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Speaker 1: we're gonna recrap the stat heroes and the stat zero's.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about a draft pick that was very
Speaker 1: high not that long ago. In the draft. It looks
Speaker 1: like me you might be pitching an independent league baseball.
Speaker 1: We shall see Chris Bassett's complaining about Baseball's a lot
Speaker 1: to unpack today, and yes, I'm still stone cold when
Speaker 1: it comes to home run calls. Mike Mayor, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. It's good to have you back, my friend.
Speaker 2: It's great to be here. You know, we've talked a
Speaker 2: little bit before the show in the comments and everything.
Speaker 2: I've been under the weather for a little while, but
Speaker 2: you know, I'm one of Joe's tough guys, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to power through and you know, we'll see, we'll
Speaker 2: see how often I have to use the mute button
Speaker 2: to cough for the show.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know the over unders at two and
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Speaker 1: All right, let's kick things off here right at the
Speaker 1: top with our headlines, and we're gonna start here with
Speaker 1: some good news. We got good news for the headlines,
Speaker 1: which is nice thing for a change. Sometimes we start
Speaker 1: with the negative. But Williadamas four for five, two home runs,
Speaker 1: seven ribbies yesterday Mayor. This is one of the three
Speaker 1: guys I was trying to choose between. Did not pick Williadamas.
Speaker 1: I'm mad. Mike Trout blasts a two run homer. He
Speaker 1: is on fire to start the year. Patrick Sandobal pitching
Speaker 1: that game nine innings, excuse me, nine k's over seven
Speaker 1: Squirrels settings, pardon me. Wilmer Flores continues to be hot,
Speaker 1: three run homer for him in the middle of that
Speaker 1: Giant's order, and Carlos Rodin for the Giants strikes out
Speaker 1: nine in a win over the A's Carlos Rodin continues
Speaker 1: to make his pitch for cy Young. It feels like,
Speaker 1: right now, if you were smart, you would at least
Speaker 1: throw a little sprinkle, as they will maybe on the
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodan odds for Cy Young because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's worth it at this point. I understand the risk.
Speaker 1: I think we all do, but I think we also
Speaker 1: have to realize the reward is a certain point too,
Speaker 1: as long as he continues to be as dominant as been.
Speaker 1: So what do you make personally so far of Rodin's
Speaker 1: continued greatness to start the year.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think not a lot has changed,
Speaker 2: right because, like we saw this at the beginning of
Speaker 2: last season too, the question is going to be and
Speaker 2: it's almost like the Byron Buxton question too, like we've
Speaker 2: seen the ceiling, but how is it going to look
Speaker 2: throughout the rest of the summer? And last year we
Speaker 2: saw like his shoulder fell off in the summer and
Speaker 2: then he came back and looked fine in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But you know, the early success isn't what we were
Speaker 2: worried about. We kind of all assumed he could get
Speaker 2: back to that, especially with a little bit of like
Speaker 2: sprinkling in some giants magic on Carlos done, but like,
Speaker 2: what where's the longevity? That's you know, it's too early
Speaker 2: for the victory lap there because we have to see
Speaker 2: how he holds up.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you had to guess right now, what do
Speaker 1: you think is cy young odds are I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Fandel right now. What they are.
Speaker 2: Plus? Come on, eighteen plus eighteen hundred lower.
Speaker 1: You're not even close to how low they are right.
Speaker 2: Now, seventeen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Don't go all prices right on me lower, it's way lower.
Speaker 2: Plus twelve hundred five fifty.
Speaker 1: It's five to one already for Carls, we're done. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, if you want in on this, then that
Speaker 1: you might be right. But what's fascinating is right now
Speaker 1: you got Burns, Sures or Carls were done all five
Speaker 1: and a half to one right now, that's your odds
Speaker 1: on FanDuel. I can look and see what they are
Speaker 1: a bit at GM's a couple other places. But I
Speaker 1: thought that was just fascinating because I had Fandel up
Speaker 1: right now. I clicked over on it. So I'm just
Speaker 1: terrified if actually, if the Shures are odds start to
Speaker 1: fall behind Rodin. That's when we start investing in sures
Speaker 1: or I just want to throw that out there. That
Speaker 1: would be the time to do that, for sure. Let's
Speaker 1: get to some more headlines. Let's talk about Anthony Rizzo
Speaker 1: first career three home run games. So Anthony Rizzo, that
Speaker 1: left handed bat that the Yankees so desperately need. It
Speaker 1: would have been nice if carlos standing in a home run.
Speaker 1: I would have appreciated that. Eric Hosmer homers and reaches
Speaker 1: base four times for the Reds and George Springer, congratulations,
Speaker 1: HiT's his two hundredth home run, a two run shot
Speaker 1: in the ninth. So what do you make of Eric
Speaker 1: Cosmer or another guy here Mayor that's got a relatively
Speaker 1: good start. Osmer, once upon a time was supposed to
Speaker 1: I feel like be more of the perennial All Star.
