Speaker 1: Guess who's back. Let's play ball. Welcome and everybody to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Brus. This is leading off. We're back, baby, welcome home.
Speaker 2: It is me, Joey p Joe Piezapia with me this
Speaker 2: season is my boy, the Welsh and baseball is back
Speaker 2: and so are we and we're excited to be here
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Speaker 1: We're opening ourselves up to a.
Speaker 2: Whole other coast. Now that's right, we're going worldwide. Welsh,
Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be back. The Peanuts and the
Speaker 2: Crackerjacks are back as well. In the YouTube comments, I
Speaker 2: am so excited to see these names. I gotta tell
Speaker 2: you it was get a little emotional before the show.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to be back and Welsh. I'm excited that
Speaker 2: you're here with me all the time as well. What's
Speaker 2: going on on, buddy may.
Speaker 3: I for a minute, Hey yo, what's up everybody? I'm
Speaker 3: very excited to be doing it and I'm glad to
Speaker 3: see everybody hanging out in the comments.
Speaker 4: It should be a it should be a year. It
Speaker 4: should be a very very.
Speaker 3: Fun year, and it'll be cool to have you hanging
Speaker 3: with everybody live every single day, well you every single day,
Speaker 3: me almost every single day.
Speaker 2: Almost every single day. We've got a lovely cast of characters.
Speaker 2: We've got Bogman joining us this year once a week.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have our boy.
Speaker 1: Ryan Warmly, it was gonna be joining us. We have
Speaker 1: Mike Mahyor.
Speaker 2: We actually let Mayor on the show last year, even
Speaker 2: though I protested he's gonna be back on the show again.
Speaker 1: I love you, Mike. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have you, all of you together here
Speaker 2: and all of us talking baseball.
Speaker 1: We're making baseball fun, that's right.
Speaker 2: We're trying to remind everybody it's a fun thing to
Speaker 2: play fantasy baseball, and we're gonna be talking about that.
Speaker 1: We got some big news from the Cleveland Guardians. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to that.
Speaker 2: And today's show is our twenty twenty two Bold Predictions.
Speaker 2: So when we get to that, we'll do our little countdown.
Speaker 2: If you've got some you could drop in there. We're
Speaker 2: gonna do the home run contest again. Last year we
Speaker 2: did that. It was a wild success. So Welsh, Bogmin, Mayor,
Speaker 2: we're all gonna be there. You're gonna be in it
Speaker 2: as well. We'll see if somebody is going to screw
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: So do you have a crown? By the way, can't
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Speaker 4: That's all we're looking for.
Speaker 1: The crown is returned.
Speaker 4: It's just we're at the whole show. We're at the
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Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I promise I will put it on
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Speaker 2: we're gonna be making those bets with you, and you
Speaker 2: don't have to spend a lot. You want to put
Speaker 2: five bucks on something, put five bucks. It's fun. You
Speaker 2: can make some cash, wells should. I just did a
Speaker 2: whole betting pros preview, So if you're trying to make
Speaker 2: some futures wagers, some over under totals, go check that out.
Speaker 2: It was a great show. But today's going to be about,
Speaker 2: obviously the Bold predictions. Before we do Welsh, I want
Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on Cleveland signing Jose Ramirez five year,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty four million dollar extension.
Speaker 1: That's not too shabby.
Speaker 2: It's the richest contract Cleveland has ever given out to
Speaker 2: a player, and it's for twenty nine year old who's
Speaker 2: registered at nine to twelve ops in over twenty seven
Speaker 2: hundred played appearances last year.
Speaker 1: Pretty good season.
Speaker 2: Thirty six diggers, one hundred and five arbi, twenty eight steals,
Speaker 2: one hundred and ten runs. Not too shabby, and he
Speaker 2: played every single game. What are your thoughts on this contract?
Speaker 2: Looks like he's not going anywhere anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it reminded me of what the Diamondbacks just did
Speaker 3: with Tell Marte, because you know, the Guardians team is
Speaker 3: just kind of disassembled, if you will, Like they don't
Speaker 3: really feel like they.
Speaker 4: Know exactly where they're going.
Speaker 3: There's Pseudo's still there with you know, they got Bieber,
Speaker 3: they've got a few pitchers, but you know they're still
Speaker 3: putting out like a deconstructed roster. So then those rumors,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you heard those rumors that happened yesterday.
