Speaker 1: Hey, it's leading off right here on Fantasy Pros. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Chris Welsh, and it is a wonky Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Kelly Kirby is in the house to break down all
Speaker 1: the chaos that are your Fantasy baseball playoffs. Kelly, what's up?
Speaker 2: Not a whole lot today, I'm still ahead in my matchup.
Speaker 2: ESPN has those two week playoff championships and it's a
Speaker 2: league I've never won, so I'm like, maybe this year.
Speaker 2: So I'm only checking it every three minutes. It's pretty great.
Speaker 1: So are you a big two week playoff championship versus sinkle?
Speaker 2: No? I hate it so cause I cleaned up last
Speaker 2: week and I'm just like, can we just end this mashup? No,
Speaker 2: of course not.
Speaker 1: Are you a big end everything before September or very
Speaker 1: very early September person? Or do you like? You like
Speaker 1: the current status?
Speaker 2: I like the current status. It's different than football. Right
Speaker 2: with baseball you can kind of pick up you can
Speaker 2: kind of pick up people at a different rate, and
Speaker 2: they can play differently and you can always get lucky.
Speaker 2: So I like September baseball.
Speaker 1: It's good point. I mean, there are league winners that
Speaker 1: have been out there Jake McCarthy, Elvis Andrews probably going
Speaker 1: to be in that mix. Some of the rookie pitchers
Speaker 1: have been performing really well. Nick Lodolo actually pitching as
Speaker 1: we're going right now. He's one of those guys that
Speaker 1: we were looking earlier in the week. Last week, even
Speaker 1: he was under fifty percent owned in a lot of leagues.
Speaker 1: Not to say that majority of us hanging here and
Speaker 1: playing are going to have Nicklodolo out here, But guys
Speaker 1: like Nickolodolo and Hunter Brown, we didn't have to. We
Speaker 1: didn't have to drink bleach or anything. Brown actually drink
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great. I was very happy with his performance.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, drink anything, just drink water. We could just
Speaker 1: be happy about it. But we did not get blown up.
Speaker 1: So we've got all the stuff for you. We've of
Speaker 1: course we've got you know, I didn't even look, be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I completely forgot to look at the
Speaker 1: wonky bonus for today for the home run. So that
Speaker 1: might even change my home run call that we do.
Speaker 1: I imagine it's going to So we're gonna do all
Speaker 1: that more and it should be so much fun. But
Speaker 1: taking a look at the big headlines. Jacob de Grom,
Speaker 1: he took the loss yesterday. His k prop took the plus.
Speaker 1: I was seconds away from taking it too. It's just
Speaker 1: so much. It was nine and a half. The algorithm
Speaker 1: on betting pros wanted you to take the under. Bogin
Speaker 1: and I were both like, m just don't want to
Speaker 1: do it. I went on right before the game and
Speaker 1: I was like, please be eight and a half, just
Speaker 1: be eight and a half down. It was nine and
Speaker 1: a half. I almost smacked it, but he hadn't hit it.
Speaker 1: I don't think in like three straight games. So I
Speaker 1: decided not to, and of course he got it. He
Speaker 1: got it I think in the fifth the middle of
Speaker 1: the fifth inning or something like that. He got his
Speaker 1: ten strikeous but he was outdueled by Adrian Samson. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to Samson of the Cubs lost three
Speaker 1: to one and Mets were minus four hundred going in
Speaker 1: to the game.
Speaker 2: Kelly, Yes, I saw that. That's why I put it
Speaker 2: on there. I alson I had to use the word
Speaker 2: outdueled for like as a Cubs fan. But yeah, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I actually couldn't believe it. I was watching it during
Speaker 2: my trivia last night. And I'm like, we why are
Speaker 2: we ahead? And then I checked to make sure de
Speaker 2: Graund wasn't hurt. Honestly, it's like that's the only reason
Speaker 2: we could possibly be winning this.
Speaker 1: So I had, As I mentioned a lot of people
Speaker 1: like I'm going through. The September is like a big
Speaker 1: rank update time for me, not only just redraft for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, but Dynasty and prospects, and I put
Speaker 1: my sole focus on just trying to finish the early
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty three, and I have phases of it.
Speaker 1: This is phase one, where Phase one is like kind
Speaker 1: of get everybody in the area. We're not going crazy
Speaker 1: deep diving yet. And then once I've got everybody where
Speaker 1: I kind of want them based on performances, I'll do
Speaker 1: thirty day checks. I'll do season da, da da, how
Speaker 1: statistically they performed. I'll do Phase one, and then phase two.
Speaker 1: After my initial update, I'll go through and I'll start
Speaker 1: going through Baseball Savan, I'll start going through more analytics
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So I'm in phase one. When
Speaker 1: I was doing pictures last night because this is my
Speaker 1: last run, I'm just at pictures and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to organize a little bit of the overall, and I
Speaker 1: was staring at that top overall. I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 1: But right now to put to Gram at number one,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't help myself to do it. I know
Speaker 1: it would be dangerous. The way he's performed, the way
Speaker 1: he's looked, just one of those things. And I know
Speaker 1: plenty of people probably won't have him in there. If anything,
Speaker 1: I think he at least has to be for next
Speaker 1: year in that top tier of whatever it is for you,
Speaker 1: I think it'll be different for people. For me, it
Speaker 1: was Burns and Shaye McClanahan. You know you might have
Speaker 1: Sandy in there. I have a Tawny you might have.
