Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros. MLB.
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Speaker 1: code leading Off when you do. It's me Joey Pa,
Speaker 1: Jopie's a pea. That of course is the Welsh and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I missed you all yesterday. It was out
Speaker 1: of my control. Exfinity was doing work in my area.
Speaker 1: I got a message in the morning a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago and said, hey, we're gonna do work in your era.
Speaker 2: You might experience an outager two.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, nothing happened yesterday got the same thing.
Speaker 2: I figured I was okay, Welsh.
Speaker 1: I was not, and thank goodness for you and Scott
Speaker 1: Bogman to jump in there. But I have to say, Welsh,
Speaker 1: maybe I should miss the show more often, because yesterday
Speaker 1: I picked Trey Turner for my home run call and
Speaker 1: I got two home runs. I picked Aaron Nola for
Speaker 1: my DFS pitcher on the show Sheets, which I hope
Speaker 1: you told everybody about because he was terrific and basically
Speaker 1: I crushed life. I was crushing life. So maybe you
Speaker 1: think I should just sit this one out too, or
Speaker 1: what I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's like it.
Speaker 4: I think wah wah got to your internet. I think
Speaker 4: that's really what happened. I think they heard what you
Speaker 4: had to say about Kyle Schwarverer and schwerver Fest, and
Speaker 4: wah wah got.
Speaker 3: To your internet yesterday.
Speaker 2: There it is.
Speaker 4: There's glory. It is glorious. Which, by the way, Joe,
Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw got me back on
Speaker 4: the board and I saw you got a couple, so.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think maybe you just needed, like your internet,
Speaker 4: a little reset, and you're back on it.
Speaker 1: You're back on a reset. Sometimes in life, Welsh, we
Speaker 1: all need a reset. It's great to see all the
Speaker 1: peanuts and cracker jacks here. I guess Cason is right.
Speaker 1: I look extra ball today because I shaved. I know
Speaker 1: you now, I really look like the lead singer.
Speaker 4: You know what's the coolest thing to everyone? Look you
Speaker 4: can see let's let's all point and look at Joe.
Speaker 4: You can see where the beard is because it's a
Speaker 4: little bit lighter down here where it's a little bit hot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you've got a glow to you, Joe.
Speaker 3: It's a internet.
Speaker 1: Because I'm so happy it's that's what it is. It's
Speaker 1: my Internet glow, That's what it is. I I all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Internet gets a little upgrade and
Speaker 1: now you know, good times. Let's get to the baseball.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to talk about. I hate to start
Speaker 1: off with negative. That's not true.
Speaker 2: I love starting off with the negative.
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa, Oh goodness, crisis, this is it, right, this
Speaker 1: is our nightmare. He has lost seven consecutive decisions. He
Speaker 1: got a total of twenty two outs in his last
Speaker 1: three starts. The're just some fun numbers. I'm thrown out
Speaker 1: at you. He has a six three sixty ra He's
Speaker 1: got a forty eight strikeout to forty two walk ratio.
Speaker 1: Last night was a wacky day of him trying to
Speaker 1: blow balls out of bounds and basically he's blown a
Speaker 1: lot of seasons at the end of the day. So
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa, I think you can cut him. No one's
Speaker 1: gonna take him. The question is does he get sent down?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like at this point the Jays
Speaker 1: have to do something. I think you let you talked
Speaker 1: about resets, right, this is the theme of the show today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Alec Manoa needs a reset.
Speaker 4: They definitely need to unplug Alec Manoa and plug him
Speaker 4: back in and wait twenty seconds or twenty days or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's a fact.
Speaker 4: I went and looked at Alec Mono. I am stunned
Speaker 4: by this not to do this thing that we do
Speaker 4: all the time, but I'm gonna do it. This was
Speaker 4: one of my big five bold predictions of blow ups,
Speaker 4: was Alec Manoa, so thank.
Speaker 3: You to that. But I didn't think it was going
Speaker 3: to be to this degree.
Speaker 4: So I want to take a look, like, what the
Speaker 4: hell is going on. I've told you guys about I
Speaker 4: think the new pace of play and his size, if
Speaker 4: we're being honest, has maybe had a little bit of
Speaker 4: a factor in it. But like as far as the
Speaker 4: pitch mix goes, so a couple interesting things is he's
Speaker 4: switched to being primary sinker over foreseen this year.
Speaker 3: He was primary forceeing last year.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like a three pitch mix by the way,
Speaker 4: but it's been primary sinker over forceeing. Well, that sinker stinks.
Speaker 4: He's got it dead middle of the zone where last
Speaker 4: year he was cutting corners. It has an XPA of
Speaker 4: over three hundred. Also, the slider, the slider is not
Speaker 4: hitting bottom edges or outside of the zone. It's staying
Speaker 4: in the zone and it's getting beat up more. Last year,
Speaker 4: the slider had a one ninety average against. It's got
Speaker 4: a three twenty eight. He's also spinning it less. So
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, what I'm saying is
Speaker 4: is all of these pitches are sitting in the zone more.
