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Speaker 1: I want to talk about some of the baseball standings
Speaker 1: this year because it feels like the upside down and
Speaker 1: stranger things right now, some weird stuff, wacky things are
Speaker 1: going on. I also have a really provocative question to
Speaker 1: ask you. I know that's a team gotta wait, Gonna
Speaker 1: wait a little bit longer. In the show. But before
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Speaker 3: Provocatcy supervocative question, it could.
Speaker 1: Be no, it's a baseball related question. It's actually something
Speaker 1: that Mike Lole was talking about the other day on
Speaker 1: MLB Network and I thought, wow, he's got a point
Speaker 1: there about something. So again, before we get into that,
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Speaker 1: start with you know, I know it wasn't good right
Speaker 1: away for Edward Julian, but you know what wasn't good
Speaker 1: the second time around, But you know what, third times
Speaker 1: the charm because Julian's been really good two for two
Speaker 1: of the solo homer, two walks on the day, still
Speaker 1: very lightly rostered across leagues. I know this time of
Speaker 1: year a lot of people start kind of paying less
Speaker 1: attention to the waiver wire, but he is out there
Speaker 1: and way more than half of league's Julian to me
Speaker 1: is that perfect guy that stash him on your bench
Speaker 1: and see if this is finally working. Because as I said,
Speaker 1: when I watched him in spring training. I know you've
Speaker 1: talked about him too, So this to me was one
Speaker 1: of these kids, if you just leave him alone, he's
Speaker 1: going to figure it out. He's got a good left
Speaker 1: handed swing. Everything I like about Edward Julie and the hitter.
Speaker 1: It was just gonna take a little time for him
Speaker 1: to get his confidence with the major league pitching. It
Speaker 1: seems like that's starting to work out, and it seems
Speaker 1: like recently this guy is starting to get those feet
Speaker 1: very wet at the major league level. What do you
Speaker 1: think about this run that Julie has been on for
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as you mentioned me seeing him was in
Speaker 2: the aarson A Fall League. I saw him just, I
Speaker 2: mean almost every other day, every other day out here
Speaker 2: absolutely tattooing baseballs and even when he got into some
Speaker 2: plump because the weird thing about him, and this is
Speaker 2: the thing that hasn't completely translated this year, is a
Speaker 2: much higher walk rate type of guy. Like you can
Speaker 2: see a whole lot of pitches, but he also would
Speaker 2: have this follow him here passive aggressiveness where he would
Speaker 2: be passive in nature, but man, when he got into
Speaker 2: a point of account, he wanted to destroy baseballs, and
Speaker 2: we're seeing that where he's got a thirty one percent
Speaker 2: k percentage on.
Speaker 3: The air, which is not good.
Speaker 2: And these are the type of guys who would kind
Speaker 2: of pick out and point that. But sixteen percent barrel
Speaker 2: rate is near the tops of the league. So far
Speaker 2: this year, he's hitting over three hundred. He's a really
Speaker 2: good distribution of how he's hit the ball. Homers have
Speaker 2: kind of gone across all sides of the field. He's
Speaker 2: done really good against fastballs this year, hitting over three hundred,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't let at least on paper yet any
Speaker 2: of you know, Slider's curveballs be the death of him.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: Breaking pitches have one of the bigger discrepancies of like
Speaker 2: actual results versus expected results to seventy six batting average
Speaker 2: two thirteen against some breaking pitches, but he's hitting over
Speaker 2: two hundred against all types of pitches. He's distributing the
Speaker 2: ball all around the field. He's just a really good
Speaker 2: hitter who's got raw power, and he's on that good
Speaker 2: streak right now. So these rookies can be a little
Speaker 2: bit finicky, but I think we mentioned this yesterday. Him
Speaker 2: and Kirolof right now, they're just getting going even though
Speaker 2: you're a loss. Striking out a bit well yesterday, so.
Speaker 1: I said, look is starting to look good. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny. We didn't think at this point in the
Speaker 1: season if the Twins were in first place, then it
Speaker 1: would be kier Law and Edward Juliet and who are
Speaker 1: the guys you got to fear in that offense necessarily,
Speaker 1: But that's been the case, and they defined themselves in
Speaker 1: first place. Also because of a guy named ken Tamaida. Well,
Speaker 1: she you're familiar with ken to Maiaida. I think that
Speaker 1: run you know this guy pictures for the Twins. Nine
Speaker 1: strikeouts across six of the third yesterday, So no decision
Speaker 1: against the Marrows, but still a good performance from him.
Speaker 1: Good performance from Luis Gestillo, one of our DFS pitchers yesterday.
Speaker 1: Eleven strikeouts for him. Oh that's good. Also Edward Rodriguez
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. Put it on the board, Yes, got the
Speaker 1: over on that strikeout total.
