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Speaker 1: Monstrous Luis Robert Holme run, Wilson Contreras, congratulations on his
Speaker 1: hundredth home run. Everyone, everyone's in a hundredth home runs
Speaker 1: this week. It's very cool, all the milestones going on.
Speaker 1: Of course, we got the peanuts of the Crackerjacks commenting
Speaker 1: as we always do right here on a glorious Tuesday. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: my kids got sent home from school early in fear
Speaker 1: of these terrible storms that did not happen, did rain later.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. You know the difference between when we were
Speaker 1: kids and kids now. It's like, well, we want to
Speaker 1: be safe for sorry. There was no kindness for us
Speaker 1: as children. It was like, well, if you get hit
Speaker 1: by lightning, that's on you, tornado tap, that's you know,
Speaker 1: we could care less. Do you get that feeling?
Speaker 2: I do remember walking to school and like seeing the
Speaker 2: rain drops freeze on my hat when I walked in,
Speaker 2: and like and be like, man, I probably should not
Speaker 2: have been walking to school today, but that's just the
Speaker 2: way it was, you know. So, uh, it didn't have
Speaker 2: to do that for very long because then I moved
Speaker 2: to Arizona where it doesn't rain right and it's just
Speaker 2: always hot. So never happened again. But it did happen
Speaker 2: to me when I was nine or whatever. So uh,
Speaker 2: but yeah, I'm let's talk some baseball, man, I'm ready.
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Speaker 1: off here with Gary Sanchez homers and doubles in a
Speaker 1: win over the A's My boy Freddy p Freddie Peralta
Speaker 1: fans ten over seven scoreless innings. It was a beautiful moment.
Speaker 1: One of our peanuts and Crackerjacks actually hit me up
Speaker 1: in the Discord channel because he won five hundred bucks
Speaker 1: last night playing DFS with Our Lives last night. Pretty
Speaker 1: pretty good, not too shabby. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a five dollars entry or something like that. So, oh
Speaker 1: we go, nice return on your money. Over the last
Speaker 1: five stars for Freddy Peralta one five, seven, Era six strikeout,
Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me, I'll just six walks over that
Speaker 1: period of time. The guy's been absolutely electric in what
Speaker 1: he's done. Eight is the web point eight zero is
Speaker 1: the whip right now for Freddy p. So people get
Speaker 1: concerned or freaked out over a short period of time here,
Speaker 1: you gotta just calm down, like you know, especially in April.
Speaker 1: This is the first thing and people started freaking out
Speaker 1: about Freddy Peralta in the first two weeks. We were
Speaker 1: practicing patients on this show, and if you had patients,
Speaker 1: it certainly paid off because he's been dominant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's just no reason panic could tell about
Speaker 2: six weeks in.
Speaker 3: I mean, if a.
Speaker 2: Guy is you're the six week guy, yeah, if because
Speaker 2: that's when teams start to panic. That's when Jared kell
Speaker 2: Ncott sent down, you know, that's when the teams start
Speaker 2: to go, all right, we've had enough. We're not letting
Speaker 2: you come out of this anymore. Go figure it out
Speaker 2: down in the minors and then come back up unless
Speaker 2: they're really young. So there's just not especially with established veterans,
Speaker 2: there's no reason to panic early in the season. I mean,
Speaker 2: remember Paul Goldsmith had the worst like eight week stretch
Speaker 2: ever a couple of years back, and then was an
Speaker 2: All Star from that point on. Sometimes it's just guys
Speaker 2: are in a funk, can't get right whatever. And all
Speaker 2: I'm saying is if this happened between July and August,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't even notice, you know. But because it's at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season, we noticed, because we're waiting
Speaker 2: for all of these numbers to come back. But I
Speaker 2: think I was most oppressed with Johnnyquato last night.
Speaker 1: No Johnny Quato throws six scorrels in his twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two debut. All right, Bobs, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Johnny Quato?
Speaker 2: All the stuff we said about Jose Quintana, I would
Speaker 2: rather I feel like I'd rather have Johnny Cuato. But
Speaker 2: I know I know it's coming, Like we know we
Speaker 2: know it's coming with uh these guys anyway, you know,
Speaker 2: the veterans that have been around for so long, Wait
Speaker 2: a little bit. He looked great last night. I think
Speaker 2: I'd make him an add in a deeper league. But
Speaker 2: you know, the other shoe's gonna drop. He'll give up
Speaker 2: eight at some point or whatever. But uh, I like
Speaker 2: riding the wave. John e Quaida looked good last night.
Speaker 1: I just don't know how long you can keep a
Speaker 1: rotation spot too. Because you have Gilido coming back today,
Speaker 1: you have, I assume at some point, right eventually. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny we've getten updates on you know, we've gotten
Speaker 1: updates on d Grom even we've certainly gotten updates on
Speaker 1: Chris Sale that he's throwing. A don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: He's throwing he's playing catch, which is great. I play
Speaker 1: catch too outside, so I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: But I haven't I even heard boom out lancelets. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping things start to trickle down. By the way, I
Speaker 1: missed a freight per alticetat. I just wanted to uh
Speaker 1: to throw out there. Thirty eight strikeouts over the last
Speaker 1: five starts, just six Walks. I missed the strikeout total.
