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Speaker 1: It's me, Joey b Joe. Pie's Apia with me, of
Speaker 1: course is the Welsh, and it's you, the Peanuts, the
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Speaker 1: some baseball on a beautiful Wednesday morning here in New Jersey. Oh,
Speaker 1: it is so nice. This is like fall, I think
Speaker 1: probably in Arizona where Welsh is. But we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball to get to. Some key yesterday by
Speaker 1: the one hundred and nine, right, but who's counting beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful undred and nine. But it's a dry heat. It's
Speaker 1: always the dry heat, that's what they tell yes, of course,
Speaker 1: and Welsh you called this, you said, I wonder what's
Speaker 1: the next managerial shoe to drop? And yes, late afternoon
Speaker 1: the news broke that the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,
Speaker 1: after twelve straight losses, decided to move on from their manager,
Speaker 1: Joe Madden. So we're gonna put all the all the
Speaker 1: individual achievements off to the side here we got to
Speaker 1: talk about this because this is big news. It's huge.
Speaker 1: Joe Madden goes back to those two thousand and two
Speaker 1: Angel teams that won the you know, the championship. There,
Speaker 1: He's been part of that organization before. Long term Angel
Speaker 1: guy had great success with the Rays, had obviously the
Speaker 1: amazing success with the Cubs winning the World Series, breaking
Speaker 1: the streak, and then you know, here we are with
Speaker 1: the Angels. Five years in. He has a little below
Speaker 1: five hundred. So I understand that he is at four
Speaker 1: to seventy seven winning percentage. So I can understand that,
Speaker 1: But wesh, I want to set you up with this today.
Speaker 1: If you had a great start to the season, which
Speaker 1: they did, and then you had a terrible part of
Speaker 1: the season, which they did, doesn't Joe Madden deserve that
Speaker 1: third round? Look to say, okay, what do you do
Speaker 1: with the next twenty five games?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I off air. I was like, if
Speaker 2: I would have told you in March that Joe Girardi
Speaker 2: and Joe Madden would both not be managing teams on
Speaker 2: June eighth, how wild would that have sounded. The Madden
Speaker 2: stuff I really don't get as well. Just twelve games
Speaker 2: really unravel what he has been as a manager, but
Speaker 2: unlike there was actually a situation going on. Yesterday I
Speaker 2: went to your former co hosts. Craig Mish was tweeting
Speaker 2: about it's really a weird situation going on with the
Speaker 2: Marlins where the Marlins had this closed door meeting that
Speaker 2: wasn't about the performance, but maybe about liking each other,
Speaker 2: and then said it wasn't resolved. That is very public,
Speaker 2: is very public thing. There has to be something very
Speaker 2: behind the scenes that we don't know about this situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Mike Trout is very uniquely different,
Speaker 2: I think than a lot of stars, but I find
Speaker 2: it hard to believe that he wasn't consulted on this.
Speaker 2: Shohatani had a nice little message about it, but then
Speaker 2: just kind of moved on. How would the team become
Speaker 2: comfortable that twelve straight losses completely alters and changes somebody
Speaker 2: who's very important, whether they've been massively, massively successful, which
Speaker 2: isn't all Matt and it's also a roster construction. I
Speaker 2: don't know Pitchinger having guess like dun Bundy over the years,
Speaker 2: that there's something bigger. There's something bigger there that.
Speaker 1: The stars and scrub team. They've been to stars and
Speaker 1: scrub team for the last fifteen years. You know, if
Speaker 1: you go back to the Josh Hamilton contract, the Albert
Speaker 1: Pools contract, I mean, they've spent a ton of money
Speaker 1: on star power and they've been lacking in the pitching
Speaker 1: department for some time. And that's that's a tough pill
Speaker 1: to swallow. And when you have you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: I understand they paid my Trout and you should pay
Speaker 1: Mike Trout. I understand why to do that, sure, but
Speaker 1: this is this is the this is the problems with
Speaker 1: the Stars and scrubs roster construction at the big league
Speaker 1: level is you don't have depths. So when you have
Speaker 1: injuries like my Trout getting hurt last couple of years,
Speaker 1: right or Otani getting hurt last couple of years, it's
Speaker 1: really tough to kind of bounce back. Like you don't
Speaker 1: have the depth of thewr organization and they haven't done
Speaker 1: a good job of growing a lot of prospects. You know, CJ.
Speaker 1: Crown was in that organization and they let him go.
Speaker 1: You know, Jared Walsh has been there. He's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: Taylor Ward is at a good season, but he's twenty
Speaker 1: eight years old. So I want to do like a
Speaker 1: victory lap about like the scouting department on him.
Speaker 2: Well, the problem that's actually a real thing. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I just want to tout as somebody, as
Speaker 2: a very respected manager in the baseball world with my
Speaker 2: tout team, I did the Angels thing. I did the
Speaker 2: Angels thing, and it didn't work for me. So clearly
Speaker 2: the Angels could just learn from me. That's how they
Speaker 2: could do. But now that's one hundred percent it too.
