Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy pros m LB. This is
Speaker 1: leading off, brought to you by Prize Picks. It's me
Speaker 1: Joey Joe. Pi's a beer with me, as always is
Speaker 1: the Welsh, and it feels good to be back. We've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of day games today, which is great.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the show and then baseball is just
Speaker 1: gonna happen right after. I love those days. It's super fun.
Speaker 1: Well maybe in some places anyway, Storms ruined Welsh. We
Speaker 1: got all sorts of things going on there. I was
Speaker 1: off for a few days visiting my cousin donnie Cee,
Speaker 1: who's in the chat here today is one of the
Speaker 1: Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. It was a great time and
Speaker 1: I got to see my buddy the Welsh in person.
Speaker 1: There was a competition at Dave and Busters, and Welsh
Speaker 1: is my daddy. He did beat me in the ruined It.
Speaker 2: We gotta do the video, we gotta I had.
Speaker 1: I'm teasing for the video. I'm teasing for the video there.
Speaker 1: But how does it feel to be my athletic superior?
Speaker 2: So it feels pretty good. It feels pretty good. We
Speaker 2: did announce what the competitions are. I didn't have time yesterday,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to try to put together a little thing.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, maybe Friday. I didn't know
Speaker 2: if there was a goal we needed to hit to
Speaker 2: play the video or something. Joe, but maybe we could
Speaker 2: just present everybody to hang out with us Friday and
Speaker 2: we can play. It'll just be like a minute or two.
Speaker 2: Everyone can see the competition, the massive athleticism that was
Speaker 2: displayed at Dave and Busters between Joe and I.
Speaker 1: Yes, massive athleticism. Welsh did try to cheat on the
Speaker 1: very first game of basketball we played on the shooty
Speaker 1: hoops because he had six balls and I had three,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why does he have twice as many
Speaker 1: points as I do? Well, we fixed that after the
Speaker 1: first round, so it was the first round to get
Speaker 1: the first round.
Speaker 2: I mean, I had no I had no way to
Speaker 2: know how many balls were in the thing that comes
Speaker 2: shooting out. But we had a lot of fun. We
Speaker 2: played a lot of games. We ate some good food,
Speaker 2: a wild story we had at the yard house we
Speaker 2: went to. We had a good time spending with Let's.
Speaker 1: Discord the story from the yard Houses for Fantasy Bros
Speaker 1: dot Com slash chat, you.
Speaker 2: And I should actually do. We should do a discord
Speaker 2: together this week or next week, and we should relive
Speaker 2: that story.
Speaker 1: As Donnie Ze was saying, he was just very excited
Speaker 1: to be there and a part of all of it.
Speaker 1: So let's get part to the baseball and start with
Speaker 1: the headlines. And let's start with back to back to
Speaker 1: back routing to Les, Brian Anderson, Garrett Mitchell, all the
Speaker 1: home runs, the Mets pitching having some issues. We'll get
Speaker 1: to Scherzer a little later in the show. A Tommy
Speaker 1: Hunter going the il with some pack issues. Brian Anderson,
Speaker 1: hell of a hot start here, hitting over five hundred,
Speaker 1: he's got an ops over twelve hundred, got three dingers,
Speaker 1: ten RBI. I have him in my Waiver Wire video
Speaker 1: that's set to drop tomorrow. Actually just finished recording it.
Speaker 1: I know Wels you've got the video out for the
Speaker 1: trade targets. But Anderson is an interesting case because this
Speaker 1: is a guy who is in his prime. The last
Speaker 1: time that he was playing every day for the Marlins
Speaker 1: hit twenty bombs a one hundred and twenty games, and
Speaker 1: now he's moving to an incredibly upgraded ballpark. Factor in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee that we saw Willie Domas, we saw Rowdy Teles,
Speaker 1: we saw all these guys who got to Milwaukee all
Speaker 1: of a sudden spike. Can Anderson be that next guy?
Speaker 1: Or is this just a mirage?
Speaker 2: I don't have and this is gonna be a boring answer.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of like in between. Like I
Speaker 2: don't think if you go and look and you see
Speaker 2: he's got a five, I think it's a five to
Speaker 2: fifty six. I just went away from it a five
Speaker 2: fifty six babbit, like that's not gonna continue, that's not
Speaker 2: gonna keep going. Guys, I hate to break that news
Speaker 2: to you, but I do think he can be like
Speaker 2: a twenty homer guy, because, like you said, the ballpark
Speaker 2: is pretty good. He's moving around, can play third, can
Speaker 2: play in the outfield. They want a d H him.
