Speaker 1: On heav he low, friends, and welcome into Leading Off.
Speaker 1: I am the Welsh that is Bubba, and congratulations for
Speaker 1: still being here. Championship week, final two run week in
Speaker 1: head to head or the absolute final stretch in your rotos.
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Speaker 1: are hanging out with us on a weekly basis.
Speaker 2: Excited to be here.
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Speaker 2: Bubba. It was a big weekend. There's only a.
Speaker 1: Little bit left. What is the state of the state
Speaker 1: in the Bubba world of baseball.
Speaker 3: It's good. It's a grind. I have a lot of
Speaker 3: teams that are either in like the top three in
Speaker 3: a lot of leagues, and there's room to make it. It's
Speaker 3: been a fluctuation over the last few weeks. So every
Speaker 3: night I have my tradition of checking standings, and it's
Speaker 3: just like, okay, we moved up, Oh we moved down
Speaker 3: at half a point. Like, this is the world of Roto.
Speaker 3: I know you're a head to head guy. This is
Speaker 3: the the world I live in, and I'm so close
Speaker 3: I can taste a huge year. I also realized that
Speaker 3: just utter sadness is two weeks away. Also, if it
Speaker 3: goes the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it really is. I actually I enjoy Roto
Speaker 1: more than I have ever before. My thing has always
Speaker 1: been the people that scream. Roto is the only way
Speaker 1: to play, because then you're a cry I think you're
Speaker 1: a crybaby because it's like a cry baby affectionately. However,
Speaker 1: you want to play fantasy. I'm not the gatekeeper of fantasy.
Speaker 1: I never will be yes, and I'm not yeah, thank god.
Speaker 1: But I'm also never going to just tell people how
Speaker 1: you have to do things. That's the difference. Everybody else
Speaker 1: will tell you how things have to be. But I
Speaker 1: do think in the state of like.
Speaker 4: Well, Rono is superior because at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: it is accumulation without a lot of fluctuation of the
Speaker 4: capacity of the things that are gonna happen in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: and that's fine.
Speaker 2: That's fine if you like to play like that.
Speaker 1: I have always liked to play baseball similar to real
Speaker 1: baseball being played with playoffs up. But I understand the
Speaker 1: heartbreak of being great the whole year, having one bad
Speaker 1: week and losing, and people wanting a variance of all
Speaker 1: that work to pay off in rodo. But when it's
Speaker 1: the people that tell me that roto is the only
Speaker 1: way to play, then I'm like, oh, I understand you
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You're a cry baby because you
Speaker 1: lost one time and you can't handle it.
Speaker 2: I like all of them. I like to play.
Speaker 1: I don't love points. I'm not the biggest points person,
Speaker 1: but I still play in points leagues. I play rode
Speaker 1: head to head. I can do it all because I
Speaker 1: like it all, because I love fantasy baseball.
Speaker 3: And that's the beauty of where the formats are going
Speaker 3: these days is there's a little bit for everybody. You
Speaker 3: can play best Ball, you can play DFS, you can
Speaker 3: play Roto, you can play head to head. There's whatever
Speaker 3: you're app It's a going to buffet. What do you
Speaker 3: want to eat today? Knock yourself out. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: And like you said earlier, it's one thing I learned
Speaker 3: a long time ago when I met you and Bogman,
Speaker 3: and it's one thing that always sticks in my head
Speaker 3: is remember, in the end, this is supposed to be fun.
Speaker 3: So do whatever you do to have fun. Don't listen
Speaker 3: to some um dumb over there that claims there they
Speaker 3: know everything. Do what you want to do to have fun.
Speaker 3: And that's what we're here talking to you guys for
Speaker 3: the final two because baseball is fun.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be fun, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: make it not fun. And that's something you know. Joe Pisapia,
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough. I didn't get to be part
Speaker 1: of the creation of this show, but I have gotten
Speaker 1: to be a part now I think of more of
Speaker 1: the majority of the show. Now this is coming to
Speaker 1: an end of my two years of being on this show,
Speaker 1: and this show I think has only been alive for
Speaker 1: three so I have been on more than it has
Speaker 1: not been.
Speaker 2: But something I've always been. It's big for me.
Speaker 1: It's not just the fun, but also being entertaining and
Speaker 1: kind of you know, pushing the buttons and bringing a
Speaker 1: quality product of not just the information, but you know,
Speaker 1: the fun and the jokes and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: that's what the show has kind of been built around.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people lose that fun at all
Speaker 1: different times and take it very seriously.
Speaker 2: It is serious as.
Speaker 1: When there's a lot of money on the line. We
Speaker 1: understand that, but you know, try to have fun, find
Speaker 1: ways to have fun. I'm always trying to experiment with
Speaker 1: different ways in baseball to do some of that. And
Speaker 1: it's good to see some good vibes in the chat
Speaker 1: whips that it feels good to be able to tune
Speaker 1: into leading off this late into the season. Let's go
Speaker 1: win a championship. Yeah, I am right. I got a
Speaker 1: question here who we had Mike who said I'm in
Speaker 1: the championship my first year playing, which is pretty pretty.
Speaker 3: Song down from Buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, never going to recoup that or anything like that,
Speaker 1: just letting you know. And then I thought there was
Speaker 1: one more in here that I wanted to highlight. But
Speaker 1: either way, it's just good to have all you guys here.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be answering some of your questions. We're
Speaker 1: going to get into all the news and notes, the
Speaker 1: stuff and the things. Let's start talking about it. Let's
Speaker 1: get into all of it.