Speaker 2: Their scouting department has actually been kind of ripped over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. They've done weird stuff, even
Speaker 2: at the lowest levels. But the Matt like I felt
Speaker 2: like maybe Madden's lackadaisical attitude, there is something more behind
Speaker 2: the scenes with it, because I refuse to believe a
Speaker 2: twelve game streak did this because look at the roster construction.
Speaker 2: They could not get pitching. They kept spending money in
Speaker 2: other directions. The development, which isn't just on Matt. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's trying to win games at the major league level.
Speaker 2: The development of Joe Adell and guys like that in
Speaker 2: Brandon Marsh like that can't be the whole thing. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's mismanaged the team right, so as closed
Speaker 2: out games, he got an MVP season out of Sho
Speaker 2: Heo Tani, Mike Trout can't stay healthy. It's just it's
Speaker 2: something deeper intertwined. Or it could be as simple as
Speaker 2: you know, Madden might have just been like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: I'm not the guy, maybe I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'd always I misspoke earlier. I'm looking at Baseball Reference.
Speaker 1: He's been there for three years as manager. He was
Speaker 1: there for longer in the organization, so Baseball Reference kind
Speaker 1: of loops everything in there, and I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: come in five years. Yeah, so, but he was with
Speaker 1: the Angels when he first started as a coach, so
Speaker 1: it gives you that as part of the accumulation, which
Speaker 1: is really a weird way to look at it because
Speaker 1: he wasn't the manager then. But look, this is a
Speaker 1: three time Manager of the Year that you you've let go.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: going to be the fix for the Angels. It's actually
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, it's not going to be the fix for
Speaker 1: the Angels. Let's just put that out there. We move on,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's move on to some of the other things.
Speaker 1: Here we have some guy named Justin Ferlander. Twelve strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Ooh o, baby, let's go. Joey p is gonna make
Speaker 1: a lot of money. I donally doubled down on Verlander
Speaker 1: for Cy Young Welsh a few weeks ago. I tripled down.
Speaker 1: So I am, I am, I am, I am. I'll
Speaker 1: show you the best all in I have, all in.
Speaker 1: Literally over one thousand dollars will come my way if
Speaker 1: Verlander wins that.
Speaker 2: I just looked the other day. Verlander is he? He's
Speaker 2: not at the lead spot, though, is he? You know
Speaker 2: what we were looking at A warns the one we
Speaker 2: didn't look at with Cy Young. We were looking at
Speaker 2: rookie of the year.
Speaker 1: And it's still the top of the American League for
Speaker 1: Cy Young. I don't know what it was today after
Speaker 1: that performance. My guess is it's gone down even more.
Speaker 1: I will look in a second and tell you that.
Speaker 1: But before we get to that, Starling Marte left the
Speaker 1: game with a quad for the Mets and the shoutout
Speaker 1: loss to the Padres darbish was great. Darvish also hit
Speaker 1: the peede a lonzo on the hand, so the extoris
Speaker 1: came back negative. But they are going for the MRI today.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have news yet on the MRI.
Speaker 1: Have you seen anything to the car.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anything. I just know the fear. There
Speaker 2: was a fracture fear, and I think that fear is gone.
Speaker 2: So other than that, small stint is a win at
Speaker 2: this point if it's that. But you know pde Linzo,
Speaker 2: he's tough.
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander plus four hundred on FanDuel right now to
Speaker 1: win the UH win.
Speaker 2: No one's ahead of him, No No.
Speaker 1: Leader four at six fifty. Garret Coles at six fifty
Speaker 1: and has eight hundred. I means similar numbers there.
Speaker 2: Love McClanahan here, but I think that play I mean at.
Speaker 1: Four, I love them all. You want. The Jod Verlander
Speaker 1: comeback train narrative is going to be strong.
Speaker 2: One also very much shows you that it's quite a field.
Speaker 2: It's quite a field right now. Like if you look
Speaker 2: at Rookie of the Year, I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: changed we looked two days ago. But like Mackenzie Gore
Speaker 2: is at one point six on your money to win
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year in the NL. Like that's a
Speaker 2: that it's not locked up because you're not in the
Speaker 2: minus money, but they're telling you that's the bet. Four
Speaker 2: hundred is very open, like what what is what is
Speaker 2: alt Kintar? If you have it for n L, I
Speaker 2: would bet he is like.
Speaker 1: He was eight hundred on Friday when I put some
Speaker 1: money down on him. But right now currently we are
Speaker 1: looking at is sitting at six fifty plus six.
Speaker 2: Is there anybody above him?