Speaker 3: Hector Gomez obviously speaking for an agent, there was a
Speaker 3: Padres Jose Ramirez rumor that started getting hot and heavy
Speaker 3: because there were a couple other teams, but Hector Gomez
Speaker 3: tweeted out for the agent that the Padres were interested
Speaker 3: and teams were looking and obviously this was you know,
Speaker 3: more of that kind of contract negotiation type of stuff
Speaker 3: that was going on, and I legit thought that there
Speaker 3: might be something to that. But you know, it's a
Speaker 3: great deal. It's probably great for him to stay there.
Speaker 3: I don't I would have kind of liked him to
Speaker 3: go somewhere else and be out of that spot. But
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some players in the Guardians I
Speaker 3: absolutely love this year. I've got a bold prediction on
Speaker 3: a Guardian in this episode, not the one that you think.
Speaker 3: I mean, Miles Straw near the top of the lineup
Speaker 3: could steal forty plus basis.
Speaker 4: So it's a sneaky it's a sneaky.
Speaker 3: Like old school like Royals, this type of team, like
Speaker 3: they're just gonna have to manufacture runs. But hey, it's
Speaker 3: good to see him all set up, all locked in,
Speaker 3: and like I said, it just reminds me of like
Speaker 3: how the Diamondbacks look weird and look like they need
Speaker 3: to restart. But then they gave Katel Marte like this big,
Speaker 3: massive contract, and then the Guardians did the same thing
Speaker 3: with Juser Ramirez, obviously him being the lynchpin of being
Speaker 3: able to bring anybody in free agency in the coming years,
Speaker 3: because not a lot of people looking to jump over
Speaker 3: to Cleveland in free agency, nor Arizona Bogs.
Speaker 2: Now, look, there's Mike May already chiming in. Rule number
Speaker 2: one of baseball rumors. You can pretty much ignore anything.
Speaker 2: Bob Nightingale says that that is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Or Hector Gomez, that's such a when you see their
Speaker 3: names or JP like, yeah, they're like, oh, they're doing
Speaker 3: a favor for an agent, that's what's happening here.
Speaker 4: They're doing a favor for.
Speaker 1: Some pretty much pretty much. Now, look, all your favorites
Speaker 1: are gonna be back here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do Joe's Tough Guys, We're gonna do the
Speaker 2: stat heroes, and Zero's a home run contest. I want
Speaker 2: to bring something else fun into the show, a couple
Speaker 2: other new things, because we're always trying to innovate here,
Speaker 2: and one of them is can we talk about this
Speaker 2: and it's and it's baseball related. I tweeted this out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this. Joey Vado did
Speaker 2: a TikTok. I did TikTok addressed as Ron Weasley next
Speaker 2: to some girl who's doing a sexy Ron Weasley dance
Speaker 2: and he's doing the same sexy Run Weasley dance. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to process this. If you haven't seen it, go
Speaker 2: over to joe Piece of Pa seventeen on Twitter. I
Speaker 2: tweeted it out. I'm still trying to process it. Wels,
Speaker 2: did you have any feelings about this?
Speaker 4: I had feelings.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they're feelings I'm gonna share live. I mean,
Speaker 3: good for Joey Vado for having an outlet. He's found
Speaker 3: an outlet that he's really comfortable with, and it is
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the one he did before,
Speaker 3: where it was a lady going like, where's all my
Speaker 3: pool boys at? And then Joey's like huh. He gets up,
Speaker 3: he walks over to the corner. He's really far away,
Speaker 3: but he gets button naked in the birthday suit and
Speaker 3: then he goes into the pool.
Speaker 4: I mean, Joey Voda is having the time of his life.
Speaker 3: But I really would love like focus on baseball instead
Speaker 3: of Second Night Harry Potter dances.
Speaker 2: He had a great year last year though, but I mean,
Speaker 2: this has really turned me around on Joey Vodo.
Speaker 1: Also, we're gonna do this day in baseball.
Speaker 2: Which is gonna be fun, and tomorrow is going to
Speaker 2: be first real official. This is kind of like the
Speaker 2: preseason of Leading Off. Yeah, because we know everybody wanted
Speaker 2: the show to come back, so we say let's bring
Speaker 2: it back a day early today. In nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 2: Ron Blueberg became the first DH and now Welsh is
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. We got a DH in both leagues.
Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy seven, the Mariners made their debut as
Speaker 2: an organization. Rick Suckcliffe threw the first pitch at Oriole
Speaker 2: Park at Camden Yards. So some fun little tidbits of
Speaker 2: today in baseball historically, but we want to make some
Speaker 2: new history and I think the new history.
Speaker 1: Is going to be this, which is bold prediction.
