Speaker 1: Devers Station, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros.
Speaker 2: This is leading off, brought to you by bet MGM,
Speaker 2: the King of sports Books. It's me, Joey p Joe
Speaker 2: Pizzavia with me as always is the Welsh and it's you.
Speaker 1: It's a fun Friday. The All Star Game voting comes
Speaker 1: to an end today, so if.
Speaker 2: You want to get in on that, now is the
Speaker 2: time to do it and right the wrongs of the
Speaker 2: people who vote for the players just on their own
Speaker 2: team that they see every day.
Speaker 1: I know, Welsh, you're not a fan of that.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of the fact that we're not
Speaker 2: gonna see Jordan Alvarez start this game and we're not
Speaker 2: gonna see Jose Ramirez likely start this game either, if
Speaker 2: the percentages hold true.
Speaker 1: Right now, silly?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, who is the placement on both of those guys?
Speaker 3: Who's over them?
Speaker 2: I can stomach that one, I get it, But the
Speaker 2: other one is Devers who look at himself and night.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a lot about raviol Devers having a
Speaker 2: great season, but Jose Ramirez, I mean, that guy's been
Speaker 2: the one man show for Cleveland.
Speaker 3: But what do you do what do you do. Like,
Speaker 3: my complaint is the absolutely silly, ridiculousness of letting fans
Speaker 3: have a decision, because fans are always a disappointment everybody.
Speaker 3: They make the worst decisions the years of no mar
Speaker 3: Garcia Para getting it. I mean, it's always from basketball
Speaker 3: to baseball. Fan voting into All Star Games is stupid
Speaker 3: and it takes away from like, you know, earned guys,
Speaker 3: guys that deserve to be there. But in your scenario,
Speaker 3: what do you do in that It's like, okay, Otani's
Speaker 3: or now those are just great players not winning in space.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a little bit more popularity contest Boston over
Speaker 3: the Cleveland market obviously, Otani in the LA market over Houston.
Speaker 3: That is kind of what it is. Actually, don't hate
Speaker 3: on that one. I hate the general sense of fans
Speaker 3: being able to vote and just click click click, I
Speaker 3: remember they, I mean, do you remember, Like people would
Speaker 3: like talk about it after the fact, they'd be like,
Speaker 3: I voted seven hundred and eighty four times for this
Speaker 3: guy that didn't even play. I mean, there was a
Speaker 3: one point that Fernando Tatis Junior was I believe fit
Speaker 3: in voting in for shortstop in the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't played. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember going to the ballpark and it was
Speaker 2: so exciting thing to get the little ballot and you
Speaker 2: punch out the little baseball hole and you'd stuff your
Speaker 2: ballot in there. It was a very exciting thing because
Speaker 2: it was the internet. That's this is how you voted
Speaker 2: for the All Star Game. You literally had a ballot
Speaker 2: and you put it in there, and that was very fun.
Speaker 2: It's right now, no one in an Anut and Manny
Speaker 2: Machada or tied fifty to fifty right now in the
Speaker 2: National League.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be an interesting That's good.
Speaker 3: I mean, at least for the most part, it sounds
Speaker 3: like it's like the right guys, that's what you want.
Speaker 1: It is. It is. Nothing's perfect, nothing ever will be.
Speaker 3: You know, we're all gonna sit back and we're gonna
Speaker 3: watch this game, and we're gonna really analyze it and
Speaker 3: break it down. We're gonna watch this highly competitive All
Speaker 3: Star Game. It's gonna be such a great time. Let
Speaker 3: me ask you, Joe, do you actually watch this game? Uh?
Speaker 2: I typically do watch the first couple of linings of
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. I don't watch it like I
Speaker 2: used to it when.
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Man.
Speaker 2: This was a big deal because you got to see
Speaker 2: a lot of the americaning players and I used to
Speaker 2: watch the Yankee the Yankees quite a bit, but you know,
Speaker 2: to see all the stars. At one time, it was
Speaker 2: it was much more of an event and there was
Speaker 2: much more National League versus American League vitriol that doesn't
Speaker 2: exist nowadays because if interleague play and all that stuff
Speaker 2: like it just doesn't happen. So back in the day,
Speaker 2: in the eighties as a kid, I mean even in
Speaker 2: the nineties, All Star Game was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It was it was musty television for me.
Speaker 2: And now it's you know, you know, you get really
Speaker 2: jazzed about the guy who like take his hat off,
Speaker 2: like oh, that's my player, that's my dude, you know,
Speaker 2: and you get excited about it.
Speaker 1: But I don't feel like it's there was fun.
Speaker 3: Composition stuff like yeah, I don't know. There was something
Speaker 3: about like, you know, some of the players having like
Speaker 3: intersquabbly type of things, like it was fun seeing like
Speaker 3: Tory Hunter take a home run away. But I'm just
Speaker 3: an All Star Game guy, Like it's NBA Baseball votball
Speaker 3: way down here. Like All Star Game.
