Speaker 1: The angels are wrestling with demons.
Speaker 2: Let's play ball.
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Speaker 3: Happy Monday, everybody. I hope you had a lovely weekend.
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Speaker 3: look at this Welsh. Look at that. Up to seven
Speaker 3: point two three YouTube subscribers. Oh baby, we blowing up.
Speaker 1: We big time.
Speaker 4: We going do you think we get to eight before
Speaker 4: the end of the year.
Speaker 1: I think it's I don't think it's impossible.
Speaker 3: Maybe if I start giving away free stuff, maybe yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe we get free stuff flows.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe this we get a little bit more into
Speaker 5: the summer, we see where the numbers are at. If
Speaker 5: they're looking to kind of juicy and possible, we make
Speaker 5: a call. We dip into that pristine auction and maybe
Speaker 5: we could find a little something something if we hit
Speaker 5: to eight K.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's kind of like the banana stand of fantasy pros.
Speaker 3: It's the pristine auction. There's always money in the banana stand,
Speaker 3: and there's always some cool stuff.
Speaker 5: If the prize closet like radio, you'd be like, let's
Speaker 5: get dip into the prize closet.
Speaker 1: Let's get the prize closet, except this will.
Speaker 5: Be something really good. This would be something really good,
Speaker 5: not like, hey, look it's.
Speaker 1: Two tickets to toe the wet sprocket. Let's go, I like,
Speaker 1: ow the what? But anyway, let's.
Speaker 3: Talk talk about what's going on in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 3: and let's start with the Angels Welsh They have now
Speaker 3: dropped eleven straight. The Phillies, on the other hand, of
Speaker 3: one four in a row. We told you when they
Speaker 3: fired Girardi. Keep an eye out in the wagery market,
Speaker 3: in the DFS market, in the fantasy market for a
Speaker 3: little bit of a surge with the Phillies. When the
Speaker 3: fire a manager, sometimes it happens. Well, you got it.
Speaker 3: But let's talk about the Angels because that's more fun.
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward's the il Joe Adell recalled. Anthony Rendon could
Speaker 3: begin baseball activity soon, could be doing a keto diet.
Speaker 3: Who knows what he's doing. Mike Trout has been dreadful
Speaker 3: over the last week. We'll get more onto that later.
Speaker 3: But the Angels look eleven game losing streaks. Welsh, that's
Speaker 3: a tough thing to come back from.
Speaker 4: Yep, it is quite the thing to see.
Speaker 5: Remember this team, the Taany and Trout and how the
Speaker 5: excitement Jared Walsh popping off.
Speaker 4: It is boo rutal.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: The problem is, though, I'm falling into this space, not
Speaker 5: just from the fantasy, but you get into like betting
Speaker 5: and gambling and stuff like they gotta win, like it's
Speaker 5: gotta change. Like so I feel like I'm gonna start
Speaker 5: falling in that space where it's like I want to
Speaker 5: bet the Mike trout total bases because it can't keep
Speaker 5: going like this. I want to bet the Angels. I
Speaker 5: want to bet you know they're fall You're gonna get
Speaker 5: some probably incredible lines. I haven't looked today what the
Speaker 5: line is gonna be. I want to make some of
Speaker 5: those bets with the Angels right now, because it's so bad.
Speaker 4: They can't be this can they be this bad?
Speaker 3: Well, look, here's the sentiment, and there's Mark. I guess
Speaker 3: the Otani MVP chances are slipping. It's Aaron Judge's award
Speaker 3: to lose. It's June, it's June relaxed. In fact, this
Speaker 3: is the great time to start buying those shares of
Speaker 3: Otani as they start to click up and up and up,
Speaker 3: because he's still the only guy pitching. This is a
Speaker 3: bad streak that will be forgotten in August. I'm telling
Speaker 3: you right now, it's gonna be completely forgotten.
Speaker 5: I actually agree with both sides of this, like with
Speaker 5: what Mark says, like right now, like Judge is kind
Speaker 5: of like the pack leader because it is early, but
Speaker 5: it is a great time to buy Otani. He cannot
Speaker 5: win this award with this current production. Like if this
Speaker 5: continues you're done. He will not win it. He has
Speaker 5: to be better. If he's a little bit better, he's
Speaker 5: gonna run away with it because of pitching side, like
Speaker 5: what you're alluding to. So this is a great time
Speaker 5: if you're a gambling gambler and you want to throw
Speaker 5: a couple more bucks because you're not gonna get better odds.
Speaker 5: This probably in June might be the Maybe June six
Speaker 5: might be the best odds you could get on a
Speaker 5: tiny MVP the entire season after eleven game losing streak.
Speaker 4: Best time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I want to echo your sentiments about Trout
Speaker 3: because I think he's even money tonight over.
Speaker 5: In the tots A basis. It's it's even or plus
Speaker 5: plus fifteen somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's an even or plus money in
Speaker 3: some places, depending on where your look over at bettingpros
Speaker 3: dot com to find out where you can get the
Speaker 3: best line.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something I would.
