Speaker 1: Judge is headed to Cork. Let's play ball. Welcome in
Speaker 1: everybody to Fantasy Bros. This is leading off, brought to
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Speaker 2: The King of sports books is me, Joey Pa Joe,
Speaker 2: piece of Pia with me as always is the Welsh,
Speaker 2: And of course it's you, the Peanuts, the cracker Jack,
Speaker 2: the Cracker Jacks, the cracker Randos, all of you hanging
Speaker 2: out talking baseball.
Speaker 1: You could tell I need a vacation. This is my
Speaker 1: last shot before I go on vacation. I am taking
Speaker 1: four whole days off. Wow, that is a stunning amount
Speaker 1: of time for me. Of course, the Welsh will be
Speaker 1: here with the special Friends Bogman, Casey Bubba next week
Speaker 1: to help out hold down the fort. I will be
Speaker 1: back on Friday. But Welsh, it was pandemonium in the Bronx.
Speaker 1: Did we see last night between the Astros and the
Speaker 1: Yankees the potential al C S preview? My friend, I mean.
Speaker 3: We've kind of talked about it for like the last month,
Speaker 3: about you know, this entire series with both of these
Speaker 3: the East Coast bias.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good. I watched quite a bit of it.
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge able to walk it off you get some
Speaker 3: early homers. There was at one moment too, very early
Speaker 3: on in the game where the Astros has gotten up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's gotten up, and you'd had Stanton with
Speaker 3: that homer to tie it.
Speaker 4: You get the Mets doing their thing.
Speaker 3: It's a there's a lot of good baseball going on
Speaker 3: right now, Joe. It's it's such a travesty that you
Speaker 3: are leaving to go ride the teacups as great baseball
Speaker 3: is going on.
Speaker 1: We are not running the tea cups. We're going to Universal.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go see Harry Potter. We're gonna go see
Speaker 1: Marvel stuff. We're gonna go do all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3: Who is marvel Land or whatever the hell it's called
Speaker 3: there in Star wars Land.
Speaker 1: Star wars Land is in the Disney side of things,
Speaker 1: but Universal has the that whole Marvel section still, and
Speaker 1: they're also building a whole like Mario Kart, you know,
Speaker 1: superal World or some crazy thing like that.
Speaker 4: Not Mario, but Mario, Mario, Wait.
Speaker 1: Mario, you do Mario? Hey, what's Mario? But no, that's
Speaker 1: that's still in progress. That's still a couple of years away.
Speaker 1: Putants to get rid of me. Look at this he says,
Speaker 1: don't come back, Joe, don't come back a harsh tie. Wait,
Speaker 1: what up?
Speaker 4: What's your what's your first ride? Not to derail us here,
Speaker 4: but what is.
Speaker 1: Going right to bringotts? Because I didn't get to do
Speaker 1: it last time three years ago? A little too small, gringots.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the bank inside of Harry Potter. There's
Speaker 1: a whole ride inside there. I wanted to do, but
Speaker 1: of course my oldest doesn't care for rides, and three
Speaker 1: years ago the little one was too little. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we can't do this first thing. We're going right
Speaker 1: for that that first morning because we got that that
Speaker 1: early entry to the park.
Speaker 4: That big money, big money. Hey, I'm the host of
Speaker 4: Fantasy Prose.
Speaker 1: Move inside.
Speaker 4: Hey buddy, let me get through the line.
Speaker 1: Do you know who I am?
Speaker 4: Did you hire someone people away? Do you have security?
Speaker 4: Do you have security there to make sure that you're.
Speaker 1: Not just my unle just my youngest daughters?
Speaker 4: All right, well she'll do Yeah, it's good farm.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's so that's that's the deal. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna do one day at Epcot, so you know
Speaker 1: that's that'll be fun kind of break it up a
Speaker 1: little bit, but then you know, look, it's uh. I
Speaker 1: haven't been like on a proper vacation with them over
Speaker 1: three years. You know, we've been trying to do this
Speaker 1: trip for three years. We went there in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: we haven't been back since. So I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good time. I need it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get hammered on butter beer. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: And for those of you saying, but you're a single
Speaker 1: parent out there with two children, there's no alcohol and
Speaker 1: butter beer, it's just sugar. So that's that's where that is. Also,
Speaker 1: let's get to more baseball. So here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: hit the headlines. Adlie Rutchman rocked the White Sox with
Speaker 1: a home run three RBI. You know, I love watching
Speaker 1: Adlie Ruchmand play baseball. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a star in the major leagues for sure. I always
Speaker 1: thought that when they drafted him to love the swing,
Speaker 1: love the dude like he is. Just again, Baseball's got
Speaker 1: a lot of great, bright young stars in it, and
Speaker 1: if they market them properly, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: renaissance potentially for baseball in the next few years if
Speaker 1: they do it the right way. Kyle Schwarber is doing
Speaker 1: it the right way. Twentieth homer. Look at the Schwarbs.
Speaker 1: How about that Schwarbs right now? Looking pretty good right there, Welsh.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: And we talked about putting him in the AL or
Speaker 3: no the NL All Star voting. Yep, And that was
Speaker 3: tough because it's two thirty. He's under two thirty batting average,
Speaker 3: and the dude's got twenty homers.
Speaker 4: He's he's an enigma. I love it. I love just fun.
Speaker 1: He's also a little on the pudgier side of baseball players,
Speaker 1: so I respect that. I like that he's a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger.
Speaker 4: Oh well, now your co hot stuff makes sense. Okay,
Speaker 4: it makes sense. I'm your Schwarber, all right, Harper, let's.
