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Speaker 2: Speaking of educational, we want to educate the people today
Speaker 2: we have some baseball talk about more specifically. We've got
Speaker 2: some guys too that are really performing outstandingly at the
Speaker 2: very top of the board here in a lot of categories.
Speaker 2: But I have this terrible feeling that it's just not
Speaker 2: gonna last very long, and I want to start with
Speaker 2: one of them, because it's hoeesel Aair another.
Speaker 1: Home run yesterday.
Speaker 2: I know he's got twenty. I know we're all very
Speaker 2: excited about jorgeeseil Air and you've.
Speaker 3: Been calling this one. You were on this one done
Speaker 3: in dead a little bit ago, you still sat it down.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, trade him, and I'll tell you why. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the numbers, continuing to look at, you know,
Speaker 2: the deeper stats on him, and look, I do I
Speaker 2: think he's going to continue on to this pace. No,
Speaker 2: I mean I'm looking at all of his career numbers
Speaker 2: before the show, just kind of digging into stuff, and
Speaker 2: I keep saying, this is a player. I mean, like,
Speaker 2: like the ISO's at three h five, Okay, like he's
Speaker 2: got a lot of power. Last year, you know what
Speaker 2: the ISO was, well for him, it was one ninety three.
Speaker 2: I just thin that's a tough sell for me. The
Speaker 2: BABIT right now is at two seventy five. That's a
Speaker 2: pretty high number for him last year, you know, two
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty, you know, like that's kind of the
Speaker 2: range for him, you two fifty six, two fifty Really
Speaker 2: that's kind of more where he's been. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: I've just seen a lot of horeso Laier in my
Speaker 2: life in thirty one. I just don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: buying a full season breakout. I think you get the
Speaker 2: best of both worlds because if you trade him now,
Speaker 2: his value is at its peak, and if it sustained, okay,
Speaker 2: you missed out on it. But if you can get
Speaker 2: something really good back in this deal, why not try
Speaker 2: to do that because you're mitigating your risk of him
Speaker 2: reverting back to just that ordinary swing and miss guy
Speaker 2: that he's been for the majority of his career.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I get the logic of what you're
Speaker 3: saying here. I don't one hundred percent know like what
Speaker 3: you get, and I don't I hate to always like
Speaker 3: get into this and call it like that. What is
Speaker 3: the trade dead zone thing? I just don't know if
Speaker 3: anyone's giving up what's worth getting rid of him? Right now?
Speaker 3: His big split is lefties. He's destroying lefties this year,
Speaker 3: hitting three thirty three and only fifty four at bats.
Speaker 3: He has nine of his twenty homers off of lefties.
Speaker 3: He's hitting only two thirty six against righty so that
Speaker 3: obviously has been the big weird split. The things I
Speaker 3: love are the high He's made huge big changes on
Speaker 3: his barrel percentage. It's the second highest of his career,
Speaker 3: to go along with a hard hit percentage, which is
Speaker 3: higher than last year. His k's are down from last year,
Speaker 3: and then obviously expected stats are through the roof as
Speaker 3: far as you know the ex blh blah blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But again I would point to, like,
Speaker 3: what does the trade look like. I think Jorge Silaire
Speaker 3: is going to push forty homers this year. I also
Speaker 3: think it's going to be up and down. I think
Speaker 3: he's going to have some really aggressively frustrating swings throughout
Speaker 3: the year. But what can you get for him? If
Speaker 3: you can, I'm always interested. I would listen, but I
Speaker 3: just don't know what anyone's gonna pay is going to
Speaker 3: be worthwhile to get rid of so lair And maybe
Speaker 3: he's just going to do this the rest of the year, because,
Speaker 3: like I said, if that barrel percentage was really low
Speaker 3: with the hard hit and the strikeouts were up, I'd
Speaker 3: be a little bit more dicey, But it ain't. And
Speaker 3: he's destroying lefties and he's gonna keep destroying lefties throughout
Speaker 3: the I think he's one of the top home run
Speaker 3: slug guys against lefties and all of baseball.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, Bryce Harper's been underwhelming this year. Would rather
Speaker 2: Jorge Solai or Bryce Harper rest of season?
Speaker 3: Well, Bryce Harper, okay, but.
Speaker 2: I mean if you have Bryce Harper, you're kind of
Speaker 2: frustrated right now.