Speaker 3: I saw it this morning staring me at the face,
Speaker 3: So wa ooh, baby, I think it might be time
Speaker 3: to start looking at that one. Let's get this mother
Speaker 3: headlined the weekend boy, Bryce and Stott three run walk
Speaker 3: off Homer stunning the Angels in that game. We also
Speaker 3: had Harrison Bader lee the Cardinals past the Cubs on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Good game for him. David Bedner whiffs two, gets his
Speaker 3: tenth save. Congratulations to you. Cole Tucker was claimed off
Speaker 3: waivers from the Pirates by the Diamondbacks. Josh Donaldson lifted
Speaker 3: the Yankees to their sixth straight win. The Yankees are
Speaker 3: cruising right now. Montgomery had no decision, but he pitched well.
Speaker 3: That that Yankee rotation. You know what, Cole and Nester
Speaker 3: Cortez at the top. You've gotten good starts from Montgomery,
Speaker 3: good starts from Tyon. Save Reno looks good. This is
Speaker 3: a really look. This was the thing that really bit
Speaker 3: the Yankees last year was the rotation after Cole. They
Speaker 3: had nothing in the rotation. The Kluber experiment didn't work.
Speaker 3: Tyon was still kind of working his way back, sever
Speaker 3: Reina was on the shelf. This Yankee rotation is a
Speaker 3: totally different animal, and right now the Yankees certainly look
Speaker 3: like they are a big time contender for the World Series.
Speaker 3: We'll see if everybody can stay healthy. But to me, Welsh,
Speaker 3: the difference has been now everybody in that rotation pitching
Speaker 3: in Montgomery was good last year. I want to give
Speaker 3: him some credit, but still the one two punch at
Speaker 3: the top takes a lot of pressure off the guys three,
Speaker 3: four to five.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I had proposed last week of Luis
Speaker 5: Severino for the rest of the season being more valuable
Speaker 5: than Walker Buehler. We had this discussion over on ITL
Speaker 5: and it's more and more looking like that place you.
Speaker 5: I know, it's also pretty gross about this team. They've
Speaker 5: also got replacements in the wings. They've got prospects, not
Speaker 5: just far away prospects. They've got two pictures that could
Speaker 5: come up today in Triple A twenty four year olds
Speaker 5: ken Walda Chuck and Hayden Wsanowski, both really really good
Speaker 5: pictures that could jump into a rotation. But what it
Speaker 5: also says to me is they have got They even
Speaker 5: have to look at this as like we are so
Speaker 5: overperforming what we possibly could have imagined that in instances
Speaker 5: like these, you don't take your foot off the gas.
Speaker 4: You be aggressive. They have got stuff to move throughout
Speaker 4: their system.
Speaker 5: Prospect hitters, I mean their top six or essentially prospect hitters.
Speaker 5: They've got guys from the lower levels to the high.
Speaker 5: They've got so much Will Warren another low player. I
Speaker 5: would look for them to be aggressive and make a move,
Speaker 5: whether it's for you know, a sixth lockdown pitcher, seventh
Speaker 5: I suppose you could even throw into there for them
Speaker 5: or not. They've just got It's just not fair. It's
Speaker 5: not fair with the offense, it's not fair with the pitching,
Speaker 5: and that they might have more assets than really anybody
Speaker 5: right now to go make aggressive moves.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know, it's funny, good comment here again, Mark
Speaker 3: crushing it today with the comments.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of people in the comments.
Speaker 3: If you want to be in the comments and you're
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Speaker 3: Pros YouTube channel, Fantasy Pros MLB. But you know, Mark
Speaker 3: kind of made an offhanded comment, but it's kind of true.
Speaker 3: Gary Sanchez is not catching anymore for the Yankees, make
Speaker 3: no mistake about that. His lack of defense, bad play
Speaker 3: calling at times. Let me tell you that is a
Speaker 3: huge difference for this Yankees rotation. And I think sometimes
Speaker 3: when we're playing fantasy, we don't pay enough attention to
Speaker 3: who the catcher is. You know, you've looked historically, you
Speaker 3: know the Cardinals have always had some good starters there.
Speaker 3: Yadi Emarlin has been there for twenty years. You know,
Speaker 3: those guys do make a difference. Speaking of the Cardinals,
Speaker 3: Nolan Gorman excuse me sitting out on Sunday against the Cubs.
Speaker 1: He's been doing with that back issue.
Speaker 3: Clayton Kershaw was strong in the rehab starting He'll be
Speaker 3: back with the big club this week, so activate them
Speaker 3: in all your lineups. Wander Franco has not resumed baseball
Speaker 3: activities yet, but again the thought process. Hopefully later in
Speaker 3: the week he will. Myke yess is a return the
Speaker 3: following week. You're probably not gonna have him this week.
Speaker 3: Big news though, in the money market, Welsh Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 3: and the Houston Astros agreed to a six year, one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifteen million dollar contract. This broke about like
Speaker 3: twenty minutes after the show on Friday. Yeah, and this
Speaker 3: is brilliant move by the Astros, a team that doesn't
Speaker 3: have a lot of draft picks there in that window.
Speaker 1: Because of the scandal. But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: You need Jordan Alvarez to be the guy. You need
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker, you need Bregman. If you're going to miss
Speaker 3: out on that next group. You need to not only
Speaker 3: have this group hit literally and figuratively, but also you
Speaker 3: need to lock them in for long term.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Astros are doing.
Speaker 3: So love him or hate them, the Astros are doing
Speaker 3: good business right now, just.
Speaker 5: Able to do it with they fail to do it
Speaker 5: with Korea. I know they wanted to, They arguably needed to. Well,
Speaker 5: I mean, Jeremy Polt.
