Speaker 1: Showing you the future. Let's play ball. Welcome in everybody
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Speaker 1: Welsh and it's you, the Peanuts, the Cracker Jacks, all
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Speaker 1: We are getting closer and closer to closing in in
Speaker 1: that gap too. For those subscribers want to hit a
Speaker 1: new mark, I'm trying to see where are we at
Speaker 1: exactly now Welsh, because I want to say we're at
Speaker 1: the almost eight k mark. Yeah, so seven point four
Speaker 1: to one?
Speaker 2: What can we what can we do to bribe them?
Speaker 2: Is there something question?
Speaker 1: Riberry? Is really what we should be doing? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so okay, here's an idea. We hit eight k,
Speaker 2: Well say, when we hit a K, we should definitely
Speaker 2: give something weight. We should not consult Fantasy pros and
Speaker 2: we should make them promise something big. We'll just put
Speaker 2: it on air so we force their hand. That's what
Speaker 2: we do here show. But then also, maybe one lucky
Speaker 2: person gets a random phone call from Joe pis Apia.
Speaker 2: He will call you randomly, could be at two in
Speaker 2: the morning, and we'll talk with you for like five minutes,
Speaker 2: and he'll do a really old impression and then maybe
Speaker 2: he'll leave. I think, like I think he gives you
Speaker 2: your voicemail message.
Speaker 1: Any cameo related thing I will do for free. If
Speaker 1: we hit a k, I'll definitely do whoever that whoever
Speaker 1: that person is definitely definitely in for that without a doubt.
Speaker 1: I hope you were paying attention to yesterday's show Boys
Speaker 1: and Girls because Yo sho Otani had himself a day. Welch,
Speaker 1: it feels like we're telling future here, the.
Speaker 2: Kind of the future we kind of talked about that.
Speaker 2: I was also saying, remember that strikeout prop was really enticing.
Speaker 2: You always get a little like whenever you see him
Speaker 2: at like six and a half or seven or something
Speaker 2: like that. But it was like, hey, take that and
Speaker 2: if he goes out and he dominates, watch out what's
Speaker 2: gonna start happening And watch that line move. I have
Speaker 2: not looked to see if that line move, but big,
Speaker 2: big dominant performance from sho hal Tani with thirteen strikeouts,
Speaker 2: would have loved him and to have a homer to
Speaker 2: go with it. But within a two day period, two homers,
Speaker 2: eight RBI, thirteen strikeouts, kind of MVP.
Speaker 1: Ish, No big deal, not too bad, not too shabby.
Speaker 1: There turns to show hal Todi. So yeah, Otani follows
Speaker 1: up the eight RBA RBI game, excuse me with a
Speaker 1: thirteen strikeout game. Not too bad. Jordan Alvarez hit two
Speaker 1: more home runs. So anybody who was good in baseball
Speaker 1: last night was good last night in baseball Like that,
Speaker 1: that was pretty much the tail.
Speaker 2: Anyone that's good was good.
Speaker 1: Anyone that is good in baseball was good last night,
Speaker 1: like all the best of the best. I feel like
Speaker 1: we're shining last night. Jordan Alvarez at the two home runs.
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge had the two serious home runs there, sho heo.
Speaker 1: Tani striking out thirteen guys. It was kind of like
Speaker 1: the stars were out in Major League baseball. Kind of like, yeah, teacher, teacher, yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a comment to add. Unless you want to
Speaker 2: finish your this is on the Otani MVP stuff, unless
Speaker 2: you want to know, oh, we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna get more to that. We got plenty of time
Speaker 1: to do Altani MVP, So I'm all, I'm here for
Speaker 1: that whenever you want. But go, okay, well start more.
Speaker 2: I just happened to look over on DraftKings as we
Speaker 2: were going, and I you know, I don't know where
Speaker 2: you were pulling from yesterday the exact odds, because I
Speaker 2: believe it was even money on Judge and and plus
Speaker 2: five to one essentially on Otani all around DraftKings. I
Speaker 2: will say Judge is minus money on DraftKings at one
Speaker 2: twenty five, so that's a newer development. But Shoho Tani
Speaker 2: is now three eighty plus three eighty and we predicted
Speaker 2: we would get at four if he has a really
Speaker 2: good performance. I don't think we thought thirteen strikeouts was
Speaker 2: in the future. He's now under four to one. Otani
Speaker 2: is not the favorite, but moved under four and one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we'll get to those bending pros lines at
Speaker 1: the second there. And look, we told you we're trying
Speaker 1: to well help you out. We're trying to win your
Speaker 1: money here, We're trying to do good deeds. I hope
Speaker 1: you're paying attention. I hope you're with us. Jesse Winker
Speaker 1: Homer drove in three runs against the Ags. George Kirby
Speaker 1: six scoreless sittings for him, so did start for mister Kurbs.
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes had himself a night too head for the
Speaker 1: cycle instill a rain shortened game anyway, so that was
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. He also had noan Eronado go ahead to
Speaker 1: run Homer Oscar Gonzales at a homer. The Cleveland Guardians
Speaker 1: are in first place right now. Freddy Freeman left the
Speaker 1: yard yesterday and it went over the Reds and Pablo
Speaker 1: Lopez fans six in a victory over the Rockies, while
Speaker 1: the Braves picked up Charlie Morton who started well Corls
Speaker 1: ver Dond with a good roadstart, which we talked about.