Speaker 2: I told you the only way to fix the Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl is to have the two best Madden players on
Speaker 2: the planet play with those two rosters, and then I
Speaker 2: would have all the guys that they drafted on either
Speaker 2: side and just video their reactions to what's going on
Speaker 2: in all the trash talking.
Speaker 1: I think that would be musty television. I would watch that.
Speaker 1: I would watch the.
Speaker 2: Two best Madden players in the world play those two
Speaker 2: rosters and have all the guys yell and scream at
Speaker 2: each other from either side of like like benches where
Speaker 2: they were just sitting there and then maybe yelling at
Speaker 2: the guy because they used him wrong or stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think that would be hysterical fun and nobody would
Speaker 1: get hurt.
Speaker 3: And look at this what is up with Wonky? What
Speaker 3: is this snark?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 3: Look at this comment? Up next, Welsh tells us why
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby should be a contest of who
Speaker 3: can take the most walk? What's with this snark? What
Speaker 3: did I do to you? Wonky? Am I not on
Speaker 3: your side? You don't like on this show?
Speaker 1: Now that I love the I still like the Home
Speaker 1: Run Derby that I still always watch.
Speaker 3: Them, of course, because that is actually a fun thing.
Speaker 2: And I like the evolution of the derby over the
Speaker 2: years has been very good too. Like I like the
Speaker 2: time limit things, and I like all of that, and
Speaker 2: it becomes more of an.
Speaker 1: Athletic feat and he doesn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these guys, they add more time. I like skills competitions.
Speaker 3: See that's the differy too. I like skills competitions. They
Speaker 3: also did they they're bringing it back, not that anyone cares,
Speaker 3: but the airson A Fall league they had a home
Speaker 3: run derby years and years ago where they put up
Speaker 3: different obstacles around the field and they gave points. It
Speaker 3: was actually a hitting derby. Now they think about it
Speaker 3: and you would get points by hitting certain things. I
Speaker 3: thought that was kind of cool. I like home run derby's.
Speaker 3: I like all of those type of things. I don't
Speaker 3: like all Star games because they're not competitive. Guys are
Speaker 3: not really trying, right, and it's just it's it's I
Speaker 3: don't know, it's kind of a waste of our time,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you. But skills competitions aoka by
Speaker 3: me home run derby is the king of all of them.
Speaker 3: So basketball owns all star games, Baseball owns single skills competitions.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, dude, the Dunk Contest this year
Speaker 2: was the worst thing I ever saw. I those the
Speaker 2: worst dunk contest in the history of dunk contest. The
Speaker 2: Derby's gotta beat by a long shot. Josh Donaldson's lambs Boston,
Speaker 2: sending the Yanks to their sixtieth win. That's right, Mike Mayer,
Speaker 2: that's for you. The Yankees have won sixty games. Rafield Devers, though,
Speaker 2: continues to own the Garrett Cole with two more home runs. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: We'll get more to that a little bit later in
Speaker 2: the show. Joe Musgrove seven shutout innings against the Giants. There,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts hit two home runs, so Mookie's picking up
Speaker 2: where left off.
Speaker 1: Tony Gonsolin can't be stopped. Seven frames went over the Cubs.
Speaker 1: I mean, what can you do?
Speaker 2: I mean, Tony Gonsolin's era is the best in baseball.
Speaker 2: He's got a perfect record. It can't go anywhere but down.
Speaker 2: This is all I keep saying. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things why we might all die
Speaker 3: on a hill. By the way, just pointing that out,
Speaker 3: that's okay, we'll die.
Speaker 1: It's the hill. I'll die on this hill. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: Atlee Rutchman.
Speaker 2: He got his first home run at home in Camden Yard,
Speaker 2: so hopefully many many more Welsh. How'd you feel about
Speaker 2: Spencer Stryder's twelve k's against the Cardinals yesterday?
Speaker 3: My guys, Spencer, Hey, let's the heat check Spencer Strider,
Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby, let's do that heat chill it and it
Speaker 3: continues that I got again. Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: So, Strider is phenomenal. If he can keep the if
Speaker 3: you can keep the walks down these type of strikeouts.
Speaker 3: I believe he hit his k prop before the third
Speaker 3: inning came through. I mean he was. He's an absolute
Speaker 3: stud and he's moving into that. Shane McClanahan, you just
Speaker 3: take it, you don't even think about it, and you go,
Speaker 3: he's a budding star here.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: He's kind of to me, it's kind of like a
Speaker 3: Dylan Cease light. But he's actually having a lot better
Speaker 3: early success than Cease had to go through. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: very all in on Spencer Strider.
