Speaker 1: Manny Machado, No, let's play ball. Welcome and everybody in
Speaker 1: a fantasy Bros. This is leading off, brought to you
Speaker 1: by bet MGM, the King of sports Books. It's me,
Speaker 1: Joey Pa, Joe. Pi's apn with me today, of course
Speaker 1: is the Welsh and it's you, and we're recapping a
Speaker 1: glorious weekend of Major League Baseball and of course, happy
Speaker 1: Father's Day. Hopefully everybody had a lovely weekend. I know
Speaker 1: Welsh was out at the campgrounds shipping some arrows, playing
Speaker 1: a little hawk guy. I hope everybody else out there
Speaker 1: had a lovely Father's Day and you got to spend
Speaker 1: some time with your dads, and if you're a dad,
Speaker 1: that you got some time with the kids or some
Speaker 1: time to yourself or a little bit of both and
Speaker 1: enjoyed the weekend. I spent the weekend with my daughter
Speaker 1: coaching football, and we were able to come away with
Speaker 1: not one, but two championships in two different leagues. All
Speaker 1: the belts. I am the Roman Reigns of flag football coach.
Speaker 2: You know, Joe.
Speaker 3: They always say what role We always question what role
Speaker 3: does a manager a coach really play in the championship?
Speaker 3: What would you say, how much of that championship are
Speaker 3: you putting on yourself?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: Two championships.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think when you have kids that
Speaker 1: you're still teaching to play football. I think more than
Speaker 1: you might realize. You know. The funny part is too,
Speaker 1: when you're working with the kids. And I got so lucky, man.
Speaker 1: I had a great all girls team this year, and
Speaker 1: I had a fantastic team of the co Ed's where
Speaker 1: my daughter plays. You know, she was the only fourth
Speaker 1: graders all it's third and fourth grade. But we only
Speaker 1: had one other fourth grader and he got hurt. And
Speaker 1: we have been to have just a fast team, and
Speaker 1: we had to play a different kind of game. We
Speaker 1: had to play fast, we had to play defense. And
Speaker 1: guess what defense does win championships? So there you go,
Speaker 1: there you have it. I'm just like I said, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get lucky. Sometimes you get kids and you can't
Speaker 1: get them to play together or pay attention. And other
Speaker 1: times they listen and they do what they're supposed to
Speaker 1: do and they get excited and play for each other
Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing. And it was the best
Speaker 1: Father's Day gift ever because I was so happy for
Speaker 1: those teams. That they got to do what they got
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: So our congratulation, Belichick.
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm I'm I'm gonna announce, you know, next
Speaker 1: year I'm leaving flag football to go coach at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: So I've just you know, been really just been blessed
Speaker 1: with this time in my life. Well we'll see how
Speaker 1: that goes. But anyway, enough flag football. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: baseball here, and let's talk about Christian Walker's two home
Speaker 1: runs to win on Sunday, Mike Trout hitting his twenty
Speaker 1: first home run against Uh. You know, Uh, let me
Speaker 1: tell you, Mike Trout continues to bounce back. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a lull there. We
Speaker 1: had the Trout window where that was like your time
Speaker 1: to buy Trout and it was probably going to shut
Speaker 1: very quickly. That's gone now, you know, he's still in
Speaker 1: this MVP conversation, although I still say it's impossible with
Speaker 1: Otani there. Andrew Heiney uh did come back and pitch
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So getting a little boost there in that
Speaker 1: Dodger rotation. To ask Hernandez who was another big by low.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about Bogwin and I've been talking about him.
Speaker 1: He's still a lineup fielder in DFS. He had to
Speaker 1: go ahead homer for the Yankees. I know. Over the weekend,
Speaker 1: the Yankees finally solved Alec Manola for the first time,
Speaker 1: so that was interesting to see. Ian Anderson combined for
Speaker 1: a shutout against the Cubs and Carnassi Oone delivers a
Speaker 1: grand slam. Robbie Grossman, Yes, that Robbie Grossman did something.
Speaker 1: Four Ribbies and a homer. Good for you. Nick Pavetta
Speaker 1: strikes out ten and a win over the Cardinals. More
Speaker 1: on Pavetta later in the show, and with his dad
Speaker 1: watching Jackson Winsky three homers in one game, including the walkoff.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty nice moment there, Welsh. Don't you think
Speaker 1: on Foday for Jacks Barrow.
Speaker 2: You know, well, I'm gonna throw in another one as well.
Speaker 3: That didn't get put on this list because it's a
Speaker 3: lowly Diamondbacks Jackson Swinsky insane with three homers, whether it
Speaker 3: we just won the three is just such a cool
Speaker 3: dad moment. But also Buddy Kennedy with the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 3: who just came up the other day, hit his first
Speaker 3: career homer, which was a Grand Slam with his dad
Speaker 3: in the crowd. And Buddy Kennedy's just an interesting story
Speaker 3: because speaking of Mike Trout, he's been famously one of
Speaker 3: those Jersey kids who trained with Mike Trout and built
Speaker 3: a relationship with Mike Trout, and that was his big story.
Speaker 2: Comes up.
Speaker 3: We got multiple big homers and big situations with dads,
Speaker 3: which I thought was cool. Buddy Kennedy quills Swinsky insane.
Speaker 3: Swinsky also, by the way, a little bit more relevant
Speaker 3: as far as fantasy pickups go.
Speaker 2: He's a guy what I was looking at.