Speaker 4: Makes it that they did.
Speaker 3: They tried to do it with Korea, but I think
Speaker 3: they were smart and saying, you know what, look at
Speaker 3: what Korea hadn't given us in terms of playing time
Speaker 3: over the years, and look at the bright future of
Speaker 3: Alvarez is a middle of the order player.
Speaker 1: I think they made the right call there.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 5: I think hindsight though, I think you have a budding
Speaker 5: star in Jeremy Pane, Like Jeremy Payane, a fascinating conversation
Speaker 5: next year is going to be his fantasy value. And
Speaker 5: maybe have even mentioned this before, when you start comparing
Speaker 5: against like a Corey Seeger, like those are legitimate conversations,
Speaker 5: like he's in that range, he's the top twelve starting
Speaker 5: short stuff. But I think it's perspective had him he
Speaker 5: had he not worked out, and this team was just
Speaker 5: churning out left and right, just loser shortstops. I think
Speaker 5: everyone would go back and be like, how could this
Speaker 5: team not have opened up their pocketbook to bring in
Speaker 5: because you have stars like Jordan Alvarez. But Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 5: will be the lynchpin to that for fantasy owners and
Speaker 5: dynasty owners and redraft owners and actual Astro fans if
Speaker 5: they exist.
Speaker 4: I know one. I know one Astro fan, by the way,
Speaker 4: just one.
Speaker 1: Think of I had any Astro fans. It's funny.
Speaker 3: Jake Seely I remember was threatening to become if if
Speaker 3: the Mets didn't sell the team. He was threatened to
Speaker 3: become an Astros fan. He kind of adopted them, and
Speaker 3: then of course.
Speaker 5: What a great choice, what a great what a great choice.
Speaker 5: He's just like, I'm gonna not be the Nets. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go to this awesome stand up team.
Speaker 3: Well that was before you know, there was one of
Speaker 3: They were the lovable underdogs, you know, little Josel Tuvey
Speaker 3: and stuff. But again, everybody steals signs. Enough of that,
Speaker 3: all right, can we talk about this. Bobin Nightingale had
Speaker 3: a tweet yesterday. Uh the Angels lost their eleventh consecutive game,
Speaker 3: and Mike Trout's hitless streak extends to a career wars
Speaker 3: twenty six abs. It's not very often, Welsh, that you
Speaker 3: get a window to buy Mike Trout. This is clearly it,
Speaker 3: and I would I would practice everybody else patience if
Speaker 3: you have Mike Trout. But this is clearly the window.
Speaker 3: You don't get this very often. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: an epically bad stretch for Trout. So I guess here's
Speaker 3: the question, what does it take to get Trout? You
Speaker 3: could look at the you know, the trade chart. We
Speaker 3: have fantasypros dot Com in the MLB section and you can.
Speaker 1: Kind of line that up. But in the baseball.
Speaker 3: Sense for you, what what do you have to really
Speaker 3: if you've gotta come correct with a trade offer, right,
Speaker 3: And I'm using the phrase come correct because I just
Speaker 3: watched New Jack City over the weekend. But if you
Speaker 3: gotta do that right, it's like you gotta like you
Speaker 3: got to really start with some high profile piece as
Speaker 3: the centerpiece.
Speaker 4: Well, now you're talking dynasty or redraft.
Speaker 1: Let's do both. Let's do both. Why why should we
Speaker 1: limit ourselves? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I think Here's the problem though, is like
Speaker 5: Trout up to this streak was finn. I mean you
Speaker 5: have built in your mind April he was incredible. So
Speaker 5: it's not like it's been a season long, you know,
Speaker 5: destroy It's not like it's been Marcus Simeon, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Like he has been really good this year.
Speaker 5: So I don't think you could do it for cheap,
Speaker 5: all right, So starting in Redraft, I just don't know
Speaker 5: if I feel like it's a picture, but I don't
Speaker 5: feel like it's an underperforming picture you can sell like.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's got to be somebody.
Speaker 5: That is played at a really high level. I think
Speaker 5: someone might be, which I.
Speaker 1: Mean Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, Okay, I was gonna say, you want to
Speaker 3: say Zach Wheeler. Plus does Zach Wheeler and Springer do it?
Speaker 1: Is that even enough?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think that. See.
Speaker 5: I mean you're still talking about it. You're talking about
Speaker 5: a top ten fantasy option. I think you've got to
Speaker 5: go something like a Gossman or al al Kintara or
Speaker 5: even Alec Manoa, and then you get a smaller hitting piece.
Speaker 4: I don't think I mean, you know, hey, I could
Speaker 4: be wrong.
Speaker 5: Mark if Mark brought up Walker Bueller, he's just I
Speaker 5: just don't think he's been good enough that you could
Speaker 5: do that in there. But it could be someone buying
Speaker 5: low and I'm a Walker Buehler, and then maybe buying
Speaker 5: low on a hitter. It looks like something like that
Speaker 5: in Dynasty.
Speaker 4: It's all over the board.
Speaker 5: This is a great opportunity that I think a not
Speaker 5: an out of it team could probably be open to getting,
Speaker 5: you know, two high level prospects and some picks or
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 4: I think that what the exquisition is.
Speaker 5: My problem is is I think Trout was like even
Speaker 5: on his value coming into this year, Everyone's like, well,
Speaker 5: let's get a little bit older.
Speaker 4: He's not a Kunya.