Speaker 1: That's what I was looking for, and I had the numbered.
Speaker 1: I lost it. That's a pretty darn good Kito walk ratio.
Speaker 1: I just want to throw that out there. Louis Robert, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hit a phenomenal home run, his tenth in the tenth
Speaker 1: excuse me against the White Boy. Oh boy, I'm having
Speaker 1: trouble to day. Bogs.
Speaker 3: It's the morning, you sound like I do.
Speaker 1: It's not the morning, it's afternoon for me. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just overwrought. Let me try this again. Louis Robert,
Speaker 1: who plays for the White Sox. I hit a home
Speaker 1: run against the Royals in the tenth inning. It was
Speaker 1: it was monstrous. It's funny. I actually cashed out my
Speaker 1: Louis Robert MVP bet at thirty to one that I
Speaker 1: was so excited about making the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: I just feel like there's just no way he can
Speaker 1: get there, no matter how good he is. I'm at
Speaker 1: that point where I'm looking at my Otani bet and
Speaker 1: my Robert bet. Those are the two al bets I made.
Speaker 1: I'm like anything.
Speaker 2: Anything that's not bet is a suckers bet, even if
Speaker 2: it's flat and I love Ladd, but I mean, how
Speaker 2: is anyone supposed to beat him when he's hting forty
Speaker 2: homers and pitching one hunred and fifty innings Like, you can't.
Speaker 3: No one's going to beat that. You can't.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. No Cinderguard, you could beat him. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is fascinating because no Cinderguard's last start or two,
Speaker 1: you start to see the strikeout total creep up a
Speaker 1: little bit. That was very exciting. Uh, And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he has this outing with where he
Speaker 1: gets what two thirds of an inning? I think, right?
Speaker 1: Did he didn't even get out of an inning against
Speaker 1: the Rangers. No less, Now I understand, like these blow
Speaker 1: up starts happen sometimes. You know guys who are going well.
Speaker 1: You know, Eric lower had less than thrilling start, but
Speaker 1: he still struck out a lot of guys. You saw
Speaker 1: Rodin finally have a bad start. These things happen, But
Speaker 1: this was really bad. So when you have a picture
Speaker 1: like Cindergard that you already have concerns with all these
Speaker 1: injuries and all this history and things are going well,
Speaker 1: is it easy to shrug off this kind of epically
Speaker 1: bad start or is this tougher to get out of
Speaker 1: your mind when you're trying to evaluate him on your roster.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's tougher because it's like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 2: if he gives up a blip to the Dodgers or
Speaker 2: the Astros or the White Sox, like someone with a
Speaker 2: superb lineup, You're like, Okay, he was off. They took advantage.
Speaker 2: But also with these big games, when you don't last
Speaker 2: out of an inning, I gotta feel like he was tipping.
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't seen anyone say that yet, but
Speaker 2: but I almost feel like you have to say he
Speaker 2: was tipping because he looked good in the other start.
Speaker 3: So I'm not that concern.
Speaker 2: But it makes it dicey to start him at any
Speaker 2: point when he gets rocked by the Rangers, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So it makes it tougher when he
Speaker 2: gets beat by a team like this. But I gotta
Speaker 2: imagine if he comes out and the next start is okay,
Speaker 2: I gotta imagine they had.
Speaker 3: Something on him.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine I'm gonna have to pick up
Speaker 1: Yonah him too, Yonah him the Oldeni.
Speaker 3: I've picked him up. I picked him up in a
Speaker 3: couple of spots.
Speaker 2: I have Carson Kelly on the il and too many spots,
Speaker 2: so I was going home er at the catcher position.
Speaker 3: Give me Jonaheim.
Speaker 2: He said, everything we wanted Mitch Garver to do, Jonaheim
Speaker 2: is doing.
Speaker 1: I know. But Garver is on rehab right now, like
Speaker 1: he's coming back right So that's my thing. It's like
Speaker 1: I didn't pick him up because of that, and he had
Speaker 1: another home run, and I keep looking like staring at
Speaker 1: him in the waiver wire every week, and every week
Speaker 1: he's there because nobody picks him up. It's a fifteen
Speaker 1: team league and only one catcher, so nobody has to
Speaker 1: pick him up. And I just, I don't know, just
Speaker 1: I keep looking at him and I watch him take
Speaker 1: up bats. I'm like, I like this guy. I'm just
Speaker 1: worried about the playing time. But I guess a catcher,
Speaker 1: if you play three times and you're good, that's good
Speaker 1: enough probably anyway, it just depends on how many games
Speaker 1: he plays when Garver comes back. Other injury news, Brandon
Speaker 1: Laue to the io with a back issue. Dylan Bundy
Speaker 1: is gonna start today actually coming back from the COVID list.