Speaker 1: Go, I please, Bryce. I wish I had Bryce Harper's hair.
Speaker 1: If I had Bryce Harper's hair, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: If you think I'm obnoxious now, you ain't see nothing yet.
Speaker 1: That would have been impossitive.
Speaker 4: I could see. You'd have a lot of slow motion
Speaker 4: flow videos where you'd be like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good. Joe Musgrove allowed six runs, by far
Speaker 1: his worst start in the year. In that same game
Speaker 1: against the Phillies, his era is all the way above two. Now,
Speaker 1: oh no, how will we ever survive Joe Musgrove's bad start? Ridiculous?
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge delivered the walk off, much to Mike Mayer's dismay.
Speaker 1: But Jordan Alvarez hit a home run, so I'm still
Speaker 1: on that board, a three run dinger, and just everybody knows,
Speaker 1: I picked Alvarez yesterday. I'm gonna pick Alvarez for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Alvarez is my perpetuity on vacation. Home run, I am
Speaker 1: legit checking out from everything, So Alvarez is my dude.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with my boy. But look, a big game
Speaker 1: for the Yankees last night, and today they get to
Speaker 1: go to arbitration hearing with Aaron Judge after last night.
Speaker 3: Why is arbitration still happening in I saw that the
Speaker 3: other day, Like, who is it? Max Freed won his arbitration.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what we're in June? Why are we doing
Speaker 3: arbitration right now? That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look here's the thing.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 1: By the way, ye yes, doctor Glenn's right, someone.
Speaker 4: Should I don't know how we could do this. Don't
Speaker 4: know how we could do this.
Speaker 3: I would love to have a Joey p hair photoshop
Speaker 3: contest while you're gone next week.
Speaker 4: Submission. I don't know how to do it.
Speaker 3: Let me think on it, but submissions that I could
Speaker 3: do all the way through Thursday and then when you
Speaker 3: return Friday, we could Maybe we can.
Speaker 1: Do it on this corner. You could do it on
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do it on MLB chat. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the way place to do it there and then have
Speaker 1: a contest put up for a vote.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll do it general or it might even be
Speaker 3: in my welsh Ama. Just be on the lookout for it.
Speaker 3: You might want to be joined up in there. I
Speaker 3: might post that I need those photos and then I
Speaker 3: will pick a winner and bog and I will go
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 4: I don't know how I can share it on here
Speaker 4: because we got the overlay and stuff, but we'll figure
Speaker 4: it out.
Speaker 1: Oh, you could share it on here. You just upload
Speaker 1: the picture and just put it in there. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's that's you could definitely do that. I mean it's
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, upsetting and awesome at the
Speaker 1: same time. I'm sure. But if I'm the Yankees in
Speaker 1: this arbitration here hearing. I'm going in there. They're offering
Speaker 1: seventeen million. I think I saw, and he wants twenty
Speaker 1: one or whatever that was of the numbers. You go
Speaker 1: in there and just say, here you go, here's twenty one.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the dugout and play baseball. That's
Speaker 1: just what you talking about this conversation. You do not.
Speaker 1: I mean, you would be so obnoxious if you're the
Speaker 1: Yankees right now, to quibble over four million dollars four
Speaker 1: million dollars for the Yankees for Am Judge right now.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And if you want any good faith in
Speaker 1: these negotiations coming up when he's a free agent, you
Speaker 1: must do this. I'm sorry, it's just insane.
Speaker 3: What I would do is actually go in and start
Speaker 3: citing Shoheo Tani's numbers about why he's MVP and Aaron
Speaker 3: Judge is not MVP, and it's a fool's bet to
Speaker 3: make that, and then maybe you could get a million
Speaker 3: or two off of it.
Speaker 4: I think that's the play.
Speaker 1: What kind I mean, that's quite a job. I want
Speaker 1: to be like the you know, like they have these
Speaker 1: Netflix movies about these weird niche jobs and things like this.
Speaker 1: I want to be like, he's the arbiter. He's the
Speaker 1: guy that comes in who like you know, craps on
Speaker 1: like the talented players in every sport and somehow squeezes
Speaker 1: all the money until one day, one story steals his
Speaker 1: heart and yeah, all the money.
Speaker 3: Well, the arbiter is the guy that's making the decision
Speaker 3: a bunch of scumming lawyers that are sitting there making
Speaker 3: the decision. I mean it's like, you know, any horrible
Speaker 3: I watch an insanely sick amount of like true life
Speaker 3: true crime like shows on Netflix, and then every time,
Speaker 3: you know, there's the god awful person and their lawyers
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, how do these people sleep at
Speaker 3: night defending them? Like it's like the same thing, like
Speaker 3: they get a, teams get a lawyers are like, hey,
Speaker 3: it's just business, and they come in and.
Speaker 4: They're like this guy stinks.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's doing steroids, we don't know, and they're just
Speaker 3: trashing and demolishing a player, Like those are the scumbags.
Speaker 3: The arbiter is there, probably with no actual relation to
Speaker 3: sports or baseball or anything like that, and just goes
Speaker 3: with the scummiest one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, the Yankees. You're making a big mistake if
Speaker 1: they go to this hearing and just don't pay him.
Speaker 1: I do agree with you on that, though I don't
Speaker 1: even know why they're going to the hearing like that.
Speaker 1: That to me is already obnoxious. Like if I'm Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: I gotta get dressed up, go into suit and go
Speaker 1: to this hearing today, Like that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I mean, remember the Chris Bryant one, Like remember the
Speaker 3: relationships that happened with Chris Bryant, Like that's what you face.