Speaker 1: You haven't quite.
Speaker 2: Gotten what you expected, even though you got him back
Speaker 2: way sooner than you inspect.
Speaker 3: Someone will give me Bryce Harper for so Laire, I'll
Speaker 3: send them an edibles.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here's another one. What about Giancarlos Stanton
Speaker 2: rest of season or Jorge Hilaire more similar in terms
Speaker 2: of what kind of player they are.
Speaker 3: Let me look at Stanton's stuff. I don't. I haven't
Speaker 3: paid attention to say, let me.
Speaker 1: Check out Stanton's stuff. Well, well, she looks at Stanton's stuff.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about Uri Perez, who threw six shutout innings yesterday,
Speaker 2: six strikeouts, boughta being in the win over the Mariners. Check,
Speaker 2: we got that one yesterday on the betting side of things.
Speaker 2: Another guy I want to get to is Michael Walker.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about him too. Is another guy
Speaker 2: to thirty one year old breakouts? That's what today's shows
Speaker 2: all about. So so Laire or gian Carlos Stanton? Who
Speaker 2: would you rather have?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, well, there's probably more injury risk. With Stanton.
Speaker 3: I mean, underlying stuff works pretty in favor of Stanton.
Speaker 3: He's actually striking out the lowest of his career right now,
Speaker 3: which is nice, but the sample size of what he's
Speaker 3: actually played is down. I don't know. I guess I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say Stanton XBA is also like forty points higher.
Speaker 3: But I think it's pretty close to those guys. And
Speaker 3: if you wanted to say, I saw someone in the
Speaker 3: chat was like, I'll take Solaire, I actually don't didn't
Speaker 3: necessarily disagree, like that's a bad take because he is
Speaker 3: at the middle of that order. He's not coming out
Speaker 3: I think I'm I'm like one A, one B on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is a good conversation.
Speaker 2: Let's have a conversation about Michael Waka six and two
Speaker 2: thirds innings yesterday, five k's on the year, Welsh two
Speaker 2: eight nine era A one point zero six whip, sixty
Speaker 2: nine k's and seventy four innings. It's been magical for
Speaker 2: Michael Waka this year. But it's got to run out,
Speaker 2: doesn't it. I mean, can we really buy into Michael Waka?
Speaker 2: Who has It's been years. It seems like someone gotten
Speaker 2: a full healthy Michael Waka season.
Speaker 1: That was good. He's had some good one off.
Speaker 2: Starts here and there, but the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: I mean this is this might be one of the
Speaker 2: most surprising things of Major League Baseball to me this
Speaker 2: year is Michael Waka sitting here as a guy that
Speaker 2: you've been starting every single week for the last few
Speaker 2: weeks because he's been really solid. But I can't imagine
Speaker 2: when we're seventy four, seventy five innings in now to
Speaker 2: Michael Waka. This has got to be the time to
Speaker 2: get out of the Michael Michael Waka business, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Waka Waka, we're getting into the Waka. I said this,
Speaker 3: We talked about him on CBS last night. I want it.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit red Baron. Look at red Baron. Waka.
Speaker 1: Is this year's Martin Perez.
Speaker 3: That's well, oh no, that's a really good one there,
Speaker 3: except with strikeouts. Walka like Walk had a bad.
Speaker 1: Perform under Ker nine.
Speaker 3: But I hear you yesterday was a bad perform, a
Speaker 3: bad underlying performance for Waka over a mile per hour
Speaker 3: down on like every single pitch that's worrisome, except Waka's
Speaker 3: change up has been absolutely elite. If you watch that thing,
Speaker 3: it just it floats. It's like, oooh, these guys can't
Speaker 3: hit it. It has a thirty six percent wiff rate
Speaker 3: this season, which I think is great. He's not giving
Speaker 3: up a whole lot of hard hits, he's getting more
Speaker 3: chases because of that change up, and he's kind of
Speaker 3: dominating the zone. So is he gonna have a two
Speaker 3: eight ninety RA this year? Hell no.
Speaker 1: But do you want to guess what his X ERA
Speaker 1: is right now?
Speaker 3: I think I already saw it. It's like four point
Speaker 3: zero three ninety.
