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Speaker 2: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros MLB. This is leading
Speaker 2: off Live. It is me, Joey Pjop's APPEA with me,
Speaker 2: of course is the Welsh, and it's all of you,
Speaker 2: the Peanuts and the cracker Jacks here on a Monday morning.
Speaker 2: So much to talk about, so much baseball. We've got
Speaker 2: prospecting with the Welsh, We've got injuries, we've got big performances,
Speaker 2: we've got big hair from the Welsh. And a weird
Speaker 2: weekend of home run calls. According to the Wonky Penguin
Speaker 2: and apparently over the weekend, just one home run from everybody.
Speaker 2: How could that be Welsh? How could that be? How
Speaker 2: it wasn't for me?
Speaker 3: I can tell you because it was. No judges, no
Speaker 3: o Tawnis. That's probably why everybody doing the Joe piece
Speaker 3: Apia School of home runs just put one of the
Speaker 3: top two best home run hitters for the entire week
Speaker 3: in in perpetuity and try to go with it. It
Speaker 3: didn't work. Didn't work.
Speaker 2: It did not work. Also not working. The top story
Speaker 2: today in the headlines the Justin Steel's elbow, it's not.
Speaker 3: Working arms of an angel.
Speaker 2: Justin Stealing four will not be pitching again this season.
Speaker 2: He will undergo the traditional Tommy John procedure or the
Speaker 2: internal brace. We don't know which one we're going to
Speaker 2: get yet, but his twenty twenty five is done and
Speaker 2: it's April, which means that we're probably looking somewhere around
Speaker 2: what like mid twenty twenty six that we get Justin
Speaker 2: Steel back. So brutle loss for or fantasy managers everywhere,
Speaker 2: but I honestly also a bigger loss to the Cubs,
Speaker 2: because although the Milwaukee Brewers' rotation so far has been poop,
Speaker 2: you can look ahead, and you see Myers on the horizon,
Speaker 2: You see Woodroff on the horizon. You see a prospect
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about today that we've already mentioned last
Speaker 2: week on the horizon. They're gonna figure it out. I
Speaker 2: think this now becomes the Brewer's division to lose again.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Cubs with Imanaga and the rest
Speaker 2: of those Jebbronis in that rotation can compete well. Sho
Speaker 2: am I overreacting.
Speaker 3: Uh No, I think like that he's the ace, he's
Speaker 3: the top guy of their staff. It already was kind
Speaker 3: of like a little bit of a looser rotation. If
Speaker 3: they were to go and make a move, it would
Speaker 3: have made sense for the pitching. I will say this,
Speaker 3: we are going to talk about a Cubs pitching prospect
Speaker 3: in prospecting with the Welsh that could potentially be a guy.
Speaker 3: But that's it, Like this is this one guy I'm
Speaker 3: talking about's kind of like the guy. They've got a
Speaker 3: ton of hitting trading assets. We're gonna do it. Marlin's Cubs.
Speaker 3: They should have an nice, good phone conversation because you've
Speaker 3: got Kevin Alcantra, James Treanto's Moises Ballastero's. They've got hitting
Speaker 3: prospects above hitting prospects, just not a ton of pitching.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's where there could be a home. But yeah,
Speaker 3: this is a brutal blow to the Cubs. I think
Speaker 3: they need to be aggressive in that division because not
Speaker 3: only like you were saying, kind of poopy for the Brewers,
Speaker 3: they got guys looming. The division is very obtainable right now,
Speaker 3: and losing a guy like Justin Steel, you could lose
Speaker 3: that division. So I wouldn't be surprised that they don't
Speaker 3: start making some calls and try to get whoever is available.
Speaker 3: That's the other tricky thing, like we just know Al Contra,
Speaker 3: we don't really know anybody else that's available. But very
Speaker 3: very sad for Friend of the Show.
Speaker 2: Justin front of the show, we wish him well. Is
Speaker 2: a shame too, because you started to turn things around.
Speaker 2: The last start was really good, and then that second opinion, well,
Speaker 2: it's never good. It's never good. Let's turn our attention
Speaker 2: to something that was really good yesterday, and that thing
Speaker 2: was Garrett Crochet. He got really close to a no hitter. Ironically,
Speaker 2: Chase Mydrath, who was part of the deal for Garrett
Speaker 2: Crochet with the Red Sox, who, by the way, as
Speaker 2: a four to twenty five career OBP. I was just
Speaker 2: looking more deeply into him because I picked him up
Speaker 2: in my home league this weekend. If you're an OBP league,
Speaker 2: you got to pick up the skit. He's playing second
Speaker 2: base two, He's doing a little bit of everything he is.
Speaker 2: He gonna hit for power, no, the little stone bases, maybe,
Speaker 2: but he's gonna get on base in points leagues. OBP
Speaker 2: leagues pick him up. But anyway, this is about Crochet
Speaker 2: seven and a third innings was toying with a no hitter,
Speaker 2: eleven strikeouts. It was against his old teams, against the
Speaker 2: White Sox, and it was such a stunning performance and
Speaker 2: so moving that our own Mike Mayer was moved because
Speaker 2: he had basically had it with all of the negativity
Speaker 2: that the Welsh was throwing and all the raised eyebrows
Speaker 2: about potentially what Garrett Crochet mayor nine looked at early
Speaker 2: in the season. So let's take a live look here
Speaker 2: at Mike Mahyer returning serve here after Garrett Crochet's near
Speaker 2: no hitter in brilliant performance.
Speaker 4: Happy Monday, America, or should I say Happy Monday to
Speaker 4: everybody except Welsh. And I say that on behalf of
Speaker 4: Garrett Crochet, who went out there on Sunday and shoved
Speaker 4: And when I say shoved, I mean shoved it in
Speaker 4: Welsh's face, because Welsh came on here last week trashing
Speaker 4: Garrett Crochet. I'm worried about Garrett Crochet. He doesn't look great,
Speaker 4: he doesn't have the fastball, the change up, doesn't look good.
Speaker 4: The guy at a one point four or five era,
Speaker 4: and Welsh came on here last week talking about him
Speaker 4: like he's Paul Blackburn. Get out of here. Oh, isn't
Speaker 4: good enough for me? Eight shutout hittings against Oriols doesn't
Speaker 4: good enough for me? Get out of here, man, ridiculous.
Speaker 4: How about flirting with a no hitter? Is that good
Speaker 4: enough for you? Is that gonna do it for you?
Speaker 2: Welsh?
Speaker 4: Flirting with a no hitter? Or are you gonna have
Speaker 4: some excuse about how he didn't look good in this
Speaker 4: start too? You know what, Cally, who makes all of
Speaker 4: our lovely graphics with all the jay's in him that
Speaker 4: we all love, Let's have a new spelling change for
Speaker 4: the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Let's start spelling.
Speaker 5: Welsh's name differently, Let's do lowercase W, lowercase capital L
Speaker 5: for Garrett Crochetes L, lowercase S, lowercase.