Speaker 2: And look he's saving their bacon too, because uh look,
Speaker 2: Freedom Morton have been good, but Anderson right have not
Speaker 2: been lately, so having having Strider be that guy has
Speaker 2: been outstanding. Also, Trevor Williams combined for a two hit shutout,
Speaker 2: another shutout for the Mets, who lead the league and
Speaker 2: shut out all the teams. Jabir Bayez hit a home run.
Speaker 1: His eighth of the year.
Speaker 3: Hooray wow shot.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, though the White Sox, Dylan See has a wasted
Speaker 2: good performance for him. He struck out eight in that
Speaker 2: loss to the Tigers. I mean, you gotta beat the
Speaker 2: Tigers right now. If you're the White Sox, these are
Speaker 2: the games you gotta win. Speaking of the Tigers, Miguel
Speaker 2: Cabrera was added to the American League roster for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two and Albert Poohols for the National League roster
Speaker 2: in the I don't know what we're calling this the
Speaker 2: old fart addition to I mean, these are two first
Speaker 2: ballots Hall of famers asks. I mean, look, I want
Speaker 2: these guys around, especially pools. It's last year.
Speaker 1: Are they telling us that that Miguel Cabrera is walking away?
Speaker 1: Is this like an indicator yet?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think they just had to find somebody
Speaker 3: like to justify because like, what do you what else
Speaker 3: are you gonna do otherwise, by the way, you're gonna
Speaker 3: just have like poolholes and little cart like waving to
Speaker 3: everybody going by, like they had to have another whatever
Speaker 3: they're calling their legacy guy. He's perfect by it. But
Speaker 3: I mean it does kind of spark up a little bit.
Speaker 3: But there's no way, there's no way that like even
Speaker 3: Baseball would let Miguel just go without kind of a
Speaker 3: farewell to or Miguel would want a farewell tour. He
Speaker 3: likes kind of the limelight and stuff like that. I
Speaker 3: don't think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, I don't know, man. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of salary left to get paid.
Speaker 3: There's another reason he could just keep behing and just
Speaker 3: make that money.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought too. Now, Look, sometimes guys go away,
Speaker 1: they're like, you know what, I just don't want to
Speaker 1: do it anymore, you know. I mean, he's he's made
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Yes, it'd be nice to make some more, I'm sure,
Speaker 2: but you know it just look, I want those guys there.
Speaker 2: It's fun, but it's just it's a little weird, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That was a strange thing we.
Speaker 2: Got to talk about injuries last night, scary moment on
Speaker 2: the field in all seriousness, Jerks and Profar ran into
Speaker 2: I should say c J Abrams and Jerk and Profar
Speaker 2: ran into each other and definitely took a knee there
Speaker 2: to the head area. Profar got back up, started to
Speaker 2: walk off, and then as he was walking off collapsed.
Speaker 2: He's being evaluate at the hospital. Obviously some sort of
Speaker 2: concussion issue. So no update on that yet.
Speaker 3: Kind of scary that we don't have a scary stuff.
Speaker 3: I just want to point out, you know, well, no,
Speaker 3: you totally understand that, but like there's something, you know, like, hey,
Speaker 3: it was just you know, looks like it's a mild concussion.
Speaker 3: We're just gonna be monitoring. There's just like no update.
Speaker 3: That always kind of weirds me out coming off the
Speaker 3: night of an injury like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, also injury, Yes, Jay brustol gaderall exits with an
Speaker 2: injury against the Cubs, and Mike Soroco, who's coming back
Speaker 2: from that Achilles' injury, has been shut down from throwing
Speaker 2: after being hit in the knee by a comebacker in
Speaker 2: batting practice.
Speaker 1: So sometimes when it rains, it poors, well, she when
Speaker 1: it rains, it pors. Speaking of rain, it is pouring
Speaker 1: on Garrett Cole.
Speaker 2: Whenever Redfield Everes comes to bat, he has a three
Speaker 2: or four batting average with six on runs and fifteen RBI.
Speaker 2: After the game, here's the quote from Garrett Cole. He's
Speaker 2: just been able to hit everything. I mean, there just
Speaker 2: hasn't been a mishit roll over one time, nothing line
Speaker 2: out one time.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're.
Speaker 2: Supposed to fail seven out of ten times in this gig.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is. And he said
Speaker 2: at the end of it all, I'm open to suggestions.
Speaker 3: I'm open to suggestions. You know what's funny he had yesterday,
Speaker 3: you know, especially if we're gonna play the games that
Speaker 3: we do, like the Home Run Contest, and you want
Speaker 3: to check out BVP. He was one of the best
Speaker 3: BVP options. But you're like, that's Garrett Cole, you know,
Speaker 3: like you just you talk yourself out of like taking
Speaker 3: those really great hitters against really great pitchers even in
Speaker 3: BVP situations, thought about it, didn't do it owns him.
Speaker 3: I do like the meme. I like the meme of
Speaker 3: daddy Daddy Devers holding little baby Cole.
