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Speaker 1: a big day because I was wrong. You were wrong.
Speaker 1: Ronald acunia is back, baby, Holy crap, that happened fast.
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning. I was at an event yesterday.
Speaker 1: I really wasn't checking too much. I got up this
Speaker 1: morning to get kind of reacclimated to all the baseball
Speaker 1: comings and goings, and holy cow, Ronald Acunya is back
Speaker 1: and going to be playing for the Braves today. Well,
Speaker 1: how do you.
Speaker 2: Feel you just showed your sign of how early you
Speaker 2: go to bed or stop paying attention to everything? Because
Speaker 2: this was a yesterday thing. This was a late night
Speaker 2: not even late night. This is an early evening thing
Speaker 2: out here as wes.
Speaker 1: Co graduation family thing to go do. There was also
Speaker 1: a wedding proposal. There was a lot going on last night.
Speaker 1: The wine we're flowing, no no, sir. But we also
Speaker 1: with the kids last night caught up on the finale Survivor,
Speaker 1: so the rest of the evening was spent that's their
Speaker 1: favorite show. So I was watching that. I watched a
Speaker 1: little quick pitch, but I must have missed the Yukunya
Speaker 1: news like when I was doing it, and this morning
Speaker 1: got up and went, oh, well look at that. Hello,
Speaker 1: it's very good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you set that over under and
Speaker 2: I did say the under in the June numbers. So
Speaker 2: we're here. As soon as he got to triple A
Speaker 2: and started just getting those baseballs out, you knew that
Speaker 2: this was gonna happen. You knew it was going to
Speaker 2: be early. I'm not sure I quite thought it was
Speaker 2: going to be this early, but it was great.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: I have a keeper league that I've been waiting for
Speaker 2: a cunia to get back. It's great for fantasy, it's
Speaker 2: going to be great for also the ranks getting him
Speaker 2: back up. I love, you know, whenever I'm doing these
Speaker 2: weekly rank adjustments to you know, get the best players
Speaker 2: back up there. And really, it's such a weird year
Speaker 2: last year in what he played of just you know,
Speaker 2: figuring out like the you know, the bounce back off
Speaker 2: of the big year, what was going on, some of
Speaker 2: the weird contact and strikeout stuff.
Speaker 1: Like.
Speaker 2: I'm just excited to see this version of Ronald Acuni again.
Speaker 2: But he's back, and it is good for all of
Speaker 2: us and the Braves.
Speaker 1: It's good for all of us. It's good for the
Speaker 1: Braves too, the Braves that are really rough April starting
Speaker 1: to play a little better. You've seen Austin Riley, You've
Speaker 1: seen Drake Baldwin kind of be a little injection there.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the Striders start yet. I think
Speaker 1: this is the by low window. I thought it was
Speaker 1: weird he didn't have a rehab start again. I just
Speaker 1: think he he has bad numbers against the Nats historically,
Speaker 1: and on top of that, it's probably just the feel
Speaker 1: for pitching. And I'm hoping that he just gets back
Speaker 1: into his routine and all is well for him going forward.
Speaker 1: But the Braves need a coon. Yeah, and now I
Speaker 1: think the East gets really interesting. The Mets have hit
Speaker 1: their first wall after being really good, and of course
Speaker 1: everyone's hyper ventilating still in New York City about it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fine. The pitching's been really good for
Speaker 1: the Mets. The pitching has been really good for the Phillies.
Speaker 1: That Phillies line up just crushing balls everywhere again yesterday,
Speaker 1: Harper and Schwarber are red hot. Lozardo has been a revelation.
Speaker 1: So the East is getting really interesting, really fun from
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective. I know everybody keeps talking about all
Speaker 1: year while he's not gonna run as much, not going
Speaker 1: to run as much. Okay, we have one hundred games
Speaker 1: left in the season. I'm gonna give you a stolen
Speaker 1: based total. Here we go, Here we go. You're ready,
Speaker 1: stolen based total, Rondokunya. One hundred games. Let's go thirty
Speaker 1: one and a half over under.
Speaker 2: That's a good number. I am going to go under. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go under. I think we're gonna sit at
Speaker 2: like somewhere between twenty and thirty. I could be so
Speaker 2: wrong about this. He could be hyper hyper aggressive on
Speaker 2: the bay's path base paths is I mean not stopping.
Speaker 2: But I do think of like you know, when Tatis
Speaker 2: came back and then you know, didn't really run, and
Speaker 2: then this year he's like, I just feel healthy, I
Speaker 2: feel good. Just don't think he's in that space yet
Speaker 2: where they're gonna want to let him go like that.
Speaker 2: But you know what, they also need to manufacture runs.
Speaker 2: Ozzie Alby's not hitting Matt Olsen doesn't look like Matt
Speaker 2: Olson fully, so maybe he does run more. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna take the under thirty one and a half. Are
Speaker 2: you over under?
Speaker 1: I think it's a good number I set. That's why
Speaker 1: I was going to try. I think I'm gonna go under.
Speaker 1: I think it's more like twenty nine. I think he
Speaker 1: just I think he's right under thirty there, and I
Speaker 1: think there's going to be more steals and people realize
Speaker 1: the people will think hes gonna steal ten bases. I
Speaker 1: think are way off base. I really do shout out
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Speaker 1: questions today too, so keep dropping your questions. It's a
Speaker 1: fun Friday. Thursday's always alight baseball day. We also have
Speaker 1: a fun thing to look at too, from the athletic
Speaker 1: they put out. But let's get to uh to Jose
Speaker 1: al Tuove. Two home runs for him yesterday, a really
Speaker 1: good day. Certainly we needed that. He is six for
Speaker 1: his last fifteen. Uh so good on Jose Altuve there
Speaker 1: and also wasn't the only guy who towo home runs.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Nady Evaldi, who we
Speaker 1: were discussing yesterday, being so good. You can't really believe
Speaker 1: how good he's been his ERA after yesterday. He got
Speaker 1: an unfortunate turn into the stick yesterday against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: but a one point six ERA now after six innings
Speaker 1: where he gave up just a run, He's got seventy
Speaker 1: one strikeouts to just nine walks. He's been incredible. Carlos
Speaker 1: Rodan also really good in that game too, not to
Speaker 1: be overlooked. Six scoreless sittings. He had a rough start
Speaker 1: to the season. Rodin now has an ERA of one
Speaker 1: point four to seven with a K per nine of
Speaker 1: ten point nine to seven since the middle of April.