Speaker 2: So we're going to a count down here, Welshy, don't
Speaker 2: we start with your number five for twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: And if you've got to make sure you comment in
Speaker 2: the comment section here on YouTube, and you can also
Speaker 2: you know, if you have a good one, maybe I'll
Speaker 2: bring it up here.
Speaker 1: Make sure you like the video too. It's very important
Speaker 1: we need the positive reinforcement.
Speaker 2: So Welsh, give me your number five on your countdown
Speaker 2: of bold predictions for the twenty twenty two Fantasy season.
Speaker 4: H Yeah, And it's funny because I just did.
Speaker 3: I just did a bold prediction show, so I definitely
Speaker 3: went and tried to pick some other ones. And I
Speaker 3: would love to hear what people in the comments have
Speaker 3: to say outside of Chad saying that I'm no Dan Harris.
Speaker 3: I am no Dan Harris, but I'm still a guy.
Speaker 3: I'm still a guy here. Come on, let's say he's
Speaker 3: he's just a man.
Speaker 4: He has that's so lean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I would liked to me last year either the Dan
Speaker 1: Harris is.
Speaker 4: Very skinny and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But one of the things we did on the end
Speaker 3: this League show was we were also curating listener predictions
Speaker 3: and just killing them, trying to kill and slam all
Speaker 3: their bold predictions. So I've got some new ones too
Speaker 3: that I might have done on that show. Number one
Speaker 3: at five, I suppose Bryson Stott will win NL.
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: There's a part of me that was tempted to say,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get any guy that broke camp
Speaker 3: in the NL is and like someone not breaking camp
Speaker 3: was gonna win the Rookie of the Year, which could
Speaker 3: have been a.
Speaker 4: Guy like Max Meyer, maybe even a Nolan Gorman, a.
Speaker 3: Couple of prospects that al is just stacked. But Bryson Stott,
Speaker 3: whom if you go look at team futures like we
Speaker 3: talked about, I believe is like nine to one on
Speaker 3: money sales. Azuki is the favorite. O'Neil Cruz makes a
Speaker 3: ton of sense. But Bryson Stott a completely crazy patient
Speaker 3: hitter who I saw in the AFL, a whole bunch
Speaker 3: broke camp with Alec Bohm. He could play two spots.
Speaker 3: They could play him at second if they wanted, but
Speaker 3: he could play short if d D struggles, I don't
Speaker 3: know what their plan is, or third base. A crazy,
Speaker 3: crazy patient hitter can be explosive on the bat. I
Speaker 3: think he can hit for high average. He's walked more
Speaker 3: than he's struck out in the AFL, and in spring
Speaker 3: training he was doing it for a period of time.
Speaker 3: I think Bryson Stott, given you know, five hundred plus
Speaker 3: at bats, is gonna be a guy that can take
Speaker 3: home that award because there's not a clear winner. You know,
Speaker 3: the AL is just so crazy stacked. So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go Bryson Stott wins NL Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: You're right that NL market is wide open, and we
Speaker 2: talked about that on the Betting Show the other day.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go nine number five here. Wander Franco will
Speaker 2: hit twenty five home runs. Not one single projection system
Speaker 2: has him for over twenty. In fact, the highest I
Speaker 2: could find anywhere was nineteen.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: There's more power in this bat, just like everyone kept
Speaker 2: telling me, Oh, Francisco Lindors.
Speaker 1: A doubles hitter, and I went yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Have you looked at the size of this kid When
Speaker 2: he has no shirt on, A guy is ripped, Okay,
Speaker 2: very strong kid.
Speaker 1: Power is going to come for wander Franco. He's just
Speaker 1: a boy.
Speaker 2: He is just a kid, for God's sakes. And I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna be a thirty five to forty
Speaker 2: home run guy. But you know what, I think there's
Speaker 2: more dingers in that bat that we realize, and I
Speaker 2: think you're gonna see some of them this year. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out on a limb. Wander Franco twenty
Speaker 2: five home runs. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows I'm the Francophile.
Speaker 2: I'm the guy who loves Wander Franco more than anybody
Speaker 2: except Juan Soto. I love him just a little litle
Speaker 2: bit more, just a bit more. So that's my number five. Well,
Speaker 2: just go to you for your number four pick year
Speaker 2: for your Bowl predictions for twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Well, you picked a pitching one, so we're gonna have
Speaker 3: a little theme here for part two. My number four
Speaker 3: is the al Cy Young winner going.
Speaker 4: To Lucas Giolito.