Speaker 5: Then he popped off and he was at the tippy top.
Speaker 5: So now what I think has happened is this bad
Speaker 5: streak has just brought him down to people listening.
Speaker 4: I don't think the value has really really dropped. You know,
Speaker 4: that's an interesting one. At Jordan Alvarez.
Speaker 3: I mean format, yeah, I would, I just want the
Speaker 3: younger player. That's where I'm at with a lot of redraft,
Speaker 3: though in Redraft or Dynasty, I still want Alvarez. So
Speaker 3: That's that's where I'm at, because you know, I have
Speaker 3: a very high threshold for Alvarez. I think he's just
Speaker 3: I think he's like that next big poppy kind of.
Speaker 1: Guy, like I'm not. I'm just not dealing with him.
Speaker 1: So I don't think there's a I don't think he's
Speaker 1: an RPV difference there. Here's another one.
Speaker 3: This is when Michael Baron the Mets have a six
Speaker 3: sixty one winning percentage is the best of the National League,
Speaker 3: and this date the Mets and the Yankees are the
Speaker 3: two best teams in baseball.
Speaker 1: How much does the rest of baseball hate New York
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 5: Welsh on baseball parody is cool. Huh, it's all in
Speaker 5: New York. Were just sitting out here West Coast and
Speaker 5: sitting here with my Diamondbacks and my loser Angels and
Speaker 5: all these bad teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 3: This one also from Preston Wilson, who, by the way,
Speaker 3: is a huge fan of Fantasy pros follows me on Twitter,
Speaker 3: and we've actually DMed and talked before, good old Preston
Speaker 3: Wilson player in his day. Yeah, but Preston Wilson decided
Speaker 3: and and I'm very happy about this. So Tampa Bay,
Speaker 3: some of the players refused to wear the Gay Pride
Speaker 3: logo on their uniforms this weekend, and Preston Wilson decided
Speaker 3: he was going to go, you know, say his piece
Speaker 3: about this, and I thought this was very well orchestrated
Speaker 3: by him. He said, there's a special ignorance in sports
Speaker 3: on this topic. Every person in Major League Baseball has
Speaker 3: at some point played with a homosexual teammate. They have
Speaker 3: all cheered for their success on the field, they have
Speaker 3: all felt their pain when they struggled. They just didn't
Speaker 3: know that player necessarily was LB LGBTQ. So here here,
Speaker 3: I mean to me, this is literally the least you
Speaker 3: can do. I don't care like if you if if
Speaker 3: that makes you uncomfortable, but literally the least you could
Speaker 3: do is just acknowledge it, like that's all your asking.
Speaker 1: They acknowledge that.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not a big teammates that you have
Speaker 3: gay for an office workers like that, it's something that
Speaker 3: that should not be in the shadows, and it's something
Speaker 3: that should not be hidden anymore. It's it's something that
Speaker 3: should be again, something that collectively, at the very least
Speaker 3: you can do, you don't have to support anything. This
Speaker 3: is just acknowledgement. And I thought Preston Wilson did a
Speaker 3: nice job there, very.
Speaker 5: Much what you It was interesting too because I read
Speaker 5: I read the article like right when it dropped, and
Speaker 5: the article an article made it seem like that the
Speaker 5: Rays gave a choice by.
Speaker 4: The way in this that they gave it choice and.
Speaker 5: Those specific players like Jeffrey Springs and them decided to
Speaker 5: take the patch off. Not that it was like they
Speaker 5: were blah blah blah, But then it turned into a
Speaker 5: messy situation because it's like, it's just a it's just
Speaker 5: an acknowledgment on the uniform to go to go that
Speaker 5: far to you know, whether it was ripped off or
Speaker 5: whether they had a choice and they took it off
Speaker 5: when other players were doing it.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a it's kind of an old boy move.
Speaker 3: It wild, yeah, and it's not a lifestyle choice. You
Speaker 3: don't wake up and go you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go do that like im Look, this is
Speaker 3: not a political show. I'm just saying like literally, you know,
Speaker 3: I am positive that I have worked here in other
Speaker 3: places and I came from the world of the theater
Speaker 3: where once again it is certainly more present or openly present.
Speaker 3: And I just think this is again it's it's not
Speaker 3: a matter of choice, it's a matter of Hey, you know,
Speaker 3: teams do a lot of different things, supporting a lot
Speaker 3: of different causes and a lot of different acknowledgments. This
Speaker 3: is an acknowledgement. So good on Preston Wilson doing that.
Speaker 3: And that's that's enough about that. Let's do some trivia here.
Speaker 3: We were talking a little before about the closer for
Speaker 3: the Orioles. So who was the last Oriole to be
Speaker 3: named American League Rookie of the Year. You've got an
Speaker 3: answer for that trivia question, go ahead, drop it in
Speaker 3: the chat here.
Speaker 4: Is is it recent?
Speaker 3: It is not recent, but it is in my lifetime,
Speaker 3: I believe in your lifetime as well, So.
Speaker 4: A reason a little bit, all right?
Speaker 1: It is a name that.
Speaker 3: If you collected baseball cards you certainly should know. I would,
Speaker 3: I would tell you this one. He definitely had some
Speaker 3: uh some cards that were memorable. I would say, at
Speaker 3: least for my youth, they were rated.
Speaker 1: He had to be in there.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty it was something like this. Maybe no that, okay,
Speaker 4: not the bat it wasn't.
