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Speaker 1: And today the Welsh is celebrating another trip around the Sun.
Speaker 1: It's his birthday, but I feel like it's really my
Speaker 1: birthday because I get to spend some quality time with
Speaker 1: my good buddy, our social media director and your friend
Speaker 1: Ryan Warmly. Ryan, it's so great to have you on.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned we've never actually done a show together.
Speaker 1: You kind of you know, are so great. You give
Speaker 1: me a day off during football season from doing a show,
Speaker 1: which I love about you, but we never actually get
Speaker 1: to hang out together, so this is nice, so quality
Speaker 1: time for you and me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The first one the baseball shows I did last year
Speaker 3: were with Dan Harris. Like you said, in football, I'm
Speaker 3: you're under under under understudy of shorts as the backup host.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm really excited to finally get to be
Speaker 3: on air with the great, the venerable Joey p.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what's awesome is the best job in
Speaker 1: the world is always backup quarterback because everybody likes you more.
Speaker 1: Everybody likes Ryan so much more than me. Like that
Speaker 1: guy is a Ryan host more shows. Joe's a bald moron.
Speaker 1: I mean that. That's definitely most of the YouTube to
Speaker 1: be clear. No, also good point. And and also Ryan
Speaker 1: dressed up for the occasion today if you could see
Speaker 1: it on our YouTube channel. He's wearing his Orioles Hawaiian shirt,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely glorious. So we got to get some
Speaker 1: love on that. We've got a lot of baseball to
Speaker 1: get to, got a lot of things going on. We'll
Speaker 1: talk a little Waiver Wire today. Also, we'll plug that
Speaker 1: in here. Let's start with the headlines though, Seattle's ty
Speaker 1: France three hits and a home run and a loss
Speaker 1: to Theers. But nice night for ty France. Saw the
Speaker 1: one bomb two. It was a no doubter. Luis Surius
Speaker 1: has a quad that is starting the rehab assignment on
Speaker 1: on Saturday, so that's good. Jesus Sanchez continues to be
Speaker 1: hot for the Marlins, selling two hits and a homer
Speaker 1: against the Cards. Noah and Aronado having a fantastic month.
Speaker 1: He might be Player of the Month at this point.
Speaker 1: Great day for him, three more hits. Pablo Lopez strikes
Speaker 1: out nine in a win over his Cardinals, though. And
Speaker 1: Paul Blackburn, who I told everybody yesterday go play this
Speaker 1: guy in DFS. I hope you did one run, five innings,
Speaker 1: another win. I think this guy should be added everywhere.
Speaker 1: Paul Blackburn. I want to start with him because he
Speaker 1: is rostered and I think like thirty percent of formats
Speaker 1: right now, and although the minor league track record does
Speaker 1: not scream that he has got like sustainability, the increased
Speaker 1: strikeout rate is appealing to me. So Blackburn is one
Speaker 1: of these guys. Because he's an A, he flies under
Speaker 1: the radar. So Ryan, I don't know if you've got
Speaker 1: him in any formats, in any leagues, but Blackburn's a
Speaker 1: guy picked up last week off the good start, just
Speaker 1: to see and now I think it's gonna cost people
Speaker 1: twice or even three times the amount to pick him
Speaker 1: up this week.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't have him anywhere.
Speaker 3: He is still available obviously in plenty of leagues that
Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity is there if I do want
Speaker 3: to decide to go after him. I wouldn't put too
Speaker 3: much stock into yesterday because I mean, first of all,
Speaker 3: I can't believe you're starting with me having to talk
Speaker 3: about a negative thing with the Orioles, But it was
Speaker 3: going up against one of the worst offenses in baseball,
Speaker 3: and offense that has been bad, like whether they're at
Speaker 3: the Camden Yards with the extended fence or not, they've
Speaker 3: not been good this year at all. So I wouldn't
Speaker 3: put too much value in that. But you're right, there's
Speaker 3: been other signs throughout the.
Speaker 2: Season so far.
Speaker 3: He hasn't gone more than five innings yet in any game,
Speaker 3: so it's not like he's one of these guys going deep.
Speaker 2: But where are those guys anyways? So I like him.
Speaker 2: I think he's.
Speaker 3: Totally worth like a speculative pickup, and maybe even more
Speaker 3: than speculative at this point based on what we've seen.
Speaker 3: But I wouldn't put too much stock into like, oh,
Speaker 3: his price is gonna go up just because he did
Speaker 3: pretty well against like probably a bottom three offense.
Speaker 1: Well you know what, he's doing well and he's healthy
Speaker 1: right now, which it's a good combination of things to
Speaker 1: have because it's pitching injuries all over the place as
Speaker 1: we always see here in baseball, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: what we can do is get a good run out
Speaker 1: of him and then flip him if he can, in
Speaker 1: a package for somebody better or somebody returning off the
Speaker 1: eye out in a few weeks. Some injuries. Yesterday, Luis
Speaker 1: Robert did have a couple of hits, but he left
Speaker 1: with a groin injury and without hitting a home run.
Speaker 1: So I am sour because he was my pick yesterday
Speaker 1: and again another over night for me, I'm pissed off
Speaker 1: about it. I'm not happy. I'm not leaving April with
Speaker 1: one home run. That's just unacceptable. John Gray also headed
Speaker 1: to the injured list with a mild MCL spraining to
Speaker 1: his left knee. So more to come with that. So
Speaker 1: two injuries, the robber one obviously more substantial. We'll keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. More information to come. I want
Speaker 1: to play a little. Can we talk about this to
Speaker 1: start with Jazz Chisholm, who's hitting lead off to the
Speaker 1: Marlins on Thursday. Now, Chisholm off to a very hot start.
