Speaker 1: Leading off starts right now on Fantasy Pros. I am
Speaker 1: Chris Welsh. That right there, that's Kelly Kirby. It's a
Speaker 1: wonky Wednesday. When we say it's a Wonkee Wednesday around
Speaker 1: these parts, it doesn't mean that things are going haywire crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe some things might be going haywire in
Speaker 1: the background a little bit, Kelly, just the time event,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean it's anything bad. It actually means
Speaker 1: the opposite. It's the best. It means we get a
Speaker 1: little bit of extra juice on our home runs today
Speaker 1: and I get the hangout with the wonky penguin. Kelly,
Speaker 1: what's up? Not a lot?
Speaker 2: I was gonna give you a twenty two minute standing
Speaker 2: at like ovation just to you know, take some time.
Speaker 2: But I just will tell everyone I have six dogs
Speaker 2: right now in a very small square footage. A friend
Speaker 2: of mine is having kind of an emergency surgery, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep them as quite as I can
Speaker 2: for the people listening. But YouTubers, I can't help you
Speaker 2: if I have to mute and turn around and yell
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: So I do think we could make it into like
Speaker 1: a drinking game. And of course it's very early so
Speaker 1: we can make it maybe coffee or shots of espresso
Speaker 1: or something that we were sitting right before the show
Speaker 1: started and then we're just about to go and I
Speaker 1: hear and I was like, there we go. So if
Speaker 1: you hear dog sounds, take a drink, Yeah, take some
Speaker 1: caffeine and something like that. I'm all for it. I'm
Speaker 1: all for it. I've got some dog that thinks the
Speaker 1: pool man is hades himself is the devil and just
Speaker 1: has to scream, and the dog screams, so it happens.
Speaker 1: It's the world of podcasting. But Kelly Kirby in the
Speaker 1: house for Milwaukee Wednesday, and we got a lot to cover.
Speaker 1: I got a home run board, by the way, I
Speaker 1: can tease that we got an update and the home
Speaker 1: run board, which would be nice to check out. But
Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Christian Yelich yesterday hit a
Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety nine foot home run, which was
Speaker 1: the longest home run of twenty twenty two. And for
Speaker 1: some reason, I'm very skewed by video games sometimes, like
Speaker 1: I forget maybe every like six months. My brain just
Speaker 1: resets that we don't have five hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: foot homers. You know, I think old MLB, the Show
Speaker 1: and MVP Baseball and everything just screwed up my brain
Speaker 1: when I think about it, because I hear four ninety nine,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Well, it's
Speaker 1: so good. It is the highest this year, and it's
Speaker 1: the third farthest ever tracked on stat cast. Kelly and
Speaker 1: Christian Yelich putting in some I know, that's what I read.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: That's surprising.
Speaker 1: That's very surprising to me too. It was the third
Speaker 1: highest in the stat Cast era. So Christian Yelich, so
Speaker 1: far on the season, he's had so many comparisons to
Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger him, those two have fallen in the same realm.
Speaker 1: They're not because Bellinger has been completely worthless. Yelich is
Speaker 1: quietly putting together a season that we actually might be
Speaker 1: able to justify where we were taking him. You know,
Speaker 1: post one hundred, around one hundred's twelve homers, sixteen stolen bases.
Speaker 1: I would have never guessed eighty five runs on the year.
Speaker 1: A little, tiny outside shot might be able to get
Speaker 1: to one hundred, hitting right around two sixty, double digit
Speaker 1: walk percentage. I mean, Kelly, Christian Yelich kind of became
Speaker 1: useful again. He's just not elite, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got burned by him last year so badly
Speaker 2: that I was just refused to draft him anywhere this year,
Speaker 2: and I have kind of kept tabs on him. And
Speaker 2: as a player, I've always I've always really actually enjoyed him,
Speaker 2: even as a Cubs fan. So I'm glad to see
Speaker 2: him doing well. I just and I'm glad for fantasy
Speaker 2: managers who picked him up way late in drafts. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that those numbers actually just surprised me incredibly ones.
Speaker 1: You know what's also as interesting is I kind of
Speaker 1: feel like Christian Yelich is a guy that we all have.
Speaker 1: This Usually sometimes it comes from like us not owning
Speaker 1: players that we might not check in on guys a
Speaker 1: whole lot, But y'all, you also have guys that just
Speaker 1: what they are in your mind is already done, like
Speaker 1: it's already over, Like you don't you don't need to
Speaker 1: really go and check in. You don't need to. There's
Speaker 1: no highlights of it. But Yelich has quietly been kind
Speaker 1: of fixing himself. If he started off the season around
Speaker 1: two thirty, he hit two thirty in March April he
Speaker 1: hit two thirty in May, but then June and July
Speaker 1: he was right around two ninety's dip down in August
Speaker 1: back down, but it's in the two fifties, and what
Speaker 1: you're seeing is an overall improvement of two fifty one
Speaker 1: in the first half to two seventy eight in the
Speaker 1: second half, and a significant amount of stolen bases, though
Speaker 1: thirteen of the sixteen came in the first half of
Speaker 1: the year, and the second half is registered almost about
Speaker 1: half of what the first half has. So if you
Speaker 1: can you know who's on first, you can follow that.