Speaker 3: My bold prediction is Lucas Gioledo is gonna be way
Speaker 3: over two hundred strikeounts. Obviously, it's gonna have a sub
Speaker 3: three ERA eighteen wins on the season and is gonna
Speaker 3: walk away in a tight race with a couple different arms,
Speaker 3: but it's gonna walk away with the al Cy Young Award. Also,
Speaker 3: is a White Sox really push in and gonna probably
Speaker 3: be one of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: That was my pick on the show for Cy Young,
Speaker 2: so I of course turned my key with Welsh on
Speaker 2: that one. My number four, I've got a signing on
Speaker 2: my own and the Cy Young in the American League
Speaker 2: is Justin Verlander.
Speaker 1: Let me go back in time.
Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen thirty four starts two hundred and fourteen innings,
Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety strikeout, sixty walks, a two five
Speaker 2: to two point nine to zero whip. In twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: thirty four starts two hundred and twenty three innings, twenty
Speaker 2: one wins, nobody wins twenty games anymore, three hundred strikeouts,
Speaker 2: sixty five walks, a two six two ERA, and a
Speaker 2: point eight to one whip. Justin Verlander is very removed
Speaker 2: from Tommy John. Justin Verlander is on a mission. Justin
Speaker 2: Verlander didn't just come back because Justin Verlander came back
Speaker 2: for a reason, to prove again that he could be
Speaker 2: one of the best pitchers in baseball. And I think
Speaker 2: this al selling Ty Young Rice is basically open and
Speaker 2: up for grabs. So I want Justin Verlander to get
Speaker 2: that award. I already talked about it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I think you're drafting him right now.
Speaker 2: Is probably an SB three ish depending on the depth
Speaker 2: of your league. He could end up as a top
Speaker 2: five pitcher easily. So if you still got drafts going
Speaker 2: on tonight, I'm all in on Verlander, so you get
Speaker 2: all in on Verlander too, so we could ride that
Speaker 2: train together. Let's get to number three on our list.
Speaker 2: Your bold predictions, Welsh, what do you got?
Speaker 3: We're going bold right like when we do bold addictions.
Speaker 3: We got to go crazy and we've got to put
Speaker 3: up stuff that most likely he's not gonna hit and
Speaker 3: we're gonna get chastised about. But that's where my next
Speaker 3: three will go. At number three, my bullet prediction is
Speaker 3: three players are going to hit fifty homers this season,
Speaker 3: and one of those players will be Guardians. Fran mil Reyis, big,
Speaker 3: big power fran mil Reyis. I saw someone actually in
Speaker 3: the chat earlier mentioning fran miil Reyis win because I
Speaker 3: think everybody assumed if you've paid attention to me with you, yeah,
Speaker 3: there you go when when you and I have been
Speaker 3: doing shows. I mean, Rosario is a guy that I
Speaker 3: really really like this year, potential low key twenty twenty guy.
Speaker 3: But fran mil Reyis will be one of the big
Speaker 3: power bats.
Speaker 4: Not sure I'm super comfortable.
Speaker 3: Yet jumping in on him being my I did a
Speaker 3: home run futures bet, but I didn't put it on
Speaker 3: fran Mil but I think he would be one of
Speaker 3: the sneaky ones if you want to put, you know,
Speaker 3: sprinkle a couple of bucks to try to take a
Speaker 3: long shot. Three guys hitting fifty homers this season, one
Speaker 3: being fran Mil Rayis.
Speaker 2: I love the for animal, and you know, some people
Speaker 2: don't like to take certain guys if they would call
Speaker 2: fight at DH.
Speaker 1: I just never understood that.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna get Nelson Cruz or Frandmill
Speaker 2: Rayer or somebody who's gonna lock in productivity there and
Speaker 2: you can leave him there, everybody else is just floating around,
Speaker 2: some dude into that utility or DH.
Speaker 1: Spot, get against thirty.
Speaker 3: Five bombs, everything's gonna be dead. NL d H is
Speaker 3: gonna kind of change up the game a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think that whole narrative of like DH only or
Speaker 3: whatever is gonna slowly go away. So I'm not yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's just an old, dumb narrative of AL
Speaker 3: versus NL. Freandmill has also worked at some other spots.
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't even matter anymore. He's not gonna
Speaker 3: have to go to an NL park and try to,
Speaker 3: you know, work out at first base. But he has
Speaker 3: taken last two off seasons. He is they can work
Speaker 3: out in the outfield and at first base, so there's
Speaker 3: still a possibility there.
Speaker 4: But franmil is a live, live bat.
