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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I'm I'm slowly putting myself into
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Speaker 1: talk about. Like I said, we have that little betting
Speaker 1: side to it. We're also going to be talking about
Speaker 1: zeb I know people are already in the chat talking
Speaker 1: about ZEBI. We're absolutely going to talk about him. But
Speaker 1: let's jump into it because we have two big returns.
Speaker 1: One happened yesterday, one is happening today. Julio Rodriguez is back. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the Julio Rodriguez that left us is the one that
Speaker 1: also came back. We did not get a new version.
Speaker 1: We need a multiverse variant. He came back zero for
Speaker 1: five with five strikeouts. So let's talk about Julio for
Speaker 1: one second. I don't think there's an application to the
Speaker 1: rest of this season unless he completely fell off. But
Speaker 1: where how far do you think Julio's going to fall
Speaker 1: off into next year? I mean, and is there any
Speaker 1: concern for the rest of this season. It's one game back,
Speaker 1: but it had just been a really poorish season for Julio.
Speaker 1: But now he's got new weapons.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's probably going to be more of
Speaker 2: the same of what we've seen going forward. Like I'm
Speaker 2: not writing him off for future seasons at all, I
Speaker 2: think he's still probably going to be a top twenty
Speaker 2: to twenty five pick, because even in down year, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be like seventeen or eighteen home runs, twenty five steals,
Speaker 2: the average is still pretty good. But he's definitely not
Speaker 2: gonna be in that first overall pick conversation like he
Speaker 2: was this year. I mean, Akunya was going first, but
Speaker 2: Julio was second pretty regularly. I don't think he's on
Speaker 2: that same exact level. The team around him, the ballpark
Speaker 2: makes it really hard to get by now. At the
Speaker 2: same time, he went thirty two and thirty seven last year.
Speaker 2: I think this is probably just a down year, but
Speaker 2: it's hard to not, you know, be a little bit
Speaker 2: more down on Julio than you would have been. But
Speaker 2: rest of season, I don't have high expectations. I really don't.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be fine. He'll be pretty good.
Speaker 2: He won't be droppable or anything, but he's not gonna
Speaker 2: be that first round player we were hoping for.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had one really good month he had the
Speaker 1: where to go was that July before being out he
Speaker 1: hit three seventy five, but he had had a couple
Speaker 1: months right around two hundred, right under two sixty. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of like reverse split luck or
Speaker 1: anything like that. He actually had a higher babbage this
Speaker 1: year than he had last year. I think any point
Speaker 1: in his career is like a three forty five babbob.
Speaker 1: So that takes away maybe some of that luck factor
Speaker 1: in that's attached to a lower hard hit rate, a
Speaker 1: higher strikeout rate, a lower barrel. I mean, so it
Speaker 1: was all just kind of down. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it's anything equitable that, like he is going to be
Speaker 1: nothing or anything like that. But I do think he's
Speaker 1: gonna fall to the second round next year. I think
Speaker 1: that's a very high probability unless he comes out really
Speaker 1: really tough. Lee actually brought up see this is where
Speaker 1: I think things get tricky. Week nineteen Julio or Nemo.
Speaker 1: I'm probably throwing Julio back in, even though we have
Speaker 1: this one game which is like old golden sombrero of things.
Speaker 1: But like all his new weapons are there. You know,
Speaker 1: you do have Randy hitting near the top of the lineup,
Speaker 1: You've got Roblest. It's you know, really been amazing. And
Speaker 1: now he's with those pieces, and you've got Justin Turner,
Speaker 1: who I think got banged up. But like, I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna roll with Julio, but I'm open to the opportunity
Speaker 1: of the possibility that we might be in a space
Speaker 1: where you have to, like, Julio might not be a
Speaker 1: must start every single week if you're doing weeklies and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I don't think he'll be a
Speaker 1: first round or even off of like projecting fun you know,
Speaker 1: like we were talking off air, we're not going to
Speaker 1: go crazy into it, But dynasty Julio or Jackson Merrill
Speaker 1: right now, I mean, like you're probably still going Julio,
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't blame anybody that was, like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: getting Jackson Merrill in a little plus if they traded
Speaker 1: away Hulio, I think you're trading upside. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's a legitimate question you can ask.
Speaker 2: It definitely is I think, like you said, in terms
Speaker 2: of upside, Julio has shown that he can be a
Speaker 2: number one type of player, a top five player. Merril's
Speaker 2: probably going to be a top fifty player this season,
Speaker 2: but it feels like he's kind of maxing out what
Speaker 2: he can do with his profile, where Julio is obviously
Speaker 2: a down season, so it would be like a classic
Speaker 2: by low cell High. If I had Julio in a
Speaker 2: Dynasty league and I was offered Merrill, I don't think
Speaker 2: I'd be able to do that straight up. But if
Speaker 2: I had Marril and I was offered Julio, I think
Speaker 2: I'm taking Julio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to your point, like Merrill is like at the
Speaker 1: tippy top, and his stats almost look like this version
Speaker 1: of Julio. Julio's like eleven homers, eighteen stolen bases. Jackson
Speaker 1: seventeen homers, thirteen stolen bases. And you know, Julio's having
Speaker 1: like an a blatantly down year that we think can improve.
Speaker 1: Because also the things that are down, they're not down
Speaker 1: to a point where we're like, holy crap, this is bad.