Speaker 2: Let's also put on the board that might have been
Speaker 2: his last start. There was a rumor going around that
Speaker 2: there were a whole lot of extra scouty scouts that
Speaker 2: were at that game that might have been his last start,
Speaker 2: and it was a really, really good one. Joe and
Speaker 2: I have been talking at nauseum this year about how
Speaker 2: Edward is going to Edward EDWARDO is going to get traded,
Speaker 2: and he would be one of the high viable pitchers
Speaker 2: the team should.
Speaker 3: Be looking at. I think the Tigers would want to.
Speaker 2: Be aggressive after that great of an outing. He just
Speaker 2: had to move because he's been out with injury. I
Speaker 2: think he'd have been traded like a month ago had
Speaker 2: he been around this whole time. But I think that
Speaker 2: might have been his last start because I don't know
Speaker 2: what the Tigers would gain by putting him out for
Speaker 2: another start right near the end of the deadline, maybe
Speaker 2: getting blown up.
Speaker 3: So we might be.
Speaker 2: Seeing him in a new uniform soon. And this is
Speaker 2: why I would have gone and traded for him, because
Speaker 2: I do think if he goes to a place like
Speaker 2: the Astros, who I really think should pick him up,
Speaker 2: or the Diamondbacks, who have three starters on their roster
Speaker 2: right now, both of those are huge upgrades, and really
Speaker 2: every team that's going to trade for him is going
Speaker 2: to be an upgrade.
Speaker 3: So this is a guy I still want to go get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, understandably, So all right, let's continue on with some
Speaker 1: of the news and notes. So Edward O very good.
Speaker 1: Chase Silseth, which is always hard for me to say,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna say it again. He did it.
Speaker 1: That's why I always feel like that Jay felt. I
Speaker 1: mean that is that's a look, mister and missus Silseth.
Speaker 1: That's a terrible name.
Speaker 2: Parent like Chase, Well, it could have been like Richard
Speaker 2: Richard Silseth. That's a little bit better, except when you get.
Speaker 1: Anything that could Chase silk Seth. I mean, it's just hard.
Speaker 1: Ten strikeouts anyway, uh, and swept the Yankees.
Speaker 3: Just made you list, but just made your list after
Speaker 3: you did it too.
Speaker 1: I sound like mad Dog Ruth. I'll high he and everybody.
Speaker 1: What happened in everybody? And I got a high heat.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about I gotta talk about him all day.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna talk about. The Yankees. What the
Speaker 1: hell is going on now? Welsh? Going on with the Yankees?
Speaker 1: But yeah, what is going on with the Yankees? You know,
Speaker 1: they are still above five hundred, but they're in last place.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it feels sad for the Yankees,
Speaker 1: but it is a frustrating spot. If you're and this
Speaker 1: is where you can start talking about the standings here
Speaker 1: for a moment. If you're the Yankees, you're looking at
Speaker 1: you got the same records the Twins were in first place,
Speaker 1: but you're in last place in the East and you
Speaker 1: might not make the playoffs at this stretch. Do you
Speaker 1: think that major League Baseball, because of the balance schedule
Speaker 1: being back, should go back to either a larger structure
Speaker 1: of American League East and West and get rid of
Speaker 1: these three divisions because back in the day that's what
Speaker 1: it used to be when the balance schedule did exist.
Speaker 1: Because these three divisions, again, you're not getting necessarily the
Speaker 1: best teams in the playoffs. And if you're Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: you want the best teams in the playoffs because that's
Speaker 1: usually good theater, that's usually good ratings. And this is
Speaker 1: what Mike Glow was talking about, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was actually kind of provocative. I would rather have the
Speaker 1: best teams. What do divisions mean at this point? I
Speaker 1: don't want to get rid of divisions altogether the way
Speaker 1: he did, but I think maybe there's a middle ground
Speaker 1: where you chop it up to East and West as
Speaker 1: opposed to the East, West, Central and maybe just maybe
Speaker 1: you might get a better playoff product with these expanded playoffs.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Welsh, I like that was very good.
Speaker 3: I like that idea.
Speaker 2: I'm not beholden to divisions. I do think there would
Speaker 2: kind of be like, oh, why why do the Euston
Speaker 2: West get it? And why not the Central? And you know,
Speaker 2: why don't we do that and add another one? You
Speaker 2: know'll do like football, I think it's fine. I want
Speaker 2: the best teams to be in. I kind of hate
Speaker 2: when you look at a division and it's just like,
Speaker 2: you know, and L West has got you know, four
Speaker 2: teams above five hundred, and then you look over here
Speaker 2: and then there's just like one team that's barely over
Speaker 2: five hundred and the next you know, four game.
Speaker 1: The original sin of AI was here for a second.
