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Speaker 1: a little bit, Bubba. What's up brother? No, no Joey today,
Speaker 1: but we did bring back another bald head.
Speaker 2: Yes you know, I got to keep the baldness going.
Speaker 2: We're back back in the saddle, going to be like
Speaker 2: you said, coming at you in July, and more so
Speaker 2: as a goes on. So it's going to be back
Speaker 2: my friend always chatting it up baseball and whatnot with
Speaker 2: you is a pleasure as usual, and.
Speaker 1: It's very good. Joe has not completely disappeared yet, but
Speaker 1: we know these are the early early warning signs of
Speaker 1: losing your Joe Piezapia. Well, it'll be Casey Bubba, other
Speaker 1: bald heads coming in, other people named Joe coming in.
Speaker 1: That's how you know your Joe piez Apia is failing.
Speaker 1: There really is no cure except for a brand new season,
Speaker 1: but you know, talk to your doctors and there are
Speaker 1: some side effects, like there'll be no old man impressions,
Speaker 1: no other wrestling impressions, and less singing. Those are your
Speaker 1: side effects for less Joe pis Apia. We got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of talk about today on the show, one
Speaker 1: of which we usually don't do stuff like this, but
Speaker 1: I am controlling the master seat today, so we are
Speaker 1: going to We're actually going to take a look at
Speaker 1: the slate of what's about to happen. And for me,
Speaker 1: it's important because it's a big fish day. We're a
Speaker 1: big old fish day of pictures. Yes we've got Chris Sale,
Speaker 1: Yes we've got Zach Wheeler. But the two pictures that
Speaker 1: I want to talk about, Paul Skeins and Luis Heel
Speaker 1: and Babba I can. You can probably guess why I
Speaker 1: want to talk about them because they both equate to
Speaker 1: the biggest questions that I get from anybody. Will these
Speaker 1: guys finish out? I literally got one this morning. Hey,
Speaker 1: do you think that Paul Skeens is going to be
Speaker 1: able to finish out the year? Or should I be
Speaker 1: trading him? Joe and I have talked about this a
Speaker 1: decent amount, but as the starter for the second half,
Speaker 1: let's start with Paul Skeins. Do you think there's going
Speaker 1: to be zero restrictions for Paul Skins moving forward this year?
Speaker 1: Pirates are in the chase. He's absolutely been ridiculously dominant.
Speaker 1: There's really not even like a you know, do we
Speaker 1: worry about making him having him in a start or
Speaker 1: two or something like that. It's really will he be
Speaker 1: able to finish out for my head to head league?
Speaker 1: So thoughts on being able to trust Paul Skean's rest
Speaker 1: of season?
Speaker 2: I would like to say, yes, it's the Pirates that
Speaker 2: are actually over five hundred in the wild Guard hunt
Speaker 2: right now, so that'll help get Skeens going, as you know,
Speaker 2: as the king of the prospects around here. He pitched
Speaker 2: plenty of innings in college last year and it should
Speaker 2: not be an issue with Paul Skins. But it's a
Speaker 2: different animal coming to the bigs. I'd imagine we might
Speaker 2: see like a misstart or a couple extra days here
Speaker 2: and there. I think Skins gets to the finish line though,
Speaker 2: Like I wouldn't expect many two start weeks from Paul Skins,
Speaker 2: but you should get at least one solid start every week,
Speaker 2: like we should get on Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1: So I mean, is that kind of the play because
Speaker 1: I feel like people get worked up about guys not
Speaker 1: having the two starts, Like what is the valuation? I
Speaker 1: don't know if you even do like rest of season
Speaker 1: rankings on guys, Like what do you think the rest
Speaker 1: of season ranking is on Paul Skins?
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen many smart people at starting pitcher
Speaker 2: have him in the top five, like the Some have
Speaker 2: him near the top if they're really aggressive on him.
Speaker 2: And that just goes to the point because to start
Speaker 2: pitching's big quote unquote if you're playing like in a
Speaker 2: roto or even a head to head, because he could
Speaker 2: get more counting stats, Like it's huge in that regard,
Speaker 2: But a guy like Skiings. If he's giving you six
Speaker 2: plus every time out with probably nine k's or so,
Speaker 2: as I know you're gonna like later tonight and much
Speaker 2: more that. I think he'll be just fine with the
Speaker 2: one stars, and if he continues to do what he
Speaker 2: did in the first half into the second half, he
Speaker 2: is a top five Fantasy pitcher going forward. It's just
Speaker 2: a matter of do the Pirates keep the train rolling,
Speaker 2: which they should, but that's always a million dollar question
Speaker 2: and you don't know these guys. But I will say
Speaker 2: something about the Pirates, which is funny. They're more analytical
Speaker 2: than I thought because they sat some lefties versa righty
Speaker 2: yesterday because Polante had reverse splits. So they're gonna do
Speaker 2: something with skins and they know they want to win.
Speaker 2: So it's not the Pirates of olds what I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: Louis Heel So the other one, this one is dear
Speaker 1: near and dear to my heart, especially versus Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there definitely were big struggles leading up to the All
Speaker 1: Star break. I think it was the last one was
Speaker 1: pretty solid. Still an absolute travesty that Louis Heill didn't
Speaker 1: make the All Star Games. Really stupid, but he got
Speaker 1: a little bit of rest. It didn't start him right out.