Speaker 1: So after that rough April you throw those numbers out.
Speaker 1: Rodan's been brilliant. So Rodan Eovaldi? Who would you rather have?
Speaker 1: Rest of season?
Speaker 2: Man? I just realized as you were doing that, I
Speaker 2: had to show it, yeah, that you were gone. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna start looking because I'll give you my initial reaction.
Speaker 1: I know my answer. I can't wait to hear yours.
Speaker 2: And I think I'm gonna stick with my initial reaction.
Speaker 2: And it's Carlos Redon and that might be surprising, or
Speaker 2: maybe that's where you're at with it. The two eight
Speaker 2: era fantastic, The sub one whip with him just speaks volumes.
Speaker 2: I am worried about that K percentage. It's a ten percent.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been like that since twenty eighteen. But with
Speaker 2: it has come elitd K percentage thirty one percent. I
Speaker 2: really do think that this strikeout rate can continue with him,
Speaker 2: where I don't quite buy it with Ivaldi. Ivaldi, though,
Speaker 2: can go deep into games that team has been underperforming,
Speaker 2: which really might might say a lot for him. Moving forward.
Speaker 2: But I just think that Carlos for Redon in that K,
Speaker 2: that K number is just going to carry you through
Speaker 2: the season. And I think you could get if you're
Speaker 2: talking about a trade, I think you can get Redon
Speaker 2: maybe and maybe a little bit of a sweetener if
Speaker 2: you were trading Evaldi, because I think Ivaldi with you know,
Speaker 2: almost into June, having like a sub two era, people
Speaker 2: are losing their mind. So I think it's a really
Speaker 2: tough one. I guess the value you probably have to
Speaker 2: have Valdi like a couple of notches above Radon, but
Speaker 2: I think rest of season I would take him. What
Speaker 2: about you, I would take two.
Speaker 1: I would also take Rodond. I would take him as well,
Speaker 1: because I like where the Yankees are at. I think
Speaker 1: as Devin Williams pitch is better too. That's only good
Speaker 1: news for the bullpen. We were well going to get
Speaker 1: into that conversation too, because that's intriguing what's going on there.
Speaker 1: You know, Devin Williams does get that job back. We've
Speaker 1: been so untouchable. Do you want to muck around with it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I believe more in the Yankee
Speaker 1: offense and the Ranger offense to the range of offense.
Speaker 1: Still we're waiting. We're gonna get you know, uh seeger
Speaker 1: back eventually. You hope that Simeon has something this year,
Speaker 1: but man, we are deep into it right now. So
Speaker 1: I've just more faith basically in the Yankees. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about our faith in George Kirby. Three and two thirds
Speaker 1: innings yesterday, five runs allowed against the astro. So this
Speaker 1: was his first start of twenty twenty five. He hit
Speaker 1: Jeremy Panya in this game. Then he got two scoreless innings,
Speaker 1: but after that things kind of fell apart. So when
Speaker 1: you look at this outing and you step back from it,
Speaker 1: seventy two pitches obviously first one out. Obviously not the normal,
Speaker 1: you know situation here that you would want a guy
Speaker 1: to make his debut, because it wasn't at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. It was injury. So do you take
Speaker 1: too much out of this? Do you take nothing out
Speaker 1: of this? Like where are you at here with Kirby
Speaker 1: after what you saw or maybe he didn't see from
Speaker 1: him yesterday?
Speaker 2: I don't Okay, Yeah, there's actually something you didn't see
Speaker 2: from him, which I think is actually the interesting part.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you.
Speaker 2: Take anything out of it. His velo was where it
Speaker 2: always is, So that's like a I think that's a
Speaker 2: big key. I think it's probably like the number one
Speaker 2: thing that you're looking for. You know, Kirby's a big,
Speaker 2: big command guy, so it's like, what are you going
Speaker 2: to read out of one start? What are you going
Speaker 2: to read out of his walks being up a little bit.
Speaker 2: But the pitch mix is kind of interesting. One little
Speaker 2: caveat I'll give is the designation of pitches. Let's just
Speaker 2: throw that out for a second, because you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: sinkers and fastballs they just get designated weirdly or he's
Speaker 2: throwing it. Because if you look, it shows he threw
Speaker 2: you know, primarily four seams last year, and then sinkers
Speaker 2: were his second most used pitch. This shows he was
Speaker 2: just all sinkers. Okay, so we singing the ball a
Speaker 2: little bit more, not throwing four seams. There's that last
Speaker 2: year's slider was the third most used pitch, but his
Speaker 2: cutter was way up this year, and I excuse me,
Speaker 2: I think that was about the designation cutters and sliders
Speaker 2: can be used. So pitch mix looks different there. But
Speaker 2: here's the big one. He didn't throw that split finger
Speaker 2: at all, and that was a pitch that he added
Speaker 2: last year to try to up his case and try
Speaker 2: to be more of a strikeout pitcher. He didn't throw
Speaker 2: one in that first start. He threws change up. Change up,
Speaker 2: He didn't throw it all last year and he threw
Speaker 2: twelve percent of the time. So did he scrap the
Speaker 2: split finger for the change up? What is that going
Speaker 2: to end up doing to the strikeout numbers at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. Don't overreact, but the pitch mix change.
Speaker 2: Kirby always does this. He's always weird about the stuff.
Speaker 2: We need to see a couple more of these and
Speaker 2: what is going to be more successful at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, because we don't know. He didn't, like
Speaker 2: I said, he didn't throw the change up last year.
Speaker 2: So that split finger, which had an almost thirty percent
Speaker 2: with rate last year, is this change up going to
Speaker 2: be better? It wasn't in the first start by the way.
Speaker 2: It got hit three point thirty three batting average against
Speaker 2: with only a sixteen percent wiff rate on it. So
Speaker 2: it wasn't a good pitch in this first start. That
Speaker 2: would be more of my worry than like first start,
Speaker 2: out he just got kind of banged around or whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. All right, let's move on here
Speaker 1: and hopefully better things ahead for George Kirby as we look.
Speaker 1: Better days for Christian Yelich two for three with a
Speaker 1: pair of home runs. So we've called him out here
Speaker 1: on the show last couple of days. We said the
Speaker 1: counting stats were good at the same time, as always
Speaker 1: concerns deep down. Look, if you want to sell Christian Yelich,
Speaker 1: this is the time, but still showing you some power.