Speaker 3: The bat and it wasn't Eddie Murray either. Good guest there.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see her go next. Uh for the
Speaker 3: uh this day in baseball history in nineteen ninety, Cecil
Speaker 3: Fielder belt three home runs in a game as Detroit
Speaker 3: beats the Indian six to four. Fielder becomes the fourth
Speaker 3: American League player to have two three homer games in
Speaker 3: the same season. Welsh in the same season.
Speaker 4: You know, so look at this.
Speaker 3: I think people forget when cecil Fielder went away from
Speaker 3: the left Toronto went away, came back to the Tigers.
Speaker 3: I think people forget ninety what a big deal it
Speaker 3: was at Cecil Fielder came in and hit was a
Speaker 3: fifty one home runs I think that year, memory serves,
Speaker 3: nobody was hitting fifty home runs back then. And then
Speaker 3: of course we had the steroid era and things kind
Speaker 3: of exploded. But let me tell you, man, that was madness.
Speaker 1: That was crazy.
Speaker 3: And now, like we think of it and we go, oh,
Speaker 3: it wasn't a big deal. At the time, he really
Speaker 3: captured everybody in terms of the consciousness of power. Again,
Speaker 3: because we had forty forty guys, Papa like people. They
Speaker 3: could sake out the forty forty year, so that was something,
Speaker 3: but fifty was not something that people were doing.
Speaker 1: And you really one of the.
Speaker 3: First, like big power hitting guys of the nineties, and
Speaker 3: I think kind of gets lost to the shuffle a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 5: Well, my favorite cecil fielder's stat is Cecil Fielder and
Speaker 5: Princefielder his son both ended their careers with three hundred
Speaker 5: and nineteen home runs a piece. That's my favorite cecil
Speaker 5: fielder thing.
Speaker 4: They both. That's wild. That's a wild thing.
Speaker 5: Both players finishing with three hundred and nineteen homers to
Speaker 5: end out a career.
Speaker 4: Cecil, Yeah, wild.
Speaker 3: All right, let's continue on with the stat heroes. Actually,
Speaker 3: before we do, I'll give you the answer to the
Speaker 3: trivia question, because I don't know if anyone's gonna get this.
Speaker 3: The answer was reliever Greg Olsen in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: Greg Olsen who had a little crappy mustache. He had
Speaker 3: like a mess. There is all JP got it, look
Speaker 3: at it, Jpage, Oh he did.
Speaker 4: If you remember the end from the Panthers eighty nine, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: That Greg Olsen.
Speaker 3: But it was Greg Olsen who was the answer to
Speaker 3: the trivia question there, so good on them all. Right,
Speaker 3: Let's go to the next bit here, which is, of
Speaker 3: course the stat heroes of the weekend. Jose Burrios, nice turnaround.
Speaker 3: And I saw somebody I don't remember who it was,
Speaker 3: and hey, everybody, I'm benching Jose Burrios today. Make sure
Speaker 3: you get him in all your lineups. And I just
Speaker 3: I applauded that person. I liked it to it was amazing.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 5: Oh you know what I actually saw, diffriend Rob Silver,
Speaker 5: who does a couple of different shows, whatnot. He had
Speaker 5: said he went on radio. He went on radio that
Speaker 5: day and he told people that they can all but
Speaker 5: cut him in every format. And then he goes out
Speaker 5: and strikes out thirteen and Rob's like, the moral of
Speaker 5: the story is, don't listen to me. And that's how
Speaker 5: I feel about the next guy. By the way, but
Speaker 5: you get that feeling all the time where you're just like,
Speaker 5: all right, I fully I'm out, I'm making the commitment,
Speaker 5: and then they go off and they go bonkers.
Speaker 4: And that's what he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was thirteen strikeouts later for Rose Berries. Uh.
Speaker 3: Shane Bieber eleven strikeouts of his own Friday night.
Speaker 1: That was our dude.
Speaker 3: If you recall we said, look, go Shane Bieber is
Speaker 3: a good matchup Mackenzie Gore co It didn't needs to
Speaker 3: be awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, just six innings. That's got to stick in your crawl.
Speaker 1: Ten strikeouts. How you feel about that Mackenzie Gore situation.
Speaker 5: It's the weirdest one for me personally, because no one
Speaker 5: was a bigger McKenzie Gore fan than me. If I
Speaker 5: can Joe Pi's a pia for a minute, no one
Speaker 5: was bigger than me.
Speaker 4: In the rookie year, I literally was. I would chat
Speaker 4: with his mom, I did video for them for his
Speaker 4: first starts.
Speaker 5: I was all in as number one, and I went
Speaker 5: all out because I've never seen a pitch or go
Speaker 5: from bad to how or from good to how bad
Speaker 5: he turned last year in rookie ball. Team didn't know
Speaker 5: what the hell they were doing. I'm like, he's a reliever.
Speaker 5: There's no chance. Guy was seventeen year old. Players in
Speaker 5: rookie ball last year anytime he would hit over ninety
Speaker 5: five were crushing balls on him and rookie ball and
Speaker 5: he's completely retransformed. He looks incredible right now. Strikeouts people.
Speaker 5: They can't get hits. The pitches don't even like look
Speaker 5: that great. He's deceiving, he's consistent. He looks like a
Speaker 5: completely different person. So I have to eat crow in
Speaker 5: my I thought he was going to be a reliever take,
Speaker 5: but I've always loved the guy, so I love seeing
Speaker 5: him succeed.