Speaker 1: There's a couple guys I think the top like eight
Speaker 1: pitchers actually are really solid. I just couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 1: help myself with Dagram for next year, Kelly, But I
Speaker 1: know you will. You're still gonna shy away.
Speaker 2: No from rankings perspective. Never, I mean he when he's healthy,
Speaker 2: he's great, and so at the beginning of the years,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know everything is good then yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean he'd.
Speaker 1: Be rafting perspective. Will you pull over?
Speaker 2: I personally will not pull the trigger, but uh, you know,
Speaker 2: it'll just yeah, he'll be He'll be in my top eight,
Speaker 2: no problem. The injury would probably knock him behind probably
Speaker 2: let's see the burns and maybe Otani McClanahan with the
Speaker 2: injury also is a little scary. So I'm bordering on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if yeah, I mean, who knows what will happen
Speaker 1: in the off season. If I'll be around here a
Speaker 1: fantasy present. But if I was, and I am, I'd
Speaker 1: love to be. I would love to be doing some
Speaker 1: mocks with you. And it's something I do with Bogman
Speaker 1: over at il Is. I'll go in and I'll press
Speaker 1: him and I'll go listen, this is a strategy because
Speaker 1: Max are for strategies, and I'll be like, do this strategy?
Speaker 2: Do that?
Speaker 1: I would one hundred percent be like, Kelly, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do a mock. But you have to take to gram
Speaker 1: as your first picture. You've got to commit and see
Speaker 1: what that build looks like, just to just to make
Speaker 1: you uncomfortable, because I think prep season is about being
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with your players, just to see what it is like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Aaron Judge three for four hit, he hit
Speaker 1: a parasolo home runs on Tuesday Night as Yankees beat
Speaker 1: the Red Sox in ten, seven to six. He is
Speaker 1: now up to fifty seven and has twenty six homers
Speaker 1: in his last fifty one games. Kelly, Aaron Judge quite
Speaker 1: the monster and continues, and it really I think we
Speaker 1: can come to terms of this. He is just going
Speaker 1: to have more homers than the home run contest than
Speaker 1: the person. He's just gonna have more. I think we're
Speaker 1: we have a difference about five. My judge is just
Speaker 1: not gonna stop. So Aaron Judge. Technically, Aaron Judge will
Speaker 1: win the Fantasy Pros home run Contest if we're being real.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, let's be honest. I'm sure that's his motivation, right,
Speaker 2: like his free agent year, He's like, I gotta win that.
Speaker 1: Gotta win it for Joe.
Speaker 2: Canta do it for Joe. Absolutely, yeah, that's totally it.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite thing. And when I say favorite,
Speaker 1: it's my least favorite thing. And it makes me mad,
Speaker 1: and it's just something I'll never whatever excuse and reason
Speaker 1: you guys have won't register for me. So you're talking
Speaker 1: to a brick wall about it. But Joe Ryan dominant
Speaker 1: last night. He allowed just two walks over seven innings,
Speaker 1: but he was pulled after the seventh when he had
Speaker 1: a no hitter going on one hundred and six pitches.
Speaker 1: I think his career high was one hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: And it will never register with me. Kelly, maybe you
Speaker 1: feel different. Pulling a pitcher that has no hitter, whatever
Speaker 1: the circumstance is, is asinine to me, and I will
Speaker 1: always hate it. I was at opening weekend with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: You Darvish had a no hitter going through six. He
Speaker 1: walks them, they pull them. I don't care if they're young.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's early, I don't care if
Speaker 1: they have one hundred and fifty pitches. I leave them
Speaker 1: out there, and then when they give up their first
Speaker 1: hit out, I go talk to the guy. I say,
Speaker 1: pitch to some more contact, get it low, get grounders.
Speaker 2: You lose it.
Speaker 1: You lose it. But don't overstress yourself. Obviously, you don't
Speaker 1: want to break these guys. And I know that's going
Speaker 1: to be the argument for people, but I hate pulling
Speaker 1: a pitcher with a no hitter and there's nothing else
Speaker 1: that can be said about it for me.
Speaker 2: Do you think that people would tune into a half
Speaker 2: hour podcast of You and Me a green this time.
Speaker 1: On this one.
Speaker 2: I'm still bitter about the Clayton Kershop perfect game in April.