Speaker 1: Of course, Mike Mayer's favorite Father's Day moment was Reee
Speaker 1: Hoskins denying a fan of baseball, running over catching a
Speaker 1: pop up on the first base side, pretending to give
Speaker 1: it to the fan and then turning and throwing it
Speaker 1: back into the infield, and the crowd booed him rightfully.
Speaker 1: So now I don't know if you know he was
Speaker 1: getting booze from the crowd or he was getting taunted
Speaker 1: over there, Who knows what was going on. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a jerk move, especially on Father's Day to do.
Speaker 1: So how do you rank this?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: This Reese Hoskins moment a complete jerk move and awesome
Speaker 1: or could just just jerk move one to Mayor? Where
Speaker 1: does this fall?
Speaker 3: Ooh okay from un jerk to mayor jerk phrasing, this
Speaker 3: is like a six. I think this is like a
Speaker 3: like a six area. I mean, this is pretty appropriate.
Speaker 3: Like the one I think about is like the ten
Speaker 3: the Ultimate Mayor. Do you remember that video of that,
Speaker 3: Like that woman who just snags the ball from the
Speaker 3: kid and then just like yeah, yeah it just like
Speaker 3: is like showing it to everybody in the kid's face
Speaker 3: and the kid starts crying and she has no empathy,
Speaker 3: Like that's Mayor.
Speaker 2: Like that's Mayor no empathy. Like if a.
Speaker 3: Dad had stolen it from a kid and then everybody
Speaker 3: just stared at him and maybe cheered the dad, like
Speaker 3: that would have been a Mayor moment.
Speaker 2: But this is like a six on the uh on
Speaker 2: the whole real on the Mayor scale exactly.
Speaker 1: The jerk store called they're all out of you. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the injuries, because that's really what everybody
Speaker 1: wants to talk about. So first, I didn't think we'd
Speaker 1: be starting with this one. I thought we were starting
Speaker 1: with Mookie Betts. But it's never gonna start with many
Speaker 1: Machado diagnosed with a left ankle sprain. Now, look, this
Speaker 1: can take a while longer than you realize. I think
Speaker 1: everybody's just breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn't
Speaker 1: more than that, because when it happened, it looked like
Speaker 1: it could be far, far worse. It could have been
Speaker 1: an achilles thing, and could have been in a broken ankle,
Speaker 1: could have been a lot of things. It wasn't quite
Speaker 1: a Jason Kendall moment. First, base that do.
Speaker 2: You ever get that anxiety?
Speaker 3: Oh totally. Do you forget that anxiety? Every time I
Speaker 3: see guys coming in fast and doing that leg stretch
Speaker 3: at that Oh yeah, Base, I get that every time.
Speaker 3: I'm like, God, look good and then as soon as
Speaker 3: they pop up, you're just like, what just went out something?
Speaker 1: And he slid right over the top of the bag there,
Speaker 1: just hit it, you know, hit a trampoline.
Speaker 2: It was like bam bam. Then he just flew over.
Speaker 1: Well, he hit it and slid. It was the slide
Speaker 1: and then he just that was it from there. But look, CJ.
Speaker 1: Abers might get the call up. That's that's apparently what's
Speaker 1: on the docket next. He might be joining the Padres today,
Speaker 1: so we'll keep an eye on what's going on there.
Speaker 3: That he was pulled from the lineup yesterday and it's
Speaker 3: all butt official that he's going to be back.
Speaker 1: Now here's a question for you. You know, the Padres
Speaker 1: offense has actually been good lately Coroninworth. Although terrible at
Speaker 1: home this year, he's really picked things up of late.
Speaker 1: Luke Void's been on a hot streak. So if you
Speaker 1: are going to be without Machado for any period of time,
Speaker 1: you know, it feels like the perfect timing if this
Speaker 1: has to happen. I know they don't have Tattis either,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of pressure. But even Profar at the
Speaker 1: top of that lineup, it's been good lately. I feel
Speaker 1: like if they were going to have this happen, this
Speaker 1: might be the time for it to happen. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, Luke Void's capable of having a run. We've
Speaker 1: seen this with the Yankees before. He just gets red
Speaker 1: hot for two weeks and he's about as good as
Speaker 1: anybody could get. I mean he's not, but he can
Speaker 1: be for a period. So do you think the Padres
Speaker 1: offense can sustain here without Machado entitis now for any pero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: I mean I wouldn't call it the perfect time because
Speaker 3: the perfect time would be right as Tatis is back.
Speaker 3: But yeah, pitching has been pretty good outside of Musgrove
Speaker 3: going on COVID list. Like you said, I think cronin
Speaker 3: Worth to me, is kind of the lynchpin of all
Speaker 3: of that, Like they need him to be working. He's
Speaker 3: a catalyst. He's one of those fantasy glue pieces I've
Speaker 3: talked about before, like our Ty France has been that
Speaker 3: like that. He needs to be hitting in some capacity
Speaker 3: to keep going. So yeah, I think so. And also
Speaker 3: what I'm I'm intrigued about, especially c J. Abrams, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you in TGFBI. I've had him on my roster
Speaker 3: and I put him in to start this week because
Speaker 3: there's something about this is a really mature hitter who
Speaker 3: obviously can fly around bases. When he got sent back down,
Speaker 3: he just started hitting for power again. There is definitely
Speaker 3: something to be told about these young guys. When you
Speaker 3: come up to the majors, you don't have success, you
Speaker 3: go back down, you absolutely dominate.
Speaker 2: You have a lot of Yeah, you have a lot.