Speaker 1: His roadstarts haven't been great. Well, he was good last night,
Speaker 1: ten strikeouts, but the Braves got the big walk off.
Speaker 1: So look, the headlines are yours, Welsh. What do you
Speaker 1: want to pick and choose from today? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I kind of want to just talk
Speaker 2: about it Donnie all day as we could, but we
Speaker 2: don't need you. We've already gone there. As far as these,
Speaker 2: I continuously love cycles. I think Austin Hayes is crazy,
Speaker 2: crazy underrated and I kind of even like acknowledge that
Speaker 2: to myself in the preseason when you know, going through
Speaker 2: ranks and Austin Hayes just had that like long period
Speaker 2: of time where he was just struggling with injuries, just
Speaker 2: completely unheralded as far as his offensive impact. You know,
Speaker 2: with the Orioles, we talked about Ryan Mountcastle, not just
Speaker 2: because of Mayor, but Austin Hayes is definitely one of
Speaker 2: those really in Dynasty too. I don't think he gets
Speaker 2: quite the love. I'm quite the fan of Austin Hayes'
Speaker 2: long term and you know the other two that just
Speaker 2: jump out, no, I guess, no surprise. It's all young guys.
Speaker 2: Very much into seeing Kirby continue to dominate in this respect,
Speaker 2: because especially early on in his first couple of starts
Speaker 2: or after his first two, I think it was his
Speaker 2: like next three was just pitching to crazy contact. He's
Speaker 2: finding rhythm. An Oscar Gonzalez major major contact guy who
Speaker 2: continues to hit under the radar for everybody. Really he's
Speaker 2: not a big monster power guy, but he just makes
Speaker 2: tons and tons of contact. He did hit a homer
Speaker 2: last night, drove in full or probably someone you should
Speaker 2: take a look at maybe in twelve definitely deeper, but
Speaker 2: maybe in twelve and stuff like that. You could stream him.
Speaker 2: He's great for batting average and it's not completely empty.
Speaker 2: So young guys showing out. You said all the stars
Speaker 2: are being stars, while the young guys are starting to
Speaker 2: show out as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's some here's some fun requests to you from
Speaker 1: the pants and Cracker Jackson. Monte Penguin wants me to
Speaker 1: call at two am and do a Shakespearean monologue and
Speaker 1: rayleiota voice. I'll do that, I got, I got no
Speaker 1: problem with that. My cousin wants me to call him
Speaker 1: as Christopher Walk and I call him anyway. So it
Speaker 1: really doesn't make much sense here. If Jills, I want
Speaker 1: a five minute apology directed towards dare Ogunbawalle, No, I
Speaker 1: like that. I won't.
Speaker 2: No, No, I think that's a fair. But here's the
Speaker 2: deal though, I think this offer ends July first, so
Speaker 2: you guys, but specific offer we're gonna like. I mean, Joe,
Speaker 2: I'm the one that's setting fantasy pros up. I say
Speaker 2: we give them away some giveaways, something that they're not
Speaker 2: comfortable with, and Joe will call. He will follow you
Speaker 2: on Twitter, and he will call you. I'm just setting
Speaker 2: this for Joe, and Joe will call you personally from
Speaker 2: his phone and talk to you. But we have to
Speaker 2: get to eight k by July first.
Speaker 1: If not give away, I'll give away old baseball cards.
Speaker 1: I'll do all kinds of fun things we get to
Speaker 1: ak well, we'll definitely make that work. I got no
Speaker 1: problem with that. Incentivization is good. Uh, injuries are not
Speaker 1: sal Perez undergoing MRI on that injured thumb, but Joe follower,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Jorge Alfarrow, it's on hitting home runs. So, uh,
Speaker 1: isn't that kind of the perfect guy right now to
Speaker 1: be grabbing and stashing on your bench and uh opefully
Speaker 1: put him in the lineup next week or if you
Speaker 1: can get him now at a daily transaction league and
Speaker 1: put him in your lineup, right.
Speaker 2: Didn't I just talk about him yesterday and then we
Speaker 2: just talked about this yesterday. This is a guy I
Speaker 2: picked up personally in tout and these two you know
Speaker 2: these awesome too catcher. You know these things that everybody
Speaker 2: wakes up and everyone's like, oh, you know what, it's
Speaker 2: gonna get me into Fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Two catchers.
Speaker 2: That's what's going to get me when we're really trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, grow the sport. But Jorheal Farrow is one
Speaker 2: of those guys who's even moving beyond just two catcher leagues.
Speaker 2: It's funny something we're gonna do here in a little
Speaker 2: bit had me having to look at catchers and voting
Speaker 2: on catchers, and it's something I don't want to do.
Speaker 2: My catcher stance is very similar ish to Jake Seely's
Speaker 2: kicker stance, which I'm just not into it, though I
Speaker 2: won't like not have that alere.
Speaker 1: Like, you can play fantasy football without kickers and your
Speaker 1: life is perfectly fine. You should play with a catcher.
Speaker 1: Playing with two, especially in fifteen team leagues where you're
Speaker 1: going thirty deep, is nonsense. It's it's it makes no
Speaker 1: sense to me. I understand why it was once. Actually
Speaker 1: I don't even understand why it was once a thing
Speaker 1: early I.
