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Speaker 1: a p A Happy Monday, everybody. Look, it's the Welsh.
Speaker 1: He's still alive. He made it through the weekend. So
Speaker 1: happy to see Officer Welsh. Friday, things went south after
Speaker 1: Officer Welsh came in and blew a bunch of post
Speaker 1: it notes up in the air. Julio Rodriguez boy hit
Speaker 1: a home run. Though Welsh keeps calling home run calls
Speaker 1: correctly too, So maybe Welsh, the secret to your success
Speaker 1: is a little bit of day quill.
Speaker 2: What do you think Apparently? Yeah, I had three straight
Speaker 2: days with homer calls. I'm up to four, all while
Speaker 2: I was on my deathbed. So I probably have one
Speaker 2: or two more days while I'm still sick to make
Speaker 2: the calls. But catching up, I'm gonna catch up.
Speaker 1: There you go, catching up the Welsh, and let's get
Speaker 1: you caught up on everything that happened, some injuries as
Speaker 1: well as some demotions and DFA's coming. Because it's cut day, Welsh,
Speaker 1: it's cut days at the time, when you go to
Speaker 1: the gym and you look and mix your you made
Speaker 1: the team. You see your name on the lissive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you make the cut or not. So we'll get to
Speaker 1: all of that. Let's start with Willy Calhoun, who did
Speaker 1: not make the cut. He is seeking a trade following
Speaker 1: his demotion, So that would be an interesting name to
Speaker 1: land somewhere in a good spot that could use some offense.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see what he Willy Calhoun could do,
Speaker 1: maybe in a fresh start. Dominic Smith last night had
Speaker 1: four hits and led the Mets on Sunday to a victory,
Speaker 1: with Max Scherzer striking out nine over the Phillies. Jady
Speaker 1: Martinez crushes a Grand Slam and a lost to the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Poor Red Sox Aaron Judge Homer twice is leading the Yankees,
Speaker 1: who are streaking. Remember a couple of weeks ago when
Speaker 1: the season started and the oh god, the Yankees are terrible.
Speaker 1: Everything's good, The Yankees are so bad? Well, they're in
Speaker 1: first place?
Speaker 2: Welsh, so is the k Is that how the anti
Speaker 2: Yankee guy sounds too?
Speaker 1: Just a Yankee guy? So I don't understand, is undred
Speaker 1: sixty two games you should be undred sixty two went
Speaker 1: all I don't want to stand with the problem is
Speaker 1: Brian Cash was gonna go, you don't know nothing about baseball.
Speaker 2: You about Miles Straw?
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, you see the video.
Speaker 2: Do you see the up close video by the way
Speaker 2: of when Miles Straw jumped up is out there.
Speaker 1: I saw him jumping, but I didn't hear the audio.
Speaker 2: There's an audio the guay, Yeah, there there's audio. There's
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you saw like the faraway video, there was somebody
Speaker 2: like filming right in front of Miles Straw. Well, that
Speaker 2: video has taken to Instagram and TikTok, and Miles Straw
Speaker 2: was ready.
Speaker 1: The insta tuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to go to He essentially said hit me,
Speaker 2: and with other words in there. Miles Straw was telling
Speaker 2: the Yankee bros hit me, but heeded some other colorful language.
Speaker 1: What a shock, fake tough guys out in the bleachers.
Speaker 1: All right, Joe muskrove our favorite guy with eight in
Speaker 1: a win over the Pirates, and they're getting Clevenger back
Speaker 1: in this rotation. Man oh man, this pojo rotation is good.
Speaker 1: More on that later. The Royals recall prospect MJ. Melendez
Speaker 1: from Triple A. Give us the prospect breakdown on MJ. Melendez.
Speaker 2: Welsh massive power led the miners in homers last year
Speaker 2: with forty one forty one homers. His dat is actually
Speaker 2: a catcher as well, I think from Miami. I was
Speaker 2: actually at his like pro debut with the Royals when
Speaker 2: he was there, and he's grown into this huge power guy.
Speaker 2: He struggled this year. He's only hitting a buck sixty seven.
Speaker 2: The Royals guys have gone kind of up and down
Speaker 2: in that, Like in twenty nineteen, he struggled. In twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, he was practically a Minor League player of
Speaker 2: the year. Not crazy strikeout numbers, walk seventy five times
Speaker 2: in four hundred and just about fifty at baths. So
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy that can bring real power,
Speaker 2: very salvy like if you will. But two homers, three
Speaker 2: stolen bases, hitting under two hundred to start this year.
Speaker 2: We'll see where it goes. But he makes really really
Speaker 2: great contacts, got a great swing and if they give him,
Speaker 2: you know, any type of regular time and a two catcher.
Speaker 2: I picked him up this past week and I put
Speaker 2: some fab on him on uh what was it? TGFBI
Speaker 2: I think it was I put some fab on him
Speaker 2: to pick him up, because this is just game changing power.
Speaker 2: He's just off to a really bad start and that's
Speaker 2: what I'm worried about with him. But he is not
Speaker 2: worth it, probably in a ten or twelve, but monitor
Speaker 2: him anything deeper. Maybe check him.
Speaker 1: Out monitoring the peanuts and the cracker Jacks. In our
Speaker 1: live chat here on Fantasy Pro's MLB that Brooklyn accent
Speaker 1: is impeccable from doctor Glenn, thank you, But I'm cheating
Speaker 1: because I'm from there.
