Speaker 1: Unhappy Corbin, Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros.
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Speaker 2: It's me Joey p Joe Piezopia and with me today
Speaker 2: is the Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's a fun Friday.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about the night that was, look ahead
Speaker 2: to the weekend, maybe talk a little prospects past. Because
Speaker 2: Mike Mayer asked me a very provocative question before the
Speaker 2: show started. I want to get Welsh's take on some
Speaker 2: of that. And of course it's all of you joining
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Speaker 2: The Waiver Wire video just dropped yesterday. I just recorded
Speaker 2: that some of the names to pick up also the
Speaker 2: by low Sell High video. So it's not just the pod,
Speaker 2: it's more than that. It's full service. And Welsh speaking
Speaker 2: of full service, it was certainly a busy night in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: I think you'd agree, Uh yeah, yeah, jumping a busy
Speaker 3: night in sports in general. If I could just put
Speaker 3: that out there from the NBA World World Chairs, the NBA.
Speaker 1: Championship everything's the world seriously wrestling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, baseball wrestling to baseball to how about
Speaker 3: them angels? How about just pointing out the continued conversation
Speaker 3: we have about Otani and the potential MVP stuff and
Speaker 3: how it's kind of tapered back, and last night he
Speaker 3: goes six awesome trout, couple homers, I don't know, getting
Speaker 3: a little, getting a little O'tani again.
Speaker 2: Getting a little O'tani, and then Altani number is going
Speaker 2: up to five six hundred, plus six hundred, telling you
Speaker 2: this is the way to approach it. I'm gonna wait
Speaker 2: and see how high I can get it and then
Speaker 2: reinvest and see where it goes.
Speaker 1: I've already got my judge investment.
Speaker 2: That's done. I think I got it three to one,
Speaker 2: so that that's fine whatever it is it is now.
Speaker 2: But Judge, I looked this morning, was plus one hundred already,
Speaker 2: so that's gonna be a minus number. If he has
Speaker 2: a big it's over. It's over the money. You can't
Speaker 2: make it anymore. But you can't make money on a
Speaker 2: TONI still still a thing. So circling around, circling a Ryan,
Speaker 2: Let's get to the headlines here in Major League baseball
Speaker 2: starting with Otani. Six scoreless sittings and a pair of
Speaker 2: hits too. Still pretty good, and the Angels might rebound
Speaker 2: a little bit. You see the Angels having that little
Speaker 2: bounce recently, right, you see the Phillies going on as
Speaker 2: are granted, the Phillies you're playing some crap teams, and
Speaker 2: wherever you see Patrick Corbin, you should just go directly
Speaker 2: for that with all your money. Just take all your money,
Speaker 2: all your investments, all your fantasy shares or your dfs
Speaker 2: or your gambling, just go right to wherever Patrick Corbin is.
Speaker 1: He is an automatic baby.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you it's incredible. He picked up his
Speaker 3: ninth loss of the year. Left think about that. I
Speaker 3: don't believe there's a starter with nine wins and he
Speaker 3: has his ninth loss. And I don't remember anybody correct me.
Speaker 3: I don't remember a more count on get blown up
Speaker 3: pitcher in the last ten years. I mean, if Patrick
Speaker 3: goes out, he's going to get blasted. It's the easiest
Speaker 3: bet against at all times. Whether you want to go
Speaker 3: and play dfs, you stack against. Whether you want to
Speaker 3: play the run line on the opposite team you play that,
Speaker 3: you play every the runs hit. I mean, books are
Speaker 3: gonna can't give any props for Patrick Corbin if it
Speaker 3: was earned runs and everything. It's wild. And I cannot
Speaker 3: believe that team is still letting him pitch.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it's somebody that was as good as
Speaker 2: he was for as long as he was and now
Speaker 2: as bad as he was for as long as he was.
Speaker 1: Like that, that's the thing, but he never had anything
Speaker 1: like he is thirty one years old.
Speaker 2: He is thirty two years old, Like this should be
Speaker 2: like prime Patrick Corbin years. I feel like it's.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just I think it's easy. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's stubbornness or developmental coaching or whatever. But you
Speaker 3: know a guy that's always been two pitches, Like, if
Speaker 3: you're this bad, how do you not develop anything else?
Speaker 3: Do you talk to your teammates You're like, hey, what's
Speaker 3: that grip? Let me try anything else that I could.
Speaker 2: He should go sacrifice a live chicken, like like in
Speaker 2: Major League at this point, I mean.
Speaker 3: Whatever there, Yeah, I mean yeah, get the the stuff,
Speaker 3: light it, walk around, get the bad juju out. I
Speaker 3: don't know what you gotta do, because I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't recall more stubborn of a picture than this situation
Speaker 3: when you're again you're a two pitch pitcher. That slider
Speaker 3: doesn't work, that fastball isn't anything great, and he's just
Speaker 3: getting teed off on. I'm amazed he still has a
Speaker 3: job right now. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Well, we said the same thing about Dallas on a Friday,
Speaker 2: and then he was designated for assignment next day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll you know what, and he'll go back to
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks. They do that, Dallas Kico, Patrick Corman just
Speaker 3: put him back.
Speaker 1: Back to the d Backs.
Speaker 2: Uh goodness, gracious before we go onto their other headlines.
Speaker 2: A lot of fun things in the chat here, talk about,
Speaker 2: first of all, happy birthday to an og original gangsta
Speaker 2: fan of the show, which is mister Osborne. Here, Happy birthday,
Speaker 2: mister Osborne. I know you're watching live here, so shout
Speaker 2: out to him. Hey. Hey, also I see red Bee here,
Speaker 2: Who's like, how are you not talking?