Speaker 1: It's just the stolen bases have come down when they
Speaker 1: were a lot more significant in the first half. But
Speaker 1: he's still showing off the power, he's showing off the
Speaker 1: speed and feels like one of those guys we might
Speaker 1: be able to buy back into next year. Is because
Speaker 1: he's going to come at a reduced cost.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, if there's enough of a discount, I think
Speaker 2: I would be willing to go back into, you know,
Speaker 2: rostering him and kind of writing out because he's I
Speaker 2: like when he's a consistent player. Obviously everyone does, but
Speaker 2: there are times where he swoons to dis agree that
Speaker 2: he does and even look like his back is functioning
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: So it's a good point. But you know, when his
Speaker 1: back is going, he's dropping him four ninety nine, Big Dogs,
Speaker 1: Big Dogs. An interesting group of players that he might
Speaker 1: be around. We could argue some of the rookies. So
Speaker 1: I thought, let's get a little bit of a rookie
Speaker 1: update on the top guys you'd put on here that
Speaker 1: Tristan Cassis was called up, made his major league debut.
Speaker 1: Eccentric guy. I don't know everyone saw his debut. When
Speaker 1: he was got to the stadium. He took off his
Speaker 1: shirt and he just had some shorts on and he
Speaker 1: walked out and he went out onto the field and
Speaker 1: just laid in the grass in the sun, and some
Speaker 1: players were like, what are you doing. He's just being him,
Speaker 1: being his guy. And he made his major league debut.
Speaker 1: He goes one for four with a homer. He had
Speaker 1: three strikeouts. But also did you see the controversy of
Speaker 1: the guy where he hits the bomb and the guy
Speaker 1: gets the ball and won't give the ball back like
Speaker 1: he was holding a hostage. He was holding the home
Speaker 1: run ball hostage from Cossas and there was like ushers
Speaker 1: trying to figure something out I didn't. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I saw what the ending was to it, but
Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about this. This is going
Speaker 1: in completely different tangent, but man like, baseball fans have
Speaker 1: some of just the worst, like like dirt bag fans,
Speaker 1: And I was like, football is hyper aggressive. Like when
Speaker 1: I think of football fans, I think, you know, they're
Speaker 1: all drunk, they're all fighting, they're all doing this. But
Speaker 1: baseball fans are just like there's just like a lot
Speaker 1: of bad people. The video of the guy the player
Speaker 1: throwing the ball to all the girls and the guy
Speaker 1: who a soda jersey comes in and steals the ball,
Speaker 1: Zach Hambell. In general, this guy, I don't know why
Speaker 1: this keeps happening, but I guess that's a whole nother
Speaker 1: side story. But Tristan Coss is showing off a little bit.
Speaker 1: Any early impressions on being able.
Speaker 2: To get to see him, I haven't gotten to see him.
Speaker 2: I was busy last night, so I didn't I missed
Speaker 2: his intro. But I do love you know, people are
Speaker 2: always like, hey, act like you've been here before, And
Speaker 2: I love when guys are like I worked my entire
Speaker 2: existence to get to this moment, it's like in the
Speaker 2: field and get some sign that's awesome. But otherwise, no,
Speaker 2: all I know is that Gems McSorley called him for
Speaker 2: his home run call. So that was an impressive shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's very true. So on the
Speaker 1: other rookie side, I just got me thinking with Tristan
Speaker 1: Cossa is coming up. The positive is they said they
Speaker 1: are going to let him run every day. Obviously not
Speaker 1: going to let him exhaust his prospect eligibility if that's
Speaker 1: even a possibility at this point, but they said they
Speaker 1: are going to play him every day. Has we're not
Speaker 1: going to come back. Bobby Dollback was sent down, So
Speaker 1: this is Costas's job to roll big power. Makes better
Speaker 1: contact than Dollback. Three strikeouts not great, but it's not
Speaker 1: something I'm crazy worried about. So Costas is going to
Speaker 1: be one of those guys who's going to be a
Speaker 1: good source of power if you're looking at it for
Speaker 1: your corner infield, and he's going to get every day
Speaker 1: at Pats and that's what's a big key. But it
Speaker 1: got me thinking about the other rookies, and we've had
Speaker 1: two different sides. So Corvin Carroll over the last week.
Speaker 1: Corby Kiel's essentially been here for a week, hitting only
Speaker 1: four for eighteen with one run, one RBI. In hitting
Speaker 1: two twenty two off of a very nice hot start,
Speaker 1: he has sat where I don't think we've seen Gunner
Speaker 1: really sit. Gunner in that same period of time nine
Speaker 1: for thirty one, two runs, a homer, two RBI is
Speaker 1: still in baseball hitting two ninety. So the infield position
Speaker 1: player has been much more valuable. Are you out on Carol.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna even ask you Gunner, because I think
Speaker 1: Gunner has been more than serviceable right now. But when
Speaker 1: you see Carrol's early stat line here to twenty two,
Speaker 1: he's getting to play mostly every day outside of an
Speaker 1: occasional sit on a lefty. Are you moving on from
Speaker 1: Corman Carroll right now? And I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: got to pivot for it.