Speaker 2: It's he had eighty I mean, come on, give me
Speaker 2: a break, and it's kind of for me. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: one hundred and six, Sure, that's a fair amount, but
Speaker 2: you know what could he get like go cards is
Speaker 2: He's saying you're not gonna let him go nine, But
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, what if he gets through the next
Speaker 2: two and like ten pitches in any And that's that's
Speaker 2: why I go.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the tough part about this. I think
Speaker 1: dang had said, like, not this lead in the none
Speaker 1: of that matters to me. None of that matters. Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm not a coach or anything like that, but that'd
Speaker 1: be my point. He is at one hundred and six
Speaker 1: through seven. That is a lot. But you go and
Speaker 1: you talk to this guy and you get a game
Speaker 1: plan and you don't let these guys work. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pitch into the zone. I'm gonna pitch probably lower in
Speaker 1: the zone, try to let my defense play through. That's
Speaker 1: just how I am. It's just wild. The opportunities, especially
Speaker 1: for these guys, it's not going to come around. Maybe
Speaker 1: some will never have the opportunity, and it's just a
Speaker 1: historical piece of baseball. But I get it. I get
Speaker 1: all the logic that you guys are gonna say. You
Speaker 1: guys can put it in the chat and be like,
Speaker 1: not this late. He's young. The injuries that happened, da, da,
Speaker 1: da doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: My question is, aside from Edwin Jackson in the one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty five pitches or whatever, they left him
Speaker 2: in it that I think they connected to like being
Speaker 2: an issue for him for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I'm like, has there been a direct injury for a
Speaker 2: picture having been left in or is this just kind
Speaker 2: of that theoretical If you let them do this every game,
Speaker 2: you're gonna lose them.
Speaker 1: You know what I think it is. I think it's
Speaker 1: similar to like, you know, how Chris Sail's pitching motion
Speaker 1: For ten years, Everyone's like, oh my god, he's gonna
Speaker 1: tell me John and he never did, and then he
Speaker 1: finally did, and everyone's like, see told you, and it's
Speaker 1: just like, well, okay, you're having a correlation to something
Speaker 1: that was all those years and now you know, now
Speaker 1: he finally gets hurt. But it's it's a different game. Actually,
Speaker 1: Go Cards is kind of saying a true point, Go
Speaker 1: Cards saying, Hey, the kids say leave him in, the
Speaker 1: old guy says, pull him. Yeah. That's a difference. That
Speaker 1: is an absolute difference. I think the game has changed.
Speaker 1: I think obviously, actually ironically, the guys don't go further
Speaker 1: into games like they used to. But I just have
Speaker 1: a hard time believing that, you know, you can't do this. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what else you could do? You could throw
Speaker 1: a bullpen sessions short earlier in the week. I have
Speaker 1: a hard time believing these guys can't try to go
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty. But you know whatever, they pulled
Speaker 1: a no hitter twins. You know, could have used a
Speaker 1: little bit of positivity. They didn't have it, and he
Speaker 1: was pulled black a couple other pieces. Astro's manager Dusty
Speaker 1: Baker said Verlander tentatively scheduled to return to the rotation
Speaker 1: on Friday against the A's. Boy, could that be a
Speaker 1: better matchup?
Speaker 2: That could not be speaking to a guy who could
Speaker 2: throw one hundred and forty pitches, But yeah, no, he'll
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what the strikeout prop on that
Speaker 2: will be assuming you know how the market sees how
Speaker 2: many innings they think.
Speaker 1: It's not I'll bet you it's like six and a half,
Speaker 1: like coming off of the injury. But to your point,
Speaker 1: I'd also like to throw out, like you tell me
Speaker 1: you're gonna pull Justin Verlander on the seventh with one
Speaker 1: hundred and six pitches with a no hitter, I don't
Speaker 1: think so great, No Scooter.
Speaker 2: Nope, And I really want to see someone try that
Speaker 2: with Surger. Yes.
Speaker 1: To this point, it'd be funny if Joe Ryan like
Speaker 1: started to play like he's like a fifteen year vet
Speaker 1: and he's just like, no, he just wave them off
Speaker 1: and get him on here. That's actually one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things is when pitchers try to wave off. One
Speaker 1: of the funniest moments in the one of the first
Speaker 1: years I was really paying attention to the Arizona Fall League.
Speaker 1: This is the Fall League, by the way, which is
Speaker 1: like an exhibitional league in the off season for the
Speaker 1: top prospects the finishing school using air quotes. And there's
Speaker 1: a kid I don't think he even pitches even a
Speaker 1: relief anymore. Connor Green. He used to be a top
Speaker 1: prospect with the Blue Jays and I think he went over.
Speaker 1: He was pitching with the Cardinals for a bit and
Speaker 1: Connor Green was like a practical nobody. And during the
Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League, he's on the mound, he had pitched
Speaker 1: a couple innings and the manager starts to come out
Speaker 1: and he is shoeing him off. He's literally doing this.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, I'm not coming out and he's
Speaker 1: showing him off. First off, I'm like, this is the
Speaker 1: fall league, dude. But second off, any pitcher that does that,
Speaker 1: what's the success rate of your manager being like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'll go back like, no, that's not gonna work. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna work. But I'd like to see Joe Ryan
Speaker 1: do it. The final piece of our news Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 1: seven innings, two hit shutout ball in Tuesday's four to
Speaker 1: zero win over the Diamondbacks. That is two straight shutouts
Speaker 1: they had on the Diamondbacks. Dodgers clinched the NLS for
Speaker 1: the ninth time in ten years, and all is normal
Speaker 1: in baseball.