Speaker 1: The original sin of these divisions was back in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four. So the first time, right before the strike.
Speaker 1: People forget this and at the time I remember this,
Speaker 1: the I think it was the Texas Rangers were leading
Speaker 1: that division. They were ten games under five hundred. So
Speaker 1: basically with you know, they shut down the season what
Speaker 1: July into July, I think it was right around there.
Speaker 1: Basically you know, there was a good chance that a
Speaker 1: team that was under five hundred was going to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And who knows if this system of the
Speaker 1: three divisions would have survived that, Like, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people would have made a stick say this
Speaker 1: is a terrible idea, let's go back to the way
Speaker 1: it was. But the strike happened, and everybody forgot because
Speaker 1: they never happened. It never came to fruition, and then
Speaker 1: it got better after that. And you know, the limited playoffs, well,
Speaker 1: with the expanded playoffs, it's very interesting, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand why to the money around and all that nonsense,
Speaker 1: But the way you spread money around is to make
Speaker 1: money in the playoffs. You make money the playoffs by
Speaker 1: having the better teams and the bigger stars in those playoffs.
Speaker 2: I'm indifferent. I'm indifferent, like whatever makes the best product
Speaker 2: out there, and the best teams are out there, and
Speaker 2: we're not, you know, pushing up garbage teams because of
Speaker 2: a divisional thing. But the real, really only thing is
Speaker 2: like winning a division. That's the only like major advantage
Speaker 2: on either side of these. So if they want to
Speaker 2: do it, that's great. I don't know how that turned
Speaker 2: in from the Yankees being little bottom feeders here, but
Speaker 2: they're not going to play in it regardless.
Speaker 3: Hey, here's the cool thing.
Speaker 2: No matter what you do, no matter how you restructure
Speaker 2: all of this. Right now, Joe, if you were to
Speaker 2: do it today, Yanks aren't making the playoffs, they're not
Speaker 2: getting in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get to Francisco Alvarez because I
Speaker 1: can still hot two more hits. Let's go. And Met's
Speaker 1: are beating up on the White Sox and I'm not
Speaker 1: really excited about that. It's just the thing they're doing
Speaker 1: right now. But man, oh man, as Francisco Alvarez been good.
Speaker 1: I got to ask you this, Well, you got the
Speaker 1: whole board in front of you. A catcher next year,
Speaker 1: what's that board look like? Give me your one, two,
Speaker 1: three ranking? Oh? Whereas adlely, where's Francisco Alvarez? Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: real Muto he in that conversation? No mo like he's gone.
Speaker 2: The tough part about that is, I'm not a catcher guy.
Speaker 2: If anybody's followed me knows, like, I don't really get
Speaker 2: into draft. Like the Ramutto stuff is fun, but I
Speaker 2: don't draft Romuto. I never do, ever, ever, ever, do
Speaker 2: I invest that high of a pick into catchers. So
Speaker 2: I want to say, look, I get what you're getting
Speaker 2: at here.
Speaker 3: I want to say Adley's probably at the top.
Speaker 2: I mean, Ramuta, by the way, is still valuable, and
Speaker 2: if he comes at a discount, I like it.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the stats. If everybody's wondering what I'm
Speaker 3: doing here, I guess I would probably go Adle.
Speaker 2: I might still go Ramuto there, and then I think
Speaker 2: there's a tier combo here of Will Smith, Sean Murphy,
Speaker 2: and probably Francisco Alvarez, and someone might be screaming why
Speaker 2: not Jonaheim. I think Jonahan is gonna kind of backtrack.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's at the bottom of that tier, and maybe
Speaker 2: he's not in it. I don't know if I'm forgetting
Speaker 2: anybody statistically that's not really doing anything, but I think.
Speaker 3: That's like cases. I think he sits in the second here.
Speaker 1: I think boy to Alvarez and say, okay, I kind
Speaker 1: of know what Murphy is at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: He's in his quote unquote prime yep. Alvarez keeps doing
Speaker 1: what he's doing. There is like another gear potentially in
Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez that here's what I'll give you really terrifying
Speaker 1: for the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: In Dynasty, I think you can make the argument that
Speaker 2: this is the number three catcher in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: I'd make the argument he's the number two catcher.
Speaker 2: And you could maybe do too, maybe Will Smith above.
Speaker 2: Will Smith is very.
Speaker 1: Young based on age, still he's just a kid.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm saying, like Will Smith is still young
Speaker 2: and he's not like an older catcher, and he provides
Speaker 2: I think Smith, No, he can't.
Speaker 3: I think he's twenty seven. Let's take a look here.
Speaker 1: That's a big difference. No, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: What I'm getting at is I think I think in
Speaker 2: these like three year windows, three four year windows.
Speaker 3: That I think he's safer.