Speaker 2: So if it's not impeccable, I mean, you are one
Speaker 2: of those guys, You're just not.
Speaker 1: I turned into one of those guys when you know,
Speaker 1: whenever you're around your cousins and things like that, like
Speaker 1: my cousin Donnie, I can.
Speaker 2: I can attest to this. I can attest to this
Speaker 2: when I'm hanging out with you and your cousin. You
Speaker 2: turned into the New York You. Let me let me
Speaker 2: tell you something. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Listen to me right now. You don't anything you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Listen all right, listen. Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Know what the Mets did. They dfa'e for to get
Speaker 1: out of there going on an assignment. Robinson Cano, You're done,
Speaker 1: it's over. And this is the difference between ownership I
Speaker 1: think of the Mets in the past and ownership now.
Speaker 1: There's a huge money commitment to Robinson Cano. Steve Cone
Speaker 1: doesn't care what's best for the team is what's best
Speaker 1: for the team. And this is huge. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is an unbelievable It is what for culturally Met fans
Speaker 1: have dealt with. I mean, the Bobby Benia thing is
Speaker 1: part of the Mets culture right where we have to
Speaker 1: live with mistakes for the rest of our lives. That's
Speaker 1: the met culture. Steve Cone saying, no, you don't, we
Speaker 1: make mistakes. That's okay. I'll write a check. Thank you, uncle, Stevie.
Speaker 1: I love this. I love what he's done here. So well,
Speaker 1: Robinson Cano, catch on somewhere else, Welsh or is he done?
Speaker 2: No, he's done. That was kind of my like, well,
Speaker 2: I thought he would have been done beforehand. Just get
Speaker 2: him out, you know, get him out beforehand. If you
Speaker 2: were like, oh, they're gonna get rid of the mistakes,
Speaker 2: you never would have even given him opportunity coming off
Speaker 2: of this. His bat was already dead coming off of
Speaker 2: the steroids stuff, I cannot see unless there's a desperate
Speaker 2: team in there for a D eight for a bat
Speaker 2: that's not really great. Maybe you sell a couple of jerseys.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, there might be someone that's gonna throw
Speaker 2: a bone. But in my eyes, Robinson Cano is done.
Speaker 2: He's washed, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to some of the injuries. X ray's
Speaker 1: negative for Robbie Grossman show. Otani planned to play on Monday,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he is going to be sitting
Speaker 1: out now. So that that's changed in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours or twelve hours, you should say he's dealing
Speaker 1: with that little bit of a groin issue there, So
Speaker 1: just keep an eye. They should give Otani as much
Speaker 1: time as he possibly needs because you can because the
Speaker 1: Angels have played well there at the top of the
Speaker 1: standings too. This one is important though, member, boys and girls.
Speaker 1: For the last couple weeks, we were talking about adding
Speaker 1: Nolan Gorman before you have to pay for Nolan Gorman. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you listen, because we've been on this train
Speaker 1: for a couple weeks now. It hasn't gotten official yet,
Speaker 1: but Tommy Eman did leave the game with a hip
Speaker 1: flex or tightness, he goes in the IL in the
Speaker 1: next twenty four hours. I'm hard pressed to think that
Speaker 1: they don't give this guy a call. Now. I understand
Speaker 1: the roster's strunk and all the other stuff going on,
Speaker 1: so they don't have to, but it's only a matter
Speaker 1: of time. The guy's got what wasn't a fifteen game
Speaker 1: hitting streak or something crap like that he was on
Speaker 1: this weekend hole.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, in the minor leagues, yeah, he
Speaker 2: leads the league. H They've also got another kid, Moisis Gomez,
Speaker 2: who used to be with the Rays, who is second
Speaker 2: in homers. So they've got you know, twenty one homers
Speaker 2: between those two guys. You know, I think there's a
Speaker 2: decent possibility. They still are bullheaded about not bringing him up.
Speaker 2: They've got in Mundo Sosa, who they move around, not
Speaker 2: saying that they won't, but the timeline moved up a
Speaker 2: little bit where the possibility is there. They got to
Speaker 2: get live bats at Mundo Sosa is not a crazy,
Speaker 2: big live bat. DeJong has struggled. I'm hopeful you should
Speaker 2: pick him up to speculate, but be ready that you
Speaker 2: might have to drop or maybe they don't make the
Speaker 2: move because they've continuously not wanted to make this move.
Speaker 2: They kept saying, They're like, eh, we keep hearing about
Speaker 2: Nola Gorman down there, but you know, we need these
Speaker 2: major league guys now, and why would we You know,
Speaker 2: their big thing was, why do they want to get
Speaker 2: a great uh Tommy Edmund off a second base and
Speaker 2: move him to short or something like that. This is
Speaker 2: an opportunity. I'm just not sure they will, as someone
Speaker 2: in the chat pointing out, he's still striking out at
Speaker 2: a pretty heavy clip, so monitor it, but you should
Speaker 2: be picking him up because it's game changing power.
Speaker 1: Mister Buster is raining on my parade this morning. He's
Speaker 1: saying Gorman is still striking out thirty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: I know who cares, so is everybody else? Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't care. This is major league baseball now, so we
Speaker 1: can't keep throwing out that this thirty percent strikeout rate
Speaker 1: for sluggers, especially who offer big time power, is somehow
Speaker 1: culturally not part of what we are right now is
Speaker 1: a baseball world. This is part of it now. So
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be part of it, at least give
Speaker 1: me the power along with it. That's all I'm asking
Speaker 1: for for God's sakes, Yes, you are right. He strikes
Speaker 1: out too much. He doesn't walk, so does everybody else
Speaker 1: pretty much major League Baseball. I don't care. Is he hitting? Yes?