Speaker 1: Well, you could see the especially the second one, the
Speaker 1: frustration on Cole's face where he's just like I can't
Speaker 1: He's just in awe because he made a good pitch.
Speaker 1: Tevers just took him deep again, and it is.
Speaker 2: It is wild sometimes how that happens where you know,
Speaker 2: it's even more strange in those moments, like Joe McEwing
Speaker 2: used to own Randy Johnson. That kind of stuff was
Speaker 2: always hilarious, Like whenever you see, like Joe McEwing was
Speaker 2: on a team, Randy Johnson's out there, Joe McEwing.
Speaker 1: And be leading off and you guess hee, Randy Johnson
Speaker 1: was just so mad. I actually owned it.
Speaker 3: I actually think that's something really special to baseball in
Speaker 3: like just every regional market, like for the Diamondbacks, as
Speaker 3: I'm a fan, Andre Ethier absolutely owned. But everybody has that.
Speaker 3: Like you could go to everybody and you know, whatever
Speaker 3: team you follow, and there's gonna be not only great players,
Speaker 3: but I love the obscure randomness. Some random dude out
Speaker 3: there just absolutely owns the team, hits four hundred every
Speaker 3: time he comes into the stadium. That was Andre Ethier.
Speaker 3: That's actually something cool. My never do it here. We
Speaker 3: would never have time. I would love to know, like
Speaker 3: you know, the most obscure own player for every team,
Speaker 3: like who owns the Cardinals, who owns the Brewers? Just
Speaker 3: of weird players, and I bet you could see spouting
Speaker 3: off of a bunch of a bunch of listeners and
Speaker 3: different weird players for their teams.
Speaker 1: Here's a question for you too.
Speaker 2: If Profar is out for an excepted period of time,
Speaker 2: will San Diego call up Ruiz that's from hell or
Speaker 2: high water?
Speaker 3: I think that's a really, really great call. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think it would be there's some extent playing time
Speaker 3: on some other spots, but that's what everybody's been trying
Speaker 3: to do. When can we get his story up there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's possibility. Guy is stealing, he's hitting homers.
Speaker 3: I think he doesn't have a whole lot left to prove.
Speaker 3: It has taken quite a while to get there. But
Speaker 3: he's kind of like I would say, actually, he's kind
Speaker 3: of like a Profar a little bit, and he can
Speaker 3: obviously he's transitioned into the outfield from the infield, So
Speaker 3: I think that is a definite possibility.
Speaker 2: All Right, it's official. The World Baseball Classic is coming
Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty three. Welsh I know you don't
Speaker 2: care about the All Star Game?
Speaker 1: Do you care about the WBC? And again we're back
Speaker 1: to another year.
Speaker 2: We're going to have an awkward offseason for pitchers and hitters,
Speaker 2: and that is That's the one thing is like, man,
Speaker 2: after last year, after COVID and then last year with
Speaker 2: the labor agreement, and now WBC three years in a row,
Speaker 2: forget like spring training is such a cluster f I
Speaker 2: can't even handle it.
Speaker 3: It is gonna be. I mean, I'm selfish, and yes,
Speaker 3: I do like it because it comes to Phoenix and
Speaker 3: I've been to some WBC games. I'm met Javier Bayez there,
Speaker 3: I met Carlos Korea. I think it's actually pretty. I
Speaker 3: love the concept of it, but in person, I also
Speaker 3: also like watching the games, but I do hate like
Speaker 3: it taking away from players being on teams, maturation time,
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I don't love that. But I love
Speaker 3: the competition. I kind of love the uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the world versus world situation. So yeah, I'm a fan.
Speaker 3: But maybe I don't know, maybe just don't do it
Speaker 3: in you know, spring training. Maybe you could do it
Speaker 3: like in January or something. I know everybody wants days
Speaker 3: off and time off.
Speaker 1: There's no good time. That's the thing is, like, there's
Speaker 1: no good time to do it.
Speaker 2: You can't do it in January because guys aren't ready,
Speaker 2: and then you can't do it in the middle of
Speaker 2: the season because you know, don't want anybody get hurt.
Speaker 3: What about if you did it right around Arizona Fall League, Like,
Speaker 3: I know guys want time off, but do it just
Speaker 3: right after the season. Just throw it in right after
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 1: Can you do that?
Speaker 3: Or do you worry about guys and we're just gonna
Speaker 3: get buried by NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I guess there's a ratings wise that's
Speaker 1: a problem. Now, Look, I like WBC, there's no good time.
Speaker 1: You gotta just do it spring training.
Speaker 2: But I'm just telling you what again, we're gonna have
Speaker 2: the same head eggs we've had the last three years,
Speaker 2: which is the stop and start of all of this.
Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be ragged, man,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, another crazy year of this.