Speaker 2: The strikeouts seem to be lower, the walks are a
Speaker 2: little bit up. I don't see that there's any reason
Speaker 2: that he can't be a twenty homer guy. It's just
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be this big, massive
Speaker 2: breakout player and he's going to be the guy that
Speaker 2: wins people leagues or anything like that. But the baton
Speaker 2: ball skills look pretty good.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'll say this, even if he ends up
Speaker 1: being somewhere in the middle at third base this year,
Speaker 1: that's a starter. Just saying like third base is kind
Speaker 1: of rough. I mean, we were talking about third b
Speaker 1: being somewhere around eight or nine deep in the draft, right,
Speaker 1: So if he ends up hitting twenty home runs, driving
Speaker 1: in seventy five, and scoring seventy five or something in
Speaker 1: that range, it's kind of gonna put him around twelve.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the the year. Looking
Speaker 1: at their basement, I mean, will we have more points
Speaker 1: fantasy wise and Anthony Rendon by the end of.
Speaker 2: The year, Well, I mean, Fanthony Rendon keeps grabbing fans
Speaker 2: out of the stadium, then yeah, absolutely, if he tries
Speaker 2: to keep punching people. Two things, This is an interesting
Speaker 2: note THHP. If you can put that up on the board,
Speaker 2: Anderson's faced the worst stuff plus in baseball to this point,
Speaker 2: which is something to factor in. He would be a
Speaker 2: guy that would be good for Again, my trade video
Speaker 2: is up if you guys want to check it out
Speaker 2: on the Fantasy pros MLB YouTube channel, where, like what
Speaker 2: Wonky said, if you can get someone to overpay for him,
Speaker 2: do it, but I think it's too early in the
Speaker 2: point of the season where I actually think a lot
Speaker 2: of the guys you probably put in the waiver wire
Speaker 2: I would have been interested talking about. But they're not
Speaker 2: in like trade four or trade away territory right now.
Speaker 2: So he's speculative, and that's my big thing right now.
Speaker 2: Speculate on these guys. You absolutely have loser on your bench.
Speaker 2: Go and pick up the rookies. You should have picked
Speaker 2: up Bryce Terrang, You should pick up Brian Anderson.
Speaker 1: Another guy who may or may not be on that
Speaker 1: video I'm creating. But you'll just have to wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez, We don't have to wait till tomorrow. Necessarily,
Speaker 1: we shall see Grayson Rodriguez called up by the Orioles
Speaker 1: to face Texas today. Jacob de Grom. So that's very
Speaker 1: exciting for Ools fans that he is. He is apu's
Speaker 1: matter of time. Kyle Schwarber blast in is two hundred
Speaker 1: ode run of his career on Tuesday night that put
Speaker 1: the Phillies for one over the Yanks. Jason Vossler, how
Speaker 1: about those reds uh third consecutive game there for home
Speaker 1: runs for Vossler and of course, to nobody surprise, Maddy
Speaker 1: Mitchall the first guy to be ejected for this clock
Speaker 1: arguing evaluation. If there was something I could have bet
Speaker 1: on for that Welsh, I would have put one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars on Manny Mitchaell being the first guy to get
Speaker 1: tossed in the game for him.
Speaker 2: Did you see what the actual reason was?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the actual reason was he's whatever he said.
Speaker 2: Well, I know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I watched it back this morning. He did hold the
Speaker 1: hand up at the eight second mark.
Speaker 2: No, no, he called for the time out, but the
Speaker 2: discretion to not give it to him. But he called
Speaker 2: him a certain type of bag and then the ump
Speaker 2: immediately cost him.
Speaker 1: Look sure a fun bag.
Speaker 2: The funniest moment was when Bob Melvin and running up
Speaker 2: to the ump and was like, why did you throw him?
Speaker 2: And he says, because he called me a bag, And
Speaker 2: then Bob Melvin's face falls in almost a laughter type
Speaker 2: of way that Manny did that. Uh, it's a classic
Speaker 2: many thing. One thing I want to go back since
Speaker 2: she zip throw all the news. One thing apparently on
Speaker 2: Grayson Rodriguez at this point in the season, him being
Speaker 2: called up. He is actually still eligible for the Orioles
Speaker 2: to get the pit compensation at this point, so I
Speaker 2: guess it was an opening day roster. It's like the
Speaker 2: first ten days or something. He is still eligible in that.
Speaker 2: That now the Orioles, if they kept Grayson up, Grayson
Speaker 2: and Gunner could both qualify that team for the pit
Speaker 2: compensation stuff that Major League Baseball has. So just throwing that.
Speaker 1: Out there, I'm so glad that I came back here
Speaker 1: today for injuries and miss Eloyamenez going back on the
Speaker 1: iel again. So here's your injuries, folks. Hamstring strain, probably
Speaker 1: two to three weeks here for Jimenez. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just I am just furious about this, Like I just
Speaker 1: absolutely furious. Enough is enough. I'm I'm willing to just
Speaker 1: sell him low now. I just don't care. And for
Speaker 1: those people like doctor Glenn's in my home league, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's gonna be a trade waiting for me in
Speaker 1: the inbox right after this show. I've had it. Mookie
Speaker 1: Betts dealing with the right ankle soreness. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: day to day. Max Freed they're hoping is only going
Speaker 1: to miss one to two stars. We shall see if
Speaker 1: that is true. I mean it's so early in the year.