Speaker 1: Yep, just Corbyn Burns at five hundred, So this is
Speaker 1: more wide open now. Contract Joe Musgroves at six fifty.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I had musk Grove and I
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Speaker 1: cash out of Walker Bueller about four weeks ago, put
Speaker 1: those shares into musk Grove at ten to one, and
Speaker 1: then al contra a contracts use me at plus eight hundred.
Speaker 1: And this is how you look on FanDuel. If you can,
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Speaker 1: can cash out if you don't like how things are
Speaker 1: going and take that money.
Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you it is one of my
Speaker 2: favorite things because I've got a lot of my futures
Speaker 2: bets this year on DraftKings and I'm not loving it.
Speaker 2: Where I had my futures in the NFL on Fan duel,
Speaker 2: and I loved it because I like at one point
Speaker 2: we had Aaron Rodgers at MVP Boggs and I did
Speaker 2: a dual bet together and it looked great, and then
Speaker 2: it started to fall apart. We still made money on
Speaker 2: it because we were able to cast.
Speaker 1: Right, that's really nice. You can play it like the
Speaker 1: stock market. You can invest. You can take my Julio share. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about how good that looks? Right now?
Speaker 1: Oh that looks good. Let's do another one here. Oh,
Speaker 1: look at this. Mike Mahyer loves this. The ange he's
Speaker 1: He's piling on not only Pools and Up it looked Hamilton,
Speaker 1: but also justin Upton. Gary Matthews Vernon Wells. I forgot
Speaker 1: about the Vernon Wells one. For the Ages two I
Speaker 1: did too, but a terrible contract. So Darvis seven shoutout
Speaker 1: frames Kyle Wright career high eight innings in a win.
Speaker 1: He has been an absolute revelation. Ronaldo Kunya not one
Speaker 1: but two homers. He's the only guy who went yard.
Speaker 1: Some guy from the Astros, Jordan Alvarez went yard. Also
Speaker 1: more on that to come. Marcus Simeon four for four,
Speaker 1: two homers in his steel. I hope you'll listen to
Speaker 1: Uncle Joe and went out there and made all the
Speaker 1: trades form Marcus Simeon over the last two weeks, and
Speaker 1: the Yankees are the first in Major League Baseball to
Speaker 1: forty wins, So congratulations to them. Xander Bogart's though shoulder issue.
Speaker 1: He's pushing to play Wednesday. We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 1: Trout doesn't seem quote too alarmed about the type groin,
Speaker 1: but I think you should be too alarmed about the
Speaker 1: type groin because it could always be a problem. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he'll sit out for a few days and just rest
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Speaker 1: who exited the game with shoulder tightness, is gonna be
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Speaker 2: Some I've always said, Joe, some I've always said that
Speaker 2: you said earlier, is if no one else is going
Speaker 2: to get it for you. When you get older, you
Speaker 2: learn because you have jobs and you have money and
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Speaker 2: You just you don't wait around, don't be like, who's
Speaker 2: gonna get me to prisons and stuff? Just get it
Speaker 2: for yourself because guess what, you always win. You always win.
Speaker 2: You should do it today.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I've learned this lesson as a single
Speaker 1: forty year old man for the last few years. If
Speaker 1: you want something, you just have to get it for yourself,
Speaker 1: because you know, God bless your children. They might every
Speaker 1: now and then surprise you, but you know, really you're
Speaker 1: on your own here. No one's buying anything for you. You're
Speaker 1: you're an old person. You just get it for yourself.
Speaker 1: Treat yourself. Summertime, go barbecue. All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: Alec Manola seven and one a one point eight one
Speaker 1: era another cy Young contender when you think about it
Speaker 1: in the American League, for sure. But if you're looking
Speaker 1: at him in terms of his odds right now, he
Speaker 1: is all the way Where is he cy Young in
Speaker 1: the American League? He is plus nine hundred. Still he
Speaker 1: just can't compete with some of these other guys. But
Speaker 1: Alec Manoa was really taking that next step. I remember
Speaker 1: Nick Pollock, especially before in the preseason we had him
Speaker 1: on and that was his Dude, this guy's been incredible.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Alec Manoa and his value right now
Speaker 1: in Dynasty of how good he's been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I moved him up. I just did an update
Speaker 2: over to this league dot com on my Dynasty ranks
Speaker 2: and he got the big boost. I actually have a brand.