Speaker 4: The sinker is way less effective, which has also made
Speaker 4: the forcing fastball three hundred batting average against. The guy
Speaker 4: is all over the zone and I think it's part
Speaker 4: of the pace of play. And I don't know how
Speaker 4: and when it gets fixed. It's just not going.
Speaker 3: To be this year.
Speaker 4: Based on how he's approaching the zone. I just don't
Speaker 4: want any part of it because I don't see where
Speaker 4: he's going to fix it in this year. It could
Speaker 4: and it could be next year, maybe losing some weight
Speaker 4: or something like that, but this is bad. He's not
Speaker 4: getting any whiffs. I'm tipping to say things are over,
Speaker 4: but it's over.
Speaker 1: Well, it's over for twenty twenty three. I think anybody
Speaker 1: who looked for regression potentially that was fair, but implosion
Speaker 1: I don't think was on. It wasn't on my bingo board.
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking for emplosure when it came to alec Manoo.
Speaker 1: But this is where we're at. It's here the walks
Speaker 1: were unsustainable. I thought there was a window there when
Speaker 1: Jansen was catching him again, and then when Jansen got hurt,
Speaker 1: remember that was I said. You know, he started to
Speaker 1: look better. But I don't know if it's the catching situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the pitch clock. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's physically how he feels, mentally, how he feels.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, we definitely need a reset. Speaking of
Speaker 1: resets too, by popular demand, here we go now that
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Speaker 2: But there I am selling things.
Speaker 4: This is Joe yesterday, not having to do the show.
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm gonna eat some cookies and I'll put
Speaker 4: on my wig.
Speaker 3: How about my chester as well?
Speaker 1: I mean I really do look like it's not I
Speaker 1: mean I slightly better looking, I think, But you know
Speaker 1: what else am I going to say? Let's talk about
Speaker 1: somebody who's actually been good lately, Blake SNeW believe it
Speaker 1: or not, very solid, eight strikeouts and six innings.
Speaker 2: I still want nothing to do with him. I want
Speaker 2: to trade him everywhere.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Trey Turner four for
Speaker 1: five with two bombs going into the night, hitting one four, three,
Speaker 1: one two two seventy over his last fifteen games. Welsh
Speaker 1: I wrote about him last week in the Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: featured Pro's article.
Speaker 2: On our MLB side of things.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayer puts that together every single week, it's a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to look at some Builow candidates, and you
Speaker 1: have to know trade Turner is going to turn things around.
Speaker 1: When the guy who is probably the biggest Trade Turner
Speaker 1: hater is saying, go out there everywhere and buy him everywhere.
Speaker 1: You go out there and buy him everywhere. You'll figure
Speaker 1: it out. It'll be fine. Maybe it's the Hogies. Maybe
Speaker 1: a Schwarberfest. Can we get a Schwarberfest shirt? Do they
Speaker 1: have shirts available for Swarfest?
Speaker 3: They do?
Speaker 2: That should be the June giveaway here for the home
Speaker 2: run contest. I will be I will pay for a
Speaker 2: shirt too.
Speaker 4: Maybe we could get like a poster done, and you
Speaker 4: could like autograph it. You could autograph it. I want
Speaker 4: a Schwarberfest shirt.
Speaker 1: The problem is I'm in Jersey, so like I'll have
Speaker 1: to look at wah wah and see if there's a
Speaker 1: Schwarberfest this thing or anything.
Speaker 2: I'll ask them.
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, look, can I get it? Can
Speaker 1: I get this when it? When it's over, I'm I
Speaker 1: know the people tight with the people at the wall.
Speaker 1: It's not in pennsylvani So that's my only concern. So that's,
Speaker 1: you know, the only problem.
Speaker 4: What I'll say about Turner, I actually kind of wish
Speaker 4: I had thrown him into some of my trade videos.
Speaker 4: Trade video should be out tomorrow and I hadn't. But
Speaker 4: he falls along the lines of a couple of these
Speaker 4: different players, and God, for the life of me, Bog
Speaker 4: and I were just talking about one of these guys yesterday.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of those players that still sit out
Speaker 4: there that you're just like, hey, I might not even
Speaker 4: have all of the pieces of why this guy's going
Speaker 4: to get better, but oh many Machada, that's who it was.
Speaker 4: Where you look at some of these players and you're
Speaker 4: just like, listen, the underlying stuff don't tell me the
Speaker 4: story of how he's going to get better. But what
Speaker 4: I know of this player and the track record is
Speaker 4: what I'm going to sit on. That was Nolan Ronado
Speaker 4: a month ago. That's how I feel about many Machatta
Speaker 4: right now. I think he's pressed out.
Speaker 1: He had some injuries too, so it's like he's been
Speaker 1: he started to get better and then another injury. There's
Speaker 1: a really good First of all, I want to shout
Speaker 1: out Jacob b first time joining us. You didn't sleep
Speaker 1: in way to go, Jacob way to be a member
Speaker 1: of society and join us live on the show. Congratulations
Speaker 1: and talk about always happening to have you guys here.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, but seriously, Uh, there was a question
Speaker 1: in here. I guess see if I can find it,
Speaker 1: who would the Blue Jays replace Manoa with that.