Speaker 1: This was a very divisive player heading into the season,
Speaker 1: twenty four years old. He's slashing two ninety six, three
Speaker 1: forty four with a seven forty one, slugging two homers,
Speaker 1: two doubles, two triples, a partridge in a pear tree RBI,
Speaker 1: and of course the one stolen base, which is why
Speaker 1: you drafted him in the first place. So a very
Speaker 1: hot start to Chisholm. So, I guess here's my question.
Speaker 1: We all know this is unsustainable. Is this the perfect
Speaker 1: time to flip him for something and an asset that
Speaker 1: might be way more sustainable? Or do you think Chisholm's
Speaker 1: gonna have some of these more high points in the
Speaker 1: season than we realize. The lows are gonna come, but
Speaker 1: this is a high point, and if you can have
Speaker 1: a couple of them, that's gonna make for a really
Speaker 1: good overall rotal player. Your thoughts on Chisholm's hot start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked Chishm a lot coming into the season.
Speaker 3: He was one of those guys who, yes, he's up
Speaker 3: and down at times, but I really think of him
Speaker 3: as somebody who when I'm playing fantasy, I'll just say
Speaker 3: sort of like philosophically, I want the guys who are
Speaker 3: gonna be up and down because I want to take
Speaker 3: a chance that they're gonna be up for a lot
Speaker 3: more than we sort of expected. And he's a guy
Speaker 3: that I like, I said, I really loved coming into
Speaker 3: the year. His expected batting average based on the batt
Speaker 3: of ball like profile isn't as high as his current
Speaker 3: batting average is, but he has still made a dramatic
Speaker 3: jump in that batterball profile from last year and last
Speaker 3: year he had made a jump from the first year.
Speaker 3: And he's sitting the ball hard on exactly half of
Speaker 3: his at bats. His hard hit rate is fifty percent,
Speaker 3: so I can understand why he's expected slugging would be high.
Speaker 3: His WOBBA is pretty high. He's pulling the ball a lot,
Speaker 3: like I think of his of his ten or eleven
Speaker 3: hits or whatever he has this season, like nine of
Speaker 3: them are are down the line, And frankly, I don't
Speaker 3: care if a player is doing that. You think of
Speaker 3: like the old school baseball thoughts of like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: a good hitter, you use all parts of the field.
Speaker 3: You can drive ball at the middle. If you're hitting
Speaker 3: the ball hard. I don't care where it goes. He's
Speaker 3: sitting the ball hard.
Speaker 2: I really like him.
Speaker 3: And he's also just like electric and so much fun
Speaker 3: to watch and to have on your roster, like I
Speaker 3: enjoy watching. Did you see he had the thing with
Speaker 3: the umpire where he was like like no, no, no, I
Speaker 3: got this, like trying to tell him to get back
Speaker 3: in the box next pitch home run.
Speaker 2: Like the dude's just fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like the good energy. I like the entertaining guys.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that now Doctor Glenn sometimes is entertaining. If
Speaker 1: an r Peanuts and cracker Jack gallery, and he said,
Speaker 1: I gave Jazz Chishom a high five. It's spring training.
Speaker 1: That's what this hot start is really all about. And
Speaker 1: that's how it started, basically, so doctor Glenn once again
Speaker 1: taking credit for things that can't possibly be traced back
Speaker 1: to him. But that's good. I like when the Pienza
Speaker 1: cracker Jacks think that they control the universe, because it
Speaker 1: feels like they control the show most days. That's for sure.
Speaker 1: I love you, Doc, It's great to see you back
Speaker 1: in the chat today. Garrett Witlock likely to start for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox on Saturday at Tampa. Now some weird
Speaker 1: things going on. Rich Hill's on the bereavement list and
Speaker 1: Tanner howckets unvaccinated, so it's like they had to reshuffle
Speaker 1: everything around. But this is funny because Garrett Winlock is
Speaker 1: this guy that well Sho and I have been on.
Speaker 1: We love him as that potential closer he got to
Speaker 1: save the other night. He started off really good. He's
Speaker 1: got eleven strikeouts and two walks and nine to two
Speaker 1: thirds innings. But it's gonna raise his profile if he
Speaker 1: has a really good start and then beg some more questions.
Speaker 1: This is another dude that I feel like, as an asset,
Speaker 1: just add talent to rosters instead of holding onto guys
Speaker 1: that are really just fringe players. Anyway, Witlock is another
Speaker 1: dude that if he's still floating out there, I think
Speaker 1: it got to add this week. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, definitely talented, and I agree with you fundamentally,
Speaker 3: like ad talent, that's always a good thing. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: put too much stock into this first start. I mean,
Speaker 3: has he thrown more than like forty pitches in a
Speaker 3: game this season?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: And just with the way the landscape of pitching right
Speaker 3: now across baseball. I certainly wouldn't expect me to go
Speaker 3: deep in the game in his first start. Maybe they
Speaker 3: work him up to that down the line, but I
Speaker 3: think the better value is, like you said, as a
Speaker 3: potential closer, somebody who can be like a multi inning reliever.
Speaker 2: That so like, it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I'll certainly be paying close attention to it, but I
Speaker 3: don't know how much stock I would put in whatever
Speaker 3: the stat line.
Speaker 2: Is on this first start.
Speaker 1: All right, moving on to the next topic here, Bobby Witt.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about him dropped his seventh in the batting
Speaker 1: order for the Royals. Look, I think this is an
Speaker 1: overreaction by the Royals. Maybe they're trying to take more
Speaker 1: pressure off of him, but I think it's the opposite effect.