Speaker 1: Carlos Korea could return during the A series that just
Speaker 1: came out recently.
Speaker 3: Well, Jacob get hurt again, Carlos Korea, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God know that that massage was a funny injury.
Speaker 1: It's like he got hurt in.
Speaker 3: My it's my favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not gonna be.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be. Robert Craft.
Speaker 1: I knew you were gonna go to Robert Kraft, one
Speaker 1: of all of them things you could have gone to.
Speaker 3: You're here.
Speaker 1: I have to go with Robert. I know, come on, hey,
Speaker 1: get Robert Kraft. Go get a massage. Anyway. Jacob Deerzi, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, before he exited with the leg injury yesterday,
Speaker 1: did hit the over on the three and a half
Speaker 1: k prop so he got four. He got the four,
Speaker 1: but it stinks that he had.
Speaker 2: Thank God, you wanted some money before you got carted
Speaker 2: off in your careers in Jeopardy, Jaco, thanks a lot, buddy,
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know if his.
Speaker 1: Careers and Jeff and we gotten to that point with this.
Speaker 1: I thought he was being evaluated still, that's the.
Speaker 3: Last thing that mattered. I mean, it did not look good, dude.
Speaker 2: I thought it was Tucker at first in the outfielder
Speaker 2: in the outfield because I was I was doing my
Speaker 2: stages last night on Discord and I looked up at
Speaker 2: my TV and I just see an Astros guy rolling
Speaker 2: around on the ground and I think outfield collision. Maybe
Speaker 2: is that is that Tucker? But then it was Odorizzy,
Speaker 2: and Yeah, carted him off. It did not look good, man.
Speaker 2: He looked very upset.
Speaker 1: And it's upsetting too because he was a guy who
Speaker 1: last week was looking at It was like, hey, got
Speaker 1: two starts over the last.
Speaker 2: Trusia and Quintana. You know, I much rather have Jacoberrizzy,
Speaker 2: but not now.
Speaker 1: This is why we can't have nice things. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this before Monday night's game. Cody Bellinger,
Speaker 1: Max Munsey, and Gavin Lux all practice bunting to beat
Speaker 1: the shift with manager Dave Roberts, who was a pretty
Speaker 1: good bunter back in his day. He was a bunting
Speaker 1: speed kind of a player. In the sixth inning, Max
Speaker 1: Month he laid down a perfect bunt and it was
Speaker 1: right up the third base line against the shift for
Speaker 1: a hit, and Chris Taylor followed up with a two
Speaker 1: run home run. A baseball game broke out your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this and will teams start to do more of this,
Speaker 1: especially any offenses that might be struggling when they have
Speaker 1: that shift to come up there. I mean, look, if
Speaker 1: they're giving it to you, take it. I feel like
Speaker 1: the individual ego has gotten so out of whack sometimes
Speaker 1: that people forget they're about winning baseball games. And if
Speaker 1: it helps you win a baseball game against the shift,
Speaker 1: go butt until you have to force everybody back over
Speaker 1: and be neutral in the I don't think it's your ego.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's ego.
Speaker 1: I think it's analytics.
Speaker 3: I think it's analytics.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of time they say don't take
Speaker 2: the bunt because you're probably gonna get thrown out. But
Speaker 2: if you can lay it down perfectly, you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2: This feels pointed at me, Joe, because it was against
Speaker 2: the d Backs, but that's all right.
Speaker 3: I'll save that.
Speaker 2: Yes, more more teams should do this, especially teams that
Speaker 2: are struggling to hit. You know, it just would make
Speaker 2: more sense. Get a runner on, make the pitcher feel
Speaker 2: a little bit of pressure. So every guy should have
Speaker 2: this in his back pocket. They should all practice it
Speaker 2: way more.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it at all like you you said here,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's ego, but it's something teams
Speaker 2: just don't want players to bunt. They don't want it
Speaker 2: as an option for whatever reason. But I think it's
Speaker 2: smart and it's been part of baseball for a long time.
Speaker 2: It's gone away over the last whatever decade, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we need to bring it back. And you know,
Speaker 2: if Dave Roberts is the catalyst, so be it.
Speaker 1: When the CBA next year they can have the adjustment
Speaker 1: to the shift, I believe, which I don't remember offhand
Speaker 1: all the rules about it. It had something to do
Speaker 1: with the outfield grass and how far over all these
Speaker 1: guys look. I thought it was very simple.
Speaker 2: I'd be like in the NFL if you say you
Speaker 2: can only line up three guys on the line of scrimmage, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't like that, I think.
Speaker 3: I think it's dumb.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's different in the sense of that's
Speaker 1: different because you're guarding certain individuals and if you're running
Speaker 1: a play to the left and that's where you think
Speaker 1: the play is going, then you want to cheat over there.