Speaker 2: I have a pitcher number one in Dynasty who is
Speaker 2: not Garrett Cole or Corbyn Burns. It's not Manoa, but
Speaker 2: Manoa moved way up, and you move Manoa over guys
Speaker 2: like Walker, Bueler and stuff. At this point, I will
Speaker 2: say this, this is a twofold thing. I don't love
Speaker 2: the massive drop in strikeouts. I don't know if you're
Speaker 2: paying attention to it. Massive Last year ten k prow
Speaker 2: over one hundred innings. He's under eight right now this year,
Speaker 2: and I've watched two. I've really paid attention on two starts,
Speaker 2: and he does not get the calls on strikes anymore,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't look like he's pitching to it, which
Speaker 2: is okay because he's also cut his walk per nine
Speaker 2: in half. That's really good, but from a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 2: it's limiting him a little bit. You've also got an
Speaker 2: almost two run differential between RA and x FIP, which,
Speaker 2: again it's not the biggest thing in the world. When
Speaker 2: you have a one ADRA, you're gonna have a higher
Speaker 2: ex FIP, but it's almost two runs and it's almost
Speaker 2: at three seven to three. So while I think Alec
Speaker 2: Manoa is incredible, there's some things that are limiting. The
Speaker 2: inverse thing about that is the Blue Jays team, for
Speaker 2: the most part, has been relatively underperforming. You know, I
Speaker 2: mean as a whole, I don't know what they've been
Speaker 2: dealing with. You saw a lot of strikeout issues early on.
Speaker 2: You've seen them just trying to click and get their
Speaker 2: batting average backup, whether it's been Taoscar or Bichette or
Speaker 2: even fly career or junior. And you could potentially throw
Speaker 2: some of the pitching in there as well. That I
Speaker 2: don't think. I think he's interesting from a betting standpoint,
Speaker 2: simply because he's been dominating without the fantasy stats, and
Speaker 2: he's on a team that hasn't even got hot. That's
Speaker 2: why I think he's interesting there from a dynasty perspective
Speaker 2: very valuable because he's young. I don't love the strikeout
Speaker 2: like I think a fantastic dynasty conversation would be Dylan
Speaker 2: Cees or Alec Manoa Cease walk issues but all the
Speaker 2: strikeouts in the world was dominant for six weeks or
Speaker 2: Alec Manoa, who he's getting it done. But his strikeout
Speaker 2: numbers they're just not there.
Speaker 1: They're not. I wonder if that's something though that will
Speaker 1: continue to get better. I mean, CeCe has been around
Speaker 1: the league for a couple of years now, so I
Speaker 1: feel like we kind of have a good idea who
Speaker 1: he is. I wonder if Mania Manoa to me would
Speaker 1: be my choice, because I think there might be another
Speaker 1: gear in him that we haven't seen as he gets older,
Speaker 1: or Cease has been in the league another two extra years.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But weird.
Speaker 2: But Ce's's strikeout numbers, I mean, this is the tough part.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're right.
Speaker 2: He looked like Sean McClanahan to start the year, strikeout
Speaker 2: numbers nine ten a game, just flipping the curveballs and
Speaker 2: fastball past everybody, picking up wins. But then he's really
Speaker 2: falling apart, which makes it tough Manoa is getting He's
Speaker 2: got your era covered, he's got seven wins on the year,
Speaker 2: he can go deep into games. These are all really
Speaker 2: great things. It might not be close if you really
Speaker 2: put it down, but there are some people that live
Speaker 2: and die by strikeouts, especially in the Dynasty format, and
Speaker 2: I think at this moment, Manoa probably wins that sixty
Speaker 2: five percent. I'd be curious what people think, but I
Speaker 2: do think it's a bigger question. And you don't want
Speaker 2: to tear a guy down just because they can't strikeout
Speaker 2: guys right now or whatever. The adjustment is. Manoa's phenomenal
Speaker 2: and he's borderline top five SPN Dynasty at this point.
Speaker 2: MVP is a really really interesting thing to do. You
Speaker 2: just wonder is a guy gonna do it without any
Speaker 2: of those strikeout numbers. But you know, he's got eighteen wins,
Speaker 2: he got seven wins through June right now, regardless of
Speaker 2: the strikeout numbers. Be damned.
Speaker 1: He is a great offense too. You know, you know
Speaker 1: it hasn't gotten good, That's what I'm saying. No, and
Speaker 1: they haven't even been there yet. No. This was a
Speaker 1: fun tweet too from friend of the show Michael Govier
Speaker 1: go support to good people on Twitter at MJ Govier,
Speaker 1: he said, I drafted Garrett Whitlock with the expectation he
Speaker 1: would close. It's June seventh, and he's got one save.
Speaker 1: He's been up and down as the starting pitcher, while
Speaker 1: their closer situation is the worst of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: I hope Bostonians have been ripping the team's management this
Speaker 1: season for this. Garrett Whitlock. Is it time for him
Speaker 1: to go back and to become the closer and be
Speaker 1: a dominant guy there.
Speaker 2: I would like him to be. That's what I've always
Speaker 2: kind of wanted. The starting pitcher thing has you know,
Speaker 2: he's had a couple of blow ups that I think
Speaker 2: have really pushed the narrative of like, he can't be here,
Speaker 2: he can't be a starter. But here's the bottom line.
Speaker 2: What his value would be as a closer to what
Speaker 2: his value is as a starter, it's not remotely close.