Speaker 1: It's like a three percent barrel drop. That is, all
Speaker 1: of these are big enough for us to be concerned,
Speaker 1: but it's not like, oh, he can never you know,
Speaker 1: he can never return to form or anything like that. Again,
Speaker 1: also on the other side of it, we don't need
Speaker 1: we don't have like a big breakdown to this, but
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets is returning today being activated. Thank you to
Speaker 1: multiple of my leagues. We did hear though, this is
Speaker 1: so stupid. They were like, hey, yo, he's coming back
Speaker 1: as a shortstop. And then they're like, no, Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: actually is coming back as a right fielder, so apparently
Speaker 1: he's not going to play in the infield, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna use this cavalcade of just like you know, whenever
Speaker 1: Taylor's back and Edmund gets back and you've got Rosario
Speaker 1: and just whatever pieces they're putting together, they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: in the middle infield and he's going to go and
Speaker 1: take over right field again, no application except throw your
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets back out there and feel great about it.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: And the thing with the outfield, like he hadn't played
Speaker 2: in the outfield this year, he was going to lose
Speaker 2: that eligibility. So now we're gonna still have Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: with outfield, with short stop and with second base heading
Speaker 2: in the next season. So I'll take it wherever he's
Speaker 2: playing on the field. You know, there's a bunch of
Speaker 2: leagues where I have Mookie. They can put him behind
Speaker 2: the plate for all I care, as long as he's
Speaker 2: back out there.
Speaker 3: That's all that matters to me.
Speaker 1: Oh, back, back back. Let's talk about mister Corbin Carroll,
Speaker 1: who homered for the second consecutive game on Sunday as
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks beat up on the Phillies twelve to five.
Speaker 1: A little bit. I guess more on that later. But
Speaker 1: Corbin Carrol, oh, Joe, you talk to me about it,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what to do. His batting average
Speaker 1: still stinks. It stinks to high heaven. He has not
Speaker 1: been able to pair any of these like really great
Speaker 1: months together either. He doesn't have a month he has
Speaker 1: I'm looking here, roughly a thirty to fifty point batting
Speaker 1: average swing each month, and he has never hit over
Speaker 1: two sixty on a given month this season. He is
Speaker 1: up to two fifty seven right now in August, and
Speaker 1: and this is his second consecutive the multi home run month.
Speaker 1: He actually has nine homers since July. First thoughts on
Speaker 1: Corman Carroll, How about this Corbyn Carroll or who the
Speaker 1: arrest of season?
Speaker 2: Based on the trajectories and the lineups and everything, I'd
Speaker 2: probably go with Corbyn Carroll. He's looked really solid. Like like
Speaker 2: you said, the batting average is still bad, but six
Speaker 2: home runs six to dolen bases in July is really
Speaker 2: good as a whole. Eleven homers, twenty one steals, Like
Speaker 2: it's obviously not what you were wanting, but it's almost
Speaker 2: like a trade turner type of thing from last season.
Speaker 2: You know, he's picked it up and he's been not
Speaker 2: hot to that same degree, but he's fully turned his
Speaker 2: season around to the point where Corbin actually might get
Speaker 2: back into the first round next season. That'll be an
Speaker 2: interesting one. He might sneak into the back end. Like
Speaker 2: let's say he keeps this pace up, finishes with twenty homers,
Speaker 2: thirty steals, gets the average up to like two forty
Speaker 2: or something. If he stays really hot, I think it's
Speaker 2: a conversation at the turn at the one two turn.
Speaker 1: Ah eh, even me Corby Garol guy, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's I think people will there might
Speaker 1: be the temptation for the second round. I think he's
Speaker 1: the third round guy. I actually think that like back
Speaker 1: in second to third round could be just littered with
Speaker 1: players that were speculating on that for bounce backs, like
Speaker 1: the Julios could be in there. I think Corman Carroll,
Speaker 1: like if he's gonna it's gonna be really tough for
Speaker 1: him to hit over two thirty the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to hit like I don't know what
Speaker 1: the math would be, but whatever three hundred, let's say
Speaker 1: for the rest of this month, the next month, and
Speaker 1: that could probably get him over two thirty. And you're
Speaker 1: still gonna be looking at a guy that hit two
Speaker 1: thirty with twenty thirty. I don't know, Like the stolen
Speaker 1: bases might be tempting. Maybe it is a back half
Speaker 1: of the second round, but I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: more likely third round. But Gorman, Corman, Carroll continuing the
Speaker 1: heat up process, and you know, I was super anti this,
Speaker 1: but it ended up working out. Merril Kelly was in
Speaker 1: that win. He only allowed two runs three hits over
Speaker 1: five innings and he ended up getting four swing and
Speaker 1: missus eighty five pitches. That was a twenty eight percent
Speaker 1: CSW percentage. And he looked good against Philly. And he's
Speaker 1: got Tampa Bay coming up, so they Meryl Kelly is
Speaker 1: probably right back in the good graces of being able
Speaker 1: to start Joe.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, especially with the Tampa coming up.
Speaker 2: If you're still seeing him available I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: available he would be, but I'd happily pick him up there.
Speaker 2: He's really been one of the more underrated pitchers throughout
Speaker 2: the last couple of seasons three thirty seven, three twenty
Speaker 2: ninety ras in each of the past two years.
Speaker 3: I personally wasn't.
Speaker 2: Really believing in it, but it's been long enough at
Speaker 2: this point where you kind of have to buy into
Speaker 2: to Meryl Kelly, especially with that matchup, pick him up
Speaker 2: if you can.
Speaker 1: Also, like Homer is in the side with my hat
Speaker 1: and everything like that. With the Diamondbacks, like all they're
Speaker 1: doing is just winning. Like they're scoring runs, they're winning games,
Speaker 1: they're coming back, They've got depth in the bullpen, which
Speaker 1: is still a little bit dicey. And you had a
Speaker 1: Wardo and you had Marl both come back and be solid.
Speaker 1: So at this point, every Diamondbacks starter he is at
Speaker 1: worst streamable, at worse even Ryan Nelson, who's about to
Speaker 1: get kicked out. What do we say? On Friday, me
Speaker 1: and Bubba were talking. I said, hey, I mean Kittel
Speaker 1: didn't even play in the game. He pinch hit, so
Speaker 1: I'd screwed the bet. But I said, hey, Ryan Nelson
Speaker 1: had struck out seven in three of his last nine,
Speaker 1: and he had a couple of nine strikeout games. Bam
Speaker 1: goes and strikes out nine more. In that every Diamondback
Speaker 1: is streamable because of how hot this offense is and
Speaker 1: how well the defense is playing behind it. You get
Speaker 1: guys like Adrian del Castillo, who I think you guys
Speaker 1: in two catcher leagues. I think I mentioned this last week,
Speaker 1: but you should be looking to pick him up. Probably
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot tougher now because that bat is
Speaker 1: hot and the Diamondbacks are rolling, and that's a big positive.