Speaker 1: I think what you want to do is you want
Speaker 1: to keep the kid at the top of the order
Speaker 1: in front of more lineup protection, not drop him down
Speaker 1: in the order. So I think this is stupid by
Speaker 1: the Royals and short sighted. The Royals are not going
Speaker 1: to win a World Series. There I said it. Spoiler alert, sorry, everybody.
Speaker 1: The Royals aren't winning the Pennant this year. And I
Speaker 1: know it's April and everyone's trying to win games. But
Speaker 1: you've got to get Bobby Wit Junior. Right. I know
Speaker 1: it's been a terrible start. The slash is just abismo
Speaker 1: f thirty one over his first forty played appearances. But
Speaker 1: this is your opportunity because I'm sure there's somebody who
Speaker 1: overpaid for Bobby Wit that's freaking out right now. I
Speaker 1: would kick the tyres on a trade. He's too good
Speaker 1: of a player. He was red hot in spring training.
Speaker 1: This is also the ebb and flow of a baseball player.
Speaker 1: They get red hot and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they get a cold streak. It just so happens. It's
Speaker 1: cold streak is to start the season. So I would
Speaker 1: be buying everywhere. What do you think about Bobby Wood
Speaker 1: Junior in this change that they've had in the lineup
Speaker 1: where he's hitting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really like your point about whoever took him
Speaker 3: probably is overly concerned right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I mean it's been two weeks into the season. Every
Speaker 3: player is going to go through a two week stretch
Speaker 3: similar to this. Now, the bad of ball profile, like
Speaker 3: I'm reference four, isn't good. It's not like he's been
Speaker 3: getting unlucky and hitting the ball hard, and then it's
Speaker 3: just being right at defenders. He hasn't been hitting the
Speaker 3: ball well, period, so I get it, but it is
Speaker 3: very early to be tinkering. I don't like when you
Speaker 3: have a top prospect and you say, okay, like we
Speaker 3: believe in you, you're the guy, you're here, end of story,
Speaker 3: and then you change it so quickly, like I don't
Speaker 3: know anything about Bobby witz like personality. I've never met him.
Speaker 3: He probably can handle it. I'm sure he's fine, but
Speaker 3: it's just something I don't like. It seems like unnecessary,
Speaker 3: like pressure and stress to just move move young hitters.
Speaker 1: Around like that.
Speaker 3: And we see this a lot with young hitters too,
Speaker 3: like Alex Bregman was what over twenty eight to start
Speaker 3: his career. You know, Mike Tratt was bad his first
Speaker 3: summer up in the big league, So like, starting slow
Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily mean he's going to.
Speaker 2: Be bad the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: Even he's still they're giving him the green light to
Speaker 3: run a lot if he needs stolen bases. He's playing
Speaker 3: very well in the field, so he's going to continue
Speaker 3: to get at bats and still be playing. It's not
Speaker 3: like I'm worried about them sending him down or anything
Speaker 3: like that. But yeah, to me, it's just a move.
Speaker 3: I don't get I don't I don't think it makes
Speaker 3: a lot of sense to move him around, at least
Speaker 3: at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: Well, if you want to know a little bit more
Speaker 1: about him, he's he's a Gemini born June fourteenth. He's
Speaker 1: from Colleyville, Texas. Now as a Gemini, he has those
Speaker 1: two personalities. So this is the bad hitter. I WoT
Speaker 1: the good hitter to show up. See what I did.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know what
Speaker 1: his sending sign is. And it says that he enjoys
Speaker 1: photography projects and DIY stuff, and he also enjoys jazz music,
Speaker 1: which you wouldn't think that.
Speaker 2: For it to be clear, when you say he's a Gemini,
Speaker 2: that means nothing. I don't know what a gemini.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm a Leo. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 1: Well that we could do a whole astrological show later on.
Speaker 1: It means that it means that the universe cares about you,
Speaker 1: and that's what it means, and the stars hopefully will
Speaker 1: align for Bobby Witzee, what I did there? Look at that?
Speaker 1: Look how I just bring it all?
Speaker 2: All? Right?
Speaker 1: Fun facts tied for some fun facts. I saw this
Speaker 1: tweeting it. It's fun. Through three hundred and fifty career
Speaker 1: games Vladimir Guerrero Senior two hundred and eight runs, four
Speaker 1: hundred and four hits, seventy one homers, two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one our through three hundred and fifty career games
Speaker 1: from Vladimir Guerrero Junior two hundred and fifteen runs, three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty one hits, seventy six home runs, two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one RBI. Now, no one was ever
Speaker 1: gonna confuse these two guys in the field of Laddie
Speaker 1: Senior was incredible arm talent, great right fielder. Vlad not
Speaker 1: so much the defensive genius. But man, it's kind of
Speaker 1: scary how good these guys are. And if this trajectory holds, Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a Hall of fame kind of
Speaker 1: career we're seeing for Vlad. I hated that narrative that
Speaker 1: was out there earlier this year in draft season about
Speaker 1: you can't take Vlad as a first round pick. I
Speaker 1: sure people say this in Rodo to which I think
Speaker 1: you're drunk. Go home. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about baseball or you just such
Speaker 1: a nerd that you just sit here and look at
Speaker 1: you know, wOBA and Xip all day until your you know,
Speaker 1: eyes bleed, Because if you know anything about baseball, this
Speaker 1: is a great player, a guy who can win a
Speaker 1: triple crown. That matters in Rodo. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's in the steel bases. He's gonna hit for a
Speaker 1: high average, dry he's gonna have a four category. This
Speaker 1: is the dumbest narrative I saw out there on Baseball Twitter,
Speaker 1: and Baseball Twitter has a lot of dumb narratives, so
Speaker 1: I just wanted to point this out there. Vlad Gerrero Junior.
