, there's one player that's dominant versus a picture.
Speaker 3: It's Nelson Cruz Tonight on Carrasco. That's who I picked
Speaker 3: and surprise, surprise, that's who Mike also picks, so guess
Speaker 3: I won't be but I'm not looking to jump him.
Speaker 3: I doesn't need to get some homers.
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