Speaker 1: I feel like Cosmer is a nice player. He's got
Speaker 1: a really good start this year. Do you take anything
Speaker 1: away from the hot April or do you think this
Speaker 1: is just a good Hosmer month and then he falls
Speaker 1: back to kind of being that barely above league average
Speaker 1: type hitter the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: The latter this is just a hot Hosmer month that
Speaker 2: I'm not really interested. I do have some thoughts on
Speaker 2: Anthony Rizzo's three home runs, though.
Speaker 1: Well please share. I'm with batd breath waiting.
Speaker 2: So I like our Kurk Krasmer, I like Anthony Rizzo,
Speaker 2: but like I could not be more unimpressed with those
Speaker 2: three home runs last night Byron Buxton hit a home
Speaker 2: run like five hundred feet, like a walk off home
Speaker 2: run five hundred feet the other day. I don't know
Speaker 2: that Rizzo's three home runs combined went five hundred feet
Speaker 2: last night. And that joke of a ballpark that just
Speaker 2: like popped up and like like that one Yankee Stadium
Speaker 2: is such a there's three three biggest jokes in baseball
Speaker 2: right now. Is Angel Hernandez whatever they're doing with the baseballs,
Speaker 2: and then Yankee Stadium. That right field porch in Yankee
Speaker 2: Stadium is so infuriating because even down the line it
Speaker 2: is this three hundred and fourteen feet. I don't even
Speaker 2: know that it's three hundred fourteen feet. I think it's
Speaker 2: like two hundred and seventy five feet.
Speaker 1: Though, all right, I see here we got a nice
Speaker 1: note from the Nikingses. I just want to sit at
Speaker 1: my kids' baseball games and place MLB wagers, and the
Speaker 1: Niking right now is doing pretty well. He was leading
Speaker 1: at the top of the whole run board going in
Speaker 1: to last night. But I don't know who had Rizzo.
Speaker 1: We'll find out later in the show. A couple of
Speaker 1: people I think did some injury notes to get to
Speaker 1: Mandacy left with a knee. He is out today, but
Speaker 1: they are I guess encouraged is the word that they're using.
Speaker 1: So it's not a surprise that he's not in the lineup.
Speaker 1: He's got some knee discomfort. We'll see how things go
Speaker 1: with him. And then also Philadelphia's Bryce Harper, you know,
Speaker 1: was trying to play catch. He's having some problem with
Speaker 1: the elbow. It doesn't hurt to hit. He's hitting just fine.
Speaker 1: He's hitting the ball everywhere. It's not great, but he
Speaker 1: did have a pretty good hit lot. I mean, I
Speaker 1: watched him taking that back yesterday. It looked great. But
Speaker 1: it seems to be over the top where he's having
Speaker 1: trouble throwing the ball, So I guess, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. But it's some things to
Speaker 1: certainly keep an eye on and be aware of because
Speaker 1: this is the beauty of the DH in the National League?
Speaker 1: Is hey Arper still in the lineup? You know, miss him?
Speaker 1: Hooray for the designated hitter? See all right, take the story.
Speaker 2: Is there, right, because if they didn't have a DHM,
Speaker 2: he's probably not in the lineup right now.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're one hundred percent right. So it's again
Speaker 1: another good reason and why the DH of the National
Speaker 1: League is a good thing. Let's talk about this. Can
Speaker 1: we talk about Chris Bassett and his thoughts after the
Speaker 1: game of why so many players are getting hit in
Speaker 1: the head? He said MLB and I'm quoting Chris Bassett. Now,
Speaker 1: MLB has a very big problem with the baseballs. They're bad.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows it. They don't care. So Chris Bassett does
Speaker 1: not care about your feelings, Major League Baseball, Rob Manford,
Speaker 1: Chris Bassett doesn't care. So obviously, the guys and the
Speaker 1: pictures know the pictures no more than anybody what the
Speaker 1: baseballs are every year. So what do you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna take out of this in terms of fantasy, mayor,
Speaker 1: because you know, from a fantasy perspective, we've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys getting hit. Getting hit leads to injuries. Potentially,
Speaker 1: it's a little dangerous situation. Also, lack of control leads
Speaker 1: to some guys who don't have a good feel for
Speaker 1: the baseball. Right now, we're struggling a little bit. We
Speaker 1: see Garrett Cole who's got the stuff back on his
Speaker 1: jersey now on his pants and he's wiping his hands
Speaker 1: on his pants to get better control and seems to
Speaker 1: be working. So I don't know, this is a tough situation.