Speaker 2: Kelly, Yep, that's just a staple at this point. That'll
Speaker 2: be a fun trivia question in like what fifty sixty
Speaker 2: years of how much did they lose that one year by?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. You know what was interesting too, Bog and
Speaker 1: I were talking about this that like the dime, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers had this locked up, but apparently going into yesterday
Speaker 1: there was still this like one percent mathematical opportunity that
Speaker 1: it was like if they lost all their games and
Speaker 1: the Padres won all theirs, and it's like, give me
Speaker 1: a break. So it's like the magic number is one.
Speaker 1: It was like that is are good. They're gonna be good,
Speaker 1: and then they proceed to, you know, shut out the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks essentially tend to nothing over two straight days. Dodgers
Speaker 1: are just fine. On the injury front, Tristan McKenzie's next
Speaker 1: start is going to be pushed to Friday against the Twins.
Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez is being held out Wednesday did at some
Speaker 1: hands soreness. This per Dusty Baker. I was actually kind
Speaker 1: of looking at where he was. But they're going up
Speaker 1: against the lefty today. Anyways, when I was doing the
Speaker 1: home run contest stuff and the Angels place infielder Andrew
Speaker 1: Velaskaz on the tenda il with a torn meniscus in
Speaker 1: his right knee. That's not a good meniscus or a
Speaker 1: tear to half.
Speaker 2: As I'm told, No, I imagine that's quite pianow.
Speaker 1: Here's a great stat that you put together from Sarah
Speaker 1: Lang's slangs on Sport. Aaron Judge now has ten multi
Speaker 1: home run games this season, tied for third most in
Speaker 1: a season in MLB history, behind only Hank green in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty eight. Of course, old Hank Greenberg that we
Speaker 1: all think about with eleven and Sammy Sosa in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight. Do you think he'll beat this? Do you
Speaker 1: think you could take this one down?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think you will. I think next couple of
Speaker 2: weeks you'll just do it again. I don't know where there's,
Speaker 2: what their schedule is, but it's kind of a cake,
Speaker 2: isn't it. They have a kind of an easy one
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 1: Just doesn't even matter either, just judge it doesn't. This
Speaker 1: is one of those things I do like because, as
Speaker 1: you can tell, something that really annoys me is when
Speaker 1: the gas is taken off from teams in baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: back into the year any sport does it. Playoffs come,
Speaker 1: Guys start to sit, you start not getting I don't
Speaker 1: like the pedal being let out of. But with Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge on this record potential pace, they're not gonna like
Speaker 1: sit him. They're not going to take him off of
Speaker 1: anything he's going to be And obviously they're still you know,
Speaker 1: they're fighting for what they're fighting for, but there's not
Speaker 1: going to be anything that's gonna let off. He's just
Speaker 1: gonna get to go full bore. The only thing that's
Speaker 1: going to stop him is really how al pictures are
Speaker 1: going to attack him. If he's going to get a
Speaker 1: lot of walk duty pictures, don't want to be the
Speaker 1: one that gives up, you know, a record breaking Homer,
Speaker 1: you know, for him to pass Maris or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So Judge is going to get the full bore. I
Speaker 1: think he ties this. I don't know if he breaks it.
Speaker 1: I think he ties this. I think he has one
Speaker 1: more in the in the chamber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that one. I think he'll
Speaker 2: tie it. I don't know if he's got two more
Speaker 2: of them, but I think for sure one.
Speaker 1: And it's still the worst thing is that Joe is
Speaker 1: just attached to him every single year. Here's a trivia
Speaker 1: question for you. Who was the last picture before sandeel
Speaker 1: Contra to reach two hundred innings in a season in
Speaker 1: fewer than thirty starts. So this happened within the last
Speaker 1: just give you like eight years, so you know it's
Speaker 1: a modernist picture. So the last picture before sandyel Contra
Speaker 1: to reach two hundred innings in a season and did
Speaker 1: it in fewer than thirty starts. And we obviously know
Speaker 1: you know, he's been going six seven, he wants to
Speaker 1: go eight. He gets pissed if he doesn't go seven
Speaker 1: innings in a game. I think this is a pretty
Speaker 1: fun one, Kelly, do you have a.
Speaker 2: Guess, lanceln would be my guess.
Speaker 1: That's a good guess. You know what it's not. But
Speaker 1: I feel like it's in the same vein Jim's said
Speaker 1: de Gram this picture still exists. He was on another team,
Speaker 1: and it's not I'm just gonna give you. It's not
Speaker 1: the like Cole's or de Grom. It's not that huge,
Speaker 1: massive of a name. It's an al picture I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you. So we'll sit on that, we'll ruminate on that,
Speaker 1: and we can come back to it. See if you
Speaker 1: guys can get it. Since Thatt Heroes Mark Matthias two
Speaker 1: homers three for five, four RBI, three runs yesterday. Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge had a couple bombs, as we told you. Doulas
Speaker 1: Garcia combo meal two for two, a homer, three RBIs
Speaker 1: with a stolen base and a couple runs, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Jose Miranda two for two with a homer.
Speaker 1: Jill Orschella had a bomb. Jornalvarez getting the day off,
Speaker 1: but he had a homer yesterday. Darmus Garcia, the A's
Speaker 1: had a homer and four RBIs. Max Munsey continues kind
Speaker 1: of his hot run key, Brian Hayes with a bomb,
Speaker 1: and Carlos Korea. There's multiple guys to really kind of
Speaker 1: pick out of here next year. Let me do this
Speaker 1: next year, Jose Miranda or Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: I'll do Jose Miranda without each lot of hesitation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, me too. Just the solid return that months
Speaker 1: he's had is kind of returning some of the value.