Speaker 1: Are the Cardinals better off for it? Yes? Is the
Speaker 1: DH available, Yes, let's go.
Speaker 2: And I think it's the thing though, that they can
Speaker 2: use as an excuse to not do it. They like,
Speaker 2: get Mundo Sosa and they can put him at second base.
Speaker 2: It's just it's the thing that they can cling to
Speaker 2: because you're gonna have reporters, people like everybody here that's
Speaker 2: gonna be like, well, now, why are you not bringing
Speaker 2: up Gorman? You know this guy Leeds miners in Homers.
Speaker 2: He's a phenom at twenty two years old. He's been
Speaker 2: playing second base now for about a year. What's the
Speaker 2: reason now? And they could go, well, he's striking out
Speaker 2: a whole bunch. You know. It's kind of like the
Speaker 2: O'Neal Cruiz thing that's going on as well. Oil Cruzo
Speaker 2: is struggling. That's the difference. Oneal Cruz strikes out and
Speaker 2: it's still struggling at triple A and everybody wants him
Speaker 2: to be up Gorman. The only thing they really have
Speaker 2: is that unless you know, they could also say, oh,
Speaker 2: we want to see what we have out of a
Speaker 2: mundo again to get him full time. But you just
Speaker 2: never know how these teams are working, how these guys
Speaker 2: are gonna go trying to put the you know, the
Speaker 2: backs on a young kid. But we have to speculate
Speaker 2: and we've got to pick him up regardless. We just
Speaker 2: can't lose our minds. If he doesn't get the call up,
Speaker 2: he can Oh you guys told me to pick up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you have to pick him up. This is the opportunity.
Speaker 2: It just may not be the one that the managers
Speaker 2: finally pushed because these baseball managers are stubborn. They're the worst.
Speaker 2: They're the worst man you know.
Speaker 1: But look, I just know what's gonna happen. Is he's
Speaker 1: gonna get called up and then everyone's gonna run to
Speaker 1: the wire. Just do it now, Adam for a couple
Speaker 1: of bucks. Now if he's still floating around there, And
Speaker 1: look see I held and stashed though, and I convinced him.
Speaker 1: Look see I convinced him with my argument. It's it's honestly,
Speaker 1: it's it should be a convincing argument, because find me
Speaker 1: the great sluggers. I mean, you can count them on
Speaker 1: one hand who aren't striking out at alarming rates. It's
Speaker 1: just unfortunately, it's part of what we're doing. Speaking about alarming,
Speaker 1: Let's get to Can we talk about this? Can we
Speaker 1: talk about the Reds. They're bad, They're very, very bad
Speaker 1: right now on the IL Also for the Reds, Tyler Stevenson,
Speaker 1: Jonathan India, Solano's on the IL, Frehley's on the IL,
Speaker 1: Nico Lodolo went on the IL, Castillo's on the IL. Uh.
Speaker 1: The whole team is hurt, and Joey Vono was sitting
Speaker 1: there making a lot of money and making tiktoks, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to do, Like if I'm
Speaker 1: the Reds, If I'm the Reds right now, you know
Speaker 1: you were hoping Mustak has got off to a good start,
Speaker 1: maybe you could flip him. You would hope that Castillo
Speaker 1: is healthy. Can't flip him right now. In terms of DFS,
Speaker 1: in terms of setting weekly fantasy lineups, in terms of
Speaker 1: prop bets, I'm going to hammer the Reds for as
Speaker 1: long as I can. Well, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: this horrendous beginning of the season for the Cincinnati Red.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. It's kind of like what I was
Speaker 2: doing with the Diamondbacks at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: Just take the team and the pitcher that's going up
Speaker 2: against them. The Reds are atrocious. It's embarrassing. All of
Speaker 2: the like craziness that's going on in Oakland. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure why we're not seeing more of that in Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: It's a garbage team. To be fair for them, I
Speaker 2: suppose they attempted a few things. You know, they could say, oh,
Speaker 2: we didn't have Castillo, and you know, we did bring
Speaker 2: in Tommy fam and stuff like that. But it's it's
Speaker 2: embarrassing how they put this together. And the other problem
Speaker 2: is they just don't have a lot of stuff to
Speaker 2: bring up. They don't have got I mean, they designated
Speaker 2: remember Aristv's a Kemia.
Speaker 1: Well, they had the pictures, they brought up Lodolo and Green.
Speaker 1: Then Lodolo got hurt immediately, you know, So, I mean
Speaker 1: they have the pitching, but you're right from a position standpoint,
Speaker 1: it was India and then you know, this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you whiff on number two overall picks guys
Speaker 1: like Nick Enzel, you know, like when you when you're
Speaker 1: in a top five, you better come away with a
Speaker 1: player that's going to be in your lineup for ten
Speaker 1: years and being a productive player. Like that's the.