Speaker 1: Also on the rolling side, we talked about him off
Speaker 1: of that first start Jeffrey Springs. He allowed one run,
Speaker 1: struck out eight Oriols across five innings in a two
Speaker 1: to one win. Look at that for Jeffrey Springs on
Speaker 1: the underlying numbers A sixty seven. This is the Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Springs that I remember. Sixty seven percent whiff rate on
Speaker 1: his change up again, I mean oriols, all right, Orioles,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe off speed stuff. He had six whiffs
Speaker 1: on twenty three swings on the fastball, ten of fifteen
Speaker 1: swings induced whiffs. That's an absurd with rate sixty seven
Speaker 1: percent and a sixty seven percent on the sweeper. He
Speaker 1: ended the game forty two percent with rate, so dudes
Speaker 1: are just whip right through it. He also did a
Speaker 1: really good job at throwing his fastball in the zone
Speaker 1: and the keeping his secondaries out he actually induced. This
Speaker 1: is wild. There were eight foul tips, only four of
Speaker 1: them were on off speed. Everybody else has just whiffing
Speaker 1: on it. So Jeffrey Springs looked really, really good and
Speaker 1: is now back in the circle of trust. Correct.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, very absolutely, Like I was really bought
Speaker 2: in even after he kind of stunk up the joint
Speaker 2: in those first couple of starts.
Speaker 3: I was locked into some weekly leagues.
Speaker 2: So that Baltimore start and I was thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is going to be ugly. But he turned it
Speaker 2: around like we were hoping he would before he went
Speaker 2: down last year. This is a guy who was showing
Speaker 2: signs of being one of the better pitchers in all
Speaker 2: of baseball.
Speaker 3: It was going to take some.
Speaker 2: Time to get back into the swing of things, but
Speaker 2: over the final six weeks or whatever we have left here,
Speaker 2: I trust him immensely, and going into next season, I
Speaker 2: am going to be all over Springs, hoping that price
Speaker 2: doesn't get too too high.
Speaker 3: But I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 3: what he brings to the table.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll get too high, but if
Speaker 1: he rattles off a couple more of these five and
Speaker 1: strikes out eight, it's gonna get to the point where
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, it's not gonna be free. Like I
Speaker 1: think the ceiling for Springs is gonna be something around
Speaker 1: like SP thirty five next year. I really think it'll
Speaker 1: be tough for him to break the top thirty just
Speaker 1: with all that misstime. But I don't think it's out
Speaker 1: of pocket. Like this is an interesting one. Like Finway said,
Speaker 1: drop crochet right now for Springs. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could do that, But that's the territory that you're
Speaker 1: getting in with. Like when Springs is on, like he rolls,
Speaker 1: he rolls. He just doesn't have a great fastball, and
Speaker 1: he sets it up with secondary so teams that eat
Speaker 1: up secondary pitches are going to go. I think Springs,
Speaker 1: like I said, is capped right outside the top thirty
Speaker 1: at best for next season, and hopefully it's even cheaper.
Speaker 2: Right in terms of the price, absolutely, I could see
Speaker 2: him finishing top fifteen or twenty if things break right
Speaker 2: for him. Though the Crochet one is interesting. With what
Speaker 2: we've seen as of late, you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: I feel like I might.
Speaker 1: It's just like, I don't know. It was one start,
Speaker 1: like one start that really imploded right now, I'm like
Speaker 1: in a ten team league maybe, but like you just
Speaker 1: have to remember like Crochet also was like the leader
Speaker 1: pitching war leader in the first half, leader in strikeouts,
Speaker 1: like he was the most dominant. Yes, back half, he
Speaker 1: might be wearing down. Yes, there could be some rifty
Speaker 1: type of things that are happening with the White Sox.
Speaker 1: There's no run support. That's why I said ultimate SLF.
Speaker 1: I'd moved him down. I was as soon as he
Speaker 1: wasn't getting traded, or as soon as he put out
Speaker 1: the like I'm not gonna play for a playoff team
Speaker 1: without an extension. Down. We were down, down, down, But
Speaker 1: to the point where we're just dropping him, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I will say this, if you were to drop him,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Springs is the type of player that you would want.
Speaker 1: This is who you would do it. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would advocate for dropping Crochet. At this point. But
Speaker 1: maybe he's just going to rattle off a bunch of
Speaker 1: poop starts the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: I just the way they're using him. He hasn't gone
Speaker 2: more than five innings in like a month. I really
Speaker 2: worry he's not gonna get wins. He wasn't gonna get
Speaker 2: wins regardless in Chicago, But I do worry about what,
Speaker 2: like we might keep you getting to the point of
Speaker 2: a total shutdown. I don't know if they're gonna just
Speaker 2: keep throwing him out there for three innings. Does it
Speaker 2: make sense with the team that's got what twenty seven
Speaker 2: wins this year? Does it make sense to keep throwing
Speaker 2: him out there in September when they're playing for nothing.