Speaker 1: Why do the balls change every year? It seems like Mary,
Speaker 1: this doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the great question. And like the fact
Speaker 2: that Major League Baseball has just like not only like
Speaker 2: failed to address it, but it's just like pretended that
Speaker 2: the issue doesn't exist. Like they went so far as
Speaker 2: to like buy the company that was making the baseballs
Speaker 2: just to keep a secret. They're like, we're not changing
Speaker 2: the baseballs, and like, well maybe they changed a little
Speaker 2: bit by accident. And then like you know, they're super
Speaker 2: balls and like this year they're deadened and they're all
Speaker 2: they're slick, and like all these pictures are getting blisters
Speaker 2: and everyone's having trouble with control, like Chris bats It's right,
Speaker 2: this is a joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lack of acknowledgment, which is really stunning
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Like that's that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's the lack of acknowledgement. You're right where,
Speaker 1: you know. Not only do they not say anything about it.
Speaker 1: When they're pressed directly, they're like, what baseballs? What do
Speaker 1: you talk? We don't we use baseballs to play this game.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what's going on there, but uh,
Speaker 1: it's someone's gonna get hurt, and it's I hope it
Speaker 1: doesn't come to that. But obviously, you know, we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of guys getting plunked already, and I understand
Speaker 1: that it's still early and guys are still finding their
Speaker 1: control and all these other things. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think what Bassett saying needs to be listened to,
Speaker 1: and Major League Baseball needs to figure this out. I
Speaker 1: know they're using the human doors and other things, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's just affecting the ball, But man, look,
Speaker 1: live baseballs are good for baseball. Please? Can we have
Speaker 1: home runs? Can we have baseballs that the pitchers feel
Speaker 1: good about and that the hitters feel good about. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's too much to ask for. Also, just
Speaker 1: be right, just be transparent, all right, this is a
Speaker 1: fun little note. So Kamar Rocker, remember him, prospect, big
Speaker 1: time prospect. The Mets of course drafted him just last year,
Speaker 1: right it was it was last year's draft, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he decided that he I should say, the medicals
Speaker 1: decided that the Mets really didn't want to be part
Speaker 1: of him. And then all went back and forth, and
Speaker 1: now he is going to play in the independent league
Speaker 1: apparently over the next couple of weeks. So if you're
Speaker 1: in a deep dynasty league, do you add Kamar Rocker
Speaker 1: because chances are in playofforms like fan tracks he's available,
Speaker 1: would you kind of stashed and see if he gets
Speaker 1: signed here this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, depending on like the size of your roster.
Speaker 2: I think in a lot of dynasty leagues that you
Speaker 2: might be like prevented from picking him up because he's
Speaker 2: you know, it's tricky because like I know, in like
Speaker 2: my dynasty leagues, you can't pick up rookies before the draft.
Speaker 2: But like he technically was drafted last year.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say he was draft. That's that's an
Speaker 1: interesting little wrinkle because Rocke was drafted last year by
Speaker 1: the Mets, did not sign, so technically he can't go
Speaker 1: back into the draft. Technically he's a free agent, so
Speaker 1: he should be a free agent in your dynasty league's
Speaker 1: by that logic, which I know everybody wants to throw
Speaker 1: the logic at. I think it's a sneaky thing. Now,
Speaker 1: keep this in mind. He never had surgery for the elbow.
Speaker 1: It was troublesome, so it's a risk. But if you can,
Speaker 1: might be an interesting stash. Just saying, let's get to
Speaker 1: some stat heroes from yesterday. Logan Gilbert, my dude, seven
Speaker 1: k's yesterday five and two thirds went over the Rays.
Speaker 1: His era's point four zero. Right now, that's stunning, and
Speaker 1: he's undefeated three and zero. We mentioned Sandoval's nine k's
Speaker 1: against the Guardians or else for Don nine k's and
Speaker 1: six innings. Chris Bassett was tremendous. What an addition he's
Speaker 1: been for that mexpvictation despite the balls he's I don't know,
Speaker 1: if I'm Chris Bassett, maybe I keep my mouth shut.
Speaker 1: He nowhere and runs six k's as era is what
Speaker 1: like to something right now? It's crazy. Chris Paddick had
Speaker 1: a good start, no decision six, k's one walk, five
Speaker 1: and two thirds. We've been waiting for Paddock for a
Speaker 1: long time. I know he's on a lot of waiver wires.
Speaker 1: Is he somebody you would pick up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, why because he's not too much of a bad
Speaker 1: oh well good?
Speaker 2: I just don't think. I think how much of the.
Speaker 1: Change of scenery mayor or maybe a new voice to
Speaker 1: his head. Maybe he could be because he was good once
Speaker 1: upon a time. Let's not pretend like he's never had
Speaker 1: success at major league level, because he has.
Speaker 2: He has. I think he's always been a little bit overrated,
Speaker 2: and I don't think that his ceiling, like potential ceiling,
Speaker 2: is worth the risk for him. I think there's better
Speaker 2: players with more's, you know, like strikeout upside.
Speaker 1: All right. Also, Walkie Penguin says that she wrote a
Speaker 1: an update about Kamar Rocker today, which is the first
Speaker 1: time she learned that he is not John Rocker's kid.
Speaker 2: So there, that was a fun time in baseball. That
Speaker 2: John Rocker era was a really fun time in basis.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, talk about batteries being thrown and stuff.