Speaker 2: Don't don't get. Like everything else in fantasy baseball, for
Speaker 2: the most part, makes sense of me. We have the
Speaker 2: corner middle endfielder thing that's just to get a few
Speaker 2: more hitters in. But like two catchers. But I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess to the fair point, someone could argue is like,
Speaker 2: why do we have five outfielders as well? But beyond
Speaker 2: the top couple guys, it's a big clump. Actually, just
Speaker 2: was working on my my updated redraft ranks, which I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have over at in this League dot com July
Speaker 2: first to write it in the first week of July,
Speaker 2: and it's a huge clump to me, like maybe there's
Speaker 2: one guy at the top, and then there's like seven
Speaker 2: guys over here, and then it just keeps kind of
Speaker 2: just getting.
Speaker 1: Has been awful this year for the most part.
Speaker 2: I mean, Will Smith hasn't been Will Smith hasn't been
Speaker 2: good terrible. But my point is is that back end,
Speaker 2: if you're living in that pool portiol Faro is exactly
Speaker 2: the type of guy you should own and should have
Speaker 2: because you can jump whatever Sean Murphy or whatever loser
Speaker 2: catcher you have, and you pick him up and you
Speaker 2: run Alfaro out there for a bit, and then when
Speaker 2: he struggles, you just move right on. Alfaro's really really great.
Speaker 2: Was once a top prospect as well with the Phillies,
Speaker 2: as went to the Marlins and now here, I want.
Speaker 1: To say, start out with the Rangers of memory serves
Speaker 1: am I correct?
Speaker 2: I believe it was the Phillies. Well, now I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to look. M Let's see, I think he was
Speaker 2: a Ranger draft.
Speaker 1: I think he was drafted by the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: I mean I he was there at.
Speaker 1: There were something that is. Maybe he went there from
Speaker 1: the Phillies. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 2: But I got a look.
Speaker 1: Well, now I've I've thrown a challenge to mister prospect here.
Speaker 1: If I get this right, then that's one in my car.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be super'll be it'll be super ups
Speaker 2: if you're if you're correct about that, Let's see you
Speaker 2: know what you are right about that? In two Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: this is wild. I don't remember this at all. Two thousand, did.
Speaker 1: You say it one more time? Because I never hear it,
Speaker 1: Joe about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were right about that. Twenty ten. He was
Speaker 2: drafted by the Rangers, it looks like, and he was
Speaker 2: with them through two thousand and fourteen to High A
Speaker 2: and then he was traded to Philly in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: And he was with Philly all the way through twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: So my prime mental years of al Barrow were in
Speaker 2: the Philly years.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember he was in a deal that
Speaker 1: went over to the Phillies for it was something like
Speaker 1: relatively useful. I remember it was kind of a deal,
Speaker 1: you know, the transaction was off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: But I do remember him being with the Rangers when
Speaker 1: he came up and look, and sometimes it just takes
Speaker 1: guys a long time to figure things out, or maybe
Speaker 1: it's just a hot streak regardless. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the rest of the show, I do want to tell
Speaker 1: everybody who's watching and listening, we are going to vote
Speaker 1: for the All Star Game today live on the show.
Speaker 1: So Welsh and I are going to fill out our
Speaker 1: ballots here and we would like you to participate. If
Speaker 1: you are one of the Peanuts and cracker Jacks, you
Speaker 1: can have your vote as we're going position by position.
Speaker 1: Because there's no real DFS tonight. It's a Thursday night,
Speaker 1: it's like a short slate. So we said, hey, let's
Speaker 1: have some fun the All Star Games around the corner.
Speaker 1: I'm gone next week. Let's do a fun thing. Let's
Speaker 1: do bits. I love bits. I know everybody loves bits.
Speaker 2: You love bits. I've got the trade, by the way,
Speaker 2: I oh, what is the trade? It's a whole article.
Speaker 2: So it's a little complicated. I believe it looked like
Speaker 2: for a minute this was in a It wasn't the
Speaker 2: coal hammless it looked like it. But it goes, oh my,
Speaker 2: the Phillies, the Philly. It's see, yes, okay, so the
Speaker 2: Phillies agreed to trade coal hamils to the Rangers and
Speaker 2: exchange the the Philly. Let's see the Phillies got Jake Thompson,
Speaker 2: Whorhl Farrow, Jared Eckoff outfielder, Nick Williams, and Alec Asher
Speaker 2: right hander. I mean, what a pile of garbage to
Speaker 2: look back on one of my favorite things. You know what,
Speaker 2: I might start a new podcast, Joe, I might start
Speaker 2: a new podcast, and the podcast is going to be
Speaker 2: it's gonna be going back on trades, looking back on
Speaker 2: trades and may be able to a five year window
Speaker 2: and just analyzing one trade an episode. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: my new podcast because think of how blockbusterish this was.
Speaker 2: I do remember this at the time. Nick Williams was
Speaker 2: a huge prospect, and look at what garbage this is.
Speaker 2: No one exists in this trade except literally no one
Speaker 2: exists in this entire trade except Joor Hale Fiow. He's
Speaker 2: the only one that I.
Speaker 1: He was the big piece, was the big power hitting
Speaker 1: catcher that was supposed to go in And you know,
Speaker 1: I hit a bunch of home runs in that little
Speaker 1: Philly ballpark and it just never happened at Fortune.