Speaker 2: Gulsole maker's right, but also making the right trade. Look
Speaker 2: at teams like you know Minnesota, Minnesota traded two months
Speaker 2: of Nelson Cruz to get what I think might now be.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, our Bold Prediction show cares what
Speaker 2: we say, but Bold Predictions. I was like, Oh, Bobby Witt,
Speaker 2: Joe Ryan to me looks like the front runner for
Speaker 2: AL Rookie of the Year, which, by the way, I
Speaker 2: would go take a look at your books because he
Speaker 2: might be around plus six hundred. They got him for
Speaker 2: two months of rental service. That's a good scouting department
Speaker 2: and bringing in the right bodies to be able to
Speaker 2: get you service all time. The reads don't have that
Speaker 2: aristatas a Kenio. Everyone was like, Oh, we're super excited,
Speaker 2: and then he's gone. They designated him for an assignment
Speaker 2: this week. They don't have great live bodies to put
Speaker 2: this team together. So I agree with you. I would
Speaker 2: be hammering against at every opportunity. I have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people asking me Joey Votto. You know,
Speaker 1: people were asking should I pick up you know, Hark
Speaker 1: Hosber still out of the waiver wire, Should I pick
Speaker 1: up Joe Should I drop Joeyvaddo for him? And I
Speaker 1: said yes, yeah, Like why not. It's not like the
Speaker 1: Red lineup is going to get markedly better. Even when
Speaker 1: everybody gets healthy, it's going to improve. Joey Voda will improve.
Speaker 1: He's still get of a hitter. The other problem is
Speaker 1: Joeyvoddo can't be moved that contract.
Speaker 2: That's just say, it's not like he's not like we
Speaker 2: can play the game where it's like, oh hey, guess
Speaker 2: what Vodo could be with the Yankees in two months. No,
Speaker 2: he can't. He's stuck here. He's not moving.
Speaker 1: Unless the reds eight fifty percent of that contract, and
Speaker 1: they might, like if there's a team that's if there's
Speaker 1: a team that's desperate for Look, Joey Vodo, good dude,
Speaker 1: good defenders. Still could still hit if you put him
Speaker 1: in a nice short I mean, if you put him
Speaker 1: on the Yankees ones. I mean, it's not where he's going.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like you don't need him anymore
Speaker 1: the Risen, but you put him in a good situation.
Speaker 1: There's every reason to believe that Joey Vodo can help.
Speaker 1: And I would like to see Joey Vado in a playoff.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun to see. But you know what, unless
Speaker 1: the unless the Reds excuse me, eight half of that salary,
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to see which.
Speaker 2: They should though. But you know what, the Reds could
Speaker 2: go back to the what was it? Was it the
Speaker 2: Braves that they know the Braves go back and do
Speaker 2: what the Diamondbacks did. It's the worst thing in baseball,
Speaker 2: but it's something you have to do. Pair him with
Speaker 2: a good prospect and sell off. The Diamondbacks did that
Speaker 2: with Bronson Royal. They wanted to get out of this
Speaker 2: god awful Bronson a Royal contract that they had, so
Speaker 2: they went to the Braves. They gave the Braves two
Speaker 2: key des Saunt to take on the contract of ronsin
Speaker 2: Royal and that was it. The Diamics didn't get anything back.
Speaker 2: They just gave them a top prospect at that time.
Speaker 2: And the guy the red shil consider doing something similar.
Speaker 2: They got a lot of low a type of guy,
Speaker 2: you know what, give something off with Vado to make
Speaker 2: it work.
Speaker 1: You know, Louis Castillo is the piece to give because
Speaker 1: Louis Castillo and Vado together for a team that needs
Speaker 1: to make a run, that is a big help to
Speaker 1: a team.
Speaker 2: Potentially have to get stuff back a little bit.
Speaker 1: And the ste young enough and still has upside enough
Speaker 1: that I think that's an intriguing move for a certain team,
Speaker 1: but that that that would be the way. Also, on
Speaker 1: a better note, we've thrown a lot out. We were
Speaker 1: breathing fire here on the show this morning. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of feelings. H shout out to Kelsey Whitmore,
Speaker 1: who played left field and bed at night the Staten
Speaker 1: Island Fairyhawks on Sunday, becoming the first woman to start
Speaker 1: a game in the Atlantic League and one of the
Speaker 1: first to do so in a league connected to Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. So congrat to Kelsey Whitmore. It was a
Speaker 1: fantastic weekend for women in sports. My daughter Friday night,
Speaker 1: nine years old, All Girls Football League touchdown pass this
Speaker 1: beautiful thing rolling out to the right. You could see
Speaker 1: it on the Twitter machine. I posted It's glorious. And
Speaker 1: then in the boys league. She's the only girl playing
Speaker 1: in the all in the co ed league right now
Speaker 1: for some reason. Two girls, she's one of them. Interception
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, intercepted the ball, ran it back for
Speaker 1: a pick six. Unbelievable. The entire crowd, especially the crowd
Speaker 1: of moms, just went off the hook. It was. It
Speaker 1: was an amazing moment to behold. So women in sports
Speaker 1: this weekend. Nice stuff, all right, Let's get to a
Speaker 1: little bit of trivia here for our peanuts and cracker jacks.
Speaker 1: Which Three pitchers selected in the first round of the
Speaker 1: two thousand and six Major League Baseball Draft went on
Speaker 1: to win Cy Young Awards. Three pitchers selected in the
Speaker 1: first round of the two thousand and six MLB Draft
Speaker 1: went on to win Cy Young Awards. Who are they?
Speaker 1: Give us the names if you know who they are
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Speaker 1: anybody gets this right. Give me.
Speaker 2: With this too. I don't know if we want to
Speaker 2: get hints at all.
Speaker 1: Well, two of the three are still pitching.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I got a different hint, Can I give it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Sure, they all were drafted from the same division.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah division.