Speaker 2: We did not touch on.
Speaker 1: Let's want to go back to the Manoa thing there too.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Pearson, uh.
Speaker 4: Simmon Woods, Richardson, Simon Woods, rich Simeon Woods, Richardson, if
Speaker 4: I can say, that, would probably be the guy big
Speaker 4: stuff plus numbers.
Speaker 1: They brought him up the country club name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ricky Tiedeman would have been the player, one of
Speaker 4: the best pitchers in the minor leagues, but he suffered
Speaker 4: some injuries. So I just don't think alec Mino is
Speaker 4: going anywhere. I think they're going to have to just
Speaker 4: kind of push through this. But if they did, I
Speaker 4: think it would be Simmeyon Woods Richardson. So then let
Speaker 4: me turn it back real quick. The last thing I
Speaker 4: wanted to say was with many Machado, Many Machado, everything
Speaker 4: is so wildly crazy bad that that's actually like the anomaly,
Speaker 4: Like it doesn't make sense how much everything is in
Speaker 4: a bad place because I think he's pressed and the injury.
Speaker 3: So come back to trade Turner. I don't know if there.
Speaker 4: Was like resounding things I ever saw that was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, he's massively going to bounce back. And
Speaker 4: his hard hit numbers were down, his strikeouts were up,
Speaker 4: but it's like we know who he is, we know
Speaker 4: he's going to bounce back, So oh yeah, Wodge Richardson
Speaker 4: is a twin. Sorry about that that the trade happened
Speaker 4: on there. So those are the type of players you
Speaker 4: can just always count on without a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: craziness and need here. So there's a big old circle
Speaker 4: of pitchers and hitters and everything in there. And I
Speaker 4: called SimMan Woods Richardson still a blue Jay, but he's not.
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be nobody there.
Speaker 1: You go, okay, So there you have it. A Braves
Speaker 1: option Mike Soroka to triple A by the way.
Speaker 2: So short lived.
Speaker 1: And this is why I wasn't running out there. People
Speaker 1: kept asking O we had Soroka. I was like, nah,
Speaker 1: I don't think we should. He had rolled nine runs
Speaker 1: allowed in twelve and twelve hits, five strikeouts, just six plots,
Speaker 1: six walks more than strike I mean that this is crazy.
Speaker 1: He can't have more walks of strikeouts to be successful.
Speaker 1: He's never a big strikeout guy. And you know me, Welsh,
Speaker 1: if it's not a big strikeout profile picture, I'm just
Speaker 1: not interested. He had nine to two thirds innings over
Speaker 1: the two starts. Again, you walk six guys, you strike
Speaker 1: out five, you ain't gonna last very long. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what goes on there. It's going to be a J.
Speaker 1: Smith Shaver.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm saying that Corcer.
Speaker 3: You nail it, You absolutely nail it.
Speaker 1: AJ Smith chav who is also going to take over
Speaker 1: when he was going to drive his Mercedes there to
Speaker 1: the wolfplan and he's going to wolm up and then
Speaker 1: come out onto the field.
Speaker 3: Cobblot, Sam and Wolf Richardson and A J. Smith Shava.
Speaker 1: So the twenty year old he's got a one o
Speaker 1: nine e r N, a point nine to four whip,
Speaker 1: forty five strikeouts, twelve walks so far. Uh, and he's
Speaker 1: been a couple different levels here the major League.
Speaker 2: So is a J.
Speaker 1: Smith Chava worth the selection of bringing him up there
Speaker 1: too of Fantasy team?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean I they brought him like everything he did
Speaker 4: was insane twenty year old kid that was at high
Speaker 4: A to So he's up in the majors right now.
Speaker 4: This feels very it's but it feels very Mason millerish
Speaker 4: where you look and you're like thirty innings and then
Speaker 4: you come and look at it just Smith Schauver and
Speaker 4: you're like, what he's here?
Speaker 1: By bought him us. It's like Elder comes and hits
Speaker 1: and then you had I'll go, who was it like
Speaker 1: a week ago they came out of nowhere was it? Shuster?
Speaker 3: Oh Sters has had a couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And everybody shows up there for the Braves except
Speaker 1: for Mike's roka and he's like, yep, we.
Speaker 4: Can coet tribute, but this is why they can do this.
Speaker 4: But but smith schover comes up and they said they're
Speaker 4: gonna put him in a bullpen roll. He made his
Speaker 4: debut against the Diamondbacks. He went two and one third,
Speaker 4: didn't give up a run, got his first strikeout against
Speaker 4: Corbyn Carroll. Curveball, very wonky, slider, looked good, he commanded
Speaker 4: his fastball. And now they're talking about him going in
Speaker 4: the rotation on Friday. My issue and this is just me,
Speaker 4: me all year, and this is not understanding all of it.
Speaker 3: I just got to tell.
Speaker 4: You, like, I just don't see him being in the
Speaker 4: rotation the entirety of the year.
Speaker 3: I don't see it.