Speaker 2: They're probably gonna trade him in the off season. I
Speaker 2: worry about his value. I was a huge fan of Crochet,
Speaker 2: but you know, to your point, you gotta move him
Speaker 2: way on down if you still I mean, if I'm
Speaker 2: still seeing springs out there in a ten team league,
Speaker 2: I feel like I do it. If it's like a deep,
Speaker 2: twelve fifteen team league, I don't think I would cut
Speaker 2: Crochet yet, but shallow league players, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: tough conversation for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, it's actually interesting about what you said, Like if
Speaker 1: you're in like a deeper twelve team league and Springs
Speaker 1: is out there and there's not a lot else out there,
Speaker 1: like that actually kind of makes it tough because I
Speaker 1: was gonna argue that with Crochet. If you're in a
Speaker 1: ten team league with you know, the Merril's and the
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Springs and I don't know Ben Lively so whatever,
Speaker 1: Like there's like cool stuff sitting out the wire that
Speaker 1: you could stream. You might be better streaming with all
Speaker 1: those options than going down this road with Crochet where
Speaker 1: you could dump him and then you're just kind of
Speaker 1: in a tough spot if it's a deeper league, Like
Speaker 1: if you let out, someone's going to pick him up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I tend to not want to be
Speaker 1: like he's completely done, But Springs is a type of
Speaker 1: guy that I would pick up. Another guy you might
Speaker 1: want to look at DL Hall. This was one of
Speaker 1: Joe's favorites. Joe Pisapia was finally activated and he fanned
Speaker 1: nine well, allowing three runs and four and two thirds
Speaker 1: against the Reds. They even pushed him up to ninety
Speaker 1: two pitches. So pretty solid for DL Hall. He's going
Speaker 1: to be a strikeout option against the reds Now. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about some rookie Lookie, here, two rookie pieces I
Speaker 1: have for you. One's good, ones bad. Zebbie Matthews, one
Speaker 1: of the highest risers this year, is definitely a player
Speaker 1: you're going to want to look to stream the Twins.
Speaker 1: They are calling him up. He's a twenty four year
Speaker 1: old who was in High A dominated, then went to
Speaker 1: Double A dominated and one of the biggest things to
Speaker 1: take away not is just his stuff where he can
Speaker 1: push it up to ninety eight fastball, got a really
Speaker 1: good slider and cutter. He has some of the best
Speaker 1: strikeout to walk numbers. It's George Kirby esque in the minors.
Speaker 1: He has struck out one hundred and fourteen batters while
Speaker 1: walking only seven. He has walked seven this entire year.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I want to say it's
Speaker 1: like one start. Maybe it's no starts or one start
Speaker 1: of multi walks. He just doesn't He is a great
Speaker 1: command pitcher. The big fastball has been deuced. It's a
Speaker 1: five pitch mix inducing a bunch of strikeouts, and we've
Speaker 1: i'n't found on following him all year long. It's kind
Speaker 1: of one of those pop up guys. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of those older where you looked at them and
Speaker 1: you were like, twenty four year old, twenty three year
Speaker 1: old doing this at you know, a ball. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he gets challenged. He has met the call every
Speaker 1: step of the way, and now he's getting up to
Speaker 1: the majors and it's kind of like Pabloque to me,
Speaker 1: there's a Pablo nest to him. Where Pablo doesn't like
Speaker 1: to walk a whole bunch, you can usually bet his
Speaker 1: under one and a half walks and that pays off. ZEBI, Matthews,
Speaker 1: are you going to prioritize picking up one of these rookies,
Speaker 1: a guy like him with that repertoire? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: prioritize picking him up right now?
Speaker 3: I'll take a shot on him.
Speaker 2: I had a couple questions this morning about pick him
Speaker 2: up for Max Meyer, and I said, yeah, I'd probably
Speaker 2: make that swap Meyers look pretty rough.
Speaker 3: You know, I think the marlin just kind of ruined
Speaker 3: his season.
Speaker 2: Matthews is interesting because the command is, like you said,
Speaker 2: just like stupid. You know, you don't see this kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, especially with the strikeout right where it is
Speaker 2: like you'd expect like a Zach Eflin type of strikeout
Speaker 2: right here with this, with this type of walk rate
Speaker 2: point four to seven walks per nine. The thing that
Speaker 2: does wear me a little bit is he got a
Speaker 2: little bit of homer happy once he moved up to
Speaker 2: triple A. There twenty five percent homer to fly ball,
Speaker 2: one point nine homer per nine. It's a small sample size,
Speaker 2: but it's something that I do want to keep an
Speaker 2: eye on a little bit. Did bother him last year
Speaker 2: a little bit as well in High A. It's not
Speaker 2: a huge concern for me, though. I think that he
Speaker 2: definitely has the skills to have success right away, and
Speaker 2: I would pick him up in most cases. Maybe not
Speaker 2: like we're talking about in those ten teamers where the
Speaker 2: wires just packed with goodies there, I might not want
Speaker 2: to take a chance, but I think in most twelve
Speaker 2: fifteen teamers, I'm taking the shot on Matthews.
Speaker 1: I definitely am. I think something that you have to
Speaker 1: watch for are command pitchers that are gonna sit around
Speaker 1: in the zone, gonna be a little bit more susceptible
Speaker 1: to homers. It happens to Kirby as well. But if
Speaker 1: those pitchers then have like you know, strikeout stuff, which
Speaker 1: Zebbi does, I think that can make up for it,
Speaker 1: so I'm not too worried about it. He is still adjusting.
Speaker 1: This is one of those guys that's like bump up
Speaker 1: up levels, you know. It's kind of similar to what
Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday did last year, but not making the majors,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a big transition stuff. They're probably
Speaker 1: gonna just want him to throw strikes and command like
Speaker 1: he does, so you get the wrong guy. There could
Speaker 1: be a home or two. But I think zeb would
Speaker 1: be a solid streamer right now, and anybody in open
Speaker 1: keeper leagues, you know, with like ten or something like that,
Speaker 1: I would consider picking him up because, like I said,
Speaker 1: the stuff is there. Zebbi is very very interesting. On
Speaker 1: the inverse. We got info from the Yankees. Brian Cashman
Speaker 1: told MLB Network on Sunday there is no quote, no
Speaker 1: current lane to call up Jason Domingaz, which is absurdly annoying.
Speaker 1: Is ridiculous. The full quote over from World there's currently
Speaker 1: no lane for us to bring Dimingas up. It's nice
Speaker 1: to know he's there. He's just knocking rust off and
Speaker 1: waiting for his opportunity if it comes. Booh, it's annoying.