Speaker 2: My friends, Now I see all the peanuts and the
Speaker 2: cracker Jacks, and of course make sure you like the
Speaker 2: video Peanuts and cracker Jacks.
Speaker 1: That's important.
Speaker 2: But uh, you're gonna get to know all these people, Pickles,
Speaker 2: Wonky Penguin, go cards. Of course, mister Buster, who loves
Speaker 2: to bust on me, and he wants to know what
Speaker 2: jersey am I wearing it. I will show you, mister Buster.
Speaker 2: This is our Oh yeah, official Fantasy pros jersey. We
Speaker 2: got them at the Trinting trip in Arizona when I
Speaker 2: got to go hang out with my boy the Welsh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we all got to. Carrie actually was our
Speaker 1: team captain, so she chose the blue. I like the blue.
Speaker 2: I was gonna I was wearing it today to represent
Speaker 2: the team in the beginning of baseball and spring again
Speaker 2: and all that fun stuff. And and of course, uh,
Speaker 2: there's Wonky Penguin. I thought Joey was out with a
Speaker 2: thumb injury. No, it was a middle finger. I could
Speaker 2: show it to you. But again then YouTube comes in.
Speaker 1: And they strike out the video and then we can't watch.
Speaker 4: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's getting much better though. It's it's actually straight again.
Speaker 1: You've been working on that. It was not good, yeah,
Speaker 1: but now it's it's.
Speaker 4: Straight and one. So the practices.
Speaker 3: Then you've been this one and then this one.
Speaker 1: You do the combination.
Speaker 2: Again getting dangerous to getting canceled on day one, which
Speaker 2: is nothing new for you and I should I have been
Speaker 2: doing shows together for a decade, so this is this
Speaker 2: is just par for the Core with Welsh part for
Speaker 2: the course, I should say, oh my god, I did.
Speaker 2: I did a Welshism part for the Core. I just
Speaker 2: made two things that I put him together into a completely.
Speaker 4: Put it in the book. Put it in the By.
Speaker 2: The way, who were the other two guys at in
Speaker 2: fifty home runs besides this for Animal.
Speaker 3: Vladimir Guerrero Junior of course, and Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo, okay, Pee Alonzo the Polar All right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go here and he's gonna get more bold as
Speaker 2: we go. So Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt will both
Speaker 2: go twenty twenty this year and I know you're saying.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's not too bold. It is it is.
Speaker 2: Randy rose Arena did it last year, and you know what,
Speaker 2: he was only the eleventh guy in the history of
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball to have a rookie twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't happen all that often.
Speaker 2: He is some other guys that have done it, because
Speaker 2: I did a little research, a little homework for the
Speaker 2: show today. Mike Trout did it, Carlos Beltrand did it. No,
Speaker 2: mad Gassia Para did it. Andrew Benintendi was the last
Speaker 2: guy to do it in twenty seventeen before Roseraina last year.
Speaker 2: So Julio and Bobby Witt both going twenty twenty. I
Speaker 2: got Bobby Witt in auction last night in the salary
Speaker 2: cap draft for seventeen Bucks.
Speaker 1: Felt pretty good about it. We did our little Fantasy
Speaker 1: pros team draft. It was a mixed league and it
Speaker 1: was it's a shallower roster.
Speaker 2: But head to head rodo categories. So love and Bobby
Speaker 2: Witt in that format. I'm a big fan. But you're
Speaker 2: the Julio guy, So what do you think? Do they
Speaker 2: got a chance here to go twenty twenty?
Speaker 3: What do you think, Yeah, you know, I definitely think
Speaker 3: he does. You know what's funny about this is again
Speaker 3: so I told you we just did on in this league.
Speaker 4: We did some bold predictions.
Speaker 3: We did five at piece Pogman Night, and I have
Speaker 3: one exactly like this surrounded around Bobby Wit and Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 4: But I have it a little bit different.
Speaker 3: I had that Bobby Wit wins Rookie of the Year
Speaker 3: and it's locked up by July first, in that Julio
Speaker 3: Rodriguez will come out hot, he will struggle May in June,
Speaker 3: and he will regain himself late July through the end
Speaker 3: of the year to have a very solid year. No
Speaker 3: Jared Kelnick stuff, but that Bobby Witt, and it's so
Speaker 3: crowded with Spencer Torkosen in there. Bobby Witt will have
Speaker 3: this sucker wrapped up by July first, and he will
Speaker 3: also go twenty twenty, twenty twenty on. Julio is gonna
Speaker 3: be a little bit rough, but I mean, dude, he
Speaker 3: wants to steal more bases and he's doing.