Speaker 3: Of experience you get to work off of, and a
Speaker 3: lot of things you get to change down that I
Speaker 3: kind of think this could be one of those huge
Speaker 3: positives where CJ. Abrams comes back and he can take
Speaker 3: all of those experiences in those things he's learned from
Speaker 3: being sent down and going back down to Triple A,
Speaker 3: and he can find some success early on. So I
Speaker 3: think he is somebody that you should tentatively be picking
Speaker 3: up this week if you have not already because of
Speaker 3: that poor start, because they're gonna also have to manufacture,
Speaker 3: you might have more running. CJ should be running at
Speaker 3: all opportunities. So I'm pretty optimistic about CJ. Abrams in
Speaker 3: this call up time, and he might be one of
Speaker 3: the pieces why this offense keeps going.
Speaker 1: And the pitcher's gonna have to carry them too. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what the Podgers are built on. Anyway. At the
Speaker 1: same time, I still think, and I'll stamp by this,
Speaker 1: I've said it weeks now that they should get another bat.
Speaker 1: So if you were playing on doing it anyway, now's
Speaker 1: the time. Go out and do it now, do it
Speaker 1: a month earlier, Just be aggressive and go make this
Speaker 1: move now, and just so eventually when you get Tatis
Speaker 1: back and eventually you get Michadle back, then you're in
Speaker 1: even better shape. Mister too. Is it is now the
Speaker 1: time to bet Mchadel for MVP or is it over?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's over, But I wouldn't be betting
Speaker 1: it now if you haven't already. I wouldn't betting it
Speaker 1: because you don't know how he's going to bounce back,
Speaker 1: or how that's going to be, how much time he's
Speaker 1: going to miss, what it's going to look like when
Speaker 1: he does come back. Is the timing is good to
Speaker 1: take a little while to get better. Is he favoring
Speaker 1: the ankle a little bit? There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: There's also whenever you have a high ankle sprain or
Speaker 1: any kind of severe ankle sprain. I know because I've
Speaker 1: had more than one in my life. There's also the
Speaker 1: ability to re injure it quicker. It's a little bit
Speaker 1: weaker than it was, so you you tend to roll
Speaker 1: it a second time. Typically it's not usually as bad.
Speaker 1: But if you have investments in Machado, you're just leaving
Speaker 1: him alone and hoping for the best. But I don't
Speaker 1: think this is the time to invest in him, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think you missed that time to invest.
Speaker 2: I think I'm a little bit more pessimistic than you.
Speaker 3: Like, if I'm on a book and I had betmany
Speaker 3: Machado and that they would let me buy.
Speaker 2: Out, I'd buy out. I think I'm not sure why.
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 3: Definitely is the moment, but I would be buying out
Speaker 3: on it. And I think that is kind of gone
Speaker 3: that whole MVP. I mean, Daniel Contra has been incredible.
Speaker 3: I just don't think like this could be quite a
Speaker 3: bit and this could be significant enough time. It was
Speaker 3: already a pretty like long shot. I know he had
Speaker 3: been amazing, but it was a pretty long shot for
Speaker 3: him to take that home in the NL.
Speaker 1: I know he was like, oh, he became the number one, right,
Speaker 1: I understand that, but I already range and then I
Speaker 1: think he ended up at three to one by the
Speaker 1: time we got close to it. But look, if anything,
Speaker 1: watched the number and if it goes really high, if
Speaker 1: it goes to seven over the next couple of weeks
Speaker 1: or something like that, I think maybe to do a
Speaker 1: small share if you want to, but I would just
Speaker 1: watch it closely. It's probably out. It's tough. I understand
Speaker 1: why you're out. I don't think that's wrong either. Speaking
Speaker 1: of out, Mooie Betts is going to be out. He's
Speaker 1: on the ten day il with a cracked rib. Those
Speaker 1: are very difficult injuries, yes, very painful injuries. So that
Speaker 1: is you know, look, I sat here in March, I
Speaker 1: sat here in April. I told you the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: not invincible. And how often have we seen these super teams,
Speaker 1: you know, in sports that don't end up winning. You know,
Speaker 1: the worst case scenarios can and will happen. And there
Speaker 1: was no money to be made on the Dodgers. Now
Speaker 1: in terms of fantasy investment, sure you want to invest
Speaker 1: in this team, I get it, But there they have
Speaker 1: had a challenge. This is about a lot of challenge
Speaker 1: between the Kershaw injury, between Walker Bueller being hurt, now
Speaker 1: the Mookie Bets injury. They're facing more challenges ahead despite
Speaker 1: getting hemiback. You also, you know, don't know what gonsolin
Speaker 1: second half is going to look like. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is there's a lot going on there. Muncie Bellinger, all
Speaker 1: the issues that Bellingers had this year. I don't know,
Speaker 1: man Like I feel like the Padres even with these
Speaker 1: injuries are still in a place where they can still
Speaker 1: take home this division. But from a fantasy standpoint, Mookie
Speaker 1: Bets is the guy that you know really gets this
Speaker 1: lineup going. He is a huge part of what's going on.
Speaker 1: He is also right at the top of that MVB conversation.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna take a hit there. And this is
Speaker 1: amazing because if you had gold Schmidt shares, like I did.
Speaker 1: I know some people here in the show did. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: uh mister cards did for gold Smith gold Schmidt. Right now,
Speaker 1: you have to be loving life because you ast Pachado
Speaker 1: and Bets in the same weekend. And now, if you
Speaker 1: had Goldmin shares, he is by far the favorite right now.
Speaker 3: In my mind, you've gotta be fee I totally agree.
Speaker 3: You've got to be feeling great. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 3: what you're saying about the Dodgers. I mean, they've still
Speaker 3: got Tree Turner as a table setter. They still got Freddy.