Speaker 2: You want to guess what his x FIP is? Four
Speaker 2: four point four two? You want to guess what his
Speaker 2: X plug is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, suck it, That's what I think it is. But again,
Speaker 3: like he's gonna regress a little bit back more to
Speaker 3: the means, But I think he's gonna get away with
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff. He's gonna pick up wins with
Speaker 3: that great offense. If you can live with him as
Speaker 3: like a three to five guy, I think here's the difference.
Speaker 3: I think you could roster him the rest of the
Speaker 3: way through and feel good if someone wants to pay
Speaker 3: up for a two eight ninety RA walka sure, listen
Speaker 3: to that, But what does a trade look like? So
Speaker 3: I think the smart plays, Hey, yeah, get out of
Speaker 3: the walka business because the rest of the season might
Speaker 3: be rougher than what you've already had. But I don't
Speaker 3: think Waka is going to turn into a pumpkin and
Speaker 3: we're gonna be cutting him for the next whoever the
Speaker 3: hell is coming up. I think he'll be actually above
Speaker 3: streamable or at worst, he's going to be a streamable
Speaker 3: pitcher the back end of the year. So you decide
Speaker 3: what that means for your own roster.
Speaker 2: I would be looking to move Michael Waka right now
Speaker 2: for what do it? Whatever I can get, because I
Speaker 2: know he's going to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not anything, But I mean, I really put it
Speaker 1: to you this way.
Speaker 2: If I've got a surplus of pitching and Michael Waka
Speaker 2: is one of them, right, Let's say I really like
Speaker 2: my starting five, and I've got some other pitchers that
Speaker 2: I really like on my roster, and I've got Michael
Speaker 2: Waka because I picked them up off the waiver wire
Speaker 2: this year. And if I can help myself in the offense,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do that. If I can help myself with
Speaker 2: a closer situation. Absolutely with a guy that I think
Speaker 2: is going to be closing games.
Speaker 3: Right Kyle Finnigan. Like someone offers you Kyle Finnegan.
Speaker 1: To get or somebody like that, like I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna trade you Bednar for him? No way, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I'm just saying starting pitching
Speaker 1: has been rough this last month.
Speaker 2: You know you're right between the between the Verlander and
Speaker 2: Surrezer implosions. Manoah, Jacob de gram Ser Strider, who were
Speaker 2: going to talk about a little bit later on the show.
Speaker 2: He hasn't been great. Here's Sandy al Contra, Pablo Lopez.
Speaker 1: Shall I go on? Starting pitching is a problem right now?
Speaker 3: Here's an interesting one. Tim actually inadvertently did this. What
Speaker 3: if someone was like, ooh, jose Bray you is starting
Speaker 3: to get going, I need to get out, and they
Speaker 3: offer jose A Bray you for Walker right now?
Speaker 1: I don't think I do that one I would do that.
Speaker 1: I would do that.
Speaker 3: I think I think a Bray who's turning around in
Speaker 3: a great way, that that's what.
Speaker 1: Seems like he is. He seems like he is turning
Speaker 1: around a great way.
Speaker 2: But I think that there's I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: you're trading him up for another starting pitcher straight up,
Speaker 2: because I know that's a difficult sell, like that cell
Speaker 2: that I understand. But if you look at what's going
Speaker 2: on right now in the league, it's been rough out there.
Speaker 3: Look at question the chats turning on you, Joe Walkee's question,
Speaker 3: why are people going to trade decent pictures when it
Speaker 3: has been rough?
Speaker 2: They're going to trade recent pitchers that are pitching well
Speaker 2: above their head because that's how you win leagues, because
Speaker 2: what you do is you make sure that you the
Speaker 2: assets you have. You have some hard conversation with yourself
Speaker 2: and you say to yourself self, so it's really overperforming,
Speaker 2: that should not be this good. And then you look
Speaker 2: at the deeper metrics on Michael Waka. When does that
Speaker 2: four four nine x fIF catch up to that two
Speaker 2: eight nine era soon? So do you want to be
Speaker 2: on that crap handle of it? No, you don't want
Speaker 2: to be on that handle of it. You want to
Speaker 2: be on the right handle of it. And I'm just
Speaker 2: telling you I think, like, for instance, if you if
Speaker 2: you can get Mike Hunter Green, I would take Hunter
Speaker 2: Green rest of season. Hunter Green quietly been really good lately,
Speaker 2: except the era is still above four and you're looking
Speaker 2: at it, and I think that's a deal that you
Speaker 2: can make. So I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 3: I actually think the Jose of bray You one is
Speaker 3: the interesting one.