Speaker 1: I have no shares. Wish I had any shares for
Speaker 1: you so far this year that you've been able to enjoy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have only one.
Speaker 3: But it was a keeper and it was a league
Speaker 3: that I took like I'm a co owner with a
Speaker 3: friend that he had had him earlier, so kind of,
Speaker 3: but I can't really take credit for it. I would
Speaker 3: have happily taken him in the first round in any
Speaker 3: draft I was in if I had the opportunity, I
Speaker 3: don't understand that logic at all, Like, if you're going
Speaker 3: to give me a guy who's not just going to
Speaker 3: be a four category contributor, but a four category stud
Speaker 3: I mean all day, I made a bold prediction before
Speaker 3: he made his major league debut that he would have
Speaker 3: a better career than his dad, even taking into account
Speaker 3: the fact that he will never come He will never
Speaker 3: sniff the defensive value that Lad Senior broad So he
Speaker 3: has to really out hit his dad for that to
Speaker 3: be true. Right now, he's on the same pace as
Speaker 3: his dad, which is still freaking incredible. It's not quite
Speaker 3: out out pacing him yet, but I mean, this is
Speaker 3: one of the five best hitters in baseball in my eyes,
Speaker 3: and I think in a lot of eyes, and I
Speaker 3: think he should.
Speaker 2: Be a first round pick for the next twelve years,
Speaker 2: like the.
Speaker 1: Top five talent. I mean, yeah, I mean his top
Speaker 1: five and first base was exactly a great position this year.
Speaker 1: People are he's in a great.
Speaker 3: Mind, Well, I mean there's no what only literally the
Speaker 3: only negative you could possibly come up for with him
Speaker 3: is that he doesn't steal bases, which fine, most of
Speaker 3: the league doesn't steal bases anymore.
Speaker 1: Give me the uh. I'll give you forty two home
Speaker 1: runs this year for Flatti. You're gonna go over under.
Speaker 3: I'll go over, although although the the fence moving back
Speaker 3: at Camden Yards is probably gonna hurt him since he
Speaker 3: loves hitting at Camden Yards.
Speaker 2: But no, I'm going over.
Speaker 3: And there's not a lot of guys I would say
Speaker 3: that about where I would be as bullish as I am.
Speaker 3: But he I mean again, he's a top five talent,
Speaker 3: another guy who's super fun to watch, and he's still
Speaker 3: young and like learning the pitch in this league, He's
Speaker 3: only going to get better. I can't throw enough cliches
Speaker 3: your way about Vladdie Well.
Speaker 1: I love a good cliche. And yesterday was the show
Speaker 1: where we praised the starting rotation and how good they've been,
Speaker 1: how oddly good they've been for the Orioles.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I missed that.
Speaker 3: By the way, I missed an Eddie Murray reference in
Speaker 3: the trivia section. I missed talking about the Orioles rotation.
Speaker 3: I mean it was by the way, Bruce Zimmerman is
Speaker 3: a Marilyn native. You said, who is that guy? When
Speaker 3: you're doing that conversation yesterday. He's been pretty good this year.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I just I don't want to acknowledge
Speaker 1: anyone who names himself Spencer, and it's got.
Speaker 2: An that's harder to defend.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, no respect there. Just kidding Spencer. I know
Speaker 1: he's a big fan of the show. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: MLB slugging percentages, because Mike Mayor is gonna yell at
Speaker 1: me if I don't. He's like, I put this in
Speaker 1: the show sheet. You look at the show sheet. I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, Mayor, I see it. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get Ryan all set up. It's very high maintenance
Speaker 1: this morning, Mayor. I guess that cold medicine is finally
Speaker 1: kicked in for him. Slugging percentages in April over the
Speaker 1: last ten years are three ninety one, three ninety five,
Speaker 1: four oh one, three eighty nine, three ninety so kind
Speaker 1: of hovering the same spot last few years four five,
Speaker 1: four oh seven, four hundred and four to twenty one,
Speaker 1: three ninety so far three sixty nine. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: want to take too much out of this because there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of games in cold weather environments like
Speaker 1: Colorado this time of year. It's cold, Detroit cold. I
Speaker 1: don't know why we insist on opening out away or
Speaker 1: or in home stadiums that are cold. I don't know
Speaker 1: why this happens, but there's been some really frigid temperatures
Speaker 1: out here. I know there's been worse at times. But
Speaker 1: I'm not making too much out of this. I know
Speaker 1: we talk about that dead and ball. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people want to talk about that, that the
Speaker 1: ball has been dead, and to me, like one good
Speaker 1: hot week here from a couple guys. And let's not
Speaker 1: forget people were behind in spring training. It's gonna change
Speaker 1: by the time we get to May. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: that three sixty nine is probably closer to that three
Speaker 1: ninety mark. You think that's true or do you think
Speaker 1: that I'm not paying enough attention to what's going on,
Speaker 1: which is also possible.
Speaker 3: Well, first saw that's very possible. I would never take
Speaker 3: that off the table, but I would say, I mean
Speaker 3: to be fair on the cold weather. It's cold every April,
Speaker 3: and this season actually started a week later, so theoretically
Speaker 3: it would be just that marginally less cold.
Speaker 2: You would think I haven't crutched the numbers on the
Speaker 2: weather of the last ten years.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't work for the Weather channel in
Speaker 1: your spare time. Let's not pretend years no, of course, but.