Speaker 2: That was good.
Speaker 1: What do you think the outlook for Louise Heel is
Speaker 1: going to be like SAMs production take away the production
Speaker 1: for second. Do you think it's a similar trajectory, because
Speaker 1: I would mind you that the Yankees are guaranteed in
Speaker 1: the playoff er. It's just the pirates are in it now.
Speaker 1: The Yankees will be there this entire way through, and
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any coasting that's gonna go on
Speaker 1: where it's like, hey guys, we're gonna rest everybody and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be cool. What do you think the trajectory
Speaker 1: of Luise Heel on the heel of us seeing him
Speaker 1: pitched today for the second half.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his last two starts been really good. Been the
Speaker 2: Luise Eel of early in the season. So that's a plus.
Speaker 2: We've documented it in many places. People have said the
Speaker 2: innings in previous seasons to this year gigantic difference, huge difference.
Speaker 2: So I think there's gonna be some babying at times.
Speaker 2: But like you said, they're in the playoff race. The
Speaker 2: Oriols probably are gonna win the division, so that means
Speaker 2: the Yankees are fighting form the wildcard spots, and we
Speaker 2: know how dicey that can be. They're any Luise Eel
Speaker 2: to get them to the finish line with all the
Speaker 2: injuries of the pitching staff. So it might be baby,
Speaker 2: it might be a short start here, a long start,
Speaker 2: normal start here. But I think see Louise Eel to
Speaker 2: the end. They can't afford to shut him down, basically,
Speaker 2: is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: Wild In the second half draft that Bogmin and I
Speaker 1: do for our home league, Paul Skeens was the number
Speaker 1: two pitcher overall, number two. We're only playing the second half.
Speaker 1: Louise Heil I drafted in the twelfth round. That big
Speaker 1: of a gap.
Speaker 2: Do you really worried about the Indians? People are really
Speaker 2: worried about it?
Speaker 1: Well because also they've openly talked about Louise Heal maybe
Speaker 1: going to like in a bullpen spot. Do you think
Speaker 1: both are going to ball out today?
Speaker 2: Yes? I will say Eel's got a tough matchup the
Speaker 2: Mets offense. It's no joke. That's a tough one. Skeens
Speaker 2: is going to crush knock On Wood should crush. I
Speaker 2: think El does great though it's got six plus in
Speaker 2: the last two starts, limited the damage, got the strikeouts.
Speaker 2: He looks good again.
Speaker 1: Skeen Skeen skeins all right. Other news and notes that
Speaker 1: are out there, Mike Trout is beginning a rehab assignment
Speaker 1: tonight in Salt Lake, and the thought is it's going
Speaker 1: to be two games and he could be back on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Thoughts on getting Mike Trout back. Obviously you have him
Speaker 1: you you know, you take that trust and you put
Speaker 1: him out there do and this would be a very
Speaker 1: Joe take. Do you think the opportunity to get out
Speaker 1: from Mike Trout from the rest of the season is
Speaker 1: imperative for fantasy owners or should they openly embrace great,
Speaker 1: he's coming back. I'm good to go.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. If he's coming back, If you've saved him
Speaker 2: this long, you're embracing the heck out of it. If
Speaker 2: he hits two home runs to d this week, I
Speaker 2: would trade him as soon as you positively can, because
Speaker 2: like I love Mike Trout, I think any baseball fan
Speaker 2: loves Mike Trout. But we also have to be real
Speaker 2: about this, Like we joke about Royce Lewis let's just
Speaker 2: stop Mike Trout from doing the same thing. So it's
Speaker 2: awesome he's coming back. I was shocked he only needs
Speaker 2: two rehab games after not being able to run for
Speaker 2: so long. But it'd be great to have him. I'd
Speaker 2: just be enjoy the little moments you have.
Speaker 1: Mm let's say you need pitching. Would you trade Mike
Speaker 1: Trout to get Luis Heal. Yes, yes, Luis Hill doesn't
Speaker 1: scare you enough.
Speaker 2: To He's not injured. He just has an Indians restriction,
Speaker 2: so at least he should make it to the finish line. Again,
Speaker 2: everything is a should in this world of injuries, but
Speaker 2: I would take Louis Heel in that situation, I try
Speaker 2: to shoot higher, but I would be okay with Louisia.
Speaker 1: Well, Mike Charck coming back gonna be huge. Ellie de
Speaker 1: la Cruz, the biggest two for four totally destroyed the
Speaker 1: Nurfy yesterday by the I have a really great day betting.
Speaker 1: That was the one scoff on the record, and it
Speaker 1: was because he flies. He absolutely flies. When two for
Speaker 1: four forty ninth stolen base of the year, it was
Speaker 1: actually on a double steal with Will Benson as the
Speaker 1: Reds won four to one over the Braves. That full
Speaker 1: game run line or money line paid off with the Reds,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Ellie de la Cruz steals eighty bases,
Speaker 1: yay or nay, nay, it's gonna be I was gonna
Speaker 1: play chicken. I was gonna play chicken up. Never mind, we're.
Speaker 2: Note it's gonna say. I'd say it's gonna probably be
Speaker 2: close sort of seventy, just because of you know, we
Speaker 2: only have like nine and a half weeks left, so
Speaker 2: I get still a lot. Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 2: we've seen Ellie go through his slumps, like I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say closer to seventy, not aby.