Speaker 4: It, so yours is very viable. But my take is that.
Speaker 3: Julio's gonna have more struggles than Bobby WIT's gonna have
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have some struggles, but I think
Speaker 2: he's got such an enormous talent. And how great is
Speaker 2: it that we're sitting here opening day talking about the
Speaker 2: kids playing an opening day Dude, it's such a different
Speaker 2: environment when we have this now.
Speaker 4: I haven't been able to process.
Speaker 3: And it's something like during the draft season that we like,
Speaker 3: we didn't know how intense the CBA was going to
Speaker 3: be to rookies. It's something I've always wanted. It's like, hey,
Speaker 3: let the young guys play. It's the best thing for baseball.
Speaker 3: But we didn't really know the extent of how teams
Speaker 3: are gonna treat this. I thought more teams would be
Speaker 3: like the Ridiculous Pirates. How dumb an idiot to the
Speaker 3: Pirates look right now that they're like, well, we're gonna
Speaker 3: let Ownil Cruz just kind of Rowins and Cotrourz. We're
Speaker 3: gonna let them go down and work and winning. Competitive
Speaker 3: teams and some that aren't necessarily are putting out some
Speaker 3: of their best prospects.
Speaker 4: The Phillies put Bryce in Stott out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Padres put cj Abrams and the Pirates could,
Speaker 3: so I thought more teams were gonna do still the
Speaker 3: manipulation with the Pirates, and it didn't happen. It's the
Speaker 3: best thing for baseball, it really really is. Now they
Speaker 3: need to make sure they do one other big important thing,
Speaker 3: market the crap out of these young guys, because these
Speaker 3: are the guys that are going to get everybody else excited.
Speaker 3: The worst thing that baseball has going for it is
Speaker 3: drafted players or young prospects in the minor leagues that
Speaker 3: take two or three years for people to kind of
Speaker 3: come about, and everyone's tired of it and they're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: we're done with it.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: Getting these guys up now with all of that cachet
Speaker 3: is a beautiful thing. And I'm like super super stoked
Speaker 3: as a prospect person.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's good for baseball, Like we were saying, it's just
Speaker 2: it's good for fantasy baseball too. You don't have to
Speaker 2: wait for these guys and have to wait six weeks
Speaker 2: to get productivity.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to your number.
Speaker 2: Two Bowl prediction for twenty twenty two, because I've got
Speaker 2: spicier as we go, go, ahead, Welsh, this.
Speaker 4: One is definitely spicy.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a couple of ways I want to
Speaker 3: say it, but like the first off is this guy
Speaker 3: plays the majority of this season, which gets us there,
Speaker 3: and it is Adroberto Mondetsi Monday goes twenty fifty. But
Speaker 3: also this is the not bold prediction part, but also
Speaker 3: has a month where he hits one eighty, so he's
Speaker 3: the most volatile player in fantasy. He will have one
Speaker 3: month I don't know, win in the season while he'll
Speaker 3: hit one eighty, but he will finish the year twenty
Speaker 3: homers and fifty stolen bases by actually playing more than
Speaker 3: one hundred games.
Speaker 4: And I know air Cross just threw up in his
Speaker 4: mouth a little bit.
Speaker 2: So our boy Eric Cross from the Black Book at
Speaker 2: for Hat Track's great friend of us, friend of the show.
Speaker 1: But you know what you ain't wrong.
Speaker 2: I mean, if he plays it off games, fifty stolen
Speaker 2: bases are well within his grasp. He's got more pop
Speaker 2: than you realize. And certainly that buck eighty month of
Speaker 2: July is something that could be staring us in the face.
Speaker 4: The thing number him back real quick.
Speaker 3: Just the thing that holds him back is that royal
Speaker 3: where they're sitting there saying we don't know if we
Speaker 3: can encount on him for one hundred games, and I
Speaker 3: think that's gone. I think that's just out of their
Speaker 3: brain at this point. But the injury stuff is a
Speaker 3: real big key that's going to keep him out. All right,
Speaker 3: what do you got for number two?
Speaker 1: Number two?