Speaker 2: Freeman in there.
Speaker 3: I mean, even with all the injuries, like their offense
Speaker 3: is still kind of a problem. They're piece mailing together.
Speaker 3: The rotation left and right, Andrewheny coming back is real positive.
Speaker 3: They're like the here's the thing that happened with them.
Speaker 3: They went from like superhuman, so they're just on par
Speaker 3: with being you know human, that's all that it is.
Speaker 3: They didn't they weren't one of these teams that was
Speaker 3: like like take the Padres, you take man name Machado
Speaker 3: with Tatis off the Padres. We gotta be honest here,
Speaker 3: they don't look great. The Dodgers just took Mookie Betts
Speaker 3: off and Walker Buehler and they've still got a really
Speaker 3: great rotation and they've got a really great lineup. So
Speaker 3: they're just more human. They're more accessible to be able
Speaker 3: to be beat. But all these teams should be more aggressive,
Speaker 3: and it does open up opportunities for some Dodgers out there.
Speaker 3: You know, if Chris Taylor can start getting hot again,
Speaker 3: maybe that team is going to give more opportunities in
Speaker 3: the you know, in the miners. This is another thing
Speaker 3: to consider on both sides of the aisle on this
Speaker 3: is that superchoos are now over in baseball, so you
Speaker 3: could theoretically start expecting that teams are not going to
Speaker 3: be holding anybody back that was close on you know Cruz,
Speaker 3: prime example, he got the call in, Yeah, Vinnie Paspentino
Speaker 3: could be one of those players to just be on
Speaker 3: the lookout for it.
Speaker 1: So here's the current over at bet MGM. You have
Speaker 1: Goldschmid at plus one seventy five, but Chato is already
Speaker 1: up to plus five hundred. Alonso went from twelve to
Speaker 1: seven over the weekend. He's been red hot to I
Speaker 1: Big Grand Slam this weekend too. I've been saying that
Speaker 1: Alonzo really deserves a lot more credit. I feel like
Speaker 1: the narrative for Alonzo Surrey to build a little bit
Speaker 1: because you have had him be out there without the
Speaker 1: two big pictures and they continue to. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is very much the team leader I feel like too,
Speaker 1: especially from the non pictures from the position players. So
Speaker 1: I mean that Alonzo one is a fascinating one. He
Speaker 1: could work himself into this conversation quite a bit. Although
Speaker 1: it would be super notxious to have Judge and Pete
Speaker 1: a Lonzo take home the two MVPs in the American
Speaker 1: League National League, but we shall see. Yeah, super East
Speaker 1: Coast bias. Speaking of the East Coast bias, Max Suerz
Speaker 1: is going to make a rehab start Tuesday and hopefully
Speaker 1: is going to take them Mount for the Mets on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So I just put him back in my lineup on
Speaker 1: all my lineups this week that I had him, and
Speaker 1: just say hope for the best on Sunday. Let's go
Speaker 1: Eloya Menez is close to resuming his rehab. He got
Speaker 1: it shut down last week because he had some soreness
Speaker 1: in that hamstring. Now it looks like he is ready
Speaker 1: to get back on track of this week fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: And also friend mil rayis with the hamstring returning on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about this. You mentioned super too, You
Speaker 1: mentioned Anio Cruz. Cruz started slow in Triple A this
Speaker 1: year and he hit just a buck seventy six with
Speaker 1: one dinger. Since then, Cruise is slashing two sixty five,
Speaker 1: three sixty seven, five hundred with eight homers and a
Speaker 1: one thirty WRC plus. So take us through, mister prospect one,
Speaker 1: the Anio Cruz profile and that those of us who
Speaker 1: have him on rosters should expect here in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Onio Cruz is a they're swing and
Speaker 3: miss in the game, but it is absolute pure raw power.
Speaker 3: I mean, tippy top seven whatever they want to call it,
Speaker 3: degraded seventy seventy five. It's crazy, crazy raw power. He
Speaker 3: just doesn't have crazy decisive back to ball skills. He's
Speaker 3: going to strike out some he can steal. He's a
Speaker 3: monster six foot seven.
Speaker 2: He was a shortstop.
Speaker 3: This team is obviously long term, not gonna groom him
Speaker 3: in that role. It was interesting over the weekend that
Speaker 3: situation with I think the COVID issue where Live Paguero
Speaker 3: came up to play short stop. The Pirates have been
Speaker 3: calling up everybody and their mother. I mean, they're gonna
Speaker 3: have an entire new team. I think the roster that
Speaker 3: the Pirates in with could in theory only have key
Speaker 3: Brian Hayes, you know, at the end of Bryn Reynolds,
Speaker 3: those two, like those two guys would be the only
Speaker 3: guys that were opening day to end, and it's going
Speaker 3: to be the rest ONEO Cruise is a guy you
Speaker 3: should pick up. I personally am not insanely optimistic. He
Speaker 3: had bonkers projections off of like three games and some
Speaker 3: triple A ones that I was very critical of. And
Speaker 3: I said he'd be one of the bigger bus this
Speaker 3: year that people were drafting.
Speaker 1: Here we go, but and he hasn't even played a
Speaker 1: game at the big right.
Speaker 3: But he's a power speed guy that you should consider.
Speaker 3: But looking at the grand scheme, I'd rather have Abrams.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have Riley Green, who was called up this week,
Speaker 3: and Vinnie pas Quentino if he were to get the
Speaker 3: call up in the next week, would be a really
Speaker 3: interesting one. I'm exactly, I'm not hyper aggressive on ONeill,
Speaker 3: but he's a power speed guy who's going to strike
Speaker 3: out a bunch. I think I'll have a poor batting average,
Speaker 3: but he's gonna get home hit homers at like you know,
Speaker 3: he had one hundred and twenty. He had the hardest
Speaker 3: hit ball for the Pirates in the stat cast era.