Speaker 1: That that lunatic, What a crazy guy that was. Max
Speaker 1: Freed four k's in a win over the cub six
Speaker 1: innings for him. Daniel Lynch seven k's and a win
Speaker 1: over the White Sox eleven shutout innings over the last
Speaker 1: two starts, but allowing six earned runs his first start.
Speaker 1: So Daniel Lynch might be another one of these guys
Speaker 1: floating around the waiver wire with a You know, the
Speaker 1: era's down to three three eight already, but that's a
Speaker 1: guy you might want to pick up if your need
Speaker 1: some helping some your pitching staff, potentially. Kevin Gossman nine ks,
Speaker 1: six innings for him, Josiah Gray ten k's and a
Speaker 1: huge performance there for him, ten k's just five and
Speaker 1: two thirds for the Marlin. Sandy al Contra five k's,
Speaker 1: three walks. Not the best start for him. You don't
Speaker 1: like to see the walks, but still is e race.
Speaker 1: It's at one seven eight, and Zach Efflin got w
Speaker 1: over the Rockies. Let's talk about Josiah Gray, mayor another
Speaker 1: one of these young pitchers. He was the guy who
Speaker 1: was acquired in that trade with the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 1: I have no shares of Gray. Do you have any
Speaker 1: investments in him? And how long do you think he
Speaker 1: can keep this up because you know, the four era
Speaker 1: for rookie is not a terrible number. It's a little
Speaker 1: inflated typically because they tend not to go six seven innings.
Speaker 1: So that's the only trick with this. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's better in points leagues than it is in rodo
Speaker 1: because of that that tempered innings limits always going to
Speaker 1: inflate artificially. The whip and era.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a ton of shares. I have him
Speaker 2: in keeper and multiple dynasty leagues. And you mentioned like
Speaker 2: Daniel Lynch and then Josiah Gray. I'm way more in
Speaker 2: on Josiah Gray than Daniel Lynch in both keeper and
Speaker 2: redraft for this year. And the innings are gonna be
Speaker 2: a little a little bit of a concern, but I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be fine innings wise. You know, I
Speaker 2: forget how many he threw last year, but he was
Speaker 2: you know, he was up at the end of last
Speaker 2: year too, and I had shares then, And I mean,
Speaker 2: like you said, he was in the tre Treya Turner deal.
Speaker 2: Like he's you know, he was like a top prospecting
Speaker 2: in a really good Dodgers farm system, right, and you
Speaker 2: know he's not a Noboddy He's a highly talented guy,
Speaker 2: and you know you're seeing the potential there, and I
Speaker 2: think this is the beginning of his potential. You know,
Speaker 2: you're seeing the big strikeout numbers, you're seeing some of
Speaker 2: the up and down kind of like earned run things.
Speaker 2: But like I'm I'm way in on Josiah Gray and
Speaker 2: I am pretty out on Daniel Lynch.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go out on Lynch, in on Gray,
Speaker 1: Mike Mahras. Spoken, ladies and gentlemen, here's some stat hero
Speaker 1: hitters besides Rizzo, Joey Gallo hit a home run first
Speaker 1: of the season. Congratulation Again, everybody hit home runs for
Speaker 1: the ach He's except my guy who I picked Gross
Speaker 1: two for four, Anthony Rendon the double, two doubles for
Speaker 1: him by Trout two for three with a bomb, Kyle
Speaker 1: Tucker home run three RBI, No kidding, duh, getting real hot.
Speaker 1: Notice that God. People lose their mind for no reason.
Speaker 1: Tommy Eve been over two but did have two steals.
Speaker 1: Max Kepler with a dinger hobby or Bias with a dinger. Also,
Speaker 1: Andrew Bennin Tendy two for five, leading the league in
Speaker 1: hitting three eighty nine. Andrew Bennett, Andy look at that also, George, Oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he's leading the American League and hitting. Do you
Speaker 2: know who's leading the league overall and hitting?
Speaker 1: Uh is a jazz Chisholm. He's the answer for everything
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I feel like it is not that he's another person
Speaker 2: on this sheet in the hitters section.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, who is it? Mike Mayer?
Speaker 2: You tease well, I tease it right beneath him in
Speaker 2: the list, Eric Cosmer. Eric Cosmer is leading baseball inting average,
Speaker 2: hitting three ninety.
Speaker 1: Eric Hosmer hitting three ninety three eighty nine to three ninety. Wow.
Speaker 1: Talk about And I had to pick up Eric Osmer
Speaker 1: because I had an injury in week one. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess I got to kick up Eric Hosmer. He's
Speaker 1: the only guy out there that's even got a starting job.
Speaker 2: So I've been pleased. But we want to spoil that, Steven.
Speaker 2: He asked me about Hosmer earlier, so I pivoted.