Speaker 4: H, because you have to own the L here. My man,
Speaker 4: you were wrong, dead wrong. He came out there, looked phenomenal,
Speaker 4: flirted with a no hitter, eleven strikeouts. I don't know
Speaker 4: what you're gonna say about this one, but I'm sure
Speaker 4: you're gonna have something to say that he didn't look good.
Speaker 4: And I just got to say, get out of here,
Speaker 4: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You don't have to go home, but get the heck
Speaker 4: up out of here with that nonsense.
Speaker 2: Wow, you just got lowercase by Mike Mayer. Angry Mike Mayer,
Speaker 2: who had had enough after watching Garrett Crochet's near no
Speaker 2: hitter bid Well, it's tough to get lowercase. And if
Speaker 2: you look right now on the graphic below you you'll
Speaker 2: see it's happened. You are now, Chris Tell.
Speaker 3: Actually it's kind of lowercase.
Speaker 2: Well, lowercase W, E, upper case L, lowercase SH there,
Speaker 2: so that happened real fast. What's it like to get
Speaker 2: lowercase on a Monday morning? By Mike Mayor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, do you remember the movie Office Space
Speaker 3: where it walks around, they say where whatsoever his name goes.
Speaker 3: You ever had somebody tell you it's a case of
Speaker 3: the Mondays, Like, oh, hell no, that was a case
Speaker 3: of the Mondays right there. That was How long was
Speaker 3: that video, Kelli? Could you tell me the exact time,
Speaker 3: because if it was sixty two seconds, it was sixty
Speaker 3: seconds too long. The things we've actually ever done, I
Speaker 3: can appreciate the pick on about questioning. I mean, I
Speaker 3: forgot we're here on a minut at forty three minute,
Speaker 3: forty one too long. I forgot. We're on a show
Speaker 3: where we don't actually question anything tangible. We just look
Speaker 3: at everything surface level, like make me maybe Mike Mayer
Speaker 3: does on the cycle, and we just look at surface
Speaker 3: stats and we just say, this is the best thing.
Speaker 3: But Garrett Crochet had not been great. This is also
Speaker 3: coming from the guy that is Garrett Crochet at four
Speaker 3: in his overall rankings this year and was the biggest
Speaker 3: Garrett Crochet guy. And they're almost as stupid no hitter
Speaker 3: against the White Sox. I'm all here for Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 3: I'm the number one Garrett Crochet guy. But it was
Speaker 3: right to question things look kind of weird with Garrett
Speaker 3: Crochet early on, but it was cold. We mentioned that
Speaker 3: probably rightfully to answer some or ask some questions. But okay,
Speaker 3: I'll take the l if.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the question. Are you still concerned all
Speaker 2: those concerns now gone away?
Speaker 3: Listen if you? Okay, a couple of things. First off,
Speaker 3: Like Garret Crochet is my guy, Garrett Rach, I'll I mean,
Speaker 3: if there's an L to own, I'll totally own it.
Speaker 3: Garrettkrousche is my guy.
Speaker 2: But like that's true.
Speaker 3: I don't think like almost no hitting the White Sox
Speaker 3: is something to be like, hey guys, he almost no
Speaker 3: hit the White Sox. Everything is okay now, like no,
Speaker 3: but the start was like freaking great. It was incredible
Speaker 3: as fastball was back, big wift percentages, Sinker was doing
Speaker 3: some business. Why socks hand hit fastballs. I love me
Speaker 3: some Garret Crochet. I will take whatever l this is
Speaker 3: supposed to be. But I also had Garrett Crochet higher
Speaker 3: than anybody on Fantasy pros, so suck it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I thought I was the angry one,
Speaker 2: too bead, but apparently it's Mike Mahyer nowadays. So Monday morning,
Speaker 2: Mayor the mayor Bear was a little upset there. Good times,
Speaker 2: so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Well worth the segment on the show definitely made the
Speaker 3: show better.
Speaker 2: Oh hilarious.
Speaker 3: I thought I laughed the whole time.
Speaker 2: You laughed on the inside. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 2: some aces that looked really good. Michael King another rarity,
Speaker 2: complete game shoutouts. Well, we had one Sunday the Rockies.
Speaker 2: Of course, you know, not great opponents, but who cares
Speaker 2: because the Padres are in first place? And Nick Pavetta too,
Speaker 2: I don't want to lose the Pavetta start on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Ten strikeouts from him. Also fantastic, Nick Pavetta, What is
Speaker 2: going on? I'm telling you, man, the Padres get their
Speaker 2: hands on a picture. You draft that guy. Logan Gilbert
Speaker 2: also fantastic. Seven strikeouts, five innings, two three eight ERA points,
Speaker 2: sixty six whip thirty two strikeouts, just four walks in
Speaker 2: twenty two winnings. Cold Reagan's also great. Struck out ten
Speaker 2: and seven two thirds against the Guardians one hundred green
Speaker 2: seven shoutout innings, got more one hundred mile an hour
Speaker 2: fast balls than anybody else in baseball. He struck out
Speaker 2: eight against the Pirates outside of Garret Crochet. Of the
Speaker 2: rest of these performances, which one was your favorite? Which
Speaker 2: one stood out the most to you?
Speaker 3: Welsh Nick Pavetta. But you know, I mean again, you
Speaker 3: gotta be careful because if we just look at the
Speaker 3: cycle surface stats here, Nick Favetta is a cy young
Speaker 3: potential winner because he was so good.
Speaker 2: Dragon worm into this, This is this is just Mayor.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't want to unfairly drag the worm into this.
Speaker 2: This is all Mike Mayor. So far is a far
Speaker 2: I don't know who was holding the camera. It looks
Speaker 2: like it was just on a tripod.
Speaker 3: So I'm just saying, but Nick, Nick Pavetta, But it
Speaker 3: was against the Rockies. Like, let's also caveat some things
Speaker 3: when they're worth caveating. Nick Pavetta was absolutely incredible, but
Speaker 3: it was against the Rockies. But it doesn't take away that,
Speaker 3: like he has been great. He's giving up a lot
Speaker 3: of barrels right now, which is something to watch. But
Speaker 3: his strikeouts are about on par where they were last year.
Speaker 3: He's just not giving up a whole lot of runs.
Speaker 3: He's great in San Diego. It's kind of everything that
Speaker 3: we were kind of hoping for. But you know, take
Speaker 3: this start move it forward, as like you can feel
Speaker 3: very comfortable with him. I don't think there's any type
Speaker 3: of cell or anything like that, but as far as
Speaker 3: like what you weren't expecting necessarily like Pavetta's Pavetta's early
Speaker 3: onset of the season should like have everybody pretty excited
Speaker 3: because he was kind of free ninety nine. You know,
Speaker 3: he's probably like sp like oh yeah, five or six
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 2: League winner. Right now, here's one from link. Would you
Speaker 2: start Carlos Estevez er job versus case in a weekly
Speaker 2: points league, wins or three quality stars are five, saves
Speaker 2: are seven. If I'm just sitting in forgetting for a week,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take my shots with Estevez. I actually like
Speaker 2: the Royals today against the Yankees with Lugo in the
Speaker 2: mound against Carrasco. So that's seven points right there for
Speaker 2: a save. I'm thinking, So I'm going to Stevez, how
Speaker 2: about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm down with that. Like job definitely looked better
Speaker 3: in this last star. But yeah, if you're gonna get
Speaker 3: seven points per seve, if it saves are more than
Speaker 3: a win, go with it.