Speaker 1: That's been a bad one too.
Speaker 3: Three twenty seven in June already three homers, which is
Speaker 3: three times what he's had the rest of the way
Speaker 3: through one slug.
Speaker 2: Who Yeah, everyone, everyone seems to agree with you about
Speaker 2: the Abrayo.
Speaker 3: Thing in the that's that's like a fun tricky one,
Speaker 3: like you're selling a little bit of a better player
Speaker 3: that you think is going to regress for someone you
Speaker 3: think is going to come back. It's all about confident.
Speaker 2: Brandon Nimmo had some confidence, delivered a game winning RBI,
Speaker 2: screwed up my Hi parla yesterday with the Yankees, but whatever,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Brandon Imo, go get yourself some. Garrett Cole
Speaker 2: did record eight strikeouts though in six things, so I'm
Speaker 2: cash nailed that one. But Garrett Widlock is another one too.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Garrett Wodlock for a second.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This is a picture that I've invested in the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, and it's been frustrating injuries inconsistencies.
Speaker 1: But he's always teased. He's been a tease here. He's
Speaker 1: got a twenty two to.
Speaker 2: Four k walk ratio in twenty three innings so far
Speaker 2: this year, two runs over seven innings yesterday. Is Garrett
Speaker 2: Witlock a player that you should be looking to acquire
Speaker 2: or in a shallow league, if still floating out there,
Speaker 2: possibly add because I think you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think he lives
Speaker 3: in that world of like your roster to maybe get
Speaker 3: him out of like really bad matchups. You know, like
Speaker 3: stream it's essentially like a streamable guy. But you know,
Speaker 3: walk rate's been really low. You like that strikeouts are
Speaker 3: not a whole big thing. I will point out it's
Speaker 3: almost got a four and a half expected era. So
Speaker 3: that's why you know, I'm probably looking a little bit
Speaker 3: more at like a streamable option. I do like how
Speaker 3: he uses the zone, looking at like the zone chart
Speaker 3: is a little bit too much in the zone sweeper
Speaker 3: just you know, not even looking at the k rates
Speaker 3: or with rates I could tell is probably the biggest pitch,
Speaker 3: which it is. It's got a fifty percent rate, the
Speaker 3: rest relatively mediocre. So yeah, I think he's like I said,
Speaker 3: he's in that maybe a hold on, maybe a just stream. Oh,
Speaker 3: Michael Walker, Garrett Whitlock, rest of year.
Speaker 1: Whitlock.
Speaker 2: I've seen enough bad Michael Waka in my life for
Speaker 2: the last five years. I just I just don't trust
Speaker 2: the health. I don't trust the I just don't trust
Speaker 2: it again. And I could be wrong, and I will
Speaker 2: eat that if I am. But Garrett Woodlock is a
Speaker 2: young enough pitcher with upside. He's got a high strikeout rate,
Speaker 2: and that's one thing. Even peak Michael Walker back in
Speaker 2: the Cardinals days, back in the day, what it was
Speaker 2: him and Wainwright at the top of that rotation, even then,
Speaker 2: he wasn't necessarily lighting the world on fire with the
Speaker 2: k raid. So that's never been his game. So I
Speaker 2: like the pictures with the big strike.
Speaker 3: Back in the day when I was young. I'm not
Speaker 3: a kid anymore. It's a sit and wish I was
Speaker 3: a kid again.
Speaker 1: I love that song. It's a good song. I know,
Speaker 1: let's go to Matt.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I feel like you were waiting for me to
Speaker 3: drop them.
Speaker 2: If you did the first line in that song, we
Speaker 2: might get canceled. So Matt McLain Homard and drove in
Speaker 2: three runs.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: He is now up to a three twenty eight, three
Speaker 2: seventy nine, five sixteen slash, three bombs, two steals, thirteen
Speaker 2: stone bases. Twenty eight games, he'd have more than two steals.
Speaker 3: Though, I am very much about Matt McClain right now.