Speaker 4: And number one started hitter for a long time.
Speaker 3: Dude, We've been doing shows together for almost a decade,
Speaker 3: and I remember at times in the prospect process about
Speaker 3: gore your your thoughts on him. But I understand why
Speaker 3: you started to get a little concerned, and I think
Speaker 3: it was warranted. But look, sometimes this happens, and this
Speaker 3: is great that he's doing this, and it's great for
Speaker 3: the padres because it gives him so much. Right now,
Speaker 3: that rotation, I mean, that rotation is unbelievable. Several reno
Speaker 3: ten k's for him and seven innings. Aaron Ashby threw
Speaker 3: a pitch that I've I've.
Speaker 4: You're talking about that Frisbee two stamer that went.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am.
Speaker 3: I that was like one of those things you see
Speaker 3: in uh like Nintendo games, where like if you hit
Speaker 3: the right thing the right way, you can pitch kind
Speaker 3: of dance around.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know what that was Baseball Stars.
Speaker 4: That was like, I don't know if you get them.
Speaker 5: That was like on being on Instagram having that targeted
Speaker 5: ad about this is an awesome new whiffle ball game
Speaker 5: with these they have that block of those kids, those
Speaker 5: pitches and the balls, Like that's what happened in real
Speaker 5: life in a baseball game.
Speaker 1: That was wild, dude, It was so crazy.
Speaker 3: We had Garret Cole with a nine K performance, no earned,
Speaker 3: Josiah Gray nine k's. Thank goodness, something good is happening
Speaker 3: down there in Washington. Joe Musgrove continues to add to
Speaker 3: his young resume eight strong inning, six k's. Efflin was good,
Speaker 3: eight strong scoreless innings for him, Max Free, eight scoreless inning,
Speaker 3: Zach Davies seven to two third, six k scoreless, and
Speaker 3: Nick pavett as a one night, one nine eight e
Speaker 3: ra over his last eight start seven k's, seven innings,
Speaker 3: zero earned in his start earlier this week.
Speaker 1: So pavets on a nice little run.
Speaker 3: He might be an interesting like you pull him away
Speaker 3: on into a contending team.
Speaker 1: I just wonder three.
Speaker 3: Run home run club this weekend we had or three
Speaker 3: home run club, I should say not three run Pete Alonzo,
Speaker 3: Juan Soto, Bryce Harper unfortunately Bryce Harper for Mayor, Lane
Speaker 3: Thomas also which helped nobody and Juhano Suarez grace hitter
Speaker 3: of all.
Speaker 5: Time home run I had Glad, Glad for the two
Speaker 5: home run club.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but how about this? And I had Aaron Judge
Speaker 3: over the weekend.
Speaker 1: So but here, look at this.
Speaker 3: Five fifty six batting average over the weekend for u
Speaker 3: Haaneo Swar is an nineteen forty nine ops.
Speaker 5: He really is more valuable than Jose Rami. Thank you,
Speaker 5: thank you, Mike Mayor, thank you guys for bringing us
Speaker 5: to our attention. Jo Henio Suarez more valuable. I want
Speaker 5: to see what I want Mike to pull up those
Speaker 5: stats right now and see how big of a discrepancy
Speaker 5: there is between Johnio Suarez and Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 4: Now, it's gotta be a whole player. That's huge. It's
Speaker 4: a huge weekend. That's twelve hundred points for him.
Speaker 1: It's madness, dude. Jay Cronenworth's sighting two home runs for him.
Speaker 3: It'd be great if he started hitting Kyle the Padres's
Speaker 3: somebody else started sal Perez two home runs, brenand Donovan,
Speaker 3: your Malvarez, Nelson Cruz seven for thirteen with a homer.
Speaker 3: Is it time to start kicking the tires on Nelson Cruz?
Speaker 3: Is he trying to get his hit his way back
Speaker 3: to Tampa?
Speaker 5: I think so, yeah, yeah, I know exactly that team,
Speaker 5: the team has got to he's got to make that
Speaker 5: late run.
Speaker 4: He's the most prime.
Speaker 5: Player to move off to a team that needs some
Speaker 5: bats to be awake. So yeah, I mean, I'm always
Speaker 5: I'm always kind of like pseudo into Nelson Cruz.
Speaker 1: So yes, all right.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the next one here. Stat zero's
Speaker 3: Marcus Stroman, Well it was good. Well last did four innings,
Speaker 3: nine earned runs for him. Elis Or Hernandez eight earned runs.
Speaker 3: Max Meyer can't get healthy fast enough. Paul Blackburn, all yes,
Speaker 3: off finally is June sixth, and my Mike Mayer, who's
Speaker 3: so happy that he guys like, look at this, look
Speaker 3: at I got to put in these stat zeros. Look
Speaker 3: at your boy, your precious Paul Blackburn. Whatever, one bad start,
Speaker 3: but he's been very good. Logan Web four earned runs,
Speaker 3: not the best start for him over four and two thirds.
Speaker 3: Kakuchi wasn't great either. Ryan Yarborough was terrible. Six earned
Speaker 3: a bad star for Corbyn Burns three yeah, and two
Speaker 3: spinning five earned runs from him. The Brewers are slumping.