Speaker 2: Fun facts, Welsh, I know you love fun facts, and
Speaker 2: typically they're about shoe heyo tani and typically this one
Speaker 2: is also so highest slugging percentage with runners in scoring
Speaker 2: position over the last fifty years, Welsh sho Heo Tani
Speaker 2: at six twenty one, Mike Trout at six sixteen, Mark
Speaker 2: McGuire at six fifteen. Lowest slugging percentage with allowed with
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position by pitchers in the last fifty
Speaker 2: years sho Heo Tani number one two to oh one,
Speaker 2: Dylan Patansis at two to eleven, and e oldest Chapman
Speaker 2: at two twenty six.
Speaker 1: That is insane.
Speaker 3: It is. It's very obscure, but it's so relevant because
Speaker 3: they pick Jeremy Jeremy Frank who did at MLB random
Speaker 3: stats picks with runners in scoring position, and to have
Speaker 3: the guy be the most proficient hitter and pitcher with
Speaker 3: runners in score position. That actually might be my favorite,
Speaker 3: most random stat that I've seen in quite some time.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 2: It's just it's mind blowing. Also, what it reminds me
Speaker 2: of is Mark McGuire should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so dumb. I mean, he is,
Speaker 1: he is so important to me. Two, I mean it's
Speaker 1: just so dumb.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous anyway, also dumb and hilarious. I saw this
Speaker 2: tweet and I had to bring it up because this
Speaker 2: is a fun fact. Uh, there was a picture they
Speaker 2: had of that day in the seventies where people weren't
Speaker 2: getting you know them major bats.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if they do that anymore. They
Speaker 1: were getting full out just thirty two twenty eight bats.
Speaker 3: Like just just thirty two ounce bats. Here's your bat,
Speaker 3: here's your bat.
Speaker 1: Here you go, here's a real bat. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: nowadays the carnage in the stands if you gave everybody
Speaker 1: a real bat?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you give you give third Rowe or
Speaker 3: third deck Mets fans a bunch of full sized bats?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Hey, guess what.
Speaker 3: It's also five dollars beer night. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. Like back then, beer were like
Speaker 1: two bucks and they gave real bats out and there
Speaker 1: was no carnage. I can't even fathom if they did that.
Speaker 1: Nowadays you see people all I can't tell you how many.
Speaker 2: How annoying it is when you see so many of
Speaker 2: these videos of people getting in fistfights at sporting events nowadays,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure that always happened, and now we're just
Speaker 2: videoing them all Like I'm sure it always existed, but
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Man. As a kid, I went to a lot of
Speaker 1: met games.
Speaker 2: I don't remember ever seeing anybody get into a physical altercation.
Speaker 2: I once at Yankee Stadium I saw it, but again
Speaker 2: that was in the bleacher creature area.
Speaker 3: So I got. I like to pretend in like the
Speaker 3: twenties or whatever, you know, whenever thirty sport that they're
Speaker 3: just like take off their gloves and be like, no, sir,
Speaker 3: to slap them with the glove, and it would just
Speaker 3: be like a very gentlemanly fight. Like I like to
Speaker 3: pretend it would be something like that, and not you know,
Speaker 3: these dudes in bel Bonto just falling over standss.
Speaker 2: You imagine like Yankee Red Sox game nineteen seventy eight
Speaker 2: and it's bat day, like I mean, and and people
Speaker 2: walked out alive.
Speaker 1: That is that is incredible and just a fun fan.
Speaker 3: Back in my day, we were tougher, we had back
Speaker 3: my day.
Speaker 1: Take a back. You know what, here's a helmet day
Speaker 1: the same day, so at least everybody has a fair chance.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a good point. Maybe less fighting in the stands,
Speaker 3: maybe just a little bit less fighting in the stands
Speaker 3: when everybody's caught a lethal weapon.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe everyone behaves a little bit more. I doubt it.
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety seven, This Day in Baseball. I remember this distinctly.
Speaker 2: Sandy Almar had a thirty game hit streak to end
Speaker 2: the first half of the season and then in a
Speaker 2: two run homer in the front of his hometown crowd,
Speaker 2: Jacob's Field. This was the same game where Randy Johnson
Speaker 2: was thrown behind guys, which was hilarious. That was the
Speaker 2: whole you know, John kruck thing. I believe it was
Speaker 2: Krucking and Larry Walker. I remember it was the cruck
Speaker 2: or the Larry Walker one.
Speaker 1: Which year it was.
Speaker 2: It was one of those two, and Sandy Almoar ended
Speaker 2: up getting the MVP. This was in ninety seven. I
Speaker 2: remember that one.
Speaker 1: That was an awesome, fun contest for sure.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna get a lot more All Star memories
Speaker 2: this Day in Baseball the next week or so.
Speaker 1: Also, here's your trivia question. Here you go, Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: recorded his nineteenth career your multi home run game out
Speaker 1: of the leadoff spot, tying with which player for the
Speaker 1: most all time home runs in the leadoff spot nineteen.