Speaker 2: Right, that's my favorite one. Yeah, exactly, because I think
Speaker 2: the two of the three you can kind of put
Speaker 2: that together. But they all were drafted in the same division.
Speaker 1: And Caleb gets it right, Clayton Kershaw one of them,
Speaker 1: So there you go. Wonky Penguin also got it right.
Speaker 1: Always the Wonky Penguin always knows.
Speaker 2: So the division.
Speaker 1: That's one. Now you know the division, So go get it,
Speaker 1: Go get it, Peanuts and cracker Jacks. Let's get to
Speaker 1: the stat heroes of the weekend. Ready, they're gotta take
Speaker 1: one deep breath. Let's see Corbyn Burns seven innings, ten k's,
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman actually had a good start for a change,
Speaker 1: now earned run seven innings. Boy you need that. Josiah
Speaker 1: gray A three k's but now earned and verse six.
Speaker 1: Nady Evaldi eight strikeout, seven innings, Pitch Merrill Kelly's seven innings,
Speaker 1: four k's, Dane Dunning's seven and two third seven strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Eric Lauer continues to be great. Let's pause, there is
Speaker 1: a running out of breath. Eleven strikeouts, one walk for
Speaker 1: Eric Lower. Holy crap, where does this come from? Welsh?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Eric Lower for a moment?
Speaker 2: Successful fastball our boy Nick Pollock. I don't want to
Speaker 2: steal his stuff, but he had posted out about with
Speaker 2: fifty I think it was fifty tempts or more on
Speaker 2: on a single pitch that Eric Lawer has the highest
Speaker 2: swinging strike percentage of any fastball, any fourteen fastball in
Speaker 2: Major league right now. And he upped that bad boy.
Speaker 2: And that's it. You know, you have solid secondaries with
Speaker 2: the most I mean, you know, the fastball is Here's
Speaker 2: the other thing. The fastball is not the strikeout pitch
Speaker 2: as much as you know, we feel like it is
Speaker 2: out there. It's not the big punch out or you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's sometimes the setup to get there. It might
Speaker 2: be that final pitch that you can throw out, especially
Speaker 2: if you're a big, you know, one hundred and one
Speaker 2: mile an hour guy. But a lot of fastballs are
Speaker 2: there to set up the major swinging strike pitch, you know,
Speaker 2: the change up or the curveball or the slider or
Speaker 2: something like that. And Laur's out here rocking the most
Speaker 2: successful swing through fastball in baseball and We've seen the
Speaker 2: Brewers do for this from time to time. So this
Speaker 2: guy was a former Padres prospect as well, So you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of good tutelage out there. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much I buy like a if all of the
Speaker 2: success because I haven't done enough digging in. If all
Speaker 2: of the success is built around just forcing fastball, I
Speaker 2: don't know about the sustainability of that, like long term
Speaker 2: to keep going where he is. But you know you've
Speaker 2: mentioned this a couple of times before. This is the
Speaker 2: type of guy that's a league winner. You know, you
Speaker 2: picked him up probably on the back of your draft
Speaker 2: for free, either on the wire or draft, and he's
Speaker 2: putting up cy young type of numbers. These are the
Speaker 2: type of guys that continue on. So I don't think
Speaker 2: there's much to break down as far as like should
Speaker 2: I hold, no, you hold? You hold? He's doing great,
Speaker 2: But a lot of the success is being done by
Speaker 2: that forcing fastball and guys are swinging through. I think
Speaker 2: it was like a twenty one percent swinging strike percentage
Speaker 2: on the four scene.
Speaker 1: And remember we talked about players that you pick up.
Speaker 1: This difference between you know, the ones you want to
Speaker 1: trade off and the ones, we want to just keep
Speaker 1: this one's more valuable to you because you picked them up,
Speaker 1: or you you draft him in a deeper league. Because
Speaker 1: right now, if you have this player, don't trade them.
Speaker 1: There's no reason to. You just ride this wave as
Speaker 1: long as you can. And when a crash as a
Speaker 1: crash as it was free, you know, I wouldn't trade
Speaker 1: off because it might potentially last the whole year because
Speaker 1: the way these Birds pitchers have every single year. Remember
Speaker 1: was it three years ago or four years ago? We
Speaker 1: got woodruff, then we got burns. Last year we got peralta.
Speaker 1: This year it's lower. This is not a joke. There's
Speaker 1: something in the water and Milwaukee's pitching coach, pitching theory system,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's working. These guys have been outstanding.
Speaker 1: This is an organization that struggled. I mean you had
Speaker 1: to go back to the ben sheets Giovanni Guyardo days
Speaker 1: to get good pitching at a Milwaukee up until recently,
Speaker 1: it's been a dry well, so to speak. And Jacke
Speaker 1: Penguin is a great word. Thank you.
Speaker 2: It is a good word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said Moisis earlier, which I love. There's not
Speaker 1: enough guys named Moises.
Speaker 2: I do you want a lot of moises.
Speaker 1: That should be is it moisuses or is it moises
Speaker 1: or moistyes, moisties.
Speaker 2: Maybe I like a good uh moiss piece of pa.
Speaker 2: I think that should be your third kid, your next kid,
Speaker 2: moistest piece of pia.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think my kid days are over
Speaker 1: all right? Oh no pictures? Well, who knows. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: be like Charlie Chaplin, I'll have a kid when I'm ninety. Uh.