Speaker 1: I hope they don't rush him back. That would be
Speaker 1: horrendously stupid if you're the Braves. H So he officially
Speaker 1: went to the I L Johnny Quato to the il Ken.
Speaker 1: Tamaeta was pulled from his start due to fatigue, but
Speaker 1: he said, I'm fine. It's just, you know, still working
Speaker 1: his way back for Tommy John. So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. And then for those of you in the
Speaker 1: prospect world, Brett Batty was removed Tuesday. Now he had
Speaker 1: some right thumb soreness. Hey have surgery on that thumb
Speaker 1: in the off season, so the hope is that, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go for imaging and see what's going to do.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 2: It's actually they said no structural damage, which is a
Speaker 2: really good sign. So probably sits for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: That's really funny too, because literally was just talking about
Speaker 2: Brett Baty yesterday with Derek Van Riper In that like,
Speaker 2: I believe Brett Bady's a guy that's up. I may first,
Speaker 2: even after the injury. I still think he's a guy
Speaker 2: that's back up. I think he's the first call. And
Speaker 2: this is a really great sign that that didn't get dereeled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it seemed like it was just more in
Speaker 1: terms of just fatigue, and you know, he's the first
Speaker 1: time he's been playing so much since the surgery, so
Speaker 1: it's just something It's always better to be safe than
Speaker 1: sorry with those guys. But I'm with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Baties going to be up for the Mets. Here's some
Speaker 1: fun things. The Franomo signing yesterday for the Kansady Royals
Speaker 1: were in his number ninety nine, looking svelt. He hit
Speaker 1: a four hundred and fifty five foot home run and Ginkle,
Speaker 1: our boy Ginkle. Remember if you gingkle when you tinkle,
Speaker 1: please be sweet and wipe the seat. He got a
Speaker 1: w Welsh. How do you feel about your Ginkle?
Speaker 2: I like my Ginkle. I like my Ginkle. In the
Speaker 2: Games of Interest note, our dear friend Enosaurus, Sarahs noted
Speaker 2: that apparently the Diamondbacks were tipping pitches in those first
Speaker 2: couple of starts. Ginkle was one of them that was tipping.
Speaker 2: He had a really good breakdown where like I think
Speaker 2: it was a speed stuff. His wrist was bent up
Speaker 2: and he fixed that in that next start and he
Speaker 2: was pretty good. But the more interesting note in that
Speaker 2: was dra Jamison got the save in that game. He
Speaker 2: got a two inning or one and two third, I
Speaker 2: don't remember what it was. I think it was two innings,
Speaker 2: but he ended up getting the save going two in
Speaker 2: that which was a complete contrast because Scott McGuff sucks
Speaker 2: and he's just getting you know, just blowing that right out.
Speaker 1: That's another guy pick up too. I mean, no, no,
Speaker 1: the the closer.
Speaker 2: The mcgu Yeah, Scott mcguf, well behave just blew a
Speaker 2: save in the last one. I don't think he's particularly
Speaker 2: looked fantastic. The splitter was black, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: He might still get the opportunities. What's more interesting to
Speaker 2: me is where Dre Jamison goes because Mson, oh yeah, well,
Speaker 2: because Dre I thought was a guy. If bum Garner,
Speaker 2: which I can't believe they're gonna let him go out there,
Speaker 2: if Bumgarner wasn't going to be there, he would get
Speaker 2: the next start. But then they put him in a
Speaker 2: save situation. And his pitch usage was way different in
Speaker 2: this game than the first one. Is something I tweeted
Speaker 2: about over fifty percent slider usage in the first game
Speaker 2: is like a starter replacement in relief twenty four percent slider.
Speaker 2: He was getting hit up a little bit and then
Speaker 2: he struck out Nelson Cruz last night on three straight sliders.
Speaker 2: So they need to fix that, and I think that's
Speaker 2: something they'll do. But I have no idea where he's
Speaker 2: going to go. If he's a closer. I actually think
Speaker 2: he could be a lights out closer if he keeps that.
Speaker 1: I would pick him up and speculate right now either
Speaker 1: way make my top five, but he was right on
Speaker 1: the outside of it for that video. Now here's a
Speaker 1: one from our friend and the Pedus and the Cracker
Speaker 1: Jacks Krew. Great question here from Bizirizigizza, the last member
Speaker 1: of the Wu Tang Clan. How worried should I be
Speaker 1: with Zach Gallen Welsh.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be too worried about it. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not what you want good. Yeah, I would be one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. Would this is like the weird time, what
Speaker 2: do we not even a week We're not even a
Speaker 2: week into the season. This is in a thing where
Speaker 2: like I'm unrailing and just dumping off all my guys.
Speaker 2: The same reason, I wouldn't lose my mind about you
Speaker 2: just did it like.
Speaker 1: You didn't derail.