Speaker 1: I understand that that's what the players are in this
Speaker 1: You have such specific positions in Major League Baseball, I
Speaker 1: think when you I think shifting is fine, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you should be able to shift players out
Speaker 1: of position. Like if you're shortstop, you should be able
Speaker 1: to go all the way to second base, and that's
Speaker 1: where you stop once you cross second base. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think that is an overshift. I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Or when you legitimate just take a player from the
Speaker 1: left side, just stick them out there in short right field.
Speaker 2: I think that's a lot, by the way, so you
Speaker 2: can't play. They can't play in the box anymore.
Speaker 1: It's I don't I don't think base on football is
Speaker 1: a good I think analogy for this, I don't, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't get there. Go Cards is
Speaker 1: on my side, by the way, it is ego and
Speaker 1: being more worried about your paycheck than the team. That's right,
Speaker 1: Go Cards, That's that's right.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just when you're playing defense against an individual versus
Speaker 1: playing defense against possibly where a ball is going to
Speaker 1: be in play, you're playing statistical averageest out of a
Speaker 1: human being of where they are. I think it's a
Speaker 1: little different personally. I understand your point of view, I
Speaker 1: disagree with it. It's a good point of view. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's bad. I'm just saying I disagree with
Speaker 1: what do you think of this shoey Otani has a
Speaker 1: higher OPS seven to ninety one than Alex Bregman and
Speaker 1: as a lower ERA two point seven to eight and
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller though.
Speaker 2: This is why I said that any bet that's not
Speaker 2: Otani for al MVP is a suckers bet right there.
Speaker 2: That is the exact reason he's going to have a
Speaker 2: set like that at the end of the year too.
Speaker 2: He's going to have a better slugging percentage or OPS
Speaker 2: or more homers and sole on bases and whoever, and
Speaker 2: a better era than whoever. It's gonna be that way
Speaker 2: at the end of the year as well. The only
Speaker 2: way you're gonna get Otani to not win the MVP
Speaker 2: in the near future is an injury or you know,
Speaker 2: voter fatigue. They're tired of voting for him. He's won
Speaker 2: three years in a row. Let's let's give it to
Speaker 2: Vlad or whoever you know so well.
Speaker 1: And I kept saying, the only reason you even got
Speaker 1: positive money at three to one, three and a half
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the years because of the injury
Speaker 1: risk that you have in the Otani investment because he pitches,
Speaker 1: so he has a higher risk of injury than any
Speaker 1: other player in that same category that's being considered for
Speaker 1: that award. So that's an interesting look at it. But
Speaker 1: I saw that yesterday on a tweet and I went, wow,
Speaker 1: it just I mean, not that you don't realize these things,
Speaker 1: but to see it in black and white, it's just
Speaker 1: stunning to look at. And I know Welsh and I
Speaker 1: have a big conversation yesterday about if we're gonna see
Speaker 1: more young players who can basically do both. You canna
Speaker 1: see if they can why not? You know that My
Speaker 1: point yesterday Bogs was these small market teams investing in
Speaker 1: players like that, because hey, I'm getting two players in
Speaker 1: one even if he's a believer, if you could swing
Speaker 1: to bat and give me an inning, hey, that makes
Speaker 1: a big difference on the roster. Today, I wanted to
Speaker 1: highlight some of our great writers over on Fantasypros dot com,
Speaker 1: and of course, our good friend Eric Cross, who writes
Speaker 1: for fan Tracks and The Black Book, also writes over
Speaker 1: for Fantasy Pros, and he did a piece about Dynasty
Speaker 1: stocks going up and down, so I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: he's got Shane McClanahan. Obviously he's pitching out of his
Speaker 1: mind right now as a stock that's going up, and
Speaker 1: I want to talk about mcclanahan's Dynasty value right now
Speaker 1: because at his age, what he's doing right now, there's
Speaker 1: certainly the reason to start to look at him maybe differently,
Speaker 1: and this might be the window where you can buy
Speaker 1: a premium and actually get premium productivity. Where do you
Speaker 1: stand on McClanahan and Dynasty leagues. Do you think he
Speaker 1: is going to have a run here next three years
Speaker 1: as you know, one of these top tier, top ten
Speaker 1: type starters, or do you think this is just a
Speaker 1: really good run. What are your thoughts on the klanahan?
Speaker 2: No, I believe in him. I definitely think he's a
Speaker 2: top ten picture moving forward. He's been outstanding this year.
Speaker 2: All he has to do is get the innings, like
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of big innings years under his
Speaker 2: belt and proved that he can do that, which you
Speaker 2: know is bumpy for some guys. Looks like Julio Rius
Speaker 2: might have been overused a little bit last year and
Speaker 2: having a little bit of fatigue this season, there are
Speaker 2: many times that that has been an issue as well.