Speaker 2: Hate that this is why I don't like five x
Speaker 2: five rodal because it's like, oh, I've got Chase saves
Speaker 2: and something that saves three outs. It's one freakin' inning.
Speaker 2: It's it's three outs. I mean sometimes it's more, but
Speaker 2: rarely nowadays. And it's just so frustrating. A win is
Speaker 2: five innings at least of pitching, right, a minimum five
Speaker 2: innings to get a win, and yet it's valued the
Speaker 2: same or in this circumstance and a bad points structure
Speaker 2: less than a save for its three outs. It's absolutely dumb.
Speaker 2: I hate it. It's stupid. Now I'm mad, all right,
Speaker 2: let me get happy again. Spencer Schreider is going to
Speaker 2: be back on track to make his debut Wednesday against
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. This is great. He looked filthy. Five
Speaker 2: and a third innings, thirteen strikeouts in the rehab start.
Speaker 2: Nothing left to prove. Marcus Simeon took a spot on
Speaker 2: the bench one of our by lows. Look it's rock
Speaker 2: bottom here right now. He's getting one twenty three, one homer,
Speaker 2: no steals. I mean, Marcus Simeyon is good. I can't
Speaker 2: think of a lower point in his career, all the
Speaker 2: way back into like this, beginning of Oakland, Like that's
Speaker 2: the last time you could see Marcusimey in this low.
Speaker 2: So I'm buying everywhere. This is a unique opportunity Welsh
Speaker 2: and now it is officially rock bottom.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, how you were saying that. I wasn't
Speaker 3: sure if you were like just saying like the output
Speaker 3: is low and you're still a by or you're just.
Speaker 2: Like the output were about twenty three and we were
Speaker 2: talking about how you know, just last week that he
Speaker 2: was a by low. Now he's getting benched. You know
Speaker 2: he's still get at the top of that order. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm buying Marcus Imyan. Still, this is great news if
Speaker 2: you're still in that market.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've I've been saying it, but yeah, everything just
Speaker 3: doesn't look good. But the Rangers as a whole, you know,
Speaker 3: Jack Berger doesn't have things going, adult East is trying
Speaker 3: to bounce back. Simon is one of those. Simon is
Speaker 3: the one that's the interesting thing about is just like
Speaker 3: everything is low from like an underlying standpoint, Like he's
Speaker 3: not hitting the ball as already striking out more, he's
Speaker 3: not barreling. Like everything just looks bad. So I think
Speaker 3: there's that little thing that's in people's minds. That's like,
Speaker 3: you know, he's getting older, four years old, like when
Speaker 3: is it gonna start downticking? But that offense is just
Speaker 3: it's too it's too big. The environmentally great. He's leading
Speaker 3: off like he's gonna he's gonna bounce back, and if
Speaker 3: he doesn't bounce back, then it's like, you know what,
Speaker 3: then you can keep that. You can keep that L there.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's kind of a nice logo, by
Speaker 3: the way, the we with the big L s A. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I kind of like it. It's it's not about the
Speaker 3: only thing the logo.
Speaker 2: The only My only critique of Mayor is that he
Speaker 2: gave the L in the wrong direction when he was
Speaker 2: throwing it up there. But that's hard sometimes because you
Speaker 2: don't know which way the camera's going. That's all right,
Speaker 2: that comes with experience.
Speaker 3: Thank you Kelly for keeping this up. We'll keep this
Speaker 3: up the rest of the show.
Speaker 2: Then, oh, we are a couple questions about Michael Bush.
Speaker 2: Be weezy, you pick him up, you think he stays hot.
Speaker 2: You have McGrady here with the question is he must
Speaker 2: pick up? Any thoughts on Michael Bush's recent hot streak.
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, I think he is.
Speaker 2: Should people be chasing the hot bush? I guess that's
Speaker 2: the question we're asking ourselves.
Speaker 3: I would be chasing the hot bush. But here's the problem.
Speaker 3: Every damn player that is really good right now is
Speaker 3: like a first basement. Someone asked me on Twitter before
Speaker 3: the show, like, Hey, They're like, hey, Tristan Constans is
Speaker 3: out there, who should I drop? Sodastrom Torque And You're
Speaker 3: just like, oh my god, Like you know, they're all
Speaker 3: just in a really good spot. But you know, Michael
Speaker 3: Bush is almost fifty percent hard hit right now, right now,
Speaker 3: strikeout rates going lower, launch angles up, He's barreling the
Speaker 3: crap out of the ball. He's putting a pretty good
Speaker 3: prime spot. I don't know, Like, if you had to rank, okay,
Speaker 3: rank Michael Bush among let's put let's put yeah, torqu
Speaker 3: and soda Strom. Let's just put him out there.
Speaker 2: I'll take Torkals, I'll take Soderstrom, Torkalsen Bush. That's my ranking.
Speaker 3: But is there a tier difference? Because I think that
Speaker 3: might be the right one. But is there a tear difference?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think for me still, I think that Well, look,
Speaker 2: the soda Strom hawstreak has been fantastic because of that ballpark.
Speaker 2: I think I'm still gonna I'm gonna keep those two guys.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna so Stroms here. Okay, I'm gonna go give
Speaker 2: me the levels. Here's the level for this is very technical.
Speaker 2: So if you're watching, this is helpful. If you're not,
Speaker 2: if you're just listening on the podcast, it's not gonna
Speaker 2: be helpful at all. Go watch on YouTube. So sod
Speaker 2: Frum's here, Towrklosen's right about there, and then Bush is
Speaker 2: a little bit lower in this tier here, so you're
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Of sealation ginormous. How you did that, by the way, Well, no,
Speaker 3: it's a huge tar well like you used the whole screen.
Speaker 2: Michael Bush. I kind of know Michael Bush is not
Speaker 2: Spencer Torkosen was a top overall prospect at one point,
Speaker 2: so there's always that hope that all of a sudden
Speaker 2: he figures out and becomes a star. I don't I
Speaker 2: don't think we're ever going to get that, but it
Speaker 2: still exists. Michael Bush is just a nice player, Like
Speaker 2: I never thought Michael Busch was going to be a
Speaker 2: franchise building player, whereas we all thought Torkosen would and
Speaker 2: Soda Strum again, it's the ballpark factor that I just
Speaker 2: can't deny right now. I've got to stay locked into him.