Speaker 3: You would think the steals would be up, but it
Speaker 3: is bonkered. We were talking about him last night, the
Speaker 3: three hit game. He's got like forty hits since he's
Speaker 3: been called up. The three twenty batting averages bonkers, an
Speaker 3: over ten percent barrel percentage. His XBA, even though it's
Speaker 3: forty points lower, it's still close to two ninety. He
Speaker 3: has been doing some crazy things and hitting two. It
Speaker 3: just makes him valuable the rest of the way through.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think he is in a twelve
Speaker 3: team league. He is a startable shortstop probably rest of season,
Speaker 3: even when he kind of comes back down a little bit.
Speaker 3: More so, I'm I'm very much all about Matt McClain
Speaker 3: right now, and he is again a piece of these words.
Speaker 3: What's offense, it's Ellie, and where's where's Christian? And kar
Speaker 3: I'm about to do the thing. I'm about to start
Speaker 3: doing the Maybe he's gonna get called up because I
Speaker 3: feel I feel it coming up inside of me of
Speaker 3: why is Christian? And did you know the Christian and
Speaker 3: Karnoshian strand?
Speaker 2: He is?
Speaker 3: At least when I looked yesterday, he was tied for
Speaker 3: the most homer right in the minor leagues with around
Speaker 3: thirty less at bats and like the next guy, he's
Speaker 3: hitting over three hundred, one of the only ones. I believe.
Speaker 3: He's one of only two or three with fifteen homers
Speaker 3: in the miners to have an over three hundred batting average.
Speaker 3: He doesn't belong there anymore. He's cut his strikeout percentage.
Speaker 3: He don't belong there anymore.
Speaker 2: Nothing left for him to prove. He's in the Waiver
Speaker 2: Wire video which just dropped on the channel. If you
Speaker 2: haven't go check that out today. Look the vapors nos
Speaker 2: a mod. I remember having that single cassette of that
Speaker 2: song by the way back in the day. I think
Speaker 2: it dropped like right around the springtime. That was like
Speaker 2: that was a summer jam. If ever there was one,
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: No, it's Nick on d I know I like bread
Speaker 3: there He's like, was I about to do the Batman appreacial.
Speaker 2: No rookie lookies today, although Welsh just basically did one
Speaker 2: for Christian and Carnossio's trand So let's talk about Nick
Speaker 2: Lodolo unlikely to return until early August. Apparently the MRI
Speaker 2: says he's got to stay in the walking boot. So
Speaker 2: that's not good. It's looking like kind of a lost season.
Speaker 2: So if you are looking for Nick Lodolo to help
Speaker 2: you out, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Hold your breath.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you that's mine, you can hold on
Speaker 2: in August and September, maybe you can, but I'm not really.
Speaker 1: Holding right now.
Speaker 3: No, I'm done with that. That's my Probably my biggest
Speaker 3: l of the trade videos was, I mean, the injury.
Speaker 3: I just didn't see the injury coming. I would find
Speaker 3: back on him being able to fix it. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a huge disaster. Though I would say maybe an
Speaker 3: nice little slick room to a little dude to take
Speaker 3: a look at for buying into the near future here
Speaker 3: for Dynasty leagues.
Speaker 2: Are you getting more Vini pas Quentino questions than anything
Speaker 2: else in your timeline?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the number one.
Speaker 2: So I keep telling everybody, Christian Walker, I keep telling everybody,
Speaker 2: you know, look at Ryan Nada and some of these
Speaker 2: guys right now in the waiver wire. But it really
Speaker 2: depends on what's out there waiver wire. Jose Abreu, now
Speaker 2: that you say it, that's that's where you go. I mean,
Speaker 2: you kick the tires on the Jose Abra see if
Speaker 2: you can pry him away, because he's definitely hurt somebody
Speaker 2: at this point. I mean, he's probably available. The trouble
Speaker 2: is what you know, what are you offering? Maybe Michael Walka,
Speaker 2: but Vinnie pas Quentino, Like I get it, I understand.
Speaker 2: You know, everyone's looking to try to fill those holes
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But maybe Christian and Carnaccio strand
Speaker 2: to another bat. Add that guy now and hope in
Speaker 2: the next two weeks you get somebody like that coming
Speaker 2: up because he can then should come up and just
Speaker 2: Rake Clevenger is removed yesterday right by step soreness. That
Speaker 2: can't be good. Salvador Perez he had a hand contusion.