Speaker 4: So I've seen in the chat a lot of people
Speaker 4: going Abbot or smiths Shover, and I'm going to go
Speaker 4: with Abbot because I think Abbots already been given the
Speaker 4: gig and he's good to go. I don't believe believe
Speaker 4: smith Shaver is going to stay in that rotation. They
Speaker 4: brought him up to be bullpen. I think this will
Speaker 4: be very Strider esque in how they'll treat him. Get
Speaker 4: some spots starts go long. They're using his arm in
Speaker 4: the bullpen this year instead of the miners. He's fun,
Speaker 4: he's really good. He's going to be a great future
Speaker 4: Dynasty piece, and I would spot start him in solid matchups.
Speaker 4: But I don't think I trust that he's gonna have
Speaker 4: a rotation spot through the rest of the season. Like Andrew,
Speaker 4: Abbott has already kind of been handed. So I so
Speaker 4: chat your answer. I'll take Abbot over A J A
Speaker 4: S S A j SS right.
Speaker 3: In there. What would his his first name? Give me?
Speaker 3: What would be the acronym Joe without the J.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not going to fall for your little games.
Speaker 1: I think the last time I shaved is when I
Speaker 1: did the Doctor Evil on the Fantasy Bros. Football Podcast
Speaker 1: on Halloween.
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Speaker 4: just pet Bogman.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Abbit By the way, it was next on our
Speaker 1: list to talk about because we are in the rookie
Speaker 1: lookie officially, he won his major league debut on Monday.
Speaker 1: A fun stat here, Andrew Abbott is the only left
Speaker 1: handed pitcher in the modern era on any team to
Speaker 1: toss six plus shoutout innings with six plus strikeouts and
Speaker 1: no more than one hit alout in his major league
Speaker 1: debut so far in the Yeah, twenty four year old
Speaker 1: southbaw two fifty era point nine to three, whip ninety
Speaker 1: strikeout to just seventeen walks over fifty four and things.
Speaker 2: That was ten starts at double A and triple A.
Speaker 2: So I agree with you.
Speaker 1: Abbot is the guy that I would pick up. That
Speaker 1: was the one we were gonna put together. But the
Speaker 1: chat jumped the gun. That's fine, Chat, It's fine, Oh guy.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 4: And to talk on Abbot, Razor just brought up something
Speaker 4: the like whiff rate was low in this start. He
Speaker 4: kind of pulled and man, it is like crazy, how
Speaker 4: many of these young guys are doing this, But he
Speaker 4: kind of pulled like the Bryce Miller Brandon fought heavy
Speaker 4: fastball in this start. He went like over sixty percent
Speaker 4: fastball sixty one percent and he didn't get a whole
Speaker 4: lot of whiffs. But he's got a great curveball. He
Speaker 4: hit the zone a whole bunch. Here's my concerns with
Speaker 4: Andrew Abbott.
Speaker 3: Homers.
Speaker 4: He gave up like eight homers or seven or eight
Speaker 4: homers in Triple A and that was over like seven starts.
Speaker 4: He dominated in Double A, but that was with that
Speaker 4: Tacki ball that they were thrown with. He's big strikeouts
Speaker 4: because he's got a big, breaking curveball. The fastball is solid,
Speaker 4: but home runs in Great America Ballpark, A little bit
Speaker 4: worried about it. I knew the strikeouts were going to
Speaker 4: be there in this start, so I'm gonna monitor where
Speaker 4: the whiffs go and how big of contact he's given up.
Speaker 4: But again, this is just like one of those dudes
Speaker 4: they said he's in the rotation now, so roll with it.
Speaker 4: Let's not focus too much on like whiffs and stuff
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 1: If Abbot's good and it can get Lodolo back on
Speaker 1: track some point in time this season, that Hunter Green
Speaker 1: can make some progress.
Speaker 2: I know it's a lot to ask, but maybe it's
Speaker 2: not this year.
Speaker 1: But you know, with Elie de la Cruz coming and
Speaker 1: all this, like the Reds are all of a sudden
Speaker 1: a really interesting organization.
Speaker 4: They're like, I see them kind of like the baby bag,
Speaker 4: Like how the Diamondbacks have come up with like some
Speaker 4: of this young talent for and Carrol's coming up, They've
Speaker 4: got some of that pitching. The Reds are that team.
Speaker 4: If I was a Reds fan, I would be pretty ecsthetic.
Speaker 4: Noelvie Marte just had one of the best maze any
Speaker 4: prospect has had. This is on top of Cees dominating
Speaker 4: Elie de la Cruz being the number one prospect, they
Speaker 4: have a lot to be excited about. I would be
Speaker 4: excited if I was a Reds fan. It'd just be
Speaker 4: cool if like you know, Elie could come up and
Speaker 4: like Seees could come up, and then not bringing up
Speaker 4: these losers. We don't know what their names are, we've
Speaker 4: never heard of them. They're twenty eight years old playing
Speaker 4: in Double A, and they're.
Speaker 3: Like, oh he was buttered than l like stop like.
Speaker 1: Bring they're just they're just really trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're gonna bring them up and leave them there
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be done and it's gonna be soon.