Speaker 1: Here's your hint. It's not Ricky Henderson go there, you got.
Speaker 3: A weird I got a weird one, and my memory
Speaker 3: might be misremembering. No, Alfonso Sriano go out of the
Speaker 3: leadoff spot?
Speaker 1: Was it a fun right?
Speaker 3: You are right?
Speaker 2: Finally, finally, Block is right twice a day and Welsh
Speaker 2: is right.
Speaker 3: Nailed that one, and I got it before any of
Speaker 3: the comments came up that one did. That was the
Speaker 3: tides just coming down to my brain and giving me
Speaker 3: that one I needed one.
Speaker 2: I love this one because yesterday a lot of people
Speaker 2: thought Soriana was the answer to the Truvier question, and.
Speaker 3: It was, oh, you're right about that, really good, so.
Speaker 2: I thought, I was like, oh, this will be fun.
Speaker 2: No one will get this because everyone will be thinking
Speaker 2: of other people. My head would have gone to Ricky
Speaker 2: Henderson right away.
Speaker 3: Ricky makes it, you know. The other one like a
Speaker 3: newer one. George Springer. I bet your springers pretty high
Speaker 3: on that list because he's hit a ton of lead
Speaker 3: off bomb Bybee.
Speaker 1: Might be all right. Let's get to the stat heroes
Speaker 1: from yesterday. Trevor Williams seven Squirrels innings Mets. Twitter was
Speaker 1: just so miserable yesterday that Trevor Williams was. They were like,
Speaker 1: why don't we just joke this up to a loss?
Speaker 2: It's terrible. Why we'veld throw this guy out there? Seven
Speaker 2: shoutout innings later, there we go with a W ten
Speaker 2: to nothing win. Spencer Strider terrific, six scoreless, twelve k's,
Speaker 2: two walks, Joe Musgrove zero earned seven innings, six k's,
Speaker 2: four k's for Bo Brasky uh and then he had
Speaker 2: Dylan Cease was good, Tony Gonson was good, Rapfield Devers
Speaker 2: was great, two dingers for him.
Speaker 1: JD. Davis not special, but he was good.
Speaker 2: Last night three for four, Mookie Betts with two home runs,
Speaker 2: Aaron Hicks at a home run.
Speaker 1: He was one of our lineup builders.
Speaker 2: This week we had Josh Donaldson two for four with
Speaker 2: a home run, Derek Hall bounce back after an over
Speaker 2: with two for four with a home run.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that Mike Mayor very happy. Jose L
Speaker 1: Twovey one for two with a homer. Three Ribies having
Speaker 1: a great season. I think he's not the one seventeen
Speaker 1: or something crazy it Why do you see something crazy
Speaker 1: like Hosey? What's hold a l two v's number of
Speaker 1: home runs it's something absurd.
Speaker 3: I think I want to I'm gonna take a guy.
Speaker 3: I think it's more like fifteen. But let's take a
Speaker 3: look here.
Speaker 1: I want to see that because I think what I'm
Speaker 1: playing up to, he's got that many. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I got it right here.
Speaker 3: He has no. Seventeen seven seventeen six stolen bases as well,
Speaker 3: which six stolen bases is God? If I always forget God,
Speaker 3: I forget. Altuve had a streak of six years straight
Speaker 3: thirty or more stolen bases, six straight years, and he's
Speaker 3: up to six, which is the Hyatin twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 3: he's you know, might be pushing the twenty eighteen number. Wow,
Speaker 3: six straight years of thirty stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Guys, the guy's tremendous player. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people don't like him anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I like him.
Speaker 2: Uhaneo Surez two for three with a homer, Dono Vincelano
Speaker 2: three for four with the homer, and Carson Kelly two
Speaker 2: for four with a homer. Garrett Cole's line without Raffi
Speaker 2: Dever is actually really good. Last night, it was like
Speaker 2: six score listenings with seven k's and three walks and
Speaker 2: three hits, but unfortunately Garrett Cole gave up five and
Speaker 2: runs all courtesy.
Speaker 3: I like it, if we do, if we'd measure that,
Speaker 3: let's measure that the rest of the year. What's Garrett
Speaker 3: Coles without.
Speaker 1: We're like Garrett Cole's line against the Red Sox without
Speaker 1: Rapfield Evers with Raffield Nevers and I was like, that's
Speaker 1: very funny, but it's just just really just owns him.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's the hitter losers from last night.
Speaker 2: Jared Duran over four with four k's, Jackson Winsky over seven,
Speaker 2: day with three k's, Kyle Farmer over seven two k's
Speaker 2: and hit by a pitch, and Matt Carpenter over five
Speaker 2: with Maryfield over five two k's each.
Speaker 1: With Murfield was started to turn things around now in
Speaker 1: an oh for five. Don't like that at all, No bueno.