Speaker 2: By the way, I've had a better year.
Speaker 1: Best balling than anything else, which is strange because I'm
Speaker 1: not a best ball person per se like I do
Speaker 1: like thirty or forty leagues or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: I got a really high hit rate this year in
Speaker 1: best ball, so I might unfortunately, as somebody who plays
Speaker 1: and has their first year winning a championship and like
Speaker 1: what I got to play in six of them, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna like triple my best balls.
Speaker 3: And you don't have that personality we else. I've never
Speaker 3: seen you do anything like that.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not manic or crazy or anything like that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some of the stuff and things.
Speaker 1: Wan Soto had a pair of homers drove in six
Speaker 1: runs on Sunday as the Padres beat the Ace ten
Speaker 1: to one and one. Soto making a little strong.
Speaker 2: Push towards this back half of the year where Tatis.
Speaker 1: Is kind of leveled and many Machado has tumbled, one
Speaker 1: Soto kind of keeps it going. What do you think
Speaker 1: one SODA's value is going to look like next year?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting for one to see where he
Speaker 3: lands next year, because there's still talks that they might
Speaker 3: move him and do different things there. But if he's
Speaker 3: with the Padres in this lineup, he's still back into
Speaker 3: the first round. Guy. You're going to get the all
Speaker 3: the narratives that he doesn't steal bases, Okay, whatever, But
Speaker 3: when he's elite, he's still one of the most elite
Speaker 3: hitters in baseball. There's no denying that. We're seeing glimpses
Speaker 3: of it now. I think he's still worthy of a
Speaker 3: back of the first yund early second round.
Speaker 2: Pick one Soto or Mike Trout next year.
Speaker 3: Oh so I love Trout and it's the old saying,
Speaker 3: well when healthy Trout's the b Yeah, he's never healthy anymore.
Speaker 3: Like you just can't count on.
Speaker 1: It one Soda or Vladimir Guerrero Junior one, So God, can.
Speaker 2: I get you a one Soto or Ellie Da La Cruz.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go one, So.
Speaker 1: I know you gotta say it. This is how you
Speaker 1: talk about taking someone over.
Speaker 3: Ellie're like, yeah, I don't think that value in average,
Speaker 3: don't if it's just not going to happen anytime.
Speaker 2: I mean, the stolen bases are unreal in the I'll.
Speaker 3: Get those somewhere else. Just the way I draft, I guess,
Speaker 3: just the way it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I mean one. So it's a good spot
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 3: He's a great hitter. He has had a horrible year
Speaker 3: and it starts and it just people started papooing him everywhere,
Speaker 3: and people forget he's also super young, like he's got
Speaker 3: he stills his best years ahead of him. That's crazy
Speaker 3: to think about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jazz chis and we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: him last week, hit a Grand Slam second straight game,
Speaker 1: also walk three times. On Sunday, Marlins had a big
Speaker 1: win over the Braves, and Jazz just kind of pushing
Speaker 1: that narrative where we had mentioned second base is so
Speaker 1: much deeper and it's going to be so much deeper
Speaker 1: and this is a really positive turn for someone that
Speaker 1: has been oft injured that he's going to have like
Speaker 1: a nice little jolt.
Speaker 2: At the end. He's almost at a think about this.
Speaker 1: I just want to point this out, and this is
Speaker 1: why I fell into him at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: and it's been wrong, but like, think of the time
Speaker 1: that he's missed, he's almost got a twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: He's almost a twenty twenty season under him, and he's
Speaker 1: been on the IL like six times or something like that,
Speaker 1: twelve time, I don't know. No, he's been on the
Speaker 1: al a bunch and missed a bunch of times, and
Speaker 1: he's almost got a twenty two.
Speaker 2: I think he's two.
Speaker 1: Stolen bases away home. He's two in one direction, two home.
Speaker 1: I think it might be two homers away from a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, which is relatively absurd. So good on Jazz.
Speaker 1: A couple pitching performances, one not so good, one really good.
Speaker 1: Whole Reagans pitched six plus innings but allowed five runs
Speaker 1: on Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was a no decision.
Speaker 1: He did strikeout seven. He ended up walking too and looking,
Speaker 1: I mean, this seemed like it was obviously a rougher matchup.
Speaker 1: He had velo upticks that's still been consistent. His average
Speaker 1: is around ninety six and a half. He was up
Speaker 1: ninety seven. He touched just around one hundred. His usage
Speaker 1: looked about the same. The fastball ended up getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot of it thirty two percent swing and with rate.
Speaker 2: But the curveball check this out.
Speaker 1: Curveball had a forty seven percent, CSW fifty six percent
Speaker 1: swing and with but he just didn't have it. He
Speaker 1: just didn't have it in this game and got beat
Speaker 1: around a little bit.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: This actually might be not the worst thing on the
Speaker 1: planet if you're thinking of next year value in kind
Speaker 1: of bringing that down a little bit. But no worries
Speaker 1: about Reagans if you have, you know, only this week
Speaker 1: to go in one more start, right.
Speaker 3: That's a question I added for you. I'm not worried.
Speaker 3: We said this going into it, that you know, he's
Speaker 3: had really nice matchups, he's flourished. You should. The tough
Speaker 3: ones are coming. He's at Houston this week. That's tough.