Speaker 3: I think Bush is in the corner endfield like pick
Speaker 3: up twelve team corner infielder. I think you think you
Speaker 3: can pick him up right And he said, nuver three
Speaker 3: hundred XBA is like right under three hundred. He's doing
Speaker 3: a little bit of everything great, not even pulling the
Speaker 3: ball a ton in the air as much as he
Speaker 3: did last year. I think he's in that range of
Speaker 3: those players. He just actually might be available, you know
Speaker 3: where Sodastrum and Torque would have already been picked up.
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Speaker 2: about Mike Trout for a moment. Mike Trout up to
Speaker 2: six homers, tied for the league lead. He has fourteen rbi.
Speaker 2: He is hitting just one ninety six though, with a
Speaker 2: two ninety nine OVP. Now last year, right, if you
Speaker 2: just kind of duck back a little bit, you know,
Speaker 2: to the twenty nine games that he played in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four he had two twenty he had ten homers
Speaker 2: and fourteen RBI. And we started to ask ourselves in
Speaker 2: mid April, is this the time to trade Mike Trout?
Speaker 2: Do you remember this conversation we had last mid April
Speaker 2: where he was starting to get hot with the homers
Speaker 2: and we thought, up, he's back. Do you want to
Speaker 2: get out from Mike Trout? So twofold question here is
Speaker 2: it time to get out from Mike Trout? And second
Speaker 2: question Welsh? Can you get out from under Mike Trout
Speaker 2: if you want to?
Speaker 3: I mean you know the answer for me, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be no. You hate Mike Trout. I love Mike Trout.
Speaker 3: I was Trout well, I mean you were like, you
Speaker 3: don't draft. I mean I had him so much higher
Speaker 3: than any of you guys, Like Mike Trout was on
Speaker 3: my All Welsh team for this year. I'm a big
Speaker 3: buyer on him, regardless of the stupid injury stuff.
Speaker 2: Can hold on it's not stupid injury stuff. One hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty four games in twenty nineteen. He has only
Speaker 2: played Okay, we had the short season in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: then thirty six games one hundred nineteen eighty two, twenty
Speaker 2: nine and fifteen so far this year. So it's not stupid,
Speaker 2: it's relevant and it's real. Just saying, I mean, I
Speaker 2: dismissed it, say it was.
Speaker 3: I'm it felt.
Speaker 2: A little dismissive of it. I feel like a little
Speaker 2: bit where like all the silly injury stuff, it's not silly.
Speaker 2: It's it's a reality for this guy. Oh it sucks,
Speaker 2: but it's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I am a buyer of Mike Trout as I
Speaker 3: was and I still am. If you want to sell him,
Speaker 3: you could. It's probably not a great time he had.
Speaker 3: The average is low, but he's got a one thirty
Speaker 3: two babbit. His expected adding average is around two seventy.
Speaker 3: He's hitting the ball super hard. We're gonna get average.
Speaker 3: That's gonna come back. But that silly or big injury stuff.
Speaker 3: If that, if that's the thing that you want to
Speaker 3: push for, that's okay. I understand that. Because you got
Speaker 3: screwed last year. Just like you said, but you need
Speaker 3: to wait a little bit. You need to wait for
Speaker 3: the average to come up. That's great that he's up
Speaker 3: on homers, but people are still going to hold you
Speaker 3: back once he's around like two forty two to fifty.
Speaker 3: If you want to get out, get out. But I'm
Speaker 3: still in the place where if I'm getting one hundred
Speaker 3: to one hundred and twenty games out of Mike Trout,
Speaker 3: I just don't think the return is going to make
Speaker 3: sense because any single person like you're doing is going
Speaker 3: to throw the injury caveat in a trade, and what
Speaker 3: you can get from a production standboy to me is
Speaker 3: going to make more sense. But you know, let's see
Speaker 3: what the returns are if you guys want to get out,
Speaker 3: But this is not the time to trade Mike Trout
Speaker 3: right now now when he's hitting under two hundred.
Speaker 2: All right, A good job by somebody putting in the
Speaker 2: chat there too. The XB A sixty nine, I think
Speaker 2: also real quick Jacob de Gram after three starts as
Speaker 2: a four to three ERA and a six point two
Speaker 2: one whip excuse me, six point two one fip not whip,
Speaker 2: pardon me? So so far the Jacob de Gram results
Speaker 2: have not been good either, just putting that out there,
Speaker 2: not been great, not being great. Beat. There's a question here,
Speaker 2: Strider or Pepio, Boston and New York and that Bogus
Speaker 2: Ballpark weekly lineups, and I'm loaded with two star guys
Speaker 2: this week. Look, I'm gonna take the two starts from Pepio.
Speaker 2: He's been so good. I'm just gonna lock that up.
Speaker 2: I want to get both these guys in the lineup.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I guess, well, she's kind of
Speaker 2: rocking a hard place here.
Speaker 3: Points league gets pretty easy. I'd go with Pepio. Boston's
Speaker 3: offense has just been so blah. Yeah, I mean, you're
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna have Strider on some type of a cap.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit it's it's also a little bit
Speaker 3: of a tougher matchup, and Bed said it is points,
Speaker 3: So yeah, go with Pepio.
Speaker 2: Michael King at Houston or Peralta versus the Athletics. I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, I got go Michael King here. Like it's
Speaker 2: just been crazy. He's been crazy good.
Speaker 3: He's doing his like he's doing like back and forth,
Speaker 3: he's doing like weird back and forth right now. But
Speaker 3: I would go with Michael King. Like one starts good,
Speaker 3: one's bad.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go down the farm real quick. Here
Speaker 2: the Orioles prospect, Kobe Mayo hit a solo home run,
Speaker 2: so that's good, little signs of life for him. Ben
Speaker 2: Williamson called up by the Mariners. And I believe I'm
Speaker 2: saying this right. Audiel Amador recalled by the Rockies from
Speaker 2: TRIPAA to play second base. But you know what that means,
Speaker 2: we start talking about the youngsters. It's time for prospecting
Speaker 2: with the Welsh. That's right. Every week the Welsh goes
Speaker 2: deep into the minor league prospects and brings us some
Speaker 2: names that you need to know. So Welsh, let's start
Speaker 2: here with Nick Kurtz, because he just does not stop
Speaker 2: hitting home runs every single day, more and more home runs.
Speaker 2: He's up to seven out, hitting three sixty with a
Speaker 2: twelve hundred ops. And you saw Brent Rooker move to
Speaker 2: Alfield for the weekend. A couple starts there. You saw
Speaker 2: Sodashirm taking grounders at third. I think Nick Kurtz is
Speaker 2: coming sooner than later. He's only rostered fifty percent of
Speaker 2: leagues right now.
Speaker 3: He's the number one guy. This is these first two
Speaker 3: guys are kind of like should be the no brainers
Speaker 3: for a lot of peace. But these are our updates.