Speaker 2: We didn't either of it. Don't do anything with Zach
Speaker 2: Gallen except maybe go buy opportunities. I think he did
Speaker 2: something similarish to last year, and it's at a mid
Speaker 2: season roll where the guy just goes off and pitches
Speaker 2: seven innings and stuff like that, doesn't give up any runs,
Speaker 2: and he's incredible on the quality starts. I wouldn't worry
Speaker 2: too much about it. Catchers also stink in Arizona right
Speaker 2: now too.
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Speaker 1: It hasn't even been a week, but we do have
Speaker 1: our first official Joe's Tough Guys of the Year. So
Speaker 1: very excited, Josh Smith said, yesterday's doing fine. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: be back on the field soon. For those who don't know,
Speaker 1: go hitten face by a pitch. Certainly scary stuff. Always
Speaker 1: so good on you, Josh, first Tough Guy of the Year.
Speaker 1: We love Joe's Tough Guys. I don't know we should
Speaker 1: give them something. I don't know what we should Oh.
Speaker 2: We should like what would you give them?
Speaker 1: Like? No, I don't know what we give them something
Speaker 1: like maybe it was like an old baseball card or
Speaker 1: something like a like just a random nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: tops of like Jose Cruz from the.
Speaker 2: I think you should have like an honorary like piece
Speaker 2: of pia, like band aid or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be autographed band aids for me.
Speaker 2: We can almost attend the like skin color one is
Speaker 2: just your head, so it's like game use band aid
Speaker 2: from Joe. Hey, I meant to invention this. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you saw it. Our boy, our buddy, Mike
Speaker 2: Mayer put in our chat a trivia question. I know
Speaker 2: we're not doing those like crazy this year, but this
Speaker 2: is an interesting trivia question. I will ask it since
Speaker 2: I remember what he said, Joe, did you know that
Speaker 2: there's only one team in baseball that does not have
Speaker 2: a current stolen base? Do you know which team has
Speaker 2: stolen bases? Are running wild? My friend?
Speaker 1: That was it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it says there's only one mlam. He was yet
Speaker 2: to even attempt a stolen base. I'm sorry they haven't
Speaker 2: even attempted a stolen base?
Speaker 1: Gosh, I mean, is it the Nats?
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna have to find out. Let's see who
Speaker 2: puts a Mayor's actually have to put the answer, because
Speaker 2: I'm actually here.
Speaker 1: I haven't even seen him. It's even going to work today.
Speaker 2: Let's see in the chat. Let's see in the chat
Speaker 2: without anyone looking, who is the team that has not
Speaker 2: even attempted a stolen bation.
Speaker 1: I guess the Yankees. That was my initial instinct too.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of like teams are just having trouble. Jo
Speaker 1: Bolpi's got three Volpi's got three, say, but it's not Vulpy.
Speaker 1: That's how I knew it wasn't the Yankees. So yeah,
Speaker 1: while you guys figure that.
Speaker 2: Out, guess the Rockies.
Speaker 1: That's a good one too, Rockies. Here's three up and
Speaker 1: three down from last night. Sandy al Contra complete game, shutout,
Speaker 1: not too shabby. I mean, this guy's just unbelievable, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, people are saying, oh the strikeout, Relax, relax.
Speaker 1: This guy is as good as it gets right now.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see what his price tag
Speaker 1: is gonna be at some point, because he is building
Speaker 1: quite the resume at some point, and we all know
Speaker 1: Miami's gonna have to trade him. Like there's no way
Speaker 1: they're gonna fork up the money to sign. Might be
Speaker 1: shocked if that happens, they'd have to break the bank,
Speaker 1: and they're not one to even open it. Framber Valdez
Speaker 1: seven innings to earn. But he did get the loss
Speaker 1: here yesterday, which is a little frustrating, but this is
Speaker 1: a fun fact which we got to keep in mind
Speaker 1: every time he faces the Detroit Tigers. Versus the Tigers,
Speaker 1: his last twenty two innings Welsh twenty four strikeouts, is
Speaker 1: four earned runs, is least twenty two innings. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: So it's like automatic and your boy Ti Oscar and
Speaker 1: Andez last night two Dangers fifteenth threer multi home run game.
Speaker 1: You had mentioned quite a bit this offseason about how
Speaker 1: important ti Oscar was and that addition, I agreed to
Speaker 1: one hundred percent with you. It's already paying dividends that
Speaker 1: move for the Mariners this offseason, and he kind of
Speaker 1: feels like one of those missing pieces for them. I
Speaker 1: think they might be one more bad a way. But Welsh,
Speaker 1: ti Oscar getting off to a good start. That's good
Speaker 1: for the MS.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huge, it's a big impact.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I was just still baffled by like all the focus
Speaker 2: on like Toronto, and it's even worse in Seattle. And
Speaker 2: we even saw the expected home run numbers were actually
Speaker 2: better for him hitting in Seattle, and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: they need. They need lineup protection, you know, And I
Speaker 2: know that can be like a misnomer like that. Julio
Speaker 2: needs some more line of protection. If he's going to
Speaker 2: also be leading off in spots, you need him to
Speaker 2: be batted in. And I actually agree with you on
Speaker 2: that too. I think they need one more big piece.