Speaker 1: Miles Mikola seven k's, no walks, He's been terrific this year,
Speaker 1: seven innings for him. Corey Kluber had a good start,
Speaker 1: one earned over six with six k's. Shane McClanahan eleven strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He was terrific. Kevin Gossman, You want to about Cy
Speaker 1: Young numbers ten k's, zero walks, two earned runs, seven innings,
Speaker 1: Aaron Nola with a good start, nine k's for him,
Speaker 1: three earned runs, Joe Muskrove We mentioned the top the hitters,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber over the weekend four for eight, three bombs
Speaker 1: and a stolen base with five ribbies. George Springer two dingers,
Speaker 1: three for ten, a doorscar see at home runs, stole
Speaker 1: a base over the weekend he was four for twelve
Speaker 1: Andris Amenez siding six runs batted in there for him
Speaker 1: one homer. Aaron Judge had the three bombs, Hunter Renfro
Speaker 1: three homers. We talked about him last week, buy him everywhere.
Speaker 1: Bog and I were all over that it feels good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels good yet at that Victor Roebliss two walks,
Speaker 1: eight for twelve, he had a double five RBIs. Jordan
Speaker 1: Alvarez went a good weekend with two homers, Christian Yelich
Speaker 1: two homers. Now, let's talk about Yelich for a moment,
Speaker 1: because Yelich is this weird enigma where we keep waiting
Speaker 1: for him to actually get to a plateau and sustain
Speaker 1: being good. So do you think we're getting closer to
Speaker 1: that sustained goodness from Christian Yelich?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he looks more dialed in. But this
Speaker 2: is also why you bet well. What's interesting about him
Speaker 2: is he's one of those guys that the cost to
Speaker 2: rebuy in was very efficient. It worked like you didn't
Speaker 2: have to pay this crazy cost to buy back to
Speaker 2: get eighty five percent of Yelich. And I think we
Speaker 2: can get I think we're getting back eighty five percent
Speaker 2: in Yelich, eighty five Yelwig, and at that cost will
Speaker 2: take it all day. Same thing with Bellinger. Those two
Speaker 2: will take at those costs. This is what we're looking for,
Speaker 2: and this is why you make those calculated bets. And
Speaker 2: I've got a couple shares of Yelich too, so I'm invested.
Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, all right. The last couple guys here to
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger four for eleven with two dingers, Kyle Tucker
Speaker 1: two stone bases seven for twelve. My goodness, is he hot.
Speaker 1: Darren Ruff five for fourteen. Carlos Correa finally getting hot
Speaker 1: two seven for thirteen over the weekend. That's one for
Speaker 1: the Twins too, Twins, the Marlins. A lot of teams
Speaker 1: have been good. Ohing. Taylor Ward kept on hitting. He
Speaker 1: had another home run six for thirteen, showing a time
Speaker 1: to get take a week off because Taylor awards all
Speaker 1: that theay Angels need. Here's the guys who spit the bit.
Speaker 1: Six earned runs and six innings for Dylan Bundy, Aaron
Speaker 1: Savali six earned runs for him and four Matt Brash ooh,
Speaker 1: this was not good for him. Two innings, six earned
Speaker 1: Kyle Hendrick six earned and four Frankie Montoss needs to
Speaker 1: get out of Oakland five earned runs and five innings
Speaker 1: for him. Sandy al Contra rare bat star for him,
Speaker 1: five earned in five and two thirty.
Speaker 2: You know who got in on him too, was mister
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez with his first homer of the season, four
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty feet right off of Sandy. Get out
Speaker 2: of your Sandy.
Speaker 1: As good as that bomb was the Jorge soul Air
Speaker 1: home run in that same game. Oh God, that sole
Speaker 1: Air home run was one of those I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the final tape measure of it was,
Speaker 1: but I mean it felt like six hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand feet. I'm pretty sure that's that's as an
Speaker 1: estimate I'm giving. It's not exact number. Alex Wood also bad,
Speaker 1: Zach Efflan also bad friand mil Reyes continues to suck
Speaker 1: one for ten seven strikeouts. What's wrong with the friend?
Speaker 1: I don't know what the same here going.
Speaker 2: On with it? What a dumb what a dumb stupid thing.
Speaker 2: I had to say. This is the impression of me
Speaker 2: and the Bold Predictions. I love those shows. Ugh, gona
Speaker 2: be like three people do gonna hit fifty homers and
Speaker 2: Fremuel's gonna do it. That's how I sounded when I talked.
Speaker 1: Oh he's got five months, he's not gonna hit five
Speaker 1: homers accountable. It's nothing I hate more than the shows,
Speaker 1: and especially the baseball ones that they're never wrong. Oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta love the baseball shows. When the guys are
Speaker 1: never wrong, it's my favorite. But you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: be wrong sometimes. Brandon Marshall wrong. The game is over
Speaker 1: nine with I know, I know, that's all right. Well
Speaker 1: it's still tiny. You can still hit thirty. Brandon marsh
Speaker 1: over nine with seven k's. That's worrisome to me. Jeremy
Speaker 1: Pena one for thirteen. He's come back down to earth
Speaker 1: a little bit. Castillanos won for twelve of six strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Gross Joey Vada won for twelve six strikeouts. Robbie Grossman
Speaker 1: over seven six k's and he had an injury. Juno
Speaker 1: Suarez over twelve six k's. Got drop him. Please, let's
Speaker 1: get to the leaderboard for home runs. There it is
Speaker 1: the Night King with eleven. My god, the Night King
Speaker 1: has been unbelievable. J P. Mas Junior with nine as well.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of eights and sevens up there.