Speaker 3: And I was setting some lineups before the show, and
Speaker 3: if I have certain other options this time, you really don't,
Speaker 3: is that don't? So that's why I'm pitching Reagan's probably
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the time, But there is ten percent
Speaker 3: of me that is if looking at other options, if possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm going to attempt to. But
Speaker 1: in like points leagues, I think it's all good. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you're in like uh, if.
Speaker 3: It's a roto and you're worried about like ratios, and
Speaker 3: it's there otherwise because strikeouts will still be there no
Speaker 3: matter what. I think. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he had seven in this past.
Speaker 3: I figure he'll still get the strikeouts. Just a matter
Speaker 3: of can he keep like three runs or less. Because
Speaker 3: the Astros are just on fire. They're hitting everything right now.
Speaker 1: I think what's see the tough part is if you're
Speaker 1: in a weekly lineup thing. If you're in a weekly
Speaker 1: setup and you got to make the decision, I'm probably
Speaker 1: putting him out there.
Speaker 3: Well he's in mind, he's in mine right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I head to head format with daily transactions,
Speaker 1: like you kind of you kind of get it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you can kind of figure it out, see where you're at.
Speaker 1: If your ratios are kind of just go for it
Speaker 1: with the strikeouts. If they're really tight, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to. Like Bubba is saying, Bubba brought up this
Speaker 1: name and he was dominant. I actually picked him up
Speaker 1: in a couple of leagues in my sixteen team league
Speaker 1: because he was available. But Sawyer Gibson long was insane.
Speaker 1: Had a no decision against the Angels. Eleven strikeouts over
Speaker 1: five innings, twenty three swinging whiffs on eighty two pitches,
Speaker 1: ten on his change up and nine on the slider.
Speaker 1: He had a forty five percent CSW.
Speaker 3: Pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean that that change up ratio is very similar
Speaker 1: to like what we saw with Jordan Wicks early on.
Speaker 1: You have a devastating slider change up combo with obviously
Speaker 1: teams that are not locked into you know how to
Speaker 1: hit around him. This was an insane performance. So the
Speaker 1: question becomes, what trust do you have this week?
Speaker 3: And so I mean you mean as he faces the
Speaker 3: Oakland Athletics in Pakland. I picked him up everywhere I
Speaker 3: could this past week. I couldn't get it, and I'm
Speaker 3: starting him with confidence this week.
Speaker 1: So your Gibson Long or Cole Reagans.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have Sawyer Gibson Long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I think so too. I picked him up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we give a shout out. You mentioned it on
Speaker 1: the show special.
Speaker 3: So he was all over Reagans and I was all
Speaker 3: over Gibson like it's it's just there's a reason certain
Speaker 3: people are pitching gurus.
Speaker 1: Well, we got to ask him that question too, like
Speaker 1: Cole Reagan's or Sawyer Gibs, I mean Gibson Long's here's
Speaker 1: here's the only negative.
Speaker 3: Tweet HI right now, and to begin an answer, here's the.
Speaker 1: Only negative on this is that we should DM.
Speaker 2: I should.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: You're likely to get a quicker answer. My only thing
Speaker 1: would be Sawyer Gibson Long's ability to get a win,
Speaker 1: even though it's against a great matchup, might be a
Speaker 1: tiny bit less than what Reagans is because you know
Speaker 1: Reagans can go five or six. We just I don't
Speaker 1: know if Sawyer Gibson Long is going to be able to.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind if.
Speaker 2: You care about that.
Speaker 1: One thing I said last week that I still think
Speaker 1: holds here. You should really not be crazy afraid of
Speaker 1: ratio based pictures.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: I know you want your wins and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to take that away from anybody,
Speaker 1: but if you can get a guy that is dominant
Speaker 1: for four innings, they can help you across the board.
Speaker 2: You can get big strikeouts.
Speaker 1: You're also seeing some of these guys that were starters
Speaker 1: that are moved down a little bit into shorter roles.
Speaker 1: They're unleashing kind of bigger stuff and they might be
Speaker 1: more dominant. Where a guy goes only four, he can
Speaker 1: punch out eight, where if he stretched out to six
Speaker 1: he might bring his stuff back down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm just not afraid of these guys. And obviously, Sir
Speaker 1: Gibson Long, it's kind of indifferent anyways, because he's got
Speaker 1: like the best matchup you could possibly have, So he's
Speaker 1: probably going to be the number one pick up streaming
Speaker 1: pitcher and.
Speaker 3: Quick answer from mister Pollock via text message Here, he
Speaker 3: says Cole Reagan's Gibson has the shag rug. It must
Speaker 3: be a pictureless term.
Speaker 2: I'm not are what the hell is?
Speaker 3: What does that happen? Yeah, I don't know, but he's
Speaker 3: got Maybe it's because it's only a couple starts. He
Speaker 3: wants to see more. I don't know, but he's going
Speaker 3: with He still s hays. Reagan's over Gibson Long. All right,
Speaker 3: I don't know how is alright. I'm gonna like, I'll
Speaker 3: message again. I yeah, I was about to.
Speaker 1: Say, I'm like, I'm gonna d m him. I'm dming
Speaker 1: him right now. Hold on, this is live on this show.
Speaker 1: I'm dming him.
Speaker 2: What in the hell is the shag rug?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: I just text Nick Pollocks so we'll see what we
Speaker 1: get here. This is h This is elitism in fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: We can text the greats like Nick Pollock and we
Speaker 1: can get hopefully instants.
Speaker 3: I say, put in our time in for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly. Also like doing stuff with these guys
Speaker 1: and everything like that, so you can get his number two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Hey if he here's a response, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah he gets Maden. We don't know the trust me.