Speaker 1: It's by like a razor thin margin considering what some
Speaker 1: of the deeper stats look like. But a good day
Speaker 1: for Christian Yelich. Nonetheless, Tan or Bibbey also a good
Speaker 1: day for him turning things around. He needed this in
Speaker 1: the worst way. It was a big victory over the
Speaker 1: Tigers too, no slouch of a team. Seven innings, three
Speaker 1: five seven r Right now, after all said and done,
Speaker 1: a one point two to one whip, forty three strikeouts
Speaker 1: to eighteen walks. So the strikeout for nine is still
Speaker 1: not where you want it to be. So this is
Speaker 1: also your sellaway windows for Bibby if you want. If
Speaker 1: you don't like what you've seen so far, and you
Speaker 1: think this is the mirage. This is the start to
Speaker 1: sell him off of Breton Doyle, another guy we called
Speaker 1: out yesterday two for three. Boyt, we are magic on
Speaker 1: this show. Give us a player you want us to
Speaker 1: call out that sucks for your fantasy team, we will
Speaker 1: fix him.
Speaker 2: I think Michael just did. Michael and the Chat literally
Speaker 2: just called out a bunch of players like you, ell
Speaker 2: and Langford.
Speaker 1: Seriously, though, Ellie's killing me in the league too. I
Speaker 1: just I need that. Where's that Ellie hot streak? Man?
Speaker 1: I need to see it. But Breton Doyle five for
Speaker 1: twelve since the dropping the order to four walks. See,
Speaker 1: to me, that's when a guy's getting right. I always
Speaker 1: talk about this. Are you seeing him hit the ball
Speaker 1: the opposit field? Are you seeing the walks? You're seeing
Speaker 1: that with Doyle, you're seeing the walks. He's a really
Speaker 1: intriguing bilo for me because although Welsh does not necessarily
Speaker 1: call himself a fan of Bretton Doyle, I like Doyle
Speaker 1: last year. I was impressed by what I saw, but
Speaker 1: certainly not what I've seen this year. This is your
Speaker 1: window if you want to try to pluck him away.
Speaker 2: Well, problems, oh, well, I want to say it was
Speaker 2: real quick. You passed it. You say that, but I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was on a trade video or
Speaker 2: the live stream, because you're right. I was a huge
Speaker 2: fader of Brenton Doyle in the draft season. But whatever
Speaker 2: that show was, we just did. I said to buy
Speaker 2: on him, even though you can kind of sell guy
Speaker 2: on him that he is so low at the level
Speaker 2: where people are just want to get out that you've
Speaker 2: got to consider at this point because he still has
Speaker 2: a really good profile. He is a big counting stats player,
Speaker 2: and they're going to keep him at the top of
Speaker 2: the lineup because it sucks. So this has been a
Speaker 2: by opportunity for Doyle, even though I don't.
Speaker 1: Well, they did drop him from that top spot, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he can get back to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean m is going to get traded coming
Speaker 1: back too soon, so you know that lineup might be fortified.
Speaker 1: I want to shout out, yeah sports too, who just
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Speaker 1: these people, these newbies, let's go, come on, come on
Speaker 1: the waters form. Here's a good question from Frov, which,
Speaker 1: uh ray would you rather have? Rest of season? Todd
Speaker 1: Bradley or Ryan Peppio. I'd rather wesh.
Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna asked about Robie.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that's where I thought it was
Speaker 1: going to. I read it when I was reading it,
Speaker 1: That's how I read it. And then a second view
Speaker 1: I was cleaner with that. I go Pepio with this.
Speaker 1: I just think he's a better picture.
Speaker 2: I think I want I think I want to say Bradley,
Speaker 2: you know, Bradley for six twenty expected is three to five.
Speaker 2: But the I need the keys to come out. I mean,
Speaker 2: Pepio's probably safer. I'd have to look, I'd have to
Speaker 2: go through Pepio stuff. You know what. Let's go with
Speaker 2: Pepio that I love.
Speaker 1: The other thing's more mind. I think Todd Bradley is
Speaker 1: the more exciting arm, but I think it's a picture.
Speaker 1: I like what Pepio does more. I like the way
Speaker 1: he change fan beads. I like the way he is
Speaker 1: commanding the strike zone better. I think it's less volatility.
Speaker 1: I think TODs Bradley has more raw ability, but I'm
Speaker 1: talking like fantasy productivity. I feel more confident in Pepio.
Speaker 2: I think it right now, but I also think the
Speaker 2: upside belongs to TODs Bradley, but ten percent great stinks.
Speaker 2: Also his split finger really interesting. You want to kind
Speaker 2: of deaden this thing almost like a change up to
Speaker 2: and it's like he's added way more spin and velocity
Speaker 2: on it and it just doesn't look as good. This
Speaker 2: year had a thirty three percent wiff rate is twenty
Speaker 2: one this year. Love them to dead that thing out
Speaker 2: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit laser sharp. Is it time to worry about Junior Camonaro? Yeah,
Speaker 1: sure you can worry. I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get rid of them right now, but I'm definitely worried. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably don't think.
Speaker 2: I think there's some worries on it. One of the
Speaker 2: things with Cammon Arrow it's interesting is if they just
Speaker 2: released this new informent. I've talked about it like last
Speaker 2: three days. But Baseball Savant they've got attack Angle. So
Speaker 2: if you want to like start analyzing.
Speaker 1: Are they paying you to talk about attack Angle? No?
Speaker 2: I just I'm super interested love that. No, you remember Max.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this every single show?
Speaker 2: Oh have I I'm upset. I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: You are obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: But one of the things that you really pay attention
Speaker 2: to on this the elite elite hitters like Otani and Judge.
Speaker 2: They've got an attack angle of like fifteen degrees, a
Speaker 2: fifteen degree attack angle, ten to fifteen, ten to eighteen,
Speaker 2: whatever they say, five to twenty. That's like the key
Speaker 2: spot where you really want to be. Elite. Bat speed
Speaker 2: with a really good attack angle and just a semi
Speaker 2: decent vision creates some incredible things. The problem is Junior
Speaker 2: Cammanaro has the second best bat speed in all of baseball,
Speaker 2: but he has a five degree attack angle, so that
Speaker 2: could be affecting some of the quality of contact. So
Speaker 2: I think that's interesting if you're trying to find like
Speaker 2: a true reason behind it. But like, is it gonna
Speaker 2: bounce back? Yeah, I think so. As expected batting average
Speaker 2: is almost thirty points higher, he's still not striking out.