Speaker 3: That's the type of guy that he is. He's volatile,
Speaker 3: you know, sexy.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're all burned by the you know,
Speaker 1: the Gregory Polanco's and you know, like the Pittsburgh system
Speaker 1: has been underwhelming in terms of the expectations. Austin Meadows
Speaker 1: is another guy that I just I always thought was
Speaker 1: just hyped over to the moon and not as good
Speaker 1: as he where we were told he was going to
Speaker 1: be a couple of good questions here, first with Anyo
Speaker 1: Cruz from the Pians and Cracker Jackson. Does a six
Speaker 1: foot seven guy stick at shortstop in your opinion, Welsh,
Speaker 1: I say, no, what are you saying.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I haven't thought he would for two and
Speaker 3: a half years when this conversation has been going on.
Speaker 2: He wants to. Though there was there's a little.
Speaker 1: I want to do a lot of things. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it happens.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a little little issue where when he
Speaker 3: sit back down, he was playing in the outfield and
Speaker 3: he was kind of interviewed about it and he was like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to play in the outfield, Like he
Speaker 3: was kind of critical about the Pirates doing that.
Speaker 2: But he's not going to play. They could throw him there,
Speaker 2: you know, because Liover is not going to stay up.
Speaker 2: There's the possibility of.
Speaker 3: That, But he's an outfielder for me. He is an
Speaker 3: outfielder for sure, big arm. But also like, is that
Speaker 3: gonna affect him?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I think I think there's something.
Speaker 3: To him, like I don't want to play in Triple A.
Speaker 3: Maybe he played down. Maybe he's gonna play up when
Speaker 3: he gets to the majors, but he's gonna be pissed
Speaker 3: off of he's not a short stop. I just don't
Speaker 3: also see logistically how a six foot seven shortstop is
Speaker 3: the best use of what they want.
Speaker 1: But four or six five, I can't remember. It was
Speaker 1: a big guy, say he was at least six four.
Speaker 2: Maybe they moved him. They moved off of that as
Speaker 2: soon as they.
Speaker 1: He eventually moved their base, but that happened way later
Speaker 1: in the career.
Speaker 2: Say that you can't athletically do it.
Speaker 1: It's just it's and it's also like tear on a
Speaker 1: guy of that size too, that you don't want to see.
Speaker 3: That's a really really key point. He's also not a
Speaker 3: thick guy like Alex Rodrigo. This is a he's a
Speaker 3: really skinny guy that there might be some injury concerns
Speaker 3: long term.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although ad was when he was younger too, I
Speaker 1: mean when he but he was not not like the
Speaker 1: big leages. No, you're not like he's not gonna not
Speaker 1: gonna project to fill out the same way as a
Speaker 1: rod did. And of course a special vitamins always helped.
Speaker 1: Also to answer another question here from a legacy six six,
Speaker 1: would I be getting into mooie bets for MVP now
Speaker 1: or my I was into movie mookie bets for MVP
Speaker 1: in the first place. So I was never on that,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna be on it now. Anyway. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to us some more news here and Nick
Speaker 1: Pivetta fun facts. Nick Pavetta's last nine starts, he is
Speaker 1: seven to one with a one to seven seven ERA,
Speaker 1: sixty one strikeouts, point eight four whip. Since May ninth.
Speaker 1: He ranks first and wins second in k's fourth and
Speaker 1: whip fifth and ERA. This is the Nick Pavetta. All
Speaker 1: the Fantasy nerds a couple of years ago, we're dying
Speaker 1: to get in Philadelphia, didn't get Philadelphia gave up. Fantasy
Speaker 1: Nerds gave up, and Boston somehow got it right. This
Speaker 1: is one of the more surprising things in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball in twenty twenty two. To me, the Nick Pavetta story,
Speaker 1: he's this guy is gonna be a league winner. I think.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So that's the question though, is do you think this sticks?
Speaker 3: Because you're right, this has that like there's so many
Speaker 3: of those guys. It's like the underlining stack guy who's
Speaker 3: in a place that never works out. Joe mus Grove
Speaker 3: was that, and look how he's worked out. But then
Speaker 3: there was Matthew Boyd that was destroyed never works.
Speaker 2: Do you think.
Speaker 3: Paveta is someone that can maintain this because this is
Speaker 3: a pretty lofty like this these I don't think.
Speaker 1: He can maintain a one seven one era, but I
Speaker 1: think he can. I think if you are in season
Speaker 1: long fantasy leagues, he has already given you significant contribution.
Speaker 1: When I say winner, like he has been a guy
Speaker 1: that's I mean over ten starts to get something like this,
Speaker 1: that's pretty that's a's a third of a season Welsh
Speaker 1: for a pitchure. Ten starts is a huge clump. If
Speaker 1: you get ten great starts from a guy by June,
Speaker 1: let alone ten in a row. I think if you
Speaker 1: have him in you know, head to head formats of
Speaker 1: any kind of course, you think there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: kind of regression. But at the same time, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you didn't pay anything for him, so he's
Speaker 1: more valuable to you than he is on the open
Speaker 1: trade market.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that that last part is the key thing
Speaker 3: I'm curious about is do you think his trade value
Speaker 3: is nonexistent to the point where or it just doesn't
Speaker 3: relate to his production where you are more worth.