Speaker 3: Like, I mean, it's just one of those things where
Speaker 3: like I mean, we've been talking about how hitting has
Speaker 3: been getting tougher and tougher for a decade now, and
Speaker 3: usually you see that represented in the batting average going
Speaker 3: down as people are selling out for power.
Speaker 2: So it is a little.
Speaker 3: Interesting to see it being reflected in the slugging percentage.
Speaker 3: But it's just I mean this, it's hard with any
Speaker 3: stat regardless advanced bad ball profile standard stuff, two weeks
Speaker 3: into the season. I mean, I mean, the thing about
Speaker 3: baseball that's different from say football, is with football, you
Speaker 3: can tell pretty quickly what's going on two weeks into
Speaker 3: a new season. In baseball, you need there's just too
Speaker 3: much going on, so you need those those advanced analytics.
Speaker 3: That's why we have saber metrics in baseball, is to
Speaker 3: be able to take into account all this information that
Speaker 3: the human brain can possibly do on its own. But
Speaker 3: early in the season that information hasn't stabilized yet, so
Speaker 3: it's really hard to sort of balance the eye test
Speaker 3: and well, anecdotally he looks pretty good or the league
Speaker 3: was pretty powerless this year versus the numbers.
Speaker 2: So I really.
Speaker 3: Struggle to take too much away from pretty much anything
Speaker 3: I see two weeks into the season.
Speaker 1: I agree it's too soon. Let's talk about our stat
Speaker 1: heroes yesterday. We'll start with the pitchers. Pablo Lopez we
Speaker 1: mentioned at the top nine k's no earn, big win
Speaker 1: for him. He's two to zero now with a point
Speaker 1: five two ERA. Carls Carrasco, he wasn't kidding, he said
Speaker 1: he feels great. He's been pitching pretty well. He's got
Speaker 1: a one four seven RA seven k's yesterday and a
Speaker 1: win over the Giants. Zach Pleisak was good in his
Speaker 1: game and just want to earned run. Ten kse through
Speaker 1: seventeen innings, but obviously plea Szach not a big strikeout guy.
Speaker 1: Kevin Gosman with a nice outing against the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: Is important outing for Gosman because you know there's some
Speaker 1: questions there how would he transition to the American League.
Speaker 1: So far, so good. Joe Ryan, my dude who I
Speaker 1: took in every single draft I think when we were
Speaker 1: doing all those mock draft shows, and I have him
Speaker 1: on every single team. I love me some Joe Ryan,
Speaker 1: ariel Con and I could not say enough good things
Speaker 1: about Joe Ryan in the off season. Six innings, no earn,
Speaker 1: two hits, one walk, five k's and win. I know
Speaker 1: it's the Royals, I don't care. It's a good start.
Speaker 1: And Jordan Montgomery good start for him, five k's, two
Speaker 1: walks and a loss to the Tigers. There but Jordan
Speaker 1: Montgomery continuing to pitch well after a good, good run
Speaker 1: last year in twenty one. Any of these performances in
Speaker 1: particular stick out to you, Ryan, Yeah, I mean a.
Speaker 2: Lot of them were pretty good.
Speaker 3: The thing that sticks out to me most is that, annoyingly,
Speaker 3: I don't think I roster any of these guys except
Speaker 3: for Joe Ryan, who actually do have Because I listened.
Speaker 1: To you there you go. Yeah, but Ryan.
Speaker 3: I will say to me, like, the one that stood
Speaker 3: out though most of them, was Kevin Gossman. Seventy of
Speaker 3: his eighty pitches that he threw yesterday were strikes, which
Speaker 3: is like bonkers. And as a guy again who watched
Speaker 3: him a lot in Baltimore, Like that's even more crazy
Speaker 3: from you. Imagine the guy I saw, you know, five
Speaker 3: years ago, doing that now. He has twenty two strikeouts
Speaker 3: this season in eighteen innings zero walks. He has the
Speaker 3: most swinging strikes induced the season in all Baseball fifty seven.
Speaker 3: Behind him are Rodin Corbyn Burns, Otani, delan Cees. They're
Speaker 3: all behind him. He's number one at fifty seven. I
Speaker 3: was looking this morning. Our rest of season rankings on
Speaker 3: the site have him at pitcher eighteen going forward.
Speaker 2: I actually think that's too low.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying he should be like top ten or anything,
Speaker 3: but I would have him in the back end of
Speaker 3: the top fifteen. I again, he's on a great team,
Speaker 3: like they're gonna win a lot of games. He looks
Speaker 3: really good to me so far this season. I totally
Speaker 3: bought in on him as a true fantasy ace for
Speaker 3: the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Of course, Ryan picks the former oriol By the way,
Speaker 1: Jake Arietta retired this week, did you pour out a
Speaker 1: little from your old English well for your home?
Speaker 3: When one Jake Arittor retires, he's then replaced by Gossman,
Speaker 3: who's Ariata two point zero And in terms of making
Speaker 3: Orioles fans want to drink for other reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair it's fair. It's just what could have been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could have been. All right, Let's go to the hitters.
Speaker 1: Ty France three for four with a dinger. Francisco Lindors
Speaker 1: just red hot. Four home runs. It took him fifty
Speaker 1: games to get the four home runs last year. He's
Speaker 1: got four already and it's only the twenty second of April,
Speaker 1: actually twenty first, considering yesterday. Franmil Ray is a homer
Speaker 1: for him. That's great, hist first dinger, he's on the board.