Speaker 1: He's day to day.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey grade two hamstring strains, so he's going on
Speaker 2: the eel and somehow Eloya Menez found.
Speaker 1: His way back to the field yesterday. Welsh this was great.
Speaker 2: This was you know, after a few days of waiting around,
Speaker 2: there you go, Elloja men is back on the field.
Speaker 1: I know we all just super excited about it.
Speaker 3: We were all just baited breath waiting to see what happened.
Speaker 1: I am salty about Eloya Menz.
Speaker 3: I can tell. Yeah, Eloy's been in your kra for.
Speaker 2: Because you know, I don't like when I support a
Speaker 2: player multiple years and and defend his honor and then
Speaker 2: he does where we're at here with him now, it
Speaker 2: has not been good.
Speaker 1: It's not been good. Don't like it.
Speaker 2: Alec Manoa, you gotta love this Welsh. So he is
Speaker 2: throwing a simulated game today in daned and Florida. He
Speaker 2: is gonna throw five innings in a quote controlled environment
Speaker 2: end quote, so no trigger warnings. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a safe space for him to throw. Could you imagine,
Speaker 2: like I mean, think about like Don Drysdale.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll get old far down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think about those guys you know when they're smoking
Speaker 2: too packs of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: You know, a safe space. I love this.
Speaker 2: You know you go back and work at true value, Bodway,
Speaker 2: if you can't pitch in a big leagues kid, I.
Speaker 3: Love this woke idea of you're just like a man.
Speaker 3: All these kids are their participation trophies and they're and
Speaker 3: they're sitting in their controlled environments to pitching. What back
Speaker 3: of mind day that's like what you were turning in?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, do we really have to call it
Speaker 1: a controlled environment?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't really know what they're trying to
Speaker 3: like accomplish.
Speaker 1: It's a sim game against it's a.
Speaker 3: Baseball game that he's throwing in.
Speaker 1: But it's not a baseball game.
Speaker 2: He's throwing a simulated gay space. It's there's going to
Speaker 2: be you know, Enya playing and it's gonna they're gonna
Speaker 2: have Usually.
Speaker 3: How they do that if you actually want to know,
Speaker 3: because I've seen a whole bunch of these, what that
Speaker 3: is is they'll be like something you know what. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they do put the defenders out there, but they'll just
Speaker 3: be like the big net that's gonna be right behind
Speaker 3: the catcher. They'll have the big track man up and
Speaker 3: they'll just have like three batters continuously come up and
Speaker 3: then just keep hitting and working through that. And that's
Speaker 3: how they do. They don't have guys run the bases,
Speaker 3: and that's how they run that whole sim games are
Speaker 3: weird to watch.
Speaker 2: By the way, I like this, Matt Flood's basically saying,
Speaker 2: Alec Manoa, Manoa, chance of him ever being relevant again?
Speaker 1: How do you like that? That's a good one. Pretty good.
Speaker 2: Wonkey also asked me to raise my right hand. There
Speaker 2: you go, raise my right hand on the show.
Speaker 1: I know it looks.
Speaker 2: Opposite here in the camera, but uh, and I have
Speaker 2: to repeat after her. I won't go back to the
Speaker 2: alloy him and az Well in twenty twenty four preseason.
Speaker 2: I am making this commitment. I will stand by this.
Speaker 2: I'm a man of my word. I won't do it,
Speaker 2: but I can't wait to see the safe space results
Speaker 2: for him. That's gonna be great. Let's talk about three
Speaker 2: up and three down Jake Berger. You can't stop Jake Berger.
Speaker 2: Two more home runs, I'm dude. One of the best
Speaker 2: stories of twenty twenty three is gotta be Jake Berger.
Speaker 2: Can we just abs basking the glory the white side?
Speaker 3: He needs He needs a wad wide day. If anyone
Speaker 3: needs a wag No, he.
Speaker 2: Needs a Burger King Day. They need Jake Bergers or
Speaker 2: something like that. He needs if he needs his own thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a wall on.
Speaker 3: Now, let's say maybe he could save Burger King. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I feel like maybe he's all five guys.
Speaker 1: I know what he should do.
Speaker 3: He should change his number to five and that can
Speaker 3: get a sponsorship with five guys and change that he's
Speaker 3: number five, Burger five. That would be the play.