Speaker 1: Wwe? Joe?
Speaker 2: I did it on the I did in this ring
Speaker 2: podcast yesterday morning. It's all I talked about before the
Speaker 2: show today with Welsh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were, we were there show talking. Well, the
Speaker 3: problem was is you just released the end this ring
Speaker 3: from yesterday in speculation and then this morning.
Speaker 1: And everything I said, that fruition, everything I said, and
Speaker 1: you and I.
Speaker 3: Said, Vince McMahon is maybe arguably but the most important
Speaker 3: figure in wrestling history. And the entire pre show was wrestling.
Speaker 3: And Joe's like, all right, we gotta talk baseball now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do whatever swings out, go check it out. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Also other headlines here to.
Speaker 2: Talk about Trout hitting a pair of homers, uh seven
Speaker 2: straight for the Yankees. Rizzo hits a fly ball that
Speaker 2: goes over the Yankee Stadium fence. I'm sure Wanky Penguin
Speaker 2: would agree with me on that one. I mean, that
Speaker 2: was such a flyball, like ridiculous, barely out home run.
Speaker 1: But whatever walked off. It is what it is.
Speaker 2: Big series this weekend for the Blue Jays and the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz gets his thirteen save. Got a little dicey there,
Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber two dingers over the natsuh Andy Ashby left
Speaker 2: to start with four arm tightness. And this ain't good.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I hope you've been getting on this
Speaker 2: cardinal bandwagon for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about it.
Speaker 2: We've been pounding the drum for it, and I am shocked,
Speaker 2: And actually I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1: I'm sad that things have gone.
Speaker 2: This way for the Brewers because injuries will undo any
Speaker 2: good team. But really, injuries have completely undone this rotation
Speaker 2: for the Brewers. And that was the strength because you
Speaker 2: knew the offense was kind of, you know, skeptical at best.
Speaker 2: So keep an eye on that. Ezekiel durand uh go
Speaker 2: ahead triple against the Tigers. And I like this one
Speaker 2: at Tuardo Escobar unavailable due to non workplace event. Well,
Speaker 2: she have any non workplace events lined up for this afternoon? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I do, Actually, I've got I got one actually right
Speaker 3: after this show, I got some workplace events. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 3: actually quite a big fan of non workplace events.
Speaker 1: What exactly?
Speaker 3: You know he did just meet Shakira and then now
Speaker 3: he's having a non workplace event.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you some man, I just met Cara.
Speaker 2: I've been having a lot of non workplace events wherever
Speaker 2: she goes, wherever, whenever we're meant to be together.
Speaker 3: That's whatever's been years now, and you know this, I
Speaker 3: don't know why she doesn't do the super Bowl halftime
Speaker 3: every year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm perfectly because out there. Finally, I just
Speaker 2: want you.
Speaker 1: Here to be there, all right.
Speaker 2: Injury news, Sure's there is going to have a rehab
Speaker 2: start coming up next week. And I'm telling you, with
Speaker 2: the Tyler McGill injury from last night, I would put
Speaker 2: the house on Mac Surezer next weekend being back for
Speaker 2: the Mets. Like he is going to make one rehab start,
Speaker 2: He's gonna shot it out of my way. I'm Max
Speaker 2: sure he's well, you know what, I know the fact
Speaker 2: that he came out as early as like he was like, Nope,
Speaker 2: something's wrong. I'm not even gonna push through it. I
Speaker 2: think that's probably worked in his favor because I think
Speaker 2: maybe Max Schurzer five six years ago would have pushed
Speaker 2: through it and he didn't. And I think that's probably
Speaker 2: why he's back so soon now. Look of course, well,
Speaker 2: I mean he he came out with a tweet about that.
Speaker 2: But this is this is going to be expedited. The
Speaker 2: Ashby news obviously another big one. But Yati Malina is
Speaker 2: going to miss a couple week, so this is bad
Speaker 2: for the pitching staff of the of the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 1: No doubt he's missing.
Speaker 3: You know, real quick. You glossed over it twice because
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you this real but on the
Speaker 3: Ashby front, not the gloss Okay, something I wanted to mention.
Speaker 3: Shout out to doctor Glenn who gave the plug yesterday.
Speaker 3: Did the stages. We got to get more people in
Speaker 3: there when I do them. It looks like it's going
Speaker 3: to be five pm Eastern. I agree, Wonky.
Speaker 2: I agree, she's gone completely whack of do though.
Speaker 3: You know what I can't.
Speaker 1: I can bring shakiround my kids. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can bring.
Speaker 3: Around you know, a good point.
Speaker 2: But you know, build something with Shakira, just like it's
Speaker 2: not like just you know, like a one off thing.
Speaker 1: This is like a future.
Speaker 3: I don't want to build. I don't want to build anything.
Speaker 3: I don't want build a Lego set, not a relationship.
Speaker 2: I want to build, Doctor Glenn Saturday afternoon to me,
Speaker 2: but go ahead.
Speaker 3: Five pm Eastern on Thursdays I'm doing the stages. Come
Speaker 3: hang out. But one of the things I brought up
Speaker 3: in there was a couple of weeks ago when I
Speaker 3: brought up Spencer Streider versus Aaron Ashby and I got
Speaker 3: just everyone's like, what could you ask that question? How
Speaker 3: could you even ask that? I'm a real Everyone's freaking
Speaker 3: out about that. And then now Strider eleven strikeouts, Aaron
Speaker 3: Ashby got banged up a little bit in the actual
Speaker 3: games and injury stuff. Just a quick heat check for you. Spencer, Strider,
Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby rest the season.