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna spoil eventually.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: It's Eric Cosmer. It's just what happens.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's a puzzling case because I don't
Speaker 3: know why it spoils, Like I remember watching him as
Speaker 3: a young kid coming up with the Royals and thinking, yeah,
Speaker 3: this guy could you know, be a perennial All star
Speaker 3: type of player.
Speaker 1: And he's just never maintained a steady level of excellence.
Speaker 1: There's been peaks and valleys of excellence, but never a
Speaker 1: steady level, which is just odd. Stark factor.
Speaker 2: He never really found that, never did power stroke. Maybe
Speaker 2: he could just go to Yankee Stadium and he wouldn't
Speaker 2: even need to find it. It would just be there.
Speaker 1: That's where we all need to go, is Yankee Stadium
Speaker 1: to find that? All right, here's your stat. Zero's Herman
Speaker 1: Marquez seven runs giving up for earned, Brandon Woodruf four
Speaker 1: innings for earned. Not good? Uh, San Martin, who's got
Speaker 1: a boy? Talk about like a junkie delivery kind of guy.
Speaker 1: That guy is two k's. It's like a nine earned runs.
Speaker 1: It's like watching I don't know, like a semi professional
Speaker 1: guy pitch. I don't know how this guy's in the
Speaker 1: big leagues. Jordan Lyles finally happened. Six earned runs. There's
Speaker 1: the Jordan Lyles we all knew rear his ugly head.
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't know if he's ugly. He's probably
Speaker 1: a good Jeffer runs have multiple rotation. Was not gonna
Speaker 1: lead the League of the ra forever it was undeniable.
Speaker 1: How here's some hitters though, Matt Chapman over five three
Speaker 1: k's the for animal, golden sombrero, Oh for four with
Speaker 1: the four k's it in bucks sixty one. Go buy
Speaker 1: fran Milrayes everywhere. It's just a matter of time. Lindor
Speaker 1: Oh for five, big deal. He's been red hot, Connor
Speaker 1: Joe finally got an after being red hot two. Carlos
Speaker 1: Korea cold star for him, Oh for four to three
Speaker 1: k's batting a buck seventy nine. I don't want to
Speaker 1: buy Korea. Here's why new City, big contract. I tend
Speaker 1: to stay away from those guys in year one. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Korea? Is he somebody you would
Speaker 1: go after an attack on principle of the slow start
Speaker 1: or stay away fromhim because of the track record we've
Speaker 1: seen with these guys in new places signing big deals
Speaker 1: struggling typically in year one.
Speaker 2: Doesn't he have an opt out? I think he can
Speaker 2: opt out and like go right.
Speaker 1: He's gonna opt out in the middle of this show.
Speaker 1: He's allowed to opt out of his contract. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: some kind of crazy opt out. I don't thin. Is
Speaker 1: it one year or two?
Speaker 2: I think I think it might be one year.
Speaker 1: I have to well, you better get I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: If it's one year opt out, I'll buy him low.
Speaker 1: If it's two years, I'll wait. That's my answer. What's yours?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean the you know, the COPA answer is
Speaker 2: like what's the price. You know, I'm interested because if
Speaker 2: you know, if someone's really given up that I'm interested
Speaker 2: that Like, I'm not really necessarily buying because he's another
Speaker 2: guy that has like those injury concerns too. So even
Speaker 2: if you could buy low, he can get hot and
Speaker 2: then get hurt again. Then you know, what did you buy?
Speaker 1: It's true? What did you buy? Also, offense being down
Speaker 1: in general? Great notes here for Mike Mayor. Forty seven
Speaker 1: different players went over four or over five last night
Speaker 1: forty seven My Kingdom for Tony Gwynn and Wade Box.
Speaker 1: I just I just want contact, Stephen Quad, I just
Speaker 1: want more contact. Can't you change your approach with two strikes?
Speaker 1: I just it's it's bad for your team, it's bad
Speaker 1: for you as an individual. Like I'm sorry, it's just
Speaker 1: it's not good for baseball. And then eighteen of those
Speaker 1: guys went oh for four with two or more ks.
Speaker 1: That's a tremendous stat Where did you Where'd you rip
Speaker 1: that off from there? Because you didn't. You didn't do
Speaker 1: that research.
Speaker 2: I watched every game and I counted them. No, I
Speaker 2: got it from baseball.
Speaker 1: Okay, well done, good job there, All right, I didn't
Speaker 1: just like, sure you did. I won't tell anybody. Completely
Speaker 1: complete rip off right here, Mike Maher stealing other people's work.
Speaker 1: Where's the cliff and the what do they call that?
Speaker 1: The bottom where you have to reference? What's that called?
Speaker 1: You're a publishing guy, what do they call that? No citations?
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Good see you're smart. I don't
Speaker 1: care what well shays. Let's go to the home run
Speaker 1: board and check out who's leading it up. It's the
Speaker 1: night King of the North, continuing to wreak havoc on
Speaker 1: all of wester oas he is up at the top
Speaker 1: at eight. Uh So, no change there. Now, did anybody
Speaker 1: have Rizzo yesterday? That is the question. So looking at
Speaker 1: r we lost. Oh noo, we're back. That's mine.