Speaker 2: It's just a little bit of a quality contact thing
Speaker 2: gonna pop next year. But I still believe in Camanaro.
Speaker 1: I still believe in the player. But it's okay, you
Speaker 1: can panic. I just don't want you to make a
Speaker 1: bad decision. Cody Nannheim has an interesting one. Doyle got
Speaker 1: dropped in my league. Would you drop Taylor Ward for him?
Speaker 1: You know the problem with Ward is those home run totals, right,
Speaker 1: want to the thirteen on the air? Fourteenth, yes, fourteen yesterday? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's where I struggle. It's just the home run.
Speaker 1: I think overall productivity, Doyle is gonna give you theoretically
Speaker 1: better batting average for sure, steals run scored, probably less RBI,
Speaker 1: and probably or maybe comparable. It is Colorado. You never
Speaker 1: know if they get going eventually. I don't know. This
Speaker 1: is a tough one. I struggle with this one. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he asked me this going into the season, this
Speaker 1: would have been a slam dunk Doyle for me. So
Speaker 1: I guess I want to steal linge Doyle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is a todd in there? Said you just
Speaker 2: can't drop Taylor Ward right now? He's not wrong. I
Speaker 2: mean the profile, the profile looks great. They expect a
Speaker 2: batting average is over two fifty and all of that aside.
Speaker 2: He's hit fourteen homers. He's got fourteen homers, and he's
Speaker 2: got some elite traits in there. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you were really chasing stolen bases. I think you could.
Speaker 2: Those guys are probably a little bit interchangeable, but I
Speaker 2: don't know how you drop Taylor Ward right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's very difficult to do that,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, all right. Uh Like people wondering about
Speaker 1: Max Velocity too, Max loves his attack angles. We all
Speaker 1: know that at Max Vlo could be a Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: type action star instead of adult films. He could be,
Speaker 1: but it's not as funny, Chief, it's not as funny.
Speaker 1: Let's get to Jeff Hoffman. Nothing's funny about this. If
Speaker 1: your Blue Jay fan, another blow and say for him,
Speaker 1: theres at six. He's allowed multiple runs in three of
Speaker 1: his last eight appearances. We talked about Green anybody else
Speaker 1: you want to talk about, because I don't think the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays want to talk about Hoffin right now. He
Speaker 1: is killing you in fantasy and he's killing the Blue
Speaker 1: Jays right now, who don't have a lot of room
Speaker 1: for error for winning games that are in the palm
Speaker 1: of their hand. You can't keep blowing games in the
Speaker 1: ninth inning and keep pace with the Yankees and eventually
Speaker 1: the Red Sox too. I just don't think it can happen.
Speaker 2: No, And I think they they got to make a
Speaker 2: move here at some point, like yeah, this this seems
Speaker 2: like the catalyst for it to happen. So Chad Green,
Speaker 2: if he's sitting out there, go pick him up.
Speaker 1: It's Chad Green time, everybody, and look, just out of curiosity.
Speaker 1: You want to play the game. Let's play roster game,
Speaker 1: Chad Green. What's the ross percentage on CVS? CVS? What's
Speaker 1: how I want to get a waiver wire claim and
Speaker 1: a twelve foot receipt on Chad Green? No, what is
Speaker 1: the CBS ross percentage on Chad Green. Let's let's take
Speaker 1: a guess.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say thirty five percent lower Bob Oh, he
Speaker 2: actually is lower twenty.
Speaker 1: Lower Bob twelve thirteen as Kluss thirteen. I was surprised.
Speaker 1: I thought it'd be closer to thirty after the last
Speaker 1: couple games for Hoffmann, but apparently not. Apparently not, which
Speaker 1: brings us to another bullpen situation, which is the topic
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Speaker 1: who's been absolutely brilliant in this closer role, brilliant for
Speaker 1: you in big spots last year, in the post season,
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Right now, he's got twenty two winnings
Speaker 1: under his belt, just six walks. His whip is at
Speaker 1: point five to three. He's got twenty five strikeouts an
Speaker 1: ERA of point four zero. So although Devin Williams has
Speaker 1: been better, it's kind of difficult to say, Okay, Luke Weaver, thanks,
Speaker 1: I appreciate your work in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Now get back to the eighth inning. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Yankees can do this, and I don't care what
Speaker 1: they trade it for Devin Williams until Luke Weaver proves otherwise.
Speaker 1: He has been the lockdown guy for you, and I
Speaker 1: think the Yankees need to just stick with him. So
Speaker 1: I understand there's prestige and money and trade capital and
Speaker 1: all these things that go into this. However, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the one thing that has to
Speaker 1: be accounted for is performance, and the performance of Luke
Speaker 1: Weaver has been straight up dominant since the end of
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Speaker 1: Slash Challengers to learn more. Welsh, what's your take on
Speaker 1: the Yankee bullpen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to hold to what I said a while ago,
Speaker 2: and my idea was Luke Weaver goes into the rotation
Speaker 2: or goes into the bullpen as a closer, and he
Speaker 2: holds it for a while. I think, I said he.
Speaker 2: I think he holds it for a month or two,
Speaker 2: which could be a surprise for some people, especially at
Speaker 2: that time. There's a chance he holds it through the season,
Speaker 2: and I think like his success right now is showing
Speaker 2: us why it can't. Here's what I do think happens.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to continue rolling with this, but
Speaker 2: I think we're going to get a day in the
Speaker 2: near future where it's like, oh, Luke Weaver's not available
Speaker 2: or he had pitched dot d a dot, and that's
Speaker 2: going to be your opportunity to get Devin Williams in.