Speaker 2: It's exponentially different. He is a mediocre starter at best
Speaker 2: a reliever. He could be a top ten reliever if
Speaker 2: you know, you had somebody that could lock down games
Speaker 2: for Boston. So, yeah, they don't have anybody that they
Speaker 2: really like Deekman, Barnes. No, none of them work. I
Speaker 2: would love to see Garrett Witlock in there, but you
Speaker 2: got kind of an aging rotation that I don't think
Speaker 2: they want to move away. Tanner, Howke hasn't worked. I
Speaker 2: think that's also changed a little bit as well. Yes,
Speaker 2: I would love to see Garrett Whitlock back in the
Speaker 2: reliever role and it would I think, double his fantasy
Speaker 2: value instantly.
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Speaker 1: I know right here you go. Fun facts. Justin Verlander
Speaker 1: seven and two struck out season high twelve batters and
Speaker 1: seven innings, and that put him at three eighty six
Speaker 1: for his career. He moved past his former teammate Max
Speaker 1: Schurzer for the active strikeout leader among pitchers and then
Speaker 1: went past John Smoltz, who was one of Verlander's big
Speaker 1: guys growing up as a kid. I guess so there
Speaker 1: you have it, Justin Verlander making a little bit of history.
Speaker 1: So if you want a trivia question, boom, There you
Speaker 1: go this day in baseball history. In nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: after taking a ten to nothing lead at the top
Speaker 1: of the first inning, Pittsburgh's best inning since nineteen forty two,
Speaker 1: the Pirates lose to the Phillies fifteen to eleven. After
Speaker 1: the season Pirates broadcast, Jim Brooker conducts a charity walk
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh as a result of his on
Speaker 1: air promise to walk home if the Pirates blew that
Speaker 1: early lead, which they did, so he did once again. Welsh,
Speaker 1: this was that theme of old announcers saying stupid things,
Speaker 1: but there you go. This was one that ended up
Speaker 1: working out for charity. I just thought that was fun.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine I like that want from Philly to Pittsburgh?
Speaker 2: That was Can you imagine anybody? Here's the other thing too,
Speaker 2: Can you imagine anybody today now actually like committing to
Speaker 2: that that. I can't imagine what rich eisen.
Speaker 1: Rich eisen would do something like that. If he said something,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, yep, and then he would be good
Speaker 1: for it, because you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, like a play by play, like
Speaker 2: get like a play by play guy on a team,
Speaker 2: and like anybody gonna.
Speaker 1: Joe Buck's a good personality. I think you know, everyone
Speaker 1: hates Joe Bucks at me. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: don't hate Joe.
Speaker 2: That's weird. We might be the only podcast my people
Speaker 2: that don't hate.
Speaker 1: Joe because we know how hard this is, and we
Speaker 1: know what it's like to go from a football show
Speaker 1: to a baseball show in the same day, back and forth.
Speaker 1: This dude doesn't see his family for like months in
Speaker 1: a time, totally, and it's unbelievable what he's been able
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: The only thing I ever that really pissed me off
Speaker 2: about Joe Buck was when he got on his And
Speaker 2: if you've ever listened to him, he's been on podcasts
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, you know he's he's got a
Speaker 2: funny personality. He's got a mouth too. When he lost
Speaker 2: his mind about Randy Moss fake mooning the crowd and
Speaker 2: he was like that's discuss Like that was like get
Speaker 2: out of here. Like that was the moment where I
Speaker 2: was like, this sucks, and then I.
Speaker 1: Think it was It wasn't cool. I mean, honestly, he
Speaker 1: just was.
Speaker 2: Like fake moon. He didn't even pull his pants down.
Speaker 2: It was the dumbest thing. To get up in arms
Speaker 2: about to like just be the I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, got to realize the time it was too
Speaker 1: That was the late nineties where we were still transitioning
Speaker 1: into that it's okay to be flamboyant and fun, and
Speaker 1: it was encouraged all the unwritten rules of all the
Speaker 1: sports still going on.
Speaker 2: Had the Janet Jackson thing happened yet, No, I wonder,
Speaker 2: because I wonder it would make a little bit more
Speaker 2: sense if, like this was a year or two after that,
Speaker 2: and then, I don't know, maybe it did, because then,
Speaker 2: you know, the sensors and stuff were really tight, and
Speaker 2: maybe he did something like that.
Speaker 1: But let's even get the years I thought that that,
Speaker 1: I thought that all of that stuff, well, I know
Speaker 1: that was a rule with the Patriots in it, so that.
Speaker 2: I feel like it happened a year or two after that,
Speaker 2: which would make all the sensor stuff really really intense.
Speaker 2: But still it's the dunest thing, and I think it
Speaker 2: made people not like him.
Speaker 1: But here you go, here's your real trivia question. Who's
Speaker 1: the most recent pitcher to throw consecutive nine inning complete games,
Speaker 1: the most recent picture to throw consecutive nine inning complete games.
Speaker 1: If you got the answer dropping in the chat over here.