Speaker 2: And he was up right around JP Crawford. I think
Speaker 2: that's why my brain gets so far as Philly, because
Speaker 2: he was up around the JP.
Speaker 1: The JP now and then the Joe ep memory comes
Speaker 1: through every now and then.
Speaker 2: The worst thing you getting this right, It's the worst thing.
Speaker 2: Thanks your vacation next week.
Speaker 1: God, I'm actually surprised that you I'm surprised that you
Speaker 1: didn't just come to it sooner.
Speaker 2: There didn't register in my brain. Jorel Faro, it was
Speaker 2: all Phillies.
Speaker 1: We've spent way too much time on Horeo Faller today.
Speaker 1: Let's let's spend more time on joey Otani instead. So
Speaker 1: if you were listening yesterday, we told you someplace has
Speaker 1: had it about five, right, maybe even five and a half.
Speaker 1: One house had it at six, the consensus betting pros number.
Speaker 1: Now the consensus number is plus four hundred. After last
Speaker 1: night's performance, it moved a whole.
Speaker 2: A whole twenty five percent moved twenty five percent right
Speaker 2: kind of overall.
Speaker 1: And in some places as well, she's saying it's plus
Speaker 1: three fifty on bet MGM plus three fifty over on FanDuel.
Speaker 1: On DK, we said K headed on three to fifteen,
Speaker 1: DK is three eighty three eighty has okay so and
Speaker 1: Fox bets at three seventy five. So, look, this was coming.
Speaker 1: You had to be prepared for it. Hopefully you got
Speaker 1: it at the five to one. Now here's the thing
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. Now, it's back to three and a half.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't listen last night, well, is this
Speaker 1: the time for people to go in at three and
Speaker 1: a half again if they want to get Otani? Because
Speaker 1: now if he rattles off a really hot end of
Speaker 1: June into the All Star Game, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: real good chance here that Shoey Otani is going to
Speaker 1: get real close to Aaron Judge here at some point.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a couple things with that. We actually
Speaker 2: we did. We did this conversation over on the in
Speaker 2: this Leek pod that airs today, because Bogmann has been
Speaker 2: like you kind of in the exact same respect that
Speaker 2: any Bet besides, a Tani is silly. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: One of the focuses we've done in the episode is
Speaker 2: looking at like future projections rest of the year. If
Speaker 2: you go by projections the bat X Derek Carty's probably
Speaker 2: one of the most accurate. I think it's been voted
Speaker 2: in that respect. If you go by Derek Carty's projection systems,
Speaker 2: Otani will have over one hundred and eighty five strikeouts
Speaker 2: over ten wins. He will have a loath like around
Speaker 2: three to three ERA, and that's as a picture. On
Speaker 2: the hitting side, he will have around thirty five homers
Speaker 2: over twenty stolen bases, and he will have one hundred
Speaker 2: run and one hundred RBI. So think about that for
Speaker 2: a minute. Thirty five twenty one hundred, one hundred and
Speaker 2: then like a two seventy batting average while also striking
Speaker 2: out almost two hundred with double digit wins. Listen, Aaron
Speaker 2: Judge is incredible. He had two more homers he added
Speaker 2: to his cause. I just don't see a world where
Speaker 2: if he hits those numbers, I don't care what a
Speaker 2: Judge does.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the FLA last year. Yet it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter at all. I completely agree. So yes,
Speaker 2: I think this is the time to still bet Otani
Speaker 2: because if this continues, if you keep going, if he
Speaker 2: gets hot, this is only going to get closer. It's
Speaker 2: only going to come down at some point it's going
Speaker 2: to be Judge plus one twenty five and Otani at
Speaker 2: one eighty five. So you're only going to get extra
Speaker 2: odds here. And the best thing to continuously say is,
Speaker 2: you know, these books really should consider stuff like what
Speaker 2: FanDuel does where you can buy out of it if
Speaker 2: you want, because then your investment is an absolute no
Speaker 2: brainer because you're only going to add money at this point.
Speaker 2: That's one thing I feel really confident about. Even if
Speaker 2: he doesn't win, if you play on fanduels specifically where
Speaker 2: you can buy out, you are money only going to
Speaker 2: profit on this. So yeah, it's an absolute bet for me.
Speaker 1: All Right, here's fun facts for you. With six multi
Speaker 1: homer games already this season, Aaron Judge joins Babe Ruth
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight as the only player in franchise history
Speaker 1: to achieve that feat with the Yankees is first seventy
Speaker 1: games of a season. That's according to ESPN Stats and
Speaker 1: Info Judges twenty two multi homer games is a Yankee
Speaker 1: trailing Ruth who has sixty eight. Mantle has forty six,
Speaker 1: Luke gerrig Is forty three, Joe DiMaggio thirty five, and
Speaker 1: a rod at twenty nine. So Judge has been great,
Speaker 1: but you know, to be a great Yankee takes a
Speaker 1: lot more. On this day in baseball, here's a fun one.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four, and I remember watching this game as
Speaker 1: a kid in Brooklyn. I remember we were it was
Speaker 1: a I think it was a Saturday afternoon. I believe,
Speaker 1: if memory serves and cleterarally, memory serving me pretty well.