Speaker 1: Welsh's on the board.
Speaker 2: I am I'm trying to get on that board. I
Speaker 2: want to get on that board. I've got four homers now,
Speaker 2: three came in three straight days last week. I am
Speaker 2: trying to get on that board. I want to get
Speaker 2: on I don't know if this week is possible, but
Speaker 2: by next week I want to get in on that board.
Speaker 1: I want board. Yeah, yeah, it's a good thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the frendimal so I never get a
Speaker 1: home run again. All right, let's talk about prop bets,
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Speaker 1: Mike Trout total bases on DK zero point five. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. You're getting minus one fifty five. The juice
Speaker 1: is bad, but it's worth the squeeze with Trout Giancarlo
Speaker 1: Stanton one and a half on the total basis too.
Speaker 1: I like some of these Yankees here. I got a
Speaker 1: bunch of Yankee props. Stanton at the one and a
Speaker 1: half on DK, you're getting plus one thirty five on that.
Speaker 1: That's a great number on the Stanton one. If he
Speaker 1: goes yard or has a double and you know, has
Speaker 1: a decent night boom, plus one thirty five Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: same thing, total bases, he is even money at one
Speaker 1: and a half Aaron Judge RBI zero point five on DK.
Speaker 1: That is plus one fifty. If he drives in a
Speaker 1: run boom, you're in good shape there. And in Julio
Speaker 1: total bases because as long as you get Jaco Torezi
Speaker 1: on the mound, I'm listening, and that's one and a half.
Speaker 1: Is that number you're getting plus one forty five Welsh
Speaker 1: on Julio tonight plus one forty five against Jacoderrezi. I
Speaker 1: think he can keep it rolling and the total base
Speaker 1: is high. It's it's one and a half. But still
Speaker 1: also by the way, Mitch Haniger is going to be
Speaker 1: missing a significant amount of time, so that certainly hurts
Speaker 1: that Seattle lineup, but hopefully Julio can pull things together.
Speaker 1: Anything uh pop for you. I saw you might have
Speaker 1: put a couple things in off that market. You know.
Speaker 2: I point out too my last two props I have sorry,
Speaker 2: I dead my headphones. My last two parlay props I've
Speaker 2: hit where I've given you two and I've gotten both
Speaker 2: of them this time. I like two strikeout props. There's
Speaker 2: a couple of hitting ones I like. I'm kind of
Speaker 2: tempted at George Springer though he had doesn't have a
Speaker 2: great history against Jordan Montgomery. But the two pitching props
Speaker 2: I really like. Today Dylan sees strikeouts, it's a pretty
Speaker 2: big number, seven and a half. It's even money, but
Speaker 2: I will take the over because he's a strikeout monster.
Speaker 2: And Zach Gallon against his former team five and a
Speaker 2: half over it's minus one eighteen, but it is against
Speaker 2: the Marlins strikeout Central love the Zach Gallon one and
Speaker 2: I love the Cease one. Both would be even plays
Speaker 2: and I would be comfortable putting them together to sprink
Speaker 2: a little bit on that and see if you can't
Speaker 2: get some big money.
Speaker 1: Speaking of line movement, stuff like this, Joe Ryan right now,
Speaker 1: plus six fifty. I know on FanDuel it's kind of
Speaker 1: the consensus number two. I'm betting pros for Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year in the American League. I bet that right now,
Speaker 1: even if you you know you want to throw fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks on that, just just bet it now. See if
Speaker 1: it goes to three to one, then you can fit
Speaker 1: the spot on it. I'm I think now's the time
Speaker 1: to get in on that. Yeah, I think it's time
Speaker 1: to hedge a little bit of the Julio and the
Speaker 1: Bobby Wick because Joe Ryan's been so good. I've been hesitant,
Speaker 1: but after April I'm less hesitant. Also, did you notice
Speaker 1: the cy young American League favorite has changed Welsh over
Speaker 1: the weekend. I don't know if you know who that
Speaker 1: is now, but it's justin Verlander plus seven hundred. Remember
Speaker 1: when he was twenty five to one and we bet him,
Speaker 1: or at least I bet him, and then I bet
Speaker 1: him again at thirteen. Now he's seven. If he has
Speaker 1: another month like this in May, it could be four.
Speaker 1: I mean, Gosbin's in this conversation is no doubt.
Speaker 2: Gosmin has forty one strikeouts and zero walks on the year,
Speaker 2: so that's kind of good.
Speaker 1: It is, it's kind of great. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: you know what this. But he's at plus seven hundred,
Speaker 1: Gosbin's at plus seven fifty, Bieber's at seven hundred, Coals
Speaker 1: at seven fifty two, Ceases at plus one thousand. He's
Speaker 1: not the same name as Verlander. I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: take so much more for It's gonna take so much
Speaker 1: more for Gosmin to win it than Verlander coming back.
Speaker 1: It's a media award, boys and girls, It's a media award.
Speaker 1: You want a good story, Robby Ray was a good
Speaker 1: narrative last year. All right, let's get to some of
Speaker 1: the DFS plays tonight. Pablo Lopez has been unbelievable. He's
Speaker 1: ten k on DK. I'd go right to that well
Speaker 1: for cash, for tournament, for anything. He's been so good.