Speaker 2: If it's a redraft and I'm like in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: then yeah, there are enough outfielders. I would just want
Speaker 2: to protect more of my average. I think, like, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to chase him doing high counting stats for September,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm out in that regard obviously. In keeper,
Speaker 2: if I'm not in the playoffs then for you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would write him out for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: But no, that's the thing in draft leagues for me,
Speaker 2: where you know, they call up all these guys and
Speaker 2: it's again it's kind of that like, oh, I want him,
Speaker 2: I want I want the best version of him on
Speaker 2: my team, and they do this like sort of you know,
Speaker 2: the four for eighteen or whatever. So yeah, so I'm
Speaker 2: out on him just but again, I'm out on a
Speaker 2: lot of rookie call ups if I'm in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: just I don't trust them.
Speaker 1: It's it's still to continue. Like the Burn and Churn,
Speaker 1: You burn and Churton players, you drop guys that had
Speaker 1: big names for the rookie guys that came up. Cormin
Speaker 1: Carroll has struggled. McCarthy's been amazing, you know, that's been
Speaker 1: a big one. McCarthy. I I think Bubba had shared this,
Speaker 1: Bubba or Mike Kurlin over the last thirty days that
Speaker 1: Jake McCarthy leads the league in stolen bases. He's been
Speaker 1: your leader in stolen bases here. So Burn and Churn,
Speaker 1: So the same thing we would apply to the Wit Maryfield.
Speaker 1: Why Wit Maryfield would be a guy we would cut
Speaker 1: for Corbick Carroll, Corbyn Carroll for the next guy. That's
Speaker 1: what you would do. Here, interesting conversation going on in
Speaker 1: the chap where this is coming out about the ball,
Speaker 1: where Gokards is like no obligation to give up the ball,
Speaker 1: and it looks like Jim said that deal on the
Speaker 1: table with the interviewer was a Cossus signed bat, a
Speaker 1: Bogart signed ball, and an item to be named later
Speaker 1: for the home run ball. So here's my question, M
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem cutting the deal. If I,
Speaker 1: let's say I would have catch Tristacassus's ball, I'm one
Speaker 1: hundred percent going to give him the ball. But it's
Speaker 1: definitely like, hey, you know, let's give me a sign Jersey,
Speaker 1: give me something like that. I'm down for that, But
Speaker 1: I'm not a I wouldn't be I wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: hold hostage type of person a Kelly, would you hold hostage?
Speaker 1: Would you hold a hostage for you know, a couple
Speaker 1: things like they said, or obviously if this guy didn't
Speaker 1: take that deal, this sounds like someone who's trying to
Speaker 1: hit eBay and trying to put it out on the
Speaker 1: auction block. What would be what would be your mo here?
Speaker 1: If you caught Tristicassa's first career home run ball.
Speaker 2: My first thought, honestly, because I'd give it back. I
Speaker 2: would probably give it back for nothing. At ball means
Speaker 2: nothing to me like it and it means everything to him,
Speaker 2: So I don't see what I would need. But my
Speaker 2: first thought was I was just like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: he could sign a different ball, or just even honestly,
Speaker 2: like a picture with him and like a thank you note. Look,
Speaker 2: I would just want to be like, thank you for
Speaker 2: giving my ball back, here's my autograph, and here's a picture.
Speaker 1: If I get the sunflower seeds and maybe like a
Speaker 1: prep seed and then like a picture, that would be cool,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I know I kind of agree with you,
Speaker 1: Like I have a guilt and a shame where I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to like I couldn't be the person
Speaker 1: that was like, what do you got for me? I
Speaker 1: might be like, you know, here's the ball. Could I
Speaker 1: maybe get like an autograph jersey or a bat or something,
Speaker 1: and hey, I really like Xander, Like I would probably
Speaker 1: go that level. But if they told me no, I'd
Speaker 1: probably be like, Okay, you know here I would probably
Speaker 1: be a pushover like that because I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to take him take it away from him.
Speaker 2: But you know, you know, for me, life gets a
Speaker 2: lot more fun when I don't look at like everything
Speaker 2: from what's the financial worth of this? And maybe it's
Speaker 2: a female thing. I don't know, but I just really
Speaker 2: I'm like that again, like I said, yeah, the ball's nice,
Speaker 2: but it just means nothing to me. Yeah, I caught
Speaker 2: his first home run, and I'm I'm a jackass for
Speaker 2: keeping it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I caught like a Corbyn Carroll the first
Speaker 1: home run or something like that, And I was like,
Speaker 1: the diavs should probably just want to give me season tickets,
Speaker 1: like it wouldn't even be where. They're like, even if
Speaker 1: you don't catch it, you can have season tickets, the
Speaker 1: tickets with Boston that wouldn't work in other places.
Speaker 2: So I can see Arizona. I can see Arizona doing
Speaker 2: like we're gonna do a drawing for season tickets and
Speaker 2: then surprise, everyone here gets them.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's like one of those scams where it's
Speaker 1: like one person's gonna win, but really everybody wins because
Speaker 1: we have to get people. That's actually always been my thought.
Speaker 1: By the way, my capitalist mind doesn't necessarily work. I'm
Speaker 1: always shocked at the team, the not great teams, like
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks of Pirates. Why they wouldn't just give out
Speaker 1: free tickets, Like is the money really going to be
Speaker 1: made on the seat? No, the money is made on
Speaker 1: the parking, it's made on the food, it's made on
Speaker 1: the items that are going to buy. Just get people
Speaker 1: in states. Just give them, you know, give them free tickets,
Speaker 1: like it's the Arizona Fall League. Just let them get in,
Speaker 1: especially for bad teams that have ten thousand people in
Speaker 1: the stadium. Don't worry about the ticket prices. Worry about
Speaker 1: your beer because that's, you know, be the thing marked up.