Speaker 1: Today nineteen eighty four, the Chicago Cubs Ryan Sandberg hit
Speaker 1: not one, but two late inning home runs off Bruce Soiter.
Speaker 1: He tied the game. Then it went to uh I
Speaker 1: think it was eleven innings, and then Sandberg hit the
Speaker 1: walk off after that. So it was just an incredible
Speaker 1: thing where you know they came back there. Uh. Just
Speaker 1: I just a vivid childhood baseball memory, and Ryan Sandberg
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite players.
Speaker 2: Old how do you I was on? How old?
Speaker 1: I was six years old? I was six years old?
Speaker 1: And again and baseball things for me just vivid memories.
Speaker 1: I mean baseball. I mean, it wasn't much on TV,
Speaker 1: so like when you got were these things. But I
Speaker 1: remember we were supposed to go out to dinner or something.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, wait, wait, I want to see this.
Speaker 1: This is great. This is really like being a pain
Speaker 1: in the ass.
Speaker 2: Your parents are like, we're gonna go eat. You're like,
Speaker 2: hey yo, hold on, hey yo, come on. There's like
Speaker 2: three channel. I mean I I was one and I
Speaker 2: don't really remember anything, probably pre ten years old, so
Speaker 2: to you, I.
Speaker 1: Have very vivid ba I like that weird like Sheldon
Speaker 1: Cooper identic memory kind of thing. Also, nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time Today
Speaker 1: in Baseball, replaced with Lou Panella. Then nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: Panella was fired and replaced by Billy Martin, and nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five later that year, Martin was fired again and
Speaker 1: replaced by Panela. I mean, I just wish this all
Speaker 1: happened in the days of social media, because the memes
Speaker 1: for Steinbrenner and and Billy Martin would have just been
Speaker 1: absolutely spectacular, all right, I mean, we really missed out
Speaker 1: like that. Would have been a special time. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine Can you imagine the madness of an owner now
Speaker 1: firing a manager and then rehiring them once lit alone
Speaker 1: five times. I mean that is absurd to think that that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know he's just smoking the dugout
Speaker 2: back then, So I mean crazy stuff was happening back
Speaker 2: in baseball in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Yes, a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: A lot more stuff than that, lot more stuff and cigarettes.
Speaker 1: All right, here's a fun question, your trivia question of
Speaker 1: the day, and this is courtesy of our own Mike Mayer.
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes hit for the cycle? Who was the last
Speaker 1: Oriole player to hit for the cycle? If you know
Speaker 1: the answer, drop it in the chat over Fantasy pros
Speaker 1: MLB channel and you're in the show again. Who's the
Speaker 1: last Oriole to hit for the cycle? And I will say,
Speaker 1: and Felix Pa did it. This is the second time
Speaker 1: Felix Pa has come up on the show in two weeks,
Speaker 1: which is but he did not do it. It is
Speaker 1: a lot of pie. So if you know who it is,
Speaker 1: drop it.
Speaker 2: So your your hint is it was after Felix Pa.
Speaker 1: Correct, It's between Felix PA and Hard plays. No, it's
Speaker 1: between Felix pat and Austin Hayes.
Speaker 2: So and that I love that. I think it's I
Speaker 2: think it's I think Andre just got it? Am I
Speaker 2: correct about this?
Speaker 1: Did Andre just get it? No? But Melvin Mora is
Speaker 1: a good dancer. Melvin Moore. There's a player I haven't
Speaker 1: thought of.
Speaker 2: How Oh?
Speaker 1: I know? It got me excited, Like I will give
Speaker 1: another hint though, Like Melvin Mora, this player did play
Speaker 1: for the Mets and the Orioles in his career, so
Speaker 1: that should be a little bit of help.
Speaker 2: Doesn't help me?
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on here to the next bit
Speaker 1: of the show. Here, Let's do a little deep dive
Speaker 1: because we haven't done one a little bit, and then
Speaker 1: we'll do our All Star voting and do some home
Speaker 1: run calls. Uh so, deep dive here. Over the last
Speaker 1: fifteen games, I was looking at who the run leaders are,
Speaker 1: you know in Major League Baseball. Kyle Schwarber is up
Speaker 1: at the top with fourteen. Nobody has more run scored
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks than Kyle Schwarber, one of
Speaker 1: the best bylow. We talked about him a million times.
Speaker 1: Adulas Garcia is at thirteen along with Jake Croninworth, Glaber
Speaker 1: Torres also at thirteen, CJ Crown at twelve, and then
Speaker 1: he got Danny Mendick with twelve as well, another name
Speaker 1: I did not expect to see in about out there
Speaker 1: as well. So some surprising names there on that list
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, guys who are getting it
Speaker 1: done right now. And look, when someone's hot in the
Speaker 1: in those two weeks, you know you gotta be playing them,
Speaker 1: you gotta be putting him the lineup. But I thought
Speaker 1: some of those names there were pretty you know, eventually
Speaker 1: you get to the Chisholms and the gold Schmids and
Speaker 1: the Aaron Judges of the world at eleven. But there's
Speaker 1: a whole other group up at the top here, and
Speaker 1: Schwarber was the top one. And I think Schwarber, if
Speaker 1: anybody's responded to the Joe Girardi firing, it feels like
Speaker 1: Schwarber has been that dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, you know, a little jump ahead I
Speaker 2: suppose to the All Star voting. But seeing Adolas Garcia
Speaker 2: on here, Adulas was actually somebody that I threw on.