Speaker 4: Especially, I just I can't.
Speaker 3: So cannot fathom. Are almost July and I didn't know
Speaker 3: that our tration was still going on. This should be done,
Speaker 3: you know how. Just an anecdotal thing I've talked about,
Speaker 3: like seeing the Lucas gi Alito over the White Sox camp.
Speaker 3: Lucas Giolito is a little bit of a tight tight arse,
Speaker 3: if you will, type of guy who kind of walks
Speaker 3: around and can just look intimidating and stuff like that
Speaker 3: and not want to talk to people. The day his
Speaker 3: arbitration settled, it was a different human being you've never seen.
Speaker 3: He was spent the entire he waited for every fan
Speaker 3: to leave. He took pictures, he sign autographs, he talked
Speaker 3: to people.
Speaker 4: And I even asked him. I was just like, how
Speaker 4: are you feeling with the arbitration.
Speaker 3: He's like like a monkey off my back, like it
Speaker 3: was something that.
Speaker 1: This organization makes your dream come true. You're playing well
Speaker 1: for this organization. You are an MVP for this organization.
Speaker 1: You are the face of this organization. They're quabbling about
Speaker 1: four million dollars with you. It's absurd. It's bad business
Speaker 1: for I mean, it's just the Yankees in bad business
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: Probably make that up in July.
Speaker 1: Jersey sales, Oh, Player and Judge please, I mean, how
Speaker 1: about the MVP Aaron Judge, you know, T shirts that
Speaker 1: they're gonna sell and all the other nonsense. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, man, it's just here's the commemorative you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge bubblehead for MV. I mean, come on, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be absurd.
Speaker 4: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, the huge bubblehead, his giant melon. All right,
Speaker 1: James McCann could be activated off the IL on Friday
Speaker 1: for the New York Mets. That's good. Also, Max Shur's
Speaker 1: are coming back Sunday. Make sure you get him in
Speaker 1: your lineups if you haven't already. Jacob de Gram apparently
Speaker 1: there's some people saying after the All Star break, but
Speaker 1: there's some people who think he might make a start before.
Speaker 1: This just came out yesterday too. He had a thirty
Speaker 1: pitch bullpen session on Tuesday, and that's going in the
Speaker 1: right direction there, and then he's thrown simulated innings. On
Speaker 1: the fourteenth, he threw the thirty pitch bullpen session, then
Speaker 1: he had simulated innings three days afterwards, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: face live hitters this week again. So look, it seems
Speaker 1: like it's going in the right direction. I still say
Speaker 1: it's going to be a after All Star break, but
Speaker 1: at least so far, the most important thing with de
Speaker 1: Gram is you haven't heard any setback or pain issues.
Speaker 1: That to me is most important though here.
Speaker 3: And I think that I would also know whatever you know.
Speaker 3: If you were to get a start, I think it
Speaker 3: would be two innings. I think it'd be capped at forty.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd be still shocked if he did, because
Speaker 3: he's got to get innings under his belt. He hasn't
Speaker 3: had it for months, so I would think you'd have
Speaker 3: to go on a rehab stint. Let's say it's a
Speaker 3: small rehab stint or whatever. I think the most it
Speaker 3: would be is two or three innings right before the
Speaker 3: All Star break. Get a little bit of work and
Speaker 3: see how it goes. Nothing pressed. So for us, I
Speaker 3: really don't think there's anything positive concern pre All Star break.
Speaker 3: We're not going to get a win, We're not going
Speaker 3: to get a quality start. We're just not going to
Speaker 3: get anything significant outside of a few strikeouts and always
Speaker 3: be a little bit weary. I mean, I always put
Speaker 3: my stars in immediately after injury. Stars, other guys maybe not.
Speaker 3: That would be a situation. I probably wouldn't be jumping
Speaker 3: to try to get him back in the starting lineup
Speaker 3: until he's full go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. Agreed. Also, by the way, Mike Mayer would
Speaker 1: be very good in that part as the arbitration lawyer
Speaker 1: who comes in and just craps on every good player
Speaker 1: no matter what he that. You know, Mike, if you
Speaker 1: ever leave Fantasy Pros, that's got to be your job.
Speaker 3: I mean, mister judge, I'd like to ask you a question.
Speaker 3: Have you ever handed a ball to a child? Eighteen million, eighteen.
Speaker 1: That's the best I could do is seventeen and a half.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's bast likely. Yea, all right, Josh Harrison
Speaker 1: left with triceps contusion. Also for the White Sox, they
Speaker 1: announced that Danny Mendick suffered and torn acl during that
Speaker 1: collision on Wednesday's game, so you know, hopefully a speedy
Speaker 1: recovery for him. Bryce Harper is going to have that
Speaker 1: elbow reevaluated next week. I don't like the sound of this.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Philly bounce. We got the Philly bounce. Now,
Speaker 1: if you look at the schedule, I think three of
Speaker 1: the next four teams that they face on their schedule
Speaker 1: are the top three pitching teams in the National League.
Speaker 1: So just fyi, guys, remember we talked about the bounce.
Speaker 1: Beyond the bounce. If you're betting be on the bounce
Speaker 1: or fantasy, now might be the time to start to
Speaker 1: look elsewhere. I mean, Bryce Harper reevaluating the elbow doesn't
Speaker 1: sound great to me. There's some issues here. This might
Speaker 1: be the end of the feel good story for the Phillies.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, yeah, I've been holding out a few
Speaker 3: little hopes that you know, there's still so much season
Speaker 3: to be played. That just a heart run, hard, hard run,
Speaker 3: hot run from Bryce Harper could still get him in here.