Speaker 2: The problem is when the hell is that gonna come?
Speaker 2: Because Winter team's going to start being comfortable trading off.
Speaker 2: It's only the Reds at this point, maybe the Pirates
Speaker 2: or something. I mean, the Pirates aren't even moving from.
Speaker 1: The unbeatable Reds. You mean those Reds, well, I mean
Speaker 1: they were. They love that. I always love April on
Speaker 1: April is always fun. You always get like a team
Speaker 1: that you're not expecting to get off to a good start,
Speaker 1: and you know, just like, come on, it's the Reds.
Speaker 1: The Reds are going to be terrible. Just stop. Okay. Also,
Speaker 1: here's the answer, Mark got it. It's the twins and
Speaker 1: mister X also with the Frank Sinatra profile. Goy it,
Speaker 1: twin cat, don't.
Speaker 2: I guess you could imagine you start build that roster
Speaker 2: out for a minute in your head and then start
Speaker 2: thinking who's the guy that was attempted?
Speaker 1: Well, Buckson doesn't steal bases anymore? Do that? From last year.
Speaker 2: Gallum Miranda, I mean, none of those guys are doing
Speaker 2: any events. Is a good point.
Speaker 1: I wonder if I will have more stone bases than
Speaker 1: Joey Gallop by the end of the year. We shall see.
Speaker 1: Here's your three down from last night. Max Sure's are
Speaker 1: eight home runs in his last sixteen innings pitch since
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two postseason. Just throwing that out there,
Speaker 1: so given up a lot of home runs. After in
Speaker 1: the post game last night he just said, like I
Speaker 1: just got to pitch better though. There you go. Deep
Speaker 1: words for Max Scherzer, Kyle Finnegan. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of wins for the Washington Nationals. And last night,
Speaker 1: when you have a lead, you blow us say that
Speaker 1: pretty much. We'll do it to you. A third of
Speaker 1: an inning, five hits, five earned The ERA sits at
Speaker 1: twenty seven right now. And Jose Suarez last night for
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim four and a third inning,
Speaker 1: six earned runs, gave up two homers. His ERA is
Speaker 1: twelve forty six, So any concerns with Schrezer here and
Speaker 1: like you know, he is forty now. We are at
Speaker 1: that point here where these guys late thirties early forties pitchers.
Speaker 1: I know they're still high end Sureser. We saw the
Speaker 1: first start. You know, he looked very good against the Marvelins.
Speaker 1: But you know, over the entire course of the season,
Speaker 1: what is your confidence level in Shureser? Mine is low,
Speaker 1: which is why I was passing on him, because I
Speaker 1: feel like there's gonna be a little bit more peaks
Speaker 1: and valleys and the injuries the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: certainly missing some starts. I just feel fear of the
Speaker 1: body breaking down a little bit. But where do you
Speaker 1: stand with scherz Er? Was this a by opportunity after
Speaker 1: this bad start?
Speaker 2: I think, if it's like if it's like eighty five
Speaker 2: percent on the doll you know what I'm saying, If
Speaker 2: it's like eighty five cents on the dollar, like maybe
Speaker 2: I think I'm a little bit worried with you. That's
Speaker 2: the old you know, falling knife syndrome. You don't want
Speaker 2: to catch him too far on the way down. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, like he kind of find like
Speaker 2: last year he actually had a really good march in April.
Speaker 2: May was his big bumpy month or but he had
Speaker 2: a three two era. He proceeded to have a mid
Speaker 2: two or beating the mid to era the rest of
Speaker 2: the way through from July through October, so he showed
Speaker 2: a lot of consistency. So what's changed in that time.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure much has changed outside of maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit more added pressure with Verlander out. I
Speaker 2: think this is probably a by opportunity. Again, anything that
Speaker 2: happens in the first week of baseball for players in
Speaker 2: the top fifty, I think there tends to be buying
Speaker 2: opportunities overall because of this pure panic thing that's going on.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't want to pay like top dollar. Hey
Speaker 2: I'm getting a top seven way for sure, I would.
Speaker 2: I would need more of a discount because, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is a little bit worrisome how this is starting off.
Speaker 2: But I think he's going to level out, and he's
Speaker 2: shown that he levels.
Speaker 1: Out rest of season. Who would you rather have, Zach Goellener,
Speaker 1: Max Schurzer.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I would rather go with Scherzer. Still I
Speaker 2: don't think you agree.
Speaker 1: I it's close. I want to see the poll, Mike Maher,
Speaker 1: get a poll going up there, running up the flag pole.
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Speaker 2: Well, wasn't yesterday. Wasn't yesterday with anything for me?
Speaker 1: I had everybody has a bad start.
Speaker 2: Oh, I had a humbling yesterday. I had probably my
Speaker 2: best first week of any sport gambling that I ever had,
Speaker 2: absolute on fire, and yesterday humbled me with everything that
Speaker 2: went down. So I'm ready to get back to it.
Speaker 2: I actually haven't launched into a five picker for Prize Picks.