Speaker 2: You know what he did?
Speaker 3: He on air two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Did you just get what I got?
Speaker 1: As a response? He sent me the I don't want
Speaker 1: to careful about my phone. He sent me a link
Speaker 1: to the picture.
Speaker 3: I almost I almost did that just for fun. I'll
Speaker 3: look it up.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, show here, I'll Nick Poli. He bossed me.
Speaker 2: He bossed me.
Speaker 1: He gave me a link to something he did a
Speaker 1: Jake Seeley. Check the link instead of giving me the
Speaker 1: damn answer. God, dang it. Poll all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: answer your questions. I forgot to mention that if I didn't,
Speaker 1: we're gonna answer a few of your questions here in
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 3: I did Curious two weeks of the season here, folks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it is.
Speaker 1: We also do have a where in the world are
Speaker 1: Welsh and Corbin Cara, which I'm gonna do here in
Speaker 1: just a minute, but I do want to quickly roll through,
Speaker 1: uh the hitter grid for the week, and then a
Speaker 1: few pictures for today and for Tuesday, just to kind
Speaker 1: of like really get you guys rocking here.
Speaker 2: So the hitter grid.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Pros has the hitter matchup grid, which tells you
Speaker 1: about how many you know, games teams are playing, the
Speaker 1: pictures they are going against. Here were the top five
Speaker 1: this week, bub If anybody comes to mind as a
Speaker 1: player you might want to pick up because of this,
Speaker 1: let me know, but the top five number one, the
Speaker 1: A's number two, the Rangers number three, the Orioles number four,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox number five, the Mariners best matchups versus
Speaker 1: how many games and what pitchers are going against A's,
Speaker 1: you immediately kind of jump out to think of the
Speaker 1: guys like Seth Brown, Rangers, Robbie Grossman who we mentioned
Speaker 1: who had been hitting three.
Speaker 2: Those are a couple of those players.
Speaker 1: If you want to end up taking a look at
Speaker 1: anybody else, jump out of the as far as like
Speaker 1: the top five on the hitter grid.
Speaker 3: You know, Ryan noticed playing well. Also, Rangers getting Josh
Speaker 3: youngback on Monday is a big one. To keep all
Speaker 3: eyes on that one. Otherwise, the Red Sox, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about some One of these players later saidayro Fiela has
Speaker 3: been leading off of just torching baseballs right now, so
Speaker 3: he was actually a focus of mine this past week.
Speaker 3: And then Willia or Brady they faced five rieties this week.
Speaker 3: He should play a ton as well. So those are
Speaker 3: two guys that are widely available on labor wires.
Speaker 1: Oliver on the pitching side, throw out a cup pictures
Speaker 1: and can get your take on it. This one actually
Speaker 1: thought was really interesting if you guys are doing pickups
Speaker 1: here on Monday pending when you're listening, if you're on
Speaker 1: the live stream, live stream always can pay off. Here
Speaker 1: you have Brian Wu going up against Oakland and JP
Speaker 1: Sears going up against Seattle. They're facing each other. If
Speaker 1: you had to pick one to stream, which one would
Speaker 1: you want to go on?
Speaker 3: Which one between the two, that's a time I'm going
Speaker 3: Brian Wu.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going Brian Wu as well. But Sears
Speaker 1: has had some performances to others. Well, well, i'll tell
Speaker 1: you the King Edward Cabrera today versus the Mets yay
Speaker 1: or nay, yay, strikeouts, yay ratios.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm rostering, but I'm also a weekly these two starts,
Speaker 3: so that made it easy for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, Clevenger got it, still be the king if he
Speaker 1: is available out there. We've talked about him so much.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure he is available for anybody. But
Speaker 1: Cleve's got Washington. He's like a no doubt. Tomorrow asad
Speaker 1: versus Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Yay or nay. Yeah, that is a big ya for me.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's better, by the way. Kintamata versus since Natty, Yeah,
Speaker 1: your name.
Speaker 3: In great American small park, I'm gonna go Neay.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna still go yay. Drew Rahm versus Milwaukee your.
Speaker 3: Name, oh Man, depends on what you need, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go nay, but I get it. I get it too, Nay.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Ney on that.
Speaker 3: No, thank you.
Speaker 2: Sabo said, what about Glito always Nay.
Speaker 3: Even if he's awesome last week, detail.
Speaker 1: You're gonna put him in your lineup when everything it
Speaker 1: counts on everything week.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: That doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Who he's facing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. I'm not putting g Alito out there. If
Speaker 1: you really don't care about ratios, if you have a
Speaker 1: league where you don't have whip e r A wins, losses,
Speaker 1: innings pitched any if you have innings pitched in strikeouts,
Speaker 1: then I'll.
Speaker 2: Put in the face of the royal.
Speaker 3: It's tempting.
Speaker 1: Actually, you guys, go ahead, you put your your whole
Speaker 1: thing on the docket there. Also on the rookie lookie side,
Speaker 1: A's are calling up Joey Estes. Actually Joey Estes is
Speaker 1: they're calling him up today, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're using I don't think they're using him today. But
Speaker 1: Estes has, you know, traveled around through their minor league system.
Speaker 1: Used to be with Atlanta Double A, Triple A, Triple A.
Speaker 1: He's had seven games played, six started, five two three
Speaker 1: e RA. Hasn't been good in the PCL, he was
Speaker 1: really good in Double A. Might be someone to pay
Speaker 1: attention to if it's a good matchup, but I'm probably
Speaker 1: not doing anything with him.