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Uh and if it doesn't, then they're just I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much service time manipulation we're involved
Speaker 1: with anymore with the new CBA.
Speaker 3: No, we're done.
Speaker 1: We're over that. There's no more where you just don't
Speaker 1: bring them up all year, which.
Speaker 3: That would be that would be that would be crazy talk.
Speaker 4: Like if you're gonna that's why you're gonna bring him up,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna bring them up doing it today and
Speaker 4: doing it in a month, there's no difference in like
Speaker 4: control of what you have unless you're gonna wait until
Speaker 4: like August or September or something and you're gonna keep
Speaker 4: them prospect eligible until next year.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense. I don't even know if I
Speaker 1: caught this, but you had a welshism h d G
Speaker 1: caught it hit the ground, rolling another classic Welshes.
Speaker 3: Isn't that it? But what's the thing?
Speaker 1: Did you say that?
Speaker 2: Or is he just saying that?
Speaker 3: But what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: Hit the you hit the ground running, not rolling. Hit
Speaker 1: the ground rolling. If somebody throws you out of a
Speaker 1: moving car or a train, if you're just like if
Speaker 1: you were in a train robbery situation, you had to
Speaker 1: get off the train.
Speaker 4: No, we have breaking news. We have breaking news. Ellie
Speaker 4: da la Cruz has literally just been called up.
Speaker 1: We made it happen, We manifested it show.
Speaker 4: The Cincinnati Reds have officially announced. I'm looking at their
Speaker 4: official account, Ellie de la Cruz is coming to the bigs.
Speaker 3: All my screaming and bitching has done it. Let's go.
Speaker 3: It's all thanks to me. Of course, thanks to me.
Speaker 3: Hat's going backwards.
Speaker 2: We're just the coolest, man, We're just the coolest.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, you know, we say stuff, you know, and.
Speaker 2: You know, stuff happens.
Speaker 1: We just this is the kind of show we are
Speaker 1: where you know, we say, hey, Ellie, do a Cruz
Speaker 1: should be up? Boom it happened. We talked about Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 1: You know, I should start.
Speaker 2: Hitting home runs. In June and maybe get a HOGI
Speaker 2: named after him. Stuff happens. Just saying, how is how
Speaker 2: we roll?
Speaker 3: Bro?
Speaker 2: How we roll? Is that like a magic wand.
Speaker 3: Is a actually my wife? It's my Wi Fi stick
Speaker 3: that I take.
Speaker 1: Out for That's really exciting though, I mean that is
Speaker 1: that's fantastic you, That is huge news.
Speaker 4: If he's out there, just do the thing. We don't
Speaker 4: need to tell you. What what's your question, Ellie or Ellie?
Speaker 3: Should I drive?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Ell Ellie, it's Ellie. Go pick up Ellie.
Speaker 4: He's the number one prospect. This is absolutely phenomenal. We
Speaker 4: get to be excited. I'm ecstatic, Thank you, And now
Speaker 4: the world makes more sense. The world wasn't making sense.
Speaker 1: It just makes five minutes ago it wasn't making sense.
Speaker 3: Listen my go back and listen to my complaining and
Speaker 3: bitching about that.
Speaker 4: Literally as I complained into the universe, Ellie is coming
Speaker 4: up to the majors. This is the prospect we get
Speaker 4: hyped about that. My friend is a rookie.
Speaker 1: Lookie, it's a good day. I see reset. Today is
Speaker 1: the reset. That's what it's all about, all right. Speaking
Speaker 1: of reset, here we go injuries.
Speaker 2: The Rangers transfer Jacob de Gram. Wah wah wah to
Speaker 2: the sixty day.
Speaker 1: I L it's verue you you.
Speaker 4: You and you and you know who you are in
Speaker 4: the chat that is in our our group text here
Speaker 4: was all, oh, it's like a clerical move. He's eligible
Speaker 4: to come back. June twenty eighth. Did everybody think he
Speaker 4: was coming back in a week? He's it's retroactive sixty day.
Speaker 4: Everyone's eh, he's coming back in three he was eligible
Speaker 4: to come back, and through say he's coming back.
Speaker 3: He's eligible to come back.
Speaker 1: He's eligible to come back. This is becoming more and
Speaker 1: more like uh, like that South Park episode where Butters
Speaker 1: keeps waiting for George R. R. Martin to order pizza.
Speaker 1: That's that's like waiting for. That's what it is, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're waiting for. We're waiting. Eventually, pizzas are coming.
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram is coming.
Speaker 4: Ooh what comes out first? Like the New Ice and
Speaker 4: Fire or Jacob the New.
Speaker 1: Guy its debut before Jacob de Grom returns. Yes, h.