Speaker 1: He's got a good matchup against Arizona ten and a
Speaker 1: half over on Fandal, just lock it in. You can
Speaker 1: go and choose your color with the Mets and the Braves.
Speaker 1: Here is big series this week. Bassett at nine to
Speaker 1: six on DK, Freed at nine to three on DK,
Speaker 1: over on FanDuel, you got Freed at nine point six
Speaker 1: Basset at ten. You can kind of interchange him if
Speaker 1: you want on FanDuel take a shot, but this is
Speaker 1: a four outcome game. I'd rather just go to Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez tonight. And in terms of secondary arms, I mean
Speaker 1: you can go with the Drew Rasmussen at eight point three.
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting one too. I think that
Speaker 1: would be my secondary arm at DK tonight. He's also
Speaker 1: eight point two if you want to play him in
Speaker 1: tournaments tonight too. He's had some good starts your game
Speaker 1: stacks Seattle, Houston, my goodness, stay in that game. The
Speaker 1: Yankees definitely tonight two. And the Miami Marlins because right
Speaker 1: now on FanDuel, the Marlins are just straight up cheap.
Speaker 1: The entire team is cheap. Lopez is good. I know
Speaker 1: you like Gallan, I don't care. I'm gonna try for
Speaker 1: the Marlins because they're just cheap. Or a Polanco on
Speaker 1: Fandal two nine, Kepler two eight for the Twinkies, Adam
Speaker 1: Frazier also for the Marrow for the excuse me, for
Speaker 1: the Mariners two point seven over on DraftKings, Max Kepoar
Speaker 1: three point four and Julio Rodriguez three point seven. So
Speaker 1: that's what we got so Welsh, where are you going
Speaker 1: for your home run call tonight? Who you got?
Speaker 2: I am going to go over to Toronto, and I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna go with Vladimir Gerra Junior. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with Bobaschett. Bobachett, he's got a couple career homers off
Speaker 2: of Jordan Montgomery has got a pretty good track record
Speaker 2: as far as what he's done against him, not just
Speaker 2: homer wise, hitting five hundred, not a huge track record.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna go with a little Bobachett tonight to
Speaker 2: get home run number.
Speaker 1: Five, a little Bobashett, I'd like to get homer number two.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with ty Franz. That's what I'm goeing.
Speaker 1: I'm just just throwing caution to the wind here. Ty
Speaker 1: Franz has been really good. Give me some ty France.
Speaker 1: Uh like the ballpark factor for him tonight against Houston.
Speaker 1: Oderezi's is a hit machine in terms of giving up hits.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go that right. Bogman's going Goldschmid. I
Speaker 1: believe if you put this in or if that's from
Speaker 1: last week, I don't know. I can't imagine put this In,
Speaker 1: he's not awake yet.
Speaker 2: I mean, you never know. You might have done it
Speaker 2: last night. You never know.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it there just in case, in perpetuity and
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor going with Louis Robert tonight, I believe. So
Speaker 1: there you have it. If you want to make your
Speaker 1: home run calls, head over to our Discord Fantasypros dot
Speaker 1: Com slash chat. You can get in on this. Look.
Speaker 1: I know it seems insurmountable, it is not. Also, I
Speaker 1: spoke with Blaine. We've confirmed, Uh, the winner of the
Speaker 1: home run contest this year is going to get a
Speaker 1: big time prize. We've confirmed what the prize is and
Speaker 1: has to do with Fernando Tatis Junior. So that's very exciting.
Speaker 1: So just putting that out there will reveal exactly what
Speaker 1: it is maybe tomorrow, maybe later in the week. But
Speaker 1: give out some shirts to you. Yeah. I was about
Speaker 1: to say that, right, that's the grand prize. It's the
Speaker 1: grand prize.
Speaker 2: By the way, the chat is pointing out you did
Speaker 2: not give the what was the trivia question? Because I
Speaker 2: see Justin just nailed it. Uh no, well a lot
Speaker 2: of no, No, he did, he did, he did.
Speaker 1: People nailed it a long time ago. I'm sorry. You're right.
Speaker 1: I got on the train and I never went back.
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, Tim Linsigam and Max Schuer's are were the
Speaker 1: three guys from the same first round in six to
Speaker 1: all win. Say Young's and Sure's her and Kershaw still
Speaker 1: competing for them and Tim Linsigham. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's playing put puck golf somewhere. I don't know what surfing.
Speaker 2: He's playing, not putt putt little puff puff that's what.
Speaker 1: Always playing puff puff golf. Yeah, you know, ain't another
Speaker 1: wrong little puff puff golf fall by little put putt golf.
Speaker 1: To me, that sounds like a heck of a Friday night,
Speaker 1: like why not? Why not do that? I mean, sure
Speaker 1: works for me, but that'll do it for us. It's
Speaker 1: legal in New Jersey, it's legal in Arizona.
Speaker 2: I mean he lives here too. I think he's here,
Speaker 2: so he's just doing it here.
Speaker 1: Living Doctor Glenn has a good one too. I like
Speaker 1: this almost like a cameo grand prize as Joey p
Speaker 1: records a voicemail message in the Brooklyn accident on your voicemail.
Speaker 1: That's a fun one too.
Speaker 2: I've gotten a few of those myself, not even as
Speaker 2: a prime I've just gotten a few.
Speaker 1: Of those, so alright, that'll do it for us. But
Speaker 1: the story of the game goes on for Welsh. I'm
Speaker 1: Joey P. We'll see you next time, kids,