Speaker 2: Than trying to trade him.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think it relates to the
Speaker 1: return on investment you made in Pivetta, which was nothing.
Speaker 1: So I don't think you're going to get something back
Speaker 1: that is equally more reliable. I should say so. But yeah, Look,
Speaker 1: Pavett has been fantastic and he's been a guy I
Speaker 1: mean how I mean for two months now, literally two
Speaker 1: months we've been talking about Pavetta on this show in DFS, right,
Speaker 1: and we keep telling you run him out there, run
Speaker 1: him out there, run him out there. And if you have,
Speaker 1: there's no way you haven't made money playing Nick Vetta. Deal.
Speaker 1: So it's just you're nuts, Like, I don't know, show
Speaker 1: me the lineups where you had Nick Vetta and you
Speaker 1: didn't win. You get tweet him at me. I want
Speaker 1: to see it. But you had to have because the
Speaker 1: price never got crazy. You're not paying ten to five
Speaker 1: for Nick Pavetta This Day in Baseball. In nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: after leading the club to a twenty six and thirty
Speaker 1: eight record, toying the Russa was fired as manager of
Speaker 1: the White Sox and replaced by Jim Fergozi. LaRussa would
Speaker 1: then be hired by the A's the following month, which
Speaker 1: is kind of crazy to think that a guy will
Speaker 1: get fired. Could you imagine like Joe Girardi getting hired
Speaker 1: right now or Joe Madden getting hired right now by
Speaker 1: another team. That's something you don't get Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: would be funny because I thought, maybe on this day
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, told Russa would get fired again
Speaker 1: by the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2: And maybe hired by one of those guys that's not
Speaker 2: to find it. Like Jojo, I think White Sox fans
Speaker 2: wouldn't complain.
Speaker 3: Do you think a White Sox fan would be happy
Speaker 3: if they fired Larusa today and put in Joe Girardi?
Speaker 3: Do you think that makes them happy? I think just
Speaker 3: firing Larusa would make everybody happy.
Speaker 1: I think fighting with Luis woud make him happy. But
Speaker 1: I don't think Girardi is the guy either. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's that's it.
Speaker 3: I cannot get over he. Luis is so much fun
Speaker 3: to me because he's chaos. He's just like walking chaos.
Speaker 3: I cannot get over the time I spent over at
Speaker 3: the White Sox, which was a ton during spring training
Speaker 3: at Camelback Ranch. I gotta tell you, I could not
Speaker 3: get over the fact that what LaRussa would do during
Speaker 3: all these times is he would just walk around.
Speaker 1: Shots.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm surprised that.
Speaker 3: Do what I'm telling you, he would just like walk around,
Speaker 3: never coaching, never talking to players. He'd walk over here,
Speaker 3: he'd stand here, he'd get on a golf cart. While
Speaker 3: you know, Jim Tomey and coaches are working with the players.
Speaker 2: He was just like hanging out.
Speaker 1: It was just like, hey, what.
Speaker 2: Are you doing here? He was like a reporter, just
Speaker 2: walking around. Gargle over here, gargle. I gotta hit the restroom.
Speaker 2: Like he never did anything.
Speaker 3: What would you say you do, Larusa, what do you do?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: Taking the temperature. He's taking the temperature. I'm not telling
Speaker 1: you how he's taking it. It's hot, but but he's
Speaker 1: taking the temperature. Baby like a baby. All right, here
Speaker 1: you go. Here's your trivia question. All your peanuts and
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Speaker 1: question correctly. Jacksoninski, as a rookie, hit three home runs
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Speaker 1: Three home runs in a game?
Speaker 2: Jason Bay.
Speaker 1: Jason Bay is an excellent guess. It is not Jason Bay.
Speaker 1: And it's not Brian Giles.
Speaker 3: I misss and remember his brother Marcus Giles.
Speaker 1: Marcus, Yes, I do for the Braves right the second basement,
Speaker 1: right Marcus. Wow, Now that's a name I haven't thought
Speaker 1: of in a very long time. But no, it is
Speaker 1: not Bond JP hot out of the gate, JP, Larry said,
Speaker 1: Andy Van's liked also good, but it was Cutch. It
Speaker 1: was Andrew McCutcheon. Is the correct answer there, Well done,
Speaker 1: you earn my ever living respect. That's what. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do a little set heroes from the weekend. Let's
Speaker 1: fly through some of these. Paveta ten K's four walks
Speaker 1: in seven innings. Robbie Ray ten strikeouts, one earned run.
Speaker 1: I saw somebody tweet at me Robbie Ray got dropped
Speaker 1: in my league. I pick him up. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should pick him up. What he crazy? He's a
Speaker 1: live pitcher. Chris Bassett nine k's three earned Shane Bieber
Speaker 1: ninek's to earn. Charlie Morton with a good start, so
Speaker 1: he got the good Charlie Morton with the nine gys
Speaker 1: and the seven innings. One of the enigma. He is
Speaker 1: Taiwan Walker at a huge start which the Mets desperately needed.
Speaker 1: One earned run, six and two thirds nine case Andy
Speaker 1: O Contra eight k's or eight innings to earned he
Speaker 1: is still unbelievable, just filthy. Aaron Nola is right up
Speaker 1: at the top of the k leaders in the National
Speaker 1: League and Major League Baseball as a whole eight innings,
Speaker 1: no earned run, eight k's, Carlos Rodan eight k's, no
Speaker 1: earned over eight. James and Tian was good with eight
Speaker 1: k's and Dylan Bundy seven k's and eight innings one
Speaker 1: earned run. And these are all the guys that had
Speaker 1: multiple home runs this weekend. Josh Bell had three. CJ.