Speaker 2: So that's really the only thing he has to prove
Speaker 2: to me is being able to stay healthy and make
Speaker 2: it through a couple of seasons back to backup thirty
Speaker 2: starts here. So if he can do that, then he's
Speaker 2: definitely going to be an opa Echelon picture moving forward. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I think that's the only thing left he
Speaker 2: has to prove because, like, you know, looking at his
Speaker 2: strikeout total tonight, I think it's six and a half
Speaker 2: or whatever, and I'm like, how could you bet against
Speaker 2: you if you don't want to go that high? I
Speaker 2: get it, but you can't take the under because he
Speaker 2: can definitely get that.
Speaker 1: Here's some names, Okay, dynasty rankings right now, Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1: I think we'd agree we'd rather have Corbyn Burns, Yes, yes, yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. I think we both still want Garrett Cole, Yes, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: Walker Bueller or Shane McClanahan.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Bueller, but it's slight, very slight.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Bueller also, you know, just because
Speaker 1: the team situation, right, you know, the Dodgers investment, the
Speaker 1: team and the quality of everything going on there. And look,
Speaker 1: just because he's having a bad run here, he's had
Speaker 1: some very good runs. Also, what about the other two
Speaker 1: guys in Milwaukee, Brandon Woodrooff and and my Boyfriddi p
Speaker 1: Who would rather have those two guys?
Speaker 2: I think I would rather have McClanahan than Peralta.
Speaker 3: Woodroof is close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's where I would probably stick him
Speaker 2: behind Woodroof.
Speaker 1: All Right, The biggest in the same piece of Eric
Speaker 1: cross As is Joe Adell, and with good reason. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen this act now for a little while,
Speaker 1: and there's certainly still plenty of time for him to
Speaker 1: turn his career around and kind of get right. Or
Speaker 1: maybe he gets moved somewhere else. Maybe jo Adell is
Speaker 1: the piece that some other organization takes on, just leaves
Speaker 1: him out there, lets him figure it out on the fly,
Speaker 1: and they get some more pitching for this run. Because
Speaker 1: I think the Angels are gonna be competiti They're gonna
Speaker 1: be a playoff team, I think this year. So right now,
Speaker 1: are you in the camp of get out of Jo
Speaker 1: Adell business? Whatever it takes. Tick what you can or
Speaker 1: in Dynasty, are you in the hey, I could buy
Speaker 1: rock bottom on this guy. And we've seen guys you know,
Speaker 1: jad Martinez for instance, right big time Prospect was a
Speaker 1: guy couldn't miss with Houston. He's terrible. He was moved
Speaker 1: on and next thing you know, he became Jadie Martinez
Speaker 1: a few years later. So I'm not saying Adele's going
Speaker 1: to have that path necessarily, because you know that seems
Speaker 1: to be more of the anomaly. But where do you
Speaker 1: stand with Adele right now getting sent down him? Kellenick,
Speaker 1: there's been two guys now, two premium dudes talking of
Speaker 1: for a few years, massive disappointments. Would you be buying
Speaker 1: them in Dynasty?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and it's you'd buy these guys now
Speaker 2: because their value is so low, and it's not going
Speaker 2: to be lower it's gonna be Honestly, I feel like,
Speaker 2: if I'm trying to buy them now, get them on
Speaker 2: my roster, it's going to cost me more than I
Speaker 2: feel comfortable, because no one's gonna want to give up
Speaker 2: on them when they're this slow. But there are many
Speaker 2: leagues where you can't you don't have like a minor
Speaker 2: spot they're eating up a roster spot for the whole year,
Speaker 2: and this team's competing, so they might be willing to
Speaker 2: go ahead and sell them off low. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: definitely buying because they have the talent, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think when you see that kind of stuff, there's
Speaker 2: sometimes where a guy comes up and you know he's
Speaker 2: Billy Hamilton. You know, you can't steal first, so that's
Speaker 2: all that matters for his career. Right a guy can't
Speaker 2: get on base. All he does is steal, and that's
Speaker 2: a rap. You know he's not gonna be good at
Speaker 2: the big league level. These guys both have power. I'm
Speaker 2: buying up both of them, but Adele is especially I
Speaker 2: would definitely.
Speaker 1: Buy all right, our boy Casey Bubba's got a piece
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Pros as well about risers and fallers, and
Speaker 1: one of the risers here is a guy that I
Speaker 1: was very high on coming into the year, I lost
Speaker 1: patience with. I had a roster crunch at the time.
Speaker 1: I had depth in the middle infield, and I cut
Speaker 1: Brandon Rodgers, and Brandon Rodgers has shown some signs of
Speaker 1: life here in May, which is nice. In May, he's
Speaker 1: hitting three seventy two home runs, so things are starting
Speaker 1: to pick up a little bit for him. He was
Speaker 1: dreadful and April he was so bad, and I'm starting
Speaker 1: to regret this. But now here we are in May,
Speaker 1: and I imagine he's available in some of the more
Speaker 1: shallow formats. And if he is, is this somebody that
Speaker 1: you'd be running to the waiver wire to pick up.