Speaker 1: It's I would say, it's actually as annoying I know
Speaker 1: for everybody else's cam and Aro. You know, I've moved
Speaker 1: off of the like get excited about camon arow thing
Speaker 1: long ago, but it's the same level of it. And
Speaker 1: they're prioritizing Alex Vdugo and his defense. I tell you,
Speaker 1: I've watched Jason in person a lot. He is not
Speaker 1: a good defender in the outfield. They're prioritizing for Dugo's
Speaker 1: defense over his bat and that stinks for us because,
Speaker 1: by god dude, the second half of this year we
Speaker 1: were like Juter Kremenaro and Jason Domingo's three two of
Speaker 1: the three that we care about and that we want,
Speaker 1: and it's not working out. So I really just do
Speaker 1: think in any instance where you were vying for stuff
Speaker 1: in Redraft, there's no reason to care about cam and
Speaker 1: Arrow and now Jason Dominguez even more. I thought there
Speaker 1: might have been the lane, but apparently that lane is
Speaker 1: closed and it's closed for construction for the season.
Speaker 2: Well, the fact that Cammanaro had some at bats last
Speaker 2: year meant that. I think he's like limited to ninety
Speaker 2: five or something at bats before he loses that rookie
Speaker 2: eligibility that gives him maybe a couple of weeks at
Speaker 2: the end of the season. It's been frustrating. I think
Speaker 2: the injury probably did mess with him there. If he
Speaker 2: didn't get hurt, he was healthy the whole year. Hard
Speaker 2: to think that he would have stayed down. He's basically
Speaker 2: a hosted situation. Yeah, that's that's pretty accurate from Lee
Speaker 2: in the chat.
Speaker 3: As when it comes to Jason Domengez and Virdugo, this
Speaker 3: is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Like it's not like Verdugo is giving you Brenton Doyle,
Speaker 2: Dalton Varshow, Kevin Kiermeyer level defense.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty good. He's like decent enough.
Speaker 2: But to keep a guy like Dimegus off the roster,
Speaker 2: I don't really understand it. The way that Verdugo has
Speaker 2: been leading off, I think is the craziest thing. Why
Speaker 2: is Verdugo leading off? I believe he is the worst
Speaker 2: hunt pace percentage on the team. It's three hundred. It's
Speaker 2: ridiculous for Judge and Soto to have to have Verdugo
Speaker 2: ahead of them. But I guess the Yankees are content
Speaker 2: with what's going on. I think they think the Judge
Speaker 2: and Sodo can carry them in the postseason. I wonder
Speaker 2: if maybe we get Dimingas up in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, if he's able to prove himself, maybe he's
Speaker 2: able to sneak himself onto the postseason roster. But in
Speaker 2: terms of fantasy, I've kind of just thrown in the
Speaker 2: towel for this year for both of those.
Speaker 1: Guys, just enough time for him to not lose his
Speaker 1: roster qualifications so that he can be a rookie next year. Camonaro,
Speaker 1: Jason Dimingez your first best bets for Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year in the AL for twenty twenty five, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like they're going to exhaust it and it
Speaker 1: kind of stinks. How about this for fun? I loved
Speaker 1: this because I love this guy in general. Let me
Speaker 1: find my piece that I dragged. Where the hell did
Speaker 1: I move it? Here?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: If you saw yesterday, I believe it was yesterday. Logan
Speaker 1: Gilbert goes out, strikes out, or it strikes out a
Speaker 1: bunch ghost seven like he does. I think he's gone
Speaker 1: thirteen innings over his last two give it up one
Speaker 1: earned run. He's a monster. Immediately following the game, this
Speaker 1: is shared by his teammates. He goes seven straight and
Speaker 1: immediately goes into the players I guess lounge area and
Speaker 1: starts rocking up What College Football? The new college football
Speaker 1: game on PS five and starts rocking his seasons. You
Speaker 1: can see Logan just sitting there. I tell you in person,
Speaker 1: he's one of He's one of the best baseball players
Speaker 1: I've ever been around. He's so persaval He's such a
Speaker 1: fun dude. First and last out on the Mariners camp.
Speaker 1: That's something I've always said, even though I was a
Speaker 1: little anti him, but it's hard not to love him.
Speaker 1: When you go out and professionally dominate at your level
Speaker 1: and then you get on and you're like, all right now,
Speaker 1: I gotta now, I gotta get my Eastern Washington dynasty
Speaker 1: to the to the you know, to the big game
Speaker 1: versus Alabama. So just you know, shout out. You guys
Speaker 1: can all appreciate that. Have you played? Are you a gamer?
Speaker 3: Guy?
Speaker 1: Do two games?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But not really college football. I'm more like the show.
Speaker 2: I'll play some Madden, I'll play some two K All
Speaker 2: the four major sports really college.
Speaker 3: I haven't really gotten into it. I was thinking about
Speaker 3: getting it.
Speaker 2: What I was wanting was like the ability to download
Speaker 2: historical rosters and play with like Reggie Bush sharing his
Speaker 2: Heisman year type of thing. But I think it's the
Speaker 2: whole image and likeness that kind of messes that up.
Speaker 2: But I think I'll probably eventually came in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I probably should. I just haven't played.
Speaker 1: I haven't played enough video games. But that is one
Speaker 1: of the best. So shout out to Logan Gilbert for
Speaker 1: dominating on the field and online as well. This was
Speaker 1: one one other just for fun. I just wanted to mention.
Speaker 1: I was actually talking with someone about this the other
Speaker 1: day and we've mentioned it briefly here. Paul Skeins has
Speaker 1: been dominant all season long. He got roughed up a
Speaker 1: little bit this week, and I was having this conversation
Speaker 1: with this person about Jackson Merrill and the season that
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill has been having. I mean, you're hitting close
Speaker 1: to three hundred. You know, you're putting up counting stats
Speaker 1: that are lining up to maybe be a twenty twenty season.