Speaker 2: I agree entirely, and I think that Doc in the
Speaker 2: chat there has the best option that he would make
Speaker 2: a deal. But for something really weird. He wants a
Speaker 2: bag of only banana runts signed by the nighttime janitor
Speaker 2: at the field.
Speaker 3: Like that, that seems perfect.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, you're like a like a what
Speaker 1: is it called, like a writer? You know, you're just
Speaker 1: like I want a bag of blue m and ms
Speaker 1: and then I want only cherry Pepsis that have been
Speaker 1: chilled to this degree. I like that. I like doing
Speaker 1: like a writer. Yeah one, yeah, I would probably want
Speaker 1: to do we move on from.
Speaker 3: This, but like, you know what, actually you can do
Speaker 3: a whole podcast on that.
Speaker 1: We can do a whole podcast on it. But I
Speaker 1: just thought of like the one unique thing I would
Speaker 1: want because it'd be fun to get, you know, a
Speaker 1: baseball or something, but take batting practice. That would be one.
Speaker 1: I would be like, can I take batting But then
Speaker 1: they would say no, and they'd be like, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: the here's the ball.
Speaker 2: I could sign up for that as long as they
Speaker 2: promised that I get to use the team trainer when
Speaker 2: I throw my back out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, you know what, maybe that's all you say, Like,
Speaker 1: I just need to see the team trainer. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's all that I want. Can I please see the doctor?
Speaker 3: That's all I want?
Speaker 1: The doctor might be the only thing that I asked
Speaker 1: for as well. All right, moving on here from the rookies.
Speaker 1: A lot of rookie conversation. The crux of it is
Speaker 1: the guy is struggling. Move on, You're okay, Carol, You're okay,
Speaker 1: Donnard Henderson. If there was a better hand out there,
Speaker 1: go for it, but you don't need to hold on
Speaker 1: too tight. On the injury front, Max Sure's are is
Speaker 1: placed on the fifteen day IL. Earliest return date is
Speaker 1: now September nineteenth. Helly, this is big, no bueno.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is terrible, and especially because the Braves just
Speaker 2: caught him, right or did they pass them? That is
Speaker 2: not what nuts fans want to hear. And today I
Speaker 2: miss Joe and Dan and watching their said faces discuss that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fun watching the met fans struggle and hurt.
Speaker 1: And hey, by the way, not the picture you would
Speaker 1: have thought that would have got hurt. Jacob Grom, I
Speaker 1: know so.
Speaker 2: I mean one took the whole first half off. The
Speaker 2: other one's kind of taking the second.
Speaker 3: Half be great. I truly hope that he.
Speaker 2: Can come back for the playoffs, but from a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 2: that is terrible.
Speaker 1: Timing their powers combined, they'll make the number one pitcher
Speaker 1: in baseball when they're all put together. We put those
Speaker 1: seasons together. Other On the injury front, Starling Marte out
Speaker 1: us to be another met Ones out of Game one
Speaker 1: on Wednesday with a hand injury. By the way, make
Speaker 1: sure you are tight tight in on making your roster
Speaker 1: moves and your you're setting your lineups in daily leagues,
Speaker 1: because I forgot to do it last night. Luckily up
Speaker 1: earlier doing stuff for the show. I literally got my
Speaker 1: rosters in probably five minutes before the double header started,
Speaker 1: and I had a Jacob de Grom share and that
Speaker 1: would have got locked. Because you know how ridiculous. It
Speaker 1: still pisses me off that all of these systems haven't
Speaker 1: figured a great way out. Maybe someone does it, but
Speaker 1: if a guy's on a double header and they don't
Speaker 1: pitch till the latter half of it or something, they're
Speaker 1: just gonna lock everybody. They lock everybody. So just make
Speaker 1: sure you're in it and make sure you're on all
Speaker 1: of it. This is just a reminder for every single
Speaker 1: day for everybody to get your stuff in and set
Speaker 1: your rosters, maybe the night before so you don't want
Speaker 1: to have a playoff hit for you. Xanda Bogart's left
Speaker 1: Tuesday's game with back spasms. Maybe that's why he can't
Speaker 1: They can't get an autographed ball for the costs thing
Speaker 1: because he left. Louis Robert got hit in the hand. Jesus,
Speaker 1: I can't even get through the Louis Robert got hit
Speaker 1: in the hand with the Logan Gilbert pitch. X rays
Speaker 1: are negative and it may be only a contusion. My god,
Speaker 1: who is more prone to crazy injury stuff? Is it
Speaker 1: Louis Robert or Gean Carlos Stanton? They are magnets, magnets
Speaker 1: two balls hitting the skin.
Speaker 2: I mean one hundred percent, like you, you know, I
Speaker 2: do the sheet every day, so I go to the
Speaker 2: injuries and I honestly did not know if that was
Speaker 2: new or not, Like I had to click into it.
Speaker 3: It's like, I was, like, it's just like an old date.
Speaker 3: It's like, is this new? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And it hit him on the same hand he's been
Speaker 2: having the issues with and it's just I don't know.