Speaker 2: Well, I have to pick one right now, Stryder, But
Speaker 2: I'm I'm still like I said, I don't see either
Speaker 2: of them as guys.
Speaker 1: August September is.
Speaker 2: The money time, and I think both of those guys,
Speaker 2: I'm not one hundred percent confident didn't come that time
Speaker 2: for numerous reasons. You know, whether it's getting pictures back healthy,
Speaker 2: whether it's a team like the Bradys making a move
Speaker 2: being more.
Speaker 3: Is going to push him off.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've got a lot of time and energy investment, Seroka,
Speaker 2: and you brough up the point yesterday, which is Strider
Speaker 2: can go back to the bullpen and he was dominant there,
Speaker 2: and that's a huge thing when you get into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Plus what's the innings look like?
Speaker 3: You know, But you got to say, but yeah, and
Speaker 3: it's the interesting thing I would also throw out here
Speaker 3: just if you want to have all of those elements
Speaker 3: be part of it. Who is the more valuable reliever
Speaker 3: when they were in it, because both these guys have
Speaker 3: played that role. It was Strider, because Strider would go
Speaker 3: to to you know, almost strikeout yeah, seven in that
Speaker 3: time period. I just think it's funny because it was
Speaker 3: like seventy five percent Aaron Ashby, And it's the recency
Speaker 3: bias of it. And that's why I asked the question.
Speaker 3: We asked the question early because Strider was such an
Speaker 3: elite strikeout option. Some things out of injuries are out
Speaker 3: of Ashby's peripheral of like what he could deal with.
Speaker 3: But also you know, he's getting banged up a little bit.
Speaker 3: Just wanted a heat check, that was all.
Speaker 2: No, it's a good thing. Speaking of heat check, Wonky
Speaker 2: Penguins thrown some heat right now.
Speaker 1: She's genuinely curious.
Speaker 2: How many of us could Homer and Yankee Stadium off
Speaker 2: a pitching machine. I will raise my hand and say
Speaker 2: you with confidence, I can without a doubt, Yeah no
Speaker 2: I pitching or a pitching machine. I absolutely can.
Speaker 3: I definitely could. I Actually I actually took batting practice
Speaker 3: at one of the Diamondbacks fields, the back practice fields,
Speaker 3: and it was a couple of years ago, and I
Speaker 3: missed a I hit the wall. I just missed it
Speaker 3: hit the wall. But here's the key, though, I'm alrighty,
Speaker 3: So I'd have to go opo to really take advantage
Speaker 3: of that short porch, like, really take advantage of that
Speaker 3: short porch. So I still think I'm gonna go with yes,
Speaker 3: but the OPO thing. You're a righty though too, So.
Speaker 2: You're a righty. But a lot of my power was
Speaker 2: actually dead center field, Like it hit the balls very
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Actually one of the great moments in my career.
Speaker 2: At the Fan Duel Tournament in Vegas a few years ago,
Speaker 2: they had the home run derby and I got to
Speaker 2: kind of sneak in there and take some VP and
Speaker 2: I hit a home run in front of Bo Jackson,
Speaker 2: who was.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, wasn't that where you met
Speaker 3: Bo Jackson?
Speaker 2: It was awesome. One He was like, hey, that's good,
Speaker 2: like he basically gave me the hey, that's good. And
Speaker 2: I was like, thanks about Jackson, that's it. I can
Speaker 2: die happy right there. If Shakira was there, it would
Speaker 2: be even better. But she wasn't all right, let's talk
Speaker 2: about this. It's not even on the list of things.
Speaker 2: But Mike Mayer brought this up, and he right before
Speaker 2: the show, he said to me, is there a prospect
Speaker 2: who's been hyped as much or as long as Brenan
Speaker 2: Rodgers who's really never done anything?
Speaker 1: And I thought, yes, there's got to be. So I
Speaker 1: was trying to.
Speaker 2: Dig for some names. And again, it's not a guy
Speaker 2: who had a short lived moment. It's a guy that
Speaker 2: was hyped and hype for a long time and then
Speaker 2: just got major league opportunity, not like Brian Taylor who
Speaker 2: never saw the light of day.
Speaker 3: But here were a couple of names that I came
Speaker 3: at a cable.
Speaker 1: Bubba Starling was one that came to me right away.
Speaker 3: Such a good one.
Speaker 1: I love Bubba Starling.
Speaker 3: Look loved Bubba.
Speaker 2: This is gonna light up the chat. I'm telling you
Speaker 2: right now. Everybody in the chat. Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Speaker 2: put some good ones. I see go Cards already puting
Speaker 2: Matt Bush in there. But Bubba Starling was the first
Speaker 2: one that came to mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I want to agree with that one real quick,
Speaker 3: because also I followed him a lot and I actually
Speaker 3: just saw him recently, within like a year ago before
Speaker 3: I think he did his full on retirement at twenty
Speaker 3: five years old, he was still trying to get up
Speaker 3: with the royals. And this is a perspective thing I
Speaker 3: throw out here too. Think about this. Bubba Starling and
Speaker 3: George Springer came in the same draft. Look at where
Speaker 3: George Springer's career had moved to, and Bubba Starling was
Speaker 3: just still trying to like get this thing going. That's
Speaker 3: a great one. I actually think that one might be
Speaker 3: even better than Brendan Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Yes, and yes I did say thank you, mister Jackson.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, I just you know, I did a
Speaker 2: couple out, but the one to dead center field that
Speaker 2: was the one that got the reaction. Here was a
Speaker 2: couple other names that I remember. Todd van poppel came
Speaker 2: out to mind because I remember all the rookie cards
Speaker 2: of Tom van Poppell. Get him a couple of years
Speaker 2: older than you, and that guy just never happened. See
Speaker 2: see Don saying Ben Greeve. But Ben Greeve had some
Speaker 2: good moments, Now you had some good seasons.