Speaker 1: He has held this Pattery's team up as of Friday
Speaker 1: on a certain book Paul Skens was minus forty five
Speaker 1: hundred minus four. Think about that for a mente minus
Speaker 1: forty five hundred to win Rookie of the Year, absolutely
Speaker 1: absurd number. Today's Monday that one. I just want you
Speaker 1: guys to understand how volatile this is. And I am
Speaker 1: semi rooting for Jackson Merril because I put a preseason
Speaker 1: bet in at like plus seventeen hundred for Jackson Merril
Speaker 1: to win Rookie of the Year in the NL. I
Speaker 1: had him and Jackson Churio. The odds as of Monday
Speaker 1: have moved from minus forty five hundred to minus three
Speaker 1: to ninety for Paul Skeins. Jackson Merrill was plus nine
Speaker 1: point fifty on Friday is now plus two point fifty.
Speaker 1: Do you think at all that Jackson Merrill as a hitter,
Speaker 1: Traditionally it's hard for pitchers to win this. Do you
Speaker 1: think Jackson Merrill should be vying for this Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year award doing the whole season dominating with the Padres.
Speaker 1: He has held this Padres team up. Or do you
Speaker 1: think this no matter what Paul Skeins does, he's going
Speaker 1: to lock it down.
Speaker 3: I tweeted this exact thing the other day.
Speaker 2: I said, I don't know if it's a hot taker
Speaker 2: or not, but I'd probably give it to Jackson Merrill
Speaker 2: if I had a vote, And it was kind of
Speaker 2: a mixed reaction. Some people thought I was crazy, some
Speaker 2: people thought that some people agreed with me. I think
Speaker 2: that the odds have been kind of weird for awards
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 3: Deal.
Speaker 2: We won't talk about al MVP maybe later on in
Speaker 2: the week, but it seems like the books have just
Speaker 2: assumed these awards are fore gone conclusions, and they're not.
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't like to give these awards the
Speaker 2: pitchers to begin with, but what if Skenes has, you know,
Speaker 2: another four starts down the stretch where he allows four
Speaker 2: or five or.
Speaker 3: In runs, they can't give him Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: They can't Merrill.
Speaker 1: Well, also, like if the Padre, what if the Padres
Speaker 1: overpast the Dodgers, They're right there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill has literally been the healthy constant. Bogarts was hurt,
Speaker 1: Tatisa's miss time, Muskrove has been hurt. God knows where
Speaker 1: Darvish is right now. The only constant, Hassan Kim was
Speaker 1: awful at the beginning to the only constant has been
Speaker 1: Jackson Merril, who by the way, is playing like gold
Speaker 1: glove at a new position to start the year and
Speaker 1: he's hitting like crazy. Just something to think about that,
Speaker 1: you know, Jackson Merrill might pull this and the pitching
Speaker 1: hitting side makes us really dicey, you know. Stryder kind
Speaker 1: of maybe should have won it the other year and
Speaker 1: Michael Harris ended up the same team, makes it a
Speaker 1: little bit different. But just something to be on the
Speaker 1: lookout for if you do have a Merle ticket out there,
Speaker 1: that Merle might be getting that. And the Al Unfortunately
Speaker 1: for Joe, he's you know, for him to not be
Speaker 1: here would be fun because we could talk about Langford
Speaker 1: because Langford is not even in the top five right now.
Speaker 1: Colton Kowser and Luis Heal seemed to be able to
Speaker 1: be running away with this. Looks like it might be
Speaker 1: Cawser right now, which would have been a big steal
Speaker 1: in a surprise to me if you were in that
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year run all right, three up and
Speaker 1: three down, three up. Number one. Five players on Sunday
Speaker 1: hit multi homers, had two homers or more and two homers. Essentially,
Speaker 1: I went to look by the way, I wish I
Speaker 1: could find it. I couldn't. Wanted to know what is
Speaker 1: the most amount of two homer performances in one given day?
Speaker 1: Like how many players hit two or more homers? I
Speaker 1: could not find it online because yesterday five players did that.
Speaker 1: It was Soto for Joe cal Raley, Jorge Silaire, Andrew McCutcheon,
Speaker 1: and Byron Buxton, and they, by the way, on those
Speaker 1: homers combined for eighteen RBI. If anyone knows that number,
Speaker 1: I would love to know what is the most amount
Speaker 1: of two homer individual performances in one given day?
Speaker 3: That's a that's a Sarah Lang's tweet, Wait and happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have the ability to look it up. Like,
Speaker 1: if that's not it, what do you think it is?
Speaker 1: If five isn't the most in one given baseball day? Like,
Speaker 1: what do you how many two home run performances do
Speaker 1: you think would be the most.
Speaker 2: Height of the steroid era? I'm not sure. It could
Speaker 2: be like double digits. I'm not sure. Really, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: I actually have no educated guest there. It could be twelve,
Speaker 2: could be fifteen. I actually have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, like seven. If that's not the most,
Speaker 1: it's like seven feels right to me. Second up on
Speaker 1: the three up and three down, Brandon Law Andresimenez both
Speaker 1: had double stolen bases on Sunday, and Luis Castillo went
Speaker 1: six struck out nine. So those mariners have been doing
Speaker 1: some work. Those pitchers consistently bring them in. It's wild having.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, that's why this team would be the
Speaker 1: most dangerous in the playoffs if they had a little
Speaker 1: bit better consistency on the pitch. On the hitting side
Speaker 1: going you know, uh, George Kirby, Logan Gilbert and Luis
Speaker 1: Castillo devastating, absolutely devastating on the three down. Chris Bassett
Speaker 1: four innings, seven earned runs, gave up two homers. Chris
Speaker 1: Sanchez got obliterated by the Diamondbacks four and two thirds,
Speaker 1: gave up twelve hits and seven earned runs. And Jared
Speaker 1: Duran zho for three with three strikeouts, and we found
Speaker 1: out he does not like tennis rackets. Jared duran is
Speaker 1: going to get suspended. Bad bad choice across the board.