Speaker 1: Let's say somebody in February or early March went on
Speaker 1: a show and was like, hey, Elie de la Cruz
Speaker 1: is gonna lead the league in stolen bases. Here's a
Speaker 1: bet plus six hundred at that time. Put yourself in
Speaker 1: that time. How smart would that person be?
Speaker 2: Well, if he lives in Arizona and he just got
Speaker 2: no reason to who it is, I'm just guessing he's
Speaker 2: probably a pretty smart individual that take advantage of that one.
Speaker 2: But is this person someone that likes to count their chickens?
Speaker 2: Before you know their eggs before they hatch type thing
Speaker 2: or how's that go?
Speaker 1: Oh, I have no farm. I'm not We're not hatchet.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious the level.
Speaker 2: That's very smart. It's intelligent, like Einstein would like to
Speaker 2: have a cup of coffee with you type thing.
Speaker 1: Great, just checking everybody, No, no, no specific reason behind it.
Speaker 1: Another great shorts off Francisco indoor uh para solo homers
Speaker 1: also a stolen base on Monday. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring this up for one second. What is your take
Speaker 1: on this battle between combo meal and Frank sock in
Speaker 1: a shoe. I've never actually publicly had this conversation. Frank.
Speaker 1: Frank is like, I'm determined. Oh yeah, Frank Stample from CBS,
Speaker 1: he is, I don't I'm not sure what the thing is.
Speaker 1: He is determined that it is socking a shoe and
Speaker 1: he doesn't call it anything else, but everybody before that
Speaker 1: called it a combo meal. By the way, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a homer and a stolen base. Do you have
Speaker 1: a side to sock in a shoe or a combo meal?
Speaker 2: It's combo meal all day for me because you look
Speaker 2: at me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Bubba freeze or did I freeze the.
Speaker 2: Combo meal for me? All day long? It's been that
Speaker 2: way forever. I've never even heard of SoC and shoe.
Speaker 2: Sorry Frank, but yeah, we're going combo meal. It's much
Speaker 2: more appetizing to me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have to ask him. I've got to ask
Speaker 1: him what the impetus to that is. He will not
Speaker 1: say combo meal. They I mean, I kind of get like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I actually don't get the sock and the shoe with
Speaker 1: the stolen base in the home run. Maybe the sock
Speaker 1: is the stolen base.
Speaker 2: Well, you need both of them to go for a walk.
Speaker 2: I guess. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, but
Speaker 2: I like though there are underwear and pants or.
Speaker 1: By the way, the chat is dying because I don't
Speaker 1: know if you probably don't know this, but apparently if
Speaker 1: you have a bald ahead, internet is shaky. Joe froze
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and I brought out puppet Joe. So
Speaker 1: that's why you're seeing puppet Bubba popping up in the
Speaker 1: chat left and right. Because if you freeze, then I
Speaker 1: might have to bring you in as a puppet.
Speaker 2: Just it's almost worth freezing then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not. I don't know what my go tos
Speaker 1: for you would be yet, be like high noons, like
Speaker 1: I don't know what else? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I know a few things. I don't know fully where
Speaker 1: it is, all right, So that would be a poll.
Speaker 1: I put, I'm not gonna do it. Let's see Finway says,
Speaker 1: isn't sock a term for a hit? So a sock
Speaker 1: is a home run and a shoe?
Speaker 2: Oka?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's maybe more intelligent. That would make
Speaker 1: yea one hundred percent So a sock home run, a
Speaker 1: shoe is running.
Speaker 2: That bias, Okay, got it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wonder if it is like an East Coast like
Speaker 1: it's a Hella type of thing, you know, it's it
Speaker 1: like on the West Coast? Are we only combo meals?
Speaker 1: And that's a sock and a shoe, So I get
Speaker 1: socking the home run. Yeah, I think both references are fine.
Speaker 1: I just I've always wondered, like like Frank has never deviated,
Speaker 1: like he's he owns that term. I've never heard anyone
Speaker 1: else use it. Everybody else uses the combo meal. And
Speaker 1: it finally popped up that I wanted to ask that question.
Speaker 2: That's a very interesting one. I'm curious to hear Frank's response,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that text, I should text it. Well, I gotta
Speaker 1: text him right now, host show. That would be a
Speaker 1: good response. Actually, you know what, No, we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're one hundred percent gonna text Frank. I'm get I'm
Speaker 1: gonna text them while I ask you this next one.
Speaker 1: Tier Tyler Anderson limited the Mariners to one run five
Speaker 1: and two Thursday, and he struck out eight. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you something. Every Mariner's game, do you have to
Speaker 1: target the other picture for strikeouts? Do you play every
Speaker 1: single picture against.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it looks like the books got caught onto that. Xuse.
Speaker 2: I looked at Tosey Soriano's props for Tuesday Night. They're
Speaker 2: juiced to the gills. You just take the Mariners at
Speaker 2: plus almost thirty one percent carry for as rieties over
Speaker 2: the last month, it's around twenty eight twenty nine percent
Speaker 2: for lefties. They strike out so much it is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I know ty Franz isn't there, which you'll help, but
Speaker 2: you know they call it Jake Vossler. That's probably not
Speaker 2: the answer in the strikeout world. So yeah, I would
Speaker 2: target in the strikeout props like in DFS. If I
Speaker 2: see a cheap picture going against the Mariners, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: That's what I have to say on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like every single time I'm using it.