Speaker 3: So this is the Nick Kurtz update, of course, the
Speaker 3: most important thing, and we got to monitor how it's
Speaker 3: going to go this week. I think this is going
Speaker 3: to be critical to how aggressive they push it. But
Speaker 3: we saw Brent Rooker play right field over the weekend,
Speaker 3: by the way, which was interesting. You would assume more
Speaker 3: of a left fielder. Lawrence Butler was getting the day off.
Speaker 3: They put Shae Lang the leers in at DH. It
Speaker 3: kind of opens up a path, but then they went
Speaker 3: right back to Rooker playing DH on Sunday. Let's monitor
Speaker 3: this week. If Rooker does have at least even one
Speaker 3: more outfield game, I just don't know how much longer
Speaker 3: they can keep him down there. He has more homers
Speaker 3: than anybody in professional baseball right now, so that is
Speaker 3: major leagues or minor leaguers. He is just continuing to
Speaker 3: smash the ball, big exit velocities, consistent exit velocities. He
Speaker 3: will thrive in that ballpark. We did a breakdown last week.
Speaker 3: I don't remember if it was here, I think it
Speaker 3: was on the live stream. We did on Wednesdays four
Speaker 3: pm Eastern if you guys want to hang out. Not
Speaker 3: with Piece of Pa this week, but me and Joe
Speaker 3: Rico we did a breakdown of the ballpark factors this
Speaker 3: year year and that A's minor league ballpark. There's just
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. So Kurtz is going to absolutely
Speaker 3: thrive when given the opportunity. They're showing us little tiny
Speaker 3: baby signs of what it could look like where Rooker
Speaker 3: would play left, you'd have Butler and right Bledet in
Speaker 3: the outfield. Right now, Miguel and you are is the
Speaker 3: one holding Nick Kurtz back a little bit, and I
Speaker 3: just don't think the A's are going to allow it
Speaker 3: too much longer. So Kurtz your number one hitter that
Speaker 3: you should be stashing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be this week, Welsh, I really do. I got
Speaker 2: a feeling in my bones about it. Hopefully I'm right.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Bubba Chandler. He had another good start
Speaker 2: at TRIPAA, so when White might we possibly see him
Speaker 2: back again with the Pirates.
Speaker 3: So I think it's got to be soon. The only
Speaker 3: thing is in this last start, I kind of thought
Speaker 3: they would push the pitch count up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So his first start was pretty wonky. He was he
Speaker 3: walked three, he only had fifty two pitches fastball, slider.
Speaker 3: Second start, he looked phenomenal. Even when he's off though.
Speaker 3: His fastball and slider just they generate big whiffs, you know.
Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler like a high nineties VLO guy. Eight strikeouts,
Speaker 3: four innings, two walks. His next start, he just had
Speaker 3: four innings. He gave up his first couple earned runs,
Speaker 3: his first homer, struck out six, didn't walk any. Batting
Speaker 3: average is low, but they didn't push the innings. I
Speaker 3: think he's got to have minimum one more start, and
Speaker 3: I think they got to push him to seventy and
Speaker 3: then I think he's on the clock, so I think
Speaker 3: sometime in late April early May. That's why, if you've
Speaker 3: got the ability to you should stash a guy like
Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler. Not all prospects are like, even if they
Speaker 3: come up, are worthy of getting out there. Bubba Chandler
Speaker 3: is a guy that right out the shoot you're gonna
Speaker 3: want to get in. He's gonna have high strikeouts, Hopefully
Speaker 3: the walks are gonna be maintained, but I think that's
Speaker 3: what they're looking for. No one's getting a good batting
Speaker 3: average off of him, and I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be one more start after this where we could see him.
Speaker 3: So both Bubba Chandler and Nick Kurtz could be anywhere
Speaker 3: from a week and a half to I mean you
Speaker 3: go much further, but like within the next two weeks.
Speaker 3: I think both of them really, really, really could be
Speaker 3: on the major league teams.
Speaker 2: All right. With the injury to Justin Steel, that means
Speaker 2: open spot in the rotation. So for the Cubs, what's
Speaker 2: the internal options look like? Is there somebody maybe you
Speaker 2: have her mark that could get an opportunity sooner than later.
Speaker 3: So from the minor league standpoint, we've got to stare
Speaker 3: at KD Horton. So that's gonna be a guy that there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know if in the like immediate while they're
Speaker 3: trying to figure out what's going on, if they're going
Speaker 3: to throw him in there, but with these injury issues,
Speaker 3: I think it is something they're going to look at.
Speaker 3: Kate Horton's got two starts so far with the Triple
Speaker 3: A Cubs in the miners A one, two, three, Era
Speaker 3: twelve strikeouts, little bit walky, that's going to be his problem.
Speaker 3: He has seven walks in seven innings pitch, but he's
Speaker 3: also struck out twelve. He's also kind of on the
Speaker 3: Bubba Chandler pushing the innings. He would be very fantasy interesting,
Speaker 3: but we've got to see, like what that consistency's going
Speaker 3: to look like. Cate Horton's like a top prospect as well.
Speaker 3: He's just had some injury problems for the last kind
Speaker 3: of year and a half, not getting tons and tons
Speaker 3: of work. But I don't know if they'll throw him
Speaker 3: in right out the shoot. They may have some just
Speaker 3: like weird internal option, maybe look into the free agent market.
Speaker 3: But I do think we should pay attention to Kate
Speaker 3: Horton because there's some good strikeout potential and great offensive support,
Speaker 3: and I think he's about one of the only actual
Speaker 3: viable They might have another option or two, but he's
Speaker 3: one of the viable options that they could go to
Speaker 3: now that Justin is going to be out.
Speaker 2: For the year. They're up against it, though, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you the Cubs are in a bad spot. They could
Speaker 2: I feel like there's three guys they couldn't afford to
Speaker 2: lose this year Ibanaga Tucker obviously, and then Steal and
Speaker 2: this just puts the Cubs in a bad spot. No
Speaker 2: offense to Horton here, he can hear all the whos
Speaker 2: he wants. There's no way he's going to replace Justin Steele.
Speaker 2: He just can't do it. So maybe give you a
Speaker 2: couple starts, maybe you know, can get the walks under control.
Speaker 2: That would be nice. There is a picture that I
Speaker 2: am excited about. Now, maybe it's going to get a
Speaker 2: little bit more complicated for Logan Henderson to make it
Speaker 2: to that rotation with Woodruff getting another rehab start this
Speaker 2: week and Tobias Meyer's working his way back. But regardless,
Speaker 2: you have to look at the work so far that
Speaker 2: Logan Henderson has done this year. Fourteen innings, twenty four
Speaker 2: strikeouts for him three point two. I talked about him
Speaker 2: on the Sunday TV Show quite a bit. This is
Speaker 2: the guy that I want to stash on my bench
Speaker 2: in deeper leagues because I do think at some point
Speaker 2: there's gonna be ten to twelve starts to be had
Speaker 2: for Logan Henderson because if you keep pitching like this
Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden there's an opening in
Speaker 2: this division that maybe, just maybe the Brewers are like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're right back in this thing. We can fix some
Speaker 2: of the things have gone wrong. Yes, the rotation has
Speaker 2: been rough to start the year. But Logan Henderson could
Speaker 2: be one of the answers.