Speaker 1: Lexander Bogartz was held out again from the Pondres lineup,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about this, like, just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on it. I don't know if this is gonna go
Speaker 1: be an eye ol Stin or not. Josel Tubay was
Speaker 1: out again with the obleague.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's feeling like another I'm starting to wonder if this
Speaker 1: is finally the year where the size of Altuve and
Speaker 1: the injuries and things like that, if the body's breaking
Speaker 1: down a little bit and I and I don't want
Speaker 1: to be hyperbolic about it. I don't want to like
Speaker 1: sky is falling because Josel Tuba has been a great
Speaker 1: play Joseel twob is a Hall of famer. And if
Speaker 1: he's and if you don't think he is, then you
Speaker 1: ain't paying attention. He's absolutely a Hall of famer. I'dvoe
Speaker 1: for a miss second. It's a tremendous player, a winning player.
Speaker 1: I don't care about scandals and not. I don't care.
Speaker 4: You started to sound like something you like phenomenal, he's best,
Speaker 4: he's great.
Speaker 1: Don't even make that, but you said like you're doing that,
Speaker 1: just like with Tim Linsigham's greatness too once upon a
Speaker 1: time and Chrissale to a certain degree. You know, whenever
Speaker 1: we see the things where it's like you know, at
Speaker 1: some point this is going to be an issue. Inevitably
Speaker 1: it is, and sometimes like they get to that level
Speaker 1: of greatness. All Twove's greatness obviously a little bit more extended,
Speaker 1: I think than the Tim Linsinghan greatness. Let's come out
Speaker 1: like three great years and after that it was, you know,
Speaker 1: the downside began. But I'm saying I'm a little worried
Speaker 1: about long term al Twove investments. If you haven't keeper
Speaker 1: Leagues ynasy Leagues. If he gets past this oblique and
Speaker 1: he has a good season, I would start to look
Speaker 1: at Okay, maybe it's time to turn the page and
Speaker 1: look for somebody new. Brennan Lao goes on the il
Speaker 1: Vidal Brujon is brought up from Triple A. Again, this
Speaker 1: feels more like just temporary kind of move. I don't
Speaker 1: think Brujon's going to really be anything. Hora Solaire was
Speaker 1: out on Monday with the right thumb issue. I keep
Speaker 1: telling everybody this was my biggest My biggest bi low
Speaker 1: was Trait Turner. My biggest el high was Hora Solaire.
Speaker 1: You just have to get out of this Hori Cilaire business.
Speaker 1: It's never going to be better than it is cash
Speaker 1: I while the getting's good, Luis Urius coming back for
Speaker 1: the Brewers.
Speaker 2: He was activated.
Speaker 1: Wander Franco came back after a couple days off with
Speaker 1: the Hams, Dring and Andre's Munios a perfect inning on
Speaker 1: Sunday in a minor league rehab appearance, so that's good. Also,
Speaker 1: Romuel Tapia designating for assignment there from the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: who also said they're expecting Trevor Story to possibly play
Speaker 1: some d H if you can get back at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. I think that's that's a long shot.
Speaker 4: But I think it's a great move. Don't do the
Speaker 4: rehab stuff. Just throw him at DH. Let him get
Speaker 4: his feet under himself at the major leagues. That's what
Speaker 4: the Phillies did.
Speaker 3: I think it's a fine move. That's a I do.
Speaker 1: It's feet under him, not feet under himself.
Speaker 3: I think feet on. I think I said almost.
Speaker 1: I gave you an almost.
Speaker 3: Okay. I think that one was okay.
Speaker 4: The ground the ground running, hit the ground rolling classic.
Speaker 2: We got it someone.
Speaker 3: We do need to clip them all.
Speaker 1: We need to clip them all. Like there's so many
Speaker 1: good ones that I lost my mind when we were
Speaker 1: doing no.
Speaker 4: I think it was one of the first ones when
Speaker 4: you learned about my welshis if.
Speaker 1: It's too bad we hadn't he was in our relationship.
Speaker 4: Like at the beginning of the year, and then you know,
Speaker 4: you guys could send it to us and we could
Speaker 4: get our editors to do it, and then at the
Speaker 4: end of the year we could just have a big
Speaker 4: mash up of all.
Speaker 3: Of my my dummies.
Speaker 1: All the Wes dummies are hilarious. That's the best part. Now, Saw,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we were bitching and moaning about elied
Speaker 1: other cruiz and he got called up like three, maybe
Speaker 1: we should bitch you moan about something else.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's phenomenon.
Speaker 1: I wish I had a million dollars.
Speaker 2: You know, why is it.
Speaker 3: All that money towards me? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Where's all?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I should have more hair? All right?
Speaker 1: Three up and three down Aaron Nola, three runs, all
Speaker 1: of them unearned, by the way, he had twelve strikeout
Speaker 1: Shane McClanahan that his ninth win, and Julio Tehoran slowly
Speaker 1: becoming the feel good story of twenty twenty three. At
Speaker 1: era Welsh is sitting at one five six. I know
Speaker 1: he got a loss, but six and the third five strikeouts,
Speaker 1: one walk, Julio Tae hereon back in the big leagues. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite stat here's the downs. You're ready
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Speaker 2: For him there.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't know his first loss of the season
Speaker 1: one third of minting, gave up two hits and an
Speaker 1: earned ron, so I just wanted to throw it. I
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Speaker 4: Do it? Do it today? We are putting together a
Speaker 4: hater sandwich.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: So we are going to have two buns of hate
Speaker 4: and we are gonna have one meaty middle.