Speaker 3: The Cardinals are getting close right now. Also Sandiel Contra
Speaker 3: and Neser Cortez. Remember we talked about eight to one
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, like those guys were moving now
Speaker 3: Contra now is right in the two spot for the Cy.
Speaker 1: Young in the natal, no doubt about it. Four and
Speaker 1: a half in some spot.
Speaker 3: So hope you got into eight to one on Friday,
Speaker 3: Like with Tojia Walker Buehler five earned runs? What is
Speaker 3: going on with Walker Puler? That was the guy I
Speaker 3: thought was gonna contend for a Cy Young.
Speaker 1: It's been terrible.
Speaker 5: I did too well. I mean, Dodger team two has
Speaker 5: been pretty chroch. They got swept by the Pirates, Diamondbacks
Speaker 5: took games. Yeah, I like that pun Walker Buehler is
Speaker 5: the he is like the poster child for how the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have really been playing right now. Some good, some matrocious,
Speaker 5: and I think overall value. Like I said, you know,
Speaker 5: it was Frank Stanfel from CBSA came on and we
Speaker 5: were talking about Severino versus Bueller, and I was like, well,
Speaker 5: you know, Frank, even ad minute over the weekend.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's definitely Bueller.
Speaker 5: And then he after the Severino start, he goes, you know,
Speaker 5: this question was asked, this actually might be Severino, with
Speaker 5: how good he is. And it's not even so much
Speaker 5: about Severino's success as it is Walker Bueller's coming down earth.
Speaker 5: But Julio Ria, same thing, same exact thing. I think
Speaker 5: his value has been plummeting with the strikeouts and the success.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on as far as pictures go,
Speaker 5: but it seems to be stemic around all of them.
Speaker 1: Mister Buster loving life right now.
Speaker 3: He says he's loving holding onto Shane McClanahan and Sandy
Speaker 3: al Contra in his home league right now.
Speaker 1: Wow wow, yeah you should be too. But good job,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: Some of the hitters that were bad, Nolan Gorman two
Speaker 3: for fifteen, did it a home run, but he struck
Speaker 3: out eight times. But this is Gorman. It's also deal
Speaker 3: with that injury. So let's not go crazy. Brandon marsh
Speaker 3: has been terrible. You can drop him. Trevor Larnick. I
Speaker 3: still think Trevor Larnick long term is is a good piece.
Speaker 3: I would not go dropping him out.
Speaker 5: Alex is absolutely balling thing, so just just watch out
Speaker 5: for that and pick him up.
Speaker 3: Jazz chisholm oh for ten five strikeouts over the weekend,
Speaker 3: and ty Franz finally hit a cold spell one for twelve.
Speaker 3: I got two on runs from Judge, so I think
Speaker 3: I'm up to fourteen now, so I'm getting close to
Speaker 3: that leader board. Welsh got two from Flattying. Of course,
Speaker 3: unfortunately Mike Mayer got three over the weekend. So let's
Speaker 3: take a look at the board after the weekend of
Speaker 3: the home run totals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there they go.
Speaker 4: Ro Look at this.
Speaker 3: Look at high Cubby twenty sixteen, tied for the lead
Speaker 3: with the bloom. Look at that tied to twenty Niking
Speaker 3: in the north, all the way down to eighteen's gone.
Speaker 1: Stone cold, stone cold.
Speaker 3: Look at that eighteen down there a del gadil my
Speaker 3: buddy Adele from our discord chat up there as well.
Speaker 3: So Larry c up there with eighteen, the chasers up
Speaker 3: there with nineteen. But look, this is the most depressing thing.
Speaker 3: Mike Mayer at seventeen.
Speaker 4: I mean, we got to give him credit. We got
Speaker 4: to give him my credit.
Speaker 5: He may hate children being happy. You know he may
Speaker 5: want balls to be stealing stolen from you know, six
Speaker 5: year old. He wanted that kid in the Philly to
Speaker 5: just keep crying, and unfortunately Bryson Stott took it away.
Speaker 5: But you know what, his home grund calls have been good.
Speaker 5: You're if you're at fourteen, I think.
Speaker 4: I'm at I don't know.
Speaker 5: Mar could have to tell me eleven or twelve or
Speaker 5: something like that. We're just we're within grasp.
Speaker 4: We're just a little too far away, and Mike is not.
Speaker 4: He's made some good calls.
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Speaker 3: to Christian Javier tonight. Actually, this one's on DK five
Speaker 3: and a half. Is the k prop against Seattle. I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna smoke this fantasy pros asm at seven
Speaker 3: and a half almost in the case it's plus one thirty.
Speaker 3: This is my favorite bet of the night. Robbie Ray
Speaker 3: on FanDuel five and a half k's seven is the
Speaker 3: projection for him, that's minus one twelve. Jordan Alvarez total
Speaker 3: basis plus one twenty over on DK the juice is
Speaker 3: plus one twenty there. Like I said, one and a
Speaker 3: half is the number. And John Gray at Uni Bet.
Speaker 3: It's worth signing up at Uni bet just to get
Speaker 3: this four and a half on the K prop. On
Speaker 3: John Gray, I think he goes over. He had twelve
Speaker 3: in the last one. Cleveland's definitely got.
Speaker 1: Some holes in that lineup. And Welsh, how about you?
Speaker 1: What are you looking at tonight?