Speaker 1: Some other ones Jeff said, never heard of combo meal
Speaker 1: grow up in Arizona. It's not an Arizona thing. It's actually
Speaker 1: other like fantasy people. It actually was like just a
Speaker 1: fanny term that everybody kind of accepted a couple of
Speaker 1: years back. And then this is an interesting word to
Speaker 1: just go. Somebody said it was Oh yeah, Jack said
Speaker 1: he wanted to get away from combo meal because that
Speaker 1: was ESPN used the term exclusively and they had a
Speaker 1: sounder for it.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know ESB had had stuff for fantasy sports.
Speaker 2: So that's cool.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's so cool that they were in.
Speaker 2: Existed. Sorry, should we make up our.
Speaker 1: Own We should make up I'd like we'll have a
Speaker 1: Welsh and.
Speaker 2: Abobba smoking a pancake.
Speaker 1: I feel like a Welsh and Abobba would be like
Speaker 1: a two Homers because.
Speaker 2: If we did well, yeah, that could be h yeah,
Speaker 2: that could be something else, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: A Welsh and Joe. Joe's running away from the Baseball
Speaker 1: podcast of Football, I'm still hitting it out of the park.
Speaker 1: So well, let's do homer stolen base on leading off
Speaker 1: as a Welsh and Joe and then a double homer
Speaker 1: is a Welsh and Bubba.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, let's do it. We had a couple of
Speaker 2: double home over on Sunday. You know, we got fun
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: So lind Or had a Welsh and above and a
Speaker 1: Welsh and a Joe. So there you go. Here's a
Speaker 1: welshon above a one Soto three for five, two homers,
Speaker 1: four RBIs Yankees beat up the Rays.
Speaker 2: The Rays, there's that.
Speaker 1: And Tarik Skubel struck out six and allowed one run
Speaker 1: over seven innings on Monday as he beat the Guardians.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Okay, so hold on. I got a
Speaker 1: text back from Frank Are you ready?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: So he said we didn't uh yeah, okay, So Jack
Speaker 1: was right. We didn't want to use it because that
Speaker 1: was the ESPN podcast. We tried a bunch of other terms,
Speaker 1: so let me pull up the full tweet. We tried
Speaker 1: a bunch of other new terms, and Scott threw out
Speaker 1: socking a shoe. I thought it was clever and just
Speaker 1: ran with it. Some like it, some hate it, the
Speaker 1: usual can't please everybody, all right, love it, love it.
Speaker 2: That was perfect.
Speaker 1: So look at that we got within minutes we got
Speaker 1: a response from Frank that's probably been told in other spots.
Speaker 1: I just forgot about it. People probably don't you care
Speaker 1: about those things, but those are the things that are
Speaker 1: stuck in this weird burn and right here friends, just
Speaker 1: for funzies. Cubs player player of Operations, Jed Hoyer, Jed Hoyer,
Speaker 1: we'll just call Jed Hoyer indicated Monday that by any
Speaker 1: change in the future over the next week, the Cubs
Speaker 1: are officially going to move into cell mode. That's weird
Speaker 1: because the cell pieces have been kind of black that
Speaker 1: have been out there. They've talked about a lot of
Speaker 1: like relief. No one wants like Mark Lighter Junior or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But if they open it up to
Speaker 1: Nico Horner, open it up to maybe a Cody Bellinger
Speaker 1: even though he's injured, that's where things I think can
Speaker 1: start to change in the market. One quick one for you,
Speaker 1: who do you think the first big trade catalyst is
Speaker 1: going to be coming up? All the names that are
Speaker 1: out there now, I'll give you there could be like
Speaker 1: another name like a small you know whoever, little relief pitcher,
Speaker 1: but like the first impactful name from an Esak parades
Speaker 1: to a Luis Robert or induce who is the first
Speaker 1: where we're like, oh, here's the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because there are a lot
Speaker 2: of big names. I kind of think it's Tarik's Scooble.
Speaker 1: Honestly, either do you think is gonna get traded?
Speaker 2: It's you, Well, it's gonna be either him or Flairty
Speaker 2: Goes for sure. But I think I think there's enough,
Speaker 2: Like the Orioles really could put the package together, like
Speaker 2: they're they're that close. How would you don't want to
Speaker 2: waste this opportunity. We've seen teams almost blow, like the
Speaker 2: Cubs for instance, they finally cashed in late, but they
Speaker 2: almost raced that young core. You could trade for Scouoble
Speaker 2: now and have him ride with these young guys for
Speaker 2: a handful of years. And I think that is because
Speaker 2: the Orioles have missed that ace like arm to be
Speaker 2: the anchor. They've kind of rotated around guys. They missed
Speaker 2: that ace Scoble can give them that, and I think
Speaker 2: that's hard to just pass by. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: on a limit say school, I'm probably wrong.
Speaker 1: So you think that's first off, you think that's the
Speaker 1: one that will start the mark.
Speaker 2: Because he started yesterday, so they want to get this
Speaker 2: trade done to start him this week and in orange
Speaker 2: and black.
Speaker 1: That's pretty clever. That's not too bad, especially coming off
Speaker 1: of that. I do not think Terrek scouble will be traded.
Speaker 2: I think, I hope not.