Speaker 2: Because Devin Williams has been really solid. He hasn't given
Speaker 2: up a run since May fifth, so you know, he's
Speaker 2: got two weeks plus and then and I know that
Speaker 2: does might not sound a long time, but he's got
Speaker 2: eight outings in here where he's been clean, lots of strikeouts,
Speaker 2: stuff looks good. They're gonna give him a save opportunity,
Speaker 2: but it's not going to be in the vein of
Speaker 2: like Weaver is out and then I think that'll start
Speaker 2: to be that test period. But I agree, Luke Weaver
Speaker 2: has been way too good. You can't just kick him
Speaker 2: out just for Devin Williams. And if he doesn't have
Speaker 2: the job at all this year, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if Devin is kicked out of it. But I do
Speaker 2: think you've got another month or so, and I think
Speaker 2: in that month you're gonna get one or two instances
Speaker 2: where Devin Williams is gonna get thrown in, and then
Speaker 2: the fun is going to start after that of if
Speaker 2: they decide to make.
Speaker 1: A move, Well, the fund's already begun in Boston because
Speaker 1: Ryan Noda is the newest first baseman to come over
Speaker 1: for depth from the Angels for Cash Considerations, which is
Speaker 1: actually one of the film starring Max Velocity. I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 1: isn't it Cash con Yes, in Cash Considerations. I don't
Speaker 1: look too much into this Ryan Noda deal, do you.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just depth as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: Do you see it as more no depth?
Speaker 2: I think there. I will say, I wonder if this
Speaker 2: is a telling piece of how uncomfortable they are with
Speaker 2: Christian Campbell, maybe at first because they've been making these
Speaker 2: moves and then they bring it. But I think you
Speaker 2: always need depth. This is like a super depthy move,
Speaker 2: so I don't read much into it. Maybe he's going
Speaker 2: to be a good on field type of coach for
Speaker 2: Christian Campbell to learn this position, and then we can
Speaker 2: get Marcella Mayer.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun one, ki We Wizard, what's up Joe
Speaker 1: and Chris? First time on Twitch? Usually listen on Spotify.
Speaker 1: Welcome Kiwi Wizard. I traded Edmund good job for Senga
Speaker 1: and Fairbanks earlier this year. Did I fleece myself?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Please Weln fleece yourself. You've been great outfield. I had Trout,
Speaker 1: Campbell and Buxton and well that's the problem. The problem
Speaker 1: is the outfield is suffered. But the good news is
Speaker 1: Trout's on his way back. I don't think Christian Campbell.
Speaker 1: I think Christian Campbell finds his way back to things.
Speaker 1: I think he's just out of source right now. But
Speaker 1: I would, if I were you, kiw look for some
Speaker 1: outfield depth. Maybe this is the exact kind of person
Speaker 1: that should be looking for a Brenton Doyle right now. Right,
Speaker 1: yeahs out of a mess by Low. He's available in
Speaker 1: a trade, or maybe he got dropped. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of guy. I'm adding, so Key, we appreciate you. I
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Speaker 1: this show, especially every day. You guys are awesome. Robert
Speaker 1: Hassel nice MLB debut for him, pair of singles, two runs,
Speaker 1: a stolen base, and he's scored the winning run. Was
Speaker 1: a nice moment for mister Hassel. There, the Athletics plan
Speaker 1: to remote top outfield prospect Denzel Clark from TRIPAA. So
Speaker 1: Clark is twenty five, his slash is two eighty six,
Speaker 1: four thirty six, four nineteen. Now no Homer's there, twenty
Speaker 1: one RBI, seven steals. So prospect Guru, oh, prospect one,
Speaker 1: help us about Denzel Clark in the profile.
Speaker 2: I'm actually surprised about this one. I thought this would
Speaker 2: be Colby Thomas. Colby Thomas with them, or Henry Bolt.
Speaker 2: They just got a glut of these great outfielders. Henry
Speaker 2: Bolt played in the AFL last year, Denzel Clark has
Speaker 2: played in there. Colby Thomas might be the best of
Speaker 2: that crew. Denzel Clark's super athletic outfielder. Actually him and
Speaker 2: Lawrence Butler played in the AFL together a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago. Surprised about the Homers. The Homers have kind
Speaker 2: of dissipated, but I think this also might be about
Speaker 2: Denzel who work because he's got like pure raw power.
Speaker 2: But this might be kind of the Robert Hassel school
Speaker 2: of changing the type of hitter you are. You guy's
Speaker 2: got a four hundred OVP seven stolen bases. I think
Speaker 2: there's more power projection in there. I just I don't
Speaker 2: fully trust his ability to make contact. But he's also
Speaker 2: changing as a hitter, and that little baby ballpark might
Speaker 2: work well. But my shock was more that Henry Bolt
Speaker 2: Colby Thomas. I mean, Henry Bolt just almost like fell
Speaker 2: shy of a cycle the other day. He's been killing
Speaker 2: it in Triple A, and same thing. Colby Thomas is
Speaker 2: a really complete player. I thought either one of those
Speaker 2: might have been better, at least fantasy options. But Denzel
Speaker 2: Clark is probably in the Robert Hassel school of if
Speaker 2: you're in a super deep league and you just got
Speaker 2: waist down there and you want to take a shot
Speaker 2: at it. That ballpark might benefit him a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I think you're going to have some batting average
Speaker 2: struggles with Clark.
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodriguez another one in the bright spots at tria
Speaker 1: A for the Brewers. He got a little taste yesterday.
Speaker 1: It got's first victory ever a Major league baseball That
Speaker 1: was nice. Three runs of five hits over three and
Speaker 1: a third innings. He got optioned right again, which everybody
Speaker 1: thought because they're just kind of cycling through arms right
Speaker 1: now until further notice. Let's get to the three up
Speaker 1: and three down. Brent Rooker three for four with a
Speaker 1: two run homer, Marcelo Zuna three for four with a
Speaker 1: homer of his own. I wish I had picked Ozuna
Speaker 1: yesterday instead, I didn't get a home run. Mad about that.
Speaker 1: And Taylor Ward three for four with a granny yesterday five.
Speaker 1: Ribby's huge day for it. It's tough to drop Taylor Ward.
Speaker 1: And we just talked about him right on one of
Speaker 1: the shows. We got a big Taylor Ward discussion, and look,
Speaker 1: man he was. He's under rostered in a lot. I
Speaker 1: think it was like forty percent available still, which was
Speaker 1: kind of odd, we thought, considering where the home run
Speaker 1: total was. The downs. Tyler Anderson, he stinks. He walked six,
Speaker 1: gave up five runs, four and two third. Kyle Finn again,
Speaker 1: another blown save for him against the Bravos and aj
Speaker 1: Smith Shaver. Not a good night for him. Seven runs
Speaker 1: eight hits, and it also knocked him out of the
Speaker 1: top spot. He was actually going into the game number
Speaker 1: one on the board on FanDuel for Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year in the National League. Baldwin has leap frogged him.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of where you are, Welsh. I like Logan
Speaker 1: Henderson at seven to one right now. Maybe we just
Speaker 1: haven't seen the guy yet. Now that Matt Shaw's back
Speaker 1: up too, he's intriguing and getting a great number on him.