Speaker 2: But Stanton is so he's got a longer track history
Speaker 2: of weirdness. Like, but I mean, Robert's coming on hard.
Speaker 1: He's coming on hard and fast. And you know what, listen,
Speaker 1: I was, I'm a I love Luis Robert. I think
Speaker 1: the talent is there that we are borderlining into a
Speaker 1: place with him where he is so inconsistently on the
Speaker 1: field and he's so hurt with different things left and right.
Speaker 1: He cannot find a rhythm on the field to tap
Speaker 1: into that talent that you know what was it? Bisi
Speaker 1: Rizza had said dealing Robert in April was the best
Speaker 1: move they made all year. You know, I kind of
Speaker 1: have thought he was underrated in Dynasty, but I'm really
Speaker 1: starting to kind of push off a little bit, like
Speaker 1: I'm getting over it. Like it can be really frustrating
Speaker 1: and dynash, especially when it's not like I mean, de
Speaker 1: Gram is frustrating in that this happens, but when da
Speaker 1: Gram comes back instantly, the top guy, Robert cannot find
Speaker 1: that rhythm and he's down to seven in the order
Speaker 1: today I think it is, and he was the other day.
Speaker 1: So Robert is, well, we're not going to be I
Speaker 1: don't actually he was in the drafting stuff, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he's actually going to be in there after
Speaker 1: being hit in the hand. But we'll see. But it's
Speaker 1: just increasingly frustrating and hitting seven and not getting any rhythm.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Also, Adam Euler placed on the fifteen day
Speaker 1: IL with a rib issue. Mike Mayer is still around
Speaker 1: and thinking about baseball when he can, and when he
Speaker 1: comes across something, he shares it and he immediately shared
Speaker 1: this yesterday and this was he tagged you me and
Speaker 1: I don't know why I tag Joe. Joe doesn't even
Speaker 1: understand baseball right now, couldn't tell you a thing. He said,
Speaker 1: perfect stat for leading off And this is from Jesse
Speaker 1: Dowdrie and the tweet was no rookie in National's history
Speaker 1: has more doubles as the second batter in a game
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays against left handed starters. And Joey Mnesas and
Speaker 1: he said, it's a perfect leading off stat. And you
Speaker 1: know what, it's a perfect leading on stat.
Speaker 2: Once again, standing ovation, Mike Mayor, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also I'm a big fan, you know. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's something I would trade that costas ball. I
Speaker 1: want to meet the guys that curate these stats. I
Speaker 1: want to find the stat curators that find the like
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, mornings with the seventy eight
Speaker 1: degree weather or lower. This guy has the most homers
Speaker 1: in the month of August. Like, I want to meet
Speaker 1: those guys that that's all they do all that. I
Speaker 1: want to go in the dungeon that little dungeons. I
Speaker 1: expect them to be similar in look to either one
Speaker 1: of two things, the guy in office space, then there's
Speaker 1: me steepler that, or it'll be looking like Grandma's Boy
Speaker 1: with the hacker, you know, the video game designer, where
Speaker 1: they're in a room with four hundred televisions in front
Speaker 1: of them, listening to techno in there and they're just
Speaker 1: pulling stats. I assume it's one of those two people, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think yes, you've narrowed it down to the
Speaker 2: only two possible characters. So if one of them wants
Speaker 2: to be on the show, sometimes they should call in,
Speaker 2: well we'll just take a snapshot of him and be great.
Speaker 1: Or they could just be a totally normal person in
Speaker 1: a house, just like doing math.
Speaker 2: Maybe doctor Glenn and his on the site is that
Speaker 2: that's what he does.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what, maybe that bit i've
Speaker 1: seen doctor Glenn say, Doctor Glenn set up actually does
Speaker 1: have a little bit of vibes of those stats. Doctor
Speaker 1: Glenn just putting it out there. Here's a fun fact
Speaker 1: from Joe PEZNASKI Did I say that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Ponanski Shohyozani has a one fifty one OPS plus and
Speaker 1: a one fifty six Era A plus, and that OPS
Speaker 1: plus is basically Jeff Bagwell over his career, and the
Speaker 1: ERA plus is basically Pedro Martinez over his career. And
Speaker 1: he said, I'm just not even sure what world this
Speaker 1: even is. Well, that's a world where Aaron Judge is
Speaker 1: minus twelve hundred for the MVP.
Speaker 2: I'm and I don't I don't know if he was
Speaker 2: even commenting on at the MVP thing. It's just just
Speaker 2: think about that for one second. You have a Jeff
Speaker 2: Bagel and a Patron Martinez mixed. That is a little crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Actually those are my favorite. I like the
Speaker 1: comparisons when we can start to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: Otani is this hitter in this pitcher? You put those
Speaker 1: players together, and then we can justify that any one
Speaker 1: single player is better than that. Just because he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it every year doesn't make it not the most
Speaker 1: valuable thing in baseball, even if we had to give
Speaker 1: it for ten straight years. I just want to point
Speaker 1: that out again. Just because it becomes the norm does
Speaker 1: not make it not exceptional. And I don't understand why
Speaker 1: people don't realize that. Uh this day in baseball. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, Mark McGuire, who had become the third
Speaker 1: player in history to reach sixty home runs, hit his
Speaker 1: record tying sixty first against Cubs pitcher Mike Morgan. Mike Morgan.