Speaker 5: In terms of you, Uni bet sounds like something that
Speaker 5: would be on channel like you know, twenty two, you
Speaker 5: know and whatever dial It would be like, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go watch some of unif come to you and a
Speaker 5: bet I want to bet a day that's what you
Speaker 5: do exactly, and they just repeat it like over and over.
Speaker 4: It's like infomercial.
Speaker 5: I don't love a lot of today currently at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the week. I'm the ones you had. I'm
Speaker 5: interested in Javier, I'm interested in Gray. I just don't
Speaker 5: like Gray because he's up on Cleveland. You know, Cleveland
Speaker 5: just doesn't want to strike out. But it's a low
Speaker 5: number and he's been really successful. The only one that
Speaker 5: I felt relatively confident about is Hunter Green strikeouts, and
Speaker 5: it's a big number. It's at six and a half,
Speaker 5: which you don't necessarily love to see any type of
Speaker 5: big number like that, but it's against Arizona Diamondbacks, and
Speaker 5: the Arizona Diamondbacks second worst strikeouts in all of baseball.
Speaker 5: Plus Hunter Green just drack out eight. That slider has
Speaker 5: been really phenomenal. So I kind of like that one.
Speaker 5: And on the total base front, you know, man, I
Speaker 5: think I really would do the Mike Trout total base
Speaker 5: one right now, almost simply out of stubbornness. You know,
Speaker 5: he needs one double, one homer, one breakout Boston. It's
Speaker 5: up against Boston. I think that would be that would
Speaker 5: be a bet. But there's a lot of the I'll
Speaker 5: just say, a lot of the personal props I don't love.
Speaker 5: I don't the other one I was looking for. I
Speaker 5: don't see hits anywhere. If I could find singular hit,
Speaker 5: just one hit and it was point five for Mike Trout,
Speaker 5: I would take it in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: Today, but it'll be all juiced up.
Speaker 5: I don't see a lot of what I love currently,
Speaker 5: at least in early morning, but Hunter Green would be
Speaker 5: my personal bet, all.
Speaker 3: Right, real quick DFS kind of simple tonight look on
Speaker 3: DraftKings and then it's late.
Speaker 1: You got John Gray at six and a half, six
Speaker 1: point six.
Speaker 3: Look just like last time I told you a good
Speaker 3: secondary arm. Just keep out of the table. Hope you
Speaker 3: get some strikeouts as a secondary arm. Then you got
Speaker 3: to pick a side here, Christian Hovier at nine one,
Speaker 3: Robby Ray at nine to five, or you go do
Speaker 3: the pick a side between Blake Snell and Carls Carrasco.
Speaker 3: I personally would take the to Carrasco side or the
Speaker 3: Hovier side, and then pair it with John Gray. If
Speaker 3: you want to be OPO in tournaments, OPO would mean
Speaker 3: going with Robbie Ray and Blake Snell. But Christian Hobvier
Speaker 3: at home, I think there's a better pathway there for
Speaker 3: the win over on FanDuel. John Gray's eight point one
Speaker 3: Hunter Green is seven to three, and again you just
Speaker 3: got to pick a side. I'll go with the home
Speaker 3: team and Christian Javier at nine K and I think
Speaker 3: that's the way I would go. That Houston lineup. The
Speaker 3: game stacks tonight, looking at the Mets, the Red Sox,
Speaker 3: the Reds in Toronto. Some lineup builders for you.
Speaker 1: JD.
Speaker 3: Davis at two point seven on DK Markana two point nine.
Speaker 1: Cheap guys in the Mets lineup.
Speaker 3: If we have bad Blake Snell tonight, which is possible,
Speaker 3: get some of those righty bats in there. Guriel at
Speaker 3: two point nine, Cole calhouna two point nine on Fandel
Speaker 3: davis Is two point three, Connas two point seven at
Speaker 3: Jordo Escobar two point seven. Again that Mets offense, it's
Speaker 3: been very good. At Jeremy Pania two point eight and
Speaker 3: then home run.
Speaker 1: Calls for the night.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take Welsh's guy for the weekend, Laddie Junior Welsh,
Speaker 3: are we going with tonight for the home run call?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to that Boston Angels game. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go with J. D. Martinez with some hits. Big fly,
Speaker 5: give me big.
Speaker 3: Fly now, Wonkey Penguin has made a little home run
Speaker 3: call call of her own. Basically, catchers count as to today.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a National Catcher Day or
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 4: Is that well that might change my thought or is
Speaker 4: that real?
Speaker 3: But if you want to, catchers count double today because
Speaker 3: we're acknowledging the men behind the dish. So Mike Mayor
Speaker 3: of course is trying to take advantage of that and
Speaker 3: taking all hondro kerk.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna switch. I'm gonna switch out there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna switch it up.
Speaker 4: If it's double, I'm going with Salvi Perez.
Speaker 3: Salvi Perez for Welsh. I'm gonna just keep it simple
Speaker 3: with lad. I'm gonna not be tempted with the double dip.
Speaker 1: But I like this. I think we're gonna start doing something.
Speaker 1: I need it.
Speaker 4: I've got twelve. I'm behind you. I'm waiting.
Speaker 5: I need not get on the board. And oh wait,
Speaker 5: here's a question. If Salvi hits two, does that mean.
Speaker 4: I get four?
Speaker 1: It does? Yes, that's how math.
Speaker 4: Let's go, all right, I'm just making sure the math geez.
Speaker 4: Sorry there, all right.
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