Speaker 1: Crawn back on Track hit three, Hunter Renfro hit three.
Speaker 1: That's very important for that Brew crew, Mike Trout with
Speaker 1: his three, Noan Aeronauto had two, Rendell Gritchick had two,
Speaker 1: Robbie Grossman two, Francisco Lindor had two, and Luis Garcia
Speaker 1: as well. Now, of course, Paul Golshman had zero. Who
Speaker 1: was my pick over the weekend?
Speaker 3: So I was a little I did. I went Buckston weekend.
Speaker 3: You always go Bucks some weekend, but I only got one.
Speaker 1: So heanys one one more than I got, So there
Speaker 1: you have it. Lucas Giolito was a zero eight earned
Speaker 1: runs boom. McKenzie Gore eight earned runs. He's starting to
Speaker 1: get figured out a little bit. Well, you are the
Speaker 1: last three up in ideal starts for McKenzie gore. Just
Speaker 1: just same.
Speaker 3: Might have to dig deep on McKenzie gore here a
Speaker 3: little bit, like you know, everyone knows my stance and
Speaker 3: then I like tail between my leg be like okay,
Speaker 3: he's just amazing. None of it made sense and it's
Speaker 3: starting to unravel.
Speaker 1: You know, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 1: Welsh Pablo Lopez six earned runs, Michael the runs and
Speaker 1: seven earned runs, Kyle Wright five earned runs eight K's
Speaker 1: any concern with this Kyle Wright star here is he's
Speaker 1: starting to get a little tired, a little predictable.
Speaker 3: Perhaps just I am worried a little bit about him
Speaker 3: getting hit hard. I don't know if I'm completely out again.
Speaker 3: This is this would be another guy that's worth a
Speaker 3: little bit of a deep dive. I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't think he's con mad a rotation or anything like that.
Speaker 3: He might want to bench him on really tough matchups.
Speaker 3: Maybe moving forward to see if this is just a
Speaker 3: you know, a little uh, what.
Speaker 2: Is it block? Like road roadbump.
Speaker 3: It's like a roadbump, speed bump, exact speed speed bumps,
Speaker 3: like the way I just.
Speaker 1: Like what you're doing with your hand, like this.
Speaker 4: Joke to take Kyle Wright, Randy Roserena one for twelve
Speaker 4: with seven k's over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Jack Jake Berger excuse me one for twelve with seven k's,
Speaker 1: berndand Donovan one for fourteen with seven k's not to
Speaker 1: be outdone. They look just k's abound, needless to say,
Speaker 1: Bryson Scott one for sixteen with four k's not a
Speaker 1: good weekend for him. Nelson Cruz one for fourteen with
Speaker 1: six k's, Jonathan Indio one for fourteen with four So
Speaker 1: it's been it's been no bueno man. Let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the home run board from the Peanuts and
Speaker 1: the Cracker Jacks here and see what's going on. Larry C.
Speaker 1: We have somebody at the top at twenty four with
Speaker 1: high cobbies at twenty four. To Bloom is now. To
Speaker 1: Blom is now at twenty four as well, title chaser
Speaker 1: twenty four. It's a four way tie. It's a four
Speaker 1: way tie. Somehow, I'm still on the top of the
Speaker 1: board at twenty. Here, I'm still on this board. Go
Speaker 1: Cards is on this board with twenty. All I do
Speaker 1: is win. Mike Mayer is at twenty. So Mike Maher
Speaker 1: and I are tied to twenty. Niking in the North
Speaker 1: hasn't hit a home run since John Snow took the black.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. He's got He has gotta
Speaker 1: shake that off. But he did win. I believe. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm mayor. Who was it that won the month of May?
Speaker 1: Because I think we have a winner for that too,
Speaker 1: that we want to give out a free shirt to sure.
Speaker 1: I remember there was a mess free stuff. I don't
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Speaker 1: and FanDuel six and a half. I'm still like in
Speaker 1: the over, even though the projections like the under. Same
Speaker 1: thing with mcclanahan's it's seven and a half against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and I know people are like, oh, that's a big number.
Speaker 1: I'm still over that. I know some people are under
Speaker 1: I don't care. JD. Martinez one and a half total
Speaker 1: basis versus Detroit, Yes, please at minus one ten and
Speaker 1: Xander Bogart's plus one o five on total basis and
Speaker 1: that's on DK as well. What do you have here
Speaker 1: in the prop market today, Welsh, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta tell you just on the Darvish McClanahan.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, my stance has always been betting
Speaker 3: McClanahan over seven and a half is at number, it's
Speaker 3: six and a half and over. You always bet McClanahan
Speaker 3: without even thinking seven and a half is rough I
Speaker 3: like both of these. I just don't know if I
Speaker 3: would go out and go nuts about them, but I
Speaker 3: do like both of those, and those would be on
Speaker 3: the card.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go deeper.
Speaker 3: Caleb Killian strikeout numbers only at three and a half,
Speaker 3: and it's a pretty good matchup. Pittsburgh bottom five in
Speaker 3: all of baseball and strikeouts per a lot of rookies
Speaker 3: in there. Caleb Killian definitely is an arsenal. He's an
Speaker 3: all or nothing type of guy. He has had from
Speaker 3: the miners and majors. He's had zero strikeout performances. He's
Speaker 3: had six to seven in a game. I think this
Speaker 3: is the prime spot for him to put it on.