Speaker 1: Do you believe in Brendan Rodgers for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 2: I do, Just you know, he gets the extra bonus
Speaker 2: because he's in Colorado, right, So once he figures it out,
Speaker 2: he's gonna power. You know, he's gonna he's gonna bring
Speaker 2: some heat for your team. So but I have no regret, rats,
Speaker 2: and do not blame you for dumping him at all.
Speaker 2: He was hitting like under one hundred, so it was
Speaker 2: like eighty three at one point. Yeah, when someone's not
Speaker 2: miser patients. But yeah, I was worried that they would
Speaker 2: send him down. Of course, why wouldn't you be so yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean because he walked right up to that line
Speaker 2: of being completely useless. So I understand anyone dropping him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, now that he's hitting, you ride the wave
Speaker 2: on a guy like that. A borderline roster guy. You
Speaker 2: ride the wave, you pick him up, you ride it
Speaker 2: out until he starts, you know, slowing up again, Dump
Speaker 2: him and pick somebody else. That's the the way the
Speaker 2: waiver wire needs to churn.
Speaker 1: So I feel like Brian Rodgers is gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy I'm gonna completely regret dropping in April. Just I
Speaker 1: just feel it in my bones with all of my
Speaker 1: being Another guy Bubba's pointing out about. One of the
Speaker 1: followers is Brian Reynolds. He's hitting one forty three over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I mean, the walk rate is
Speaker 1: still ten percent, the strikeout rates at twenty one. It's
Speaker 1: weird because he was such a good, consistent player last year.
Speaker 1: He's thinking two to zero nine with four home runs
Speaker 1: at the start. Now. Look, I know it's the Pirates,
Speaker 1: and I know they don't have a lot of line
Speaker 1: of protection in this lineup, and I get all that.
Speaker 1: I'm still buying Brian Reynolds where I can because I
Speaker 1: can't what I watched him do last year. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a fluke. I just I think he's a
Speaker 1: much better player now. Maybe some people have found out
Speaker 1: some stuff about him. I think is one of these
Speaker 1: bad starts and he's pressing now. I don't feel as
Speaker 1: confident as I did that with Maryfield would turn things around.
Speaker 1: But I'm still buying Brian Reynolds. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Reynolds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little worried because if you rostered Brian Reynolds,
Speaker 2: you did it, you know, for batting average. You do
Speaker 2: it for the other stuff too, But you're not gonna
Speaker 2: get as many runs or RBI with him playing in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: The homers are okay, there are plenty of guys that
Speaker 2: can hit twenty five homers that are going to be
Speaker 2: on the wire in pretty much every league. So I
Speaker 2: am worried about him because the whole reason you roster
Speaker 2: him is for the main reason you roster him is
Speaker 2: for batting average. He doesn't have it at all all
Speaker 2: right now. So I think he's gonna turn around. He's
Speaker 2: gonna be fine at some point, but it's it's already
Speaker 2: gone too long. It's gonna look like a down year
Speaker 2: overall for him because it's gonna be real hard for
Speaker 2: him to hit three hundred.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the stat heroes. Yesterday, Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna get better than this for Tony Gonsoland
Speaker 1: all yearn tell you about seven strikeouts for Tony Gonsolin
Speaker 1: and two walks, six innings, two earned runs.
Speaker 2: The Dbacks have the second highest K percentage of baseball.
Speaker 1: So look, I'm just telling everybody Gonsolin this is if
Speaker 1: you want to package him for something better. This is
Speaker 1: the start to do it off of right now, do it.
Speaker 1: Freddy p with the ten strikeouts. Wade Miley, this is
Speaker 1: the the annual Wade My I love it. Seven innings,
Speaker 1: no earned run, six k's. You're gonna pick him up
Speaker 1: for the waiver wire and he's gonna have six earned
Speaker 1: runs in the next start you watched. Sandy al Contro
Speaker 1: was fantastic, one earned over eight innings for him with
Speaker 1: five k's. Your boy, Johnnyquato was excellent. Kokuchi no earned run,
Speaker 1: six k's, uh six innings. Luis Evarino one earned against
Speaker 1: Baltimore last night, seven k's the Clubes, Corey Klueber two
Speaker 1: earned runs, eight k's. It's funny yesterday I was talking
Speaker 1: to people. They asked me who's a guy to buy
Speaker 1: low on as a pitcher, and I said the Clubes,
Speaker 1: Because if you look at the deep stats of the clubes.
Speaker 1: The k rate's good, the x fip's pretty good, like
Speaker 1: all those indicators are good. Tampa's a good situation, and
Speaker 1: then he goes out there and has a nice start,
Speaker 1: so that windows probably closed now.
Speaker 2: Dumped him in a couple of weeks. So everyone who's you're, well,
Speaker 2: that's me.
Speaker 1: Kurt Casally two home runs, four Ribby's, Anthony's handhand hair
Speaker 1: two home runs. Yesterday, Brett Phillips hit a home run.