Speaker 2: Francisco Alvarez is doing fantastic, by the way, but it's
Speaker 2: been a long road to get here to still a
Speaker 2: batting under two fifty, which is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 1: And that's what the highest aid It was early on too,
Speaker 1: I mean it was dreadful early on. What are the
Speaker 1: numbers here on Alvarez looking at him just from let's
Speaker 1: say the last two months or the last sixty days
Speaker 1: or something like that. And again I don't want to
Speaker 1: judge somebody off that either because I understand that that
Speaker 1: is not indicative of the whole picture. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think we have to ask ourselves a question.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the beginning of his path if he
Speaker 1: stays on the current path. This is a very exciting
Speaker 1: time here for Francis l Alfres and Dynasty.
Speaker 2: In July he's hitting three eighty one with seven homers.
Speaker 2: Last month in June he hit one fifty one with
Speaker 2: four homers. In May he hit two ninety two, and
Speaker 2: in March through April he hit one ninety four. So
Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking about, the inconsistency. So you can
Speaker 2: make the argument you want to go all the way
Speaker 2: up to him being number two. You could do that
Speaker 2: in Dynasty. I think he can be three four, and
Speaker 2: Redraft I think he sits in that five spot. But
Speaker 2: it's more about the second tier, because I think there
Speaker 2: might be an elite tier, which really is like Adle
Speaker 2: and you can make arguments why he spoke wouldn't be there,
Speaker 2: and maybe Sean Murphy, and then you're gonna throw down
Speaker 2: all of these other guys that are in there. The
Speaker 2: rest of the year is going to be the separator.
Speaker 2: If he ends up hitting two thirty, If he hits
Speaker 2: two fifty and he's got twenty homers, you know what
Speaker 2: might be the first catcher that goes overall. I'm not
Speaker 2: so sure that happens. If he's down closer to two
Speaker 2: thirty that has twenty four homers, We're going to see
Speaker 2: the batting average downside, and we'll be and we'll have
Speaker 2: remembered like Gary Sanchez and maybe worry a little bit.
Speaker 1: But there are some safer batting average guy Sanchez too,
Speaker 1: Like Jason here made a comment that he's Gary Sanchez.
Speaker 1: He's already a better defensive catcher than Gary Sanchez is,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the pitchers have said they like
Speaker 1: throwing to him, and that's important. Also, it's part of
Speaker 1: this mix. The Orioles making moves. They are first place.
Speaker 1: That's right. I said it, the first place Orioles. It's
Speaker 1: a fun thing to say they made a move for
Speaker 1: Shintaro Fujinama Fujinami. Look, here's here's my point. They're they're
Speaker 1: making moves. They are looking to say, okay, let's address
Speaker 1: some of our needs. Let's start to pretend like we're
Speaker 1: actually in this because guess what, we are. They've got
Speaker 1: a deep farm system. I'm looking at the Orioles to
Speaker 1: make a move here. Sooner than later. They have gone
Speaker 1: past the Rays, which nobody thought any like. Ah, the
Speaker 1: Rays couldn't possibly give up this division right Well, guess what.
Speaker 1: The Orioles are in front right now. So I don't
Speaker 1: know how long it's going to last. Welsh. But to
Speaker 1: the point about moves, here's another one that I think
Speaker 1: is an interesting precursor. Speaking of precursors, pre Lander Barroa.
Speaker 1: See what I did there? See that segue robot couldn't
Speaker 1: do that? Welsh double A Arkansas twenty three year old
Speaker 1: kid just been brilliant recently, A two ninety three e
Speaker 1: a one point three zero whip a sixty nine strikeouts
Speaker 1: and forty six innings. So you bring this kid up,
Speaker 1: you have I'm working out of the bullpen. To me again,
Speaker 1: if I'm Seattle, I'm kind of with house money right now.
Speaker 1: I'm hovering that five hundred range. I'm like, look, you
Speaker 1: know what, let me move Seawald now to somebody else.
Speaker 1: I got a kid who can close. I've got some
Speaker 1: other young bullpen arms here. We might be able to
Speaker 1: get something out of I still think Sea Wall's that
Speaker 1: got to go because I think there's a couple of
Speaker 1: teams that would value him right now in that market,
Speaker 1: you can kind of do that thing where you're playing
Speaker 1: for this year, but you're really playing for next year.
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what Seatle should be doing.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts, Yeah, I think that could be the case.
Speaker 2: I love prelandon Broa coming into this year, really good
Speaker 2: spin rates, guy pounds his own strikeouts. But then I
Speaker 2: think it was maybe April they moved him into a
Speaker 2: relief role. They just transitioned him from being a starter
Speaker 2: into pitching in relief in the minors, and he's had
Speaker 2: really great success in short stends.