Speaker 4: But I'm not feeling great about it.
Speaker 1: I had cashed out, by the way, to answer the question,
Speaker 1: I cash out, and I told everyone I cash out
Speaker 1: to Bryce Harper MVP. Right when they fired the manager.
Speaker 1: That was it for me. It was like and now
Speaker 1: I was like, nope, not doing this, reinvested it. I
Speaker 1: think that was the one I reinvested into Goldschmid and
Speaker 1: that was when Goldshmid I think was at five to
Speaker 1: one or six to one at the time. So good move.
Speaker 1: There also new poll speaking of can we talk about
Speaker 1: this new poll on MLB dot com where they pulled
Speaker 1: a bunch of people for the awards. Aaron Judge, no surprise,
Speaker 1: got the most votes, twenty seven first place votes. The
Speaker 1: second with eleven first place votes was Jose Ramirez, which
Speaker 1: I've been pounding the table for. I don't know why
Speaker 1: he's not getting more publicity for this award. What was
Speaker 1: shocking to me that Trout got the next en Devors
Speaker 1: than Alvarez Otani just three first place votes. That is absurd.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at this and I was gonna go Joe
Speaker 3: the most shocking is actually that Atani didn't make this
Speaker 3: list whatsoever. He's second in the books, but he's not
Speaker 3: in the top five.
Speaker 4: Who did they What did they pull here? They just
Speaker 4: say leaders.
Speaker 1: Who they know. They pulled Mike Mayer's family, They pulled
Speaker 1: people who give balls away to other people. Now here
Speaker 1: are the results. Let's see.
Speaker 4: I'm sure are these people. It's not even saying who
Speaker 4: these people are. They put his article out.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I thought it was writers, but I mean,
Speaker 1: apparently most.
Speaker 4: Treat this like the All Star Game. They just asked
Speaker 4: some fans.
Speaker 1: I don't think they asked fans. I think it was
Speaker 1: probably and of course the National League. No surprise. Goldschmid
Speaker 1: twenty six first place votes, made Machado fifteen, Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: got one, uh, and then Pete Alonso got five first
Speaker 1: place vot It's Mookie Betts got two first place votes,
Speaker 1: so uh again, I never thought Mookie Bets was going
Speaker 1: to be this. Alonso is the dark horse. It's a
Speaker 1: two person race between Manny Machado and Paul Goldschmith this
Speaker 1: year and Cardinals Nation. You know again, Goldschmid a very
Speaker 1: I would say, more widely liked player and respected player
Speaker 1: than Manny Machado. So don't be surprised if it becomes
Speaker 1: a political contest because it's baseball and Barry Bonds and
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens aren't in the Hall of Fame, so of
Speaker 1: course it's yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, I would you know, someone just said, I
Speaker 3: want to point this out. Silas just said that pole
Speaker 3: must have come out last week. Came out yesterday. It
Speaker 3: came out yesterday yesterday.
Speaker 1: It just got published this morning on MLB dot com.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so no, they might have taken the poll
Speaker 1: last week. That's fair. Like they might have assembled these
Speaker 1: these statistics before the Otani last two days of madness.
Speaker 4: Maybe good point. They could have done the polling right before.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Speaking well, real quick, real quick.
Speaker 3: The only thing I just wanted to say is like,
Speaker 3: I feel like I would like, maybe should do this.
Speaker 3: Get a real voter, and I know a couple of
Speaker 3: people who have actual votes, because I need to know
Speaker 3: and understand the explanation.
Speaker 1: Of Starker against votes for Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: I just talked to Steve like a month ago and
Speaker 3: didn't eno start getting it as well.
Speaker 4: I feel like eno just recently, maybe maybe I'm not
Speaker 4: right closer than I. Yeah, I'll have to hit it.
Speaker 3: I want to hit one of them up to ask,
Speaker 3: because the only thing I'm curious about is why is
Speaker 3: Judge so unanimously running away with this when last year
Speaker 3: I keep saying the same thing, when you had a
Speaker 3: triple crown threat against Atani last year in one of
Speaker 3: the most incredible season.
Speaker 4: Answer, and Otani's not even in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, please, Yes, he's a Yankee. He's a Yankee. It's
Speaker 1: New York, New York Yankee baseball. They also happen to
Speaker 1: have the best record in baseball, and they also happen
Speaker 1: to be on pace for one of the best records
Speaker 1: of all time in baseball. That is special. I disagree
Speaker 1: with the fact that there is a divide there between them.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. That's the answer, easy. Yankee and the
Speaker 1: Yankees are an all time pace. Now it's probably an
Speaker 1: unsustainable pace. So if it starts to go south in
Speaker 1: July and August a little bit, that Otani conversation is
Speaker 1: gonna get very different. But just once again, it is
Speaker 1: a little weird. Now I'm try my transition again. Speaking
Speaker 1: of polls, I put a poll out there yesterday on
Speaker 1: the Twitter machine. What's more irritating people who tweet that's it,
Speaker 1: that's the tweet, or people who like tweets that are
Speaker 1: that's it, that's the tweet. Welsh, do you want to
Speaker 1: weigh in on this before I tell everybody the results
Speaker 1: of this poll?
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it is without hesitation, the person that
Speaker 3: goes that's the tweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the tweet. Seventy eight percent of people agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think that the people who like it
Speaker 1: are equally to blame, though, because they're kind of encouraging
Speaker 1: that sort of nonsense. I just want to play that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could tell that was your your motive, because
Speaker 3: I think the better play would have been to just
Speaker 3: take another sticky type of you know, meme form tweet
Speaker 3: and put it up against it. But I could tell
Speaker 3: your agenda was about the people that are liking people.