Speaker 1: But so far I've yet to make a heavy investment,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting very close to wanting to make one
Speaker 1: in Logan Henderson because he's been so good out of
Speaker 1: the gate. What do you make of aj smith Shover's
Speaker 1: performance last night?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bummer because he had been just like
Speaker 2: lights out. He really it's pushed his ERA up over
Speaker 2: three and a half. He's gotten expected era that's pushed
Speaker 2: five so far. He's got away with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's one of those guys, you know. He had had
Speaker 2: like three starts where he'd given up one earned run,
Speaker 2: but walks were there. He got banged around and everything
Speaker 2: looks pretty messy right now. So smith Shover kind of
Speaker 2: went from a oh, maybe he really did click and
Speaker 2: find it and we give him the ben for the
Speaker 2: doubt regardless too, he goes into that range of the
Speaker 2: Logans and the the will Warrens and Hayden Birds songs
Speaker 2: as players that like, eh, you know, maybe they're not
Speaker 2: so invulnerable and maybe you you know, you not would
Speaker 2: potentially look at streaming. But the Rookie of the year stuff.
Speaker 2: I said this not too long ago, but we legit
Speaker 2: might not have who the NL Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: is in the majors right now, Like that's a level
Speaker 2: that it is.
Speaker 1: It is, so who's still down that could make that
Speaker 1: buzz because I think that's a.
Speaker 2: A Chandler, a Bobba Chandler would be the number one guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, as it is a little bit tougher for pitchers,
Speaker 2: but the NL has just been blah. I mean, Dylan Cruz,
Speaker 2: your number one at Matt Shaw, could definitely take this
Speaker 2: if he gets going. Drake Baldwin is a catcher. He's
Speaker 2: got to keep getting the playing time. And from a
Speaker 2: war perspective, he's got it well.
Speaker 1: He's at plus three eighty Logan Henderson's seven to fifty,
Speaker 1: Chandler's at twenty to one, Dylan Cruise is at twenty
Speaker 1: five to one, Dalton Rushing is at twenty five to one,
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw thirteen to one, Smith Shaw or four and
Speaker 1: a half, and Augustin is five to one right now.
Speaker 2: So man, I don't know. I think the it's I like.
Speaker 1: Logan at seven fifteen, Seawan laying the weeds.
Speaker 2: Sean Bubba are the two that stand out to me
Speaker 2: if I were making But I just I don't know
Speaker 2: if we have it. I don't think we have any type.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're getting decent odds, but I don't feel
Speaker 2: confident about any of that.
Speaker 1: No, I don't either. It's got to go to somebody, though.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna win that thing, and I want to win
Speaker 1: some money off of it, so let's try to get that.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the injuries here, because we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of injury news to talk about as well. We've
Speaker 1: got Logan Gilbert scheduled to throw a simulate a game
Speaker 1: today in Houston, so hopefully all goes well with that.
Speaker 1: Julio Rodriguez was scratched yesterday with tightness in the back.
Speaker 1: That's not good. Don't want to see that. Justin Verlander
Speaker 1: did go to the ilet's retroactive to the May nineteenth.
Speaker 1: With that PEX strain. Corey Seeger is a week away,
Speaker 1: at least we've been told, So let's let's keep our
Speaker 1: fingers crossed. I don't know, light a candle in church
Speaker 1: at Corey seegerback in the next two weeks. Chase de
Speaker 1: Lander fifteen day il right for him tightness. That's typically
Speaker 1: not a great indicator. Welsh, I know you're a Dolander guy,
Speaker 1: but that's got to be really bad news for you.
Speaker 2: But for Dynasty, I mean Dolander, like Redraft, he just
Speaker 2: the Homers were too much of a problem that you know,
Speaker 2: he had gone. He's put himself into the position where
Speaker 2: he wasn't like needed to be justifiably rostered in Redraft.
Speaker 2: So we were already beyond that. But this is brutal
Speaker 2: because when he got drafted, he was coming off of
Speaker 2: I don't want to misspeak. I don't remember if it
Speaker 2: was Tommy John or not, but it was a bad
Speaker 2: injury and he didn't pitch and he was out for
Speaker 2: a while, and this would be another one. I'm pretty
Speaker 2: fearful this one's gonna this is gonna get him for
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 1: Yep, probably will. Kumar Rocker is gonna make a rehab
Speaker 1: start today as well. Carlos Korea is expected to be
Speaker 1: activated today, and Tario with Strata begins his rehab a
Speaker 1: time that we mentioned that. So if you have some
Speaker 1: second base woes, that's another guy you can just stash
Speaker 1: this weekend. Let's we want to play the game with him.
Speaker 1: We want to play the roster game with a strata.
Speaker 1: What do you want to say, strata as ross percentage.
Speaker 2: Is Welsh, let's say twenty four percent.
Speaker 1: Lower lower, eighteen fourteen percent.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's a good time to pick
Speaker 2: him up. He should be up there very very soon.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go, is what we're doing. We're helping
Speaker 1: you out here. All right, it's time, boys and girls
Speaker 1: or everybody's favorite segment. It's time for the best.
Speaker 2: Bets of your Friday.
Speaker 1: With Joey p and the Welsh. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at an enormous number here, the Yankees and the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1: Twelve runs. Now, I know it's Clark Schmidt and some
Speaker 1: JABBRONI they've just thrown the ball to in Colorado, and
Speaker 1: I get it, but I think on principle. I'm just
Speaker 1: going the under here. Twelve is a ridiculous number. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm just gonna go under. I mean, even
Speaker 1: the Yankees win this one ten to one, still an under.