Speaker 3: Now I can envision him in a raised uniform too.
Speaker 2: So because there was a justus, said Greg Jeffries, who
Speaker 2: also came to mind for me, he had that one
Speaker 2: little sparkling run in eighty eight and then never did anything.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's being mean, that's being mean,
Speaker 3: Wonky's being mean, and Kellic is coming up. You guys
Speaker 3: are being mean today. Yes, Friday was.
Speaker 1: A couple other ones. Brandon Wood from The Angels.
Speaker 3: Absolutely right, that was a dude for me.
Speaker 1: And another rocky one, Ian Stewart. Remember all the Ian.
Speaker 2: Stewart buzz for years and years and years. But again,
Speaker 2: if you got some drop him in the chat, I
Speaker 2: love this process.
Speaker 3: Those are really really great ones. Brandon Wood probably hits
Speaker 3: closest to home to me too, because that was Brandon
Speaker 3: Wood's time period. Was like even in the time where
Speaker 3: we were kind of going on air, and actually my
Speaker 3: relationship with Paul Sporer started because of brandon Wood because
Speaker 3: Bogan and I had mentioned, Uh, we were like, oh,
Speaker 3: the Angels prospect, we couldn't think of it, and then
Speaker 3: out of the clouds we get hit up by spor
Speaker 3: the guys it was Brandon Wood, and we're like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, you're listening to our podcast. So Brandon Woods
Speaker 3: a great one. Ian Stewart as well. We could probably
Speaker 3: sit here and go through. It's a good one here
Speaker 3: for Ryan Zach Lee.
Speaker 2: I remember zachly, but it's any time at the big
Speaker 2: league level.
Speaker 1: Joe Borchard was another one.
Speaker 2: Uh if you.
Speaker 3: Remember Joe, I remember Joe to be.
Speaker 2: This big power guy. But again it's it's all this
Speaker 2: all this might be the ps neurosis dance, Zach says.
Speaker 2: Gordon Beckham, Gordon Beckham, That's that's a good one.
Speaker 3: Matta just came to my mind. Well, Matt Laporta was
Speaker 3: involved in the c C. Sabathia trade, like he was
Speaker 3: literally why they did that trade.
Speaker 2: Everyone's just saying Tim Beckham, Gordon Beckham. Uh, we got
Speaker 2: David Beckham, all the Beckhams. All right, let's talk about this.
Speaker 2: I knew, I knew we could get some good name.
Speaker 2: And it's Friday. We're having fun here on the show,
Speaker 2: so it not be so mean.
Speaker 1: But this is a tweet from John Clark. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. The Phillies have won twelve of fourteen games
Speaker 1: in June.
Speaker 2: Schwarber two more home runs. He's up to eighteen. Only
Speaker 2: Judge has more. Remember when we talked about the bounce,
Speaker 2: the managerial fire bounce. So we got the bounce. It
Speaker 2: also coincided with a good part of the schedule. Don't
Speaker 2: fool yourselves, kids, to think that it's not part of
Speaker 2: the reasoning behind the firing. Now the question is can
Speaker 2: it sustain? Do you think the Phillies are a team
Speaker 2: that you can invest in potentially as a playoff team?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I just think they like I feel like, but
Speaker 3: they got to know the rests though, well, okay they did. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the bull exactly. That's the point right there. The bullpen sucks,
Speaker 3: Bryson stots picking it up where Boem is just really
Speaker 3: kind of falling apart. They've got some of the other
Speaker 3: batting pieces that you really really do need, But I
Speaker 3: don't know. Injuries are so prominent with this team right now.
Speaker 3: Sikuraz is missing significant time, Losing Kennebel is a big issue.
Speaker 3: They don't really have depth on both sides. I think
Speaker 3: they're always a team to watch for, but they just
Speaker 3: don't seem to have any fire of being aggressive of
Speaker 3: like changing up the roster. They just keep throwing out
Speaker 3: different pieces seeing what works. And I'd like to see
Speaker 3: them be aggressive in the market. But yeah, sure, I
Speaker 3: mean they obviously have a fire lit under them. Kyle
Speaker 3: Schwarber's doing it picking up pieces where you know, Nick
Speaker 3: Cassianos isn't rocking, but soon enough he'll he'll keep going.
Speaker 3: The offense will keep them going. Only so far though,
Speaker 3: that gott to cure that bullpen.
Speaker 2: Some more good names here, by the way, Felix pa,
Speaker 2: William o'pena, Chris Iyanetta. Oh I would went to that
Speaker 2: Chris ian Eda well every year, hoping, hoping so much
Speaker 2: as the next Nolan Ryan. I remember that, Oh baby,
Speaker 2: I remember all that. Todd Van Poppol is Todd Van Poppol.
Speaker 2: That Todd Van never gonna do anything at the major
Speaker 2: league level.
Speaker 3: That's what Todd vanna work.
Speaker 2: Gonna work here anymore. All right, let's get to some
Speaker 2: more stuff. This one was fascinating too. This is like
Speaker 2: business of baseball. John Hayman tweeted this yesterday. You know,
Speaker 2: John Hayman, the don't at me bro, John Hayman, Mike dropped,
Speaker 2: you know, thirteen year old the eighth grader John Aman.