Speaker 2: I threw on Adolas Garcia on my voting because he
Speaker 2: has been phenomenal this year statistically. I was actually in
Speaker 2: the there's a Fantasy pros article that everybody might want
Speaker 2: to go check out a by Low's and I think
Speaker 2: Joey and both myself are on there. And one of
Speaker 2: the things that was interesting, one of the guys I
Speaker 2: had was Juan Soto. What the opposite take can be
Speaker 2: is adults Garcia is beating one Soto in every single
Speaker 2: category except for Homer's, and they're one apart every other
Speaker 2: category he's had, and he's continuously been great over the
Speaker 2: last thirty days. I believe Adolas Garcia on Yahoo's algorithm
Speaker 2: number one player in standard five by five. So Adols
Speaker 2: Garcia not surprised he's on this list, and I almost
Speaker 2: put him on the All Star voting as well.
Speaker 1: All right, very good, All right, let's move on to Oh,
Speaker 1: actually we'll give you the trivia question first. So and
Speaker 1: nobody seen Michuel Tahata again, I'll oh, somebody did get it.
Speaker 1: Look at Daryl Daryl got it? Jonathan vr is the answer?
Speaker 1: Well done. Brian Roberts was a good guest. Brady Andrews
Speaker 1: was a good guest. But again I told you it's
Speaker 1: more recent. So this was Jonathan vr was the last.
Speaker 2: Yeah, breat well, Brady Anderson was my guest. I literally
Speaker 2: spouted it out right before you said the Felix Pa.
Speaker 1: Thing, and I was like twenty nineteen is when he
Speaker 1: did it. That was the last oriole to go ahead.
Speaker 1: Good job, Darryl. You win my undying respect. There you go.
Speaker 1: All right, let's fly through some of the heroes and
Speaker 1: zeros and then we'll go ahead to our home run
Speaker 1: calls and vote for the All Star Game. Let us
Speaker 1: start here, of course, with Joey o'tani at the top,
Speaker 1: eight scoreless innings for him, Carlos Rodan seven innings, one
Speaker 1: earned run, ten k's for him, Charlie Morton eleven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: boil Boy Morton finally getting on track after just a
Speaker 1: terrible first couple months of the season. Pablo Lopez was
Speaker 1: good again. Seven innings, six k's, no earned runs, one
Speaker 1: run did given up by him. George Kirby one excuse me,
Speaker 1: one walk, six k's, six innings, pitch, no earned runs.
Speaker 1: Austin Hayes four for four with the cycle we mentioned,
Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez with two home runs, Carlos Correa with two
Speaker 1: home runs, also Aaron Judge with two g r Schella
Speaker 1: with a home run and a triple three RBI. I'm
Speaker 1: Ed Rosario four for five with a home run, Patrick
Speaker 1: Wisdom with a home run, Jazz Chism with a home
Speaker 1: run as well. Jared Ikoff was not good. Ten earned runs.
Speaker 1: Is the first time ever in Pirates history that the
Speaker 1: first time a guy took the mountain for the Pirates
Speaker 1: gave up ten earned runs. So way to make history,
Speaker 1: Jared Koff. Good job, Lucas Giolito. That again, the era
Speaker 1: is up to five to four seven earned yesterday eleven hits.
Speaker 1: What's the situation here with Gilio because I'm concerned that
Speaker 1: it's a health issue here, Welsh. I do not like
Speaker 1: this trend here for Gilito at all.
Speaker 2: This is not I think it might be the same thing.
Speaker 2: Actually going to do a little bit more of a
Speaker 2: deep dive. I'm going on Rhode Wire today with Jeff Erickson,
Speaker 2: and that's one of the guys we're going to be
Speaker 2: talking about. I don't think there's a stuff issue. I mean,
Speaker 2: believing Giolito hurts me more than anybody because that was
Speaker 2: my preseason guy, had a preseason bet on him. I
Speaker 2: thought this was the year, he was coming into his
Speaker 2: own on strikeouts, was going to go deep into games,
Speaker 2: going to lead that rotation. Really everything that Cease was
Speaker 2: doing outside of the crazy strikeouts, I thought Gildo was
Speaker 2: going to be the number one guy regardless of that.
Speaker 2: And I think there's got to be in health, a
Speaker 2: health issue with it. I mean, I think over his
Speaker 2: last nine five starts, he's got like a nine era,
Speaker 2: he's absolutely blown up. He's thought not throwing quality pitches
Speaker 2: on strikes, and he's getting hit up left and right,
Speaker 2: and there's no more strikeouts to speak of. So Gildo
Speaker 2: is not somebody that I'm done with. I definitely think
Speaker 2: you need to proceed with caution until we get you know,
Speaker 2: we get some answers. Is there an injury? Does he
Speaker 2: have to have an eel stent? But this is worrisome.
Speaker 2: This is really really worrisome because we're beyond the whole like, hey,
Speaker 2: could he like win awards and could he know? It's like,
Speaker 2: can we really make Stuart him? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I made trade for him my home league
Speaker 1: this year with and I I tell you, man, like
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Chris is great. I can't believe
Speaker 1: I got him at this cost This is fantastic and
Speaker 1: it was a team that are going to rebuild it too,
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, this is perfect, a cost
Speaker 1: efficient guy too. I can keep him next year. Dude.