Speaker 1: It just I can't. I can't when you see a
Speaker 1: number this high. I think it's just the discipline. Remember
Speaker 1: what we talked about on the show A lot, where
Speaker 1: we see a k prop at eight and a half,
Speaker 1: we like to go under on that one because typically
Speaker 1: that's gonna win out more times than not. This is
Speaker 1: that number for me. When you cross double digit it
Speaker 1: gets a little tricky. But twelve is a number where
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of price enforcing. And of course
Speaker 1: the Yankees on their own to score twelve, the actual
Speaker 1: the run total for the Yankees is around eight right now.
Speaker 1: They you couldn't even just do the team total because
Speaker 1: it was kind of absurd right now. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go under minus one ten. That's where I'm gonna live
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez at home. I'm gonna take him with the
Speaker 1: five and a half strikeouts minus one eighteen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go over on that against Kansas City and tai Oscar
Speaker 1: Andrnandez is gonna take the RBI and plus one seventy
Speaker 1: good spot here against the Mets, four forty four career
Speaker 1: batting average and nine at bats with a thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: OPS for tioscar and Nandez, so I look for him
Speaker 1: to drive in a run. I also look for Juan
Speaker 1: Soto at home to get a nice ovation from a
Speaker 1: crowd and love him and hang on to him and
Speaker 1: say don't worry one, we're behind you. And I think
Speaker 1: one responds against the Dodgers this weekend. Kershaw on the
Speaker 1: mound tonight too, so that be entertaining for the Mets
Speaker 1: and Dodgers. Welsh, what do you have for the people
Speaker 1: on a fun Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with the Texas Rangers run line, so
Speaker 2: not money line. It does say run line there, so
Speaker 2: that's minus one point five, so them to win by
Speaker 2: two runs against the Chicago White Sox. We got Tyler
Speaker 2: Molly who's been pretty good. Sean Burk has actually been
Speaker 2: pretty decent on the mound as well, but I think
Speaker 2: the White Sox are going to struggle getting to Molly.
Speaker 2: The Rangers will not as much. They win by two
Speaker 2: minus one fifteen. Usually you're gonna see plus money on this.
Speaker 2: So this is really heavily in a favored market, favored
Speaker 2: for the Texas or Rangers, the Mets and the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: You said Kershaw's on the mound, that should be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kershaw's been getting hit hard. He got hit hard across
Speaker 2: all his minor league assignments, saw these seventeen year old
Speaker 2: kids hitting it right to the wall, even though he
Speaker 2: didn't give up any hits. I think he's going to
Speaker 2: get hit up in this one by the Mets. So
Speaker 2: I'm going over on the total runs also just because
Speaker 2: of the you know, the pitching matchup in general, but
Speaker 2: Mets over eight and a half, Mets Dodgers over eight
Speaker 2: and a half, it's big plus money so plus I
Speaker 2: don't did I write it was one fifty. Actually, now
Speaker 2: that I'm looking at that, it's not. I don't know
Speaker 2: where one fifty. It's minus one twenty. So that is
Speaker 2: a Jay moment. It is mine one twenty for over
Speaker 2: eight and a half. That'd be awesome if it was
Speaker 2: plus one fifty, and then I'm gonna go with Paul
Speaker 2: Skeens six and a half strikeouts over that one is
Speaker 2: a plus money play. But I also think it is
Speaker 2: plus one ten. It is not plus one hundred at
Speaker 2: least I saw. But going against the Brewers, he struck
Speaker 2: out more than seven in his last outing. He's getting going.
Speaker 1: Close one ten plus.
Speaker 2: I guess it's close. So I don't know where these
Speaker 2: numbers came from. But Paul Skins plus one ten Mets
Speaker 2: Dodgers is minus one twenty on the total runs and
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers run line. That's mine.
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Speaker 1: a look at the home run board yesterday there were
Speaker 1: some double dips there. Marty's still at the top, tied
Speaker 1: with Georgia twenty one, far out dj Osbourne and Patsy
Speaker 1: at twenty. Wankye Penguin at eighteen, Welsh Holden is wrong
Speaker 1: at fifteen. I'm at eleven. I think I might be
Speaker 1: close to this board by the end of the weekend.
Speaker 1: Welsh the Sammy's Sosa jersey for Pristine Auction on the line.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to take Aaron Judge and Colorado for
Speaker 1: the weekend because it's not about making friends. HiT's about
Speaker 1: making money, and I think Aaron Judge can at least
Speaker 1: get me to this weekend. Where are you at? Well, SHEI,
Speaker 1: what are you looking for? Well?
Speaker 2: And it's imperpetuity unless I make the change over the weekend,
Speaker 2: but definitely today, I'm going with Pee Alonzo. So Pete
Speaker 2: Alonzo up against Clayton Kershaw. You know he's throwing it.
Speaker 2: He's dropping an eighty seven mile per hour fastball, hopefully
Speaker 2: you know, the new Pee Alonzo, who doesn't want to
Speaker 2: strike out as much and be a better player, doesn't
Speaker 2: eat at a lot of those curve balls. But if
Speaker 2: he gets that fastball in the zone. He should put
Speaker 2: that thing a mile So Peter Alonzo today will watch
Speaker 2: the weekend. I gotta pick it up because I have not.
Speaker 2: It is like close to two weeks Walkee was saying,
Speaker 2: can't buy a Homer. I can't buy a Homer. I'm one.
Speaker 2: I'm honestly we can come back from more to day.
Speaker 2: I might be off this list. I'm one. Like good
Speaker 2: weekend for everybody from getting booted. And I've been on
Speaker 2: this list for the majority of the year, so it'd
Speaker 2: be quite sad, quite sad to get catch.
Speaker 1: JD wants to know what's on the grill on Monday.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, JD. Here's the plan. Right now. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to Wegmans get some some stuff there. But
Speaker 1: on top of that, so we I'm gonna get some chicken.
Speaker 1: We'll do some marinated chicken, some veggies on the grill.
Speaker 1: But also my girlfriend, she goes to this place and
Speaker 1: gets the most amazing Colombian teriso. We're gonna be putting
Speaker 1: that on the grill. And my my buddy, her her
Speaker 1: sister is now fiance after yesterday, so shout out to them,
Speaker 1: congratulations to them. He brings the most amazing Tarrasco, which
Speaker 1: is a Latin steak that's just unbelievable. It's like a
Speaker 1: skirt steak that's marinated and seasoned that it's just it's unbelievab.
Speaker 1: You put on the grill for like two minutes, you
Speaker 1: flip it around two minutes more. Bro, It's one of
Speaker 1: the best things I've ever had.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of these words. You're like, oh, my
Speaker 2: other cousin.