Speaker 2: Let's go to some listener questions.
Speaker 1: What you guys have been asking, Lee said, playoffs, it's
Speaker 1: the points league. He gave us the points. I can
Speaker 1: swap out one RP for an SP. Would you bench
Speaker 1: either Class A or Trevor May who have seven games,
Speaker 1: for Mata, Kirby or Garrett. I would bench May for Kirby.
Speaker 1: Ye hundred thousand, good jillion percent right easy? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: Kirby versus Oakland.
Speaker 3: You start that one every moment you can and hope
Speaker 3: for the win and the quality you'll for fifteen points plus.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Kirby versus Oakland. I am all about that.
Speaker 1: By the way, Nick I gave Nick crap I tell
Speaker 1: them more on the live show. I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, lol, you sent me a link and you
Speaker 1: didn't even answer. I'm dying doing this live on a show.
Speaker 1: He said, ha, it's a young man's floor. You get
Speaker 1: a shag rug for your first dorm room floor.
Speaker 3: Seeh I know it was something along those lines, okase.
Speaker 3: I looked up the gloss for you on their website.
Speaker 3: There's nothing on there, so I was like, this is garbage.
Speaker 1: Rookies are more volatile, especially after two starts. We don't
Speaker 1: know how bad the floor got. He's like, really, what
Speaker 1: is Nick doing right now? He's got too much. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have any time Reagan's is more established at the point,
Speaker 1: and I believe I said, God, I love you all right,
Speaker 1: that's the Nick Pollock is one of the best in
Speaker 1: the industry. And he also is absolutely the dad jokes
Speaker 1: of the like. I love his puns. It is is
Speaker 1: wholesome and family friendly and the shag rug.
Speaker 2: Example is the best.
Speaker 3: Type thing I knew it. Oh so put God.
Speaker 2: Hold on, I love you.
Speaker 1: See this is what you get at this point of
Speaker 1: the season where we're just live texting fantasy analysts.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's a pretty easy answer. It's a good question.
Speaker 1: But yeah, rock with Kirby get made a hell out
Speaker 1: of there. We had Chris Wheeler versus the Braves.
Speaker 3: Yes, cool, Yeah, especially is out it's even better. But
Speaker 3: wheel like, there's there's a certain caliber called an ace.
Speaker 3: You just roll. That's just how it goes. Everybody else,
Speaker 3: I'm cool with you sitting Wheeler's that dude. If you're
Speaker 3: if your dude, who got you here? Get you out?
Speaker 2: Like it's that's just breaks.
Speaker 3: I've had to tell people at my discord like, well
Speaker 3: so and so I'm like, dude, you've rolled with him
Speaker 3: all season long, don't even start now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, feel good about it same O Championship week, Mountcastle
Speaker 1: or CE Scastle.
Speaker 3: Doncastle's hurt right now, it's the CE that's the only.
Speaker 2: For me as well.
Speaker 1: Because of that, we had bt fouts said made the finals.
Speaker 1: Oh this this was just thatnother one where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: congratulations everybody that made a congratulations. Bt whips picked two
Speaker 1: to start, Morrell versus Pittsburgh and Colorado with six games.
Speaker 2: I love that you did it like this weapon.
Speaker 1: Yes, Outman Detroit, San Francisco seven games, Jordan Walker Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: San Diego seven games. I think you got your answer
Speaker 1: with those last two. When it hits the seven games.
Speaker 1: Morel is so inconsistent with the contact. I mean, Morell
Speaker 1: and Outman might be Spider Man meme to each other,
Speaker 1: but Outman's better and Jordan Walker is just, you know,
Speaker 1: more of a consistent bat in general. And those are
Speaker 1: not horrible matchups for really anybody. The only difference I
Speaker 1: understand the question Colorado being in there does that make.
Speaker 3: In Chicago though? And and there's five varieties from Morell
Speaker 3: this week, so he might sit a couple of those games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So no, I think that's an easy one.
Speaker 1: Who's a better streamer today Cabrera versus the Mets or Clevenger.
Speaker 3: It's Clevey, clev Clevenger, Yes, definitely Clevenger, all right.
Speaker 1: And then finally whips pick up two starting pitchers. Pick
Speaker 1: two starting pitchers to start weekly quality starts. Logo versus
Speaker 1: Colorado Kirby Wu, and the last one, I think you
Speaker 1: missed the person because it's just at Texas. I mean
Speaker 1: Kirby for sure here and then really woo our logo for.
Speaker 3: You, it's Wu. Give me the Oakland matchup all day
Speaker 3: every day. Lugo has been very good, but give me though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna woo it. We're gonna well.
Speaker 1: Ace is gonna Ace too, everybody that is one hundred
Speaker 1: percent all right. I'm gonna give you the hint today
Speaker 1: because we're gonna get to it very shortly.
Speaker 2: Here for where in.
Speaker 1: The world are Welsh and Corbin Carol? Is everybody ready
Speaker 1: the hint today? Sunglasses? The hint today, sunglasses. That's your
Speaker 1: hint on where Corbin and I are. Sunglasses. There you go,
Speaker 1: take a little hint there. Injuries, shut up, Babba, be quiet.
Speaker 1: Injuries show heyo tani done for the year. We all
Speaker 1: have this kind of a little bit of late news
Speaker 1: because this happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Cleared out his locker.
Speaker 1: He was done and he is gone and probably going
Speaker 1: to be an angel again, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The weirdest part was is like it was so cryptic.