Speaker 1: You get that at you get that at Wallach, I
Speaker 1: bet you can't.
Speaker 4: You got to get a double you have it? Actually,
Speaker 4: you know what? We can have a double duble in this.
Speaker 1: Say two buns of hate? Did you say? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Two buns of hate, two buns of hate and a
Speaker 4: meaty middle of excitement. But we actually are being given
Speaker 4: a gift from a prize Picks today because they are
Speaker 4: giving us a free square.
Speaker 3: It's free meat.
Speaker 4: So enjoy your double double because that free piece is
Speaker 4: Mitch Keller strikeouts that have moved from seven down to
Speaker 4: five and a half, so we can slide that into
Speaker 4: our hate bun. The top bun. Alex Kirriloff hit run
Speaker 4: RBI one and a half under. We're going under up
Speaker 4: against Zach Efflin today the other bottom bun we're taking
Speaker 4: Ramon Lariano hit run RBI one and a half's under
Speaker 4: hit run RBI. What is our meaty middle going with
Speaker 4: Mitch Keller on the hate sandwich Bryce Elder Fantasy score
Speaker 4: twenty seven and a half over. We love that that piece.
Speaker 4: I think he's hit it three straight games. Take that
Speaker 4: with a little bit of Mitch Keller and then slap
Speaker 4: those two hate buns on and you guys got yourself
Speaker 4: a prize pick hate sandwich of three or for whatever
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Speaker 1: All right, Tim Sawyer's got a fun one here. Joe
Speaker 1: and Welsh gonna start a Patreon where you could submit
Speaker 1: requests for call ups for five dollars a month.
Speaker 2: I think that sounds like a great.
Speaker 3: Way to come sidecash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why isn't this guy up yet? I don't
Speaker 1: know's that's why.
Speaker 3: Alan was making me mad.
Speaker 4: It was like it also has to be natural, like
Speaker 4: the lle one was making me mad. At this point,
Speaker 4: I was I think the show. I was gonna do
Speaker 4: my sign, you know my friend fought sign. I was
Speaker 4: gonna do a free Ellie sign. I just didn't get
Speaker 4: to do it today, and now I don't need to.
Speaker 1: There you go, he's already free Kevin Gosman night tonight,
Speaker 1: which means I'm all in everywhere.
Speaker 2: He's been so good.
Speaker 1: You know, the only person has more strikeouts than him
Speaker 1: is Spencer Schreider.
Speaker 2: Does anybody else care about that?
Speaker 1: But me? I feel like I'm the only person who
Speaker 1: cares about that. Kevin Gosmin the picture strikeout total is seven,
Speaker 1: gonna go over. I know it's against Houston, but Houston's
Speaker 1: been a middling offense. Let's not pretend like they've been great.
Speaker 1: And also a two ba's probably not gonna be in
Speaker 1: that line up again. Kevin Gosmin and pitcher fantasy is
Speaker 1: Gore thirty nine and a half. Now it's high over.
Speaker 1: I would latter bet that Kevin Gosmin strikeout total today.
Speaker 1: That's how confident. I would start at the seven and
Speaker 1: a half or six and a half rawing where you're
Speaker 1: getting it in some books on betting pros, and then
Speaker 1: I would go six and a half, seven and a half,
Speaker 1: eight and a half. You want to go up to
Speaker 1: the nine. I think I think you're gonna get double digits.
Speaker 1: I think you can get another ten or eleven out
Speaker 1: of them today, I can so good and Shoel Tani
Speaker 1: eight and a half on the hitter fantasy score. On
Speaker 1: the betting side today, Matthew Libtor just three zero point
Speaker 1: five strikeouts. I'm gonna go over on that. Shane Bieber
Speaker 1: just four and a half. I think he's gonna start
Speaker 1: showcasing himself. Boys and girls, it's time for Shamee Bieber
Speaker 1: to get out of town. And of course, Kevin Gosman
Speaker 1: six and a half is that number on betting pros.
Speaker 1: You're getting heavy juice on it. So put it with
Speaker 1: again you latter bet it. Put it with the upset
Speaker 1: of Toronto potentially winning that game too, and then you
Speaker 1: have actually, no, I'm sorry, Toronto is favored there in
Speaker 1: this game, but the White Sox are not. They're plus
Speaker 1: one fifty against the Yankees today. I think that's an
Speaker 1: interesting bet. What do you have on the betting pro
Speaker 1: side today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean yesterday.
Speaker 4: Hilariously, I probably had two of my I hat like
Speaker 4: one of the best and one of the worst bets,
Speaker 4: and the price picks. I had the under Blake Snell
Speaker 4: and that was a disaster. But one of my greatest
Speaker 4: bets of all time was Alec Manoa over two and
Speaker 4: a half runs yesterday at plus money. So I'm just
Speaker 4: starting to get back into it. Last couple of weeks
Speaker 4: have been rough, so today we'll try to continue it.
Speaker 4: I've got a strikeout parlay.