Speaker 1: I grew up on Mark McGuire. We talked about this.
Speaker 1: Who what was the player you grew grew up on?
Speaker 1: Like mine was Mark McGuire, just pointing Ryan Samberg.
Speaker 3: Ryan Samberg okay, yeah, and Greg Medics.
Speaker 1: Were you in Like, were you in the Chicago area.
Speaker 2: No, I lived in Iowa, so we got the WGN,
Speaker 2: so we had all the Cubs games from birth to forever.
Speaker 2: It was Ryan Sanbergen, it was Greg Medics. And when
Speaker 2: they refused to sign Greg Medics, that is when I
Speaker 2: learned about general managers and how awful they are, and like.
Speaker 3: I remember that distinctly being a turning point in my life.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's always interesting the person that you grew
Speaker 1: up on, Like you see it right then here go.
Speaker 1: I love that you guys are sharing this, Like doctor
Speaker 1: Glenn said, chip Or you had Doc for visa, you
Speaker 1: had Musual and Gibson for cards. You know, I grew
Speaker 1: up in the Bay Area, so as big as Bonds was,
Speaker 1: McGuire was bigger in the Bay Area. McGuire was a
Speaker 1: physical and also even just physically. But I've told it
Speaker 1: a couple of times, but my whole family were A's fans,
Speaker 1: so it was a big Mark McGuire times. Anytime I
Speaker 1: see a Mark McGuire's stat, I think about that, and
Speaker 1: then I think about the first year I moved to
Speaker 1: Arizona and we went to a spring training game at
Speaker 1: the Giants stadium. It was A's versus Giants spring train
Speaker 1: and then Mark McGuire hit one out of the stadium
Speaker 1: in this spake training game.
Speaker 2: I just think about that, and I just want to
Speaker 2: add that, like, I graduated from high school in ninety eight,
Speaker 2: and so I was a freshman in college and I
Speaker 2: remember I was saying, I was literally in my dorm
Speaker 2: room watching this game happen, and you know, I'm a
Speaker 2: Cubs fan, so you know, there's a cardinal and I
Speaker 2: actually cried a little because of just like how amazing
Speaker 2: it was, like just you know, he broke this record,
Speaker 2: like he just did this whole thing, and it was
Speaker 2: it was crazy. So yeah, and also that he did
Speaker 2: it against the Yeah, he tied it. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 2: he did it against the Cubs too, which made perfect
Speaker 2: sense to me.
Speaker 1: So there is nothing. There's nothing wrong ever with romanticizing baseball.
Speaker 1: We all can romanticize baseball. I even mention it to
Speaker 1: you and people start sharing. That's the best stuff. That's
Speaker 1: the that's the thing that makes baseball great. Hey, here's
Speaker 1: a trivia question. I mentioned it earlier. Christian Yelich that
Speaker 1: four hundred ninety nine foot homer was the second longest
Speaker 1: hit at a course at Coursefield since twenty fifteen. Which
Speaker 1: one of his former teammates hit the longest? And how
Speaker 1: long was it? Can you guess? Can the Chatney guess?
Speaker 3: I meaning, did he ever play with Prince Fielder? Or
Speaker 3: was that too long ago?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't think that was too long.
Speaker 1: I don't think they crossed paths. That's a former teammate
Speaker 1: of Christian Yelich who has a higher one. It is
Speaker 1: not hun A renfro.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a former teammate, Okay, than Stanton.
Speaker 1: It is Stanton, that's right. Can you guess how long
Speaker 1: that home run was? So it was longer than the
Speaker 1: four ninety nine Jim says Stanton five point fifteen, and
Speaker 1: it is Stanton. That is an incorrect number.
Speaker 3: I want to say five twenty five.
Speaker 1: I want to do prices right here. This would be great, ye,
Speaker 1: like being one dollar. He one dollar. Jean Carlos Stanton
Speaker 1: hit it on August sixth, twenty sixteen. We have another
Speaker 1: five to fifteen guests. Everyone's guessing five to fifteen. It
Speaker 1: actually was ooh. Just Bob is very very close. He
Speaker 1: says five oh four. It was five oh six with
Speaker 1: the Marlins when he was in the Marlins in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Just reminding everybody at that time that outfield was Christian
Speaker 1: yellich On, Carlos Stanton and when Marcelo's when we did
Speaker 1: know Marcelo Zuna was garbage. Quite a team, quite a
Speaker 1: team that Mark.
Speaker 2: And Jose Fernandez was pitching, Like just yeah, they could
Speaker 2: have been they could have been good and things went
Speaker 2: real bad. Yep.
Speaker 1: There's always a what it could have on those team,
Speaker 1: and that's definitely one of those we look back on
Speaker 1: some stat heroes taking a look at what went down yesterday.
Speaker 1: Max Munsey trying to pick it back up off for
Speaker 1: a wretched start of the year. Two homers, three, RBIs
Speaker 1: three for four with a couple of runs, Randy Rose
Speaker 1: Arena three for four with a homer, three RBI, Boba
Speaker 1: Schett just came off of a bunch of homers. Did
Speaker 1: it again, four for five, a homer, two RBI, Randall
Speaker 1: Gritchik had two homers, Jonathan Daza had a home run.
Speaker 1: O'Neill Cruiz three for five, big old homer. I'm shocked
Speaker 1: that he has not broken the stat cast record yet.