Speaker 1: He decided to use some profanities to a guy that
Speaker 1: was yelling at him that he needed to hit with
Speaker 1: a tennis ran and he came with a vengeance of
Speaker 1: poor language, very bad language, hateful language, and Jerry Durant's
Speaker 1: he's going to be going through it for a little bit,
Speaker 1: so Jaron Duran No thanks. Injuries, Let's go on the injury.
Speaker 1: Nothing to talk about there, Joe, nothing to even analyze
Speaker 1: on the injuries. Tory Levello told reporters on Sunday that
Speaker 1: Lordus Gurriel Junior was removed due to tightness in his
Speaker 1: left hamstring. Also, we had lost to tell Marte, but
Speaker 1: Marte is presumed to be coming back today. By the way,
Speaker 1: someone in the chat said, could tell Marte number one
Speaker 1: second basement next year?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, overall, tuve do you take him over all
Speaker 2: tub Yeah? I don't know, healthy Mookie bets.
Speaker 1: It's not a second baseman's the right fielder now or shortstop.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I take him over all two
Speaker 3: a like that?
Speaker 1: Can I don't think that's just going to qualify at
Speaker 1: second base next year.
Speaker 3: He probably got enough games in this year, didn't he He.
Speaker 1: Played shortstop almostly, and he played like sixty seven of
Speaker 1: his games at short so I think he has like
Speaker 1: thirteen games at second, so I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Maybe i'd be like Yahoo, he probably will NFBC. I
Speaker 2: guess yeahs on you format. But Altubage is so consistent
Speaker 2: year in a year out with Katel is brilliant that
Speaker 2: he's been. There's not so much consistency there year in
Speaker 2: and year out in terms of these type of like
Speaker 2: top fifty seasons. He did it in twenty nineteen, he's
Speaker 2: doing it this year. But Altuoba just does it every
Speaker 2: single year.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If we had time, I would put a poll out
Speaker 1: and I think it would be seventy percent Kutel. But
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong here. But hopefully we'll get lorrid Is
Speaker 1: back here. James Paxton is undergoing an MRI on his
Speaker 1: right calf on Monday had to be helped off. Riley
Speaker 1: Green is expected to begin a rehab assignment a triple
Speaker 1: A on Tuesday, so he should be back soon. Dodgers
Speaker 1: they placed River Ryan on the fifteen day IL because
Speaker 1: he is gone for the season. They announced right elbow
Speaker 1: injury and Andrew Friedman with the Dodgers reported that Max
Speaker 1: Munsey is going to be activated off the IL on
Speaker 1: the next Dodgers homestand which I believe is next or
Speaker 1: this coming weekend. So I think that's where it is going.
Speaker 1: So you should be able to let Dodgers getting some
Speaker 1: reinforcements here. All right, let's reinforce these bets. It's time
Speaker 1: for Mondays best bets of the day. Look at that
Speaker 1: with Joe Rico in the well. Still no updated artwork.
Speaker 1: Almost at the point it doesn't matter. We should just
Speaker 1: keep it here, all right, best bets here, Joe. I
Speaker 1: almost for a minute there thought you copy and pasted
Speaker 1: what you had on last time? Can I ask you something?
Speaker 1: Do we only have you on when Taj Bradley pitches?
Speaker 1: You have put I'm just I'm just killing it now.
Speaker 1: You've put TODs Bradley back on here. You've put todz
Speaker 1: Bradley every single day you've been on this show. Somehow
Speaker 1: he always pitches when you're here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on like once every five days, so it
Speaker 2: kind of makes sense. But I'm contractually obligated to bet
Speaker 2: Taj Bradley overs when I see them on the board.
Speaker 3: I especially when it comes to strikeouts. The dude is.
Speaker 2: One of the better strikeout pitches in all of baseball.
Speaker 2: I know that last start did not go terribly well
Speaker 2: for him, but they're still setting the lines really low.
Speaker 2: At five and a half, he's consistently going over. He's
Speaker 2: consistently hitting six seven eight strikeouts this season five and
Speaker 2: a half. It's only minus one oh five, but it
Speaker 2: feels like pretty decent bet there. That was actually the
Speaker 2: second one, the one that I'm prioritizing is Lad Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 2: He did have that long hit streak. I think it
Speaker 2: was up to twenty one or twenty two games. It
Speaker 2: did get snapped, but he is, you know, facing the Angels.
Speaker 2: Tonight's facing Davis Daniel. Not the trickiest of matchups here.
Speaker 2: So I'm taking over two and a half hits, runs
Speaker 2: and RBIs at plus money a decent chance. He gets
Speaker 2: that out of the way in the first inning by
Speaker 2: taking one over the fence. He has been incredible. Vlad's
Speaker 2: been back to like twenty twenty one level Vlad for
Speaker 2: those amazing for most of the season, and I think
Speaker 2: that this would you.
Speaker 1: Really would you want next year Julio or Vlad.
Speaker 3: Julio.
Speaker 1: I know the stolen base for Julio thing, but okay.
Speaker 2: It's still Julio for me as a Blue Jays fan.
Speaker 2: As a Toronto Homer, I'd still take Julio, but it's
Speaker 2: it's getting pretty close. They're gonna be pretty close in
Speaker 2: terms of ADP. But I really like Flat tonight and
Speaker 2: then the final one A little bit different from what
Speaker 2: I usually do here, but Atlanta San Francisco. I'm taking
Speaker 2: the under on the total for the game at six
Speaker 2: and a half, which is a pretty low total. The
Speaker 2: reason the reason I'm doing that is wet. It is
Speaker 2: Chris Sale and Blake Snell who have been two especially
Speaker 2: Chris Sale the entire year has been brilliant, but Blake
Speaker 2: Snell is fully into second half Snell mode. He looks
Speaker 2: like he is gonna be one of the best pitchers
Speaker 2: in the second half, like he is pretty much every season.
Speaker 3: And I think, as risky as this.