Speaker 3: Velo can come back up. Prelander Barroa is a great
Speaker 3: real life option.
Speaker 2: He's not a good fantasy option. But to your point,
Speaker 2: this could be the start because they're ten games out
Speaker 2: right now in fourth in that division, that maybe they
Speaker 2: do do the one foot in one fin out where
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, we're making smaller moves. We trade Seawald,
Speaker 2: we've got Munnos, we've got some other bullpen pieces. If
Speaker 2: they don't see the future into that and they want
Speaker 2: to see what some of these guys are starting to
Speaker 2: look like and that's why they were aggressive with Bryce Miller.
Speaker 2: You're now seeing Prelander Baroa. I don't think pre Lander
Speaker 2: Burrow has any fantasy value whatsoever this year, but he
Speaker 2: is someone to watch if the success gets there. And
Speaker 2: to your point, they move on from a guy like
Speaker 2: Sea Wald, which would be phenomenal for Andres Munios.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely phenomenal for him, without a doubt. All right,
Speaker 1: let's continue on here now again. You know, different slate today,
Speaker 1: so there's not gonna be a lot of DFS talks
Speaker 1: because everything is going on here and I don't want
Speaker 1: to waste right now.
Speaker 3: I hated that woman woke up today. It wasn't like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't realize that either.
Speaker 2: There's like half the game with the Diamondbacks are playing
Speaker 2: right now. Half the games are already going on. It
Speaker 2: was a struggle trying to get like the right bets
Speaker 2: and the prize picks and all that stuff because half
Speaker 2: the games are gonna be done when we're posted.
Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what I already did too. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, because it's in the show sheets,
Speaker 1: so if you looked at it, maybe you know it's
Speaker 1: probably in there. Jason, by the way, wants to point
Speaker 1: out that what he means is the boom er bust
Speaker 1: of Gary Sanchez. Yes, Sanchez did get a lot of
Speaker 1: reps a catcher. He was a terrible defensive catcher with
Speaker 1: the Yankees. He had all kinds of problems with the
Speaker 1: pitching staff, all kinds of problems just catching the ball.
Speaker 1: They were so tough on him in the New York
Speaker 1: and he deservedly so. And they used to run these
Speaker 1: clips of it, missing balls and all these problems and
Speaker 1: these pass balls all over the places. But'll look it up, man,
Speaker 1: that was a real thing. Three up, the three down, the.
Speaker 3: Last, the last.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they're trying to pinpoint it's a it's a it's
Speaker 2: a it's a baseball move. Trying to get in there
Speaker 2: before you go to the next segment there. But well,
Speaker 2: I'll just say the last mess game I watched, Uh,
Speaker 2: they were specifically going through some of the work that
Speaker 2: Francisco Alvarez has been doing and changing defensively and how
Speaker 2: he's framing himself his body to there's this awful pass ball,
Speaker 2: you know what, eighty eight feet would ever bounced up
Speaker 2: and he had positioned himself perfectly to catch it, so
Speaker 2: that I think is one of the big changes because
Speaker 2: you have a you have a veteran staff that can
Speaker 2: call their own games if they want, and he just
Speaker 2: needs to be there defensively and he's doing that.
Speaker 3: But even if he wasn't.
Speaker 2: With Gary Sanchez, that was all about the bat, and
Speaker 2: his bat started to falter. And that's the thing I'm
Speaker 2: paying attention with Alpharez because we just got to make
Speaker 2: sure the bat is going to be consistent. He has
Speaker 2: wild swing months and based off of the trajectory of
Speaker 2: what we've seen, we're in for a not good one
Speaker 2: coming up here. It's only under two hundred or like
Speaker 2: three hundred. That's all that he does, I.
Speaker 1: Know, and I just want to see August in September.
Speaker 1: If he can find that milk ground, gonna be dangerous.
Speaker 1: You Darvish could be dangerous too. He is back on track.
Speaker 1: Excellent performance yesterday, six shoutout innings over the Blue Jay,
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts. That's the you Darvish I know and love.
Speaker 1: Will Benson won for three with a homer, so good
Speaker 1: on him as the Reds beat the Giants three two,
Speaker 1: and Justin Verlander, nice strikeout game for him, seven k's
Speaker 1: the over on there. Ching got that one as well
Speaker 1: at the six and a half. I think it was
Speaker 1: was high. You did it justin I'm so proud of you,
Speaker 1: you know, didn't do it the three down Carlos Rodin
Speaker 1: six runs and four and a third gross, Ryan Bellow
Speaker 1: Welsh not a good one. Torch for six runs four innings.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they got swept by the A's. What is that?
Speaker 1: How do you lose to it? Right? Swept or twitter three?