Speaker 2: What are your favorites? Luis Robert will have a thirty
Speaker 2: thirty season and win American League MVP. Let's go, and
Speaker 2: that would take that would take a show heyo taany injury,
Speaker 2: which is you know, something that always looms because he's
Speaker 2: a pitcher too. But there's one other guy I have
Speaker 2: on that board and I just love him. But really
Speaker 2: it's the thirty thirty prediction. No projection system even our
Speaker 2: boy Ero Cones ATC has him for more than nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty thirty season. I want to see all these great
Speaker 2: athletes start to take over major League baseball again, where
Speaker 2: we're talking about the Bobby Wits and the Luis Roberts
Speaker 2: of the world. I want to see these guys start
Speaker 2: to use that athleticism, start to take more bases, start
Speaker 2: to change the game back to something that we're more
Speaker 2: familiar with because stolen bases were significantly down last year.
Speaker 2: In the last couple of years, the trend is going
Speaker 2: that direction. I think we might get a reb in
Speaker 2: that with some of these incredibly gifted athletes we're seeing
Speaker 2: in the game. So that brings us to number one, Welsh,
Speaker 2: what is your number one prediction? And I have a
Speaker 2: bad feeling I know who it's going to be about.
Speaker 3: By year's end, the first round will be filled with
Speaker 3: fifty percent new players. So think of your preseason if
Speaker 3: you want, go and take a look at fantasy pros
Speaker 3: on the Baseball Ranker, never hard ship before the season
Speaker 3: starts going.
Speaker 4: Look and you're gonna see names on that.
Speaker 3: You see Mookie Bets, you see Corbett Burns, you see
Speaker 3: Garrett Cole. I am saying by years end, we will
Speaker 3: have fifty percent new players, and one of those players
Speaker 3: will be Byron Buxton as a first round talent at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. Just shoving it to Joe
Speaker 3: for his what was it his bust campaign that he's
Speaker 3: running out here. His false narrative is false flag whole
Speaker 3: mission that he's got against Byron Bucks and no, Byron Buxton,
Speaker 3: he is going to be a first round player at
Speaker 3: the end of this year, we'll be talking about where
Speaker 3: do we draft him behind Luis Robert? Do we draft
Speaker 3: him above Mookie Bets and Mike Trout. That'll be the
Speaker 3: conversation Byron Buxton, one of the new crew that will
Speaker 3: be inside the first round by year's end, Boom.
Speaker 2: Just for clarification, I want Byron Buckston to do well.
Speaker 2: It would make me happy to see you happy. It
Speaker 2: would make me happy to see Byron Buckston finally realize
Speaker 2: the potential.
Speaker 1: But I live in a place called.
Speaker 2: Reality, and that place is a harsh place where terrible
Speaker 2: things seem to always happen, and Byron Buckston seems to
Speaker 2: never be on the field. So again I'm uh, And look,
Speaker 2: and Mike Mayer here is chiming in. I think he's
Speaker 2: on your side. Mike Mayer says, Byron Buckston could play
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two games, had forty home runs
Speaker 2: to steel thirty bases in twenty twen eighty two, and
Speaker 2: I still wouldn't draft him in the first round last year.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because his name is not Ryan Mountcastle.
Speaker 1: So of course, Mike, Oh, that's true.
Speaker 4: You know what, But that's that's true.
Speaker 1: He had me there for a while and then of
Speaker 1: course at the end Mike stuck the night.
Speaker 3: No, there's a good there's a there's a true narrative
Speaker 3: to that, like all you know jokes aside. My two
Speaker 3: guys that I've got on here are volatile minda Se
Speaker 3: and Buxton, and there they are this exact idea that
Speaker 3: you talk about with bold predictions. They're players that have
Speaker 3: almost more talent than anybody if they could just stay healthy.
Speaker 4: But they can't. So he's not wrong.
Speaker 3: Here's what will happen Byron Buxton plays let's say one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty games, first round talent,
Speaker 3: he'll still walk in with the narrative of well, he's
Speaker 3: always hurt otherwise and that will make it tough. So
Speaker 3: in like reality, will he be a first round or
Speaker 3: even if he has forty twenty Probably not to be
Speaker 3: honest with you, because people be scared, but he'll be
Speaker 3: right on the cusp of that same thing with Mondacy.
Speaker 3: Mondessy could steal seventy five bases this year with twenty homers,
Speaker 3: and everyone will still look at him and go, I
Speaker 3: don't know when's the shoe gonna drop? He had that
Speaker 3: one month. Those are things that follow those guys that
Speaker 3: make it tough at this point. Also, I'd say, do
Speaker 3: you think you ever see Jacob de Grom be the
Speaker 3: number one pitcher? Even if he comes back for two
Speaker 3: years and he pitches incredible that injury. The stigma that
Speaker 3: follows guys will always be something that keeps guys, smart
Speaker 3: guys like Mike Mayern and them off. But some of
Speaker 3: us who are willing to take some risks, We're gonna
Speaker 3: jump in the pool.