Speaker 3: Wellsh I do think he could be the I mean
Speaker 3: they've also got Jacob Mizerowski, who I really think when
Speaker 3: Miserowski comes up, he's probably gonna if it's this year,
Speaker 3: it would be in some form of like relief. There's
Speaker 3: still some like you know, like walk questions with him.
Speaker 3: Logan Henderson had that a little bit early on, but
Speaker 3: his last start really picked it back up. He's now
Speaker 3: got a three era. He's striking out everybody I've mentioned,
Speaker 3: you know, cause I watched him a lot last year.
Speaker 3: He's a command guy, and I think he is best
Speaker 3: suited because that's the other thing. Miserowski's kind of the
Speaker 3: bigger fantasy talent. But I think Logan Henderson's best suited
Speaker 3: to jump into a rotation and maybe hold it for
Speaker 3: a bit. But like you said, there's weird questions about
Speaker 3: you know, you've got tobias and you've got Woodruff coming
Speaker 3: here soon. But it doesn't mean they're not going to
Speaker 3: need the help. Logan Henderson's last really good start kind
Speaker 3: of activates that clock as well. So he's a tier
Speaker 3: under the guys we've been talking about. I mean, I
Speaker 3: think he's Him and Kate Horton are kind of in
Speaker 3: the same general vicinity Kurtz and Chandler. You just got
Speaker 3: to do it. These guys, they might be really interesting
Speaker 3: spot stars or more interesting to hold if they are
Speaker 3: given like a long term look at a rotation. But
Speaker 3: I expect Logan Henderson and Kate Horton to probably get
Speaker 3: a look in the very near future.
Speaker 2: All Right, one more guy for the Marlins you want
Speaker 2: to talk about. It's actually a catching prospect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Augustine Ramirez, former New York Yankee. I love Augustine
Speaker 3: Ramirez big hard hit numbers. He's he's super weird too,
Speaker 3: and it's just minor league career because he's one of
Speaker 3: those guys, like, first off, we don't see big stolen
Speaker 3: based numbers from catchers, and you kind of always assume
Speaker 3: they're going to go back down. Still twenty two bases
Speaker 3: last year, hit twenty five homers year before that, he's
Speaker 3: stole twelve year before that, he's stole thirteen power has
Speaker 3: increased four straight minor league seasons, and so far in
Speaker 3: Triple A he's hitting two to eighty with a three
Speaker 3: forty five OBP. He's stolen four bases again, He's got
Speaker 3: two homers eight of his eight of his fourteen hits
Speaker 3: or extra base variety. And this guy is consistently hitting
Speaker 3: the ball hard. There's some strikeout stuff with him, but
Speaker 3: I kind of thought he might get a look here
Speaker 3: soon because Nick Foortes went on the IL and they're
Speaker 3: running up two lefty catchers. They've got Liam Hicks and
Speaker 3: I think Rob Brantley. I think with also what the
Speaker 3: DH situation is looking like there with like Jonah Bride
Speaker 3: and how gross that is that you might see Augustine
Speaker 3: Ramirez come in and do some DH and catching here
Speaker 3: in the very near future. So I think he would
Speaker 3: be kind of two catcher league fantasy relevant with those
Speaker 3: big homers. So I take a look at Augustine Ramirez
Speaker 3: or Augustin Ramirez.
Speaker 2: Great question here from rip my WiFi is Kurtz is
Speaker 2: so good they'd be willing to drop Torko center Ben Rice.
Speaker 2: That is a tough but I think This is you
Speaker 2: know what people can start asking themselves. They're going to
Speaker 2: look at their roster and say, who do I want
Speaker 2: to drop for Nick Kurtz. I have a tough time
Speaker 2: dropping Rice for him, and Torkosen's performed very well. It's
Speaker 2: probably a no for me on those two. But Welsh,
Speaker 2: this is tough. Maybe I don't want to drop a
Speaker 2: one for one first basement of those are the types
Speaker 2: of guys though, that are the bottom of your roster.
Speaker 2: You might not have a choice. So would you drop
Speaker 2: Rice or Torkelsen for the lottery ticket of Kurtz?
Speaker 3: I don't think I would. There's a little part of
Speaker 3: me that doesn't buy what Torklsen's gonna do all season long.
Speaker 3: His strikeout rates still really really high. But I think
Speaker 3: I would not make that move quite yet, because it's
Speaker 3: also it's still in question. We just don't know about
Speaker 3: Nick Kurtz and when he's actually going to be up.
Speaker 3: We're just playing speculation. So to drop like really really
Speaker 3: productive players right now, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: All right, that's prospecting with the Welsh. Everybody make sure
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Speaker 2: Let's get to the three up and three down. Oh,
Speaker 2: there we go. I was worried for a second there.
Speaker 2: I felt so unclothed. All right, up, Pete crow Armstrong.
Speaker 2: According to Cubs fans, look, I'm giving the Cubs some
Speaker 2: kind of positive two home runs for him. You know,
Speaker 2: the Cub fans are not feeling good. Wonky's very mad
Speaker 2: at me for telling her that the Cubs are in
Speaker 2: a bad spot. There, Code I Senga seven innings, four hits,
Speaker 2: Mets shout out the Athletics, eight nothing, jung Huli two
Speaker 2: home runs yesterday four Ribby's great win for the Giants
Speaker 2: over the Yankees. Three down. Carlos Rodan not good. That
Speaker 2: era is at five four eight. Now, this is interesting
Speaker 2: because he was kind of cruising here and then the
Speaker 2: wheels just kind of fell off for him. Five and
Speaker 2: two thirds innings for him. The Jung Huli homer was
Speaker 2: the one that kind of you know, really tanked him there.
Speaker 2: Chris Sale allowed four runs, just three earned, four and
Speaker 2: third innings, But I'd be buying on Sale. His ERA
Speaker 2: is at six point sixty three right now, his ex
Speaker 2: FIP is at three point three to two. He still
Speaker 2: got twenty four strikeouts and nineteen innings. This is a
Speaker 2: great by low opportunity. I know Sales a little older,
Speaker 2: so or always con Okay, are we getting to a
Speaker 2: spot where maybe you know something's wrong? I don't think
Speaker 2: it is. I think the Braves are just off to
Speaker 2: a weird collective start. And then Zach Wheeler another big a.
Speaker 2: So these are three big pitching names having bad weekends.
Speaker 2: Four runs and six innings for him. Who are you
Speaker 2: most concerned about? Wheeler, Sale, Rodin.
Speaker 3: Oh Radon with like out a question those other guys,
Speaker 3: I'm really not. Redon's walks are way up right now,
Speaker 3: even though he does have a three two two expected era.