Speaker 1: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the home run board and it was
Speaker 2: my bad yesterday I uploaded the wrong one. This one
Speaker 2: is correct today. High covees at thirty three. High Cubbies
Speaker 2: getting all the praise. By the way, Go Cards got
Speaker 2: his free hat coming to him for the fantastic photoshop earlier.
Speaker 1: The week the on Ryan Fitzpatrick's body.
Speaker 3: Joey Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Joey Fitzpatrick. There you go, so hi, Kubby's still at
Speaker 1: the top of the board. Welsh. You know what time
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about today. Jose Ramirez total basis against Kansas
Speaker 2: City is at plus one oh six at the one
Speaker 2: and a half. Shane McClanahan high number Welsh eight and
Speaker 2: a half against the Reds, though I think he can
Speaker 2: get over this what do you think?
Speaker 3: So I'm glad that you stopped on this one because
Speaker 3: this one I want to to stop controversial because well
Speaker 3: I picked him up. But here's something that got has
Speaker 3: me a little bit. This line has moved, and it's
Speaker 3: moved it seems quite a bit. It's moved to seven
Speaker 3: and a half over on Draft Kings and it's currently
Speaker 3: even money for seven and a half. So eight and
Speaker 3: a half number was early. Fandel had eight and a
Speaker 3: half and look at that Juice to Hell under eight
Speaker 3: and a half, and in DraftKings it is now seven
Speaker 3: and a half even money. That makes me like worried,
Speaker 3: but I don't want to take myself off it. So
Speaker 3: it's one of my bets today because McClanahan is the
Speaker 3: strikeout monster. You just take him, you auto take him
Speaker 3: and don't worry about it. But you can get even
Speaker 3: money on him, so I'm gonna do it. That's one
Speaker 3: of my picks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, man, he's been so good.
Speaker 2: Pablo Lopez strikeouts, but's four and a half on DK.
Speaker 2: I think you smash that over against the Mets minus
Speaker 2: one twenty five and Mookie Bets who's been hot one
Speaker 2: and a half total bases against the Cubs tonight plus
Speaker 2: one oh five, getting plus money there?
Speaker 1: What else you have Welsh in terms, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff out there. Man, it's a good night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, McClanahan, I'm gonna hit Nestor Cortes five and
Speaker 3: a half.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Tim Anderson for total basis, Tim Anderson has just a
Speaker 3: nutty track record versus Trek Scuble, hitting over five hundred
Speaker 3: with five doubles and a homer. I believe, if I'm
Speaker 3: looking at this correctly, more than because he's got da
Speaker 3: da da. He has seven total hits and six of
Speaker 3: his hits against Google Lifetime are of the extra base variety.
Speaker 3: So I really like that one, and I believe it's
Speaker 3: pretty good money on that. So Tim Anderson, those are
Speaker 3: my three Cortes, McClanahan, Anderson. But I also like Gilido
Speaker 3: is really enticing. There's a bunch of great k prop
Speaker 3: guys on the market, and total base is a little
Speaker 3: bit eh, you know, there's it's a lot of juice
Speaker 3: on the guys that you want to take on total bases.
Speaker 3: But that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1: Last five starts for McClanahan, nine strikeouts, seven eight ten
Speaker 1: ten in the last two.
Speaker 3: So just that line movement, you see that type align Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bit all right.
Speaker 2: When it comes to DFS today, Nester Cortes at ten
Speaker 2: point one is a nice start here, Charlie Morton at
Speaker 2: nine point two. There's a lot of four outcome games,
Speaker 2: a lot of games like Wheeler against the Cardinals and
Speaker 2: Wayne Ryan.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get involved in that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of that tonight.
Speaker 2: Just stay away like Bassett first, Pablo Lopez, yeah, gross,
Speaker 2: Lucas Giolito, last two starts very good seven point ak
Speaker 2: on DK. He's an outstanding choice with Morton or Nester
Speaker 2: Cortez as a secondary arm on DK. If you want
Speaker 2: to play him on fanduels a torn and play you
Speaker 2: candid eight point eight two.