Speaker 2: You get my sweatshirt in the shot for a second.
Speaker 2: There my new fantasy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are your property of what? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Fantasy pros. Oh okay, that's a nice one, even though
Speaker 2: I feel like I work for betting pros exclusively right now.
Speaker 2: Uh no, no one had Rizzo, but Florin Socks also
Speaker 2: had Mike Trout along with me. So he's up to five,
Speaker 2: I'm up to four. I'm coming for the top.
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Speaker 1: day for props. In the last couple of days, you
Speaker 1: got Trout at the top over here on DK specifically,
Speaker 1: and again we're using our prop bet cheat sheet from
Speaker 1: bettingpros dot com, which you can check out. Just go
Speaker 1: to the MLB section there and drop down. You'll see
Speaker 1: the prop bets right there. Prop bet cheat sheet you
Speaker 1: can click Mike Trout one and a half on DK
Speaker 1: for total basis, he's projected over three. That's a smash
Speaker 1: for me. Jackson Profar has been very quietly good if
Speaker 1: he's in the lineup today. Point five on DK happened
Speaker 1: to be a lot of DK ones today, but again
Speaker 1: that's a good one on total basis. Schwarber's total basis
Speaker 1: at point five on DK, good matchup for him. Then
Speaker 1: you got a couple other ones here. I like sal
Speaker 1: Perez point five on DK, Wander Franco one and a half,
Speaker 1: but still against the Aattle, I think he can do
Speaker 1: what he's projected at two point eight and you're getting
Speaker 1: good money on this minus one oh five on the
Speaker 1: Wander Franco when I love that. Then he got even
Speaker 1: money on my boy vlat at one and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a high number. So what it's against the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: If Vladdie's projected at two point eight one and a half,
Speaker 1: even money, let's go, Mayor, who you got for the
Speaker 1: betting pros props you like tonight.
Speaker 2: So I was playing around with the betting pros prop
Speaker 2: sheet this morning, and I've been enjoying, like you can
Speaker 2: click on the filter and mind like the better odds,
Speaker 2: and so I just like removed the negative odds. I
Speaker 2: was like, give me some positive, you know, some plus
Speaker 2: some plus odds there. And so I found Otani over
Speaker 2: six and a half strikeouts for plus one ten, which
Speaker 2: I like. Now, I don't know how I highlighted them
Speaker 2: in the sheet here, It's just like it has this
Speaker 2: like aura around it. And then of course Ryan Mountcastle
Speaker 2: over half an RBI against lefty Jordan Montgomery in that
Speaker 2: joke of the stadium plus two ten. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the joke of a stadium that John Carlo Stanton
Speaker 1: can't hit a home run off of this is a
Speaker 1: great We have to hit.
Speaker 2: The ball before for it to go out. That's the
Speaker 2: one cash you have to make contact.
Speaker 1: For it to go out of a good caveat you
Speaker 1: ain't lying. What would Joe's name be in Game of Thrones?
Speaker 1: I like this. I put this out to all the
Speaker 1: p nuts and cracker jacks or on Twitter at Joe
Speaker 1: piece of pu seventeen. Everybody knows I, you know, fought
Speaker 1: with swords for twenty years of my life, and I
Speaker 1: consider myself quite a sword craftsman. But I need a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: Well, you know that. I think most people know that
Speaker 1: by now, but especially after I told that getting stab
Speaker 1: story last week on the show. So what would my
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones name be? I'd love to hear with
Speaker 1: the Peanuts and Crackerjacks. If you have the best one
Speaker 1: here live, We'll get a little publicity. I'll put it
Speaker 1: up here for Everybody's.
Speaker 2: The criteria there like like like an existing character or
Speaker 2: just like Joe.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's like like Joe of the something
Speaker 1: you know, like.
Speaker 2: You would be I think you would be broken finger, broken.
Speaker 1: Finger, but it never broke. It would be mallet finger,
Speaker 1: me and Russell Wilson. Yeah, that's that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: how I roll. But yeah, if you got a good one,
Speaker 1: I want to know what's uh what are the actual
Speaker 1: Joe Piezopia Game of Thrones names. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: DFS slate here, lots of choices here today for you.
Speaker 1: Uh you got Jordan Montgomery on DK just seven to five,
Speaker 1: Joe Ryan at nine to six. Christian Hovey are making
Speaker 1: a start. Remember last week and I told everybody pick
Speaker 1: up Christian Hobvier if he's floating around the way over
Speaker 1: wire because Odez is not long for this world. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you did. Uh you got Paul Blackburn also
Speaker 1: eight point eight. I like Blackburn at eight point eight.
Speaker 1: I love Javier, but not tonight because he's not going
Speaker 1: to pitch very long. But Joe Ryan at nine point
Speaker 1: six good investment. Charlie Morton at eight point two is
Speaker 1: a steal on DK. Morton and Montgomery would be my pairing,
Speaker 1: very cost effective on Fandel where you get one shot
Speaker 1: at the pitcher. Montgomery at seven point eight nice investment.