Speaker 1: And remember you have to be a subscriber to Fantasy
Speaker 1: pros MLB in order to speak to us, not just
Speaker 1: anyone could talk to me. Well, who is it, Nolan Ryan, No, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's somebody pitching right now.
Speaker 2: They're still pitching in baseball. And then it's a back
Speaker 2: complete game. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, wait hey complete pro
Speaker 2: consecutive nine inning complete games. So that doesn't mean any shutouts.
Speaker 1: Oh it is not kersher Sande out contrast, No it
Speaker 1: is not, but we'll we'll keep guessing. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: here's the stat hero from yesterday. You Darvish seven scoreless,
Speaker 1: six k's Michael kopek uh six innings, no earned a case.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody earlier in the chat ask is this
Speaker 1: is the window of trade Copek? I still say no,
Speaker 1: because guys are dropping like flies. If you got anybody performing, well,
Speaker 1: who's got talent? I keep them unless you're getting in
Speaker 1: an overpay Welsh. What do you say about Copex?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I completely exactly how you said it, Like
Speaker 2: he has been overperforming his stats a little bit, but
Speaker 2: unless someone's overpaying, like why even at this point? But
Speaker 2: Kopec doesn't hold that like really crazy high value back,
Speaker 2: but unless he does, then move them.
Speaker 1: Our favorite DFS pairing last night was Justin Verlander in
Speaker 1: Trig schoobl Schooble seven innings, three earned, nine k's. It
Speaker 1: was a lock against the pirates. Lock it up hitters
Speaker 1: last night. Jes Chism two dingers for him, great night
Speaker 1: for him. Ron Lakuni had the two bombs. Simmon had
Speaker 1: the three bombs. Aaron Judge another one run, Horey Palanko
Speaker 1: with a hot night four for five with a dinger,
Speaker 1: and Ahmed Rosario four for nine, your boy with two steals.
Speaker 1: Welsh not one two. Here's the losers, John Gray, I'll
Speaker 1: take the yell on John Gray. Here we go. Be happy, everybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. We had. Also Tyler Gilbert six earned runs,
Speaker 1: a don give up eight earned runs, Hegan Thompson eight
Speaker 1: excuse me seven earned runs. Whitlock was bad also four innings,
Speaker 1: four earned, Jose Kintana for earned So he's starting to look.
Speaker 2: Like I was watching that diamondback games. Tyler Gilbert was
Speaker 2: just not anyone cares. He was getting lit. I've never
Speaker 2: seen someone just throw BP balls like him. In quite
Speaker 2: a while. It was home run after home run after
Speaker 2: home run after double, it was. It was quite an
Speaker 2: experience to watch, especially seeing the Red succeed like that.
Speaker 1: The answer is not Burns and it's not Shane Bieber
Speaker 1: to the trivia question, I'll reveal it after these loser hitters.
Speaker 1: Jared Walsh continues to struggle over five three k's at
Speaker 1: Old Garcia. How about oh for eight the double dip?
Speaker 1: Well done, a dullas two k's there, Jose Ramirez a
Speaker 1: rare oh for seven, but he still walked twice a
Speaker 1: stole base because he's awesome, So he doesn't belong here.
Speaker 1: Mike Maher put him in the in the loser hitters.
Speaker 1: Never never Hose Ramirez.
Speaker 2: He must have gave the ball to a kid or something.
Speaker 2: That's why you put him in there.
Speaker 1: Jesse Winker over five with three k's. Mike Maher's favorite
Speaker 1: by low. So there you go, everybody, enjoy I enjoy that.
Speaker 1: I give you. Marcus Simeon, he gives you Jesse Winker,
Speaker 1: Austin Riley over four with four k's not good, and
Speaker 1: Michael Chabis oh for four with four. Now look, here's
Speaker 1: the answer. It is Corey Klueber, and it was in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen the Indians August third and August eighth. People
Speaker 1: forget the Corey Klueber Cy Young run there. You forget
Speaker 1: about how good he was and how Dominie was and
Speaker 1: he was a guy who go out there and throw
Speaker 1: nine innings. So the answer is the Klubes.
Speaker 2: I'm looking knowing got it too. I'm just scanning through it.
Speaker 2: I don't see it now.
Speaker 1: Just you know, fifty home runs were called correctly last night.
Speaker 1: Fifty an amazing number, spectacular number. Aaron Judge has been
Speaker 1: called three hundred and fifty eight times and one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five of our total Aaron Judge calls, which
Speaker 1: is easy, you know, but something that I want to
Speaker 1: bring to everybody's attention. Somebody else is on the board.
Speaker 1: Oh who's that? That's right, Joey P tied with a
Speaker 1: bunch of people at sixteen, but he's right behind Mike Mayor.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayor's got seventeen, Joeyp's got sixteen. Yeah, it's all
Speaker 1: the same people at the top. Yeah, it's the Blum,
Speaker 1: it's high Kobby two twenty sixteen, It's it's the Chaser
Speaker 1: at twenty it's it's all those people at It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Joey p made the board in June. Let's go. I'm
Speaker 1: one behind Mike mayor Welsh. I expect you to join
Speaker 1: me on this board sooner than later.