Speaker 1: I think, well, I'm just saying if people didn't like it,
Speaker 1: people wouldn't do that. You know. It's like and they
Speaker 1: don't even do it necessarily. Like sometimes I saw one
Speaker 1: person was like, Hawvey baias, that's it, that's the tweet, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the tweet. Hovey Baia is like, that's that's so
Speaker 1: special it deserves a tweet. Some people say, you know
Speaker 1: English breakfast tea, that's it, that's the tweet. Who gives
Speaker 1: a crap? I am a secret.
Speaker 4: I mean, I completely agree.
Speaker 1: You need it.
Speaker 4: You need it pretty bad.
Speaker 1: You need it pretty bad. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: some more action year.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about it, Joe Fact, Can I while you're
Speaker 3: on vacation, Can I one day call you on the
Speaker 3: show and just like get one rant from you, like
Speaker 3: one thing, one bad thing? Can I call you like
Speaker 3: Wednesday and just be I'm gonna text you and see
Speaker 3: if you're ready, and if you're there, and just I'll
Speaker 3: put the phone up and well we just need a
Speaker 3: thirty second. Like I don't think it was that's killing you.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's something I could like voice
Speaker 1: record a text to you and probably you could download
Speaker 1: that and put it into the podcast version of this show.
Speaker 1: That's probably doable.
Speaker 4: But we're gonna do I need.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how our technology has taken us in this bit,
Speaker 1: like you and I have been doing this a very
Speaker 1: long time. It's crazy how hard it used to be
Speaker 1: to do a podcast, how easy this to do? Nonsense
Speaker 1: right now like it is crazy. It is all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to more fun facts here. You're gonna love
Speaker 1: this one. I found two nerd stats for everybody. Ready, Nerds,
Speaker 1: here we go. Largest increase in barrel rate from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty twenty two. Here are the names.
Speaker 1: Christian Walker plus nine point nine points. Now again, biggest
Speaker 1: increase means you sucked last year probably were a little bit.
Speaker 1: Jock Peterson plus eight point four, Aaron Judge plus eight
Speaker 1: point two, so he went from good to great. Jas
Speaker 1: Chisholm plus seven point nine and Gian Carlos Stanton plus
Speaker 1: seven point five. Chisholm, Peterson, Walker, all three guys on
Speaker 1: this list having especially Peterson and Chisholm, having great seasons.
Speaker 1: I thought that was fascinating. Welsh, What were your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the increased barrel rates for these players?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's correlate. I look at all of
Speaker 4: those names.
Speaker 3: Those are I mean, Judge has taken a next step,
Speaker 3: Jack petersonan's been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I've actually talked about Christian Walker a bit as a
Speaker 3: Homer Diamondback fan. He has the leagues and I think
Speaker 3: I had cited this the other week Rob Silver even
Speaker 3: pointed the lowest in baseball history Babbitt, and the guy's
Speaker 3: hitting like close to twenty homers right now and he's
Speaker 3: got the lowest babb up in all of baseball. And
Speaker 3: part of that success from that really bad luck has
Speaker 3: been the best increase in barrel rates. So barrel rate
Speaker 3: might be one of those things. If I know, there's
Speaker 3: plenty of nerds out there that are like really tuned
Speaker 3: into it, but I think there's a lot of people
Speaker 3: that are always kind of finding like, hey, what are
Speaker 3: like a couple of things I could just really focus on,
Speaker 3: Like what can I really focus on instead of having
Speaker 3: to find out the shape of baseballs and look at
Speaker 3: spray charts and home run factors and now everybody wants
Speaker 3: to do that. Barrel rate's one of those pretty good
Speaker 3: hitter metrics. We have so many pitching ones of like
Speaker 3: csw and swinging strike percentage and stuff like that in
Speaker 3: Sierra where you can go and look at barrel rates
Speaker 3: and it's a really good translation into the quality of hits.
Speaker 3: And even though Christian Walker is not getting a lot
Speaker 3: of them, the hits he's getting, Yeah, I think this
Speaker 3: was a great one to always focus on uh. But
Speaker 3: I don't think it doesn't help us any future. I
Speaker 3: think it just shows maybe some sustainability and some reasons
Speaker 3: behind some of the success. And also I would say,
Speaker 3: like with Christian Walker, the babit is unsustainable. It's an unsustainable,
Speaker 3: insanely low one that he's only. It's a lot of
Speaker 3: bad luck that's also baked into that he's going to
Speaker 3: get better, and think of that barrel rat increase while
Speaker 3: he's getting better.
Speaker 4: I think the.
Speaker 1: Peanuts and Cracker Jacks might be turning on Mike Mayor
Speaker 1: right now because one of them made a comment about
Speaker 1: sharing your own posts or something like that, and then
Speaker 1: someone said about liking your own posts on Facebook, and
Speaker 1: I've seen Mike Mayor.
Speaker 4: Do that on numerous occasions, like your own post.
Speaker 1: Mayor does that as that might be a trope just
Speaker 1: because like he's Mayor. But I'm just saying it looks
Speaker 1: like Team Rando might be turning on their leader.
Speaker 3: He might have to step down from office. That's just
Speaker 3: something you can't do. He's at the top.
Speaker 1: I heard Waffe Penguin's going to be the interim arbiter
Speaker 1: here of all these.