Speaker 1: He's pretty cheap.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, you could play the all day slate on FanDuel
Speaker 2: and get McClanahan. It's eleven to five, but you got
Speaker 2: to play the all day slate, not the regular seven
Speaker 2: to five start, because that starts at six forty. Nester
Speaker 2: Cortez at ten point three if you want to fade
Speaker 2: away or take McClanahan out of the running, which is
Speaker 2: also a way to approach the fan duel slate tonight,
Speaker 2: it's just that one isolated game when you add the
Speaker 2: six to forty game in, But you could get rid
Speaker 2: of McClanahan, Charlie Morton at ten k, Lucas j Alito
Speaker 2: eight point eight, Nester Cortez ten point three. You know,
Speaker 2: I actually I've been struggling. Yesterday I took Austin Riley
Speaker 2: with my home run call. I'm I'm trying to figure
Speaker 2: out where I'm going today. This is gonna be a
Speaker 2: game time decision for me. Welsh, where are you going
Speaker 2: with your home run call tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean the best BVP play of the day
Speaker 3: if again, you know, I know people either live or
Speaker 3: will not touch that whatsoever. But one of the best
Speaker 3: plays is Jordan Alvarez. Reese Hoskins is also up there
Speaker 3: for you, by the way, But Jordan Alvarez against Blackburn
Speaker 3: lefty on right, He's got three career homers against him,
Speaker 3: hitting three hundred. It is also Jordan Alvarez great guy
Speaker 3: to go into the weekend with. So that's what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do. I'm gonna go with Alvarez from my home
Speaker 3: run call and take him into the weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: letter ride with Austin Riley. He's been so good, he's
Speaker 2: been out of his gourd.
Speaker 1: We did it.
Speaker 3: Our total base we had our total base marker. We
Speaker 3: got last night. We did because they went into extra.
Speaker 2: We did give me Austin Riley for the weekend. He's
Speaker 2: just red hot. Let's see what he does. So Alvarez
Speaker 2: for Welsh, Riley for me, and Rowdy Tellez from Mike
Speaker 2: Mayor so because he likes to be contrarian. So I'll
Speaker 2: get after a very red hot June. It has been
Speaker 2: a slow July for me. I don't think I have
Speaker 2: a home run in July. Maybe I have one. So
Speaker 2: I got to get back on this board. Got to
Speaker 2: get things going here. We've got a long weekend of baseball.
Speaker 2: Anything you've got your.
Speaker 1: Eye on here, as we're getting closer and closer to
Speaker 1: the All Star break, anything is catching your eye, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, you know, potential shutdown stuff. Obviously, I want to
Speaker 3: look at the injured guys that are going to be
Speaker 3: coming back. I'm really focused in on Jacob de crom
Speaker 3: and keeping an ear to the trade market because you've
Speaker 3: got a lot happening right now. You know, the draft
Speaker 3: is right around the corner. Sometimes you're going to get
Speaker 3: trade talks picking up as owners and just players are
Speaker 3: all around in the same space. So what do you know,
Speaker 3: what do we have? We got roughly a little bit
Speaker 3: over a week and then we're going to hit this
Speaker 3: kind of lull of a break. So watch a trade
Speaker 3: market and also get prepared for the MLB Draft. As
Speaker 3: a prospect person, I'm going to be live streaming the
Speaker 3: MLB Draft, not one hundred percent sure where yet in
Speaker 3: our patron it's on Sunday. It's not this Sunday, but
Speaker 3: next Sunday. I know it's odd it's on the seventeenth,
Speaker 3: and they'll do the first round, first round, and they'll
Speaker 3: have like probably rounds two through ten or something. But
Speaker 3: MLB Draft coming up, it's absolutely loaded as well.
Speaker 1: Well, I definitely want to do that with you in
Speaker 1: the weeks ahead.
Speaker 2: We're definitely gonna cover that with Welsh because he's got
Speaker 2: a wealth of knowledge to bring to that. We also
Speaker 2: have the Futures game happening too, which is another fun
Speaker 2: part of you know, it's funny everything surrounding the MLB
Speaker 2: All Star game is great. The Futures Game is great.
Speaker 2: Home Run Derby's awesome. It's the also game itself.
Speaker 3: You know, he kills too. I have a friend who's
Speaker 3: a promoter and he's going out to the Futures Game
Speaker 3: because he's got some clients that are going to be there.
Speaker 3: He's going to be a Welsh of Knowledge. That's funny.
Speaker 3: That'll be running some signing Jordan Walker, Corman Carroll, his clients,
Speaker 3: Juri Perez, and he was kind of like, why are
Speaker 3: you not out there? And I was like, I know,
Speaker 3: it's in LA. There's always there's always that temptation to
Speaker 3: just get in the get in the old truck and
Speaker 3: you know, right on out to LA it's a little
Speaker 3: four or five hour, five or six hour drive and
Speaker 3: get to the Future's Game. I've never done. It's one
Speaker 3: of the few, you know, important prospect things that I've
Speaker 3: actually never ever done.
Speaker 1: But it is.
Speaker 3: It's pretty loaded with a few pack they did just
Speaker 3: release the rosters. There's a couple names that they threw
Speaker 3: out there. But it's loaded. So everybody should be paying
Speaker 3: attention because there are some guys that you will be
Speaker 3: drafting and playing with in the near future.
Speaker 2: Yes, and the Welsh of knowledge. Hashtag Welsh of Knowledge
Speaker 2: is trending on Twitter right now. It's the number one thing.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 1: Of course that'll do it for us, but the story
Speaker 1: of the game goes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. Kids, have a great weekend, everybody,