Speaker 3: You know, so it's he's just uh in the wrong direction,
Speaker 3: overly performing. The expected batting average against is really low
Speaker 3: as well, but I don't love the walk rate. The
Speaker 3: ballpark also just doesn't feel super great, and the back
Speaker 3: half of the of his starts are starting to become
Speaker 3: of a question. And also you pair them with Zach Wheeler,
Speaker 3: who's the top five SP and then you pair it
Speaker 3: with Chris Sale cy young Winner. If I have to
Speaker 3: pick between them, it's not even remotely close. It's Carlos
Speaker 3: for don. But I'm with you. I'm buying if I
Speaker 3: don't think there's anything with Wheeler for anybody. But if
Speaker 3: someone was looking at those starts with Sale one hundred percent,
Speaker 3: by right now.
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Speaker 2: some good ones here. I'm gonna run through these. We
Speaker 2: drop Shaw for Kurts, I say yes, what's say you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Would you drop casses for rice? Yes? One thousand percent?
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably?
Speaker 2: And would you drop cruise for Kurts? Mmmm, that's tricky.
Speaker 2: Do what about cosses for Kurts? That trick here? I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say no too. Okay, this is good. This is
Speaker 2: how we're we're trying to get to, you know, a
Speaker 2: little sense of what's available here, what's uh, what we
Speaker 2: should be dropping, what we shouldn't be in order to
Speaker 2: pick up the process. So injuries George Springer day to day.
Speaker 2: X rays on the leftist came back negative, but I
Speaker 2: imagine he's going to be out for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: Breton Doyle absent for the lineup again Sunday he has
Speaker 2: a quad issue. Richard fitz goes on the fifteen day
Speaker 2: il with the PEX strain. That's not good, but on
Speaker 2: the good side. Zach Netto with the shoulder, played nine
Speaker 2: innings at shortstop in his rehab start on Sunday, so
Speaker 2: we expect him to be activated this week. Tobias Meyers
Speaker 2: won five innings and the second minor league rehab start,
Speaker 2: three runs, six hits. Liam Hendricks a scoreless sitting for him.
Speaker 2: We'll see if he works his way back this week.
Speaker 2: Lance mccullor is the name we haven't talked about in
Speaker 2: a very long time. He's gonna make another minor league
Speaker 2: rehab start this weekend for the Double A Corpus Christie team.
Speaker 2: Clark Schmidt will make his debut on Wednesday, So Schmidt
Speaker 2: comes back, Spencer Schreider comes back Wednesday, and then Terry
Speaker 2: Francona still hasn't made a decision about activating Alexis Diaz,
Speaker 2: so at least some help is on the way with pitchers.
Speaker 2: You know, I know we've been through a long winding
Speaker 2: road here with Lance mccullors over the years. If you're
Speaker 2: in a deeper league and you're kind of hurting for pitching,
Speaker 2: would you speculate on mccolors. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I have no interest in Lance mccullar's he's okay, he's
Speaker 3: always injured. I mean, there's a guy more injured reprone
Speaker 3: than Mike Trout. It would probably be Lance mccullors. So
Speaker 3: I have almost no interest in Lance McCall he's let's
Speaker 3: see him do it. There's so many more interesting players
Speaker 3: out there. I would probably rather have a stream spot
Speaker 3: open to stream out guys than I would hold on
Speaker 3: to Lance.
Speaker 2: Mccullor's let's talk about mydraft for a second here too.
Speaker 2: I kind of touched on him earlier. I don't expect
Speaker 2: a law from this guy, but if you're in a
Speaker 2: fifteen team league, especially OBP, you should grab him. He's
Speaker 2: gonna hit at the top of the order. The White
Speaker 2: Sox have no reason out to play him every day.
Speaker 2: Teal should be up pretty soon too. This is kind
Speaker 2: of crazy. I thought he was going to get the
Speaker 2: call when they catcher injury happened. He didn't, So I'm
Speaker 2: not expecting a great season from him. But if you're
Speaker 2: in a points league or OBP, I think he has
Speaker 2: some value. Welsh, what do you think of him as
Speaker 2: a prospect?
Speaker 3: Yeah, in points league, I've never been super big on
Speaker 3: my draft, but like, he's kind of kind of Jacob
Speaker 3: wilsony where. Yeah, I don't think he's in a strikeout
Speaker 3: super ton. He's gonna get on base. I mean he's
Speaker 3: sucking a decent amount right now. He hits for a
Speaker 3: lot of average. It's going to be empty ish ish
Speaker 3: from the power and speed department. Not like to really
Speaker 3: big degrees, but like you said, he's gonna probably end
Speaker 3: up moving a little bit higher. I picked him up
Speaker 3: in a played in like the sixteen team league, his
Speaker 3: head to head crazy league. I swooped him right up
Speaker 3: because he's going to get regular playing time between short
Speaker 3: and second, and I think they're committed to him. And
Speaker 3: that was something I had said with Brooks Baldwin. When
Speaker 3: Brooks Baldwin started playing some outfield, it was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: they're just clearly opening up this spot, so my draft
Speaker 3: could move between both positions. So really good for your
Speaker 3: batting average, Probably not going to be great for a
Speaker 3: whole lot of other things. OBP plus points plus All.
Speaker 2: Right, it's that time, boys and girls, the time for
Speaker 2: the best bets of the day with Joey P and
Speaker 2: the Welsh. I'm going for some games today. That's right,
Speaker 2: moneyline Monday for Joey P. And oh oh no, look
Speaker 2: at that. The Welsh is still the capital L in
Speaker 2: the lowercase here too. I love a good running joke,
Speaker 2: that's what I can say. Oh, I'll give you the
Speaker 2: money line today for the Kansas City Chiefs plus one
Speaker 2: sixteen on the road against the Yankee Seth Lugo in
Speaker 2: the mound against Carlos Cookie Carrasco. I know which way
Speaker 2: that cookie crumbles, and it crumbles with a lot of
Speaker 2: runs typically, So I'll take the better picture on the
Speaker 2: mound and take my chances. Yankee offense kind of scuffling
Speaker 2: a little bit over the last couple of days. Give
Speaker 2: me the money line for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers. I've been doing football all day, not the Buccaneers,
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays, the Rays, my bad, and the
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox today minus one sixteen Shane Bos who
Speaker 2: got bumped a healthy bump yesterday. There's nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 2: They just moved him a day. I don't know what's
Speaker 2: because they, you know, are somehow gonna drop latel out
Speaker 2: of the rotation or what. I don't know what's going
Speaker 2: on there. We didn't really did you see anything about
Speaker 2: why Bos got bumped yesterday?
Speaker 3: I mean at younger pictures they pushed They also they
Speaker 3: put in Joe was Joe Boyle, who was really good,
Speaker 3: and they might end up wanting to keep in the rotation.
Speaker 3: So I think it might have been setting up proper
Speaker 3: rotational stuff. So no, the answer is no. I didn't
Speaker 3: see like an official word for it, but I don't
Speaker 3: really worry about young pictures getting pushed like a day.