Speaker 1: If the Orioles really want to go out and say
Speaker 1: you can have Jackson Holiday, Kobe Mayo and then somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, like it starts with those two. Here's Kid
Speaker 1: Povich or here's Connor Norby or whatever that's going to be.
Speaker 1: If they will really do that, then I do think
Speaker 1: it's possible. I do not think that they're going to
Speaker 1: do that. I think they will play a little bit
Speaker 1: of hardball, and I just think it's impossible. I would
Speaker 1: never trade Terrek Scougle if I'm the Tigers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they're like far off, but it doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense to me. It feels pipe dreamy to me
Speaker 1: when I've seen his name out there, so I say, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be traded at all.
Speaker 1: I don't think Terrek Scouble, but that's a badass name
Speaker 1: that you threw out there to kind of start the market.
Speaker 1: I think I think Garrett Crochet is going to start
Speaker 1: the market. I think that's the one that's going to
Speaker 1: break here shortly. He's going another one of those guys
Speaker 1: that's going today. I think this is Garrett Crochet's last
Speaker 1: start unless he gets beat up, And it is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a tough one because isn't it the Rangers.
Speaker 2: It's the Rangers. But it'll be like Crochet start on Sunday.
Speaker 2: He's gonna go too maybe three innings. He's not going
Speaker 2: deep because they want to keep him healthy to head out.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, it's gonna it's a showcase, but not
Speaker 2: a showcase, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So I think I think Crochet starts the market.
Speaker 1: You say, uh Scooble, which would be dominating. And that's
Speaker 1: not to say like there won't be another little trade
Speaker 1: or too you know longer forget traded, but like when
Speaker 1: you really know the trade deadline has started, that is
Speaker 1: what I'm talking there.
Speaker 2: Here's one for you real quick and I'm gonna move on.
Speaker 2: If you know, Jay Rod has his MRI come back,
Speaker 2: it's just a sprain ankle whatever. If that thing doesn't
Speaker 2: get better in the next couple of days, watch for
Speaker 2: like Randy A Rose Raina to head of Seattle. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm waiting for as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a big rumor has been Jazz Chisel to the Mariners.
Speaker 1: They clearly want to get some outfield help as well.
Speaker 1: So one of those guys, Randy looks like he is
Speaker 1: going to be on the move. Also esak Parados. I mean,
Speaker 1: we could make a list of the players that look
Speaker 1: like they're going to get moved. The big key is
Speaker 1: going to be who's the team that's going to do it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And lastly, on that trek school thing, there are teams
Speaker 1: that could do it, Like I think a team I
Speaker 1: think the Orioles are the best position to do it.
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers could do it. I think the
Speaker 1: Yankees could do it if they wanted to. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know we don't want the Dodgers, but like, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about teams that actually could, those teams could do it.
Speaker 1: But like seeing I mean, think of what the package
Speaker 1: for one Soto is was for the Padres where c
Speaker 1: j Abrams, James Wood stuff like that, Like it would
Speaker 1: have to be that plus, like it have to be
Speaker 1: something that we look at, like it's similar to that
Speaker 1: Sodo trade for Terry Scubel, And I think Baltimore would
Speaker 1: do it. I just don't think Detroit is that open
Speaker 1: to doing it unless it's a complete blowaway trade. And
Speaker 1: you know what, Baltimore should be open to it, like
Speaker 1: even if they did cost them a holiday, and it
Speaker 1: did cost them a Mayo, like having Corbyn Burns and
Speaker 1: Trek Scouble would be the two best one two punch
Speaker 1: now the only here's the only problem with that though,
Speaker 1: they're still missing like if you need to get Flairty
Speaker 1: in that deal too, Like I still think.
Speaker 2: I think they will if they give them the package
Speaker 2: they're hoping for. I think Flaherty gets tossed in on
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, you know if if Scooble does
Speaker 1: get traded, we're gonna tip back to Bubba Bubba. It'll
Speaker 1: be back on I expect next Tuesday. Yeah, so it'll
Speaker 1: be like right at the trade, like.
Speaker 2: We'll be like it'll be the day the day before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll be able to really kind of like
Speaker 1: relook back at that Dodgers are going to be in
Speaker 1: the market. They also designated James Paxton for assignment for
Speaker 1: everybody that is them bringing up River Ryan today. That's
Speaker 1: also because we're gonna have Clayton Kershaw. Clayton uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kersher. For some reason, that just deleted my brain.
Speaker 1: Kershaw is going to be back here shortly and they
Speaker 1: might be on the move in the future. Some rookie lookie,
Speaker 1: speaking of River Ryan, he went one urn run over
Speaker 1: five and one third against your giants last night. And
Speaker 1: funny story, I saw River Ryan three weeks ago in
Speaker 1: the complex and I'm standing with two other people. And
Speaker 1: if you ever see the Dodgers complex, not any of
Speaker 1: this matters. It's like the field. There's grass, there's lots
Speaker 1: of trees, and there's this dirt path the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: and we're standing right behind the dirt path. River Ryan,
Speaker 1: far the far side of the complex was on one
Speaker 1: of those electric bikes. Dude was blazing forty miles per hour,
Speaker 1: just full. We were terrified and we didn't see him
Speaker 1: the rest of the day. We thought he might have crashed.