Speaker 2: Some rival owners expressed annoyance at the A's who took
Speaker 2: the newly awarded revenue sharing monies and rather than spending
Speaker 2: it on players, just did the opposite, staging an all
Speaker 2: times sell off. And as they point out, the revenue
Speaker 2: sharing is done to foster competitiveness, and this has obviously
Speaker 2: been building for a while.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: Of all the stadiums, and I've been to fifteen of them,
Speaker 2: it is the worst place to watch a baseball game.
Speaker 2: And I'm including the old Vet in Philly. I'm including
Speaker 2: you know, old three River Stadium, and there's some old
Speaker 2: of those cookie cutter, terrible astroturfields. Oakland, by far is
Speaker 2: the biggest dump. It's terrible. Every view is terrible. They
Speaker 2: don't even have helmets Sundays. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It actually is one of the few I've been to
Speaker 3: because I'm from the Bay Area and that's the first
Speaker 3: baseball stadium I ever went to. I remember the first
Speaker 3: My grand My grandfather loved the A's. They love love
Speaker 3: the A's, and I remember the first game we ever
Speaker 3: went to. He got seats and it was behind a
Speaker 3: pole and I was just like, okay, just trying to
Speaker 3: look around. It's a garbage stadium. I mean, they have
Speaker 3: no their plumbing doesn't work. It's yeah, there's just specs
Speaker 3: just flowing through. If it's a bad.
Speaker 2: Day, it feels like something in It feels like something
Speaker 2: in a movie where you're like, oh, this is the
Speaker 2: it's like major League.
Speaker 1: It's the second major League. That's what it feels like.
Speaker 2: And you're like, well, I guess ye, I'll we can
Speaker 2: let everything go before we sell it off. But this
Speaker 2: is this is a problem here, and the A's are
Speaker 2: gonna be gone. I'm telling you they're gonna be in
Speaker 2: Vegas this time. In two years, they're gonna be a
Speaker 2: Vegas team. Mike Mayer also named his son Nolan Ryan's
Speaker 2: that is a lot of pressure. His full name, though,
Speaker 2: is Nolan Ryan Mountcastle Mayor. I just want people to
Speaker 2: know that I don't love people, you know, a full name. Also,
Speaker 2: this is fun fun fact. Clay Holmes has faced one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen hitters this year. Eighty three percent of
Speaker 2: them have hit a groundball or struck out his era
Speaker 2: point two nine. Holy crap, Welsh, I mean, you can't
Speaker 2: take the closer roll away from this guy right ever, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't care what Chapman does.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what I said. That's what I said. When
Speaker 3: Chapman went down This is why I was so hyper
Speaker 3: aggressive on Clay Holmes. I was like, you can't make
Speaker 3: this job away from him. Also, you know this, but
Speaker 3: he was like a throw in of two piece trade
Speaker 3: with the Pirates Diego Castillo and got him forgetting the
Speaker 3: last piece. We just saw yesterday. It was like two
Speaker 3: nothing burgers the Yankees got for Clay Holmes. So good
Speaker 3: in player development at the lower levels. Clay Holmes is
Speaker 3: the dude. Keep him in that role. There's no chance,
Speaker 3: of my mind, Chapman comes back into it. I think
Speaker 3: he can play a semi fireman. I know Chapman is
Speaker 3: the guy, so we shouldn't say there's no chance. But
Speaker 3: Holmes is the man.
Speaker 2: Just had a Ralph Wigam moment in my head when
Speaker 2: he said that, yeah, I put out fires. This is
Speaker 2: where the leprechn sits. He tells me to burn things.
Speaker 2: Another fun fact too, lots of fun facts. June and
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez has forty extra base hits, sixty two RBI,
Speaker 2: nineteen strikeouts. That's it. Nineteen k's forty extra base hits,
Speaker 2: and yet he is still double digits in the MVP race.
Speaker 2: I think this is just it's sacrilege that he's not
Speaker 2: getting enough credit for how good of a season he's happened.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all. There's a bias, man, there's definitely a bias.
Speaker 3: The Guardians just don't you know, they don't push the needle,
Speaker 3: especially when a Yankee, When a New York Yankee leads
Speaker 3: the league in homers. I don't really know what he
Speaker 3: would have to do. I mean, I think it would
Speaker 3: have taken a miracle. We would have said a preseason,
Speaker 3: it would take a miracle, an amazing, incredible season. We
Speaker 3: couldn't predict for someone to overpass Otani for MVP, and
Speaker 3: it's happening. It's June and Aaron Judge is on pace
Speaker 3: for four hundred and twenty homers.
Speaker 2: I just had a wacky thought. If you're the Phillies,
Speaker 2: do you call the Yankees about Chapman?
Speaker 3: I mean, why would the Yankee I mean, well, I
Speaker 3: mean there's a money perspective.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, every thirty million you could save
Speaker 2: is another thirty million.
Speaker 3: I agree, except for one thing. If there's one thing
Speaker 3: that is valuable, you know, getting closer to the postseason
Speaker 3: and for a winning team, it's just bullpen like over
Speaker 3: anything else. These guys will take bullpen help over offensive
Speaker 3: or starting pitcher help for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, fun this day in baseball nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: eight of everything's fun today.
Speaker 1: Like Welsh said, Ron.
Speaker 2: Guidry struck out eighteen batters in a four hit shutout.
Speaker 2: It was also the beginning of the standing up with
Speaker 2: two strikes. This is where it began, that thing that
Speaker 2: we all do where a guy two strikes on a
Speaker 2: batter and everybody starts clapping and standing up. This was
Speaker 2: the night it began. You can go look at it
Speaker 2: and maybe I.