Speaker 1: Let's go for animal. Robbie Grossman a good night and
Speaker 1: he's cheap in DFS tonight, So get on that wagon.
Speaker 1: Get on the hot streak. Three for three yesterday with
Speaker 1: a walk. Nathan Lowe three for five, a good day
Speaker 1: for him. He's up to three ninety six on the year.
Speaker 1: Jesus Sanchez just can't be stopped. Three dingers for him,
Speaker 1: three fifty six. And Sean Murphy good Irish lad home
Speaker 1: run for him, three ribies last night. Murphy's my default
Speaker 1: catcher everywhere, because goodness knows, I never liked to draft catcher.
Speaker 1: So any of these hitters you want to highlight today, Ryan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: three names and maybe some underrated ones.
Speaker 3: Briefly on France. I'll just mention it because I keep
Speaker 3: mentioning the bat ball profile. His bat of ball data
Speaker 3: is like top eight percent in baseball. He has been
Speaker 3: on fire in the last week. I love him hitting
Speaker 3: second in America's lineup that is performing better than I
Speaker 3: expected it to coming into the season, even with Julio
Speaker 3: Rodriguez not playing so well. But I'm to actually ask
Speaker 3: you about Lindor, who I drafted in a lot of places.
Speaker 3: I love the value this year. I love getting a
Speaker 3: star who's on a new team in year two on
Speaker 3: that team. It's one of my favorite, you know, types
Speaker 3: of players to go after. I just made a trade
Speaker 3: actually this week in one of my leagues where I
Speaker 3: have the best hitting in the league.
Speaker 2: But the worst pitching.
Speaker 3: I made a trade with the best pitching in the
Speaker 3: league who has the worst hitting. I gave up Francisco Lindor,
Speaker 3: maybe selling high a bit. I got Justin Verlander in return.
Speaker 3: I'm curious what you think.
Speaker 1: About it, two of my favorites. You know how I
Speaker 1: know you know I'm a Verlander guy. I think that's
Speaker 1: fair for everybody. I like the fair trade. Look, Lindor
Speaker 1: is at his Zenith right now, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But I do think you're gonna see a guy who's
Speaker 1: more the thirty home run, you know, fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: stolen base like you're gonna see Lindor from his Cleveland
Speaker 1: days this year. It's clear he's back on track. I
Speaker 1: think mentally is in a better place. I think Buck
Speaker 1: Showalter goes a long way with all that. And this
Speaker 1: is why people who say managers don't matter, you're so wrong.
Speaker 1: They do. These are people, they're not video game characters,
Speaker 1: they're just not And being able to get into a
Speaker 1: guy's psyche a little bit, get him relax, and get
Speaker 1: him in the right frame of mind, that goes a
Speaker 1: long way. And I was with you. Lindor was a
Speaker 1: player to me that was right for the taking. He
Speaker 1: was a fringe first round talent going in the fourth
Speaker 1: round in some drafts. So that's just nuts to me. Like,
Speaker 1: Lindor was there, and this is a Roto league. You
Speaker 1: made this trade, Yes, in a Roto league, you're good. Look,
Speaker 1: he's a very valuable player because he's a five category guy.
Speaker 1: Potentially maybe not so much in the batting average, but
Speaker 1: he's had some good batting average years. But Verlander is
Speaker 1: again four category pitcher. So I think you made a
Speaker 1: really good trade there. I think you got an ace
Speaker 1: for a top tier guy. And goodness knows so far
Speaker 1: justin Verlanders think And he goes on the mounta tonight too,
Speaker 1: very excited about that one. Some pitching zeros. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the zeros. Deskalfani nine earned runs now in thirteen innings, gross,
Speaker 1: terribles VRA's at six, Tyler Wells also gross. One strikeout.
Speaker 1: My goodness, gracious, what happened to the Orioles. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on.
Speaker 2: We don't need to talk any more about the Oriols.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll move on. We already piled on Bobby with
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez, seeing if you get set a Rob Deer
Speaker 1: like number of strikeouts over five with another four? Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness. Look, when you're striking out fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the time, something's wrong. I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to somehow get past a demotion. And I
Speaker 1: would tell everybody wait, wait for the demotion, because that
Speaker 1: people want to buy now. Don't buy now in dynasty leagues, sure,
Speaker 1: but in a redraft don't buy now, wait for the demotion.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get dropped. I'm telling you right now, people
Speaker 1: will just straight up drop him. Sa Carlos Stanton Oh
Speaker 1: for four to two k's of his own three k's
Speaker 1: for tyler O Neil Whit Maryfield continues to struggle a
Speaker 1: little now. I'm stay to get a little concerned with whit Maryfield.
Speaker 1: I thought he would have turned it around by now.
Speaker 1: One of the best just pure hitters in baseball. Just
Speaker 1: an awful start buck thirty six, but he has to
Speaker 1: have three steals. This is another Bilow candidate for me
Speaker 1: and Paul gold Schmidt. No Homer's eleven games, and he
Speaker 1: started off slow last year too, So Marryfield and Goal
Speaker 1: which mean I'm not worried about Are you worried about
Speaker 1: either of those guys?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say long term worried about.
Speaker 3: I'm with you on Wit where I sort of expected
Speaker 3: him to be showing more signs.
Speaker 2: At this point and you know, in the young season.
Speaker 2: But again it.
Speaker 3: Still is only two weeks in, so I certainly wouldn't say,
Speaker 3: like long term worried. I do want to mention on
Speaker 3: Gian Carlo. His strikeout rate is the highest of his career.