Speaker 1: But at seven to seven I can have Charlie Morton.
Speaker 1: I think maybe you just do the same lineup and
Speaker 1: just switch each pitcher out. Get one Montgomery, one Morton.
Speaker 1: Play that. Joe Ryan's worth the investment as well. Otani's
Speaker 1: up to eight point two as well. He's pretty expensive there,
Speaker 1: but again you can make that investment. The Stacks tonight,
Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Angels, Houston at the atl and Toronto.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones I like tonight. And here's your
Speaker 1: lineup builders Trevor Larnick on DK two point four, Michael
Speaker 1: Brantley at three to seven, Arsilo Zunu continues to be
Speaker 1: underpriced on DK three point five. He's underpriced on Fandel
Speaker 1: as well. He's just three k tap of you at
Speaker 1: three point two on DK and Sanchez for the Marlins
Speaker 1: at three point six on Fandel Ozuna. As I mentioned
Speaker 1: Michael Brantley, there is cheap to two point seven. Get
Speaker 1: Brantley in your lineup. Corey Seegers is two point eight
Speaker 1: and Kyle Tucker two point seven. Get that Houston stack tonight,
Speaker 1: I get one of those pitchers I talked about. You
Speaker 1: should be pretty good, mayor any DFS notes you'd like
Speaker 1: to share with the boys and girls today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I like a lot of what you listened.
Speaker 2: Cole Calhoun is like is dirt cheap against Javier and
Speaker 2: he's four for five with two home runs in his
Speaker 2: career against Christian Xavier. No offense to your boy there.
Speaker 2: Trey Mancini again against Jordan Montgoverery, he has good numbers
Speaker 2: against him. Like you said, Charlie Morton, I'm definitely hammering
Speaker 2: him against the Cubs. That price is just too low
Speaker 2: for him on both sides. Paul Blackburn, who I think
Speaker 2: you might like. The only thing is he actually stinks. Stinks. No,
Speaker 2: he's terrible. No, he's thinks. So I'm stacking Jock Peterson
Speaker 2: and Brandon Belt in a stack attack against Paul Blackburn,
Speaker 2: and for like GPP plays, I'm going with Sam Long
Speaker 2: on the other side of that matchup.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm gonna defend the honor of Blackburn. I
Speaker 1: know he's pitching well above what he did in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues. I get that. However, stinks is harsh the fund.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's better than me. He's better than me
Speaker 2: at baseball.
Speaker 1: Well, that's it's better than you. That's that's easy to say.
Speaker 1: But I mean, right now, with what he's done so far,
Speaker 1: it's hard not to at least I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: give the guy some credit at the very least. Here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull up the Blackburn stats in the year
Speaker 1: three games, fifteen innings, A one point eight R fourteen
Speaker 1: k's point eight whip, one point eight oh e r A.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Where's the stink in that?
Speaker 2: I'll I'll smell sample size. That's where the stink is
Speaker 2: he's not good. It is Era last year five point
Speaker 2: eight seven, and the miners stinks. Stinks all right, So
Speaker 2: I gets strike out us last year thirty eight innings,
Speaker 2: twenty six strikeouts. Get out of here.
Speaker 1: Come on, No, you're right the strikeout number. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned this before. I think on the waiver Wire video
Speaker 1: last week that I did, which again, if you subscribe
Speaker 1: to Fancy Bros. MLB, you know when those videos drop.
Speaker 1: So every week I'm doing a waiver Wire ad video.
Speaker 1: But although the strikeout numbers were certainly lower K nine
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, sometimes guys get a different pitch
Speaker 1: mix sometimes, Like I said, weird things happen in baseball.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm not dying into it.
Speaker 2: It sound like he's young guy, isn't he old?
Speaker 1: So what us old guys can get it done? By
Speaker 1: the way, eight and a half, Yeah, twenty eight is
Speaker 1: not old for a pitcher, especially for freaking How old
Speaker 1: is fran mil Rays If you had to guess, uh,
Speaker 1: thirty one, he's like twenty seven. He's only twenty seven
Speaker 1: because he looks older. I think that's what he's been
Speaker 1: around A one.
Speaker 2: This morning, I was like, there's no way, he's under
Speaker 2: thirty years old.
Speaker 1: All right, here's here's JP might have the winner here
Speaker 1: the bald king. Perhaps that's not bad.
Speaker 2: You can do better.
Speaker 1: That's okay, and I think we could do better. Come on,
Speaker 1: what's my Game of Thrones name? Let's go Peanuts, a
Speaker 1: cracker Jacks. You're so creative all the time. This is
Speaker 1: your opportunity. You could take a shot at me if
Speaker 1: it's funny, or give me a really cool name. One
Speaker 1: of the two. I mean, you know it's or or
Speaker 1: Joe of it's a Joe of the Black Water, Joe
Speaker 1: of the Black Book.