Speaker 1: He's got to do it, and then we can have
Speaker 1: a stat of like, what's the one player that hit
Speaker 1: a five hundred foot home run that only hit one
Speaker 1: ninety six and we can be like, oh, Oneo Cruz,
Speaker 1: that's the guy. H Kyle Farmer, Homer and Mondo had
Speaker 1: a home er, Nico Horner two for three with a
Speaker 1: stolen base, and Herris Montero had a home run, got
Speaker 1: a nice little bet with Colorado. They're bringing up bunch
Speaker 1: of the young guys Montero and totally yeah. I had
Speaker 1: that conversation yesterday about Bobachett where it was Michael Harris
Speaker 1: or Bobachett in Dynasty. Are you going to let this
Speaker 1: back half? And I don't say that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: direct this in a way, but are you gonna let
Speaker 1: the second half help direct a positive take on him
Speaker 1: going into next year or are you gonna remember the
Speaker 1: four months where Bobachett was pretty regular?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have him in the Dynasty League. I've had
Speaker 2: him since the Miners, so I'm gonna buy in on
Speaker 2: him again. I think one more year, see if you
Speaker 2: can actually kind of work out all the way across.
Speaker 3: I feel like I.
Speaker 2: Feel like guys often have that one year that's off
Speaker 2: early on, and then that next year is either they
Speaker 2: corrected or they're out. So yeah, I mean, I'm still
Speaker 2: in on him. I like Michael Harris too, but I
Speaker 2: love Michaelares.
Speaker 1: On the pitching side, Shane Bieber went eight, struck out seven.
Speaker 1: Woodruff struck out five and seven, giving up only one
Speaker 1: run and a couple of hits. Logan Gilbert six innings,
Speaker 1: nine k's one hurt wrist to Luis Robert and gave
Speaker 1: up only five hits. Eron Nola struck out ten and
Speaker 1: six and two thirds, and hazus Lozardo seven innings with
Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. Some Zeros, Desmani, grandal isak Parades, c J. Cron,
Speaker 1: Chase McCormick, and Tasker Hernandez all three strikeout games yesterday.
Speaker 1: And on the pitching side, Cole Ierve and gave up
Speaker 1: nine earned runs. God, he had been so good and
Speaker 1: then that's gonna hurt. It's gonna kill me in one
Speaker 1: of my leagues. Nine earned runs, four walks, four ks.
Speaker 1: Kyle Wright thought was gonna be good yesterday, Nope, gave
Speaker 1: up eight earned runs and four. Rich Hill gave up
Speaker 1: five and runs and four. Joe Musgrove couldn't make it
Speaker 1: to the fifth, gave up three homers in the game,
Speaker 1: and Mitchell White didn't get to the third giving up
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Speaker 1: let's get some winners in there, Wonky, we have got
Speaker 1: the home runs going down. I'm going to show the
Speaker 1: leaderboard real quick because as of today, Dee Blum is
Speaker 1: still in the lead. De Blum l scale is now
Speaker 1: forty eight with cat Fox. I believe Cat Fox jump
Speaker 1: back up Yep and high Cubby, so we have a
Speaker 1: three way tie for second place and cat Fox got
Speaker 1: Haunter renfro as a home run call with three way
Speaker 1: race behind de Blum forty nine forty eight. Go Cards
Speaker 1: is at forty seven, and then it kind of falls
Speaker 1: back a little bit. Mayor and Joey are still on
Speaker 1: this list here. Those are Those are what the homers
Speaker 1: are looking like for everybody as we are getting down
Speaker 1: down to the wire. But you've got a wonky Wednesday
Speaker 1: adjustment and you know what, let's save it for when
Speaker 1: we do the home run call, so you can let
Speaker 1: everybody know what that's about. Because I like this one
Speaker 1: quite a bit, so we'll do that.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw a couple of props that you want.
Speaker 1: Want to see what you like. Here over on the
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Speaker 1: play is Michael Kopek and all you need is for strikeouts,
Speaker 1: it's minus one forty eight. Over on FanDuel it's three
Speaker 1: and a half. They're projecting him at almost six five
Speaker 1: point seven, so no choker whites. And number one you
Speaker 1: also have. The number one plus money strikeout prop is
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa, and I kind of like this one. It
Speaker 1: is Alec Minoa versus Baltimore five and a half projected
Speaker 1: at six' eight six point eight and that's a huge,
Speaker 1: big difference. Control one oh five plus one oh five
Speaker 1: on DK you can get that. And then the hitting side,
Speaker 1: the number one hit projection minus one on bet MGM
Speaker 1: is Danny Jansen. That's only one total bass and Martine
Speaker 1: Maltonado is the even play. It's not minus DK. You
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Speaker 1: those four props? What do you did?
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek has ruined my life all year. But that's
Speaker 2: too low. So I would take it, And I think
Speaker 2: I also like Manoa's he tends I feel like he
Speaker 2: does well in Baltimore. But so I like those two
Speaker 2: and yeah, and I guess I would take all of them. Really,
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of Maldonado, but for even
Speaker 2: for a base hit, I'd do it.
Speaker 1: The thing with Kopek, I agree it's too low. The
Speaker 1: problem is he has not hit this in the last
Speaker 1: two games. He actually only has two strikeouts over last
Speaker 1: two games. And he had five starts this month and
Speaker 1: he's only hit that two of five times, so that's
Speaker 1: why that number is low. But I uh, it's just
Speaker 1: too low. It's just too low.