Speaker 3: His walk rate is the lowest of his career, and
Speaker 3: the walk rate usually takes a little longer to stabilize,
Speaker 3: so he needs probably about another two weeks to get there,
Speaker 3: maybe even more. But the strikeout rate usually stabilizes pretty quickly,
Speaker 3: and he's a few percentage points higher than any other
Speaker 3: season in his career, so that that would be a
Speaker 3: little more concerning to me on him, just because I mean,
Speaker 3: strikeouts and walks are sort of the quintessential like things
Speaker 3: you look for. But and and really the whole Yankees
Speaker 3: lineups struggled. Obviously, I've been very your curial, But yeah,
Speaker 3: on those, on those last uncul Schmid and Meryfield, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be overly worried about them. I'd be paying close attention,
Speaker 3: but not not selling or anything.
Speaker 1: Two days in a row. Good votcab from co host here, mercurial,
Speaker 1: well done. Let's get to the home run leader board.
Speaker 1: There it is, JP is still at the top with
Speaker 1: six up and at them still at six bot At
Speaker 1: Dela Cardillo and Go Cards both had Francisco Lindor and
Speaker 1: they were both up to five two hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: home runs as a group. Already we had one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight people make different home run calls at
Speaker 1: least one right last season. We're up to one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight through two weeks of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: That is in fuego, as they say, so, credit to
Speaker 1: all of you out there who are making these home
Speaker 1: run calls. And clearly this is fine. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: everybody there's still plenty of time to get in here.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you We're gonna give away a fantastic prize.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be a really fun thing at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, whoever the winner is. And on top
Speaker 1: of that, we're gonna try to give some monthly prizes
Speaker 1: out too. We'll see what I can shake everybody down for.
Speaker 1: I just realized too. You put us together, we become
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan.
Speaker 2: Do you see that show?
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Speaker 1: CJ crone total bases is set at just point five
Speaker 1: on DK. Is anybody watching CJ croned? I know he's
Speaker 1: going to get Schooble. He's pretty good. CJ cron is
Speaker 1: gonna get a total base today? Okay to reach Schooble.
Speaker 1: On that same game, we went with the over on
Speaker 1: the strikeouts last time. It's four and a half on FanDuel.
Speaker 1: I want to go bet that on FanDuel. And again,
Speaker 1: all of these are coming straight from our prop bet
Speaker 1: cheat sheet, which you can find at bettingpros dot com.
Speaker 1: We lay it all out there. You literally can look
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Speaker 1: go directly and make your wager. It's glorious Jazz Chishol
Speaker 1: who's been red hot. His total base prop is point
Speaker 1: five on DK. What did you not hear all the
Speaker 1: jazz chism love that we gave here earlier on the show.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper total basis point five on DK as well.
Speaker 1: So those are some spots to make some wagers today.
Speaker 1: Going to the DFS slate for the day, We've got
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta potentially on that bounce back, interesting tournament play.
Speaker 1: Roster percentage is gonna be low. If he has a
Speaker 1: classic vintage Freddy p start, He's gonna win people some money.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you you might want to have some exposure.
Speaker 1: One lineup to Freddy Peralta nine point nine on FanDuel,
Speaker 1: but just eight point nine on DK side. Schooble's just
Speaker 1: seven point nine on fandle. He's an interesting one. Another
Speaker 1: potential moneymakers. If Trevor Rodgers bounces back and figures things out,
Speaker 1: he's just seven to one on FanDuel. That allows you
Speaker 1: to get every big bat you want. Michael Kopek tonight
Speaker 1: eight point four k on DK A, nine point five
Speaker 1: on FanDuel. Justin Verlander is my chalk play of the day,
Speaker 1: ten point five on both sides. Go get him Justin
Speaker 1: Verlander and make Ryan warmly happy because you just got
Speaker 1: acquired very happy. All right, Any pitchers that you're on
Speaker 1: tonight in the DFS world from of the names here on.
Speaker 3: The sheet, Yeah, I liked I do like Kyle Wright.
Speaker 3: I wish he was a little cheaper than nine thousand.
Speaker 3: I like Trevor Rodgers a lot. He was the one
Speaker 3: that I highlighted just because I love I love that price,
Speaker 3: and I think that could be pretty He could have
Speaker 3: a pretty impressive outing. I like Scooble too. Peralta I
Speaker 3: might be a little expensive, but I'm with you that
Speaker 3: I think he could certainly have a great outing.
Speaker 2: And I do want to mention because you didn't give me.
Speaker 3: The chance on the ben pros prop bet cheat sheet,
Speaker 3: I did have a couple of picks there.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: I like Freddie Freeman over one and a half total bases,
Speaker 3: one of the best sitters in baseball. If you're gonna
Speaker 3: give me a plus number, that's plus one fifteen. I
Speaker 3: like to get two bases tonight, at least. Nick Cassianos,
Speaker 3: this one's a little it's not total bases, it's to
Speaker 3: score at least one run plus one forty. And then
Speaker 3: Hunter Green. He's going up against the Cardinals, who are
Speaker 3: bottom five and strikeout percentage this year. I just love
Speaker 3: Green so much. He's just so much fun to watch,
Speaker 3: he said. A major league record for pitches throwing one
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour in just his second start ever.
Speaker 3: I mean the dude again, like gatism, just electric, like
Speaker 3: so much fun over five and a half strikeouts.
Speaker 2: I like that one as well.