Speaker 2: So I got twelve. I got some work to do,
Speaker 2: I mean being here more, at least for the rest
Speaker 2: of this month. I'll be in on Wednesdays, so that
Speaker 2: might get me. I gotta get my off days stuff.
Speaker 2: I got to get some on there, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: That's right. I did manipulate the board to get my
Speaker 1: name on there because I have friends in high places
Speaker 1: who make the board, and I said, make sure you
Speaker 1: put that board up and make sure I don't care
Speaker 1: who's tied with you that I'm right behind Mike Mayer.
Speaker 1: That's all. I want him to start to fear me,
Speaker 1: that's what I want. I think he does Wonky Penguasa.
Speaker 1: How many Omaha steaks do you send to the board guy?
Speaker 1: That's between me and Ethan. Okay, that's that's.
Speaker 2: What what tartlets are given.
Speaker 1: Between Ethan and Joe Do what you dare call Ethan
Speaker 1: a tartlet. He's a wonderful person and the heck of
Speaker 1: a football player too. I learned that on our retreat.
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Speaker 1: in order to make your wagers. Today we're back on
Speaker 1: the hitters for the most part too. Vlagerrero Junior on
Speaker 1: DK one and a half total basis, that's a plus
Speaker 1: one ten. You get even money on Bobachet for the
Speaker 1: same thing one and a half. I love the Cedric
Speaker 1: Mullins point five. It's only minus one oh five. To me,
Speaker 1: this is a smash on DK at Cedric Mullins, I
Speaker 1: would smash this all the way. And then the strikeouts
Speaker 1: with Chris Bassett at four and a half on DK,
Speaker 1: I think that's too low, especially with the Padres give me.
Speaker 1: I know it's my why it is one seventy five.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of juice. But I still like that Welsh.
Speaker 1: What do you like on the prop market tonight?
Speaker 2: I really do like. I actually like your Vlad and
Speaker 2: your Sedgriic Mullins one is fantastic. Two pitcher props. This
Speaker 2: one's kind of a high number, but I've been into
Speaker 2: him Aaron Nola, and I think this is a fade
Speaker 2: on what fantasy pros has got. His strikeout prop is
Speaker 2: at seven and a half, but I actually like the
Speaker 2: over on that one. He didn't hit it in his
Speaker 2: last game, but he would have hit it in his
Speaker 2: previous three. He's going up against Milwaukee, which Milwaukee currently
Speaker 2: on the strikeout front, is in the bottom five of
Speaker 2: the league. Over the last three games, they've struck on
Speaker 2: almost ten times a game. And I had happened to
Speaker 2: actually be doing this for something else. In a fun
Speaker 2: little fact about Aaron Nola, since May seventh, no one
Speaker 2: is a lower walk percentage lower walk percentage of pitchers
Speaker 2: that have a twenty five percent or higher K percentage,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense to you. So guys that have
Speaker 2: twenty five percent twenty five percent K percentage, no one
Speaker 2: has in lower law walk percentage than Aaron Nola. And
Speaker 2: this equates to the third best walk minus strike or
Speaker 2: strike out minus walk percentage in baseball, only behind Shane
Speaker 2: McClanahan and Corbin Burns. So my point is he's striking
Speaker 2: out guys at are a pretty good clip right now,
Speaker 2: pretty valuable, and Milwaukee strikes out like crazy. The other one,
Speaker 2: I kind of like Tony Gonsolin strikeouts under even though
Speaker 2: he's been someone I have been betting he's going up
Speaker 2: against the Chicago White Sox, he's been in that five
Speaker 2: or six range. White Sox third best in the league
Speaker 2: in strikeouts, going around seven. In the last three they've
Speaker 2: only had five per game, kind of struggling there. So
Speaker 2: under five and a half strikeouts on Gonsolin over seven
Speaker 2: and a half on Aeronola. Those are my picks, and
Speaker 2: I love your Centric Mullins and Vlatty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cedric Maullins is a smash. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: believe that should be like minus one thirty on the
Speaker 1: Juice somewhere around there. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: DFS stuff here for the night, simple night, keep it simple, stupid.
Speaker 1: Nester Cortez ten point three on DK. Just keep investing
Speaker 1: in him against the Minnesota Tway.
Speaker 2: Like every show I've done with you, Nestor Cortez has
Speaker 2: been available and it's always the play every single time
Speaker 2: we're sitting out here and we're like, hey, Cortes kiss stupid,
Speaker 2: and people try to.