Speaker 2: That's the play, Jake sponsorship five guys, Burger, five guys
Speaker 2: to get him in the place.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm I'm obsessed with Jake Berger. He
Speaker 3: is a underlying stat Darling. The batting average not the
Speaker 3: best two fifty, but he's got an X speak of
Speaker 3: seventy five, but ninety four percentile hard hit, so top
Speaker 3: six percent in the league. Ninety Actually, now it changed
Speaker 3: one hundred percentile barrel percentage. Barrel and hard hit is
Speaker 3: the two mixture of moments, looking for twenty one and
Speaker 3: a half barrel percentage with one of the hardest hit
Speaker 3: in the league. Strikeouts are a little bit up there.
Speaker 3: He's gonna strikeout.
Speaker 2: Guy, but man, when he hits, he's made contact. Man,
Speaker 2: ball's going a long way. Ranger Suarez seven, shoutout any
Speaker 2: seven case for him. No decision though against the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and Fernando Tatis Junior three for four with a dinger
Speaker 2: and a steal. Pretty good five nothing win for them
Speaker 2: over the Guardians, three down. Matt Olsen had a long
Speaker 2: day nine at bats, one hit, four strikeouts.
Speaker 1: Not a good day for metals. It's a long day.
Speaker 2: Jared kellnick over four to three k's. So that story
Speaker 2: is really tapering off here as we go. But Spencer
Speaker 2: Streyder Welsh, we gotta talk about this. This is another
Speaker 2: less than dominant outing. It's been a couple of them now.
Speaker 2: The one against the Mets wasn't great last week. Five innings,
Speaker 2: five earned, six k's. Are you any concerns here about
Speaker 2: Spencer Schrider or this is just a rough patch because
Speaker 2: it's getting enough.
Speaker 3: This was when we just did a breakdown on So
Speaker 3: the v low down is concerning. It's absolutely concerning. Fastball
Speaker 3: slider both down a little bit. I kind of wonder
Speaker 3: and I don't really have any information on it. There's
Speaker 3: a part of me that wonders, is he maybe taking
Speaker 3: a tiny bit off to be able to push the
Speaker 3: whole season. He wasn't a starter. No thing is like,
Speaker 3: he wasn't a full starter last year and he got
Speaker 3: his innings. He has to be counted on for a
Speaker 3: ton more innings this year. If there's something about the
Speaker 3: process of just taking a little bit off to maybe
Speaker 3: be able to maintain your body or injury worry, that's
Speaker 3: a speculative type of thing. I still think he's there.
Speaker 3: I was looking at the individual pitches and the I
Speaker 3: believe it's the hard hit percentage on the fastball is
Speaker 3: no different. It's still getting its whiffs. The slider is
Speaker 3: getting banged though it was twenty two percent last year
Speaker 3: up to forty percent this year, So that slider is
Speaker 3: just getting smacked, and he's putting it right in the
Speaker 3: bottom corner of the zone more it's sitting there, so
Speaker 3: I think guys are sitting to try to hit that one,
Speaker 3: and the homers are coming off of that fastball, so
Speaker 3: he's just got to flip the mix a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't know if the via the villa is like
Speaker 3: the biggest concern thing we would have over all of anybody,
Speaker 3: and I'm giving him a little bit more of a pass.
Speaker 3: But if you watch the trade video this week, I'm
Speaker 3: buying on him. This last start wasn't the great purchase,
Speaker 3: but I think I may have even said maybe you
Speaker 3: want a wait to start two.
Speaker 1: Well start now. This is the window to buy.
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Speaker 3: All right, I would love to pick some prizes. My
Speaker 3: prize picking today is gonna start with the show. Hey o,
Speaker 3: Tani hot dog thing, the taco hot dog that we discussed.
Speaker 1: It is available a dog. It's not a taco, it's
Speaker 1: a taco dog.
Speaker 3: Taco dog is available and it brings the strikeout signed
Speaker 3: to five and a half. So give me that. I
Speaker 3: will pair that with Christian Javier and Mackenzie Gore hits
Speaker 3: one and a half under through the first inning, both
Speaker 3: of those offenses against these pitchers. I like you, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Todz Bradley Fantasy score twenty nine
Speaker 3: and a half. So get your Taco hot dogs and
Speaker 3: flow them out because there's four or five different options.