Speaker 1: Justin Turner's kind of done the same thing that I
Speaker 1: think it's picked him back up. But yes, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. It is Miranda and I, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if everybody would feel the same way. Immediately even
Speaker 1: though you didn't hesitate. I wouldn't hesitate. I feel like
Speaker 1: some might.
Speaker 2: I think if anyone who's had Monsey all year will
Speaker 2: probably pick Miranda because of how bad he was. He
Speaker 2: still but yeah, as long as he's a Dodger and
Speaker 2: he plays in that lineup like he has value from
Speaker 2: that perspective.
Speaker 1: But have you also, I don't know what your take
Speaker 1: on him into this season is, but I am so
Speaker 1: one of the players I would say I'm most impressed
Speaker 1: with this Seasonviously, there's a le any of them is
Speaker 1: adultas Garcia, like, I was critical last year with Adulas
Speaker 1: being able to maintain and this year he's just redoing
Speaker 1: it again. He's closing in on I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's going to get there, but closing in on a
Speaker 1: thirty thirty season. His batting average is more than serviceable
Speaker 1: in this era. He's not hitting under two thirty or
Speaker 1: anything like that. He looks like an absolute steal. And
Speaker 1: he was one of those guys when I was doing
Speaker 1: early outfield ranks that you know, I think we prop
Speaker 1: up guys like Randy Rose Arena, and we prop up
Speaker 1: guys like Tiascar Hernandez. I don't think Adulas is really
Speaker 1: any bit further away from those guys, maybe even below
Speaker 1: them if I could throw it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Adulas and Austin Riley were the two that
Speaker 2: I think I let sort of analysts like feeling to
Speaker 2: really influence me, like they're not going to be able
Speaker 2: to do this again. This is you know, there's going
Speaker 2: to be this regression. Adula strikes out too much, and
Speaker 2: it's yeah, I'm with you entirely on that that he
Speaker 2: can be in the same conversation with a Rosarina and
Speaker 2: Tiascar all stats.
Speaker 1: But just to pick up here, these are great guests.
Speaker 1: As Jim said, queto, no, I think that's a great guest.
Speaker 1: We had two Robbie Rays that is incorrect, and we
Speaker 1: had an Eovaldi. You guys still don't have it. But
Speaker 1: I do feel like you are fishing in that similar pool.
Speaker 1: I will say during this time, which was again within
Speaker 1: the last eight years, this guy was seen as one
Speaker 1: of the top pitchers in baseball at that time. He's
Speaker 1: just not Now. There's one more hint for you over
Speaker 1: on the pitching side for the pluss you. Darvish went eight,
Speaker 1: struck out seven. Joe Ryan, as we told you, went seven,
Speaker 1: struck out nine, giving up no hits. Kershaw struck out five.
Speaker 1: Of course, I had a prop that this was a
Speaker 1: prop I put together. I like to do my little
Speaker 1: two strikeout props. I had Kershaw six strikeouts, Kyle Wright
Speaker 1: with five, and Kyle reikout four, and Kershaw left with five.
Speaker 1: So killed me. Yesterday Luis saw Teas five and two
Speaker 1: thirds of five strikeouts and Jeffrey Springs six innings, five strikeouts,
Speaker 1: three hits. On the heroes the Zero's bunch of four
Speaker 1: K guys yesterday, Jake Swinsky, Tommy fam Jake Cave, Nick Prato,
Speaker 1: and Zach McKinstry. I think this is McKinstry second straight
Speaker 1: day on this all big big K performances on the
Speaker 1: negative and on the pitching side. For the Zero's Cole
Speaker 1: Reagan's gave up seven earned runs, no thank you, Chris
Speaker 1: Bubach gave up five earned runs, and Kim waldachuck five
Speaker 1: earned runs, striking out six. Okay, trivia question getting back
Speaker 1: to it, I asked, who was the last pitcher before
Speaker 1: Sandio contrad to reach two hundred innings in a season
Speaker 1: in fewer than thirty starts. You guys all said it
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Jim's really wants to get this two
Speaker 1: thy seventeen Cleveland Indians at the time, Corey Klueber. Corey
Speaker 1: Klueber used to burn innings, if we remember, he would
Speaker 1: get the strikeouts, he would burn major innings. He just
Speaker 1: can't stay healthy anymore. But so that's why I was
Speaker 1: saying the Robbie raised equatos and stuff. Those were really
Speaker 1: good guesses in that vein, but we were just a
Speaker 1: little bit off.
Speaker 2: Kelly yep, just as Manch. But I do remember watching
Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen World Series and when the Cubs would
Speaker 2: come up against him in that first game and that
Speaker 2: cutter just I mean they broke bats like left and right,
Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, we're never gonna beat him. So
Speaker 2: he was so impressive.