Speaker 1: I can't remember now either way. You lost too many
Speaker 1: games in the as. Can I just say that? Is
Speaker 1: that enough there? And why isn't Jaron Durant playing every day?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about that a little bit too, because that,
Speaker 1: like corn is a great manager. But I don't understand
Speaker 1: why Duran's not playing every day, Like the guy's basically
Speaker 1: hitting every time he's in the lineup. And I get like,
Speaker 1: there's veteran things and people you want to get this.
Speaker 1: I get all that, but you gotta win. You gotta
Speaker 1: stay relevant right now, and I don't know why Duran's
Speaker 1: not in the line up. More devors by the way
Speaker 1: over four with a K when he returned to the
Speaker 1: lineup after missing the last couple of days, but well,
Speaker 1: she you have any thoughts here on the Yankees kind
Speaker 1: of you know, going out there to La or at
Speaker 1: the or the Angels, laying a turd here basically against
Speaker 1: the Angels, And do you think that Aaron Judge can
Speaker 1: save them? Still?
Speaker 3: I definitely think so.
Speaker 2: Some years back, I worked at a radio station that
Speaker 2: was doing The Sun's draft. They did their draft and
Speaker 2: we went to their I'm fregeting what the stadium is now.
Speaker 2: We went to the stadium doing a draft party and
Speaker 2: they ended up trading all their draft picks. And they
Speaker 2: knew they were going to do this, and there's hundreds
Speaker 2: and hundreds of people there. Radio stations are there talking
Speaker 2: about it, and we're like, oh okay, and they trade it
Speaker 2: and then out comes Robert Sarver with a mari Stotdameyer
Speaker 2: who had been hurt the previous year, and they said.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, because this is our draft pick.
Speaker 3: We did it.
Speaker 2: Look, everybody, we don't need picks. We got a Marie
Speaker 2: Stodameyer and everyone's like, okay, yay. That is similar to
Speaker 2: a I think how the Yankees might present everything. They'll
Speaker 2: make little to know moves everyone is going to be
Speaker 2: upset and they'll be like, hey, listen, here's the move
Speaker 2: we made.
Speaker 3: We got Aaron Judge back.
Speaker 2: And that's not good enough for Yankees, especially as you
Speaker 2: said so aptly.
Speaker 3: The land turns. You need more than you're going to
Speaker 3: do anything, or you.
Speaker 1: Just like the Angels who also hope too, because like that,
Speaker 1: that's the most dangerous thing. Like the worst thing for
Speaker 1: the Angels I think right now is to sweep the
Speaker 1: Yankees because that's a false hope for sure for them.
Speaker 1: We got to get these in before it's somebody's one
Speaker 1: o'clock games. So let's go Prize Picks. Sign up for
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Speaker 1: But make sure when you sign up you use the
Speaker 1: promo code leading off. It's very easy. You get one
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Speaker 1: good times there, Welsh. I'm gonna run through because I'm
Speaker 1: so excited about mine today. Blake Snell Pitcher strikeout six
Speaker 1: over more on Blake Snell in a moment, Tyler Glass
Speaker 1: now eight pitcher strikeouts. I'm gonna go under against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: So I'm going on under here. I think that's a
Speaker 1: very big number, eight eight and a half. I typically
Speaker 1: go the unders even with a big strikeout artists like
Speaker 1: Glass Now and then Chris Bassett combined with Blake Snell
Speaker 1: eleven strikeouts. I think Blake Snell can get to eleven
Speaker 1: by himself because why it's basically what has been doing
Speaker 1: for the last month and a half. So, Welsh, what
Speaker 1: are your prize picks for today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even see that you had that.
Speaker 2: That was actually like, my absolutely favorite was the Bike
Speaker 2: Snell Basset combo, so yes, I have got that. I
Speaker 2: got Goldie on the Fantasy score. I actually had the
Speaker 2: hit Run RBI, which was one and a half, but
Speaker 2: I went with Fantasy score. That's a little bit better
Speaker 2: because Goldie can walk. I'm going with Riley Green runs
Speaker 2: point five. I got to get back on the board.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to rock a price picks.
Speaker 2: I haven't done that in a couple of weeks. So
Speaker 2: that's what we're gonna do here, Snell Basset Combo, Goldie Score,
Speaker 2: Raley Green Run.
Speaker 1: Let's cash it, Okay, let's cash it. Also, speaking of cash,
Speaker 1: let's talk a little BP action. So specifically on FanDuel
Speaker 1: today you have this option. It's the ladder bed of
Speaker 1: Blake Snell. The number at six and a half is
Speaker 1: already good at plus money plus one eighteen, so there
Speaker 1: you go. Then after that you've got options. So plus
Speaker 1: seven strikeouts or seven plus I should say, is plus
Speaker 1: one twenty very nice. Then eight or more plus two
Speaker 1: thirty nine plus plus four forty, and then ten plus
Speaker 1: eight seventy, so you can kind of, you know, go
Speaker 1: incrementally lower with some of these higher strikeout totals. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want to do, you want to minimize your
Speaker 1: risk a little bit. But I'm in today because the
Speaker 1: Blake Snell totals have been very good. So I've made
Speaker 1: the investment. I am climbing the ladder.