Speaker 2: I think we'll get there if we can. Once we
Speaker 2: get back to hit in which we did hit on
Speaker 2: opening day we hit a three, We're gonna go a
Speaker 2: little bit further, though, I will say I have a
Speaker 2: caveat because I'm gonna give you three, but I think
Speaker 2: there's a fourth you can add, and it's a part
Speaker 2: of yours. Here are my three on the prize picks.
Speaker 2: I'm going with Randy A. Rose Areina fantasy score hight
Speaker 2: and a half. I will tell you prize pick on
Speaker 2: their fantasy score is more generous than a few other
Speaker 2: places that do similar things. That is a really nice thing.
Speaker 2: You get a couple little extra points here and there,
Speaker 2: even on like the stolen base front. So I love
Speaker 2: Randy Rose Arena score eight and a half. I know
Speaker 2: you've got him tied in. I haven't done this yet.
Speaker 2: I'm going with TJ. Friedel hit run RBI one and
Speaker 2: a half good one under under. I'm going with up
Speaker 2: against Marcus Stroman whose Stroman looked really good in some
Speaker 2: of his changes in the last start. And then I'm
Speaker 2: adding Mike Trout total bases one and a half over.
Speaker 2: So those are my three twenty and can get you
Speaker 2: one hundred if you place that bet. The guy that
Speaker 2: I will add is the one that Joe put in.
Speaker 2: I don't know if the number has necessarily changed the
Speaker 2: betting market. It has. I could add in Shane mcclanahan's
Speaker 2: strikeout over you put it on, so I decided not to,
Speaker 2: But I would one hundred percent be comfortable changing out
Speaker 2: or adding if you want to do a four timer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, day games are always wacky too. Those are typically
Speaker 1: speaking on this is weird. But I don't like to
Speaker 1: play a lot of dfs in the day game slates.
Speaker 1: You know, different guys, you know, they play differently in
Speaker 1: the day. You have the lineup changes, all these kinds
Speaker 1: of things going on. Weirdness during day games. I stay weird.
Speaker 2: The day and nights so different.
Speaker 1: I mean the sun in the moon Welsh. That's why.
Speaker 1: By the way, look at it. So this guy macmaher,
Speaker 1: what was the question for the point? I wasn't even listening.
Speaker 1: What do you do it? Make it a sandwich mayor? Like?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I mean, I think somebody eventually
Speaker 1: directed him the right way. But come on, mare, all
Speaker 1: right is my prize picks today again. I've got Shane
Speaker 1: McClanahan and the over with the six pitcher strikeouts, gorburn
Speaker 1: Burns over with the six and a half against the
Speaker 1: Mets today. That game's at one forty, so again you
Speaker 1: got to get these in quickly. We're given to you
Speaker 1: right now. Randy rose Arena was my guy one and
Speaker 1: a half total base, the same thing with Wander Franco.
Speaker 1: But as well said, the fantasy points also a way
Speaker 1: you can go. Speaking of which, let's get the betting
Speaker 1: out there too, because we're getting close to some of
Speaker 1: these one o'clock games pretty soon. Shane McClanahan, you can
Speaker 1: get the five and a half. I know you've got
Speaker 1: that one. Here's my big I'm gonna Welsh go for
Speaker 1: his after I lay out this parlay for everybody. Sure,
Speaker 1: I've got McClanahan the five and a half strikeouts and
Speaker 1: can get that at Bette Rivers on the over. I
Speaker 1: got Lozardo on the six and a half on the under. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm just a little worried about the innings today on DK.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one and Corburn Burns against six and
Speaker 1: a half the over on FanDuel Garrett Cole nine and
Speaker 1: a half strikeouts are gonna go the under on DK.
Speaker 1: I think that's a very high number against the Phillies today.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing though, on the money line boys and girls.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a big parlay person. I don't
Speaker 1: tend to do this, but on the money line, put
Speaker 1: Milwaukee with Burns, Houston with Christian Javier going against the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers, and you got the Los Angeles Angels of
Speaker 1: Anaheim tonight with Otani. That's a three leg parlay that'll
Speaker 1: move up to plus two eighty eight. You put those
Speaker 1: three things together there, you'll win almost three times your money.
Speaker 1: So Milwaukee, Houston, Angels all the money line parlay together
Speaker 1: three to one. That's my favorite bet of the day. Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you have there in terms of wager When
Speaker 1: you're looking.
Speaker 2: At I like your moneyline parlay. I think those are
Speaker 2: actually fun to mess around with, some of those, So
Speaker 2: I think that's a really good one. Well, I did have,
Speaker 2: Shane McClanahan. I will tell you guys, I got it
Speaker 2: last night at five and a half over. It has
Speaker 2: since moved to six and a half on most books,
Speaker 2: and even if it is five and a half, the
Speaker 2: odds sink right now it's like minus one sixty five.
Speaker 2: So if I were doing it, I'm probably pairing it.
Speaker 2: I know parlay's are dangerous, and you got to really
Speaker 2: be careful about them. I don't mind doing two player
Speaker 2: parlays to mess around and one guy you could add.