Speaker 3: So it's a fun day. It's a fun day to
Speaker 3: get your taco hot dogs.
Speaker 2: Otani on seven strikeouts over Christian Javier a five strikeouts
Speaker 2: over josel two of a seven and a half hitter,
Speaker 2: fantasy score over. It's not a great betting day. I
Speaker 2: like the Chicago Cubs on the money line today. To
Speaker 2: Christian Javier really is what you're looking at. To me,
Speaker 2: Christian Javier five and a half k's over o Tani
Speaker 2: seven and a half over basically my prize picks. I'm
Speaker 2: just dragging into the betting Aaron Nola five and a half.
Speaker 2: That's an afternoon game. So if you want to bet that,
Speaker 2: bet that now that's five and a half. If you
Speaker 2: want to put all three together, you can do that
Speaker 2: and just kind of watch them unfold. And if you
Speaker 2: get Nola and that's going well, and then you get
Speaker 2: Houston or you know, we get Otani to get to
Speaker 2: that level or Javier to get to that DOULEA might
Speaker 2: even offer you a cash out and you can still
Speaker 2: make money on it. If you're watching tonight Live Welsh,
Speaker 2: what do you have on the betting side today?
Speaker 3: You know one thing you could do too, with your
Speaker 3: three strikeouts, like you were saying, you could put those
Speaker 3: in price picks, and you can actually do insurance, so
Speaker 3: if one doesn't cash, you can Can you do that
Speaker 3: on price pick on prize picks, Prize picks, Prize Picks.
Speaker 3: I actually like that, and also care about talking about
Speaker 3: Christian Javier because I talked about Christian Javier the other
Speaker 3: day and I got screamed at because I apparently jinxed him.
Speaker 3: So okay, there you go. Sometimes I do apparently I
Speaker 3: do price picks, Price picks, Price Picks. I also like
Speaker 3: the Chicago game that you talked about, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take the first five Marcus Stroman, I believe still leads
Speaker 3: the league and quality starts, so through the first five,
Speaker 3: that's his play. I'm gonna go up one run through
Speaker 3: the first five for the Cubs, and then I'm also
Speaker 3: gonna take the Minnesota Twins team total runs to the
Speaker 3: whole game at four and a half, both right around
Speaker 3: like even money.
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Speaker 2: the DFS pieces today, Sunny Gray at ten point one,
Speaker 2: Javier again ten point three, Otani ten point seven, Nadiyevaldi
Speaker 2: if you want to go all the way to the
Speaker 2: top of the board, but it is tricky there because
Speaker 2: it's Evaldi and Otani. So maybe you just go and
Speaker 2: attack that game differently and you go look for the
Speaker 2: under in that game or if you can find a
Speaker 2: combined strikeout total over on that game. Atlanta, Houston, those
Speaker 2: are where you're looking for offense today. Also, Michael Harris
Speaker 2: and Jose Brady Is Welsh mentioned starting to get hot
Speaker 2: a bray you two point six, Michael Harris still two
Speaker 2: point five, but he's getting hot too.
Speaker 1: Austin Riley's my home run call for the day.
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Speaker 2: what do you have for the people who's going yard today?
Speaker 3: I also just want to point out I love the
Speaker 3: idea of like the old. Like in the past, it
Speaker 3: would be like Grandma throwing out a box. New age
Speaker 3: is going to be like Grandma. Watch your defrag my
Speaker 3: hard drive. I lost all my cards and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I drive was getting fau Where do you wind
Speaker 1: for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Try it over at the processing speed. It's so slow.
Speaker 2: It's one thing I hate it so when everyone's processing
Speaker 2: speed is hell cluttered.
Speaker 3: Get these on an SSD hard drive. Honey, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: My home run call for the day. I had to
Speaker 3: scroll down to it. Jose Ramirez, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 3: Hosey Ramirez. A lot of homers coming out of whoever
Speaker 3: the hell they're playing. I completely forgot. My brain has
Speaker 3: been mushed. But Jose Ramirez, I'm going for multiple There's
Speaker 3: a reason I really loved it. That's why I picked it,
Speaker 3: but I can't get whenever it was.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my brain has been fried. I've already I've already,
Speaker 3: I've already messed. Oh it was Ryan Weathers, Ryan Weathers
Speaker 3: awful lots of homers, Josa Ramirez.
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