Speaker 3: With far going up the ladder.
Speaker 1: How far I went all the way to the I
Speaker 1: went all the way to the ten with a smaller way.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you something.
Speaker 1: I got a tough cop from the South side of Chicago.
Speaker 2: Hey, buddy, let me ask you. Let me ask you
Speaker 2: something about what anytime a month prior in this year
Speaker 2: did you think you would ever be out here promoting
Speaker 2: Blake's Snell ladder betting.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you no.
Speaker 3: I don't know, buddy.
Speaker 1: I actually kind of never thought I would get there.
Speaker 1: I never thought I But you know what, this just
Speaker 1: shows you what kind of a degenerate I am. I'm
Speaker 1: willing to say, you know what. Yeah, hey, this is
Speaker 1: what's happening. I'm gonna make money on it, regardless of
Speaker 1: whatever trepidation or concern that I had. But we are
Speaker 1: leaving this one right in the wire before the one
Speaker 1: o'clock starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. By the way, I would do the six
Speaker 3: seven eight. That's the one.
Speaker 2: I like two units on six, one and a half
Speaker 2: on six and a half and then go to seven.
Speaker 3: But eight I have Blake Snell six and a half over.
Speaker 3: That was my bet before.
Speaker 2: I like Seattle money line through the first five innings.
Speaker 3: I like that one and this one.
Speaker 2: I put together a little bit go Goldie and Wander
Speaker 2: Franco both to just get a single hit. That's a
Speaker 2: combo parlay that is minus one oh five.
Speaker 1: Wonky nailed it here, Joe promoting Blake's and el Ladder
Speaker 1: betting is when the sitcom jumps the shark. It is
Speaker 1: so in the in the immortal words of phonsie A
Speaker 1: and people don't know that. That's what jump the Shark
Speaker 1: is from. A lot of people don't know that. A
Speaker 1: little trivial trivia for you or trivial.
Speaker 2: We had somebody with the paint the town red message
Speaker 2: us about that.
Speaker 1: We got all that was great on Twitter. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love the educational See. I love that. I love when,
Speaker 1: like you forget that you even have a conversation about
Speaker 1: something or say something kind of innocuous, and then somebody decides,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go find out the answer to that,
Speaker 1: and it comes and brings it to you. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love the Peanuts and the Crackerjacks. You're the best
Speaker 1: people on the planet. I don't care what Welsh says,
Speaker 1: or mayor for that matter. Let's also talk about another
Speaker 1: way to have fun with fantasy baseball, and that way,
Speaker 1: of course, is so rare. So go sign up today
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Speaker 1: and of course it's free. It's fantasy. It's yards yea
Speaker 1: bye you selly scout. You put your lineup together. See
Speaker 1: that's what you do, you know, lasses on the South
Speaker 1: side of Chicago. So maybe I should like kind of
Speaker 1: get in that that street tough kind of voice here.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, Pal, I want you to sign up
Speaker 1: for so rec and then you go all that and
Speaker 1: you join the other league and you go play a
Speaker 1: fancy pros dot com slash leading off. All right, that
Speaker 1: Pali and great things, say a Kapa. I don't have
Speaker 1: to take any of y'all guff. That's right, Welsh. No,
Speaker 1: So do you have a home run call? That is
Speaker 1: the question.
Speaker 3: I have a home run call. By the way, these
Speaker 3: early games, these.
Speaker 1: I hate this. Today is a terrible day for for
Speaker 1: this you know, time frame, because there's really barely anything happening.
Speaker 1: I want to win, like you know, like single game
Speaker 1: contests and stuff like that, but it's.
Speaker 3: Like fun stuff.
Speaker 2: I made a bet before the show and it's like
Speaker 2: I can't promote it, and it I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: knock on wood here, But I did the Diamondbacks U
Speaker 2: Braves under through the first three innings at two and
Speaker 2: a half runs and we're at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: third with no runs scored, and it's just like a man,
Speaker 2: these early games kill me on missed opportunities for us
Speaker 2: to talk about with you.
Speaker 3: But if you're.
Speaker 2: Following into the groups, you can obviously check out all
Speaker 2: the stuff we have over a Betty pros. All right,
Speaker 2: my home run call today, I am going with the
Speaker 2: peat of Alonzo's I'm gonna go with Pete Alonso on
Speaker 2: the big home run call here today because we had
Speaker 2: like four games to choose from that weren't tied up
Speaker 2: against this show.