Speaker 1: I have a fond memory of krey Klueber because in
Speaker 1: a league that Bog and I played in. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what I traded, but we had this trade where
Speaker 1: he needed a bat. It was innocuous, like bat guy,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, all right, you know, pick between
Speaker 1: these pictures and he had like three or four pitchers
Speaker 1: and I picked Corey Klueber at the time, and this
Speaker 1: was like the Cy Young year or the year before
Speaker 1: he got the Cy Young I'm trying to remember exactly what,
Speaker 1: but he absolutely went bonkers the back half of the year,
Speaker 1: and he just wasn't a big name. And I always
Speaker 1: have that nice little because he just wasn't seen as
Speaker 1: this is kind of like his come up, and he
Speaker 1: was seen as just like a out of nowhere star
Speaker 1: at that point. And krey Kluber always has a soft
Speaker 1: spot in my heart for there. Home Run Board, We're
Speaker 1: gonna give you some updates, but let's get the Wonky bonus,
Speaker 1: the Wonky Wednesday Bonus for everybody on the Home Runs.
Speaker 1: You can think about it for a tiny bit before
Speaker 1: we get to the end of the show. But Kelly,
Speaker 1: what is the wonky bonus for Wednesday?
Speaker 2: So I looked it up today because I was so
Speaker 2: hoping it was today, but it was actually a month ago.
Speaker 2: What when International left Handers Day is? And I actually
Speaker 2: had a dog named Lefty. All of my dogs have
Speaker 2: baseball names, and people used to ask me if we
Speaker 2: named him that because he was left handed, and I
Speaker 2: looked at them like, it's a dog.
Speaker 1: Anyway likes to be like yes, as a matter yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, he rights Lefty, But he eats, uh,
Speaker 1: he eats righty eats ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, so he was pretty talented. But anyway, so
Speaker 2: we're just going with lefties today. If the player you
Speaker 2: choose hits a home run well batting left handed, then
Speaker 2: you'll receive two times a number of homers that he hits.
Speaker 2: I looked, I wanted I never want the bonuses to
Speaker 2: be like super easy. And two things that led me
Speaker 2: to it today. One was, even though the population has
Speaker 2: ten percent lefties in Major League Baseball, it's like twenty
Speaker 2: two or twenty five five percent, so it's they're still
Speaker 2: the minority, but it's more than the population. And then
Speaker 2: the second part is if you look at the pictures
Speaker 2: that are going today, there are not a lot of
Speaker 2: super left handed friendly pictures. So there's a whole lot
Speaker 2: of lefties going yeah and wow, and Patrick Corbin so.
Speaker 1: And Patrick Corbin. That changes my mindset. By the way,
Speaker 1: my son is lefty. I've been trying to tell him
Speaker 1: do what you want, you know. I let him do
Speaker 1: all the arts, he acts, he plays music, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: if you want to play catch, we can play catch,
Speaker 1: because that left the arm might pay you off here
Speaker 1: in a little bit. But he's also kind of ambidextros too.
Speaker 1: That's a I think that's even more impressive. Like I
Speaker 1: think my son could be a switch hitter if he were,
Speaker 1: if he really liked baseball enough to do that, because
Speaker 1: he can throw and catch and do stuff with both hands.
Speaker 1: Ambidextras is like the craziest thing to me.
Speaker 2: I think that hab Baia isn't actually Mike Gyropractor the
Speaker 2: only two people I know for sure do this, and
Speaker 2: it kind of freaks me out just a little bit.
Speaker 2: But they do literally everything left handed. But when they played,
Speaker 2: when they play baseball or in her case it's up, well,
Speaker 2: they throw righty so they can play shortstop.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what my son like. He will just
Speaker 1: use the things where it's like he'll he throws lefty,
Speaker 1: but then he likes to bat righty and then sometimes
Speaker 1: he'll like he'll kick with his right like he just
Speaker 1: changes it up. And I don't understand. I don't understand
Speaker 1: it because I am I really don't do a lot
Speaker 1: with my left hand at it's hurt right now that
Speaker 1: I don't do a lot with it, except I have
Speaker 1: been told my handwriting, I hold my hand like I'm
Speaker 1: a lefty, but I'm a righty, So maybe I, you know,
Speaker 1: I should have been groomed to be a lefty, but
Speaker 1: I'm not. But my son is. And let's get up
Speaker 1: to ninety, bud, and let's take care of dad. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. That's all I'm trying to stay here.
Speaker 2: And this is for everyone who was tired of the
Speaker 2: Onell Cruz conversation and the MVP debate. Today we're just
Speaker 2: gonna talk about left handedness. So just left, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Well, we'll get the home runs here in a
Speaker 1: little bit. On the board. Again, I don't I was
Speaker 1: not given an updated board, so I wish I could
Speaker 1: give it to you guys. But Cat Fox still with
Speaker 1: a two home run lead because of a Eloy Jimenez bomb.