Speaker 3: Hey, Joe, Mike Mayer likes his own Facebook posts. That's
Speaker 3: the tweet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run to Twitter after this show and tweet
Speaker 1: that that's so good. All right, let's here's another fun factor.
Speaker 1: Ready for this one. Most strikeouts on four seam fastball
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty TOJA. I got all the nerd stats,
Speaker 1: so usual suspects here. I'm gonna count him down from
Speaker 1: five to one. Zach Wheeler one hundred and seventy two. Again,
Speaker 1: this is strikeouts on four seamers. Zach Wheeler won seventy two.
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray no surprise, one to seventy seven, Brandon Woodruf,
Speaker 1: no surprise, one to eighty nine, Garrett Cole no surprise
Speaker 1: at two to one, Tyler Molly two twenty four, number
Speaker 1: one on the list. That is surprising and shocking. I'd
Speaker 1: be all in everywhere trying to buy this guy while
Speaker 1: he's still in the Reds, because I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Reds much longer.
Speaker 3: I completely agree he went through like a really rough spell,
Speaker 3: but he had one of those like massive era versus
Speaker 3: x FIP differentials with huge strikeout numbers. He's a strikeout guy.
Speaker 3: I love buying in on him, you know, I'm actually
Speaker 3: surprised didn't make this list, but it was only because
Speaker 3: of this year.
Speaker 4: Eric eric Lower.
Speaker 3: Eric Lower had probably the most effective fastball as far
Speaker 3: as strikeout rate goes. This year, like it looked like
Speaker 3: a reliever, like in how a reliever attaches our fastball,
Speaker 3: Like it was unsustainable, but it was only this year
Speaker 3: it was this big, massive fastball change. I guess since
Speaker 3: this is over a two year span, he just couldn't
Speaker 3: make it. But that's another thing. It's a lot of
Speaker 3: I mean, there's some underperforming stuff in there, but it's
Speaker 3: a three year span. But it really shows how undervalued
Speaker 3: Mally is. And he's a trade candidate.
Speaker 1: He is an acquired guy right now, go get him.
Speaker 1: But because you know, the price is going to get
Speaker 1: crazy at the end of July. And you know, if
Speaker 1: we're seeing these stats, you know all the nerds in
Speaker 1: the front offices are seeing the stats. Imagine is a
Speaker 1: negative thing. Nerd is a positive I'm a nerd, So
Speaker 1: don't take this the wrong way, nerds.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this isn't the eighties anymore, Joe. We can
Speaker 3: say nerds and not everybody get all of.
Speaker 1: The I want to make sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's positive there's nerd bro and there's all the
Speaker 3: different type of nerds.
Speaker 1: But if my normal aqualogy to all the nerds, you know.
Speaker 3: I imagine like Molly in Toronto, you know, like a
Speaker 3: really good offense behind him, or like you know, there's
Speaker 3: some other good really picture you know what.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see him, honest, Atlanta's where I'd love
Speaker 1: to see him. That's if I'm the Braves.
Speaker 4: That's right, Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know they've got the prospects to do it.
Speaker 3: They've got I'm actually I'm actually thinking about Cleveland simply,
Speaker 3: as stupid as it is, those organizations are very comfortable
Speaker 3: talking to each other because they share a complex out
Speaker 3: in good Year, they're very very close, Holly on that team. First,
Speaker 3: they don't strike out. It's a patient team. Defensively, really solid.
Speaker 3: That would be a great place for him to land
Speaker 3: if they wanted to be aggressive. So either way, every
Speaker 3: pretty much every destination is a plus for him while
Speaker 3: he's showing all this awesome underlying stuff.
Speaker 4: So he is a bye right now.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to a little this day
Speaker 1: in baseball history. We had another day loaded with some
Speaker 1: good things. So I wanted to hold him out here
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine, this day, Ricky Henderson made his
Speaker 1: major league debut for the Oakland A's. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: you have nineteen eighty nine Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman stealing
Speaker 1: thirty nine and fortieth consecutive basis in a row. We
Speaker 1: can't get a guy to steal thirty bases, let alone
Speaker 1: forty nowadays, let alone in a row. Welsh I thought
Speaker 1: that was stunning.
Speaker 4: Which I agree with that. Yeah, and I agree with that.
Speaker 4: I mean, Bertie might do it before August. He just
Speaker 4: found out. This is all I'm gonna do. But yeah,
Speaker 4: we are in dude, I have it. I have to look.
Speaker 3: I just haven't looked at the total stats. Do we
Speaker 3: have a single guy.
Speaker 4: With twenty right now? I know what's Leo up to.
Speaker 4: Julio and Berdie were right there. I think Julio is
Speaker 4: that night I want to say, is at nineteen. I
Speaker 4: just don't have the stats up. I mean I could
Speaker 4: pull them up, but I don't want to. Like Hault the.
Speaker 1: Show, why don't you pull them up while I give
Speaker 1: this next one here? This is the last thing too,
Speaker 1: which I thought was fascinating because baseball was never quite
Speaker 1: the same after this moment. This is kind of a
Speaker 1: demarcation moment where you could see like the change in
Speaker 1: the game. In nineteen ninety two, on this day, Commissioner
Speaker 1: fae Vincent permanently banned Steve Howe from baseball after pleading
Speaker 1: no contest to misdemeanor drug charges. He had cocaine issues.
Speaker 1: Steve Howe had a lot of drug issues in his life.
Speaker 1: I think he did pass away from memory serves. The
Speaker 1: band is subsequently overturned by the owners because they're greedy,
Speaker 1: and they say, I don't care if this guy's got
Speaker 1: a drug problem. We need him to pitch for us.