Speaker 2: This is one of my solo ones. Is Pablo Lopez
Speaker 2: strikeout six and a half. It is minus one twenty five.
Speaker 2: I love this one because the Marlins are striking out
Speaker 2: more than any team in baseball. They're the number one
Speaker 2: strikeout team in baseball. Pabo Lopez with the big changes.
Speaker 2: Even though his numbers were up before, I was hoping
Speaker 2: this will be five and a half. I'll still take
Speaker 2: at six and a half. And you compare that one
Speaker 2: m klan a hand to get some good money. I
Speaker 2: actually have a little hit parlay for you, Goldie and
Speaker 2: Seeger point five over hit, so they just need to hit.
Speaker 2: You've got Goldie going up against Bryce Elder, and then
Speaker 2: you've got Corey Seeger going up against Grayson Rodriguez and
Speaker 2: he's gonna be hitting high in the lineup. Get both
Speaker 2: of those guys that will get you plus one oh five.
Speaker 2: So it's essentially even money for just any type of
Speaker 2: hit for them. And then finally I've got a first
Speaker 2: five team total Saint Louis Cardinals in the first five
Speaker 2: innings their team total runs two point five over it's
Speaker 2: minus one ten, so it's essentially three runs against Bryce
Speaker 2: Hilder for the Cardinals in the first five, which they
Speaker 2: average over four runs in the first five. So there
Speaker 2: you go.
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Speaker 1: keep it simple here in DFS stuff in these days slates,
Speaker 1: You've got a couple situations here depending on how you
Speaker 1: want to run this. You know, you could skip the
Speaker 1: twelve thirty games just play the one o'clock's, which is
Speaker 1: probably what you want to do. Sean mcclanand's a ten
Speaker 1: k against Washington to lock and low. Corbyn Burns is
Speaker 1: an interesting tournament play because first start was a little rocky. Whatever,
Speaker 1: who cares. It's going against the Mets today. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna strike out a ton of guys. And Christian
Speaker 1: Xavier against Detroit at ten k is even cheaper than
Speaker 1: both of them. I'd be looking to stack Houston, Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Tampa. I'm gonna go against the elder today
Speaker 1: with the Saint Louis Cardinals. But you get a lot
Speaker 1: of cheap bats in there as well, including guys like
Speaker 1: Brian Anderson, who's a value at two point five. A
Speaker 1: couple of guys in Milwaukee. They're going against Peterson. I
Speaker 1: like Peterson. Look some of the right handed bats there.
Speaker 1: Look for some of the Cardinals today against the young pitcher.
Speaker 1: Gonna get into that bullpen early today for the Braves
Speaker 1: most likely, and same.
Speaker 2: Thing why I like that team total. That's why I
Speaker 2: got my total two and a half runs. The loves
Speaker 2: five is getting too that bullpen. And by the way,
Speaker 2: Hamper Stacks, I love your Houston Saint Louis and Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay specifically Wander and Randy would be guys that would
Speaker 2: be trying to get in lineups.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And the Tampa with Wander Franco. By
Speaker 1: the way, in just a moment, we're gonna spoil what
Speaker 1: that is today. But again, a home run calls I
Speaker 1: know going well. I took a couple of days off
Speaker 1: from trying to give everybody head start like I did
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Speaker 1: of course to our home run calls for the day.
Speaker 1: And I'm going with wander Franco. I'm staying on brand
Speaker 1: here with wander Franco, Patrick Corbin, let's go. I always
Speaker 1: get excited for Patrick Corbin starts, so wander Franco looks
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good, and I'm riding that Wander Franco train.
Speaker 1: It is going to be comical when we look back
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. I think that he
Speaker 1: was like the eightieth player going off the board. Absolutely comical, Welsh.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to look back and laugh at it.
Speaker 2: Ha ha.
Speaker 1: I'm dude.
Speaker 2: This was one of the guys I sta actually stacked
Speaker 2: in three different leagues. I stacked Steger see Steger Seger
Speaker 2: and Wander Franco together on the middle and Wander Steeger.
Speaker 2: That's what I've got, and I've got both of those
Speaker 2: guys together, and I'm totally with you on that. I
Speaker 2: like that call. As you said, it's going well. It's
Speaker 2: not going well. As everybody knows. The coin had flipped
Speaker 2: me in the wrong direction three straight times. Yesterday nothing
Speaker 2: worked out. Neither one of my guys got on the board. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: The Aaron Judge one was the epitome of how bad
Speaker 2: my day was. We couldn't get anything out of Judge
Speaker 2: and we didn't get it out of Freddy Freeman either.
Speaker 2: Today I'm going with a little bit of like a
Speaker 2: BVP play, if you will, because I'm going with George Springer.