Speaker 2: Perhaps there you go, that's a good one. Did you
Speaker 2: see that you have an emoji? And discordinate?
Speaker 1: I have an emoji?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Just me wearing the crowd.
Speaker 2: Just like a cropt version of your head?
Speaker 1: And what's my expression board to the point.
Speaker 2: I don't know it's a screenshot from the show. I
Speaker 2: think it's a normal emoji made it.
Speaker 1: I didn't know we could make emojis until recently.
Speaker 2: I just learned this me either. He made a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of them. He made like an Otani, an Altuve,
Speaker 2: lad Joe.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our home run calls of
Speaker 1: the night. Don't listen to me. I'm going with Matt
Speaker 1: Olson tonight. It's a good matchup for him. He should
Speaker 1: go yard. That's There's no other rhyme or reason. Matt Olson. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm begging you, Matt Olson, please hit a home run
Speaker 1: for me tonight. I can't go into May with one
Speaker 1: and we're getting awfully close to May. Please, and you
Speaker 1: know what, let's it to Matt Olson. You give me
Speaker 1: two tomorrow. The whole show is a love letter to
Speaker 1: Matt Olsen. Mike Mayer, where are you going tonight for
Speaker 1: your home run?
Speaker 2: Well, real quick, I did want it would acknowledge a
Speaker 2: couple of good guest good names for you in the
Speaker 2: chat mister good okay, has varis Apia, which is which
Speaker 2: is pretty good. That's man four point four had Lord
Speaker 2: Pia of the Black Book, which.
Speaker 1: Lord Pia of the Yeah, I know that's all right.
Speaker 1: You know we had to do that thing once where
Speaker 1: it was you know, what's your Star Wars name? You
Speaker 1: ever do that where you take like the first letter
Speaker 1: of first few letters of your last name and something
Speaker 1: else of your mother's made name, some some crazy nonsense
Speaker 1: like that. Mine totally by the way when I did
Speaker 1: that sounded like a Star Wars name. It was piss
Speaker 1: Joe Lobro, which sounds exactly like I can't. He was like, well,
Speaker 1: look there's Han Solo and Pistol Labro there and all
Speaker 1: the like. Totally sounds like.
Speaker 2: I always hated those games because my my first and
Speaker 2: last initial is the same. So it's like, oh, like,
Speaker 2: flip this around and see what happens. Like, mine's the same.
Speaker 2: Let's keep moving. You're just me ma.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like your grandma.
Speaker 2: The only good thing is right, flip mine around. I'm
Speaker 2: Echam Reham, which is which is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Stops and make it home.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going the mirror of your pick. I
Speaker 2: was trying to decide who to go with this morning.
Speaker 2: I saw you went Matt Olson. I looked at the
Speaker 2: Dodgers game win blowing out potentially, I'm going to go
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman to your Matt Olson.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go, once again trolling me as always,
Speaker 1: this time doing it live on the show, and once
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Speaker 1: dot com slash chat. Before I do my final thought,
Speaker 1: I just want to dedicate today's show to my good
Speaker 1: friend and neighbor who lost his battle with cancer this
Speaker 1: past weekend, my friend Chris File. I'm sick and tired
Speaker 1: of losing friends. Chris was a wonderful guy and Met fan,
Speaker 1: and he loved the Mets and simultaneously hated the Mets,
Speaker 1: which is how you know. He was a real Met fan.
Speaker 1: So I hope they win this year for him more
Speaker 1: than anyone. That would be nice to see. So, Chris,
Speaker 1: my thoughts are with you and your a wonderful family,
Speaker 1: and I certainly hope that we get some Met w's
Speaker 1: in October. That would be a nice change of pace
Speaker 1: in your memory. Mike Mayer, any final thoughts you want
Speaker 1: to share here on the program today, Let's end on
Speaker 1: a lighter note.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to try and top your final thoughts,
Speaker 2: but I will say that how you described his fandom
Speaker 2: of the Mets is how I feel about the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: No one loves or hates the Red Sox more than me.
Speaker 1: Well, you've gotten to see a lot more Red Sox
Speaker 1: championships in the last couple of years than I was
Speaker 1: eight years old last time the Mets won a championship,
Speaker 1: and stupid me, they want it in such a fashion.
Speaker 1: I was so optimistic. I was like, well, they can
Speaker 1: come back from anything. Of course, life's going to be great. No,
Speaker 1: not so much. Still waiting, although I do think Surezer Bassett,
Speaker 1: I like what these guys have brought. Buck Showalter is
Speaker 1: a nice intensity. Mets are looking pretty good there. Thank
Speaker 1: you all, Peanuts and Cracker Jacks. I appreciate you all.
Speaker 1: So go watch baseball today, Hug your kids have a
Speaker 1: good day, Go sit while they're watching while you're watching
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Speaker 1: but the story of the game goes on for Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We will see you next time. Kids,