Speaker 1: Fae Vincent resigns later in September after a vote of
Speaker 1: no confidence, and we have the interim Commissioner Baseball takeover
Speaker 1: after that, and after that it's Bud Selig. And then
Speaker 1: two years later we had a player strike, and that's
Speaker 1: when the owners kind of took over their own game,
Speaker 1: so to speak.
Speaker 4: Corporate America. For you at Corporate America, I like this.
Speaker 1: We don't like what you're doing there, trying to act
Speaker 1: at the best interest of baseball as your job. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take it from here, buddy. But I thought that
Speaker 1: was fat all over, Steve Howe. It was an OK
Speaker 1: pitcher for the Dodgers and Yankees at times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Julio hit nineteen, I was right about that.
Speaker 3: Bertie up to twenty one, Bertie actually hasn't even hit.
Speaker 3: Berti hasn't even gotten to the point of qualified as bats.
Speaker 3: He has one hundred and fifty four played appearances, twenty
Speaker 3: one stolen bases in forty one games right now, the
Speaker 3: only the only offensive player in baseball to be over twenty.
Speaker 1: Does he have more how many runs score? Does he have?
Speaker 4: Birdie twenty five?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, does he have more steals than
Speaker 1: run score?
Speaker 4: That would be an awesome that wouldn't that be cool? Well,
Speaker 4: I'm rooting for that. I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a fun one. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on to the trivia question. The nineteen ninety eight Yankees.
Speaker 1: You're ready for this. Mayor won one hundred and fourteen games?
Speaker 1: Which pitcher led that team? And wins this season? So
Speaker 1: if you know the answer, drop it in the chat
Speaker 1: over Fantasy pros MLD. It is not the Welsh, is not?
Speaker 1: Wells oh no.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, it's not the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 3: Is you know, there is Chris well People forget there
Speaker 3: is Chris Welsh who was a former rest pitcher who
Speaker 3: is now an announcer. Me and him, we're connected by
Speaker 3: the way he randomly followed me like two years ago,
Speaker 3: probably just for name likeness and people that don't do
Speaker 3: any research. In podcasting, we had this person Vote Bogman
Speaker 3: and ized podcast like hey top whatever podcast, and this
Speaker 3: girl wrote up that I was Chris Wells's.
Speaker 4: Former pit and I was like, I'm not the former picture,
Speaker 4: but I appreciate it. So I could have said that.
Speaker 4: But okay, not Andy pett.
Speaker 1: Who let nope, who led the ninety eight Yankees in wins?
Speaker 1: That's the question here and apparently got some breaking news here.
Speaker 1: John Hayman, who's often wrong, is apparently wrong. The Yankees
Speaker 1: offered a nineteen million dollar settlement. They did not settle.
Speaker 1: Judge turned it down. Hearing still on and no, JP,
Speaker 1: it was not Andy pettittt So.
Speaker 3: I mean Judge is going to win that like that's
Speaker 3: one of those things.
Speaker 4: Why again?
Speaker 1: So they were at seventeen the arbiter number is twenty one,
Speaker 1: right that the judge teams going in with they offered
Speaker 1: nineteen that's the okay, let's meet in the middle. It's
Speaker 1: two million. Just settle it.
Speaker 5: From a pr standpoints so stupid. I don't mean you're
Speaker 5: the Yankees. You print money, You print money. This is
Speaker 5: your best player, who is a lit Why are you
Speaker 5: raking him over the calls? He is carrying you to
Speaker 5: an all time great record. And I don't like the
Speaker 5: Yankees in particular. It's not like I'm a Yankee fan
Speaker 5: out here outing the table for this.
Speaker 1: This is absurd.
Speaker 3: They better hope their arbitration lawyer is not doing any
Speaker 3: of that Bryant stuff where they're trying to tear down that.
Speaker 3: They better not be bringing up Judge's girlfriend out here
Speaker 3: in Scottsdale getting drunk and getting a duy.
Speaker 4: They've bring any Oh you don't know about that story.
Speaker 4: It's she pulled.
Speaker 3: She got pulled over late night in Scottsdale and she
Speaker 3: pulled a Do you know who my boyfriend is?
Speaker 1: Awesome?
Speaker 4: I don't I pulled it.
Speaker 1: Do you know who I am? Earlier? And I said
Speaker 1: I was gonna do it at Universal Studios at some point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the answer here is David Cone. That's right. Brian Hayes
Speaker 1: got it first. Bob got it. David Cone twenty wins
Speaker 1: that year for that team.
Speaker 3: There's some reason I thought he when I went to
Speaker 3: Cone immediately, and then I was like, not ninety eight,
Speaker 3: that's too late.
Speaker 1: All right, we're running behind because all the ranting about
Speaker 1: the Yankees today. So uh stat Heroes Montoss was great
Speaker 1: eight k's eight innings, Smeltzer three k's score of six innings.
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray another good start at hey tell you over
Speaker 1: the last month, Robby Ray's got an era of three
Speaker 1: oh by him, while that era still looks like a
Speaker 1: four overall in the year. Yesterday, the Dodgers bats woke
Speaker 1: up in the lower part of the lineup that included
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger Max Munsey both went yard. Even though Bellinger
Speaker 1: is sitting two thirteen, he's still got nine dingers and
Speaker 1: nine sole on bases, so he's helping you in Rodo
Speaker 1: Dansby Swanson two more home runs. He continues to be hot.