Speaker 2: George Springer has an over five hundred career batting average
Speaker 2: against Zach Granke also in that leadoff spot. It's just
Speaker 2: kind of a great piece to get because I'm gonna
Speaker 2: get more at bats and more opportunities. So I'm hoping
Speaker 2: to get on the board. We're not flipping any coins,
Speaker 2: We're not doing any of that today. I got to
Speaker 2: get on the damn board. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's funny how the NAD moves. I love bop Seeger,
Speaker 1: He's a great silver bullet band there by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this or not. You
Speaker 1: know my cousin. He started his own little podcast and
Speaker 1: I say little, but it sounds condescending when I say that.
Speaker 1: But funny story here for everybody leading off. Well take
Speaker 1: it for a second, because I gotta again here on
Speaker 1: the show live, which is really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I know how it goes. Uh yeah, Now,
Speaker 2: this is a great story because you know how I
Speaker 2: got humbled in my betting yesterday. Joe was humbled being
Speaker 2: in the presence of Donnie, and I know exactly story
Speaker 2: that you're gonna tell. Joe got humbled in his world.
Speaker 1: And so I'm in the car here. He's gonna close
Speaker 1: the show with the story time because everybody likes story time. Today,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close the show with this. So we're out
Speaker 1: in my you know, little Cousin's soccer game. We're all
Speaker 1: hanging out. We're leaving, you know, some of the coaches, assistants,
Speaker 1: they know. Donnie's got a show, and I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: with you know, he just started a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He's very excited about it. It's great. I told him
Speaker 1: you should do this. He's a very entertain guy, as
Speaker 1: everybody here knows in the chat, and I'm sitting in
Speaker 1: the passenger's side, and he's talking outside of the car
Speaker 1: to here we go. He's already ready for the story.
Speaker 1: He's talking outside of the car to the assistant coaches
Speaker 1: and like, oh, your cousins, and that's fun. Why don't
Speaker 1: you have him on the podcast. That'd be fun for
Speaker 1: him to be on the podcastle exposure.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's not understanding. This is for Donnie
Speaker 2: to have Joe on the.
Speaker 1: On for my cousin Donnie to have me on his
Speaker 1: podcast that just started a few weeks ago. And I said,
Speaker 1: did how I said him that would be great. I
Speaker 1: love I wonder what that's like to be on a
Speaker 1: podcast and a show. I hope I don't screw it up.
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. I did not let it live it
Speaker 1: down the rest of the weekend. It became the running joke,
Speaker 1: and I am so happy for it because I was
Speaker 1: almost in tears crying about we were so and then
Speaker 1: they kept Somebody asked him some betting advice too, That's
Speaker 1: what I was even better, and I whipped him. And
Speaker 1: he is not a huge sports guy. He watches the
Speaker 1: show because he loves me and I love him, but
Speaker 1: he's not a big sports guy, and I'm standing right
Speaker 1: next to him listening to him, and the guys ask
Speaker 1: him let Yukon ride, and I'm like, he doesn't even
Speaker 1: know what he's talking about. He thinks Yukon is like
Speaker 1: a is like a school for criminals like Yukon. He
Speaker 1: has no idea.
Speaker 2: That was my favorite part of the story was then like, hey,
Speaker 2: let's get some gambling advice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm next time I'm away. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: have Donnie host the show. But maybe you and I
Speaker 1: can get on that podcast.
Speaker 2: We'll make it someday, Joe, We'll make it someday.
Speaker 1: There you go. I told you Donnie it was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It was just hilarious. I love I love it. It
Speaker 1: was so great. But again, his show is very fun.
Speaker 1: You should check it out too. He's a shooting straight
Speaker 1: with Donnie c starting up his podcast, which again I
Speaker 1: encourage everybody to start a podcast, except doctor Glenn. Doctor
Speaker 1: Glenn should not do a podcast. Nobody wants to hear
Speaker 1: him go on and on. But Welsh, it's good to
Speaker 1: be back here. I missed you in terms of things
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Speaker 1: just came out today. Go check out Welsh's trade video.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing a trade video every week, just
Speaker 1: like last year. We're gonna be doing waiver Wire pickup
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Speaker 1: So it's a good time there. So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I called you out. Doctor Glenn J. Full knows that.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And of course, if you got
Speaker 1: extra sports betting advice, just go to my cousin, go.
Speaker 2: To Donnie handle too. Just followed me. I gotta follow
Speaker 2: Donnie back.
Speaker 1: So funniest part too, He's like, you literally are in
Speaker 1: a show that's on Amazon Prime for sports betting, and
Speaker 1: he was asking me across right like cross your face
Speaker 1: as though you're not there, so humbling, which is great.
Speaker 1: And God knows If anything, I needed to be humbled,
Speaker 1: and I got humbled by Welsh and David Busters too
Speaker 1: from the basketball shooting and other events of our Olympic trials.
Speaker 1: So great show here. Good to see all my peanuts
Speaker 1: and cracker Jacks back. Thanks again to the Worm for
Speaker 1: filling in giving me a couple of days off there
Speaker 1: with the kiddos. I appreciate it. That'll do it for us,
Speaker 1: but the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey p. Enjoy your afternoon baseball today, boys and girls. Peace,