Speaker 1: Cat Fox is at fifty three, so four under Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: El SkELL did get one from Aaron Judge, which moved
Speaker 1: up to fifty one. We've got two people high Kubby
Speaker 1: and de Blum at fifty and Go Cards is at
Speaker 1: forty nine with Helpless in Miami. That is what the
Speaker 1: board looks like. Mayor and Joey p did move up
Speaker 1: a little bit with I mean, can you imagine if
Speaker 1: Joey just didn't have judge, he'd be down there in
Speaker 1: the trenches with me. I just have refused to take
Speaker 1: judge this whole time and stupidly. But Mayor is still
Speaker 1: in contention. Anything could happen, But cat Fox has got
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty good lead. And we'll see what lefties
Speaker 1: might be on the docket here in just a tiny bit,
Speaker 1: all right, Kellyes, here, I can't not do it. I
Speaker 1: was gonna like not do it for a little bit here,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna go over to bet MGM. We're gonna
Speaker 1: put it on the fantasy process. It's actually not a
Speaker 1: bad look with the hat, right, I don't want to
Speaker 1: take a good thing off. Yeah, it's pretty good look here,
Speaker 1: all right. We set our tierras up, we set our
Speaker 1: crowns up, even if it's on a hat, and we
Speaker 1: to bet MGM. We download the app. I've got the
Speaker 1: app on my phone, or you can do it online
Speaker 1: and you can use the promo code leading off and
Speaker 1: they are going to hook you up. You have a
Speaker 1: chance to get a one thousand dollars risk free first
Speaker 1: bet for the first time that you set it up.
Speaker 1: Go sit it on a game line. There's actually some
Speaker 1: really good first fives today. You could have put it
Speaker 1: on Nick Lodolo this morning, which Nick Lodolo, someone in
Speaker 1: the chat told me already has hit five strikeouts in
Speaker 1: his first six batters. I think his strikeout prop was
Speaker 1: seven and a half today, Jim's we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: this prop right here, actually in just a second. There
Speaker 1: are some good ones that you can play around with,
Speaker 1: and you can support the show by going to bet
Speaker 1: MGM and putting leading off in there, and you can
Speaker 1: support me wearing the tiaras. I know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if people are getting like sick of it. I want
Speaker 1: to like not do it, but then I feel like
Speaker 1: people are gonna be up in arms. It would be
Speaker 1: like Joe not wearing the crown. And of course, Kelly,
Speaker 1: I'm a tier ga. Someone said earlier on the show, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: it's the Princess and the penguin. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm the princess. I gotcha.
Speaker 2: I think that's how we pitch ourselves next year. So
Speaker 2: get to do this very soften.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a good idea, the princess and the penguin,
Speaker 1: and everyone will kind of stare at it and be like, hey, listen, guys,
Speaker 1: that's just what it is. The tiaras, Kings and queens,
Speaker 1: grounds and tiaras, doesn't matter. We got you hooked up.
Speaker 1: Here's some props. You tell me what you think, Kelly,
Speaker 1: what you like out of these bad boys. So on
Speaker 1: the pitching side, first, this was the number one betting
Speaker 1: pros MLB prop cheat sheet player Patrick Corbin on their algorithm.
Speaker 1: Strikeouts are set at three and a half today against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: They project over five. It is minus one fifty, so
Speaker 1: it's not great juice and it's over on Draft Kings.
Speaker 1: The other one, Jim's just brought up over on BETMGM. Jims,
Speaker 1: you put I think it was what was it plus
Speaker 1: one seventeen for Adam Wayne, right, I think is what
Speaker 1: you had. Well, if you go over to BETMGM, the
Speaker 1: odds are even better. Four and a half strikeouts over
Speaker 1: at BETMGM is plus one twenty five. It might move
Speaker 1: a little bit, but it was currently right before the
Speaker 1: show said at one twenty five. You just got to
Speaker 1: get five strikeouts versus Milwaukee. I quite like that one
Speaker 1: as well. On the hitting side, Jack Peterson is your
Speaker 1: top play as far as a total bases go. You
Speaker 1: only need one against Atlanta. It's minus one forty five
Speaker 1: on DK. And then going back to bet MGM, you
Speaker 1: talked about Oneil Cruz, he needs one total base. They're
Speaker 1: projecting him at one and a half and it's paying
Speaker 1: plus one oh five at bet MGM. So you got Corman,
Speaker 1: Waynwright strikeouts, you got Peterson Cruz total bases. You only
Speaker 1: need one from each. The plus money is Waynewright and Cruise.
Speaker 1: You got to pay for the others. So Kelly, what
Speaker 1: do you dig there?
Speaker 2: I think Cruise is already playing, right, So the ones
Speaker 2: facing the Reds.
Speaker 1: Well, aren't they playing a double header? Or I might
Speaker 1: be making no, no, no, they're not. They're already playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're right the well, actually, let's see if it
Speaker 1: cashed out. It has not. He's over one, so that
Speaker 1: was on the algorithm before the show. But you're one
Speaker 1: hundred percent right, So like that one, they're not allowed.
Speaker 2: Okay, So yep, hate that one. I would say I
Speaker 2: actually I would take I would put Corbyn and Waynewright together.
Speaker 2: Like I'm not sure if today is like a big
Speaker 2: deal for Waynwright and Molina. No one's ever said anything
Speaker 2: about it or talked about it in any way, what
Speaker 2: was the thing they're gonna break. They're gonna break it today,
Speaker 2: the most the what is it? The most games played
Speaker 2: as a battery?