Speaker 3: He cleared his locker out, There'll be more news to
Speaker 3: come next day, It's like, hey, he's on the IL,
Speaker 3: done for the season. More news to come. Then there's
Speaker 3: videos of him landing in Japan. More news to come.
Speaker 3: More news never came. So there's something going on, Like
Speaker 3: there is a falling out, which makes sense obviously, but
Speaker 3: something happened that I'd love to know about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think we know what something happened was
Speaker 1: Angel Well did.
Speaker 3: Like show hey finally say you know, f you I've
Speaker 3: had enough. I guess that's what.
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 1: They were like, I don't know how true it was,
Speaker 1: but there's like pictures of him like already in Japan,
Speaker 1: like he.
Speaker 3: Just so I said, like I just said, in an
Speaker 3: airport in Japan, like more news to come. He literally
Speaker 3: he really packed his bag, got on the private jet,
Speaker 3: took off. He's like say, yeah, whatever's left behind, just
Speaker 3: whatever you guys want to do with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I thought.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like when you move out of here your
Speaker 3: dorm in college, you leave a few things straggling. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he hit eighteen years old and he moved out
Speaker 1: immediately getting a big boy now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he instantly moved out.
Speaker 1: Tristan Kass is on the Ale with a shoulder injury
Speaker 1: that is likely going to end his season. Boo Tyler, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is, by the way, end of season, when you
Speaker 1: hit the iel your season.
Speaker 3: I need to put that. But I put it just
Speaker 3: in case because people should know.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I'm glad you did it.
Speaker 1: But I always find this hilarious because this is the
Speaker 1: point of the year where, uh, like you go to
Speaker 1: Rotal World and they'll be like season likely done, and
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, like we all know that the whole
Speaker 1: season is going to be done for any guys.
Speaker 3: There's max thirteen or fourteen games up, the ten dayl
Speaker 3: fit probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Kass is done. Tyler O'Neal was placed on
Speaker 1: with a foot spring. He's likely done. That's no bueno.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Hassan Kim was scratched from Sunday's game with abdominal pain.
Speaker 1: He is day to day, going undergoing some further testing,
Speaker 1: so pay attention to that. For this week, Felix Batista
Speaker 1: threw his first live bullpen and he's potentially lining up
Speaker 1: to return before the season ends, So that could be
Speaker 1: like a quick little shot in the arm for roto
Speaker 1: people that go to the end head to head people,
Speaker 1: He's done. You should be done this week. I just
Speaker 1: want to point out, like, Okay, if you want, maybe
Speaker 1: it's uh, you could do the two week thing into
Speaker 1: the final, but I'm like, you don't do it to
Speaker 1: the end of.
Speaker 3: This Soumes's with the last week where a starter only
Speaker 3: goes one inning because they want to rest him for
Speaker 3: the playoffs. All kinds of goofy stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's even more crushing than the random loss here one
Speaker 3: week when you've dominated all year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so but watch for him and those someone asked
Speaker 1: this earlier. Rangers manager Bruce Bochie told reporters that young
Speaker 1: Josh Young had played three innings in what's going on
Speaker 1: right now is instructs in an instructional league game at
Speaker 1: the complex right across the street from me in Arizona,
Speaker 1: and he had a really good day. And there's rumors
Speaker 1: that he could be back this week, maybe even today,
Speaker 1: So you might get Josh Young back, so be on
Speaker 1: the lookout for that. And then the one we got
Speaker 1: right before the show is Tanner Biby hit the EYEO
Speaker 1: with a hip injury kind of into season. I wonder
Speaker 1: like if it's something we could have pushed through, but
Speaker 1: he had one hundred and fifty innings.
Speaker 3: They probably didn't want him to go too much further. Anyways,
Speaker 3: I guess quick thing. Harrison Baders went on the al
Speaker 3: as we're recording. I don't really care too much about that.
Speaker 3: But if you're in league where you can pick up reds
Speaker 3: all week in Cincinnati, that opens up outfield platoony situations
Speaker 3: that are now out of the way. So something to
Speaker 3: think about for your teams.
Speaker 2: Something to think about.
Speaker 1: Three up and three down. Jake Rodgers two for three,
Speaker 1: two homers.
Speaker 2: This was on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Chas McCormick three for four, two stolen bases. He has
Speaker 1: been such a dude this year.
Speaker 2: Such a great pickup. Two out there.
Speaker 1: Carlos Redon six and two thirds, ten strikeouts. I still
Speaker 1: want no.
Speaker 2: Part of it. Next zero zero shares.
Speaker 1: Frindos on the three down Derek Rodriguez took him two
Speaker 1: innings to give up eight earned runs.
Speaker 2: That's not as easy as you think.
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton four and two thirds, six earned runs, walked
Speaker 1: five for Charlie Morton and your team. Jeremy Pania oh
Speaker 1: for four with four strikeouts. He has been I was
Speaker 1: doing my I'm work, continuously working on my Dynasty stuff.
Speaker 1: I just can't move him further down. I can't move him.
Speaker 3: Down, and he's been so disappointing. Man.
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Speaker 1: Who doesn't enjoy free money to price pick and have
Speaker 1: the best time of your life? Bubba price picking. What
Speaker 1: are you picking today?
Speaker 3: Well, today's National Cheeseburger Day and they're having five dollars
Speaker 3: cheeseburgers in Miami. Something with Jake Berger over one and
Speaker 3: a half hits runs and RBIs that just you know?