Speaker 3: And then also it aligned with Boyle being really good
Speaker 3: and them talking about keeping him in the rotation.
Speaker 2: Look anything to keep Lttel out of it. And we
Speaker 2: don't know when mclodahn comes back, but regardless, give me
Speaker 2: the money line for Tampa with bos on the Mount.
Speaker 2: Boz over his last ten starts going back to last
Speaker 2: year has been fantastic and I don't think enough people
Speaker 2: were taking notice of it. And then Houston money Line.
Speaker 2: My boy friend Bervaldez. He's going against Sunny Gray. Probably
Speaker 2: the only picture that I fear even remotely in Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: but I don't feel Saint Louis is up to task.
Speaker 2: So give me Houston money Line, Tampa money Line, and
Speaker 2: Casey Royals not the Chiefs on the money line. Welsh, Oh,
Speaker 2: where are you're going here? I've got NFL Draft on
Speaker 2: the brain. I guess where are you going? For your
Speaker 2: best bets of the day.
Speaker 3: On Monday, I'm gonna jump into a strikeout prop. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go with Terry Scouobel going up against the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 3: Milwaukee Brewers higher up there on the strikeout marker, especially
Speaker 3: against lefties, So Terreke's scouble at seven feels pretty good.
Speaker 3: Handful the guys this weekend. This gun shy right now
Speaker 3: with how some of this stuff has been going. But
Speaker 3: just everybody this weekend was just chalking up. It was
Speaker 3: just Crochet striking out, Reagan striking out. We're gonna get
Speaker 3: back with Trig Scuoble and a pretty good matchup here
Speaker 3: Lefty on Brewer, So that's a little bit juiced up,
Speaker 3: might even be worse this morning, but Treg Scuble over
Speaker 3: six point five strikeouts, Toronto first five money line, and
Speaker 3: I am backing our boy Lucas. I'm on the Toronto side.
Speaker 3: Let me get the match up here up against Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Atlanta has absolutely struggled against lefty, so Easton's out there.
Speaker 3: I like them on the push or obviously on the win,
Speaker 3: so first five innings for them to be winning, I'll
Speaker 3: either push or take that. They've also been scoring through
Speaker 3: the first five. Atlanta's offense has just been really struggling,
Speaker 3: So Easton, Lucas, I'm backing here and Pittsburgh Washington Nurphy,
Speaker 3: Paul Skins is back in and the Lord, I am
Speaker 3: Lord Lord, Lord, Lord Brad Lord has been sneak good too.
Speaker 3: The organization really does like him and I think this
Speaker 3: is a good, good matchup to start the day for
Speaker 3: a no run through the first inning. So Toronto first five, Pittsburgh, Washington,
Speaker 3: Nurphy and Terry Scooble over six and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 3: So those are my picks.
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Speaker 2: home run board, boys and girls, and you got lowercase
Speaker 2: here too. Oh my goodness. But it doesn't matter because
Speaker 2: you're on this board and I don't see Mike Mayor
Speaker 2: on this board, Welsh. So maybe you could record a
Speaker 2: video looking for him in different places around your house
Speaker 2: or you know, in the mailbox or in the dryer.
Speaker 2: Where's Mike Mayor on the home run board? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've only got two. I'm miserable so far. But nobody
Speaker 2: had any home runs this weekend. It was a very
Speaker 2: weird weekend. One home run all weekend. I'm gonna go ahead,
Speaker 2: and this is not piggybacking the Welsh. I put this
Speaker 2: in there, and then I realized after I put it in,
Speaker 2: and I want to change it that Bobby Witt was
Speaker 2: my pick today in Yankee Stadium. So Bobby Wit is
Speaker 2: my guy, Welsh, where are you going with your home
Speaker 2: run call for today?
Speaker 3: Well, Bobby Wit was my guy, so I was the
Speaker 3: first one to have Bobby Witt. But so I'm not
Speaker 3: going off with the guy that I picked Chicken, So
Speaker 3: I'm also used to there with Bobby Witt.
Speaker 2: Okay, so well, should I are picking the same guy
Speaker 2: where hopeing that Bobby Wit HiT's a home run? I
Speaker 2: don't know who everybody else out there is hoping hits
Speaker 2: home runs today. But you can go to our Discord
Speaker 2: fantasypros dot com slash chat. And remember when you subscribe
Speaker 2: using Amazon Prime, you get access to the home run channel.
Speaker 2: And since nobody pulled away this weekend, that Sami Sosa
Speaker 2: Jersey is still very much up for grabs. Somebody ask
Speaker 2: a good question here too, it's Rip Agan. Would you
Speaker 2: drop Ben Rice for Soderstrom? Somebody dropped Soderstrom for torkal
Speaker 2: sin on the way we wire.
Speaker 3: I love Ben Rice too. I think I've Ben Rice
Speaker 3: over even Soderstrom right now. So no, I wouldn't drop
Speaker 3: Ben Rice.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. So a lot of things
Speaker 2: going on in Major League Baseball world. I know, before
Speaker 2: we were talking about Trout, I mentioned Jacob de Gram
Speaker 2: in passing any patnic about Jacob de Gram at all.
Speaker 2: Curiosity A little worried.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm absolutely a little bit worried. I gotta be
Speaker 3: careful about being worried about anything here, because that'll blow up.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have some fun never.
Speaker 3: I'm a little worried about Decron. I am a little
Speaker 3: bit worried.
Speaker 2: Joe Rico will be here tomorrow. I want you to
Speaker 2: press him about Jacob de Grom because it was nobody
Speaker 2: more Jacob deGrom than Joe Rico going into the season,
Speaker 2: so I want to hear his take on it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be on vacation for a couple of days visiting
Speaker 2: family cousin Donnie's house. Kids are going to hang out together,
Speaker 2: and I say kids are all teenagers now, and hopefully
Speaker 2: on Thursday, we'll be doing Leading Off Live together Welsh
Speaker 2: and myself from the same room. That'll be super fun.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that works out. But Joe Rico will be
Speaker 2: picking it up for me this week, So shout out
Speaker 2: to Joe Rico. Be nice to Joe Rico. Everybody, don't
Speaker 2: lowercase Joe Alrico all caps for that guy. Giving me
Speaker 2: a couple of days off here before the NFL Draft
Speaker 2: comes next week. And as you can see, I called
Speaker 2: the raise the Buccaneers, which means Joey p needs a
Speaker 2: vacation for a couple of days. Spring break. Who Welsh
Speaker 2: any final thoughts for today before we close things out.
Speaker 3: Nope, I'm gonna go work on making a super super
Speaker 3: awkward video that has nothing to do with anything I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have for the next couple of shows. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go on, Now, what's the length of that video?
Speaker 3: Gonna be minute forty four just so it could be one
Speaker 3: second more awkward than all.
Speaker 2: Right, that'll do it for us, but the story of
Speaker 2: the game goes on for the Welsh I'm Joey p.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time. Kids.
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