Speaker 3: So Caleb Killian, It's a nice small number if you
Speaker 3: want to play BVP matchup, which I know somebody in
Speaker 3: this gallery is going to be doing here shortly. In
Speaker 3: the home run contest, Jim and Choi is the king
Speaker 3: of BVP today, hitting four hundred against Garrett Cole in
Speaker 3: his career with quite the sample size. No one has
Speaker 3: more homers against a pitcher today that's playing today than
Speaker 3: Jim and Joy. So why not hit his total basis
Speaker 3: which is at a half one base he has to
Speaker 3: get one hit and it's minus one fifteen.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: And then Trout on the hot streak, trout a total
Speaker 3: bases one and a half. Yes, sir BVP again good
Speaker 3: batting average. So those would be the Those are the
Speaker 3: three I'm going to attach myself to. But I also
Speaker 3: like the Irish McClanahan. If you want to make it
Speaker 3: an even five for my card, i'd be good.
Speaker 1: I miss they still make Killians Irish red. That was
Speaker 1: like a huge beer back in the nineties and I
Speaker 1: feel like it's disappeared. You used to see the commercials
Speaker 1: for it all that.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: Remember you're a little older. No, it's the Achillians Irish redchillions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a beer in my youth when I was
Speaker 1: growing up in Dublin. All right, here's your DFS. Look
Speaker 1: for todight. A lot of guys going against each other
Speaker 1: that you would like.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think the way you make money tonight is in
Speaker 1: cash on d You go with Shane McLanahan, even tho
Speaker 1: its against Yankees because mclanahan's at home. I think you
Speaker 1: take the other side of the Corbyn Burns Mecholas matchup
Speaker 1: and go with Mikolas at seven point eight in tournaments
Speaker 1: as your secondary arm and hope you get the the
Speaker 1: W since probably Corbin Burns is the heavy favorite and
Speaker 1: the heavy investment there. Or if you want to play
Speaker 1: in cash you go. You Darbish at eight point one
Speaker 1: is the secondary arm along with Nanahan on FanDuel. Just
Speaker 1: keep it simple. Go at Max Freed. He's got good
Speaker 1: win equity if you want to be fancy again and
Speaker 1: go oppo Miles Mikolis because then strike out a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. But if they get a W there and
Speaker 1: some other guys don't pitch, well, that could be a
Speaker 1: good one. And you Darbish at ten point two, even
Speaker 1: though despite the Padre offense not having a lot of
Speaker 1: guys there again, I would still think you Darvers is
Speaker 1: good enough to get the W tonight against Arizona out.
Speaker 3: He's gonna strike It's just what he does. Just want
Speaker 3: to point out that's why that strikeout prop is so interesting.
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks one of the worst strikeout teams at base I
Speaker 3: don't know a strikeout dudes.
Speaker 2: Left and right.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get to eight or nine, all right, game
Speaker 1: stacks of the night. We're definitely looking for the Angels,
Speaker 1: as Welsh mentioned Toronto, Atlanta, Boston, and Detroit is the
Speaker 1: one you need to kind of work with. You gotta
Speaker 1: find some relief here a little bit in price, because
Speaker 1: you have a lot of big arm pitchers with big
Speaker 1: price tags. So you're gonna have to look for a
Speaker 1: team like Detroit. Like we're talking Riley Green at two
Speaker 1: point one, Torkos and two point one over on FanDuel
Speaker 1: Green is two point eight. Have your bias two point seven,
Speaker 1: Scope is two point three. Ramiol Tapia on DK also
Speaker 1: two point six. If you want to get in that
Speaker 1: Toronto game a little bit for me, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Mike Trout tonight, swinging a hot bat. Let's go. I
Speaker 1: like the match up here for Trout. Where are you
Speaker 1: going for your home run? Call this evening? Welsh?
Speaker 3: Ooh, I like that, and I wish I could have
Speaker 3: picked that. I also like the baby well. I want
Speaker 3: to like double up. I don't wanna double up. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go with Showho Tani. I'm gonna go in the same matchup.
Speaker 3: Chris Bobich's pitching and he loves to give up home runs,
Speaker 3: and Otani not exactly destroying lefties or hitting tons and
Speaker 3: tons of homers off of him. But this is the
Speaker 3: type of picture that would be perfect for So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna pivot off, try to get a little bit of
Speaker 3: a lead here.
Speaker 2: I'll go with Otani.
Speaker 1: There you go. Oh look at this one. Wankee Pegin
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Speaker 3: Boons Farm, by the way, for my I just want
Speaker 3: to put up Boons Farm was my childhood, so that
Speaker 3: was my and g Manchoi for Mayor, as I was
Speaker 3: pointing out, he but mayor is the king of BVP.
Speaker 3: If there's a BVP, if if there's an obvious BVP guy,
Speaker 3: you already one hundred percent note will be his choice.
Speaker 3: Every single week that I've been doing this, I see.
Speaker 3: So hey, there you go, g Manchoi, it's the mayor pick.
Speaker 1: There you and mister Buster loves that. We've been going
Speaker 1: over thirty minutes. Monday's always over thirty minutes because there's
Speaker 1: so much to talk about. We had two massive injuries,
Speaker 1: so we absolutely needed to get and talk about that.
Speaker 1: Boons Farm was for rich kids. Wonkey Penguin says rich
Speaker 1: it's like three dollars. Hey, I wanna let you to
Speaker 1: sort that out. On that note, we'll be back again tomorrow,
Speaker 1: do it all again, Bob, and'll be here break all
Speaker 1: the games down with me again. Happy Father's Day everybody,
Speaker 1: and uh, that'll do it for us. But the story
Speaker 1: of the game goes on for Welsh I'm Joey P.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next Docads than the
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