Speaker 3: Says it itself for you. Trey Turnow eight and a
Speaker 3: half fantasy points in a great matchup for the Philadelphia
Speaker 3: Phillies was Kyle Wright, then Josie two be over seven
Speaker 3: and a half fantasy points. First the hungover Orioles and
Speaker 3: John means because the Oriols you didn't mention it clinched
Speaker 3: the playoffs by yesterday. And if you want some inspirational videos,
Speaker 3: watch Twitter. Those boys had a great time.
Speaker 2: Dude, What is with ever?
Speaker 1: I just did this bit with my wife last night.
Speaker 2: She told me.
Speaker 1: She was like it was no She was like, it
Speaker 1: was National whatever day. And I was like, when did
Speaker 1: we get to the place where every day is national sum.
Speaker 3: There's multiple there's multiple days each day, Like there's a
Speaker 3: National Bubba Day. I have saves in my phone just
Speaker 3: make fun of you.
Speaker 2: Can I have a National Welsh Day?
Speaker 3: We can call it that if you don't mean.
Speaker 2: Aren't those called like birthdays too?
Speaker 1: Like I mean for people it's like birthdays like mine
Speaker 1: would be April twenty second, but it's my birthday. But
Speaker 1: like it was like National dog Day the other day
Speaker 1: and it was like National.
Speaker 3: Daughter National second simpling of the family day.
Speaker 1: I should start making it up. I'm gonna start making
Speaker 1: up holidays and see if we can get any to.
Speaker 3: Stay next year instead of wearing the world is Carolyn Wells,
Speaker 3: Let's do a whole like what day is today gonna be? Now?
Speaker 2: I bet there's a National travel Day. Someone's gonna tell me.
Speaker 2: Do you know what today is?
Speaker 1: They call it giving Today's National shag rug Day. Thank
Speaker 1: you Ni, National shag rug Days.
Speaker 3: We want to go watch Austin Powers and go see
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, yeah, baby, Heather Graham from a little bit
Speaker 1: more Heather Graham than Elizabeth Kay.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 1: They're both fine. I'm not gonna not gonna say no
Speaker 1: to either. Yeah, that's fine. We're gonna do a poll
Speaker 1: ground my price picks today.
Speaker 2: I'd been that. I didn't mean that.
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger eight and a half on the fantasy score,
Speaker 1: Luisa rise seven and a half, and I will take
Speaker 1: one total base from Paul Goldschmith today. That is what
Speaker 1: is on the price pick.
Speaker 3: So give me that.
Speaker 1: As far as bets bets are tough, we found something
Speaker 1: very interesting and I think this has to do with
Speaker 1: the time of year, but a certain book that Bogman too,
Speaker 1: Bubba and I both like to look at. There's no
Speaker 1: props like they props are usually up the night before.
Speaker 1: There are multiple games without props, and I think they're
Speaker 1: doing this because of the volatility of the market, with
Speaker 1: like pitchers only going three or four. Maybe they're people
Speaker 1: not knowing it, but it's crazy, Like twenty minutes before
Speaker 1: going on here, looking at some books, there are zero
Speaker 1: props for teams, so it is them not wanting to
Speaker 1: get taken advantage of, which kind of stinks that that's
Speaker 1: going on. So it made this a little bit tougher.
Speaker 2: So I play.
Speaker 1: I'm playing a lot of my first fives and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But where are you going to try to
Speaker 1: go to?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys all know I like to play prop bets.
Speaker 3: It's my DFS mentality. But I couldn't today, So we're
Speaker 3: going first five. I got the White Sox first five
Speaker 3: minus one twenty five with like Clevenger and that one
Speaker 3: at least first five minus one twenty five. I love
Speaker 3: Wheeler over Kyle Right any chance I can, and then
Speaker 3: just have some fun. Let's get let's get real wild
Speaker 3: Milwaukee first five minus one point five runs zero point
Speaker 3: five for plus one forty. I love Freddy Praulto over
Speaker 3: Wayne Right that much. I think the brew crew have
Speaker 3: some fun with Wayno.
Speaker 1: All right, my bets for today, I've got Minnesota through
Speaker 1: the first five to be up by a run. Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez on the mountain today minus one fifteen, so they
Speaker 1: got to be up by a run to the first five.
Speaker 1: I've got the Chicago White Sox told you about Clevenger,
Speaker 1: just a straight money line minus won twenty five up
Speaker 1: against the Nationals. And then I'm going with Miami and
Speaker 1: the New York Mets through the all first five bets
Speaker 1: four and a half run over minus won twenty five,
Speaker 1: so we've got to be five runs scored in the
Speaker 1: first five for Miami and the Mets. Couple funny ones
Speaker 1: in here. Apparently there is National Whales Day for Welsh
Speaker 1: that's March first, so that makes sense. This is a
Speaker 1: good one. Richard said, August twenty ninth is National Welsh
Speaker 1: Day because that's the day that Carol got the call.
Speaker 1: That is actually very slick and a very good idea
Speaker 1: for and Jason has a great one.
Speaker 2: But I'm I'm not gonna mention what.
Speaker 3: Japan he went home? Maybe that's today show. Hey went back?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I is late in the season. Now, this
Speaker 1: is a stream only laugh if you guys can see
Speaker 1: the chat on what it is. Oh buddy, oh buddy,
Speaker 1: all right, DFS this is you get to go on
Speaker 1: this What do you got for DFS?