Speaker 1: We were terrified for him. I've never seen someone fly
Speaker 1: on the backfields like that. He drove that thing all
Speaker 1: the way to beat your giants though, any River Ryan thoughts.
Speaker 2: Oh, he seems like a wild child because I did
Speaker 2: watch his start and his haircut. He's got the triangle
Speaker 2: like coming from me your league in the back of
Speaker 2: his hair. So he's like wild thing vawne out there.
Speaker 2: Fun to watch, but control is an issue at times
Speaker 2: what you'd expect from young guys, especially in their first start,
Speaker 2: but should be a fun, fun outing overall. We'll see
Speaker 2: if he sticks though, because, like he said, Kershaw Thursday,
Speaker 2: they said Bobby Miller one more starting triple A. Who
Speaker 2: knows what Walker Bueller is doing in the Key West
Speaker 2: like that. They'll be getting guys back pretty soon.
Speaker 1: Also in the rookie look, he ben Rice zero for five,
Speaker 1: three strikeouts. Rice is four for forty four with twenty
Speaker 1: one strikeouts since that three home run game.
Speaker 2: Maybe not the Rices, Burnt Rice, or the back pages
Speaker 2: in New York are gonna have fun with this one.
Speaker 2: That's all I had to say.
Speaker 1: If you were a Giant, they'd be like not the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Tree like something like that sold Jerry Rice
Speaker 1: things three up and three down, Tiascar Hernandez three for
Speaker 1: four with a homer, a double, all three Dodgers runs
Speaker 1: batted in on Monday as they beat the Giants. Bobby
Speaker 1: Witt was three for four, three runs scored, came a
Speaker 1: single shy of the cycle and he got hit. Everyone
Speaker 1: was pissed about that he got hit like in the
Speaker 1: six then didn't working out, but Bobby wait just short
Speaker 1: of it. And I think I saw someone posts today
Speaker 1: now the new leader in war in baseball, which is
Speaker 1: very impressive. And Hunter Grain seven strikeouts to ching seven
Speaker 1: innings over the Braves three down, ten or how ten
Speaker 1: hits in six innings, had a no decision. Carlos Carrasco
Speaker 1: six runs over five and one third, no buena and
Speaker 1: Renaldo Lopez of course, gave up his first first inning
Speaker 1: run of the season. As I bet the Nurphy yesterday,
Speaker 1: he gave up four earned runs over six innings. A
Speaker 1: lot of injury stuff you mentioned. Julio Rodriguez MRI detected
Speaker 1: only a mild ankle sprain, so he's currently day to day.
Speaker 1: That's semi positive to everything we were talking about. But
Speaker 1: also I think why that team needs to be more
Speaker 1: hyper aggressive. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mariners were
Speaker 1: the ones that started the market too, because if you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't serious and there are available Roberts a rose
Speaker 1: Arenas Chishlms, go and get those guys now for protection.
Speaker 1: And while Julio is getting back, I think you agree
Speaker 1: with that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Day are going to be active because that's what Delan
Speaker 2: Depoto likes to do.
Speaker 1: And they're also going to be without JP Crawford as
Speaker 1: he's going on the aisle with suffering a hairline fracture
Speaker 1: in his pinky when he was hit by a pitch.
Speaker 1: That's no good. No, this was a weird one. If
Speaker 1: you guys saw it. Wit Marrifield, they brought up Nacho
Speaker 1: and they signed Wit Marrifield day of the signing and
Speaker 1: Whit Maryfield got hurt practicing. They were just like fielding
Speaker 1: grounders and he got hit on the hand and Snicker
Speaker 1: even after was like, you can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: He's okay though it's day to day. There's no fracture
Speaker 1: on his finger, so he'll be back in the lineup soon, y'all.
Speaker 1: Mankataa now rehab assignment was halted due to anticipated soreness,
Speaker 1: So we're never going to see him. That's ridiculous. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're you're boys. You're gonna get Robbie Ray back on
Speaker 1: Wednesday against the Dodgers. Are you starting Robbie Ray in
Speaker 1: that start?
Speaker 2: No, I like to see him throw a starter. His
Speaker 2: last two rehab starts were very good, though, I'll say
Speaker 2: that much really good. But I'd like to see him
Speaker 2: make ones starting against the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: First, Mookie Betts took some light swings on Monday for
Speaker 1: the first time since suffering that broken left hand. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Also, you mentioned Bobby Miller's going to
Speaker 1: remain in TAA for at least one more start. That's
Speaker 1: according to Dave Roberts Carlos Correa, who's on the Ayah
Speaker 1: with Planter Fasci. I just hopes to get out of
Speaker 1: a walking boot over the next couple of days. That's
Speaker 1: another team that might get involved in the trade market.
Speaker 1: You're also going to see Royce Lewis, who is starting
Speaker 1: a rehab assignment on Tuesday. That's huge that we're going
Speaker 1: to get him back. There was kind of some I
Speaker 1: don't know, there's some question marks about like what was
Speaker 1: the timeline going to end up looking like for him,
Speaker 1: So that we're going to get him back here shortly,
Speaker 1: that's a huge positive. And this isn't an injury. I
Speaker 1: mean it is not him. But Austin Riley went on
Speaker 1: to the paternity leave and if anybody saw it, he
Speaker 1: left in the ninth inning. His wife went into labor
Speaker 1: in the ninth and he just like high five out
Speaker 1: of there. And he's obviously not going to be around today.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure, probably over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to them, but he's going to be out
Speaker 1: for a tiny bit. Those are your injuries. But now
Speaker 1: let's talk about what some and many might be waiting for.