Speaker 1: Wilson and Terer's congratulations again on that hundredth bobashett I
Speaker 1: had Vlad and said it was bo. I went back
Speaker 1: and forth in my home run call. Of course I
Speaker 1: was wrong three for five for him with the dinger.
Speaker 1: Donaldson hit a dinger. We talked about Taylor Chess, McCormick
Speaker 1: chez eight Chanz, McCormick with a home run, and Ian
Speaker 1: Happ was three for three on the bad side. It
Speaker 1: wasn't just cinderguard. John Gray had the four earned, but
Speaker 1: he didn't have eight strikeouts, so I don't really put
Speaker 1: him on in the bad list. This is Mike Mayor
Speaker 1: being angry about how much I want John Gray to
Speaker 1: succeed Aaron Sanchez wasn't great. Dylan Peters five earned in
Speaker 1: two thirds, he gets the award. We actually know, Sanderguard
Speaker 1: gets the award. Dylan Peters gets the runner up. Here
Speaker 1: we go. You ready for all the strikeouts. Joey Gallo
Speaker 1: over five with the golden Sebrero Brandon Belt over five
Speaker 1: with the hat trick. Same for DJ Lemahew over five
Speaker 1: with the hat trick, Yoemancatta over five, Nathan Lowe oh
Speaker 1: for four, sal Perez another four with two strikeouts. What's
Speaker 1: going on with Sally P? I? You know, coming into
Speaker 1: the year, I remember on one of the featured Pros
Speaker 1: articles we talked about who do you think is going
Speaker 1: to be overdrafted? And I said sal Perez? And it's
Speaker 1: not because I don't love sal Perez. It's not because
Speaker 1: I don't think he could hit thirty something bombs again.
Speaker 1: It's because I think what you saw last year was
Speaker 1: just everything broke right and it was awesome. And now
Speaker 1: he's a second round investment, or even a third round
Speaker 1: investment in shallow leagues and so far. I hate being
Speaker 1: right about this, but looks like I'm right. What's going
Speaker 1: on with Sally P?
Speaker 2: I mean, his career high homers before last year was
Speaker 2: like twenty five or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty seven something in that was the high twenties.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, right, he wasn't close to hitting the
Speaker 2: forty that he hit or however many forty plus last year.
Speaker 2: So and I know because I traded him for Isaiah
Speaker 2: Green straight up to the Welsh and it's going to
Speaker 2: be one of my worst trades that I've ever done,
Speaker 2: because he was hitting like, you know, two point fifty
Speaker 2: with three homers when I traded him last year, and
Speaker 2: then he ended up with forty of course because I
Speaker 2: was I'm in a rebuild in that squad. So I
Speaker 2: think he's going to be okay. And you know, he
Speaker 2: doesn't have to work everything out behind the plate. He
Speaker 2: can DH as well, so I'm not too worried about him.
Speaker 2: I think asking for last year is silly, but I
Speaker 2: think he's going to be okay at the.
Speaker 1: End of the year. Right, twenty seven was that high watermark.
Speaker 1: By the way, only three correct home run calls yesterday
Speaker 1: Mayor unfortunately was one of them. So I almost don't
Speaker 1: even want to show j board, but I guess I will,
Speaker 1: So here's the board. Boo. Still all I Do is
Speaker 1: one night King of the North up the top and
Speaker 1: to Blum is at thirteen, Larry C at twelve, so
Speaker 1: still going strong here. No changes to the leader board.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a great night for home runs necessarily, but
Speaker 1: famous Amos and Zerdo correctly called Luis Roberts, so good
Speaker 1: on them, so we got to get up there. Let's
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Speaker 1: Luis robert on DK today. One and a half is
Speaker 1: the total base number that's at minus one twenty five.
Speaker 1: I think that's a smash. Giancarlo Stanton is at a
Speaker 1: one point five as well for total bases here against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You get even money on him, you get minus one
Speaker 1: twenty five on judge at the one and a half
Speaker 1: total bases on DK and with Merryfield total bases you
Speaker 1: get plus one forty box plus one forty on DK
Speaker 1: for the one and a half number on WIT. Marryfield,
Speaker 1: who is he? He's hotter than Arizona right now. Logan
Speaker 1: Gilbert on FanDuel four and a half is the K
Speaker 1: number we haven't projected on Fantasy pros at almost six
Speaker 1: minus one O six. It's not terrible juice there. I
Speaker 1: know it's against Toronto, but come on, Toronto can strike out.
Speaker 3: We all know this.
Speaker 1: He's going against Barrios, who's not been good lately, and
Speaker 1: Xander Bogar is the last one even money on the
Speaker 1: one and a half total bases. Let's go through the
Speaker 1: starting pitchers. Look, it's not great tonight on the main slate.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with Logan Gilbert as my tournament play against
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. I think people will shy away from it.
Speaker 1: It's ten point two Gilito coming back eight point five.