Speaker 1: Be everyone's trying to be so different. Stop trying to
Speaker 1: be different. Just be right, Just be right. And if
Speaker 1: you don't want to go at Cortez you want some
Speaker 1: differential there, then I would team up Aaron Nola and
Speaker 1: Tony Gonsolin. Otherwise you're gonna go with Nestor Cortez, and
Speaker 1: I would take Chris Bassett on the other side. Even
Speaker 1: though in tournaments especially, I think Bassett's appealing tonight because
Speaker 1: everybody will look at that Mets line up and if
Speaker 1: they don't have Marte and if they don't have Alonzo
Speaker 1: in that lineup, which is probable, people will be off
Speaker 1: of it. So if Bassett plays well and the Padre's
Speaker 1: offense struggles a bit, which is very possible, Bassett becomes
Speaker 1: a huge win. He's only eight point two on DK,
Speaker 1: So that's my favorite pairing of Cortez and Bassett in
Speaker 1: the In the torn scenario on FANDL, you gotta pay
Speaker 1: all the way up to eleven K for Nestro Cortes,
Speaker 1: I think it's worth it. If you want to save
Speaker 1: a grant and go to Aaron Nola against Howser. You
Speaker 1: can do that too. Tony Gonsolin's nine point four, so
Speaker 1: he is even cheaper. And I would just stay away
Speaker 1: all together on the single picture site from the Bassett
Speaker 1: and I think just you might as well just go
Speaker 1: with Gonsolin. Then if you're just gonna go with a
Speaker 1: cheaper pitcher, it just makes more sense because Chris Bassett's
Speaker 1: the same price and the win equity is just far
Speaker 1: bigger for the Dodgers. So it's that's easy. Lineup builders tonight.
Speaker 1: Ryan Mountcastle mayor's favorite at three point two on DK,
Speaker 1: Nico Horner three point five, Tyler O'Neil three point five
Speaker 1: on FANDL. Bryson Scott, your boy Welsha two point three,
Speaker 1: free square, Austin Hayes doesn't get enough credit. Ait a
Speaker 1: home run again yesterday two point nine, Ali Ruschman two
Speaker 1: point three, Tyler O'Neal two point seven, Game stacks Baltimore's
Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky decent one tonight. Then on top
Speaker 1: of that you get the Yankees, Boston Dodgers, and the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves, which brings us to our home run call
Speaker 1: of the evening. I'm gonna go with gian Carlos Stanton
Speaker 1: to make a Stantotian blast, which, by the way, that
Speaker 1: announcer John Sterling is now dialed back his schedule, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was some pressure from the
Speaker 1: top or maybe he's he's eighty four years old. Now
Speaker 1: I did not know he was that old either, so
Speaker 1: good on him. Eighty four years old. Still call him
Speaker 1: baseball games. But he's taking a step back, but John
Speaker 1: Carlos Daddon takes a step up. Gimme Stanton against Chris
Speaker 1: Archer tonight. That guy throws batting practice. Speaking of batting practice, Welsh,
Speaker 1: where you going with your home run call tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play a little BVP. I think there's some
Speaker 2: big names that you could go with, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with a catcher. Can I get quadruple points for
Speaker 2: a what the hell is today? Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that was a one day thing. I
Speaker 1: think that's a one day thing. If you maybe we
Speaker 1: can do any contreras for for two tonight either.
Speaker 2: Any contrerasts that's right, I'm gonna go with Wilson Cantres.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: Any contrerasts for two that pick you get sweet ring
Speaker 2: for it. I'm gonna go with Wilson Contres. This is
Speaker 2: a BVP play. He's hitting over five hundred career against
Speaker 2: Jordan Lyles. How's a couple homers. Is not striking out
Speaker 2: when he's up against him. It's a small sample size,
Speaker 2: but you know, fifty percent end of the time with
Speaker 2: his hits, he's hitting bombs. So yeah, two for Contrera's night.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: The King has spoken anyone, dam Contreras. You get double
Speaker 1: points tonight. Put in the books. Wunk do it? Make it?
Speaker 1: Make it so? But yeah, man, it's it's been a fun. Look.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how many home run calls yesterday. That
Speaker 1: is stunning.
Speaker 2: So I've got the most shout all day.
Speaker 1: I it's gotta be. I mean, that's unbelievable. Fifty home
Speaker 1: run calls in one night. That's just wild. So you
Speaker 1: guys are crushing it and we're just so happy. And look,
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity once again. It's only the eighth
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Speaker 1: because Joey p knows you like the burgers. I like
Speaker 1: the burgers. I want the cheese, I want the bacon,
Speaker 1: I want the lettuce. I didn't used to like lettuce
Speaker 1: on my burgers. It's again, as you get old, your
Speaker 1: tastes changed that this is just a part of life.
Speaker 1: Wealth You can get like a nice uh maybe bud
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Speaker 1: maybe a ligning.
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Speaker 1: Google refreshing, Zaza lemons. Yeah, the Nika its in my mouth,
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Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time kids, yea