Speaker 2: One is, getting it at plus was it plus one
Speaker 2: hundred here, I'm betting on the Aces being Aces tonight.
Speaker 1: Well see, I'll bullpens worry me a little bit too.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kamillo davall option one of the things I
Speaker 1: did not see blows of save gets option. Camilla davall
Speaker 1: Is doesn't need to be rostered in fantasy right now,
Speaker 1: so I probably would have loved to play and see
Speaker 1: what that like. Three and a half runs, so the
Speaker 1: first five looks like but I like that. That's tricky,
Speaker 1: and that's sneaky, sneaky on the plus money. All right,
Speaker 1: three bets I've got, Well, I'm playing on the hit
Speaker 1: run and RBI, and I'm going with Corbyn Carroll. I
Speaker 1: don't bet Corbyn Carroll a lot, but you've got Colorado
Speaker 1: as the matchup. Corbyn Carroll hits around sixty points higher
Speaker 1: at home right now. He has hit this in two
Speaker 1: of his last games. Hit run RBI over two and
Speaker 1: a half, it's plus one third five. Feel very good
Speaker 1: about that with Corman Carrol, especially on the trajectory he's on.
Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, he is a hitting' in August.
Speaker 1: Second up, I'm going with Kansas City Minnesota, no run
Speaker 1: first inning, Little Nerfy minus one twenty five, Brady Singer,
Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez, no runs. They're about in the middle tier.
Speaker 1: Both of these teams do not score in the first
Speaker 1: inning when they are on the road, and that is
Speaker 1: going to be Kansas City at this point. Minnesota does
Speaker 1: score quite a bit more at home, but they're still
Speaker 1: middle of the pact overall, So we're going with the
Speaker 1: odds that both these pitchers will hold it down in
Speaker 1: the first inning, no run, first inning with good odds,
Speaker 1: and finally the prop cheat sheet over on Betting Pros.
Speaker 1: This is their second highest on the total basis, but
Speaker 1: I believe it had a much better track record. I
Speaker 1: think it was like eight of the last fifteen or
Speaker 1: maybe ten of last fifteen. This is hit I'm going
Speaker 1: with total basis. Freddie Freeman over plus one thirty five.
Speaker 1: Number one was like, it's like profar or a catcher
Speaker 1: or something like that. But you can go over to
Speaker 1: Betting Pros. You can go and check out the cheat
Speaker 1: sheet and then you can sort by different types of
Speaker 1: props and you can see, you know, what has the
Speaker 1: highest odd percentage, what's the best return plus money. You
Speaker 1: can do a bunch of sorting. This was one of
Speaker 1: the top total base plays. They've been pretty dang good
Speaker 1: this season. So Freddy Freeman over one and a half
Speaker 1: total base is at plus one thirty five. Cormacarrol hit run, RBI,
Speaker 1: no run first in Kansas City, Minnesota. Freddie Freeman total
Speaker 1: bases for me. Joe has got Vlad Guerrero hit run RBI, TODJ.
Speaker 1: Bradley strikeouts over and the Atlanta San Francisco total on
Speaker 1: the under. He's a madman. Friends. Those are our best
Speaker 1: bets of the day. That's right, brought to you by
Speaker 1: bet three six five and Betting Pros. All right, Joe,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at our home runs. And let's
Speaker 1: take a look at the home run board. Da da da.
Speaker 1: Joe is still on at thirty two. Fred Dinger, are
Speaker 1: you in here? Because I got to this weekend from
Speaker 1: from Matt Olson. I believe that puts me at twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty eight. I feel like I'm close. But Joey
Speaker 1: p is still holding on at thirty two. If Frey
Speaker 1: Dinger's on there at thirty two as well, I'm at
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Oh my god, I'm right there. Wonkee has
Speaker 1: got thirty six in twelfth place, but the top spots
Speaker 1: go to Elskel and South African Gee, who are both
Speaker 1: over the forty marker on August twelfth. Holy crap at
Speaker 1: forty one, be Trot Larry at thirty nine, JJ Tator. Also, geez,
Speaker 1: we got five people at thirty nine. This race is close,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. That Vladimir Guerrero bat looks mighty tasty
Speaker 1: to more people as he has gotten hot and looking
Speaker 1: like an almost first rounder, and that is quite a race.
Speaker 1: But my race, my friends, is simply just getting on
Speaker 1: the board over Joe Piezapia. So I'm going to try
Speaker 1: to do it today. But Joe, let's start with you.
Speaker 1: Where are you going for your home run call?
Speaker 3: I'm going back to the chalk. You know.
Speaker 2: The first few times I was on was Nolan Gorman,
Speaker 2: Jorge Shilaire. Last week I took Bobby Wood Junior. He
Speaker 2: went double dong. I think Welsh and I actually both
Speaker 2: got double dongs when I was on the show last week.
Speaker 2: So I'm going Aaron Judge, he is going to hit
Speaker 2: the first home run that Kai Bush has surrendered in
Speaker 2: his career in the first inning tonight. That is my
Speaker 2: guest here. You look pretty rough in this first start.
Speaker 2: He walked five batters. It was Oakland he was he
Speaker 2: was not looking great.
Speaker 3: And we know what Aaron Judge is capable of doing.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna get the sixty again, and I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna head at least one of them tonight. Let's
Speaker 2: hope for another double dog from Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll give me Corey Seger Brian Bayo as
Speaker 1: an over fifteen run home run to flyball ratio fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: one of the highest percentage of a home run flyball ratio.
Speaker 1: So give me Cory Seger to get on that board
Speaker 1: and get me give me to thirty, give me close
Speaker 1: to that board. All right, that's gonna do it. You
Speaker 1: can find Joe Rico at Joe Arico ninety nine. You
Speaker 1: can find me at is It The Welsh makes your
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Speaker 1: as well. That's gonna do it for Joe. I'm Welsh.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you on Wednesday, case, but back in
Speaker 1: the house until then, friends, have a fantastic week. We'll
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