Speaker 1: Stanton went yard yesterday. Bregman went yard alt two a
Speaker 1: three for four. Uh stat zero's Joe Muscove. We mentioned
Speaker 1: him already. Hunter Green six earned runs one Hunter Green
Speaker 1: is bad. Balls fly out of the ballpark. It's just
Speaker 1: how it is. He's just got to learn to locate.
Speaker 1: He is gonna be special. Just be patient. Juano Suarez
Speaker 1: oh for four four k's j Stremski over five with
Speaker 1: four k's cron oh for four with three k. Same
Speaker 1: with Joey Gallo. Joey Gallo average by year twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, one one, twenty twenty two, one seventy six.
Speaker 1: I've never been a Gallo guy. Never will be turning.
Speaker 3: Into Chris Davis, turning into Chris Davis. Just want everybody
Speaker 3: to know that just horrible, horrible player.
Speaker 1: He's Chris Davis had. I mean Davis Had.
Speaker 4: Not Carrizzy.
Speaker 3: I'm talking Chris who carta history worst contract in baseball
Speaker 3: history that one.
Speaker 1: Here you go, home run board, boom. Look at this explosions.
Speaker 1: Larry see at twenty seven, twenty seven, title chaser, twenty
Speaker 1: six and Joey p still on the board. That's right.
Speaker 1: I gotten now down a peg, but I'm at twenty one.
Speaker 1: But look at Larry Ce and high cobies. Larry Hittner
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Speaker 1: code leading off. Today on DK Mike Trout one a
Speaker 1: half total bases at minus one twenty five. Matt Olsen
Speaker 1: total bases one of that happened, plus one thirty five.
Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore on FanDuel five and a half. K's a
Speaker 1: little tenuous, but I think against the Phillies he can
Speaker 1: get it. Philly strike out a ton, so minus won
Speaker 1: eighteen on that. I still like the over Welsh real quick.
Speaker 1: Give me your take on the.
Speaker 4: I got three for you, I got three for you.
Speaker 3: Alec Manila five and a half over Milwaukee, who's gone
Speaker 3: up against top ten and strikeouts in the league. Hasn't
Speaker 3: been a big strikeout guy, but I like that. Sandy
Speaker 3: al Contra, five and a half is the strikeout number.
Speaker 3: He's hit that in five of his last six. It
Speaker 3: is the Mets, though they don't okay, but they'll get
Speaker 3: a ton, but they're averaging ten strikeouts a game over
Speaker 3: their last three. Paul Goldschmidt, I'm taking the total bases.
Speaker 3: I think it was one and a half over because
Speaker 3: he's got nine career doubles versus Kyle Hendrix, which is
Speaker 3: I think triple. The next guy, as far as BVP
Speaker 3: goes very very good record. So Paul Goldschmidt on the
Speaker 3: total basis, al Contra Minoa's strikeouts over.
Speaker 1: All, Right, DFS tonight, look for Justin Verlander to be
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander. They're underdogs tonight. By the way, Houston Afters
Speaker 1: are under dogs with Verlander on the mount. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: you don't think this guy's gonna show up in a
Speaker 1: big game. We'll see. I'll put money in it. Justin
Speaker 1: Verlander at ten six. If not, give me on DK,
Speaker 1: Nick Pivetta at nine point eight, Alec Manoa nine to five.
Speaker 1: And if you want to pivot away from Verlander with
Speaker 1: a different lineup, just put eron Nolan in at ten three.
Speaker 1: Swap out Verlander for Nola, swap out Nick Pivetta for
Speaker 1: Manoa again, you can mix it, change those four pitchers.
Speaker 1: Sandy al Contra is on the main site on FanDuel
Speaker 1: only tonight, not on DK at ten point nine. You
Speaker 1: can go ahead with him. You can go with Verlander,
Speaker 1: who's expensive too, or you can pivot down to nine
Speaker 1: point eight Nick Povetta, who's been excellent, Stax Houston, the
Speaker 1: Texas team, the Rangers there, they got the Minnesota Twinkies there.
Speaker 1: Lineup builders, Adlie rutchmand On DK three point three, Ian Halp,
Speaker 1: who's at a massive June by the way, three point six,
Speaker 1: Alex kirol Off two point six on FanDuel Christian Walker
Speaker 1: two nine, Rutchman two point four and kiral Off two
Speaker 1: point four as well. I'm going with Jordan Alvarez tonight
Speaker 1: through the weekend, through my vacation. Go Jordan, pick me up.
Speaker 1: Who you got Welsh for your home run call for
Speaker 1: the week I did yesterday.
Speaker 3: I've got a really good trend of doing this lately
Speaker 3: where I pick a guy and than the next day
Speaker 3: he homers. So I'm gonna come back to Paul Goldschmidt,
Speaker 3: who I had to change because I didn't look at
Speaker 3: the MLB lineups right as we started up and Buckson
Speaker 3: was out again.
Speaker 4: Stupid. So I went with Goldie. He didn't hit.
Speaker 3: He hits today, good track record against Coyleham. I'll take
Speaker 3: them through the weekend. Paul Goldschmidt and Mayor has a
Speaker 3: BVP play CJ. Crohn, who's got the most homers against anybody?
Speaker 3: As far as BVP goes for the day, those are
Speaker 3: your home run calls.
Speaker 1: Everybody. Have a great weekend, enjoy your baseball, enjoy your families,
Speaker 1: enjoy your life, enjoy your friends, and then come back
Speaker 1: and support the Welsh and the team on Monday. Me
Speaker 1: next week and yeah, hang out with Welsh running the ship.
Speaker 1: Support your boy the Welsh. That'll do it for me.
Speaker 1: Joey P and the Welsh. We'll see you next time kids. Bye.