Speaker 1: Chariso, You've never heard of Teresa live in Arizona, like Pbrasco.
Speaker 2: Frrasco's Torrasco used to pitch.
Speaker 1: For the Brewers, didn't he I'm pretty sure now before
Speaker 1: we go, I want to talk about this because we're
Speaker 1: a baseball show first and foremost fantasy. Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: but the Athletic put out something fun, which was they're
Speaker 1: all century to quarter century team, whatever the heck it is.
Speaker 1: You know, since the year two thousand. Before the show
Speaker 1: we were talking as I was depressed, I heard a
Speaker 1: stat that if you're to make Back to the Future today,
Speaker 1: the going back in time would be two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: and that just upset me. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: you'd make that movie because I don't know how life
Speaker 1: is really vastly differentes eighty five to sixty five. That's
Speaker 1: different now, I just not so much. But here you
Speaker 1: go the quarter century team. I like this team. It's
Speaker 1: Barry Bonds, Mike Trout, Aaron Judge and the outfield. I'm
Speaker 1: cool with that. The starting pitchers were Verlander, Kershaw, Holiday Schurzer,
Speaker 1: and Randy Johnson. Okay, cool with that, dh Ortiz, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, your Molina is the catcher, albl Poros
Speaker 1: at first base, a'lll Twove at second, Adrian Beltra at third.
Speaker 1: The Derek Jeter one I kind of struggled with because
Speaker 1: Marco Scutero he posted that he has more runs saved
Speaker 1: and shulot than Derek Jeter. You see, I thought that
Speaker 1: was great, and I love Derek Jeter. He's a great player.
Speaker 1: He's a winner, three thousand hits, Hall of Fame or
Speaker 1: first ballot, lock it up. But is he a better
Speaker 1: all around player than Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say, I didn't know if
Speaker 2: you were going to drop Alex in this one out
Speaker 2: and he.
Speaker 1: Can't say, well, we don't want to put guys on
Speaker 1: story because Barry Bonds is on this list. So it's
Speaker 1: not that. So if we're just talking about in a vacuum, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeter over a Rod's just straight up dumb. You're right, Wonky.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Chad thinks about this, but Welsh,
Speaker 1: what do you think about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I as soon as I looked at this, well,
Speaker 2: I was trying to think, if I'm am I allowed
Speaker 2: to put Rodriguez at shorter? Do I have to replace
Speaker 2: Beltray with Rodriguez? But either way I do it.
Speaker 1: I would put play more short in his career, didn't he?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I can. We can justify you got.
Speaker 1: All the Seattle years, the Texas years, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I assume that's got accumulate. I got to go
Speaker 1: back at the Yankee numbers over there.
Speaker 2: You know, I saw somebody posting the DH one that
Speaker 2: if you wanted to replace some people might want to
Speaker 2: replace David Ortiz with Otani at this point, but kind
Speaker 2: of arguing like, are we there yet that you would
Speaker 2: want Otan? Can? Does Otani deservedly belong there over Ortiz?
Speaker 2: I think in what we've seen, I actually do think
Speaker 2: so because of what he does on the on the ground,
Speaker 2: as far as how he can run.
Speaker 1: There's one more And now that you said that too,
Speaker 1: that's actually one more switch that I think we I
Speaker 1: would make, which this might upset a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Let's slide Aaron Judge over the center field and let's
Speaker 1: put Echiro in right field. For the love of God,
Speaker 1: I mean Ei Ro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have to put each row over.
Speaker 1: The fact that Echiro is not on here. I could
Speaker 1: even make a case for each roll over Aaron Judge,
Speaker 1: like if you want to take Judge and tro out
Speaker 1: and they're high points and have that conversation and fight
Speaker 1: it out all day, okay, but each your not being
Speaker 1: on this one is kind.
Speaker 2: Of And what about Meggi? Multiple people posted Miguel Cabrera like,
Speaker 2: where's Micky on this list?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing is like you put him over Pooholes.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, probably putting them on Beltray, you know,
Speaker 1: because he was a third basement earlier in his career.
Speaker 2: But if we're trying to finagle the roster, well, okay,
Speaker 2: what about DH. If you have Otani, Ortiz or Meggi,
Speaker 2: who's your.
Speaker 1: Dh Otani or Teas or maybe he.
Speaker 2: Didn't really DH enough.
Speaker 1: So if you're taking each towards the end when he
Speaker 1: was out of shape and he couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, Look, Miguel Cabrera is a better overall hitter
Speaker 1: than our ties. So if you're just letting me take
Speaker 1: a free hitter in there, Primo, I'm going to take
Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera. But th Otani is another one too, where
Speaker 1: it's like, how do you not put Altani on this
Speaker 1: team at this point?
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would have placed Atani. I would put
Speaker 2: each year on. I would put Alex Rodriguez. The only
Speaker 2: thing is this is it's probably right. But when I
Speaker 2: look at the rotation, I feel like we're missing somebody.
Speaker 2: I don't know who. I don't know what it is
Speaker 2: right now, it's not Terry Piazza.
Speaker 1: Better offensive catchers than you. You're Malina, but not defensively.
Speaker 1: I mean, YACHTI is the you're talking about ketcher?
Speaker 2: Yea, I was talking about pitching. I'm just saying pitching one.
Speaker 2: There's one. I feel like we're missing a picture out
Speaker 2: of this.
Speaker 1: But I don't see the problem with Pedro Martinez, Like
Speaker 1: his elite is like ninety eight ninety nine, so he
Speaker 1: just misses this quarter century cut off. So I kind
Speaker 1: of get like that. I kind of understand it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing to like cut it off a two thousand,
Speaker 1: but that's also the beginning of Echiro, Like it's the
Speaker 1: entire eight year old career. And to have him on
Speaker 1: the list or not on this team ahead of Mike
Speaker 1: Trout and Judge, I think it's just kind of foolish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like you know, as great as Judges and great as
Speaker 1: they all are, Trow you can whip said, you can
Speaker 1: just put Trout on the AOL and keephim on the roster.
Speaker 1: Stand Ah, that's a good one. I want to leave
Speaker 1: on that. That'll do it for us, But the story
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Speaker 1: Tuesday for the Welsh I'm Joey p. We'll see you
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