Speaker 1: I love Hunter Green, That's my dude. Had many an
Speaker 1: argument about Green over Lodolo me of course, being on
Speaker 1: the Green side in the last year or so, so
Speaker 1: far looks good. I think Lodole's gonna be a nice
Speaker 1: pitcher too. Lefties take a little bit longer typically speaking,
Speaker 1: but those are some good ones too, especially like the
Speaker 1: Hunter Green one. Stacks of the night, the Mets, the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros, and the San Francisco Giants. I look
Speaker 1: for that offense to bounce back. That Giants offense is plucky.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of big names or roster Persangezo's gonna
Speaker 1: be low. But you know now that they've they've moved
Speaker 1: on from the Mets were really annoying. In terms of
Speaker 1: starting pitching been really good across the board. Me Chris Bassett,
Speaker 1: his bad start was he gave up a couple runs
Speaker 1: in the first inning that was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: Cooper Hummel, who also likes to collect humbles, those little
Speaker 1: tiny figurines. By the way, people don't know that. I'm
Speaker 1: just making up hobbies for people today on the show.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. Christian Pasche, who continues to swing
Speaker 1: a good bat two point four. It's not a great hitter,
Speaker 1: he's just hot right now and he's cheap. So let's
Speaker 1: go fan duel Nelson Cruz cheap again. I told you yesterday, Roster,
Speaker 1: if you did, you got a home run back to
Speaker 1: the well today at two point nine. He's actually less
Speaker 1: expensive day over day. I don't know why. Christian Pasche
Speaker 1: two point four over on FanDuel Cano two point six,
Speaker 1: Cooper Humble two seven with Meryfield cheap. I'm gonna buy
Speaker 1: in two point seven. Nico Gudrum if he's starting a
Speaker 1: two k free square Alert for Nico Goudrum if he's
Speaker 1: in the lineup for the Astros and then a kil
Speaker 1: Badoo two point two. So that brings us to our
Speaker 1: home run call of tonight. So Ryan Warmly, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the boards is your this is your debut
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two on the Eating Off Show. Where
Speaker 1: are you going for your home run call tonight and
Speaker 1: or this weekend?
Speaker 2: So unsurprisingly, I'm going to pick an Oriole.
Speaker 3: Last year when I made my debut ever on this show,
Speaker 3: I picked an Oriole Santan Dre going up against Shohyo
Speaker 3: Tani of the Angels, and he paid off for me.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go again with an Oriole going
Speaker 3: up against the Angels Trey Mancini. His expected batting average
Speaker 3: this year is like one hundred points higher than what
Speaker 3: it's actually been so far. He's been getting hosed, hitting
Speaker 3: the ball hard, and it's just been robbed and robbed
Speaker 3: and robbed all season long.
Speaker 2: He's due for his first homer. They're not in Baltimore
Speaker 2: with that crazy fence.
Speaker 3: Now, not that Los Angeles is an easy place to hit,
Speaker 3: but I'm just saying, this is the night that the
Speaker 3: Oriols offense finally breaks out and I'm going to Trey Mancini.
Speaker 2: I had to do it for the first one this year.
Speaker 2: At least it was going to be.
Speaker 1: An Oriole And it looks like Mike Maher is holding
Speaker 1: your hand in solidarity with you. He's going Ryan Mountcastle, shocker,
Speaker 1: so Mountcastle actually, So.
Speaker 3: I think that's a good thing, even an Orioles aside.
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Speaker 1: For me today, I'm going to the desert to Arizona
Speaker 1: where the ball flies out pretty good, and Peede Alonso
Speaker 1: for the weekend. Give me Pee Alonso for the weekend.
Speaker 1: I want to watch them hit four home runs so
Speaker 1: I get back into this race. Hot weekend from Peter A.
Speaker 1: Lonzo is all I need, So let's go. Pdie Boy
Speaker 1: is my pick. I am, I am stone cold, I
Speaker 1: am colder than Julio Rodriguez. Right now, let's get Ryan
Speaker 1: your final eh my god, your final thoughts before heading
Speaker 1: into the weekend. Ryan, anything out there for you?
Speaker 3: I would say less baseball specific more podcast facinic.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on for the first.
Speaker 3: Time, and I look forward to to filling in again
Speaker 3: as needed whenever I can. And we have finally broken
Speaker 3: the seal of Joe and Ryan hanging out together on
Speaker 3: a show. So I'm very grateful for this opportunity and
Speaker 3: hopefully by next time because apparently I was getting slacks
Speaker 3: from Mayor that my mic was kind of off with
Speaker 3: shocker that I feel like that happened every time I'm
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's better next time.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's it's perfectly fine. It's all good. It felt
Speaker 1: like we were good, and then who knows this is
Speaker 1: You can't worry about these things, but I agree, it's
Speaker 1: nice to finally interact with you on air for a change.
Speaker 1: This is a good time. And also keep an eye
Speaker 1: out new waiver wire video drops on Fantasy Pro's MLB channel.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, we're doing waiver wire stuff. So who
Speaker 1: do I want to add beside some of the names
Speaker 1: that I dropped while I dropped a few more of them.
Speaker 1: So go subscribe to Fantasy pros MLB today. I told
Speaker 1: you I want to get those subs to ten thousand
Speaker 1: this year. That's my goal in life. I think it's
Speaker 1: a lofty goal. I think we could do. It will
Speaker 1: help me on the social side, but a worthy goal.
Speaker 1: We'll probably all short, but maybe not. Maybe not. Look
Speaker 1: how many people are calling home runs in April, more
Speaker 1: than we had all year. It's a beautiful thing. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, everybody, enjoy your baseball. That'll do it
Speaker 1: for us. But the story of the game goes on
Speaker 1: for Ryan Wrmalley, I'm Joey P. We'll see you next
Speaker 1: time kids.
Speaker 2: Bye.