Speaker 1: It has not been good, not been good whatsoever. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that. So no bueno, very very frustrating,
Speaker 1: very frustrating, no doubt about that. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on here to some more What do we have? What
Speaker 1: do we have? We have, of course more hitters who
Speaker 1: were bad, so let's go to that. Actually got a
Speaker 1: couple more pictures too. Paul Blackburn seven and runs, Mike
Speaker 1: Mayer did a little dance. Threek schoobl six earned runs,
Speaker 1: So bad start from him. Remember last night we were
Speaker 1: kind of yesterday on the show, we said, look, normally
Speaker 1: we're all over school, but let's stay away from it
Speaker 1: against Boston. So I'm glad we did that. Tristan McKenzie
Speaker 1: six earned runs. He had been very good. This was
Speaker 1: a bad start for him at Carlos Carrasco got lit
Speaker 1: up by the Houston Astros five earned runs, Dalton varshow
Speaker 1: over five two, k's Wilson Contrez over five to two,
Speaker 1: k's Louis Urius three k's hitting just two twelve or
Speaker 1: forty three games. Not good. Marcus Simeon oh four with
Speaker 1: three k's. Same for Nolan Gorman, Jeter Downs oh for
Speaker 1: four with three kings. But Boston did chant. Let's go
Speaker 1: Jeter in Fenway Park. So how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, get used to oh for four with
Speaker 2: three k's for ga Down. So if you're a Red
Speaker 2: Sox fan, get used to that stat line because it's
Speaker 2: gonna be going mighty familiar familiar.
Speaker 1: All right, So the time has come. It's time for
Speaker 1: us to vote for the All Star Games. So, oh,
Speaker 1: you've got your your favorites here that you want to
Speaker 1: vote for. Again, We're gonna do a position by position,
Speaker 1: start with first base. Look to me, it's first base
Speaker 1: is pretty easy. I know, gold Schmidt and Alonso been
Speaker 1: very close. It's very difficult in the National League to
Speaker 1: pick one of them. But I have to give it
Speaker 1: to Paul Goldschman, who's hitting three thirty nine right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go ahead and vote for gold
Speaker 1: shmanth the National League at first who you voted.
Speaker 2: For, Yeah, I mean the same thing. I don't need
Speaker 2: to I don't need to add too much to it
Speaker 2: completely agree, easy choice Paul Goldschmidt for one, even though
Speaker 2: I know Alonso's doing the work. This was easy, where
Speaker 2: the al first baseman was not easy.
Speaker 1: You know, the AO first baseman. I want to give
Speaker 1: ty France a chance. I really do, me too, exact
Speaker 1: nineteen batting average. I want to go with Ty France.
Speaker 1: That's who I want to vote for. I just feel
Speaker 1: like he deserves you know, like, how many times is
Speaker 1: he gonna get voted over Vlad Guerrero Junior? Not many,
Speaker 1: So let's let's give him a chance here. You know,
Speaker 1: Lad is probably gonna make the team anyway because he's
Speaker 1: flat now. Second base I think is pretty easy in
Speaker 1: the American League. It's Altwov for me. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: Uh no, Actually, you know what, I just didn't like
Speaker 2: that number. I actually went with Torres thirty two U
Speaker 2: thirty two RBI with thirteen homers. Just looking at the position,
Speaker 2: I didn't. I mean, I'm shocked that Santiago Espinal is
Speaker 2: number two here, but Altuve is twenty four total RBI
Speaker 2: right now, Glabor has the exact amount of homers and
Speaker 2: he's got like fifty percent more RBA.
Speaker 1: That miss a week though, didn't they remember he was
Speaker 1: on the IL.
Speaker 2: Or Yeah, but that doesn't matter. I mean they're almost
Speaker 2: the same batting average. I think it's actually pretty putrid
Speaker 2: second base here, so I actually went with Labor over Altuve.
Speaker 1: And then the National League is a jazz chism for you,
Speaker 1: which has got to burn? Right? Oh yeah yeah, easy, yeah, easy, okay,
Speaker 1: So third base here, let's go into third base again.
Speaker 1: If you want to vote along with us, go for it.
Speaker 1: H third base. It's tight here between Jose Ramirez and
Speaker 1: Raphaeld Devers, but to me, it's got to be Hose Ramir.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like he's just been unbelievable. So we were
Speaker 1: on board with that. Same Z's okay, Samese's there, National
Speaker 1: League Manny Machado, right, I mean.
Speaker 2: That's pretty easy, okay, easy, ones.
Speaker 1: It's one of the easier years voting for the All
Speaker 1: Star Game, all right here, this is gonna be harder.
Speaker 1: Shortstop in the American League has not been great. I
Speaker 1: mean you got you know, Boba Schett is leading the
Speaker 1: voting right now. Tim Anderson is second. But Tim Anderson
Speaker 1: has been on the IL for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Bogart's is a nice player. But where do you want
Speaker 1: to go for this one?
Speaker 2: You actually just said him. Actually, I would have loved
Speaker 2: to have gone Franco. I think there's all these great names.
Speaker 2: I went with Xander Bogarts. He's in three thirty five
Speaker 2: with thirty one rbi and almost nine hundred oh ps.
Speaker 2: I think the names are out there, but this was
Speaker 2: a pretty easy decision for me.