Speaker 3: Just like stood up and everyone else is like, God,
Speaker 3: it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: You know, there was always that one guy.
Speaker 2: It was that one guy who was like, I'm the
Speaker 2: guy who started at I'm the guy who stood up
Speaker 2: during the Gidrey game. I started it and everybody else
Speaker 2: who stood up with me, but I'm the guy that
Speaker 2: started it. Don't forget, don't ever forget that I'm a
Speaker 2: guy that started it. Trivia question. Don't Ali Ruschman finally
Speaker 2: hit a home run? Who is the Orioles all time
Speaker 2: leader in home runs by a catcher? Who is the
Speaker 2: Orioles all time home run leader at catcher? I think
Speaker 2: the answer might surprise you.
Speaker 3: So I don't think I could name three catchers all
Speaker 3: time for the Orioles right now.
Speaker 2: Oh that's not true. There was one that's that just
Speaker 2: retired a couple of years ago. Waters, Matt Wheters is one.
Speaker 3: Sure, Maldonado didn't he play there?
Speaker 2: Matt Wieters is not the answer. But I mean, you
Speaker 2: know Oriole catchers. I mean, you know it's not Rick Dempsey.
Speaker 2: Everybody so out there.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna love this name.
Speaker 2: When I give you the name. I think the Peanuts
Speaker 2: are gonna love this one. Oh my goodness, Mike O'Neil
Speaker 2: got it. Mike O'Neil got it before we even get
Speaker 2: transition time. Chris Hoyles, well done, Mike. You won my
Speaker 2: ever living respect. That's what you mean.
Speaker 3: That's an Orioles fan right there.
Speaker 1: That is an Orioles fan. It's got to be an
Speaker 1: Orioles fan against that, right, Chris Hoyles. By the way, one.
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty one career home runs for the catcher.
Speaker 2: Never would have said that, never, never would have popped
Speaker 2: in my head. But Chris Hoyles, there you have it
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Stat Zeros and heroes let's do the heroes. Bo Brisky
Speaker 1: six k's No. Earned seven, Otani we talked about him earlier.
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler again. Look I told you last night, just
Speaker 1: get Zach Wheeler. Just do it.
Speaker 2: Just don't overthink this, and hopefully you listen. Joe Musgrove
Speaker 2: was the k prop to go over. He had nine yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was minus one forty five. I told you it
Speaker 2: is lock money. Just put it in a parlay with
Speaker 2: something easy.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: Martine Perez bounced back again, another good outing seven cays
Speaker 2: one earned run for him, my trout with the two
Speaker 2: bombs along with Kyle Schwarber. And then Conna had a
Speaker 2: nice night with a home run. He's been a really
Speaker 2: nice addition. No more Mazzara swinging a hot bat lately.
Speaker 2: I know it's just against the Cubs, but still two
Speaker 2: for three with a homer. Maybe in deeper leagues you
Speaker 2: kind of ride this wave. Connor Joe four for five
Speaker 2: and one of Mike Mayer's favorites. Cassiano's two for three
Speaker 2: with two ribies. The Zeros Gossman seven runs, five of
Speaker 2: them earned. He had trouble with the baseballs last night.
Speaker 2: He did not like the baseballs. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw this, it wasn't happy with the baseball, So
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on there. You think it
Speaker 2: was a humid ador human door. I don't know humidifier issue.
Speaker 2: I am the humid adorer, that is my I am
Speaker 2: the village. Yeah, a rare, bad start from Gosman.
Speaker 1: He's human.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rare.
Speaker 1: Still, that was kind of a surprising to see.
Speaker 3: This would be, by the way, this would be one
Speaker 3: of those those moments. If I'm in a league, I'm
Speaker 3: immediately going to that owner and being like, can I
Speaker 3: get him again for a little bit cheaper? Because he
Speaker 3: just blew up. Because I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't just believe that he can be in that elite class.
Speaker 3: I would love to go acquire Kevin Gosman for the
Speaker 3: rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Wonkey Penguins. Never heard of Chris Hoyles.
Speaker 1: How can that be? Come on?
Speaker 2: I mean every bit of course, Chris Hoyles. I had
Speaker 2: the miss Oyles baseball cards.
Speaker 3: Man, Chris, I gotta be honest with you. Chris Hoyles
Speaker 3: didn't register. You're like, you're gonna love this, and you
Speaker 3: said it, and I'm like, his name is Chris Hoyle.
Speaker 1: I thought I saw the name.
Speaker 2: I went, oh my god, Chris Hoyles. I remember that guy,
Speaker 2: all right, So there you go. Sometimes just swinging Miss
Speaker 2: Tyler McGill four earned, Aaron Ashby we mentioned his bad
Speaker 2: night and Patrick Corman nine runs, only two of them
Speaker 2: were earned.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. Just keep them in the light. It's only
Speaker 3: two earned run.
Speaker 2: Keep him in only two three to the third innings
Speaker 2: for him over five four k on nuts Brand and
Speaker 2: Marsh over for three K's boy Brand and Marsh is
Speaker 2: striking out at an alarming rate. Trevor's story over five
Speaker 2: three k's this is the point where I pause again
Speaker 2: and tell everybody I told you so. Also, I also
Speaker 2: want to tell that the smart ass who was on
Speaker 2: the YouTube comments a few weeks ago when I told
Speaker 2: everybody the trade tailor ward for Randy Rose Arena.
Speaker 1: Why would I do that? That's so stupid. There you go, silent.
Speaker 3: I love that you have the I love that you were.