Speaker 3: I like both of.
Speaker 4: These individually, but they're just so juiced. I decided to
Speaker 4: put them together. Hundred Brown strikeouts at four and a
Speaker 4: half and Lucas Giolito strikeouts at.
Speaker 3: Four and a half. They're both juiced.
Speaker 4: Pair those together you get plus one fifty A couple
Speaker 4: of lines that I like. I like the Texas Rangers
Speaker 4: money line. It's minus one forty five. It's kind of
Speaker 4: in the juicy area. But you know, we're looking for
Speaker 4: a nice good win and the d Backs minus one
Speaker 4: and a half. I'm not the biggest Tommy Henry guy
Speaker 4: on the planet, but Jake Irvin's been give good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was good.
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of people asking me about him.
Speaker 4: I don't believe long term it's going to be great.
Speaker 4: I think this is a pretty good start, a pretty
Speaker 4: good matchup, and Jake Irvin with the Diamondbacks, I think
Speaker 4: they are going to get to him. So I like
Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks one and a half up on the runs,
Speaker 4: especially coming off of that disgusting walk off they gave
Speaker 4: they were up by I guess I were only up
Speaker 4: by one on the braves. Then they gave up that
Speaker 4: Eddie Rosario grand Slam. Diamondbacks push back. Give me one
Speaker 4: and a half full full game on that one. And
Speaker 4: those are my three favorite bets today.
Speaker 1: One of our pans, and Cracker Jacks lamenting. They took
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa over Kevin Gospin in their draft this year.
Speaker 2: That's got a sting at this point.
Speaker 1: That's a big right Therengel, Yeah, very Sarah McLachlin there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely sad stuff. I said I would sing Sarah mclacha
Speaker 1: on the show at some point. It was gonna be
Speaker 1: when Jacob de gram is out for the year, I'll
Speaker 1: sing it. That's what I'll sing, Homes of the Angel,
Speaker 1: and we'll do we're on a montage of what like
Speaker 1: his you know, zero point nine to three e ra
Speaker 1: and him being great and striking out the side and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So everyone can get all their feelings
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Speaker 1: Oh just got an update here on the Betting Pros
Speaker 1: app too well. Matt Perrault talking about the Pirates today,
Speaker 1: Pirates on the run line minus one and a half.
Speaker 3: So again the one I was looking at it.
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Speaker 1: You listen to Matt Parral's Daily Jews show all that stuff
Speaker 1: on Betting Pros. It's great, all right DFS today, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fly through this Matthew Livitor. If you're really feeling
Speaker 1: like you just want to load up on offense, there's
Speaker 1: a lot offense potentially today.
Speaker 2: He's six point five. It's basically a free square.
Speaker 1: Tommy Henry's at seven to five again if you want
Speaker 1: to really cheap out on pitching. Joe Musgroves in the
Speaker 1: middle eight point three. But Kevin Gosmin's my guy a
Speaker 1: to eleven one. Mitch Keller's eleven three is a little
Speaker 1: bit riskier because he hasn't been right lately or quite
Speaker 1: as good in the last couple starts.
Speaker 2: So I just don't see the point in it.
Speaker 1: Just take Kevin Gosman, because I think Gosmin's roster ship
Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit less because people will
Speaker 1: see the Mitch Keller versus the A's and they'll go
Speaker 1: to that pivot instead and they'll see, oh, the Astros.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go against that, but I do.
Speaker 1: I want to go against the Astros Arizona, La Angels,
Speaker 1: San fran and Colorado.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm looking for some offense today.
Speaker 1: And then Jake McCarthy two point five yard walls shoo
Speaker 1: point three, Tommy Edmond two point eight, and now we
Speaker 1: get to watch Ellie de la Cruz. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to because I'm gonna go show Tani.
Speaker 1: I forgot two home runs yesterday. I need to get
Speaker 1: uh on this board at all. I don't know where's
Speaker 1: that board all?
Speaker 2: Ye, I don't know. Let's take a look at the board.
Speaker 1: Oh for that Dane, Oh my god, that that spot
Speaker 1: Razor Ramon.
Speaker 2: By the way, can we talk about razors run or
Speaker 2: join every day? I love a.
Speaker 4: Six home run weekend. I believe it was something crazy,
Speaker 4: he said. I was shocked when I saw that board,
Speaker 4: but I thought it might be a little bit higher up. Okay,
Speaker 4: Riley and Mtigue gets skip to go ahead of me.
Speaker 4: But we could poretically say to.
Speaker 2: Me, is impressive? Fancy last chat to join everybody again?
Speaker 1: June? Yeah, Larry's up there, calson JJ Tator back up
Speaker 1: around two uh so and just June so new opportunity Welsh,
Speaker 1: who's your home run? Called? What do you have?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with an anti Joe guy.
Speaker 4: I love Great America Ballpark and I love me some
Speaker 4: Max Months even though he only hits two hundred. Those
Speaker 4: guys play for me. I think this is a step
Speaker 4: back into the Homers, Max Muncie little fly Baby. So
Speaker 4: that is gonna be my play for today.
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