Speaker 3: There, Freddy for Alto eleven point three cavers the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: We love that one. Clevenger seven point six k. We
Speaker 3: mentioned our love for Clevenger all day against Washington and
Speaker 3: then Brian who seven point two caves Oakland stacks, Milwaukee
Speaker 3: Versusno Padres versus. I believe it's gonna be ty Block
Speaker 3: at the moment, Philadelphia versus Kyle Wright and Houston Versjon
Speaker 3: means if you can do Milwaukee Houston combined, I love
Speaker 3: it a lot value. Sedan Raphael outfield shortstop l is
Speaker 3: what three point five cavers Monty and then Mark Conna
Speaker 3: has been on IRI's three point two k against Wayne
Speaker 3: Wright leading off a lot with Yellich on the not
Speaker 3: on the islish day today, So call it three point
Speaker 3: two k could be a nice.
Speaker 2: One, all right?
Speaker 1: Where in the world are Welsh and Corbin Carrol the
Speaker 1: guests or the hint was sunglasses And let's take a
Speaker 1: look at some of the guesses.
Speaker 3: We had.
Speaker 1: Colorado, Colorado, Dion Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado. Also Colorado. So, Bubba,
Speaker 1: do you have a guess what sunglasses means? Where Corman,
Speaker 1: Carroll and I were.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say the University of Colorado in Boulder,
Speaker 3: Colorado at d on Prime Sam.
Speaker 1: So I set you guys up, and not one person
Speaker 1: got it wrong, not one person wrong, because we were
Speaker 1: on the field of Coach Prime. It's the worst hint
Speaker 1: I've ever given. Look at Prime with those sunglasses. He
Speaker 1: promised us a pair. Totally not not real. I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for my pair. I love those sunglasses. We were there
Speaker 1: as Colorado could not cover, but they go three and
Speaker 1: zero and Coach Prime was primed up.
Speaker 2: Look how happy we are on field. We're like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're Buffalo's. Were's so excited, Hey Buffalo guys. Every single
Speaker 2: person got it right. So I stink.
Speaker 1: I this is why I give you guys hard hints.
Speaker 1: This is why I want to give hard hints. I
Speaker 1: actually thought this was kind of slick. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh it, sunglasses, A couple of people will get it.
Speaker 1: Every single person in the chat who guessed got it right.
Speaker 2: Not one person was like the sun or something.
Speaker 3: It was a beach in South Beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it did not work, but there you go.
Speaker 2: That's where Cory.
Speaker 3: People are hip and tune of things that are going on.
Speaker 3: So that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I know you guys are all on
Speaker 1: it too, and I appreciate the continued Welsh association. Jenny
Speaker 1: Butler tweeted they I think they talked to Corbyn Carroler
Speaker 1: and then she's like, why do they not talk about
Speaker 1: his best friend Welsh? And I was in Eno has
Speaker 1: his article out which did not mention me, by the way,
Speaker 1: which is very disappointed. I know, I thought I had
Speaker 1: really good friends, but apparently apparently not good friend day.
Speaker 1: All right, friendos, it is home run call time.
Speaker 2: Let me get back to our screen so we can
Speaker 2: take a look.
Speaker 1: At the home run board, which I'm not on, so
Speaker 1: it is so less important than it's ever been, and
Speaker 1: it is flying away Blue Harvester at sixty homers.
Speaker 2: He has cracked the sixty mark. He or she, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: JJ Tator fifty five, raised ramone fifty three. Those are
Speaker 1: the only fifties. This is the critical week. You gotta
Speaker 1: be within two. I think going into next week to
Speaker 1: try to lessen this gap. Wonky's down at seven. Good
Speaker 1: job of Wonkey. I think I haven't cracked forty five yet. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, life is stupid and everything doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: so I'm not there. Where are you gonna go with
Speaker 1: your home run call today, Bubba?
Speaker 3: I don't love it, but I'm going with Alex Bragman
Speaker 3: against John Means short portion and left in Houston, So
Speaker 3: I think Houston has a big night and Bragman's a
Speaker 3: part of it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with PP d Alonso p d Alonzo
Speaker 1: for the big home runs. I'm trying to get a couple,
Speaker 1: I said Michael. I think I'm at forty three. I
Speaker 1: just want forty five. I want to get to forty five. Well,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to be the number one person in
Speaker 1: the home run calls on Fantasy Pros, but Wonky is
Speaker 1: I have very little time to be able to pass Wonky.
Speaker 1: She just keeps rocking that stuff out and.
Speaker 2: That is it.
Speaker 1: Frindos that is going to do everything for whatever we
Speaker 1: can prep you guys for for the day. For the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. We'll be back on Wednesday doing
Speaker 1: this show live Bubba and I at twelve thirty Eastern.
Speaker 1: I just have to remember what it is Eastern time.
Speaker 1: Bring your questions wearing me and Corb and Carrol. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about streamers and pickups. We'll just get you
Speaker 1: guys prepped, and remember next week is the final week
Speaker 1: of Leading Off for the season, so make sure you're
Speaker 1: hanging out with us. If you're on the podcast, come
Speaker 1: and hang out. In the live stream. You can see
Speaker 1: me absolutely fall over on the floor when Bubba made.
Speaker 2: A enough colored joke.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: They got me a little bit, so you can do
Speaker 1: that and have so much fun. You can find them
Speaker 1: on Twitter at b d Intrick. You can find me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at is at the Welsh You guys have
Speaker 1: a fantastic week and we'll talk to you on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Right here on leading all these friends