Speaker 2: Speaking of jumping in the pool, what a perfect segue.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna take it for Jacob de Gram, Who's
Speaker 2: my number one prediction? You ready for this, boys and girls,
Speaker 2: I'm on close to the fire. Joey P's gonna tell
Speaker 2: you a story. Jacob de Grom will return to the
Speaker 2: New York Mets to pitch again this year, but he
Speaker 2: will return as a closer. That's right, no more starting pitching.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the same path for Jacob de Gram
Speaker 2: as it was for Kenni Secresley, for John Smoltz, for
Speaker 2: Kerry Wood.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget carry.
Speaker 2: Wood was another one of these flamethrowing guys for a
Speaker 2: couple of years, striking out everybody until the arm burned
Speaker 2: out and then Kerry would ended up as a close.
Speaker 4: So will you repeat what you just said?
Speaker 3: Repeat what what is gonna happen to you?
Speaker 2: Jacob de Gram is going to become the closer, the
Speaker 2: clue for the New York Mets. Now, whether that carries
Speaker 2: over into next year, I don't know. But the only
Speaker 2: way they can get Jacob de Gram back and doing
Speaker 2: something contributing to this team and safely, I think, is
Speaker 2: in very small spurts. And let me tell you that
Speaker 2: could be a game changer, because we're talking about a
Speaker 2: guy who is unhittable already. You let him go and
Speaker 2: for one inning at a time.
Speaker 1: Forget it.
Speaker 2: I mean you just shortened the game. It's like Marianna
Speaker 2: Rivera's style. You shortened it down from nine innings to
Speaker 2: eight innings. So yeah, I know it's not what everybody
Speaker 2: wants to hear, but I can tell you this. I
Speaker 2: think that's the only path here for his fantasy value.
Speaker 2: So I see a lot of funny things here. Debram
Speaker 2: throws out his arm when sneezing. I saw wonky Penguin
Speaker 2: posts he or something in the chat about carry Wood
Speaker 2: once missed have a season because he found out of
Speaker 2: a hot tub, but who that happens to all of us?
Speaker 2: I know we're going to close things out here, so
Speaker 2: give me your take on the de gram take that.
Speaker 1: I have lots of why.
Speaker 3: I just want to point out I am clearly on
Speaker 3: road territory here. I'm on the road and this is
Speaker 3: your home turf because the chat getting on me about
Speaker 3: Byron Buckston and just idly sitting there as you just called.
Speaker 4: The best picture in baseball with every.
Speaker 3: Problems a closer and not saying anything. I clearly am
Speaker 3: not on home turf here on Fantasy Press. These guys
Speaker 3: are just nobody is saying anything, and people had an
Speaker 3: issue with my Byron Buckston. You guys, get out of here.
Speaker 3: I'm about to be I'm about to Scott Hall this
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Be the bad guy.
Speaker 3: You guys are ridiculous for letting that happen. You guys
Speaker 3: are saying.
Speaker 2: Look here you go. JP's with you. I'm with the Welsh.
Speaker 2: But this is the whole point of the show. It's
Speaker 2: it's that you're like, you know, this is what happens.
Speaker 2: You know, I've brought the new boyfriend home. You're the
Speaker 2: new boyfriend and now they've got to put you through
Speaker 2: the ringer, and then by the end they'll say, I
Speaker 2: miss Welsh, where's Welsh? And that's that's I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's Look. This room will love you forever. This is
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Speaker 1: Make sure you like this video if you watch it.
Speaker 1: Those are our bold predictions.
Speaker 2: Just to recap once again, de Gram comes back as
Speaker 2: a closer, Luis Robert thirty thirty, Julio Rodriguez and Bobby
Speaker 2: Wit twenty twenty, Verlander, Cy Young Wander Franco twenty five bombs.
Speaker 1: Those are mine.
Speaker 2: The Welsh has Byron Buxton finally becoming a first round talent.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even say it. Adam Versue Month.
Speaker 4: Stopped in your tracks.
Speaker 2: Albert Delmontesigo's twenty fifty, but he also hits a buck
Speaker 2: eighty one month three players hit fifty home runs, one
Speaker 2: of them being the f Animal, Franmuel Reyes, Lucas Gilido
Speaker 2: winning the cy Young and Bryson Stott winning NL Rookie
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Speaker 1: That'll do it for us, but the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on.
Speaker 2: Will be back again tomorrow, same time, same place, and
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Speaker 2: for Welsh. I'm Joey P See you next time, kids,