Speaker 1: It is time for the Best Bets of the Day,
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Speaker 1: used to me saying that entire thing. Just pretend that
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Let you go first. I like going last anyway, So
Speaker 1: talk to me about some of your favorite bets for
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: Well as I told wells before the show and those
Speaker 2: that might remember me from last year. I prefer doing
Speaker 2: a lot of prop beteam for my kind of DFS background.
Speaker 2: So runs, hits and RBI is give me the red
Speaker 2: hot Bobby Wood Junior over two and a half at
Speaker 2: minus one p fifteen. The dude's been on a mission
Speaker 2: this season and since the All Star Break. Lawrence Butler
Speaker 2: over one and a half hits runsbis minus won ten.
Speaker 2: Absolutely love what Lawrence Butler's been doing. Another month of
Speaker 2: July too conscious.
Speaker 1: He's been ridiculous. One of the hottest players in baseball
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, and just to add into it,
Speaker 1: we were doing this thing on ITL yesterday. There's something
Speaker 1: with the A's and how they're coaching up these players
Speaker 1: because he is like high barrel rate, high hard hit rate.
Speaker 1: He's hitting at the top of the lineup, he is
Speaker 1: consistently making contact. He's a multi hit guy every single game.
Speaker 1: He is a really great bet. I'm surprised. I think
Speaker 1: they're catching up a little bit because what did you get, like,
Speaker 1: is this hit run but it's hit running.
Speaker 2: RBI yep.
Speaker 1: Over, I would bet you you could still get his
Speaker 1: total base number for probably like plus one forty one.
Speaker 1: Fifty hit run RBI is usually like a little bit
Speaker 1: juiced up, but that's still like, that's still a decent number,
Speaker 1: but it also shows they're starting to catch up to Butler.
Speaker 2: Yep leading off for the A's or like Max Schuman,
Speaker 2: someone asked a question there, didn't play his bet, but
Speaker 2: he's another guy getting on a ton doing his thing.
Speaker 2: The last bet I made was the Cubs minus one
Speaker 2: and a half run line going up against the brew
Speaker 2: crew plus one seventy five. Let's get some some good
Speaker 2: odds on that one. Jamison Tyn has been out standing
Speaker 2: of late, very very good. He's got to pray the
Speaker 2: Cubs bullup and doesn't screw it up. Colin Ray is
Speaker 2: also a gas can in the making, so I'll tak
Speaker 2: the Cubbies in that one with the run line at
Speaker 2: plus one seventy five.
Speaker 1: I like those bets. I had a good day yesterday.
Speaker 1: I believe it was three and oh on the show bets.
Speaker 1: I had a couple others that were out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I didn't give everybody that's what it was. I
Speaker 1: didn't give everybody that since the Atlanta one, I changed
Speaker 1: it to the Cubs Brewers and that cashed. I ended
Speaker 1: up being like four and one or something like that yesterday,
Speaker 1: So it was a pretty good day. I'd always remind
Speaker 1: you guys. Betting pros dot com slash Welsh Bettingpros dot
Speaker 1: Com slash Joe. I'm not sure Bubb is on there,
Speaker 1: but you can follow some of your favorite people. You
Speaker 1: can track the bets, do all that type of stuff,
Speaker 1: and you can see where I'm at. What I've got today.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh run line minus one and a half so two
Speaker 1: run lead plus one fourteen. This is full on backing
Speaker 1: Paul Skeins. Lance lenn Is on the mound usually doesn't
Speaker 1: go super great. I mean, but obviously lancelenn is a
Speaker 1: guy that can go deep into games if he can
Speaker 1: be efficient. But Reynolds has got a pretty good track
Speaker 1: record versus him. So I like the full run line
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh, and it's plus money in this one. You
Speaker 1: can't first five is just not a playable thing here.