Speaker 1: He's cheap. Take them Logan Gilbert on FanDuel ten point one,
Speaker 1: or if you want to cheap out, you can go
Speaker 1: with Alex Cobb on the cheap he is just seven
Speaker 1: point one on FanDuel. All right, let's go to some
Speaker 1: of the PVB numbers that you've got here, Boggs, what
Speaker 1: do you got laid out for us? Kittell Marte nine
Speaker 1: for twenty with two bombs and four doubles against Tyler Anderson,
Speaker 1: So a little bit of tracker there in the late game.
Speaker 1: Rano Gritchik eight for fourteen a bomb in three doubles
Speaker 1: versus Alex Cobb, Hosyel two b six for nineteen with
Speaker 1: three homers and a double vers Nadyavaldi six for eight
Speaker 1: with two doubles for Austin Hayes against Jamison tai On,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman five for ten with a bomb against caleed Smith,
Speaker 1: and Tiascar Hernandez two for two of a bomb against
Speaker 1: Logan Gilbert. Very nice. Ryan Everley here, one of our
Speaker 1: Peanuts and Crackerjacks has cracked the Buxton code. He just
Speaker 1: looked this up. Ten of bucks AND's eleven home runs
Speaker 1: have come on the weekend. So new strategy should be
Speaker 1: just pick him as your weekend pick, which is what
Speaker 1: every weekend on Friday Welsh does, and that's why he
Speaker 1: is where he is.
Speaker 2: So God blessed Baseball by the way for having these stats.
Speaker 2: You know, this is like in Major League where they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, he is second batting average in day games
Speaker 2: on the road in the month of May.
Speaker 3: So there you go. You know, you can break it
Speaker 3: up into anything you want to make a player look good.
Speaker 1: I love it, and look, Pickles is happy with us.
Speaker 1: From yesterday, I cashed the Oderezi and would over kprop.
Speaker 1: Yesterday Welsh had one. I had one. We both hit
Speaker 1: it out of the park. So good on you, and
Speaker 1: I hope you're all doing this at BETMGM where you
Speaker 1: can get those lines. But look, bet at wherever you can.
Speaker 1: And this is why you go ahead and you use
Speaker 1: bettingpros dot com because you have the prop bet chee sheet.
Speaker 1: That's where we go every morning. That's what I do.
Speaker 1: I filter them through. I look for the best money
Speaker 1: juices I could get the players. I like the situations,
Speaker 1: the pitching matchups. It makes it so much easier than
Speaker 1: siphoning through all this information. It's all right there for
Speaker 1: you at bettingpros dot com. Lastly, Bogman, it's time to
Speaker 1: call our shot. I am up to five now, I
Speaker 1: believe so I am respectable but not great. Bogs. Where
Speaker 1: are you going for your home run call tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna home Give me Kittel Marte.
Speaker 2: I've seen him hit a top ten longest homer in
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium in my lifetime, and he's got a good
Speaker 2: track record against Anderson, so I will go with Kitzel
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay in Boston with Jordan Alvarez tonight. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm going against Paveta, so hopefully that works out
Speaker 1: for me. Uh and uh. If you've got a home
Speaker 1: run call, just go ahead and make it in our discord.
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Speaker 1: but you have to be a premium subscriber of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Pros in order to make your home run calls. We
Speaker 1: are giving away a prize. And speaking of which, our
Speaker 1: prize for April for the podcast did finally get picked up,
Speaker 1: so Theon's good on you. Congratulations. He finally got it yesterday.
Speaker 1: He got in touch with Blaine, so that is the
Speaker 1: iron Heau. Just like at the very end, right, Theon
Speaker 1: found his ball and came through and got his flat
Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior signed ball. What is there some other joke
Speaker 1: in your head?
Speaker 3: No, you're making about not at all, of course not.
Speaker 1: I'm not here, all right then, all right, so if
Speaker 1: you want to win cool stuff, just let us know
Speaker 1: because we're giving away free T shirts to everybody who
Speaker 1: is the top home run getter for the month here
Speaker 1: and at the end of the year, we got that
Speaker 1: Tatisse Autocraft jersey we're giving away. So that's pretty nice.
Speaker 1: So telling you get in there, there's plenty of time
Speaker 1: to get a lot of home runs. Believe me, you
Speaker 1: can go on the street and get ten in a
Speaker 1: month and be right in this bad boy. That'll do
Speaker 1: it for us. We'll be back again tomorrow as always,
Speaker 1: right here in Fantasy Pro's MLB channel, So subscribe so
Speaker 1: be part of the fun. Mike Mayer will be here
Speaker 1: tomorrow as well. He's got my trout on his home
Speaker 1: run call, Oh Mike Trout to go anyway.
Speaker 3: Don't apologize, Mike, don't apologize.
Speaker 1: I'll be miserable when he hits three tonight. All right,
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us. But the story of the
Speaker 1: game goes on for Scott Boggin, I'm Joey P. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time. Kids freak
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