Speaker 1: Yes, also JP saying, and he might be right. Perfect
Speaker 1: night to spend three hours at Oppenheimer? Is it three hours?
Speaker 1: I guess it is. It's Christopher Nolan, so really I
Speaker 1: can only hope at one point it gets the like
Speaker 1: a dream within a dream about the atomic bomb and something.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna Are you gonna do the Barbieheimer? Are
Speaker 2: you gonna do the Barbie? When the Barbie Oppenheimer? Back
Speaker 2: to back viewing.
Speaker 1: I think they're both movies that I will watch. I
Speaker 1: do like the Barbie movie looks funny. I have two
Speaker 1: daughters like they if they see it, they think it's funny.
Speaker 1: They're gonna want me to watch it. And it Margo
Speaker 1: Robbie's great Gosling's a funny guy that got some good
Speaker 1: cameos in there. I think Kate McKinnon did it she's terrific.
Speaker 1: Well I am, well, Farrell's it, like, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: that's probably like a fun ninety minute whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's an hour forty five, Oppenheimer, I do want
Speaker 1: to see. The question is do I want to see
Speaker 1: a movie for three hours in the theater nowadays or
Speaker 1: do I want to see it on my giant television
Speaker 1: downstairs in the barroom. That is the question.
Speaker 2: The only thing though, is like I think this movie,
Speaker 2: in its spectacularness of no cgi it's kind of designed
Speaker 2: to like see it in person.
Speaker 3: And you know.
Speaker 2: The unfortunate thing is is I my kid actually was
Speaker 2: interested in seeing it, but from what.
Speaker 1: I've heard, he wants to see He did.
Speaker 3: He thought it was interesting. I thought it was fascinating.
Speaker 2: But we're not going to see it because of a
Speaker 2: scene that doesn't need to well, I mean they there's
Speaker 2: a scene in there that's not for children, and I've
Speaker 2: been told so probably not going to see that one.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you about it off air, so I don't
Speaker 3: get it on camera.
Speaker 2: But yes, I want to see it, but I'm I
Speaker 2: have family, so I can't do the Barbenheimer, I can't
Speaker 2: do the barbell.
Speaker 1: The kids my daughters are away with their mom on
Speaker 1: vacation for a couple of days. So actually I have
Speaker 1: Saturday for you where I could go see the open
Speaker 1: for the three hours and should do.
Speaker 3: You should do the back to back. You should do
Speaker 3: both of them, the back to back. You should dress
Speaker 3: up too.
Speaker 2: You could you could first dress up as as the Oppenheimer,
Speaker 2: and then you could dress up as Ken.
Speaker 1: I'll have I'll shave my entire body, but I'll wear
Speaker 1: the fedora hat. How's that sound?
Speaker 3: I love it. I think it'd be a great look.
Speaker 2: By the way, could I present I don't know if
Speaker 2: we're gonna hit it this year because the clock is ticking.
Speaker 2: But as far as like getting to the fifteen thousand
Speaker 2: and the wig, could I present a Ken wig a
Speaker 2: blonde comb dough.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna get it. I love the
Speaker 1: peanuts and cracker Jacks, but we know what time. It's summertime.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna get to fifteen. Fourteen was
Speaker 1: beyond our wildest estimations. Yeah, but when we get to fifteen,
Speaker 1: we will do the wigs. We will do next year.
Speaker 1: Thing next year one hundred percent. And speaking of as
Speaker 1: things go, too. Like I said, we are going to
Speaker 1: be here in August and September. We're still working on
Speaker 1: that schedule. It probably won't be a five day week schedule,
Speaker 1: but we will be here. So we are not abandoning
Speaker 1: the baseball like some other places do. ESPN just abandoned
Speaker 1: the baseball together a couple of years ago. They just
Speaker 1: said that we're not gonna do it anymore. Basically, not us,
Speaker 1: not here at Fantasy Pros, and we appreciate you hanging
Speaker 1: out with us again. It's a lighter day. Some good
Speaker 1: discussion here. I'd love to hear from the people in
Speaker 1: the comments what they think about getting rid of the
Speaker 1: divisions and just let's go back to a structure, maybe
Speaker 1: just slice it in half American League, National League teams.
Speaker 1: I know that's a tricky potential thing there, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's something to consider. It's something
Speaker 1: to think about. Is it worth it to get the
Speaker 1: best teams in the playoffs or do you think the
Speaker 1: regionalism is important still from Major League Baseball and the
Speaker 1: revenue for those teams. It's a great conversation. So that'll
Speaker 1: do it for us. But the story of the game
Speaker 1: goes on For the Welsh, I'm Joey P. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time. Kids, Bye bye bye