Speaker 3: You and I are built. We we work differently, we're
Speaker 3: in that, but we are built in the same way
Speaker 3: of pettiness where if you do something and.
Speaker 2: You do between us here it's a bit for me
Speaker 2: it's real for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I've known you long. It is real for
Speaker 1: the Welsh boy.
Speaker 3: Is real, but time will turn it into a bit.
Speaker 3: But my point is you do something, it's going in
Speaker 3: here and it's going right that. Well, I guess that's
Speaker 3: right over there into that head. We will remember those things,
Speaker 3: will not forget you, and Joe will pull it. Joe.
Speaker 3: Joe's probably still got two or three from last season
Speaker 3: that he would love to pull out. He just pulled
Speaker 3: on a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I just like it. You know, here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: like a discussion.
Speaker 2: So if somebody says, like, you know, legitimately, if someone
Speaker 2: says that's the dumbest thing ever, blah blah blah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna throw it at your face. If somebody says, I
Speaker 2: don't know, man, I feel like this guy's a breakout,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, okay, well that's fine, but.
Speaker 3: We would you I wouldn't register that. And if someone's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, that's interesting, but I think this just would
Speaker 3: be like okay, cool, go on. It's the people that
Speaker 3: are like, you know, blah, you know in the chat,
Speaker 3: you're an idiot, you know, those are the things. It's like,
Speaker 3: all right, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Again, the whole point is, the whole point is unsustainability,
Speaker 2: that's all. I'm not saying Ward's gonna be bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's stillhitting over three hundred. Go look at the jew
Speaker 2: numbers the last twelve games before yesterday. Just saying the
Speaker 2: legitimate do you want to turn that guy into the
Speaker 2: rookie of the year from last year?
Speaker 1: The answers yes.
Speaker 3: The interesting at the end of the day, there's obvious
Speaker 3: things we know are not gonna happen. We know like
Speaker 3: this trade can ever happen to that. But it's a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago. Is not ridiculous to think that
Speaker 3: you could move a Rose Raina for a guy, or
Speaker 3: you could move Ward for a guy like a Rose Arena.
Speaker 3: Just with how Roseorina had really been hitting. It's it's
Speaker 3: not crazy. The commitment to Ward has been there. Now
Speaker 3: there's a changing of the guard and you got to
Speaker 3: wonder where the commitment could potentially.
Speaker 2: I think the commitment will stay there and he's still
Speaker 2: at the top of it's still their lineup. It's just
Speaker 2: a matter of investment, that's all. And whenever you can,
Speaker 2: you know, I work with Matt Striker every Sunday, and
Speaker 2: he loves to say, and we'll get it right. Buy
Speaker 2: on the dip and sell on the rip like that's
Speaker 2: what he's one of his favorite expressions. And that's how
Speaker 2: you that's how you have success, whether it be in fantasy,
Speaker 2: whether it be in gambling. This is the point here
Speaker 2: in the show where where we tell everybody Mike Mayor
Speaker 2: was right Brendan Rodgers over five with a K one
Speaker 2: homer since Mike Mayor told everybody on June second to
Speaker 2: trade him. So I just want to put that out
Speaker 2: there too, zero for five for for do go. Also,
Speaker 2: we look at the home run board and no change.
Speaker 2: Mike Mayor is still tied with nineteen people. I'm still
Speaker 2: at twenty. I was a little worried after the trout
Speaker 2: double dip that this was going to change it not
Speaker 2: so I'm a little surprised that it didn't. But alas,
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Speaker 2: on DK at four and a half. Let's go the
Speaker 2: over against Cleveland on that one. G Alito strikeouts at
Speaker 2: five and a half. This one's at close at sugar
Speaker 2: House at plus one twenty though, I think the juice
Speaker 2: is enough for me to get interested. Mookie. BET's even
Speaker 2: money on DK one and a half total bases, Josier
Speaker 2: Amirez plus one twenty five total paces, so I mean,
Speaker 2: lock that bad boy in.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I like that.
Speaker 3: Also market tonight, Yeah, a couple of things. It's interesting
Speaker 3: the books are starting to go two and a half
Speaker 3: on total bases now, we're starting to see that movement.
Speaker 3: Now that's where Judge is sitting at. So be care
Speaker 3: so you see one and a half on elite hitters,
Speaker 3: don't be even if it's a good good pictures, you
Speaker 3: can still play. It went two for one yesterday we
Speaker 3: got the George Kirby. Let's mention that, by the way,
Speaker 3: the George Kirby one, which you know might have been
Speaker 3: he hit it. There's two. I like the strikeout ones
Speaker 3: are rough on how they've priced him. Every guy that
Speaker 3: you want is like six and a half right now,
Speaker 3: going over under seems a little dicey. Here's the two
Speaker 3: I picked though. Mckensey gore strikeouts four and a half.
Speaker 3: He's hit that in three of his last four. I
Speaker 3: think that's one. He's a Colorado dicey. He only went
Speaker 3: two and one third in the last game. I think
Speaker 3: we can stretch that out. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 3: four and a half on him. And oh, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I wrote this correctly because I
Speaker 3: wrote Aaron. Aaron Judge was in my brain and I
Speaker 3: might have to come back to it. I had a
Speaker 3: great I had a great total base prop that I
Speaker 3: talked about. Oh no, you know it was Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3: I don't know who the hell I was looking at
Speaker 3: for total bases on this one, but no, it is
Speaker 3: the Aaron Judge one against Toronto. It's minus won thirty
Speaker 3: five on at MGM. I just looked at somebody and
Speaker 3: they were two and a half on the Oh, I
Speaker 3: think it was Manny Machado. Manny Machado was two and
Speaker 3: a half on it because he is a champion today.