Speaker 1: I think is the Yeah, it's actually yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they talk about it a lot in my world.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I would take you know, Corbyn three
Speaker 2: and a half. I feel like that's too long. I
Speaker 2: think you can get four.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately unfortunate. Actually, let me take a look. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at Patrick because we we did do the
Speaker 1: disgusting news of how Patrick Corbyn has been solid over
Speaker 1: this last month. Unfortunately, Corbyn strikeout totals. He did not
Speaker 1: hit it in his last one, but he hit the
Speaker 1: previous two against the Mets in Cincinnati. And unfortunately, though
Speaker 1: in the month of August, he would only hit this
Speaker 1: number twice, two out of the five games he pitched in,
Speaker 1: but two of the last three he has hit. It's
Speaker 1: a low number. It's Baltimore. I don't hate it. I
Speaker 1: actually kind of like your idea of propping those two together.
Speaker 1: I love the Waynwright run. It's my favorite one and
Speaker 1: that's plus money and it's over on bet MGM. If
Speaker 1: you guys want to do it, so not too shabby.
Speaker 1: Let's just jump right into the home run calls. So
Speaker 1: we've got the lefties. I came in. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make an adjustment. I know I'm gonna regret it
Speaker 1: because I was going to play jose Al TV today,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm gonna make an adjustment. So Wonky,
Speaker 1: you tell me what who you got today for your
Speaker 1: lefty bonus.
Speaker 2: I feel like since the first time I was on
Speaker 2: the show, now I have to like claim him as
Speaker 2: my own, like kind of every week in some way.
Speaker 2: So I'm taking Joey Gallo assuming he starts. If he doesn't,
Speaker 2: I would probably adjust Himuncie. But yeah, I think he
Speaker 2: went deep last night, I believe, or the night before,
Speaker 2: so I think I think you'll get it.
Speaker 1: I completely mushed Trout yesterday. I mean not the like
Speaker 1: eighth straight was the thing, but I took him and
Speaker 1: completely mushed him and he went out and of course
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, stupid me. Okay, so the bonus is
Speaker 1: just a lefty hitting a homer today. It's not a
Speaker 1: lefty on.
Speaker 2: Lefty, No, it's just a lefty. But like that, they
Speaker 2: have to be batting left handed, so you can't call
Speaker 2: Santander and then have him hit a home right, Okay.
Speaker 1: But I could have Anthony Rindone who bats riding and
Speaker 1: then turns over and hits lefty and hits a home Okay,
Speaker 1: you could have that, all right. Yeah, So so switch
Speaker 1: hitters do count. They just have to be batting lefty
Speaker 1: when they hit the homer. Gotcha. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper. I'm gonna go with Bryce Harper today because
Speaker 1: he is in. Yeah, he should be. You should be
Speaker 1: good today, right. I'm looking at the look at the
Speaker 1: rodal Wire active lineup, so the the MLB lineups is
Speaker 1: the way to go. I'm gonna go with Harper. You know,
Speaker 1: I was tempted to do it's tempted to go with Bellinger.
Speaker 1: So I originally had Altuve. I wanted to go Bellinger.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Harper. So guaranteed Bellinger hits a
Speaker 1: home run today and hopefully don't mush and I don't
Speaker 1: see anything for Mayor. We know Joey has got Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge and that is it, Kelly, what you got going
Speaker 1: on right now?
Speaker 2: I am currently writing a lot of articles about fantasy
Speaker 2: hockey getting ready for the Hockey draft kit, and which
Speaker 2: is it's a fun game, still doing some fantasy Nascar,
Speaker 2: and there are a lot of touchdown calls to organize.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's just a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Is the bot available for the touchdown calls or is
Speaker 1: it manual?
Speaker 2: No, we haven't follo out at Google for him. But
Speaker 2: then organizing it after that, like counting it up and
Speaker 2: everything is still mine. So it's fun. I love it.
Speaker 2: But there's just a lot in the first and.
Speaker 1: Is it just like the home run contest? Just do
Speaker 1: you pick one touchdown and da da da, I need
Speaker 1: to do that. I didn't do that last week. I'll
Speaker 1: be behind, but I want to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's really kind of cool. We set it
Speaker 2: up Mayor and I set it up just a little differently.
Speaker 2: So you pick one guy to be your bonus flex
Speaker 2: so you get twice as many against a double bonus
Speaker 2: touchdowns as he scores. And then you pick a running back,
Speaker 2: a wide receiver, and a tight end. The catch is
Speaker 2: that you can only pick them once a season, so
Speaker 2: once you've picked them, they're done for you.
Speaker 1: I like that. I'd like that. Very fun game. Always
Speaker 1: fun stuff. Make sure you guys go and check out
Speaker 1: the discord all over in Fantasy Pros are lots of
Speaker 1: cool stuff going on over there. Kelly is cool. I
Speaker 1: try to be very cool with my tiar as you
Speaker 1: guys know. So no big deal. And that is it
Speaker 1: for the show today. Find Kelly on Twitter at the
Speaker 1: Wonky Penguin. You can find me on Twitter at is
Speaker 1: it the Welsh. I will be back tomorrow with a
Speaker 1: Bubba think his powers on and Kelly will be back
Speaker 1: with me again next Wednesday. For us, thank you, We're
Speaker 1: out of here. Good my friends, have.
Speaker 2: A good day.
Speaker 1: Please,