Speaker 1: It's like minus two hundred and some things for the
Speaker 1: money line. Yeah, even if you want Pittsburgh up by
Speaker 1: a run through the first five, it's like minus one
Speaker 1: thirty five, and it just it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: I'd rather play full game here. I got a couple
Speaker 1: of the I kind of call them like dumbed down
Speaker 1: parlays because these are not they're full numbers. I'm taking
Speaker 1: it down a notch. So here's a strikeout parlay. Because
Speaker 1: obviously I'm not I don't want to be a huge
Speaker 1: advocate of you guys doing parlays, but I'm taking Paul
Speaker 1: Skin strikeouts and Chris Sales strikeouts and I'm going down
Speaker 1: because they're both at seven and a half. I'm not
Speaker 1: playing the under doing the alt line. So give me
Speaker 1: Skeens at seven strikeouts in Sale at seven strikeouts. Pair
Speaker 1: those two together get plus one ten. The Sale one
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati is probably a really good play. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say the schemes one isn't either, but you know,
Speaker 1: just giving me just a slight little extra edge. Obviously
Speaker 1: i'd get better odds if I played both, but it's
Speaker 1: big number to be at eight. So seven across the board,
Speaker 1: and then I'm bringing back my plus one and a
Speaker 1: half first five parlay. So again for everybody, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: three teams I'm going to have them plus one and
Speaker 1: a half runs through the first five innings, so obviously
Speaker 1: the odds stink on those, but that's why we're putting
Speaker 1: three together. I will tell you I'm going to give
Speaker 1: everybody this. Here's the actual parlay Chicago White Sox backing
Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet, Baltimore Orioles because they're going against Marlins and
Speaker 1: Seattle because we got Logan Gilbert. You pair those three
Speaker 1: plus one and a half through the first five, you
Speaker 1: get plus one oh four. I did have Chicago over
Speaker 1: Baltimore at one point and then I got shaky about
Speaker 1: it and changed. So, as Bubba had mentioned, jameson Tyne
Speaker 1: has been pretty good the original parlay with Seattle, Chicago
Speaker 1: and Chicago. So if you guys want to play that,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 1: I've got a couple other bets that are out there
Speaker 1: as well, bettingpros dot Com, slash Welsh if you guys
Speaker 1: want to follow, and friendos. Those are the best bets
Speaker 1: of the day, brought to you by bet three six five, Bubba. Oh,
Speaker 1: the home run board. Let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: home run board. Who do you think? Because you probably
Speaker 1: are not up on this who do you think has
Speaker 1: more homers between Joe or I? Right now, take a guess.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say, I'm hoping you, but I'm say
Speaker 2: Joe because Jodas picks Aaron Judge almost every time.
Speaker 1: And that's what boy Bubba knows this show. That's right,
Speaker 1: Joe is in the lead. We neither one of us
Speaker 1: got a home run today. I'm pretty I'm close. Ish
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say I'm pretty close. I have twenty two.
Speaker 1: I think the number is Joe's at twenty six. But
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, Joe's about to fall off the board.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if Joe has a home run
Speaker 1: guy today. I guess he had devers yesterday, so that
Speaker 1: would kind of carry over. But the home run board
Speaker 1: at the very tippy top, l Scale has thirty five,
Speaker 1: owns the lead right now, Silent Dragon thirty four, be
Speaker 1: Trott has thirty three. We've got a couple others. Boy
Speaker 1: Larry's in there, people have thirty or more. And the
Speaker 1: very bottom, at the very bottom, Joe is sitting there
Speaker 1: with twenty six. I guess you could justify him being
Speaker 1: at eighteen. So he's gonna have to get going and
Speaker 1: I have got to get going. I gotta get going
Speaker 1: pretty bad to get on this board. You guys can
Speaker 1: take part in the home Run contest if you're a
Speaker 1: premium member on the discord channel for Fantasy Pros. Go
Speaker 1: to Fantasypros dot com slash chat. You guys can go
Speaker 1: and do that today. You can sign up. We did
Speaker 1: really cool like chats during the year that became shows.
Speaker 1: But you can go and sign up today. I was
Speaker 1: looking if there was I don't see where that art is,
Speaker 1: but Fantasypros dot Com slash Chat. There's a butt free
Speaker 1: discord across the board. But you can also join up
Speaker 1: with some of the premium stuff and maybe next year
Speaker 1: you can join in with the home run Contest. Bubba,
Speaker 1: who is your home run bet of the day?
Speaker 2: Well, the ashtros are facing a Valdo Bido today or
Speaker 2: Beto whoever you want to say. It doesn't matter in
Speaker 2: reality you jord On Alvarez gonna stay nuclear hot. He's
Speaker 2: going deep in oco today.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go back to the well that
Speaker 1: works out for me. We haven't seen a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: He really disappointed in the home run derby, but I
Speaker 1: love the matchup. For going up against the Marlin. So
Speaker 1: give me Gunner Henderson. Gunner Henderson probably I would have
Speaker 1: to go back to see the stats. I can almost
Speaker 1: guarantee you Gunner Henderson is my home run personal leader.
Speaker 1: Of the twenty two that I've put on the board,
Speaker 1: Gunner probably is like seven of them. So Gunner is
Speaker 1: usually a good marker for me to get kickstarted. So
Speaker 1: we're going to kickstart it here with Gunner Henderson. Bubba's
Speaker 1: going to be here with us on Tuesdays through July
Speaker 1: and then is going to be a regular every single
Speaker 1: week in August Bubba. So everyone's we're all going to
Speaker 1: get excited get to see Bubba again. You know, you're
Speaker 1: just like another Joe. You're actually it's funny because Joe
Speaker 1: does his like old man glasses impression and he looks
Speaker 1: so old when he does it. You're looking pretty great
Speaker 1: with your glasses. You're a young and.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. A new adjustment. This year. I started
Speaker 2: having trouble breathing, like fangrafts and stuff while I was
Speaker 2: doing podcasts. Hello, Yeah, we're throwing the glasses on now
Speaker 2: and it helps a ton.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, tomorrow Joe is back mister Piecepa is back.
Speaker 1: We've got a Rico up on Thursday, and Joe will
Speaker 1: be back on Friday. It's trade a week, so there
Speaker 1: is a whole lot we're going to be covering, so
Speaker 1: make sure you guys are locked in here. It's going
Speaker 1: to be probably some articles as far as the trade
Speaker 1: deadline goes. We'll be doing the breakdowns as soon as
Speaker 1: the seal breaks. As soon as it breaks, we're going
Speaker 1: to be breaking all those guys down. You guys know
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