Speaker 3: That's who I.
Speaker 2: Let many Michada ride yesterday, feeling good about it. And
Speaker 2: he had three hits yesterday, but none of them bombs.
Speaker 3: I was so mad. Well, he's also got like he's
Speaker 3: a big BVP guy, so apologies, that's who it was.
Speaker 3: I went to look at him because I want to
Speaker 3: take his total bases. He's two and a half right
Speaker 3: now and it pays nice over so, but that's it's
Speaker 3: actually only plus one oh five. One thing I would
Speaker 3: point out, you're getting into a space where when you
Speaker 3: see two and a half, you might even and if
Speaker 3: you've got a great BVP you might even want to
Speaker 3: just play the homer totals and get better plus money,
Speaker 3: there's one thirty five errand Judge total bases, which my
Speaker 3: little stat for you on that is his last I
Speaker 3: thought was really interesting. And then we'll move on in
Speaker 3: where Aaron Judge his last four hitless games, because he
Speaker 3: just came he's coming off of a hitless game which
Speaker 3: goes back into May. He has followed up each of
Speaker 3: those hitless games with at least two total bases or
Speaker 3: more in the next game, and he's been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: He's been phenomenal. He is going to get paid. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Yankees cannot let him walk. The Yankees are not
Speaker 2: gonna let him walk. But that boy is gonna get paid.
Speaker 1: He good boy.
Speaker 3: So it makes it is right.
Speaker 2: Ever since I got on the home run sheet, I've changed.
Speaker 3: I was laughing when you were doing the thing because
Speaker 3: I read that and I was like, you have changed
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. Where is a fun show?
Speaker 3: Everyone's having fun? Look at us.
Speaker 2: Look it makes it. See this is the whole point. See,
Speaker 2: this is this is how you build drama. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you what you do is you create this
Speaker 2: character that everybody wants to be. And then when you
Speaker 2: knock me off the home run board, inevitably, because football
Speaker 2: will take over every remaining bit of my brain, which
Speaker 2: is very small to begin with, and very little is left, you.
Speaker 1: Will surpass me, just like last year.
Speaker 2: And that will make it all the sweeter because you
Speaker 2: have to have the heel. You know, Roman Reigns is
Speaker 2: there to make a new star. I'm gonna make a
Speaker 2: new star on that home run board when I get
Speaker 2: up to the top of it. And then we'll go
Speaker 2: from there a DFS tonight. Look, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: two outcome games, four outcome games here. I would keep
Speaker 2: an eye on DK especially. There's a lot of good
Speaker 2: value on DK tonight. Frankie Montas at eight point three
Speaker 2: against the Royals, trying to pitch his way out. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you that's an investment I'm willing to make. I'm
Speaker 2: staying away from Gore in Colorado tonight. Stay away from
Speaker 2: guys who are overpriced, like Pablo Lopez is overpriced against
Speaker 2: a good Mets offense on the road. Don't like that
Speaker 2: Waynwright without Yachty at eight point one is interesting. More
Speaker 2: is a tournament play Montgomery at seven to nine. But
Speaker 2: I'm going back to my boys school bl nine K
Speaker 2: at home. Let's go lock it in and fade Rodn
Speaker 2: on the road. That's it, keeping it simple tonight, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you right now, like that's the approach. That's the
Speaker 2: way I'm going. And in terms of home runs for
Speaker 2: the weekend, I'm gonna go my boy Paul Goldschmidt this weekend.
Speaker 2: So let's go with gold Schmidt and Fenway pack and
Speaker 2: see how that works out.
Speaker 1: Well? Should we going with for your home run call?
Speaker 3: Who I changed it on the fly because I almost
Speaker 3: did something that I completely forgot and it would have
Speaker 3: been so silly of me. It's a Buxton weekend. We
Speaker 3: go Boxton on the weekends. And here is why. Even
Speaker 3: more Diamondbacks against the Diamondbacks. Here he might hit five
Speaker 3: this weekend. So Byron Buxton all day, every day, give
Speaker 3: me I need. Byron Buxton could get me back on
Speaker 3: this board going up against the Diamondbacks. That's what I'm
Speaker 3: hoping for. So it's a Buxton weekend all through Sunday.
Speaker 2: Let's go that my friend things full circle on the
Speaker 2: show to coint a wrestling term or steal one is
Speaker 2: money in the bank right there, Buxton on the weekend
Speaker 2: in Arizona. Let's go very nice. So Buxton for you,
Speaker 2: Goldschmid for me. Mike Mayer is taking Manny Machado my
Speaker 2: sloppy seconds of machadda. We'll see how that works out
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And of course I want to thank everybody for hanging
Speaker 2: out with us all week. We'll be back again on
Speaker 2: Monday to do it all again, recap the weekend that
Speaker 2: was so. I hope you enjoyed the little old school
Speaker 2: prospects of the ghosts of prospects past.
Speaker 1: Is that what we're gonna go it? I think that's
Speaker 1: what we're should know. That was a good time.
Speaker 2: I love this and and look, even my cousins in
Speaker 2: the chat, we all have a character in life, some
Speaker 2: good some Joe. That's family right there. Family always telling
Speaker 2: you the truth and keeping it real. So yeah, cousin
Speaker 2: Donnie was coming in hot with that one, but that's
Speaker 2: all right. He's in Arizona too, so it's always hot there.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred and twenty four degrees.
Speaker 1: All right. I'll do it for us, but the story
Speaker 1: of the game oes on for the Welsh. I'm Joey P.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next time, kids, Il Jip