Speaker 3: I think it's just too low.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit too low. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: numbers weren't out there, but Strider on FANDLE ten to
Speaker 1: two playing Kershaw ten to one, Manoa's ten nine, Jordan
Speaker 1: Montgomery nine to five, Patrick Sanderval nine to seven. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to not hit Strider, but he's going
Speaker 1: to be such a like overplayed guy. He's going to
Speaker 1: be chalked today. Everyone's going to be playing him. DraftKings
Speaker 1: when you have two pitchers, I might try to pair
Speaker 1: or maybe go Minoa, Maan. Manoa and Montgomery might be decent.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be cheaper on DK A little bit
Speaker 1: implied totals of five or more Houston Dodgers and Angels,
Speaker 1: but I'm also going to add Atlanta because of the age,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna put Atlanta. I think actually Atlanta stacks
Speaker 1: would be a really smart play today. So the home
Speaker 1: run contest, we're going to make some home run calls
Speaker 1: and you have a little adjustment today for a wonky
Speaker 1: Wednesday bonus. And I like it.
Speaker 2: I love it, and a I realize how diabolical I
Speaker 2: can actually be. So I mean, like this, when this
Speaker 2: came to me, I did an evil cackle. So what
Speaker 2: I've wanted to do it forever. So we're doing a
Speaker 2: double digit day. So you pick a player who wears
Speaker 2: a double digit jersey with two of the same number,
Speaker 2: and you can receive twice the number of homers that
Speaker 2: he hits today. For example, Aaron Judge wears number ninety nine,
Speaker 2: and it's just really too awful, isn't it That he's
Speaker 2: in a double header, so you can't call him.
Speaker 1: Oh double header base numbers, and you can't get your
Speaker 1: double homers. So sad.
Speaker 3: It's just a terrible coincidence.
Speaker 1: I mean, so yeah, sorry, Joe. It so any player
Speaker 1: that wears a double digit number, so eleven, twenty two,
Speaker 1: thirty three, forty four to fifty five, you guys get
Speaker 1: the hint. Does anyone wear sixty six in baseball. I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I have a number thing, and people who know me
Speaker 1: know about this. I have a number thing that like
Speaker 1: odd numbers bother me. So like running backs wearing number
Speaker 1: five annoy me. Baseball players wearing like sixty seven or
Speaker 1: seventy four bother me. Like numbers like that really really
Speaker 1: bother me. Ninety But the even numbers are the ways
Speaker 1: to get away with it, you know, Kyle Blanks, maybe
Speaker 1: the most famous eighty eight. I can do ninety nine's,
Speaker 1: eighty eight, seventy sevens, I can do those, But any
Speaker 1: other number order does really get to me. But what
Speaker 1: you got, then, who's your double digit number? You're playing?
Speaker 2: So my home run call for today is Jose Ramirez,
Speaker 2: who wears number eleven.
Speaker 1: I like that call. I am gonna go with a
Speaker 1: little forty four action against Michael Kopek, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Julio Rodriguez leading off. Should probably be in
Speaker 1: my mind, probably the play of the day. It's a
Speaker 1: lead off batter with a double digit number. Ramirez, though,
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. We probably picked the top
Speaker 1: two digit players, is there. I can't even think of
Speaker 1: anybody else to be honest with you, there's a.
Speaker 3: Few out there.
Speaker 2: I also wanted to mention in your home run call
Speaker 2: if you want to just add the number. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously I'm gonna have to look them up anyway, but
Speaker 2: if you want to just add their jersey number, that
Speaker 2: would save me a little time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I lucked. I did. I did do that online.
Speaker 1: So o Lei Rodriguez, Jose Ramirez. Oh is that sad
Speaker 1: that Joe is there and Judge and he doesn't actually
Speaker 1: get to have a homer today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, none of them, so terrible. Feel bad for me.
Speaker 1: Yep, all right for those that is the episode, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys for hanging out.
Speaker 2: Kelly.
Speaker 1: Anything going down that people need to be checking out.
Speaker 2: If you love fantasy Nascar or fantasy hockey, I've got
Speaker 2: lots of all sorts of stuff going on over at
Speaker 2: fan Tracks. And we also did start the touchdown calls today.
Speaker 2: So if you want to play this game, play this.
Speaker 1: Game, play it. I do it the touchdown call. I
Speaker 1: like doctor Glenn says, I went seven, gave up woner
Speaker 1: and run six strikeouts. He's then checked into the game
Speaker 1: to hit and hit Jill Homers his MVP odds then fellas,
Speaker 1: so I got to know m VP for well. Thank
Speaker 1: you Glenn for my line. He always does it gives
Speaker 1: me the pitching line. Friends, Thank you guys for hanging out.
Speaker 1: I hope you had fun today. Hopefully we learned a
Speaker 1: little bit and we can win our playoff matchups. That's
Speaker 1: the key. Make sure you come back tomorrow. I believe
Speaker 1: it's Andrew Seifer hanging out with me. Kelly. He did fantastic.
Speaker 1: Love having you on and I love looking forward to
Speaker 1: having you on next week for Kelly, fantastic, We're right here. Goodbye,
Speaker 1: oh so long.