Speaker 1: All Right, what about the National League? Where you go
Speaker 1: in here? Dan szy Swanson have a good year, but
Speaker 1: seems like Trey Turner.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I almost went Dansby, but I'm going with
Speaker 2: Trey Turner. Fifty rbi, lots of stolen bases. It's it
Speaker 2: was pretty easy trade Turner, even though Dansby is an
Speaker 2: easy All Star this year.
Speaker 1: How many catchers do you want to vote for? Today?
Speaker 1: Voted for none.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't vote for a single catcher.
Speaker 1: Though I'm voting for the fat guy. I'm voting for
Speaker 1: Alejandro Kirk. Come on, let's go, let's.
Speaker 2: Have some Al's garbage. I literally look at it and
Speaker 2: I don't know who to pick. Like he's first in voting,
Speaker 2: Sure if you want that? On the NL League is contrarast.
Speaker 2: I mean Wilson easy. It's Wilson Contre's easy. But I
Speaker 2: just don't see an al catcher. Honestly, I think they're
Speaker 2: just a kirk maybe, I guess.
Speaker 1: All right, So in the American League, in the outfield,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, I think we can all agree on that. Yes, yep, okay,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, we're locking and loading there. Who is your
Speaker 1: second guy that you want to lock and load in
Speaker 1: the field? Trout?
Speaker 2: Trout is on there, yes, okay, So I'll give you
Speaker 2: my last one. I think Trout and him are easy.
Speaker 2: I went with Julio Rodriguez as my third one. I
Speaker 2: told you I was considering. I was considering the dolls
Speaker 2: in there. But Julio, with how he's played on the year,
Speaker 2: almost hitting two eighty thirty three RBI, you know, tied
Speaker 2: or ben Lee. I don't know if he got surpassed,
Speaker 2: but at the top of stolen bases, he's been a
Speaker 2: lynch pin. I think it's actually pretty easy Julio number three.
Speaker 1: Just as long as it is not Buxton that.
Speaker 2: I didn't put bog I'm not I'm not, come on.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I know, I know, I'm just teasing you.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, you know, Julio's fun. I like the
Speaker 1: Julio one. It's tough here Springer and stand there kind
Speaker 1: of the same guy, Like they're kind of similar. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I like George Springer, but you
Speaker 1: know what, I think you convinced me, Julio, you know,
Speaker 1: leading the American league's own basis too. Let's go in
Speaker 1: the National League though, let's go to these guys. You
Speaker 1: want to put Acunya in even though he missed time
Speaker 1: or no I did.
Speaker 2: He was actually my last choice.
Speaker 1: He was also, that's right, that's the yeah, Mookie.
Speaker 2: Was number one regardless of injury. Acuna got there. He's
Speaker 2: put up good numbers in a very short period of time,
Speaker 2: so he's pretty easy to put up there. And my
Speaker 2: last one, I really struggle with NL outfields actually put
Speaker 2: the Schwarbs. The Schwarbs, even though the batting average is low.
Speaker 2: Right now, I put nineteen homers thirty nine RBI. But
Speaker 2: I could be sold in a different direction because I'll
Speaker 2: also tell you Bryce Harper's listed as a d H
Speaker 2: on this, so that kind of changed for me. It
Speaker 2: would be Harper kept trying to add him, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: why is this not working, but he's a DH. So
Speaker 2: I went with Schwarbs, but I'm not confident about it.
Speaker 2: He's just such a mashing home run guy. The average
Speaker 2: is pretty future though, would be an All Star, but
Speaker 2: I just don't see, like, who did you pick who else?
Speaker 1: No? I actually think Swarbur is the right answer. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got a ton of home runs and that's fun.
Speaker 1: That's what you want. You want some power in there.
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper does make sense of DH. But the problem
Speaker 1: is the American League. Now you got Jordan Alvarez and
Speaker 1: Joey Otana. You gotta choose from now. Look, he can't
Speaker 1: deny Alvarez. I feel like as a hitter, but I
Speaker 1: want Otani in this game. I mean, I'd love him
Speaker 1: to start the All Star Game. That would be my
Speaker 1: ideal situation. So that's that's where I'd like to be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I went with Albert.
Speaker 2: I went with Alvarez over the assumption that he would
Speaker 2: be a starter. You know, he would make the lineup
Speaker 2: and he'd be a pitcher and all that stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I went with Alverret. I mean, he's getting over three
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one homers in one thousand oh, ps,
Speaker 2: I don't know how he doesn't be the starting DH.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to be. He's gotta be. All right,
Speaker 1: we got to get out of here today before we do.
Speaker 1: Give me your home run call for the night, Welsh,
Speaker 1: where are you going?
Speaker 2: We're gonna go Buck, We're gonna go to Buxton. Speaking
Speaker 2: of pleae, Sack likes to give up some homers, ten
Speaker 2: homers and sixty ish innings pitched. He didn't play yesterday.
Speaker 2: He should be in the lineup today. Give me big
Speaker 2: bombs from Byron Buxton.
Speaker 1: All right, give me Jordan Alvarez it too yesterday. You've
Speaker 1: got Judge and alvaing.
Speaker 2: Head to head today.
Speaker 1: Fun. So I'm gonna go with the Alvarez side of
Speaker 1: that one. So that'll do it for us. But the
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